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course they would be likely to staer, I knew | which they found me, I cannot tell. The truth there was every ounce of my cutching them. was, I too much upset to think of anything, She lay becalmed, and we steaned up quite closo Quiek," I cried, “something terrible has to her, and miled her to say that we were happened." sending a bout. The rest you can guess.
"But the officers and crew" I faltered. "What became of them ?"
"Oh, they showed fight, and the rest you can Ratess.
The cold-blooded way in which he said it was enough to ourdle one's blood.
Wo didn't want any witnesses," he sail "But the girl-Miss. Angola De you mean to tell me that you left her to drown, or starve P'
She was false to tae," he muttere sullenly, "Who deiled me, and vowed that aftor all she had boon through on that ship she would never She declared that she would
sooner dio."
CHAPTER XVI. Eroryone who has over entered the Accident Ward of a large hospital knows the sickening feeling of droi that is experienced as one ap-go in another one. proaches the sufforor's bed. Surely there no few people in this world of oars so callous es to
I could stand no more of it; and rose to leave, be able to watch a fellow creature's sufferings Had I not known that he was a dying man, unmoved. For my part, I know that I cannot. onld have struck him across the month for the and yet probably I have seen more of the hard-words he had spoken. He looked up at me like
an animal in hearted, business sido of life than most people.
pain.
This way," said the house surgeon, and led me down the centre of the room to a bed at the farther end, kilden from the rest of the room by a screen. As we approached it, a silent foot- od nurse emerged.
"How does he set now, nurse?" asked the doctor in a whisper.
"Sinking fast, air, the woman replied. "I I don't think he'll last much longer."
The other nodded and signed to me to follow him. We wont behind the screen, and there in narrow bed lay the man who had doan his best to kill me, and yet who, in his dying moments
I know what's passing in your mind." he urmured.But I'll swear before the God I um about to meet, that you are wrong. She is as pure and innocent to-day as she was ut twelve years old,"
"And yet yon'would have killed her!"
It was the devil inside me. I steained away, dropping two or three men at Las Palmas, and that was how I enme to hear that you had
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You expressed a wish that he should come."
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He then departed, and I seated myself by the bedside. For upwards of a minute he did not speak. Then, turning his great dark eyes upon mo, he said:
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I know it," I answered.
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picked the brig up, and had taken charge of lior: dropped two more at Gibraltar, and then stormed on to Naples, where I gave up the yacht, and bastoned across the Continent to Eng- I was at Plymouth when you arrived, I travelled up in the same train to Lon don that you did. I missed yon, however, at Waterloo. But after some time, I found mat where you were staying, and the rest you know, If only you know how I hated you. First he cause you had remmed Angela, and second because I feared you would discover my share ia the secret of the brig. That was why I wanted to kill you."
He shut his eyes ris if he could my no more, Thinking the oud was close at hand I stopped softly outside, and berkoned to the nurse. Sle bastened in and leant over him, thon eropt quiet. ly. out, and sent a messenger for the house sur- geon. It was not long before he put in an ap pearance. He felt his pulse and shook his head. I stood at the foot of the bed, the muraleside me. In silence we waited for the end to come.
It was some thue, however, before it did. Then he opened his eyes, and said something in a foreign tongue which I add not murlerstand.
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What is the matter, dear !" enquired Miss Janet,
The blood, the blood,” she crist, “look at tho blood upon the dook."
Then a fit of sobbing took possession of her. I holf led, half carried her to the bench upon which wo had been sitting, while Giles went to the river's bank, and dipped his handkerchief in. With that wo bathed her temples.
After awhile she grew calmer, and we led her home, Mrs. Jackson mot us in the hell, and with a frightened look upon her face asked what wus the matter. We informed her that Angola had not boon weil, and then the ladies between them escorted her to her room. Giles and I passed into the dining-room, where I gave him an account of what had happened.
It means that her memory is mixing," lo said. The fact that she remembers her old painting master prores that. Now let's get. hon. They don't want us hore any more to- night."
We left a message with the servant, and went back to our abode. Giles, who though axious, did not appear as depressed by his si ter'a coulition as I thought he might have been, mixed two glasses of today, and handed one to mo
* I am going to give you a teast, Jack, my boy," he said.
What is it "I enquired. A health to Miss Janet," Though I could very well guess. I asked for in explanation.
"Well, I give it to you now," he replied, because you won't have many more oppor- tunities of drinking it."
Good gracious--and why not "
For the simple reason that she has con-- sented to-night to become Lady Carbridge."
"I wish you joy with all my heart," I cried. “She is a noble girl, sad will make you a roble wife,"
I know you'd 947 80, and I am proul to have won her."
Not a wink of sleep did I get that night. That, despairing cry on the river bank, and piteous look upon her face haunted me until day- break. Bat, there werbrighter times ahead:
We were in the middle of breakfast when our front door was opened without ceremony and Miss Janot, regardless of the conventionalities. burst in upon as
Giles, Giles," she criad, "her memory has come back. Between two and three o'clock this
| never fail to recommend whenever opportunity offore, for it gives me genuine ploasure to do so I am deeply grateful for the very real kansfit. I have derived from that extraordinary retaedy." Mr. Zoti's experience is shared by many thonsande of men oud women in every part of the world. With testimony such as Mr. Zoti volunteers,_volumes might be filed; but it is noadless. There is nothing people remember more vividly, or with kooner appreciation, than what has resoned them from physical pain and A.1, mental depression, two inseparable evils com- binod in indigestion.
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"Come into my room for a moment. won't you?" he said. I think after what you have been through upstairs, a whisky and soda will do you no harm."
Because I must. It bears on what I've got to say to you. I meant to do it, only you wore one too many for me. It was I who set those two fellows on to you in Florence."
I know it," I replied.
How on earth did you know it?" he asked with as much surprise as he was capable of showing under such circumstances.
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"And I won't two of the best man I know,"
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Because it was my belief that you were try. ing to do that which made me try to kill you; that and another reason, which I will tall you directly."
He paused for a few minutes, as if to recover his strength.
"This talking takes it but of me," he said.
Then why do you go on with it?" I asked, for the man's condition was pitiable. I could soe that he was suffering agonies. Great heads of perspiration stood upon his brow, the sweat
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I can assure yon that I felt it would not, and I accordingly followed him to his own private Banctum, I asked what would be done about the
funeral arrangements for the man who had just died. It appeared that Armitage, or whatever his real nutno may have best. had settled every- thing himself. Then, thanking the doctor for his kindness, I returned to my hotel to find Giles eagerly awaiting my coming. I told him all that had happened.
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Doctor Sledgewich says she is to be kept perfectly quiet, otherwise there may be a rokupse. As soon as she is well enough to travel, she is to go away to the South of France".
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Three weeks had gone by since the event. I have just recorded. With every day Miss An- gela had been steadily gaining ground and, as
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and it served him right, for the traitorous dog he was. Give me time, and I will tell you the story."
In my own mind I didn't think he'd live to get through it, but I promised to listen.
obtain a complete mastory than the healing art, human ailments being so many and complicated. But that which tazes the physician's skill most is what is called diagnosis, the finding out exactly what it is that troubles the patient. In many cases this is a more diffenlt task then the proper treatment. Nothing is more common leaves made their appuranre on the trees, and what is the matter with them. When the the boatmen along the river were hurd at work | patient notes his own symptoms, and can state them intelligently, his caso is greatly simplified, preparing for the coming season.
though even shat will not always ensure correct treatment. The people who have died from being treated for one disease while sufforing from another are legion; to take one celebrated instance only, such was the fate of Italy's greatest painter. Raphael,
One evening, the night of full moon, I remem- I first met Angela Carbridge when she was ber, we four want for a walk along the towing a student at Canti's Studio in Florence. I loved path. It was a night upon which it was a shame her from the first moment I set eyes on her to remain indoors. A soft wind sighed among I thought she loved me, but I'll be honest the rushes as if nurturing a message for the enough in my last hour to say that I found my river to carry to the sea. This others had gone self raistake. She-eared for nothing but her ou ahead, but a found a rustic seat, and sat art. However, 1 porsevered, growing every day down upon it. I talked to Angela of a new picturs to love her more. Sho treated me as a friend, she was engaged upon. and which we were all desirous ahe shodd sond in to the Academy. In because she was an innocent girl that did not know the sort of man I was. Thon Manuel Gar-it sho had surpassed any work I had yet seen of cia, the man you found pinned upon the deck of hors. There was a depth of poetry, a beauty of the brig. appeared upon the scene, and professed colouring, and a fertility of haugination that
was remarkable in one so young. to be my friend. He offered to help me to win her affections, and instead of doing that ho ex- deavoured to turn them towards himself. Uply as he was, that man had an extraordinary con-
“Ah" I said, “how proud Cauti would be of you, could ho but see it."*
Angela." Icried. forgetting the Miss in my anxiety, what is the matters For Benny sake tell me."
She sprang to her fent, quivering in every trol over wemon. It was as if they could not limb. In the moonlight I could see the expres resist him. He came to me and told me that lesion on her face. It was like the face of one was sure she loved me, for she had dropped a returning to life frose death. Then the quiver hint that seemed to imply as much. That nighting ceased, aut slin stood like one turned to she fed from Florence, with him, against her stone, rigid as marble, looking straight before will, I'll swear, for no woman could have loved her.
man like that. His plans had been carefully aid. He had charteral, a brig in Gensa, and in it they set all together for Bouth America. When the news reached me that she was gone, I was like a madmau. I have done some pretty bad things in my life. few men worse, I sup. pose, but what I was going to do now ontshone them all. Remember, I believed her to be false to me, as he had been. As you have guessed, I am a rich man, though how I became so yan hai batter not enquire too closely. I chartered a steam yacht, manned her with a crow of my own, who I knew would stick at nothing, if they were well paid for it, and set off in pursuit. A constant watch was kept, and as I knew the
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