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FERGUS HUME (Author of "The Mystery of the Hanson

Cub,** 30.).

(Continned)

of yore the Chinose butterfly he had loved and deserted. He forgot that Li-Tao had been living amongst her own people, and that her racial instincta had developed. She spoke orusily and coldly like a true Chinese, dwelling on every word and gloating over the agony aho | was inflicting. Aue lingeht," she said

softly, that was the way slin died. Sliced into thonsand pieces-and I looked on."

„Jim's face turned a dead grey, and he fumbled for the rovelver he always carried You by trayed her," he said in metallic tones.

to her so she was quite willing for her to live. It was certainly strange; but Li-Tso was s Chinese and a woman—both mysteries." Barnes paused a moment, then looked up suddenly- You sent away your wife to punish yourself?" ha naked.

Jim Boulded, "I will never see her again, said he. I love her more than my life, and

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Whether Morris of Chian will keep his word remains to be seen. But he is still in Shanghai, and he seems likely to remain there. He lives Li-Tao nodded, "I pub her into the street, in the house where he buried Li-Tao-partly and the people killed her in that way. She for his own safety, and partly as an additional called on you when she died-I looked Sheprutshinent. And Li-Tao is supposed to be in naver completed her sentence, for Jim shot her Tientsin. through the breast, and watched her topple over And so after all Li-Tuo was buried in her into a limp heap. She gasped and struggled, own coffin. Which goes to prove that what and as she looked into dimed them again, we call fato can he ironical as well as cruel.

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lovely smile passed over her features. You are mine now," she gasped, "In the next—ow – ow," and with a cough she died.

For the next month the Morris were busy getting into their new house not this time in the street of a Thousand Blessings, but in a more fashionable neighbourhood, near the Gats of the Yellow and Imperial Dragon. Ethel collected treasures; gifts poured in from Morris's friends, the house was becoming, as he her eyes closed. Then [9218

toki his wife, quite a curiosity shop. One day when he got back to tiffa, he found ber in a siste

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hat's the matter" gasped Jim. For answer she drew him futo another room, and flore, propped against the wall, was the Raine colar cofile, upon which spent her honrded cash muy us Joi-Tas had

Yunguance was known only to himself. No "I don't know where it came from, said looked at the corpse, and smiled grimly as he Ethel. I was out all morning with Mrs. Sor- thought of the offering he had made to Ethal's ley, and when i orme luck, there it was. The names Then he put away the revolver, and decided to dispose of the body before the TO. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the servants don't know who bought it."

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"They know, but they won't say." muttered Jim, for he was well aquainted with the secretive ways of Chinese rials. "Shove it out into the yard, Ethel,"

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It was getting towards avaning, and the ser- vaats were gossipping in the bazaar. No one was in the house but Jira; & his Inst act of

But how to get rid of the evidence? Then be remembered the cedar coffin; and again the grim mile orept round his mouth at the thought that Li Tao would be buried in a sheli No, my dear, your head is full of Irish of her own purchasing. So he brought it into ! devilry and moonlighters-this is not the equi- the drawing room, and in a few minutes what valent of the death's head and cross-bones of remained of Lilas was packed away and peg- the West. It is simply gift from am ged down. Then he dug a grave in the summer friend who wishes my well. A coffin, you-house at the end of the garden, and dropped He covered it up, and spread know, is the most wegsptable present one the coffin into it. Chinnman can make another. They think we over the carpet which always lay there. All laak upon it in the samo tight."

this was done with method and exactness. But when he got back to the house ho was seized with a fit of hysteris. He sobbed and criod for Ethel, for hitself, and he aingled his tears with curses for the devil Li-Tao who had in. bis darling. It never occurred to him that his sin alone was responsible for the catastrophe.

She shuddered. It's horrid !" she cried." I shan't be able to sleep with that thing in the house. Have you any lea who sent it

No my dear girl. How should I?" said Jim, but his know very well that Li-Tao must havo bribed some of the servants to bring it in, She was evidently determinert that he should rest in it. And I don't suppose sha has gone to Tipatsin after all," thought he I only hope tho won t come to the house hersoff

But his fours wort groandioss. Li-Tao made no sign: and a mouths wout by Jim gol over his fright. And the cofin was presented to Wong Wen, the cook, who was overjoyed at so rich a gift. Henceforth it capul in the kitchen, und Weng Won hent gilt paper over it to the envy of the other servants, Etbel got used to the sight of it-and-the- matter passed out of their minds. The more so as they had an axions tine ahead.

This mose out of the devilries of the Dowager. ODOWN, NO.5A, DUDDELL STREET Empress who deposed the Emperor, played GLODOW

general post with the mandarins, and flirted all round with the Powers, Jin, on his part aggravated the position so far as he was cou cerned by allowing his wife to visit n sabool friend, who was married to an interpreter connected with the Frenck Legation at Peking, Barnes come post haste to rerumstrate.

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Tim laughed at this, and so did Ethel, The journey was decided upon, and Jim himself took his wife to Peking: found that the people nt the Legation pooh-poohed the idea of danger as he did; and left her there for a three months" visit.

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Then came the news that Peking was occupied by the Boxers, and that the Legations were in a state of dege. Jim was nearly crazy. He | would have gous to the capital himself, but ho was advised that it would be worse than useless, it would only mean death to him. The city was filled with a mob of yellow devils clamour- ing for the blood of the white men and women who were shut up in the Legatious. There was nothing left for Jim to do but sit tight at Shanghai, and pray that God would protect his wife,

Then came news of the murder of the German Minister; and the retreat of Admiral Seymour's force.

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That evening Weng Wan was informed that the coin had been shipped to Hongkong for the burial of a white man who had died of cholero. And as he received a sum double the price of the coffiu, Wang Wen chose to believe this story, and bought himself a finer coffin, alt black lacquer and guilded dragons. No one had any suspicions. And Jim felt that he had wronged Ethel buried away his early sin, and went about with a fresi one on hie conscience.

Two-days- Inter_Barnes-sent-a-note-to-Jim asking him to call at his house. His friend received him in the most cheerful manner. "Go into the next room and thank God!" he said with emotion.

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Jiu grumbled; but he went into the next The sur talinds won down, bat in the twilight he saw a woman. For a moment his beart stood still; the next it was beating violout- į ly, for he was holding Ethel in his actus, mod she was sobbing and kismy him. But in the micket of it all he found himself wondering why Li-Tao had told him so monstrous a lie. He would not have killed her beat for that. Then it Bushed across him that she had planned it all. But still it puzzled him.

You wonder how I escaped, dear," said Ethel at inst. It was thanks to you."

Thanks to me?" oried Jim feeling mere bowildered than ever.

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Yes the woman you sent-- Li-Tao you know. Just before the trouble she came to Peking, and saw rae at the Ebassy. At first I didn't believe her. But she showed me a lotter you had writton-I have it here!" He took the scrup of paper with a groan. It was a hote he had written to Li-Tao ones when she was visiting a relative in Hangchow, and had stayed F. longer than she had intended. "Come back darling," it read. The wau groaned again as he thought of the us to which Li-Tao had put that five-year-old letter.

"Well," went on Ethel, Li-Tao proved that there would be a rising, and I tobi itopee Madame Durund-about it, bat she and her insband only inughed. However I was quite bent on coming back to you; only I wondered why you had not written a longer letter. At all events," she continued, “I packed up my box, and went to Tientsin with Li-Tao," She | hid the in a house there while the city went mad for the blood of the foreignore. I was terribly afraid, Jim; bat Li-Tao kept up my spirits by telling me she would bring me safely back to you."

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| is dead!” bo cried, and dropped exhausted into

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Barnes bad reznival the news of the fall of the Legations some hours before; but he had not told Jim, knowing that he would hear it soon enough. In the face of the terrible nowa he could offer no comfort; the two men sat looking at one another with haggard eyes. How had she died ?" that was in the mind of Bach.

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I wanted to colae, to fon w koon as wa gou to hanghai; but Li-Tho insisted that I sbould

stay with a friend of hers--who lived by the water side-auti! I was released."

"And what became of her !" asked Barnes.

She went back to Tientsin. I wanted her to stay and led Jim think her, but she said it was not necessary. I wanted to kiss her when she went, but she would not let me. I was very -strango,” Ethel went on reflectively; ** bat with A week later Jim learned the details; and all her kindness 1 don't think she really liked me. from no less a person than Li-Tao. She ap- Well. I stayed with the friend till she brought peared suddenly in his drawing-room, a mere me here two hours ago then Mr. Barnes sent shadow of her former self. He stared at this for you and-that's all, I think,—that's all.”. ghost of his sins come from the grave to re- Yes," said Jim mechanically, "that's all." preach him, but he said nothing. She too was Then after a pause, " Barnes, Ethol eball-net- silent seated on the floor she gazed at his grief-stay in this country of devils. A stanier leaves stricken face. Then she gave a scornful little for England to-night-she shall go by it." laugh, and repeated the proverb with which she What!" cried Ethel, "and leave you. No!" had left him some months before Huân Chia "Yes," he insisted, “I shall not be comfort.

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Jim put out a shaking hand, as if to ward off the speech.Li-Tao, what do you known how did you—”

"I was in Peking," she explained, without moving a muscle. She was there, my lord, I went to soe ber.?

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"You must," said her husband, and after some argument she submitted. Jim saw her off, promising to follow in a month. When the boat had steamed away into the darkness Barnes touched his friend's arm. "No," said he, perhaps you will tell me what all this

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“Oh no; why should I save a foreign devil woman I love my country -I got her to came with me before the Boxers came, and with me she went to Tientsin. There I hid her till the people rose - La-Tue's almond eyes dwelt on the egunised face «f the white man. “Then I put her into the streets! she chuckled.

Jim's hair rose, his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth; but he could say nothing. He could only gaze at this fland in dumb horror. 832 This was not the timid Li Tao he had known

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