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[ALL Bienes RdSERYED.] A LURKING PHANTOM: STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY,
BY
black. His clothes were not new, esjetanko was acquainted with every change which takes place oven in men's habiliments, - could well perceive. His coat had a diep binding all round its edges which teatised that it belonged to a period of several years ago, his tie was sesrocly the Lis that won, that gentlemen, waar now. In his buttonhole, the man at whose Yearestares she was gazing carried a dower, a vbao, as though, poor wretoh! he had sought to introduco soma -set-off to the old-fashioned, voll-worn garments be-possessed.
JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON (Author of The Hispaniola Plate," "The
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CHAPTER IIT.
Then, as she Igoked at tlie ross, or the pikos where the rose was,abo gare a start; one so 17 19 TIE!
elight an to be almost Imperoaptible, but still à From Lady Bottrall neither swooned nor fainted in start, sue that Ira Challis observed, notual fact though 'sho was very near to doing inside the lappal where the stalk of the rose Bo; so near that Ira Challis bad taken from a
war, there protruded zot the stalk itself but chiffonise in the room a bottle of brandy and the end of a thres-inch long glass tube, a tubo glass, meaning to molten her lips with the spirit.no thicker round than a pencil er modera But, as he approached her, she motioned him fountain pou; a little invention that, once, Lay with a wave of the hand and gradually szt
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She sat thus looking at him for some two or it, would kropithe flower fresh for miny hours, three moments while be, either with real delicasy "Yes," she said again. It is the man. It or a delicacy which was admirably assumed, is Mark Furness," and as she spoke she turned occupied himself by jogging ever some papers the photograph over in au idle manter and in a pigskin writing-cam which lay to his right-read the address at the back, Singleton and hand side on the table, at the houd of which he Gobbardt, Art Fhotographers, 1001, Washing had taken a
ton Avenue, Boston, Mass" while observing Sept. Thon, at last, she spoke, ber voice sounding also that against the words "The
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when he bad once seu tried for murdar in ness. America, as sho ploaded, “Not guilty.”
At last suo spoko, saying:
What proof is there of this? The ship was lost. It was ver heard of guin after it was spoken with four days out from New York." "That is trae. Yet that this man was saved is proved by the most undeniable evilence of all., Mark Furness is in Boston-
Mark Fornews!"
"Yea. That is the name ha sosumed when he went to Ameries after-but no matter. You know these things as well 19,
in I. He is Boston."
"There is no proof that this-that this man and-Mark-Farness-are the same. Why?
come himself? And, since it was necessary to communicate with me, could be not write F
"At the present he conbl de neither. He is lying ill in the State Hospital."
"He is ill! Seriously #1?" Lady Bottrell exclaimed.
Yes, seriously ill. He might, although the doctors ilo not think he will do so yet, ilio at any moment. But he is propared for death; perhops; remembering his unfortunate life, be would not regret death, Only-should he re- sover, should he still have some years of, life l-ft, he wishes some prevision made, for bim. He has had enough of poverty.
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imperiously, once more, why should believe they are
You have not forgotten Mark Furness's features, his face, 1 imagine," the other said. quietly. You would know them again, should suppose," and he laid his band on the pigskin writing-cade as he spoke. Shall I show you a photograph of him taken not more than six weeks ago? Taken, I think, to recall
TE himself to you see that, you will not.
you, ask for farther proof."
For a moment, for many monsute, Lady Bottroll paused; masing, meditating, struggi ing with horeult. If she said Yos," and Row the photograph, and if it was truly that of the man who was called Mark Furness-then-then abe was lost. With him alive ber-own life was rent, broken; there was no fatura bops for her in this world. She was in bis power; bơ, bold a power over her which nothing could ever contend against Nothing! Neither rank, or the wealth and position of her husband Not not even the law could save her from him and all that he might do against her Do! and Why one word from him. to her husband she she who last night had latened to the courteous homage of the bighost in the land, to the words of the arbiter of social destiny raight be sent forth into the streets an outcast. And her child! Her bolored Mand, she who had been all in all, everything in the world, to her, Ah! God! She must know at open She must not hesitate, Better know her Ente thun live in fear and dread.
... Show me the photograph," she said, or voice firm bal barsh. So Brm. that the man before her on the other side of the table looked at her for a moment, surprised out of himself. Then he thrust big hand into a large pocket, or flap, of the writing-case and drow out a
"Twenty years makes a difference in a man,” be aid, perhaps to prepare her for any change she might perceive in him whom she had ones known, "and poverty does not improve ona."
Poverty! Is he poor?" she asked, ber voice softer than when last she spoke.
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Those on whom he has the greatest claim?i **What!" Lady Bottroli asked, " What, wonki
consider a suitable-provision "
"Enough for him to finish his life in comfort,. if not in luxury; à sum of money which would enable him to become a gentleman again.”
"Does he name that sum In, what is called, I believe, round figures?"
"Yus. He has set a gore to that som Knowing that this on whom ho has a right to call for assistance ars particularly fortunate in their passion of this world's goods, white he himself is an outcast"
"By his own fault! His own uction ?"
Yos. But that does not make his lot easier to him.
What does he demand? What is the sam?" Ten thousand pounds.”
Ton thousand pounds! I do not know from where such Bum is to bo obtaint. I do not now say one on whom Mark Furness may bare alsima, or on whom he may consider bas claims, who coult procits tim with one third, indeed one-tenth of such a sum.
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"I think, my lady, the sam could be found, It would not be much to some of his connections in comparison with the fact that secrecy would be presved as to tho existence of Mark Furness.”
"Secrecy Lady Bottrell said, battling bravely with this, um; struggling hard to advance one suggestion, one argument to which he might be unable to find a prompt answer, while, all the time, her heart was heary as lead within her breast and while she felt as though at any moment she might swan and fall insonsible at his test.
"Becrecy!" she said, while endeavouring to throw a cartala amount of contempt into her tone. "What secrecy can over be preserved as to his existenca nad all but that existence menus to sume? You know of it, you know tho and what he is, what lin has dond
"I am a lawyer, Lady Bottrell Men of my calling are as secret as the priests are of what they hear in 'the confessional.”
Does he mean to tell all,” she asked now,
He has been desperately so. He is so still.""if this mouny is not forthcoming ?" "Why?" she asked, holding the photograph in her hand exactly as Challis had happened to give it to her, namely, back upwards; and seeing, as she spoke, the name of a well-known firm of Boston photographers or it, "Why, if En, has be Lever made himself known befor? There wore those in England who had lefed him once, who, it may be, love him now, iu spite of his evil life. Would not they have helped him?
"Undoubtedly. He masus to bata all that is his by right and justice."
Perhaps he thought not. Perhaps he was loo proad to ask for assistance."
Proud! He proud! And even if 80, his mother is still alive. Does mother ever re- nounce her child, bad as that child may be?, What is a mother for? What does she bring children into the world for, if it is not to stand by their side when all the rest have left them p
His mother is alive?" Ita Chabis said. "She is still alive F'
ม
"Yes, still alive." Lady "Bottrell said. Though very old now and very poor. Pros for her who was once so. comfortably off. But she paid his debts once, and once?~abe paid more than bis debts,"
she had
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(681 had been lowerell to the photograph while she turned it over while, indeed she becitated a inomest ere lifting the tissue paper which covered whatavar portrait there might be beneath End she not been doing this; had sho, instead, been sitting regarding Challis, as she had regarded him until that moment, she might have men that a change had come aver his face us be repeated her words. She would have soon that he was almost as pale sa Opposite Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Booksellers she knew she had herself become when he
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Therafora," he exclaimed, his voido firm and distinol," "there" is one more proof. A mother does not, as your ladyship, has said, ever renounce her bill. But neither does she ever forget his features,"
She, unhappily, Lady Bottrell replied, as now she lifted the tissue paper and regarded the portrait of the man beneath it, can never recognise those features any more. She has become almost blind."
Ab! Almost blind. Poor lady!" and Ira Challis sat regarding Lady Bottrell fixedly (6925 she, on her part, regarded the likeness in her
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To be conttausdl.)
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