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A LURKING PHANTOM : A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY,

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CHAPTER XIV.

THE APPROACHING TERKON....

Madino Van Vleet posessed, as hus, been told, a husband who was an English gentleman, aud, being one, it was, as he often end, impon- sible for him to be known as connected with the busines. By this, of course, be meant that he conld in no way permit bialf to over have his Dame nixed up with that business or be seen anywhere in the neighbourhood of the establish ment, though he was perfectly well aware that all the world know as well as he know himself that Madame Van Vleet was his wife, The pleasing fact was, however, never men- tioned before him; Madane Van Vleet was, at their own house in Wilton Gardens, never spoken of as anything but Mrs. Walter Rut

nd. Also, Mr. Wal or Radau, who loaged to three good olub, drove occasionally a four-in-hand (in which he owned a third part) to Ranelagh he did not belong to Hur fingham and possessed a chooner yacht, wae by a plusing fiction, supposed to be living on hisproperty, which was her in Northum berland or Lancashire-poeple caldn't raniem ber which. He was also supposed to own the lease of a small theatre in the West End, to kuow something about sending out theatrical companies to the provinces, and to be able to inaka nice little sums of money ocensinually through bis acquaintance with the South African market.

With all these occupati na belilting a gentie car of means and leisure he was, however, ale a very shrewd man of busiɑre in ether ways, and wie of the greatest, usato bis distinguished wife and himself) by being able to pick up in the difereat fash ouable circles he frequentesd odd bits of gossip about persons in still more And fashionable circles than he could supire to. it was in one of these circles that he heard that Luly Roftroll was not paying for bills with the

which she Ind once heau noted. Mon Dieu

Well, if ever she says anything about the panses of the prosent sensos you—you knöv what to say yourself.”

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taught me something more than I did know. And I," she said reminiscently, "know some- thing even before we met. I bare not got it- hein !-but I know a man of business, a layer, who will do it. Hey? What you call a little bill! Um Oh! at what interest will that lawyer do it p

Twenty-ive per cent." Mr. Kutiani sait sharplyNo usury with him-nothing of the eert. Only money's tight, specially in the Coronation your."

At three months?" "Subject to renewal."

"I know. Only ahe van't ask. Fifty thousand a year! Mon Dien

"Then offer. If you've a chance. Me- while, you an offer me twe ise-pound notes out of your little cabinet subj et to renewal I am going to the clab to if I want more. play

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For another telegram Ladenmar, which Challis bad shown her, mying that bunhet's dissmis- faction we very great, and that, unless supe much more wo.id arrangement was at once aufs he should instantly proceed to England to taka the matter into his own hands.

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on receiving this pics of la ormation one night after dinner, as sko lolled in a

1 cosy chair and emitted a long whiff from her cigarsits-French ding who have lnd Dulch bustands being someticars in the habit of contracting strange customs. Mon Dieu! perhaps that is why sun has not paid oursino-yet. She gonerally does pay, every January and July.”

It's only July now," Mr. Ratland said "She's hardly behindhand yet. How much does the we

The usual A little over five hundred for herself and Moes Maud. Dat I suppose it's all right, I hope so, expecially as there will be a big bill for the troussean in the autumn if the

id lord don't din."

"Of course it's all right. Sir Geoffroy Bolt-11 ans fifty thousand a year."

As Sir Geoffrey really had thirty thousand & year it was baturally guile in the Biting order of Taings that ho should be grodied with ty thousud, precisely in the wine way that it is nsual for the world to word r how those who have a thousand a year can live on a begger five hundred.

"Mon Dieu!" said Malanagain, who genot- said it as a choras to everyting she heard, we need not boller our boads over her b., aar unda prefix to every remek she utteret. Plan the bill for the trousseau of Mecs Maud either." "That won't be all," Mr. Retland said, help ing himself in a liquen from the sideboard: don't forget the Corenstion robes for her ladyship, who will be a peeress by then."

No." said Muleme, "I won't, though I bal. Mon Dieu ! we shall make a good many for our customers. Fifty thousand your! fein! Mou us, she went on, as she lit a fresh cigare from the stump of the old on. "do you know 1 wish Sir Geoffrey was not so rich-for reascus." Don't you Why asked Mr. Rutland want to get paid Though he smiled as he asked the question.

"Yes On, you, I want to be paid. But now, tipare to yourself. Walter, if Sir Geoffrey had daly ten thousand a year, or live. a poor little silly fvo a d-and-Miladi bad to get th-trus sua fer la belle Maud and the Coronation robes and-and so

so many other thinge--luces, jewals to be reast, everything that crals money! We," and she laugh and showed a lovely lit le set of white teeth which, we yes ago, when she Fed only been· Bréillette, modiste" of the Bus St. Honoré, had caused her to be unch admired, could help ber so."

I replied Mr. Rantland, sententiously, "ake in not paying berbills quite regularly. it is better to help her when she has a husband with fifty thousand a year than if she had one with unly silly little five And better to help a mountess than a baronet's wife. The nore exalted the person, the less they like the -law courts."

Yes. But with such a rich husband she won't ask, she has no need to usk. Ah! Mon Dien: what a world it is! I would like to lend her money, and she will not ask, and I do not like to lend money to other milaties who do ask. Ah! it is shocking. And the lies! Oh! yes, the lies-they, thous others, tell. to throw thedust in my eyes. The big son at Oxford or the little son in the Guards, they have been betting or playing atike petit Bac, or the has band he has specalated on the American Rails, and all the time I know it is the lio, the big big lie, and instead of the husbands or the sons it is miladi herself, Miladi, who has lost her

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*Only a work, you. And only a snail suro of money. What cu five aundred pounds be to you? Why, Lady Bottról, a woman in your position aght to be able to borrow five thous.. and pounds in an afternooi.”

do not know where to go to du so,” she said agais, as she had sal more than onca be- fore.

Think Redaci. Reflect, too, on all it means to you as I have said, it is better for you to pay to kop this news from coming to the ears of Sir Geoffrey and the world, than for in to know it, and pay to provoat the nows beingaiso known by the world.

1 ham nowhere to turn. No one to msk.** Tintis incredible. Will your prens hus baud “—and, as usual, Lady Bottrell want ab

she always did whin h the price, as spoke of he "first" a "real" husband- "not give you money if you require it?

*Not a thousand pounds without knowing the purpose I require it for.“

Will he give you five? Five thousad the man asked, meditativdy, aud with the air of 100e who was thinking deeply.

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Ex 1oo tall hue what it was wanted for ? Al 2. You mil undoresund Unt Yes.

Reta alter, Can you think of he reason? your life, your husband's happiness--your daughter's honons leasing forward as he spoke, "all dejund on themony being obtained. And obtained at onco. Do you not know any other women who are the wires of pist then, and have provared money when they wantal it? And do you not know how they pereuredit

As the man spoke to har thus, Lady Bittreli sitting balore him, pale as dath and within burbeat a sinking, a miing, which she thongat must be like the sinking tas failing, the pre- dies death, racked her brains to recall a hat she had heard and snownof other wen doing

women who were in sama suci straits 15 Su

was now. Yot, no! No, there were ama she had over board of who had been in any such straita as she was, none whose dilemus or

logs could until we horrors of others .ar and dear to them. Nous who had four- ful a gret that, once known, would blue and smiech this birth of na huscent daaghter and

Cumbur to stand namless fore the world. None who had such a secret to bide us here, though several who had secrets, that were wicked ones. Yet here was an ionoest one, but still, ten thousandfold more horribe thun theirs,

There was that sect, she remembered, of Lady Summerfeld, an thow sits had damp every thing in the world to corer it up, to bidetaway, to buy has sairation from a scoundrel who i that serot. And all had bien of no avail; non +. Not on the forgery of her basband's M5, which had boon dacarred and, with it, the Forgery! secret, so that the fast crime was only added Sta must to, without destroying, the old one. No. No. That must never bo! neverthink of that. Nezer, or she would go mad. Better think, instead, of death, oblivion, of exape from all. Batter anything than that

As for the other wensa, theirs bad been tre old. threadbars-wor cesarces of obatgiug money; the borrong from money-leaders. tradespeople and outers; the substilation o false jewels for real; debts incurred right and left and four out at st; ren fictitions thefts of their wel cases. But never on of these had bad such secrets as hers, sacrats an

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on what you all the quiet, or backing what depended the hounur, the name and birthright

lending it to a of ar junoount child. you call a wrong 'un, er Iriend That friend, of, yes? Which tied?

"Well Ira Chellis said, after allowing

I ask to myself. Ha! Moa Dina Bab! And Lady Buttrell af moments for reflection. they think I know unt the lits The life of the Hare you thought of any method of obtain

You must not Beulerard or the West End, I know it, noting what Mark Farness wants?

Oh, no!" and again the little white teeth were "I am only Van Vleet. very much in erid-e Dear, good Vau Viest: A sweet, old thing! Ha!

Perhaps Lady Bottrell will ask you, top, and call you a swretold thing some lay. This Coronation is going to cost a lot of money, sad perhaps her ladyship likes a little Bridge, too. They all do they sy shop-boye plar it now.

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wuste much time,"

"Not yet. Perhaps I shall do so later." "Do so at once. Turn everything over in Your mind. Think doveryone or anyone from whom you can procuro money. A lawyer. » dressmaker, your jewiller, anyone. Itis argent. It Faroess does not get e cablegram from a by le-morrow at latest, will undoubtedly stu for England by an early steater to claim his wife.

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