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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th, 1903

lothes he wore years ago, while acknow kdging, as he did so, that tuis was explainable if after yours of imprisoòment, he had rous. sumal on coming out of prison the clothes which he land offed on going in. As for tho ross being in his cost-well that had appeared inysterious at first. yet, on reflaction, it did not em to be so much snow. The man had pro- bably some remnants of dandyism left; the rse was, of onrso, not the sumo, while the glass boutonaire had probably lesen left fas- tened in the coat, and had reminded him, when be saw it year afterwards, of how he had always warn a flower. Nothing was more untqml to a vain mun than that, being thus He is," said Augustus to Lady Bottrell a reminded, he should wear aun again when ha few days later, "un lor striot surveilaco- had his photograph takon. He possibly thought By the police?" his opasio claimed, tura- also that it would distract attention from the ing white, dinge to her, in hair present circum-shabliness and the old-fashioned style of his stanos, flie very name of the palies, or the law, clothes, strack as great a terror ne they would to a de- faning clerk or a dishonest housemaid, By the potion **

CHAPTER XXL..

NOT TO BE GUT OVEN.

Good gracious! You might us wall say by a detective. Why, my dear Rhody, we want to catel the fellow; to make him confess and, also, to make him disgorge. What use would the police bo?"

And, above all, tho beard and greyness of the hair proved that the portrait was the por. trait of the man in question.

Severthelise ho would have giroa mob ta see that portrait,

I suppose it's as well," he said to himself. after he had left his cousin, “not to tell Rhoda about the port I bave got from Boston of the mystery of its being pasted on a cardit wis novor iutended for. For why should 1h ve told her since I cannot explain the thing to mysoif? Ah: it 1 coud do that, if 1 only could. I should be very near to holding the keynote of the whole thing in my haul

Who is watching in thon ?" "Bomo clever people. One is an old college eLam of mino, by as William Tompkins; by OFFICES now in course of erection, Cox. sobriquet. for stage purposes. Laurenco Va

vasour. Consequendy, ne is always spoke of NAUGHT ROAD (Une BLAK PIER).

Tommy-becnu it is a small part of his real name. Another is an old bio-jicket whom Meanwhile, Augadus, who nover did any aly brather George, Commander Ryear thing by halvas, hid wired to the Governor of edusin who once loved you-u I didto primunt Janksonville (reply paid) iving, re ommended to mo 14 à hundy man. And his handy. Very handy."

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*Edrand a seandal. Above all I dread Geof. frey over bearing of it."

Geoffrey ought to hearoit. Goolf may munt hear of it. When it is all over. You clo't gro on living your life with him with this secrat ba tween you."

When it is all over! Ah, Angustua can it over be all over? How? How? How? Nothing, not even the bringing of this mon to bay, the forcing of my firs: husband-if it can be done--to cake from persupling ms, to `ro- frain from exposing my, can be of any use of

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There was a young lady about to play a sub- ordinate part in a foribe ming pics whoso principal masout, he discorgret, was to kook everything and everyindy who came in her way. He also learnt that she was in the babit of devoting her Sandis ta biking about thì anhuurbs nad pɔustry roads, taking exupakots of prutty, old-fashioned houses and striking hits of sein-ry, wid, when she coull get the chance, any hum a or other oldity she happymed to 192.

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ful wifs, it cannot make my poor Maud his law. Augustus gleefully, she had g ta half-sover- ful child,"

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eign or so front anno magazine or other for the No, perhaps nol," Augustus said gravely,inproduction of her ellaris. Now, Augustas, and, it

it may be, with a vagas tons of regret in who fancied to posseared à lirer, was in the is vales. Not as things at nd now, at any habit of going biking himself sometimes and, rate. Bat"

ase day, bo suggdated to this young lady, whose stage name was Mildred Yaon, that he could show her one of the prettiest of raral bits that she was are likely to access within w Yor

sho s distance of London, Le, at Mortlak Thero is," lossid, a swetly pretty com 10-n, "he buck-wall of a vorp-antiqus, notinga, a gat and a donkey-nd s/metimes pig or two --ua Lle common, with, ofsan enough, a soldiar and a slavey. Dean's that excite your artistic desiree?"

• But, at any rate, no matter what happens, Lord tread will have to ba toki sous day?

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Not if you tell bim, Believe me, lauda, not if you to l him all; frankly, honestly." "Wien-when suulla have to do it?"

Phat will be as bad as thongh I were us

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Perhaps when Augustas Chautrey spoke thus Not from a Imsiness point of view," Mi-a to big cousin, to the woman whom cuo he had no who was oneself vory terdunsel ka and loved very dearly and, in memory of whom he fears to get on in the world, replied. "I had maser nilowed himself to love say other son des gat many half sovereigns with th woman-tliere re man who do this sort of Editor's corapliments' for that sort of picture thing even nowadays!—)e was hoping that, in | Now, if the cow hadire lage.ce the pig six, or some manner, a wy out of her trouble might be the koldier happened to be Lord Kitebear in fund. Indeed, that hope was more than »| full uniform with his arm roand" ko stavey's hope, i was an expectation of something that is, and his features came out perfectly." might happen, or, rather, it would have been

"You come with me next sunday," Augustus

an, had he not hims:if s-ou with bis own crus Exaid, “if you've nothing better to do. I won't (as he took crate go and sco) that entry in the insult yon by offering you hell a avtornige bat shipping office book. But that votry, with. I will offer you a ple seat day. We will be past d on the øge it occupied, the extract from the angerican newspaper, was, he had to do iph watch like was w cu2300 for wishing

over to Mortlake, you hill take the phosu knowlonge to himself, an inseparable barrier to to passes; we wid lunch or din somewhere any hope or expectation. It was there, it rid and," which was the crds of the whole thing, been there for yours, it had never been contra thitia my next play you have a bocor dicted or challenged. It sas the most terrible part, than you hasa now," proof which could exist that, on the day Rhoda Miss Vane sco-pred is tempting invitation Lambert married her second busband, the man and, had it ben eran les tempting and with who was in truth!Mark Lambors was alive, time inch or dinner left out, he would hiso There was no getting over that. Mark Lamsey piel it all the same. For this worldly-wise bert was alive on that fatul day. Even though young woum was not at all oblivious to the he might have died on the next day, or even onafentages which a young, and, at pressat nons the same day, after the cosmony with Birtau well-known astros, night drive from being Geoffrey was performed, it would have been of in the gad grans of a popular and w ao avail, Lotting but a seond ma viago could established dramatist who ws, besis, an have made her Go froy Butella wife, But extremely agreable man. there had been no socond marriage, and the mạn She accipted it therefore, au 1 the photograph was not even now dead. He was still alive and of the cottage and part of the comm inclut employing a conflaut, for such Challis paing this cow, pig, gt, soldier and serviatgi-l doubt-dly was, to blackmail and torture bis was obtained more than ones, while, in one of [1296aufortunate wife.

the pictures something else was ob ained. This Augustas uught of all these things not only nothing less than a photograph of Mr. Ita by day, bat by night; he twisted and targed the Challis looking out of the window over the doo matter over in bis c.ever mind-that mind sole response to a question adiressed to him by astate at devising plots and counter-plats, and able se im in Wukins as to whether that was Mr. anti-chwaxes and schemes for stories and p'aya! |"Opkins" "wow? Able Seaman Wilkies, now -yot, hers, with a living. Palpitating drama, arstired from active service, who, tarn and tura real life tragedy in big beads, he could do about with Augastos Chau rey and Mr. nothing. He had to acknowledge himself at **Vansone," had hed Laburgim Cottage under fruit. He knew there was a trick being played, con tuut observation for some ting now, Aud he felt sura-especially ince he had received while Wilkins asked for this information and that photograph 1rom Boston that all was not kept Fra Challis engaged at the window for as it was represcuted to be and yet he had to some time in answering farther questions, acknowledge that he was buffed.

where the fabulous Mr. 'Opkins "ause might be, "There is a reason, a ucossary reason for Miss Vane, sholtsval from obserration by the the photograph which Rhoda saw boing pasted algsar heel of tas laas twenty yirdi off. on to another photograph easily obtainable bat was ougaged in sa pahosting that individual's what is the re son, why was it done? Why ? ¦ featu es. Why he would say to himself as he walked along the streets, or trid to get on with his this gifted young lady said that night as a ter next play or book, or attend-d a rehearsal, {"[And what reason b” he asked himself over 21 d over again. Then he would foros bimevil to go over the whole story of the photogesph Lady Buttroll had seen; he recalled the fact that the man het bien photoraph -1 in the ame

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