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BEING THE STRANGE 'LOVE STORY OF JOHN BRAMWELL,

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CHAPTER XI--(Continued),

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE88, 8‘TURDAY, MAROH 19rn 1804

To begin with," I said, "I should inform you that the young lady in question is in England, and in a very poor state of health. She has seen a great deal of trouble, and her loomery has quito deserted her. To be brief with you, on my way home from Australia I Bhe found her alone on an abandoned ship. could not even remember her own name, nor any of ber past life. One day, however, she montiourd, quite by chance, the name of Signor PLAYERS. Cauti. I went to Florence and traced him to the villa Le now occupies in the suburbs. From him I learnt that there had at one time bean $451) come talk of attentions which had been paid to her by e mar in Florence. Can you give me any information on this point?"

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"I don't see why Signor Canti should have brought mo into the matter," sho ejaculated "I call it most unfair.""

I hope you won't think that," I hastened to say. Your name was only one of many others. But as the rest were scattered all over the world. I called upon you as being the nearest at hand."

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"After what I have beard to-day, and what I have discovered on my own initiative. I'll forswear his company for the future. If he's a hypocrite it shall not be said that I am. What would I not give to settle it with him, man to man p

Bigger man than myself though bo was, the jaalies of my cause would have stood by me and I should have come out the vietor.

I looked at my watch and discovered that it was already ten minutes past five, Io twenty miantes he would be with me. My mind was made up. I would not see him. Onlling the ball porter to me I aid to him: "I suppose the gentleman who called to so me this after- roon was the same who has been so often of late to sse me."

"No, sir," the man replied. "This is another gentleman. I have never seen him before,"

"Vory well then, I will see him." I remarked. I shall be in the smoking room.

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went to the room in question and ordered tes to be brought to me. it bracel was up more than anything else could have d ne, and then laid myself back in my clair, pipa in mouth. and wondered what the next development in the business was ging to be. Was this mysterious stranger going to endeavour to bribe me to return to Australia? Would he offer me prics to surrondor Miss Angels, or would he onlarcar to assassinate me ia the presence of the bald-headed old gentleman who was alnm bering peaceably before the soaring fire?

A faw moments later a servant made his ap. A gentleman to pearance and, ssing me, said see you, sir."

Iros: from my chair to bo propared for him. the Before I could say, "Show him in, stranger made his appearance.

.

It our Giles Farringdon! Giles Farrington was the last man in the If anyons bad told me world I expected to so that he was in England I should not, hava be lieved it. He had always told me that he had done with the Mother Country for good and all, and that nothing would induce him ever to re- turn to her. To see him now in the sucking room of a fashionable Landon hotel almost took

This somewhat mollified ber, "Perhaps I know more than people imagine," she observed at last. "I have been accustomed to keep my eyes open, and though I would not help sering things, expecially when they are Who the deliberately thrust under my nose, man was I do not know, nor did I ever feel any anxiety to learn. I don't think he was au Italian, though he might have passed for ono.my breath away. He was tall, Caller than you ar

"With black eyes and hair," I interrupted excitedly," and very small banda."

"I did not notice his hands," she answered. But in ather respects you have described him exactly. There was one strange thing that puzzled no all," she went on" "and that was the

fact that she was afraid of him, perhaps terrified would better describe it."

"Forgive my asking the question, but what reasons haveyou for suspecting that ?"

Because there were certain days on which she could not paint-when she trembled like an depan leaf and her eyes seemed to have a haunt ed, frightened look that I cannot describe. Then there was unnther man*****

Good Heaven, Gilas," I cried, " is this you or your ghost?"

Shake hands and, ascertain the fact for

yourself," he auswered, with the laugh that I remembered so well of gld.

me that he was not a member of the Spiri

I was telling him, but who gave him an account of what we discovered cu board, the body of the murdered mau, pinned out upon the dock in that fondish manner, and the half mad girl, oronching in the corner of the cabin below, te got up and began to pace the room.

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He evidently thought me med, I look out my pocket book and from it the photograph Ha looked at il that I was longing to destroy. with an expression of indeseribable disgust upon

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How you can hear to carry the thing about with you, I cannot imagine," gaid, "It would give me the nightmare to have it in my

room, and I don't think I am anore of a coward bau mest men. Why do you do it. "

"Heous I want to run down the brutes who

committed the crime; and I am on their track or like a sleath bound. But let me get on with my yarn."

I told him of the condition of the ship, how very trace of her identity had been obliterated, spoke of the tidiness' of the men's quarters, the galley, and of the cabins aft: how I had offered to navigate her home, with a crew and a mate

1 told him of the poor from the "Hallket." girl's sad condition; and later on, what arrange- ments 1 had made for her.

"You're a brick," e sal; but I didn't want any compliments.

The next part of my narrative was my mast- ing with Armitage, the little Jes, and my ad- rentures on the Continent.

"Well, you can't grumble because you haven't had suffi fent excitement.” La ram irked And was his young when I had finishert ludy whom you rescues pratry 3"

Judge for yourself," I returned, and handed' him her portrait,

At the moment was engaged in lighting another oirar When do had finis, he glanced at the portal, with the raterest of s man who, reading a good story, glances casually at the iliustrations. Studenty I heard him catch his breath and his face becaue as pale as it was possible for it to do. He stared at the photograph as if he could most takes his eyes off

Ho hold out his band, and I took it to receive a grip that went a long way towards onvincingit.

"Good Gol, inn," he cried, with a fierce. World. Then he clapped his bands on my nees that I had never seen in lim before. "If shoulders and said, "By Joya, Jack, how well this is a joke you are playing on me, I warn you are looking, old fellow. And what a you that it will be the worso for you. If it had thundering swell you are. And yet I remember been any other man I would have killed him." you standing your watch among the ends in your pyjamas, with a silk handkerchief round your neck, and bare feet,"

"Woll, como and sit down," I said, "and yon shall tell me all about it.”

"Another?" I cried in great aurprise and

did so, sad rofreshments were ordered, A pain as I hope I may never know again.recklose thing to do on me part, sosing that 1 "Tell me what you mean!"

+There was another man," she replied, "an had only a few minutes before finished my tea. ugly. I might almost say a hideous man, with However, there are times when Prudence inust face like that of a Bairr. He followed her be thrown to the winds. This was one of them “Well, I'll spiu'my yarn first,” he said, "aud everywhere, and we girls all thought that, be fore long, there two inen, who hated each other then you can spin yours with a deadly hatred, would try to kill each other Then she disappeared, quite suddenly, leaving all her things behind her and not even saying good-bye to the girl who shared her lodgings with her. The tell man we saw for s faw days sfterwards, but the Satyr we never anw again. That, air, is all I can tell you. It ber memory is gone, and she cannot recall the past. I suppose that is all that will ever be [640 knows,

"Fire away then," I said, and he set to work. "In the first place, I am going to pay you the compliment of saying that, after you left, I folt a bit lonely. Things didn't seem to go right at all. I got a man to fill your billet, but he was such a blunderer that I had to get rid of him, Then there somed to be nothing to do, and I began to think that I was tired of the go and the old life. I had business is Honn, so I put in there to find a letter awaiting me. which "Not quite all." I answered, "Miss Mathe-bad bron forwarded from Sydney. I can't re member whether I ever told you that I did not son, are your nerves strong?"

What makes take up the life I lad out there for the sake of "I have always been told so.

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that it is a very horrible one."

"I think you may trust me," she said. And I thereupon produced my packet-book and took from it the photograph of the war dored man. It was not without some trepidation that I handed it to her. I need not have worried myself, however, for it was svident that it would take more than that to shake her

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fairly good in come. Something had gone wrong with it, and it becams nenugary for me to harry home to look after things. Now you know everything. It's not much of a stury, is it, when all is said and dona."

"I don't care so much shout the store." replied, “as I do about seeing you again. E can almost irongine I see your coming up out of the companion; and talking of that reminds That is the man of whom I told you,me, where is the schooner ?" Contorted as the face is, I should know him anywhero. Where did this happen ?**

"In mid-ocean," I replied.

She handed it back to me without another word.

Laid up, my boy, where folk won't think of looking for her. Do you think she's in Sydney Harbour. lying alongrida ous of your handsome British man-o'-war in order that my duffer of a mate may invite the office to life to hear

"I can tell you nothing further," she said, him recount his adventures? No, my lad. it in e strangely harsh voice."

I TOC. "Good-hye, Ms Matheson," I said. "I am very grateful to you for what you have done for me. At least yon bare est my mind at rest on two points. The identity of the man in this photograph, and of the other with black hair and dark eyes. It may interest you to know that the latter is in Londen now,"

or the first time she showed signs of emotion, Placing ber hand on my arm she said impulsively, "Then, if you are her friend, sava bor from him, for he is the Devil himself in kuman shape, and if he finds her, God hap her, poor girl:"

My heart sank as I remembered the day of our visit to the Palaes at Hampton Coart. Now I knew why the little Jew had followed me on that occasion. But Armitage, in whatever his name might be, had not got her yet, and please God, if I could prevent it he would not get her at all.

Having no desire to return to my hotel in my present humour, to sit in the smoking room or the billiard room and hear nothing but the inane chatter of a lot of people for whom I oured nothing. I had any eabby drive to the park. There I paid him eff, and went in to wander about the al deserted paths, my thoughts racking mmea wile like a bundred thumb screws. Plan aftr plan cenrred to me, but I threw them all aid as nseless. I was beginning by this time to see the character of the man I had to deal with, and with him half meastres woul be worns than us loss,

At last, when it began to grow dask. I left the park and made my way along Picadilly and the Haymarket to the Strand.

When I entered the hotel, the hall porter informed me that a gentleman bad called twice to se mr, and that he would call again at balf-rast five.

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they search for a hundred years they won't find her. But now tell me of yourself. You seem to have let me do all the talking, Rementer I know nothing of your doings sure that wa sailed away in the 'Hullket."

"Oh, I have been goin through all sorts of adventures," I replied. "It was quite like the old times. I only wish you hond hoom with me."

I wish I had. But let me inform you that you are not getting on with the story. Fire away, man, for go dnes kare, and let's hear all about it. I can remember the time when you used to be a good haul at s'yara."

laurbed, as a thought struck me.

Bat my dear fellow," I said, springing lo my fest and putting my hand on his shonider, "I am playing no joke on you. That is the photograph of the girl I found on the brig.".

He was shaking like a man with the palsy, and great beads of sweat were running down his forehead. I rang the bell and bade the waiter bring me some brandy. When it came I gave it to my friend and he tosset it off at a golp

"Now, Giles, for goodness sake tell me what this means," I said. "What has upset you so! You know that I would not do anything to hurt you for the world."

"I know that, "old man," he replied, grip ping my hand ike a vice, but-but-that girl is-is-my sister !**

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