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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, SATURDAY, JUNE 8rm, 1912.
IN THE NICK OF TIME.
BY
MRS, COULSON KERNAHAN. (Author of An Unwise Virgin,
Fate of Felix," etc.).
The
Fear kept Kitty Lavonel rooted to the spot. Fear kept her eyes fixed on what was visible through the grating at her feet. She saw with abnormal clearness, for the cellar into which she gazed was but dimly lit by a candle. A man was loading a revolver: his face was white to ghastliness; hain gyes were full of dogged despair. himself she cried in horrified tones. "Oh, he must not!"
With a mighty effort, she freed herself from the spell that had held her motion less, and dropping down among the rank grass, and weeds, that grew about the grating, she passed her two slim hands between the bare in piteous appeal, while she pressed a face as white as the man's own, close to the grating," Don't ¦ for my sake don't she called in a voice of agony.
In his silent, hard thinking, Carnac likely --in Carnac village. It must be had promised more than she knew. He somebody from Bunstall. Oh, it is had registered a vow,. “' Would you care; terrible." It must be put a stop to. What ever to meet me again?" he hazarded, can we do?"
you have not asked even where. I now go! Are we to be as ships that pass in the night ???
IN HOSPITAL A MONTH WITH FEVER AND ADVE
BUT Corin NoT FIND PERMANENT COBE UNTIL HE TRIED THE PROVED REMEDY FOR MALARIA
Had not this winter evening's sky been clouded so unkindly, Carnac would have wen the girl's sweet mouth a-quiver, as child's when about to cry. Truly five tragic minates can bring souls in closer 1 touch than years of ordinary everyday man is, he shall find we are too sharp for intercourse! This man whose despairing would cons openly to the house. Kitty any man could feel proud. But the He can't be honourable, or ho a constitution and physique of which face she had only seen for a moment, will get her senses back at Hastings. arduous nature of his work in the the candle light, would she knew Be
"I have a patient,-old Mrs. Porkins, Dr. Lavenel's face suddenly lightened.
who is going to Hastings at once, as have advised it. She will remain thera
DR. WILLIAMS PINK PILLS. until the summer.
She wants a young
When Mr. Charles Nelson first landed companion to read to her. Kitty shall go; and note shall know her address. in Manila, to take up an appointment I will see to that! Whoever this young in the Government Secret Service, he had him.
of
fit and
"He is going to kill indelibly fixed on her heart. How could Puny little girl, we won't be hard on tenervating climate of the Philippines
he ask her if she would care ever to Mary. There is no harm in Rity. She meet him again! A great wave won't give her sweetheart away, that is supped his strength by degrees, until as sympathy for him, hat swept the girl off it. I hope the others didn't hear her re has been the unhappy experience of her feet. Falsely imprisoned, granted the
mark."
thousands of others, he was a insult of a Free Pardun,” forsaken in his dire distress by the woman who was
easy prey for Malaria, to have been his wife, Richard Carnac trowed in her a passion of feeling which was so now, so sudden, that she was almost afraid.
What made her us this form of words, she did not know-tlien or after.
The man paused, and stared blankly,
at the hands stretched out to him. The girl's face he could not see, for winter twilight fast merging into darkness brooded on the desolate garden, and on the ruined house. But the frail hands shone white in the candle-light. They were the hands of a woman. Who conid she be who had tracked him here, and who was imploring him for her sake not to take his life! In all the world be knew of no one to whom his death could
matter.
"Give it to me-oh, give it to me pleaded the voice from the shadows. With shaking fingers he abstracted the cartridge, and placed the revolver in one of the uitstretched hands.
¦
I'm sure they didn't," answered Mrs. Lavoel in relieved tones. "They were far too eager to get to the window to see' the fir Kitty, if you remember, stayed
by me.
So next morning, or rather that very morning. Miss Kitty was despatched with He repeated his question, Would
Mrs. Perkins and a maid to London, and you care ever to meet me again-Kitty thence to Hastings with an ill-spared
Perhaps it was the tender way he spoke her name, which lost her her self-control. **Of course I care!" she answered with tears in her voice. I did not know you were going away, I thought I should see you-often perhaps.'
banknote to buy clothes when she got there, She went away still relasing to reveal what her strange words had ant. hut nevertheless showing regret for the trouble.
"Her andle and aunt she was causing.
were completely mystified.
The rooms Mrs. Perkins had taken were
"It is for you to choose." he told her with emphasis. But," he added, within Wellington Square, a pleasant spot with a large garden in the centre, sur- out giving her time to answer, "I must catch the eight o'clock train to London rounded by trees, that when spring should eure, would be spread with a carpet of to-night, for since you has given golden daffodils. It was quiet and peace- back to life, there are things I must see ful, and within easy reach of the sea. I must gather up the Mrs. Perkins was a charining oli Indy, to. little woman. threads; then I will come back."
and took a fancy to Kitty at once when they met at Bunstall railway station, and
Yes," she said faintly, "come back.” We take the same road till we come
to the High Street, he next said, so we will go together so far."
Perhaps it was the strain of the tragedy so narrowly escaped; perhaps the imme-
pathetic nature, fell in love with Mrs. Kitty, who was as we know of a very syn- Perkins on the journey to London. two travelled up alone in a first-class car-
The
With a sobbing ery, the girl drew the dinte séparation to be faced, bat ther did riage, while the maid travelled in a
instrument of death through the bars. "Stay! I implore you! duo's away, you angel" of pity ("broke from him. I will come.""
I think it is so sweet of you, dear, to be willing to leave your young companions and come away to cheer an old woman "But who has no daughter," she said.
second-class cornpartiment.
tiot again speak to each other until the parting of the ways.
It was under a street lamp that they paused to say farewell.
Their eyes met. He saw a slim girl of I will try to give you a good time. There about twenty, with nut-brown hair, and is a good theatre nt Hastings, and some en oval face, in which were set a wonderfine concerts at St. Leonard's Pier. We Kitty, balf-fainting crouched amongful pair of Irish blue eyes. The sweet will go to all sorts of things. I can do the weeds, clutching the revolver. Had tremulous mouth reminded him of a lot, if I can dis it quietly. And, dear, she wished to go, she could not have done child's. He noted every detail of form so then. She was spent with emotion. und feature. He saw that the black coat
He must seo this woman who had thought his life worth saying. But for hér he would now be in eternity.
After the Malaria get hold of my "system" the miseries I endured cainkit be expressed in words," said Mr. Nelson when seen recently at his home, 107, Callu Eleano, Manila. "Attacks of Agus be- came of daily occurrence, and the fever so lowered my vitality that I suffered torments from Headaches and Neuralgia. Eventually the doctor sent me inte fros- pital, where I remained a month.
Mr. Charles Xelion, of Manila, P.J.. (from a photograph} Upon my discharge I certainly felt better, but in a few weeks my old com- plaints reappeared. I was always ailing One day it would be Headache, the ent day Ague, and then a bout of Fever,
you must let me provide for you as a daghter while with me. You must have pocket money thought, dear, twenty iny concern."
Kitty could scarcely believe her goodqually powerless to rid no of thes luck. Sho would be able to return the Debility and Malaria. bank note to her uncle who so much neerled it. How kind and tolerant her aunt and
Prompted by statements which I read uncle had been when she had been so ab- in the newspaper that Dr. Williams' Bink stinately silent! They had not scolded. Pills had actually cured Malaria, I gave well that they must have believed she had or reproached her; and she knew quite ther Pills a trial. Even with the firs committed some folly. They would have bottle they improved my appetite, auf heen justified in being angry. But they as my digestive orgaus became strengthen- Till we meet again." he said: as he had only granged to protect her! If they He knelt down beside the crunching into her fair face. Till we meet again."
held her hands in his, and looked steadily only knew: But some day they would
od put on weight. The headaches die- figury in the tangle of weeds.
anyway they would know part How appeared by degrees, and the age and She said nothing, but her innocent eyes she would try to please Mrs. angel of pity " he repeated, why did, tooked into his, with such pure sympathykins!
Per fever diminished until they, too, cutirely Perhaps she would keep her you want to save me?" r
comed. and kindness that he nearly forgot kini-Ob, if she would
I kept on with Dr. Williams* There were all those shall cousins to be educated, and
Pink Pills until I had fully regained my
The man who owed her his life, found and skirt she wore were dowds, and ill. her, vague figure outlined in the fitting.) Her hat, too, he could see, was pounds-and then your frocks must be No matter what medicine I took all were shadows. En knpw not whether she was shabby. He did not know till afterwards, young or old. He knew only that she, how carefully he had noted everything for some uncomprehensible reason, had about this girl, saved him from committing the rush net. he had planned so carefully-so secretly He longed, to look upon this woman who by her strange words "For my sake? had caused a star to rise in the blackness of his sky. He,the derelict, had heard these words, words that he could never did have dreamed could have fallen un his
care.
"You
Fe saw a man of thirty or so, whose fat was strong without being handsome, whose hair was greying on the temples, whose brown eyes Were wells
of had a slight stoop, which (although she She saw that his tall figure kindness,
not know it) was the outcome of prison tasin.
Thank God 1 came-that I was in sell, shall come right to your uncle's and clothed It would be such a help if she lost strength and weight."..
time," she gasped hysterically, as the revolver fell from her hands among the weeds. She clutched his arm, with weak trembling" hande Promise me," she said, with a passionate tremor in her voice, “that you will never do anything like that again. Oh, why did you try to do it ?
Tom Birhard Cardue," he told her, with bitterness, is not that enough 7"
She trembled and started. I have heard," she said almost in a whisper.
"I vowed all those years that I ate out my heart in prison that directly got out, I would come here to my ruined forsaken home, and die."
But, Mr. Carnac, why she demand ed.Yon have had a Free Pardon
He laughed with exceeding bitterness, ! Yea he answered, they have graciously forgiven me for a crime. I
ask for you,' he told her in a month perhaps; and, little woman, I would rather no one knew I had been here to night. No one in the village saw me. went straight to my boyhood's home. I am not proud of my cowardice-now "
I shall tell no one," she answered, understanding.
They parted, he taking the long white road which led to Bunstall station: she running along the High Street towards her uncle's house. She ran till she was
could be earning! She recalled with tear-dimmed eyes the loving welcome her The reputation of. Dr. Williams' Pink nient and uncle had given her when she Pills for Pale People as a remedy for all was--one too many!
disorders arising from vitiated blood and
It was when they were all established
in Wellington Square, that Kitty diserve debility is world wide. Among covered the fly in her pot of ointment. the unplaints they have aurri, besides She did not know Richard Carnac's Malaria, are Annemia, Indigestion, Skin address. He would go to her uncle's to ask for her, and her uncle would refuse her address; for he would think at once
raptions, and the ailmente peculiar to the weaker sex. Obtainable of dealers
out of breath, for her aunt would disaphat Carnac was the other referred to in everywhere, and from the Dr. Willian
prove of her being out after dark alone.
It was about three o'clock the next morning that Dr. Lavenel coming home from a professional visit, roused all the household by shouting up the stairs.
Carnac House is ablaze !!
All the family, including the servants,
What are you talking about, Kitty demanded her aunt her candle? And what do you mean by we?".
that unfortunate "we."
Oh yes, she Medicine Co., 91, Szechten Road, Shang- Her hai, one bottle for $1.50, six of 88 post
had said, "I forgot the candle. uncle wou!! think Carase dishonourable, free. to have met her in that underband way. and she-she had no means of letting Carnac knew.
pity was akin to love; nay, she found It was then that Kitty discovered that
gain! The thought was intolerable. One sunny morning-a week or so after coming to Hastings-Mrs. Perkins was
I never committed. But it was not false rushed out on to the landing, at the top that in her ense it was love. Not to see i
imprisonment; it not the awful of the staircase, Kitty among the others.
was loneliness, and bitter humiliation of that candle in the cellar! and the straw Oh!" she cried, forgetting herself, thule years.--Feinid have got: over that i -it was the fact that my own familiar that lay there! Oh! we forgot the friends believed me guilty." His voice
candle rose." And she I was to have married turned her back on m She married another. It was that, I tell you, which made me determine that when my time was up, I would come here, here where I had been a happy hay-and die. should have done it too, but for you. Why did you come ? How did you know !"
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Kitty was at her wits end to invent an answer. She had been betrayed into words she would now have given anything to 1 recall.
She would not betray poor Richard Carnac. She would not lie; so she remained obstinately silent,
"I often come to this old garden in the evening," she told him. am not very happy and lonely places are the most friendly, I saw a light through the grating, and I looked"
She paused, gulped down a sob, and went on bravely, "I knew what you were going to do, because of the despair in
Dr. Lavenel and his wife discussed this extraordinary conduct of Kitty's in the solitude of their chamber after the fire of Camac House had burned down, leaving a rain; for there was no fire station at Carnac village, and the House itself bad been left to the bats for years now, iu fact over since Richard Carnac had been a schoolboy, and his father and mother, being delicate, had migrated to the South And you. were sorry! Yon,-you, of France, to die there eventually. The whom I have never ever seen! You House was so large, and the neighbour- cared to sava a stranger, a stranger who hood so difficult of access, that it had was playing the coward! Some day, God never been let, and had steadily gone to grant me a chance to do some big thing ruin. It was scarcely worth the saving, for you. You will tell me who you are, said the villagers, even if a fire brigade won't you?"
had been, near enough. Young Mr. Richard could scarcely have got
anything
your eyes.'
city.
seated in her bath chair on the sea front basking in the glorious sunshine, Decem ber though it was. She had had it drawn up near one of the shelters by the Baths, and had sent the man away for an hour. Kitty was sitting in the shelter softly reading aloud to the old lady. All at once Mrs. Perkins interrupted Kitty,
Now what you are reading makes me recull the case of poor Richard Carnae," she said. "I don't know why it should exactly, except that it is a case of unjust suspicion. You don't know about the Carones, dear. You-sen you are a new- comer. But I remember when the big mansion, now so mysteriously burat down, was the home of the Carnacs. I remember young Richard-poor young Richard-as a mischievous schoolbor, but such a dear hoy! I remember when he was appointed private secretary to Lord Wrothwell; I remember the forging of the cheques, of which pror Richard was accused, and evicted, and, after years in prison, the truth came out, and be
was found innocent. He is recently out of prison. When I feel better, I must She answered him with great simpli-ut of it, even if the fire had not occurred, try to find where he is, for I want to
am Kitty Lavenel Dr. Lavenel's niece. I live with them dows But how it had occurred was a mystery! See him again, and to tell him that 1 at
It Was a
muggy" December night, not least always believed in him. You know, in the village. They had to take me for a likely time for a big fire in a damp old my dear, it was absolutely shaninful the there was nowhere else for me to go mansion.
way his friends turned their backs on Father died soon after mother, and.
It was not. with
the loss of Richard him! Even the girl he was engaged to there was no money. Oh, I am dread- Carnac's property, however, that Dr. and
she married, and is now a widow. fally sorry for them. There is a large Mrs. Lavenel were concerning themselves Poor Richard Well, thank Heaven, he family, and ont really enough income. in their bed chamber, after peace had been is net without money. He comes unt of I am one too many.
rtsstord to the household. It was Kitty, prison to and a sure income,
Carnacs always had plenty which makes it all the more extraordinary that it should have been believed that Richard forged the cheques! Ah, my dear, it was
"You poor little soul" ejaculated and Kitty'e strange words, and her the little hands which had been hold outger silence.
Carnac groping in the dark for one of
is most serious," said Dr. Lavenel
The
to him in pity and pleading, so short a gravely. It looks as if the girl had been time before-and finding it, he beld it meeting someone there at Carnac House. a case of paid false witnesses. But go on She did come in late. Mary-you remem| reading I want to hear how this case ber that, and she looked very excited, and turn out." out of breath.".
in a firm grasp. She offered no resist. ance. He was thinking hard.
"I only could work, and earn, she went on in the low sweet voice, which she had inherited from her Irish mother. "But I was indifferently educated. My father was a painter, and we travelled, and had no settled home.
Kitty with difficulty controlled her She asked to go straight to bed too," voice to go on reading.
keen put in his wife. Ob, Job, I wouldn't
The old lady listened with have anything happen to the poor child interest, her chin buried in the turned-up for worlds? She is a sweet innocent little collar of her sealskin coat, her white hair thing, young for her age. Oh, if she listening in the brilliant winter sun- A clock down below in the village i should come to harm I shall never forgive light, her beautiful old face radiating struck six. She started to her fect. myself, I have let her go out alone so contentment. The sea glittered dazzling- must go," she exclaimed, so good-bye, often-never thinking--and John, who and remember you have promised
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