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A Working Housewife

Nervous Depression, Neuralgia,

Sleeplessness-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST SIST, 1912.

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LABE

THE PATH OF A

DEATHS.

BY

HUNDRED

GUY THORNE (Author of "When It Was Dark,"

Lost Cause," etc.),

CHAPTER IX.

A PRISONER.

Thy room was long and low. Worm-caten panelling covered the walls. The single window, had been filled with ground glass, and it was heavily barred. The old-fashioned fire- place, also, though there was no fire upon the hearth, was encased in a cage of iron barn which would effectually prevent any one reaching the flames. In one corner was a low truckle bed, a cheap wash hand stand, with a basin of enamelled tin, a single chair and table. There was an air of dampness and decay in this melancholy prison-like place,

Up and down the length of the room, with swift, steady tread, fercely and noiselessly, like me panther caged, Muriel Tracey was walking. Her hands were elenched at her sides, her hair was loosely coiled upon her head, her face was doad white, her eyes blazed.

Up and dowa, up and down, swiftly, continually, she paced, in absolute silence.

finally died away in a great sob. The atupefying chloroform or ether which had rubbed her of consciousness the night be- fore, the drug she was given afterwards whatever it might have beeni-had left her weaker than sbo suspected or know, and she had staggered back and sunk upon the bed faint and helpless."

How long she had lain thus in a semi- stapor of misery and terror she coul not have said, but she was roused by the harsh click of a key in the door and the entrance of one of the most extraordinary figures she had ever seen. A big elderly woman, grossly fat, with a large white face, and yet, with an impression of immense physical power, had come into the room, carrying a tray. The mere sight of this woman struck a chill to the heart of the defenceless, girl. In all her sheltered life she had never seen anyone who gave her such an impression of cold and ruthless eve. Even ordinary men of the world, as they go through life, do not often sen faces such as this was, do not feel every clean and wholesome sonBE chilied and disturbed by such a per- sonality. The guardians of our publie safety, the detectives and the police, know such faces; the judge upon the Beneb, the inagistrate in his court-to these such faces are familiar; while the burly wardresans of female convict prisons and criminal asylums know them well.

Muriel's first impulse was to start up, and pour out the vials of her wrath, to demand the meaning of this outrage, to She insist upon immediate freedom. looked at the great, slowly-moving woman, and said nothing.

"Now, my dear young lady," she said, here's your in a soft and oily voice, breakfast, which I am sure you must be wanting. Be a good young lady, drink your tes, eat your bread and butter, and You will no harm will come to you. know all about it later on."

Upon to table stood an old brown tea pot, a cup, and a plate of bread and butter, which had been scarcely touched.

Suddenly the girl stopped, and sank into the miserable rush-bottomed chair

The woman put the tray apon the table, which stood by the table. With aand turned to her with a flickering, trembling hand, she lifted the ten-pot mirthless smile. and poured out a cup. It was full ten minates since this apology for breakfast had been brought her, but the thick coarse earthenware had preserved the heat of the liquid, and as she sipped it nothing had ever seemed so grateful and refreshing before in her life. As she poured out a second cup, unable to touch

She turned and left the room, carefully the food, she found her nerves, a little calmed, and with a tremendous effort of locking the door without Muriel having the will, she began to banish the wild said a single word. Then had began the and furious rage which had dominatedung and futile promenade, like that of her to the exclusion of everything else, and to try and concentrate her thunghts.

Her head ached furiously. There was a horrible taste in her mouth and throat, some sickly drug-like aroma seemed still to linger in her nostrils, while every pulse in hor body beat, now faintly as if ex- hausted now with a sudden drum-like energy as if in physical alnem.

some trapped creature in its cage,

And now, with her bruised hands pressed to her throbbing temples, the girl was endeavouring to pierce the black mystery which surrounded her. Why! For what why! why? in her brain. reason was the spirited away out of life to where she knew not? Who bad dared to do this unthinkable thing, and for what purpose? And Mrs. Albemarle- who was she? What part had she in this black plot?

There was absolutely no answer in the girl's distracted mind. She rubbed her eyes, almost wondering if this were not sond hideous nightmare. The thought of her lover pierced her heart like a sword. If he only knew. If he only knew! If she could only tell him!

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And then the swift answering thought, if he did know, what could he do himself, She hidden

fugitive from justice" thought of Mr. Saltus, her wise friend and counsellor, longing for him with an intensity of longing for which there are no words. She thought of old Mrs. Parker, and the pleasant well-trained servants of Grosvenor Street, picturing with horror and dismay what must be going on in that house now. There came little gleam of comfort. Mrs. Parker would go to Mr. Saltus at once; that was almost certain. She would telegraph to Logy and Major Morduant down'in Corn wall--long since many people must have been engaged in the search for her.

Pit by bit, she regained her mental clearness, and tried to piece together the events of the night before into a enu- nected whole, She had met Mrs. Albemarle, after she had been to the secret rooms in the skating rink to set her lover. The greeting had been quite ordinary; she remembered that she was distinctly pleased to see the handsome and popular woman, of whom she know in truth very little, but whom she had always liked. Then came the invitation to drive her home, an invitation which, bath for the sake of companionship and uwing to the thickening fog outside, she had

Mrs. accepted very gladly. Albemarle had telephoned somewhere, That, in the light of after events, was a significant fact, and one to be remember ed. Then, instead of driving straight i Bond Street, the electric brougham had inade a detour.. It had slowed down, and immediately afterwards came the horrid moment, which was still fresh and vivid in the girl's memory. She recalled the sudden entry of someone into the car. She saw again the swiftly, out-stretchedtion rose to her lips. And now, even as arm af Mrs. Albemarle drawing down the blind. Before her eyes, as she sat there, vision of a moon Again she shaped yellow face or mask.

her sides, felt her arms pinioned to experienced the sudden dreadful leap of her heart, fell the damp sweetness cover- ing her face.

once more care a

But where was she? What did it all maan? Once more the despairing ques-

it did so, a sudden illumination seemed to come to her. For some reason or other, how or why she could not divine, yes surely she felt it was the truth, this dreadful thing that had happened to her reust be connected with Arthur and his escape. Yes I certainly it was a part of that.

For many days she had been in deep waters now, in some unexplained and yet certain way, they were beginning to overwhelm her. Forgetful of self, dis- regarding her own terrible predicament, she prayed long and earnestly that what ever this horror might mean, it did not mean menace and danger to the man she loved so well.

Muriel started, and rose to her icct as the heavy door swung open, and a small, neatly-dressed Asiatic camú quietly into the room.

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She had known no more until she had awakened lying upon the bed two yards away from her. Her hat and jacket had been removed, her corsets loosened, and she was covered with a blanket. All this purt of her memory was blurred and indistinct. She seemed to recall the

Click-once more the sound of the key eudden awakening, the aching sense of

in the door. The murmur of voices, the physical nausea and helplessness in a strange place. If she remembered right-sily anpleasant voice of the huge woman, ly, the room had been dimly lit hy aand another, soft and suave also, with lamp or candle upon the table, and as a curious vibrating intensity in it. she moved and sighed, a huge figure, that of a woman, had come to her bedside, and half-lifted her into a sitting position. A voice had told her to drink some liquid, the taste of which she did not now re- member, but which seemed stimulating and refreshing so held to her lips, and she had swallowed it mechanically. The drowsiness had overcome her once more until two hours ago she had beca awakened in the full daylight. barred window of muffled glass was alight with sunshine, birds were singing close by, but the rest was a dead and oppressive silence. She had risen from her bed,

"Quite so, quite so, Miss Tracey," he swaying and unsteady, and taken in every detail of the sinister prison-like said, in perfect English--the English of **My face was place in which she found herself. One a cultured gentlemen. thing was clear: she was trapped, kid- the last thing you saw in the carriage, napped, taken away from her friends, and naturally it has imprinted itself 1 am alone, and in the power of whom the spon your sub-conscious mind. knew not! As this extraordinary and sorry that we were obliged to use methods dreadful realisation enre to her she had of considerable roughness, but there was

no alternative suddenly grown hot with anger; her weakness went; she was animated with the force of a wild passion. In three strides she was at the massive door, tugging at the handle, striving with all her strength to open it.

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Muriel started at the stranger. Every pulse in her body was leaping and throls: Bing. Now at last some solution of the mystery was to be vouchsafed. Then, as she looked, a chord in her memory was The truck,

The face," he said aloud, the face I saw. Matsumi bowed politely. He put down his silk hat and walking stick, and a faint smile came across his face

It remained immovable, and she beat upon it with her clenched fists until they were crushed and bruised; shouting at the top of her voice, kicking at the stout panels with her pointed shoes, caught up, dominated, by a frenzy of fear and anger such as she had never known before in all her life. Daughter of a soldier as she was, with the blood of generations of warriors and rulers of England in her veins, strong, high-spirited, utterly un- accustomed to coercion or insult in any form, her rage was terrible; but it did nat last long. Her loud, despairing cries became fainter and less in volume, and

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Muriel looked down at the little man. smali, insignificant, and yet with a senso of force and power.

Bir," he said, in a voice which treinbled with mingled anger and excite ment; since you have avowed yourself as one of the authors of this outrage, this abominable outrage, upon a defenceless girl, perhaps you will explain yourself before you end this comedy and conduct me to my friends."

"I hope you will excuse me if I kit down, Miss Tracey," Matsumi replied,. "our conference will take some little time."

With immense xung froid he moved over to the disordered bed, and sat down upon it, and with a little bow, as though to ask permission, took out his alim curved cigarette case of gold, and began

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(Continued on Puye 7.)

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