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A Lady Housekeeper

Nervous Exhaustion, Neuralgia,

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Thoy had dragged a wufti jacket on bn, tied a purple and yellow neckchief around his throat, and crowned him with a shabby folt hat; and they buttoned the jacket close ly to bide his Army shirt. But they could not nuke the half-tipsy soldier look like a saber civilian for all that. And there was the red line down the seam of his trousers, too!

"Stow it 17 said Hough again. "You're in a devil's own mess now don't go an' mako matters worse: You've got to get away quiet till it all oloars up on you're all right. Everybody knows Kate was White's till you came on the scene, an' it ain't no secret that she didn't leave orf fancyin' 'im directly you took or out an' spent a bit on 'er."

"You'd give 'er à pretty nice character between you, you would," Coulter steered loftily, his eyes still glinting maliciously.

"Cut 'er out of it, if you don't like 'er in P oried Knotty, turning round from the window, through which he bad been watch-

"Lord we might as well frag-march 'iming the gathering darkness. White's dend, an' somebody's got to swing for it. That's to the p'lice-station an' 'ave done with it!''

all there is to it, an' you've got the hoption. oried Knotty, desperately, as he stepped It's ne'ly dark," he added quietly, address back and surveyed Coulter, who was holding ing the romark to "Boss Hough. on to the edge of the table, though he was not nearly so tipsy as he appeared, for truth to tell he was partly dazed by the shock the news had been to him.

"Sight better," agreed Burley, sullenly. "We're not doin' 'im much good, an' for a gore thing we're in a mess if 'e's caught," Got along tor barracks, then, you chick

retorted on-earted chumpa!"

"Boss" Hough, savagely. "Mean to tell me that police lookin' for a solger would spot 'im? An' 'ow ther hell, Knotty, did you get your medal if you never risked nothin' before?"

"I'm all right, chops; I'm all right," said Coulter, thickly, and tried to pull himself together. Ho smiled at them with a grotesque effusiveness and squared his broad shoulders. "Bat I never did it never did it."

"Never you mind now, Coulter, wether you did it or not," Hough said with friendly gruffness, and began to roll up Coulter's scarlet tunic. "You've "

"But I de mind?" cried the corporal. "D'you think I'd stand ere an' 'ave you wrap me up like this, if I'd done it? Don't I know that you've all earnt a spell of clink trying' to 'elp me get away? So you take it I never done it."

"No. we know you never dove it, Coulter," responded Knotty, taking him by the arm, and shaking hini gently. But that won't mend matters if you're arrested; you won't be the first to go to the gallers as didn't know nothing about it. They're on you that's the point. They're on you, an' it looks like them 'avin' you, an' a lastin' dis- grace to the battalion."

You mighter done it; that's the whole of it," Burley interjected wisely, and spat into the fre.

"Ish'll go 'long an' see Kate, first," mut. tered Conlter, leaning on a corner of the table and rubbing his big chin vigorously. It she thinks I did it, I m'as well stop an' sce it out."

moa.

"I didn't do it!" protested Coulter, dully, and folded his arms across his chest.

Wat's that matter?" Hough and Bur- ley demanded together. Then Burley was silent, while Boss"-Hough continued.

"Wat's that matter?" he repeated. It would 'ave been over 'er if you 'ad done it, an' it'll be their lay to prove it was, Wasn't White after Kate, an' didn't you threaten to do 'im in if 'e didn't sheer orf?"

Course. I did."

"Well there you are! An' didn't they find 'in with the knife sticking into 'is chest? Conldn't you 'ave 'andled that knife 's well as anybody else? There" Hough broke off, and glanced round at Knott and Burley sharply. "P'raps they know some thin' 'bout Kate an' White w'at you don't know, Coulty. You ain't goin' after 'er to night or any other night, an' I'll jolly well Auswer for that.".

It's ne1ly dark," repeated Coulter, in a end tone, moving towards the door, "an' I'm orf to sea Kate."

Hough shoved him aside, and planted bim self in the way.

What're you sickenin' for, you blithering idiot he cried fiercely.

"The gallers," answered Knotty, promptly as possible. "Let 'im 'are 'em, Boss; they ain't infeeshus.".

Coulter, although very much sobered by the conversation as not yet quite himself, and he drew back proudly and regarded Hough with tipsy indignation,

"Pardon me askin' you, Private Hough, but 'ow long 'ave you bin in command of the Second Battalion? I'm goin' to see Kate if within an hour I should swing for White. Lord knowa w'enever I may see 'er again," he added ander his breath.

"Let 'im go, Boss," growled Burley, out of patience with the once most popular cor porni in the battalion. Let the fool go."

Hough stared deeply into Coulter's blus eyes for a moment; they looked back at him with the hard, dogged expression he knew so well; and he stepped aside.

*All right; wo've done our hest," he said. "An' it isn't that I'm not thankin' you for the same," returned Coulter, gently, after he had opened the door. He looked round at them over his shoulder with a friendly øye. “But I've got to sec 'er."

He repeated the words under his breath as he began to grope his way down the dark, narrow, and uncarpeted stairs.

Half way along the passage on the ground frur ho stopped and listened for the sound that might indicate the presence of anyorie in the street, the door to which stood open, But he heard nothing except Hough's voice apstairs, and the crying of a very young baby in the basement. Then he went forth into the narrow and disreputable barrack- town street and found himself alone there in the growing darkness.

Unhesitatingly, and with a stop which would

"You won't do nothin' b' the sort !11 Hough declared fiercely: "wen we're ready you go straight out an get on to the cam-have betrayed his calling to anyone who You might as well go an' stand in the had seen or heard kim, he went to the right, He walked middle of the street an' wistle for the p'lice and towards the open country. as do any sech thing. D'you think they briskly, with his head held high driven won't look for you there? D'you think they out of all consciousness of himself by the don't know that it's all over 'er?"

thoughts are, the suspicions which Hough and Burley had planted in his mind. He was not a child, but a man of over thirty; nor an innocent, but a soldier of four and a half years' service; but he had always regarded. Kate Mensill with childlike unquestioning, and loved her with a beautifying faith. Still he'was a man and a lover, and not impervi ous to the shafts of jealousy. He had been jealons of White, whose stiff, stark corpse had been found on the margin of the Wend- lay Woods that morning, as the man whom he had cut out of hor affection; but he had never supposed she had cared for White as she cared for him; he had expected vaguely that she had kissed White and accepted White's embraces, but that she had found in doing so the full-heart joy she knew and con- fessed when he himself took her in his araw and kissed her, had never disturbed his imagination. Vot now, because his pals had rather tried to keep it from him than to point it out to him, he suspected that is to say, he accepted the possibility as a possibility; and his anger, his jealous passion was aroused by it. At the same time, he was not running the risk of capture by the police, who for a certainty intended to arrest him on suspicion of murdering White, because he was jealous, because he was suspicious; con- currently through his heart and mind ran the wild desire to press Kate to his breast, and to bear her say she cared for him, for he was going away inte hiding, and Heaven only knew how long it would be before he saw her again; he was seeking her because he loved her, but seeking her with throbbing mind and clenched fists because he accepted the possibility that she had been faithless in thought or doed, or false in kiss or pledge, as a possibility. And it seemed to him the thought had smouldered in his mind for months, and now only heen fanned into buru- ing suspicion or supposition; it had a familiar Er 'avin' carried on with im unbe favour. Yet he knew if it had ever laid, known to you, same time," Burley inter however remotely, in his mind, in many ways Kate would have set it working hira. For jected.

"Old your month, Burley," cried Hough, he recalled a host of things said, done, or turning on him angrily-200-arst-you-to-left undone by her which had an old, a

suspicious air.

Corporal Coulter was neither too dazed nor too drunk to miss the implied suggestion of Hough's. He looked round the shabby little room to which, by the courtesy of the landlord friend of Knott's they had dragged him, to effect his disguise. His handsome face was flashed and wore a blank expression.

Wat're you drivin' at?" he inquired, dully. "Praps you'd like to make me b'lieve she wasn't straight with me? Kate?"

That's w'at the p'lica ' muko b'lieve," Knotty answered, with a swift side-glance at Bough. "They'll work it all in against yon."

Hough nodded at Coulter to confirm Knot ty's warning. "That's it," he said. "Things crop up queerly w'en a chap's in a hole. They'll make it eat against you that in spite of your bit of money she didn't shake im orf, so you did 'im for jealousy."

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chip in?

So that's the tale, is it? Coulter As he passed, unhindered, almost, indeed, drawled, looking around at them with steady unnoticed, through the outskirts of the town oyes, his intellect clearing under the influ on to the far-stretching, dark common, a ence of this revelation.. Got 'old of it light drizzle began to fall. He took off his some'ow, 'ave yer, that Kate's bin 'ankyin' hat, which was uncomfortably small for him, with me?"

and allowed the rain to odol his head. He "No,"

protested Hough mildly, and pro was sober now, though the thoughts that had duced an attenuated cigarette from his newly come to him dazed him a little and breast, we're simly tellin' you wet the caused his head to throb hotly. He was plice'll make it look like against you.” wanted for murder, and the more he conned over the circumstances of his situation the graver his position seemed. White had been lain not two hundred yards away from Kate's home, apparently at an hour when he himself had been nowhere in particolar iding alone. If it were suggested that he had been losing about the Mensills' cottage, and met White there and killed him because of the girl, how could be refute it? If White was still dangling after Kate, and she excouraging him, as, indeed, bis presonce in the Wendley Wood seamed to imply the suggestion would carry the weight of an established fact with an average jury.

**So as to persuade yon not to go dancin' after the girl w'en you might be gettin" away," added Knotty, dusting his trousers vaguely

You needn't tell mo ao rotton lies," re- tarted Coulter, scornfully; "I ain't so easy to kid but if it weren't for w'at you've tried to be doin' to 'elp me out of a scraps to night. I'd break all your jaws." He got to his feet, and straightened himself, seventy- three inches of hard bone and muscle, and shook his fist at them, particularly at Hough, who, because he had evinced the most tact, seemed to him guilty of the deepest decep tion. Carryin' on with White an' me--"

*Stow it, Coulty," cried the "Boss" in- patiently, you've got to be movin' any minute! It ain't w'at we say, an' it ain't wat we think it's w'at the p'lee'll say an the jury'll believe. If you're nabbed, you'll he strung up sure as eggs, so don't say I nover warned you

"Gawd " he muttered thickly, but it ain't got to come to that; I've got to get away.

The thought put him on his guard, and he stopped and searched the enveloping dark- neas with his eyes for a sign of a pursuer or watcher.

Gard!" he repeated softly, and tugged Like as not," Burley interjected, "they at his hockerchief to loosen it, for it had the are 'angin' about Kate's place on the chance feel of a hangman's noose just then. He you'll go there to do 'er in, too."

**An- so I would, by if b'lieved it went on, guided by the lights of the town

declared Coulter, hoarse with passion, his round blue eyes flashing."An' so I would !!

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