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A Lady Housekeeper

Nervous Exhaustion, Neuralgia,

Sleeplessness

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A VISION OF THE NIGHT.

BEATRICE HERON-MAXWELL.

The ly evaded her as she touched its atalk, and sho would have overbalanced had not caught the hand nearest to me and steadied her, exolaiming involuntarily as I did so.

Take care, Amuret. What a foolish

(Author of The Adventures of a Lady child you are!"

Pearl Broker," etc.).

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The Prince belongs to an Austrian family, continued Lady Laverton, but he looks to me of mixed nationality. I should any there was a darker strain amongst his ancestry-Turkish perhaps. You will make their acquaintance at tea," she added as we passed into the hall, where everyone was already assembled for that function,

And presently she led me up to a girl in a simple white serge dress saying: "This is a consin of yours, Princess---Mr. Claude Leigh,"

I confess I felt olated as I took the hand sho gave me, It is not every day that one meets a cousin who satisfies every ideal of one's 'mind.

Amoret de Verouný spelt perfection for me from the ninment that her dark eyes looked into mine, and her charming voice claimed me as her kinsman

"You are Sir Everard's son," she said, and we are second cousins once removed. My mother is Scotch, you know, and has all our relations at her finger-ends."

She smiled, and made room for me on the settes beside her, and we were talking together when the men came in from the gui-room.

"You must let me introduce my husband, Amores said, and called softly across the hall: "George. I want you here."

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The sound of an exclamation made us both look round to see her husband behind us. "The Princoss is indiscreet," he said quietly, with curious smile, to me, "Thank you for infeguarding hor." But before he spoke I had caught a glimpse of something in his eyes that recalled with startling suddenness my first impression of him; a glimpse that, trausiest it was, suggested evil. touched his wife's arm with a slight authori tative gesture, which she oboyed by following him back to the drawing room,

He

For two days after that Amoret seemed to avoid me a little, or else circumstances combined to keep us more apart; and it was on my Inst evening at the Castle that another incident happened.

They had been sitting side by side, she and her husband, in the hall at tea-time, and 1 had been talking to Lady Laverton, when Da Voronay rose, erossed to us, and, making some trivial remark, sat down on the nearest chair As I looked neross the hall, Amoret munde a slight, almost imperceptible signal to me to come to her, and, after a moment's pause. I rose sand suntered in her direction."

She rose also, inet me just at the foot of the stairs, and storal for an instant saying that she felt tired, and was going to res before dinner,

And as she turned, and went up the staircase, I saw that she had left a little folded scrap of paper on the balustrade.

I took it up, imperceived as I thought, qud went on to the billiard room, where I unfolded it.

Will you

1 am troubled," it said.

That was all. Assuredly nothing compro- mising in such a noto as that. But careful as she had been,. De Voronay must have noticed it, for though I waited in the drawing-room she did not appear until dinner had been announced, and they came in Logether.

I had risen to meet Laverton who, after a word of kindly greeting, passed on, when I turned again to the Princess, beside whom stood a tall dark max. "This is my cousin,make an opportunity for me to talk to you? Claude Leigh," she said to him, whom I You are my cousin and I feel confidence in you. I shall be in the drawing-room half-an- have only met for the first time to-day." And then, as she glanced at my face, she hour before dinner-time tonight." added hurriedly: What is the matter?" For as I looked at her husband I felt the shock of a double recognition, and I was hack again in the white bedroom of the hat, that red stain spreading on the floor, while from the table, a man's ince set in-a silver frame, watched me with sinister eyes., And the face-lark, handsome. insolent--was vaguely familiar to me. I had seen it once before, when the hansom horse swerved in the square and a man leant angrily our and Pwore under his breath. I was looking, for the third time, at Prince George de Vérauny. Mechanically I apologised to them both for the movement of recoil into which this sudden mesting had betrayed me: excusing myself on the ground of weakness from my recent illuess.

But it needed all my self-control to shake hands with this man.

"I think we have met somewhere before," he said iniliterentiy, though I did not know you were a relation of my wife's."

"In towa perhaps? I answered interro- gatively. You are often there, no doubt ?

There seemed to nie a flicker of some disagreeable thought in his eyes before he replied: "Not often. I was there for day or two last month."

Do you know," said Amoret, "I have never been in London in my life. Isn't that a ridiculous confession for an English girl? I shall see it with a foreigner's eyes when I do go."

Her husband left us and after another half-hour's, desultory conversation. I took the first opportunity of leaving Amoret and seeking out my hostess.

41 wonder if you could spare me five

minutes presently, quite to myself, Lady Laverton?" I said.

"I am going to my boudoir now," she auswered, to finish my letters Come and have a chat there,"

And as soon as we were alone, and she had handed me a cigarette, she said: "You are not quite yourself yet. You look pale and fagged. Tell me about your illness."

For a moment I hesitated. One does not eare to be thought a visionary or a faddist But I felt I could trust her to understand; and I told her everything.

"Now," I said la conclusion, was it a reality or was it a figment of my brain, and, if a vision, was it a warning-ought I to speak or keep silence?*

She reflected deeply for some moments, "Was the woman in your vision like the Princess?" she asked.

Not in the least," I answered. Then that precludes the idea of a warn ing," she said. "I am afraid you must keep silence-Claude,

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She was right; there was no way out of it. Yet though no other conclusion could be arrived at, I felt, during the next few days, an uneasy sense of self-listrust, a constant question of my own decision in the matter. If as I still firmly believed, the tragedy of that night was a fact, ought I to let my cousin remain in ignorance of her husband's real character ?""

Ought I not rather to suggest to ber that she should question him as to those nights spent away from her in town, one of which, as chance revealed to me, was the date of my accident.

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But a negative always followed, and gradually, by force of will, I banished the subject into the background of my mind.

My friendship for even to myself I would acknowledge o stronger feeling for her with my cousin, grew steadily, and it seemed natural that she should walk beside me when the ladies joined the shont, and that we should be frequent partners in Bridge.

De Yerouay, for whom Amoret seemed to have a romantic admiration rather than affection, followed the fashion of many foreign husbands, and treated her in public with a ceremonious, but distant, politeness, that made their relations appear formal and constrained.

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One little fleeting glance she gave me was full of anxiety and appeal, and I made up my mind that I would not leave Ridd until I had had a talk with her, even if I had to tell Lady Laverton my reason for wishing to stay.

1 lind just finished dressing on the follow- ing morning, when a message came to me from Lady Laverton that she would like to

see me in her boudoir.

harried there at once, and found her ladyship pale and agitated.

I sent for you Claude," she said, " herause my husband has gone across to the I want your advice. I hear that farm. Prince George rang up his valet at seven this morning and gave orders that a dog-cart should conie-round at once, to take him to the station for the early train to town. He said he was called there an urgent business, and that the Princess would explain the rense to me later. He also directed that she should not be disturbed until nine, whea the maid was to take in her tea as wal."

At in the naid knocked at the door, with the ten, and received no answer; she tried the dressing-room door and found it locked also, so she came to me. I remembered the little halcony, between the two rooms and told her to enter that way. She did so, The Princess is not there,"

"Not there!" I repeated mechanically. "I have sent my maid to fetch Laverton," her ladyship went on,hut meanwitile the room should be searched. You are her cousin. Will you cre

We went together to the west wing and Lady Laverton alased the outer door behind

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We entered the bedroom-all white and red and silver-and she pointed with shaking finger to a recessed cupboard next to the dressing-room door.

It was lightly closeil- got fastened-and as I opened it I know what I should find there. and braced myself up to the knowledge.

She was lying, may cousin Amoret, half- hidden in the hanging draperies, some of which had fallen und her, and as I lifted her and carried her across the room. I saw the waseballor of her face, the blue shadow of death beneath her closed eyelids.

Lady Laverton shrank away for a moment, putting her hand over her eyes, then,

recovering herself, came to my assistance. But I bent over my cousin and listened to- her heart, I found, to my joy and amaze ment, that she was still alivo; there was a faint throb perceptible, and her hands, though icy old, had not the rigidity and chill of death.

A doctor was sent for at once, and though the insensibility continued for some hours, ho brought her back to consciousness at last. But not before the news had arrived which accounted-to the-world-for the Princess sudden illness. There had been an accident to the up-train early that morning, and one of the two passengers killed was George de Verouay

Prince

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could scnreely breathe. I wanted to move or scream, but I felt powerless and I realised that there was a curious taste of something sweet and perfumed on my lips.

"I made a great effort to raise myself and thon I saw my husband standing watching me from his dressing room door. Claude, his face terrified me! He was smiling, hit his eyes were like flames, ernel and threatening.

"I tried again to speak. I stretched out my hands in appeal to him. He laughed silently, stepped back and closed the door

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"Then somehow I knew! He had

I managed to drag myse poisoned me:

paying a year's rent in advance, in lieu of references. No trace of him could be discovered, nor could any information be gained about the woman.

Tho neighbours said that she stayed there seldom, and only for a few days at a time, leading a secluded life and waited on by one servant-an Italian, whe had been seein entering and leaving the fat on the day when the tragedy must have occurred.

For three weeks the case had boon closely investigated without any result.

A large reward was advertised, by the proprietor, for information relating to his None has been tenants, or the servant. forthcoming!--

The servant has, I should say, beer already paid for his silento; and the only clue that I can remember, contained in the rooms--the photograph on the dressing-table-Hag been removed,

to the door and turn the key, but I heard him opening his window, and I remembere the balcony. I could not reach my window to close it in time I felt I was going to

It is one of those mysterious crimes which faint or die, and I could not call for betp. I opened the euphoard door and hid there, with some confused idea of escape from him, occur in large cities from time to time and

are never revealed to public knowledge. and then I must have become inconscious,

But in many cases the criminal is known to certain people who, for various reasons, for I remember nothing more."'

She was silent for some moments and I prefer to keep their own counsel. what could I say?

And in this case, not only 1, but the small Then she whispered: "Claude, is it wrong circle of people to whom I have given my of me to be glad that he is dead? I try not confidence, know well that Prince. George de The tragedy of this herearement cast. a

the Castle, and the visitors to be I try only to be sorrowful and Yerouay must have committed the murder- on the night when he looked out at me from gloom over dispersed, some believing that the Princess forgiving. But I had been afraid of him for was prostrated by grief at the arrival of the some time. I felt instinctively that there the henson; that he must have been still in that he recognised me, as I did him, at Ridd tidings, others that a vivid presentiment of was something curions in his nature or near the flat, when I entered and left it, And after another pause she added: "Castle, and decided to satisfy his causeless her husband's danger had caused her to something wicked and ruthless. Bwoon at the moment when he was meeting

am going away with my father as soon as I jealousy and prevent me from rousing his his death.

But after ean travol.

time, when the wife's suspicions, at the same time, by

sacrificing her. year is ended will you come?" And I promised that I would. Later that day I left the Castle and returned to town. As I drove through the streets to my chambers, I saw, on the news paper placards, a heading that brought my vision back to me vividly once more.

"Tragie Discovery in a Flat. Murder or Suicidę?".....

Lady Laverton insisted on my remaining. "You are her relative," she said, "and you should be here until her father arrives. He must be told everything that has happened."

For some days Amoret's life hung in the halance, a mysterious faintness continually But with me she was just a tright recurring and baffing the doctor's skill. Jogh-spirited-natural-English-girl. We were Hot slowly her youth and previous health- happy in our new-found cousinship and there gained ground, and on the first day her was not a touch of anything harmful in the strength permitted she asked to see me. pleasant camaraderie between us.

Sho A carried to Lady Laverton's Yet more than once I noticed that Deboudoir and I went to her there. She made Verouay interrupted it, though apparently mo sit hesite her and put her two hands without intention, and I had already began into minė,

"I want to tell you everything, Claude," to think he disliked his wife being in my society, when an incident occurred that made she said, you only, in all the world. And me certain of it.

afterwards I never wish to speak of it agatu

There was a winter garden at the Castle, leading out from the drawing-room, in which we often wandered after dinner.

We were standing together, Amoret and I, by the centre pond where goldfish disported themselves when she least forward, and tried to reach one of the starry white flowers floating on the water.

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Then she paused and closed her eyes while her fingers tightened their grass on mine.

"It frightens me to remember it," she said, but I want you to know. On that morning I awoko'suddenly, with a strange feeling of terror, as though from a bad dream. My throat felt as if it were closing,

I stopped the cab and bought a paper, eager to see if my surmise was correct..

There was no possible doubt in my mind, after reading the paragraph, that my experience had been, ns I had steadfastly beloved, a reality.

The description of the young and beautiful woman, who had been found stabbed in a flat believed by the landlord to be usin, habited, coincided exactly with my remen brance. The mom was certainly the one from which I had fled that night in searen of help.

The landlord knew nothing of his tenant, who had obviously taken the flat in an assumed name, giving a false address, and

I can even fancy that he had it in his mind, if there was any enquiry about her, to suggest an unhappy attachment to me, her cousin, as the possible cause of suicide. Whatever his plans were, the accident in which he met his death frustrated them; though it also sealed my lips for ever.

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