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The Liberal, 20 Sep 1900, p. 3

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Lady St. Just persisted in withhold- .ng her secret from 'her husband, and he as resolutely declared that she must reveal it. "How cruel you are!" she sohbed. "Cruel, Vivien? I do not wish to wound you. It is you who are cruel. Put yourself in my place. Suppose that you found me changed, unhappy, full of a. sullen brooding sorrow, Hu'ppoae that you discovered that I was keeping a secret from you; that you found Iwas in the habit of visit- ing Some place unknown to you, of passing by a strange name; that you Gound I cared greatly [or a. child whose face resem‘bled my own, as Harry Dormanfs resembles yowrs. "What should you think V" She made him no answer. " I know,” he continued, " what any man who had less faith in your goodâ€" ness and truth than I myself huVe would think about your silence, I know what the world will say if it gets hold of the story and finds out how much. the boy resembles you." w " Nay, if you do not understand, I will not explain, Vivien. I have used entreaties, prayers. exposLulations, all in vain. Now I threaten that unless you tell me the. secret yourself, [will at once set to work to find it out; and I will never rest until I know “ I will never speak to you again if You do that.” she threatened. "I cannot help it. Your silence to me is terrible; it shows that there is something far from right. I consider myself bound in duty to fathom the m3stery. It strikes me that the boy himself would be the one to help me." " The boy himself 1" she repeated. “Yes, he seemed struck with the word 'Lancewood.‘ If I were to send for him, and try all I co‘uld to awak- en his memory, it seems to me I should get near the truth." ‘ ‘Would you really do this, Adrian?" she asked. "I would, indeed." he replied. "I would have no scnuple in doing it.” She remembered how the boy had seemed in some vague Way ho recogâ€" nize her face”? How would it end ’6 How mulch would he learn from him? All surelyâ€"most s-ubely all. \Vitha deep moan she buried her face in her hands, [10rd St. Just kmelt by her side. There was no answer save a low moan. He continuedâ€"â€" " I am yorur husbandâ€"the one in all the world who loves you best. Why can you not trust me? Who could help you and comfort you as I can? Who would share your troubles as I should! My darllno‘. do not repulse my warm, true, deep love, but trust "Dear wife." he said, “there is a struggle in your heart, a struggle be- tween right and wrong; be braveâ€" let the right prevail. Own the truth, no matter what follows. Only cowar- dice needs secrecy. In the name of Heaven, by the love you bear to me mud to your children, by the value you set upon your fair name, by your pride of race, I entreat you to tell me .â€"trust me." me. 1 am not a foe, not an angry judge, but your true lover. If there ls anything in which you have done wrong, let me set yuu right.” He kissed her face. he kissed her hands, he called her by every loving unld tender name. :There came a low cry from her lips, but she did not speak " It is from Lanoewood your trou- ble comes," he saidâ€"“ I can see that,â€" Lancewood and this boy; but I cannot Dee yet how they are connected. Heav- on. which has already shown me so much will show me more. There is some mystery Petr Gerald Dorman, the boy, Lancewood and yourself, are all concerned in it. With a little more patience, I shall make it out, Vivien, would it not be better for you to tell me than for me to (incl it out '3” my armory the love of Vievu She tried to think that what he said was true. It was neither fate not chance that was guiding him, but the finger of Heaven. She had done a great wrong. a great injustice; it could never prosper. Yet how could she give up Lancewo'od, to Valerie and her dissipated friendsâ€"to the boy who really seemed to her to have no (1" of How could she take the placo " Yes," she \vhisperudâ€"“but give me time." “Take all the time you need, if you will but trust me in the end," he said. What will it say 9" she asks faint- a Through Storm and Sunshine 1118 CHAPTER 'XLIX name. use the truest weapon in " he said, playfully. “For Lanoewood, trust me, Vi- from her son whom she had fondly believed would malto so noble a mas- ter for it? V Then, she did thing I: 'as to embla them to regulate per- form their functions without the aid 'of mediums, They also act on the liver and kidneys, and so revitalize the whole excretory system and per- manently cure the most serious cases of oomstjpatiou, biliorusness and ! dyspepsia. I Mrs. W. 11. Fisher, Pruwn, Ont., wnne She remembl wordsâ€"“He mid wordsâ€""He m'ast go back to woodâ€"promise me." Dare she ignore those solemn words? "\Vhat shall Idol“ cried Vivien. wringing her hands. "Trust me," said her husband. " The time has come when you must tell the Rruth. Do not hesitate; be brave, Vivien; and. tell it." " You will hate me," she moaned; “but, oh, believe me, Adrian, it was not quite my fault I I was mad when l uttered the words that led to it allâ€"quite mad; and he was so de- voted to me he thought I meant it. I did not, it was all a confused hor- "You forget," he said, "that Ido not even know of what you are speak- ing. Tell me one thing, Vivien, which will make all else easierâ€"tell me who is the boy '3" should she tell him? If she did not, he would find it outâ€"he would be sure to do so; it would be better to trust him now that he was so near the truth. She rose slowly from the couch, she stood before him in all the magnific- emce of her beauty, her face pale, her eyes filled with the fire of pride; she drew herself 'up to her full height. He Invoked at her in wonder and amazeâ€" ment. “ I will tell you," she replied. " be- cause it will be better for you to hear it from me than from any one else. That boy is Sir Oswald Neslie, heir of Lancewood.” “I did not mean it two he done, Ad- rian. M'hen I spoke to Gerald Dor- man as I did. I was bewildered, driv- e’n half mad by all that was going on at Lancewood. I hardly thought that he would take me at my word so quickly. Believe me, I honestly thought the child was drowned.” Give Rise to Dyspepsia and Other Bodily Derangementsâ€"Dr. Chase's Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills are Unique as the Only Treatment Which Permanently Cures Constipation. " You might have thought so, when such was reported to be the caseâ€"but, allerwnrd, Vivien. when you knew all 2" " Then I sinned more wilfully, more deliberately than at first. I have not Lord St. Just started; it seemed to him for a moment that he had been shot through the heart. Then he said in a low voiceâ€"â€" "Oswald Nesliel I thought he was dead." “I will tell you all." she replied. And, standing there, erect and queenâ€" 1y, more beautiful in her pallor and her shame, than he had ever seen her, Lady St. Just told the whole story. As he listened to it, his face grew pale. When it was finished he lacked at her. " May Heaven forgive yOu I" he said, slowly. "So did Iâ€"so did every one elseâ€" but he is living and well." "Stay," said Lord St. Just. " You have taken me by Surprise; I am he- wilderedâ€"lost-â€"-I cannot believe it. The heir of Lancewood! Great Heaven, Vi- vien, what does it all meun‘l Did you know that he was living? Tell me." CynsAipu'tiLm, or inactivity of the bowels, is probxbly the cause of more distress and suffering than any other organic derangement. Oncethe bow’els are constiplted Lha kidneys become clogged, the liver turpi‘d and uh» .~.lom- uc‘humd whole digestive system com- pletely interfered with. Constipation can never be cured by the useof salts and similar weaken- ing and debilitating purrgutivea. Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liveu' Pills not only cause the natural action a! the bowels but so stremgthen and invigqrgte them The head aches. there is dizziness, weakness and dimness of vision, min in the tuck. sides and limbs. the accumulation of wimd and gas on the stomach, pains and fumes: in the region of ihe stomach and depres- sion and despondenoy of spirits. heh Constipated Bowels ad remembere never dre again, she reflected, that i not tell her husband every would find it out the truth, that a 11108“! inquiri 1med that HI and the :d Gerald Noll he w0u1 he wa dying Lance- totally ques it it been happy, Adrian. Sin has not pr pared with me Yet I have not 10 ed on it as sin so much as a deed (It for the good of La ncewood. Pea may a strollin interloper, the evil genius of Lance- waod. I had many excusesâ€"the place was getting into evil odor every- whereâ€"it would have gone to ruin in his hands. I loved my home so dear- ly, Adrianâ€"yon cannot enter into my feelings." “I can imagine the depth of your love from the gravity of your sin,“ he said. Then he took her hands in his. “ He looked at them long and steadily. ' ‘W'hat have you done, little hands,” he sai , “ with the honor intrusted to you I!" 'Lord St. Just. gravely. " The boy may be the son of a strolling player. but he is also the son of your father, .s‘ir Arthiur Neslie." “ But he resembled his mother," she ~ried, eagerly, “even his face was like here in those daysâ€"he was like her. Loo, in character than. Gerald Dor- man's training has doubtless done much fior him. Believe me, I never CHAPTER L. Lord St. Just was literally over- whelmed. He was not a hard or stem manâ€"he was lenient, merciful, consid- erate. He oomfld make excuses aJnd al- boxvances; he was slow to condemn. Lhought of him as Do me he was alway int‘erloper, the evil wand. I had many Bull: his wife’s confession horrified himâ€"he coufld not recover from the â€".impression that it had made upon himâ€"hie cotuld not realize it; that the moble lady he had worshiped as the pattern of all womanhood had been guilty of what she had revealed was to him incredible. Still he oould make allowance flor it. For her pasâ€" sionate love of home, for her intense pride in it, for her horror of all dese- cration of it. for her dislike of the gay Frevnchwoman, and her friends, for heu- dread of seeing the fine old place ruined, he could allow, but he could not understand how so noble a woman, could have erred so terribly. He spoke, gravely, sternly, and ev- ery word seemed to fall like fire on her heart. She saw her sin stripped of all sentiment; she stood face to face with it now. for the first\time â€"-for the first time she saw that it really was a base, cruel fraud cm a helpless child. Before this she had states: “I can recommend Dr. Chase‘s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pin: [01' Constipation. I w slrt ublrld for .lb )ut nine yeir=, and have spent. hundreds of dollars with doctors and for remedies I heard of, but they failed to even give relief. Hearing of Dr. Chase‘s Kidney-Liver Pills 1 procured a box and they have cured me of this longstanding com- plaint. I 'don't have to use them any more- at all, which goes to Show that the. cure is complete and permanent." Mr. Henry Moore, Pickering, Ont.I states: “In the fall of 1895 I used three or four boxes of D1. Chase‘s Kidney- Liver Pills for Constipition and Stom- ach Troubles and never flound any- thing to compare with them. I had suffered from these complaints for many years and taken many kinds of medicine, but it remained for Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills to cure me, Iammw well and strong but continue be take one or two pills a week to cunnteract the uric acid condition in the blood and to keep the bowels per- fectly regular." “ I have sinned to preserve it," she replied. “And in sinning you have lost it,” he said. "The deed you'have done brings greater shame to the Neslies than all Valerie’s gayeties, 10w friends and dis- sipations. You have betrayed your fa- ther‘s trust, Vivien; you have tar- nished the- honor of your house far more than Valerie ever did. You have held Lancewood 'by fraud, which is what no Neslia ever did before; you have, in plain and simple language, wmmitted a gigantic theft, for which the law cmlld punish you most ter- ribly. You have defrauded an inno- cent child of his rights. You have taken advantage 01‘ the fact that he “What have you dome, my darling," he said, sadly, "with the honor in- trusted to your keeping 2” was fatherless toâ€"in plain words againâ€"rob him. Strip your story of all false sentimentpf all sophistry,and the fact lies before you that you stole La'noewood from a child. Famin pride love of race. will not hide or extenu- arte such wickedness." Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills. One pm a dose, 25 cents a box, at all d511- ers, or Edmanwn, Bates & (XL, To- mum. say what they will the son olling player has no right the on seem to forget yourself," :1 St. Just. gravely. " The be the son of a strolling pla my father‘s son. 3 Valerie's boy, an The boy said )pl “ Thank Heaven," said "that I hear you my darling. he must go 021 He saw her kneel d! OBOE aloud, he heard her murmur Words of little Arthurâ€"little Arthur and Lanoewobd. He knew blow terrible the ordeal was for her. His eyes grew dim with tears as he remembered the passnonate pride in and worship of the boy who was #10 have been Arthur Neslie of Lancewobd. “ Yolu have sinned greatly,“ he said, " and your atonement must be com- plete. It must be speedy and entire. Vivien; the boy mluist go back with- out loss of time." looked upon herself rather as avicâ€" him; now she saw the base, horrible nature of her ‘wickedness, and Vivien St. Just cried out with terror. "I must unto it all. Adrian 1" she exclaimed. "I must u‘nto it all-«at her i All her pride had lelft her now, she had slum: sobbing on her knees; she was no heroine, but a criminal; her head. was bent in lowly self-abuse- ment, in lowly contrition. Lord St. Just sat still, wrapped in thought. ll‘he sound of the gong striking for luncheon recalled him to everyâ€"day life. He went to his wife and kissed her fondly. “Vivien,” he said gently, "you. must muse yourselfâ€"We have to live our lives, dear. We must eat, drink, sleep, walk, talk, no matter what we suffer, what we endure. Raise your face to mine, darling wife." eyes. " I do not make light of your error, my wife," he said; " it was atevrrible one. But you are ready to undo it, ready to atone for it. I can enter into your feelingsâ€"I know how you loved your homeâ€"but, my darling, I cannot understand your sin. What I want to say to. you is thisâ€"you shall not repent 0E your trust in me. I will take the whole matter in handâ€" I will so arrange it that, while the youmg heir shall be restored to Lance- wootd, you shall be screened. Yorur share in the transaction shall never be known. You will trust to me to accomplish this ’1” - “ Yes,” she said, and raising her face to his, She went on; "You are too kind to me, Adrian. I am all unwor- thy; I do not deserve it." But he answeredâ€" " My darling, you are still on your throneâ€"the queen Of all womankind for me. There is no creature living who has not done wrong, who has not yielded to temptation, who has not either more or less gone astray. Your sin was, after all, a kind of vir- tue gone to seedâ€"an intense pride in your name, family and race; it had its origin in what was really a virtwe. It was mot of the common order of sin, although, my darling, it was the sin of a life-time. Now we must go back to the d‘uties of life; they will be all the better fulfilled since we have resolved upon doing right, oost what it may. I will tell you this even- ing all that I have arranged to do." Bu‘t Lady St. Just did not go to her mom to dress; he saw her go to the nurseryâ€"and he followed her, lest in the madness of her misery she should say something of which she would afterward repent. The potato, hitherto grown as a. tuber under ground, is now being pro- duced like fruit from the stem of the plant. The flavour of these really " new” potatoes. is excellent. A new cork for poison bottles ought to be very effective in the prevention of mishaps. It has a kind of anchor attndhed to it .340 that the cork can- not be entirely separated from the bottle, and it gives a warning click when the cork has reached the limit of withdrawal. A model of the human heart, Work- ing as in life and. pumping blood through artificial arteries, is the work of a Continental physician. An ingenious German has devised a method of plucking fowls. The dead bird is p need in a receptacle and sub- jected to several cross currents of air from electric fans turning at the rate trf 5,000 revolutions a minute. The bird has every feather and quill blown off it in an incredibly short space of time. The newest kind of marble for boys is one that will give a loud report twenty times in succession when thrown on the pavement, and then leaves the boy in possession of the or- dinary marble of the larger size. The reports are caused by a thin layer of explosive material just under the out- er covering of the‘ marble. She looked at him with weeping He must go ba e in her he hear a Arthi NEW AND STRANGE. To Be Continued. ‘ you say so. Yes, my Just go back at once." I kneel down and bury .9! hands while she wept yard her murmur Words thiurâ€"little Arthur and He knew hJow terrible Just The reputation achieved by Dr. \Villiam' Pink Pills not: only in Canada, but throughout the world, rests upon a very solid basis. which may be summed up in two wordsâ€" st-erling merit. The Enterprise has hm! occasion to investigate a num- ber of CUI‘GA effected by this medicine, and: knows that in some instances at leule these cures were wrought after other medicines had failed even to give relief. Recently another cure came under our notice that cannot fail to increase the popularity of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills in the local- ity in which it manned, and 8.5 we can vouch. for the facts, it may well bring hope to sufferers elsewhere. Sn: 0"!)- In ('nmuln, lint In Evnry (‘lvlllzed (‘ouulry Throughout the “'urlnl 7 Merl! .llone llns Given Thl~ .VI *lllcllll‘ m from I’rumllwnco Over I‘ompolltors ry“ llvrr HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BY DE. WIL- LIAMS' PINK PILLS. Mr. Walter H. Johnston Leone of the best known residents of the northern section of Queen’s county. He resides in the town of Caledonia, where he keeps a hotel, and also runs a stage that carries passengers and mail between that town and Liverpool,. a distance of some thirty miles. Mr. Johnson was in Bridge- water recently, on which occasion he gave a reporter of this paper the following facts: About three years ago he was taken very ill. He had the best of medical attendance, but made very little progress towards re- covery, and the doctor told him; there was very little hope that he would be able to return to his for- mer work. The trouble appeared to have located itself in his kidneys, and fun eight weeks or more he was con- fined to bed. He suffered greatly from constant pains in the back, his appetite became impaired, and his constitution generally appeared to be Shattered. At this juncture he decide end to try Dr. VVilliams' Pi.an Pills and got a half dozen bOXeSu In the course of a couple of weeks he noticed an hnpvmve-metnt in his condition and he continued the use of the pills until jhe had taken. some ten ozr twelve boxes. when he not only felt that his cure was complete, but also felt: that in all respects his health was better than it had been four years. Since ltfhat time he his been continually [driving his coach between Caledonia a.an Ijivweoivpuol, and ‘has not had the slightest return of the trouble, not- withstanding that he has to face atl times very inclement weather, that might well bring on a return of the tmouble hid not his system been so strongly fortified against it through ! the use of Dr. Williams' Pimk Pills. If the blood is. pure and, wholewme disease cannot exist. The reason why Dr. Willi-.1ms' Pimk Pills came. so many forms of disease is that they act dimectly upon the blood and nerves, thus reaching the wot of the trouble. Other medicines act only upon. the symptoms of the trouble, and that is the reasom the trouble al- ways returns when you cease these mml'wim. Dr. Williams” Pink Pills mike permanent cures in kidney trcuâ€" blah, rheumzitism. erysipelils, anaem- in and kindred diseases. But be sure you get the genuine which bear the full mums Dr. \Villiams’ Pink Pills for PAL) Peacple on. the wrapper around {eve ry box “mile at Home ery Simply and [Mlle (‘o~‘l. It is ezlsber to m'lke a black v than a blackboard, and flux v Surface will be smoother if you ; palm it in. the right way. (Fill In om cracks with plaster of Paris : wutnr, pr suing in only :1 little of mixture. at 41 time, and using an kzitohmx Knifia fur the purpose. b sunldpupe'r the, \\’thle surface. ‘ b] :ckimg csmsists of liquid gum 31 11c and lamplflaclk, Shim this mixt very thoroughly. and paint w'L-tl clean, wide brush. Before bl:ok the wall itself. “sample” a sum 011.1 hk is too thick, and abould be thinned with ulcohfi, which cuts tha shellac. If the. [mint rubs off after drying the mixture needs mpre gum. one quinrt ocf shellac any] 5 cents worth (hf 1111!}:pr wk will turn tba daytime of a good-sain wall into the deepest nightâ€"a night two coats thick. thing (real? That isâ€" Mr. Rounder. aMen-t-mindedâ€"VVMI [had one once that parodmced p3nk snakes and blue spiders that looked real enough to suit me. Miea Remantiqueâ€"Do 4mma are ever prod'u thing real? That isâ€" A Great Reputatifin REAL ENOUGH (111L211 : hvuflh. Before blackizng tself. "sample" a smooth mud, and after the paint Inn-k. on. tha surface with tha chalk Elei the paint 1k, and abould be thinned .)l, which cuts tha shellac. 1t rubs off after drying BLACKBOARD duster of Paris and only :1 little of the a, and using an old 1' the purpose. Now hwli‘ surface. The of liquid gum sth- , Shim this mixture and paint with a FOR HIM you think bl taking you pre- ill 11-0103 wa 11‘ wall m.)

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