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“How dared you take advantage of our hospitality by coming to the ball unin- vited?" she pants, and her intense anger rises as she remembers how devoted handsome Percy Granville was to the mysterious fairy queen until the teleâ€" of a chair close by the window. A cry of rage breaks from Ione Leigh- ton’s lips. Like a flash she crosses the room and clutches the glimmering folds. She has recognized the frosted white will: and the misty veil as the one worn bly the mysterious beauty of the ball. The s ippers and white mask lie on the floor beside it, where they fell when Gay cast them 03, and near them the withered clus- ter of orange blossoms. The cry awakens Gay, and she struggles up to a sitting posture just as Ione wheels around, her black eyes flaming like ebony stars. They renewed the conversation that was jmomentarily interrupted between them, and every word that Tremaine uttered in .his low, cautious voice fell like drops of fmolten lead upon Gay's heart. i “Every one believes me in Europe, eon- |tiuued Tremaine cautiously; "no one jwould think of connecting me with this 'affair. I tell you on the best of author- ‘ity that upon Percy Granville’s return to gRedstone Hall, early in the evening, the deing general dispatched him at once to ithe city to bring in person some vitally :important papers back to him which were lin the safe at his oflice there." I; The cry avvvakens Gay; and she struggles up to a sitting posture just as Ione wheels around. her black eyes flaming like ebony stars. Something glistens like diamonds on the long, curling/lashes lying on the white, rounded cheeks. but Ione Leighton does not stop to see if it is pearly tears, for her eyes have raved past the pretty young face on the pillow to something lying in white, shimmering folds across the back of_a chailj close ‘by the windojv. The clear, bright moonlight, drifts into the room in a flood of soft, white, silvery light, rendering every object. in the pret- ty room plainly discernible. lone watches the beautiful golden head upon the white pillow yvgth a gathering frown._ Ten minutes later Ione Leighton came swiftly down the corridor. As she passes Gaynell’s room she pauses, for she notic- es that the door is slightly ajar. Ione pushes it open further with her white, jefleledfiand, ang peers pagtiously in. It was far into the wee ema’ hours when the grand ball broke up and the last uest took his leave. Grace flew up the road staircase to Gaynell's room two steps at a time. The door was unfastened, and she pop- fed her curly head in with a. rippling augh, but she instantly checked her mirth as she noted that, Nell was apparently Asleep. “I will tell her to-morrow what a sensation she created,” she thought, popping out of the room again as noise- lesaly as she had entered it, and going on to her own room at the other end of the corridor. - a: A few moments later the carriage dash- ed away, and the two sisters, accompany ed__by Chesleigh, ggtuynetj to their guesfs. The guests had not missed them from the ballroom. When they returned the mirth was at its height; but during the remainder of the evening the fairy bride did not reappear, and at twelve o'clock, when the ma-ske were laid aside. curio- sity ram high as to who she could have beenâ€"the sylph-like Cinderella who had flashed like a dazzling meteor in their midst, and like a meteor had been so soon lost: to night, “I cannot imagine who she could have been," declared Ione Leighton, as much mystified as any of the rest. “I suppose I shall never know, until she chooses to reveal her identity, who the unbidden :11th was.” “Ah! how desperately angry Iona would be_if she knew who it. was,” she thought, drooping her merry mischievous, dancing b1_ue oyeq. "It's a clear case of mutual attraction between handsome Percy Granville and mylelf,” she mused delightedly. “He will write me in spite of Evelyn. I will pay her up for trying to prevent it if I liveâ€"- thg pleat}, hateful tlllnzz'fl "How is our little Nell progressing?" he uked quickly. "I have not seen her since the fever abated; it is really unkind of you, Ione, to refuse to take up my card and ask her to see me. She ought to know that I feel greatly interested in her. cannot understand why she chooses to make such a. mysterious recluse of her- self. Grace tells me she has changed so I];eatly_ 1‘ wouldr hardly know her." “You shall see her w-morrow, Harry.” she said carelessly; meanwhile she was telling herself, with 'a cunning smile, "that many an event. might) happen be- tween that time and the present to con» 1lately thwart his hopes in that direc- on.” â€"Grace Leighton enjoyed immensely the curiosity and the mystery Nell’s pres- ence at the masked ball had aroused. She Gréoe and fir: Chééieiéh vi'ere in E spir- lted discussion over the events of the evangng. {one alone was thoughtful. Buddenli' Harry Che'sleigh turned to 10113 wiph a thoqghpfq} face. lone Leighton fluehed uneasily. It would never do for him to find out that she had fuppressed the rare bouquebu and the po- ite messages he had sent to Little Nell, asfiGaynell was called. fould barely restrain herself from explod- ng with laughter as she listened to the flattgrjgg comments. h‘l the CLEANEST. SIMPLEST. and BEST HOME DYE. one cnn butuVhy you don't even have to know what KIND of Cloth your Goods are made bl.--So Mistakes are Impossible. Send {or Free Color- Card. Story Booklet, and Booklet zlvlnw rolults of Dyeing over otht-r colors. “(I F99 CEYLON‘ TEA an E the best flavored and most economical Tea in the World. Beware of high profit bearing substitutes. Sealed Lead Packets only. The JOHNSON-RICHARDSON 00., Limited, Monneal. CunadA. For Wcal or for W06; CHAPTER XVII.â€"â€"(Cont’d) As an authority saysâ€" “ Truth well expressed makes the best advertisement "â€"then here’s one of the best advertisements in the paper. Or, A Dark Tremaine and his companion rose hast- ily from the mossy log near the alders, behind which Gay crouched in such ter- ror, and a few moments later the sound of muffled hammers rang dully out upon the night_air. Tremaine bent nearer his companion, saying hoarsely: “The papers must never reach the general! Percy Granville will have them on his person when he passes through here on the three o'clock train to-night. Two or three rails torn from the track on the bridge yonder will do the work‘ We haven’t much time to lose; it wants twenty minutes to that time now. Granville shall not escape me to-night. If he dies in the wreck, and the old gen- eral passes quietly ofl‘ at Redstone Hall, there will be no one save myself to in- herit the Paa‘saic Mills and the general’s cool million. Come on!" Then silence reigned, and Gay knew their terrible work was done, and she knew, too, the train, freight/ed with hu- man souls and bearing her young hus- band, was speeding with each passing mo- ment on to its doom. , again Gay was fairly paralyzed with horror. She had caught their terrible meaning in a, ash. 'réad: Heaven! what shouid she do? They intended to wreck the train, and on that train was the lover she worship- ped 'so madly. A MWfiiléW {liege thoughts were rushing through Gay’s bewildered brain, Harold Trauma. and his companion nnsss‘d Gay could scarcely repress a scream of terror that sprung to her lips as she re- cognized the dark. sinister face of Hatfield Tremaine. ' They were so near, the frightened girl could have put out her white hand and touched them from where she crouched behind the screening addersâ€"she was so near them that she wondered the wild, tumultuous throbbing of her heart did nqt betray her prespnce. One of ihem {at down the dark-lantern that, he carried, and the light. fell upon his face. How‘ long she sat theré she: never knew; {aha sound of voices near at hand aroused er. She drew back into the shadow of the alder-bushes until they should pass; but. instead of doing so, the two men who advanced sat deliberately down upon the mossy log upon which Gay had rested but a moment since. “I am ready now, Miss Leighton," she faltered tremulously. “I forgive you for your unjust suspicion, because your roof sheltered me in my hour of need. I am gratequ to your kind father, your sister, the good old housekeeper, and yourself; as well as to the noble young man who found me by the roadside that morning and__brought me here. Tell them this for Alone, friendless, homeless, helpless, penniless, adrift. on the cold, merciless world, was ever a young girl’s fate more pitiful? Gay sped on through the pitohy dark- ness, little heading whither she was go- ing, until at last she sunk down, weak agg sp_ent, upon a n‘gossy log to res}. "So much the better." declared the haughty beauty; “you cannot leave Leighton Hall too soon to please me." Without a. word poor Little Gay rose from the couch where she had flung her- self an hour beforeâ€"and had cried her- self to sleep~and robed herself in 1161‘ Street clothes with cold, trembling hand. an}! heart that was nearlyA bruxjsting. Without. another word, poor Gay, who was tossed about so pitifully by the cruel hand of fate, turned and fled like a storm-beaten swallow down the dark cor- ridor, and out of the house into the dark- negsg of the night. “You know you did it!" exclaimed Ione Leighton, gliding across the mom to the white couch, and grasping Gay tightly {)y the white arm and shaking her rough- y. Before Gay could utter the retort that sprung to her lipsâ€"that the costume had not only been loaned to her, but had been urged upon her by Grace herself -â€" Miss Leighton wth on scathingly: "You need not attempt to deny it. No wonder you did not stay until the time for unmasking came. You dared not! Papa shall turn you from Leighton Hall with the morning’s light, I say.” - “You need not. wait for to-morrow’s light to turn me from your door, Miss Leigh- ton," sobbed Gay. “1 will go of my own aocprd thisrvery hourâ€"now!” “We will settle this matter bo-morrow,” she said ironically. “Papa, shall know what sort of a person he'has been har- boring, and he will turn you away from the house at once. Now that, I come to look at these things closely, I see that they belong to my sister Grace. I wonder that I failed to recognize them before. You must have stolen them from her wardrobe." 1 Gay shrunk with a gasp of horror, but no sound came from her white lips to re- fute the awful accusation. gram canal him away so suddenly, and 0w all the gentlemen. Harry Chesleigh included, had fairly raved over the little beauty of the ball. “Indeed, I did not. think there would be any harm in it," falteped Gay, tremuloua- 1y, terrified at what she saw in Miss Le'ighton’vs anger-distorted face. 1511c turnedvon héi‘ fit;er wiih a. cruel sneer. Temptation CHAPTER XVIII The train was twenty minutes late-the fireman heaps more coal into the furnace. watching covertly out of the corners of his eyes the engineer, Jim Hale, who stands just ars he has stood ever since the train left the depot, gazing thoughtfully out. of the window, with his hand on the lever, while the train, puffing and pant- ing. dashes on through the darkness of the_ (light. “I hope you’re not thinking yet of that nonsense we were talking about when the train started,” said the fireman, throw- ing down his shovel with a hearty laugh and crossing over to the window where the engineer, Jim Hale, stood in the same thqnghtful position. v vua... ,v- _ “You’re the most superstitious man I ever saw," he went. on. "You see we are almost, at. Hackenswck, where you and I The prayer she tried to utter died on her young lips; already the misty steam enveloped her like a death-shroud â€"- the terrible glare of the head light dazzled and dazed herâ€"the rails on either side of brave, heroic noble Little Gay shook and trembled like an electric battery; but the girl never _stirred'scgrcglyllbrgath‘ed. °Wofi11i R fié'iiié'or’ death'fbr Lime Gay? only the white angels watching the ter- rible scene from the star-gemmed sky overhead could have foretold what her fate was to be. “éiwfiw'zirér so young. so fair to meet such a trigjc death. Would the engineer see her~would he hear those panting, exciting cries, or would the iron monster in its mad flight crush her and carry its burden of human souls on to destruction? It was an in- tensely thrilling mpment._ Ou thundered the locomotive, now scarce- ly a dozen rods ahead of her, and its headlight threw its bright white glare over the lovely white, upturned, agoniz- ed face, and the slender girlish figure standing. like a ,mm‘ble statute directly in the path. It was for life or death; the thought seemed to lend wings to Gay’s feet as she neared the fatal spot. With a. terrible cry she sprung forward, throwing herself in- to the middle of the track, gesticulating wildly as she waived her white handker- chief to and fro to warn the engineer of his great peril. The sound of her wild, agonized voice was lost, drowned, in the roar end phunder of the cogning trajp.» “Percy, my love, my love.” murmured Gay, “1 have to dieâ€"the engineer does not see me, but it is to save you, if I were to fly, you would be swept on to the fatal bridge.” Quick,as thought Gay rose from her knees where she had flung herself, and with a face as white as death, dashed madly toward the little bridge that spfinned the black stream below. The farâ€"61f shriek of the 071-00111ng train roused her as nothing else in the world could have done. “He married me on the impulse of the moment; but he neVer cared for Ir he cast me ofiwout of his heart, out of his life; yet perhaps, if I die to save him, he may come some day to kneel upon my tomb, part the long grass and whis- per my name. and I should hear my love’a voiceâ€"even infimy grave, I almosm think, I love him so." Three of the rails had been torn from the track. and the dark water yawned below as though anxious to swallow the pgey that_was_Ȥoon tq be_hur_led into _it‘ ”Géyvstood up5n the track with a death- white face and lips set, facing the hor- rible peril_ of _dgath_ for he? love’e sake.- "If I die,” she sobbed faintly, “my love will never know that, his name was on my lips as I faced death itself for his dear sake. He will never know that, I blessed him with my last breath. For one instant Gay turned her face up to the star-gemmed holding“ out her white anan to the flieecy clgudsL It wireefir seemIad 3. Element until the far-ofl' shriek of the train, as it sped on toward the fatal bridge, warned her of its 3591:0991". _ .. . _ .. _ "Oh!" cried Gay, wildly, "what shall I do? Oh, Percy, my love, my love! you must not, you shall not die the horrible death your mortal foe has ,marked out for you! I will save you, or I will die in the attempt!” Brave, dauntless Littie Gay had decid‘ ed Bpgnrhep cpurser of portion: "We may as wdl take a. turn down the road Igg- mile or so; it will be a good half-ho!!! fifON} you heigr‘her yvhigtiq." How long Gay stood there clutching dei- perately at the thorny branches, she new er realised; time seemed to slip by with the rupidifgy of lightning. She heard Tremaine crush out 1n 1m- procation from hmwoon his white math, uyin: impuflenfln And the handsome villain. who 11 no deliborabely stooped to such a diabo 10ml scheme, strolled leisurely away, 0103er follov‘ved by his companion, who carried the dark-lantern. “There's another reason I have for feel- ing sort 0' down in the mouth,” went on the engineer slowly. “When I was about to start away from home to-night, my wife clung to me, cryng like a baby. ‘Don’t go on your train to-night, Jim!’ she plead- ed. ‘1 have had such a horrible dream. Do get a substitute just for onceâ€"oh, (10. Jim! I dreamed that a hump-back dwarf was the first person to board your train.’ And, by the Lord Harry. herudream came true! A hump-backed dwarf was the first to iboafird my train to-night.”_ “We are not there yet,” he answered gloomily, “and I sha’n’t breathe freely until we slack up at the Hacken‘salck De- pot. I've been running on the road nigh onto twenty years now, and we old rail- roaders know what signs mean when we see ’em. You can talk about superstition and all that sort of thing as much 'as you like, but when an engineer sees a black sheep leap across the track before he reaches the first station, let him look oub for his Lrain~a terrible accident followsz” A cold shudaer ran ovéx; therfireman’s sturdy frame; although he laughed and ridiculed the idea stoutly, somehow the solemn words of the engineer impressed him strangely.’ “There’s many a. conductor would have prevented such a person from entering his car first, if it cost him his position â€"â€" there’s just. that much to it," replied the engineer, sighing; "and when I saw the black sheep cross I said to myself, ‘Jim Hale. old boy, I fear you‘re making your last run on the train bo-nightâ€"look out for yourself.’ But I didn’t get a substi- tute; I didn’t try. 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The great, dark, velvety eyes closedâ€" the White lips partedâ€"and utterly proa- trated by the fearful ordeal through which she had just passed, Gay fell back in the engineer's strong arms in a deep swoon. He realized the import of her woi‘ds at onceâ€"the lovely young girl lying in a. dead faint in his arms had saved the train from a horrible catastrophe at the risk of her oynjife. .u JV“- uyv... u.-_ .-v.. ....._..._ A moment. of breathless suspense follow- edâ€"the white angels looking down upon the thrilling scene must have wept, for joy. With a great, hysterical, quivering cry, Gay pointed to them. “I discovered it!” she gasped. "Iâ€"â€"Iâ€"- meant. to saver your tyainâ€"«orâ€"orâ€"Qie!” . In that moment of fearful ordeal, his presence of mind aided him. With iron will and nerves of steel, he sprung 0113 upon the iroq fendqr: , 3,114.â€" Would it be too late? All the agony of a hfetime was crowded into the awful moment that followed. 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