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I â€"â€"â€"l P\"PV ‘ iv.)qu AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY i85â€"â€"‘.â€"' CHAPTER XVI.â€"(Cont‘d.) “Was that all?” “Yes, except a few lines directing that the manuscript was to be sub- mitted to the judgment of Mr. Davis, and if he approved, was to be pub- lished. My mother tore it up and threw it into the sea.” “What? The note, you mean!” ex- claimed Scarborough. “The manuscript," said Elsa. Scarborough smiled; but there was no amusement in his smileâ€"only pity. The guilty man had spent two years over that manuscript, had made it his hobby. perhaps had dulled the gnawing of conscience by doing what he thought was useful work. His Wi- dow came, and she threw it all into the sea! ' “She showed no more respect for his wishes in that than she did in another thing on which he had set his heart,” sai'i Elsa. “She read me some of his letter. It was an earnest appeal to her to keep me in ignorance of his guilt. Her answer to that appeal was a sneer and a jibe. every shred of my ignorance, nothing that he had loved me, laughed at me for having had the folly to believe in him. I think my mother is a wicked woman, Horace.l In one part of my father’s letter .to her he said that she had driven him into crime. She read that- to me, too, as though it were true and as though she did not care whether I knew it or not.. Cer- tainly she did not deny it. I must be- lieve that it was true. But there was one part that she did not read. It was the part in which he told her where the diamonds were. I think she did ,not read that, because she knew that I would prevent her from getting them, if I could.” “One moment,” said Scarborough, quickly. “How do you know that the part which she did not read contain- ed that information? Did she tell you so?" ‘. ‘lN°.’) “Then how do you know?" “I don’t know. But she blamed me for having left the stone jar where I did. She said that if anyone else had found it, she and I might make up our minds to be paupers, and that it would be my fault. She said so more than once. The last time was when we found that someone had been watching us all the time that we spent at the Ring-Rock." Then Elsa went on to explain that when they were drawing near to the Ring-Rock asmall boat with 'a man in it had shot out from the opening, and that her mother had said that if the stone jar was not where Elsa had hidden it, the man must be pursued. Afterwards, in the excitement of what followed, they had both forgotten abo i; this man, and they sailed awa from the Rock without thinking of him again. However, when they were about half a mile away from it. they saw him climb down its outer flanks and get into his boat. He had evidently waited till they were inside, and had then returned, landed -on the outside, and climbed up to a point from which he could watch them. The day was calm. and the movement of water against the flanks of the rock was less than usual; but even so there was a constant noise of breakâ€" ing water. It was hardly likely that he could hear as well as see. “Do you know who he was?” asked Scarborough. “No. I thought that most probably he was a chance visitor, who was im- pelled by no motive more unexplain- : Of Course You Need ‘ mews Ice Cream comes out of the freezer with a velvety smoothnessâ€"and a new deliciousncssâ€"when it is made with BENSON‘S. And it is pretty hard to ask for any- thing more deliclcus than a C‘ Blane Mange or Cream Cllsiaix. . Fruii. made of Benson's CornSiarch. Our new Recipe Book “D:sseris and Candies" tells how and how rush to C...;sia Icr me; e ihan half a :eniury. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED 4 i b MONTREAL, BRANTFORD. lhsssaasssssssassssass l CAQDINAL. 216 FORT WILLIAM. She took away , cared I and 1 liliiBl able than nsimple curiosity to know what we were going to do there.” Scarborough shook his head, say-i ing: I “Did Mrs. Carrington think so?” f‘No,” said Elsa. “Mother seemed to be afraid of him. I don't know why?" “I think I can see why,” said Scav- borough. “She liad a document on her possession which was valuable, and she was nervous about losing it.[ Also it looks as though she had some reason to think that there was some- one iii the island who knew enough to ibe dangerous. Had she read that let- ‘tcr which you showed me just now?" “Yes,” said Elsa. , “Then she probably interpreted it as ‘I do. There is someone who knows about the diamonds, and has already made attempts to get hold of them." “Do you mean the hooded woman?" Elsa asked. - I “Perhaps the hooded woman will ' turn out to be the person I mean," said 'Scarborough. “1 don't know. Butl 'am sure that there was s:-',.¢ieone who was threatening your father. In his letter to you he speaks of himself as going to meet almown danger for .your sake:-‘1 shall be engaged in a contest with an enemy who is well known to me; an enemy who of late ‘has taken to using threats.’ Those lare his words. “What do you sup- pose they mean?” “I took them to refer to his physical weaknessâ€"the aneurism which killed him," said Elsa. ’ “I don’t think so.” the young man replied. “He speaks of that after- wards, in a different connection I don’t think the two things are the same. Besides, he hints that he is being shadowed.” “By so ebody in the circus comâ€" panyâ€"«Margaret Ryan,” said Elsa. “The circus company had only just arrived, and there is no reason to suppose that he knew anything of its members. The ‘Dangerâ€"circus’ cable gram came only the day before, and gave only a vague warning. I think that it is obvious that there had alâ€" ready been some attempt to take the diamonds from him, and the expedi- tion he speaks of was rendered neces- sary by that attempt. The thing which we have as yet no clue to is the object of that expedition.” “Surely to hide the diamonds,” said Elsa. “He might have done that near home, without endangering his life by making a tremendous physical effort. It seems to me that he went to meet someone. know; but it may have been to ar- range a compromise. or even to pay .blackmail for immunity in the futuic. The key to the riddle may, as you sug- man." Elsa said nothing for a moment. lThen she looked gravely at the young man, and said: “I believe the hooded woman Margaret Ryan." Scarborough turned to her with a Istare of genuine surprise. So this was why she said that Margaret Ryan had still to prove that her hands were clean of blood! “You belicve that?” he asked. “Yes,” said Elsa. . “I think I can prove to you that you are wrong," said Scarborough, rluietly. “I know that the place where she met your fatherâ€"met him accidentally, I was where Mr. Davis saw the hooded woâ€" man following him.” “You have only her word for that,” said Elsa. the Furnas district, it is impossible that she should, a couple of hours lat- cr, be masquerading in capote and capello near the Sasa Davis and the Caldaeir de Morte. Why it is impos- . sible ? ‘think that she was the last person -’who spoke to my father in life, and I ,do not acquit her of responsibility in ibis death. He died of overâ€"excitement or over-exertion. How do we know that it was not the excitement of his interview with her which killed him? If the diamonds can be found, I mean ’lllilt she shall have them; but that ‘does not mean that I believe for a Lmoment what she says." “Will you tell me. what I mean?" ‘1 ~“)lcrely. as Itold you before, that jsmce I cannot prove that my father >wus innocent, Iwill do all that I can to atone for his guilt, by giving back where I can. I used to take pride in the thought that one day I should :help him to clear his name from every ‘Stain. I cannot do that iiov.',â€"biit éfliough I loved liim._pcrh:ips because 3 I loved hini~â€"I shall take pride in Irv- ing to reverse the evil that he dili‘ She said this with an earnestnst which was almost fierce in its inten- it does as THE CABLEMAN For what reason, we don’t, gest, be-the idenity of the hooded wo- ‘ ,believeâ€"was ten miles from the place r ’ “And you think that be» cause she says she was bicycling in“ I believe that it is a fact. Ii rsity, and Scarborough recognized that. lshe meant cvcry word of it. Her deâ€" ’termination to restore her property to lthe girl whom her father had robbed iWaS due w a simple pride in doing thr lthing which she thought to be right. }Presently she asked: l “Has Margaret Rvan 6\'t‘l‘ explained what the mysterious business was which kept her from performing in "the circus the night my father died? It must have been something more imâ€" portant than a simple bicycle ride. Has she said what it was?" “She refuses to do so." “\Vell. then?" said Elsa. Scarborough shook his head. are, wrong," he sziid. the rest of the day. Will you ride to ‘Ponta Delgado with me now?" 1‘ “What shall we gain by ilhcr?" swant to know." ‘ ', “Very well. I will come." : Scarborough had a double motive in ‘making this suggestion. 1place he thought that ,Ryan knew that they were working in ‘her interests, she might be ready to help them. She had refused before, but that was because she re- sented the implied suspicion which she thought that her questioner felt. Differently approached, she might be willing to say what she knew; and Scarborough had seen signs, in the last interview he had had with her that her attitude towards himself had changed. He remembered too that she had said that she liked Elsa, in spite of the scorn with which Elsa had him God speed in his wooing. His second reason was that he re- membered that when in the beginning he had ~himself felt inclined to sus- the best cure for that folly was to know the girl herself. Varney had in- complete. Perhaps in Elsa’s case too a fuller acquaintance with the girl whom she suspected would be the best means of killing the suspicion. Val B. Montague had taken ahouse in Ponta Delgada for the use of his troupe until the Seaâ€"Horse should be ready for them again. Scarborough aiimElsa went there, and asked for Mona de la Mar. She received them graciously, and though Elsa responded to her ad- vances coldly, she refused to see that she was snubbed. Scarborough told her shortly what had happened, exâ€" plained that they were now working for her, anti again put his question about her business on that night. “I have given up all thought of re- covering what was stolen from me," she told him. “Even if you could of- fer me those diamonds to-day, I am not sure that I would take them.” Elsa smiled faintly, and Scarbor- ough said: “Then you still refuse to help us?” “No. If it will help you to know what my business was, I will tell you. ,I would have told you at first, if I ,hadn't thought that you suspected me Iof complicity in Mr. Carrington’s Ideath. My busineSS was with a man who had written to me that'he could recover my property for me, and would do so if I agreed to the terms which he would propose. for an interview.” “You gave it him?” cried Elsa. “Yes.” ..And afterwards?” “Afterwards I Went! for a bicycle ’ride, and met your father.” (To be continued.) 0 Â¥.. INDIA’S 19.000 CASTES. Groups. Four years ago up in the northwest of India, a child belonging to a Brah- min family fell into a well, relates the family were away, and the {men were liclples. The servant known as the sweeperâ€"a very low ‘caste manâ€"offered to climb down the well and rescue the child. *suggestion was regarded by the woâ€" ,men as scandalous, for his touch 'would have dcfiled the drinking wa‘ :ter of the household and also the idrowning boy. Hence the little fellow was left in the well. to be fished out dead some time later by the ihands of a Bruhmin. than defilcmcnt from the touch of an “'untouchable‘." i, At present there are upwards Oi 119.000 castes and sulwastes in Indiur ilniost of them belonging to one of the itlirce great groups known as Brah- mins, Shudras and Outcast-s. indi- clean , Rat-her death “You ‘ “Will you come ‘With me to .‘zcc her? I an“ of duty for ‘ seeing “Perhaps she will tell us what wc‘ In the first. if Margaret‘ more, treated her; and she had even wished ‘ pect, Varney had angrily declared that troduced him, and the cure had been’ He asked i l y l i Most of Them Belong to Three Great 5'. ‘the World Outlook. All the men of: wow ‘ His' viduals belonging to the latter of,! l ihcse groups are considered so im-i pure in nature that to touch thch brings defilcincnighence their com- mon designation, “Elie untouchables. The higher castes. though relatively tolerant of each o‘hcr, niurt not (line together nor i:ttcrmuiry (‘Zl pain ofl 9. social poi‘sciiiiion ‘S‘lli'll. for most. v‘ 1-, (ill: lil‘lk'. individuals, is shun-"i in: 7 .z. , The moth 5;: 1‘2 ‘ is slii'ug‘ncl very r than that of a shot-gun. Lantic is packed by automatic machin- Sugar iv; cry in strong white cotton bags and cartons at the refinery. This is far safer and more sanitary than sugar packed by hand in a weak paper bag which breaks at a touch. No hand touches LANTIC SUGAR until you 0 on it your- self. Just cut ofl‘ the corner ogthe carton and pour out the sugar as you need it. ‘by a sort of unconscious imitation. 2 and 5-lb Cartons 10 and 20-lb Bags "The All-Purpose Sugar” ..-4.- “ COUtl-llNG is” ONLY A HABIT” SHOULD BE AVOIDED, SAYS Ai NOTED DOCTTR. j l l Sneezing and Picking of Teeth Un-‘ warranted Pieces of Self- . Indulgence. : l Dr. Woods Hutchinson. the widely known American popularizer of medi- l cal knowledge, wants people to stop‘ coughing, whether they have colds or;l not. He says that the sanitariums; for tuberculosis have been able to “educate coughing alm0st out of ex- istence, so that visitors frequently comment on how seldom they hear} one of the patients cough." A large ' share of the credit of this change, he says, is due to the gentle and persuasive training and the good exâ€"; ample of the other patients. Cough- " ing does the consumptive no good whatever, and does him much harmf by exhausting his strength, breaking‘ his sleep and increasing the danger‘ of ulceration. If the habit can beY stopped among the tubercular it is; immeasurably more inexcusable among those who can complain of only an ordinary cold. Try Not To Cough. If you have never tried it, the next time you are tempted to cough or clear your throat, see how well you can get along without doing so, and after a little practice you will" find your control complete. Coughing ; is for the most part anervous habit, . due to a tickling in the throat brought i on by previous coughing, and also! Did you ever notice in a threatre or other place of entertainment that no- body coughs in ahighly dramatic or‘ otherwise especially interesting mo- ,nient? l beginner .-,\<.i_\’:-J¢_V._-'..W,v ,~ .. .‘5‘;-- . Did you ever notice that if one person coughs a lot of others do, and that the amount of coughing in a public place depends not on con- ditions of throat and lungs, but upon habit, tradition and usage? Annoyed Billy Sunday. The despatches relate that Billy Sunday expressed himself as decided- ly annoyed with his auditors at Syra- ,cuse recently because they coughed so much. He was entirely justified in this. This coughing was unneces- sary. It may have reflected a languid attitude on their part which they would not have experienced had he male the occasion one of great theat- rical stimulus. But beyond that they had no excuse for disturbing himâ€" except a bad habit. A Boston physician tells the story of a patient riding with him one day who coughed and cleared his throat incessantly. As the young man had been learning to run a motor car, the physician offered him a chance to take the wheel. 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