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?????? (Silent Shore J j \ OR* / j the Mystery of ( St .James'Park / By \ I I /JNO BLOUNDELLE-BURTON l\ 1/ "To die i* landing on a silent shore, II Whoie billows never beat, tior tempokts roar." } /7tx7\\ l\ V-/ there was between i.:ni ant' the do id man. and again lie let the in pnha go. In the excitement of her mind would Bhe not instantly conclude that he wa-i the slayer of his dead brother, of the man who had suddenly come between him and everything he prized in the world? And, to suppott him in his weakness, was there not the letter of that dead brother enjoining secrecy? "1 will do it," he said, "out of my love for you; but, forgive nie. arc you not taking an unusual interest in him, tad as his death was?" "So." she answered. "No. lie loved t.ie; I was the only woman in the world ho loved-i-lio told ine so on the tirst night he returned to Knglaml. Only 1 had 110 love to give him in return; it was given to you. ltut I liked and respected him. and. since he rjnic to me in tny dream on that night of his tic: th. it seems t'.i tl o;i me should fall the tajk of Hading the man who killed htm." i>iii wnai < :m j .11 no, my poor Ida: you a delicately-nurtured girl, tinu nd to anything '-"it comfort and t ik.'? How ciin you tind out the mm v.!io killed him':" "Only in one way. through you and hy your help. I look to you to leave t o stone unturned In your endeavors to And that man. to make yourself acquainted with Mr. Hundall's past life to find out who his enemies who his friends were: to discover some elite that shall point at last to the mur derer." "Yes," he said, in a dull, heavy voire. "Yes. That is what I must do " "And when," she asked, "when v. .11 yo i begin? For Hod's sake lose no time: every hour that goes by may 1: i> that man to escape." I will lose no time." he answered almost methodically, ami speaking in t; ihi/.cd. uncertain way. Had it tot ho a for her own ex-i;. un til, she must hive noticed with what little euthusi ?. m he agreed to her behest. "I*l?is? behest had indeed staggered hiin! She had hidden hi a: do the very thing of all others that in* would least wish dot e hidden him throw a light upoij the p?<> of t??* dead man. and l'nd out all his enemies and friends. Shehaii told liini to do tills, whil?* {iicjii. i "TlSTwnheart. was the knowl e u.e of the long kept secret that the dead man was his brother ?the secret that the i!e:il man had enjoined on ban n rvtr to divulge. What was he to do? he asked himself. Which should h?s obey, the orders of his murdered brother, or the orders of hi< future tvife? And Philip, too, had told him on no account (.? say anything of tinttory that hud lately been revealed. Then, suddenly, lie it tin determined that he would say noili iig to her. It was a task beyond li s power to appear to endeavor to track the murderer, or to give any orders on the subject: for since he must keep the secret of their brotherhood, what right h.ul he to show any interest in tli>* finding of the murderer? Silence would, in every way. lie lie-t. lie rose after the<e rejections and told her tiiat lie was going lia< k to London And site also rose, and said "Yen. yes; go Intel* at on.e! Lose no time, |j,ij a moment.* Kemeniber, you have promised. Volt will keep your ^ HIM H IN I Hi si I ! I 1 i' -A I i m w\ p I \* A i h I ^ W I KINARD NBK3SGnaHi?MBa83 Advocate Ad vert is W? are offering two line clubbing colli hi tuitions, Take advantage of either. You also get a chance at our 7l> buggy. Eight cents a pound is what a young woman paid for j twelve pounds of fie; h. She was thin and weak and paid one dollar for a bottle < f Sent I ? : h r>nd l-.e f it ing regular (loses hud gained ; twelve pounds in we ight before the bottle was finished. Eight cents a pound is cheap for such valuable material. Some pay more, some less, some get nothing for their money. You get your money's worth when you buy Scott's Emulsion. \Ye will send you a little free. i SCOTT & DOWNI-y Chemists, 409 Pe;irl Street, New York. 50c. and $1.00 ; all druggists. I __ ? ( PAINT YOUR ULTJtjY FJR 7V with I>evoe\i (iloss Carriage Paint. Ii , weighs 3 to H o/.s. more to the pint than others, wears lonirer: ami iiives a , I tr'o^s equal to new work. i- o <1 bj i in inons It ros, The Advocate has m t ill li.:e of a!i 1 t-.imis of Ii ? il hlanke. i' l was troubled with stoni- ftS nch trouble. Thud tord'a Illi.ck- I- I Draught did mc ui< re good IM la ? ac week than ail I lie doetor's medicine I toi>k in a year.'? MRS. SARAH E. billUHIiLO. lilkttsVille, lad. P ThedfordV Mark Draught quickly invigorat* s the ho- l; tion of the stomach and cures even chronic cases of P.. indigestion. If von will ? ! I take a small dose ol Thetl- 1/j t.T-l's Uiack Draught o? ca- j -d sioi..illv you will keep your btoinaeli ami liver in perfeet condition. if? THEDFQRM?f" BLACK-DRAUGHT More sickness is caused by .it! Ej constipation than hy any ?j H other disease. Thcdford's q fj| Black-Draught not only re- k j M lievcs eonsiipiitiou hut cures S P j diarrluea ami dysentery and ?* f; keeps the bowels regular. All druggist* sell K 25-ccnt packages. -v "Tliod ford' s 111 nek- ?3 Draught is the best modi- !?j| E cine to regulate the bowels 1 have ever Used."? MRS. " t r' A. M. GllAyf, Sneads f* ey Ferry, N. CJ. CONSTIPATION ' Style ' Comfor Su ??re just tSie kind f to come. Light, ai durable. Made is weaves, from theti to the two-piece Sc always embody cos set the stvie, other* S This Week V Single^Breasted 3-piec Cassimeres at $8.50, $12.5( Single anil Doubje-Brea teds, Scotch Stripes and Ch White anil Fancy Ve We Mill Refund Monev cles are returned in good 01 CLOTHIER _ " FURNISHER" im nenaMBraHaaMNi ;ers Are Reliable. = ?" _ promise, I know." . lie kissed lier, sind muttered some- j, tiling that she took for words of as- | ?ent. ami prepared to leave her. "You will feel better soon, dearest, ( aim nappier, I hope. Th.s shock will pass away in time." "It will pass away." she answered, "wh- n you bring rae n* w.t that tha murderer is d<eov<red. or tliat you have found out son; clue to him. It v :? l.i' vti to pars away when 1 hear t' : ? you h.tve found cut what enemies li had." *"11 is not k:io?.'n that ho over had a:r enemies." 1'enh a said, as l:e stood helding her told hand ii his. "lie was not a man to make enemies, I should think." ' lie must hive had some." she said, "or out* at least?the one who slew him." SJie pau.u d. and ?U/?d out of the open window by which they wore standing, gam d out for some moments: and he wondered what she was thinking ?>f now in connection with him. Then she turned to him again and said: "]>o you think you could lind out If he had any relatives?" and lie could not repress a. slight start as she asked him this, though she did not per ceive it. "I never heard liini say that he had any. but he may have had. I should like to know." Why. Ida?" "Hoc.i use?because?oh, I do not know!?my brain is in a whirl. Hut ?if?if you should tind out that he had any relations, then 1 should liko to know." And again he asked: "Why. Ida?" "I would stand face to face with them, if they were men." she answer- r ed, speaking in a low tone of voicD r tliat almost appalled him. "and look s carefully at them t<> see if they, or * one of those relations, bore any te- , Bcmblati' i' to the shrouded figure that p sprang upon him in my dream." 1 "If there are any such they will. , perhaps, i)e heard of," he xtid imt as f he spoke he prayed inwardly that she j might never know of his relat ionshin r to Pundnll. If she ever learnt that > would she not look to set' if he horc j any resemblance to tli it dark figure of p her dreamV Ho was committed to ,-il ( once?to silence not without shame, j alas?for ever now, and ho shtuloi red j as he acknowledged this to himself. ^ once more he hade her farewell, prom- j ising to conte hick soon, and then lie p left her. j "Six- looks dreadfully ill and over- j ^ come 1 y this sad calamity," lie said j to Sir l'aul l -t"..; ?? lie alio pirted with j liim. "I hope he will not let it weigh j too mm h upon her mind." "She cannot help it doing so, poor { girl," the baronet a-id. "of course ? she told joij thai t'undall proposed to ? lier on the night of hi- return, not ' knowing that she liad become eug.tgod to you." * "She told me that he loved her, and that she learnt of his love on that f night for the tirst time," l'cnlyu ;>us- ' wored. ' "Y< -. that was ihe caso." Sir l'aul 1 Said. "I| was at I.ady Chesterton's 1 hall that he proposed to her." 4 ?Thuy -wlW+f lov . OMW midc time fuv* ' tlier on tlie* desire she had expressed to see tlie murd >rer brought to .just'c? and Penlyn said lie feared sh-> was exciting herself too much over the idea. "Ves. I am afraid so." Sir Paul said; "yet I suppose, the wish is natural. * She looks upon herself as, in s-.>nio 1 way. the person to whufp his death 1 was first made known, and seen;*: to think it ir? her duty 'v tr>' HI"' :,hl 'n ' the discovery of the man who killed 1 him. ??f course, it Is impossible; and 1 siie can do nothing, though she lutS ' begged me to try everything In my ' power t?? assist in finding ills assassin. 1 I would do ? > willingly, for I id mi red ' t undall's chara ter very much: imt there is ui.-o nothing 1 could do that the twdice ( an not do better." "of course not. hut still her wish is natural." lVulvn said and then hq said "tJood-liye.*1 to sip Paul also, and went buck to l.omhm As he sat in the train on the return Journey, lie wonden >1 what fresh trouX = Durability, pring its ... or the warm days ry, yet stylish and i all the popular iree-piece cheviots :otch checks, and mfort. Our fabrics ; follow. Ve Specialize: e Cheviots, Worsteds and >. $15.00, $20.00. isted 2=piece Iniptd Worsecks $6.50, $.50,12.50, $15. sts at $1.00 to $5.00. ' for all purchases if artirder. KINARD " ______ Patronize Them. l)Ie and sorrow there could |>uaslbt.r be In store for liim over the miserable pvents of the past week, and he also wondered If he ever again would know pence upon this earth! It was impossible lo help looking hark to a short month ago to the t'nie before that diseovery had been made a* the Inn at I.c Yocq. and to remembering liuw happy he had been then, how everything In this world had seemed lo smile 111*01 him. lie had been linp[>y In the iiositlon he held in :hc eyes )f men. happy without any tlloy to hia Happiness. And then, from the mo- I aient when lie l.ad found that there was another ron 1'. his fat.hc* tn Hie world, how all t!r> brightness of his life had changed! I irst lir.d come the znowlcd ?e of that broth ?r alive somewhere whom, thinking ho was poor uul outcast, he had pitied: tiien the revelation that that brother. far from being the abject cri nture lie imagined, was In actual fad the rightful owner bf the | celt Ion ho usurped: ami then lie ho-Tor and the misery of the cruely baric rous d? nth that brother hod been put to. directly after revealing ilnt-self in his true light. And, as lorrible almost as all else were, the ies. and the secrecy, and the dupliciies with wlileh he had environed himself. in the hope* <>f shielding everyliing from the eyes of ilie world. I.ies, lad secret ies. and duplicities praciced by idin. who had once regarded null and openness ns the tirst attributes of a man! And there was on" other tliinc that I itruck deeply t<? his heirt; the bitter wickedness <>f a man, with such 110jility of nature a.s his brother had ihown, being cruelly stablx <1 to death, lis life had been one long abnegation >f what should ha\e been his. a resigtation of the honor of his birthright, so that he. who had taken his place, should never be east out of It; an ibnegation that had been crowned bv in almost sublime act. the act of foreng himself to witness the happiness ?f the one, who had taken so much 'rum him. with the woman he had otig loved. For, that lie had deiermliined to resign . 1J hopes of her. there vas. after the letter he had written, 10 doubt. And, as he thought of all lie unselfishness of that brother's naure, and of his awful death, the tears lowed to Ids eyes, and being alone, le burled his head In his hands and vept a.s he had wept once before. "If could call him back again," he said 0 himself. "If I could once more see dm stand before me alive and well, 1 vouhl cheerfully go out a beggar into he world. But it cannot be, and I tilist bear the lot that lias fallen on lie as be.-1 1 can." lie reached his house early in the svening. and the footman handed him 1 letter that had boon left by a meaienger but a short time before. It ran as follows: 'flrosveuor Place, Jure 12, 1SSS?. My Lord. "In searching through the papers >f my late employer. Mr. Walter Funlall. 1 have come across a will made >y him three years ago. By it. the whole of his fortune and estates are eft to you. your names and title being :nrefully described. I have placed he will i" the b inds of ^Mr. 1 'ordyce, Mr. t'lindall's s.dU itor. fr?>ni whom foil will doubtless hear shortly. "Your obedient Servant, "A STUART. 'The lit. Hon. Viscount Penlyn." That was all: without one word of explanation or of surprise at the inanaer In which Walter ('undall's vast svoilth bad been bequeathed. Lord I'eidyu crushed the ietior in lis band wb.n he bad read It. and, as he threw himself into a chair, ho moaned. "Kverythittg tuu-t be known, everything discovered: there is no ueip inr ii. ivii.ii win ma ininK or mo now? Why iliil I not tell her today? Why did ! not tell her?" fllAI'TKK XI. That night he iliil not go to bed at j ill. hut pared his room or am buried In his deep chair, wondering what the morrow would bring forth and how he j should bo.-t meet the questions that' would lie put to him. Sinerdon was > gone agan to Oeclove fhase, so he could take no rounsel from hini; and ' in a way. lie wa almost glad that he : had gone, for he did not know that be ' sh add be inclined now to follow any . advice liis friend might give him lie thought he knew what that ad-! the would be?that he should protend , litter Ignorance as to the reasons fun- | tlall might have had for making him the inheritor of all his vast we llth. I and on no a -count to acknowledge the brotherhood Lei ween them. Hut he told himself that, even had Sinerdon been there to give such advice, it would not have bean acceptable: that he would not ha ? followed it. \s hour ,|itr-r hour wont by nn? the night hecamo far advanced, the young man mode up his mind c'.e ormlnately that, henceforth, all s hf r luge and seercc) shoal 1 lie ab .n.'.on d. that there should be no more hoid ng back of the truth, and that, when he : was asked if bo could give any rea : to in why lie should have been nude j the heir to the stupendous fortun o: ! a man who was utmost a stia: g t t. him. he would boldly announce that It had been so left to liirn because lie , and fundall were the -cms of one father. "The world," he said sadly to him self, "may look upon me as the mat who killed hint in the pa;k, and will look ii|K?n mo as having for years no copied a false posit Ion: but it must do so If It chooses. I cannot go 0:1 15v Ing this life of deception any Ions er. No! Not even though Ida hersoll should ea?t me oil." Hut he thought that though he might hear the world's condemnation, he did not know how he would sustain the loss of her lovo. Still, the truth should he told even though he should lose her by so telling it: even though the whole world should i>oint to hint as a fratricide! He had wavered lor many days now as to what course he should take, had had impulses to speak out and acknowledge the secret of his and his brother's life, had been swayed by Smerdon arguments and hy the letter hp nan receiveu :u inn noiei. inn n ?w there was to he no more wavering; all was to bo (old. Ami. if there was any nno who hml the rljrht to a^k why lie hail not s|K>ken earlier, that very letter wonld be sullic'.ent just itieation of his silence. If was about miiWav that ?.* oc l iwas seated in his study writing a long letter to Kmerdon explaining exactly what he had now taken the determination of iloij g. the footman entered with two cards on which were the names of "Mr. Fordyce. Paper Puddings," and "Mr. A. Stuart." "The gentlemen wish to know If your lordship can receive them?" the I man asked. | "Nes," Penlyn answered," I have been expecting a visit frpm them. Show them in." They came In together. Mr. Fordyce lnPoduiug himto'.f us the solicitor of the late Mr. Fundail. and Mr. Stuart. hinting gravely. Then I.ord Peniyn motioned to tlietu bo'.h to be sc: ted. "I reeclved your lePer last night," he said to the secretary, "and, al though I may tell you at once that there wore, perhaps, reasons why Mr. Cundall should have left me his property. I was still considerably astonljhed at hearing he had done so." "Iteasons, my lord!" Mr. Fordyce said, looking up from a handle of papers which he had taken from his pocket and was beginning to untie. "Reasons! What reasons, may I ask?" The lawyer, who from his accent was evidently a Scotchman, was an elderly man. with a hard, unsympathetic face, and it became instantly apparent to Peulyn that, with this man. there must not he the slightest hesitation on his part in anything he said, cor must anything but the plainest truth be spokeu. Well! that was what he had made up his mind should bo done, and he was ghtd as he watched Mr. Fordyce's face that he had so decided. "The reason." lie answered, looking straight at both of them, 'Is that lie and 1 were brothers." "Itrothers!" they both exclaimed together. while Stuart fixed his eyes upon him with an in'-reduloua look, though in it there was something else besides incredullt>, a look of suspicion and dislike. "This Is a stran?re story, I.ord Penlyn." the lawyer said after a moment. "Yes," the other answered. "And you will perhaps think It still more strange when I tell you that I myself did not know of It until a week ago." "Not until a week ago!" Stuart said. "Then you could have learnt of your relationship only two or three day? before he was murdered?" "That is the case," Penlyn said. "I think. I.ord Pcnlyn," Mr. Fordyce said, "that, as ths.- late Mr. Cun dall s solicitor, and the person who will, by his will, have a great ileal to do with tho administration of his for tune, you ?hould give me some particulars as to the relationship that you say he and you stood In to one another." "If Lord Penlyn intends to do so, and wishes it. 1 will leave the house." Stuart said, still speaking lu a cold, unsympathetic voice. "By nu means," Penlyn said. "It will be best that you both should hear all that I know." Then he told them, very faithfully, everything that had passed between bin, >...! ?..? ...mvi v.uuu?ii, iruui ine "nWrt tm h >nr widx^me tf' WbtV.'* Club, and they hail had the*'first In* terview in the park, down to the letter that had been written on the night of the murder. Nor did he omit to teli them it was only a month previous to Cundall's disclosing himself, that he and Philip Smerdon had made the strange discovery at I.e Voc?j that his father, to ail appearances, had had a previous wife, and had, also, to all appearances left an elder son behind him. Only, lie said, it had seemed a certainty to him and his friend that tho lady was not actually his wife. and that the child was not h'.s lawful son. It' there was anything he did not think it necessary t<> tell them it was t.b? violence of his behavior to Cundall at the interview they had had in that very room, and the curse he had hurled after him when he was gone, and the wish, which had been fulfilled so terribly soon after their expression, had weighed heavily on his heart ever since the nialit of the murder; he eould not repeat it now to these men. It is the strangest story 1 ever heard," Mr. l'ordyce said. "The very strangest! And. as we have found ua certificates of eiilier his mother s marriage or his own birth, we must ?mContiniied to horlli Pag". | A Lovely Woman Is made especially so if she is becomingly ^owne'L Orr line will enhance your U ~ ..4 - ue ui>. Ladies' Silk and Washable Shirtwaists. : I Ready-to-wear hats, Walking Suits, Odd walking and Tailor made skirts. A beautiful Line of Neckwear. J. WILLIE LEVY * Outtittsrs to Men Women and Children. : : 344 Broad St. Augu sta - Ga. SiH<'rih?ir the Aoyorate. 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