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Ellavilie, Ga. | J?.i?3?rN. G a ?TVni:e White wa* afflicted with j sccfula seven ^ ? prescribed S. S. S., and ! to-day he is aiat an ; :?tboy. C. W. Packer, 3L D. . RicnrovD. Va.. E c 13, 1SS3.?1 have taken j three bo.-tes of S-v. , ? v :-''.<:. for secondary blood po:. ?>n. act: tneb better than potash or ; - anr other. "*aedy i : save < er u?ed. B. F. W infield, M. D. j Book on CciXag?ous Blood Poison mailed free. J , All druc^ist?t t <wl S. s. s. las Swift Specific Co., Brewer v Atlanta, Ga. ^ctT"!'*^ ?56 1 Broadway. S_ _ ' - I , -, ' "\ .! Grady on the Race Problem, j Columbia Register. We read with mucb interest and j watched with much care the speech of Henry W. Grady delivered at Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, the 27th. Toe oc casion was the State Fair. The Geor gia orator, to our mind, struck the key oote of the situation when he braced himself, in all earnestness and truth, to deal with the race issue as one constant and irrepressible factor in our indus trial, as well as our social and political outcome. We see less treacle and more manly vigor than we have hitherto had from Mr Grady's lips. This is a big, broad issue, and Mr. Grady faces it with becoming manhood. tt was no trick of oratory for Mr. Grady to apostrophize the imperial State of Texas as be did. It was becoming and proper that he should realize that be was speaking to a people who will, in all probability, bold in their hands at no distant day the destiny of. this great country: ? brave, manly, practical, vigorous, active and generous people, who to-day have in their keeping a ter ritory 57,000 square miles greater than all Germany. Over two million people, who have come from every State of the Union, and largely from every civilized country of Christendom, occupy this vast and fruitful land, the seed corn of an imperial, social power withio the Union. Accepting an indissoluble Union as a fixed fact of our Federal civilization, Texas as an indissoluble State within that Union, and with whose social and industrial make-up the race issue is in corporated, possibly for all time, must exercise a controlling influence iu ad justing the relations of the races on practical terms. Texas, therefore, has the power and the territorial wealth, the high manhood and readiness of purpose to play the greatest part of any State of this Union in the adjustment of socio political conflicts arising out of the race issue no less than others, now setting in 90 us with ominous meaning. Mr Grady thus had the very audience be Fore bim whose children and grand children are to be the chief actors in the solution of the tremendous qu?tions knocking at our doors for solution. We :hink Mr. Grady handles the subject with great manliness and at the same ime with tender benevoleuce. The >rator says : jl shall be pardoned for resisting the nspratioo of the presence and adher cg to-day to a blunt and rigorous 'peech?for there are times when fine ivords are paltry, and this seem.* to me :o be such a time. So I shall turn iway from the thunders of the political :<attle upou which every American iangs intent, and repress tue ardor that it this time rises iu every American j jeart?for there are issues that strike j deeper than any political theory has cached and conditions of which parti ?anship has taken and can take but Ut ile account. Lnt .me, therefore, with :tudied plainness, and with such precis on as is possible?in a spirit th. is broader than party limitations, and ieeper than political motive?discuss with you certain problems upon the wise and prompt solution of which de fends the glory and prosperity of the south. 'Why the South ? In an (indivisible ! Uni'?u?in a Republic against the in :egrity of which sword shall never be irawn or mortal band uplifted. Why j is one section held separated from the rest in alieu consideration ? * * * * Why should a num ber of States, stretching from Richmond :o Galvestcn. bound together by no ioral interests, held in no autonomy, be thus combined ana drawn to a common cen :re 1 * * If it be provincialism ;hat holds the South together, let us )utgrow it ; if it be sectionalism, let us j oot it out of cur hearts, but if it be j something deeper than these aod essen- j ;ial to our system, let us declare it with j Taokoess, consider it with respect, de- { rend it with firmness and in dignity t ibide its cousequences. What is it j :heu that holds the Southern Spates? j enough true in thought and deed ro the Union?so closely bound in sympathy j ;o-day ? ***** 'It is that the future holds a problem ' o coiviug which the South must stand j lloac ; in dealing with which she must j ?omo closer together ihan ambition or j l?sp?ir have driven uer, ?^J op tli--- j micomeof which her very existence de- ; jeuds. This problem is to carry with- j u her body politic two separate races, ! :qual in civil and political rights and | nearly equal in uumbcrs. She must j sarry these races iu peace?for discord ueans ruin She must carry them scp irately?for assimilation means debase ment. She must carry them iu equal | ustiee?for this she is pledged in honor j tud gratitude She must carry them ; ?ven unto the end, for in human prob- i ibility she will never b<> quit of either. ; * * * 'Set by this problem apart ! from t:ll otbar peoples of the earth, and j lier unique position emphasized rather j iban relieved by her material conditions, it is not only fit but it is essential that j he should hold her brotherhood unim- j paired, quicken her sympathies, ami in j he light or in the shadow of this sur- ! ptassing problem, work out her own sal ?ation in the fear of God- -but of (Jod | ilone " Here, paying a just tribute to the ; faithfulness of the colored mau under j >ondage and during the war, Mr. i Srady passes on to his condition as a free in an He says : *I rejoice that when freedom came j 0 the negro after years of waiting, it j was all the sweeter because the bauds I 'rom which the shackles fell w-'re stain- j es< of a single crime against the help !S5 outs confided to his care. From .his root, imbedded iu a century of : dnd and constant companionship, has ; ;prun<r some foliage. As n<> race h:;s jeeti held :n sich unresisting bondage, ' )oao was ever hurried with such .-wilt- i K.-s into power. Into bauds still :rembling with the blow that broke the j ihn -V.es, was thrust the balk'. In less j ban twelve months from the day he ! walked dowu the furrow a slave, the : 1 gro dictated in legislative halls, j Vom which Davis and Calhoun had gone j forth, the policy of twelve common wealths. * * * 'From the known inca Mcitv ot that <??y, bas tbo negro far advanced? Is he a safer, more intel ligent citizen now than then? Is this mass of votes, loosed from old restraints, iovitiog alliance cr awaiting opportun ity, less menaciug than when its pur pose was plain and its way direct? My countrymen, right here the South must jnake a decision oo which very much depends. Many wise tuen hold that the white vote- of the South should divide, the color libe be beaten down and the Southern States ranged on economic or moral questions as interests or belief demands. I am compelled to dissent from this view. The worst thing, in my opinion, that c?uld happen is that the white people of the South staod io opposing factions with the vast mass of ignorant or purchasable negro votes between. We must accept as a necessity the clear and unmistakable domination of the white race, dominating not through violence, through party alliance, but through the integrity of its own vote and the largeness of its sym pathy and jutice, through which it shall compel the support of the better classes of the colored race. * * * * In political compliance, the South has evaded the truth and men have drifted from their convictions. But we cannot escape this issue. It faces us wherever we turn. It is an issue that has been and will be. The races and tribes of the earth are of Divine origin. Behiud the laws of man and the de cress of war stand - be law of God * % j-c $ # * % :jc jj: Standing in the presence of this multitude, sobered with the responsibil ity of the message I deliver to the young men of the South, I declare that the truth, above all others, to be worn unsullied and sacred in your hearts, to be surrendered to no force, sold for no price, compromised in no necessity, but cherished aod defended as the covenant of your prosperity, aod the pledge of peace to your children, is that the white race must dominate forever in the South, because it is the white race, and superior to that race with which its su premacy is threatened.' [Great cheer ing ] _ Thanksgiving Proclamation. Thursday, Nov. 29(7*. Designated by the President for Thanksgiving Day. By the President of the United States: Constant thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to Almighty God for his good ness and mercy, which have followed them since the day he made them a na tion and vouchsafed to them a free gov ernment. With loving kindness He has constantly led us in the way of prosperity and greatness He has not visited with swift punishment our short- j comings, but with gracious care He has i warned us of our dependence upon His forbearance and has taught us that obedience to His holy law is the price of a continuance of His precious gifts. In acknowledgment of all that God has done for us as a nation, and to the end that on an appointed day the united prayers and praise of a grateful country may reach the Throne of Grace, I, Gro ver Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 29rh day of No vember, instant, as a day of thanks giving aod prayer, to be kept and ob served throughout the land. On that day let all our people suspend their or dinary work and occupations, and in their accustomed places of worship, with prayer and songs of praise, render thanks to God for all His mercies, for the abundant harvests which have re warded the toil of the husbandman dur ing ihe year that, lias passed, and for the rich rewa.da tint have followed the labors of our people in their shops and their marts of trade and trafii;. Let us give thanks for peace and social order aod contentment within our borders, and for our advancement in all that adds to national greatness. And mind ful of the afflictive dispensation with which a portion of our land has been visited, let. us, while we humble our selves before the power of God, ac knowledge His mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of the pestilence, and let our hearts be chastened by sym pathy with our fellow-countrymeu who have suffered and who mourn. And as we return thanks for all the blessings which t?e have rccc!?cd froni i _ ...? I the hands of our Heavenly battier, let us not forget that He has enjoined upon us charity, and on this day of thauks giviug let us generously remember the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord. Done at the city of Washington on the 1st day of November. 1888, and the year of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed Grovkj: Cleveland. By the President T V. Bayard. Secretary of State. I -<z,? Why the South is Poor. Speaking of Southern progress, j Henry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Con- j stitution. says : 'The other day there; was a man buried in Pickens County. ! I He was dead, and they were putting him away. lu digging a grave for : him they dug through three feet of! marble as pure as any Parian sculptor j ever moulded, and yet the marble slab that, went at the held of his grave w;is i imported from Vermont. Although piue f<>n-sts were all around him, the J pine coffin in which he lay was import ed from Philadelphia. Although iron ! was in the hills within a hundred feet of his grave, flic nails in his coffin ; came from Pittsburg. Although there j was hard ivood in the same forest, hau- i dies of the shovels and picks that dug ; his sravo were imported from Ciuoin-i uati. The truth is that, his own county, j as rich or richer in natural resources : than any in the State, furnished uoth- '. ing for that funeral but the hole in the : ground and the corpse. lie was cloth ed in shoes from Massachusetts, a suit from Chicago, a shirt from Cincinnati, i a hat from Lynn, and his own county j furnished nothing but the marrow in bis bo&cc ?i.-J the blood in bis veins ' . -'-._ ? M^^???l?M The Mystery of a Hansom Cab By FEBCTS V. HOME rC0:CTTXUED.l CHAPTER VTIL BRIAN TAKES A WALK AND A When the gentlemen entered the drawing room a young lady was engaged in playing one of tbos9 detestable pieces of music called j morceau de salon, in which an unoffending air is taken and variations embroidered on it till it becomes a perfect ageny to distinguish the tune amid the perpetual rattle of quavers and demi semi-quavej"s. Brian quickly found his way to Madge's side. The talk drifted on to the subject of Whyte's death. "I never did like him," sho sa d, "but it was horrible to think of him dying like that." "I don't know," answered Brian, gloomily, "from all I can hear, chloroform is a very easy death." "Death can never bo easy," replied Madge, "especially to a young man so full of health and spirits as Mr. Whyte wa3." "I believe you are sorry he's dead," said Brian, jealously. "Aren't your she asked in some surprise. "De mortels nil aisi bonum," quoted Fitz gerald; "but as I detested him when alive, yon can't expect me to regret his end" Madge did not answer him, but glanced quickly at his face, and for the first time it struck her that ho looked ill "What is the- matter with you, dearf she asked, placing her hand on his arm. "You are not looking well." "What ig lAe 'matter with iron, dcar f ""Nothing? nothing," he arirwered hur riedly "I've been a little worried about business lately; but come," be said, rising, "let us go outside, for i see your father bas got that girl with ths steam whistle voice 10 sing." The girl with the steam whistle voice was Julia Featherweight, the sister of Rolleston's inamorata, and Madge stifled a laugh as she went out on the veranda with Fitzgerald "What a shame of you," she said, bursting into a laug!: when they were safely outside; "she's been taught by the best masters." "Iiow ! pity thenu"retorted Brian, grimly, as Julia wailed out, "Meet me once again,'* with an ear piercing shrillness. "I'd much rather listen to our ancestral banshee, and as to meet her again, one interview wcuid be more than enough." Madge did not answer, but leaning lightly over the high rail of the veranda looked out into the beautiful moonlight night. There were a number of people passing along the Esplanade, tome of whom stopped and listened to Julia's shrill notes, which being j mellowed by distance, must have sounded ' rather nice. One man in particular seemed Co have taste for music, for ho persistently stared over the fence at the house. Brian and Madge talked of all sorts ,of tilings, but every time Madga looked upshesuwthe man watching the house. "What docs that man want, BrianV she asked. "What man?*' asked Brian, starting. "Oh," he went on indifferently, as ti?* man moved away from the gate and crossed the road on to the footpath, "he's taken up with the music, I suppose; that's all." Madge did not say anything, but could not help thinking there was more in it than the music. Presently Julia ceased, and she pro posed to go in. "Whyr asked Brian, who was lying back in a comfortable seat, smoking a cigarette. "It's nice enough here." "1 must attend to my guests," she answered, rising. "You stop here and finish yoi.r cigarette," and with n gay laugh she flitted into the house like a shadow. Brian s:4t and smoked, staring cut into the moonlight meanwhile. Yes, the man was certainly watching the house, for he sat on oae of the seats, ro.d kept his eyes fixed on the brilliantly lighted windows. Brian tLrcw array hia cigarette ar;J shivered sngnt?y. "Could any ? me have seen me T ho muttered, rising uneasily. "Pshaw! of course not, and the cabman would never recognize me again. Curse Whyte, "1 vish I'd never set eyes upon him." Ho gave one g'ance at the dark Ggure on the seat, and then, wirb a shiver, passed into the warm, well Jiglit.-.: room Do did not feel easy in his mind, and be would ha\e felt { still less so had ho known that the man on the seat was one of the cleverest of the Mel bourne detectives. Mr Gorbyhad been watching the Frettiby ! mans.cn the whob eve:*lr?g, and was getting rather annoyed. M?re!u::d did not know where Fitzgerald lived, ;:: d as the dot: rtire wart-! to find out, he determined Brian's movements and tra "If he's that pretty r;:;-; tili he leaves the. Iuris ." c f> himself; when lie first ti Esplanade. "Ib- wont lier, and once be lea v. s tin him up till I Had out wh< ro he lives." When Brian .made his appearance early in j the evening on his way to Mark FVettiby's i mansion. he vvas in evening dress, with a ! light ?>at over it, and also h.i 1 on a soft bat. j "Well. I\m dashed I" ejaculated Mr Uorby, | when he saw Fitzgerald -h an;"* . . "if be i isn't a fool I don't know who is, t-> > about j in the very clothes he wore when he polished IV-hyte off. and think be won't be rcrv m zed j ra. .i him hoTUK lover. I'll wait rd Mr. Gorby : !.?s s -:-: on the ' aw?*v from v aso rii'foBow m. LiUi? he can hen 1 p;:S thu onisbed Ah, his |;h.e an.! Melbourne ain't Paris or Lo afford t.. lie so careless, hii. darbies on lri::? he will be saouls!:, ,\ well." h? went on. lighting his pipe taking a seat on the ?lsplannde. "I >a HI have t?? wait h< re tdl ho .. ?-: .- : Mr Gorby's patience .vas protty s.-. trieii, for hour after hour pas? i appeared Then he saw .' ;. :.! ; come out on ti.?- veranda, and I Ftfatberweipht's shrill v.. -,. sing] sounded weird and m earthly in ' of the night. !i-r*-iw Madge in lirian. the latter t uming and for a minute < r so ! "AhT said Gorby to himself, relighting : his pi pet "your cons^aencoisarsmitingyou, is ' it* Wait till you're Lu jail" Then th? guests came ostof the house-and ' disappeared one ! y one, black figures m the moonlight, aft.-r kisses and iiur&r'^king. j Shortly afterwards Brian came ii"V/n the path with Frettlby by his side ana Sladgt 1 hanging on to he? fathers arm. Fstttl?y J opened the gat..- arfd held out his band. ;nd tic one ; mi ! Brian Miss 1 winch j ?int-s j i then ! : bun i nn lenod t-tie gat..- a>/.{ beld out his ban? "Good-night,/fotegerald." ho said, in ft i hearty voice, '/come down soon again." "Good-night, Bryan, dearest," said Madge, ; .kissing (aim, "and don't forget to-morrow.* ' x uen ratner and daugater closed tne gate, i leaving Brian outside, and walked back to the house. "Ahl" said Gorby to himself, "if you only , knew what I know, you wouldn't be so pre cious kind to him." Brian walked, strolled along the Esplanade, and then crossing over, passed by Gorby and walked on till he- was opposite the Esplanade hotel. Then he lighted a cigarette and walked down, thy stops on to the pier. "Suicide, is it?" muttered Mr. Gorby to j himself, as he saw the tall, black figure striding resolutely on, a long way ahead. I "Not if i can help it." So ho lighted his 1 pipe, and strolled down the pier in an ap j parently aimless mustier. He found Brian leaning over the parapet J at the end of the pier, and looking at the | glittering waters beneath, which kept rising and falling in a dreamy rhythm, that soothed and charmed the car. "Poor girll poor girl!" j the detective beard him mutter as he came j up. "If she only know all! If she" At this moment be beard the approaching step, and turned round sharply The detec tive saw that his face was ghastly pate in the moonlight, and bis brows wrinkled angrily. "What the devil do you wantr" ha burst out, as: Gorby paused. "Whet do you mean by following me all over the placer "Saw me watching too house," said Gorby to himself. "Pm not following you, sir," be said aloud. "1 suppose the pier aiirt private property. I only camo down here fer a breath of fresh air." Pitzgerald did not answer, but turned sharply on his heel, and walked quickly up the pier, leaving Gorby staring after him. "He's getting frightened," soliloquized the detective to himself, as be strolled easily along, keeping the black figure in front well in view. "I'll have to keep a sharp eyo on him or he'll be clearing out of Victoria." Brian walked quickly up to the St. Kildn station, for on looking at his watch he found be would just have timo to catch the last ; train. He arrived a few minutes before it \ started, so, getting into tho smoking car riage at the near end of tho platform, he lit a cigarette, and, leaning back in his seat, watched late comers hurrying into the sta tion. Just os the last bell rang he saw a man rush along, who seemed likely to miss the train. It was the same man who had been ! watching him the whole evening, and Brian felt confident that he was following him. Hr comforted himself, however, with the thought that this pertinacious follower would lose the train, and, being in the last carriage him self, he kept a lookout along the platform expecting to see his friend of the Esplanade standing disappointed on it. There was no appearance of him, however, so Brian, sink ing back into his seat, cursed his ill luck in not having shaken off this man who kept him under such strict surveillance. "D-him!" he muttered, softly. "? ex pect be will follow me to East Melbourne and find out where I live, but he shaat if I can help it" There was no one in the carriage except himseif, on which he felt a sense of relief, for he was in that humor which comes on men sometimes of talking to himself. "Murdered in a cab,?1 he said, lighting a fresh cigarette, and blowing a cloud smoke. "A romance in real life, which beats Miss Braddon hollow. There is one thing certain, he won't come between Madge and me again. Poor Madge.'" with an impatient sigh. "If she only knew ail, there would not be much chanco of our marriage; but sho can never find out, and I don't suppose any one else evor wilL" Here a sudden thought struck him, and rising out of his seat, he walked to tho other end of the cannage mid threw himseif on the { cushions, as if desirous of escape from him- j self. j "What grounds can that man have for ! suspecting me?" ho said aloud. "No one knows I was with' vFkyto on that night, and the police can't possibly bring forward any evidence to show that I was. Pshaw!" he went on, impatiently buttoning up his coat. "1 am like a child, afraid of my shadow?the fellow on the pier is only some ono out for a breath of fresh air, ss he said himself?I am quite safe." All tho samo he did not feel easy in his mind, and when tba train arrived at the Melbourne station he stepped out on to tho platform with a shiver and a quick look ixmnd, as if he expected to feel the detec tive's hand on bis shoulder. He Raw no one. however, at all like the man he had met on ihe St. Kilda pier, and with a sigh of relief, left the station. Mr. Gorby, however, wns on the watch, and followed him at a safe dis tanco along the platform. Brian left the station and walked slowly along Flinders street, apparently in deep thought. When he got to Russell street he turned up there, and did not stop until ho came closo to the. Burke and Wills monument, in tho very J place where tho cab had stopped on the night ; of Wbyte's murder. "?b T said the detective to himself, as Iw J stood in tho shadow on tho opposite side or j the street "You're going to have a look at I it, are yon? i wouldn't, if 1 were you?it's? dangerous." Fitzgerald stood for a few minutes at the corner and then walked up Collins street When he got to the cab stand, opposite the Melbourne club, still suspecting be was fol lowed, he hailed a hansom and drove away in the direction of Spring street Gorby was rather perplexed at this sudden move, but without delay he hailed another cab and told the driver to follow the lirst till it stopped. "Two can play at that game," he said, set tling himself tack in the cab, "and I'll get the better of you. clever as you are?and you are clever," be went on in a tone of admira tion, as be looked round the luxurious han som, "to choose such a convenient place for a murder; no disturbance ami plenty of rime for escape-after you had finished, it's a pleasure going after a chap iike yon in stead of men who tumble down like r:r fruit, and ain't go ; any brains to keep their I Wbfl? the dci^tivo t::t:~ So!rfo^U2ed his j ;ab, following on the trail of the other, bud i turned down Soring street and was being j driven rapidly along the Wellington parada j in tho direction of East Mehrums. It then turned up Powlctt street, at which Mr Gorby exulted. "Ain't so clever r.s 1 thought." he said to himself. "Shows, his nest right o:T, without any attempt to hide It." The detective, however, had reckoned without his host, for the cab In front ktpt driving on. through an interim n sble maze of streets, until it . :;' t>r:a:i was de tcrnuncd never to stop the whob night. "Look 'ere. sir:" eri -l (lorby's cabman looking through his tr?:*!?or in'tfce rooty, j the hansom. "\>wdo::gstJ ?sVrvgamea go:? j blessed old leg* -a-zivrifaway under 'in:!" j "Co ont go on answered the d?toetiv*, j impatiently: "HI pay >' .,?:: well" The cat-man's Joints were raised I v this j end by dint f c< nvm.; en i ? ?U-ril -:-e of ; the silk, he managed get his Jsded hors*?! up to m pretty g >od pace. Hiey were in j ?'i?xroy b\ t!:i- time, and then Isotb eal* : turned out of t?crrruri? srrrvjt into Nicholson | <::?-:. thence ;-.s-v-d qn to Evelyn street j ;: '.! a;on^ Scann?; stre;U uht.J P?rian * crib j s?j?pp.s| r.t the eomcrol Collins street, and j ( ;.'.riev- - iw !;: :; alignr and dismiss his wl> man He then walked -l.'.-An; th-street and j ?l'!-iap:w.i-*-d mt?i tt?e 1 i-i n-rrv gT."?V:;s. ^ j out arid !-wd t'i- f which ivt ? * any ; !:;.: to argttc. "we'vy com in i .: ! . and t | .! . behove he lives in IV-vlett street, aft>*: j lie wni?tinto the gnnlenss. ! saw Rrian I some distance ;:!> :? htm. w ::km,; !!v j It was bright t.-.tM,.:!:^ht..and bec??::.! <-a-e.!y ', distinguish F.^eraid l-v his I:::: ; coat He j left the uardeas |?v the end ::e Then he ' wait along the \\>U;ng?..n |.-:rad-, and turned nji i.v>-.viet; - i t.. wnero h? si pp-.t! at a house hYwr Cmms" Memoriid church, much to Mr ttorby's reiieY, who. betr.g like I-amlet, "fat and scant of h-or*.:!).'' found himself rather exhausted. He kept well in j the shadow, however, and saw Fitzgerald giveone final l;>oi; around before h? di.snp pcared into the boase. Then Mr Gorby. like the 'Robber Captain in4'Ali l>aba."twOfc "are | *uJ stock of the house, o.hd fixed its locality : and Appearance well in his mind, as be in fended to call at it on the morrow "What- Pm going to do." he said, as he j walked slowly back to Melbourne, "is to aee j hi?.landlady when- hfeoaty aed^?nd^ oju. wU3t time De came lu un the night of the murder. If it fits into the time he got out of Ranfcin's cab 111 get out a warrant, and ar rest him straight off." CHAPTER IX. KR. GCP.3Y IS SATISFIED AT LAST. In spito of his long walk and still longer drive Brian did not sleep well that night. He kept tossing and turning, or else lying on his back wide awake, looking into the dark ness and thinking of Whyte. Toward dawn, when the first faint glimmer of morning came through the Venetian blinds, he fell into a sort of uneasy doze, haunted by hor rible dreams. He thought he was driving in a hansom, when suddenly he found Whyte by his side, clad iu white cerements, grinning and gibbering at him with ghastly merri ment Then the cab went over a precipice, and he feli from a great height down, down, wita the mocking laughter still sounding in his ears, until he woke with a loud cry and found it was broad daylight, and that drops o: perspiration were standing on bis brow. It w>as no good trying to sleep any longer, e?t with a weary sigh, he arose and went for his tub, feeling jaded and worn out by worry and want of sleep. His bath did him some good, as the cold water brightened him up and pulled him together. Still ho could not help giving a start of surprise when he saw his face looking at bim from the rnirrorToId end hajrgard looking, with dark circles round the eyes. "A pleasant lifo Fm going to bave of It If this sort of thing goes on," he said bitterly; "I w ish to G? I had never seen or hoard of Whyte." He dressed himself carefully, however, for Brian was a man who never neglected bis toilet, however worried and out of sorts he might fed. Yet, notwithstanding his efforts to throw of? his gloom and fee! cheerful, his landlady was startled when she saw bow haggard and wan bis handsome face looked in the searching morning light. She was a small, dried up little woman, with a wrinkled, yellow face, and looked so parched and brittle thatstrangers could not help thinking it would do her good if she were soaked in water for a year, in order to soften her a little. Whenever she moved she crackled, and one was in constant dread of see ing one of her wizen looking limbs break off short, like the brauch of a dead tree. When she spoke it was in a hard, shrill voice, like a cricket; and being dressed in a faded brown silk, what with her voice and attenuated body, she was not unlike that noisy insect. She crackled into Brian's sitting room with The Argus and coffee, and a took of dismay came over her "stony face as she saw his altered looks. "Dear me, sir," she chirped out in her shrill voice, as she placed her burden on the table, "are yon took bad?" Brian -shook his head "Want of sleep, that's all, Mrs. Sampson,* he answered, unfolding The Argus. "Ah! that's because ye ain't got enough blood in yer 'ead," said Mrs. Sampson, wisely, for 6ho had her own ideas on the subject of health. "If you aint got blood you aint got sleep." Brian looked at her as she said this, for there seemed such an obvious want of blood in her veins that he wondered if she had ever slept in all her life. However, he said nothing, but merely Inti mated that if she would leave the room he would take his breakfast "An' if you wants anythln* else, Mr. Fitz gerald," she said, going to th? door, "you knows your way to the bell as easily as I do to the kitchen." and with a final chirrup, she crackled out of the room. Briar: drank his coffee, but pushed away the food which was before him, and then looked through The Argus to see the latest reports about the murder casa What be read ruade bis cheek turn oven paler than it was, and ho could feel bis heart beating loudly. "They've round a clow, have theyr he mut tered, rising and pacing restlessly up and down. "1 wonder what it can be? I threw that man off the scout last night but if no suspects mo there will bo no difficulty in him finding out where 1 live. Babt What non sense I am talking. 1 am the victim of my own morbid imagination. There is nothing to connect me with the crime, so I need not be afraid of my shadow. I've a good mind to leave town for a time, but if 1 am suspected that would excite suspicion. Oh, Madgel ray darling," he cried, passionately, "if you only knew what 1 su?ler, I know that you would pity me?but you must never know the truth ?'Never! Never." " and, sinking into a chair by the window, he covered his face with his hands. After remaining in this position for some minutes, occupied with his own gloomy thoughts, he arose and rang the bclL A faint crackle in the distance announced that Mrs. Sampson had heard, and she soon came Into the room, looking more tike a cricket than ever. Brian had gone into his becL-oora and ealled out to her from there: "1 am going down to St Kahla. Mrs. Samp son," he said, "and, probably, will not be back all day." "Which 1'opes it'nil do you good," an swered the cricket "foryou've eaten notbin*, air the aoa breezes is miraculous for mafcin' yo? take to your victuals. My mother's brother, beta' a sailor, - ' wonder.^ul for Is stomach, which, when V done a meat, the table looked as if a low cuss .i gone over it. " "A whatT asked Fitzgerald, buttoning his gloves. "A low cuss!" replied the Inn. lady, in sur prise at his ignorance, "as I've read'in Uly Writ, as 'ow John the Baptist was partial to 'em, not that 1 think they'd be very tillin', tbo'? to be sure, 'e 'ad a sweet tooth, and ute "oney with 'em." "Oh! yon mean locusts" said Brian, now ?nlighteixwl, "An what elser asked Mrs. Sampson. h> llgnaatly; "which, tho" nctbeni aseholard, I speaks English I 'opes, my mother's second cousin avili*'ad first prize at a spellin'bee, tho' 'odfed early through brain fever, 'aviii' crov/ued 'i* 'ciul over much with the dicticn "Dear me!" answered Brian mechanically. "H.>w unfortunate." He was not listening to Mrs. S.urp:*>:i's remarks, but was think ing of an arrangement which Madge bad. made, and which lie liad forgotten till now. "Mrs. San::>sG:i." he said turning round at lue door. "I am going t<> bring Mr. Frettlby an?! his tUiughtv-r to have a cup of aftonioon *. a here, so you ir.ijht have soiue ready." "You Vre cn!y t."> ark and to Vive.** au sv.vrc.1 Mr;. Samjwjn, hospitably, with a era f ai! her joints, "f 11 make the tea, sir, an* also some of myowu portielclercakes, beiu'a s;... . ia! kind I "ave, which my mother showed me V.v to make. *:?vhY l>vn taught ! y a ! tdyas she massed ihro'tiv scarlet lever, tho" b-ia'.-f a v. rak constitoot'.ou, she died soon artt, !>ri:i' in tho'abit of contractin' anv .lis i- '!:' mi .at citar.ee ort," ?. s.?-vi as Fir- -r..;d had gone Mrs, S. went r ; '<': window and watched him a.^ 1 .ilked slowly down the street?a tall, h.i'i.! :o man, of whom any woman would bepnoi. -Wh r an awful Illing itaro to think Vll h,;;o day." she chirped cheerily 1 ) h- rv'f, "th >' of c ;urs ; beiu' a great swell m 'is I'xn place, Vli 'avo a nice airy vault, wbiv-h v I be f ir m :ro comfortable than a dose; stutr * grave, even tho' it !ns a tor.?b sfoneaii* vheisover it. Ah. now j Wivure you. biiperimer.ce.'*' she broke oil, as a stout man in a !i rat suit of clothes crossed the road r.nd r ::ig the boll, "a pullin" at the bell as if il wct-o a pum pundit" As the ; :-u;i ;. an at the door, who vas non r i'aan Mr. Gorby. did not hear h< r, bo. of. r>? reply, s> she hurried j .1 a r-hc^r-airs; etr.crding will; angcratthe rough t:>a k r bell bad receive.l. j Mr. >. .- ;.: ! .! seen Brian go on**, andI fie:', cricket, a-> she piv^eut?s? lier thin body i anil wrinkled face to tho view of the detec ; fcive. "I'm very p? >rry," answered Gorby, meekly, i 4TII knock"next time.*' "Oh, no you won't," S;"<1 the landlady, tossing her head, "me not *avin' a knocker, j an' your 'and a-scratchin1 the paint off the I door, which itsin'tbeen doneover six months [ by my sister in-law's cousin, which 'e is a | painter, with a shop in Pitzroy, an' a won derful hcye to color." "Does Mr. Fitzgerald lire herej^ asked Mr. i " You nearly tored the bell dow*k* Gorby quietly. "Ho do,'" replied Mrs. Sampson, "bat *e% * gone out, an'won't bo back till the arter noon, which any messidge *uli to delivered to \ 1m punctual on ?s arrival." "I'm glad he's not in," said Mr. Gcrby.. : "Would you allow me to have a few mo- ? meets' conversation?" "What is it?"asked the cricket, her cnrK". osity being roused. . .. - . . ; "I'll tcH you when we get inside^* en- " swered Mr. Gorby. The cricket looked at him with her sharp little eyes, and seeing nothing disreputable in him, led the way upstairs, crackling loudly the whole time. This so astonished Mr. . Gorby that he cast about in his own mind.for an explanation of the phenomena. "Wants oiling about the joints," was bis ' conch'sion, "but I never heard anything like it, and she looks as if she'd snap in two, she's" ' that brittle." , - * Mrs. Sampson took Gorby into Brian's sta ting, and, having closed the door, sat dowxr^ and prepared to hear what he bad ix> say for ? himself. . ,. "I 'ope it ain't bills," she said. ."Mr, F?t? gerald 'avin' money in the bank, and every thin' respectable like a gentleman as 'o is, tho', to be sure, your bill might come down t on him unbeknown, *? not 'avia' kept it in mind, which it ain't everybody as 'ave sich? good memory as my aunt on my mother's side, sh9 'avin' bin famous for 'er dates like S * " 'istory, not to speak of *er mu?tipUcatioa" V tables and the numbers of people's 'oases.'' "I am an insurance agent," he said rapidly, so as to prevent any interruption, by the ] \ aicket; "and Mr. Fitzgerald wants to insure' his life in our company. Before doing so I * want to find out if he is a good life to insure;"'. does he live temperately? keep early boors? and, in fact, all about him." **I shall be 'appy to answer any tnquirleif ' which may be of use to you, sir," replied Mrs, Sampson; *<taowin*as'? do*owgood\j* insurance is to a family should the 'end of betaken off unexpected, leavic' a widdj??^.; ^ which, as I know, Mr. Fitzgerald is:a gohf " * to be married soon, an' I 'opes Vll be 'app v, tho' thro' it I loses a lodger as 'as allays paid " regier, an' be'aved like a gentleman." "Does he keej> good hours?" said Jfc ' Gorby. "Allays in afore the clock strikes tw?Jve^ answered the landlady; "tho' to be sore, I ' uses it as a figger of speech, nono of the clocks in the 'ouse strikin' but one, which fe1" beia* mended, 'avm' broke through over*' windinV ...... uIs ho always in before t3r asked Sfc Gorby, keenly disappointed at this answer. Mrs. Sampson eyed him waggishly, and a smile crept over her wrinkled little face. "Young men, not bein' old men," she' re- "t I plied, cautiously, "and sinners not be?ni* ^ saints, it's not nattral as latch keys should be" made for ornament instead of use, and Mr. Fitzgerald bein'one of the 'andsomestroen'- ^ in Melbourne, it aint to be expected- as V should let *s latch key git rusty, tbo^vin?1 * ' good moral character, "e uses it with mode?- * atioa." "But I suppose you are generally 3steej>v, when he comes in late?" said the detectos?; ' "so yon cant tell what hour ho comes? home?" "Notas a rule," assented Mrs. Sampson; ;~ "bein' a 'eavy sleeper, and much disposed for bed, but I 'ave 'card 'im come in arter 12," tho last time bein' Thursday week." "Ahr Mr. Gorby drew a long breath, for' Thursday week was the night v.ic-a tho muf-" der was committed. "Bein' troubled with my ''cad," said Mrs.' ' Sampson, "thro' 'avin' been out in thesua all day a-washin*. I did r.ot foel so partial to my bed that night as in general, so west down to the kitchen with tho intent of get-..' ting a linseed poultice to put at the back of my 'ead, it being calculated to remove pain, as was told to me, when a nuss, by a doctor in the horspitai, 'e now being in business for' bisself, at Gee!?>g, with a large family^, avin' married early. Just as I was leavirr* the kitc'neu I 'eard Mr. Fitzgerald a-cooibr* in, and, turnin* round, looked at the clock* that *avin' been my custom when my kut?" 'usband came in tlie early moruia\ I bcto'Br : preparin' 'is meal." "And the time was?" asked Mr. Gorby, breathlessly. "Five minutes to 2 o'clock." replied Mrs,' Sampson. Mr. Gorby thought for a moment? Cab was hailed at I o'clock?started forS? Kilda about ten minutes past?reached gram-" mar school, say at twenty-five minutes pasfr? Fitzeerald talks five minutes to cabman, making it ha if-past?say. he waited tea min-' utes tor other cab to turn up. makes it twenty minutes to 2?it would toko another twenty minutes to get to East Melbourne?end five minutes to walk up here?that makes it five minutes past 2 instead of before?confound it? "Was your clock in the kitchen right?" he asked, aloud. "Well, I think so," answered Mrs. Sanm son. "It docs ?ct a little slow sometimes, not 'avin' bin cleaned for some time, which' my C2vy bein' a watchmaker I allays'ands it over to 'im" "Of coarse it was slow or. that night," said Gcrby. triumphantly. "He ?nns? have come in at five minutes past 2?which makes it rfcrbt." **Makos what right**" nskcrl the landlady, sharply. "And Y>w do you know my clock wast?n minutes wrong:" "Oh, it was. was i: r" asked Gorby. eagerly. "Ihn not deny in' that it wasn't," replier! Mrs. Sampson; "clocks ain't allays to be re lied ?n more than men an' women; but it won't be anythiu' agin 'is insurance, will it, as-in general *e*s in afore l??" "Oh. all that will bo quite safe," answered CCtcctivc, c having obta:?>od *is this Mr. Fite the required information, gcrald's room?" "Ycs.it is." rep'.led the landlady; "but *e furokhod it *imsr?U'. licia'of a luxurus turn of mind, not but what ';.< toste is good, tho* far be it from me to deny I clpcd 'im to se lect: but avin* another room of tkerr.moto ?t? any friends os you might'ave in search ;' a 'ome *ud he well looked nrter, my rcfer enecs bc'h'very Ugh an* my cookin* tasty, an' if" ? Hero a ring at the frontdoor bell called? Mrs. Sampson away, so with a hurried word to Gorby she crackled downstairs. Left to himself. Mr. Gorby arose and looked around? the room. It was excollentiy furnished, andr the pictures on the wall were all in good taste. There was a verging table at one eudr of the room under the window, which was' covered with papers. "It's uogood looking forthe papers he took e. it of Whyte's pocket, I suppose," said tho detective to himself, as he turned over some letters, '*ns ? do n't know what they are, and cohldu't tell thcra if I saw them: but I'd like' to mi l thai missing glovo and the bottle that hold the chloroform?unless he's done away with iIk ::.. There doesn't seem any sign of then; here, so I'll have a look in hisl>odroom." There was no time to lose, ks Sirs. Sampson might return at any moment, so Mr. Gorfcv walked quickly into the bedroom, which opened olt the bitting room. The first thing that caught the detective's e3.o was a large photograph of Madge Frcttlbyin a plush frame, winch sfrod on the dressing table It was tho samo kind he had already seen tar Whyte's album, and he took it up wfck # lau/th? ' > ' ?