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- jgftE _? -:_--7= Con?iai idJrm First Page. p?jj?poned betraying 5 his dissatisfaction until he could give-"it some practical ^?jfl?ct He gave a number of details which coincided with facts that I had rpreviously ascertained, and convinced me ' that his storr was substantial^ true.** **Tuank heavea!" exclaimed Pauline. **Oh?my dear brother!** "Wait a momentr> rejoined the de rtective. "We are not quite out of the woods yet! On making a review of the . evidence at our disposal, I doubted whether it would he .?aie to causo Du .spee'a arrest on the robbery charge. If. we should fail to hold him we might bfd -him good-by; he would never be seen . ber? again. But if I could get from you a confirmation of the blackmail story, and especially if you could prove actual payment of money, then -our *. course wouH^be much simpler. We could ar Jpest a?cNiold. .-him on that ground with Wot& atiy doubt, and the rest, unless J am jgjjfeit^y misf??r??, will come of itself." "I cari certainly provo the payment," said Pauline. -"My husband and the ?2 check are both in evidence.** "Very good; and now," said the in > specter, lowering his voice and leaning forward, "let me explain to you a little ??an. ?chave totaux! ' tor. bringing this thing to a head." CHAPTER XXIII. I THE SKADOW LIFTES. V 10 o'clock the j next morning all j Inspector Byrnes | preparations j v ere complete, i down to the least j detail; and there j was nothing left ! to do but wait for I . the fiv to walk j into the web. ! Horace Dupee, ? after receiving his check, put it in his pocket with j the intention of ! -getting it cashed at the bank on the mor- I vow. But in order to do this it would be j -accessary that he be identified. Tliis j would not be a particularly easy 'natter In any case, and the less so because the j name on it was not his ow n. At length j *he decided to get it cashed through some j ?friend. He was reluctant to have it j fc ??sown to any one that he had had any j dealings with Judge Keteile, and it? was \ partly on this account that he liad given j 'Grush's name. But it was an annoyance j and a risk even so, and he promised him- ! self that he would not be caught wi?h.a [ check again in a hurry. - .latethat night Ije succeeded in cash- j ling the check over the bar of an inn in I vthe lower part of the city, where he was ! ' lodging. The landlord of the.- inn was a j I depositor at the bank on whidy the.check was drawn. This was on Wednesday, j ^The next day. Thursday (the day of Pau- ! . Une*?^terv?ew with, the inspector), tho check was sent to the bank to be turned I in with the other receipts. Oa Thursday j evening the check came back marked N. ! .G. Dupee was not in the hotel at the time; j bat he entered about II o'clock. The j . iho'el keeper called .his attention to the j dishonored check, and demanded from him payment of the face amount Dupee: had by that time spent a good deal : cf j the eighty dollars; but rather than?have ..any disturbance he deposited fifty dol- j .lars, and promised to.go to the-bank the ? next day and liave the thing straight- ! ene J out But though he carried it off with a ! composed face, he was in rvality tilled ! " - 'WrtlTrage and apprehension. What could be the meaning of it? A ? l^??Bhect* signed by Judge Keteile refused rf M bs own bank! Was it a mistake, an j :' .-icc:dent or a deliberate plan: A mis- j ^?ake-it could hardly l>e; there was noth- j "^*?ing ambiguous in the wording of the I check, and Dupee had made ?ure l\vjt fte dateand -alWhe minor details had ; beencorrect ly entered. - The probability j ?was "greater of its being an accident !* .Judge Keteile might have inadvertently i . .overdrawn his account if this were the 1 .case, the matter could be easily rectified. '. fortran the other hand, the third contin- ; .g^cy . remained-that the check had | been stopped by special direction, li that were so, ? meant that Mrs. Keteile j ?had declared war. She had resol ved to ? *defy f.im. '-She fancied, perhaps, that he ! would not Nave the courage to carry out : .-his threat and reveal her intrigue to . . her husband. Well, if that were her idea, she would discover her mistake. ; Ho would reveal her shaine, whatever j . the consequences. to himself. 1 Ie would I ?blast her life; not oniy her husband, but ? ;the whole world should know what she '. thad done; and if ?he suffered imprison '' -, ment for it, at any rate the ?irae would (Come when he would again be free, and -then he could seek her out and taunt lier ! with her ignominy. For time would bring no freedom to her. This bitterness of malice on his part ! wwas partly characteristic of the nature ,of the man; but there was in it an ele ?ment of exceptional animosity. Almost .all criminals who have fallen from a .higher social position lay the responsi- : bility of their degradation at the doer, of ; some person or combination cf circum? stances outside of themselves. So i* was with Dupee, who dated the beginning of -his misfortune from the day when he ' was arrested on the charge of murder by .the father of Jerrold N?ten, Pauline .and her mother were the only living rep? r?sentatives (as he beIieved)of that man , They should suffer a vicarious punish- } .ment So strong, was his desire to see! ?this punishment inflicted that he half ! ?hoped Mrs. Keteile had really played iiim ' false. Thc longer ho thought over the matter, however, the less likely did it ?eera that this could be the case. Wli;;':- : ever she might think as to the probabil? ity of his failing to carry out his threat, the possibility that he would carry it out . -was too serious a onoto in v; te. Rccog- ,' .nizing this, Dupee prepared himself for , either contingency. Ile would go to j Judge Ketelle's office and inform him of the refusal of the check, ns if he supposed lt to be an ordinary business error. If the judge redeemed tho ch?<~k, wei* and good; the matter might stop, for thc : pr?sent at any rate, where it was. if, i on tho contrary, resistance should be offered to his claim, ho would know how .todefend himself. It was about ll o'clock when he raount . ed the steps of the judge's office on Pine street. The rooms wero on the first floor; : there was an -outer ofiice and two or three inner rooms opening into ono an . other. Two or three clerks wei? writing 1 :in the outer room when Dupeo entered. He asked one of them if Judge Keteile ; were within. .Til see, sir,"rep!ie<* the clerk, looking up. m "What name shall I say?** "Say i.lr. Crush wants to see him a .iroment- Mr. John Crush." Tho clerk went mto tho inner room and soon came back with tho request : that Mr. Grush would step inside. Du ,-pee passed through tho door, which was closed behind him. lie found himself in a handsomely furnished parlor, beside J the window of which Judge Keteile sat ! at his desk. The judge turned in his ; . chai*" and asked him to be seated. "I ? ; think you were up at my house the other evening," he remarked. "I recognize 11 ie .name and the face." %5Ton are quite right, judge," replied Dop?e? assuming an easy air, "and it is .CD a matter connected with my visit to on that occasion that ? have ventured J_ XJL 4'PerfectIv*. A check for tho sun eighty dollars. Well?" "Well, there seems to have been sc difficulty or misunderstanding-prc bly the cashier at the bank made sc stupid mistake; but, anyhow, the ch was returned yesterday, marked good.' I thought you would wish know about it." "limn! I am not in. tho habit of h ing my checks returned, certainly." s the judge. "Let me see; on. what br was the check drawn?" "The Battery bank?" replied ?Dunoe "I will tell you how such -a mist; might occur, Mr. Grush," said the jud after-a short pause. "I keep accou at several banka Sometimes ono other of these accounts runs out befoi am aware of it. My wife has a separ account, which is at the Battery bai In writing the check the other evenin may have inadvertently used her ch< book, my own account being exhaust Tho fact that she hail money there woi of course not warrant tho cashier in p; in jr my check. . ? -do not assert that t is the explanation; but it might be." "To be sure; nothing more likely,", joined Du pee. "But, at all events.? check having been returned, I supp* you will have no objection to writi another?" "There would be some either consid ations involved in that, Mr. Grush." s: the judge, bending an intent look at I pee. "May ? ask you, in the first pla* what this payment was for?" "It was for a purchase made by M Ketelle, sir," said Du pee, somewhat cc fused by tliis unexpected question; purchase at-at our store-1 am a sali man there, and"' "What store is it you speak of?" c aianded the judge. "Castellani's, on Broadway." repli Dupee. giving the first name that c curred to him. and feeling a littleunea at the turn of the conversation. "Casteliani, the Jeweler?'* said t judge. "I know the place weJL It w there that the robbery of Mrs. Tunstal pockettiook took place last year." Dupee bit his lips. Dat it was necc sary to carry out his part, and he cou not resist the temptation to aim a Wo at the judge. ".You are quite righ judge," he said, "the robbery for whi< young Percy Nolen was arrested." "Yes. he was arrested for it," returm the judge, gravely; "but it has been di covered. Mr. Crush, that tho robbet .Has the work of another man. Th; man," he added, fixing his eyes upon tl oilier, "is fcnown to the police and wi undoubtedly expiate his crirao. But t return to this check. How does it happe that tiie money wa3 payable to you ii stead of to the company? That seen peculiar." | "Well, you see, I-I have r.n in tere: in thc businessand am authorized to ri ceive payments personally." "Ahl Stili, as the matter, from a p cuniary point of view, concerns the con pany^and not you, it can make nodiife; ence" if" I cause iikjairies.to be made : Castellani's before weting -you anothc check. As I ha ve nopersonal acquaint ance with you. you will perceive th? propriety of this precaution." "I don t regard tl?e matter in tha lignt," answered Dupee. who was begin ning to lose his nerve. "1 am not ac countable to the firni. I sold the goods and 1 must request you to pay me th< money.** There was a book lying on the judge' desk, and at this moment, apparently b] aceident, a movement of his.-.elbo* caused this book to fall heavily to th< floor. "The alfair concerns Mrs. Ketelle mon directly than it does me," he observed "1 will communicate with her, and i she authorizes the payment I will mak< it." At that moment the door into th( outer of?ce opened. "And by the way,' continued the judge, "here is Mrs. Ko telle now. .Wa can s?-tl?e ibis thin; ?-.ere." .It was, in fact. Pauline. lier face wat pale and gea ve., but her eyes spark iee like stars. Dupee ?new not how to in? terpret lier abrupt appearance. Thc look that site bestowed u|>on him did not tend to reassure him. But he summoned ail his. resolution and resolved to tight ii brought to bay. "My dear." said the judge, as lus wife came over to him and stood by his ciiair, "this person tells me that thc cheek 1 gave him at your request has been stopped, and he wants me tc write him another.'' "lt was stopped by my orders," Faid Pauline, turning her eyes again on Du? pee. "The money will not be paid." "Why won't il be paid?" retorted Du? pee. "Do you mean to deny that it is due?" "I owe you nothing." she replied. "Oh! we'll see about that! Do you wish me to tell your husband what it was you bought of me and paid eighty (ioiiars on account?" . "I owe you nothing and sh:;!l pay you nothing." w;is her answer. " You are an imj>ostor and a thief. Your name is not John Grush, but i iorace'Dupee. I have waited for you a long time." "Never mind what my natue is or what I atn! I know what you are and what you have done! And unUis you pay me, here and now, not eighty dol? lars but eight hundred, your husband shall know as much, as ! do!" "Not so loud, sir, if you please." inter? posed the judge. "I don't think you can tell mo anything about Mrs. Ketelle that I do ii--rt already know. But if you think Otherwise 1 am ready to hear voa, and I fancy Mrs. Ketelle will not object" Pauline inclined her head contemptu? ously. "Let bim speak!" she said. "Oh, I'm going to speak-don't make any mistake about tkat!" Dupee ex? claimed, beside himself with mingled fear and rage; for he was wholly unable to account for the security of Pauline's de? meanor. "Fte going to speak, and what lsayshall .be heard not only by your husband, whoiinagines you to be a virtu? ous and respectable woman, but by all New York, or wherever else she may go. I tel! yon. Judge Ketelle, that thesooner you turn that woman into the street the better it ? iii be for your credit and repu? tation! S!ie lias deceived you ever since ?he was married to you! Let her deny it if she can! Let lier deny that sho visits a, fellow-her lover-in his lodgings in Harlem, and drives with him in the park! Let her deny that if she dares! .She meets him every day; he is a younger man than you are. judgt .and better lo- 'Ir? ing, and they langi, at you for an old fool when they are together. And t ? i ? -y are toget her every day. 1 say. thesooncr you kick her into the street tin- belter, or you will have all New York laughing at you! I've got the facts, and l il make 'em known, and prove "em, too!" "Are you prepared to maintain.** said the judge, in a quiet tone, "that there is anytiimg unseemly tn the relations of tho gentleman you speak of ?ind Mrs. Ketelle?" Dunce laughed harshly. "Ask him!" ho returned. "Bring hun and her to? gether and ask them what their relations are!" "I am fortunately abie todo that," answered tho judge, "because the gen? tleman in question happens to be at hand, i will summon him." And step? ping to the door of the inner ?room, ho partly opened it and said, "Come tn." She next moment the figure.of a tall young man appeared cn the threshold and advanced into the apartment, fie waa the very man whom Dupee had seen JL V_> waiting Iiere? What was tue meaning [ ?*~ it all? "Is this the gentleman you speak of?' inquired the judge of Dupee. indicating Che newcomer. "Oh. I suppose they have fooled you i with some clever lie or other," said Du pee, with a snarl. "All the same, what I tell you is the truth; and the world will j believe it, if you don't!" "You seem to know so much, sir," stn- . swered the judge, "that you probably dc j . not need tobe informed that Mrs. Keteilo ? was formerly Miss Nolen, and that she j had two brothers. Ono of them died .from the effect of injuries received mys? teriously, while in tho company of ono Horace Dupee, several years ago. The i other brother, Percy by name, was ac- j cused, a year since, of a robbery at Cas- j teliani's jewelry store. He left New I York and was reported drowned; but the j report turned out to have been an error. He returned to New York about ten days i ago; but Ins presence was not generally j made known, owing to the fact that the j true perpetrator of the robbery had not : yet been identified. The identification has now been made, however, and there- ; .fore tlie necessity of concealing Mr. ! Percy Nolens presence no longer exists." j "Weil, and what has all this rigina- j role to do with me?" demanded Dupee defiantly. "What have I to do with j Percy Noleu?" "I :am Percy Nolen," said, the gentle- | man in question, regarding Dupee with j ,a very .stern expression, "and this lady is my sister. " Dupee saw at once that he had been outwitted and trapped. The check liad been stopped in order to induce him . to j come to Judge Ketelle soi?iee; and it had ; been previously arranged that Mi's. Kc- i telle and Percy were to meet him there j and elf wet his discomfiture. There was ! nothing left for him to do except to re- j . ?tire like tk?.dallied villain in the niele- j drama, muttering, "Foiled! but I will J yet be avenged!" or words to that effect. Du pee, however, failed to grasp the ? dramatic opportunities of the situation; j ? but he said, as he moved towards the j door, "You have been known as a pick- j pocket, Percy Nolen, and it'll stick tc von!" With that he opened the door, and would have gone out of it, had he not been confronted thero by a broad shouldered, athletic gentleman, with a ! ; brown mustache and piercing eyes, who j was accompanied by a dejected person- j age wearing the familiar aspect of Mr. j John ('rush, the only true and genuine j proprietor of that name. . The broad shouldered man. after hand- . tug (irush into- the . room, followed him j and closed the door. "Good morning. | Mrs. Ke?elle and gentle?y.-er.." he said, j cheerfully. "'Well. Horace, you see I ! have a friend of yours here, 'Jack has j been complaining to me of you. He j says you not only stole Iiis name, hut in- j 'fringed his patent . blackmail -scheme, i And so. by way of retaliation..i?e has ? .,been tellings very, ?.?ad tales of you I'm I afraid you are in for a good deal of j - trouble. Horace." ; 'There's no need of making a fuss .nhout this affair, inspector," said F/iipee. assuming a nonchalant air. "There's boen no blackmail that ! know of. It is j true that Judge Keteilo paid me a?w<*r:h- ? jess chock tho other day: but there has ; been no pecuniary transaction, properly j -speaking, and I don't know what this j -man." indicating (?rusls. "is grumbling ! alKiut. 1 know very, little of him." . "He lias the advantage of-you, then." j returned the inspector, "for 'he knows a \ great deal about you. I h.vro been wait- ? lng for you fer a year. I "knew you'd be j hack here, so I didn't bother to disturb you in San Francisco; but i've got that thousand dollar note up at tho of??ce; and i G rush has filled up any little ga ps-in the chain, though we could have done very i well without hint Hold out your i hands!" j The last words were spoken in a voice so di.'Tcrc??l from t!ie good natured han- '. ter t>f the foregoing sentences that Dupee gave a start and mechanically extended : his wrists, and tho next moment the handcuffs were round thom. The mo? ment after that, however, he seemed to j take in the significance of what tho in- . specter had said. He turned and cast a j very malignant glance at G rush. "You will find evidence against me, 1 will you!" ho cried, in a gritting tone. j "You did- that joh on the 'lady in the! jewelry store, and put it off on him," re- j -turned Crush, nodding toward Percy, j. and speaking with ti swagger. "You j ?now it. anti*i'll take my oath to it any. j day. You played a low down game ony me. and that's what you get for it!" W "You'll give evidence that I'm a pick- j ? pocket, will you?" re peated Pupeo, star- j ir:g at the man with a strange expr?s- j sion, half teer and half scowl. "Weil. ! you may do it or you needn't, just as ! you please, for I did rob the woman, and i I don't care who knows it, now! {Jut ! you gave it away too quick. Jack Crush; i this ts th" worst day's work you overdid. ? it won!.] have been worth something to j you to have found out, first, whether I had anyi little stories to toil about you!" The inspector, who had been on the | point of putting an abrupt end to their 1 dialogue, seemed to chango bis purpose j at the last sentence; and the others pres- ! ent involuntarily listened to what might j follow. "You can't tell anything to hurt me!" j -retorted (irush. "I've got my medicine, and I'm going to take it. You can't ' change it." ? "We'll see if I can't. I know some- | thing: i've known it for years-for years, do you hear. Jack G rush! I haven't said anything ?about it: it was toogood a : thing to give away-until the timccame! It was ti whip I could drive you with ; any tim?*, and I kept it tiil 1 should want ! it Little you imagined that 1 have had the whole thing, pat by heart, ever since ; the first month I wasout of thc prisoner's j dock! 1 knew letter than to l>-t you sn-peet Put I've waited tong enough, ! an J von might as well have it now ?is : later,"" "I'l'-ssed if I know what he's chatter- \ lng a!i' ut !" said Crush, addressing the : comoany in general with au air of per- ', plexed innocence. "1 suspect he's. p.no off his head a little. "When 1 left the prisoner's dork, nc- I quitted of murdering Jerrold Nolen." | Dupee-went on, with intense emphasis, ";. i >u ?.. ere one < -f the first to make up to me and sa; that, since societyiliad kicked j me ont. ! v. a ; j:?. tilled hi ?.?eking against s?., ie?;. and living by my wits. Put, all ! the time, if 1 had 1 ? .:. n convicted, you would have !. ? me hang, you hound, . soo:a : than slay a word to rave me! and yet you were the scoundrel who crept up . t<> a drunken man- Hold him, in? spector!" j br:: li. in fact, had suddenly made v. leap at Pupee like n wh'd beast Pur the inspector s hand was stretched out like a fia.*?!? and grasped hun bj th<> back of the Collai' with a.a iron hold The fellow mudeone.tremendous but vam ..??..!-, break l>>i then stood still, shaking all over, but '.kmgerous no longer. 'I he inspeei<?r gave a sharp whistle; a ser- : geant entered the room, and at a nod from his superior had Gp.-sii manacled in a july and stood upagainnthc wall. The inspector straightened his shirt culT and said. '"Come, Horace, make an end of this business, we vant btay herc all the : morning to hear you two scoundrels j abuse each other." "i say." said Dupee, with a sort of ex? cited shriek in his voice, "th:wt after I \ took Jerrold Nolen to the door of .lu's j house and left him, w help tue Co J, ? devi] feh?re came up to him and robbed , him, -and gave bim the blow behind thc 1 ear that killed him! I sa}' it, and I can j prove it! And when he feels the rope ; abcvt Iiis neck, let him remember that it j was Hereto Dupee put it there!" "Take them out, sergeant," said the inspector, abruptly; "1 will bo at the j office presently. They're a nair of them, ; and, to my thinking, hanging is too j good for either of them!" Tho little audience which had been" in- j Voluntary spectators of this violent and j ugly scene drew a breath of relief when ! the door closed behind the two convicts, j It was a long time before the nightmare M impression wore off. "That lust turn was unexpected," f observed the inspector, deprecatingly, j "It wasn't on my programme. I j. think Dupee probably told the truth i about it. You remember, Miss Nolen, I ? always doubted his having committed thc greater crime. But on the whole I think we may congratulate ourselves on ' having made a very^good (?nd of the af- j fair. You will r.ot have :to return to j Harlem, Mr. Nolen,. unless you wish to. j And, on the other'hand, wrien you go ; back to Mexico I fancy .you .will find no i difficulty in carrying with you all the j guarantees, social or business, that you i want." I "Thanks to you, inspector," said tho ; young man, with feeling, grasping tl*o I officer by the hand. "Oh, no; that is where your thanks be- ,' ?ong," the latter returned, bowing toward ? Pauline with a smile. "She deserves most of the credit for the successful is? sue of this affair. No sister, 1*11 make i bold to say, ever stood by a brother so j faithfully as sho has by you. I have j done little besides back her up now and j then; and, if I hadn't, I believe she j would have done the whole thing alone j by herself!" and evading further thanks j and praises the chief detective mad o a ? comprehensive salute to the company ! and vanished from the roora. "lie's what I call a man!" said Percy. "And a geaeral!" added tho judge. Paulino said in a whisper, "God bless him!" ..Judge Ketelle.and his beautiful wife continue to live in New York, and now j that the shadow, is lifted from them they j aro tlie sunny center of a charming so- i ciety. Mrs. Nolen lives with them, in 1 tho enjoyment of a serene old age. j Percy returned to Mcxico.and is still I living there, having* become quito j wealthy; and-his: betrothal is reported to . tho daughter of one of tho chief men in I the government. Mrs. Valentine Martin . is believed to l>o in .England, intriguing, j without much prospect of success, for ; tile possession of her late husband's es- ; tates. Dupee is behind thc bars; Grush j contrived to cheat th* gallows. In- j spector Byrnes is iiard atwork, but hard ; work agrees with him. TOE END. i AUDB'BROuKK. I'll never d> > you wrong for your own sake. -All's WeU That EuJs Well L Lydia could not help wondering why ' on earth Addenbrooko should be so aux- ? ious to marry her. "She was standing at the window, her j eyes mechanically following the famil- : iar, insignificant figure of the professor i as he plodded down the gravel walk to I the gate; and when he ha?l passed from j view she sat down in tho nearest chair .' and continued her reflections, it was ! very strange. She hud no love to give I lum, and had told him so, quite frankly: : he must know, as every one knew, of ; thai miserable atfair with Lawrence j Fleming: was he not Fleming's intimate ? friend, the last person who had seen him : before he ivcnUo Africa? Moreover, her glass had taken to re? flecting a woman who was sad and pale and old before her time, surely not the ? woman with whom a man would be ex? pected to wish to begin his life. When we Itave become to ourselves a . daily barden it dd so I ia rd. te rea? ize that j our presence can be desired of others. And yet she had been aware of Adden- ? brooke's devotion from the days of the ; good but obstinate little boy. with a taste ; for chemical experiments, to those of the i modest young man. who lurked unob- j trusively. in doorways for the purpose of ! sayipg good night toiler, and was always | ?at hand ?to-jill up vacancies. She Lad ! been aware of it, but had given it little ; hoed; now. in her loneliness, her sorrow, j the thought of that devotion moved her : strangely. She had seen herself drifting on to ? middle age. haggard, loveless, unloved, ? the sorriest of spectacles, the emotional : woman whose emotions have wrecked j her. Adden brooke and Addenbrooke's i love interposed themselves like a shield ; between her and her. fate. j She had given him no answer, but she ; knew by now what her answer would be j The door opened, and Mrs. Grey, her j mother, came into the room. j She sat down in sil-nee-a chill, cern- j fort less presence - und regarded her! daughter from the distance. These two womer, lived together with- j oat profit or pleasure to either. Mrs ' Grey was capable of making sacrifi?es. ; but she lacked the priceless gift of home ? making; while Lydia, on her part, chafed I beneath the restrictions of a relationship ] in which neither affinity nor affection I bore a part. "So it was to bo Joli any Addenbrooke j after all," reflected Mrs. Grey; "a Gower ! street professor of no /particular distinc- ! tii-m Well. Lydia was gettmg on; and. ; if a girl means.to marry,.she had better I manage to do so before she is five-and- j twenty. And there had been nothing, it j eeeined, in that affair with young Flem- ! ing." Mrs. Grey was disappointed, lt j is true that Fleming's father kept a glove i show in Regent street, whereas the Ad- i denbrookes had been gentle folks for j, gem-rations; but nobody minded that sort j of thifcg in these days. Lawrence FI. n ing went everywhere, did everything: . his new book.from Africa had made bim , more of a hoc than ever; hence hew.-;:; : more to be desired as a husband than poor Johnny, who went nowhere to speak of. and did nothing but.hu work. Lydia rose slowly and wem over to-the writing table. As she took up her pen tho whimsical thought struck her t!) it. when thc other children had carried their pence to the sweet shop. Johnny had always preferred t-< in vest bis capital in mysterious corn poun?ls at the chemist's. A boat smile hovered about ber lips as she wrote. : When the lotter was Itnishcd, sho laid i h< r head a moment on the-desk ard shut . lier eyes. The ?-ld dream, from which she w;js turning forever, had rushed with ?Titel vividness into ber conscious hess: ]:..!: ?it <]'.?.'\ o'. ?T. ?-~ war-KI y':???> i f?elyjt'-??it-a l?oU. es Im utoiil s? ?c:: sein She rose, stiff and cold, and went ovei to her mother. Lydia was a graceful creature, tall. slight, faintly colored, some p. opie j thought her beautiful, others coull see .no beauty in her i\ hate* er. "Mamma." she said in her strange. pathetic voice, "Professeur Addenbrooke has asked me to marry him, and I baie j written to say 'yes.' " IL Addenbrooke was spending tho even? ing as usual with Lydia at St. Johnls ? Wood. They were alone 'together. Mrs. j they having discreetly -retired to lier j own room, and the tj'k between Lkein ! flowed with the ea?o cf btimixy and af- j It was nov,- throe weeks since ^heir gagemont, and already something of denbrooke's calm happiness was he ning to oe rcilected in Lydia's face. - appreciated, what only women, can prec?ate, the consciousness of mal another's happiness by the mere fae her presence. That.is, I think, a pl ure too subtle for the masculine pal Now, as sha. laid her hand lightly on she enjoyed, as ??t were, a reflectio: the delight which she'know herself ti conferring by the act. "'Johnny." she said, "will you let toll you to-night what I have alvv meant to tell you? about myself an that-other person.*' She finished phrase, thus vaguely, not doubting that /Vddenbrooke had mentally roun it elf with greater accuracy; some! her lips refused to utter the nam< Lawrence Fleming. "My dear," he answered gently, " me nothing-*! bier. distresses you. I dc want to know. I know you have b very unhaj^py? but one day. I assure y you are going to be happier-than evei She smiled half sadly. "Johnny, mc tell you. I think 1 ought. Perns when you have heard, you will want go away from me-from a woman v has been so cruelly humiliated." Ile laughed, drawing closer to her the fire light. "Since '.hat's it. Lydia, perhaps yo better tell me.'" l?e saw that she would never rest she had disburdened her mind ?if thee unhappy tirings, about which ?xTsoas he had small desire'to'leam. They were so infinitely touching, tin poor women and their love stories: th anxious interpretation of looks and wo: and sm iles; their pathetic, careful gath ing up of crumbs so carelessly scatter* So Lydia, with half averted face, gan her story in the strange, uncert; voice which, from his boyhood upvac had had power to thrill John Add? brooke to the inmost depths of his heil "It is nearly a year ago," ?he beg; "at the Meados' place in Warwickshi I arrived on March 23, anil stayed week. It began from the beginnit When I walked into the drawing roo where he was standing by the tea tah it seemed that 1 had walked into a m and strange and wonderful world, lived in that world for a we?:, and it w like a lifetime. Looking back, it asto ishes me how every one else at once c cepted the situation. Then I no mo questioned it than I question tho risi: cf the sun. The day came when I w to go, and he had said nothing defin? to me. I, living tn my fool's paradis was neither surprised nor afraid, last, an hour before I left, he took me his arms, yes. Johnny, yes-he .took r in his arms and kissed my lips, and tc me that he would fellow mo the ne day." "That's enough," said Addenbrook in a low voice; "he was a brute. Let < hear no more about him." "There is no more to hear," she a swered with bitterness; "that.is-the er ef my story. A week later I heard I had gone abroad." Addenbrooke put in's arm about Lyd and, drawing lier head to his shonidc stroked lier hair backward and forwai with his kind hand. lier recital had pained him. Ile kno the perfidity of his sex, but this partie lar offender had gone beyond all reco, uizeu limits; limits which, in his ow person, Johnny had always refused ? recognize. The thought of the miser inflicted on his proud, sensitive. passion are.Lydia made him sick with anger ai1, ?speechless with sympathy. Ile rose ; last and, buttoning up his coat, tried i speak in tones of reassuring cheerfulness "By the by, Lydia, Fleming has cou back. Vet: rememuer Lawrence Flee ing? They are making quite a lion ? him on account of his .neiv book. Ho just the sort of man to enjoy being lioi ized." Lydia looked at him, speechless, an ho went on: "I expect that he will bo turning up: my rooms-in the course of a day or twe Ile left a portmanteau with my landlad in.*fore he sailed. Good night, my ow dear giri." And ho held .out both hi hands. Lydia looked at him sharply and wit rising vexation. She had found cut dong ago that sui: tlo hints were quito thrown away upc: Johnny: but surely, surely ho mus know thc truth. Either he was tho most consuracsat actor or the densest person living. lt was impossible to entertain serious ly the idea of Addenbrooke as a cousum mate actor. III. Addenbrook? had rooni3 in Gowc street/, a sitting room and a bedroom, (ii vided .by folding doors. The who'1 apartment had bi gan lifo as what hous agents cali a spacious double draw?n room, aral boru yet tho marks of it former state of existence. The mantelpiece, which now support ed a host of bottles, variously shapec anti filled, was of v. hite marnie,-heavily carved-summoned up to the imagina tive mind visions of gilt clocks andean dlesticks under glass shades. The walU,-.imng with white waterer, paper, .vere divided.iutojpanels by stripe tit'gold leading, anti from the-ceiling s shrouded chandelier depended from ;i twelfth cake dike decoration tn white and gold plaster. Addenbrooke had drawn his writing table, with the lamp on it. close ?to thc fire, -and. had settled down to a lons night's work. It was the evening fol? lowing Lydia's-confession, an?l tie was too busy to get up to St. John's Wood lie sighed at the thought of tIiis, then plunged into the pile of papers, which ? not only covered the tabb-, but over? flowed into several neighboring chairs. Ile had not been long at work when the door was flung open, and a man en? tered ibo room. "Still in these gilded halls. Johnny!" ?said a voice, which was not quite so drawling nor so full of quiet humor a.-? the speaker seemed to intend "Fleming, by ali that's wonderful!" cried Addenbrooke, rising with extended hand. Thc new eisner was a largo, heavily built young man. with, dar!; bair, and a complexion, originally florid, burnt crim? son l-y t!i" African sun Ht- was distinctly handsome, though the lower ??art of the face?.was a trifle heavy, and there was a lac!; of finish a?' at tho ea ra and nostrils. ".Sit down." said Addenbrooke. clear h. .. a < h.>:r, and resuming his rwn seat. "Kxaminatio.ns, ugh!" Fleming dicked willi his I nge huger nt-the pa pi-rs ?>n the desk "If it's not your ow n exams., it's Othci pcopk-*j?? poor'old Johnny!" Fleming bad the greatest contempt foi examinations, in which, indeed, he-had conspicuously failed to distinguish him eolf": the ?ess braham Addenbrooke hav? ing a eoiumonpiaoe knack getting "do the first class, which is niter tho way with your dull, plodding fellows Th?*se two meu had Iv?'ti friends, a'ter f? fashion, since their first tenn at the .university, hi those days Fleming had been a raw, unhappy, sell conscious. \ ming man. subject li miserable, hideous Lits.of shynef-s and secretly tisha med of the patena! glove shop Now, perhaps, he-was.too.foni! of'talk? ing about the glove shop.of. drawing jo? cose comparisons ?between himself and a .well known glover's .son of Stratford-on Avon; and the only remaining mark of lits shyness was a certain emphasis of self confidence. Addenbrxxjke's affection for <iays than anything ehz, though John il must ! o owned, was -uncritical, a like many persons, imposed a far less vere standard of conduct on his fr?e than on himself. "Where do yon hang out?" asked . denhrooko. gathering together the spised examination papers. "I lia ve beer. -down at Twiekenh with ruy people. Can't stand muri that, -yon know I am looking out chambers somewhere Bond street \v and Mrs. Baxter is going *x> . put mo here for a night or two." "Oh. good. Voa knot?. Sirs. Bas has that portmanteau of yours?" "Yes; sile's fetching it now,'! belie from* :he in m ber room. There arose papers in ii r want to look at to-nighl Fleming leaned hack in lus chair, eyelids drooping moodily, as they ha trick of doing: then he said dise tent edly: "Haven't you got anything to tel fellow? You London people are all same. One goos away and lives w BeeJnsa.lifetime-Htsso cram full of perienet-and when one gets back. ; a soul remembers if it was last wee k ..last year they met you at the Jenkinsc din mu- party." "From what I hear, you've no cassi complain, Fleming." "Oh. of course, one's pestered w invitations from a lot of silly won one never heard of!" grumbled the n lion; "but isn't there anything in i shape of news?" "Well." fia: I Addenbrooke. slow "there is one piece of news, but I do know that it's interesting. 1 am thiaki of getting married." Addenhrooke had never boer, a s man; he was on iv very modest, and had not accustomed hrs'friends to ttl an interest in his affairs. Fleming opened his eyes full and stat hfs friend ai tho face. There was alw? something startling in his appearar under these circumstances: perhaps I cause his eyes wore so rarely showr perhaps because of some quality in t eyes themselves They were curioui bright cut? vc ?y brown-not a bia manque, but a beautiful, unusual brow Looking at them, it was easter to re izo tho power, such as it was, whi Lawrence Fleming possessed over i fellow creatures. "Addenbrooke," he said, leaning f( ward and speaking with sudden i tensity, "as you value your peaco mind, have nothing to do with womer Ho fiting himself hack, laughing a I tie, and letting fall in's eyelids. In a fe minutes he hurst into a fierce tiru against the whole female sex, taking A fctsnbroeke's announcement merely a* text. Even Johnny was disappointed at tl lack of interest on the part of his fr?en hut remembered having heard that La1 renee had been hard hit tiefere1 tte we to Africa-that nothing less, indeed, th; a broken heart had sent him forth those distant shores. Then, before Addenbrooke knew wh was happening, Fleming plunged in tho very heart of his own particuL grievance. "It was'last year," Ito said, "at a cou .try house It began from the momei she came into the room. I don't preter that she was the. first; but it was diffe ent, somehow. I am not even cure th; she was good looking, hut there w; something about her-if you cared at a well, you cared! She stayed a wcei and at thc end of thc time i told he more or less directly, that I loved her. was to see her the next day in Londo] The next day, as it happened, I was pn vented by my mottler's serious ilines I wrote and told her this, begging her t fix a day for my visit. She made r? .reply, and four days later I called at tli house to bo told she was out of towt Tho next day-1 accepted tho offer of Th Waterloo Place Gazette, and went cutt Africa. I'm sure.1 don't .know why cared. She wasn't worth it; she ha given mo every encouragement-ha even allowed me to kiss her. I suppos there was a richer fellow on hand, or on whose father didn't happen to keep shop!" . Fleming: rose, shrugging, his shoulden Addenbrooke remained silent. The voie of Mrs. Baxter, announcing that 11 portmanteau was in lawrence's room . came as a relief.to both. "By the by." said Johnny, -itt a lov voice, tis the ether felt for his keys, "al this took place at the Meades* in War wickshire, from March tho 2iS:ii on warris?" "Oh," answered Lawrence, with som ? vexation.rpj?usmgon his way tothedoor .^suppose you know all about itdiketb? rest of the world!" And he went fro:; the room. iY. Add-mbrookeT.mininer' behind, pacing th:? ridiculous, incongruous apartment while an unwonted storm of emotio: raged within him. The parts of the puzzle lay, fitted to gethcr. in his hand: it only remained foi liim to ste?) forward and proclaim thc solution of a most common place enigma An mctlicicnt |>osiman, a careless house maid-on some such undignified tri!h had the whole complication hung; Ilk?, many another complication before it. No doubt, sooner or later, the missing clew would come to light, when he him? self had made: i ts discovery of no import? ance whatever. Had he been of a melodramatic turu of mind. Addenbrooke might lia ve. laugh? ed aloud at the-irony of the situation. His own dream.was shuttered forever: but of that for tho moment lie scarcely thought. What he saw most clearly was this: that, by his own act. he mus: make Lydia over into the hands of a .mau un? worthy of her-unlikely to make her happy; .to think of whom in connection with her seemed contamination. Put tlie maa whom Lydia loved withal! There was the sting, tho shock, that for the moment took away his breath, and made him pause, pale, motionless, in his walk. Then suddenly, before the modest and uncritical mind of Addenbrooke dashed in vivid colors the image of two men of himself and his friend. lie saw Law rv-ice Fleming with his showy, unreliable cleverness, his nu :a! coarseness, the man stood before him re? vealed in all his second rater.ess. Ai.J he saw himself. John Adden? brooke. as he had always been, in the dignity of his irreproaokful fife-of hi->. honest, patient lal" >r. He looked on this picture and on that, and knew each for what it was worth Then ensued in tho peaceful iireast o? Addenbrooke a terrible war of thoughts and emotions. Life, winch had hitherto been a simple matter enough, a mere case of doing your de' y a tal minding vom urn !>::.i ra had assumed a complexion oi erue? difiieuity. Ano' vet lie kn< v: that the move oh viora aspect ol' th? matter va.-, not a Complicated one. Lydia no more ludonged lo hun than a d>>g .v.'ho had followed hun home nod had be? i: claimed by i;-; master. Ke.was U'uiud, ir common honor, te -reveal the fa* ts. of which lie had acci dentally become |H.?ssess< d. Should he go to Lydia and sa) : "This man. whon:-you prefer so infinitely te myself, is far less worthy of you than L He has m>t led a bad life. n:> men go. but he has not-led a goori one." Men of the world do not do such things, but then ! Addenbrooke vas not a man cf the , And if he had ?:O other Fight over 'iydia. had he not that of his omi !iie long tove and her three treckst iterance ot il? Theaoor opened to'admit Lawrenc-3 Fleming. Ho had changed his coat, and bore ti handle of papers and a pipe in hio riana. "Any tobacco?" he said, taking thc .empty seat at the writing table. Addenbrooke nodded toward a jar on the mantelpiece, continuing Ins troubled promenade across the room. it was dawning, painfully, bat surely, on his mind that Iiis hands were indeed tied; that it only remained tor Lydia to choose between them. "But it is I who would have marte her happy!" thought poor, obstinate Johnny "Any matches?" said Fleming, with his fingers in the tobacco jar. Johnny made no answer, and the ether fumbled in the pocket of his e< at "By George!" Tin's time Addenbrooke was-roused, and carne over to the table. "What's up?" lie said. Fleming pointed in siler.eetoa stamped and addressed envelope lying at hts feet. Johnny picked it up. with a dull sense cf relief that malters had been moreor less taken out of his hands, 'lie" knew, ' before he looked at it.-that :?t -was .ad? dressed to Miss Grey, and that-it was Fleming's customary carelessness in the ' matter of posting his letters which had wrought the mischief. Lawrence was much, excited. "It had j slipped behind tlie lining of tho pocket! ; 1 have just taken tito coat from my port? manteau. O, that poor girl! that poor girl! what must she nave thought of roe all this time?" Addenbrooke faced 'him suddenly.. "Do you Intend.," he said, in a'low voice, "endeavoring to repair the mischief?" lt is possible that he had a low opinion "of'Fleming's constancy. "1 will go to her to-morrow!" cried Lawrence. A sudden pang of personal anguish, an intolerable sense of bereavement, shot through Addenbrooke. Ile thought: "After all. perhaps, lam nothing- but a jealous devil who begrudges my girl her happiness." Aloud, he said: "There may bc diffi? culties at first. In fact. Miss Grey is en? gaged to be married." Fleming rose, with an exclamation. The two men stood facing one .-mother; Lawrence, flushed, excited: Johnny, pale, with tense eyes ?md nostrils. "Lydia engaged! Lydia! Tho women are all alike. Could she have no patience. 1 no trust, but she must needs throw her? self away in a fit of piqueen some fellow who is not worthy of her!" "She is engaged to me!" cried Adden? brooke, with sudden passion. "And, by Heaven, i think ii is 1 who am toogood tor lier!" The passion of such men as Adden? ?brooke is a terribie thing. Fleming quailed before it. He gath? ered up his papers in silence and went from tlie room. V. Mrs. Grey swept up to Addenbrooke as he stood with his hand on the knob of thc drawing room door. "Oh, Professor Addenbrooke, I am so sorry," she cried. "So am I," he answered, curtiy. It was two days after the events of the last chapter. Lydia had made her choice, and cow, at her own request, was to take farewell of Addenbrooke. As she came forward, with flushed checks and sinning eyes, to meet him, it struck him that she resembled the picture of a Bacchante he had seen somewhere. A Bacchante in a tailor made gown, with the neatest of-cuffs and collars poor Johnny! "I wished," she said; when their greet? ing was over, "to thank cou with all nr. . heart." "And I," he said, "wish to tell you this. Do not think that I merely took advantage of you. I believed that I could make vou hannv-I believe it still." Sine smiled sadly, and Addenbrooke ?broke into a sort of laugh. .''Oh, Johnny, Johnny!" she cried. .He had no intention of being pitied, even by Lydia. "Don't distress yourself about me, Lydia," he said; "I have had my chance. Perhaps I ought toidi you that I do not think you Ita ve chosen the better man." They talked a little aimlessly: then Addenbrooke held out both his.hands in farewell. It was Lydia, who. drawing , him towards lier, kissed his lace for tie j last time. j She knew, as he stood there facing ?w. i that he was passing out of her life for- : ever. For the moment hr- seemed trans? figured, no h riger insignificant; a tender i but inscrutable presence-'pitying, ?rom- j cal. Some inarticulate voice in her bea:: j cried out to him not to leave her: uncoil- ; sciousjy she put out lu r hand, and thea ; lie was gone. Not long after Fleming was with lier, j He had his arm around her waist and : was kissing her lips as Addenbrooke had ! never kissed them. - Amy Levy in .Pel- ' era v i;?" no xor sf FI*;;?: VAV i.ex.i i;. Krww?n?J rh?! ?.:.???'.? .' 'M ?.f ..!.?< ie-l i'l .' ! ' v. :e?'l flu- fiot sanje.? of *-<?j!?unrpM?.ti bn-krn in H week, iv.: lien-liv g.i nra i; ie? Pr Acke: . ?!?:??!-?I Ftemoiv .'..!' C?-n>a?i i??u?n, i?'t will u ?'.ml rh? u.oticv asl .*?h??l?uy. take :.: ;i> r ?i:reeti.i??s. .un? d.> v. : ??.".ii "ur iUitctiitisl carree: S .Li Iv j. t. W. 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