The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-12-03 00:00:00

HAGLEY STOOK SALE.
EVE' lz .1 3107)A Y.
1 IHE u=ual Supply of CATULL, SHEEP,
PIGS.
TRI3. PEURENS, & WOOLDRIDGE
PUBli..re NOTICES-

ONEY.—UNION DEPOSIT BAN (Reg.), No,
1 17. RING WILLIAM STREET, Cbarir g Cro,
LONDON, W.C.
EeTAELlsnup 1567. CA PITA 1.225,000 ; BF:SPATE
y £120,000
ADVANCES made without dedrctions for sl‘ort or
;,.ng r eri:•ds, in rum. of £'2o to i 2 (.00 en persona
(urily furniture. Et.ock•in-trE de, reversions ; also deeds
at FIVE PKII. CENT . without mortgage
from one to ;e years. Prospec!uses gratis,
p it fre. no tippii,ati.n (pers-nal v.sit preferred,)
41),.C1AL ATTENTI 0,; is requested to tLe follow-
Ir. treat secret of ho-rowing money is to know a
lvtnk to go to in the hour of need. Before ap-
ohestion is made or fees paid to loan offices, ask your
\i'e tor or env auctioneer in Kngland or Wales, know-
' Al. honti who wiit imiliecii&t.ly tell you you are
w;!11 a bona 6,43 bank, ES'IABLISHED 1867.
r you calm- t obtain an ad-tauee here you can rest
A.sured you Cannot get there soy other bank, as ar-
't`g,,ments are made for carrying out every genuine
• va. •re. and tall mcnoty fir lent, without any
• ductions, , clear days from application.
pn pris,o. e.basin; a INT) large capital at c •nomand.
an I;•,ni, et a much lower rate of interest then any other
~..53.1.0n hark in the United Kingdom.
I. I IST LETTER of acplicaton immediat.ly attended
1.. Df-tauce noi jec•. A gentleman sent direct from
the hank to catry nut al r.dvai.ces. CURRENT AC-
CoUNTA OPP.NED. Int,rest allowid 41 per cent.
upon deposit., subj• et to 14 days' notice.
EDWARD JOHNS, Manager.
WORTH A GUINEA A BOX,
BEECIIAM'S PILLS
A RE admitted by those
•\•..
1-1 sands to to' worth above
a GUINEA A Box for Billions
•' '. and Nervous Disorders
such as wind and P •
th ain at
e Stomach. Sick Head-
-I'l PATENT aclie. (iiddiness. Fulness
Urf▪ • and Swelling after meals
"?. P LL S. ictt Di nine-s and Drowsiness,
Co'd Chlls, Flushings of
•t 4 —vat. loss of Appetite,
bc,tness of Breath, Cos-
‘.)
..e47 tivcr ess, " curvy. Blotches
the Skin. Disturbed
• •
Sleep. Frightful Dreams
and ulinervous and 'I rem-
blit g Sensations, &C , &C.
The first dose will give retief in twenty minutes.
• o fiction, for they live done it in thousands
or cases the Proprietor of she Pills having obtained
pent ,•nee) a Patent for thum. he ohailenges the
wboie ; to produce a medicine equal to them for
r.,111 vi, , e ab,ve-nerned cOnipla•nts. and restoring
par;‘, to ?mows end lasting health.
Eve.:, ',utterer is earnestly itivite to try one box of
at it Pile and they will be ackinnwledged to be.
WORTH A GUINEA. A 1101.
females of all ages these Pills are invaluable, as
, • few doses of them carry off all 'gross humours, open
ill let uctions, and bring a, out all that is required.
No tenn,le should be sii,out thew; There is no remedy
To bet. nod to etiti,l BE , ULT I.LLs for removing
auy obstruction Or irregularity • f tine system. If taken
according to the directions given with each box', they
'ail. soon resto.e females of all egos to sound and ro
tam.
halth-
1-or a week Stomach, impaired digestion, and all dis-
orders of the liver, they act like "DlAotc," and a -few
doses will be found to work wonders upon the most
iturrtant orga; a in the human machine. • They
strengthen the whole muscular ystem, restore the
bp•lotit complexion, bring back the keen edge_,. of
appetite, and itru.;,e into action, with the BOESEBUD
of
health, the whole fly sical o ergy.Of the human' fraine.
These are "FACTS avinitted by thousands embracing
all classes df Society, and one Of t:, e best guarantees to
the N er,ous and Del:,litated is, BEECHAM'S' PILLS
bay, the largest sale of any Patent Medicine in the
Beecham's Magic Cough Pills.
As a reit,e43' for Coughs in 1;i-floral, Asthma., Diffi-
culty in Pie-thiug -lioitriess of Breath, 'lightness and
cliptersiok of th Chest. ‘4llreezing. Etc., these Pills
'Laud unrivalled, and anyore labouring under any of
the ebove complaints, need only try One Box to prove
that they are the best ever offered to the public for
Aqhmatic and Consumptive Coughs; Hoarseness and
Oppression of the Chest. They speedily remove that
lense of oppicession and Difficulty of Breathing which
nightly deprive the the patient of rest. They give.
*nest instant relief and comfort to those afflicted with
ti.,e above t.letressing and, when neglected, dangeroua
Cauip:aintas. Let any person troubled with any of the
sbove complaints give BeeCliani's Cough Pills a
'
The most • violent Cough will a a short time be
astuoved.
CAnirtolg.The pnblic are requested to notice that
Ole words. "LEECHAM'S PILLS, :3t, Helen's," are on
t be Government Stamp affixed to each box of the Pills
not; on, they are a forgery.
Prepared on2y, and sold IN holesoe and retail, by the
rtiprietor, T. Beecham, Chemist, St. Helen's
Lancashire, ii boxes at is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each. S,n
Post free for 16 or 36 stamps.
8o1(1 by all Druggists and Patent Mediciae Dealers
trA the United Kingdom.
Directions are given with each box.

gEMIGBATION TO QU ENS-
LAND.
FZMALE DOMESTIC SERVANTS are in grea
demand, and receive T*gee varying f:Nitn MO to £5O pe
annum with board and loiging Applicants must be
between 17 and 35 years of age, and of good character.
Free passages are granted by steamers from Blackwall.
London, every fortnight on payment of £1 f,r ship kit.
For forms of application apply to
THE AGENT-GrENERAL VOR QUEENSLAND,
1, Westminster Chambers,
Victnia Street. London, S.W

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AND
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Borrowers own convenience. Strictest-privacy observed
in all cases. Borrowers may rely on being fairly treated
with at this old established office,
• CENTRAL LOAN Co.,
13, Temple'Stre3t,
BIRMINGHAM.
FOR SALE.
GOOD FITTED:OT .EATING, Polished Birch,
3 TABLES to Match. Suit Smoke Room or Club
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Cradley Heath. •

HIGH-GLASS PIANOS,
Organs and Harmoniums,
400 to select from,
25 on View in Ground Floor Windows
Bargains - Cash or Monthly Payments
wi it. to day for Illustrated Price List,
Post Free
JOSEPH RILEY
25, Constitution Hill,
J3IPIELING-1-I.A.Mili
Etablished 36 yoars, at Con3titutioniliiil.
NO OTHER ADDRESS.
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FISHING BAIT.'
RED CHING."—This celebrated Chinese
Allurement receive:l first prize In Fisheries
Exhibition Will keep for years. Salt and Fresh-
water fish attracted from a long distance in large
.numbers by its peculiar edour and colour, take the
bait voraciously. Wholesale 8s per dozen; single
packets, post paid, is 2d. One packet will take
bushels of ash. Dr. Evans Importer,lll, Shirley.
Park- road, Southampton.

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AND ARTIFICIAL TEETH,
By a combination of two of his latest inventions,
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Is enabled to fit artificial teeth PAINLESSLY, without
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life-like in appearance, and can be adjusted, without
any injurious wires, from 3s 6cl per tooth, and
from 20s a complete set (guaranteed). Re-
pairs whilst waiting at a trifling cost. Consultation
and every infortyation FREE DAILY, from 9 a.m.
to 6 pm., Saturdays till 3 p.m„ at
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(FACING CHANCERY LANE) W.C.
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SHIPLEY SLIPPER, gratis, post free on application

_ - -
I CURE Flirs;,i
When I say cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a
time and then have them return again. I mean a radical cure.
I have made the (litiftSt of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING
SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure
the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for
not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treati,c and a
Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Address in full.
It costs you nothin.- for a trial, and I will cure you. Address
Ds. H. G. ROOT, g, Flom Tree Ct., Farringdon-st., Loudon.'

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.40, KIDDERMINSTER-STey
STOTIRBROGE.
MRS. GEORGE #. FIELD
Begs to inform the ladies of Stourbridge and the vicinity
that she has comet) resident the';tboVe; address, and is
PREPARED TO RECEIVE'ORDERS FOR
11ANTLE IRKING
Being confident that she can give perfect satisfaction in
STYLE AND .FIT.
TIMOTHY JONES A, Go
WHOLESALE AND MANUFACTURING PLAIN
' AND FANCY STATIONERS' ckei:' &e.
The Largest and most Complete ' Stock of
GENERAL AND FANCY STATIONERY,
• CUT TISSUES, &c. &a., in the Midland Counties.
PHOTO and SCRAP ALBUMS. PURSES, BIBLES
PRAYER BOOKS. CHURCH SERVICES, &c., &c.
BIRTHDAY & WEDDING CARDS
THE TRADE MOST LIBERALLY DEALT WITH.
11 & 12, EDGBASTON STREET
IRM IN Gil A M.
, WHOLESALE DEPOT' POE
CHEISTIAS
(110AL3E11313M
BOOKS NOW READY FOR SKI:I:MON
NEW SCRAPS AND BOOKS.
SPECIAL SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
WOOD BRACKETS.
fancr' Money Boxes. Dralarh, Boards
and Men, Chess,Dominoes,Games, 4c,
rlaying Cards,
cHRIsTmAs cmin
LJUI
WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION, TO THE
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AND ALL THE
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SHOW ROOM, WITH SPECIALITIES FOR THE
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NEW AUTUMN AND WINTER ,
GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY.
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RIBBONS,
EMBROIDERY,
CORSETS,
LADIES'
AND
CHILDREN'S
SILK AND WOOL WRAPS
AND SHAWLS,
Newest materials for ladies'dresses
Dressmaking in all its branches.
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LURE OF DEAFNESS.
,NOISES IN THE EARS.'
v. E. J. SmvsnTox invites sufferers to send for his
I •,k showing the disease and the means of cure. Post
6d., with letter of advice if case can be stated.
I eral Buildings; Ludgate Circus, LOndon. • Eree
.Julfations daily.

TPabES-ItIRNS ADDIIE.E!'.;
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Thu, excruciating•pai. :s
quickly relieved and cold
u a fk•vv days by tiiiii cele-
GOUT rated Medicine.
Thole Fills require no
restraint of dict)-luring?:.,n,..
use, and are ,N,rtain to pre-
vent the diseatie Nita:ling
as y vital pert.
PIIALS• Sold by ail Chunitatr, at
Is. 14(1. and 728.51ti,t*r box

ORIGII

REATING'S COUGH toZENGES.
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KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.
KEATIN-G'S COUGH LOZENGES.
KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.
Over $O years age a eelebrated PhYsicis,n, after a
lengthy successful practice wrote the prescription
from which these Lozenges are made. Being
recommended from one patient to another, th,re
arose a considerable demand; now they have by
far the largest sale threugheut the wo, Id of any
sirtlilex Medicine and are unrivelledin the cure of
cough and bronchial troubles. Sold everywhere
in tins 13id. each.

ripHE SUBSTITUTE FOR MHZ MANNA CAKE
CASTOR OIL. BEN- 1. is an eticient Worm
NE TTE'S MANNA CAKE, Cake. Children take it as a
price 14d.. each (not a patent Sweetmeat.
medicine). One Cake equals It is perhaps the most
half-an-onuce of Castor Oil, suitable aperient known
without its griping ‘nd sub- for use during pregnancy.
sequent constipations. It has Order from Chemists
a mild but certain actin. It only or Post Free, 3
is mainly sugar flavoured with for 6d. ; 6 for lid ;12
liquorice juice, for 1 9d.; and 36 for 49
From sole Agent. Mr,
11. B' nd, chemist, 7i ,
High lsreet. Stourbridge,

NERVOUS DEBILITY, &ITS CURE
TAT ,;11.h e
y' 0 I?! Smo f tliGeaunidde CoOn Ut
hN S EOLI
ject am/ Obligations of Marriage, the Causes and Self-
rare of 2.l.;orvous Diseases, Loss of Energy, Dimness of
Sight, &c., with Instructions how t,) acquire health and
Vigour, and avoid unhappy unions, sickly offsprin gs,
,•xtisiasti ni, and preniatnra old age, &v. Sent free for
two stamps, to pay postage.
ADDRESS, SECRETARY, WELLINGTON HOUSE, 7, TANI.
sTocE Sr., BEDPORD 6‘4,; LowDoN,

IMPORTANT NOTICE.
1.-Al I D ' S
CELEBRATED
OTGAiii STORES
92;••• I/lUff STREET,
S TO URBRIDGE
•
:he Proprietors hart rci4h pleasurertin
announcing that they:bare been
appointed 50.413 AGENTS
for Stonrbridge for the
sale of the celebrated
ROYAL
EGYPTI AN
CIGARETTES,
Manufactured by lIAGGI AM ART, Cairo
Egypt.

70-.ERVOLIS DEBILITY and General Weakness
IN Loss of Power and Energy, speedily cured knd
natural vitality restored Persons who live in the
country should send detail d of their ease, and advice for
their cure will be sent free of charge. Only addres
Dr. Hunter and Co., 44, Great Charles Street. Birming
ham.
No case undertaken unless a cure can be warranted.

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STOUR BRIDGE,
HAS A
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OF NEW
MEERSCHAUM
AND
BRIAR-ROOT PIPES,
PLAIN AND FANCY
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Ann r.very Description
TOIIicsAJCONIST'S GOODS
ALSO A FINE STOCK OF
CIGARS
OF THE BEST BRANDS
TOBACCOS OF EVERY DESCRIFTION
The Old Established Shop
92, High-St,.
STOTTR,BRIDGE

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£lO T 0 ..£ 2,0 0 0
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IMPERIAL LANADIAN)NCV ET On kizFll.T
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been established for eight years in Liverpool, hss now
taken extensive Premises in London, where borr wets
will have the opportunity of obtaining advances upon
the same equitable terms which have caused the
•.mperial Advance Bank in Liverpmel to become familiar
' household words.
Householders, Proferional Gentlemen. Farmers,
Shopkeepers, Licensee Vicluallers. Lodging-house
I(eepers, Tradesmen, Dairymen, Cab Prep-ic.,tsrs.
Gardeners, Clerks, person 4 entering into business, and
tiler responsible persons, in any part of Englind and
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me), or upon note of hand alone. Re n distrain
other executions paid out. Advances extend
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missionts paid to agents, borrowers therefore reap the
benefit. Liberal advances made npou deposit of mer-
lhandise. surplus stocks, jeweilery, furniture, deeda,
lifepolicies, scrip. and upon every kind of valuable p
perty ,sith the strictest urivaey.
Further information by calling upon or writing
sting amount required) LEWIS SIMMONS, Principa
Imperial Advance Bank,
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CONSUMPTION,
AND ITS FINAL CURE. 1
,
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Copies have now
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Work on
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Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, & other Chest Diseases.
SIXPENCE (Post Free), from the Publisher,
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Two and Three Hundred
INTERESTING & AUTHENTIC CASES
selected from those which have appeared in the
Weekly Journals from 18S1 to the present time.
NOTES are appended to many of these cases which
prove the Cure to be "FINAL and PERMANENT."
This Appendix sent POST FREE on application
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HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.
World Known—World Tried
For streng tiening a debilitated constitution, these P
are more Alcacious than any other medicine. Persons
a nervous habit of body, and al ]who are suffering roil
weak digestive organs, or whose health has becomf
deranged from whatever cause, should lose no time n
giving these Pills a f sir trial ; their action is immediate,
beneficial. andlastitg, restoring order, health and vigof
In every case.
For Disorders of the Liver, Stomach
Kidneys, and Bowels.
These Purifying Pills are confidentlyreccommended as e
Roost simple and certain remedy for Indigestion, Flatulency
Acidity, Constipation, and all Disorders resulting from
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alternatives, and strengtheners of the stomach. Thouzb
powerfully tonic and; satisfactorily aperient, they are Lail
in their operation arid beneficial to the whole system.
Weakness and Debility—Nery L 43. IrritP
bility and LQW
The wnolesale effect exercised by these admirable P.)wer
over the Blood and Fluids generally is like a charming
dispelling low spirit§ and restoring heerfulness. The
general aperient qualitie s well awn for a domestic
medicine, particularf or females ill ages and period ct
life. They quickly c,iect all impurities from the system
and regulate every function of the body gi ging, wonderfn
gne and energy to weak and debilitated constitutions
Old Coughs; Colds and Asthmatic
Affections.
These pills, assisted in their action by rubbing Holloway,
Ointment yef.'Y effectually twide a day on the Throat and
Chest. and 'keeping 'those parts covered with the
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Asthma, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and Influenza Thep
tranquillize ;he hurried breathing, soothe the irritutca
air-tubes, and assisted' in dislodging the phlegm whici.
stops Up the air passages. This treatment has proved wo
derfuliy eflieient in not only cull- hug old settled coughs lac,
cold but even ast`ura of manyyears standing.
Complaints of ''i7Tomen and Children
Any mother, nurse, or young perseu guided by the direc-
tions which accompany each box of Holloway's Pills, has
at once available means for checking diseae, purifying the
blood, and expelling from the s) stem all gross humours.
- - -- • •
The Pills and Ointment are sold at Paorstisoa Ilokt.o-
wkx 7s Establishment, '/El, hew Oxford-St„ London also by
nearly every respectable Vendor of Itedie,ne throughetzt
the Civilized World, in Boxes and Pots, at Is A4U,22 tik:l3
3813 d, us 2:fs, and 338 each,
Full printed directions are affixed to each Box ang
and can be had in any language.
.B.—Advice can be obtaintd, free of charge
applyiog at the above address, daily, batvresu t}.3
hours of 11 and 4, or by letter.

whispered about his indulgence in stronger drinks
than a clergyman should think of; and the story of
the girl that Barney Grubb knew of had leaked out
somehow. Perhaps Mrs. Brown had gossiped without
knowing it, and she could have let in the light on
many little things, had she chosen. Perhaps the
scandals had come about in other ways. Any way,
they were aleout, and people looked shy on the hand-
some Mr. Gaylord.
He flung his money about right and left, now that
he had come back to Belford; but, somehow, it did
not buy him friends. There was no pleasant visiting
at Fernbank now; no dropping in on his many
acquaintances, as he had been xi- ed to do when he
held the pulpit of the pretty church; and he felt, like
Cain, a thing accursed. It seemed to him, in his
morbid self-communing, as if the whole world knew
the secret that the wood held. Had not Frank
Hatherleigh himself come back from the unseen world,
to stand at the very spot where he had been stricken
down, and remind the passers-by that he was still un-
avenged ?
Horace Gaylord reasoned with himself about what
he had seen, and strove to convince himself that it
was a fancy born of a disordered brain, and more
brandy than was good for him; but he could not.
What he had seen he had seen, and so had other
people. It was all part of the retribution that was
surely overtaking him, and of which he fancied that
strange figure that called itself Mr. Stone was only
another phase.
He must act, and quickly. Jele must make it im-
possible for Mr. Jarvis to interfere with him. No,
impossible was hardly the word. The lawyer might
turn out a second Brutus and sacrifice even his natural
affections to his desire Brutus,
revenge. Mr. Jarvis•had
the character of being hard and stern in most things.
How would he be when the happiness of his children
were at stake?
I warned him to let me alone,' Horace Gayford
said to himself. On his own head be it. He shall
turn round now, and help to stand between me and
harm'
The writer of the letter was mistaken in one thing.
It was not Mr. Jarvis who was setting the authorities
on the alert; it was Phil Donovan, not intentionally,
but through his propensity for strong drinks, and the
wonderful effect of having more money at once than
he had ever had in his life before. The injudicious
expenditure that he indulged in, first drew the atten-
tion of the police to his affairs. Mrs. Donovan and
the children appeared in unwonted bonnets and
amazing dresses, and there seemed to be plenty of all
the good things of this life in the formerly miserable
household; and the neighbours began to talk, and so
Mr. Donovan and his family were watched.
The letter emanated from a man to whom Mr. Gay-
ford had been kind in the old pulpit days. But the
writer had put things together wrongly, and associated
Mr. Jarvis with the unpleasant denouement that was
preparing to the story of the murder.
The end has not come yet,' Horace Gaylord said to
himself, as he read the letter once more, after he had
a little recovered from the first shock of it. There
is plenty of time. To-morrow night shall see me far
from here, and not alone, Mr. Jarvis, not alone. The
gossips shall have enough to talk about when they
mention my name.'
He spent a great part of the night in preparing for
what he intended to do. He carefully destroyed all
papers that he had about his rooms, and packed up
his things. Hillford should see him no more after tile
next night; and Mr. Jarvis should do his best to
shield him from the consequences of his crime, if it
was ever brought home to him.
The next day he spent alone in his room, very
quietly, drinking hardly anything, and busy with some
writing. At least, so it appeared to Mrs. Brown, when
she went in once or twice to ask him if he wanted
anything. It was getting dark, when there came a
ring at the front door, and Mrs. Brown, going up-
stairs, opened it to admit a young lady, who passed
her without speaking, and went straight to the door
of her lodger's room. She saw that the girl was
slight and good-looking. She was very plainly dressed,
and wore a veil, which did not conceal her face too
much for Mrs. Brown to see that she was ghastly pale,
and with glassy eyes.
Just like a person walking in her sleep,' she said
to her husband when she went downstairs; she
brushed by me with never so much as a "by your
leave" or anything—a rude girl, I should say, who-
ever she is.'
'And where is she now?' asked Mr. Brown.
In the parson's room, shut up with him.' Mrs.
Brown still called her lodger the parson' when she
spoke of him—she could not dissociate him from his
former calling.
I can't have that sort of thing carrying on here,'
her husband remarked, 'lf he's going to have lady
visitors, let them come in a seasible fashion, and not
come into a person's house as if it belonged to I he,m.
Mr. Gaylord isn't the man he was, and :l.sere's queer
things said of him in Belford. You'll have to tell him
I won't have it.'
You may tell him yourself, it's your business, sate
his wit° dutifully. 'I don't hear a move or a word.
What are they doing upstairs, I wonder?'
All was certainly very still in their lodger's room,
and they would have been very much scandalised could
they have seen what was really going on. The young
lady had walked straight to where Horace Gaylord
stood, and nestled into the arms he held out to her.
She gasped out his name in a terrified sort of voice,
and then she would have fallen to the ground at his
feet if he had not caught her. He did not call anyone,
though her swoon was deathlike; but he laid her on
the couch and removed her hat and veil, and sprinkled
hoe face with water.
Poor little fool,' he said; but he stooped tenderly
enough and kissed the white, still face on the pillow.
Presently she opened her eyes and looked at him, and
started up with a little cry.
• What shall I do?' she gasped. 'What have I done?
Let me go. Take me home 1'
Yes, I will take you home,' he said, in a gentle.
soothing voice. 'Be still, and do as I bid you, and
you shall he Quite safe.'
She seemed stupid and inert, as if she had no will
of her own, and she sat quite still, while he moved
about the room putting things together, and finally
bringing her a glass of wine and her hat.
Drink this,' he said, and we will go.'
Home?',
'Yes, surely. Where else?'
She drank the wine and staggered to her feet like a
woman in a dream. He took her by the arm and
guided her to the door and through the hall into the
street, opening the front door of the house noiselessly
and leaving it unfastened when he went out.
Are we going to the station?' she asked. 'You
will take me home, will you not?'
'To the station—yes, ho replied, 'you will see
directly.'
She seemed to know the way, and was satisfied,
and walked quietly by his side, unnoticed, as he
believed. But her arrival had been seen and com-
mented upon by the very man of all others that he
would have liked to keep in the dark about it. No
wonder people thought that Mr. Stone was a detective.
He seemed to have a faculty for watching Mr.
Gaylord's lodgings that would have done credit to
Scotland Yard. He managed to be au fait very early
with all his doings, and on this particular evening he
arrived opposite the house in which he lived just in
time to see the young lady admitted. He saw the
white set face and the woe-begone eyes, and
the curious manner of seeing nothing and yet
looking straight before her tnat made the girl's
appearance so singular. He listened after the semr
was shut upon her, but could hear nothing. It was
only for a moment. He recovered his wits in an
instant. Phyllis Jarvis he exclaimed. What does
it mean? I can guess. What can be done? Is her
father in the town still, I wonder. He must be
fetched.'
Mr. Jarvis had been in Milford in the afternoon.
He had come over to tell Mrs. Churchill of the letter
he had received mentioning Helen Ramsay. He had
come to the conclusion that it was a mistake, but he
bad told her nevertheless, and had a long gossip with her
besides. She was out of spirits and desponding. The
recent events had almost made her determine to leave
Hillford altogether. Helen's loss and Madge's pale
face, and the miserable reports that were about de-
pressed them all so much that she thought she would
be better elsewhere.
Mr. Jarvis, for some reason or other, combated her
resolution. He acknowledged that all the sorrow that
had come upon them of late had been in a measure hie
bringing about. If he had not sent his ward to board
with Mrs. Churchill she would not have been in any
way mixed up with the painful events that had
occurred of late. She could hardly understand his
beeging her to wait before she decided on leaving.
But he did, and she hesitated, to please him, though
she had made up her mind.
. 'The place feels like a grave,' the said, shivering.
First poor Frank, and then Helen, and—'
'"There's a silver lining to every cloud," the old
proverb says,' Mr. Jarvis remarked, a propos of her
speech, and if you wait long enough the edges always
turn and show it. Don't you think the edges are
turning for you?'
'I think it is blacker than ever,' she said, despond-
ingly. The lining is as black as the outside.'
• Bide a wee,' as the Scotch people say, was his res-
ponse. Have patience, and you will say I am a true
prophet. We shall live to see Madge a bright, rosy-
cheeked lassie once more, and—'
No, never,' Mrs. Churchill said, shaking her head.
Not unless you could bring back poor Frank Hather-
leigh. We must go away, and forget it all if we can:
F.he had persuaded him to stay and have a high tea
with them. It was a meal Mr. Jarvis particularly
liked, and one which the prim government of his own
house never permitted on any excuse whatever- and
Mrs. Churchill had such a tempting fashion of setting
out a composite meal, and he was tired, and the guest
was welcome, and so he stayed. It was nearly time
for him to go and catch his train when there was a
ring at the front door, and Mary enteeed with a
message. She looked rather white and scared, and
her mistress asked her what was the matter with her.
Nothing, ma'am,' she said, quietly, 6 I was startled.
There is a gentleman asking for Mr. Jarvis.'
Show him into the drawing-room, and say Mr.
Jarvis will attend to him in a minute. Do finish your
tea,' she added, turning to the lawyer; it will be
quite cold.'
Please 'm, the gentleman won't come in,' Mary said.
He's outside. He says he must see Mr. Jarvis for a
minute. It's life and death.'
'Dear me,' Mr. Jarvis said, getting up and hastily
putting down his cup. 'Will you excuse me while I
just see what it is. What can there have been to
frighten your servant so: she looks Feady to faint P

flaat was precisely what Mary was doing at that
very moment. She made her way down into the
kitchen and dropped into the nearest chair.
What's the matter?' asked the cook, and Mary
declared she had seen a ghost, that was all, and
would tell nothing more.
It was only Mr. Stone—very much muffled up,
though the night was anything but cold, and he NO
his hand on the lawyer's arm with a firm grip.
Come,' he said, come with me. There's
mischief a-foot. Don't lose a moment.'
What is it? Let me apologise to Mrs. Churchill,
and '
Don't stay for anything. You don't know what a
minute lost might do. Your daughter—Phyllis—l saw
her myself—has gone into that man's house, looking
like a woman in a dream. I saw her. Come and
stop this evil work before it is too late. What takes
her there, and with that look in her eyes. Is he going
to murder her, too?'
He was wildly excited, and Mr. Jarvis turned pale
as he gathered what he meant by his strange words.
He knew better than Mr. Stone what it all meant, and
he turned back and caught his hat from the stand in
the hall.
I will come back and explain,' he said, hastily, as
Mrs. Churchill came out in astonishment. 'Don't
stop me now, and forgive my rudeness. It is, as Mary
life and death!'
(To be continued.)

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