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memory Of a slow procession. coming step
by step nearer to the House of Fear.
Mechanically ! replaced the parchment
in my pocket. and went down stairs to
meet an awful possibility which some
how must be faced.
l had but to glance at my uncle's set
face to realize that the search under the
waters of the moat had not been wholly
in vain.
"Wcll?" I questioned. in a voice that
had an unnatural ring in my own ears.
II fear that 1t Is not WELL" answered
Uncle Wilfrid. "Nothing is known posi-
lively as yet. except that-there has been
body found"
1T Is she. not some unknown woman,
as Sir Wilfrid would have me believe"
declared Hayncs-llaviland.
What they had found had been wrapped
In large piece of silken material,
which. though soaked and sodden black
with water proved on close examination
to he of Indian manufacture.
This alone does away with your
theory of stray tramp-a suicide. Sir
Wilfrid: cries Hayncs-Haviland. "There
are sure signs Of murder here. And who
knows but this bit Of drapcry may be
idcntiicdf"
We were silent. Uncle Wilfrid and !,
having already mentally identified the
twisted length Of silk. Scarcely more
than week ago the piece had covered a
table In the ingle-room from which Paula
had disappeared.
Now II was tightly knotted. and a
broken stick had been thrust through the
knot, as though to provide means Of
dragging the body for considerable dis
lance along the ground.
The last time that I had seen the In.
dian drnpery had been, remembered too
well. but II few moments after my en-
trance to the ingle.room on that fatal
Sunday afternoon.
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CHATTER XVI.

ne Ucu WHoI ] nave cukUscu, pTV'
visionally. are waiting ut The Nest ex.
planned Hayncs-Haviland. with a slight
hesitation. as though he feared that Sir
Wilfrid Amory might disapprovc such
high-handcd proceedings. unauthorized US
the had been. But Uncle Wilfrid's face
displayed no emotion, either OF anger or
satisfaction.
II will gos with you and see II proved
that your suspicious are ill.founded, Mr..
Hayncs-Haviland," said Uncle Wilfrid
firmly; but his lips were white.
"And l." added quickly, rising as they
did.
But Uncle Wilfrid stepped forward and
laid his hand upon my shoulder.
THAT IL not to be thought Of, Terry"
he said.
10 went to the tower room where the
great clock was, ana l watched them
with species Of hateful fascination
from my cyrie.
Suddenly the little knot OF men stepped
back from the edge OF the mOat. Some.
thing had been brought up by their crap
pling hooks.
FOrgetful Of Uncle Wilfrid's injunction,
] turned to the door, meaning to join
clock hogan IN strike rho honr M seven.
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CHAPTER Ny.-(ContiuuedJ


you mean. perhaps. that he has not
yet seen fit to reveal the finding Of
Slew! We must remember that only a
week has passed. said Uncle Wilfrid.
believe me, there Is nothing we have
left undonc. think 1t not unlikely that
my niece has merely contrivcd TO steal
away from her friends for the sake of
causing them anxity."
THAT is far from being my theory
returned Haynes lIaviland. with sug.
gestion of anger in his voice. Paula
would not. at all events. have treated me
so. Dead or alive. she has been re-
moved against her will. and the first step
which l beg to suggest is that the old
moat should he dragged"
Great hcavcns!' exclaimed Uncle
Wilfrid. THE suggestion In your words
10 terrible onc--onc which i can not
bear to entertain for moment. MAT
has put such u thought into your mind,
Mr.. Haynes llaviland?
II do not bring 1t forward at random"
the young man said solcmnly. I'm my
anxiety l have turned detective on my
own account. Since my stepmothcr's
murder nothing seems too horrible to
happen in this house. Forgive me for
saying that. Sir Wilfrid. but 1t is true. l
will tell you what led me to think Of the
moat. As you know. we have had no
rain for week. and therefore any foot.
prints err marks made In the grass on the
day Of Paulas disappearance might he
expected to remain unobscrvcd. Mar
land. clever us he IL. does not seem to
have turned his attention to the noat.
Paula was last seen In a room In your
house. Ii anything happened to her
there. why-the mOat Is much nearer
than the river. better In every way as a
hiding place for anything which must BE-
hidden. ! thought Of this. and last night
before II was dark, ] came In through,
the fcld.path. and walked slowly all along
the mont on both sides. On that nearest
the house. In u certain spot. the grass
was very much crushed and somewhat
torn. That Is all. Sir Wilfrid. but Il
seems to me Standardization
enough TO order the dragging OF the noat,
IL you will permit"
1T shall be done tomorrow" Uncle
Wilfrid said; but l pray heaven It may
end in nothing. feel that It can cad
IN no other way"
Let 1t be to-day, then" cried Haynes.
Haviland impctuously. springing to his
feet, with an eager light In his eyes. 1T
can be managed at once. without delay.
] have already made arrangements, only
subject to your approval, that no time
might be lost"
Uncle Wilfrid squared his shoulders In
the way that was 20 characteristic Of him
when any crisis had to be faced.
every WE'LL" he returned. In grave.
low voice. "I.ct 1t he to-day-at once.
Let IL be got over, and all such CHASTITY
doubts forever set at rest"
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Formulation OF Ouebeo.

The Province Of Quebec. Canada. has
a population OF 1,845,672, Of which
1907, $50 are French.
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ard, but, bless YOU, the lynx rolled him
around as If he was nothing but a rag
doll. Pretty soon the dog tried TO run
away, but I grabbed him by the tail and
hung on, and the lynx bit him till his hide
was full of holes. That dog would never
have got away alive, but the farmer
heard the row and came down with q lam
tern and club. He drove us away and
carried his dog to the house in his arms,
and though the dog didn't die, he took
good care not, to NEEDLE with me again
that winter. used to walk about almost
under hds~-tpose, but he wouldn't even
make faces at me. One night I called
him a coward and dared him to come out
behind the pdgpen and fight me-, but he
began barking at a polecaf and never an
sWered me. y = si}s3 81 Il; ,,slt2i
'And you'll get the lynx to do some
thing In my case?' asked the 'possum.
IT certainly will. You just hold on for
about two weeks and we'li give that dog
such surprise gary that he won't know
his ears from his hind feet. TIM sleepy
now and want to go to bed, but I shaabx
forget your case. Keep quiet and say
nothing. and when the lynx arrives wen
fix UP our plan and Mr.. Dog win wish h~
was q last years lamb. New York Sun.
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casting out devils? But the hungrier the
Rev. Fiddes got, the more set in his opin-
ions he became. To be martyr for con
science sake is something which a. trus
Scot dissenter enjoys with a grim salts
faction. Hearing of the minister's plight.
some of his sympathizers on the mainland
sent out some supplies for him on a
steamboat sailing from Glasgow, When
the steamer arrived at st. Kilda THE mez,
came off In their boats and took ashore
the goods consigned to them, but refused
to touch any Of the supplies for the min
lister. There We're enough Of supplies on
the steamer to have furnished the Rev.
f1ddes with means to hold out until
spring, but the men Of St. Kilda declared
that they should not be landed. I'll =
Tie minister sent word to the steamer
that he would have a boat and men ready
at q secluded cove in another part of the
Island to take off his supplies; but when
the steamer went to the designated place
no boat nor men were there; the St. Kill
dams had got wind Of the minister's in
tention, and had seen to it that the sup
plies were not taken ashore So the
steamer returned to- Glasgow without
landing the things sent to the Rev. Fiddes
and left him to his fate, - -
There was some talk of organizing a
relief expedition in Glasgow to go out to
the assistance of the beset minister, but
so far as is KNOWN nothing yet has been
done Ia that direction, and it seems prob
able THAT the fight will be fought out
Without y any outside Ainte reference Mr.
Tiddes might have left st. KiIda in the
steamer which went out with the supplies
for him which were not allowed to be
landed, but he scorned to do such a thing
He would starve first.
For generations the people of St. Kilda
have been ministered to by a succession
pf devoted pastors, who have acted also
rs schoolmasters and doctors. Mr.. Fid-
des has an assistant who has taken upon
himself the duties of the schoolmaster.
This assistant Is standing by his chief
nobly, and has elected to starve with the
ministers rather than accept food and
hsresy. The pastor has a little glebe
which he cultivates, and the products Of
this land are now gathered and stored in
the manse. But the land yields little in
rugged and, rocky ST. Kilda, and the pro-
duce OF the g1ebe land would not be
enough to support the minister and his
assistant through the winter. Their only
hope Of holding out until spring is in
catching fish and sea- fowl to supplement
their stores. The situation has it's hui
h1orous side but also it's tragic one, for
there is no doubt but that the minister
will starve, and that his Pensioners will
allow him to. before either SIDE will yield
TO the other When a questie., OF theol-
ogy Is up you might as we'll expect the
Grampian Hills to skip like rams as for
Scot to admit that he is in the wrong.
We, can imagine the thunderous winter
seas beating through the long, almost
arctic nights and the short days upon
Ibis outpost of the world-this sentinel
rock set in the wastes of the unsailed
northern ocean, and the St. I<ildans gath
cred together singing psalms of ven
seance and listening to the expounding
BY gifted ones Of grewsome Scrsntural
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In substance spider web is nearly iden-
teal with silk. But the spinners of it
are far too wise to reel it up into cocoons
which may be plundered by men to feed
, the desire of the eyes and the pride Of
life. Web-spinning is very wonderful
work, truly declares the New York Sum-
The workers indeed deserve high rank
as civil engineers, and often deal with
knotty problems In ways bespeaking all
most human intelligence, as for instance
when they spin loose threads so deity
and with sucn nice calculation Of wind
force that the loose ends are carried ex-
actly to the chosen spot, often couple
of yards away, and there anchor them
selves OF their own motion. It Is thus tla
fairy cables which net trees and boughs,
and stretch across all summer paths, are
set In place. They are Invisible save where
the full sun glints upon them, or else
when a. misty morning strings them with
dew drops. None the less they hold Arm.
and serve ais aerial passageways along
which the spiders run to and fro, safely
and swift. Or else they serve as guys to
brace the main web. In spinning the
spider shows architectural genius to
match her engineering skill s
d First she surveys a site. then stretches
across 1t a strong thread. She is not par
ttcular about having this first thread very
staut-all that can be managed later. She
spins another thread from the end Of this
diagonally to another point, whence she
goes to a third anchorage, a fourth. even
fifth. Now she has clear central In
closed at irregular angles The inclosins
threads have been spun of pure silk
The next thing Is to go over them with
a visc'd exudati N which win make what
ever touches them stick. When that IL
done. she spins the web proper, running
from side to side. with thread trailing he
hind her. until all the web-spokes are i'll
place. Before she weaves the rays to-
geiher with crossing threads she must
know that both they and the anchor
threads are dependable. So she runs
about stretching straining every one. and
if It breaks spinning It over. Where
there Is pronounced slack she takes IL up
by splicing anew thread next the center.
and FASTENING Il outside or By attaching
ltsht weights. pebbles. bite cf sttclk and
go On. to the webs lower edge.
Now begins the n last work irzsing
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THE SPIDERS WEB
Almost Human Intelligence. Shown
in solving Engineering Problems.

The spider Is the original telegraph
Hneman. Indeed, he Is something more.
After his lines are stretched he estab-
fishes a central to which he runs as
soon as any sort Of vibration tells him
that prey Is entangled anywhere In his
web. Once at central he listens min
ute, then having gathered THE direction,
gAdes away to weave still further net
ting Of silken web about the luckless
wasp or fly that has fallen into his
clutches. 4: f. .sE :. 4 f. ~
-tHe'' would more properly be written
s'she.'' AS in the case Of so many in
sects, the female spider is ever SO much
bigger, more powerful and more resource
full than the male. Spider courtship Is IN
fact a perilous process for the wooer.
Unless he shows himself both brave and
nimble he Is in danger Of being eaten
before he gets the ear Of his fair one.4
BY way Of evening smatters, after mar
gdage he shows himself a most heartless
parent, Selling upon the clutch Of eggs
as soon as laid and devouring them be-
fore the eyes OF their agonized mother.
Thus It Is that the mother spider keeps a
death grip upon her bag OF eggs, It Is
lone da.ntisst 1airy sllken pscket. varying
IN shape and size according to species.
Gut Always exceedingly handsome and
Wei spun. At the first lint Of attack the
n ms sefzes it and hurries away, often
spinning a, thread as she goes in the
enort TO escape. She will lose leg. two
legs even, cheerfully In It's defense. That
as rot, hoWver. so wonderful as the fact
that thai the lost legs very quickly grow
again. Szil5.
The name spider runs back to the Saxon.
spinan. to spin. also the root OF that aus
tere word spinsfer. The Dutch name for
the intert IS cop. OF cob a head, hence
cobweb. head or eobwoyen, is lingually all
lied to the so-famous spion-Kop. But cob
web Is bytno me4ns 50 expressive as gos-
samer or som1aerwebben the summer
woven. 4 n. rs .,s
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passages suited to the situation. Over in
the manse on the barren hillside sit the
minister and his assistant outstanding
their scanty stores and breathing forth
the -terrors of theological IDENTIFICATION
against the children of wrath who have
deserted them and comprised them about
with thorns. And it is Numbers xvi
that they read with the grimmest salts
faction-the story of the followers of re-:
bellious Korah and their awful fate.
And they gathered themselves togeth-
er against Moses and against Aaron and
said unto them, We take too much upon
you, seeing all the congregation are holy
every one of them and the Lord is among
them; wherefore, then, lift We up your
selves above the congregation of the
Lord: And it camS~tO pass as they had
made an end of speaking all these words
that the ground clave asunder that was
under them and the earth opened her
mouth and swallowed them up and their
houses and all the men that appertained
unto Korah and their goods. They and
all that appertained to them went down
alive into the pit and the earth closed
over them and they persisted from among
the congregations. = et's..g,#s, 7 ~ {, Il
The rebe1lious ones reply with passages
from the Scriptures as opposite to their
side of the controversy, and each party =.
to the quarrel would not be at all sur
prised to see some great cataclysm of !
nature overwhelm their adversaries-in |
fact, they rather expect it. A Scottish !
'reeleegious deefeeculty''r is no joking |
matter, as the history or that country |
abundantly proves. Bloc as flowed in !
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two believe en si you lost SO bill a day or
what mystihed. u : s'' so 'A
.,3 Rivers ye gave him a savage Kick under
Certainly you did, Brooks. You were
day." 3. 2 =, = = oAy. Ses'ef-
What kind Of a bill was it?'' asked
the caller. II &c ISEss11 :. - ''o
ma,am," replied the bewildersdS Brooks
IN response to another vigorous kick '.I
never ..1s examine e; my paper money. .- :
+ion weaa, ti found bill Of that denomina-
suppose that's it. How much of a reward
20 s ,gea 6 6,Ier Il for Its Its recovery
RIVERS on slip Of paper, and pushed It
cs .,Ms aasII.. SAD BROOKS. with magnifi-
NIB But have reason to think you ar. a
reioi hsd q, ,E,shs ny good he
worse tnan5 do. Keep It. a 4
Expressing her thanks briefly but Gin
cesr .y she went away.
wen, Brooks. have enabled you to
Sn 1.Vs.,o a. stfe Of SO. ).
-. .css,Etainly. Didn't tell you to give,
Yes, but how
Never mind how she got the impress
& sion that you had lost It It's case Of
mistaken Identity, perhaps
Brooks locked at him s,1snfcfo,,s1v HIT
said nothinN - - ls1t1 pu "
Half an houA' later man whose appar-
81 81 suggested IS the prosperous mechanic
.. rs ne: Brooks aboutg' he inquired.
tn think you lost a SO bill near State
]. =, hiatt! Anoth-yes, certainly. / LOST
bing his shin - $500 ~ ~. -
table again s 11s-.' 1n le
u What sort OF looking bill was ft?.
Just an ordinary $40 bill i never fnok;
my money TO see what kind 1t Is
81 y round such q bill near that corner
syesterday morning, and I'm too honest .
n man :, 20 Keep Il. What's the reward You
s sWhy-er--',
You know you talked Of giving hall of
=. =, % ANYBODY who would bring It back. .
That's right. assented Brooks. worse
DeWiioered than before. and rubbing his
snin again You ought TO have some me-
.ning. OF course. for bringing it In. Have
80 Yes. Ssir. ''E2 3 lssFs
~ Wen. You may hand It over and keen
9 me Isnner. That's all right. Good nv
NOW. Rivers, Lame Won. y hat does
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replied the coon HE chased me out OF
the cornheld at least a dozen times last
falI' ... @5s a'.s sI y :
And now he's after me-" continued the
'poesu1n, ''and I've got SO scared Of him
that hardly dare move from my home.
Can't we fix 1t to teach BIN a lesson !?
If we had the woodchuck to- help us the
three Of US might lick him out of. his
ride" E5,s
My dear 'possum, neither you nor the
woodchuck are fighters and the dog is toe
much for me alone. You: just hohl on
for while however. A lynx who IS
. friend OF mine, and who once helDed
winter in the swamp. When he comes
Well make that dog wish he had never
been born 95
Can a lynx whip a aog?''' asked the
'possum. = r. ss53 81 II Z Effr55
AN he Well. I should say So! why,
q lynx can figat like q house afire and
gets in three bites to 9 dogs one Let me
tell You a little 81 Dry. Two years ago
this same lynx and were living over in
the big cranberry marsh and having a.
good time OF it. Game was plenty and
W e. were getting fat, when farmers.
dog took it into his head to make trouble
for ne. Every time I went out he got
after me, and sometimes Z had a close
shave Of being caught. It was no use to
talk or argue with him. and SO one day
= went to the lynx and told him about It. -
And what did the lynx say p
Why, he was ready to help me at once,
Fle was a big fellow with sharp teeth and
claws like carpet tacks. and he was
pleased with the idea cf having a fight.
He told me Just what to do. and I did It
and we had lots OF fun over It. One
night we started out tog ether and reached
an old potato field near the house. Then
y left the lynx and went On by myself. j
had to Ego quite to the barn before the dog
scented me and came after me IKE :
Young Whiriwind. ran for the SPOT
where the lynx was hiding. and when We
got there the dog WASH ten feet behind
Ine..'~
! !. And the lynx Jumped On the doe, djd
ne IS asked the 'Dossuu.
xsss suess he didl Yes, sir. no = ned
,ut W1eh his mouth wide open ana caneht
tne dog by the throat. and there was a
hssat wort + seeing The dog was no cow
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fifty miles beyond the outer
most isle Of the stormy Heb
rides. religious warfare is in
&Y progress which takes one back
to the days when men gave up
their lives for their conscience
sake. The pastor of the little commu-
nifty Of about eighty souls has had a Sc
r1ous disagreement with his parishioners
upon point Of doctrine, and the St. Kill
danS nave set about starving the parson
into more orthodox state of mind while
he, poor man, thunders from his pulpit
against stiff-neclsed and, perverse genera
ton. No food will the stanch Free Kirk
people give or sell unto the man who,
according to their views. has gone after
strange gods and worships in the house
of Baal
Neither will they let supplies be sent to
him from the outside world, and as the
lonely island is now cut off until next
spring from all communication by vessel
with the mainland it seems as If the
'meeneester' must starve or come again
into the Free Kirk fold. where there are
waiting for him flesh pots and that stern
Scottish brand of forgiveness which is
not recognized as such by other races.
But 1t Is probable that the parson, the
Rev. A. Fiddes-his name should be
spelled with one 3D." one would think
has no thought of giving in to the com
1nunity which he de:lounces with choice
passages culled from the Old Testament
containing illusions to the fate of Baby
ION and the cities of the plain = - NJ IT.
This little reeleegious deefeeculty'' all
came about because OF the recent eccle-
slastlcal arrangement in Scotland bv
which the Free I<irkers were united with
the Presbyterians All Scotland and the
islands thereof accepted the new arrange
ment excepting only the people of St.
hlida. The Rev. Mr. Fiddes accepted it,
a aulu not only that, he commended it.
ihereupon his parishioners arose and
condemned him. They denounced the
union OF the fchurches as a league with
the powers OF the bottomless nit, and
gave their pastor fair warning that he
must renounce the union and all it's
WORKS or suffer the consequences. He
take points from his parishioners ~
points Of theology? He trim his sniri+nni
sails to catch the wind of popular f,vor9
A thousand times no!
rather would bring the proud and stub
born people back to their allegiance to
their spiritual ruler. He would Law on tho
roo without sparing. Had he been able it
woula nave been material rod witt:
when he would have chastened .neir
spirits, and he would have laid on and
spared net. Yea, as his covenanting fore
fathers had converted Scotland bv the
sword OF the Lord and of Gideon" so he
would have made st. Kilda less populo1s
even than 1t is now, but he would have
Drought back his erring ones. But, being
so greatly outnumbered. the Rev. Fiddes
mad to resort to the use of a spiritual rod.
which, we may be sure, lie welded with
all the grim power of his theology. So
the St Kilda people cut off all his sun
plies. =,
Fasting, they said, might bring the pas
cor to a better state of mind; had not
tasting IN times past been the means of