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Hello! where are you?"
The answer came immediately. and vet
was so mufiied that they could hardly
distinguish it.
In the chimney. For heavens sake
get me out quick; | believe | am dyingv'
There was but one way to accomplish
TINS; Jack realized the fact at once. He
handed the lamp to the little widow and
replaced his revolver. feeling that he
would have no occasion to use it. at least
for the present.
Then he commenced enlarging the ORR
nee by tearing down the bricks, always
working downward. Sometimes he had
dlfhcult work, but in the end he succeed
ed In his task, and the result was that
at the end of ter or fifteen minutes he
had cleared the way to within n foot or
so of the ground.
Then stepping in. he bent down and
raised the form of the foreign detective
in his stout arms. When he had laid
him on the floor of the mill, he bent over
to examine the, mans CHASTITY wounds.
Who did this foul deedT' he asked in
horror.
The man whispered in reply, for he was
weak and almost dying. Jack uttered q
smothered curse and. gaining his feet,
cried in a voice that froze Carol with
horror: ~
Some more of that demons work.
May the curse of heaven blight him and
his forever. He is one Of Satan's tends
and when we meet / shall send him to
the master he serves. Witness the OATH"
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CHAPTER XIV.
TIL words Of the young man came very
near killing Carol Richmond, for Of
course she thought all along he had ref
erence to the Roger Darrell she knew
and loved, and to think of him as a muir
derer in addition to his other sins would
have been enough to have entirely crush
ed her.
At the time she did not remember that
her mother and herself had seen Captain
Grant, or some one closely resembling
him. leave the mill on the previous night
some time between the hour when Nora
Warner was carried off by her %jailers and
daybreak.
All she could think of was this one
fact, that besides being guilty of all those
other misdeeds, her Roger was not only
a murderer at heart. but was in a fair
way to become one in fact, for the I'M
fortunate man upon the mill floor looked
as though he were dying. Her heart
was nov steeled against Roger, and at
their next meeting she must let him know
that he could not even call her friend.
While Carol was thus thinking upon
the matter. and deciding as to her future
plans, Jack was examining the wounds
Of the detective.
"My man." said he finally, you shall
live-aye. live for vengeance on the fiend
whose hand struck those cowardly
blows"
The face Of the detective lighted up
and a fierce CLEAN came into his eyes,
for he would ask nothing better OH earth
than this.
Gently raising him. Jack carried the
poor man into the habitable part of the
building and laid him upon the blankets
prepared for him by the widow, Then he
proceeded to dress the wounds, and the
skill he exercised in this proved him to be
a young physician Of more than ordinary
talents.
He had. a case Of remedies with him
and before leaving the old mill on his
search for lost Nora he left the medicines
to be used in the hands of Carols moth.
er.
The detective possessed a magnificent
constitution and his wounds were not
fatal, SO that he was in a fair way fol-
speedy recovery, being in excellent hands
Besides that. the burning desire for re
venge upon the man who had dealt him
such a .cowardly blow was enough of an
incentive to keep him alive, for it brought
his will into play.
The widow was his attendant. for Caro-
could not stay in the house, such was the
tumult Of her thoughts in regard to Rog
err. But for the fact that Jack. for pru'
Dental reasons, had talked of all othel
subjects before his departure save tn,
one they were interested in, they might
have learned that which would have fall
en- like a bomb between them.
The detective was more communicative
for his heart warmed to the widow as The
one to whom he owed his life. He wa,
a Russian by adoption, but in reality wa:
a born Englishman. which accounted fol
his speaking the language so properly.
While he entertained the little lady
with long stories of the American adven
%turer's doings in Russia, and how. fall
ing under the ban, it was discovered tina
he was a plotter against the life of the
Car, the fact never leaked out that eacl
of them had in mind a far different per
sonage.
Thus the terrible mistake was allowed
to become deeper. and the characters IL
our story drifted along as the stern de
cree of fate willed.
(To h. continued.b
A Rural Opinion.