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T HE SECOND
DANDY CHATTER
By Tom Gallon.
CHAPTER xxiI-continued.

CHAPTER Kxlt-continued
The unfortunate Cripps, awakened
i thus hurriedly from his slumbers, and
having no time to collect his thoughts
properly, saw before him the man VINO
had been the cause of all his miseries
and troubles, and remembered moth
ing of that solution of the mystery at
which he had so OPPORTUNITY arrived.
Indeed, the fifty pounds he had earned
or obtained-from Madge BarnshaW
was going far to make him greater
wreck than before; for he was melt
ing 1t into liquid form as rapidly as
mortal man could.
Staring, in those first moments OF
semi-consciousness into the eyes OF
Dandy Chatter, as he supposed, he beat
him off with both hands, shrieked
aloud and made for the window. Philip
had only just time to catch him round
the waist; in another instant he would
have gone head first into the yard be-
low.
Steady, my friend, steady" ex-
claimed Philip, putting the terror
Il oGibSASu HidA luGO q SAASti etiib SSSSAA9
between him and the window. What
are you frightened at? What's the
matter?"
4 Cripps looked at him for moment
or two, and then his face gradually
changed. you came-came on a man
SO suddenly" he said. But see now
I suppose you're the other one
IL, sc ho caid NT' n,
the other one You know all about me,
Cripps; you know that I'm fugitive
from justice-and you know, better
than any one, that am innocent, and
am suffering for my brothers sins.
suppose you know that he is dead?"
/ Crlpps nodded. "Fished him out of
the river myself, with a beastly sailor
man, who dragged me into it by sheer
brute force" he replied. And ever
since then you've been appearing to
me as ghost, and frightening me
tout of what few wits l have left. Now
I what are you going to do?"
First said Philip, sitting down
near him, Il want to assure you that
I am your friend; / want to plead with
you to help me-to work with me to
bring this business to an end. Who
knows the real story, except your
self
No one,' said Grips, after mo,
ment's thought" except the woman
who took you to Australia"
And she will say nothing, l know
replied Philip. Now there is man
a cousin of mine manned Ogledon." 3
Cripps shook feeble fist in the air.
"Ogledon Is a scoundrel--a tiend" he
cried. ASK him how Dandy Chatter
your brother, mind you - met his
DEATH"
''If you know anything Of that, Dr.
Cripps, in mercy tell me!D exclaimed
] Philip.
"ogledon killed him; that much
know, from his own lips" said the lit
tie man, after a pause. You see, you
have taken his place so neatly, that IT
has never occurred to anybody to i'm
agine that Dandy is dead. was al
ways sorry for Dandy-oh! don't
laugh at me; I'm drunken little
creature, of no good to any one-but
Dandy would have been all right if it
hadn't been for Ogledon. Ogledon
took him when he was mere lad and
moulded him as he would. And then
killed him to finish 1t. But there's
worse than that"
'Worse!" cried Philip. what dc
you mean? What can be worse than
that?''
DO you know young girl named
| Marnham? No Barnham-Ba BARN.
sBarnshaw?'' asked Philip, with his
heart beginning to beat comfortably
fast.
sBarnshaw it is; lives at a house
lnear here. Well, Ogledon's been sweet
on her for along time, although, from
what / hear, she would have nothing
to say to him. :"
Heaven bless her! I should think
not, indeed -
well, Ogledon made UP his mind to
get hold OF her; he has sent her an
urgent message to go to him on the
plea that he can explain about you.
About me" said Philip, in aston
ishment. Vii
S3SY eS--Or faLneT dDOul IsuAhuSss ss,-sla
ter. That was the message: I can
Itell you the truth about Dandy Cha
ter AT least, SO the Shady I'm told
me. s3s
The Shady I'm? What has he to
do with it," IF 4
Everything. He has been trusted
by Ogledon with the message; I saw
him this very afternoon. when ne
came In here to ~ inquire the way
having missed it somehow or other
u And Miss Barnshaw has gone back
|swi it'll him" &
Philip Chatter drew q deep breath
4 Stay now, Cripps; lets have this
thing straight. You say the Shady
'JTn has taken Miss Barnshaw to Ogle-
don. Where is Ogledons Where are
they to meet ~ 5gs
81 All d hut On the river bank, near
The Three Watermen," replied Cripps,
Where Dandy Chatter met his
lsdeat b muttersd Philip to himself.
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