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(4 tinu ) CHAPT : WE } ywono " Tm tne Ce yng eaaclbangede LSE % : Evidently they were old acquaintances A LETTER | of Harold, for the younger addressed me by his ul The circurnstances my horse Jack showed his not favourable, and I did not gét u i as 1 nugnt . vie of her face thou:rth IT saw ' , = the h eY h to sne that she had an un- ‘ ur ig h When at their usually attractive pers« nality. es, he began failing back It is odd that Harold told me noth- I Saw that one otf the gallant ine about her, but he gave lirtle in- nen, Who have done yeomal! - | gormation of his female friends The e- “eS oS ses Of | m irticulars which I received were ! i, Was on Ui ‘ s of the ce ni Irs. Murphy.” I 1 animals, ! 1 the of It was all-imvoritant that I should } horse nearest him and was fizht- know something about the twe whom ing like a tig vith the furious beast. I had attempted to rescue, with the ut mv i centred in the mid- | p;esuit that the job was completed by Cle-aged woman, who was not only tha policeman. strucs! =< to lear from the side door Dts It will be easy enough,” I reflected, C1 ‘ age but in act of doing | a, [ began adjusting my garments, 7 Which the attendant, with some gentle Save her, oh, Harold, save her, or protestations, placed within reach. she will b> killed: called the daughter A few minutes later I went out from in age y, Stlu Cinmging With cespera he hospital I would not use a car- but Waning strength to the loved form. toe ou that would have been acon- I was directly beside the woman fession ef weakness, and for the same and, ext:nding my left hand, gave her | peason 1 refused to accept the cane a sheve so violent that she fell back- | that was offered to me. It took some

werd into the lap of the daughter, who fiung ker arms about her mother ard held her motionless.

But in the act of leaning

riake

over toc my push effective the infernal Jack made a quick shy to the right. ifat brute knew that it was not his master who was in the saddle and re- Sented it. As he swerved, the girth Siapped, and out I went upon the grevel with a force that it would seem cught to have driven the breath of life from my body.

And it came mighty near doing so. There was a shock es if I had been struck by an express train, and all be- came darkness and oblivion.

It was some two hours later that my serse came back to me. I was lying on a cot in the hospital, with my herd bandaged and a fierce pain flitting back and forth down my left side. The physician who had examined my hurts was gone, but one of the sweet- faced nurses was seated in a chair, lecking kindly into my face. Meet- ing my enquiring stare, she said, in her low, soft voice:

“Ycu had a severe fall.”

“Yes. It is a wonder I was not kill- ed. De you know whether I have ary bones broken ?”

You are suf- and the

“The doctor said not. fering from severe bruises shock.”

I moved my limbs. twinge made me wince.

“T would not do that,” gentlv re- m:onstrated my attendant. “Te 2 adds to your suffering and can do no good.”

“Tell me how the veople in the car- riage fared. They were in zreat dang- er at the time 1 was flung from my horse.”

The sharp

“The policeman managed to stop the carriaze before anything serious occurred. The coachman had hoth

legs broken and is in a dangerous con- dition, but neither the daughter nor her mother suffered injury.”

“Thank God for that !” was my fer- vent exclamation, as I settled back on my pillow.

My attendant gave me a soothing lotion, and I soon sank into a refresh-

ing slumber, which lasted until the following morning.

By that time 1 was astonished at my own condition. The physician made another examination and pre-

iniwur injury

nounced me free from serious

“I was afraid of a fracture of : left leg, but I find it all right. You have been pretty well bruised, and will be stiff and sore for several davs. but there is nothing beyond that. By the wav, are you the possessor of a remarkable degree of strength ?”

I flushed, but answered :—

~ Tee: am said to be etrorg. Why “Your muscles large, but there is reculiar about them, ally as hard as iron. anything like it.”

you ask ?°’

not abnormally

something very

They are : l never saw

do

are

‘I have devoted no more of my life to exercise than do many young men, but nature gave me great mus- cular power from the first.”

‘[f heard, Mr. Westcott, that at your

club last week, you nearly killed a pro- fessional pugilist knocking him off the stase and half across the room.”

“ Yes, that was cleverly done, though

it is I who say it, but there’s a good deal of humug about these profes- sional pugilists. They acquire a cer- tein degree of skill, and their revuta- tion is their ital. They indulge in excesses and dissipation and eo hack as fast as they went forward. This fellow thought he had an easy thing in me, and vas careless. He gave an opening, and I took advantage of it.

was to it.” was a marvellous hate to run

That's all there *““ Nevertheless, it performance. I should acainst your fist. Mr. Westcott. “There is no danger of that,’ I re- marked, with a laugh, turning in bed with so little inconvenience that I im- mediately sat upright. “Gut did you attend the ladies who were in the car- iuge 2?” ren I am not their physician, bui I understand they were not injured, though the elder would have leaped to certain death had you not thrust her ack when she was in the act of do- The ladics—”

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The medical man paused, and I un- derstood why. Me did not know their names, and halted for me to prompt him. But 1 was silent, for I was as icnorant as he.

There was unexpected good fortune all round, excepting in the case . of he driver, who seems to have been pretty vell battered up.”

“When can I go home, doctor ?”

I if you wish, but why not remain here for a few days ? You better hands.”

could not be in { will think it ever.”

minutes later he bade me good

I lay for .scme minutes in th¢z.cht.

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resolution and compression of the lips for me to walk with my usual gait and without the appearance of suffering, but 1 succeeded, and it was a good thing for me, for the exercise did won- ders in limbering the muscles, so that when I reached my apartments scarce a trace of my hurts remained.

It was to be expected that Harold left the country he matters so as to prevent any falling into my hands whose secrets he wished to keep. I know that he sent out many missives which presum- ably were for that purpose, for it was understood that whatever misstves reached his rooms were to be opened by me, and I was to do with them as I saw fit. s

When I pasted into the attrective apartments, [I found two letters which had come during my brief absence. The writing, of course, was unfamiliar, but a glance showed that one was from a woman and the other from a man.

“That,” I mused, holding off the delicate white envelope, with its pretty superscription, “is from the young lady whom I tried to help yesterday. Something tells me that it is the open- ing of an era in my life. I will leave it to the last, and meanwhile find out what this fellow is driving at.”

It was an ordinary envelops, the di- rection in an ordinary business hand, and I sat do'vn, with my elbow lean- ing om the table and my sice toward the light, crossed my legs (somewhat atngerly) and deliberately read the following astounding missive, which

before arranged letters

was dated two days before in the city of Chicago :—

t Dear Jed—All promises well, but matters are still in a delicate situa-

tion. Some of the farmers have set- tled in Kansas and will reap good

crons if the grasshoppers don’t bother them. The same ts true of the Da- Kotas, of Texas, and the south-west. Maybe the gooa@ work will extend to California We're sure to win in the tong run but it’s expensive. Only the

true stuff can be used at this stage if the game. Send ten thousand by return mail to my address at the Au- ditorium. BUDD. I read this extraordinary mu:ssrve

through several times, until every word was impressed upon my memory. f turned the sheet over and looked at the other side. Not another word was written, nor was there the slightest clew to the identity of ‘“ Budd” of the Auditorium hotel, at Chicago. «I held the envelope up to the light, but noth-

ing was there to enlighten me. The direction was to Mr. H. O. Westcott, So there could be no doubt that it was intended for the owner of these roems, who was then upen the ocean, and that it was in accordance with our under- standing that the letter was opened by me, and was to be disposed of by no Other person.

But wheat in the name of the seven

wonders could it mean ? for the closing sentences, I would have been unable to make even a conjec- ture. The “true stuff’ could signify nothing else but good money, for it was followed immediately by a de- mand for the remittance of a large sum.

Admitting all this, which was un- questionable, the references in the opening of the missive must be to bad

Except

meney. .The ‘“farmers*®’ were the counterfeits that were being sent into different parts of the West, and con- sequently the ‘“ grasshoppers” must be the detectives or officers that were sure to be hot on the trail of the “schovers of the queer.”

Such was the interpretation I put

upen this remarkable document which hag come ir.to mv hand, and the mere I thovght of the matter the more cer- tein did I feel that I was right, though rever forgetful of the possibility that I rieht be wholly wrong from the be- ginning. Often, after a theory is once fermed, all subsequent discoveries seem to St it exactly, untl the final discov- ery knocks everything to smithereens.

Here, as I viewed it, was a clear ir:cication of some illegitimate scheme etcoot in which Harold Westeott held a personal interest. No ¢criminal would dere make so direct a demand upon him for money unless’ he had solid foundation upon which to base the de-

rend. Harold was one of the princi- yals. ° All of which confirmed a shadowy

suspicion that had never been wholly ahsent from me—namely, that the man had cogent reasons for wishing to “disappear ’”’ for a year other than the one he gave me. Surely a person who has an abundance of money and who leads an upright Hfe has no cause to fear a residence in New York.

My reflections awoke a resentful feelin=z towsrd. Harnid Wentrstt- KHie

ccondict Was cowardly in thus enticing

ar other into a trap in order to avoid the penalty he himself had incurred.

Suppose worse came to worse, and T fell into the bends of the law officers, YI coulda not deny my identity. The only possible doubt of that was in the mind of the vicious brute Jack, and his testimony would hardly avail me

Could it be that I was in error, and that the scheme was a lawful one ? The best way out was to ascertain the truth. I would write to ‘* Budd,” tell- ing him that before complying with his rec.uest I must have more particu- lars.

1 pondered for a few minutes, and then wrote such a telegram. The onlv way to address it was to “ Budd, Audi- tcrium hotei, Chicago.” It was so.2d- dressed, and asked him te give mere particulars. With some hesitation, T appended the followir ‘**Have meat

} With an accident brain hardly cleir; irstruct me how to eddress you.”

The message v it & the Lore mie

" An grateful

as gone, and, refiect-

but a momert unon it, I awoke to

that a second letter lay awaiting attention. now we shall set

yveunge lady has to

fact be-

what the cay t”

(To be Continued.)

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The Method by Which the Insect Emits Its Beautiful Light,

‘By what process do fireflies preduce the beautiful flashes of light?’’ That is a question frequently asked, and as en- tomological books fail to give a satis- factory reply the following explanation may be interesting:

Ihave made a special sindy of the light, and carefully examined the mech- anism of the illuminating segments in both male and female specimens. The light emitted, when tested by the spec- troscope, gives a brilliant spectrum, Which is continuous through all the colors from the red to the violet rays. The illuminating organs consist of dis- tinct spherical cells, each one of which is about 1.2000 of an inch in diameter, and the beetle has power to illuminate one or many of these cells at will, producing light of corresponding intensity. The cells contain a fluid sat- urated with phosphorus, and the cover- ing of the cell is so thin that atmosphere

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