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They left Charles without an ex- planatiOn, since he seemed to care nothing whether he understood their methods or not. Charles was not hel ful. He was in s. till" 0°!‘- ner cou d hardly be helpful by his very natuﬂ- ' n

"What are you going to do? asked Jane stoniiy, taking the left hand turn at the end of the lane.

Jim checked hor with a touch. “Not that way. We're not going straight home. We're going to pay g, call."

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still for one wild moment, staring in sick fascination at the gently undulating clouds of iris~grey pct- als. He hung back heavily still, but when they urged him he went for- ward, his eyes distended, the breath

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from Vancouver to Jasper. Al- berto. At

B1110 River. Monty now-and we shall see if there's quieted forever. Hughie had seen .

She looked up quickly over panting from between his lips.

ollood a keen lntereat 1n 0M1- Hughie‘; oblivious head, "You If there had ever been any doubt ldian locomotives whdle en route don’; mearkap" “But I do. We're going there born in this place. that doubt was

mounted ths engine to examine no reaction m; time," “Oh, Jim," she said, “Oh Jlmi" manifested any fear of Charlel,

the esb of tho l90-ton locomotive

and try hi5 hand B! the throttle. and began to tremble, But she walked quietl beside Charles had not been there, What ll G. A. Gilly. superintendent 0f him, talking gently to Hug ie about he had really seen was fast locked lhﬁ KHIBJOODB DlVISlOH 0f 111B the people they met on the way, up in his tortured mind. - Canadian National Railwavs. The and the butterflies in the meadow. This also partook of the nature

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FIQH Mlflhal visited Jasper Park 5nd [he guglder roses

Indus for a brief rest during h

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the hedge, until they reached the meadow which led to the wicket Lgate of Rose Lodge.

" Then she asked, carefully casual because Hughle was beginning to show signs of restlessness. "Do you think we ought to see her first? After all, if she thinks -what she thinks-it will seem an unpardon- able intrusion if we just walk in."

“Nevertheless, this is our ap- proach, and this is the way we're going. D0 you seriously think she will question methods if we prove it, wasn't Charles?"

"I wish I knew," said Jane mis- srably; but she subsided, and bent all her energies to keeping Huglrir-‘s mind diverted from the direction they were taking.

At the tum into the meadows he had lagged for s, step or two, and his hands had pulled to be free. His face paled, and his eyes be- gan to wander uneasily from side to side, as if he looked for a way of escape. But there was as yet no frenzy in his mind, only a vague u-nquiet stirring of memories. They went on at a steady pace, lifting his reluctant weight along between

ledge of his disquiet,

To get him from the lane into the field was not difficult, but to get him from the field into the garden was quite another matter. At sight of the gate hs hung back. and made s, small sound of protest between his teeth, They felt the drag of his hands and steeled their hearts and drew him on, making inexorable pretence that they notic- ed nothing.

He went with them unwillingly, dragging his feet, plunging like a frightened animal, and trying with a pathetic stealth to work his arms free from their hold.

At the gate he stood perfectly

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glean send one or more Hangers with each

them, and dlssembling their know“

in their mihds that his terror was

the murder. And Hughle had not for the c/nly possible reason that

crowning of murder. They had neither of

them ever done a-tiyihing so hard as this leading forward of the helpless idiot to face his own nightmare fears. But once begun it had to be finished.

They brought him, stiff with terror, to the first edge of the sunken garden, and still he only stared rigidly and made no sound. Somehow they led him down into the heart of the glowing clouds of roses, and into the central place where the bushes were trampled and broken still from the death struggle of Austin Hart.

' The full significance of the scene 'seemed to seize upon I-iuglric's mind suddenly. Life came back to his face, a horrible li-fo, haunted rand dreadfully intelligent; the | flesh shrank and whitcncd like wax ‘upon his bones, and his mouth |fell open, his ohin shaking in a paroxysm of terror.

Jane put her hands to her face

and stood back from him. which; , lng intently as he stared round the lgarden remembering and re-envis- 'aging the scene which had boon ronacted there. Then all the 3 muscles of his face seemed to con- tor in one wild nervous spasm; lie gave a scream which made Jane cry out in alarm after him; and, pitching forward upon his face into the bushes and jagged stones, began to thrash the ground hor- ribly with his thin arms and legs and batter his head and face into the soil.

Jane screamed again. It was tcc sudden and too overwhelming; her mind could not face it, She said: “Oh, Jim—-oh, Jim!" in a foolish way, and began to cry helplessly, "Oh, Jim, what have we done!"

Jim had plunged upon the heav- ing, twlstin figure in a moment and raised ll. in his arms, strug- gling to pinion the flying hands. One of Hughie‘: fists caught him full in the mouth, and the nails drew three crimson streaks down his chin. He kept his hold, and lifted the boy clear of the ground, and held him from among the thorns.

"Janel" he said sharply. "Help me! Quick --take hold of his wrist and help me to hoist him." And as she hesitated in a horror of touching him: “Come on. Do as I tell you."

She caught then at the small ﬂailing wrist, and prisoned it; and Jim, plunging beneath the taut arm, liftedllughie by the thigh! and bore him screaming out of the heavin roses to kneel with him upon t e grass.

"A pencil -quickly--" He held one hand back to her impatiently. "Fountain pen, them-anything thin and hard-J’

She gave him s, shell-handled nail file out of her handbag, and

pried it between Hughie‘: clenched teeth. They gave quite easily to the touch, s fact which appeared to occasion Jim consid- erable astonishment and even more satisfaction. And as he held him fast, ignoring the way the boy beat at him and clawed, Jim seemed to be seeing through mysteries. A light of triumph came into his eyes.

He thrust the file back hurried- ly at Jane, and drew Hughie more firmly into his arms. The paroxvsm was passing, The possessed body shed its demon suddenly, and Hughie fell lim in Jim‘s hold, less than half-consc ous, his face smear- ed with loam. his hands and one cheek scratched by thorns.

Neither of them, in the stress of the moment, had given a thought to anyone or anything outside the immediate scene. Now they started round hurriedly as an authorita- tive volce demanded behind them:

"What in heaven's name is going on here?"

Thea Hart and Dr. Wayland were standing wide-eyed at the end of the clipped hedge, staring down at thsm. Jim rose to his feet.

But this is very a prongs," he 531d 90°"! “Dr. Wayland, you come pat upon your cue."

(To be continued.)

IODIES BROUGHT HOME

WIBTDVER FIELD, Mug“ lept. l2 —(APi—Five American airmen shot< down by Yugqgigv ﬂlhters Aug l9. came home to- day-ln coffins. AnArmy trans- ‘ port command nlane landed m,

this airbase after a flight from

Rome. with a step at Labrador 1t | was enroute to Washington, where , LcfﬂIlOnIQl will be held. '

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Younger folk too, drifted sway beyond the shadowy gates of death, the strange portals which separate the here from “the things to come." "Death is a door," Nancy Byrd glurner says and the lines are love-

‘Desth is only an old door, set in a garden wall;

Oh gentle hinges it gi-vea, at dusk, when the thrnshes call. Along the llntel are green "leaves, beyond the light les still; V81? willing and weary feet, go over the sill,

There is nothing to trouble any llam- rwthins to hurt at "all.

Death is only a quiet door. in an old wall.‘

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