YORI IORRHIRK

ee: The Diamond Coterie*

By LAWRENCE M. LYNCH (E. M. Van Deventer) Authoe of “A Woman's Crime,” “Johan Arthur’s Ward,” “The Lost

Witness,” “A Slender Clue,” “Dangerous Ground,”

“ Against Odds,” Etc., Etc.

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CHAPTER XXXVI.

jhe morning of the following day preaks gray and dismal. The wind has peen blowing all the night through, and the fallen

wherever a tree stands, there rain-soaked; for it

Jeaves lie. thick and

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js raining, drizzling weather, and above, | ielow, and around, all is gray, and dull, |

and dreary. Dr. Heath's cottage stands aloof from all other dwellings quite by itself, for the

houses stand wide apart in this suburban | tion of the town, and he has selected |

the pretty place because of its quiet heauty, and comparative isolation. He has neighbors within sight, within hear-

_ too, should he choose to be vocifer- ous, but the houses about him all stand within their own pleasant grounds. nearest neighbor, on the one hand, has placed a fine orchard between them, and on the other hand, he has no neighbor at all; there is a vacant lot, well planted and pleasantly ruinous to see. A fine dwelling had once occupied the site, but fire had destroyed it, and the gaping cellar, a pile of burnt bricks, and some charred debris, are all that remain. summer the place is one tangled growth

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of roses and flowering shrubs, and Doctor | Heath makes free with the flowers in | their season, and even swings his ham- |

mock there among the old trees,that out- number his own, and have outstripped them, too, in years and growth.

Opposite the doctor’s cottage stands a handsome dwelling, far back among the trees. It is the home of Lawyer O’ Meara and his wife; and the two are the doctor's firm friends.

Beyond the O'Meara dwelling and on the same side of the street, stretches a row of cottages, built and owned by Mr. O'Meara. These are occupied by some thrifty mechanics, and one or two of the best of the mill workers. They are neat, new, tasteful, and well cared for by their tenants.

Clifford Heath awake a little later than usual, this dismal, gray morning; he hadteturned from his second visit to Sybil Burrill at a late hour; and after sitting beside his fire,pondering long over many things, had retired, to sleep soundly, and to wake late. What first rouses him is a knocking upon his door, aregular tattoo, beaten by his house- keeper, grown impatient over coffee too long brewed, and neuffins too brown.

He makes his toilet after a leisurely fashion, smiling a little at the vociferous barking of his dog, Prince.

The dog is always confined in the stable at night, where he is a safe com- panion and sure protection to the doc- tor’s fine horse; and now, it being past the time when he is usually liberated, he is making his wrongs heard, and there will be no more repose or quiet until Prince is set free.

“Poor fellow,'’ calle his master, as he swings open the stable door. ‘Poor Prince! Good, old boy! Come now, and yca shall have a splendid breakfast to compefisate for my neglect.’’

The dog bounds out, a splendid bull dog, strong, flerce, and white as milk. He fawns upon his master, leaps about him, barks joyfully, and then follows obediently to the kitchen. The dog pro- vided for, Doctor Heath goes in out of the rain, shaking the water from his coat, and tossing it aside in favor of a dry one; and then he applies himself to his own breakfast.

The warmth and comfort witkin cre intensified by the dreariness without, Mrs. Gray has lighted a fire in the grate. and he turns toward it, sipping his coffee

leisurely, enjoying the warmth all the more because of an occasional glance out of the window.

Two men pass—two of the cottagers— his neighbors, who, storm, have turned back toward their homes.

“Poor devils!’ mutters the doctor, fympathetically; ‘‘they don’t fancy lay- ing brick and mixing mortar in weather like this; and one of them has no over- coat; I must keep that in mind, and sup- ply him, if he will accept one, from out Iny store.’’

He stirs the fire briskly, takes another sip from his half emptied cup, and goes of in a reverie. Presently there’ comes the sound of a dog’s angry barking, and soon mingled with the canine cries, the Voices of men calling to one another, ‘tying for aid. But so pleasant is his Meditation, and so deep, that their founds du not rouse him; they reach his @ars, ‘tis true; he has a vague sense of disagreeable sounds, but they do not break his reverie.

Something else does, however, a brisk

Mmering on the street door, and a loud, high pitched voice, calling :—

“Heath! Heath, I say!"’

Re starts up, shakes himself and his ideas, together, and goes to face the in- truder upon his meditations. It is his Reighbor across the way.

“Heath, heve you lost your ears or your senses?’’ he cries, impatiently;

What the devil has your dog found, that hus set these fellows in such a panic? Something's wrong; they want you to come and control the dog.”’ _*‘Heath! Heath!’’ comes from the Joining vacant lot; ‘‘come, Sake, quick!’

in another moment, Clifford Heath has Seized his hat, and, followed by his neighbor, is out in the yard.

‘Come this way, O'Meara,” he says. quickly; ‘that is if you can leap the ‘fs not higvh.’’ and he strides

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through his own grounas, scaies tne 1n- tervening palings, and ina few seconds is on the scene.

On the scene! At the edge of the old cellar, one of the men recently denomin- ated, ‘‘poor devils,’’ by the musing doc- tor, is gesticulating violently, and urging him forward with lips that are pale with terror.

Down in the old cellar, the second man, paler still than the first, is making futile efforts to draw the dog away from something, at which he is clawing and tearing, barking furiously all the time.

Something lies under a heaped us mass of leaves, grass, and freshly turned earth; something from which the fierce beast is tearing away the covering with rapid movements. As he leaps down into the cellar, Clifford Heath sees what it is that has so terrified the two men. From under the leaves and earth, Prince has brought to light a human foot and leg!

Instantly he springs forward, his hand upon the dog’s collar, his face pale as ashes.

‘*Prince!’’ away, sir.’’

The dog crouches, quails for a mo- ment, then utters a low growl, and tries to shake himself free; for the first time, he refuses to obey his master.

But it is his master; there is a short, sharp struggle, and then the brute cowers, whining at his feet.

‘*Wait!’’ he says, imperiously to the men, and then, speaking a stern word of command, he strides away, followed by the conquered and trembling brute.

It is the work of a moment to chain him fast; and then Clifford Heath goes swiftly back to the men, who stand very much as he left them.

“Can this be some. trick?’’ Mr. O'Meara is saying, peering down from the edge of the cellar wall at the mound of earth and the protruding leg.

“There is no trick here,’’ replies Clifford Heath, once more _ springing down into the cellar. ‘‘My dog would not be deceived. Come down here, O'Meara; this thing must be unearthed.’’

Mr. O'Meara lowers himself carefully down, and the man who has thus far stood sentinel follows suit. Then the four approach the mound once more. Fora moment they regard each other silently, then one of the masons says :—

“Tf we had a spade.”’

‘‘Not yet,’’ breaks in Lawyer ’OMeara, ‘“‘Tet’s make sure that we have found something before we cause any alarm to be given. Get some boards; we do not want a spade.”’

The boards are found easily, and they look to O'Meara again, all but Clifferd Heath, who stands near the mound gaz- ing downward as if fascinated. While O'Meara speaks he stoops swiftly, and then carries his hand to his pocket.

‘‘Let’s remove the—upper portion of whatever this is,’’ says the lawyer nerv- ously, ‘‘and work carefully. This looks like—”’

‘‘It looks like murder,’’ says Clifford Heath, quietly. ‘‘ Pull away the dirt care- fully, men.’’

They are all strong-nerved, courageous man; yet they are all very pale, as they bend to their task.

A few moments, and Mr. O’Meara utters a sharp exclamation, drops his board, and draws back. They have un- earthed a shoulder, an arm, a clenched hand.

A moment more, and Clifford Heath, too, withdraws from his task, the cold sweat standing thick upon his temples. They are uncovering a head, a head that is shrouded with something white.

To Mr. O'Meara, to Clifford Heath, the moment is one of intense unmixed horror. To the men who still bend to their work, the horror has its mixture of curiosity. Whose is, the face they are about to look upon?

Instinctively the two more refined men @raw farther back, instinctively the othera bend closer.

Swiftly they work. The last bit of earth is removed from the face; carefully they draw away a large white handker- chief, then utter a cry of horror.

‘“My God!’’ cries one, ‘‘it is John Bur- rill.”’

he cries; ‘‘Prince! come

CHAPTER XXVIL.

It is John Burrill!

Lying there, half buried still, with clenched hands and features distorted. It is John Burrill, dead.

Clifford Heath utters a sharp exclama- tion. He starts forward suddenly, and looks, not upon the dead face, but straight at the white thing that is still held in the hand of one of the masons. Then he snatches it from the man flerce- ly, looks at it again and more closely, and lets it fallfrom his grasp. For 4 moment all is black to his viston, and over his face a ghastly pallor creeps. Slowly, slowly, he lifts his hand to his forehead, rests it there for a moment, and seems making an effor¢é to think. Then he drops his hand; he Hfts his head; he draws himeelf erect.

‘‘O’Meara,’’ he says, in & vWoice strangely hollow and unfamiliar, and pointing to the fallen handkerchief, ‘Look at that. I am going home; when you want me you will find me _ there.’’ And without having so much as glanced at the dead face so near him, he goes slowly towavds his cottage, holding his head proudly erect still.

Mr. O’Meara turns away from the

corpse, and gazes for a moment after the wcteoating form

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of his friend: then he.

MAY 29, 1897,

ICKS UP the hanakercniel; 16 18 ur SOTUEST inmen, and across one corner he reads the embroidered name of Clifford Heath. For a moment he stands with the tell- tale thing held loosely in his hand, and then he bends down, spreads it once more over the dead face, and turns to the men.

‘*This body must not be disturbed fur- ther.’’ he says, authorétatively. ‘‘One of you go at once and notify Soames, and then Corliss. Fortunately, Soames lives quite near. Degn’t bring a gang here. Let's conduct this business decently and in order. Do you go, Bartlett,’’ address- ing the younger of the two men. ‘‘We will stay here until the mayor comes.’’

And Lawyer O’Meara buttons his coat tightly about him and draws closer to the cellar wall, the better to protect him- self from the drip, drip, of the rain.

‘It is a horrible thing, sir,’’ ventured the mechanic, further away from the ghastly thing outlined, and made more horrible, by the wet, white covering. ‘It’s a fearful deed for some- body, and—it looks as if the right man

drawing

wasn't far away; we all know how he and Burrill were—’’

‘‘Hold your tongue, man,’’ snapped O'Meara, testily, ‘‘keep ‘what we all know’ until you are called on to testify.

I have something to think about.’’

And he does think, long and earnestly, regardless of the rain; regardless alike of the restless living companion and of the silent dead.

By and by, they come, the officers, the curious gazers; the rain is nothing to them in a case like this; there is much running to and fro; there are all the scenes and incident attendant upon a firsst-class horror. A messenger is dispatched, in haste, to Mapleton, and, in the wind and rain, the drama moves on.

The messenger to Mapleton rides in hot haste; he finds none but the servants astir in that stately house; to them he breaks the news, and then waits while they rouse Frank Lamotte; for Jasper Lamotte has not returned from the city.

After a time he comes down, pale and troubled of countenance; he can scarcely credit the news he hears; he is terribly shocked, speechless with the horror of the story told him.

By and by, he recovers his composure, in a measure; he goes to his mother’s room, and tells her the horrible news; he orders the servants to be careful what they say in his sister’s presence, and not to approach Eyan’s room; then he tells the coachman to meet Mr. Lamotte, who will come on the noon express, with the carriage. After which, he swallows a glass of brandy; and, without waiting for breakfast, mounts his horse and gal- lops madly townward.

Meantime, the fast express is steam- ing toward W—, bearing among its hu- man freight, Mr. Jasper Lamotte; and never has W— seen upon his usually serene face such a look as it now wears. It is harassed, baffled, discontented, sur- ly. He knows no one among the passen- gers, and he sits aloof from his fellow travelers, making no effort to while away the time, as travelers do.

As they near W—, however, he shakes off his dullness, and lays aside his look of care; and when he steps upon the platform at W—, he is to all appearance, the same smiling suave man, who went away three days before.

There are several other passengers for W—, among whom we may see a portly, dignified gentleman who looks to be somewhere in the forties, and who evi- dently has a capital opinion of himself, and knows what he is about. He is fash- ionably dressed, and wears a splendid diamond in his shirt front. He carries in his hand a small valise, and asks fora carriage to the best hotel.

Close behind him is another man, of a different stripe. He is a rakish looking fellow, dressed in smart but cheap cloth- ing. He carries in his hand a small, square package, neatly strapped, and this alone would betray his calling, were it not so obvious in his look and manner. The ‘‘book flend’’ has descended upon W—. He looks about him carelessly, watches the portly gentleman as he is driven away in the carriage for the W— Hotel, sees Mr. Jasper Lamotte enter his landau, and drive swiftly away, and then he trudges cheerily townward, swinging his packet of books as he goes.

When they are out of sight of the gap- ing crowd about the depot, the coachman, acting under Frank’s orders, brings his horses to a walk, and, turning upon his seat. addresses his mastar.

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There is always hope forthe man who can be taught what a fool he has been by one mistake.

One finger lost ia a buzzsaw will do for most men, but a fool will fool with it again and lose two.

Reason always walks, but love runs.

If there is nothing in a man, his ‘‘op- portunity’’ never comes.

’ The saddest ignorance in this world

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One of the highest mountains upon which we may stand in this life is to be able to look back upon a long life well spent.—Ram’s Horn.

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IDR CLIF

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