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By LAWRENCE M. LYNCH (E. M. Van Deventer)

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CHAPTER XIX.

The sudden and surprising exit of Bur- rill caused, for a moment, a stay of pro- ceedings, and left the group, so rapidly gathered in Nance Burrill’s kitchen, sanding en tableaux, for a full minute.

Dr. Heath was the first to recover from his surprise,and as he took in the absurd-

ity of the scene, he uttered a low laugh, and turned once more toward the woman, Nance, who seemed to have lost herself ina prolonged stare.

“Your persecuter does not like my jooks, apparently,’’ he said, at the same time taking from his pocket a small medicine case. ‘‘Or was it some of these good friends that put him to Sight?’’ And he glanced at the group gathered pear the door.

A woman with a child in her arms, and her husband with two more in charge, at her heels; a family group to the rescue; two or three old women, of course; and a man with a slouching gait, ashock of unruly red hair, and a face yery much freckled across the cheek bones, and very red about the nose; the eyes, too, had an uncanny squint, as if nature had given up her task too soon and left him to survey the world through the narrow slits. This man had always an air of being profoundly interested in the smallest affairs of life, perhaps be- cause the slits through which he gazed magnified the objects gazed upon, and he peered about him now with profoundest solicitude. This was Watt Brooks, a me- chanic, and hanger-on about the mills, where he did an occasional bit of odd work, and employed the balance of his time in gossiping among the women, or lounging at the drinking saloons, talking a great deal about the wrongs of the working classes, and winning to himself some friends from wu certain turbulent elass who listened admiringly to his loud comnmunistic oratory.

Brooks*had not been long in W—, but he had made rapid headway among that class who, having little or nothing to loye or to fear, are not slow to relieve the 1 existence by a propriating to themselves the frien p of every hail fellow whom chance throws in their way.

Accordingly Brooks had become a sort of oracle among the dwellers in ‘‘ Mill avenue,"’ as the street was facetiously called, and he was ready for any dish of gossip, not infrequently making himself conspicuous as a teller of news; he was faithful in gathering up and retajling small items among such ladies of the “avenue’’ as, being exempted from mill work because of family cares, had time and inclination, and this latter was sekiom lacking, to chatter with him about the latest mishap, or the one that was bound to occur soon.

Prominent among the gossips of Mill avenue was that much abused matron Mrs. John Burrill number one, and she had not been slow to discover the advant- ages of possessing such an acquaintance as Mr. Brooks; accordingly they gravi- tated toward each other by mutual attrac- tion, and it was quite a common thing for Brooks to drop in and pass an even- ing hour in the society of Mrs. Burrill, sometimes even taking a cup of tea at the table of the lone woman on a Sun- day afternoon.

As Doctor Heath laid his case upon the small pine table, and prepared to deal outa soothing lotion for the bruised Mrs. Burrill, Brooks advanced courage- ously, supported on either hand by an anxious old lady, and the chorus com- menced.

“It warn’'t us as sgared him out, sir,”’ said Brooks, positively. ‘‘He’s seen all of us, first and last. Maybe as he’s had cause for remembering you sir?’’ and Brooks peered anxiously at the doctor, as if hoping for a prompt confirmation of this shrewd guess.

“Sure, an’ it was a guilty conscience, |

ifeverI seen one, as made the brute beast run like that, from the sight of the doctor,’’ chimed in first old lady, who quarreled with her *‘old man’’ on prin- ciple, and seldom came out second best. “Faith, an’ the murtherin’ wretch has half killed ye, Burrill, dear.’’

“I was that scart with the screamin’,”’ said the mother of three, ‘‘that I nearly let the baby fall a-runnin’ here.”

And then they all gathered around Mrs. Burrill, and talked vigorously, and all together, while Brooks. hovering near the doctor, pursued his investigation.

“A bad lot, that Burrill, sir. I’ve seen him, frequent; and so he’s had occasion to know you, sir?’

“No, my good fellow; I never had the honor of meeting Mr. John Burrill be- fore,,’’ replied Doctor Heath, smiling at the man’s pertinacity. |

“Now, 1 want to know,” exclaimed Brocks, in accents of real distress, ‘‘then What could have set him off like that?’’

“I suppose we were getting too many for him,"’ replied the doctor, easily ;

“Not a bit of it sir. Burrill ain’t no! Coward, especially when he’s in liquor ;

#nd he and me’s on good enough terms, too; though, of course,”’ said Brooks, re- collecting himself, and glancing anxious- ly at the reclining figure of the injured One, “of course, I would never stand by and See a lady struck down, sir.’’ :

; Manifestly not,’’ replied the doctor. drily. “Then, as he would not fear you,

and could not fear me, he must have been

of ‘snake seeing.’ "’ n, he took you for some- as he has reasons to be afraid

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ot,’* said oné of the women, With an em- phatic nod.

But here the voice of the heroine of the occasion rose high above the rest.

‘‘John Burrill wasn’t so drunk as to run away from a man he. never saw, or to see crooked,’’ she said, flercely. ‘I saw the look on his face, blinded tho’ I was, and he’s afraid of you, Doctor Heath. I don’t know why. There’s some secrets in John Burrill’'s life that I don’t know, and there’s more that I wish I didn’t Know; but here, or somewhere else, he has known you, sir. Perhaps only by sight; but he’s afraid of you, that’s certain.’’

There was no reply from Doctor Heath; he was busy over hés medicine case. He prepared a lotion, to be applied to the bruises, and a sedative, to be applied to the nerves of the patient, who was be- ginning to recover herself in a measure, and launched out into a torrent of in- vective against the author of her trouble; after which she rushed into a wild recital of her wrongs, beginning at the time when she left a good place in England, to follow the fortunes of John Burrill, and running with glib tongue over the entire gamut of her trials since. And all of this, although it was far from new to the dwellers of Mill Avenue, was listened to, by them, with absorbed interest, and the proper accompaniment of ejacula- tions at the proper places. During this discourse, to which Brooks listened with evidences of liveliest interest, Doctor Heath remained seemingly inattentive, waiting for a lull in the storm; when it came at last, he ascertained as briefly as possible, who among the women would remain, and pass the night with Mrs. Burrill; gave her direction, as to the use she was to make of the medicines he had prepared, and . buttoned his coat about him, preparatory to departure.

As his hand was upon the lateh, the voice of his patient arrested him.

*“Doctor,’’ ‘she said, earnestly. ‘‘It wouldn't be gratitude in me to let you gO away without a word of warning. I don’t want to pry into your : ffairs, but let me tell you this: You are not done with John Burrill; you took him by sur- prise to-night; but I'll wager ‘he is over his scare by now, and he is plotting how he can get another sight at you, unbe- known to yourself; and, if he has reason to be afraid of you, then look out for him; you have reasons for being afraid too.’’

Doctor Heath hesitated a moment, and a shade of annoyance cross2:d his face, then he said in his ugual careless tone :—

‘“Give yourself no uneasiness about this matter, madam; I rever saw the scoundrel before, and he was simply afraid of my fist. However, if he ever should cross my path, be assured I shall know how to dispose of him;’’ and Clifford Heath bowed and went out into the night, little reckoning that he had left his life in the hands of five old women.

In a short time, Brooks arose and shuffled out, and then the tongues were once more loosened; the husband attend- ant had been ordered home with his two charges, and ‘the chief subject of their converse was Doctor Heuth; and the strange influence he had exerted upon John Burrill; and a fruitful theme they found it.

Meantime, John Burrill, who had fled straight on down the gloomy length of Mill avenue, found himself, and his sen- ses, together, close under the shadow of one of the huge factories, and at the river's very edge.

Here, breathless and bespattered, he sat down upon a flat stone to recover himself, and review the situation.

‘‘Curse the man,’’ he muttered. ‘I would not have made such a fool of my- self for a gold mine; but I couldn’t have helped it for two,’’ he added, after a moment's reflection, ‘“‘if it’s the man I supposed it to be! But it can’t be! It is not.’’

He was by this time comparatively sober, and he arose to his feet, finally, feeling his courage returning, but still deep in thought. -

‘‘Hang the luck,’’ he muttered, ing viciously at a loose stone. ‘‘If that’s the man I fear, then Jasper Lamotte would be glad to know him. Why!’’ starting suddenly erect, ‘‘I can find out, and I will. I must, for my own safety,’’ and John Burrill faced about and retraced his steps.

Cautiously this time, he went over the ground, heeding where he set his foot, lest some misstep should betray his pres- ence in Mill avenue still; more and more cautiously as he neared the house from which he had so lately fled.

Closer and closer he crept, until at last he was under the window the kitchen, and here he crouched, listening. He heard the mingled confusion of voices, then the firm clear above the rest. Hearing this, he moved quickly away, for he was in in- stant danger of detection, should the docr open suddenly, as it might at any mo- ment.

He crossed the street and standing under the shadow of a small tenement, waited.

It was not long before the door opened, and the light from within showed him the tall form of Clifford Heath, clearly outlined against the darknesss.

Out strode Heath, walking so rapidiy, that the not yet quite sober John Bur- ril. found himself compelled to exercise

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him within sight.

On and on, went the pursued and the pursuer, and presently, out of the dark- ness, Came a third form, gliding shadow- like; as if every step of the way were too familiar to render caution necessary; this third form drew nearer and nearer to Burrill; who,’ all ‘unconsicous “of ' ite proximity, labored on after Doctor Heath.

Straight to his own cottage went the doubly shadowed young physician; he opened the door with a latch key, and the followers lost him in the darkness of the unlighted vestibule. Presently, however, a light was seen to glimmer through the partially closed blinds, and then John Burrill crept cautiously nearer, and feel- ing his way carefully, lest some obstacle at his feet should cause him to stumble, he gained the window, pressed his face close to the shutters and peered t ugh.

Clifford Heath was pacing up and dcotwn his cosy sitting room, seemingly lost in perplexed thought, and, as again end again his face was turned to the light, the watcher studied it closely; finally he seemed satisfied with his scrutiny, for he turned away and groped back to the street once more.

‘It’s the other one,’’ he muttered, drawing a long breath of relief. ‘‘ I might have known it from the first; so he is the young doctor they tell of! Well, it’s a rum game that brings him here, and it’s certain he don’t want to be known. He can’t know me, and—Jove, I'd like to pay him for the hits he gave me,’’ and he fell to pondering as he turned his steps, not the way he had come, nor yet toward Mapleton, but in the direction of ‘‘Old Forty Rods.’’ But long before he reached his destination, the creeping, stealthy shadow, had ceased to follow, and had vanished down a side street.

A few lights were glimmering, here and there, as he turned down the not very elegant street on which was located the haven of ‘‘Forty Rods,’’ and when he was within” a block of” the*pilace, a man, coming suddenly around the corner, ran square against him.

Burrill uttered an oath, as he with difficulty regained his balance, but the new-comer called ‘Out ina voice, a little unsteady from some cause :—

‘*Hellca! B—Burrill, that yer, ole feller? Vidn’t mean ter knock against yer, give-ye my word I didn’t. Give us a fiss, ole man, an’ come-longto Forty’s!’’

*‘Brooks,’’ said Burrill, taking him sociably by the arm, and facing toward the saloon in question. ‘‘Brooks, you're drunk; you're beastly drunk; drunk as a sailor by all that’s sober.’’ And together they entered ‘‘Old Forty Rods.’’

(To be Continued.)

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