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> HAPTER IX, RSE THE PRESCRIPTION. ;

7 i myself for the shock of this : i Miss Lawrence to s ill in a dead faint. I ; ‘ ive her in my arms i I mother with my as-

al or three seconds the still- ness of tl room was as that of death. Then there was a faint rustling of skirts, and I gazed upon the young woman beside me.

Her fa was slichtiy paler, amd there was an expression in the ecycs |; that was unfathomable.

Without a word by either of us, she gently rese to her feet, and, leaning ever, placed both arms round my neck, with a tenderness of compassion like that of a mother for.a dying son.

“ Dear Harold,” she murmured, ‘“ you | need rest. Go hore and think no ; more of this.”

Her words and manner were a reve- lation They told the whole story.

She hed heard my declaraiion, not for an instant cid it cause a doubt in her mind. Had I not falsified with my statement of the effect, produc ad on my brain by the shock Of the fall she might have been disturbed, but she laid it all to that. I was not clear in my head. That had by several trifling incidents in our con- versation, the cap sheaf coming when I.turned upon her and squarely de- nied my own identity.

“I will do so. You are right,” 1 said, grasping like 2 drowning man at the straw which enabled me to termieaie the distressing interview. “You will understand, Jeanette, if you do not hear from er see me for some time.”

“ Yes,”’ she replied, in the same gen-

tle voice, holding up her cheek for the }

good-by kiss. “ Wil you not consult seme specialist ?”

“If necessary.” Ard a minute tater —I rardly know how it was—I was outside the house and walking home- ward.

“If this goes on, I shall begin te doubt my own personality. She will not be convinced until Harald and I walk into her presence, side by side.”

It was all like a herrible opium dream—a mixture of delirious happi- ness and hidecus unrea‘ity, more vivid

than reality itself. But as I walked briskly in the cool zight «air, my

tkeughts clarified.

I regretted the revelation I had at- tempted to make, and yet had I failed to make it my self scoin would have been intolerable. It was the remem- brance of my rally from the seductive revel and my resolute meeting of duty which saved my honour, in my own <stimatien.

“ There is but one course before me, and that is a plain one. I cannot straighten out this frightful tangle of myself. She will not believe me, theugh I make oath 1,000 times. Oniy the presence of Harold can convince rer of her error. I will cable to him to return by next steamer, giving him knowledge of the truth. Meanwhile at all costs I will keep away from his betrothed. I will send her word that I am about to leave town for a few weeks, and will not come back until Harold arrives on the ground and makes it all clear.”’

This course was so obviously a com- mon sense one that I wondered it had

not presented itself nefore. It was comparitively early in the evening when I entered the elevator

at my apartments.

* Have I had any calls 7 I asked.

*One—a gentleman.”’

* How long since ?’’

“Shortly after you went cut.”

“ Did you tell him I was not in ?”

“No, sir, for I didn’t krow it. Jim thad jvst gone off, and I took his place. The :man got out of the clevator. walk- ed to your door and touched the bell. I went on up to the top storey, and when I came down he was waiting for me.”

* Did he have anything to say ?”

‘He said as how you wasn’t in. Then I ‘happened to remember thet I had a etter for you and was going to step out to drop it in your box, when he said he would do it for me. I handed it to him, and he walked across the hall and dropped it through the door.”

* Describe the man.”

* Rather small, stepped quick, had

a@gray suit of clothes and a Derby hat.” It was enough. Cover Cone had

been watching on the opposite side of

the str-et until he saw me leave the building. Then, when the coast was clear, he went up to my room.

What was his object ? Although he had my fee in his poclst

at the time and was in my employ, the scamp was shadowing me. He was working for someone else and

ageinst myself.

Who was his employer ?

It was impossible to conjecture at this stage, but it looked as if some one held a suspicion of the truth, and he was plotting in such person’s behalf.

iis visit to*-my rooms when sure I wes absent was with the purpose cf getting possession of a letter, and his ittle scheme had been successful.

What letter was it ?

While these thoughts were flitting hrough my brain I had entered the outer room of my upartments. There lay a letter, where it had fallen to the

fleor after being dropped through the s] in my door, for Harold had ar- ranged that his mail should be deliv- € i in that fashion.

Ripping open the envelope, I saw that the few lines were a petition for money. Some youtn had just con-

ceived an all he which would make w ealthy that,

invention so wonderful that needed was the funds with

cure a patent, when he evervone concerned so as he expressed it. none

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Hardly pausing to read the signa- ture i tore the missive into fragments and flung it into the gaping waste- basket.

rerl ss mY nt experience had shary 1 my wits, but es I sat quiet- ly smoking my cigar the whole plot, as I believed it to be, unrolled before me.

The letter received a aotaes of days before from Chica; and signed “Budd.” was written ie a scoundrel with whom Harold was guiltily con- nected. A suspicion of that fact was in the mind : on Cone when

he called a my room He suspect- ed the envi > in the > w vast: basket and the glimps hich he caught of it fix- ed the eaee riting in his mind.

Without knowing that I had tele- graphed to ‘* Budd,” he believed that another letter would soon be due from the same quarter, and he adopted a bold plan for securing it.

it is the very audacity of such

schemes that brings success.

| withdrawn at the cntical moment, and

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he secured the letter just as the ele- vator boy described. When he stepped to my door, with

his hack toward the waiting lad, he slipped my letter into his pocket. while the one brought with him for just such an emergency was dropped through the aoor into the room.

The begging missive from the inven- tive young man was a blind. It had been prepared by Detective Cone and took the place of the important let- ter.

T had telegraphed to “Budd” to write me the particulars, and the time had élapeed for him to do so. Doubtless the whole plot was revealed in that letter which infernal fate had sent astray. Had it reached me as in- tended I would have been forearmed against a most serious danger.

“ Well, if the storm breaks on my head, I must take it. The only way of escape that I can think of is to take

Covey Cone into my confidence and tell him everything.

“Suppose I did so? He wouldn't believe me, and, since mo one can be convinced that I am not Harold West- cott, the whole thing will be looked upon as a miserable dodge by a crimi- nal to save himself.

“I am dead set against revealing this unprecedented state of affairs to anyone, andIam mighty sure not todo so until certain it will effect some good.”

Resolutely forcing the matter from my thoughts for the time, I addressed myself to the other equally important phase of this extraordinary business.

The course of cabling to Harold, as it presented itself to me on my way home from the ‘Lawrences, with a statement that Miss Lawrence ad ar- rived, that I had seen her, and that it was imperatively necessary he should return at once, seemed to be so simple and straightforward ‘that, as I have said, the wonder was it did not present itself to me at first.

But now, in the light of later events, more than one obstacle obtruced. As matters looked Harold was hopeless- ly involved in the criminal scheme of “ Budd,” of Chicago, and, much as he might wish to return, he would not dare do so.

Nevertheless, I would not have hesi- tated to cable him had it beer in my Lower.

Again, matter proved to be hopelessly diffi- cult. Seemingly, all that was neces- sary was to telegraph to Liverpool, so that the message weuld meet him be- fore he touched land. Had this de- cision been made a few days before that would have been the true course.

Over a week, however, had passed since Harold sailed in the Luatcania. and by looking at the papers I found she had reached Liverpool mere than two days before. za. telegram, there- fore, to that city could not be deliver- ed, for it was not to be supposed that Harold had left any directions except for his mail, and even that was doub:- ful.

‘No,” I sald, grimty, till I

“TIT must wait receive a letter from him, and there’s no saying when that will be. He may have dropped me a line from Liverpool, or it is more likely he has thought that unnecessary and will put it off for several weeks.

“But he must learn befcre long, it ke has not already done so, that Jean- ette and her mother are on this side

“Well, if the storm breaks an my head, I must take it.”

of the world. What, then, will he do ? He can’t content himself for a year in Europe. If he undertakes to do so, he will send for her to join him.

“ Heavens, what will she think when his letter arrives? Of course he wi! socen write to her. She will believe that ir is her brain that_is topsy turvy. When

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sn f@cL titer. 1 aun not what I seemed to her, she will be ready to die of mortification, but,” I

exclaimed, rousing up, ‘away with all

this speculation! The house is afire, und I must get out.”

The electric bell tinkled, and a cara was handed to me. . wes “2. of Shipnen, M.D.’

‘Show him up. What the dickens does he want ?” T asked mvself.

He was a pleasing, middle-ared fen- tleman, smooth shaven, with a e nial faee, aud from behind his gold spec- tacles a pair of pleasant bh eyes beamed upon me.

‘How @o you do, Harold ?”

I took the warm hand in my own and returned the honest pressur: [ had never seen _the physician before, though it Was apparent that he was an old acauaintance of Harold.

‘Miss Lawrence and her mother ask-

mn you I alled there this evening tust after vou lef Thev-usid your sad troubled yor siz that fearful fall in th park the ot} day. if I understand it, your mem- ory {es at fault?!"

Bless the heart of the good Jean- ette ! This w her doing

‘I have read of queer freaks of the memory due to some violent iar.”

Several remarkable instances are recorded. I knew of a case in Cin- cinnati where a man stepped thr ugh a hatchway. He seemed to have fully

when it was found that had lost his memorv for names. He could not remember those of his wife or children, nor, indeed, his own.’’ ** Did he on cinary

recovered, he

regain his memory ?’ one of the features of the was change in his affliction nearly a year. Then one day the pre- cise accident was repeated. He fell through the same hatchway, he was struck sensel: ess, and. when he recov- ered, his memory was normal and never afterward caused him trouble.”

* Similia similibus curantyr, Zi will take another ride on a vicious horsée. Better to use that Jack, who, I am sorry to say. did not break his neck; be thrown, and, presto, I shall be all right again.”

“Hardly that,” smiled the ‘““My prescription is rest and of thought. or two out of town, and, my word for it, you will find your brain in as good working order as ever.”

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“Your advice is good, and shall be followed.”

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(To be Continued.)

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os the last three years, says The

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Suicide is largely a matter of insane im pulse, and such an impulse can often be ascertained even in the case of those who have lone been indifferent to life and have contemplated suicide. If a man must put on his hat and overcoat, walk to a drng store and tax his inge- nuity for a lie with which to explain his desire for poison, he may postpone the fatal act from mere inertia, or he may meet a friend or have his interest in life aroused by one of a multitude of every- day occurrences or physical exercise may bring him tohis senses. If, as is the case with almost every doctor, he has simply to feel in his pocket or walk across his office to get a deadly poison, the impulse may be carried into execnu- tion before anything can happen te sup- plant it in the brain,

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