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body w u h e locality

'••flue hat c following -era: Presl gr. FsJney. J. A. Can

arer, .lit. J rady, NT1 "T. if. Dr. B Habeii, J

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ily in 6*1-unore/ pre->iutidh TfTM' jived. Thi' l ecretar j - 01 e U. t *:L.:-1 the QMpi-•th Gal-fray rers of th« or the pur-ptj for per to cuaakiei lelp his Of-te cause of a father." • eU and the » effect. and repf-e-

ariahloaen alter '.jtajrt.

njotlxn tbt »ushing . s 'anon ;Bo-b'.ofy'tfcs': > fpUowing ev. C«aop;i ather Ooo-tecretaries, treasurer,

rojuscragb a at Kflli-tng a trib

P. CaBi-arily on a purpose of pietloh of *• an boor aenced the le streets, and at; 8 assembled, . On the , seconded

Spelman, applause,

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n, Patrick bael Syan esentation

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P. Crann; in; Major

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I t was Mtterly eold Gladys Ken-»et •hlrered la the damp of the early morning a* alia paced up an* down the empty street A watte mist lay OT»I London. Under It the houses '•eras ,6K- th* most ,payt allent atUl, wttb dose abat doors and wtndowa.

Bnt aome of them were tegtoalat to stir, afllkmea'a carta were busy rattllat op, auA 4ow» the etrwta aow, *»d worktajo were ht>rry}«f t6 catch tralna ani traoaa. Ufe was eozaunenclnf atgain after th« sleep of the ntaT&t. J^d Jarflseotly ttta ffreat wfato doors of the prtaoa would opea to Jk( out Into life afata some who aa^tseon aimoat a s §ac*o* aa> dead."

Qladys stopped and peered down the courtyard. A little, strange look-h»a- .«7£TOP was beftnijlac to eollect—

;:raj«ed women they were for th* laojagt part, all sMvftfing tn the daiap cold o | the jmoroing—r-f omen w r y Alterant to her. erea though aha was plainly dxemed—women to whom there was nothing atraose in waiting oatsldo prtaoft dpors! - '•-.,

l Something, that more than the mist struck Jjer wltft., a co}#i aaljlJL

;Bhe w u Ute them—like Uveas ?tr«l5,fee<l fpweft ,w% waitfd:^ She,

too. was waiting for a criminal to /come out -she, too -^Qlady8 Kennet, "of Orangelande Gourt, waiting Just i;aa ^J^,'ifpr0;';-;r .-{''.'i-^ :* .;; '-

Slif was plainly dressed; -yet her ' aary hloe coat aoij her red hat bora an .unmistakable Impress, ...... -v.,. ,-.

'":-'-~Wbi»'""'waJted" Blowiy up the street and then back ^hpn ?b«? reached ttie ^ te s ajgain//the iltrte,. crpiyd seemed larger" She would not be a eowau-d.. Sb© wool*! not shrink now! The time was over; she had come thus far; she had waited in silence

: patience for this morning, and now she roust be true and brave'

Tfes doors were thrown of>en sod-dsniy and a email crowd of men

• came out, etraggling In ones and twos and threes—men with hang­dog aire, with bent heads, or else with bold faces sad defiant eyes, and

, heads carried high • Tbere wis a rush toward them.

Gladys hang back for just a moment. .. aBd*€h&D she too darted forward. , ; „_ QaD* .,had pome obt »?ery different­

ly to the rest. He stood against, the gateway, for a. moment, looking out

'with strange, dated eyea at a world • te s*emsdsx;arcely tp recognise He .'. passed his hftnd aero** his face' mod:

looked again, and at that momeat •> f<Sla^s^u^ht;'hls-:*nn.> ; ;'-':v.'••'"••/"

• He looked down with a grea^sUtrt •t..ipti>rise.'"'-y ''• ; ..'••''':: *-•- L ''-'^.. :'':V\

'.", •«j&j^ys^you!>C'•/'•:/, '•'/ ';;.."*;% J ; Her breath was .choking to lisr "*- t h r o i a t ' ' ^^ ' ''r'x'~'•'"*.'**'•*"' ft***-'.-*-^*^*-1-,>-*•• •* **'**?-•'

"Oh, Brier "Qh. thank Hearen. ''"Eric—atriait!*** ;':-''' x:* >'"\ < '• ..*v •'.;

He looked down at her hungrily for a moment, .and then, aa If reallx-Ing where and what be. -Waa. he [be"" (an to unloosen her Augers from his

'.,, arm. ' > ' • ' ' "What bring* you here?" he

asked ""You'qught'oot'to'.haye come —you ought nevier to have come,v It only makes things worsen-" ;;

"Eric-—Eric, don't say those things to me," she cried. "Oh, my dearest, you knew 1 should wait -1 told you so—i told them; all so, and./l do not mean to desert you now. And'you* can't desert me after I have waited •o,;5ricr" ;-. --•'/.'•/..'- •'*; •••• v-v • '*;

:\ 8he had .forgotten everything but,

him: 'She* was" looking uplwlidiy inCo his white, changed face and her

.heart, was beating fOr hl.mJust/as it had beaten nearly three years ago

".:. before • tiujjt ^b| '\,|s^en\/hlim;.,ii':|iw,siy.-••• the -little' crowd; nsfl.disp^rBed./tttey ; ^ r ^ vt&in- t ^ ; b i ^ / r j ^ ^ * a l k | s ^ I down, slowly toward'v the noisy- thbr-

oiighfare and the open shops..- li'"~._ r, 7."Efic, you ••ould.,not. beileve I ~ ahouCd .<wef ;iet^. -yon :-;go ? -.'.' she.'V wai :

saying.' / "Oh/ you know/ I pelieTed; /you ,..U«ocent,i*nd->'aJ-!ways":sha'H:''/ ^

''*;' /'Tes—yes, I know," he• answered, slowly; ;"but-—oh,,my darling. I was found guilty, and It doesn't matter

. whit anyboijy believes riow; I hare been punished. I haye done rhy th:ee years JttBt as if;I bad, been guilty. Oh', .Gladys, tbey/ called{_ roe guilty,

y.',-s^d/^nat'-','doesJ/it matter eweh *nat yb i believe now? They have brand­ed me—shut me up with1 thieves and

;: criminals. Oh, Gladys, nothing ma*-.^ . t*r8; .but , ; that"- r :•'" /^/./".i^V-.::-,,,•.••••,...

^ i e tightened her; lingers oh his ^ ,»rm;r ^ '* /.'." ' "" ; .-.~\.

"It does matter,' she said, in a low / »61ce. "Eric, dear. It matters every­

thing. : I beUeye fypn Innocent; / 1 know/yon never committed the for­gery, and 1 am going to marry you."

•''-He'.-8tarted.. '/-i'-.-'"" •:.• '•'''•'-•'.•' ''Gladys-^-" Her small face was white and set. "1 know what it will mean, dear,"

she said; "but I am prepared. You fcttq-w/I bitve Bosste money that aiy mother left me. It will be enough for us to start In business^ with some­where, jand uncle can d o what bo likes. He was cruel to you—oh, he w u horribly hard on us both, and I am going to marry you—at once, firic, darling."

He stood still In t!t« middle of the road and locked down at her.

"But—" h© stammered. "1 thought—Sydney said—that you and

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She stamped her KJot. "It Is not tmo—it is not trae," she

cried, passionately, "i would not marry him to save my life ;I wool 1 notjnarry him for a fortune.'*

"Bat. Gladys. It would l»« bpfter. ; He is getting On. Your:-imc'le thinks the World of him. UP is his right band, sod i;—i" . '••

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years, sad i t has made no dlflVsrence j c s m t : marry. 8yd»sf/:/, "Uaeli has brtsed me with *wytb.tJK a* ea* think of fie is going to make htni a partner and goodness kr*own what else. But It k y o s I l o w — y « i 1 love, and yon I am going to marry— «ad;ssjoa,-I^B.d*iar>,''' ' "• ',••'.'•"-

--"105- "• ' '-' .'. •".' ; The great business house' of Sir

William : Kennel 4b Co., wmc, n«m-aiagf like a hire. H>e rnorsinsj waa. in full swing. Clerics were roshtng to and fro bells were, ringing, lifts rattling up and down. In the outer

work. Sir WtUlam himself was In the thick of business, and among at! those Ove or six hundred people only one man sat Inert and listless.'- "•. " He Was' a yoang man with a dark.

keen face, that jaat now looked drawn and haggard. He was hend-t l l | over M» Set t , doltg nothing ex­cept, stare a t a *h«*t o f netepaper Which he helot In his hand ptouad him, on every aids, were letters wait­ing to be attended to. Twice a clerk had come to bim with notebook and

'pencil ';.snd ['twice'' Sydney Devereux .l^d/sen^Wm ,:f>way. t o -irj4t.;.,'- -

He could not dicUts letters yet. He could do nothing yet. He wanted to think. • '- ' ; '

He stared at the paper and read the words over again: • . ' / . - . .», •/-

"••"Eric '•• CjBJwtajctoa,' :-...waa rM^MOsd'-'.this morning. • 'Waa/.Biet..hy/a/-;DTetty. (glrl' is navy 'blns'clo^ea^s^dNH*1'****; They drove away together In a ban-

Sydney'a browa contracted. A very ngl) look darkened his: rather haad^

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| Gladyi-'-^lt could not.itaVa/MeA,;* ^ « He got un h*k|diy and, c«Wrtng

tbe^lrobmi qn?ened>,a/door; which led, ihto-iSir- .WiWa^a'':,Pirt,t*.te-/roo;|xu; :Sir William was alone, and looked uj» sharply as.Sydoej- cajee lh,* "••'".' *

"Ah, 8ydjneyJ** / he saldi "^hy^ thlhg'*urgehtt^v'//^:v ; -,- _.*/--.i;/7,

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prandum behind In your sale at your hour house .last-nifjht;'. he said.'% little; huBklly-at: last; "?1 'had

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far an ivMiant asd then slowly west out^beck to hla own o«c*. He M J»w*% fff^T^f P^^p.^ ^TiifPlW.-- aW waa to-be; #on«. dar^'|l|i-,,

' sad thsn, slipping |£ jgf W%™**mm. w%Et out Into the yard beklnd thw

.great, i*4$tiff v|ij|jr* ^ Wttihua'a aiotor stood.' 'Tha ch»u«e«r'*a» *a*: where to be .asm..-, 8y*l»«| b » * * f round, and th«n suddesjiy got fe*»

- the car. 'ii* wo*li-- drif t UMsatf. %' . could not stay—eculd not wait

Sydney shot out "|»*»; tin e t t t j t r e e t It was thick wjth tralte:'';t% morning was i « full swing by snaw, and the . city was tu»—^krobblm; with bualnee* life. - , ' '." ~ v / • '%

8ydney rin away ' fronl It all— 'down, 'from , the city, throsg* t i t crowged streets, oat into 'the op* Hyde Park C o r s ^ r%a hsvst Ws» a' the ' parity groen ind h r i ^ t / 11^ ":

his right. H# looked towardsi iully. ^ew*mbe^Bg, In a «»*«" w, xhe: morning rfd^ he had had wrli Gladys daring the last t * o oi- th-years. Be had d o s s woadss-f^l things in thst time. His - luck . | i# ' been fabsjlout/ Hf- :»!*7p&tW.''W tremendoos strides, pad! had rfsjeji from being sn miHgnifloant nobody Into Sir WUlians^ p«r«»ai frlediwl.-' ''His, 'ea* .• tairiwd'. th'tf'.•.teojf^sr' tit

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"Ask Hiss OUdys if s h e f i l l sM me for a-fsw q»iant»B belwre i g o / ' 1 he said, «a ; he ttMrned into ta>« mtmxj .-"ia1|*u;B^Jb#:.Ma^;|ii^*'::^-..-^- '-. I/••lliss;Gladys i s dttt, .siri**,sald <topf

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Sidney's throat was day. ; -, ,* ' "Did you Ati'qiw.j"' be asked abrupt­

ly, "that Brio Chesterton was to "come bttf,ihis mpfnfiu^t'* ..- -. / :*...Sir William, looked opvwlth |i littie s t a r t . ' ^ , - " • "• "' '.;'-'('*•,-'

•'<"•''• Why., 'no.4^ 'hV':cri«oV'^iArs):;pyott j;surf/oritrr ;._/' •.'-/ •-:,' •;"•"-•,,-;;•...''.;. 1 /V-'8ydney:'nod5aedt \addlBtr'" William; sank back Jo his seat with a frown between Ins browe. . which cleared quickly after/d mih.^.te.rJ 7 ';i-: '^kWtlI,J»e,. ttj-t'i-be -inch * tool u Ut think of: that; Jfelio*r nbw,«' he saldt sbaroljt •*,"- "feik*' ttttf|r,^afa- -lad*. 'hei' lessoh, and I was emphatic enough.

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"Cties'terjWh'ha^^llpley'lvliy en stick to blackguards as they do,

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shot' past ths Albert Meworlal, o>ut through the gst*e, across ths roeid, and latQ the yarlti.-'

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Both Jgrla aid l lr W»Ba« waJHk ar corner, and them stiddealy # attsril «tt)t white wis* th*r riailld laair, solsaB''of';celfte,s*mlnat:.«i*,b*toSr«W' .Sz!^*Ti ,I S?^S5fLn i 25 , » 1 ^*F splaSb of oolt>r agratnst the brow* "of .the-rw 'sesmtit bis ay*' \' - -- Oo a chair under the trbe irn*. a gtrl w i t h ! rod hhvtt "' .'- "The."Cir-.:.sh6i forward ih*r| ly. spu d«r kU fterrooa grasp add th«h slowed dbwa again. His hard grmy eyes stared forward blindly at tbe girl nnaer the trees, and thett h i i ^ r ^ g d t d a t t r o l l ^ .i>-', ;i"..c^-f,-,-r ~'' He might' h«T* known. - He migbt' have underatood the mesnint of t b e ,

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terton did. Gladys calls me bard,i but of all sins a man can commit. forgery is toltoe least Worthy of for*] giwettess./ It i r the C6td«at blooded of crimes ,A man may do something desperate In a moment Of tasslon— something for which be may not be quite responsible—but in order to forge he has to-sit down and think and,plan and wait. It is a deliber­ate, cold-bloodied crime, and how any one could forgive it I don't under­stand, and Gladys least of all. She believed htm ; innocent, of coarse; bat—speak to her again to-night. Her Obstinacy is beginning t o try my temper, and 111 guarantee that she says 'yea' to you when yon ask her to become your wife."

His mind was made:..np about Elrfc Chesterton, who had forged his.name to a chock three years ago; and about Sydney Devereujc.'who. he was convinced, was the beat husband pos­sible for his niece Gladys. That she

• did not fall In love to'his order and throw up the thief and forger, Eric Chesterton, wfe» so astonishing .that all his HIind and vs-ill were bent on securing hi* wish. He resolyed to spare nothing to make her yield it waa the first t ime that any one had

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.looking into each other's faces; both were alight, both were blind t o

But suddenly O-lndys. caught slgbt dtliin" a id apranirto h«f;-feefc -. ".-'•'"tttric—r3S««s-rb«re , -is". .$$$$&&' she cried. "Let u s t«U Mm now." '.. g|e' .'ran - out wisvinf •„ 'Belr7/'jHKB«l< Sydney - stopped •.'the'" 'car mechaw*

•' '''Sydney-^^ydbey^ iieiw-/ la 'iSmfc she cried, breathlessly. "He ha*, coxae-- ttome/.''' Cbxiie• and sjesk. t d i hmr/,^ -X'^- -•' '"...- :

;•..:;' '. ',*'; - - For a moment' Sydney ' straggled!. Tns last drop of blood died frota hll

'-face. ' gpeai to him—to the fhlet, the forger, the naan who had Jttsrt n^Ished "serving time*'—bow cdoM he speak to him T

His attitude was strange for est honest, worthy, aiwlght man, as. Jf* Wlllam had edllfd'./'l^'Y^iat^'

. ihaiTui' and'". hlttsr hatred: drew hia face fold hard line* Gladys** jtapiry ayes beamed upon him If she kt#ev —Heaven help him? If she could se* into his heart, what would her eyes look like thenT :. '/V^''•"-. " s'' Sis shaking --l»Bd--'"targMB -- b«:|' driving Wheel. The car shot forward sharply. He pulled the speed lever, sounded the horn and dashed abrnpt-ly away • up. the road out into tad wide, open space about Hyde Par* Corafer. '' '"'..- .- ~- /' • _ -" "'-'i:-" •; ••-,. / '.

What happened, there he did not know. The traffic was ba»-: cabB and carriages, 'buses/wagons roUsS past

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the trail may take it In and owt of the batik a good many «»** bwfor* i t eonnes nfp with itti YjMtfM.,. It . «sy erraa bgf« to swim' * streem. beforf ltd persistence • is rewarded,,.'. M. it woaderrul ho* small a Bole t*»t Jong, arched -body can gad* iftta> gad. •owrge from wttbddt ,tb« •Uaftttst TiSid*) t -*J ^ A ' . r - ^ i w i i i - . - - ;

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~x**@k» sind so high, for a l l the idaort* , . • a s * o f Its le^">th|^.ojj^/#p<«id : ' i{ ; | Ivtlie - rat's tall' dragged tbrough. ths grass. •-'.' .'•'/... -'••''.'.'. •'-!•-'•-<>i.':•.. ; \, A • family:" of wwaasla . will «*t»* fcnxii i n company, sad- this Is nsstar* a l ly a most lotsrestlng sight t * wit-. enter exceedingly imall boles la Um Entirely to the. structure at Its body—i«* flat head, long; neck, and abort limb* and b i t In a cor» rick I t can pursue mice with earn their burrows.~-London

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