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THE SECOND DANDY CHATER x By Tom \. a ie a ER CHAPTER XIV.—(Continued). Betty Siggs threw a long cloak round her, noiselessly lit a candle, and crept out of the room. There was no sound anywhere, save the quick pat- ter of her own feet on the stairs and the rapid scurry of a mouse flying from’ the light. Betty reached the par- Jor, set down her candle, and faced the window, over which the curtain had been drawn again. Now, under all the circumstances, it 4s probable that ninety-nine people | out of a hundred would, have hesitated et that hour to draw back that cur- tain; and the hundredth would have} done it—if at-all—out of sheer braya- 40. But the curious thing was that Betty had no fear of it at all; so com- | pletely was she dominated by her dream, and so much did she seem to be dreaming still, that she walked up to the curtain and softly drew it aside. Nor did she think it strange, under the circumstances, that there was al face upon the other side; for, although she believed she looked upon Dandy Chater, somehow the dream-face had got mixed up with it; the dream-eyes of the child she believed dead smiled at her out of the face of the-man, Still | keeping her eyes upon the window, | she slipped along to the door and soft: | ly drew the bolt and opened it; and} then, for no known reason, and yet for some reason which seemed strong within her, began to tremble very much, as though she faced something uncanny. A figure moved towarde the door, slipped into the room, and took her in his arms. Not Dandy Chater; not the man with a price on’his head and blood on his cruel hands; not Zhe man whose name was a byword and a re- proach in all that country-side ; but her boy, her dear lad, back from his grave thousands of miles away! You couldn’t have tried to deceive old Bet- ty Siggs at that moment; she knew that no other arms coufd hold her like that when he called her—as he Then, had done all those long years before “little mother”—when he whispered, did she remember Tallapoona Farm, | and the mare with the rat-tail, and Peter, the sheepdog, and a dozen other things that would have stamped him as her boy, if nothing else could have done, old Betty woke from her dream and burst into a flood of tears, and laid her old gray head down on his shoulder Perhaps it was well that Toby was sleeping soundly above. For, if he had happened to dream, and had wan- dered, in his night apparel, down to that same parlor, he would have been very properly scandalized. For here was the supposed Dandy Chater, sit- tting on the table, with Betty Siggs (hugging him mighty tight round the neck) on his knee, the while he rapid- ly sketched out all that had happened fn those eighteen years. “Ah, little mother, little mother!” he said, drawing her face down that he might kiss it. “You didn’t know to whom you were talking when I stroll- ed in here the other day, and you read me a lecture on the sins of Dan- dy Chater. It's been a long time, lit- tle mother: picked up, more dead than alive, by an exploring party in the bush: taken with them miles into the interior; then more miles -by a party bound for the west with whom they came in contact. Then, five or six years of life with a dear old couple who had no chicks of their own, and ere fond of the friendless boy hrown on their hands. Then, when I could,, I went back to Tallapoona, only to find that you had gone to England, mo one exactly knew where.” “An’ you kep’ a thought of me all those years, did you, Phil?” whispered the old woman, proudly. “Yes, and came back to you*as soon as I could. At least, not to you, be- wause I didn’t know where you were. But I remembered the story you had old me; and I knew I had the right to he place which had been my father's. ut IT would not have turned out my rother; my idea was that we might ive together peaceably, sharing what; there was. But he is dead.” She looked round at him, with a tartled face: and he realized, in a frome that he had given her the Jue to the whole mystery. Therefore, fwith much pains, and many pauses to fallow her to fully digest the extraor- | finary story, he told her of the whole ‘business: of his arrival in England; of his discovery of the strange like- mess between himself and the real Dandy Chater: and of his determina- tion, on discovering that his brother was dead, to trade upot it. Of his cer-| tainty that his brother had been mur-, dered; and of the impossibility of fix- fng the crime upon any one’s shoul- ders. - But Betty Siggs saw only with the limited vision of love; knew only that her boy was with her again, and that he was innocent of the crime she had unconsciously laid to his charge. “Lor, this'll be news for Toby!” she cried; “this'll be something to laugh et ip the village; that they’ve taken, my boy for Dandy Chater, and called hhim names, and ‘unted ‘im with per- lice and sich-like.” 4 “Stop, stop!” he cried, hurriedly. “Not a word of this to a soul, little mother, not a word. Don’t you see the position in which I. stand? My brother is dead; I have upon me at the present moment, his clothes, his papers, his valuables. Good heavens, murderer. ides ‘ _ In-a word, he had-carefully arranged so, that no possible; suspicion should fall upon’ himself; and now he discov- ered, to his consternation, that all these precautions were unnecessary, and that'some ghastly replica ofthe murdered man had taken his place, and was accepted, by all and sundry, as the ,genuine man. It must be said at once that Ogle- | don, having no knowledge of the real story and goaded by his own guilty conscience, found no solution in his mind of the mystery in any practical form. He saw in this creature, who had sprung up in the likeness of the man whose life had been brutally beat- en out of him, only something horrible and intangible, come straight from the little mother, I’ve traded on his name -Aeisates , Land of Shadows to mock at him and and on his appearance; I am mixed up drive him. to distraétion. ' in I know not what shady things con- ‘If, on the lonely river bank, at the corning ns Le Svea et sou'|dead of the night, the victim he had about here to-night, save yourself, and) truck down lifeless had suddenly ris- They will laugh you to deride’ your tell my story. scorn; will en up in full vigor, unharmed and boy, who's} smiling, the murderer could not have come back from the grave. Don't you! heen more appalled than he was by see that their first question would | this quiet acceptance by everyone of naturally be, ‘If Chater—you who wear his clothes, and use his name, and hide by night because of his sins—if you are not the man, where is he?’ And, heaven help me, what am I to ahswer them?” Betty Siggs seemed altogether non- plussed, and © could only shake her head. Philip, with his arm about her did his best to cheer her up again. “Come, you mustn’t be downheart- ed; I’ll pull through somehow or oth- er,” he said. “But for the time I must keep out of the way. Every day I am getting nearer to the truth about my brother’s death; every day I seem to see my way more clearly. But I don’t want to be accused of his murder, for they might say, with perfect justice, that I-murdered .him, the “better to take his place. No, I want to track down the real man; when that time comes I'll call on you to speak. Until then, you must be silent as the grave.” “I can’t—I can’t!” cried Betty Siggs. “Is my dear boy to come back to me after all these years, and am I to see *im ’unted an’ drove like this ’ere, by a mere common Tokely, an’ say noth- ing? Not me!” Betty Siggs folded her arms, and nodded her head with much determination. “Little mother—little mother!” he exclaimed, “do you want to ruin me? Do you want to undo all that I have tried so hard to bring about? Shall I tell you something more—something to be hidden deep in that good heart of yours, and never breather to any one? Betty . you don’t} mind my calling you Betty, do you? es have you ever been in love?” “paps you'd like to ask Toby, as is a-snorin’ ‘is ‘ead off upstairs this very minute,” retorted Mrs. Siggs, with a very becoming blush. “In love, indeed!” . “Well, then, you will understand my difficulty. I’m in love, little mother— and with the sweetest girl in all the world. But even in that my illluck dogs me, for she believes that her lov- er is Dandy Chater, whom she has known for years; if she once: heard that she had whispered her words of love and tenderness and sympathy to a stranger, do you think that she would look at me again? Little moth- er, it’s the maddest thing in the world; because, if she has any regard for me as Dandy Chater, she knows me for everything that’s bad and vile—food only for the common hangman; while, on the other hand, as Philip Chater, I am a stranger, and farther from her than ever: In any case it is hopeless; yet, knowing that whatever sympathy she has is given to Dandy Chater, Vi be Dandy Chater to the end, whatever that end may be. * And even you, little mother, shall not change that purpose. | So don’t talix about it.” She recognized, however unwilling- ly, that what he said was true; al- though she cried a little—partly for love of him, partly in terror at his danger—yet she was comforted by the feeling that all the sad years of mourn- ing were swept away. and that the boy she had reared and loved had fulfilled , her most sanguine expectations, and had grown to the manhood she had; pictured for him. He got up and took her tenderly in his arms again to say good-by. “It won't be long, little mother,” he said, “before I come again to you, and take my place in my father’s home. But for the present I want you to swear to me—to swear to me on something you love well—that you will not betray my secret. Betty, for the love of your boy, swear to me that you will not betray me—will not take from me the love of the woman who is more to me than anything else in the wide world. Swear to me!” With tears in her honest old eyes she drew his head down and kissed him. .“I’ll swear to you, Phil,” she said, “by that!” He ran out into the darkness, and jeft her standing, in the light of the candle, in the little parlor. CHAPTER X¥. The Shady ’Un as a Moral Character. It must be confessed that Mr. Ogle- don, better known in some shady cir- cles as “The Count,” was in an awk- ward situation. For a whole week he had secretly congratulated himself on the fact that his unfortunate cousin, Dandy Chater, was safely out of the way; moreover, he had carefully re- hearsed the part he was to play when first told of Dandy’s disappearance; you are not Dandy} the figure which had stared through the window at him from the terrace of Chater Hall, cure Never for an instant suspecting the presence of the second man, that solu- tion of the mystery did not occur to him. He’ saw in this Dandy Chater risen,from the grave only his own em- bodied ¢onscience come to haunt and terrify him. He ‘remained that night in the din- ing room with’ the doctor, fearing to go to’ bed or toibe left alone for a moment....And as the doctor, whenever he got the opportunity, applied him- self assiduously to the consumption of neat brandy, Mr. Ogledon, as the time drew. toward morning, found himself pretty fully occupied in shaking his companion and keeping him awake. But day had its terrors, too, for the first person Who entered the room made a casual and innocent inquiry concerning “Master Dandy,” and when he might be expected. Ogledon, dis- missing this man with an oath, turned to the doctor. “Cripps’”—he shook the little man for perhaps the hundredth time, the better fo impress his meaning upon him—“Cripps, I’m going to make a polt for it. I must get away, for a time, until this thing has blown over and been forgotten. I shall go mad if I stay here. Well, what do you want?” This last was addressed to a servant who had entered the room. The man informed him that a Mr. Tokely—con- nected, he believed, with the -police— wished to see him. Ogledon grasped the back of a chair and ‘turned a ghastly face toward Cripps. Telling the man to show the visitor in, he turned to Cripps when they were alone together again, and spoke in a frightened, hurried whisper. “Stand by me Cripps; stand by me and back me up,” he said. “Ask what you will of me afterward, only stand by me now.” Dr..Cripps had the greatest possiblé difficulty, in his then condition, to stand by himself; but he feebly mur- mured his intention to shed his blood for his friend. And at that moment Tokely came in. Now, in the stress of more personal matters, Ogledon had paid but little at- tention to the disjointed remarks of Mrs. Dolman concerning the murder in the wood; and the subject had, by this time, gone clean out of his mind. Indeed, but one subject—a a deadly fear for his own safety—occupied his mind at this time, so that it will read- ily be understood that the first words uttered by the inspector were startling in the extreme. (To Be Continued.) One Way. When the court on an extremely Western circuit was. convened, and the business was about to begin, it was discovered that there were neith- er pens, ink, nor paper for the use of the bench or the bar. “How is this, Mr. Clerk?” asked the judge.” “There is no money allowed for it by the county, sir, and we can’t get the articles’ without.” The judge made several remarks not at all complimentary to the coun: ty. “T’ve been in a good many courts,” put in a pompus and pedantic lawyer, “put this is the worst I ever saw.” The judge jumped up furiously. “You are fined a hundred dollars for contempt, sir,’ he thundered “Hand the money to the clerk, sir.” Mr. Lawyer protested, but he had to pay the money or go to jail. “Mr. Clerk,’ said the judge, when the fine had been handed him, “go out and get all the pens, ink and paper necessary for the use of the court and give the gentleman back the change.” The clerk did as he was ordered, and the visiting attorney maintained a dis- creet silence. Nerve. Atkins—That fellow Smithers who lives next door to me has more con- founded cheek than any man I ever met. ’\Briggs—How’s that? Atkins—Why, yesterday he came over to ny place to borrow a gun— said he wanted to shoot a cat. Briggs—Well, where does the cheek come in? Atkins—Why, it was my cat he wanted to shoot. If you want to see a man act silly hunt up one who is jealous. Loan sharks infest the finance. ; sea of Describes the Principal Ingredients Contained in Pe-ru-na. Are we claiming too much for Peruna when we claim it to be an effective semedy for chronic catarrh? Have we abundant proof that Peruna is in real- ity such a catarrh remedy? Let us see what the United States Dispensatory ‘says of the principal ‘ingredients of Peruna., i Take, for instance, the ingredient hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous membranes, chronic rhinitis (masal catarrh), atonic dyspepsia (ca- tarrh of the shomach), chronic intesti~ nal catarrh, catarrhal jaundice, (ca- tarrh; of the liver) and in diseased mucous membranes of the pelvic organs. It is also recommended for the treat- ment of various forms of diseases pe- culiar to women. Another ingredient of Peruna, cory- dalis formosa, is classed in the United States Dispensatory asatonic. So also is cubebs classed as a stomachic and as a tonic for the mucous membranes. Cedron seeds is another ingredient of ‘Peruna, an excellent drug that has been very largely overlooked by the medical profession for the past fifty years. The seeds are to be found in very few drug stores. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that. it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent diseases as a sub- stitute for quinine. Oil of copaiba, another ingredient of Peruna, is classed by the United States Dispensatory as a mild stimulant and diuretic. It acts on the stomach and intestinal tract. It.acts as a stimu- lant on the genito-urinary membranes. Useful in chronic cystitis, chronic dys- entery and diarrhea, and some chronic diseases of the liver and kidneys. Send to us for a free book of testimo- nials of what the people think of Pe- runa as a catarrh remedy. The best evidence is the testimony of those who have tried it. There comes a time in the life of every married man when he says to himself: “What my wife doesn’t know won't hurt her.” Important to. Mothers. 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I felt that I had reduced the danger of fire at least 50 per cent from that particular source. “Unfortunately this procedure was observed by a_ three-year-old. The safety matches may have appeared to him as a new form of toy, as they were put in just about the time Santa Claus made his visit down the chim- ney. At any rate, on the day after Christmas he scampered down from the third floor in a great state of ex- citement. No clear idea of the cause of his alarm @ould be had until later it was discovered that the curtain and window shade of the bath room on the third floor had been completely burn-|* ed and the woodwork scorched, but fortunately after that damage was done the fire went out of its own ac- cord. “The practical lesson I drew from the incident was that the sparing of the rod spoils the child, and the three- year-old was given another demonstra- tion of the danger of burning matches by having ihe seat of his little trous- ers burned with the sole of his moth- er’s slipper in an old-fashioned way.” UNBIDDEN GUESTS AT FEAST. Unworthy Ones Took Advantage of Gay Capital Revel. A bit of gossip that Washington so- ciety is rolling over its tongue, is the masquerade ball at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh on New Year’s eve. Cards were issued each guest, with his or her invitation, so that no one but those expected would make their way into the beautiful mansion under cover of a mask, but ry. thing feared was the thing happened. A gay gallant, dressed as Mephistopheles, in black velvet and gold, made his appearance early, and was most fascinating and debonnaire, paying much attention to the ladies. Of all the gallant and courteous gentlemen present none could pay a compliment or whisper a sentiment nothing so fetchingly as he. In fact, his very gallantry brought about his undoing. As the champagne flowed freely, he imbibed freely, and his attentions to a cer- tain young lady, said@to have be no other than the president’s ieusk: ter, Mrs. Longworth, led to her hus- band’s remonstrating with the host, Mr. Walsh. The gay Mephistopheles was requested to make his adieus, but as he demurred, the footman was called to assist him. 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The young, small oysters are palmed off as Blue Points, and a little dash of brine will turn a lower Po- tomac oyster into a Cape Cod. “The result of competition is to run up prices. I wsh they would let us alone.” Senator Hale Objected. Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, is a stickler for tradition and custom in the senate and objects to anything new creeping In. He has suqeeeded to the place occupied by the late Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, as tbe lec- turer of those who start innovations. Senator McCumber had given notice that on a certain day he would call up a bill. Instantly Hale was on his feet. “I should like to ask right here,” Senator Hale said, “why, because a senator gives notice, he can bring up, a bill. There is nothing in the history of the senate, there is nothing in the precedents, to sustain. 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