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2 CHAPTER: X!IX—(Continued.) “I am extremely sorry,” replied Ogle- don—“very sorry indeed that you should have been caused any incon- venience. My friend is not—not re- sponsible for his actions at times, and he—he mistook you for some one else.” All this time Ogledon was working rr d the inspector, and watching him narrowly. The inspector, for his part, respecting the size and apparent strength of the other, began to move away, but flung back a taunt or two as he went. “You shall hear from me again, sir!” cried the little man, savagely. “You and your decanters! You may like tc know that I got my prisoner, after all.” To the deuce with your prisoner!” eried Ogledon, without looking round. The little man stopped, although at a safe distance, and even came back a pace or two. “Oho!” he cried, with a vicious laugh, “I thought he was a friend of yours. If suppose you don’t own him now-—eh?” “f certainly own no interest in any prisoners,” said the other, glancing round at Tokely for a moment, and then turning away again. “Indeed!” exclaimed the inspector, » loudly even than before. “Yet don’t mind livimg in his: house, knocking people about with his de- asked Ogledon, with a new aod sudden interest. The inspector came a little nearer. . yut your friend—Mr. Dandy Cha- * With this last shot he turned, and began to walk away down the hill. Philip, looking out cautiously, saw the man who had been addressed as Ogledon start, as if a blow had been struck him; hesitate a moment, with a face that was ghastly; and then start off at a run after Tokely. The in- spector, who was totally unprepared for pursuit, was overtaken in a few strides, seized, swung round, and con- fronted with the startled face of the other man. “Stop, stop, and listen to me!” cried Ogledon, wildly. “What of this—this man—this prisoner—this” — he ap- peared to have some difficulty in get- ting out the name from his throat, as though it stuck there a little—“this Dandy Chater?” “Ah, that stirs you up a bit, does it?” said Tokely, grinning. “Let me tell you, then, that your friend, Mr. Dandy Chater, lies at this moment in Chelms- ford Goal, awaiting his trial for mur- der—ah, that makes your face turn white, eh?—murder committed im this very village.” i Ogledon had dropped his hands from tte other's: shoulders; and: was staring at him with an expression of stupid wonderment, incredulity, and deadly fear. After a moment or two he said, in a sort of whisper: “Then I did read of it; I haven't merely seen the name in every paper I've picked up—just in the same fashion as I have seen it on the lips of every man I met; heard it in every wind that blew; seen it spelled in the stars on every night-sky?” He broke off suddenly and looked at the other man, as if only just aware at that moment of his pres- ence; looked at him silently for a space, and then burst into a peal of the most frightful laughter imaginable. “There’s nothing like being merry, when you've got a chance,” said the in- spector savagely. ” cried the other, with an- “You'd make “Merr other shout of laughter. the dead rise from their graves to Jaugh at such a jest as this! Merry! ‘And so you've got Dandy Chater safe in Chelmsford Goal—have you? Well —keep him safe; lock and bolt and bar him in—and stop up every chink and keyhole—or, by heaven! Dandy Cha- ter may give you the slip, my man! Dandy Chater in Chelmford Goal!” He burst into anether frightful roar of laughter and turned away; while the inspector, after looking, at. him oddly for a few moments, continued his way down the hill toward the road. Ogle- By Tom Gallon. I've heard of men who, dwelling on one frightful vision always, grow at last to: see*it in everything: about them— hear it in every word’s that uttered— until it fills every fiber of their being like some horrible disease, and saps their reason and their life. I'll have no more of it; the man is dead, and I stand in his place: let that end it.” He turned resolutely, and went down by the road the inspector had taken. After # little time Philip, from his place of concealment, saw him mount- ing the path opposite, on the way to Chater Hall. Through the weary hours Philip waited, crouched where he was, cramped and stiff, until night came on, and the moon rose, in ghost- ly fashion, over the hill before him. Then, very cautiously, and looking all about him in case of surprise, he start- ed for The Cottage. There was a recklessness upon him greater than any he had felt yet. What happened after this night he scarcely seemed to care: to see that one wo- man once again, and hold her in his arms and hear from her own lips the message she had sent him, seemed enough. Whatever fate might have in store for him: after: that. did, not. seem to matter; this:ome. night, at least, he was free, and he- was going to the wo- man he loved: Still, with all his recklessness, he was careful not to expose himself to any danger of capture; in a little time he became quite an adept at dodging -behind hedges, or dropping down fiat among thick undergrowth, when any one came near him. But he reached the boundary hedge of the garden he remembered so well at last, and crouched behind it, striving to peer through—wondering how he should reach her or make’ his presence known. Voices in the garden, quite near to him, struck upon his ear: voices of a man and a woman—that of the man soft, smooth, and pleading; that of the and woman angry, contemptuous, scornful. And he knew both voices at once. The two who talked in that garden in the moonlight appeared to be farth- er up the lawn than the spot where he was; looking eagerly in that direction, he saw that the regularity of the trim hedge was broken by a thick growth of small trees, whose branches swept down to the ground. Gliding along noiselessly, he got amongst these and lay flat, within a few feet of the pair upon the lawn; could see them dis- tinctly, standing there facing each other—Ogledon and Madge Barnshaw. That. they Mad* arrived at. a crisis of ‘some kind: in their. talk was evident, for Madge stood proudly erect and de- ‘fant: looking at the man, who slashed savagely at the grass with the cane he held. “Will nothing move you?” Ogledon was saying, without looking up at her. “Do you think it is nothing for me, who am no mere boy, to be the sport of a girl? Do you think it’s nothing for me to have to plead again and again with you when it is my nature to bend people to my will and gain what I desire by force?” “T have told you—many, many times already—that-you might as well fling yourself against a rock as strive to move me by any pleading. You are a coward, in any case, to assail me like this, when I have already told you that my heart is given to some one !—a mere girlish whim—a boy and girl affair, that should have been forgotten and done with in the days of pinafores. Besides, Dandy Chater is ——” he hesitated, and seemed for a moment uncertain what to say; turned the sentence swiftly, and asked, in- stead, with his keen eyes raised to her face: “By the way, where is. this wonderful lover of yours?” There was a pause tor a moment, while . the listener almost held his breath, and while Ogledon: never took his eyes.from.her face. Then she went a little: nearer to. him; and: held her head more proudly still. “In a prison—there to await his don stopped in the same spot as be- fore, near where Philip still lay, and sat down on the bank, above the very ditch in which the fugitive crouched, put with his back toward him. “Merciful heavens! what does this mean?” He spoke aloud, quite uncon- sciously, in the strong emotion which was upon him. “Is this some fiendish rick to frighten aad trouble me? Or has something come back to earth to take up again its old way and mock me*” He stretched out one clenched hand and looked at it. “With this hand I struck him down; my eyes: saw him lying dead; other eyes have seen him—food for worms—taken from the river. Yet this thing starts up again full of life, the very next day; haunts the places where he was known; ap- pears even to me; stands out as a liv- ing fact to all men, and ts even printed about, in black and’ white; before my eyes. Am I ‘going mad; is this some distortion of the brain? Do I dream that every one talks of him, even in & chance meeting like this a few min- utes since—or what is it?” ‘After a time he got up and spoke more resolutely. XL “Pye allowed myself to think of him too much; [ll do so no longer. trial on a fearful charge of which I be- lieve him innocent. But, though he appeared twice as black as men paint him, and as you, his evil spirit, have tried to make him, I would hold to him to the last; would cry, before you and all others, ‘I love him—I love him—I love him!’ Now, what think you your pleading will do for you?” The man had turned and walked a step or two away; his hand had gone up nervously to his lips. ‘What does it mean?” Philip heard him mutter. “They all say it—even she says it. Go where I will this thing follows me— this name is dinned into my ears.” He turned swiftly toward her. “Why do you lie to me?” he cried, harshly; “why do you repeat what every one else repeats? Do you think to fright- en me away by such——” He stopped confusedly, and laughed. “There—I don’t">know what I am saying; I—I lose myself. sometimes. I—I’m not well; ;I'll come—some. other time—to see you.” Without another word he turned quickly and hurried out of the garden, leaving the girl standing alone in the moonlight. Philip waited until he heard the gate click and the footsteps of the man dying ) away in the dis-! phers.”--Broadway Magazine. tance; then he came out of his hiding place and spoke her name in a whisp- er. would have cried out, but that he caught her in his arms and laid a hand lightly on her lips. “Hush, dearest,” he whispered; “1 have escaped from prison to come te you just to look into your, just to look into your dear. eyes—to touch your fips—to know that all is well with you, and that you are not changed to- ward me. Don’t speak for a moment; ‘| there is much that I must’ say to you. There is small chance of my final es- cape; I must, I fear, inevitably be caught and taken back again to stand my trial.” “But you are innocent, Dandy, dear,” she whispered, hurriedly; “and you can prove your innocence.” “As God above is my witness, I am absolutely innocent,” he replied. “But I cannot—I dare not prove it; some day you will understand the reason. If I was never firm upon this matter before, I am firm from to-night. But, if it should go hard with me, and there should be no way of escape, I want you to promise one thing.” “Anything—everything,” pered, earnestly. “If it should come to that, and there is no other way, find the man who was here with you just now, and ask him to tell you all he knows about Dandy Chater. He—and he alone—can estab- lish my innocence. But this must only be done as a last resource. Will you promise that?” She had begun to question him wildly and eagerly, when he suddenly raised his hand to silence her; they both stood listening. The garden gate had clicked again. Philip dropped down among the shadows of the trees, and crept in amongst them again. Across the turf came a figure noiselessly and stopped before Madge, who had walked a few paces: away from where Philip lay. The figure was that of Ogledon. “I had no intention of troubling you again—at least, to-night,” he said, in a curiously strained voice, as though he were keeping control of it with difficulty; “but there is something I should like to ask you. I have been away—on the continent—and have only returned a few hours ago. This lover of yours, and cousin of mine— this Dandy Chater.” “In Chelmsford Goal,” she reminded him, with a smile. “In Chelmsford Goal. did you see him last?” She was on the point of answering, in some equivocal fashion which should not betray the fugitive, when she stopped, struck dumb by the ex- pression on Ogledon’s face. He was looking past her, at something behind; turning, she saw Philip, standing bare- headed and perfectly still in the moon- light, against the background of dark trees. Ogledon stood for a moment, with his eyes starting, and his breath com- ing and going in gasps, while Philip stood absolutely rigid; then, with a terrible cry, he dropped forward upon his knees and covered his face with his hands. When he ventured to look up again Philip had vanished into the shadows. she whis- When—when (To Be Continued.) THE BEAUTY-MAKING. CARROT. New Ways of Serving a Vegetable Sup- posed to Give Good Looks. Although the carrot has long stood at the head of the dietary that is sup- posed to make for beauty, it has never been a popular vegetable, even with the most ardent beauty seekers. To make it a culinary delight as well as a beauty maker has been the subject of many experiments. Four young Washington housekeep- ers have formed a Lenten club for the better understanding of carrot possi- bilities. One luncheon and one dinner are given each week, at which some new carrot dish must be served. 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