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Tt was curious how both of them seemed disinclined to refer again even indirectly to the subject which they had been discussing. “Very good of you to send me back, the doctor said gruffly. “I started out all right, but it was a drear walk across the marshes.” “l am very grateful to ‘you for coming,” Dominey replied, with ob- vious sincerity. “You will come and have a look at the patient in a day or two? “IN stroll across as soon as you've got rid of some of this houseful,” the doctor promised. “Good night!" ‘The man silently took his leave, and Dominey commenced his preparations |for ved. He was in no humor for aleep, however, and, still attired in his shirt and trousers, he wrapped a dress- ing gown around him, drew a reading lamp to his side and threw himself into an easy chair, a book in his hand. It was some time before he realized that the volume was upside down, and even when he had righted it the words he saw had no meaning for him. All ,the time a queer procession of worm- en's faces was passing before his eyes —Caroline, with her half-flirtations, wholly sentimental bon camaraderie; Stephanie, with her voluptuous figure and passion-lit eyes, and then, blot- ting the others utterly out of his thoughts and memory, Rosamund, with all the sweetness of life shining out of her eager face. He saw her as she had come to him last, with that little unspoken cry upon her tremu- lous lips and the haunting appeal in her soft eyes, All other memories fad- ed away. They were as though they had never been. Those dreary years of exile in Africa, the day by day ten- ston of his precarious life, were abso- lutely forgotten. His heart was call-| ing all the time for an unknown boon. | He felt himself enmeshed in a world | of cobwebs, of weakness more potent than all his boasted strength. Then he suddenly felt that the madness which he had begun to fear had reany come. It was the thing for which he longed yet dreaded most—the faint click, the soft withdrawal of the pancl, actually pushed back by a pair of white hands. Rosamund herself was | there. Her eyes shone at him, mys-| tically, wonderfully. Her lips were | parted in a delightful smile, a smile in which there was a spice of girlish mis- chief. She turned for a moment to close the panel. Then she came to- ward him with her finger upraised. “I cannot sleep.” she said softly. | “Do you mind my coming for a few minutes?” “Of course not,” he answered. “Come and sit down.” She curled up in his easy chair. “Just for a moment,” she murmured | contentedly. “Give me your hands, dear. But how cold! You must come nearer to the fire yourself.” He sat on the arm of her chair, and she etroked his head with her hands. “You were not afraid, then,” she asked, “when you saw me come through the panel?” “TJ should never be afraid of any harm that you might bring me, dear,” he assured her. Because all that foolishness is really gone,” she continued eagerly. “TI know that whatever happened to poor Roger, it was not you who Killed him, Even if I heard his ghost calling again to-night, I should have no fear. T can't think why I_ever wanted to hurt you, Everard. I am sure that T always loved you.” His arm went very softly around her. She responded to his embrace without hesitation. Her cheek rested upon his shoulder, he felt the warmth of her arm through her white, fur- lined dressing-gown. “Why do you doubt anv longer then,” he asked hoarsely, “that I am your husband ?” She sighed. “ah, but I know you are not,” she anewered. “Is it wrong of me to feel what I do for you, I wonder? You are | so like yet so unlike him. He is| dead. He died in Africa. Isn't it strange that I should know it? But bai ‘But who am I then?" he whispered. She looked at him pitifully. “t do not know,” she confessed. “put you are kind to me. and when T! | feel you are near I am happy. It is| because I wanted to see you that I would not stay any longer at the nursing home. That must mean that | Tam very fond of you.” | “You are not afraid,” he asked, “to be here alone with me?” She put her other arm around his neck and drew his face down. “Tam not afraid,” she assured ‘him. | “tam happy— But, dear, what is the matter? A moment ago you were cold, Now your head is wet, your| hands are burning, Are you not | happy ‘because I am here?" | Her lips were seeking his. His own touched them for a moment. ‘Then he kissed her on ‘both cheeks. | She made a little grimace. 1) ""er am afraid,” she said, hat you LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. IDET—33d_ st... opposite Waldorf, two bird ex Nimes! reward snd'ne questions shed. P inger, costumer, W. 42d y | are not really fond of me.” “Can't you believe,” he asked) hoarsely, “that I am really Everard —your husband? Look at me. Can't yon feel that you have loved me be- fore™ Who was this man of mystery who called him- nied him. Was he in truth the ne’er-do-well blend in this baffling story |laid down his pipe. Surprise kept at 2?” His own wife de- Baron von Ragastein, intrigue and mystery (Copyright, 1990, oy Little, Brown & On.) OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. I i She shook her head sadly. “No, you are not Everat sighed; “but,” she added, her eyes lighting up, “you bring me love and happiness and life, and"—— ‘A few seconds before Dominey felt from his soul that he would have welcomed an earthquake, a thander- bolt, the crumbling of the floor be- neath his feet to have been spared the torture of her sweet importuni- ties. Yet nothing so horrible as this interuption which really came could ever have presented itself before his mind. Half in his arms, with her head thrown back, listening—he, too, horrified, convulsed for a moment even with real physical fear—they heard the silence of the night broken by that one awful cry, the cry of a man's soul in torment, imprisoned in the jaws of a beast. They listened to it together until its echoes died away. Then what was, perhaps, the most astonishing thing of all, she nodded her head slowly, unperturbed, unterrified. “You see,” she said, “I must go back. He will not let me stay here. He must think that you are Everard. It is only I who know that you are not.” She slipped from the chair, kissed , and, walking quite firmly across the spring and she hi the floor, touched passed through the panel. Even then; she turned around and waved a little goodby to him. There was no sign of fear in her face; only a little dumb disappointment. The panel glided to and shut out the vision of her. Dom~- iney held his head like a man who fears madness. CHAPTER XIX. AWN the next morning was heralded by only a thin line of red parting the masses of Dlack-grey snow clouds which still hung low down in the east. The wind had dropped, and there was something ghostly about the still twi- light as Dominey issued from the back regions and made his way through the untredden snow round ;to the side of the house underneath | Rosamund’s window. A little ex- clamation broke from his lips as he stood there, From the terraced wall, down the steps, and straight across the park to the corner of the Black Wood, were fresh tracks, the night. Dominey, curiously excited by his the footmarks then followed them to the Here and there they puzzled ‘him. They were neither like human footsteps nor the track of At the edge of discovery, eageriy, corner of the wood, examined any known animal. the wood they seemed to vanish into the heart of a great mass of bram- bles, from which here and there the snow had been shaken off. There was no sign of any pathway; if ever there had been one the neglect of years had obliterated it. Bracken, bram- bles, shrubs and bushes had grown up and degenerated, only to be suc- ceeded by a ranker and more dense form of undergrowth. Many of the trees, although they were still plenti- ful, had been blown down and left to rot on the ground. The place was silent except for the slow drip of falling snow from the drooping leaves. He took one more cautious step forward and found himself slowly sinking. Black mud was ooz- ing wp through the snow where he had set his feet. to serambje back, with grea of the outside of the wood. Heggs, the junior keeper, an hour or so later, went over the gun rack once more, tapped the empty cases, and who was in a chair before the fire, turned toward Middleton, sitting smoking his pipe. “IT can't find mast r. Middleto: t's missing.” “Look again, lad,” the old keeper directed, removing the pipe from his “The master was shooting Look amongst those loose ‘uns at the far end of the It must be somewhere there.” “Well, that isn’t,” the young man mouth. with it yesterday, rack. replied obstinately, The door of the room was suddenly Dominey entered with opened, and the missing gun under his arm. Mid- dieton rose to his feet at once and him temporarily silent, “I want you to come this way with me for ordered, 4 moment,” his mastei The keeper took up his hat and Dominey led him to where the tracks had halted on the window to the Black #tick and followed. gravel outside Rosamund's and pointed across Wood “What do you make of those?” he enquired. Dominey matter very much to Middleton did not hesitate, He| Ne, So far as regards the prine abaake hia'kead’ kvavely: she 1s an impulsive and passion ‘as anything heard last night, | Peon. but she is also grande dam “There was an infernal ye under- neath this window. “That was the spirit of Roger Un. thank, for sure,” Middleton _ pro. nounced, with a ittle shudder.” When he do come out of that wood, he do| (Another call, lrapersonations The cry had been no fantasy. Somebody or something had passed from the Black Wood and back again to this spot in “Spirits, his master inted out, “do not leave tracks uke that be-~ Middleton considered the matter. “They do say hereabout,” he con- fided, “that the spirit of Roger Un- thank have been taken possession of by some great animal, and that it do come here now and then to be fed.” “By whom?” Dominey enquired patiently. . “Why, by Mrs, Unthank.” “Mrs. Unthank has not been in this house for many months. From the day she left until last night, so fur as I can gather, nothing has been heard of this ghost, or beast ,or wha ever it is.” “That do seem queer, surely,” Mid- dleton admitted. Dominey followed the tracks with his eyes to the wood and back again, “Middleton,” he said, “I am learn. ing something about spirits. It seems that they not only make tracks, but they require feeding. Perhaps if that is so they can feel a charge of shot inside them. . ‘The old man seemed for a moment to stiffen with slow horror. “You wouldn't shoot at it, Squire!” he grasped. “T should have done so this morning if I had had a chance,” Dominey re- plied. “When the weather is a little drier, I am going to make my wiy into that wood, Middleton, with a rite ‘under my arm. “Then as God's above, you'll never come out, Squire!” was the solemn reply. “We will see,” Dominey muttered. “T have hacked my way through some jueer country in Africa." “There's nowt like this wood in the world, si the old man asserted doggedly. “The bottom’s rotten fromm end to end and the top's all poisonous, The birds die there on the trees. it's chockful of reptiles and unclean things, with green and purple fungi, two feet high, with poison in the very sniff of them. The man who enters that wood goes to his grave.” “Nevertheless,” Dominey said firmly, “within a very short time I am going to solve the mystery of this nocturnal visitor.” They returned to the house, side by side. Just before they entered, Dominey turned to his companion. “Middleton,” he said, “you keep up the good old customs, I suppose, and spend half an hour at the ‘Domiavy Arms’ now and then?” “Most every night of my life, sir,” the old man replied, “from eight til nine, I'm a man of regular habits, and that do seem right to me that with the work done right and proper @ man should have his relaxation.” “That is right, John,” Dominey as- sented. “Next time you are there, don’t forget to mention that I am going to have that wood looked through. I should like it to get about, you understand?” “That'll fair fummox the folk,” was the doubtful reply, “but I'll let ‘em know, Squire, There'll be a rare bit of talk, I can promise you that.” ‘Dominey handed over his gun, went to his room, bathed and changed, and descended for breakfast. There was a sudden hush as he entered, which he very well understood. Every one sport. Dominey helped himself from the sideboard and took jis place at the table. “LT hope,” he said, “ that our very latest thing in ghosts did not dis- turb anybody.” “We all seem to have heard the same thing,” the Cabinet Minister ob- served, with interest,—"a most ap- pulling and unearthly cry, 1 have lately joined every society connected with spooks and find them a fasoinat- Ing etudy.” “If you want to investigate,” Dom- iney observed, as he helped himself to coffee, “you can bring out a re- volver and prow! about with me one night. From the time when I was a kid, before I went to Eton, up till when I left here for Africa, we hi @ series of highly respectable an well-behaved ghosts, who were a credit to the family and of whom we were somewhat proud. This latest spook, however, outside the pale.” “Has he a history?" “I am informed,” Dominey replied, “that he is the spirit of a school- master who once lived here, and for whose departure from the world [ am supposed to be responsible, spook is neither a credit ner a coin- fort to the family.” ‘Their host spoke with such an ab- solute absence of emotion that every one was conscious of @ curious re- luctance to abandon a subject full of such fascinating possibilities. niloff was the only one, however, who made a suggestion. “We might have a battle in wood,” he proposed, 18 something quite Mr, Watson Such Ter He was just able Picking his way caution, he commenced a leisurely perambulation of the whole ‘s number two he announced. ‘am not sure,” Dominey told them, “that the character of the wood is not more interesting than the ghost who is supposed to dwell in it. uu remember how ternified the beate:» were yesterday at the bare sugyes- tion of entering it? For generations it has been held unclean. It is cer tainly most unsafe. I went in over my knees on the outskirts of it this morning—shall we say half-past ten in the gun room?" Seaman followed his host out of the room, ‘My friend,” he said, “you must not allow these local circumstances to occupy too large a share of your thoughts, It is true that these ave the days of your relaxation. Still. there is the Princess for you to thin of. After all, she has us in her power The merest whisper in Downing Street, and behold, catastrophe r , hs Dominey took his friend's arm, “Look here, Seaman," he rejoined, easy enough to say there is the Princess to be considered, but will you kindly tell me what on earil r|more I can do to make her see tho position? Necessity demands that [ should be on the best of terms wit! Lady Dominey and that I should no: make myself in any way conspicuous with the Princess.” “I am not sure,” Seaman reflected. “that the terms you are on with Lady and a diplomatist. I see no reas why you should not marry b secretly in London, in the name . | Everard Dominey, and have the cere- ~|mony repeated under your rightful namo later on Thrilling Morrow.) Chapter To