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I Wrongly | I Accused. I ? Jim Hestan was certified as T a lunatic to get him out of the $ |> way. He escapes and gets %> & back to the office in time to % X (oil an act of treachery. T T This is one of many stirring $ X situations in our thrilling new <|> % serial, X I "LOVE I I CONQUERS I I TREACHERY," I I Br I I HAROLD BINDLOSS, | X First Instalment appearing ia 2> % our issue of X I SATURDAY NEXT. 1 f Order Your Copy AT ONCE, if f p Lord Barstone malclnfr no reply to the assistant secretary, the latter spoke again. "I repeat," he said, "that if, under these circumstances, you go to the Republic of Esterra, you go to your death." "I will take my chance," the peer answered. "Then I have one favour to ask," continued the assistant. "Take me with you." Barstone turned and looked at him in astonishment. "What do you want to come for?" he asked. "To do what I can to protect you," was the answer. "I am an unmarried man, without ties of any sort. It will matter very little whether I come back or not." "It would matter a great deal to this office, Desborouph. I can assure you," Barstone replied, touched by the other's devotion. "If you come with me, I don't know how your Department will get on without you." "Then you will consider the matter, sir?" Desborough asked. "Yes," answered Lord Barstone with a smile, after Borne thought, "I will consider the matter." CHAPTER XLVI. Lord Barstone had spent a very pleasant couple of hours with his old friend the Archbishop of Tremura, the capital of the Republic of Esterra. The morning was not too hot, the Archbishop's cigars were excellent, and there were lumps of ice and a yellow liquid in two glasses before them, suspiciously like whisky and soda. "My dear Barstone," the prelate remarked, "I have listened to your relation of the extraordinary ceremony—l must not call it a marriage—which you went through with Madame Gonzalez, and it has struck me with amazement, but not surprise. lam well acquainted with the ways of Madame Gonzalez, and nothing that she could do would inspire me with surprise." The Archbishop stopped, not for want of words, for he spoke English as well as Lord Barstone himself, but because he was very anxious not to get mixed up in the affair, and he was loth to commit himself to any opinion. "But the validity of the marriage?" suppested Raymond. The Archbishop shook his head. "As far as the Church is concerned," he answered, "a civil ceremony, unaccompanied by a religious service, is null and void. Xo marriage at all. But how the civil law will regard it I cannot tell you. You must go to the lawyer*. How does Madame Gonzalez get o'er her first marriage?" he added. She has always maintained to me," replied Barstone, "that her first marriage was no marriage. She was forced into it by her father against her will." The Archbishop leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Just like her," he remarked. "But I think she will have some difficulty in proving that assertion, as it is well known that she was paying her attentions to Senor Gonzalez for months before he married her. Some people might have called it running after him. I do not think she required any persuasion from her father. Indeed, if 1 recollect rightly, the old Russian Count was opposed to the marriage." Coughs and Colds. Angier's is the standard treatment for colds, coughs, bronchitis. Healing, tonic and invigorating. ANGIER'S EMULSION ENDORSED BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION