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thought "she is alone at the Avash ingtank." It was h«r washing-day. One. of his brothers shouted his namo three times, but the sound died away unanswered. They all Avent on their several errands, not taking anore trouble to find him. The Avarmth lay on the summer lands, the scene was fair and peaceful ; it said nothing to him. He got up heavily on to his feet, and went doAvn the grass path betAveen the feriw and myrtles. It led straight to the dAvelling-house. He Avalked through tho entrance and through the kitchen out into tho Qack-yard, where the stabling Avas, and tho -well, «md the sheds for the fowls, and the two long stone tanks, moss-grown, into Avhich water ran continually from a. spring in the bills aboA-e. At one of these his mother stooped, soaping linen ; rinsed clothes Avere hdiped in the other. "Mother!" he said, as he crossed the pavement. She started, and let the shirt she Avas Avashing fall into the water. " Why are you not at Avork ?" she said, uneasily and angrily. "My A\ r ork is not worth my bread," he ansAvered. "Why should I sAveat to do it?" She tinned round and looked in disquietude at him. " You grow very strange. What is ] amiss with you?" j Ho showed her his AvrisK ' , "There is blood 011 it!" she cried. " Have you hurt yourself ?" "The 'hurt was "long ago," he ansAvered. 1 "You say ifc Avai> the sickle." I The Avords were harmless 1 but the tone frightened her. I He stood close up against- her and looked her in the eyes — her fierce haAvk's eyes. " Who liefd the sickle?" he asked. " Who used the sickle?" " fiod above us ! What can you mean ?" vShe shrank away from him ; but she Avas between him and the stone tank and the Avell, which Avas behind the tanks, through [ Avhich the Avater-pipe let fall the water trickling from fhe hills. His left hand fell on her shoulder like a vice and held her. " I have only one, but that will hold you till a/ou tell the truth/ he said, betAveen his teeth. "Who cut my hand off?" Her brown face grew grey. "AnsAver!" he said, and his left hand clutched her and thook her brutally to and fro. <• "Oh Lord!" sh moaned, "oh Lord!" "Answer." Then, in her terror and hor remorse and her astonishment, liehig taken unawares and conscience-stricken, she, broke doAvn in a passion of tears. ' "Oh, 'twas I ! 'twas I !" she cried piteously. "I loved you so, my first-born; and you Avere such a fair babe, find you Avere full of an} r milk, and all mine, and I knew they Avould take you when you grew to be a lhan and make you food for poAvder, arid I heard say that if any limb had a mischief done to it then they let the maimed life go free of the death-toll; and so, one day, AA-hen you had sucked your fill,. and Avere sound asleep, and I had you up in tho Avpods Avhere I Avas cutting fern, I chopped your little hand off, and when I saAV the blood and heard your screams- " He plucked up the long knife be Avore out of his belt, and Avitlvhis left hand he stabbed her again and again in the throat, until she fell doAvn in a heap against the stone wall, and the water and the linen Avere all" red. "One hand was enough for that," he said. He saw that she Avas dead and Avas content. IF A COLD IS NEGLECTED ♦ Ttiere are ?o many serious complications that may arise that a special value is attached to a medicine like TUSSICURA. This prepuration has proved to be not only an effective and .immediate remedy for a bad cold or a harassing cough, but it prevents the development of such dangerous diseases as pneumonia, acute' bronchitis, rv that most dreaded scourge, consumption. The phenomenal success attained by this preparation is proof of its merits, and in the Avinter season, Avhen colds are necessarily more prevalent than, at other times, no household should be Avithout a bottle of TUSSICURA, so as to be prepared for any emergency. Both as a cure and a . certain preventive there is nothing to equal this mixture, and a single dose Avill be sufficient to prove this. Price Is 6d, 2s 6d per bottle. Wholesale Agents, H. F. Stevens, Christchurch. 7668

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