Men Were Deceivers Ever.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1045, 20 July 1904, Page 4

Men Were Deceivers Ever.

BY EDITH FRANOIS

CHAPTER X—Continued. j Fortunately, howovoi', Lady St Claro's 1 illness proved but a passing fainting fit; ! no doubt it had been caused by tbo boat of tho wealhor, (he doctor said, Sho declared she only needed test to bring about her comploto recovery, and abo sent down a charming message to Sir Godfrey which reiioved all his anxiety, and declared she was looking forward to greeting his nephew on the morrow, And having dispatched that messago, sho sat down and wrote a note which her own mind oarried to Neil Dento.i in the village. Tlio sending of such a missive, would of course becomo known and would cccato gossip, but Lady St Clare was reck 4 less then, The village ecandul mongers would have so much to talk about on the morrow, sho told herself bitterly. And within the note which she had sent to him were but two poncilled lines: " Fato has decided for us, I cannot stay hero longer, and daro not atop to explain now. Only, to-night I shall leave here, Wait for mo on tbo bridge at eleven, Only tako mo away, my love -my lovnl" " liillA," * a * A quiot trio sat down ;o dinner at (ho Abbey, Aline was still glad in Jack's return, but worried over many things besides, while Jack himsolf, watching her and seeing the shadow tm her fair face, became at once very sympathetic and anxious to know what was amiss, On tho ether hand, Sir Godfrey wis in high spirits, and presently Aline grew brighter, Neil was not expected that evening, and so tho threo wcro alone, After coffee, Borved in the drawing room, Alino and Jack found a snug corner, whilst Sir Godfrey took up his paper and wont to sleep. To Aline it was tho resuscitation of old days, If Jack had grown older in yoars he seemed just the samo to her as when as a youth ho condescended to play with her, taught her to ride, play tennis, and even to throw a fly, although lie had to take the fish off thehook for her, and usually ,vas ploaded with to threw it into tin river, She hartily noticed how reticent ho was about himself, for sho had so much to toll him, how for instance, her stepmothor had boon driven on tho shoro of tho bay in a Bhip's boat, with a single attendant, a Spaniad, and how her father had fallen in lovo and married her. She was as yet too shy to moro than mention Captain Denton's name, and she held hor tongue concerning her engage* tnent to him, and how she found it im» fOßsiblotocarryitont, This would wait, she thought, till she had spoken to Neil and bad become more intimate with Jack. Of course, too, she never mentioned tho scone in the garden when she had sacrificed her pride in order to save hor father piin, and also to save a woman from her own reckless conduct, but, without theso family affairs, sho had plenty to talk of, and they were in the middle of thoir gossip when thoy heard Sir Godfrey calling to his no^hew. "Come, my boy I" he said, "I want to hoar why you left my letters so long un-> answered, It was not that you bore malice for tho 'cw words wo had when wo parted, I hope ? That would not bo like you." " Indeed, that was not tho reason," Jack said, '' But, to tell you the truth, I have been at death's door and havo hardly es> oaped with my life, Out in Mexico I uiado the acquaintance of another Englishman, Dick Mardco, who bad married a woman who had the face of an angel and tho heart of a fiend, " Sho was of Spanish descent, but by some freak her eyes were blue and hor hor golden. Half the men in tho town • were mad about fier, and envied poor old Dick—until they knew hor better. 1 "(And then one day ho wos|found dead, j murdered, and suspicion was so arranged I that it foil on mo, his best friend, I never I really knew how it was done, but I was hurried off to a Spanish prison, and stood a fair chance of romain' log there all my lifo without a trial—l can assure you things of that kind arc still disgrucefnlly managed out there." i'l havo hoord that before," Sir Godfrey assented, " But fortunately it is not so ioiposi sible to escape from a Spanish as from an English prison, and I got away, My first act was to go back to my old quartTHE DANGER SIGNAL A red flag is recognised as a danger Bignal on every road But there are other danger signals many of them not so apparent as a red Hag, though they botokon worse dangers than aro to bo mot on any road, even in theso days of swift motors, Whon vour palate, like the man with the red flag on a roailroad, stands at tho enttance to your throat (so to speak) and waves off every mouthful of food he sees coming down the line, what does that portend ? Why danger—a very real present dnngor, which must h (jot out of tho way with as lictlo delay as possible or disaster will result. Two years agj such a danger as this threatened Mrs F, Fuller, of Bylong Road nearltylstono, N.S.W. "My appetite was so poor," writes Mrs Fuller, on October 18th, 1908, " that frequently mid-day would pass before I broke my fast; and even then, more often than not 'my ►tomach would reject tbo little food J bad .-wallowed.' 1 An unmistakable d<in<»pr .'ifjnal this! Mrs Fuller continues, •'lt was dear that I was suffering from ncranncmcnl of the digestive organs. Every morning I would riso with a splitting headache and a bad taato in tho month, My tongue and throat were eo dry and purchod mid though I was constantly drinking ten. f was never ablo to quonch my thirst, I was never free from stomach pain, and altogether my condition was vory wretched, Friends recommended first ono romoiy and then another as a sure euro for my complaint; but nono of thorn did mo any good, and 1 became disgusted with ail medicines, Then it was that a rolation sent mo a pamphlot wherein my husband read of sovcral sufferers Bimilar to myself who hud bean cured bv Mother Syrup, He was so much impressed by what ho road that ho persuaded mo to try that remedy, Ho proourcd for mo a bottle of Mother Heigel's Syrup and n box of Soigcl's Operating Pills, In a fow days I expori. oneed some slight relief. Thus encouraged, I continued the treatment until I had taken six bottles of the Syrup, by which time I was as well as I could wish to bo, From that day to this thore has boon no reourronco of my illnesd, so I '.hink I am justified in regarding my cure as permanent," Forcing food down—which is what somo people do—is worse than useless, The beat work is willing work. When Mother Seigcl's Syrup has set tho stomach right wo don't have to force food down any more; tbo appotito craves it, the stomach ia ready for it, and the danger signal iu hnulsd down.

cm, which I found had boon ransnckod by n scoundrelly Bpnuiard, Mrs, Mardeu's brother, who lmd taken away nil my bo" longings, my privato papers and all, on the pretext that ho was going to convey to 1110 in prison." "Good heavens, wlmt a scoundrel I" Sir Godliey oxclaimed, " Tlion you lmve been robbed 1" "I had been left ponnilc3S," Jack answeml, "And I felt tho loss of nil my private possessions, such ns a fow lot tors I lind from homo and litllo Almo's photograph, <vcn iiioro limn (ho loss of tho monoy. Hu' that was liarcl onough, too, considering tlmt I was in n country whore bribery rules avorything, and whore at any moment I might lind mysolf dragged back to tho most dreadfn l prison in tho world.'' "And how did you escape?" Aline asked breathlessly, Iler fnco lind grown quite palo with horror while Jack had been speaking. " Fortunately I still lmd some good friends," Jack returned, " and I was smuggled on board a homeward bound vessel, mufllcd up to tliooyos and disguised as an English gontleiunn, Hut, strangely enough, wo touched at ono of tho West Indian ports on our way and took up two passengers who wf.ro also bound for England, It was not until wo had been out to see some (fays tlmt I discovered who tlicy wero-my poor friend Garden's widow and ner brother Jose," " I hope yon gave the fellow a good thrashing 1" Sir Godfrey said. It would have served him right to iling him board to the sharks." "Sol thought," Jack said grimly; and you may be suro wo had a pretty strong scone, However, 1 had no actual proof of tho charges brought against them, so presently tho feud was set aside by mutual consent, though we never spoke to each other, jtnd I think we lind the feeling that wo were sitiing smoking on a barrel of gunpowder that might go off at any moment." To be continued.)