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Show FORTUNES etXeewaabeaaaaaBMea.aaTwwA- .i,aihm . aAt ftACATMU. H UkAt y MA KVKI. INC. ' .. mwaotx ummu todav Celaael Mlla seldier and Amt4rr, rtlvrn to Kag land, hie a lire land, when war with Hollaed la 4-tard. Hit Unr mt x-klnghaia hlrM Holla te abduct the Klna !! rerquberaoa It Ja dark whaa the oeloael earrlea her mft and. when be errtvee at the houee llarkinghani ha reated, Hollaa te her-rer her-rer tfrvk whe he aeea that Sylvia la aa td ie thift, Hkl'ffk4ni aad Rellea engage la a dael. The MrrMti ef the Xuke eeme ' upwa th arM nd kaerk the cele aal aneeakaruiua. Wha the Duke at-1 tmnia la mkraii trlvta br dreee falla ; from her threat, revealing a purpl bletrb. teha ef the plaaoe. which la aaiadlng rapiglr la Uendoa. The Inke and bia nntnii five The eelenrl etava with nylvia. Tht a'rl pleade with the aaaa Jo aava blmeelf. NOW GO ON WITtTtMI TOBY "Why do you atay" aha naked Mm at length In a dull Tok. Oo . . . gn your wrfya. air. and leava mo ta die. It la. I think, atl that rem a pa to do. And . . and I Without vour M)mnanv difficult to procure. I will do my bevt to find you ona aa noon aa pon-tbla. pon-tbla. Until than you will have to depend antlraly upon you roelf.M "I am ready." "So much tha be iter, than.i And now. my friend, there la ao tlma to lone. Hpoed In applying remedloa ! I often alL Una muat bo brought aa i quickly aa may b Into a freo and i full peraplratlon and for that sba muat ba got to bed without delay. If her llfn la to ba aa ved. you muat t to work at onca. "Tell ma but what to do. air." "Not only that; I coma prepared to leava you all that you will require." re-quire." Ho produced a balky package from hta . pocket, and, backoning Hollaa to tha table, thara opened It, and enumerated tha leaaer packagea It contained and tha puryoaeg of each. "Hera la a atimtilattng ointment with whun yaaj will ewb tha eU- f Ing in tha armpit axery two hours. Thereafter you will apply to It a poult lea of mallows, llneeed. and j palm oil. Hero la mtrthridate, of 1 which you will admlnlater a lose as Ha ateppad bapk as If she had struck him. He made as tf to an awer her; then his parted Hps aame together again, hia chin etnk until It touched his breast. He turned, and with, dragging; feet walked slowly out of tha room, softly closing: the door. Hha lay there Invaded suddenly by a great fear, tine strained her earn to catch the eound of hia foot-ataps foot-ataps In tha paeage, until finally the slamming; of tha door leading to the street announced to her that, taking her at her word, ha waa gone. Indeed. And now aha flung herself prone upon tha dayhed. and sobbed aloud until tha searing pain In her breast conquered ever her self-pity, and stretched her writhing In agony ss If upon a rack. At la at a merciful unoonsrlousneaa supervened. an aiexipnannie, ana two neurs inter int-er you will give her a poaaet drink , of Canary and spirits of sulphur. The spirits of sulphur are here. Maka a fire of eeacoa! In her bedroom, bed-room, and heap all available hlnn kets upon her. that aha may throw out aa much as may be of (he poison poi-son In perspiring. "Tor tonight. If you do that, you will have done all that can bs done. I shall return very early In the morning, and we will consider fur ther measures." When Holies, d (-regarding the athyalrlan'e aid, had. single-handed, carried her to the room above, one recovered eufftrlently to demand that she should be left to herself; 1 Ana meanwhile nones wss moving mov-ing mechanically and Instinctively at speed up Hermon Lane In the direction di-rection of Paul's. Without har or cloak, his empty arabbsrd dangling Ilka I limp tall about his legs, he sped onward, a man half-distracted, with but a vague notion of his object and none of the direction tn which Its fulfillment would be likeliest. As he was approaching Carter Lane, a lantern came dancing like a will-o'-the-wlap round the corner to meet him. and presently the dark outline of the man who carried It grew vlaible. Thla man walked with tha s sal at a nee of a staff which at closer quarters the tantarn'a rays revealed to be red In color. With a gasp of relief. Hot lea flung forward for-ward toward hint. "Keep your distance, sir! Keep your diets nee!" a voloe warned him out et ths gloom. "'Ware Infect In-fect Ion." But Holloa went recklessly on until un-til the long red wsnd wss rslsed and pointed toward him to arrest his advance. "Are you mad. sir?" the man orled sharply. Holies could make out now ths pallid outline ef his face, which the broad brim or hia steeple-hat had hitherto kept al-moet al-moet entirety In shadow. Ml am an , examiner of Infected houses.' and, despite her obvious weakness, Ur. bee rail eh concurred that -to permit her to hava har own way In the matter would be to make the more a peed In the end. I Tha effort of undressing, how- ; ever, so exhausted her and awoke I such torturing pains that, when atj last aha got to bad, shs lay there, panting, reduced to a state of utter ut-ter exhauetlonl. Thus Holies and the physician j found her on their return. Dr. Beamish placed upon a table at the foot of the bed all ths things that HoHea would require, and, repeating- his Injunctions, took his leave, at last. The Colonel went with him to tha door of the house. Thla waa standing open, and by the light of a lantern hsld by the watchman the examiner was completing com-pleting the rudely wrought Inscription. Inscrip-tion. I.erd have mercy upon - ue, under tha ominous red erosa which he had daubed above. . Quickly now, - urged by the thought Of his task, utterly disregarding disre-garding the dull aching of his bruised head. Holloa mounted the stalra again. He found Nan tn a state of lethargy leth-argy which, whilst leaving her a full conaclouaness of alt that had occurred and wss occurring about her. yet robbed her of all power of speech or movement. .CHAPTER XXII, Tha Crisis. For five days, which to Randal Holies were as five years of mortal angulah. She lay suspended between this world and the next. The doctor had succeeded beyond all hia hopes In his quest of a nurae-keeper nurae-keeper and be brought her with him to tha bouee-Jn Knight Ryder street, on tha morrow of Nancy s taking til a lean, capable, good-natured, hen-like a woman of forty. But for all her competency and willingness, hsd this Mrs. Ualowa been alone in charge of the patient. It Is long odds that Nancy would quickly have succumbed. For no hired attendant attend-ant could ever have ministered to her with the self-sacriflcinaT, remorseful re-morseful devotion to the broken adventurer ad-venturer who loved hsr. "it is ss i nopea,- panted rtouea . ."that yours might be some such office. 1 need a doctor, man. quickly, for ona who la taken with the plague. The examiner's mannar becamS brlak at once. "Where?" he demanded. Tloee at hand here, tn Knight Ryder street." "Why. then. Dr. Bearmlsb, there t the corner. Is your man. Coma And thus It happened that, from the sleep which hsd succeeded the swoon that, so mercifully whelmed her senaea. Nancy wss aroused by a sound of stepe and voices. Where she lay she faced the door of the room. And, as through billows of mist that now rolled before her eyes, ahe saw ths tall figure of Colonel Holloa enter followed by 1 two strangers. .One of these was a little bird like man of middle age; the other waa young and of a broad frame and a full countenance. Both were dreaaed In black, and each carried tha rod wand which the law ' Bui allhou.h Hoiira ne.iectea aii tha prewntlv. meaaorea which tha doctor had ao ur.er.tly prearrilMd for hint, ha navertheleaa amoked a deal, all tin. by tha window of har chamber, which waa kept open day and nl.ht to tha auffocatlnv heat of that terrible July. And the (rent fire conafantly maintained by the doctor'a ordera. thla heat notwlth-atandlnr. notwlth-atandlnr. did much to cleanae dnd purify th. air. . (continued Tomorrow) fiarwarraaa-ta. The younger man, who was the examiner met by Ho4.ee In Hern. on j Lasne. came no farther than the ihreehoid He was holding, close toi hts nostrils s elmh that v&ys out a punsient, Ineyarr smell, and his jews worked vlprorouety the while, for he waa ehewtnc a stick of snske-root snske-root aa a further measure of pre-rentloti. pre-rentloti. Meanwhile, his rem pen ion. who was that asms Dr. Hismlsh hs had recommended, approached petient snd made a swlt. practised, and silent examination. The physician held hsr wrist for a moment in his bony flnrsrs. ths middle one upon her pules. Next hs carefully examined the blotch upen her throat. Finally he raised flrat one of her arms snd then the other, whilst Holies at hia bid dins: lield the randle-branch so as to rsst the light Into ths arm-pit. A grunt es-csped es-csped him upon ths discovery of swelling in the right one. Thls la unusually soon." he said. "It la seldom before the third day that there la such a manifestation," At hia elbow Holies spoke In a toneless rolre; Imee tt . . . does It mean that her case la beyond hope?" The physician looked at him. "Dum vlrlmum, aperetnua," aald he. "Her case need not be hopeless hope-less any more than another's. Much depends upon the energy with which the disease Is fousht. j He sew the flesh of Holies sree at that, as through ths Colonel's mind sped the vow that If It waa a matter et m, fight he waa there to ware It. "Much depends upon thst. But more tnded all upon God. my friend." He spoke to Holies) aa to a hueoend. for that. Indeed, waa the relationship la which he conceived him to stand to the afflicted lady. "If svowuratlon of that swelling can he Induced, recovery Is poaslhle. Mors I cannot say. To Induce that suppuration Infinite pains and thro-lews thro-lews labor snar be necessary. "iHhe may depend on that."" aald I Holies. The phystcUn nodrted. "Nurses." ( be added slowly. ara scares aad |