Show 1 a run cab ry cj w game put 4 0 mil mid calton rousing pausing for or a moment at tho the door and his big back 11 Ima its rather catli r lato late to catch moreland Alor claDd today bo bolever wever I 1 11 am sc what 4 tar att know and lie bo men tout I 1 barest lo 10 reit act aa waiting Us return anil and cita thed at out the curious end of the ban sinia cab my tery ter when in about ton ta minutes calton rallied in id hurriedly and closed tho the door after I 1 him toto la is playing into our hand ito ho mid soon its be recovered als W breath land on barbot oil as kabold anti and as neither of thorn them nor to ID bald he ha would call again before 6 oclo cSc I 1 told the alio clerk to bring him up to 10 mo me at facea so 0 o bo moy may bo be hero hard nt at any moment that li it hes hell foolish enough to como Cla Chitto tOO olt oh lon hell comi come mill mid the b detec detective tivo cotin conn rattling a pair of hawalt 7 tol ila Is so 0 o that thai bo be uns bits made things thing calo that lell walk right into tho the trop trap it wall getting a little auak nod and ilia ibo four men were greatly excited though they con led 1 it under an assumed ad nonchalance what a 0 situation SOT for ft a drama said MM brian only oaly said all lit it li Is a oj M in alo old days dayi of tho the CoU joum vol dolleris leris the actor who played orpheus was torn toon to pieces flows ly by hears at the end of the flay uis llis lart hist on any stage I 1 top up bow 1 said calton IN a little cruelly it most be caf easel khsim remained hated in ID him bl liala humming oa an ope operatic ratio air and chink ing lo 10 the together ly by way of 0 M ritan int 0 of llo ila falb AIL with tho the moro more so as be uv air that by this bo be ranked far abort borby and what would gerby awby gorby bo had bad laughed at au all big ideas ono aa tool tall and who had bad been quite wrong from roni the first konty 11 hugh Is 1 laid aid calton holding holi iloa up op Ms big ing ej as were board beard echoing on the outs butr ida clero rl ero bo be is 1 I 1 believe aloi kilda oroso arose from ili his choir chair and stealing sofik to tho the window looked cautiously out then be turned round to those inside and nodding his bead slipped the handcuffs hando utTa into half br jua as aj be b did dai so 0 o there was A knock at the door and la in response to cal tool toai invitation iaTi tAtIon to enter phinton Tar tarbet bets dork clerk caroo came in ID with roger moreland Mor clanA the abo latter J a little oo on tho ilia threshold when ho he may law catton wait not alono alone and it half if inclined to cut ora dently there was no danger of his li I 1 being g ducov discovered emd bo be pulled himself together and adran advanced ced into the room in oa an tasy and confident manner athla is uio gentleman ell abo to know bout about I 1 be check lr antill thikton atolia atar tar hot clark to calton oll indeed answered calton quietly 1 I am slid glad to sea bun you can go the clerk bowed and acot eat out oat closing tho the door after hint him moreland roland took his pea wat directly dl in front of calton and with big back to the ibo door Ki kilda ladro toeing taij this strolled rolled tt across the room in 10 a nonchalant manner pi annor bile calton engaged moreland in ia convere lion and quil turned the key you want to sea co mo am and ail calton re r bluming his cabb yea k ca that N Is alo alone also replied moreland Mo roland utica uneasily only oh these OLTO am nil all uy my friends S uld id calton quietly you yen my may say any Is quite aalto said cio that they are your fri oDdi aej aro are quill bulto to safe it Is nothing to aneo rac 1 sold moreland jose bontly 1 I wish to speak to you la priva tat dont yen yau think you would llo iilo to know calion coolly taking no of ills ids remark P D your trends moreland furiously aking from bis big foot calto 1 nuj adoro daod to j 1 I r luntoo at air andai an na dAb ZE jt twill 5 m L artt 4 ji sc J 1 i n iiii M iw phase I 1 given to r if mel ruthc C west and locate oil old ilicia him 1 1 i that is I 1 the rope ropa going to bang you uil mad elsic oti coining oling behind b him I 1 no for tb be murder of 9 trapped by G c r shouted the th ward wretched thad man anaa wheeling whaling round so 0 o as aa to foco face lift ile sprong sprang at the thiat theat thi at and aad they both rolled together on oa the clio noor door but the lat hat ter was too strong for hka and actor a sharp struggle ho he in ID gerting the band cuffs on moreland a wrist 4 tb others stood around perfectly quiet that required no A now that tharo was no a possibility of choam moreland seemed to t bacomo annig med and row rose 03 02 alti floor 1 fa I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 W I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 11 S I 1 ail and they both rolled together ou treav tn toor one by G 1 ril rii mala mako yoo yon pay for this lie between big bl teeth with a white do pairing caco you cant prove cant wr said ald gallon calton touching the con you tou oro are wrong is the tb con fusion of mark made before ho he dla dl A its It a dd alio lie A jury wall decide that taij sald the barris B ter dryly meanwhile you will pasa pan the a to a tho the melbourne jaal all perhaps give 0 1110 o the mine cell as AJ you yoo occupied said cald moreland ibba frieb a it baal tough turning to arald 11 should lifo a I 1 it for or ite is old as brian did not cot answer him biru but picking up lm big hat anil and clax oa to go 1115 total cried moreland fiercely 1 I coo tuat that it Is ill all up with mo me so ao im not going to lio a coconi ITO played for a big talco and lobat but if I 1 boon such a foot fool id liate that chock check next deft morning and been far away by this lima it would certainly tamlY havo have been wiser wit calton Al after olli itald moreland nonchalantly no of than remark 1 I 1 dont doat t enow o poa lint im lla orry y about it ive had u id a cioll 0 upon earth carth killed I 1 what I 1 your guilt bald hareland Ho reland his hi aboul lerg 1 11 I told you I 1 a coward rard lo lit an coolly yea t was chiyka 0 awo f fault L L when 1 I 1 mot e him bald that lat night he ha t told 0 ld h how 0 w I 1 nt t lb y wool A ou 1 lii in it lot loc him calarry nuin r his bin daughter but said that hed malo mallat lini hire ond and allowed mo me the nu I 1 JC if I 1 could only za set tc it rd malo male a nice little clulo title puo out of f over it so 0 o than aa byte went via on drinking I 1 dald not nol At after terho lo 10 had bad gone out of the hotel I 1 put on we coat which lio he left behind I 1 taw saw him bini standing near dear the tamp lamp post onil and fitz FiLey erald come up and tuen than leave wal liim aben you came down donn tho the la ho acut on to l 1 1 I bade back into the shado shodo fr and uben bell you poised passed 1 I ran up to as the cabra cabman tiou was patting him blai into uio the hansom ban soca ile took too tor for you so BO I 1 unit ace ITO lim but I 1 swear I 1 bad oo no idea of I 1 got I 1 icelo trial to get cot the papers but he bo let va nil aud and corn cond to mag out then I 1 thought of the chloroform la in tho pocket of his hl coat n bleb I 1 vaa I 1 pulled palled it 16 aits outi nits and found that abo carlt 1 1 I ben bea I 1 took out licit atao also in fa the coat and add emptied the battle ott it nod and put it back la in my aci 1 a again ala fr old to get cot t the 1 a PAIK pa bacr cr M without using ibo chloroform bob bat coul dut goo 0 o I 1 clapped tile the over bla big boutho anti and he bo wont went olf off after a ton minutes in louto and I 1 got the palem I 1 thought la bo war as only tu in it was bly when 1 SAW the neg loper flint I 1 knowlin know lio nas as doad dead I 1 stopped toppel topp cl en it st allda rood got out add aad cal cauchi wall cab which AN going coins to lown lawn then I 1 tt took 03 lie ile am coot and carried it over my oro I 1 ant devin toward the th vedanta call and having kid ilia coot up a trao teen haris I 1 L suppose you found ito it to P 1 j dinallo i beime lomelo so ivo lt dont donots ayou ou all at t 4 1 but 1110 youre couslin caubat nl at we I 1 Icil kilip JON quietly morel nil roll fell doom dond in a chair with oo an air of utter and noa i no man can n lo 10 stronger llian IOtt nT 1 be b mid aila dreamily 11 1 have bato lout lost end and you baro won 0 o liro bacic board after all and we 0 o nn am the ibo of irto into no refused to anerd nerd ord so 0 o leav log ing calton and kibic with ilia him brian toil AM uio doctor went out and hail haded a cab 1 it daoro the ibo cour court 1 where bj effii mo o ai fifi cand and then moreland walking aj if in A dream left the room M aej got cot into the ibo cab followed hy by ra do you inov amid ChI chinston matoo thought to fully by as they tool stood and watched uio tile cab drive dairo off do you loom what the cud of that man will bar it requires no prophet to foretell that said calton dryly n will be od 10 NO lo he bo woot wont rotor tod tild tho the doctor ono no will suich suichee le CHAPTER tda 1109 LOME THAT la M there are certain perio in ID the lifo life of at men when late seems to hard bare don IQ glicr wont aud 4 berz any further farther misfortunes will which c LA anny il aCcepted aro GrO with B aib a CA I 1 resignation il by the ruy wicnty of trials fitzgerald ww was lo in thin aidea of mind i fir it n I 1 lit it it was the ibo colinas of d dorair pair abil of the ibo past year to here como come to a climax and bo be i looked forward to the publication of the whole bitter story with an indifference that surprised hin iselt ilia own ono adame and that of madge and bet dead father would bo on every tongue yet ho he felt ell perfectly callow callous to bat evar might bo be said mid oo on the subject AJ AA long as madge recover recovered and they could go away to another port part of tho the world lit leaving with its ils bitter memories behind d be did not cartt moreland would burr tho the bitsoi penalty of his big crime and then nothing more would over ever bo be heard of the matter it would be better for or tho the whole story to be b told and momentary pain lain endured than ehno to go co on striving to co lido isido the ibo infamy and shame hame which might bo be discovered nt at any moment alread already the news was oil all melbourne that tho the murderer of 0 oliver had limit broil cantua captured ad dud that bia confession would krould bring to light cartain startling tarth nf facts facia concerning the tha intel inta mark fintan well luc that the world winked at secret vices as aa long as a there them ws w ao an attempt ob at concealment though it wait cruelly wrote or taboo which were brought to light and that many whose lives fires englat bo be fal fai more culp culpable atole than poor mark would cold be the lint hrat to slander tho the dead man the publeo o cr was waa destined marvel tc be crati floA for the a known ahat roger moreland bad injured himell in a has bis ocil dur ing the and had bad left no confession lo be bind hinl him brian heard this ho be breathed a bart relt felt prayer of thanks to for his bis deliverance dud ami went to tOco scia calton whom he found at his bl cham chambers bem in deep with CUi ofton and they ail ol 01 caroe came to the conclusion that bat aj moreland was now con dead nothing bothin oded be rained LIT by publishing the th confession of at mark so 0 o agreed t burn it and a hen ben fitzgerald pa MW in the limpet blackened paper lu in the nrc Im place all that rean of ilia tl ilir tary story be b falt oil a weight dweight aa big heart the bora later chinston Chi find and all promised to on jmj they kept the promise richly for nothing wm wal over known of which led to the death of oliver why la and it was wait goo rally anally supposed that it must have bato leon caused by some quarrel ancon the abo dead 1 man and his friend hoer moreland fitzgerald however did not dot forget tho the good service that thai kilsie hod bad done hint and gave him a sum gum ol of money to laida made him independent tor for uie life though he be til fill followed his old profesa loo of tt a detective from frold boor lore of excitement and was waa always looked upon with admiration as the ibo man n a ho he had olad solved the of tuo the famous banson cab lourdon BrIan after coulta eions with at fast calan to co the tb cocool to ion iad that it b be no a ua 9 fco J to W jo aa fill liy 1 1 1 1 ima 4 F 1 I 1 i fr 0 i aig ap dt sand T 1 lu via ali nation nan tuua win 9 ah upon filc I 1 Z r 1 il d a il bf at boj As 40 allowed to remain ta in 1 ignorance g n r an CC of hor bar the abo of sul sal achas nan anic old mo bowater bowar er was very on her and she devoted bar bif to the lb task of her fallen suat biski cria A kno lag ing as she eho did all the ce 0 of t the she was enabled to do do 00 Inar amount of goedl rod and ammy no 00 unhappy woman oman was nu fayod from the squalor equator rod and hardship alu dalp of a gutter ilia by bj the kind band of sal Rn fellix rolleston houeston became a member of par fw holdout here his if not very deep u liro am at least amusing and A bile a 0 the house aldays lilo like it a gentleman could oot not bit bd uld sald about all big bb parliamentary collazo col lezo aes ues madge slowly lowly ro covered from bar illness and as she had bad been implicitly aamot in ID the mil iu as heiress to mark Fretti bys great wealth ad it sho goo placed the management of bar ca antes to lo the hands bands of mr air calton caiton 0 tabo be with Thi caton carlt acted as all her agents in australia oil her recovery she 10 lo learned the tory antory of liar her tatt father lers early mar garringe ringe but both endon and fitzgerald acro ere client about the fact of sal hart low bos beling being liar her hw half amer as such a could do alagood DO alo good and would only create ft a scandal ax as no explanation could bo be glo given except tho the true ono shortly worried married mug fitzgerald arald and i both bolh of them only too gladly left australia aitu all its lt sorro 9 add aad bitter memories her on too of one of the P and 0 steamers as it plowed tuo the blue bauo fl atom of Holso rit bay into roarn roam they both watched melbourne as it gradually failed from their view maider the ibo clow of the autio juabot atit they could soa isto the two domes of it the ibo exhibition and ilia in liw conits call aad house bouso with wilb iu its tall fail tower rising from the of tile ibo great trees in tuo the background was wad a briglia crimson ily barred 1 milli I I 1 11 of blacko jou louds dl oud cad over alt all th afao P PO pat O city hung hune a cloud of molo amolo like a pail pau the glaring red light of the suit cut glared angrily oo on the heavy vl aters and aad the ati to be looking its lay through a olea ca of blood madge llodo clinging to lo her bus bua bonda arm folt fit her eyes oil flu with lean as abo be saw the ibo land of her birth slowly lowly good by she elio murmured softly good toy forever you do not gretell losard lo 10 raid boodin his iwah ite gret no tho she answered liouns a film aeb loving cyca with you toy by my jilg I 1 fer fear Dot nott biu antar surely our hearts have beau ba tried la in the fur fulco of and our for toro has ba boca chast chasteney chastened ened find aad puri flod floal woore wo oro niro of nothing la in this world ro plied piled uma v iab a biall due after all abo orrow A ow and grief of the post la let us hope thao 9 tho the future au ili bo be peace PC cl cr A nalto ingco am lull evil arose the ibo crinion crl nion lot naton aud and circled rapidly tu abobo tycin A happy sho lio said waldo up idly I to tio the ravo ravel face of her bubanj fur foor tour life BUI it for mine 11 0 bent down and Liss odber the avat moved mored out tosca wait as they stood on the ibo deck hand baud clai claird pd 1 in blood with the ibo tavalt rat broeze breaw blowing blon lafi keenly lit in their face act it here boro them awny 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