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Show A FELON'S LOVE. BY HENRY W. NESFIELD. i and, upon the Inside, he belTT marked In ink," R. L " the 9 allll7 his brother. ' ntllHs 0 How had it come there' Boh had been in the hut then, and tl 9 had been broken probably' in ast belt Whatever had been done with h-'"5g''e' supposing him to have been nZ1 and the things he had upon him ed as great a mystery to Luke a hut this piece of belt had no doubtl?'' overlooked by his assents an4 it seemed as a witness against tw Luke searched carefully amonst fern for some additional evidence could find nothing. At last worn with thinking, he lay down and ?!n asleep. ul For five or six hours the weary m slept soundly. The fire had bt m down to a few smouldering logs the tallow dip which he had left ali I had long since expired. The niornin! breeze blew keenly through th crevices of the slab walls, though th' sun had not yet risen, when Win, 5 Luke moved painfully in his s Then he commenced to struggle and cry out strange things. Whatever his dreams may have been they caused him to clutch and tear the sides of the bunk and strike out wildly in the air, while heads of per3. piration silent proofs of his mind'' agony bedewed his distorted feature' At length, as if his soul could bear the torture no longer, he leaped froffl the bed with a yell and shouted "Yes Bob what is it? Here I am.'vvbat was it that you said?" Then he be-came be-came quite awake. He struck a match and lighted another an-other candle. Seeing no one in the hat he listened; but he heard nothing. Still J vividly impressed with the idea that he had heard his brother's voice i, opened the door, and looked all around outside. No one was there. Several times he called out "Halloa, Bob! Bob Luke! It's me- Bill your brother Bill ! Do you hear?" No answer came. At last he went back into the hut and sat down to trait for day-light. In vain he tried to remember what it was he had dreamed, but all he could recall was that he had hear his broiler's broil-er's voice calling out for help. "It's that horrible drink; I haven't got the better of it yet," he murmured to himself. "I am shaken to pieces with it, and can't sleep in peace!" (To be Continued.) Outside the hut was a pile of chopped chop-ped wood; so, carrying some within, he soon made a cheerful blaze. Then, laving drawn one of the wooden stools close up to the fireplace, he sat down and commenced to smoke. His thoughts flew rapidly back over all the strange incidents of the past two years of his life. It seemed as though it were but yesterday that he entered the service of old Mr. Hughes at Froylcs. All the good intentions and resolutions which he had then formed came vividly before his mind how earnestly he had determined to give up the drink, and how honestly he had meant to lead a new life. Then he thought how small were the trials over which he fell an old man's temper tem-per and crotchety ways, the every-day worries of most servants' lives. Have not all servants, he reflected, to fit themselves in, as it were, to their employers' ways and habits? Is it not a part of their servitude to try to study' their master's little foibles! And then do they not have certain advantages? advan-tages? Are they not as a class totally emancipated from all the responsibilities responsibili-ties of life which fall, as a rule, to the share of the smallest householder? What are taxes, Queen's or parochial, gas or water rates, to the average domestic do-mestic servant? Their anxiety concerning con-cerning these things begins and ends in carrying the unwelcome documents relating thereto upstairs. What does it signify to them whether coals are nineteen shillings or twenty-five shillings shil-lings per ton? The English servant can rest with a tranquil mind, undisturbed by visions of blue slips of paper threatening threat-ening distraint unless certain moneys CHAPTER XIII. A few hours afterward the coach came lumbering up to Sullivan's door, where William Luke was standing, anxiously watching for its coming. Directly the driver descended from the box, he seized him by the arm. "Good evening, Sam," he exclaimed. "There is something I very much wish to ask of you." "Well, go ahead, mate; we have only ten minutes to liquor up in." "I will liquor you up more than you can drink in the next fortnight," cried Luke, "if you tell me truly what I want to know." "What is it? Blaze away!" "Did you or did you not, on the night I traveled up with you here, bring a letter to Tom Baynes, the cook at Redmount?" "I I bring a letter to Tom Baynes?" echoed the man, pausing for a moment to consider. "No; that I certainly did not. Who says as I did?" "Then it's false!" screamed Luke. "He had no such letter calling him away; and there was some reason for his fearing to meet me face to face!" "It certainly is very odd," admitted Mr. Hall to Luke, when he presented himself again the next morning at the station. "And you say that the driver, Sam Jones, positively denies having brought up a letter for Baynes on that night?" "Yes, sir," replied Luke, "on that or . any other occasion." "Well, Baynes must have told me a lie, for I remember distinctly his saying say-ing the driver; and there was no one among the passengers whom he was likely to have known." "No; they all went on to Mount due to her Majesty s government, are paid before a particular date. Not only is a servant a perfectly irresponsible person, so far as all such matters are concerned, but he can exact a.s much civility from his employer for the time being as -his employer can from him. These thoughts flowed through Luke's mind as he gazed into the blazing blaz-ing log-fire, and they caused him to wonder at his own folly at not having had the sense to know when he was well and comfortably provided for. At last, rousing himself from his reverie with a shrug of the shoulders, he threw another log or two upon the fire. Then he pulled out his watch: Only half-past nine! How slowly the evening had gone! He could hear the noise of voices and laughter down in the men's huts Thov at- nm Gipps." "You are certain?" "Quite certain. I was the only one who stayed behind at Sullivan's." "Then I must own it begins to look very mysterious," said Mr. Hall. "I think you have some grounds for your suspicions after all." "Thank you for saying that, sir,!' returned re-turned Luke. "I have felt that you must think me quite mad upon the subject; but I cannot help it. There is something some-thing in me which seems to urge me on. I don't know what it is, but, whatever what-ever it may be, it has been strong enough to enable me to keep from the drink; and that is what I have not had the pluck to do this many a day." "Then nurse the feeling," said Mr. Hall. "If it keens its hold nnnn ir.i, . M ti.iji laic, seemed to be free from . care. And again his thoughts wandered back to the day when his great trouble fell upon him. Why should he, of all men, have been chosen to bear such tribulation? tribula-tion? Other men had been given to drink, and had continued in their sottish sot-tish ways until death had claimed them for its own. Other men? Ay, and gentlemen bred and horn, thousands thou-sands upon thousands of them, yet they had not suffered as he had suffered. suf-fered. Oh, why should he, of all men, be singled out for such fearful punishment punish-ment on account of this widely-prevailing human weakness? How many men had he not known who were perfect per-fect slaves to the vice? Even in his boyhood, when a page, he had grown accustomed to seeing his young masters mas-ters come home the worse for drink. Then, by hearing such incidents, laughed laugh-ed at and spoken lightly about he iTo it will bring you more good than all the discoveries you may make, or even the one thousand pounds reward." "I feel that, sir; and with Heaven's help I'll never touch another drop." "Amen to that!" cried Mr. Hall. "Whatever searches you may wish to make, Luke," he continued, "you are at perfect liberty to make them at your leisure on and about the station- but I fear you will find nothing by 'which you will trace your brother. We searched every nook and corner " "Would you think it a liberty ' sir if I were to ask of you rather a strange favor?" b "Not at all. What is it?" "It is permission for me to occunv Baynes' hut." "Certainly-why not? But what seems much more to the point to me Is the advisability of telegraphing to Sydney and throughout the country to detain Tom Baynes and his wir grown to regard them as matters of course. "Wasn't Master Charles precious tipsy last night? A good job for him the missus didn't see him!" Such remarks re-marks had often been made by his fellows fel-lows in the servants' hall; and to his half-educated mind it seemed from the way people spoke about it that it wis rather a grand thing to get tipsy and that the man who took kindly to his liquor was by no means a fool. CHAPTER XIV. And so, as he grew in years drink-h,g drink-h,g became a confirmed habit in him By-and-by he found it was almos 0 necessity. Until l,e had stimulated him self for the day ho was w,-e.che d and almost incapable f attending to" 3 duties. By night he was wn , 3 treated; and on such a" E' keeping off the fumes f his i, 1 Perance, he had fallen a " ,t n t horrible accusation. ' that The noise of the men in lb, 1 , had ceased. A great si 111,, 'U t have set in, In t ' ' - - -"iLS;;:,:;:',- - iTZL?Mvh 1,,a" ''81'ta driven into I he e u'Tu """ an aple supply of ,1,-v '' Wil8 --inc., had serv, ;in,,:U1;1 '"e previous om. p , ,'s ,, ? V'" r'"' Lk "ad proceed Tt ' , " ""' T"lfi justice of the peace I can have him arrested upon suspicion of havin- been roncerned in the disappearance of vouv brother. You can then see' the man tf your suspicions prove incorrect verv well. We shall all feel more satisfied at any rate." ' Accordingly Mr. Hall despatched telegrams to Sydney, Adelaide Mei bourne and a number of other' places through which he thought Baynes would have probably passed. Menn while Luke took possession 0f th Baynes' hut. tne The place was very much in thp Game state as when it had been 1-occupied. 1-occupied. The charred logs remained upon the hearth, and the furniture-If furniture-If the bedstead, table, and two benches" could be called furniture- , stasithad been left. thBre William Luke retired early from th gossip of the men's hut. He h tl ed of hearing the same old stories of I ,! Mrs. Baynes had lived in rigid 1 Bion, and what a capital mate r Baynes had been. A roll of blankets had been given out to him from th store; and, as he entered the hut b lighted a candle and surveyed 'th! Bcene. UB It was quite a warm night, but ho shivered as he looked around a small heap of brushwood lay i one" corner by the chimney, so he thought he would light a fire. Kneeling down, he removed the 1ok which were there, charred in the center, just as the flame had died out ind smothed the white ashen awav with his hand to make room tor the dry scrub. Again he shivered, feeling a atrango chilling sensation as though sojno awful aw-ful thing were about to happen to him "It's the drink," he said alt.tid "i thought I had got over it. Miybe I haven't yet. I am nervoua-thafs what's the matter with me." fimidU11;";' ,u m'van""11 -hi,"- no 1 ,;'a""'" or !,;:. '!v;;, Hi,au"' " T"M!J it up, 1U, ' , " 'i ' hell. 11 111 l-'"'liilly cxami,,,,,, ,( |