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Show tle which hung from an Iron bar. Altogether the a Lit to the hut dll not occupy above fie minutes. The sergeant declared himself jatis-fleand Mrs. Bavnes, rising from the bed, begged Mr. Hall to stay and accept of seme tea. The battle Is already on the boil, sir. she said. Pray do not disturb yourself, Mrs Baynes," the squatter answered, as she stood up. Ve are too sorry for having had to come at all! When the search-part- y had withdrawn, the sergeant remarked to Mr. Hall Thats the woman, I suppose. Ive heard so much talk about the one people said was mad anl shut up here! I dare say, replied Mr. Hall. People say all sorts of things. Shes the wife, and is a horeless invalid, but she is very good at her needle, and my wife is uncommonly glad to have her here. Poor thing, she looks very white and ill! The disappearance of Bob Luke remained a complete enigma. The colonial papers, under the heading of The Mysterious Disappearance on the Barrier Ranges, suggested all sorts of solutions to the riddle, and found in it a large scope for their Imaginations. All the remarkable disappearances that had ever been recorded were brought to light again, and, as a last loophole out of the difficulty, It was suggested that the man had for some urgent reason determined to lose his Identity, and so had gone off, leaving his boots behind him in order to throw people off the scent. Like most other mysteries, this Boon became a thing of the past. The subject at last grew monotonous, and In a very few months people had ceased to think any more about it. What, after all, was a bushmxn more or less of whom no one knew anything and for whom nobody cared? ANIMAL COMEATS. Confined in Cagefc In Mi eer Deiiliuent. d, FELONS LOVE. A BY HEXRY V. NESFIELD. CHAPTER YIIL What horse was that I heard galloping about in the night? inquired Mr. Hall on the following morning. Did any break out of the paddock? No, air; it wan Haynes, replied one of the hands. He rode up in the night. "Baynes? What did he come back for?" lie said they were all drunk and fighting down at Sullivans, and he could find no place to sleep in, so he rode home. "He must go back at once then; I cant have those hanging about down there for days together. He has gone, sir. He started off at daylight. Thats all right, then," said Mr. Hall. When the nmn who slept In Bob Lukes hut got up that morning, they noticed that he had already gone out. "I wonder what made Luke turn out so early? one of them remarked; but no further notice was taken of his absence until breakfast time. "Whats become of Luke? asked a stockman, as there was no sign of him when that meal was nearly finished. You had better put that stew on the fire to keep hot for him. Maybe he is out after some of the horses. Dinner-tim- e came, but no Luke; and shortly afterwards Mr. Hall happened pack-hors- es to want him. "No one has seen him this morning, sir, was the answer he received. We can't think whats become of him. No one has seen him? repeated Mr. Hall. "What do you mean? lie slept on the station last night, I suppose? He 6lept In my hut, replied the man, and turned in as usual last night. I noticed that in particular, because he was the last In bed, and had to put out the light. When we awoke this morning, he was already up and out, but we didnt take much notice of that. You galloped fast enough up past the huts. I heard you from the house, and thought It was a horse broken loose from the paddock. Yes, sir; the old mare started oft with me when she got near home, and I couldnt hold her In. And you saw nothing of Luke? his master again asked. No, sir nothing! What made you come back from Sullivans?" Mr. Hall had already been told the reason, and Baynes reply was simply a confirmation of what he had heard. The men at the e were all more or less drunk and fighting, and he could find no place to sleep in. The old mare was handy, as he had left her in the stock-yar- d with a good feed, and he thought he would be able to find his way back to the station, and return early to the drays the next morning. Mr. Hall became more and more perplexed about Lukes disappearance. "If he had been drinking heavily, he said to his wife, no one would feel in the least surprised. But the man was sober enough, and showed no signs of eccentricity, so far as I can find out. It beats anything I ever experienced. Perhaps he will turn up in the morning, and we shall find a very simple solution to the puzzle after all. The morning came and went, and day after day passed by, but no Rob. ert Luke appeared. The mounted police, with the black trackers, scoured the country for over thirty miles around, and left hardly a rock or a patch of scrub unsearched. Every building on the station had been examined, and there only remained Tom Baynes hut to visit. Baynes was the first to suggest that it should be searched. Theres been a lot of talk, I know, sir," he said, "about my wifes shutting herself up so. Poor thing, she cant help that I wish she could get about so I should like the sergeant to satisfy himself that Luke isnt in hiding there! Nobody would be foolish enough to suppose he was, Baynes, replied Mr. Hall, smiling at the young mans anxiety; but we had better, as you say, look everywhere while we are about It. " Mr. Hall had really a secret desire to behold this hidden treasure in the way of a wife, who was so persistently sheltered from the vulgar gaze. Accordingly he made one of the party to expublic-hous- rs - Fights iu sheer devilment sometimes lofty den. Half-sittin- g, half-reclini- n. jet-bla- good-lookin- police-sergean- , - es e. dr-pe- ry - log-fir- e, CHAPTER IX. Sullivans public-housthe thorn In every squatters side for thirty miles around, was a small wooden shanty e, consisting of four or five rooms. At the back was a building containing ten or twelve sleeping bunks. This was called the as It was used chiefly for putting customers Into when they were dead drunk. Outside the house, facing the was a verandah, if a continuation of the shingled roof supported by rough posts stuck into the bare earth could be dignified by the name. Beneath the shade of this rough verandah, one hot afternoon, lay two or three drunken wretches overcome by the fumes of the lightning rum. Inside the bar were five or six bushmen busily engaged In throwing dice for drinks. "Odd man out the game, and at the rate of one shilling per nobbier the amusement could hardly be considered a cheap one, especially when the of the lightning upon the consumer were taken Into consideration. Very few station hands on their way down to town ever succeeded in getting ' past Sullivan's; some had attempted It a score of times and failed. Even before the unhappy pigeon had arrived the news was brought that Long Jim was going dow-- to Sydney with a big cheque. Let me' see Jim must have been over tw-- years now on the station since he had his lasj. burst, the ruffian pf a landlord would I dare, say hes got over a remark., hundred pounds! 'And' when Long Jim hove in sight he was sure to be hailed by half a score of loafers and pressed to stop the night. No he had determined to push on to the next stage. His horse was fresh, and he was anxious to get' oil. Well, he would stop and htrve a plate of soup and a bite? No he had got some tucker with him. At any rate ycull have a drink? some one would cry. No, be was on the teetotal tack. off like that Well, you amt without shoutin, Jim! one of the loafers would suggest. Shout? thp pigeon wrould cry, thus Of probed in his weakest part. course I'll shout! '1 heres nothing mean about me, anyhow. What are you all going to have? Drinks all round, and one for yourself, Sullivan." You must have a small drain, too, Jim, just to show that theres no 111 will, you know, the landlord would suggest. Oh, not for me, Sullivan! I know your game o' old. Well, just to show there aint no ammoffty, pi'-- me a small drop of what you've got. Heres better lurk! (To be Continued.) dead-hous- e, mail-trac- k, s after-effec- ts n bloated-loo- king e Hard on Jones. y -- H rL IN. - v- - '4v: v x h I - I.c t.J. An Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the diately seized by the throat and, though there were tremendous struggles. the fight was practically over as soon as it commenced. The tiger never loosed Us hold and in a few minutes the lion was dead. About twenty years later a fatal fight took place in the lion house of the Zoological garden, Regents park, between a tiger and a tigress. The latter was and, in sparring with her mate, drove her claw through his nostril, and so- began the fray. The tiger threw her ' down and struck her several times with his paw, but without doing serious damage, then turned away, as if to discontinue the fight. This the tigress would not suffer, for she sprang at his flank and fixed her teeth in his thigh. This more than he could stand. One wild bound freed him; in a moment she was knocked over, and he gripped her by the neck, in which his canine teeth made fearful huge wounds. Sutton, the keeper, now managed to drive him off, and he used to say that when the tiger loosed his hold the blood spouted from his victims neck and splashed on the roof of the s ' . take place betwten amnias in confinement, says CaS'i-IB- s A Magazine. short, sharp battle took place in Edmonds ntenagiiie between a lion and a tiger just forty years ago. The lion was the same which had escaped from Jamrachs van, iu what was then Ratcliff highway, and bitten a Loy. Mr. Edmonds Loiikht it, and is said to have billed it as the tiger that swallowed the child. Of course the beast was a great diaw, hut after a few davs In its new quartets the tiger managed to draw forward the sliding shutter and squeeze itself into the adjoining den, where a lion was confined. The lion resented the Intrusion, but was , Had his bed been slept In? I suppose so, sir. I never looked. He went to bed, I am sure, as I lay awake for a good ten minutes after I turned In, and I never heard him go out. Come with me to the hut and show me his bunk, continued Mr. Hall. - -The hunk that Luke was in the habit of sleeping in had evidently been used, but the blankets had not been turned down. There is his hat, cried a man, and there are his boots on the ground! amine the. hut. Thats odd anyhow! When the troopers knocked at the Perhaps he put on another pair, door, it was standing a little way open. suggested the squatter. "Come in, said a low voice. No, sir. Bob Luke had only thl3 upon thd one pair, which, as you see, are pretty bed which occupied one corner of the well worn through. He was saying one room the hut possessed, dressed only the other day that he wished the in the ordinary printed calico gown drays would hurry up, as he wanted a of a working-womaa shawl over her new pair. feet, and some needlework on which It certainly Is very singular, mused she was engaged upon her lap, was Mr. Hall. He hadnt been drinking, Mrs. hair was Baynes. Her had he?" smoothed in front and braided neatly No, sir. Hes never had a drop of at the back, and her pale face and anything since hes been on the station nervous manner denoted the invalid. that I know of. She wore colored spectacles. Did he ever seem queer In his head Very sorry to intrude, Mrs. Baynes, or strange In any way? I am sure, said Mr. Hall, but we "Never a bit, sir. Rather the other are to search everywhere for compelled way on. Theres nothing wrong with this lost man. Your husband has no Bob. Hes no more chanky than I doubt told you about it? am. Yes, yes, replied Mrs. Baynes. It Well, some of the men had better seems very strange that ho should go out at once and have a look for have gone on like that! him. If we do not find him by sunWhat a nice woman, thought Mr. down, I will send over to Mount Gipps Hall, and a g one, too! t. and Inform the There Its a thousand pities that she should are I lack trackers there who will soon be broken down. No wonder Baynes is trace him. careful of her. Then he said aloud. Men were accordingly sent out in If we were only certain that he had every dilection, and the country was gone off somewhere, it would be satscoured for several miles around; but but we can find no traces of so sign of Bob Luke could be discov- isfactory, Beside-!him- anywhere. a man does ered. not run off in the middle of the night Mr. Hall began to feel uneasy, wonwithout his boots, leaving two or dering what could have become of the three months wages behind him, unman, and, when evening approached, less he has a very Important reason Jack Hall started off to Inform the for doing so. police at Mount Gipps, some forty miles There was very HttP for the sergeant away. to inspect in the hut a (Pal table, twro Towards nightfall the rough benche. the Led u; on which arrived with Tom Baynes from Sulli- Mrs. Baynes inclined, and which kad vans public-housMr. Hall met them no upon it that hangings or as they pulled up at the store. could conceal anj thing, and one or two This Is a very strange affair about small boxes containing clothes. These Bob Duke, isnt It, Tom? he rearticles made up the entire furniture marked. of the apartment. The walls, wivich "Yes, sir, replied Baynes, busying were of rough slabs uailed to himself in taking off some of the the frame of the hut, were carefully packs. "I heard of it down at Sullpapered over with old Sydney Morning ivans from one of the chaps. I wonHeralds, while the two small window-frame- s der where he can have got to? were covered with calico. You came back to the station in the A hut which is built for the dual purnight. I suppose you saw nothing of pose of cooking and sleeping in genhim? erally has a large fireplace which enNo, sir; but I didnt look about me tirely occupies one end of it. 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