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Show iaw---- A FELON'S LOVE. BY .1BNRY V. NBSFIBLD. CIIAITEU XV Tho finding ot the pleee of waltt-belt waltt-belt marked with Robert Luke 1 Inlllali canted much eieltemem among the men on the autlon Nothing more however, could be discovered and for several weekt Luke hunted about the place In vain hoping that he mlitht succeed In finding aim mother link In the chain of evldtnre which nilrht lead to tome trace ot hit loat brother In the meantime the whole colony had again become Interratel In the af fair, chiefly from the fact that no traces could be found either of llaynet or nit wua. ana at 11 urcimo certain that the tntsilni couple hsl not trav eled toaard tht rout as Ibtynss had said they Intended doing the rattler grew dally toort tn I more myrterlout Pays and weeks pawed by and yet nothing freah conrernlng the dltap ttarance ot Robert I uke ctme to light Hit brother Usn lo deipalr an I at lost one night he announced hit Inteu Hon of retunilog to I ntland H la of no me my remaining here be told ' HeiUei I mutt iu home and look after my butlneta. 1 have done my best, and I tan do no more Hut to my dying diy 1 thill belleto that that liaynes and his wife were tome how or other tnlud up with tho dlstp pearance ot nr brother That night hi went up to the hut for the last time Having itrappel up the few things he possessed lu his valise he made til preparations for storting early the next morning Then he retired to rtit. Once more William I uke dreamed Thlt time ht heard the same volco crying out, "Help help' He did not awake but wearily an wered In hlitleep ' I am here Hob hat do you want' I have done the best I can and I can do no more' They were tht words which he had used that night when he wished tho men good by rrtesttly hit dream took a more tuUtantUl form He behold the hut la which ht tleit ll-jhtel by a solitary iluah" lamp Upon tho bed where he lay he taw the flgura of a woman, titling with her head retting upon her hands She teemed to be reading tome old newspaper, and ro malncd perfectly mottontcis at It deep 1 ly Intent upon what the read Then Luke heard a nolte at of tome one out aide the hub In his vision hit ttnte ot bearing teemed almost painfully I acute I Tho woman alto beard the nolte and I raited her head as It In alarm IIe.cotld not catch a glimpse ot herjfaee for ox the pat upon the dtt of th bed her fcaturet were turned tway from htm Beddenly he heard a voice speaking from without. Luke tlarted In his tleep for It was tht lolce of hit brother) "Mrs Dsyncs " It tald In a clear, low tone Mrs lUynci would you kindly glvve me a drop of brandy, If you have inch a thing? I am sorry to trouble you at thla time ot night but I am not vary well I am Luke Dob Luke The woman, aa aha listened clasped her haodt together as tt In mortal terror, ter-ror, bat the answered not a word Presently the voice came again thlt time louder and with a more determined deter-mined accent "Mrs JJaynet dye bear, Mri Dayntat ' The woman rose stealthily from her sitting position and stepped toward the fireplace Unhooking the great kettle that hung from an Iron bar by a chain, the noiselessly removed the bar from Its place and stood clutching It la her right hand, aa If prepared to use It at a weapon of defense William Lake teemed to strain every nerve tn his sleen aa ha nilMvnri1 In cry out, but bla voice appeared to have left him and his limbs refused to do hit blddlag He wai like one paralyied for the time being with the powers ot bearing and teeing alone left to him Then he perceived that the door was being preated In from without. The top part, where there waa no bolt, thowed tlgns of giving away, another leaving ot tht door and yet another, a load crash, and William Luke beheld his brother I For several seconds aa It teemed to the dreamer the figure ot Robert Luke stood silently gating at tht woman, who stood defiantly facing him William Wil-liam Luke beheld only the face ot hit brother The woman a back was turned to hlra Robert Luke appeared to be danled with the light and unable to tee distinctly dis-tinctly the objects around him Suddenly Sud-denly however he teemed "about to apeak but a noise from without the hut, like the sound ot a bone galloping gallop-ing up to the door caused blm to look round Tht woman, quick aa thought, raited the cruel bar of Iron In her handi and dealt htm a heavy blow upon hit skull, and with a wall ot Htlp-helpl Robert Luke fell face downward upon the floor Then came a Monk In the dream, and William aaw no more Presently however he beheld the figure of hit brother standing near the bed Raising Rais-ing himself elowly, he gated Into hit face, and, holding out hit armi he endeavored en-deavored to embrace him Hit brother looked sadly Into bit eje-s and then turning from him moved tlowly toward the fireplace, and vanished from hit tight, William 1 uko awoke to find himself ttandlng on the bare earth ot the hut The moon shone brightly through the open window, upon tho tpot where. In hit dream, he had last teen his brother This time he remembered til he had dreamed He It there " he cried- foully mur-derel mur-derel an I burled therel Heaven help me It 1 am going madt ' Then rushing down lo the huta whero the men slept, he awakened the whole station In lees than an hour sturdy men with lanterns to light them at their ork were dually engaged with pickaxes pick-axes and shovels In raising tho hearth Inslle the hut I uke In a wild slate ot excitement, ant directing and urging them on to their labors The scene was a curtout one, aa the whole population ot the rlare was gathered In and around the hut speculating as to what possible discovery dis-covery there might bo made The men had removed the rough stonet upon the hearth, and had dug ome four fret deep Into the earth when they stopped to take breath Go on go ont ' shouted I uke Deeper down yet deeper down! Keep quiet I ukel remonstrated Mr Halt tour exciting yourself like this ran do no good I tike tat down upon a bench and burled his face In hit htndt He could not endure eren the momenta delay which the men rcqilrcd for rett from their toll Again the hut retounded with the bund of the pick and thovel at work Hut I uke looked up no more Mr Hall a wordi had oojd his overwrought mind and he waited patiently for what might come Here a something anyhow' cried one ot the men a mans hand) ' Luke sprang to his feet now unable to control hit excitement "Oently we are on It now! said one There Is more beneath Mercy on ut llsllobt ' There dltmcml ered lay the remain! ot what onto ha 1 been Robert I uke At lattl I knew it-I knew III ' said a voice solemnly and William I I uke tank down upon a bench shield- I lng his cyet with his hands from the I horrid sight and cried, ' Now may I Heaven tend me my revenge) ' I CHAPTnn XVI There was not the slightest difficulty In Identifying the body, for tha man a clothes even to the other halt ot the broken. blt5, burled with him When William"; u(io'vnmiietsjr.ia. dream men looked at one another aghast Kren the most skeptical could not doubt that he bad actually aeen a vision of the murder aa It really happened hap-pened The one thing that grieved him waa that ho bid been unable to tee the face of the womin In the hut, and thus hit tuiplcloni at to the connection con-nection between r dward Dartlett, Anne Dodson, and the late occupants ot the but remalntd at uuconfirmrd at before be-fore Mr Hall at once communicated with the police at Mount Glpps and early the next morning four troopers, and some black trackeri appeared on tht tcene, Ntarly two month! bid elapsed ilnce the departure of B.yue-i and hit wife and nothing at all hid been heard of them That they hid murdered Robert Luke there could be no possible doubt. Tha exclttment on the itttlon was Intense and people flocked from all parti of the country to witness the scene of the awful n me and to behold the mm who had dreamed Hut feirful dream It waa suggested that an expedition should be sent out lo hunt all the country round about If they are anywhere In the colony," said Mr Hall, after a long consultation wllh the sergeant of the police, ' It It my opinion that they bavo ttktn to the back country tomewbere In the direction direc-tion of the Oray Ibyigei There thy might exlit for yean If they happened to drop acroat a good water lupply, un-eeen un-eeen by any mortal eye Dut thero It a vtit sandy tract ot country between thla and the Gray, Ii there nott ' Inquired the iirgeant Yei" replied Mr Hill; 'but It li Juit ponlble that they eucceeded In crossing tt Tblt hat boen an unusually unusual-ly wit season, and from what the ttock men have told me all tht creeki end clay pana out In that direction are full ot water Jack knowi the country coun-try well better than anybody about thlt neighborhood He hat often been out for week! together after ttray cattle thai have gono that way " ' Very well ilr said the tergeant, ' I am willing to do whatever you may think best" It It decided then replied Mr Hall We will take two weekt provisions on pack bones, and see II we can t corns acrota their tracks." This itemed a moat sensible plan to punue and accordingly a party wae orgtnlxed consisting of the tergeant three troopen young Jack, Mr Hall, William Luke and much to Mr Hal'r'a dligust Sullivan the Innkeeper Mr Hall did bis utmost to prevent Balllvani Joining the expedition, to - 1 I great wot hit abhorrence of the lean; but as he had provided himself with a pack hone well laden with food and grog Mr Hall could not will pnrent him from accorai anylng them Ai matten turned out, It would have been very much better for Mr Sullivan If he had allotted himself to be dls ualed, but the majority ot sensible people when talking the alfilr over In after years were decidedly of opinion opin-ion that It was a very good Job for every one else that he had Joined the expedition The commotion on the station on the m morning when the eipcdltlon jtarted in EH itarch ot the fugitive wai tremen lout ft) Pack saddles were lelng adjusted to ID rcstlvo brutes whoae toto aim and oh- if Ject wax to kick themselves free from M their encumbrances All lortiot things B were forgotten and remembered Jutt m at tho last momet t At lost the cavalcade got tinder way, and Mri Hall and her daughter watched watch-ed It acrota tho plain from the verandah veran-dah ot the homo until the gumtrees, which lined the creek for some miles, bid It from view Tho expelltlon proceeded tome thlr- " ty miles or mora without nny difficulty In fact, tho country wai familiar to nearly all tho riders, devcral small out station! were passed whero boundary boun-dary riders and shepherds In Mr Hall 1 , employ live I their qulot uneventful ; lives At one of these they halted for the night much to the dltguit ot the old hatter' who lived there with hit flocki, and who nursed n wholesome antipathy to the entire human race 'Cranky Jim' he waa called, and It a love of absolute solitude entitled him to the name, he wai undoubtedly deterring de-terring ot It Had he teen two people pass that way about ten weeks agof No, ht had not seen two people pans that way and what wai more, he did not want to ice them One wai a woman, wai HT Ah, well, a woman waa naught to him, ho had teen enough ot women In his time he had! Ills other remarks ware 10 full of Imprecattoni and blasphemy blas-phemy that Mr Hall ceased to Interrogate Interro-gate him On the second day they halted about noon In sight o( tha tand hills This was tha great barrier which they knew lay between the grass country on the Harrier aldo and the Gray Range! Mr Hall bid wisely Inflated upon all the water bsgi being (lulled up at the jut good water hole, and he felt convinced con-vinced that, with the aiipply they carried, car-ried, the fifty or sixty mile, ot desert 1 ought to be safely crossed by man and beast It waa within two hours nf sundown when the little party entered the unknown un-known region The horici staggered wearily along occasionally linking Into In-to the tand up to their kneet and struggling through the scrub and nrlchlr mimosa which grew plentifully In places upon the low hills Wp.utlr.ll came on and the cavalcade encamped, there was o ttgn ot water, and Ihey had to draw upon Ihe lupply they carried with them Jack Hall had more than once entered enter-ed tbeio Inhospitable regloni In tearch ot lost cattle, and he wn under the belief be-lief thai a more fertile country lay beyond be-yond It bow far dlitant ot coiine he 1 could not sty, but from what he had, tc t rw.Lfionv- -7T0 .-cfT? three days vaduM e.them through the, . wont of It "" "' ' k.aZV ""S For two long dayi the travelers lollA,w on through the heavy drlfti of "wliW, hut towards sundown on the third dty """"fli they beheld trees anesd at the light of which their iplrlta rose amailngly Mr Hall ordered half rattoni ot water wa-ter to be lerved out to Ike men and horaet tor be wai by no meant confident, confi-dent, because he beheld trees tn the dim distance, that he was going to find a like or an Inexhaustible well Sullivan wai Ihe best provided penon of the company, for. besides two huge water bats, he bad a liberal supply sup-ply ot iplrltuoui liquors, which he wai very libera (n dispensing to himself. 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