BY MISADVENTURE
: BY:
FRANK BARRETT
CHAPTER XXI. (Continued.)
"Waa Mr. Yeameg in the room all the
time?"
"No ; he went out of the room, but not
out of the bouse, before Mr. Keene left'
"Did anything occur to make him leave
the room?"
"He seemed to have lost something. He
felt repeatedly in his pockets, and looked
about the floor."
"Did he continue his search after leav
ing the room?"
"Yes; he had a candle, and looked all
up the stairs and in the hall."
"Do you know what it was he lost?'
"A piece of paper. lie said that there
ms an important memorandum on it, and
he offered the maid half a sovereign if she
fouud it."
I glanced at Mr. "Yeames, so did Sir
Roland, whom I touched with my toe un
der the table. The young man was look
ing at the white paper before him, and
there was scarcely more color in his face.
He looked up In quick dread at the next
question.
"Was that paper found?"
"No."
Mr. Yeames drew a long breath of re
lief. "I nhall now ask you, Mr. Lynn
Yeames, to give me your attention. You
do not dispute the order of events as
vtated by Miss Dalrymple?"
"No."
"When you left Flexmore House, at
half-past eleven you rode over to Mr.
Keene?"
"Yes."
"You had seen him leave the house, and
were acutely anxious to know what his
business there was?"
Lynn hesitated a moment, but at a
nudye from Hax replied, "Yes."
"You bad been given to understand that
the bulk of Mr. Flexmore's property
would be left in trust to you?"
"Yes," after another nudge.
"The presence of Mr. Keene led you to
think that Mr. Flexmore might have al
tered his disposition?'
Nudge as before, and "Yes."
"On arriving at Mr. Keene's you were
shown into the office, and waited there
some time alone? You saw a sheet of
foolscap lying on the table?"
Yeames replied that he bad seen noth
lag of the kind whatever.
"You are sure of that?" asked Sir Ro
land.
"1 will take my ath I saw nothing of
the kind."
"When you left Flexmore House the
second time, abo'tf half-past one, where
did you go?"
"To fetch Dr. Awdrey."
"Dr. Awdrey 's not at home, I be
lieve?"
"He was no I waited for him half
n hour, or thereabouts.'
"Where did you wait?"
"In his private sitting roam."
"You kor.m that the consulting room
adjoins tin sitting room?"
"Yes."
l you go there for any purpose?"
"No.
"After waiting quietly In the sitting
room half an hour, you returned to Hex
more House?"
"Yes; I was anxious about Mr. Flex
iior s condition."
"With respect to the piece of paper
you mislaid ; have you any objection to
stating what it was?"
"None ; it was a leaf from my notebook,
containing memoranda respecting horses
I had backed for a spring meeting.
Sir Roland asked if we had any ques
tions to ask, and, on receiving a reply in
the negative, he proceeded to question
Mrs. Hates.
"You were in the service of Dr, Aw
drey, I believe, at the time of Mr. Flex
more's death?"
"I were, sir."
"The previous nlgbt Dr. Awdroy was
absent from home
"He were. sir. He came in about half
past ten or eleven the next morning, I
will not swear exact, and he asks for
breakfast.'
"After that he went out?"
"He did; about twelve or half-past, I
will not swear."
"You had tidied up his room in the
morning as usual?"
"I had: about seven or half-past."
"Now in tidying up his room, had yon
occasion to go into the consulting room
"I never ventured there, sir; though I
mav be disbelieved."
"When Mr. Yeames called, you showed
film Intn the sitting room?
"I did ; him being a friend, as I was led
to believe, of Dr. Hawdrey s.
"During the half-hour he was there did
vou hear any particular sound I
"No, sir, I did not ; being at my doo
tiea hiinstairs.
"Nothing like the crash of a falling
wttle?"
"Nothink of the kind."
"The door communicating with the con
sultinz room was open?
"No; It were closed, though the key
turned."
"But the key was In?"
"It were."
"There was nothing, In fact, to prevent
Mr. Yeames strolling In there from curi
oslty to while away the time that he
was waitinir for Dr, Awdrey
"Nothink;-but I believe Mr. Yeames
were too much the gentleman to go a-pry
In and a-ceering."
Ska bad evidently a gratuity la view,
that Mrs. Bates.
When did you first hear of a bottle
being broken?"
When Dr. Awdrey came in ; about
'ouv o'clock or half-nask He asked me
f I had done it, and I said I had not;
and should feel obliged if he would find
some one else, as I did not like such
things to be laid to me"
"Did he make any other remark about
he consulting room ; was anything miss-
ng from there?"
"Yes; he said a prescription was gone."
"Did he describe the prescription?"
"Yes ; he said it were written on the
bottle papers."
What do you mean by the bottle pa
pers?
"A pile of square papers, white, that
stood on the little side counter."
Can you show me what the papers
were like?"
Kxactly like that sheet on the table,"
pointing to a sheet of thin white paper
which I had purposely laid on the table
near where she was to sit. "Dr. Haw
drey tried to pass it off afterwards," Mrs.
Bates volunteered ; "he said it must have
been the shaking of carts passing or the
cat, and offered to rise my celery if I
would stay. But 1 refused, twin' it were
not the first time, he had laid temptation
In my way giving me half a crown to
buy a fourpenny arrand, and not askin'
me for the change till two days after
wards which 1 kept It back to prove
him."
'That Is enough. Dr. Awdrey, I shall
confine my questions to events connected
with the latter part of the evidence. Tell
me, if you please, what you know about
the broken bottle of arsenic."
'It was a blue bottle, labeled In large
letters 'arsenic, poison.' On going Into
the consulting ronin I found it In frag'
ments on the floor, with the powder wide'
ly scattered."
"How did you account for its being
there?"
'I believed that Mrs. Bates bad taken
it down from the shelf on which it stood,
and that it bad slipped from her fingers in
putting it back.
"You attributed the accident to acci
dental cause?"
'Not entirely. I believed that some one
had been in the room."
"Why?"
"Because of the missing prescription.'
"Tell me about this prescription."
"It was a prescription jotted down with
a lead pencil on the pile of paper re
ferred to, that I intended to make up
later on.
"It Is your habit to make notes on this
pile of paper?"
"It is."
"Have you ever been able to trace that
missing prescription?"
"No; I have never discovered any trace
of it.
Here the note under Sir Roland's hand
n, "Look to me." Sir Roland looked
at me, and, taking a folded sheet of brown
paper from under my notes, I opened it
and handing a sheet of the bottle paper to
Dr. Awdrey, I said :
"Is that the prescription, Dr. Awdrey?'
I never saw a man more astonished in
my life.
"Good gracious, yes !" he exclaimed
"Where did you find it?"
"You shall hear presently," said I, fix
Ing my eyes on Lynn Yeames.
Every one at the table looked at him
seeing my eyes so fixed ; and, though he
continued to meet our gaze, his blanched
cheek told the terror he felt. I carefully
banded the sheet of paper to Sir Roland,
"Why, what does this mean?" he asked
looking from one to the other; then,
catching a significant glance from me, he
took up his notes again quietly. "Mr.
Keene," he said, "tell me what took place
on the occasion of Mr. Yeames' visit on
the day of Mr. Flexmore's death."
"I was taking lunch when he called,'
said I, "in the next room, before sitting
down to make out the will in accordance
with Mr. Flexmore's wishes. He had
been induced to make the alteration
through Dr. Awdrey."
"Dr. Awdrey wished the will leaving
property to him to be revoked I" exclaim
ed Sir Roland.
"He did," said I ; and I explained Aw
drey's reasons, and all about it fully,
Then I continued : "In the new will the
name of Lynn Yeames was to be substl
tuted for Dr. Awdrey's. I had the draft
of the first will, and intending to copy
it after lunch, had imprudently left it
on the table in this room. Mr. Yeames
came in here; I was in the next room,
You see the blind to the half-glazed door.
It Is opaque from this point of view ; it is
transparent from the other side. Stand
ing by the door before, entering, I saw
Lynn Yeames reading the draft of Mr,
Flexmore's first will. He was at once
led to conclude that this was the second
will commanded by Flexmore. With the
belief that I was making out a will which
would beggar him he went away and you
can Bee that be had the strongest induce
ment to delay me and prevent Mr. Flex
more signing a second will."
"Sir Roland Firkin," gasped Mr. Bar
"I protest most "
"Silence, If you please, said Sir Ro
land ; "I rule that Mr. Keene Is perfectly
in order. Go on, sir."
"After seeing my old friend lying in his
bedroom dead, I went downstairs with
Lynn Yeames, as you have heard. There,
in a moment of Impatience, he flicked his
handkerchief from bis pocket, and la do
ing so shot out a pellet of paper. I put
my foot on that pellet of paper, and when
eames left the room to look for it I put
t in my pocket."
Quite right, too, Mr. Keene; go on.
said Sir Roland In great excitement.
I put it away in a drawer where 1
keep things which may at some time be
of service, and forgot all about it until
my suspic.on was directed to Yeames by
the discovery that the very day he lost it
he bolted out of England and did not re
turn until Mr. Flexmore was buried and
all fear of the poison being found out and
traced to him was removed. Then I re
called to mind the paper pellet the sheet
of paper you have now under your hand,
Sir Roland
We will not stay here to be insulted," j
rried Mrs. Yeames, rising; "it is scandal
ous. But we will obtain redress."
I should think so," gasped Bax. "Pret
ty pitfall 'pon my life!'
But at this moment, as all of their
party were rising, the door opened, and
the entry was blocked by my clerk with
a couple of rascals whom I knew well
enough by sight.
We're a goln' Queen's evidence, guv
nor," said tne smartest ot tne two, witn a
grin at x eames.
"Out with it, my man, at once, said L
"Well, sir, and gentleman all, it was
Hke this here me and my mate was going
along with a rope to do a b't of hauling
for Squire Long when we tumbled again
Mr. Yeames. My mate had suthlng to
say about shooting. suddenly .Mr.
Yeames, who hadn't been listening like,
said he'd give us a pound if we'd play a
lark on you, Mr. Keene "
"Sir," said I to Sir Roland, seeing
Yeames, his mother and Bax edging to
wards the door, "on this evidence I ask
you to commit Lynn Yeames for conspir
acy."
Aye, I'll commit the whole batch, and
you, Mrs. Bates, as well. &end for my
clerk, and the papers."
But we could not detain any one of the
batch while the commitments were being
procured and so Lynn, his mother and
Bax got clear off. And we have neither
seen nor heard anything of them since
which is the best thing that could have
happened for them and for us.
What is there to add? Nothing but
what should conclude a tale of struggle
between right and wrong. Dr. Awdrey
married Gertrude, and lost no time over
it I believe as he took her hand in his,
when his innocence was proved, and they
looked into each other's eyes dimmed
with the tear of joy, it was understood
between tbem that hand and heart were
joined forever.
They live with Laure in the pretty cob
tage on the hill. Awdrey gave up his
practice and went heart and soul into
farming, and when he found the land
could be worked to pecuniary advantage
he bought it out, divided it into portions,
and let it to the men who labor upon it
thus making them independent. I fear
ed the scheme would not pay, but It has
to a marvelous extent, thnnks to Awdrey's
wise and practical counsel to his tenants.
Yet, though he has given up practice,
there's not a day in the week but some
one calls to benefit by bis skill in medi
cine,
Laure is now verging on womanhood,
and a good many young fellows in Coney-
ford wedge themselves into the circle of
acquaintances with which Dr. Awdrey
and his wife are surrounded for her sake,
I have my eye on one who I think may
be found worthy of her hand, Lowe pre
tends, with a blush, that she does not
want to marry, and would rather stay for
ever with Gertrude and her children. One
fine day she will pretend that her heart
will break if she cannot marry. The
AwdreysTiave three boys, and fine, sturdy
fellows they are,
"They make me feel that I am getting
older," said Gertrude.
"And so much the happier," I replied
It seems to me that Awdrey himself is
positively younger for the lapse of time.
I never knew a man more cheerful and
bright. It is a treat to see him with his
boys in the shed he has fitted np as a car
penter's workshop. Whether he intends
putting them to a profession one of these
days, I don't know ; but it is certain that
every one of them will be a good carpen
ter, which is something. But what most
pleases me is to see him with his wife.
Sure no young lover, no knight of old,
could be more chivalrous; no gentleman
of to-day more generous !
(The End.)
Thoiie Campaign Special.
Politician How do you like
tba.
cigar I Just gave you?
Voter Well, It tastes a little better
In the center than it did when I first
lit It.
Politician Why, man, you are smok
ing the band.
Voter H'm! I guess, thnt Is the
reason.
The Win Old Boy.
"I don't know why It Is, dear," she
said, "that you never have decided to
run for President of the United
States."
And then he coughed, nnd poked the
fire and said :
"Molly, I couldn't get my consent to
leave home and you for such a cam
paign, as that!" Atlanta Constitution.
Vat Space.
Gunner So this Is the girls' college,
eh? They surely don't need such a
mammoth bin as that to store the win
tcr coal?
Gnyer Oh, that Isn't for coal ; thai ;
U where they store the winter fudge.
1IU Undoing.
Oyer I once knew a man who made
$000 a day. -
Myer What became of him?
Gyer He waa arrested for counter
feiUruj.
Novel Double ran.
An Indiana ninn tins bit upon the
ingenious plan of combining two pans
In one, forming a double pan as shown
in the aecompany-
1 n g Illustration.
Every housewife
will realize the ,
advantage of this
combination, espe- j
daily when cook
Ing upon a gas (
stove. Two vegeta- ;
bles can readily be
cooked In the one
pan, using only
double pan. one gns jet, there
by economizing in the amount of gns
used. The outer nn provides a recep
tacle for one vegetable, while the inner
pan, which Is arranged within the out
er pan, can be utilized for another.
Laundering Table Clotha.
When rinsing gather up and wrluR
lengthwise. If they are not pure linen
add one pint of flour starch to two or
three gallons of rinse water. Then
shade well ; If fringed, shade each side
separately until the fringe 13 straight
then hang lengthwise on the line, with
the lower edges perfectly even. Let
them dry; take from the line, sprinkle
well, folding them and rolling very
tight, with the edges even. Have the
Irons very hot. Lay them double on
the Ironing board, iron on both (sides,
and ngaln on the first side, fold and
Iron each fold with care, then lay on a
flat Rurface to dry thoroughly before
putting away, and your tablecloths will
always look nice.
Maple 8 as;ar Candy.
To make maple sugar candy break
one pound of maple sugar In small
pieces and put them into a granite pan
with two cups of milk. Place over the
Are and cook until the milk Is boiling
and the sugar entirely dissolved. Then
stir the mixture with a wooden spoon
and keep It boiling until, when it la
tested In cold water, It will be crisp
and crack when hit Add a piece of
butter of the size of a walnut, and turn
the mixture Into buttered tins. When
It is partly cool take a sharp knife and
mark the candv Into squares.
Kitchen Ventilation.
The kitchen should be ventilated
many times a day, certainly at all
times of cooking. Keeking odors of hot
foods should be given speedy outlet for
three reasons to keep the food un
tainted,, to keep the kitchen clean and
to make the housewife comfortable. The
dining room and living rooms should
be aired once a dny, as well as all balls
and windows thrown as wide open as
Is consistent with the weather. But
the blow of fresh air through the house
should never be forgotten.
Date Meringue.
This is a delicate dessert, nnd may
be quickly made in a case of unexpect
ed company, if one tins at hand the
necessary Ingredients Bent the whites
of five eggs to a stiff froth, ndd three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, and one-half
pound of dates, stoned and cut up fine.
Bake fifteen minutes In a moderate
oven. Serve, us soon as cool, with
thick, sweet cream or a custard mndo
with the yolks.
English Walnut Salad.
Cover two dozen walnut ments with
boiling water and add a bit of bay leaf
and a small slice of onion, and cook
slowly for ten minutes. Then drain,
and with a pointed vegetoble knife the
brown skins can easily be removed.
Moisten with lemon Juice, and let stond
until ready to be served. Arrange oh
crisp watercress and add salt, paprika
nd oil.
Cranberry Snore.
Wash berries and put through meat
chopper. Put Into double boiler with
one cup water to every quart of ber
ries. After tbey begin to cook simmer
for twenty minutes. Sweeten to taste
about five minutes before removing
rom fire.
Corn II rend.
Mix two cups flour, one cup corn
meal, one teospoonful suit, four ttible
spoonfuls sugar, four teaspoons baking
powder; ndd two cups milk, two eggs,
four tfiblespoons butter. Bent vigor
ously and bake' twenty minutes.
i Potato I'udrilng.
Two cups cold potatoes mashed fine,
two eggs well beaten, one-half cup
sweet milk; salt nnd pepper to tasta;
three tablespoonfuls melted butter.
Bake half an hour.
Hard Saner.
Work two tablespoonfuls butter and
t cup powdered sugar to a white cream,
beat In the Juice of a lemon and a
pinch of nutmeg. Heap In a small dish
and keep in a cold place until needed,
ilk-Science
A Parisian metallurgical engineer
claims to have perfected a process of
welding copper to steel wire so as to
make a non-oorroslve coating. Many
advantages, It is said, will result from
the uses of this uew wire, such as high
tensile strength and elasticity, com
bined with smaller surface exposed to
wind and sleet than would be the cose
with' Iron wire of the same conductivi
ty. This wire Is especially useful over
long spans, as pole intervals may be
much greater when It Is used.
Sir Norman Lockyer has recently an
nounced the discovery of the strongest
spark lines of sulphur In the spectrum
of the bright star Rlgel. These lines
have not previously been traced In the
spectrum of nny celestial body. Cer
tain sulphur lines which behave In an
abnormal mnnner In spark and vacuum
tube spectra are not found In the spec
trum of Rigel, but they do occur In
stars of the type of Bellatrix and Epsl-
lon Orlonls, which represent higher
stiiges of temperture tbun do stars of
the type of Rlgel.
The Electric Review considers that
the trans-Atlantic cables are In no Im
mediate danger from the competition
of wireless telegraphy. One of the
pressing problems which wireless ex
perts must solve is the development of
commercially practicable electricity.
Until a number of stutious cuu mui
side by side without affecting one an
other the usefulness of the new sys
tem will be very limited. Until this
problem Is solved, and an equally good
transmission by day and night assured,
the wireless system will occupy a very
minor position.
A study of the great collection of
meteorites In the Natural History Mu
seum of Vienna leads Dr. F. Berwerth
to the Interesting conclusion that me
teorltlc Iron, as It falls from the sky,
and the various steels produced In our
modern steel works are the results of
esentlally similar chemical and physi
cal causes. One of the most striking
characteristics noted in meteorltlc
Iron Is the presence of a considerable
qunntlty of nickel. But the. mechan
ism, by means of which nature, oper
ating In celestial space, has produced
what is virtually nickel steel, remains
to be explained.
The Physiological Institute of the
University of Utrecht possesses one of
the most remarkable rooms In the
world, a, chamber about seven and a
half feet square, which Is said to be
absolutely noiseless, as fur as the en
trance of sounds from outside Is con
cerned. It Is on the top story of a lab
oratory building, and Is an Inside room,
but Is so arranged that it can be venti
lated and Inundated with sunshine. The
walls, floor and celling each consist of
half a dozen layers of different sub
stances, with air spaces und Interstices
filled with Bound-deadening materials.
Some persons when In the room experi
ence a pecullur sensation In the ears.
While every effort hns been made to
exclude sounds that are not wanted, of
course the object of constructing this
singular room was; to experiment with
phenomena connected with sound.
Some of the Bounds employed are made
In the room Itself; others ore Intro
duced from outside by means of a cop
per tube, which Is plugged with loud
when not -in use.
Not the Owner.
Lady What! yon have Just come out
of prison? I wonder you are not
uttlianied to own it.
Ne'er-Do Well I don't own It, lady
tvlsli I did. I was only a lodger.
Plck-Mo-Up.
Imitation la Flattery. ,
"Yes, nin'um," said the convict. "I'm
here Just for tryln' to flatter a rich
man."
"The Idea!" exclaimed the prison
visitor.
"Yes, ma'am. I Just tfled tojmltatn
his signature on a check." Philadel
phia Press.
When some men try to do better, It
Is generally remarked that they de
not try very hard.
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