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, - HE OTHER. MAN j Coprrlgbt. MB. by J. P. Cannot you give me a little hope?" he urged. "Will you marry me, Stella?" Stella Dysart was no mere chit of a girl In her teens. Men had made lore to her, and even proposed to her, be fore this, but never the right . man. From the first she had been Interested in Rossiter Kane. There was a stren uous air about him, the quiet Insistence of a "masterful man" who will carry his point in the end, that appeals to - every masterless woman. . Now that the question of questions was put and demanded an answer, she was surprised to find that what she bad deemed mere friendly feeling and Interest really deserved a much near er and dearer name. She found In her own heart a smoldering response to his appeal which leaped into flame -at his behest. Quietly he waited for her answer. But still the little head was bent. He -drew her to him, and caressingly tilted her chin so that she must perforce life her eyes to his. Her face was suffused with .rosy -color, and her eyelashes were wet, but surely they were happy tears, and it was with smiling lips that she whis pered as she nestled to his side "If you wish it yes!" "Wish it! Oh my darling, my - queen!" he exclaimed, and his lips met hers in love's first sweet caress. He was in no haste to be gone now, but led her to a tete-a-tete and took his place beside her. "I am the happiest man in England," he said fervidly, devouring her with his eyes. For answer she breathed a happy sigh. "Sir Arthur must be told, I suppose," he said tentatively, after an Inter change of sweet confessions and con fidences. "Oh, not yet, please," she pleaded. "Not for a few days. I feel so selfish, enjoying all this happiness, when at this moment poor Rick may be in trou ble or in danger!" "Counfound your Rick!" was Kane's inward objurgation, but outwardly he was all sympathy and interest. "We must find him," he said. In . quietly confident tones. "He ismy brother now, you know." X rosy blush flooded face and forehead at these words, but timidly seeking his hand she exclaimed: "If you want to make me sincerely happy and leave no cloud between us, you will find my brother! Then you may speak to Sir Arthur as soon as you like!" nodding her head vivacious ly. "It is a bargain," Kane returned, and with a farewell caress he took his leave, elated, happy, triumphant, a better man in thought and Intention than he had ever been before. Mounting his horse, he rode rapidly through the park to Gatewood. and found Marcia Churchill at home, by whom he was graciously received as a whilom acquaintance and now a near neighbor. After presenting his invitation to the -coming ball at The Cedars he broached the second object of his call. "Miss Dysart was speaking about her brother Richard this morning," he said, "and she wondered if I had ever met him at the Cape. I could not re call him by name, but asked her for a photograph. She sent me here; saying you possessed one taken since he went abroad. May I see H?" "Surely," she said. 1' will get It for you." The abrupt naming of Richard's name by a comparative stranger un nerved this usually strong and self contained nature, and her agitation was perceived and noted by Rossiter Kane, who drew his own sapient con clusions. Marcia rose and went to a side table, saying the while, to cover her show of feeling - "We were children together, Mr. Kane, and we all love Richard very dearly." She returned, bearing in her hand a carte-de-visite, which she gave him, saying simply: "Here is his latest picture. It was taken in Cape Town, as you see, nearly two years ago." Kane took the bit of pasteboard, and with a ceremonious "Pardon me!" went to the window the better to see. It was lucky for him that he did this, and that his face was turned from Mar cia'8 watchful eyes, quickened by love and eager with hope deferred, for, strong man and iron-willed as he was, Kane staggered and would have fallen but for a timely grasp of the heavy windows-curtain. He held in his hand the picture of the face he remembered only too well the features of which, distorted in agony, were ever before him, branded en his eyeballs in hues of fire night and day, and which he had last seen for a few tragic moments in a ruddy glare by the Moot river many months . before! The sweat stood on his forehead in great beads, and a mist clouded his vision. But the man's despotic will tri umphed, and pulling himself together he faced inward again, his back to the light, and said as quietly as he could: -N"o; it is as I thought, Miss Churchill, v,-e nevar met." The deliberate, cold-blooded lie scorl.ee? bis soul, for iP.i:s surmise v.-or rerr: -.. Tvifl-.ard Dysart was- is ore Lipplnoot Company. r than life to the proud beauty who con fronted him. "But I will have some inquiries made," he went on, "and perhaps I shall have good news for you soon." How he managed to make his adieus and get out of the house decently and in order Kane never knew. He found STRONG MAN AND IRON-WILIED AS HE WAS, KANE STAGGERED AND WOULD HAVE FALLEN, BUT FOR A TIMELY GRASP OF THE . WINDOW CURTAIN. himself .astride his horse once more, and cantering down-the ehestnut ave nue leading to the high road. There he let the animal down to a walk, and began to look the appalling situation in the face. "God in Heaven!" he muttered, "I killed him in cold blood, and those two women would hate me for life if they knew!" Hell itself and the torments of lost souls, of which we read, may be noth ing more than the pangs of .a guilty and remorseful conscience. Kane's worst enemies-7-and he had many would have been satisfied could they have seen him now, racked by unavail ing regret, tortured by the thought that the dead body of Richard Dysart must effectually sunder him from the only woman he had ever loved. CHAPTER VI. The following nights were sleepless ones for Rossiter Kane. The Cedars was full of guests,- assembled for the house-warming and the ball. Scarcely a minute could he call his own. It was only after the last bedroom candlestick had vanished from the hall table, and the final brandy-and-soda "peg" had, been quaffed in the billiard room, that he might deem himself at liberty to in dulge his thoughts. Then, in the si lence and seclusion of his own cham ber, he could face his trouble, and realize that his fondest hopes were smashed beyond repair. Retribution . in scarlet letters was burned in indelible characters upon his brain, and he, the envied of all his guests, was really the most miserable and the most to be pitied. Tet he pre sented a smiling front, and none amid all the gay and careless throng dreamed of the viper gnawing at his vitals. j "What shall I dor What can I dor i he groaned to himself ... In anguish, j Confession, restitution, repentance of what avail would these be? : Stella ; Dysart might forgive, but could she forget? Never would she take to her bosom her brother's- slayer, j of that he felt assured. And, to do the man justice, that innate sense of right and wrong which is implanted in the worst of our race made him recoil with horror from the consequences of such a union. An yet he loved her1 how deeply, how sincerely, he began to realize now that this bloody barrier was set be tween them. Could he give her up? Never! - So he began to temporize. Nothing was known. His crime could never be discovered. Richard Dysart was Jong ago food for the asvogels. Stella need never learn the truth unless he chose to tell it. Let her Rick be for gotten, as he would be in time, swiftly sinking out of sight in the maelstrom of life, merely another name added to the long roll of the missing. Tossed and torn by such conflicting agonies of thought, the lurid hours went by for Rossiter Kane until it wanted but two days to the 'climax of the festivities. He had seen Stella but once since his declaration, and then she was not alone, but he knew that she would think it strange if he did jiot call. Then arose another dilemma. She would be sure to ask him abotit Rich ard's picture, and what could he say? His soul shrank from the thought of more deceit; he had meant that their page of life should be henceforth white and unsullied, by falsehood or guile. So he sparred for time, and wrote her daily, urging his duties as host in excuse for not being where his heart j was, and telling her also that, in ful-! fillment of his promise, he was going ' to London for a few hours to set on foot ini'iiries about her brother. Not that he expected any news tha- dead do not come back but the man's death might possibly have been bruited at the Cape, In which case it would be weir for him to know, the precise na ture of the. reports. Then, too, he wanted to be able to say truthfully that he had actually" set the sleuths at work. - . -, . v. . V y "" Arrived in the city, he went first of all to Lloyds, where he spent a morn ing poring over the files of all the South African papers. Not a syllable, not a line, could he find bearing upon the disappearance-pf Richard Dysart. One solitary item alone rewarded his close and anxious scrutiny, and that reported the locating of a new dia mond field on the Mdoi river. - ."Ah,! he said to himself, "then it has leaked put!" He knew the hateful spot only too well. Then he visited a well-known pri vate inquiry office in a street off the Strand, where he left minute instruc tions for prosecuting the search at the Cape. "Spare no expense; - use the cable freely send your best detectives; find the young man, alive or dead, and send me the smallest item of news!" Such a commission, from a man of such sooial and commercial promi nence, was safe to be worked up quick ly and thoroughly. Kane felt that he ran no risk in thus displaying his per sonal interest in what was, after all, a very natural manner. ' The mere act of being busy, even on this partially fictitious errand, served to steady his nerves,-and be returned to TheCedara-fortlfied for his interview .with his affianced. With a sort of blind defiance of fate he determined to let matters drift for a few days. Stella he saw on the morning after his return, and was lavishly rewarded for his quick compliance with her maiden request. "How good. and thoughtful you are!" she exclaimed, the love-light in her eyes. "If you were one of us if you were Rick's own brother you could not do more." The bitter-sweet of her praises moved and ' thrilled him more deeply than he would have believed possible one short year ago, and again his con science smote him. But he was none the less alert to seize the opening thus afforded him. v ' "Remember you have yourself given me the best of all rights to help you," he murmured, "and when you give me your sweet self I shall be a. brother to Rick and something nearer and dearer to you." . -' . '--' ' " She suffered his caress with an alto gether happy abandon. Then sud denly: -V. "Marcia was here -yesterday," she said. "She tells me Rick's photo graph revealed nothing suggested no one to you?" He shook his head mutely,, and in wardly thanked his stars that the form of the question he had been dreading made a verbal lie unnecessary. "Rest assured," he said aloud; "that if your brother is anywhere on God's footstool we shall hear of htm. These temporary disappearances are quite common in all the new lands. A man hears of a new diamond field or a new gold reef, . or goes elephant hunting for ivory up-country, and only his im mediate companions could tell you his exact whereabouts. Suddenly he re appears, sound as a dollar and rich as Croesus. Total disappearances are very rare occurrences, , I assure you. Rick may return to civilization any j day and laugh at us all for worrying Jt mentally and morally, would have about him." turned tail and fled; a coward would She hung upon his words with parted have ended it all with a bullet. It lips and wide-open eyes. , was characteristic of him that he did "You give me new courage!" she ex- neither; no thought of taking, either claimed resolutely. "Until we hear the course entered his mind. He would worst I shall believe and hope that all see it through not in callous bravado will turn out as you say." j or because he could not realize the full Kane breathed freely once more. ! weight of his impending punishment. Another dangerous cape was wfeath- 1 but from a sort of heroic determlna ered, and the episode of the photo- j tlon to "take his medicine" like a man, graph might be regarded as closed. ' and from a half-recognized feeling that Stella's confidence ia him was su preme. A. new hope shone in her eyes or was it the reflex light of her own newly found happiness? Now, it had been Kane's original in tention to make the ball the occasion for announcing to society his. betrothal to Miss Dysart, and at the same time to introduce her as the future mistress of The Cedars. But Stella's plea for de lay frustrated this and fortunately so in view of Kane's terrible discovery. Nevertheless, he looked forward to receiving her in his own house, be- V -.11 . - luro ou turn bubbw, iuucu am a uw- i butante anticipates her coming out. j But destiny was about to hurl an- . other thunderbolt at his head. ' Upon the morning of the eventful day a mounted groom galloped up to The Cedars requesting to see Kane In person. Being shown into the library, where the master happened to be alone, he delivered a letter marked "Urgent" underscored three times, ad dressed in Stella's hand, saying: . "Miss Dysart requests an immediate answer, if you please, sir." With nervous forebodings he broke the seal, but the news it contained far i outran his fears, and might have stag- j gered a stronger mind than his. In hia excitement he hardly noticed the af fectionate beginning, which at another time would have filled him with de light "My Dearest Rossiter: Rejoice with us my brother Richard has returned alive and welL He arrived In England two days ago. and reached us late last night. We were completely taken by surprise, as you may imagine. RicharrJ has gone to Gatewood: can you guess why? Next to myself, of course, Marcia will be to-day the happiest woman In England. I am so glad, I can scarcely write coherently or legibly but I know you will understand. Sir Arthur and he have made up their quarrel. "Now, I have a. favor to ask: ' May I or w bring Richard with us this evening? He has promised to come if you will ask him, although, as he says, he is "not very fit.' But I do so want you to meet; and be fripnds. You remember what you said the other day. I can imagine there will be plenty of things for you both to talk about. . "Send me a Un to say 'Yes,' and be lieve me, - - "Elver yours affectionately, : "STELLA. -. "P. S. I forgot to say that Tttclc says . he is a very rich man, and toe has shaved oft that horrid beard. S." - The presence of the man-servant alone restrained Kane from some in sane expression of emotion. . Richard Dysart alive and in En gland! Then he had not kiHed him, after all! The thought brought with It at first a happy revulsion of feeling. He was not a murderer! But Dysart was none the less his victim, and he none the less a would be assassin and an actual robber. Why, the whole fabric of his fortune rested on .those "-'stolen diamonds! These thoughts opened up such a hor rid vista of new troubles and perplex ities that he shrank from them in ter ror. Yet so quickly and mechanically does the ; human brain work, that scarcely a minute had elapsed since the perusal of Stella's note before he had pulled himself together and drew paper and pen towards him to indite his reply.- He even managed to say to the man, a decent, middle-aged fellow: "There, must have been great times at Denecrqft last night?" "Never see such goings on, sir, since Sir Arthur came of age," was the re ply. "Master Richard, he walks Tn as cool and ca'm as if he'd only been away a month. But he have growed! And that rich. My! My!" shaking his head as one utterly unable to do justice to the subject. "I judge Master. Richard, as you call him, is an pld favorite of yours," said Kane with a smile. - The man chuckled proudly. "It was me as taught 'im 'ow to. sit a 'orse and 'old a gun and cast a fly afore 'e was twelve, sir. 'Twas a sorry day when 'e went away, and there's a many'll be happier for 'is 'ome-com-ing." "I have no doubt of that," was Kane's reply. Then he set himself to answer Stella's appeal. 1 Those few minutes' pause while old Carthew was speaking had sufficed for Kane to de cide upon his answer, and this is what he wrote: - "My Dearest: Your happiness is mine, and I do rejoice with you and yours. I shall reserve my congratulations for your brother until our introduction to-night for, of course, he will be welcome. Pray explain to him why I send no formal in- , vitation; nevertheless, the best robe and the highest seat at the feast shall be his. "Devotedly yours, ' "ROSSITER KANE." When Carthew was dismissed with his answer, Kane found himself alone once more, and proceeded to confront this new dilemma. Was there ever a more grotesque and puzzling or terrifying situation! The man whom he had shot, robbed, and left for dead at the other end of the world had returned to life and was that very night coming to dance un der the roof of his assailant! Kane laughed aloud at the bitter Irony of the thing. Of course, he stood to be denounced on sight before all his guests as an assassin and' a thief! A pretty ending to all his social strivings after honesty and respecta bility! And Stella! What would she think of it all? How she would despise him! With what scorn would she lash the man who had dared to approach her with words of love upon his lips, while her brother's blood was upon his hands and her brother's property in his pockets! A weaker man than Kane, physical- therein might consist part of his ex piation. There was but one possible loophole for escape though even that could be only a temporary putting off of the day of reckoning It might be that Richard Dysart; had not caught a glimpse of his features on that memor able nightf and if so, there was lit tle danger of recognition or detection from any other source. It was a bare chance, yet, the more he thought of it, the more probable it appeared. i However, a few hours would setue it one way or the other. So, with the cool fortitude which had stood him in good stead In more than one tight place hitherto, Rossiter Kane proceeded to devote himself to his guests for the rest of the day, and at dinner that right he presided with more than his accustomed polished brilliancy and urbanity. CHAPTER yil. -Richard Dysart's first act, after set ting foot on dry land at Southampton, was to dispatch two letters one to Marcia at Gatewood, the other to Stella to Denecroft All his boyish anger with sir Artnur naa long since evapu- I rated, and he rightly judged that his ! brother would meet him half-way on his home-coming, and let by-gones be by-gones. He would arrive almost as soon as the letters. Ninety minutes later he was in the metropolis via the steamer train, and after breakfast at his old club, the Raglan, he made sundry visits to the tailor, the haberdasher and his bank ers, and then drove to the identical private detective agency, in Welling tom street which Rossiter Kane had visited only a few hours before. If the case had gone to Scotland Yard he might--:We do not say he would, but he might have learned that there was a sort of polite hue-and-cry out- after himself.- - But -the-prfvsfs-inquiry people do not do business that way; they have for one of their, mot- tees, "let not your right hand know c I :iifllih:'iiitttihinitiiitiiiuuiiiUiHHihHHumiiitiaHmMthitiWHiHuiiti ANfcgetable PrepatauonFor As similating theFoodandReguIa ling the Stomachs andBowels of Promotes DigestionJCheerful ness and Rest. Con tains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. Hot Harc otic . JlxveaTOUJi-SIMUELmaaR frmJtmSeU ALx.Stnrut BiCarbartaieJcigt Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa Tion , Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. . Facsimile Signature oF NEW YORK. wsffifwir EaaBBfusassHH EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. what your left hand is doing,' and then proceed to collect backsheesh from both. Which is all in the way of business. . Being a straightforward sort of fel low, Richard wrote his name on a sheet i ef paper, intimated, that he would like to see the manager in per son, and was forthwith shown into the sanctum of the great man, when the following colloquy ensued: "What can we do for you, Mr. er Dysart?" inquired the manager, as though he had not heard the name of his visitor in that very room consider ably less than a week previously. "I want you to undertake a little in quiry for me," was the reply. "Connected with any particular per son?" "No one that I can name to you now that is for you to discover." "Quite sufficiently vague," was the retort, "but if you will give me your Instructions we will endeavor to carry out your wishes." "I wish to find out whether there has suddenly appeared in London or in Europe, for that matter within the last year any man of great wealth hail ing from South Africa, and whether (TO BE CONTINUED.) THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL , ; CORVALLIS. OREGON. 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