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or A. DOCTOR'S MISSION ' BY EMILY THORNTON Author of " Roy Russell's Rule," "Glekhoy," "The Fashionable Mother," Etc. CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.) Bat the road-seemed yery rough. Great rats had been made in the earth, softened by the long rain, and these caused her to trip and fall twice. Both times it had jarred her arm and drawn forth tears of anguish. At last the gate was reached and opened with difficulty, then a dizzy feeling came over her, and just as her feet stepped on the porch she fell for ward in a long, death-like swoon. Dr. Elf eastern had gone into the coun try, after his call at the baronet's, to visit a rather critical case, and did not return until quite late. He had reached his home, given his fcorse to the man in waiting, and then turned to enter his door. But what was this he saw lying in a heap upon the porch? Stooping to discover if it might not be a large, strange dog, his fingers came in contact witJh a human hand, and from its small size he knew it belonged to child or woman. Throwing open the door with his latch key, the light from the hall revealed Ethel Nevergail's pale, unconscious face to his astonished gaze. i "Ethel, here senseless! Oh, my darl ing, my darling!" he murmured, as he lifted her in his arms and bore her to the parlor sofa. "What can this mean?" Placing her there, he ran to the foot of the stairs and called Mrs. Clum to his assistance.. With joy. at last, they eaw her eyes open; but the cry of pain that followed filled both with surprise. "My arm! my arm!" she cried. "You hurt my arm! I cannot stir my hand or arm, and fear it is broken. I came here to Show it to you." "Then it was .hurt before you left the Hall?" returned the doctor, passing his iiand over the useless member, in order to see the nature of the injury. "In order' to replace it, I fear I must cause you pain. It will be impossible for you to go out again in this storm, therefore Mrs. Clum, my housekeeper, must prepare you a room, and you will remain here to-night. After she has made you comfortable in your bed, I must re place the bones, and then you must keep perfectly quiet, or, after all this excite ment, you will be thrown into a fever." Giving Mrs. Clum several instructions, lie saw her leave the room to prepare one for poor Ethel's reception; then, and not until then, he bent over the sofa iwhere she lay, and asked her in a low iroicc: "Why did you not tell me this, instead of coming out in the storm, when 1 was at the Hall this evening?" "I did not know you were there, and could not have seen you if I had known it. Sir Reginald flew into a furious pas sion as soon as he saw me to-day, and bade me instantly leave his house. As my arm was hurt, I was obliged to come to you." j "Miss Nevergail, how was your arm dislocated? and what means the mark of those fingers, which I see upon the sur face?" "Do not ask me, doctor, for I cannot tell you!" "Well, if you cannot tell me that, why did Sir Reginald bid you leave his house?" "I cannot tell you!" was still her only reply. "Was It for any willful fault you had committed? "No! oh, do! I had met with an acci dent the nature of which I cannot ex plain. In short, I had, without intend ing it, neglected a duty he had charged me with on the day of my fright by the railroad. My nervousness then caused me to forget something. He had just discovered it and flew in a rage." "Then the brute seized your arm and gave it this wrench! You need not tell me, child, I know it by instinct. It is well I was not there, for one reason." "Why?" 'l should have struck him as he lay helpless in bed. I could not have helped ltt But you are safe now; he shall never touch you again. Stay here, of course, until you ara well; then a place will be provided, never fear! Promise me one thing now, which is, not to worry about the future. Leave everything of that nature for time and Providence to make plain, and try to compose yourself in or der to recover the sooner. Will you do this?" He took her well hand kindly, almost tenderly, as he spoke; and, meeting his anxious, beseeching gaze bent upon her, she bluyihed faintly and gave the requir ed promise. CHAPTER XVIII. That night an urgent call came for the doctor. It was to attend a rich and ca pricious patient whom he had formerly known in the village, but now very ill at a town nearly a hundred miles away. Before he departed, Elfenstein eaw to' tt that Ethel's arm was well cared for. Leaving explicit instructions as to her case with Mrs. Clum, he left home, ex pecting to return the next day. But in this he was disappointed. His patient was quite ill; he insisted on the doctor remaining constantly at hie Bide, and policy and real concern for him kept ISarle away for nearly two weeks. A vast surprise greeted Elfenstein when he returned home a perfect series of them, in fact. During bis absence two very important things had occurred. Sir Reginald had died suddenly, death prob ably being hastened by his recent great excitement, and Ebhel was no longer an Inmate of the doctor's home. . Mrs. Clum told him how the young girl had remained two days. Her arm had come to rights quickly. The death of f3Jr Reginald had shocked her, and, she earned nervous, worried, eager to get away from the scenes that had horrified her. She had left a tear-stained note, fervently thanking the doctor for all hla kindness, and saying that she felt she -must get work and support herself. In this she had been successful. A few miles distant was the home of the Duchess of Westmoreland. Ethel had oruehow learned that she wished to en gajre a governess for her daughter. Lady Claire Lin wood. She had applied for the position, and had secured it. One day Dr. Elfenstein rode over to the sumptuous baronial home. ' He pass ed an hour in the company of Ethel. When he left his heart was hard and cold, and she, poor child, was tortured with the anguish love only can feel. In fact, Earle had asked for an ex planation of her seeming part in aiding dead Sir Reginald to frighten the simple natives with the superstitious idea that the tower was haunted. Ethel remem bered her solemn promise. She dared not break it. The doctor grew from sus picion to distrust, so a baleful cloud arose between them About three days after the burial of the baronet, Ethel Never gail, with Lady Claire Linwood, accom panied by a groom, started out for their usual horseback ride. Both were skillful horsewomen, and both were extravagant ly fond of the saddle. This morning they had resolved to follow a wild looking path, leading through a deep wood, one they never had noticed, in rides past the spot, until the day before. Suddenly, after an advance of about half a mile, both girls noticed at once that footsteps had diverged from the beaten path, and looking towards the point to which they seemed directed, they were astonished to see the opening en trance to what seemed a. large cave, over hung with vines of thick luxuriance. These vines seemed lately to have been parted. Reining up their horses, they paused before the spot, in order to sur vey it more closely, when all distinctly heard low moans of pain, issuing from a point near the entrance. Surmising at once that some fellow being was in distress, Ethel requested the groom to dismount and investigate the place, and immediately return to report the cause of the apparent suffering with in. The, man dismounted as requested and disappeared from view, only to re turn with the news that an eccentric bookseller, who had recently made his appearance in the neighborhood, and Who was known as the Rev. Edwin C. Styles, was very ill in that remote and hidden spot. Bidding Roger assist her to the ground, Ethel at once hastened to the side of the sick man. She found him stretched upon an old cot bed in this damp and gloomy retreat, far away from the haunts of men. She noticed a few articles of furniture, and a few utensils for daily use, but saw no trace of fire or food. On a rude bed lay stretched the form of the eccentric being who had been much talked of during the past few days. His cheeks were flushed with fever, while the weary movements of his head told of intense pain in that region. Clasp ed in his thin, white hands upon his breast lay a small wallet. Seeing at once that the poor creature was very low, perhaps near death, Ethel stepped back to the entrance of the cave and requested Roger to ride witih all s-peed to summon Dr. Elfenstein to his side. She also requested Lady Claire to remain within call, while she herself would watch over the sufferer until aid should come. At once Ethel returned to her self-assumed charge, and endeavored to arouse him from the stupor he was in, in order to ask of his relatives and home. The effort was vain. A low, incoherent mut tering, in which the words "brother" and "save me," were mingled, was all she could hear. It seemed a long and weary while to the anxious girls, before voices were heard in the distance. Dr. Elfenstein was the first to enter the cheerless place, while two men beside Roger followed, ready to bear the sufferer in their arms to a wagon quite a distance down the road, beyond the narrow pathway the girls had pushed over on the backs of their gentle horses. The doctor paused a moment to exam ine the patient, but looked very grave as he did so, and whispered to Ethel: "I think we are too late to save him. He will live but a few hours, as death is even now upon him. He must be re moved, however, at once, and as I know of no other place, I shall take him to my own house." Taking the wallet in his hand to draw it away, he found it impossible to do so, as the death clutch of the dying fingers upon it was tight and still strong; so leaving it where it was on his breast, the doctor summoned the men, who gent ly raised the slight form in their arms, and bore him forth. Soon the poor man was lying on blankets and a soft pillow upon the floor of an easy wagon, while the doctor sat by his side, carefully fan ning away the flies that might annoy, and thus they wended their way back to their homes. A few hours later, in the comfortable guest chamber at the young physician's home, the poor wayfarer breathed his last, and as the sympathizing- physician closed his eyes and straightened his form he drew away the wallet carefully and folded the poor, thin hands upon his breast. After dispatching a messenger for an undertaker he summoned Mrs. Clum as a witness, and passed to his private office in order to examine the mysterious wal let, that should, he hoped, reveal the se cret of the wanderer's family and home. CHAPTER XIX. "Miss Nevergail," said Andrew, a pompous footman at Castle Cairn, as he knocked at the door of Lady Linwood's boudoir, and was bidden to enter. "A gentleman is In the drawing room who wishes to see yon." "Do you know him?" queried EtheL "I cannot call his name, yet I have often seen him." "It is of no consequence. I will be with him presently," returned the gov erness, as she resumed her book, and continued the lesson aha was giving her charge. On no account would she neglect a duty for any person whatever. When the task was finished, and not until then, sha descended the grand broad stairway. - and entered the drawing room of the castle. There a surprise, indeed, await ed her, in the presence of 'Robert Glen- ; denning. Certainly she had never anticipated j a visit from her former tormentor, and the sight of him now brought back many unpleasant recollections. The young man started forward and placed himself be-, tween the door and her slight figure, thus completely preventing her flight. "Pardon . me, Miss Nevergail,' he re marked in a perfectly respectful manner, very different from his former unpleas antly familiar one. "I am very anxious to have a little conversation with you, before'-leaving this place, forever, and therefore I beseech you to remain a few minutes. I promise not to detain you long." "Very well," returned the young girl, gravely, taking the seat he offered her. "Why do you leave?" "The death of my uncle has, of course, deprived my sister and myself of his care and. guardianship. As the title and estate now fall to his younger brother, Fitzroy, the present incumbent must re move and leave the hall, to be occupied or not, by the new baronet, as he sees fit. Lady Constance will seek a resi dence with some relatives in London, and we shall make a home somewhere togeth er, unless unless " Here the young man paused, "greatly embarrassed for a proper conclusion to the sentence he had commenced. Break ing the silence again, for it was becom ing oppressive, he resumed: "Miss Ethel, I come this morning to lay before you a proposition that I hope will meet with your sanction. I must first, however, express to you my deep regrets for the offensive manner in which I used to treat you. I know not why I was led to make myself so disagreeable. I was probably prompted by a spirit of mischief, but as soon as you left the hall so suddenly I became aware of my great mistake. I loved you, but I felt it was without hope. In my egotistical haste I knew that I had won, perhaps, What I merited, your contempt. To-day I felt that I could endure this misery no long er. I resolved to see you, to ask for giveness for my course in the past, and to crave the privilege of retrieving my former mistake by being allowed to visit you as a friend until I can win your love, and ask you to become my wife." "Mr. Glendenning," interposed Ethel, "what you propose is an utter impossi bility. I can and do forgive the annoy ance I confess your conduct occasioned me in other days, but the proposed visits I must positively decline. It could never result as you seem to imagine, for I as sure you my affections could never be won." "You are hasty in thus answering," interrupted the lover. "You surely can not thus foretell what your feelings would be under such different auspices." "Indeed, indeed, Mr. Glendenning, I must interrupt you by distinctly saying that, as I am situated, I cannot receive visits; therefore, I must beg you to re ceive this, my final answer. It would be the same after years of friendly inter course. I do not love you, and I never can love you. I forgive you, and will ever think of you kindly; beyond that we can never go." "Then there, is no necessity for my re maining," he said, sadly, as he arose to leave. "None whatever," was the firm reply. "Miss Nevergail, believe me, as long as I live I shall regret having made your residence at the hall so disagreeable. You certainly had enough to endure in being under obligations to amuse an irri table invalid. The rude manner In which you were dismissed excited my deepest sympathy." "For which I am very grateful," kind ly returned the young girl. "If ever, as a friend, I can serve you in any manner, will you allow me to do so?" "I will, if I know your address." "That is not quite decided, but I will leave it with the postmaster of this place. And now, thanking you for your kind for giveness, although feeling deeply my un requited love, I will bid you farewell." Robert Glendenning held out his hand as he spoke, and seeing that genuine tears were floating in his eyes, Ethel laid hers in it without hesitation. Stoop ing over the little white hand, he pressed his lips upon it, then hurriedly left the room, and she saw his face no more. That night the whole family left the hall, and the grand old mansion was closed, waiting for the arrival, or orders, of Sir Fitzroy Glendenning. The residence of this gentleman was unknown, but it was believed 'that he went to America, therefore every effort was to be made by the proper ones to discover his retreat, in order to make known to him the honors that awaited his acceptance. Yet, while this resolve and duty was to be immediately put in force, many hearts rebelled against his return. All united in feeling that, although ac quitted by law of, any knowledge of his unhappy brother's fate, circumstances still looked very dark Where he was con cerned. (To be continued.) MAY BE LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL. That Was Lone Ago. Some fanciful stories are being cir culated about Joseph Chamberlain and his oratorical powers as a youth, but from what a friend of his says con cerning the great statesman's college days it is a great mistake to say that young Chamberlain could speak well when at school. In fact, be could never be induced to speak, and in this he somewhat resembled the retiring Arthur Balfour. One day one of the masters of the school which he was at asked Cham berlain to make the reply to a speech which had just been delivered by one of the elder students of the debating class. The hour came, and with a firm step Chamberlain mounted the platform. With perfect outward self possession he faced the audience and made his bow a low bow. Everyone waited expectantly. Peo ple became anxious when the young man again bowed, but said nothing. Then a titter went round among the boys. Suddenly the coming colonial secretary, with a look of utter despair, sidled off the platform with another bow, not having said one word! London Answers. The average man boasts seventeen times as much about what he's going to do as he does about what he baa dona. Peculiar Race of People living; TJnder jtround in Central America. Colonel J. C. Tucker, former United States minister at Martinique, relates a strange story of a race of people liv ing in an underground city in Cen tral America. Colonel Tucker some time ago received Information about a race who live in cities cut out of the rocks In the mountains of Central America, in an out-of-the-way place, very difficult to reach, and which no stranger had visited before him and returned alive. He decided to investi gate. After reaching a certain point Colonel Tucker had to travel 800 miles through wild jungles, carrying his pro visions on a pack mule and enduring many hardships on 1 way. As he neared the hidden city his every move ment was watched and reported to the high priest of the tribe dwelling there, but no harm was offered him. When he shot a pair of lions in the jungles, which had been killing tb- natives, he did an act that turned out to be the very thing that gave him their friend ship and protection. He was welcomed by the high priset, who spoke good English, and was shown through their wonderful city, hewn out of the solid granite rocks in the mountain side. To the uniniat ed the surface of the mountain gave no clew to the city concealed within it. It was entered by secret passages, c"ningly concealed by nature's handi work, and which led to large, commo dious rooms, handsomely furnished, mostly in old mahogany. Passages led to hundreds of other rooms, and to a large hall, in which the strange peo ple met and held meetings, while smal ler openings for ventilation went up ward, ending among the rocks and jungles above, so arranged that the rain could not enter. The tradition among these curious people was that they originally came from a country far away, and that their mission was to outwit their ene mies, which, in the beginning, pursued them. At all entrances thera were side rooms, from which, at a moment's notice, deadly gases could be let loose upon any hostile Invaders who might enter, and which would kill them in stantly, while by sliding doors of stone the gas would be kept from entering the city. The light of the sun, moon or stars never enters their underground city, except through certain openings, by which they study the mysteries of the night skies, but they use electricity for lighting purposes, a science they have learned by keeping in touch with the outer world through their young men. The colonel says he was an attend ant at their meetings and was sur prised to find they were going through Masonic rituals, which he, being a Mason of high degree, understood. This was an Inheritance of theirs from their ancestors of the unknown past. Colonel Tucker has written many chapters about these people and their city. fie has done so because he wishes to preserve the knowledge. He freely shows them to his friends, and has as yet made no effort to publish them. 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