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at heart murderer ever since, and tee sight of her standing there alive and in the flesh gave him such a shock as he had FETTERED BY FATE BY ALEXANDER ROBERTSON " Jototfr'a rate." "little 3eefarf." " teft la, tma Sowing Slrk" w CoMmater of Lisbon." WeiM fa Win," "Diana rorpe." "flora's legacy," tfc.trfc. not experienced for many day. The tableau was quite a dramatic one for about the space of a minute, none of the three moving a particle. During this while, however, the arch schemer was rapidly recovering himself, and that mcaut much. He knew that liar bar a had not come cold nd cruel, and the more resistance he met with the more determined he be came to accomplish his ultimate end. This girl seemed to defy him, and he was most firmly resolved that she should be his through fair means or foul, believ ing, an he did, that she was a great heir ess. Ferhaps he might have been just as obstinate had he learned of her rath- er's poverty, for Carol was a girl worth winning. "Carol," he said, subduing his voice, "I CHATTER XVIII. (Continued.) "When you believed rhat, you were right Not a soul in the world does know of the fact but your lawyer and Lionel Marsden. See, Lawrence Uichniond, do you recognize that document?1' and from her bosom she drew a scroll; "it is the paper that takes from you Richmond Ter race, the home of your ancestors. I am the one whom it has pleased to call her self Lionel Marsden." He stood there mute, his eyes clued up on the precious document Ah, if it were have found you at last." but oestroyea, mcnnionu itrricc uuui yet be his, and yet little good it -would be for him to do the deed, for beyond a doubt her lawyer had made it secure. "Mysterious woman, who are you? What cause for enmity have you against me that you hunt me down? Heaveu has seen fit to punish me for my great sin. but even she, if she lived, could not look save with pity upon the wreck of tne once proud Lawrence Richmond. I keep Well. sir. now that you have found me. what then? You must return home with tne, home to the father vou left so heartlessly, he replied It was he who was heartless, he who drove me from what has been my home. Think you I would ever have gone but for his cruelty? I promised him I would never marry without his consent, but I did not tell him he could choose my hua- up a show of pride still, but It is a hoi- band for me. I know all, sir how jou i.,. mun fnr mv heart is crushed held a power over his head and forced within, and'i am fit only for the grim him to do this cruel deed, but that does ror TWth The nast haunts me. ana not entirely exonerate mm. ujr u ju yet I do not regret it tor I was right, ask me, Captain Grant?" I loved her, oh how dearly, but she was "Because I would take you home again; false to me, and I sent her from me. Because i wouia nave you ior iu, ac. Tho old man seemed overcome wittt in spite ot an i am reauy to iorSmr these recollections, and apparently forgot that there was any one present. His head had fallen upon his chest, and his whole attitude was one of despair. Fancy the feelings of his lost wife, and take you back again. You see how I love you, girl? lou ran away with a man of the world, a man your father had no confidence In, and had refused admis sion to his house, but I am disposed to ..ii frnnt nf him and hear- be niaguanimous and forget It all." ing such a tirade from his lips. It was "Indeed! well, no one asked you to be very evident that Time, healer of many so magnanimous. Captain Grant. I have wounds both of body and heart, had fail- found a protector against whom even my ed to entirely alleviate the pain tnat naa tatuer coum not proau iu ! n. k. f thia man The Captain uttered a cry. One little lingering hope had remained, "My soul! you are not married? he .a Uxr eh; cinn.w thread he was saved I cried. from utter darkness. He loved the mem- "Married! I married? No, I did not r.t -w hi. wife had once been to mean to imply that. Roger Darrel took him, even while he hajed and cursed that me to my mother when he carried me fatal day when they had separated to away from the Terrace." meet no more. Thus it was the recollec- "Your mother! Why, girl, your moth- tion rushing upon him seemed to bewilder er died many years ago, when all the rest his brain There that woman stood, with folded hands and eyes full of unshed tears, wait ing in an agony of suspense. Something of the truth must have entered her mind. for ahe did not betray herself. The of Tour family went," said the Captain. So every one was made to believe. but it was not so.. My mother was be lieved deceitful by her husband, who sent her from him with enrses that soon came back to him, for there fell the terrible wrongs of the past, endured at the hands blow that left him almost childless as before her mental weu as voieiess. mj mumer j "". of this man. arose vision, and the sight must have given ber both courage and strength, for she grad ually drew her form back until, from a n-istfnl. nleadinc Dosition. she nal as sumed the attitude of a queen. "Madam, you are more than yon seem; tou hold a power over my head, and can end Lawrence Richmond out into the world almost a beggar, but he never ask ed a favar of man or woman in his life, and on her heart I have found the peace that was denied me elsewhere. 'Come, come, this will never do; you must go home with me. Girl, I have sworn to make you my wife either by fair means or foul. Mine you shall be must be. Do you give in to the working of fate?' I hardly know what you mean, Cap tain Grant My poor brain has received there without a purpose, aud, although he had cause to fear her, he was just the man to brave it all through, trusting to fortune to clear him In the end. Therefore he faced her boldly, and. in a way that staggered Barbara, who had fully ex ,'cted him to cower at sight of her, and per hap slink out of sight like a whipped cur. She ought to have kuowu that was not his way of doing business. Had he been married a doaen times, he would have faced the whole of his wives untiinchingly, and have denied them all with the same cool, sneering . mauuer which he could assume so well. The first words of the gypsy reassured Carol, and she learned much of which she had been Ignorant before. "Lady, you remember that when last we met I warned you against your lover, and told you that he was a scoundrel of the first water, that he had terribly wronged ma in the past, and that he had wife in the nad-house one Nora v ar- ner. Though I knew it uot at the time, I was wronging both you aud an honorable man, but I thought this man who now stands before you was your lover, and not the other. Can you ever forgive me for such a mistake, lady?" Before Carol could reply, the Captain broke in with a harsh, laugh. "You must be crasy, girl. Why, I nev er set eyes on you before. What do you mean by coming here and Intruding your self upon our presence unasked? Go! leave this spot at once, or 1 will find a means to make you. I would not hesitate a minute about giving you in charge, and having you locked up as a mad womau. I believe you, villain. Ferhaps the time has not yet come for your downfall. but it is close at haud, never fear. You thought me dead, but heaven spared my life most miraculously, not because it was worth much to me, but In order that I might become an avenging Nemesis, to track you down to your doom. Oh, man, foul wretch that you are, when you re member the cruel, heartless deeds of the past, and then look upon the face of this pure girl, does not your heart reproacu your Again he laughed, this time coldly "You are pleased to be melodramatic, I see. There is nothing in my past to make me shudder when I look upon the face of this youug girl, whom I hope to make my wife.' "Your wife? Never! Think you hear en would permit you to accomplish such fiendish act? Remember my words, Roger Darrel, for I shall haunt you I ke . l. I a shadow, and tne gypsy vanisueu among the trees like an evil sprite, Roger Darrel! Surely she must be out of her mind to call you by his name. Fer haps she has mistaken you for him; there is a certain resemblance which I have and it is too late to begin now. I see you I go many blows of late that I seem to be tne old man s manner as he tolded his arms over his chest and threw back his head. The breeze blew his long white liair fitfully, and added new strength to the pi.-ture. "Heaven forbid that I should wish to harm you. No, no; I have forgiven all. Do you see this document? It is worth a king's ransom. There, it is lost, Jost forever P As she spoke she turned into the house and hurled the mortgage into the flames of a small fire burning upon the hearth, an operation Lawrence Richmond wit nessed with amazement "Wotrlan, are you mad? There is a for tune in that paper. It shall never be said Richmond accepted such a sacrifice from a stranger," and he would have leaped forward to save the document but that she barred the way. "No, thousand times no! See it shrivel up. There, Richmond Terrace is yours again." "Woman, who are you?" he gasped, hoarsely. "Seek not to know," she replied; but he caught her wrisf and turned her to the light. Froudly she met the blaze of his mad eyes. "It is my wife! This is retribution. My sin has found me out!" and he fell back, dazed. CIIAFTKR XIX. Bitter tears of anguish wept Carol Richmond on that afternoon when Roger Darrel, the man she had loved and mis trusted, had left ber with such scathing words upon his lips. Never had she even suspected the wealth of love for this man that dwelt within her heart until she saw him stand ing there alone before her, indignantly defending himself agninst the charges brought by her, and. while avowing him self as Innocent as the unborn babe, re pudiating the love she had once given him. "Oh, heaven!" she cried out In her ag ony, as she wrung her white bunds, "have I not enough to bear already? I am bo-n to woe. Irt to me are father, home and loter, yet thank heaven that in my desti tution I have found a mother." In her agonized self-abasement she had sunk upon the ground and let her head fall upon her arms as they rested upon the log. Then ithe gave full sway to her emotions, and sobbed convulsively for some time. After a while her emotion spent itself, and she gradually became calm, but it was the calmness that Indicated stony despair. She had fallen into a aad, dreamy reverie, when her thoughts were Interrupted by the sound of footsteps. Startled, she looked up, the blood dart ing Into her face as the thought flashed into her mind that perhaps this was Rog er come hack again for reconciliation. Her eyes were hot and inflamed from the scalding tears she had shed, but no sooner had they rested upon the figure of the man before her than she ottered a low cry, partly of surprise, partly of fear. It was Captain Grant. He stood there gloating upon her. The merest accident had led him to the spot In time to hear her sobs, and for some little time he had observed her from the bushes, finally ap proaching, unable to further keep Lis peace. He saw the horror in her face, but it did not alarm him. His was a nature The physicians of undent times, who were pretty acute observers and knew more than some of their sclen title successors of the present day are wont to believe, placed a good deal of reliance on the Indications of dis ease which are furnished by the tonirue. Even vet an inspection of the tongue is one of the routine prac tices of the physician in his profes atonal visits. The tongue not only tells of the condition of the stomach and digestive organs, but also gives much valuable Information regarding the state of the blood aud of tho ner vous system. In simple Indigestion due to want of tone In the stomach and Intestines the tongue is broad and flabby, tho sides showing Indentations' from pres sure against the teeth; the surface la covered with a thick white fur with a yellowish or brownish tint In chronic disorders of the stomaen and other digestive organs the tongue Is usually more or less dry and Its sur face has a glased appearance, with a patchy whitish or brown coating. In irritable or inflammatory arrec- tlona of the stomach tue tongue is elongated, and pointed, dry, of a bright red or a brown color, aud its surface is sometimes cracked or fur rowed. The furrowed tongue Is also indicative in many cases of kidney dls- ease, or perhaps of a state of irrita bility of the nervous system. In feverish conditions the tongue is almost always coated and more or less dry. the degree of dryness often in creasing with time and the Height ot the fever. In protracted typhoid and typhus fe vers and other affections In which the vital forces become greatly depressed the tongue Is covered with a brown or t.iackiah fur. la drv and hard, and the surface seamed with deep cracks, In scarlet fever one often sees tho "strawberry tongue," the surface ap pearing unnaturally red and dotted with small elevations, after tne ciear ing away of the white coat Mrs. Tupman, a prominent lady of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer with woman's troubles, tells of her cure by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Duu Mrs. Pinkham: For nomo years I suffered i with backache. uvnro wnrin(r.dmvn rtftinM. lotlf'OrrlKWt. and falliniT OI UlO WOlnb. I tried many remedies, but nothing gave any positive relief. "I commenced taking Lydla. K. Plnklianrn Veirtiw compouna In June, 1901. When I had taken tho tirtt half bottle, 1 felt a vast im. provement, and have now taken ten bottles with tho result that I feel like a new woman, neu i coramenceu main mo rm-wura vui- pound I felt all worn out and. was last approaemwr compiei nervous collapse. I weighed only 98 pounds. Now I weiKU lWi pound ami am Improving every day. I gladly testify to tho iKjneflUi received. Mrs. ft C. Tufmax, 423 West 30th St, Klchmond, a. of dare the while; but if it Is when f waTTaTealM'TrTff'l your wolfish power by the bravery of the only true friend I had left, then I will tell you it can never be." She spoke calmly, and in a manner that carried the conviction of her firmness, but the only result was to cause the usually cool Captain to grow excited. "Say not so, Carol. Do you not know that your father's wishes are bound np in this affair? I hold a dreadful secret over his head, and, should I let it fall, he is a ruined man, not financially, I do not mean that, .but in the eyes of the law he becomes a felon." "A felon r "Yes, a felon, a murderer!" "Oh, what Is this you are telling me? It cannot be; it cannot be. Captain Grant, if you had the heart of a man you would never persecute a poor girl in this way. You will drive me to despair," she wailed. "On the contrary, It is you who will drive me to despair. You have bewitch ed me by your beauty until I would risk torments to win you. Why not yield to fate? Surely you can struggle but lit tle longer. Come, give me a fair an swer, Carol." "Can you not be merciful, sir? My fath er has never wronged you; why bring him into the matter? Why did you not woo me as other men mixht, and, If heaven decreed that it should not be, accept the decree with fortitude?" "Itecaiise," he replied, with a sneer, "I saw the game was too well decided when I came, and that only by some superhu man agency could yoM be snved from throwing yourself sway on that villain of a Itoger Darrel." "Hush, air, do not bring him into the present matter. "I would that he had never been in It, and then all might have been piano suit ing for me. Come, girl, your answer." "It in easily given. Once before I came near yielding to your wishes because of a false idea of duty toward my father. Thiitik heaven, I was saved from the pit by one who knew far better than I the wrong that was being put upon me. Since then I have found my mother and learned her story. I still love my father, and would do much for him. but I caim-it, will not, make the sacrifice of my life, my happiness, fur the sake of the man who sent his innocent wife from hlin, aud lias since braved heaven Itself," He sei.ed her wrist in an Iron clasp, and his eyes were fastened upon hers with the faseirinting glare of a serpent's. She seemed charmed, powerless to move, and could only look into his scintillutlng orbs and shudder, "Hand off, you villalnf The voice was not that of a man, and, dropping the wrist of Carol, Captain (Jrsnt turned like lightning to the spot from whence It had come. Then a cry fell from his lips the cry of a ha tiled conspirator almost driven to the wall "Harbara Merrilesl" he gasped. CHAPTER XX. It was In truth the gypsy girl who rtood there she whom Captain Orant had seen go over the terrlblo precipice, and whose body he supposed had been crushed rut nf all shape upon the jagged rocks far lie- low, or swept away by the restless wst ers of the I'otomac. True, he had not hurled ber over, but It had been because of him she had fall en, and when he might have saved her he would not raise his band, so that be was The tongue Is tremulous In cnsis o ..ti..' nntieeit " nid Carol, after the great weakness, of temporary nervou gypsy girl had gone. excitement, of snaking paisy. auu ui The crisis had come ana passea, anu lead-polsonlng. it is proiruueu wuu she was deeper in the mire than ever, flifflmitv in apathetic mental states. Captain Grant was quick to see tnu, anu Jn CMPi 0j paralysis, and when It Is It -.m.n...,.-...l .H . Hiimaml 1 1 iaJn.l.owwea concu- crazy of late. Only the other day I was When the tongue Is unusually red foreed'into a duel by an uuknown party It generally Indicates weakness; when who proclaimed herself my wife and called herself Nora Warner, and declar ed: i was ltoger uarrei. i wish l was, I declare; then I would go and hang my self for having Injured so many people and caused them to curse my name." She buried her face in ber hands as though she could not bear to hear him talk so of the one she loved so well. Noth ing could cause ber to doubt ltoger again. but at the same time she was now plac ed in a position where she dared not think of hlin. Strange that Roger's words did not oc cur to her. "We shall meet once more. and when you see me as the man I am, and not in the guise of a villain who chances to belong to my family and bear my name, then perhaps you will deigu to offer me your forgiveness. (lo be continued.) It Is bluish In hue It points to defect ive circulation of the blood from weakness of the heart or extensive lung disease; when it Is very pule It Is a sign of anemia. Youth's Companion. AMERICAN COT COIN FOR llll PANAMA REVOLUTION Head-Work, An elderly bicycle rider went to the establishment of a cycle dealer one day and Bald to the proprietor: "I have tried all sorts of saddles, and never found one that I can ride on comfort ably. If you can make one that will fit nie I will give you ?2r for It." "Come again In about en hour," said the dealer, after a momenta thought. At the expiration of that time the Were it not for an American, who has taken up his residence In Pana ma, the recent revolution could not nave neen suc cessfully carried out. Tracy Itob Inson, who looks enough like the photo graphs of William Cull en Itryant to lie his twin brother, was the man who suc ceeded In raising the sinews of war. He was one of the commission, a c o r r e spondent New York to get TBACT ROBISSO. says, that came to the coin, and the terms on which It customer enmo ngnin. "Nt down," snld was finally secured were that if the the denier, pointing to a chair, ."and tell revolution was a success the money me what kind of a saddle you think you would like." "That's for you to devise," replied the was to be returned, hut If not, the Investors were willing to lose. That li the story as given out by otiier. "I iinve no suggestions to make." Robinson, but the chances are .the "Well, I'll do the best I enn for you, money sharks had better security In nnd take the risk," rejoined the denier, a cinch on some Panamanian prop and after a few moments of desultory erty, from which they will now real con vernation the caller took bis leave. Ize Interest. Cincinnati Post A day or two passed, and a new nad die was sent to his address. About a week later he came ngiiln. "Here's your f'J."," he said. "The saddle fits mo perfectly. Would you mind telling mo how you managed It?" A Horn Gambler. Pourke Coekran has a pious neigh bor with a 15-year-old son who does not promise to be exactly "a chip off the old block," this little Incident leml- "Slmplest thing In the world." reidled ,n hlm ,0 thnt n''-'liiluii: Not long the dealer. "Ho you remember my ask- ' ,h rsther discovered to his cor ing you to sit down In that chnlr when row ,hnt ,,u h"f Dt" "vi-ral others of you wcro here last?" i the neighborhood bud a habit of match Yes." ln nickels. The wrathful parent led "Well, on that chair seat wpre two Ul4 HTln to time-honored at- sheets of naner. with a sheet of mrW.n tic where hangn a certain strap. The paper between them. When you sat ma' hv n iKwable Imprcs- down you left the Impression of your lon of w,'Ht WM ,0 ,0"", ,mt " 'iHchlatio tuberosities,' as they are theor3r ,hat 11 ' M1 ,n" flrMt I'bnige ca led. or lower hln hones, on the wl.it coum, ue caueo. oui: nnner. It was ensr to make ambit. ' "H". ' " J011 or to conform to the location of those toT two ,lklnf or n"ne bones, and " "I see," Interrupted the customer. 'You have earned your money." Youth's Companion. Heleutlng Motto. "So, my brave boy," said the veteran, "you are going Into the army?" "I am," answered the high-browed youth, "My motto shall be 'Kxcelslor!' " "Don't adopt any such motto ss thst." "Well, then, 'Conquer or dio'I" "No." "What would you suggest T" " Think before you speik.' "-Washlne-ton Bur. What Hhe Haw. lie How did you enjoy the opera? She Oh, It was Just splendid. He Really? Hut It was all French, wasn't It? Bhe Oh, no! Of course, some of the handsomest ones were unmlstaka ny I'ansian, but mere were many pretty gowns that were evidently made here. Philadelphia Press. The average man thinks he has done his duty by his wife when he puts her name In big letters on a mouuiueut When a medicine has lxn successful In more limn n million canea, is It Justice to yourself to aay, without tryliiff it, MI do not believe it would help me " ? Surely you cannot wish to remain weak nnd lck and discour aged, exhausted with each day's work. You have aotne derange ment of the feminine organism, and Lydla I lMnkham'a Vege table Compound w ill help you Just aa surely an it ha others. Mm. W. II. Pelham, Jr, 108 I llaker Ht., Klchmond, Va any I 44 Diaji Mrs. Pinkham t I must Bay that I do not beliuvo there la any female medicine to compare with Lydia K. llnkham'a Vegetable Com- pound, and I rot urn to you my neartieii manna lor what your medicine lias uone ior nie. jHimre taking tho V epetablo unnpounu 1 waa o imuiy off that I thoiiRht 1 could not live mum loiifrer. Hie little work 1 hud to do wan a menstruation and leucorrha'a, which caused an irritation of the iarta. 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Mrs. 7..X did, dear, hut then I found rich a prwt ty smoking Jacket st a bargain sale. Chicago Dally News. Friend Now that you have made millions, what will you do? Old bul lion I shall retire, and amuse myself tolling pepople whst a burden wealth Is, and how happy I was when I waa poor. New York Weekly. HEUMATESM AN INDESCRIBABLE TORTURE Because Rheumatism sometimes comes on suddenly it doesn't prove that it is a chance disease or one due to accidental causes. It takes time for it to develop, and is at work in the system long before any symptoms are felt The blood is the first point of attack, and the poisonous acids that cause the aches and pains are then distrib uted through the circulation to different parts of the system, and settle in joints, muscles and nerves; and when the system is in this condition it needs only some exciting cause like exposure tonight air, damp, chilly weather, or the cold, bleak winds of winter, to arouse the slumbering poisons and bring on Khcumatism. 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