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"No."
."Who then?"
"Ills reputed murderer. He Is an
Innocent man. You know I thought so
nt the time. . You know, I believe, how
I backed uiy opinion to the tune of sev
eral hundreds? Tin bucking It still,
Lady Starklo: I'm backing It still
that's nil." It was not all. He went
on to tell nil Erlchxen had gone through,
;o his knowledge, lu the settlement;
how he wus tryiug In his munll way to
make up to the poor fellow for tko
shocltlug Injustice of his fate, and yet
how even now the unlucky wretch
went In danger of his neck, as Lady
Starkle had seen for herself, and ail
for siding with some bushrangers un
der elrfiimstanres of extraordinary
compulsion and provocation combined.
Of all tliis James Daintree spoke so
feelingly and with such an obviously
earnest purpose thut Lady Starkle was
quite moved and undertook to use her
Influence with Claire In the matter of
the convict servants.
Hut It was of no nvall.
, Daintree drove the ladies Into Syd
ney and drove back alone late nt nixhf.
Tom awaited him, and as they walked
from the stables to the house the mas
ter's arm ran affectionately through
that of the man.
"My dear fellow," he said. "It
grieves me more than I can say. but
I cannot go against my young wife
where there Is apparent right upou her
side. She will have no convicts In her
house. You and I will t compelled to
part."
' It was Imund to come," was Tom's
reply "I am only thankful It didn't
come before you gave use back a little
of what I have lost. I shall be grate
ful to you till my dying hour."
"Oil. but I've not done with Vou yet
I must have yon out of this country
by hook or crook-that I'm bent upon.
That brute Sullivan Is actually at the
Pulteney. Ft seems his overseer never
meant to split oo you for some reason,
but be did so when drunk, and now
f the other holds hltu to It. Until we
spirit you out of the country you'll
sever le safe "
"That doesn't matter." said Tom. "I
would rather stay where I am and
take my 'chance."
He was thinking of Daintree and
his wife Even through his gratitude
be was thinking of that darker side.
CHAITER XXXI.
T
TIAT was a long week at the
bungalow. It was to culmi
nate at St. Philip's church In
Sydney on the Saturday morn
ing The license was bought. The
bridegroom carried the ring In his
pocket Everrthlng was ready but a
best man. And here another peculiar
Ity stood out. There was no best map
to be had. a In London ao in New
South Wales. This baronet's son and
heir, this man of blood and means and
literary feats, was unbeloved In spite
of all. Claire and her aunt had been
absolutely the only guests at the bun
galow In nil Tom's time there. Nor
was It because Daintree bad never
made a frieud In the settlement It
was because be bad never kept one In
any quarter of the globe.
Meanwhile the ladies came to Rose
bay no wore. The happy man went to
them Instead and would stop till mid
tight, to gallop home by starlight and
mur out til happiness to Tom untii
the harbor turned from jet to polished
rteel; ad twice the steel was silver.
and t'Uve the silver was flaming gold
before the poet would hold bis peace,
It was a long week, but the nights
went uukker than the days. Daintree
had never been a better companion
than lu tho.-e long, confidential, star
lit talks. They were not exclusively
on the one subject Tom learned at
hist how the murder Lad affected the
party at Avenue Lodge, and one whole
nlKht and day be acver closed an eye
fur thinking of two men lu two new
and startling lights. They were the
living man Harding and the dead man
Blaydes. The first haunted Toia the
loucer. Why had htv Insisted on drag
ging 1 a!n tree to the trial?
The days were lengthened by Teggy
In the kitchen, with her kind, uninjured
looks and the unfailing, friendly, amla
ble word that made hint feet the mean
est of men. The girl could be an angel
when she had him. with all his cold
ness, to herself. He never suspected
what she bad been front the Sunday
night to the Monday afternoon. And
now they were both tinder notice to
leave.
"If only yon two would make up
your minds to marry.'' said I'aintree
to Tom. "1 have you lioth on my mind,
but I could provide for the two of
you at one stroke as a married couple.
It has long been my wku to start a
model farm up country, and you nd
I'eggy would certainty make model
managers." Hut Tom shook bis head
more decidedly than be bad shaken It
while the little ltosamund was prick'
Ing her way across the chart
On the Friday, the tame breeM hold
ing good all the week. Daintree decided
to sail round to Sydney Instead of driv
ing. Ho bad a solid check to cash for
the wedding trip, and the I'olnt I'lper
road was no route for pocketful of
money and a life at Its very highest
value. Tom asked If Nat Sullivan
was still In Sydney and waa told that
he had drunk himself prostrate at the
rtiltenej. whereupon Tom volunteered
for the voy!, and so escaped Peggy
for one afternoon. To make safety
doubly safe, however, they ran into
Farm cove, and Tom and tht dog were
to wait in the Domain while Daintree
went to the bank aud called at the
hotel.
It wn then 8 o'clock, and Daintree
was to Ix at least two hours gone, but
he relumed In less than one. bringing
Claire with him for a sail. Tom's sur
prise at seeing her was less than that
of the girl at sight of him. The Indig
nation wot eltogthrr on her aid? and
sufficient!? perceptible In spit? of
Claire's r-.Ti-fii ti couc?.il an l.:-,.-'tro
prlate II:;i;. .::.. Daiireo did not
see It, but v'.ut thoy all three missed
was the fn-iivj liguro which emerged
from the t!v:-s aT the boat put oil.
Claire w,: ;;;ve.i tlio tiller and told:
simply to tl:;,- orders, Dalntroe tool: j
the sheet, aLl Tom was put Into thi i
bows to be out of the way. The sail I
made a convenient screen. It also pi'e-
veuted To ti from knowing in the least I
what luinp ( 1. As a matter of fact.!
they were Jiu-.t taking the wind which j
was by this time fresher than ever
when Dr.Iutree'8 attention was divert-;
ed by an apparition at the water's!
edge. It wus the man who had follow-!
ed him thvoiifli the Domain, and so
rapt was tin; gusso with which Dalntreo !
beheld him that he forgot to let th..
sheet go ut the critical Instant. Smack
came the wind against a sail like the ,
side of a house. "Let go! Let go!"
screamed Tom. It was too late. She
was gunwale under. The sail lay n
moment on the water, drinking It likt
blotting paper. Then the saturated j
canvas suiil;, and the boat tossed keel
upward within fifty yards of the shore.
Claire sank clear of the wreck and
had the presence of nilud to strike out
before coining to the surface, and even
as the sun lashed her wet eyes strong
hands slid under her arms and slm wus
being pushed face forward to the shore.
The trees were waving lu the sua. It
was no distance, anil Da in tree's dog
was swimming happily on ahead. Sud
denly, with a piercing yelp, the dog dis
appeared. At the same moment Dain
tree began splashing vigorously, and
when the smooth sand came under
Claire's feet, but a few yards farther
ou, her knees were too weak to sup
port her weight.
"The happieet moment of my life,"
said a deep voice la her ear. "I have
saved"
She turned, and there was Daintree.
up to waist in water, with the
drops raining from his face and whisk
ers and shaded eyes sweeping the blue.
The boat was coming In keel upward
with the tide. The dog and Tom had
vanished off the face of the waters, r
Daintree dashed in again and met
the wreck as her mast struck bottom.
Tom was still struggling underneath
her. caught fast in the cordage. Ills
struggles ceased as be was wrenched
free. When Daintree got him to land
his mouth and cars were lu a froth.
and Claire stood by like a woman turn
ed to stone.
A small crowd collected slowly. It
did not contain the man who bad caus
ed the mischief. The trees had swal
lowed him once more.
The crowd surrounded Tom and
Daintree. who had stripped bis servant
to the waist and was sawing the air
with the drenched white arms and the
helpless sunburnt bands. Claire stood
on the fringe of the crowd, without a
slear thought In her bead, but In her
Hand a packet that had fallen at her
feet when Tom's shirt and vest were
torn off and hurled aside. The packet
was sowed up In dripping oiled silk as
transparent as glass. Through it she
could read a name she but dimly re
alized to be her own. and the voices of
those jostling her seemed fat away.
"He la alive." said Daintree, looking
np. "Has nobody run for brandy?"
Xohody bad.
And It was wanted now for two peo
ple.
Claire Harding bad swooned away.
Daintree hud his bands full with the
pair of them, but in a little they were
both conscious and able to drive owav
with him In a hired chaise. They
drove to the hotel, forgetting the risk.
On the way Tom stretched forth a
feeble band.
"How many more times are yon go
ing to save my life?" be asked.
"You saved mine, too." said Claire
sadly.
"It was nervous work after the way
my poor wee dog went." said Daintree.
"Did yon see that. Claire? Poor thing!
It was a shark r
"Yes." She shuddered.
"Hut If he will bnt splash a bit. your
man of courage Is all right. Do you
Daintree va$ mwtng the ulr uHth tht
drenched vhlte urm$.
tulnd If we drive round by the Herald
office? They publish on Monday, bat
It's just as well to be In time."
So the conceit of him overlapped
even his heroism. And Claire and
Tom sat shivering lu their wet clothes,
while Daintree In bis was several min
utes Inspiring and alt but dictating the
paragraph which duly appeared In the
Sydney Herald. Hut during those tuln
ntcs the pair In the chaise never ex
changed a word, and afterward, lu the
hotel, not one word.
CIIAPTEH XXXII.
AINTKEE was driven borne be
for6 liusii, fur his pocketbook
was bloated with moist bank
notes, besides which Lady
StarUie positively refused to have him
about the hotel that evening. It was
against the rules for bridegrooms as
laid down by her ladyship, who dined
very solemnly with her niece alone
and got to Ijpd at a reasonable hour for
the first tiaie that week. Claire then
had their sitting room to herself, and
she drew out thq olied silk packet
which had fallen intj her hands that
afternoon. It wasthln and oblong,
like the letter It plainly contained. Un
der the lamp Claire's name and the
address of her old home were still
leplble beneath the silk, though they
no longer stood out ns when the skia
was .wet. And on the reverse side was
written very small, ' For pity's sake,
forward this."
When? After his death? Fate had
forwarded It liefore. Should she read
or destroy or return this letter to Its
writer to the criminal who had con
fessed to her his crime? Some min
utes after Claire Harding asked her
self this question she turned up the
lamp and cut the oiled silk open with
a pair of scissors. She now saw that
the letter had been written some time,
yet It was with a strange thrill, a won
derment beginning at the heart, that
she read the heading within. It was
Newgate and the date May 29. 1S37,
the blackest day of ell her life, the evo
of that on which they would have
hanged him.
Agitated as she was. however, by
these dreadful memories and touched
by the mere fact of his having written
to her on that awful Monday, It was
the first sentence of his letter that ran
Into her heart like molten lead. lie
called himself an Innocent man! From
the brtnk of the grave came that He.
that blasphemy, which he had lived to
confess to her with bis crime! Sh?
read on mechanically, and ail at once
her pain ceased. She was lost and
absorbed In the plain, straightforward,
circumstantial story into which be
plunged without preliminary. He told
her everything from the moment they
parted at the garden gate. Nothing
was left out. nothing extenuated, noth
ing enlarged or even commented upon
by the writer. Her heart was beating
wildly long before she reached the end
of this plain statement She had for
gotten all cbout tls confession. This
rang true: ;Ms rang true.
"Sweetheart." be went on "for I
must cnll you so once more I cannot
tell you bow I feel, for I vary from
hour to hour Now and then I feel the
murderer they say I am. now and tnen
an abject coward 'without the pluck
to show lt, now and then a sort of
Christian martyr. But with God's
help I hope to finish up a man. Do
not grieve for the ugly way of It
There's no disgrace in that since It's a
mistake, and If there Is a God never
fear but he will make it up to me one
day. Ob. but It is sweet to talk to you
again! 1 used to tell you everything,
and so I must until the end.
"The turnkeys are looking through
my grating now. They are telling each
other what I am at and coming back
and back again to have a peep. My
Christianity isn't proof against that I
lay nothing, but I could do the thing
I am going to die for God help me. I
may do it yet! You see how I change.
There Is only one thing In which I can
never change my grateful love and
reverence for the great girl soul that
forgave me and would have given me
another chance if this bad not hap
pned. Sweetheart my love for you
Las grown in prison: It has been my
only comfort in this vile place, and It
will go with me where I go tomorrow
it will stay with my poor soul
through all eternity. Only do not
grieve for me, Claire, for 1 never was
worthy of your sweet love. I would
not leave this behind for you, I would
not have you reminded of me for a
single day, but for one selfish tiling.
Sweetheart, It Is to make you believe
in me. You have not done so yet.
Why nhould you? Nobody knows what
you know and have so nobly bidden,
but, for all I said to you. I am Inno
cent. He was alive when I left him
I did give him the receipt and we
shook bands at the end. That Is God's
truth. I tell It you with the last words
my band will ever write. I meant to
write to the kind fanatic who paid for
my defense and Is working still (they
tell me for a reprieve, but now I can
not. If you could find him out and
thank him for me, I should be grate
ful. but my last words In this life
must be to you. God bless you. dear,
and give you somclMxly much letter
than I ever could Lave been. Only do
know that I never did this thing, and
when you realize that think no more
of me, my dear love, but pray totnor
row for the soul of your unworthy
boy'
Ills slgnnture followed, better w:
ten than the rest, a touching effort to
"finish up a man." All the Inst pages
were blurred with the condemned
man's tears, and now after seventeen
months her tears were raining, raining,
on the same paper, on the same words,
that bore the biota of bis.
1 This postscript remained:
"Keprleved at the last moment! t
shall not send this now, but t hope
that It may reach you when I am
gone."
Claire went to the window, and the
rings rattled along the rod as the flung
the curtains back.
The hotel garden lay very still be
low. It was the back of the house, and
now the hour waa late. Suddenly there
was a movement on the gravel under
heath.
"Claire, la It your voice r
He whlspcredlt was Tom.
"Yes." she said at last. "Come tip. I
want to speak to you."
"Now?"
"Yes! How t It you art still la the
town?"
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