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Stung by this aspersion’ upon his ‘character, he lashed out:

Disraell at dinner. Meanwhile in the passages under Windsor Somebody's coming,” Castle there wanders a frightened but curious little East, End [and altogether incon orphan of seven. His name is Wheeler (also known as ig point 1 the castle

“tark); and he

down an open coal chute, and is now frantically seeking an exit. {him to his feet, looking “about opposite the overhang of the fine | frantically,

Now. gb on with the story—

CHAPTER SIX .

THE MAN in the scarlet coat, whom Wheeler saw drawing the crim

{pointed herself his

said, on the silver beneath, Slattery was “Wouldn't I! A great lot you know [B ently ap-'taking his time. Then he did a about the man you're talking to.’ protector. strange thing. Slowly he lowered Only watch this now!” He stepped HH just quickly over to the table and once | more held the taper flame in dan“Here!” And she lace table cover, and began mov- gérous proximity to the lace. “A ed him behind the neavy ing the flame closer and closer bit here, you see”--he sprang over

son hangings by the window. until it was almost but not quite to the window drs es—"a bit

blind a while ago, was nothing so grand as a lord chamberlain, but Then, flustered, one hand gone to touching, so that it seemed: the more here, now—" he was nothing less than the Sergeant Footman of the castle, and her disarranged hair, the unrea- heat must start the lace in a

| Noonan scrambled to her . flew between the aspiring arsonNoonan screamed. ot ang his tinder, and toms

it ‘wasn't every evening that he went about drawing blinds. He sonable woman turned to face the'moment. re probably had an assistant just for that, the same as he had one who newcomer, i L__“Slattery!” did nothing else in the world but lay the fires, and another who only! It was only Slattery. He was ‘Would you burn us all up, man!” “lighted them. : I Ca POleESRBEE. that's TT Ba tthe candlelighter of these apart-| Slattery sighed. and withdrew ° Mr. Naseby was’ an important og ajessness Eh? Well then. ments, a tall, thin, black-haired his torch. He said gently, “I was officer in. Windsor Castle, and he gjoen it up again, slosh it up YOURE man with intense blue eyes, Practising only. looked it, a round and imposing again” directed Mr. Naseby, him- 2 pinched nose, and lips habitually | “Practising!” echoed Noonan. man with a big fed face to go ges sloshing the ‘alr with an il- pursed as if in constant exasper-| ell, the saints preserve us, is with the coat and rusty brows ‘a8 ustrative hand, and he began ation at varyiigg the eyes saw it mad the looney is entirely? thick as Spanish moss and ahead! rolling slowly round the room on OF the nose had sCent of, and he Ab, Noonan," Slattery sald, under his white wig that was like TWould be a

|carried in his hands the symbols Nothing daunted,

manded: “That'll be all, Slatteryy" ; ”

oi o . - 2 ul q THIS ACTION In itself mifght

have been enough to arouse ther candlelighter's suspicions, but there was something else besides,

and it distracted him. Those drap-

eries had moved! Reconnoitering

"glowing coal. But the responsi-|

bilities - of his . position weighed upon him heavily, It was not the

“pig things that worried him—he

could do for any of them in a minute; it was the multitude of

liftle things, for Mr. Naseby, as

he admitted to himself, had no head for details.

Tonight he was more on edge

than usual. This afternoon the Master of the Household had

given him a regular wigging about one of the underfootmen who had taken a drop too much and been found asleep on the

a tour of inspection. ; The table this evening had been laid for only four—the Queen, the

Prime Minister, the Queen's Pri-|in surprise.

vate Secretary, and a Maid of oJ “What might you be doing in honor. Mr. Naseby peered anx- this room?" : “And what affair o’ yours is fing a bit as he rolled out of the that 1'd like to know?” {at him. : Slattery’s eyebrows arched sarwoman who coutdn’t—have cero AA reached 40 yet, ‘and who might ,, not HAVE been more than “300 & ; wair o' mine at aii, but it small woman with mouse-colored , . o o ' /hair and forearms reddened by 14 he finding you here.”

iously at everything, He was puf-

room: again.on his rounds. Noonan sloshed on. She was a|

hot water, and we shouldn't now be giving her a second glance but

of his’ office, a lighted lamp and a Job would warm many a poor {long taper. He looked at Noonan cold heart this night. Do you take

ighty, is it? Excuse mie. It's NO would. yeu? Well Holy Mother 0’

“Fa! He's after doing that al-

them cautiously, he perceived the point _6f a boot protruding beneath their folds; he retreated two “Steps in alarm, and asked Noonan! hoarsely: : : : 1

“Who—who is it behind there?”

ime meaning, Noonan?" nF 8-88 | SHE LOOKED at him in blank astonishment. as comprehension ho AAG overtook her, and then, to his; “Go on with you and don’t be she TUNE consternation, ‘sat back on her nosing into things you've no con-| theels and- laughed. “So you'd think ‘cern with.” ! to burn down Windsor Castle and: Slattery hounded to tk i ! 4 : 8 3 4 re sideh, Miss High and pe striking a blow for Ireland, board, exchanged the lamp for a/ earving knife; and -bounded back: again, “Come out of that now or I'll dragoon you hankings #nd all!” / “You'll not!” cried Ngonan,|

might God'cAnd wouldn't you look fine Mr. Naseby's now, if he hanging from a-gibbet!” = wo 1 “It's no joking thatter! Many a good man’s risked his neck in an

forthe fact that as Mr. Nasety's|It207, Waatt | scut ere 3a Clean, footsteps die away in the corri-| ed?" > > t dor she has raised her head fur- : tively to look around. She is look-! ing at the lace tablecloth, the

stairs; and now here was the Primie Minister in for dinner, admittedly a small affair but one from which a dozen disasters might arise. So it was purely out of edginess that Mr. Naseby went rolling down the crimson carpet of the Grand Corridor toward the Private Dining Room, 2 »- u : IN THE _ DOOR of the dining room, he brought himself up with a snort, glaring at Noonan, whom he had caught kneeling over a pail of water on the floor.

Noonan went all of a sudden “Ah, so that's the way of it. 8Tave, even a shade pale. She Excuse me,” Slattery repeated, Seg rihed hig eyes and RSked in a 3 3 confessional voice: “Tell me gleaming silver and crystal, the A, a ero. De straight out, Slattery, is it them fine blue-bordered Minton china, ion if 1 only light the candles, Fenians you're in with?” service with the letters V. R. In = Co, "I To be suspected .a Feni ' raised gold, at the paintings and)’ : na a Philo saindll i ouigy ae he kpansied NOONAN IGNORED this sar-/ flattering too, and he was not one to take ia everything at ofice. casm. She walked past him, kneltito sacrifice a good effect if he a. java by Der i ii Jesumed could Safely Help it. In the end he ; hy e 0 ) er rag, summone 8 courage and stood i CDDENLY -she stiffens — and yonino-to be rid of him the sooner. forth squarely ap the yes stares, Lo Slattery gazed at her, jand no: “And if it was, would I In the doorway has appeared He went to the table and pre- break me sacred oath and tell it, t's , what's this! Mop- what the guilty woman takes in pared to light the chandeliérido you think?” at this hour?” the uncertain light 10 be a man's ghove it. Noonan, watching him, Noonan looked up at him with empty coat standing upright with- under her brows, saw him ignite a scornful smile hesitating on her frightened eyes. “It's only thafout any means of support, and the taper with the lamp that he lips. “Go on with you!” she said a bit o' water got sloshed on it, unaccountably surmounted by & carried, and start at each of theithen. “You'd burn- no castle in a sir,” she sald. - : ‘cap. Pl J and a graceful flame that hundred years.” : ges

When - upen-closer inspection,

WATCH CRYSTALS |] she perceives the nature of this

English noose for Ireland's sake.”!

She scrutinized him uncertainly,

pushing in front of him and drawing forth to her side the extraordinary figure of Wheeler, (To Be Continted)

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: ‘moons . .. . The elbows slowly lowered. One| . foot suffered itself to be drawn! : forward. He was a victim of hyp-| ;

nosis and obediently approached] the table. Arriving at It, he stopped; one hand came out and| received from it a sugar-coated! ond. wii “Here, now!” Noonan cried, springing up, and she seized him.| Wheeler whirled and jerked. away; she made a lunge and re-| captured him; he kicked at her viciously and thrashed her; her right fist ‘was clamped onto his left arm, and now with her left hand she managed to catch his right one that had purloined the Queen's almond, | “Drop that! Drop it, I'm! saying!”

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....BUT HE HELD fast to it, pitching and squirming with all his!

might, and in the midst of this

| silent battle a shaming thought

struck Noonan, who had the Great Potato Famine in her soul: | “Is it hungry you are?” | He fought on without answer-|

“Jing. and seeing that this sort of|

thing was getting her nowhere, | Noonan resolutely hore him to the’ floor and sat on him. . “There, I'm not meaning to hurt you,” Noonan panted, a little too grimly. ! : { In that ridiculous position, hej made her feel sorry for him and] rather ashamed of herself, and|

‘anyway, now.-that.she.had. him,

{she hadn't a notion what tc do

‘with him. She “sighed, gave his : ¥ ough-pat and with ogi ogi { roting omotion—transferred-—her-

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‘self to the carpet, sitting on- her legs. He “Have your-sweet if you want it, then,” she grudged him. ; Wheeler sat up but kept his head down and his eyes on the floor-and his underlip thrust out

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