KILDEE; OR, The Sphinx of the Red House.

B V MA V E. BR V A !S T ,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XXXVNT

(Continued). HEATHCLFS found Nell Barnes in her room on the third floor of the tenement house. A lamp burned dimly on the mantelpiece. Its light fell on the bony wasted face and sunken eyes of the woman, who sat bolt upright in bed propped by a chair and pillows. She had dropsy of the heart, and could not lie down without a suffocating; Bensation. An hour ago, after a fearful paroxysm, her physician had told her she might die any minute. She called him a fool and ordered him to leave her presence, but she had hurriedly dictated two notes and sent them oft—one to Heatholin", the other to Honor Montcalm—<and she had told Mrs Belts where to find her burial clothes, and charged her not to let, her false teeth be taken out when she was pre pared for the coffin ; if sho did, she (Nell) would come back and haunt her every night, a toothless ghost. She turned her preternaturally bright eyes on the mayor when lie and Kiklee entered the room.

" You took your time to got here," she said, sharply. "You big folks think Death himself must wait your pleasure : you'll miss it some day when he knocks at your door. Honor Montculm, where are you going? Comeback." A tall figure in a straight, grey wrap had risen from a seat in a corner near the bed ; a white face looked out from a cloud of pale zephyr. "I am going. You are better. You have others to attend to you," Honor said, in a voice she tried to render calm.

" My ' better ' is not going to last, I toll you. I'll have another spell and I'll go oif in it. And I got something to say that you must hear. You owe. it to me to close my dead eyee.at least. Your father and you are my only kin in this world. You've looked down on me, you've neglected me, bub you're my kin still : and these arms nursed you when you was a baby. Sit down here, close by me, and stay and see me die. You've got to die yourself otic day. It mayn't be long ; you're as pale as death now."

Honor was indeed as white us the dress she wore. The unexpected sight of Heath, cliff, the thought li He believes I came here expecting to .sec him," hud shaken her self-control. She did not. look at him, and this the quick eyes of Nell Barnes took note of.

" What's the matter between you two?" she said. " You lovo each other : all the town knows; what business have you quarrelling ?" Honor rose onec more ; hei cheeks wore red enough now, her eyes blazed. Heath cliff interposed before she could .speak. •' Don't exhaust yourself with this irrele vant talk," ho .said to Nell Barnea- "You sent for me to hear some important com munication. You sent for Miss Montoalm, I suppose, for the same purpose. Neither of us knew that the other would bo here. We are ready to listen to your communica tion, if you are strong enough to make it. "But if it dees not concern Miss Montcalm, she—"

"It does concern her; it concerns her father. I sent for both. I suppose he was afraid to come—afraid I would abuse him— on my deathbed." "1 told you he was not in the city," Honor interposed. " Well, well, lam hard. Maybe I'm un just; it's easy to bo uujiiet to rich folks. I hope it 11 be* forgiven to me ; it ought Lo be. Nothing oughtn't to bo laid up against me, because I've suffered enough to blot, everything. I sinned in this thing, though, and I want to make amends. I—Kildee, child, you'll curse me, J reckon, when I— Kildee, quick ! Hand me my drop* : fun me —fan —"

The girl was already at lier side plying the fan she had taken from Mrs Betfcs. She sprang to reach the medicine, brought it on the instant: but Nell motioned ib away. She was struggling; for breach. Her wasted chest heaved with great throes ; her face was knotted with agony. Oreat drops of sweat stood on her i'oreheud. Kildee wiped them away. She bathed the convulsed face in cold water and brandy. Heathcliff supported the relaxed head ; and Honor, coming forward in this moment Qf self-forgetf nines.*, chafed hey hands briskly and steadily. The fiphfc for life was fearful. ,'' [fc will be the end," thought (hose about her. bat her strong vitality carried her through it. The convulsion passed, but ib lelfc her exhausted and breathless. When she recovered a little she turned to Kildee, and in broken whispeiy directed her to open her trunk, look in a secret pocket, and bring the folded paper £he would find there. It was brought, and *ho signed that they .should bring her the ink and pen. Sho then unfolded the paper, and grasping the pen, signed her name in tremulous but legible characters. "With a motion of the hand and lips shr; in dicated her desire that Heathclitf and aliss Montcalm shoald atlix their names as wit nesses to the signature. Heathelift" wrote his name, and took the paper to Honor. She did not understand that she was re quired to write, and she was looking down, wondering what revelation this woman could be about to make, when HeathclilF gently spoke her name. She started and looked up, saw him standing so near her, met the look of his sad, deep eyes, and fora metnent lost the composure she had struggled to preserve. The blood rushed to her brow ; her hand shook co she could hardly trace hor name. Kildee saw ib ; her glance went rapidly, unobtrusively over each face. "Nell Barnes told the truth," she said to herself. "And shall 1 stand between them ? No, I must not; I will not." Nell Barnes watched the writing of the witnesses'nameswith eager eyes. She drew a deep breath of content. " It's all there," she said, pointing to the paper in HeathclifFs hands. " I wanted to tell it with my tongue. There's more written down there -than I wanted should stand. There's some hard things against him—your father, Honor Montcalm—and may be they're too harsh. I hadn't no claim | on him but kin—second cousin at that, I j hope he'll for—forgive. Kildee." Her. voice softened as she turned her head to the . girl who was fanning her softly. "You must forgive ; you mustn't hate me. You're a good girl. You've been good to me and stood my crossness. You didn't knosv what a wrong I had done you, but —well,. I want you to know it first and then say you forgive, if you can. Read it," she •aid to Heathclill; "there's some hard things, but—" • Her voice failed and she made a'quick Imperative motion of the hand commanding Eeabhcliff to read the paper he held. It began with a short sketch of her re lationship to General Montcalm—by her mother's side. Her father was a thriftless, strolling dentist, who died' leaving his wife In. utter poverty. She applied by letter to General Montcalm, who sent her a " small •urn," and wrote thab he cquld do no more just then. Nell's motberdied of fever shortly •fter, and she, a'-girl- of eighteen, was taken into .General Montcalm ! s family, not as an adopted daughter, which she seemed/bitterly, to resell She

was required to do small services in return for her board and clothes. She was seldom admitted into the drawing-room, or intro duced to the grand guests. She found a lover' though, and was devoted to him ; bub they needed money to marry on. The general'refused to furnish it, and told her her lover was worthless. The young man finally left her and gave his attention to another girl. She was heart-stricken. She lajd the 'disappointment at General Mont calm's door. In her bitterness she would have done anything to injure him. Her strongest desires were first to revenge her self upon the Montcalms for her real or fancied wrongs, and to got money enough to quit a. place that had such miserable Associations. One day an evil Fate gave her the opportunity to fulfill both these wishes. She was returning from a walk ; had been taking the general's little girl, his favourite, to the station to see him go off on a short business trip. She stopped on a bridge that spanned the river. As she stood there holding the child in her arms gazing at fch<s switt, dark waters below, some one touched )ier arm. She turned and saw a woman with a black veil half swept aside from her dark, foreign-looking, hand some face. " Whose child is this ?" asked the woman, and Nell answered that it was Mrs Mont calm's. L ' Wns that its father I saw leaving on the train just now ':" " Ye.>; he was going off with—" " I knew it. The child is his image. Do you like him?" the woman interrupted, and Nell answered, impetuously : •'No, 1 hate. him. I hate everybody. 1 only wish I had money to go away where 1 could never see anybody I had ever known."

Merc the reading of the paper came to a sudden end. A startling interruption came from outside. For some minutes they had heard, with heeding, a hubbub in the street a little distance oil", bourse cries, exclamations, and, further off, the clang of the fire alarm. Bnb fires were of frequent occurrence. They had given it no attention. Now, however, a red glare, which, had they nob been preoccupied, they might, some time before, have seen streaming through the closed shutters, increased in brilliancy ; voices and hurrying feet were heard in the street just below. " It's Heathcliff s Mill bla/ing away like forty !" cried someone, who wae evidently running at the top of hia speed. .Heathclifl" threw the paper on the table, and ran to the window. He threw open the shutters. The blackness of the night was lighted up with lurid radiai cc Dark sky, gbomy houses, and narrow streets glowed hi the blood-red illumination. The factory was not far off. Heathclifl , leaned out until he could seen the front. Red llnmes were bursting from its windows. He drew back - ; his teeth wore set, his eyes gleamed sternly. " It is the mill. Those political guerrillas have done their work well," he muttered.

The mill had been his pet. Ho loved every piece of machinery it contained. He took pride in the order and perfection of all tho appurtenances, no less than in the sub stantial stone and brick buildings.

He walked to the table and picked up tho roll of paper. Honor Montenlm snatched it from his hand. Hhc was in a. high state of excitement. She felt as though her father was responsible for the incendiary deed that had been done as though it affected his honour. The instiga tors of the discontent against Heathclifl' were of hip clan. She faced Heathclifl" with white check* mid Hashing eyes.

"M 0 ,,, bho said; "try to save your property. It can be saved ;it must be ;

go.' . He hesitated. He looked across at Nell Bjirnes. She was uiicc moro breathing in hiboureel gasps ; anpvhor convulsion might be coining , on, " And fcuvu you two hero in this place with a dying , woman, and with all this uproar going on about?yon ? I cannot." " You must," cried Honor. The roar of the voices and of the devour ing flames had grown louder ; the red glare had increased. "Uo," she entreated, "or I will go my self." Hu gavQ her a look which told her that \w understood and appreciated what, she felt. " I will </o," ho said. " T shall fend Mrs Befcfcs and her husband to you. Tlioy will be needed.' . They heard him stop in the hall and speak to the man and his wife. They heard Mr.s Betts's response : ' : As »-oon as v.c kin dree?, MrHenth olifK;"' and then hie tread creaked on the stairs, and Honor gave way to a binyle pas sionate sob.

The uproar outside increased. In spito of tho violent wind, they could hear tho shouts ot' excited voice?, the rattle of en gines, the quick bonea of command. The .street-- below wuu full of hurrying figures. The light of tho burning factory mtide every 'faoo plainly' visible. .Standing at the wiiii , ow, eagerly watching and listen ing, Honor saw a man run across the street and look back in a wild kind of way. Tie was bare-headed, his long hair waa streaming in the wind, his movements de noted the wildest excitement. It, was Nick Wood.". He had just emerged from the tenement building, which he had entered with a minister design, or rather impulse ; his* excitement had reached too high a pitch since the tire began to admit of his forming nny plan. His present actions were tiio outcome of fanatic madness.

Honor was listening to the sounds that came from tho direction of the fire.

" What can be the reason the engines are not subduing the flames?' , she cried. "There must bo some difficulty about the water-pipes. The fire is no doubt spread ing. The factory is surrounded with wooden buildings." What she said was confirmed by the voices of those passing in the street below. Tho firemen, assisted by the crowd, were using every endeavour to keep the flames from extending to the surrounding build ings. A cry from Kildee brought Honor back to the bed. Nell Barnes's last struggle had begun. Ib was long and terrible. Tho two women forgot everything else their efforts to give what help and ease they could to her in this ghastly trial. They did not hearj or at least did not heed, what went on outside. No ono came to their assistance. The fire seemed to be the one centre of attraction.

There was no more water in the pitcher, and Kildee went to an adjoining room, a sfcy-lighted closet-like apartment, to leok for sopie. She stumbled over something lying in a heap upon the floor. She bent down and found it was a female —dead she thought at first, until the alcoholic fumes of the breath reached her. She held the lamp close to the figure and recognised the face. It was that of a young factory girl whom the (superintendent had lately turned away because of drunkenness and irregu lar conduct. Kildee conjectured that the girl had como into the house in a half conscious condition, found her way into this room instinctively, aiid dropped into a drunken sleep. She had no time now to think of this sinful sister. She could'do no more than put a roll ot clothes under her head. All her attention was demanded by the dying woman. Honor assisted hoi' in »ilenco, and with tremulous hands. Death was some thing the general's daughter had rarely seen. The present experience was a now and dreadful one to her, yet she did not shrink from it. Moments went by. There was a sudden increase in the commotion jusb outside. The , cry of "Fire! fire!" was repeated again. There was a rush of feet overhead and ib tho passage of the tenement house. Some one threw open the door and yelled, "Fire!" Kildee looked inquiringly at Honor,

" It is only that .-mother of the buildiner? around the factory has caught on hre, said the elder girl, reassuringly. "lrobab.y one nearer to this house. There is no occa sion for present alarm. There are several houses between here and tho mill. As she spoke sho rose shut the door that had been flung open. The noises cut side grew louder and more confused ; the roaring and crackling sound of Humes more audible. The air in the room grew thick ■with smoke. , " The burning house must be nearer than I thought," murmured Honor, almost gasp ing in'the stilling atmosphere, lhe strug gles of the dying woman still continued and still the girls worked with her, rubping her with brandy, holding her head up and wiping the froth from her lips. The roaring of the lire grew louder, the heat, the smoke became unbearable, and the uproar of voices in the street becamo deafening. Kiklee ran to the door and threw it open. She shrieked aloud, lhe passage was filled with thick, blinding smoke. Through it she saw a sight that struck terror to her soul-the red glare of flames. She groped her way to the head of the stairs. Below was a gult of fire and .smoke. The stairs were in flames. She ran back and caught Honor by tho arm. '• We are lost," she cried. " The house is on fire. All below is in Harness."

(To be Continued.)

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2'ulMUc Notices. LITERARY COMPETITIONS THE STAR NUMBER. PRIZE STORIES, ETC. With a viow to encourage the cultivation of Literature in Now Zealand, and at Hio same time provide additional attraction? for tha SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER Lli'3 Proprietor of the Star has this year resolved upon offering the following Prizes for competition :— No. 1. Christmas Tales. For Talcs not exceeding in length three columns of the St.v:, having special refer eijco to Christmas time, and having ihe scene wholly or partly laid in Now Zea'and, the following prizes will be given :-~ Ist Prize • - - - £3 0 0 2nd Prizo. handsome Volume on New Zealand, value ■ i) 2 0 0 No. 2. Ladies' Competition. For Tales net exceeding t\\ ocolumnsof the Stab, written by ladies only, and having for subject the love, devotion, or heroism of woman, prizes will bo given ac under:—• ' Ist Prize - - ■ ■ JC3 0 0 2nd Prizo, HandeoaiO Illustrated tfooU, No. 3. Juvenile Competition. O| en to Boys or Girls under ILi years of age, for the best DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH Of New Zealand Travel or Scenery ; and for the best NARRATIVE <>F NEW ZEALAND LIFE AND ADVEN TURE (True or Fictitious), Each in longth about one coiumn of the Staii, tho following prizes arc oiVored : — Descriptive Sketch. Ist Prize, Handsome Book on Maori War (illustrated) • • £2 0 0 2nd Prize, Handsome Book 0 10 0 Narrative. Ist Prize, Handsome Book on Maori War (illustrated)- -£200 2nd Prize, Handsome Book 0 10 0 N0.4. GonundrumCompetition FOR THE BEST CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUM A Prize of n Handsome Volume will be given. No. 5. Humorous Competition. FOR THE BEST ORIGINAL HUMOROUS ANECDOTE Of New Zealand Experience and Character, not exceeding in length CO lines of Star News type, a Prize of a Handsome Book will be given. GENERAL CONDITIONS. 1. Each oompetitiou is open to ail New Zealand. 2. All contributions must be original, not previously published, and written legibly on one side c,f the paper. 3. Communications must icach the Star Oiiice not later than 15th November, and must, in every case, be accompanied, by tho name and address of the sender, which may if desired bo enclosed in separate sealed envelope, marked outside with a motto corresponding with the now de pitting attached to tho competition article. 4. Competitors are requested to address then-contributions, "GhristmasCompetition (No 1, 2, 3, 4or 5, as the case may be), Star Office, Auckland." 5. The Proprietor of the Stak shall have the right of publishing any of tho contri butions sent in. 6. Rejected MSS. will not be returned unless the author makes written application for came, enclosing amount of postage. 7. The prize stories, etc., with the name and address of the writers attached, will bo published in the Star Christmas Number for 1887. 8. Competitors are invited to eond pen or pencil illustrations with their papers ; but this i? not obligatory; and compliance or non-compliance with the request will not affect the judging. FIVE COMPETITIONS! ' OPEN TO NEW ZEALAND. HUMOROUS! SENTIMENTAL! DESCRIPTIVE ! Adults ! Juvenilis ! Labibs ! THE STAR OHKLSTMAS COMPETITIONS. N.B.—The Awards will be made and the ' Frizes forwarded so ac to reach the winners by . CHEISTMAS DAY.



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Isusmess Notices. j ' HEX TTOBSOX-sT. jsS6\ REMOVED L*ms^\ A FEW DOORS HIGHER UP THE STREET, And wishes to notify to all customers and the public that he in ends to confine himself to tlie supply of ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF TTPHO LST ER V "W 0R X, Including BEDDING, &c, &c. SPBCIA l> £ I jN t E S : SPRING MATTftKSSES in Hair, Kapok, Flax, nnd Flock ORDINARY MATTRESSES in Hair, Kapok, Flax, Flock, and Feathers SUITES in Utrecht Velvet, Tapestry, Leather, and Haircloth OCCASION ALCHAIRSin Variety of Coverings C(i X> ROW N, lIOBSON-STREET. Iron Curved for Verandas (ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. George E1 c gaui, Manufacturing Plumber, AND i IMPORTER OP ALL TRADE REQUISITES j WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library}, and BROWN &DAW STREETS. THAMESi, HAS FOR SALE— 200 Cornisrated Galvanized Tankt (assorted OOfl Colonial Ovens (all sizes) •CO 000 feet I,ead Edge Ridge Cap (all sizes) 60 000 rcet O.G. Spoittinsr (all size/) , 50.000 feet I town pipes (all sizes) J 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pi pee (all sizes) Lead head Naila. Lead Washers. Portable Oven*, Furnace Frames. Copper Boilers, etc., etc., etc. A warded Three First Prizes forabove Hne3, at I Auckland Agricultural Show. ' largest and beat selection of Gas Globes In ' Auckland. i As G. McCAUL is a direct Importer for cash, he is in a position to supply the trade I at the lowest remunerative prices. j Liberal discounts to the trade. Country I orders punctually attended to. GEORGE McCAfi.,, J Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer oi all lTade Requisites, Wellasley-st. East (opposite flaw Library), and Brown and Davy-streete, Thames. QRION. r\RIOK WHAT IS IT? OYMONDS STREET BOOT FACTORY. T. B. HEATH, . j Being about to remove to his New Shop and I Factory, will continue for a fortnight Specia I Clearing Sales of his valuable and varied stock of Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's Boots and Shoes for Cash Only. G__ ~B A T H to BOTH S PUliliaiiOT. COLD, AND j SiIOVV JilC VIOTOHIA-STBBKT ijiAgT. 1 Oliarge— U.Ni;: ESiiiLLliN G. (Jpea all week • duys troiii G a.m. to y p.m., and SUNDAY i MOivNlN<43 lrom 0 till 10 a.u>. The bufii rooma are all private, and, supplied with every convenience, Turkisn towels, ileah and hair brushes, combs, respirators, soaps, Sec. Select I Bath-rooms (private) tor lauies ovory day, at all i hours, witufmnalc attendance, one Shilling and I Sixpence, please noto tlie Address—Victqria i street East, above the Greyhound Hotel, and ! next the Cheap liedding and Furniture Mart, j Auckland. N.B.—Barber in attendance. ITALIAN AND VERMONT MARBLE 3; AND AIiKKUKiSN GKANITK. HEAD STONKS IN MARBLE AND STONE. Iron Tomb Railings at Moderate Piuces. Prices and Designs sen t post-free. Country orders carefully packed. TAIT BROTHERS, Monumental Works, Corner of BuUand and Lome streets (near Queen-street Junction), Auckland. J. BUTCH EX.] [J. GROtMI JT OCAL INDUSTRY. Everyone interested in the prosperity qC Auckland should purchase OCALLY-MADE SHIRTS AND UNDER CLOTHING, And not imported goods. See that your draper supplies you with, tha best articles, which are made, by THE SHIRT AND UNDERCLOTHING MANUFACTURING CO., GItEAT NOKTH ROAD , ■ ,- J~l> if "i""l~L FI L L "A-Tpf* « .13* vjf COMMISSION MERCHANT, SHIPPING, CUSTOMS, AND GENERAL AUi£VJ\ Firth's Buildings, 75, QOeen , street, Auckland, Nfav Zealand. SOLE RBPRESENTATIVK IN NEW ZEALAND FOR JIRQWJf AND POLSON, CORN FLOUR MANUFACTURERS, j PAISLEY. AGENT FOR Novollo, Kwer $z Co. ? Music PubJiahera, Lpn do!i, Sutton and Sons, SoeQsmcn, Reading. T, O. and Co.. Capvas Smnners, etc.. London, and other Leading Finns. Agext fob thh SALE AND PURCHASE OF PROPERTIES, Agent kor TRUSTEES AND ABSENTEES, SITOKTLAXD-STRKKT. /CHOOSE for yourself. An Extra Pjiir of \J or" a Waterbury Watoli wit" eaohSuitat J. H. Dalton's, Tailor, Victoria »•„ East. Suits, 60s, COe. 70s.



Waving purchased tk« v I "■•«sei»TliltisSSg.»Mi«is I AFFORD: I homes of New-Zealand mustf a ir* n w %9l* I full etreet u.ilessthey I •BXJIIKS'S "ti I SOAP. It is a simple but usefnl article.' Thoieknto I 10 use it are still mbre siuipEtofnal I ] $iris| You may hare heard of it a iHQfiSASn TIMES without using it X)NO£l ■'H'mM reverse the Eosltion and _ ■ V, * "USE IT OICI You wiy praise it to, others ft THOtHAHD TIMES.-I'Mvd convincing the women' ot J New" tlil their labour can be. grcjittyjightenod by nubz BUKNS'S Al SOA.F. (THE Wobib to«iQ Cleanser!;, but I have fallen shortc(ii» bitioffiflhawfiilledto • ' >,'' r '-'^ COMVINGii'-TOU, WHOLESALE AGE^ T T-: CUSTOMS ;STBEifi;|Aß| I -i-T- WASHES ■ ■ 1 LA.OE :rO A COALSACEr CLEASS THQUSERSI without getting-»; BaS» « i back, and breast, and does a tog days wm lin two hours. - ■ ;-' ". - .■'. ''.fty'' ■•' '*\' ' ' ; V"' I V holl>l E till JEWEL // [ "HUNDREDS OP TESTIMONIAL I sole \*m '^w»*|Sß Ifr^TAT^T^^C 01 J BYSRS-' J3WBH3BKD IB6L SMUimri.iw'*"''' ; P- veil ' EDGAR, DtW Tp c a oy 'SHORTI^ STKEET - v  i: fe Always kind; i» Drainage Levels, rr.b } fia r ß i eu.^ w , Settlers' Aneroid «aru ( ~. _ t ■ .-—— : - '^