KILDEE; Or, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XXIV,

Cakleo. advanced and received his visitors

with stately courtes;

"This is an unexpected honour, gentle men," he said ? with that mocking shade in his voice and in the expression of his hand some month. " It is not a visit of- pleasure or of friend ship, Mr Carleon," returned the mayor.

"I presumed as much. lam waiting to hear you announce the business you have with me."

" It is this, Mr Carleon : I have received an intimation that a young girl was forcibly detained in this house—confined in one ot the rooms. Is this true ?" "It is quite true. This is the young lady. She has been detained here against her will. She has been forcibly shut up in a room on the upper floor." "And you confess to this lawless and disgraceful act ?" "Iwill give you further particulars. The young girl is as pure as she is lovely. I wanted to marry her. I induced a woman she thought to be her mother to bring her here. ' The girl had never seen me, knew nothing of my character. I came here a few days ago. I tried to win her love and consent to marry me. I failed, nnd nob to be balked of my purpose, I re sorted to stratagem. I procured a mar riage license and a magistrate. Half an hour ago Miss Gonzalis was on the point of marrying me while unconscious, through the influence of mesmerism. That she did not, is due to—circumstances which need not be detailed."

Outwardly Carleon was coolly indifferent, almost flippant. Ira Heathcliff eyed him sternly. "You surely know," he said, " that you have laid yourself open to ar rest and punishment, t the hands of the law for this outrage."

"I think ifc probable." " It is so probable that it will soon be an accomplished fact. I came provided with a warrant for your arrest. You have long defied the law, and escaped justice through chicanery and bribes."' " It is a weak law that can be tricked ; it is a poor law that can be bribed. Hut you will not tind the matter of arrest so easy, Mayor Heathcliff. No man and no three men shall take me alive. I will defend my freedom with my life." A_ he spoke he- took the revolver — a French hair-trigcer—from the table and stepped backward a pace until his back was against the wall. '"It will be better for you to submit peaceably. "When this young lady prose cutes you for—" "I will not prosecute Mr Carleon," Kildee said. '' And I hope you will not arrest him; he repents of what he has done ; he wishes to make amends ; he is going to assist me to get away from here. It was of his own will that the marriage ceremony was stopped, through his own better feelings.' ---" He does not look very repentant," com- Mented Heathcliff, eying the half-mocking, half-defiant face of the master of Aphrodite. •' But he w repentant," Kildee said. " I have seen into his heart. I believe he will never act so wickedly again. I believe there will be a change in his life. Do not hinder it, Mayor Heathcliff. Let him go free ; I will not prosecute him." Heathcliff gave her a searching look. " You are willing then to stay here—to be his-wife?"

" Oh, no, no ! I ask you to take me with you to the city. . I was going alone when yo\i came." -,' Well," the Mayor said, after a pause, "it shall be as you' say. I will not serve thi warrant,upon Mr Carleon, though he has by his own confession been guilty of violene. and -fraud. But the magistrate wh'o was your accomplice," .Mr Carleon—" "You will not find him. And there is nothing to show that he knew the young lady was not conscious when he attempted to'perform the ceremony." ' " "It is a strange affair —a dark aflair'," said. Heathcliff. '" Ido not feel that it is right to let it rest, but for this young girl's sake it is perhaps better it should not be ma.de public: My child," he went on, looking down at Kildee—"forgive me for calling'you so; but you seem so young— in your appeal to me you signed only the queer little name, ' Kildee.' " '•' It is all the name I have a right to—so far as I know. I do not know who my patents were. Call me Kildee, please." " Kildee, shall we go?" "Yes, sir; I am ready." She put on the hat Sophie'had brought doWn when Goff had carried her luggage to the boat.

The master of Aphrodite did not stir from his position beside the table on which he had laid the revolver. He stood, rest ing his hand lightly on the table, his atti tude easy arid' self-assured. He.bent his head in acknowledgment of the mayor's cold " good-evening," the 'shadow of a dis dainful smile touching his handsome mouth.

Heathcliff and his two officials passed out; Kildee stayed behind^an instant. She looked hesitatingly at Carleon ; her face flushed and paled. She spoke at length, a thread of tremour running through her voice:

'' Good-bye, Mr Carleon. I—l shall pray for yon." The haughty composure of his face broke up at once. " Spare your prayers," he said. "They are useless. The two things I crave can never be mine—peace and—your love. But —Kildee—can you say that you forgive me ?"

"I can, I do. May Heaven forgive you and send you peace." Her lips trembled, but she did not touch his hand that he had stretched toward her. She waved her own little hand in token of farewell, and quitted the room. He dropped into a seat and buried his fjjice in his hands. Presently he heard the Bound of oars. He raised his head, lis tened,and went to the window. Throwing Open the blind, he saw in the red, slanting light of the low sun, the boat containing his late visitors standing out from the island beach. He saw Kildee's pretty figure seated in the Stern; the little grey hat he had two days ago thought such a perfect shade to the delicate, merry, yet earnest, soulful face. His mouth worked with strong emotion. " Lost! lost to me for ever," he groaned. "I might have made her love me if I had been a man. But the brute crept out. She pities me, but she would not touch my hand. lam loathsome to her. No wonder; I am loathsome to myself." He started up.and dashed his clenched fist against his forehead. "Fool! Dotard!" he exclaimed, " to let myself bo so unmanned. And for what ? Because an ignorant, puritanic girl chooses to think mo a creature to be despised ? What does her opinion matter ? What does -my woman's, any man's opinion matter? A contemptible herd! The worldiswide, and' I have money in plenty. .While it lasts I can go on buying the smiles of beauty at all they are'worth, buying flatteries and followers a nd excitetnents. I can take the steamer to-morrow for the Continent. 1 •an go to Paris, to Vienna; there to do

wl_t' Be-in again the old round of only with a hear crtown older, wearier, bitterer ? It sickens , nietothink'ofit. And . birl'fl eyes everywhere, with that look of filling in them. Great God !is there no

ease, no res'.'. , , , , , His hand fell heavily on the table as he stopped beside it in his walk. His (ihgetS struck against the revolver; he seized it and put its muzzle against his temple then he lowered ib and looked down its " That drop of cold lead would quench the brain-burning," he said.

"' No life lives for ever. Dead men rise up never.'

"I believe that yet 1 have not courage to test, it. 'It is cowardly to take one s own life1 said that little thrilling voice. But how to live on ! how to endure this fever of living !" He grasped the decanter of brandy and poured out a full draught. He raised tlie glass to his lips, but suddenly he flung it from him, shivering it against the grate. "I will not deaden my brain by any such coarse anodyne," he exclaimed; "let the devils tug at it as they may." He threw himself into a chair and sank his head between his hands. Hot tears fell from his eyes. His strong nature struggled and suffered strongly. _ The women he had wronged in his life, frivolous beings though they may have been, were avenged through a woman. Love he had mocked at, made him feel its power and truth. Thus fate works out her revenges.

CHAPTER XXV.

When* they were outside the door, Heath, cliff turned to the officers who had accom

panied him

" Pardon me, gentlemen," he said, "lor taking the lead in this. I know Carleon | well : I have some little influence over him. [ I saw his mood at once. He is in a high state of excitement. His coolness is put on. That acknowledgment of his wrong doing would never have been made but in the white heat of excitement. I did not want to press his mood." "All the same he deserves to be called to account," said Tatem, gruffly. _ " Even if that girl does not appear against liim, we have his own confession that he brought her here by fraud, confined her by force, and was on* the point of tricking her into marrying him. Such lawless proceedings ought not to go unpunished." " That is true ; action can still be taken in the matter. My wish just now was to avoid further irritating a desperate man. For that child's sake it would be best not to make tlie affair public, but justice should take its course. I believe the girl to be innocent, and investigation will not hurt her with right-feeling people." " What the devil," said the blunt Tatem, " did that fellow Carleon mean by cutting up so about the matter of arrest? The arrest would amount to nothing. He would give bond for his appearance at court, and when the trial came on his money would get him off scot-free. It always has. What made him bluster in that style about being arrested . " I don't know. It is not like Carleon to bully. He is brave to recklessness, but he is no bully. It occurs to me he wanted to invite violence, that he might do some des perate act—shoot one of us and get shot, or turn his bullet against himself. He was worked up to such a rash mood by disap pointment, perhaps by remorse. The girl said this, you remember." " Carleon remorseful 1" exclaimed young Lynn, with a scornful laugh. " But it is true," said a soft voice behind them. Kildee had come out on the porch and stood there unperceived. "Heis in a fearful state of remorse ; he talked of kill ing himself, but Ido not think he will. I am so glad you did not arrest him. He had put" a strain on himself, and it would have given way if he had been provoked. He might have done something terrible to you or himself." "We will leave him alone for the pre sent," Heathcliff said. "I. see you are ready, Kildee ; let us go." On the way to the beach the sound of a violin caught Kildee's ear. She looked and saw a familiar figure seated in the boat—St Peter in his grey blouse and funny skull-cap, which, some foreign sailor had given him. His long, grey locks were blowing in the;wind, his vacant melan choly eyes- were turned in the direction of the house. -A gleam of'-delight leaped into them when he saw Kildee. He rose up and began to nod his head and play with such animation that Zaich. crept "out of his usual hiding-place and began to caper on his master's shoulder -in enjoyment of the music, and anticipation that it -would call forth some tangible demonstration from the listeners, such as peanuts and ginger bread.

He sprang into Kildee's arms the moment she came near. St. Peter, hugging his violin with • one arm, caught hold of her dress and looked with wistful joy into her face, uttering broken words, void of sense, but full of happy significance. Kildee, laughing and half arying, hugged Zach and patted St. Peter's shoulder, put the unkempt locks out of his eyes and buttoned tho collar of his woollen shirt.

"So this queer pair are friends of yours," the mayor said. " I wondered what made the old fiddler so persistent to come with us. There was no keeping him out of the boat." "He had seen me at the window when I was a prisoner in the little upper room, and he has sense where his feelings are con cerned, poor dear," said Kildee. " You know him well, then ?"

"Oh! he belonged to us. He was our orchestra. We were all fond of him, and he of us, but he liked me best. He must have stolen away from them and followed me when they took me away from my friends."

"Who are these friends ?"

" They are named Duck—such a homely name that Papa Professor —he taught Shakspere and the ballet—changed it to Dticciole when we went to travel."

" You went o_t,then,as a^Dramatic Com pany ?" . "It was just our family, Papa and Mamma Duck—l called them so—and Lottie, their daughter, and their two sons. Yes, and a young musician and scene painter, named Max Rubin." Kildee uttered the name in a lower tone. '' We picked St. Peter up wandering in the street; rather I did him a little good turn, and he followed me home and has been attached to me ever since. He plays wonderfully on the violin; don't you think so ? and he is very good and gentle, only sometimes he gets angry and then he is a- perfect lion. But I can always tame him ; he always listens to me," Kildee added, caressing the lion's shaggy mane. " Were those theatrical people related to.

you ?" "No,I wish they were, they were all so good. I have no kin that I know of. A woman, who said she was my mother, had charge of me when I can first remember. She left me in a lodging-house when I was seven years old, and I was found by a young man—the artist, Max Rubin—who I told you belonged to our troupe. He took care of me for a time, and then the Ducks adopted me as their child: I have lived with them ever since, until, a few weeks ago, the woman who claimed to be my mother took me away and brought me here."

" And this woman was not your mother ?" "No; Mr Carleon told me she was not, jnst a few moments before you came." " Then this was the lady I met going out of the room as I entered—Mrs Gon zalis. It was she who claimed to be your mother?"'

. Yes. You seemed to recognise her. You have known h6r before ?"

" I had known heir before;—years before," answered fieathcliff, his eyes clouding with the shadow of a memory. "She had no

daughter then. I feel sure you are not her child."

" Oh ! I always fell she was not my mother, but I was glad to know it." "Did Carleon tell you who were your parents ?" " No ; he seemed about to tell me some thing that Mrs Gonzalis had told him, but she interposed and said the story was not true, thab she had deceived him." Heathcliff looked earnestly at the girl's face. The breeze hod blown back her hat, and the mellow light of the low sun was full on her broad brow and clear-cut, high-bred features. Who did she remind him of? Some face, it seemed, he had lately seen— but whose? " Mrs Gonzalis left the house shortly after I entered it." he said presently. "I saw her from the window, crossing the bay in a little skiff—rowing herself. I recognised her figure. Do you know which way she went ? " I did not know she had left the island. She said a little while ago that she repented ever having come, and seemed restless and

uneasy." "Ib is probable that she will leave the city on some train that goes out to-night," mused Heathcliff. "Two trains left at five ; she did not reach tho depot in time to take either of those. Two express trains leave at eight; it is probable she will take passage on one of these." Then he added to himself: " I must s;ee her before she goes."

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From this I was glad to get away and at. once took to your Patent Porridge Meal With it I find none of the irregularities com plained of above, but a most palatable Porridge and the whole system free from unpleasantness or irritation. I can strongly recommend it, and certainly think you should do a large tra'le in such an excellent article.—Yours very tralv (Signed) FREDK. WHITEHEAD. Industrial School, Kohimarama. -, r tx. . Auckland, June 2, ISS7. Mr John Lamb. Sir,—We nave now been using your Patent Porridge Meal at this school for two months and I consider it but right to inform you that we all (staff as well as boys) like it so well that I would find it a difficult matter to get them to return to using oatmeal. Jt is without a doubt a splendid article of diet. I may add on m. representing to tho Education Department in WdUsfcttiniihßtU was vising your Patent Por ridge Meal instead of Oatmeal, I received authority from Rev. Mr Habens, Secretaryl for Education, to continue its use in the scboni -Yours faithfully, *■-■■-_i. (Signed) " GEORGE P. HOGAN. Manager. Pon3on Auckland, Ma 30,1887. Mr John Lamb Dear Sir,—l think it a duty to let you know results of your Patent Porridge Mai on our youngest boy. He was weakly, and refused every food preparation that coutd be got. but upon getting some of yours ho took to it at once and afterwards nothing would satisfy nim but this porridge. Five or six times a day is not too much for him, and seeing it being prepared cried until ho got it. He is now strong and healthy, and can eat anything. Wishing you success,—l remain, yours, &c, (Signed) W. CARDER, Orphan Home, ParnelL May 25,1887. Mr John Lamb: Dear Sir,—We are greatly pleased with your Patent Porridge Meal, having used it for some time. The children all like the Patent Porridge Meal better than anything they have had before We thank you for supplying a long-felt want—a pure Porridge Meal, prepared so as to keep all the most valuable properties of the wheat.— am, sir, yours truly, (Signed) E. NEAR if, Matron. DRESS-CUTTING^ MISS BEWS, Solo Agent in Auckland and neighbourhood for tlie London S.D.C. Associa tion, will re-open Classes at the Temperance Hall, Otahuhu, on SATURDAY, Bth October. Circulars and particulars from Mrs Pike tt. at the Hall. Classes at Bradford-street, • Parnell, on 'Tues day and Thursday afternoons.



Business Notices. , .. —. . ———-— A LEXANDER TTARVEY, ALBERT-STREET (Corner of Durham-street), Direct Importer and Manufacturer of All Kinds of Dairy Utensils, Tin, Iron, and Copper Work. DAIRY FACTORIES AND CREAMERIES SUPPLIED WITH ALL REQUISITES. Estimates Given. HEAD - QUARTERS FOR JAM TINS, HONEY TINS, BUTTER TINS, Etc, "OME-MADE BREAD, CAKES, SCONES, HOP BEER, &c, easily made by using CROOK'S AMERICAN DRIED YEAST. Cheaper and more desirable than Baking Powder. It should be sold in every country store, used in every country home. Full direc tions on each packet. Sample packots by post, 3d, from J. T. JOHNS, Seymour-street, Pon sonbv, Auckland. Wholesale Agents-!* P. NATHAN & Co. QRION. !7 QRION. QRION. WHAT IS IT? — : " " In ISH E R & . CO. ---1 WHOLESALE SHIPPING AND FAMILY BUTCHERS Established 1864. By Special Appointment to His Excellency the Governor, Sir W. F. Jervois; His Excellency Sir James Ferguson; and H.It.H. the Duke of Edinburgh; also, Kosha Butchers to the Jews. QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND, N.Z, Families waited on in Town or Suburbs. POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER. Dealers in Gatr.e Home-cured Hams and Bacon Corned Beef in Large Quantity, i Imports of Sausage Casings The Trade Supplied N.B.—Calves' Rennets. _$. Customers Supplied with Ice. Telephone No. 355. P.O. Box No. m SPECIAL SALE __-<?! . l °* yy^yyy BOOTS & SHOES .^-<^. X >>--' FOR CASII V^i -^^^^ UNTIL °*^^y> 3^3»->^Completion of -<^r V >r**<ti?N_W PREMISES, >^""UPPER SYMONDS ST. ]y£IRANDA COAL AND IRON COMPANY (limited). SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD AND STEAM COAL IS NOW* BEING PUT OUT FROM THIS COMPANY'S MINE, AND AGENTS ARE WANTED FOR THE SALE OF IT. APPLICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE UNDERSIGNED, AT THE COM PANY'S OFFICE, 11, VICTORIA ARCADE ORDERS FORWARDED TO THE SECRE TARY \._LL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. BY ORDER. JOSEPH BARBER, SECRETARY. Auckland, August, 23,1857. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SHIP OWNERS, ETC. In retiring from the Ship Chandlery business, I beg to tender my sincere thanks to my many frieDds for their generous support during the last fourteen years, and will consider it a per sonal favour if my late patrons will kindly transfer their paAronago to my successors in tha business, Messrs Rosa and Co., whom I can confidently recommend. d. h. Mckenzie. Auckland^ September 23,1887. WITH reference to the above announce ment, wc have much pleasure Jri inti mating to the friends of tho late'firm, and the public generally, that wc will carry on the business of Ship Chandlers, Sail Makers, etc., in our temporary premises at No. 17. Lower Queen-street, and hope by strict attention to business, combined with moderate cli'argds. to I merit a continuance of the patronage of the late firm. ROSS & CO. THE SAIL LOFT will be under the management of Mr Charles Reynolds, who had charge of this brano1' of Captain McKenzie's business for the .Jest fourteen years. The services of Mr.-W. A, Harvey, for many years head storeman for Messrs J. and D Oxley and Captain D. EL McKenzie, have been retained for the new firm. Goods will arrive by next steamer from Sydney, and by direct steamers trom Home. ROSS & CO. (Successors to Captain D. H. McKcnzie), SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, Etc Temporary Premises: No. 17, Lower Queen-street, Auckland Opening day, Monday. September 26. HENRY HUGHES, MJ/M.E., M.S.A. CIVIL. MECHANICAL, AND MINING ENGINEER, JOHNSTON-STREET, WELLINGTON. INVENTORS ASSISTED. Patents Secured in All Countries on the Lowest Terms. Searches made as to Novelty of Inventions. Henry Hughes, having had large experience as an Engineer and Patent Agent, is enabled to -conduct Patent Business by correspondence., Inventions of undoubted merit can be ar ranged to be Patented Free of Cost. SUPERPHOSPHATES.— Freezing CVe.



THE NEW ZEALANT) BQ COMPANY Having purchased the nwl» , BttnTOKD the J* *J •** ma* N private to dctliattC_rop^4 CELLARS, MARKET PLACE QUEEN STREET (NEAR ANCHOR^ The largest and best stock in Anii i choose from, mi^gj^M Deliveries as usual twice daily by onrcwtl AiN,B'"_.^ e botflp nothinS*MDnn e amX**_. ______^^s_^ For Kyilllfl* KA I Pill Sill YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO waste your money onTRASHY T_OW PRICED SOAPS. Practise Thrift «_ study true ECONOMY by using only BUpv?. Al SOAP. The effort, made to improve fli homes ot New Zealand must fail to .ecmSftffl full effect unless they succeed iiiinducintfevw housekeeper to use s ' BUM'S Al SOAP. It is a simple but useful article. Those who fail to use it are still more simple, and not hall y L Use oNly- / A _«4v' • """" _ -.1 You may have heard of it a THOUSAND TIMES without using it ONCE. If you m, reverse the position and USEITOME You will praise it to others a THOUSAND TIMES.—I have spent hundreds of pqutfbiu convincing tho women of New Zealand that their labour can be 'greatly lightened tiytisi-ig BURNS'S Al SOAP (the World Renowhi Cleanser,!), but I have fallen short of my am bition if I have failed to CONVINCE YOU. [3i_s___-fs_4 WHOLESALEAGENT- j A. BUCHANAN. CUSTOMS" ST.IE_.T_ EAST. pUJiS GUfl 3UNS Rifle Rifib REVOLVERS . REVOLYER3 GUNPOWDER! Shot, Caps, Cartridges, Wadding, Wire Lartß-DGTj., Loading Apparat. AMMUNITION Ol* EVERTT DESCEIPHO*. Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, fireworks, fta. Tliebestandeh^J^^u^nd:* B. EVITTS, 254, wm-B-sa. Repairs and every descri ? tion£CW*g« tthelowc3tpcasibleFi|e|. an<isilt-s*ftOU D. EVITT, Gu-MmCgV '~ fiTT_ WN-STREET, AUCKhANU QU E E (Oppositetho J-nrketHoose) PRICE LISTS SENTTO^YADDRW J_ • OfITL'IAN', MATHEMATICAL and Kit-ictf ■ Instrument Maker, „, SHORTLAND_- B-*** 1 Always in Stock- : _ Spectacles andEyc-gtoes of ere _ JM* V accuratent guai,''ule,^ I]ftUtr 1 "VtoZ .* powerful and c;ieaP Alewll Drainage Levels. I ','*"£:•*;,,. t-aiuUelßnleia Shi. 9' LOSS, bMt_U«. W"trfcydlMgW" Barometer., 'l W^fejTOl*. „ a F ____.■ Be: _ Rati*-i_3, j".'l.£\l Machines._ Slavic Lnaierns and oimes, p ~oscCpe3, oscCp e3 Sterooscoiicsaitd&h os.^ui I(!te rs Steam Guages and Inbintr.» Settlors' Teiescopes-powerlu. P^ * cheap, lis Ra -„ met ei_-stro-i_ a"4* 0* Settlers' An roid Barometers*-" getSmscroscopes. ma_u*. n_ V" _2s6d Jirieft tMM.Wr w0--* iDg AlscStoamandEleotroJuow oppositetHpVof^s^ tTd%AR AND C " & j>Yms,___SßEDm roV^ Still Driso to __^.^?uoi Ladies' and Clcaned.Rcnewcdo'^c^ ~i e(l , tc^« Curtains or Table to*e • cleanC d»^rf Dyed. Feathers £„,«* IH*»*~ any shade. Lace or ouu-r^ V'od- EDGAR, W'.^-^S