KILDEE; Or, The Sphinx of the Red House.

X Is, BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bride," &c,

CHAPTER XLIV.

How came Hazard Hall to be in possession of those golden hairs, which, as he said, had a few hours before been growing on the head of Laura Montcalm ? On the evening before, Miss Faust had attended the funeral of the- supposed Kildee. She had driven to the cemetery in the mayor's carriage—its only occupant;. While she sobbed behind her veil, she had fallen under the observing eyes of Hazard Hall, who leaned against a tree, noting everything that passed with an eye to a sensational account in " The Rattler ' of the burial of Heathclilfs young bride.- Miss Faust was too much distressed to heed his scrutiny. She had turned on her seat and rested her head sideways against the damask-lined back of the oaniage. When she would have lifted it there seemed something in the way of her doing so. A portion of her hair or of her veil had caught on some protuberance. She gave a slight jerk and extricated her self ; then rather confusedly rearranged her veil and hair. She had not seen Hazard Hall start and lean eagerly forward, snatch a tiny magnifying glass from his pocket, and regard her intently through it. What was it "that had caught his eyes? A gleam ot colour in the sombre black and grey of Miss Faust's head—a gleam of gold—a gleam of yellow hair, yellow hair under that mass of grey, nearly white locks. How did this happen? It must be that the grey hair was artificial, and the golden hair the wearer's own. But why should the possessor ot such lovely hair seek to hide it —why but as a disguise ? "If I could touch that hair as well as see it," thought Hazard. He kept his eyes on the carriage and its occupant, but saw nothing more to feed his suspicion. Before the funeral was quite over, he drove back to the town in the buggy of a friend and had himself put down near the Red House. He took his position not far from the gate, wishing to scrutinise Miss Faust when she descended from the carriage. He leaned against the steep bank topped by the iron - spiked brick Avail, and pretended to scribble in his note - book. He had not long to wait. The carriage turned the street corner and drew up in front of the locked gate. Miss Faust alighted ; her figure was muffled as usual, and her long, black veil enveloped her. Black gloves covered her hands and wrists, but Hazard saw a small portion of her bare arm just above the gloves, and that small section of arm was dazzlingly white and daintily

round. . Caleb was cat the great gate, and un locked and opened it. for her. It swung to and fastened with a spring, and the bphinx passed out of sight into her,»shadowy home as secluded and unseen in the midst of the city as though it woe in the heart of a wilderness. The driver had stared after the singular figure in never-sated curiosity. Before le could gather up the reins and start his horses Hazatd Hall had sprung : lightly into the carriage. The man turned around and glared at the intruder, but Hazard disarmed him by saying airily as he tossed him half a dollar : ; " I'll ride with you up to Heathclin a as long as you haven't a passenger." The man touched his hat. "All right, Bit-," he said, and the sleek bays trotted away. Hazard immediately began an examina tion of the back of the carriage-seat against which Miss Faust's head had rested. It ■was cushioned in green damask, and there were ornamental studs here and there of carved silver. One of these protruded un warrantably, and attached to this Hazard found the object of his search, a few strands of hair. He had felt sure some of the Sphinx's hair must have been fastened here and been pulled out when she gave that jerk. Sure enough here it was, and not grey either, but, as he had hoped, yellow and silken. He unfastened them from the silver tack, he smoothed their tangles, felt . their softness, and noted their glossy sheen. Hβ said tO himself : *' This hair never came from the head of an old woman of sixty. Laura Montcalm had just such hair —like the Borgia's tresses of spun gold so the old general said. Ike woman at the lied House is Laura Montcalm in disguise" The thought flashed into his brain with the force of conviction, but the next instant he shook his head. " No, pshaw !—no. It is absurd. Those U gly, deformed features ; that great, hooked nose, the purple mark disfiguring one side of her face. Besides, Miss Faust lias lived here in the Red House for seven years, and it has only been two years since the Montcalm murder.. If this is Laura Montcalm, where is Margaret Faust ?". , ~ He mused a moment, then threw up his head in his abrupt way, shaking back his curling hair. "Once Miss Faust left this city, went back to Germany to see her brother. She went in her secret, silent way ; she returned in the same fashion ; nobody seems to have seen her when she left, or when she returned—nobody but Heath cliff. It was two years and six months ago that she went; it is just two years since she came back ; and it is : just tyro years since Laura Montcalm fled from her home after stabbing her husband with a jewelled toy dagger she had worn all day in her belt." Thiols a coincidence which is strong enough to hang a suspicion upon. I'll test its strength before I stop.' But he had made no further move up to the next day when he played his bluff game on General Montcalm, in order to prevent that candidate from "backing down," as he phrased it. He had pledged himself to bring proof of Heathchtt's guilt within a week ; he must go to work at once. He rushed off to the beach and walked the sandy shore for an hour, hearing the tide roll in with its deep, soothing murmur. An idea came to him. He went back into the city and stepped into the post-office. He knew the chief offi cial of the delivery department—everybody knew jolly Jack Noel, who had been in the Office fifteen years, never forgot a face,_or a name, or a date, and was prompt in business as he was ready in tongue. "Hunting up a victim?" he said when be saw the young journalist and his note book. " No; I have just found him," returned Hazard,'taking out his pencil. "Don't think to interview me about the £ost - office irregularities. I'm as mum AS —" " A fig for the irregularities. Everything Will be out in spite of the hushing up. But I'm not barking up that tree ; I'm trying U> find out all I can about our eccentric fellow-citizen, Miss Faust, .of. the Red House. She is a mystery and a inonstro3ity.; she will make a capital subject for a write up." " Wha%"the dptfgon d& I know a'bouther ? Never heard her speak, and never saw Jier in my life except through veils arid mufflers.". ,* • ' '■■"<■*'■ ■■■■■& ■ -,'■■■■ ■.■■l > . " Neithej *:dicl; anybody, else. can tell -me sotifetbi n|r, ■■rfbou \ c,orres pondeiiee.: P}u%iiCM^W c ve>r ceive rogisitoijiUldtlwri?''

•' Never. Nor any letters of any kind 1 the boys tell nic, except that one from her brother which took her back to Germany to forgive him on his death-bed. She had cmarrelled with him, it seems, because he married at the tender age of forty. _ She holds marriage as a holy horror, it being a closed paradise to her witphship." "And her brother died ?"

" Yes, she wrote a letter full of re moi'se, Heathclift told me. He's her business manager, you know. I remember tho quaint, cramped handwriting and tho black - bordered envelopes covered with foreign stamps. Heathcliti just got such another letter a few months afterward, and I made sure the old lady was dead this time, but when I met him and asked him he told me she had just gob back."

Hazard's eyes gave one of their quick, bright flashes. He had made a mental note of this. He now pub the question he had come to ask. " Where did her brother die ?" "At Heidelberg He AVas a professor in the University there. But what tho mis chief do you want to know all this bosh for ?"

" I have to help feed an insafcjable monster — public curiosity. Miss Faust is something of a .Sphinx. 1 find there is great eagerness to peer behind her veil literally and metaphorically. I will lift it a libtle for the public bencrit." "And she will lift you, my boy. They say she's gob a devil of a temper." ".['ll make love to her and she'll forgive me," laughed Hazard as he leit the room. He went to tho telegraph ofKce and dis patched this message to New York and thence to Heidelberg, Germany. Ie was simply the question : " Is Margaret Faust, sister of Professor Faust, in your city ?" The message was addressed to the Faculty of Heiielberg University. Hazard waited with feverish impatience for the reply. Three days passed before it came. His fingers shook so he could hardly tear open the envelope, his head swain so he could hardly read the half dozen words. Bub he did read them, and all tho blood in his body rushed to his heart in one throb of triumph. The answer was this : " Miss Fausb has been dead two years."

For a few minutes he felt his cause was gained. He was on the point of rushing off to the general, and waving the tell-tale message under his nose, then to the clerk of the court to get a warrant for the arrest of Laura Montcalm. The triumph of succeed ing was his ; he thought of it with more elation than of the large reward he could claim, though he by no means undervalued money. Bub a little rejection toned down his elation. His work was nob done. He had in his hand the proof that the woman at the Red House was an impostor, but he did not have the proof that she was Laura Mont calm. And he must possess himself of this beyond a doubt. He had made one faux pas in that direction ; he would make sure before he next descended on tho castle of the Sphinx. He must find some way to gain access to the Red House, spy Misa Faust in her secret boudoir when she had re moved her disguise that she might look fair in the eyes of her lover—the worthy mayor —compare her face with that of Laura Montcalm, and then spring his trap. He took the picture from his pocket and looked at it earnestly as he did every day of his life, for the ripo loveliness of this fair woman was alluring to tho eyes of this beauty worshipper. Tho picture had, besides, a higher and subtler charm, omanating from tho sad, appealing eyes. They seemed to look at him now with sorrowful reproach. Hβ was seeking her life, and she had been so beautiful. She had been so wronged; an unloved wife, scorned and taunted by her husband, threatened by him with disgrace when another day should dawn -perhaps threatened with violence and death. Who knew ? Who could tell what had passed between those two that wight after her return from the island, when they were alone in tho house together ? But nob long did any feeling of com passionate hesitation visit the eager, fevered soul of Hazard Hall. Does the hunter stop for pity's sake when the hunted game is in eight, though its in nocent sides be panting, its eyes blood shot, its steps tottering ? The blood 1 of this amateur detective was leaping with the ex citement of tho chase. He set to work on some plan by which he could get access to the Red House and its mistress. He would take no one in his counsel; he would ask help of no one. "I will take as my motto what was written over the gato3 of the Enchanted Castle, 'Be bold,'" ho said. It was a motto that well accorded with his adven turous, audacious spirit. (To be Continued.)

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Busiiiess Notices. ■■v ~„•■ ..>...*. —.—— J Bt APPOIST- ,| '*S**' l "^** r M EN T TO JttS KXCSIiLKNCt THK ttOVEBNOn. rnHAMES Carriage and dray X FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST AND HIGH-STREET, AUCKLAND. Telephone, 308. JAMES MACKIE, COAOHBtTXtHfcB, MANAGER. Builder of ©very description of Vehicles. Repairs in all the branches of the trade faithfully executed. Vehicles Bought and Sold on Commission. Coaehbutlders' Requisites in atock. The Trade Supplied. Country Ofdefi punctually attended to* Cash Customers liberally dealt with. Tp 1. SH E 5 ft 0 0.. JD WHOId£SALB SHIPPING AND VAMIXiY BUTCHERS Established 1864, By Special Appointment to His Excellency the Governor, air W. F. Jervois: His Excellency Sir Jamee Ferguson; and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh; also. Koeha Butchers to the Jews. QUJSEN-STttKET, AUCKLAND, N.& FamlUet waited on Iα Town or Suburb* POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER, DealorainGap-e ; ', • ;■%*!; ■• .:: Home-cured Hams and Baeoa ' , Corned Eeo fin Large Quantity. XmporteofSatuaee Caeiags , : :. ~" The Trade Supplied N.B.—Calves' Renneta. tfn, ttuetamore vrlthlce. ?Q . E3T*BtISHKD 1859, , GEE & POTTER, COACHBUILDERS, AHX> RtJTLANU-;3TR^EfS. Coaches, Carrlagee, Wagffonottes, Buggies, Pony Carriages, Carts, Drays, and every de scription of Vehicles kept in stock. Or built to order. The trade supplied. N.B.—Traps lent to customers Whilst repairs are being cteeutod. , .. riOAL% COKB, CHARCOAL, rIRE- W WQOD. Best Rata, TKtoc, and Puriri Firdtrood; also, first-class Taupiri, Newcastle, and Kamo Coal, at Lowest Price for Cash.; Furniture carefully Removed, aud Goods Delivered to all pans of tbo City and stibrirbis, at Lowest Rates.—Notfe the Addrcee: C. PIPER, opposite the Ponsonbr Reservoir, and corner of Newton and Karanga hapo Roads, T>APERHA N G I N G S. W. PHILLIPP*S & SON Have received, ex late arrivals, 185-PACKAGES—IBS Containing 55,000 ROLLS Of PAPERHANGINGS. Consisting of NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Ditikigi Bad B*>oto6» Hall and Staircase, suitable for the ; Mansion or Cottage. Beautiful Designs, and best value ever offered, in Paperbangingje. ■ • 916-PACKAGES-9i6 SCRIMS AND HESSIANS, Plate and Sheet Glass, White Lead, Oils, Turps, Varnishes, and all Trade Sundries, W, PHILLIPPS & S6ij v '" 95 AMP 97j QPSEK-STBEBT. I; 0 U N D L I ME! ©ftOtmo MMB ' •'.' ' FOR 8j0.% . . SOUTHGATE'S .. lj MASURANGI. HY*)R -.ULip SRO^\ T f> ROCJvlii LIME In any fof Concrete Paths. Flo6re. Cellars, etc. Next to stone-flaj?!?ijijj it ia !un rivalletVxor durability and Lard-setting qualities. FortanKßit3iaotbot%Ve*i , v.'6rk it is a flrst-class material. B. «EANK, adliJß! ifiENTi . CU^TpMS-STRiEET. ; W» L E T s  jbOQKBINDER, PAPER RULER. ACCOUNT BGNOiC MANUFACTURER, WVNOHAM-eTREBT. , ACCOUNT BOOKS. ; Insurance and Minim; Register Book* Specially Ruled and Bound. Music, Magazines, Public Libraries, and Suhd»y School fioolcs AVoli Bound. < Bakers' Special Ruled Day Books, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books I\6-bqunil. ' BANt) AND <3HO|R MUSIC BOOKS RULED * 'JLjL ■ AHfi'JSWaiitEß, 1 ■ -:' J ■ c i lEnie »d'W fiftveitfonco ftfr thakia* and Wpalr -1 iajr 6if ie#tsticry atad <6f the repaivS of efory 4ofccrip.aon 6f \lf&toho& GhronCimetcre. &c, &c. *ad ,t$ turtlicr his rcpatrinß and manu fnirttijjht lie Iβ dUftfd|»g at tho ' v*it'«kL'Misr ot Juii* WA-N'OS at sand under coot. l%r|(6jie httvi|t|r Orld 'jfoid Iftwollory fe&h -Mto 16 06338 ttp ! intS> dv& fasaibttable 'artiolefe tb jiist. bsA aii 'the bettor clas a of vvatuhes and ~ | ii-cacß;etcwrfcciyolibperßanal9'\ip6 jtotherhttas , Rotiuiae Kngllah Lflvefaiti $tock. . 'j^Ai^WC*' , ' B R OtiISRS, m%*B wmm, auokla^-ix Manmtt<JiUr«J"a Of tiio CWubmteu ivxtraot of ' o*a, vwiiU'tciiint Firat Prize Yellow jiuo aloctled, Double Crown, Eoonamlc, and .leaseholdj Carboiio, and other MMidUul and ipt)ut JioapSi made i ram tho puraac of Tallows, Wm?~ O*SU Vurohi«w q«>;fallow, \fool, ,- ;, t , ;••;,;, „;', A ■ Atlotiptl' Aitrianeb, contalntae a pictorial Wt*^®«^,%^^*!»^De* ; - »oViii6ittlUlscMot, Hew; Guide o kiotl.ake.fck:> &*• • '" ; .' . ; , „ ~; OLFE'S SCHNAPPS mealß is a wonderful appetiser. Try It



Business Notices. A FEW DOORS HIGHER UP TEtE STREET, And wishes to notify to all customers and ' the public that he intends to confine ' himself to the supply of ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF TJPHOLSTERY WORK,, Including i BEDDING, &c, &c. SPECIAL LINESt SPRING MATTRESSES in Hq,ir, Kapok, Flax,! and Flock OftDINAKY MATTRESSES in Hair, Kapok,: Flax, I'lock, and Feathers SUITES in Utrecht Velvet. Tapestry, Leather,! and Haircloth i OCCASIONALCHAIRSin Variety of Coverings C."C. 880B B0 *'*■■ HOBSON-STREET. Iron Curved for' Verandas . (ANY 3PATTERN) | SHORTEST NOTICE. George M^caui, Manufacturing Plumber, ''': ■' .an© ■ IMPORTER OP ALL TRADE REQUISITBB WELLESLEY STREET EAST. > (oppoelte New Library), «ntl BROWN « DAVY STREETS, JfHAMES, HAS FOR SALE— ; a 20D Cormtrated Galvanized Tank* (assorted) 500 Colonial Ovens (all sizes) 50.000 feet Lead Edge Ridge Cap (allalzea) 60 000 feet OG. Spouting (all Steer) 60,000 feet Dovrapipea (all slzeS) 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pi pee (all sizee) Lead-bead Naile. Lead Wash era. Portable Ovens. Furnace Frames, Copper Boiler* etc, etc, etc. Awarded Three First Prizes for above lines, at Auckland Agricultural Show. Largest and beet selection of Gas Globes In Auckland, jAir G. McCAOL; : Wm fllrect importer for cash, he is in a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prices. : i Liberal discounts to the trade. Country Wdew Bonoiually attended «?• •. I 1 '"I MinnfactniiDjr PJnmber, and Importer Oβ all ltad* Requisiliee, WellMleyflti«:fia6t Wew Library), and Brown and Davy-atreete, , Thames. rvRiON. riRION. /\RION. WHAT IS If! CJYMONDS STREET BOOT FACTORY. T. B. HEATH, Being about to remove to his New Shop and . Factory, will continue for a fortnight Specia Clearing Sales of MS valuable and yafled of Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's Boots and Shoes for Cash Only. O T O ""b A T H to ROTH'S PUBLIC HUT, COLD, AND SHOWER BATHS, Victoria-street East. Charfire -ONE SHILLING-. OMn all week days from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.,and SUNDAY MORN INGS from 6 till 10 a.m. .The bath-rooms are all private, and supplied with every convenience, Turkish Towels, flesh and hair brushes, con)bs, respirators, soaped etc. Select Bathrooms (private) for ladies every day. at all hours, with female attendance, One Shilling and Sixpence. Please note the address—Victoria-street East, above the Greyhound Hotel, and nfcxtthe Cheap Bedding and Furniture Mart, Auckland. N.B. : Barber in atlteittiaiice. , ' TUT O N' U M E N T-. S italian and tebmont wabbles, ■ and aberdeen granite . iteadstones in marble and stone. , Iron Tomb Railings at Moderate Pricks. Prices and Designs cent post free. Country ■orders carelally packed. TAIT BROTHERS: Monnmental Works, corner of Ktitland and Lome streets (near Queen-streot Junction), ": '.Auckland. „. / "jr. BT/TCHER.] [ J- OROOk jt" OC AL IN DUS T ft.V. Everyone interested in the prosperity of , Auckland should purchase OCALLY'MADE SHIRTS AND UNDER. CLOTHING. And not.imported jrciods, .-..;.j See that your draper supplies you witH the ! beat articles, whiph are made by THE SHIRT AND UNDERCLOTHING - MANUFAQTURING CO., , GREa4 KORTH ROAD ( « Jji» Vγ MERCHANT, ■'•_,- SHIPPINO, CUSTOMS,-AND GENERAL lafXT, Firth's BtritDiNQS, 75, Queen street, ,/-| Auckland, New Zealand. ■ vSOLE REPRESENTATIVE IN NE\V ZEALAND FOR BROWN AND POLSONt ' CORN l n L6"Utt ITANtrFACTURERS» PAISLEY; ■' x ..,■ . ~,:.;■ -AGENT FOR. , I.> \t Novillo, Ewer & Co., Musio Publishers, lan v 'doiß. . ■■■'■■ '.' : . "',:' ■: Sutton and Sons; Seedsmen, Reading. , T C. Hay ward and Co.. Canvas Soinners, eto* • London, and other Leading Finns. F. R. C l . Agbntforthe ■ SAjtfe AND ;p;ttR;CHASE Of'McrfSftTllS, ,1 '.■ - ■ .•/:.. Agent for '■' . • ■- ' ■'■ " " ! ' TRUStfiES. AND' ' I^-γ ---/CHOOSE for yourself. An Extra Pair of \J "Trousers or a waterbury Watoli, ,wi» each Suit at J. H. Dalton'e, Taildrj Ylotertoflfe. •J£aat. Suits, 503,605, 70s. ■ , •- s



Having iwehaaed tie '" Miw ** , "™^«art tW(||i YOU 'CAJf-'.T AFFORD J studytme ECOKOMV >s!g£sJS&& full efleet unless they succeed iilS? ; housekeeper to use BUtwu lnlfl^j^ttK- ' I BURNS'S Al' It is a simplo but useful article TfeMittii. to use it are still j^||Mjg I You may have heard of it s $H(Jf|a|}- ; reverse the position and ■ " USE IT O2JCE You will praise it to otitis a THOtSIIi ; TIMES.—I have spent hundreds rfraSHii ') convincing:. the', women df q their labour can bo ecoatlyligMeDedlm ■■• BURNS'S Al SOAP '.THE W*BttJßlftfiD Cleaxserli, bull have fallen ghorttflrto, bltion if Ihave tailed to . ijpP CONVINCE tOfti WHOLESALE ' j CUSTOMS S T fc&BT EA^:j HOME JEWEL WASHiHCap TT WASHES EVERYIHIH|,; ta 1 LACE TO A COAL&iCK: VW» TrtOUSEKS without Wetting i wv* * \ knocking off a button, ■•'■»■ tur-i Ittioes away with Wieetem^masE back, and breast, and does k W na]n lt»jJ» SOLE AGKNT!,'AiBEBT MW* DYERS, I3TABII6BBD I Still Dying to Lh^akp CurtaiQS or Table »"B«Pift ■ Always in Telescopes Drainage Lf I Settlers TolescSl ct ?r? Aneroid Bir^iet* , * * tß >* . : v