KILDEE; OR, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bride," &o.

CHAPTER L.

David Holt's testimony produced a decided revulsion of opinion in those who heard him. It impressed nearly everyone with the feeling that it was true. His earnest tone, his straightforward delivery, the very look of lu3 eye, were convincing. Then there was his character as it was known to many in Wallport. A reserved, but thoroughly reliable and honourable man— this was the reputation he had made for himself during the time he was Captain Montcalm's book-keeper. But there wap no denying that the tale he told was a strange one. General Montcalm, who had leaned forward with his hands on his gold headed cane an eager listener, slowly shook his head. Hazard Hall was a crea ture of quick intuition. He felt that the story was true, and a tumult of mixed emotions was stirred up in his breast. Anger, disappointment, chagrin—-these warred with a curious feeling of relief in the prospect that Laura Montcalm would not be convicted.

The surgeon's sworn depositions as to Holt's condition previous to and after the operation of trepanning were produced. Max Rubin, being sworn, substantiated the circumstance (deposed to by tho surgeon) that after waking from the long sleep which followed the operation, Holt began directly to speak of the killing of Captain Montcalm and to say that it was done by the Spanish woman.

The State's attorney began a searching cross-examination of David liolt. His object was to throw a doubt upon the veracity of the witness and insinuate an interested motive for his statement.

" You are, I believe, an intimate friend of the prisoner, Mr Holt. Yon knew her be fore her marriage ?" " I have known her since she was a ohild. Her father partly raised me."

" Ah ! one may say you are her foster brother. It is natural it should be painful to you to see her in her present position— natural you should be willing to do anything to release her from it."

" I would do anything honourable, sir," David said steadily.

"Ahem ! yes, anything honourable. You say the blow dealt yon by Captain Mont calm stunned you : hosv was ib that, being stunned, you were enabled to see the stab given by Madame (lonzalis ?"

" The stab was given almost at the same instant that the blow descended upon my skull. I saw it as plainly as I see you — more plainly it seems to mo, for I had, as I told you before, a second of vivid sensation like that experienced by drowning men, and by soldiers who are .struck with a shot or shell in battle. The action of the senses seems intensified—there's a flash of exalted consciousness. This is not an uncommon experience." " Is it also a common phenomenon that a person after having lost reason and memory from a fracture of the brain recovers hie senses as suddenly as ho lost them ?" " You have in that certificate tho word of Doctor Knott, an experienced physi cian, as to this. He tells you ho has seen in the Paris hospitals a number of cases where reason was suddenly restored on the cause of derangemont being removed—the pressure of the fractured part upon the brain." Then followed a string of ingeniously, worded questions concerning the liomicide. Holt accounted for the body being found inside the study by the reasonable supposi tion that Captain Montcalm had staggered back into the room either mechanically or with the instinctive intent to ring for help or to get water, and had fallen when just inside the room, striking against the door and closing it as he fell. Then Mmo. Gon zalis had extinguished the gas and made her escape, leaving the hall in darkness. Laura Montcalm, when she came down stairs on her way to seek her newly dis covered brother, had walked down the dark passage and passed out, not dreaming that her husband was lying in his study dead, and that she had stepped in a pool of his warm blood. Such was his belief as to what had happened after his senses iailed.

"They will not be able to convict Mrs Montcaltn, after this testimony, but she will not be fully cleared in the mind* of the people. In Scotland the verdict would not be ' not proven,'" whispered one old lawyer to another. At this moment Mrs Montcaltn's counsel arose, and quietly begged leave to introduce another witness. A moment before Heath cliff had entered and whispered something in his ear.

A new witness! Who could it be ? What would he testify ?

There was a stir, a buzz in tbo direction of the door. An invalid's chair was seen being slowly pushed along the aisle. It was stopped in front of the judge—at the witness-stand. The chair contained the recumbent figure of a woman—a wasted figure ; the fingers, nervously interlocked, were thin and bloodless; the face was covered by a veil. The spectators pressed forward to see her. A thrill passed through them, so supernatural looked the large, black, burning eyes and emaciated face, marble-like, save for a spot of fevered colour on either cheek. The interest waa intensified when she gave her name as Zulieme Gonzalis. She asked to be sworn, , and gave her testimony. It was in few words ; it was plain she had strength to utter but a few words. Yet so clear and true was her voice, and so breathlessly still was the court-room, that) her confession was distinctly heard. It was a confession, brief but direct:

"I come here,' a dying woman, to do what I ought to have done long ago, but had no courage. I come here to say that it was I who killed Captain Montcalm. I struck the blow partly through self defence, and partly because I was maddened by his refusal to discard the woman he had married, and reinstate me in my rights. For, in the sight of God, I was Captain Monfccalm's wife. He had married me in my native land of Mexico twenty-two years before, when I was a. mere child. The ceremony was not alto gether legal. It was what we Mexicans call a left-handed marriage, bub It was held to bind a man in honour, particularly if there are children. 1 had a child —an infant when its father left) me, with a promise to roturn. He stayed away so long I thought myself clcserted. I followed Itinj — sought him everywhere* He went abroad, and 1 failed to mcofc him face to faCO UUtil the d«y befoYo I stabbed hinj. r 1 did nob kill biin deliberately. Ho isthe only man I ever he cared for me more than I deserved. . ; I had wronged him but I thought itfy«clf defeerted arid be trayed, and I was reokleeg. ;,1 b«vo,, eufl'ered—oh ! I have suffered remorseful egony tiirotis>i" 'ri*y*,"~ tlirough Jleepleas night?. luHw) . '"« >on ill for wSlkB. I, did i ftot* fe» v 'M tixiil to-day fcbab anio(iher. had bt'f , !) •''i"' ;r, ' , f%nd was being tried for my, ■'' •'!'/-vnltL.ortc lfy fcbe otbefr, be; ptiuixli' '<■ '• '•• siii. Wo witli mo'ftfl you' win '.; t>:"t tmnv&Ti My -daye, my bom.- ..inhered. - T hare suffered |oyon:i ,i '~d r . uaa can make me suffer."

The confession had been made brokenly. Weakhess and coughing had interrupted it. At its close the woman was exhausted. She lay back on the pillow, her pallid face looking spectral against its scarlet, the great burning eyes half closed. Lying so, she was slowly wheeled out of the court room, in the midst of profound stillness. The silence was presently broken by a murmur that grew louder and threatened to breakinto anacclaim of joyful congratula tionsofMrsMontcalmandHeathcHft. When Heathcliff approached his sister and silently took her hand, while she looked up at him, her face pale but glowing, her eyes swim ming in tears, exclamations of uncon trollable sympathy burst from the crowd. The case was not "nol. pi-oss'd." The prisoner was dismissed, freed from any shadow of guilt; the court adjourned. No action was taken against Mrs Gonzalis. It was so plain thab her life was near its close, and after all her deed had been homicide, not murder.

The crowd poured from the doors. In the court-yard outside were heard shouts for Heabhcliff. Friends and strangers pressed forward to shake the hands of Heathcliff and his sister. Some of these the mayor pressed warmly. They wore the hands of friends who had stood by him in his dark hour. To the congratulations of others, he responded courteously but coldly. He could not bring his straightforward nature to welcoming back these sunshine friends. His pale face flushed as the two figures approached — General Montcalm with his daughter upon his arm. The general held out his hand. " I have wronged you, Hoathcliff," said the bluff old soldier. "lam sorry for it. The cloud has passed ; I believe you to be as true a man as breathes. My hand upon it."

Honor said nothing, but her eyes were eloquent. They shone through tears, and the hand she gave to Heuthcliff trembled like a white frightened dove. She said to Laura Montcalm :

"We were strangers almost; wo will be strangers no longer. Will you not come home with us ?" Her father echoed the invitation ; but Laura thanked them and said :

"I will go to my brother's. It will be better for us to spend the evening by our selves."

" Not quite by ourselves," Heathcliff said when the others had turned awuy. " David Holt will be with us."

"Ah, dear old David !" she murmured, tears springing to her eyes. " He is listening to that dubious compli ment," her brother said, smiling. She looked around and saw him standing near her, regarding her wistfully, a strange, old young face with a pathos and nobleness in its look that attracted in spite of the rugged features. She held out her hands to him. He trembled as he took them and held them a moment in his awkward, silent way. Hβ longed to press them in his great palms, but ho dared not. He stood shy and speechless before the woman he had loved all his life. The sight of her a prisoner, tho thought of how eho had suflerod, had unmanned him an hour ago. There was one other in the little party gathered at the mayor's house that even ing. Max Rubin made the fourth who sat at the pleasant table with its wax-lights and flower*, its fragrant eoflee, its delicious oysters and crisp biscuits. Laura had never soen the fair-haired artist before to-day. She remembered having hoard tho name from Kiklee'a lips. She felt almost sure this was Max who had been tho child's friend and protector. She would not ask. She would not cloud the sunshine of tho hour by spoaking of the lost girl, whoso name .always Drought a shadow to HeathelUPa brow. She looked constantly at David. His face puzzled her; it stirred a recol lection of another face. Could it be ? But no; it was absurd to fancy it. Presently lie caught, her regarding him with that puzzled expression. He smiled. " You look at mo as though you ex pected me to turn into somebody olse," he said. "Do I remind you of some one ?"

" Ye.s," she said hesitatingly ; " but—" "Of a poor duft fiddler nicknamed St. Peter, for instance t" " It is St. Peter you remind me of," she cried ; " but surely—"

" Surely I am he." " How can it be ?"

" I am eimply shavon and shorn, clothed and in my mind," David said. "At lea3t partly in my right mind. There are dreamy lapses yet sometimes. I seem drifting back to that semi-conscious state, and recall myself with an effort." " Do you remember nothing of what hap pened in that timo?" Heathcliff asked. " I have a dim recollection of some in cidents —I seem to have seen them as a panorama on a stage when 1 was half asleep. I have a kind of picture of little Kildee the first time I ever saw her when sho drew the street boys away from tormenting me by her dancing. I can eeo her striking her tambourine and whirling about, and hear her say, " Give my uncle'his fiddle and his pet or yon shall have no more dances.' Then I have a more distinct recollection of the fire that awful night when she was rescued from the burning house. I was miserable thinking her dead till I saw her open her eyes in the carriage." Laura looked at Max. Was David still daft ?

"Does he not know?" she asked low. " Have you not told him that she—she was not rescued ?"

"Oh !" cried Max, joyously :" it is you two who do not know. I have reserved a piece of good news for our dessert. Kildee is not dead. She did not perish in the burning tenement house. Garleon saved her. It was another girl—a poor outcast, who lost her life."

" Kildee alive ! Kildee not burned !" cried Laura. Heathcliff did not speak ; his look, his white parted lips showed his speechless emotion. " What became of her ? Where did Bhe go ?" Mrs Montcalm asked breathlessly. "She went away with us—with Lottie and me. Wo left that morning early and joined the troupe at their next stopping place." " It was the day she was to have been married," murmured Laura, looking at Heathcliff. He spoke with an effort. " I see how it was," he said. " The poor child did not wish to marry me. She could not bring herself to say so—and—" "Forgive her," interposed Max. "She honoured and esteemed you. She was deeply sensible of your kindness, and said it was a poor return to marry you. Sho thought herself no fit mate for you. She feared your kindness—she called it pity— had misled you when you chose her as a bride. Sho always thought so humbly of herself, for all she has a certain proud self respect." " And she loved you ?" Heathcliff said, looking steadily at Mar. Hβ coloured all over his fair face.

"Shewas my ward—my pet," he said. "I found her, you know, when I was a boy, and helped to raise her. I have loved her always." '" And she haa married you ?" asked Laura.

••No, no. We are not married yet. In deed, I was afraid quite lately that sho did hob love mo--only as a brother. She was strangely sad and reserved after wo went away from hero. Always she waa sweot tompered and thoughtful of othora ; that is her nature, bnfe I miased her merry ways. I fancied sho had. some hiddea regret, per haps, that she had gone with us, till »ho assured me that this was nob so. So. Peter, I beg his pardon, David and wo stopped with him—Kildee, Mrs i)uck, and 1. Thb other meujbere of the troupe weie obliged to leave us; thoy had to ■ keep their engagements. We had stopped at a little way-Bide fcown-«-a little, QURiat, hotel, bub (he people were so kind

hearted. Kildee was a faithful nurae. She had soon two patients on her hands. Mrs Duck was taken with fever. \\ c nursed them both. Dear little girl. What do you think she did in the intervals oi that sick-bed night-and-day tendance ? Our finances were very lew, and she save lessons in lace-work and embroidery to a class that some ladies had gotten up for her. I tried to give drawing lessons, bub I had only three pupila. At last I got a remit tance from my aunt in Minnesota; and just as things began to look bright, with both patients able to be up, our little nurse succumbed to the overwork and anxiety. "And she is ill?" asked Heathebff, quickly. " She has been ill—a short, sharp at tack. She is better now—nearly well. Kildee is strong for all her fragile looks ; and sho has a hero's resolution. She is the pluckiest little one I know of. We left her in kind hands, and we are going back to morrow-at least, I am. She urged us to come as soon as David was able to travel. We were sure his testimony would be suffi cient, we could not guess the further good luck of being able to produce Mrs Gon zalis." "Strange," David said to Heathcliff, " that you did nob think of her before as the doer of that deed." "I did think of her," he answered. "I told my suspicions to Laura's counsel, and ho brought it forward in his speech to the jury, bub we had no proof. She could nob even be summoned, for f do nob know where she was. I had lost aJ#s>fc of. her, until last night a woman came co me, saying Mrs Gonzalis was ill, dyies; of consumption at her house, on the outskirts of the town, and thab she needed asstawince I gave the woman some money. To-Jay when Collier sent for me at the hotel, uud I heard your story, I immediately weiib to see Mrs Gon zalis and told her we bail proof that she committed the deed another was being tried for, but that her confession was needed to give that other a full acquittal. Sho consented to be brought before the court more readily than I had hoped. She knew that she had but a little while to live, and she was very remorseful. After all, she had only acted in self-defence." He saw his sister grow pale, and hastened to dismiss a gloomy subject. (To be Continued.)

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1887.

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Highly Popular Fiction. MOST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. A GREAT WORK BY A GREAT AUTHOR. Specially Illustrated. It has beeo our pleasure to announco from time to time for publication in the STAR Works by Novelists of the highest eminence among Authors of Fiction, and wo have now a more than ordinary degree of satisfaction in stating that netfotiatloM have been concluded whereby the readers of the Stab Fiction wi 1 have supreme enjoyment of A NEW AND BRILLIANT STORY by "William Black, Author of "Macleod of Dare," "A Princess of Thule," &c. Thia is the first occasion on which Newspaper readers have had the advantage of a Serial Story written by this great Novelist at first hand, and in anticipation of the customary Publication in volume form-an advantage which, wo are confident, readers will not b e slow to appreciate. THE TITLE Of the now and admirable story, written by WILLIAM BLACK, to appear In the STAR SUPPLEMENT ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, IS SABINA ZEMBRA, Which will be a work in every way worthy of the enduring farno of this Girted Novoliet. THE PLOT Of the now and thrilling story, entitled "SABINA ZEMBRA, " written by WILLIAM BLACK, Display* tho gcnlusofa mastormind. develop ing intensely captivating eituatione, and unfold ng experiences of rare and thrilling interest. THE CHARACTERS In " SABIXA ZEMBRA," tho NEW and SPLENDID STORY, by Y&TILLIAM T>LACK, Arc creations showing? great originality In con ception, aud flno skill in treatment. The Author's realism is so vivid that the men and women whom he introduces seem to live their lives before us and we arc spectators not only of their public acts, but of tho inner motives which inspire them. We see clearly when noblo and sentiments, or selfish and mean considerations, actuate. We behold the inflated vanity of Sir .< nthony Zerabra, M.P., as ho surveys tho success of deft artifices to popularise his name, and parade the status of the Zembra family in the fashionable circles o' London society. W» follow with an ever-in creasing fascination the fortunes of Sir An- Sony's discarded daughter, whose penchant for works of philanthropy leude her into many spheres of beneficence, but whose utterly un conventional habits and thoughts, having freo play in a world full of conventionality, bring about moat critical deve'opsnonts. Fred Foster, a sporting man, with nature bo wholly absorbed in tho turf that racing events seem to be the media through which ho thinks, is a marvel" 'ously well-drawn character; while Walter Lindsay, a young artist, is never likely to be excelled as a representative of the bewildering madnoes which comes of love-sickness. These are only central oharaotcra met with in the opening of the story; but the little we have seen of them is enough to warrant us in saying the personages in Mr BLACK'S NEW NOVEL' once there, will live many a year in the re c ollections of its readers. THE DESCRIPTIVE PARTS Of the NEW STORY, entitled "SABINA ZEMBRA," by "W" iLLiAM Black, Are written in the Author's best style. Whether in the whirl of London life; with distinguished artists at the Royal Academy; amid the gaietie a of the ball-room; among invalids seoking health by the sea at Brighton; or with hones* Iri3h nature on the shores of the Shannon , everywhere the reader is perfectly carried away with tho charm of tho Author's descriptive power. Each WEEKLY INSTALMENT of the story will bo Appropriately Illustrated. The " Athcnfeutn," writing of the story now announced, says:—"Mr William Bi.ack ha s completed a new Novel, the chief scenes of which are laid in London and Brighton. The story deals in some measure with artistic life in the Metropolis, Whilst one of tho characters is of a sporting turn, nnd a good deal of racing is introduced. Tho heroine, Sabina, whose name gives the title to the story, is tho daughter of a rich M.P., who quits her father's house and lives in lodgings so as to devote herself entirely to labour among the London poor. The Novol' it will be seen, Is a departure from tho run of stories to which Mr has accustomed his readers. Messrs Tillothon and Son, of Bol" ton, have secured the story, and it will be simultaneously published in the autumn in Newspapers in all quarters of the World." In fine, we have the utmost confldorce that tho NEW STORY by Mr BLACK will afford the readers of our Fiotion a source of exquisite dolight; and we very respectfully urge al| presont subscribers to respond to the bold en terpriao which is involved. In the work of this Great Novellet, by making known to their friends and acquaintances the announce" meat that a NEW STORY by "W ILLiAM Black, The Eminent Novelist, wiU be published in THE STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, COMMENCING 0* SATURDAY, Nov. 12.



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