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lav the remains of a roll of the cloth, (Uit

yellow. Then Iwent down again Lo a cupr l)u(n(l i the laboratory where T remembered to have seen some of the cloth + and there

was the greater part ol a roll, retaining the original grey

colour as Iresh as cver. My unele had given out the wrong roll for faumily usc the roll which he had prepared for his expermments !

[ think T must have shricked as | bounded to the strect door, tore 1t open, and, leaving it . rushed out to- i wardsmyown house. = [ ran all the way hard as T eould go, wild-eved and hat-

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up Lo my room,

snatched up o few A B RAL TIMER 1AL bank-notes that

were in my desk ;oand then, still running, made Tor Victoria Station. Such was my state of mind that T had run nearly a mile

hefore it oceurred to me that such things as cabs existed : then 1 hailed one and shouted

(o him to drive - drive drive like mad !

As I might have known, there was no Continental train - for nearly two - heurs: and L opaced round and round \ietora Station like o caged beaste gnawing at oy nails. duv ad taken thal grey walerproof and hal of lers with hei lo Loigano !

I was fairly on the way at last: but., hrom e moment ol the tran's steaming out ol

Station o strange change | | came over mes | was ho longer macl to wget forward was mad toooget hack- back to my house, and to the

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cupboard where my clothes were hanging, andd to the grev overcoat which hung amony

them. Several times T half opened the door of the flying railway carriage, m @ mad 1m- pulse to jump out and run back but 1 clenched my teeth and forced myself

back mto my scat.

All the rest of the journcy my thoughts were fixed upon I.ondon, and my house, and the arey OV mt hanging m the (,11|)b(mul ot tmes 1 owas scized with an insanc dread that my housekeeper was at that very moment selling the coat —making away with 1t 1 some way or other--and at those times T would find mysell ina cold perspiration.

[ reached Tugano and dashed down the steep grassy hank where the lreflies cather on warm cvenings, and through the ()I)LI] cate ol the villa 1,uudcn My auntwas sittingon a scat by the house. L sm()d hetore her, Lut she neverche anged herstare nto she looked through mc and made no sion. W huhu she knew I was there or not 1 connol sav e T knew she was there ~and alone!

Io1edt I\u (here without a word, and came hack here to my own house [ e ul no mad longing or uneasiness on the return journcy

| Anezo iy grey coat was here, and ready haneing as | et .

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for e s and hore it S, Voo 1t [its e as Iy as ever-—as comfortably —as cver. cUlhather T hy friction, or concussion, or clee- tricity.” 1 wonder at what hour Amy——-—

Jas, In SULLRIvAN.