seen young Blake [or some AD e pleased when : CARuntering into my den at the the Dally Clarion. Waen 1 at Bim a second time | aw something worrying him Blake was never a dressy ' but that night be looted disordered He wore fis mister with the collar ug WAS Bot spotless and his chin piece of paper im fis in SAE over 0 my table shook listlessly, murmured. “tlow are man flattened out the piece Fon my blotting pad, and sat BR & chair, leaning back wud my Inquisitive glances with a in his fine blac ves d that” he said ‘pointed to the paper. 1 ook ft id road: th —~Blake — This morn at {@elock, at Fouotain Co Magheramorne U's the joke Bernard? | asked k this morn fem inte Biake quietly iw the news will be true and the 1 be right.” not know what to do or =ay | if it were an Irishman's or a touch of lunacy | tempor- 2 know I'm not the advertise clerk? 1 hinted. as though on my dignity that you are sub-edit But you are a good fellow and that n't take you a moment to call a jer and send that to the printer. g the fee. Oblige me now like an friend. I'l tell you why after- ‘was hard to resist Bernard | sum A messenger and sent the curd message down to the printing of If I get the sack for this | said the joke was yours BOYOr WAS more serious nm my be foslsted. “Do I look like a Joker?” LL d him narrowly He was worn, po thin, so gray tuat It almost as though the hand of Was already upon him. in the World have you Len with yourseif’ the last two nights {'ve Leen to the banshee ? Have you been 0 Ireland®” I've heard the banshee outside chambers.’ banshee In Fountain Court?” Round Tom Pinch's fountain is It not? And I've scen the " at the fountain Ia my rooms. No Blake hears shes thrice and lives. No Blake be black cat thrice and lives, At rd visit the black cat kills him ™ 1 I eried, turning swiftly upon him, “what old woman's # this that has got ono your ” you know the family story? “t you heard how, in 1704 2 Ago to-day, an ancestor of mine Blake, of Castle Blake in An- ‘connived in the doing to death of ? Bhe was suspected of witch and she was probably zuilty, for (were witches in Ireland in Queen Fs days. But that was no reason Martin Blake should have sat still p castle while his peasantry her in the lake. ‘Floating her they called it and it was Martin Blake incited them to paid the leaders. You see, extra slice pf property was to 110 Bim at her death Bu! Le did Jive to enjoy It. The body of Pa Black was never recoverid, put | black cat sprang from the wa and sought safety in the castic At p o'clock in the morning they found grtin Blake dead in bed His ‘ye @ Bis lips looked as If the; had | sewn together and the rots Ehdrawn, for only the neelle were there. But they were pot They were the marks of talons of the black cat’ “Hut this Is all a fable!” I cried WAIL" he resumed “Martin iave's r occurred 200 years ago, cu TWO to-morrow morning Ou- Lun JEArS BED, come two oO cio * morning, my great-grandiih found dead In Dif bed at Wind where he was in attendan a ; ‘George. The banshee had peen iree times In Windsor Park My lather had wi wen ‘he Son the third visit the y eat sewed his eyelids and his tether in the way | Lae le -» es, yo8; but your own father | warnings of the banshee fod 10 be the last vietim of the the black cat on the two Bun anaiversary of the death of Wy friend He smiled gadis | Rete. Bernard,” | sald “shake fancies. Go cut to the thea Ball, anywhere. Have some ‘Out, gel home as lal® as you id I'll pop round Ly two o'clock Pe done here Ly that tims and ¥ the morning together. I'U “Poor Bernard!" tied dowh to my work of the blues if eve Been reading the he has a ouch r a chap had one! Lancashire Witches," 1 shouldn't wonder I'll rout him put directly I'v and well have m glass and a laugh over his Celle imagination ; Berpard Blake was a briefless harris ter earning a journalism ! Luck never seemed to come his way,) but he was a pular man among the small sot I had a special liking for him, and at some] aimost dally But | iI bad never sen him ia such doldrums before iiving at who knew him best eriods saw him I sat down squareiy and solidly to through it to be round as early as possible As it happened. through some cabi- net matter arriving at the last mo ment t was five past two when | rapped at Blake's door Hearing no response: “The beggars sleep’ I murmured, and used the key with which he had supplied me Everything wi rderly in his front roon There a ning on the table, a t a glass and some books flanks t if in the grate were the remnan's ir But Bernard was not ther 1 glanced thr i the whi l ny Work oived in doublequick time at Fountain court to get SO AS minutes Amy folding doors, pen, Into the bed I} fizsure of Aa man was u the bed. It h were Right across snormous black cat, the Ever saw It looked at me and swere, as to the animal w it were humar throat =at an largest cat 1 and spat, The horror of eves, for they rolor and expression, in them, Iike yman Blake's gray, with a red flare the eyes of an augry = I made a thrust at the cat with the end of my cans I 40 not know if 1 removed my glance for a moment; 1 do not know how it was but in the next instant there was no cat there— only the iy of Bernard Biake, stret { an the bed wih his eyelids iklr they had thread and lips seeming as tho been ewn together and the afterwards There were deep marks ke marks, large, ifke the left by a carpet needle I staggered backwards I looked for the Black Cat. There was no such beast in the room [I fell into a chalr. I heard a soft knocking at the door. Before | door opened, and a tam# in a high crowned hat, wearing a curious cioak, a dirty ruff and tiff petticoats, came miocingly into the room She took n notices of me crossed straight t withdrawn needle holes ould reply the ittie oid short She intently at the touching it I saw her garin face of my dead friend, with crooked fingers iike claws The last Blakea'’ she was saving, softly; “the last of the Blakes! A proud race, und a wicked one Two hundred yearz of vengeance, and the end at last But this was a goodly very like the Blakes of the man. not Not like Martin Blake’ Then | saw timt her eyes were gray, and there was an angry red flare In them She passed her over the face “Poor young man'” she whispered It was a pity, a pity But it had to be” . Then she came mincliogly the table at which I sat out a quaint silk knotted purse and shook out large gold pleces They wera two pound pieces of Charles and James “For the funeral,” she sald. “Al the Blakes should be buried well Ex cepl me 1 looked into her gray eyes light bad vanished from them “And who, madam, are youl 1} asked “Who are you that inquire?” “The friend of the dead man yom der.” “Then | may tell you,’ she “My name is Blake “1 di4 not know Bernard had any Hving relatives” He did not Patlence Blake” And she turned and went. Patience Blake, thé witch who was drowned at Blake castle’ 1 dashed down the stairs after her, but never a sign of her did | see again Out In the court yard only the Temple fountain plashed mournfully I sent for a doctor to the room with bim again on the cold face friend The claw face was peaceful, ble Had Patience ut those fingers once more towards She took €oilLe The red sald she replied “1 wae | went back and looked of my dead marks were gone The nd set as in mar Blake smoothed marks? | culy know that | kept my story te myself, and that the doctor certified the cause of to be apoplexy The goid ou the ta ble. Were they there on my first ar rival, unnoticed hy me” Had Bernard beets examining oolus? Was Patience Blake a And the Black Cat? It passe nprehension femem! r al i went Dome war: ae pals I bought a Uy f the from aL ear the front pags Death two o'closk at Fo leath coins were still those myth? But | wearlly moraiug light Ilally Clarion ewsboy and that od I read Hiake his morning at intain Court, Tem P Blake, son of the late Bernard Magheramorne Blake, of *Antrim, aged 27 Ally Sloper. ple wrnard Sign of Good Times. No better indication of the prosperity of the jewelry trade i» wanted than the condition pow existing lo practically all manufaciuring centers as shown by the wanl coiumeps of i wal papers. t may Le safely sald that is hardly a city « ard allied | lines are made to-day in which there ia there own Where jewelry exceeds the supply. and manthfacturers | have been pressed as never before to ob country Jewelers’ Clr- Has won the day. that is moving this stock. They are irresistible. 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