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COMFORTABLY-FURNISHED Apartments to C Let; convenient, to 'busses; suitable for Lady or Gentleman; with or without board; terms moderate; no chUdren.—Apply A 4, Even- ing Express Office, Cardiff. e6840 MISCELLANEOUS. TOBACCONISTS Commencing.—See Elustrated T Guide (259 pages), cd.—Tobacconists' Out-I fitting Company. 186. Euston-road, London, Hairdressers fitted. Manager, Henry Myers, el0566d EARTHENWARE and China—Seconds £ 2 Crates; best £ 3; or will send 15 dozen Seconds Articles for 17s. 6d. Write for Lists.— Webbe and Co., Longtou, Staffordshire Pot- teries. e6034 I~~g your Watch Wrong? The Best and JL Cheapest Shop in Cardiff for the Repair of Watches of every description, English or Foreign, is 33. Castle Arcade (third shoo from 9-r Cattle-street), by James Keir, for ten years with Mr Spiridion. Clocks and Music Boxes Cleaned and Repaired- e4209 SHOP ASSISTANTS WANTED. GROCERY and Provisions.—Wanted at once, a thoroughly good Assistant; must be good salesman and well up in soliciting; out- door.—J..ML Davies and Co.. Barry Dock. i!4 GROCERY.—Wanted, a good, smart Assis- tant. Used to the Butter Block; one not afraid of work.-Apply 80, Holton-road, Barry Docks. 3693i14 DRAPERY and Outfttting.-A good Junior Wanted for Gents.' Mercery and Out- fitting.— Applv. with reference, experience, and salary. Knight tnd So., Swansea. 5688il4 DRAPERY. — Wanted immediately, smart Junior Young Men and Young Ladies.— Apply, with full particulars, D. L. Evans and Co., 104 and 106. Holton-road. Barry, 3633i17 -1 GROCERY.—Wanted, Junior to the above: also strong Lad as Apprentice; from the country preferred.—Apply Fenwick, Junction Stores, Abercynon 3634il7 ERlr. ing Man, about la, GROCERyT—Wanted. Young Man, about to, from the Country (Welsh), to Take Charge of One Horse, Warehouse, and Assist at Countei indoors. — Apply William Thomas, Grocer, Ynithir, Porth. 3628ii/ rpo Hosiers and Hatters.—Wanted, smart 1. Junior; used to quick ready money trade; good window-dresser and stock-keeper.— Apply, with reference and salary required, to J. Hussey. 16. Hi £ h-str0et, C&rclifT. 3623il3 BOOT T-ade —Young Man Required; must be experienced ih sales and window-dressing. A-nply Progressive Boot Company, Working- street, Cardiff. 3606H3 OUTFITTING.—Wanted, a Junicr; state age and salary .-Apply 68, Glebe-street. Pen- 1 a-th. 5590117 rTROCERsTnnior; good reference: 18 to 19; IjT state fnll particulars.—Apply W. R.. Wes- tern Mail. Merthyr. 5587115 BUSINESS ADDRESSES. IF YOU REQUIRE ANYTHING IN THE WAY OF FURNITURE ON EASY TERMS AT CASH PRICE, GO TO LEWIS'S, IX QUEEN STREET. 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The Battle of the Sites. 4 — DAME CARDIFF: "There is nothing for it. I must settle the affair With this."

NURSEMAIDS AN]) SERVANTS WANTED. WANTED at once, Uirl4 about 14 or 16.— Granville House. FairWater Cr°ve^ My.^ "TTTANTED immediately, jrood, strong Young VV Girl, to Assist with Baby and Housework.— Apply, after six, 4, Stacey-road, Roath, Car- diff e66.3?._ WANTED, a good Gcueral Servant.-Apply_28, Miakin-stxeet, CardAtf. en p.na.. Cil8 ANTEDTexperienoed-General Servant; able to do plain coo kip g: three in f&mib good references; .country preferred; good wages.-Apply 43, NTiniau-jroad, Cardiff. 3741i19 WANTED immediately, good Plain Cook— Writ« Mrs. Gottwaltx. HiUside, Penarth, Cardiff. aIO9 WANTED immediately, strong, experienced General Servant; cooking, ironing^ Apply, stating age. reference, and wages. Mrs. Jones, Meldrym Vicarage, St. Clears. 3740119 WANTED at once, good General Servant, with good appearance: assist in bar when required.-A.pply Mrs. Bevington. Mitre Hotel. Llandaff. 3720i19 (SOOD General Wanted; two in family.— J Apply by letter, stating age, -eference, and wages required, N 10, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 3710i19 WANTED, good General Servant, from 24 to 30; assistance given.—Apply by letter, or after ux p.m., to Mrs. Thomas, 8. East- grove, Cardiff. o706il9 WAITED; in Small Family, reliable, expe- Vf rienced General Servant.-Apply 5, Howard-g-ardens, Cardiff. 3707i19 WANTED, good Copk and Kitchenmaid; modern cooking, dairy, and baking. Apply Pwllywrach, Cowbridge, Glam. 3730119 W ANTEdT a respectable General Servant; w able to do plain cooking, also puun wash- ling; three in family.—State age. wages, and reference, Mrs. Powell, Chapel House, near Builth- 3751119 WANTED, a respectable Person to Attend to an Invalid Lady and Do a Little Light Housework.—State age, Powell. Chapel House, near Builth. 3752] 19 ANTED, good General, with Knowledge of Waiting Table, for Private Boarding- boa?e; not under 20.—Mrs. Tudor, 5, Catherine- place. Bath. ^i9. COOK Required, for Gentleman's Country House, Soutli Wales: about 30; baking; good cooking; £201; small family; kitchen- maid.—N 15, Western Mail, Cardiff. 3747i19 RESPECTABLE Girl Wanted as General Ser- vant. aged about 16.—Aprly 8, Dudley- ftreet. Docks, Cardiff. 3760i!9 "I^TANTED, House-Parlourmaid for Small Vt Family.—State age and wages Mr-. Lock, Lansdowne House, Tenby. 3765i19 Housemaid for Small Family; cue who has experience preferred — Apply, with references, to B, care of Evans, Chemist, Aberavon, Port Talbot. 576"i*5 COOK (J eneral Wanted for Small Family; another servant kept.—Apply Mrs. J. K. Stone, Holmeswood, Clytha Park, Newport. i19 WANTEDrexperienced Kitchenmaid; scullery VV kept —Hensol Castle, Pontyclun. 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THE MAN SHE DEARLY LOVED SPECIALLY SET FOR THE EVENING EXPRESS. iTNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Francis and Felix Hastings are twin brothers in love with the same girl. Vivian Price. She is engaged to Francis. Charles Beckwith, a New York detective, meets one of the twins at a lonely ruined tavern on the Jersey meadows. The inn is run by a lame man named Stein and his beautiful daughter, Dulla. The twin who calls himself Francis says he has just returned from Chili to find that in hiR absence Felix has won Vivian a love from him. Beckwith suggests that Felix, trading on the wonderful resemblance between the twins, may have passed himself °,ff J™ Francis. Hastings swears that if he finds this to be true he will kIll his brother. His brother, he thinks, also has ^Sr reason for desiring his death. He says Felix is to meet him at the tavern that same nignt. The next morning Beckwith awakens to find himself the only living creature in the tavern. He searches for Hastings and nnds him lying murdered in his room. J»eckwith returns to New York in search of Felix Hastings to notify him of his brotiier s death. He finds Hastings at Miss Price s Ma dison-avenae home, but the twin declares himself to be Francis, not Felix. He also says Felix is in Chicago. Beckwith tells the story of his adventure at the Meadow Tavern, and is laughed at by Felix. He also says Felix is in Chicago. Beckwith tells the storv of his adventure at the Meadow Tavern. and is laughed at by Hastings, whey calls the whole story a. dream. He Says he has not been to the Tavern in years, and that his twin brother, being now in Chicago, cannot have been the man Beck- with says he met there. The detective is bewildered at Hastings's assertion that he is Francis, but at length iisks what has become of a. pearl ring which Francis always wore. Hastings changes colour at this question, and if at a loss for a reply. Vivian Price enters and adds her testimony to that of Hastings, even producing a letter received from Felix that very day. The letter bears a Cfeitaffo jmtaMck* To tieax tm tba- mys- tery Berkwiih proposes that the trio ride oat to' the Meadow Tavern and view the body. Hastings declares there is nobody there, but expresses willingness to investi- gate. They accordingly So out to the tavern the following morning. CHAPTER IV. GONE! "By the Way," interposed Miss Price as Beck- with was starting' upstairs toward tho room wliore he had found the dead man the previous morning. "Here is a telegram I received from Felix this morning." She handed the detective a yellow dispatch. It was a genuine telegTam, dated at six a.m. that same day, from Chicago, and reading: — "AI11 going on to San Francisco in a few days. Hope to return in time for your wedding. "FELIX HASTIN GS. Beckwith htincied back the message. "Well." asked Vivian, "are you convinced that, Felix is at this moment iu Chicago ?" "It seems stranga to me," rejoined Beckwith, "t.hat a man should have sent so unimuortant a message as this by telegraph instead of writing." The Iqv ts again glanced at each other, and Beckwith fancied he could read consternation in their look. "Nevertheless." exclaimed Hastings, "your see by it that Felix is in Chicago, and that 1. there- fore, must be Francis," "In that case," answered Beckwith, "who is the dead man lying upstairs?" "There is no dead man upstairs," sneered Hast- ings. "I have no third brother. We are twins, not triplets, as you know." Come taer," said Beckwith, let us go up at once and put an end to this mystery." The three silently mounted the stairs, Beck- with leading the way and Vivian bringing up the rear. The interior of the tavern was as Beckwith had left it. The blinds were down, the rooms desolate and mildewed, the open fireplaces filled with heaps of grey and black ashes. Reaching the room where Francis had lain Beckwith gently opened the door. The room was undisturbed. The yellow morn- ing sunlight still beat down upon the white counterpane: but as his eyes fell upon that deathbed a cry burst from B^ckwith's lips. The bed was empty! The rickety bedstead was bare, and there was no sign of matt ress or covering. The room appa- rently had been unused for months. Yet twenty-four hours earlier there had been a mattress and bedclothes in that place, and on them had lain a dead body. Beckwifch's brain was in a whirl. He was re-called to his senses by a harsh, grating laugh from Hastings. "Well, Beckwith!" he cried, what have you got to say now ? Aren't you just a bit ashamed of-having dragged us here on this fool's errand?" "Never mind, Francis," said Vivian, soothing y "it was a pleasant ride and a romantic iittle inci- dent." "But, seriously, Beckwith." went on Hastings, more sternly; "don't you think you owe some apology for vour insulting language and this wild freak, "Someone has taken the body away," replied Beckwith sullenly. "I doubt it. The absence of the body which you were kind enough to call by my name proves my original theory, that you dreamed the whole thing." Before Beckwith could reply Vivian Price burst' into a passion of hysterical weeping. The strain on her nerves had been great. and now that the climax was passed she broke 'town utterly. Hastings, regardles\ of the detective's presence, took the sobbing girl in his arms ini whispered words of, love and comfort to her. Beckwith, feeling out of place in such a scene, left the .room and began a methodical search of the house. No sign of his friend's body or clothes could he find, nor was there any indication of the build- ings reccnt occupancy. The disconcerted detective began to think at last that he might really have been dreaming. Then it occurred to him that Stein, the so- called landlord, might have watched his depar- ture from some hiding place, and might have returned and made away with the body. As Beckwith returned to the porch he found Hastings and Miss Price already mounting their wheels to return to New York. "Well!" remarked Hastings, "now that your absurd notions hare put us to all this trouble, besides malting Miss Price almost ill, I trust you're satisfièd too "I am anything but satisfied," persisted Beck- with. "I am not convinced that you are Francis." "You idiot! Can't you see I am Francis? You've known us. brothers for years. Felix is in Chicago." ."Very .good," answered Beckwith. "Then I start for Chicago to-morrow." r "Why?" I "To look up .Felix. You say Felix is in Chicago. I say he is now before me-that he is yourself and no other. You say you are Francis. I say Francis lies dead. You came to the Meadow Tavern and found no body. I will go to Chicago and I wager I'll find no Felix there." Once more it seemed to Beckwith that the lovers looked frightened, but Felix asked com- posedly "Shall you put this matter in the hands of the po)ice?" "It is useless now, since Francis's body has been spirited awaý. I shall go straight to Chicago to-morrow, and if I don't find Felix there" "Well ?" "If I don't find him there I'll tell the police all and have this neighbourhood searched." A laugh, half hysterical, half scornful, broke from Vivian. Springing lightly on her wheel she rode off toward New York. Hastings prepared to follow her, but paused with one foot on the pedal. "See here, Beckwith," he said, not unkindly. "Consult a doctor at once. You are either mad or a victim to hallucinations." "I'll go to Chicago first, thank you," Beckwith called after him as Hastings scorched away to join Miss Price. The detective made another fruitless search of the premises. Then, mounting his wheel, lie rode slowly back to town. l The second search had taken some time, and another two hours were .consumed in getting back to his rooms in New York. By the time his bicycling costume was changed for a travelling suit and His bag packed it was five o'clock. "I can't catch to-night's train to Chicago," he mused, glancing at his watch. "I'll take the first one to-morrow morning." Accordingly at ten a.m. next, day Beckwith showed his ticket to the uniformed guard at the door of the station waiting-room, and, emerging into the vast Grand Central train rotunda, boarded a parlour car for Chicago. The following day at noon he stood at the desk of the Greycourt Hotel, Chicago; demanding an audience with Mr. Felix Hastings. To his utter astonishment the clerk said that Mr. Hastings was stopping there, and was about to start for San Francisco. "Some imposter hired hy Felix to come here under his name was Beckwith's mental com- ment. While a bellboy was carrying the detective's card up to Hastings a new idea occurred to the detective. "Can it be?" he thought, "that it was Felix and not Francis whom I piet at the inn? Felix who tried to pass himself off as Francis and then iuvented that lying story? Perhaps he was not really dead, as I thought; but merely insensible. He may have regained his senses after I left the tavern, and, seeing the uselessness of fighting against Francis, may have fled here to Chicago. I car. easily find out by the jagged wound in his palm if it is the map I met at the inn." The bellboy rwurned at this point with the message that Mr. Hastihgs would be glad to see Mr. Beckwith. In a state of abject bewilderment, tie detec- tive followed the boy to Hastings's room and entered. There he paused in utter wonder. The man who rose to meet him was identical in appearance with Francis. whom he believed to have been murdered at the Meadow Tavern, and with the man who had afterwards passed himself off as Vivian's lover. "Yet," ihought Beckwith. "this man can be; neither of the two, for one lies dead and the other is in New York." "Hallo, Beckwith; how are yousaid his host, coming forward to greet him. "This is a pleasant surprise. How did you know I was in Chicago ?" "Arc you Felix Hastings or Francis?" gasped out Beckwith. "Why, I'm Felix, of course, as you see," replied Hastings. "Surely, you know me too well to ask suoh a foolish question." "And your brother?" "He is in New York. I believe. You know he is engaged to Miss Vivian Price. "I must be mad! I must be mad," muttered Beckwith, daxedly. "What's up, old man?" queried Hastings, lay- ing a hand on the detective's shoulder. "Are you ill?" For answer Beckwith caught Hastings by both hands and carefully examined the palms. On neither was there the slightest scratch or scar'. Yet the than he believed to be Francis had a ragged cut across one hand. Beckwith's theory of a trance vanished into thin air. "What's the row, Beckwith?" asked Hastings, in surprise. "You'll call me a madman, Hastings, but"- "But what "You're certa^ you arc Felix?" "What a question! Naturally I am." "Were you in New York two days ago "1 haven't been in New York for over two months. I've been in Chicago some weeks. Stay, let me convince you." The proprietor was passing the open door of the room as he spoke. "Mr. Greycourt!" called Hastings. "One moment, please. How long have I been here ?" "Let me see, sir." said the proprietor, pausing to consider. "It must be between six and seven weeks I should say." "That's all. Thank you." "Do you know a girl named Rose Stein or her fatherr' went on Beckwith, as Greycourt with- drew. "Stein—Stein? No. Never heard of either." "When did your brother Francis return to America from Chili P" "About three montbs ago." "Have you seen him since his return?" "Frequently during the month before I left New York. We have the same apartments there, you know." "Do you expect to return to New York soon?" "No. I intended to be best man at Francis's wedding, but I have decided now to go to- morrow to San Francisco, and so on around the world. I won't be back for over six months. so I'll miss the wedding. And now. if you're quite through catechising me. will you tell me what it all means, Beckwith ?" i The detective related the whole story as cleaiiy and as circumstantially as possible. The one detail he omitted was his suspicion that the brothers had changed names. "But you see now," said Felix a.t length, "that I am really Felix?" I do." Then my brother, whom you met at Miss Price's, must be Fra-ncis." "Yes—I suppose so' Yet I'm sure it was Francis I met at the inn." "How could it 'have been ? You say his hand was mutilat-ed. You also admit that there is no scratch on my iha-nd or on my brother's, No. no, Beckwith. It's a hallucination from first to last. G-ive up the case or you'll -go genuinely crazy over it." "Yes," replied Beckwith. as he took his leave. I Ù all a hopeless tangle! Facts are too strong for me. Good-bye. Hastings. But. (JIb," he added with a burst of bitterness. "I'd give ten years of my life to know what it all means "It means," said Hastings. gently, "that your^ mind's a bit turned. Place yourself at once in the hands iof a specialist on nervous diseases." Had Hastings foreseen the result of this advice he would have bitten 'his tongue out before offer- ing it." (To be Continued.)

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