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THE ARGOSY. SEPTEMBER, 1885. _— Se a iD THE MYSTERY OF ALLAN GRALE. —— CHAPTER XXXII. LADY LAURA’S ADVICE. [BE rich golden light of the calm summer evening lay upon Dering as the door of Moorland House was thrown open to admit Dr. Palmer and Charles Carr. Mr. Carr was shown into a room to wait, while Dr. Palmer hastily made his way to the dining-room, from whence came the sound of voices in commotion. It was Mrs. Grale’s cry of distress which he had heard. The news spoken out by the incautious servant—that Mr. Allan’s walking-stick had just been discovered by the Black Pool— had startled and partly stunned her. She was lying back on a sofa. “She must be kept perfectly quiet,” observed Dr. Palmer, as he busied himself about her. That sentence completed Mrs. Grale’s present restoration. ‘“ No, no, Doctor,” she faintly cried. ‘‘ There has been too much keeping quiet already ! I mean to hear what there is to be heard about my poor boy, whom I believe I shall never, never see again.” She burst into a flood of passionate tears and went on with a wail: “ T’ve had a sort of feeling upon me from the very first that I never should. I did not dare to say it, or they would have scolded me for my fancies! But I felt it. I did—I did!” “ Hush, hush,” said Dr. Palmer, soothingly. ‘If we are to allow you to speak, you must be calm and reasonable.” “ Doctor,” cried Mrs. Grale, “it’s no use your trying to make it less than it is. They have found my poor Alny’s stick in the Black Pool.” “There,” said Dr. Palmer, “is an exaggeration to begin with. They have found Allan’s stick, but not in the Black Pool. It was among the bushes of the woodland round the Pool ; it was not in it.” This variation, slight as it was, produced a revulsion of feeling in Mrs. Grale’s breast. She laughed hysterically. ‘ That’s what VOL, XL, M GOGO S (SO)