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The Record Newspaper 26 March 1898

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OUR

LADIES

STORY.

NOTE!

PLEASE

was

it

thousand THE

HOW

SHADOW

(From

the

Ave

GRIFFITHS BROS.,

Maria.)

Who

ne'er

his

bread

in

Who

ne'er

his

pillow

wet

Has

At self

known

never

he

last

had

tious, dered

so

the

with

TEA,

tears, powers.

had laid

down

worth

while.

a

taste

to

be do

to

What

?

for

at

at

Perth

their

be may Rates.

Wholesale

CUP

a

of

,

TEA

or

Depot,

obtained

it

Office

and

143 MURRAY

Retail

Depot

Warehouse

work, WILLIAM

PERTH.

than

himself

And

MELBOURNE,

AND

ADELAIDE.

W.

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of

all

and drink which frothily

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in

nor

;

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written his

were

the the

nor

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in

his

a

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in

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;

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at

:

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at

Perth

at

of New

Drawn

.

5th

April.

May.

;

24th

May.

South

Wales.

50,000

at 5.

ful

(Wholesale

and

TEA.

PERTH,

Is.

in

4d.,

5,

1,

and

ive

doing

Strong, and

10,

and

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"

MASONIC

HALL,

know

PERTH.

her

17

M'Ness's

Perth.

Arcade,

86 GLASS,

CHINA, GLASS

MURRAY

"

man

Latest

Novelties

in

Table

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!

N.B.

&

CONSIGNMENTS

INCOMING

&

ST., PERTH, The trade liberally

BEST

Wholesale and dealt

HANNAN with

BOHEMIAN

AND &c.

WATER See

our

for

JUGS Prices.

FRUITS

I

was

But

even

shoulders

:

joking," he had

QUALITY

a

moment

moment

was

very trifling. had been a BY

ALL

said

the

younghis

accomplished

ST.,

KALGOORLIE.

least

and that make him of seems Which Lucien Guardin

All But trifler

all

;

to

his

life.

the appointed evening, that having burned everything serve

Retail

at

enough

On

ONLY.

and

1

his

shrugged

remember."

SHARP, OF

STEAMERS.

SHARP,

Co.,

FANCY

Decorations,

I may murder."

me find he object. they will recognise me," he said to himself. " He will remember that at once he me I sold the pistol. com have him to fix his attention me on pelled

STREET.

EARTHENWARE, VASES STANDS,

FLOWER

I

?

"When

&

DYNON

his

sell

as he Lucien, " Would you be arrested, may

some

he answered

mam

JOHN

his

not "I do know, Monsieur. are so There many people coming In and going. it business my is, I think, best not to be too observant."

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Royal

to

was

day. be contemplating

The

for

Sight-Testing spectacle

Clarke,

Alfred

the

destroying

wanted

again

me

know,

you

as

Mr.

so

;

come

at me !" said the money.

down

now

Free

he

all

;

Look

laid

OPPOSITE

should

wares.

Delicious, TRY IT.

Boxes.

occu

origin, intentions

Two months thus. passed slowly One in a day he bought a pistol pawn-shop not far from his miserable The man neither asked nor lodging. to cared know his in so purpose

our

Special

his

life,

effect of completely real identity.

Retail)

IMPORTERS,

EAST,

of his

as recital of his known to history the concierge would have the desired

GALLAGHER,

ST.

details

and future pation, that the end when

is the attention that business we pay to country clients. to visit our store before purchasing country purchasers elsewhere, that we can transact their business to their and profit satisfaction.

ask

Our

5.

20.

April.

nth

GROCERS

HAY of

confident

his

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nth

Run

Run

and

gayer

disappointment. might he would be satisfied Henceforward affection. How he that faithful with a word! for sympathetic hungered in advance on the he dwelt How so sure he was to which consolation the But when he reached receive was office where his friend employed turn

at

&

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and wealthier him a great She had rendered man. service, though at the time he had it. And one realised because not false he believed woman had proved life so, and that that all were equally beautiful or desir could hold nothing of in the way able for him any more But, he reflected, love or marriage. to he a friend whom he had still to

Run

Cup,

Reference,

the

soon

fortunes,

PRIZE

Cup, 10,000 Cup, 25,000

Birthday

five was not during years faithfully to remark the change, slow parti as he found he could get the cularly same amount of work out of a young at less man fresh from the provinces His dismissal than half the money. soon followed. never come Misfortunes singly. The young girl whom he expected to from the change marry, taking alarm .affections

Property

Adelaide

meat

popular andjoften., things romances were that his enervating and amusement. recreation His one aim in life began to be distraction of this and the effect superficiality in was soon seen his work. The he editor for whom had laboured ;

he

Great

will.

in

Perth.

Barrack-st.,

Summer

Coolgardie

Nothing newspapers,

had

;

CHARLES).

J.

MONSTER

He had read hundreds of books, hundreds written of articles on and various he had never subjects, moment's attention to his given one own He had not individuality. or moral cared to develop his mental his

;

he

But refinement, that these

;

glected.

fortify

was

;

and happiness. in Sound body and mind, young, and consequently of many ignorant can which things experience only roseteach life had appeared ail He coloured. had never struggled or He with himself anybody else. had his mind to many applied but the own of his studies, study and he ne heart soul had utterly

to

and He

.

tent

nor

appro

to live nothing for, to resolved die. But first he -to determined his destroy identity. He did not wish that hue and any over be made him he cry should that it: should be thought preferred he had mysteriously disappeared. To this end he left his comfortable in one and took a room of lodgings the of the poorest quarters city, and beard where he let his hair grow at consider long and, having been to the able pains inform people of the with whom he had neighbourhood that his name was Anselm dealings he had assumed Fereir— one for the he to await purpose prepared the solemn he moment, which contem almost with the same indiffer plated ence as he did life. He had only one it diversion was that of relating and untruth impossible utterly

at

SYDNEY,

no

him

failed

FREMANTLE.

forces,

than higher and sentiment now

went

so

except

also

;

:

STREET,

he

There remained only himself, he was for himself not sufficient. had no his nature vices great and ideal too refined for that.

:

STREET,

had

!

it

somebody. something He

of

had four

murmured be to him must bitterly, friendship a name. Thus but driven to the wall, depressed, despairing, every where one he went this sentence stare him in seemed to the face i not worth the Life is End living.

;

what vaguely, to attain. A family, a the pleasures good position, wealth, which these all things might bring had seemed to him this able to pro con duce that for which he longed

did not know, end he wished

PARTAKE

(gratis), Parcels

Retail

where

;

good education, and the ambition He had desired

and

his

of the struggle Tired, weary to seek resolved for his aching repose heart in head and empty the solemn and terrible shadow of death. was he He of age years thirty had a handsome face, a fine physique,

MERCHANTS.

& COCOA

CALL

CHOCOLATE

surren-

aims.

a

to

you

friend

Henceforth,

unfaithful

priated.

COFFEE

Invite

acknowledged him so ambi He, once

courageous, citadel and

the

ate,

heavenly

ye,

vanquished.

sorrow

he

with

francs his to belonging turned Lucien away word. a Neither then nor did he allude to the two francs of his own which

employer. without afterwards thousand

PASSED.

4

days before

two

decamped

that

learn

to

only

Fruiterers, j

establish

his real his

identity,

eat last dinner. prepared the tragic He had decided to perform when the most deed about midnight, he

1

to

after

might

to

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