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RS a We AA pre RE NN re Tah vg SY TEE | oNLY A MONT OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XXIX. "J6 is of course a truism that we fiver fully appreciate what we ve, until some trouble or save other loss shows us all 'that has rown familiar in a fresh l.ght 'ond as he had been of his home before, Prithiol had never until sow Quite .ealized what it menut to bim. But as earch evening he returned from work. and from tae severe trial of an: atmosphere of suspicion and dislike, he felt much as the sailor feels when, after tos- , #ing about all day in stormy seas $e anchors at night in some harbor of refuge. -Bigrid knew that he felt $his, and she was determined that Ao shoud pot even guess her trou- she went about her household work, with her as she and Swanhild walk- od through the hot and crowded streets, and with her as she played at Mme. Lechertier's Academy. But there was something in the work that prevented really preying on her mind ; she was sad indeed, yet not in despair. Nevertheless, Mme. Lechertier's quick eyes noted at once the change in her favorite. "You are not well, cherie," she said, "your face looks worn. Why, my dear, | can actually see lines in our forehead. At your age that inexcusable." Sigrid laughed. "1 have a bad habit of wrinkling I up when Lam worried about ghy- thing," she said. 'To-day. perh&fs, { an a littlé tired. It is so hot and sultry, and besides 1 am anxious about Frithiof, it is a trying time for him." "Yea, this heat is trying to the strongest,'"' said Mme. Lechertier. 'Swanhild, my angel, there are some new bonbons in that box; help yourself." The child was never happier than when hard at work at the academy; oven on this hot summer day she never complained; and in truth the afternoons just brought the right amount of variety into what would otherwise have been a very mope- tonous life. "Bigrid," said the little girl, as they walked "home together. "is it true what u said to Madame Lechertier about Frithiof feeling oe made him so grave the last fow days?' "It is partly that,"' replied Big. rid. "But he has a good deal te trouble him that you are too young to understand, things that will not bear talking about: You must try to make it bright and cheerful at home. "n As * Next morning bright. thas Bi y Sundan was. #0 at Sigr return in an hour's ume to his i the nd slo "Black. t ridge and 'walked further| 'and planned, and in September Ce: It was with her certainly as| the trouble from | heat! Is it really that which] g persuaded him 10 15, ~ take a walk, and fully intending to! ili she bad mot time to think much of the future. By the middle of August, Lance and Gwen had recovered, and were taken down to the sea-side. But _ At in apite of lovely weather that sum. Frithiol se ar ind pub mer's holiday proved a very dreary ber into it, She was secretly ro: one. Roy wae in the depths of de- lieved that he got in too. ' = pression, and it seemed to Cecil|' "I will come back with you if. you that a great shadow had fallen up-. will allow me." he said; "for J am on everything. ; "not quite sure whether this is not "Robin," said Mrs. Boniface, "I a more dangerous part of the ad. want you to take that child to venture than when we were on foot. Switzerland for a month; this place IT never saw such a fog! Why, we is doing her no st all. She can't even see the horse, much less wants change and mountain air." where be ia guing." f 80 the {ather and mother plotted, "How thankful 1 am thas you 1 ? 3 were here! It would have been cil, much against her will, was Greadful all alone," said Cecil; and packed off to Switzerland to see she explnined to him how 'Mrs. snow-mountains and water-falls. 1 Horner had failed her at the last Still, being a sensible girl,' she poment. "You have not met my did her best with what was put pmother since she came back irom before her, and though her mind the sea. Are you still afraid of in- was a good deal with Sigrid snd fection! The house has been thor: Frithiofl in their trouble and anxi- oughly painted and fumigated.' ety. you physically she gaihed Brea) oh, it'is not that" said Frith. good from the tour, and came back (yr. "dy while thin cloud is still with a color in her cheeks which) Ch Fy Lhe ne You do not satisfied ber mother. a resize bow it affects everything.' | 'By the bye, dearie,"' remarke po Mrs. Boniface, the day sftec her' 'It does nov affect your own return, "your father thought you Some. would like to hear the Elijah' to-| 'No, that's true,' said Frithiof. night at the Albert Hall, and he 'It has made nie value that more, | has<eft you two tickets.' iand it has made me value yous "Wh Albani is singing, is she friendship more. But, you see, you not 1'! eried Cecil. "Oh, yes; I: are the only one at Rowan Tree should like to go, of all things!" House who still believes in me: and "Then I will tell you what we how you manage to do it passes my will do; we will send a card and comprehension--when there is' no- ask Mrs. Horner to go with you, thing to prove me innocent." { for it's the church meeting to-night,! "None of the things which we be. G n ' b and father aod 1 do met want to leve in mest can' be absolutely care must be taken to get them in miss it." tavared. said Seal, A can't lagi [the ground before sprouting begins 'Cecil could make no objection to-cally justily my belief in you any st : 3 this, though her pleasure was rather more than in our old talks 1 cou'd In the Ponitry Yard, damped by the pruspect of having justify my belie! in "the unseen! -It is a mistake to keep late Mrs, Hormer ~ as her companion. world." | hatched pullets of the large varie: There, was little love lost between "Do you remember that first: ties for winter layers. . are. them, for the innate refinement of Sunday when 1 was staying with always the late moulters. A hen the one jarred upon the innate vul- you, and you asked me whether 1 changes her coat at the same time ! garity of the other; and vice versa. had found a Norwegian church?' each year. . : : It was a little after seven o'clock | 'Yes, very well. It vexed me so] Hf 'convenient: separate the fowls when Cecil drove te the Horners'! much to have said anything about into several bunches They will lay house 'and was ushered into the it, but you see, I had always lived more eggs than if crowded together gorgeous drawing-room. : with people who went to church or in one house. For instance if a "My dear," exclaimed Mrs. Hor- [chapel as regularly as they tdok hundred hens are kept. divide into ner, entering with a perturbed face, ; their meals: four or five flocks and have a sep: "did got 'my letter veach you ini 'Well do you arate house or apartment for each time?' | made sure it would. The there is a Norwegian church down flock. (EAE zon fact is, 1 am nov feeling quite up near the Commercial Docks at] Don't forget to siore plenty of to going to-night, Could you find Rotherhithe. It is too far for Sig. cabbage for the hens. They take any one 'else; do you: think, who rid and Swanhild to go very often, the place of grass better than anv would' go: with you?" : 1hut to me it is like a Xie of Norway. slse t Cecil 'thought for a' moment. planted down in this great wild g "Sigrid would have liked it. but' ness of houses". he said 'Iv; I know she is too busy just now," |strange that 1 should have happe she remarked. } ed to come across it so nnexpect "And oh, dear, far better go edly. juyl at the time when I most alone than take Miss Falck!" said needed it.' 5 Mrs Horner: 1 shall never forget 'But that surely is what alway: what 1 endured when 1 took' her happens." said Cecil with me. to hear Corney Grain; she really need a thing we get iv."' Ba ai vrei Sarin ih " even. tween i went so far as 'to clap her hand: ating; It makes me hot to/ think of J last, after much' difsedny, ; secured a hansom. & at a cost of loss than trients contained in of roots are worth $30 in worth $20 per ton ; so the feed! value of "the roots 18: flicie pay for the cost of prod ide the additional adva eir supplving the ° suceul needed by the animal, 3 Planting Seeds of Pruits, Large seeds during ¢ seeds 'like the apple, 'graps, sete. a shallow, 'open box. - where 'it will kecp moist a thaw as 'often an it, will: allowed to dry out. Very early in in the and covered very lightly. The peed i in the row. know 1 was ron] M de like peaches and he was once Arduin 'plums may be planted in the fall, ringham. where some of the and they will freeze sufficiently bars of the Roval Family of e winter to cause them 10 were : sprout readily in the spring. Small' Edw h ! the wrong decoration. should "be mixed 'with sand. in the quietly removed his own QO fall or early winter, and placed in der. and 'under cover of the table The box: cloth affixed it to the nether should be set flat, on the ground the Marquis's waisteoat. No on the north side of a building the "party perceived this nd' re- 'good-natured. 'action, . the main there all winter to freeze and ment being divided * between |. 'The con- King and : Portug tents of the box should never be Minister.' "An Amerionn soldier was the spring just as soon as the soil 'asked what he thourht of the Prince rden will do to. work. the of Wales. 'What do T think of him? sceds should . be planted in rows replied the sergeant in a burst of s enthusiasm. "Why, Albert Edward be 'separated from the sand wave me 'my first (start: a sieve, but this is unneces: When the Prince was over : #ary as sand and all may be sown a visit'to the President. a grand re- |' Take care that the view and luncheon seeds 'do not 'become dry before honor here they replanted. 'Apple seeds he- friend of mine gin growing . very early, so that there, and wax fairly 'gone' on the young Prince. like: They all raved {the luncheon she said corporal, éan't you give me some thing that the Prince of Wales has} touched. Tdon was given ig his| if iw : b ..a-Mers: Brown, wa 't enre what, as lon