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. Gi RNS Ra fa a Oe ipa Be Gh St A LH ee he SI td of Bt the Ys he , 1 0 The ous nde Eilon should shut up if house for a time a to dismice ab Wwo of her maids. olesich . £ way," Mr, Pleyde i gn, * #0 and stay with her uy Wl do that," said Lady 'Ellen. me was like a child, eager to give obed- aa otek of town. 1 feel th that 1 don't ah ¥o do anything for a long, long 0. Pleydell em fled. 1 must go into the question of your in. coimente Lady Ellen," he said; I think 1 had better see what I can do ith that hotee preperty in Fulham which was 30 heavily mortgaged by your husband. The value of the property has very A ly increased, you kuow, during the ast two or three years. I think it more than fsprobable that if we wore to sell it. we chould get not only enough to clear off ortgage, but leave a fue eurplus in nd Lady Ellen felt guite relieved and light- hearted after Mr. Pleydell had gone away, First of all, she had the eensation of be- ing released from a kind of bondage, Mr, Penderten's manner the last time they had met had given her a veé a -impreesion. She h had no degite to see him Again, and che reproached herself that been rather too hasty in admit: Tine nea to her friendship. en ghe eat down and Tecribbled a line to her cousin, the Duchees of Wiltshire, and propceed herecif ag a guest for an in- defiahie period. ho duchece and her family were up in Scott and, juet at th's moment, and Lady Ellen knew that there would i nty of rocm for her in the huge old ca 3 had been in the » gens ion of the Wilt ghirce for gene! on Sho got an wer ov telegram froem her 00.8 and at ouce began to make er plan Iv waa, however, well into September oud arrange atl her affairs. Acting on Mr, Pleydell's advice, she paid off iwo of her servants, and the house was to be left in the charge o the other two. "No weelly bills," Ellen said to heruelt, 'for a mouth ry Yo, What a joy ! By each post that had come ehe had locked for a letter from Colonel Dawney, | but nothing reached her. On the ver morning of the day however, on whic she had fixed to travel to Scotland, he | suddenly appeared in her dismantled drawing-rocen. a going away to-night," said Lady Ellen. "1 am not sure that 1 ghall ever come back." "That sounds too terrible," he anewer: ed ea he heid. her little hand and pressed it warmly. k here, I want you 70 Some, and have some lunch with 'me to eg | her hands. ! 3 was just wondering My ccok's sone, you kuciy, and I'ma dof boiled ezge. ome slong Shen: I've gob a taxi waite She eklpped upstairs, put on her orelti) est hat, and was down again immediate | ¥. "You are the nicest thing I ever knew," she said to him; and he laughed. "I. thought I wee very nasty. That is what your ldst letter said." h!{ perhaps that ie how I felt when I -- Are 'we poing to lunch alone, Adrian?" « He ncdded his head. "Year I know of a e oldfcehioned re- staurant where they ve very good food, n wit quietly. I want to ask omething for me Elen eagerly. ! Ido go want to do things, for people, and I am always €0 Re Jurcheon wae the most delightful meal of which she had cver partaken, 80 Lady Ellen declared served, Colonel When the coffee was Dawney produced h's cigarette caee, and he handed jt to her. Bhe locked at him and shook her head. "No; I've given up smoking. I never really cared about it. I did it because 80 many other women do it; but Poppy al: waye hates me to smoke, and I know you do 10), don't vou" "He ¢a'd "Yes" quietly, "Now, Adr " said Lady Ellen, putting her «tbowe on the table, and propping up ther chin wiih her two hands. "Now, what you want me to do Tor you?" =x want you to be kind to another wo- Ths eagervess and the light flashed out of Lady Ellen's fage. "Oh! another woman." she 'she eC ded, rather irrelevantly. hot - gtillp oan we gaid; then "Isn't it We can't say, after all this we have no summer in England, Yes," eaid Qeional Dawes, 'another one wh) I uite sure needs thy . a0 you; a8 % het you have just seen her." ady len, "You mean that awfully pretty girl 4 who was { having tea with Yo the tony rove her." A about her, Adrian." Colonel Dawney did not' anawer imme- dintely and then said "1 kno utely nothing; 1 imagine #004 denl + "Are Jou seat eat, Iriends Tin er? "No, be her dri Fd ;, but she gay Balen Pi not ay Sich her: ang pe 10 be : er; and 5 To you Ti. day or wo and tell 1 that | ¢. found ol ro she is. 1 you hon Soonel Daswney t own affairs and e: roval of hat a she had ao n't, have more dealings With that tellow Tend:rten than you ¢an help," he said. "I never liked him; I never guite understood he came to be a partner with Pleyd He Js, 'such a different type of mang, 0, push "Yea ay Fiien a Als a 'but I -- x shall find it gather di cult to stop , 1 am | away Now, And. T nant have to meet going for geome time. Colonel Dawney drove her 'home and stayed TY or on a little while with her. But after he had gone Lady Ellen sat down and shed a few tear. "He didn't want me," ehe said; "he onl wanted to talk about that other girl hope I am not voing to hate her; but I know I shall if Adrian gets very fond of or. | Just at that moment her maid brought her a large box which had 'come from America. When thie wae opened it dis olosed a number of exquisite roses, which, though it had travelled eo far, had come in perfect - condition, eo carefully had they been packed. v ulian Bryant's card was attached them, and Lady Ellen felt quite a thrill of pleasure at this remembrance. "He is mice," she said to herself, "I am not quite eure if he ien't quite as nice as Adrian; still, if not quite as nice, at | Jeast very nearly." She took the rogeés with her whens ah travel led to -Scotland, and they were dis: ributed about the beautiful old roome | which had been specially prepared for The duchess smiled when she was told how far, the x roees had travelled and who t | ba y 4 Pie that 3 young man," che sa'd, "very Thuch, He seems a little cut of the com me, he cortainly lent a bit like the ordinary young man," eaid' Lady <H Ellen, "Do you know, to use a slang xpreesion, | 0 he geems to me to be quite "fed up' with | atl his money, and he's working at eome | motorcar fivention, Just wor ing yon | know with his own hands, 3 ing hours at a time in a worl He has gone out to America, I believe, ne con: |. nection with this invention, I am eo gl: you like him! When he comes back you must get him up here." "Of course,' onid the duchess; "you shall write out to America and invite him. Have you seen Adrian dnteay yo "He gave me a lunch yesterday. I was fearfully pleased to seé him, and then he took all my pleasure away because he | only wanted to sec me to talk about some singing girl in whom he is suddenly in. terested, very much interested, tool He le is fine to get you to take her up, Fors "Adrian recommends her she Juttst, | be good," said the duchess in a non-comm: Wien she left Lady Ellen's room she found herself for a few minutes alone with her husband. 3 Nell ie looking prettier than ever," she I said; "and 1 do believe that Mr. Bryant must have serious intentions. I 'rather has. It would, be such a good "Nell mustn't be in too great a hurry. She made one horrible mistake," said the | duke. "She mustn't repeat that mistake. "Oh! there would be no mistake with Mr. Bry: ryant, 1 haye studied him very olcsely," said. the duch ons, He is a parr Heularly nice man, L m to ask fim here, ile Nell ig with uss hs will give them an opportunity of seeing more of one another." The duchess said nothing about Adrian Dawney; she had long ago guessed Lady Ellen's secret; but she was too fond of her h cousin and too reall man to discuss so di with her husband. in her inte dent attr: sympathetic & wo- icate a matter, even She wae quite sincere tention to foster the very evi: on Julian Bryant hi for Lady Ellen, for ghe had settled in her mind that there was io likelihood of a future with Dawney. The duchess did not quite understand Colonel Dawney where a cousin, was concerned; undoubtedly he was fond of Lady Elen, , and took a Joop interest in all ahe did, but he tent to 'play a merely b: the life of this and that being Be S Shee, i vinced herself i Lady very lonely, and that at times es the memories of her unha omarted Hite shadowed and depressed there was the practical side Tot the tion. Jutian Bryant's money gould 1 leagant for Re r: Bryan gee that it 'was to' be forwar: 4nd fier a ook or two there came uifsa Bran vo on his is return a to Sud £% I re Just 2 ad see RY a SS i Sd a Tay | artist 3 iat, foi low na From left 10 right are 7 W. R. Critchley, So A. 0. Oritchley, Captain 0. Mr. J. A. Critchley. Captain O. A. Critchley is a taken all his sons to a Great Britain in the war. nadian owning a - They are now all i A. Critchley, and large ranch in Alberta 'who has in Btrathcona's Horse in camp. Salisbury, except Mr. W. R. Critchley, who is running a machine-gun' detachment in' an infantry talion. 'All are eix feet or oyer, the father being six feet three inches. Critchley are in the Canadian. regu for some time past, and this team at presen done so for the past two years. bination make up a most formidable team. far longer than he ad {intended 'to do plaintive little little note hed him after much travelling) that decided him to cut short his visit fad to go back. to LoDDY and I e, Deen looking for you to .appear ev ob Hhlen wrote. we are Tasher a ba, nin TURKEY'S WAR STRENGTH. Little Information on Has Been So Far : Available. - The advent of Turkey into the eem | field of hostilities: has aroused some interest as to what she may be able 1|to do, bat so far little information to have you with Christmas here is rather a will be in the best of Bryant. answered this let other ocablegram, announcing diate d ture for Engla The or oa, into Lady Ellen'd face as she read iwi Incstage, "Bh ticularly well in health, and nothing ostensibly a2 her life to make her disconten Pl 1 was man- afl trmciate her affairs Ma feving 'her of ediate anxiety; moreover, she Was made uch of by her cousin and the duke that ¢ life might have Deen ¢ one Bp tment, yet the old onal in her heart, Adrian Dawney never came to as and he left her so long without news of himself that she was quite prep to hear at any | moment that he wae mi and lost to her r for ever; but after a while news of him cam i hat he had n not heen al all unted for hie andy He wave) no definite promise, but he held ! up a at he too might al up gorth is epend Ohirionmne Sith the Wilt: eg Fy Ellen was disappointed, and yet in a sense relieved that he did not mention the matter of that girl Shout § hou they had epoken whon past th She tormen ad a ile be cause che Hoan" it pgm Tiegh tle be omel Dawney m. judge her a little for not oe done something to " could T Wo?" asked Lady Ellen of herself. "He did not know where she was, and he could hardly sxpesk Ti me, d her, especially as 1 Bd © Seine of i TB soon f, reproach } dr a X nas and Fo had 3 tatled him, 3 She Ban he had"had a d her cousin ¢! ein ph pi "but he: jeans an has been 4 to be all right now and Dérhaps come up here J2. wo are good, I or two's yp yeh . said Re 17 IRR are at Ee om Hy hues warm ure, said the Suchessl £1 ink it will do. 5 ly, Ellen ll exsiianient. Susiering in her. > e had sent a telegram to Colonel new BE hep o porhine take and 3h that h In EERE nie fides ashe eho reached th 0 wae oh eal wi to Julian's La it exoited He was living, as a matter of exciternen ; uatiing atmosphere in whi : EE its" exietence AE a whirl of 'nefvons bil iad | hag been available, | and nat acs} In the Beien- tific American a military authority endeavors to supply some of the facts, as follows: There is probably no army _ garding which it is more duttioult to make any definite statement of strength than that of Turkey. The estimates of the total number of men, fully armed and equipped 'that' Turkey can put in the fleld | vary all the ay rom over 1,200,000 to 500,000, the latter being the, esti mate of certain military men in the United States army, whose oppor- tunities for gathering information ed | on this subject are unuéually favor 1% able. " In 1010 there was un aderaken a revision of the whole military sys- tem, and at that time the term of service was 20 years, from 'the age of 20 to the age of 40, for all Otto: man subjects. Formerly Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire were exempt, but had to pay an ex- oneration tax; to-day, unless a change has recently been made, Christians are subject to service. In 1910 the total war strength of the infantry was given as about 1,- ©1500,000 rifles, with other troops in as | proportion ; but it is quite unlikely that such a force existed anywhere but on paper. When the war b oke out; the rex organization and re-equi of |: the Ottoman army Ey Ee Ty man general, von der Goltz, under way, but far from oe, and there is no doubt that th the wn : den declaration of war by the Bal: kan States ound the Turks at a ox | disadvantage of Snprepareduess, ha the to She, of the French nda 735 ound hovers = ehier a; waits | a A, C. and Mr. J. at lars, and have played:in their a team (Strathcona' s Hote) t holds the Western Canadian polo cham The father and other brother are: also fine players, o8 the asaly In J the family in com: % FON ERIS BREEN it NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE: LAND'S SHORES. dine Happenings in the Emerald Isle 'ot Interest to Irish- 5 men. Lieut. H. F. Day, eldest son of the Very Rév. Dean Day, Water: ford, has been killed in action in South Africa. "H. H. 0. Knox, J.B. Creagh, Ballinrobe, has been appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant fo for County Mayo, «* A railway servant named Law- rence Farrell of Newfoundwell, was knocked down by an engine an 'fatally injured. | Fifty-four thmatessd] / he Mit chellstown Union have been trans- ferred to Fermoy Workhouse to make room for the military. Stephen McDonagh, clerk of Pet- ty Sessions, and Harbor Master, Yoynes, fel do down dead while walk- n the tow Ohippendall, Governor of 'Armagh Prison, has been tempor- 8 Tpointed to the governorship Tough © Convict. Prison. oung John | Pe ine, of Glassiough was fatally bs by the accidental dis- 'of a gun while ferreting in the district. A woman satied Mis. Ferris, of tone; was: seriously injured and a little girl also hurt by two run- ; Was Inaway horses at the Market Square, Dromore. An old man named Samuel Me- Ohesney, Newry, was severely burn- éd when, owing to his weak condi- tion he fell across the fire while dinner, tl at the Cathedral. gates, Tipperary, fi {amsentod to over, $500. Pia | and men of 50. have such youn and when you get for-mercy. The : 'mercy, but some ; when they get our fell give them much eres, 'A son of J. Bank," was ey tish in their ed charge; says: Eh Te had about A kt" am nig of it with rather hea: majority, I am Je rad : not very heavily ded, 1 we glad to get aw vay bom the artillery fire, which\was stuff. © We are now awa, ) and having a good rest; Plenty. grub 2d a comparatively go time.' "Eannot Be a Long War. ne Alfred Lucas has received an in teresting letter®from R.. 'Hammond who joined the artillery on the on break of the war. "We have been in- the thick the fighting along the Yser lately Several of my lot; myself incl who are artillery men, are. tached to the R.F.A.; and J hot time. of it. determined efforts 3 guns, but without BUCCESS, 1 though we lost heavily 1 my battery especially oof of the Germans was au those who have witness ing a ee come ate for'a da; : the resy. The Germans are n alike ; In their attack upon us $l advanced with great bravery an rushed to certain death unflinchin ly. We learn § very little here of t progress. of the alliés generally, we have had no newspapers: long time, but I'venture the opinion that in view of the enormous ex nditure and slaughter that i ing on daily it cannot be war.' x Hussars' Hot Time, Fred Cocking, a trumpeter of 2nd Dragoon Guards, 'whose | is at Matloe! ents ;--' The 11 hot to-day. We dot many have gone buried in their own tf Germans got. the ram big guns and dropp into the trenches. lucky 'until I Our! have been doing Fe work They take more chances than 'ax body by flying right over: man trenches, a lery fire by ron ored*lights. My w being under #1 Th '| der, over aeroplan