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Some two weeks or so after the day, on which Duncan M'Donnell had re- turned as from the dead, Mabel At-| terton, attired in a black and scarlet Parisian ™ereation," which admirably set off her dark beauty, sat in-a well- appointed lowland drawing-room, ex-| changing commonplaces with some | half-dozen other maidens and ma-| trons, pendin~ the male invasion from the dining-room. 1 Among the different pairs of eyes. present, it was Mabel's that turned most persistently towards the door, just as it was her ears which listened most attentively for the ascending | steps. Arrived barely in time for | the dressing-gong, she had been agreeably surprised to find her cou- gin, Ronald Macgilvray, figuring | among « the: actors in to-morrow's drama, to which the famed pheasant coverts of Bashwood were to furnish the scene. . But leisure for more than a passing greeting there had been It is fine for __¥ cleaning cans- gi the omfort Pde oo 7 HET nne : Now dare 1S just one In ONE TOWN where I stay, And, say, you ought to Wy see me grin 3 When my trip heads » that way. = The only other time I was so happy, 'Was when 8 kid Dad bough tme = Was when E Red topped boots With copper 2 'When other travelers hit that town, They, too don't want to roam ay say, "At that WALKER Whota aI y Ne fowN where WALKER HOUSE is? Don't The House of Plenty Walker House Toronto ; | i | Even as it was, and though he did 2 HOUSE legs "search . loch, he mana rn hy none, and she had several things wo! say to him. ed so hard at the door, and also why |i she had chosen the seat in the' room though she wears, more or less, fash- which seemed to ensure the most privacy. . The door once opened, and his*eye caught, it required no more than a slight wave of her feather-fan to bring him to her side. At dinner al- ready she had privately noted that he was not looking as cheerful as the prospect of to-morrow's slaughter ought to have made him; and while he! crossed the room towards her, the impression was strengthened. . The observation fixed her determination to say what she had to say. : First a few airy generalities, so as to get under weigh, then,'upon the same tone: tan "I'm fresh from Balladrochit, *you know. You've heard of our latest Ardloch sensation, have you not?" Over the top of her fan, with which she was pretending to shield herself from the glare of a neighboring lamp, Mabel watched her cousin curiously. For months past, she had puzzled her head as to how far exactly that flirta- tion in summer had gone, and to-day she meant to know. : ? The start of pain-he gave, as pal- pable as though the wotd "Ardloch" ad been the point of a sharp knife, could not escape her, nor halting of his voice as he said: "You mean about the missing boat- man and the search in the loch; and then his turning up again? 1 saw something about it in the Scotsmap." "It was quite exciting, I assure you, --quite a story-book sort of affair. They were talking of nothing else when I got home. Nobody for a mo- ment believed they'd ever see him again; and if he hadn't happened to be an Al swimmer, they never would. manage to fight his way to land, he nearly smashed his skull in doing so, being hurled straight on to the rocks, 'ag helpless as a bunch of see-weed, That was why she idol | 25 it looks at first si is y ocent ordinary occasions, som 'at moment Ligne iid) of | hing the 'desired sub preferable to a direct one. ously such a way presented her Ts, 1 Tesi? the continuation of some am ner reflection. { "Yes; Ardloch has been qui ly. Events just tumbling over, each other. Why, your humble servant herself got mi You'll ne y an the day | terday!" She looked at him with a glafice which plainly said: "Don't you want to know ?"--then without waiting for a demand that was evidently not com- ing, rattled on: 3 "@ got a proposal of marriage. There now! And from a native, too, --+that young the minister's son, you know. Never wag so taken aback in my life. He had been very useful all summer" (his failure in one of the uses he put. to, that of stirring the earer's jealousy, was necessarily left unmentioned)--""and 'perhaps I had been a little too imprudently grate- ful; but how was I to guess that he'd take it for anything but gratitude? When I saw how cut up he was, I felt dreadfully wicked, --really I did. For the future I mean to be unapproach- able to any person under fifty, But, all the same, it ig rich, isn't it? That young man will go far yet." Through Ronald's transparent phy- siognbmy . something like the sym- pathy of. fellow-feeling was looking, as fhough from a window. "By Jove, that's cheek! But, all the same--I'm sorry for the fellow." .."So'am 1. He's such'a queer mix- ture of sharpness and simplicity. resent the conclusion that it was his sister's harriage that was putting me off. It's the proper romantic end- ing to the boat story." Y Over the feathery edge of her fan Mabel's eyes grew keen with werds, superfluously keen, for the growing agitation was writ large. | "Yes--I--there was something in' hash, chowders, ut the Scotsman about that too; 1 wasn't sure whether it wasn't just talk." / ~-- "It's past the stage of talk, by this time, quite a properly attested fact; and it isn't nearly so Spring either! ight. e man her own cousin after all; and jondable frocks now, her father be- gan by working in the quarties, just the-same as his father did. Ina way the marriage is quite suitable; thoug in another way it's of course a bi come=down, = Nobody seems Plesseq| except the minister,--and, Ie to be| sure, mamma. You should see her patting the girl's head as approvingly as though she had just finished a dictation which needed no corrections. | I've suspected fo some time back! that mamma's a fraud. My young man seems to feel the thing a good, deal. He would have felt it more, no| doubt, if they had stayed in the coun-| try, but he asures me that they won't. Going to decamp to Canada or some- where. The old father, who would have been the difficulty, has only a little bit of tether to run, it seems. They're not quite sure whether it was the shock of losing his son or the joy of getting him back which is kill- ing him, but anyway his days are numbered. have all this at first- hand, from my red-haired swain, who used™it, mind you, as a means of ersuasion. ~~ The workman-brother- in-law wasn't a real objection, he argued, since he was Sok to vanish from the horizon. at he himself might be the objection did not seem to have occurred to the innocent youth." She paused and again waited, and this time it was clear that something wag coming. One little shove more and reserye would topple over. "Have you ever heard of anything so preposterous?" she asked, with an insinuating trailing of her words. - "It wouldn't have been preposterous if you had cared for him," stammered Ronald, deep-red in the face, and very intent upon the toes of his evening pumps. . oo 3 "But one doesn't care for that sort, usually." "One does, Mab--sometimes. That's according his own version. like a bunch of sea-weed he lay there all night, as good as dead. It was there that a party of poachers found him at break of day--the very same wretches. I do believe, who have been thinning out my grouse lately-- sprawling all over a rock with his in Between them, the hills, they have been -Housi past. to the dis my keepers. en they'd briught him round with whiskey, he naturally wanted a mes- sage sent to och; but amateur! Samaritans quite as natural- ly objetted to the publicity of the proceeding. As he was too weak to move immediately, and being, at any rate, on the Wrong side of the water, therefore, nothing for it but to lie low. That's what he was doing that whole first day while they were scouring the shore and plumbing the gepths. Next day, when the moved further down th 'he mal to crawl forth; - it took him the whole day to reach the nearest house, that is Ballad: 3d for his ankle, too, had been ill-treated| by the rocks. There he nearly gave Alick--the gardener, you know--a fit by stalking in in the dusk apd, de- manding ont punch the man's head in order to ] waste ghe AE 1 believe he had to - what happened to me. ssed--" { fen the flood-gates burst, and the story of his rejected love poured unchecked, though brokenly, from his} lips. With the mere act of speak- ing, his ill-treated young heart grew lighter, After months of tongue- tied brooding, merely to ance into words was to diminish it. Sunk among the soft-cushions, yih her fan mow dropped to her "Tap, Mabel listened in a sort of consterna- tion. She had not guessed this. That he had been smitten, she knew, bt never in her wildest s tions ha her surmises gone as far as an actual proposal of marriage. Her The laugh she gave row, still shad-' "ling her face from the lamp, Secmed even in. ; up in them. for them wh r guess what 'hap to, consume, haps, ore yes- bushels of man with the red hair, When I said No, he seemed to jump to! | You have heard about that too, prob- | =| ably. I don't know t his griev-1 conserval (as a pr | Pota semi-peri not eat | now hooves sip A o two _and one-half | year, or aboi rd. 3 per day: 'to one fair-sized po- tato. In some European countries i one pound' per day per capita is con- sumed, and in some districts four | pounds per day, and nearly twenty- ! five bushels per year. ¢ Despite the inerease in price since the war, potatoes are still among. the cheapest of foods. One pound of roast beef costs ten times as much as a pound of potatoes, and twenty per cent. of beef is bone. Three and a third pounds of potatoes supply 1,000 calories of energy, at a cost of less than 10 cents, while about2,500 calories" are required for full grown persons working indoors. That is to say, if all foods were as cheap as pota- toes we could live on 26 cents a day. Healthy men have lived and worked { for months on a diet of nothing else than potatoes, olomargarine and a little fruit. _ Potatoes contain pro- tein.of the very best kind. They also | contain mineral galts which neutralize harmful acids in the bedy.. The food | material in potatoes is 98 per cent. digestible. 1 Canadians have large supplies of potatoes, carfots, onions and turnips and by consuming these vegetables freely, they can economize with bread. More than 300 ways of cooking potatoes are known. They 'combine well with many flavors. They can be used to economical advantage With meat and fish, in-stews, croquetfes, meat pies, etc. = One half a cup of mashed potatoes and two cups of flour make a bread mixture that helps the flour go farther. Good cooks know the ways of uging potatoes are various--boiled, steam- ed, lyonnaised, baked, chipped, fried, hashed brown, creamed, escalloped, stuffed, au gratin, and scores of com- binations. 3 Canada has plenty of.potatoes and, although the price is high compared to normal times, it is mot high in comparison with other foods in war time. i rd Polenta, an Italian way of serving corn-meal, makes almost a meal in it- self. Put slices of. cold mush in a baking dish, cover with a cupful of sliced onions that-have been fried in 'ham or bacon fat; over these pour two cupfuls of canned tomatoes and cover all with a cupful of grater cheese; bake until the cheese is melted and slightly browned. -------------- i \ years. + Cash Income crease arrogance of mind forbade alike the! thought of her cousin stooping so low, as of the minister's daughter oo 1 t the prize. Hi 'oncluded em unger. 16 | the 8) 5 . ufficient explanation of his te retirement; and i extensive experi with a view to | of flax in § should result ir : in the administration of its large busi- \ SUN LIFE 'Assets at December 31st, 1917, wwe ee - Increase : New Assurances issued and Paid for in Cask. + = .*® k » . 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