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"ed face nearer to her. for that reason bulk. Your 'delicious blen is never sold in rocer sells this . Try SALADA. CHAPTER XLVIL--(Cont"d.) Meanwhi's Mary Bisset was walk- ing up and down swiftly in tho chill of the fireless parlor, It was the early' morning 'of a northern winter and id with. the usual dampish haze. he streets gleamed a little and the pavements appeared byighter than the gloomy sky. A stray light or two blinked belatedly in the otherwise © blank front of the houses and was reflected on the greasy pevementa. A iceman drew his cloak closer about', is shoulders and looked eagerly for his relief. He smelt many breakfasts ' and stamped his feet. Shutters were rattling endwise on the flags] being | clattered into bundles and made to disappear swiftly behind shop | A maid with an untidy "bang" low on her forehead was sweeping qut the baker's shop opposite. The policeman Jooked over at her with a friendly ox pression. But she slammed the door | and went in, She despised policemen. She hoped she was a step that. She was engaged (or the next thing /, to it) to a clerk in an office at eight shillings a week. Mary had a book in her hand, and was su to be looking over her lesson for the day. Half a dozen note- books, roll-books, and buadles of ex- ercises, blotted and scrawled, sbut! interiineated in red with her own neat and business-like writing, Jay Sunder the broad indiarubber band h she used to keep them together on her way to school. Presently Dick game in He rubbed his "Beastly cold," 1, muttered. Say, old girl, SL IY ot mick! Get it off mind whatever {t {s, and let's get! pag 0 She Christmas fireside. This sort Ron ing don't conduce to moral reso- jon. ary stop) opposite her brother, The "table a on old-figured table- cloth was between them. The light from. the large double: window fell greenish-grey upon his face. He as unwholesome™as -possible, 'a strange brother for Mary Bisset to fay claim to. "Now, Dick Bisset," the sibilants fairly hissed, driven forward by the impulsion of scorn and disgust which was behind them, "will you give me the eighteen pounds you le from Kit Kennedy upstairs, or shall I bring in a policeman?" ae had been stamping, shuffling, ing his hands disconsolately, an gener dragging himself frowsily jogethe r to face the actualities of the jig when Mary's words, as clearly enunciated as if spoken to a class, fell on his ear, he seemed to tumble in- para, upon himself like e collapsing "Eh-eh?--what--what's that?" he Ding at at the edge of the table gasped, Zripving barking across at his sister as he rast a suddenly whiten- nijing. , with the Roman Mary Bisset Jopeated her request still more clear] "I allow. you Seo minutes to make up your mind. Either give me the eighteen pounds you stole out of Kit Kennedy's desk; or I will down a Sete up that policeman i" | nd with her hand Mary indicated no cloaked figure standing sentinel pposite the baker's shop. "Hush--for God's sake, hush! My father will hear you," whispered Dick. | aay father is gone out--my mother Jay. We can talk!" said his sister. - idn't, Mary--by heaven, I didn't do it. I wasn't in his room a moment. He lent me the money," gasped Dick. "He lent me a pound--I own that, but I did not steal his money. What do u mean, Mary Bisset," he spoke uder now, "b; charging ur bro- ther with Sing a common thief? I'l let you know, madam----" an fixed him with the eye where- {with she-subdued "an unruly class or {FOPL2L Day.a demonsirati ve admirer. 'Ri "where were you going when I opened the door to let out Mr. Cathcart? I saw you run upstairs into Mr, Ken- nedy's room. I waited till I heard you come down again. I knew you must Noe come home early from the Ely- | sium on purpose. But I thought you wanted to see if Kennedy had got home. I know better now. Give me the mone; Then the face of Mr. Richard Bis- set became pitiful to see. "Don't tell my father that," he said' "he always sides against me. I couldn't help f. I had to do it or be disgraced. 1 was owing money at the offige. Besides, the 'swot' upstairs plenty of money, and"he thinks pn pal took it--that Oy to chap beak. Mary, as you Jove me, as I am your brother, don't say a word." e came round the table and tried to take his sister by the hand. His weak mouth wag working, and there was a gietty foam gathering about the wicks. "Give me the money," repeated Mazy Bisset, implacably. e merciful Mary, "" he cried, sink- ing on his knees; * 'see, I beg of you. You and I have always been pretty good friends, haven't we, Mary?" "Get up, you pitiful coward," cried his sister; "stand up to your crime you stole from Kit Kennedy, without which he is disgraced." "I cannot--before God 1 cannot," Dick, still on his knees; * re, sis, I had to pe yestérday morning into the till before the Doss aig wong 10 Steck my Potty | cash. And I spent the res:-- ve some "No more lies, Dick; you couldn' spend eight pounds in a single day nif the first part were true. Come into your room! Mr. Richard Bisset" raised himself ut in ten pounds! WHATEVER YOU SEND SUITS Wl ITO IH OR TTT ARTICLES they. will be bancd All the leading col- . ors are included in -our dyeing list. 'Prompt Service. Carriage charges paid one way. word and his will be better than yours ku! yu. oA Wr Ha © few Ee it would} got oe ak enough. to his full A and endeavored to a d expression. "What if od you do your worst?" he said, in worl ying fone. "I can see 'the country swine has been blab: bing to you. How will it look if it|mai comes' out to Mr. Cathcart nd you Jou managers that you supper same night at Sponton's with the a of the money? How can he prove that he did not spend the money him- self, or take it in his pocket and eased of it on the way--aye, or it to you Oh, suc have been before, young lady, and-they can be again And your i name ain't quite--" - I want the money. * said Mary Bis- |p set, 60 oddly. 4 end bitterly that ie ™ Kennedy would not have Tore. Rad ho Doon 40 She. aay 00m "whatever may come of it after, my ve Kennedy and his comrade ta Je-that wii will Snongh that uences oe se! | Tun in arms wre him, That Mary was rather overstat- ba 0 she eaid, straightly, | Pocket. like a man. Give me back every penny | 'see , when he thought wou were a-walk in ngs | hand. "Open t case." Dick's only lock-fast <case she had once tage Dirthaay, 'Her brother sco with an almost murders " ait do hing of the sort. There's vothing in be ot Lk Erg ur fous friend thor," he said, with an u Yory well," said Mary Bisset, | id ginning to walk towards the Dick saw the wet wi waterproof cover x he Doteenian's i 's helmet still sentinel The "Don't go," be said, weakly; "I'll out and gid with a a soft rush upon the scented, Th monogram! alr bong colors. M stirred these contumeliously point of her small but very rustion) boot. » Then she lifted d of a little - velvet-lined Som ment. Two pounds in notes la; Sogether with a white-wra iis lers box. Mary coolly lifted and count- ed the money and slipped it into her pocket. Then she herself of the Jeweller's box and a receipted bill 'which lay beneath it. Dick swept forward aj again. ve that alone!" he cried, hoarsely; "that has nothing to do with you or with the money. I swear bo you that it hae not!" Mary coolly stood her ground and opened the bill, It was dated the day before, and the date stamp attested the fact that it had Tr paid the same day to a firm of jewellers on the North Bridge. Then she thrust the whole into her "Go to your breakfast, Dick Bisset," she said, "and thank your Maker that you have a sister." Dick made a final appeal. "Mary," he said, in a shaky voice, id and I have always been pals, I've never told about your Fig to | church. Tve never let on that you I don't think as father doe. Give me the' money. now. R_pay that fellow upstairs' as soon a can raisé the cash. I will--I promise it. I'll swear it if you like. But I need the money now, and I must have it." "All T have to say to you I have said, Richard Bisset. Now gp!" quoth this determined little lady. Then the fdllow's mn anger burst into sudden fury. "You call yourself a sister. You think yourself a Christian.' I hate such sneaking. You will favor any- body but your own brother. I don't believe you are my sister at all. I've seen my-~father's: papers, -mind you. |I know more than you think. on are no sister of ine, You! re a found. ling picked out of a ge root!" "Well," said Mary, careless of his raving, "at any rate I know more than father knows about some things. And if you don't take care I wid tell him what I know." "Take care! Take care yourse'$! Dick stood before his sister with clenched "hands and injected eyes. hat would your father say if he knew that you went regularly be church--sneaked off to communion the park with me? And I've screened you for years, and expected you to stand up for me in your turn. More than that, suppose I gpiit about waking in the Meadows with -- nedy, and his meeting you every night on the way 'What would your father say to then, Miss Immacu- late Straightforwardness!" "You can say or leave unsaid exad- ly what you please," said Mary; haps my fat knows more of things than oD [a imagine, At any rate," she added, looking meditatively out. of of the window, "there always re- TN Children--children--what aré yo t! arguing about?' cried Mrs. Bloset through the shut door. Then, dusting the meal from her hands, eho ope! it, and saw Dick standing at one side of the table and Mary on the other near the window with a book in her "Oh, I suppose Dick is helping you wi' your arithmetic," hon "Ye 8 Jere rT . a kenning 'weak in that, eye Yejuizied M Bisset, 1ki ast in ie it is I who the} been a Dick's arith- metic!" ; ; bn "CHAPTER FAT or in there that concerns! A He fumbled in his waistcoat for the/| the meaning of that word. . | course in And was Jertsalem: erous with money, says Mr." Thomas Pearson In' Asta, but they are miserly enough in matters of prestige. You iY | have to go to Persia to learn the true I have heard it variously used all my life, but no- T-| Shere is -it fraught with such ewful meaning as in- Persia. The proper seating of guests at table, for example, becomes a problem before which even the most valiant quail, In Persia in- fluence and prestige cluster around the centre of the board; those seated at the ends may consider themselves lucky to have been invited at all. A guest quite properly resents being seated below some one whom he con- siders his inferior and often prefers to remain at home rather than submit to the indignity. The proper way to prepare a room for receiving Persians is to place chairs around the room side by side, with their backs to the walls. In front of the chairs ttere should be little tables, possibly cne table for every four chairs, and on the tables should be fruit and sweets. No one ever disturbs the artistic arrangement of fruits and sweets, but they are es- sential to the setting of a banquet. At interyals you will send large trays fill- ed with cups of tea about the room. The first guests arrive, and, having greeted the. host, who sits near the door, they make thelr way to a far corner, where they sit down and spend the first few minutes in taking in every detail of the room and of its fur- nishings. Then they begin to talk with 'their neighbors. At Intervals more guests come in, and the chairs are filled. Half the fun of a Persian party is watching the other fellow come in. Persians have an interesting habit of remaining seated when a per- and smiling and half. rising: after the |. newcomer has taken his chair. The latter acknowledges the courtesy by half rising in unison. with the crowd the moment he has-touched his chair. This procedure passes the time ad- mirably if you know the game and keep your wits about you, Thus, when a personage enters the room, every one bows and 'smiles:and has 'a "per: fectly hegvenly time, but when an in- conspicuous somebody comes in every one ie deep in conversation with his neighbor and pretends he does not see. Once, after some local disaster, a meeting of publicspivited ®itizens was called for three o'clock to subscribe funds for relief of the victims. I pre- ur |gented myself at whal med to me to be the proper tine. I was the first to arrive and was ushered out upon-a terrace overlooking a&"famous garden. Around the terrace stood an fmpres- sive array of chairs and tables. In due other persons arrived and chose seats as seemed hest to them. At half past six the most important Lpersonage arrived, nd the meeting was called to order. After a few ap- propriate words the main business .of the occasion was taken up. 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