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CHAPTER XV.--(Cont'd.) So alarming was the consequence of this that Bennet could not at once realize it was simply a consequence. He jumped up in a fright, imagining that his grandfather suddenly had suffered from a cramp or other physi- cal seizure. "Why, grandfather, you want some whiskey? I'll get you--" Lucas controlled himself and stood up. "Indigestion," he mumbled. "Ca. viar here tonight. Go on; what else happened?" 'When Bennet informed him that no- thing else transpired at the seance, he thought for a while that his grand- son was concealing something; but at last he satisfied himself that "ie knew all; and he went to his room. For Lucas never did anything at all at Galilee except meet James Quin- lan there and there direct J. Q. to the deed that was to be done. It was marvelous how, throughout the forty-six years which had passed since that meeting, Lucas had car- ried consciousness of his own guilt always associated with the place of meeting, "Galilee." He had not known that Quinlan had done so too. He had supposed that Quinlan had lived out his life with a different association. And yet this was natural enough. "Natural enough!" Lucas muttered to himself. "Galilee!" But J. Q. was dead; Kincheloe had put his body in the lake. Who, then, knew about Galilee and could associate it with a flaming torch? No one else in all the world but Lucas himself! Yet Ethel and that Loutrelle and Ben- net had found out. If they drew "Galilee" and the torch from him, what else could they draw? If they obtained it from the dead, how much more would the dead tell? That was a staggerer for Lucas who had acted upon the simple and effec- tive formula that dead men tell no tales. "Galilee and a flaming torch!" Lucas winced and swung back to his window. So old J. Q., though dead, had told? How could Lucas shut up # ghost? An idea, half former, seized him; and he stood stark. It progressed in his mind; and he laughed. In a re- action, it revolted himself; he dis- carded it; but it came back to him, more convincingly, more complete, and ~it promised him triumph. Tt was after nine the next morning before Ethel awoke; and then it was so delightful to lie in bed, dreaming over the hours of the evening, that she made no stir, and it was ten when a maid knocked at her door, She an- swered joyously. "Some one for me?" "Yes, Miss Carew. Mr. Lucas Cul- « len, your grandfather." Ethel hastened down and found her grandfather, with his overcoat on and holding his hat in his gloved hand, standing in the centre of the drawing room and gazing critically about, "Yon little- fool!" he accused her commiseratingly. "Can't you feel even when your own flesh and blood tries to protect you?" "From what, grandfather?" "Had it ever occurred to you that the reason your father never came to my house was that he couldn't?" "No," Ethel said. "Think over it a minute." "Why?" "Why wouldn't I have him there? He couldn't tell you, I wouldn't. I thought I'd never have to: but you've forced me. This fellow you call Lou- trelle. "You believe that your father--so Bennet's been telling me--got in touch with this fellow called Loutrelle after your father died? That started your interest in him?" "Yes." "Why do you suppose your father did that? Why did he pick him, I mean?" "Why--why, grandfather; he was going to meet me. Father knew that, some way--" "Pomfoolery! Look here, your fa- ther was killed, and after he was dead --=g0 you think--he tried to talk to this Loutrelle. So let's just take your own information; your father's spirit, the first think after he was dead, goes about looking for a fellow named Bar- Ethel hastened down and found her grandfather, ney Loutrelle. Now spirits--all I've heard of--usually go first for those closest to 'em, don't they?" "Why, usually, grandfather." "Well, what makes you think this is an exception?" Ethel shrank back, comprehending less his words than the ugliness of his inflection. "What do you mean?" manded. i "Well, who more natural for a fa- ther to seek than his son?" "My father!" Ethel said. talking about my father?" "Before he was your father. I knew him. He was about St. Florentin quite a little in the old days--quijte a little! You may remember I would not have him marry my daughter. So they ran off, I knew--there was a girl to go to Resurrection Rock." Ethel flung herself at him and with her little fists clenched tight she pum- meled him on the chest. "You lie-- you lie--you lie! My father! You lie--you lie--" 'she de- "You're He caught her fists and held her ( brutally before hin, He saw that he had not at all convinced her; but he had not expected to simply by this statement of the false before combin- ing it with what was true. He was too old end shrewd in experience fo fail to know how a truth told may carry with it a Ne. "Who was his father then?" he demanded of his granddaughter, half shaking her, "Do you know? Then tell me! I don't know, of course; pa- ternity's not like maternity} but his) mother-- Do you know ho the was? sion which visibly. shook her sligh Mrs, Oliver Cullen?" the hands frenbig on Bnei shoulder. "What was elling to you? Oh, you must tell me; he said Mrs. Cullen--" othing about her now!" Ethel cried. "I mean, he was talking about her "long ago. But--but," suddenly she 'collapsed in the housekeeper's arms. "I'm going awdy; home to Wy- ng, Mrs. Wain, You must help me off, And if Mr. Loutrelle calls for }me or telephones, I can not speak to "{him! Tean't see him! Perhaps--per- haps IT can write. I must never meet him again!" RSE CHAPTER XVL Early that afternoon, Lucas's de- pendable operative reported that he had followed Ethel Carew to the Un- jon Station where she purchased a ticket and boarded a train for Sheri- dan; Wyoming. She had been unat- tended and plainly under the stress of strong emotion. What Ethel had told Barney was brief and simple in its final state- ment. "Dear Barney: "I have found that I must leave at once for my home. Some time later, I shall know how to explain what must seem madness to you. Now I can not. "Where you are and how you are and what you are doing remain with me the most important things in my life; so you must let me know all about yourself. My address will be Sheridan, Wyoming. "ETHEL." It was several days later that Mrs, Wain, the housekeéper, phoned a re- quest for him to call. "I speak to you, sir," Mrs. Wain said breathlessly, after she had sunk into the seat, "upon my own responsi- bility, sir; entirelys So I must ask you, before I say another word, to give me your word as a gentleman, that you will make no use of what I shall tell --aunless I allow you." Barney felt his pulses pounding again. "What is it?" he demanded. "You will meet me, sir--when you're sure you're not followed ?"" "Where?" "At the corner of Tenth and Wa- bash." Barney went immediately down- town. .He had to wait on the corner only a few minutes before Mrs. Wain drove up in a taxi and invited him in. "St, Luke's Hospital," she said to the driver; and when the door was closed, she vouchsafed to Barney, "She's had another operation; it was performed the day before yesterday. She rallied at first but sank later." Still the housekeeper gave no inti- mation of who "she" was; and Bar- ney was aware that direct inquiry would be vain. Barney did not know her; when the nurse, who had been beside the bed, moved away, and Mrs. Wain held back and Barney advanced alone, he was not conseious of ever having seen the woman who lay on her side with her profile plain against the pillow. Yet a fluttering of awe--of more than awe--came over him as he halted sil- ently beside the bed. Her face, ash she lay turned toward him, was beautiful, though illness and intense suffering she had surely en- dured. Her skin was clear and lovely even in its deathly pallor; her hair-- black and abundant-- had clung to its lustre as had her dark brows and the lashes which lay on her cheek, Even now the indomitable soul of her--that essence of her spirit which persisted though consciousness long wa gone-- was keeping up the fight, Barney felt And he wanted her to win; oh, how he wanted her to win. Tt seemed to him he had never wish- ed so for another's life; and why? Because, for the first time, he was be- side some one who belonged to him by blood? Because she was his--mother? (To be continued.) YE Lloyd George's Record J. L. Garvin in the London Observer Ind.): To overdo the disparagement of Mr, Lloyd George does not look well. It will not gain a single vote and may lose. votes. ~~ After . all, though his génius fs full of the faults of bis qualities, he come out as a his- toric man of action in" the sternest crisis the world ever saw; and he has tion, He will be:remembered always tion. in the War, hut as the founder of Social Ins He lost himself lamentably after the Armistice because he has recovered his no ; Was he saying to you of | ught, her carried in his time very great legisla-| 'not 'only for, inspiration and organiza- £ he has found his form Put a pint of milk on to boil. Mix two teaspoonfuls- of flour with quatter of a pint of milk, Pour this into the boiling milk and boil for five minutes. Take two teaspoonfuls of Cadbury's cocoa, add a tablespoonful of sugar, pour half a cup of boiling water on the cocea, stirring all the time and, when well dissolved, pour into the mixture. Boil for two min- utes, then poury into custard glasses and serve cold. A little whipped cream on the top is a great improve- ment. . Fried Smelts. Wash the smelts, make a slight opening at the gills with a very sharp knife or scissors, draw them between the thumb and finger from tail to head, press the intestines out at the gill opening, keeping the dish whole. Wash and dry and dust with salt and black peper. Beat up an egg, add a tablespoon of water and beat again. Dip the fish in the egg and cover thor oughly with seasoned bread crumbs. Fry. quickly in deep, hot fat. Drain on brown paper; dish on a napkin and serve with Tartar sauce. To Bake a Ham. As a ham for baking should be well soaked, it should remain in water for at least twelve hours, Wipe it dry, trim away any bad places, and cover it with a common crust, taking care that this is of sufficient thickness all over to keep the gravy in. Place it in'a moderately-heated oven and bake for nearly four hours. Take off the crust and skin and cover with rasp- ings, the same as for broiled ham, and garnish the knuckle with a paper frill. This method of cooking a ham is far superior to boiling, as it cuts fuller of gravy and has finer flavour, besides keeping a much longer time. Cook a medium-sized ham four hours. Girdle Scones. Put a half-cup of flour into a basin with a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar, also half a teaspoonful of bak- ing soda and a half teaspoonful of cream of tartar, with the lumps pressed out, Crumble into these in- gredients a teaspoonful of lard and make the whole into a soft dough with a little buttermilk. If sweet milk is used allow one teaspoonful of cream of tartar in place of hall a teaspoon- tal. Turn out the dough, knead a lit- tle, and roll into a round, thinner than for oven teones. Cut neatly into large scones or small ones as desired and bake on a heated girdle, turning once. Steam in a fresh towel when ready. Mrs. Pethrick-Lawrence, in her presidential address to the twenty- second "annual conference of the 'Women's Freedom League at the Cax-| ton Hall, Westminster, said: Ls "There are women leaders who are deeply imbued sub-consciously with the tradition of women's inferiority, Moved by pity for women's helpless. ness, they are pleading for special leg 1 's condi- tions and hours of labour. They draft proposed legislation in "which they class children, young persons and women together, regardless of the fact that by so doing they inevitably lower the industrial status and the wage standard of women. ; "In the social and moral sphere, much remains to be done to establish the equal moral standard, In particu- lar, the practice of branding women with a bad name and depriving them of the protection afforded by the law of the land to every other section of the community must be abandoned, and the law changed which placed the honour and reputation and liberty of a woman at the hazard of the uncor- roborated evidence of a single police officer. "Our hope 18 in the young," she con- cluded, "in those who have never known the crushing obsession of the idea of inferiority, or the limiting re- striction upon their mental moral and personal freedom, They are coming into their inheritance. They are mak- ing a-better world. We commend to them our motto: 'Dare fo be' Free." organ. It starts working the minute we get up in the morning and does not stop until we get to the office. ---- ees. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordin- ary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctifled af- 7 | Sing hey for the' Joy of sw | {Tis then there's never a "might-have-! 3 AN SAMAR The human brain is a wonderful |. of sweet sixteen, been," : FAR ES Though careless years be youthful wage : x Regret oft pens the book of age-- When man is cold he longs for heat, When hot, to cool he would retreat; Unguiet here, he would be there, When there, his fancy flies elsewhere; Whenever tied, he would be free, It single then He'd married be For life is change and change is life, Content eludes the envying strife; So here's for the joy of sweet sixteen, "Tis then there's never a "might-have- been." (W.M'C., in the "Glasgow Herald") ie er Use Minard's for the rub down. BE PAS How knowest thou whether the thing thou reportest is trme? Is it only because a creditable person spake It? But how did that person know it to be true? Might he not take it upon trust as well as thou?. And might he not take a person to be credible that 1s not?--Richard Baxter, r--r-- Joy and h are idered a great sin among the righteous. They will have that in heaven, they say, but personally I have always hated to wait that long; what if there isn't any ?--Clarence Darrow, A annual Cl cal ries Exposi asus loa 'opened here, mod ot. Tiirnace 18 a part of the General lectric Come. tors who are showing the newest velopments in chemistry and its lied fields. during the lasts/year. "Thi General Blectric exhibit also includes a new "thyrotron" tube that is sensi - tive enough to measure the deflection lol a steel rail under the pressure of one's little finger. . The furnace is the result of a new application of high-frequency elec. tricity. © An alternating = current which chénges its -direction 300.000 times a second is run through a 'special coil. When a metal is placed inside the coll, the sudden reversals of the electric field so agitate tho metal's electrons that their bombard ment against each = other produces great heat. : The device Las no effect upon any substance that is not a conductor of electricity. Thus a person inside the furnace would feel no heat, although a bunch of keys in his pocket would become red hot almost immediately, The furnace is designed for special use in the manufacture of radio tubes. The new "thyrotron," according to BE. L. Mauning, General Electric re- search physicist in charge of the ex« hibit, is still undergoing experiments. BOOKS WANTED 01d Canadian books, documents, etc. Highest prices offered, Advise what you have. J. M. SUTHERLAND It is ble of controlling very high currents, although it is sensitive to one-millionth of a watt. The demons stration In which it mcasured the de- flection of the steel rail was made by connecting the tube in such a way that 'it registered the change in cur- "Trent flowing through two pieces of carbon which were compressed by the i bending of the rail 839 DUPONT ST. TORONTO, ONT. flicitions are spiritual promotions.-- Matthew Henry. WHEN IN TORONTO EAT AND SLEEP AT SCHOLES HOTEL 400 Lunch or Supper a Specialty YONGE ST. Opposite Eaton's Hotel Rates: $1 Per Day and Up ICE BOX 510 Insurance in this country. QST OF s BEAUCE JUNCTION, QUE, fo Desa available here in North America, does Imperial Oil Limited go ) miles to Peru for the crude which Marvelabe is made? On one table of the General Elec- tric exhibit a toy train was rusning around a track. Mr. Manning picked up a near-by telephone. "Stop!" he shouted into th emouthpiece. The train stopped. "Now back, up," Mr. Manning or- dered. Obediently the train moved backward. "Wait," he said, then "Go ahead!" The engine stopped for an instant and then shot forward again. Wash Day May Disappear Thet device was an application of the "selective impulse control' which fn fundamental 1s similar to the dial "telephone. The train was controlled by the ber of tri its ted by the telephone. Any three words would make the train back up. Exhibits which are primarily the result of chemical research included cloth of synthetic manufacture which is expected to some day eliminate washing from the housewife's Mone day morfiing schedule: It is so cheap new garment procured with less trou- ble than to wash it. Concrete made from peanut shells, celluloid 'that for all practical pur- poses will not 'burn, houses built of corn, synthetic butter made from yeast, liquid coal and new gases for fiying field beacons are among the exe hibits. 'They are -not theoretical laboratory displays "but appear in work-day clothes, designed for actual industrial service. ae A eres India and the Dominions Bombay Daily Mail: The recent his, tory of the Empire clearly reveals the descreasing supremacy of the British, Parliament and the increasing sover- eignty of the Dominions, Political wisdom and statesmanship would point to the evolution of India, too, ening from precedent to precedent." The difference in the attitude, how ever, of to the D {ons on the one hand and India on the other 1s to large to he satisfactorily ex- | piéined. The Dominions taken sepa-. x i rately or together are mo match § | tlie might o and "heed to that it can be thrown away and & on the same lines of "freedom broad. r EE ae