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CHAPTER XVI.--(Cont'd.) "My mothex!" Barney's lips form- #d to himself. "Mother!" Yet now he had to know beyond speculation. He saw that Mrs. Wain ber?" was just within the door; so he drop- ped back to her and turned to her in an appeal which she could not refuse. "fhe is my mother?" "Your mother, sir," the housekeeper said. "If she calls you in her sleep, sir--or awake, if she says Dick, she means. you, sir, Dick--you under- stand 7" "I understand," Barney whispered. ¥You mean she has been asking for me?" "When she did not know it, she ask- ad for you. 'Dick, my baby; my boy Dick,' she said this morning. That was why I brought you." Barney's eyes dimmed. "How long has she been ill?" "Since the injury, sir, when the Jip was torpedoed." at ship?" "The ship that she was going back %o France on, sir, last September, to find you. The Galantic." "To find me?" Barney repeated dazedly. "Yes, sir. You see, Mr. Dick, she'd Just got track of you at last. All your life, fort twenty-three years, she'd been searching for you; and then--" Mrs, Wain stopped. Late in the evening Barney went %0 Scott street and presented himself at the house which was his mother's and asked for Mrs. Wain. "Nothing more has happened, Mrs, Wain," Barney said to her at once to quiet the alarm which his appearance that hour had aroused. "She'-- hesitated and then did not name his mother, but repeated-- 'she was gain- ing strength when I left. Of course, understand much more than I did this morning; but of course I want to know everything--everything you can me." "It's always been between her and im," the housekeeper iterated inco- rently, "between her and him--" "Her and--God?" Barney asked, bewildered. "God?" the housekeeper repeated and laughed. "The evil on earth him- self: Mr. Lucas Cullen, Senior! Don't you see? She's fought him since she was a child, a little girl, sir, and he downed her; he disgraced her and-- and she lost you! Then she came here and beat him--beat him--beat him and his family; all of them; she beat them all. But she couldn't find you and she couldn't--" the housel 'very recklessly driven, had dashed up \ dead; so she let them think she was dead, to beat them--beat them so they could never down her again. But he did it. He came here the other day; that day Ethel Carew left--remem- T 1 "I remember," Barney said. "He thinks he's safe now; for he's beaten you both, But he's not beaten her, He thinks he has; for he thinks she Is dead. But she's going' to get well and fight him for you and for her. Bo she'll send for you soon; she'll tell you what she should; trust her and wait!" » » » LC] At half-past seven on that same morning, Lucas Cullen, Senior, was at breakfast when his eyes struck an item headed, "Open Draw Claims An- other Victim." It was under that open draw head- ing, and the paragraphs, when care- fully read, related how a new coupe, the approach of the Rush street bridge and the driver, disregarding the danger signals, hurled his car through the barrier and into the river. The bodies were recovered; and there followed very fair descriptions of Miss Platt's husband and the girl who had been frequently seen with Kin- cheloe, CHAPTER XVII The English medium, Mrs. Brand, came to Chicago, "sitting" in private homes of several of the most promin- ent people of the city and demonstrat- ing evidences of communication to the full satisfaction of the lpereasing "My mother!" Barney's lips formed to himself. "Mother!" stopped. "Listen!" she appealed again, steadying herself. "She found you last fall, I told you; then that Bbappened! And they thought she was HEN a cold or exposure brings aches and pains that short work pe ik scot in Rapin, | her groups of devotees, and daily convine- ing the skeptical of the reality of her powers to reach the world beyond. She established, therefore, most ideal conditions for the trial of Lucas's plan to demonstrate the fact of Agnes Cullen's presence in the realm of the dead. Shortly after Lucas Cullen, Senior, had communicated "to 'his family his decision to attend the "sitting" of Mrs, Brand at Mrs. Stanton-Field- ing's, Barney received by special messenger one of those cards which admitted the holder to Mrs, Stanton- Fielding's drawing-room between four- thirty and five-thirty. With the card came a mote enjoin- ing him to be present early, to occupy an inconspicuous position and par- ticularly to avoid reco; Cullens but to closely them. but Barney was sure that his mother had written them. "You shall hear all--all," she had tion by the do These directions were not signed, ar ter; or rather, it hod been part of Lucas Cullen's scheme. "All the while a spirit has been beside you; a man; a fine-looking man, middle-aged, with dark hair and brows. He holds a book in hig hand. 1t is the Book of Mormon." Evidently the Voice was replying to Mrs, Lucas Cullen, Junior. Others in the room took this as answer to her; she so understood it; beyond any doubt, Lucas Cullen at her right thus received it. "He is showing Doctor Keppel an open space outdoors; about it is a big woods. He has cleared away the trees in the space. There is a woman there; very young; he is young too; and very strong. It is more than forty years ago; more than that he says. It is in Michigan, he says. The young woman has a child; a little girl, he says. He kisses both of them. You are there; you come by; you are young, too; tall and very strong. You walk into the shack, He is showing the inside now; it is very plain; no furniture; just a bunk of boards. On a table is a book; the Book of Mormon; you pick it up; you drop it down and kick it; you kick it out the door. Something happens. Doctor Keppel gets wondering what; it is confused; he cannot see. He feels passion; strong anger; hate. Many men come--" The "you" described by the Voice no longer was Mrs. Lucas Cullen; Jun- ior. Clearly it was old Lucas Cullen, himself. If any one had doubt, a glance at old Lucas was quite sufficient to find it confessed; he sat, attempting to appear unmoved, indifferent. The Voice, which had halted, spoke on. "Another stands mear you. Now he shows a space with trees about; great trees; a forest; men cut some of the trees where is a stream of water and a mill, Doctor Keppel feels a vibrating and buzzing; it is a lumber mill. Over the door is a sign; Doctor Keppel can read it all now. H. L-A-Y- L-O-R, H, Laylor, it says. He nods; yes; that is it. It looks like long ago; everything new there; but many years ago. Now there is a mist. It must be smoke; yes; he says it 1s smoke. Now Doctor Keppel feels like heat; flames; and much heat; roaring; great flames; a forest fire approaching the mill. He is there and tries to save the mill; he does not try to get away; not till too late--" The Voice--Tull, emphaiie, resonant --dominated the silent, darkened room. The Voice, which had all but mater- juMtzed the presence of the departed loved ones to many others, was en- dowing--with all but materiality-- Plisntoms of the past for Lucas Cul- en, "He knows," said the Voice, "he knows that ali your life you wonder- ed how much he suffered. Whea he same over long ago, he thought to try to punish; before he died, he swore to; but over here, he did not. He lived to suffer." Benret for a while had attempts indifference; but now he abaidone it and, reaching across his mother, he seized his grandfather's Ws "You're sick," he said. "Come out with me." : "It's queer, he thinks," continued the Voice, "how your life you wondered about him--how long he suf- fered and didnt think about the other 4 all; the gitier whe Widu's send the ch? "Come!" Bennet sommanded, almost loudly, . Barney arose and stepped TE SA i . re, going A, ot Fy "You tried to help, instead, the on2s whol" young and tender, twenty minutes should be emough. If it is older, should cook at least a half hour, The best way of cooking is to cut in uni form lengths, snapping off with the fingers all the tough white ends, wash, and scale. Tie in bunches, head end up, and cook standing on end in boil- ing water with the tips out of water. The tips are more tender than the stalk and the steam will cook them sufficiently while the ends are boil ing. If the asparagus is fresh, salt may be added while it is cooking and this will help to preserve the green color. If it is older salt added while it 1s cooking will have a tendency to toughen the fiber. When tender, remove from the wa- ter, and bit of butter to the liguid left, and if salt has not been added, salt to taste. Pour this juice over slices of toast, and serve the aspara- gus branches on the toast. Or the asparagus juice may be reserved to use in soup and a white sauce poured over the asparagus and toast. It preferred, the asparagus may be broken in pieces, boiled and served with a white sauce or with the juice to which has been added bitter and seasonings, Use only enough water to cook nicely, so that none need be poured off or wasted. Asparagus and Cheese Make a white sauce of one cup of water in which the asparagus was cooked, a half cup of cream, three tablespoons of butter ,and three of flour, Season with salt and pepper and add two egg yolks and two table- spoons of grated cheese. Stir until Then arrange asparagus and sauce in layers in a baking dish, in the order named. Cover with buttered cracker crumbs and put in the oven just long enough to brown the crumbs, Serve at once. + Asparagus Soup Break twelve stalks of asparagus into pieces throwing tips In one dis and stalks In another. Cover tips with one cup of cold watef, and stalks with three. Cook tips until tender, and stalks twenty-five minutes. Then press the stalks through a sieve, and thicken the stock with three table spoons of butter and three of flour, prepared as for white sauce, In ans the cheese melts, but do not let it boil. | - 'Time Is & traitor to the heart that Yl trusts to : 3 The years to lessen griet or mend white scars; Better that hearts should seek sur- cease in trees For full particulars write Sterling Tower . Or in the wind that beats inst | . the stars, For these are tangible in some brief way But Time's swift feet pass echoing y Eluding snares and leaving only these =A whispered name, a bit of broken song. ; PRUE SA Minard's Liniment for sick animale. HY SRCaRAnY Betty was doing her home-lessons when Jimmy poked his head round the door, "What always comes in pairs?" "Gloves?" queried Betty. "No; pear seeds," replied Jimmy as he made a hurried exit, I I I I BIOWYOLN BARGAINS NEW AND SLIGHTLY USED. $10 UP, {understand each other. a while he Is thinking No Chinese will exercise. 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But the British are less adaptable than the Japanese and the French and lack the superficial bonhomie of the American which overlies all their dealings with the Chinese. China at present. There are competi tors now in the Chinese markets, but they have not yet ousted the British, Whether they will ever do so is anoth- er question, and the answer to it may HAMILTON - ONT. depend to a large extent on whether or not the "Shanghi spirit" can be dis- sipated.--Living Age, pe Scots Tongue Thing of Beauty Leaders: Agree That Miss Described Ceotti Speech Edinburgh.--That it is | necessary, to look to the Celtic races to supply, the world with colored speech was the opinion expressed by Miss Sybil | Thorndike after her adjudication for the Howard de Walden Cup, Much int has been d in Scotland over the success of the Edinburgh ,| players and the fact that Ramsay Mac- to drama and beautiful speaking. "The language the Scots use in everyday life," says Miss Thorndike, "ls colored. 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