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' 4^.- f j*^ .'* •*">â-  THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of •* The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER X.â€" cCoiifd). 'the suprgpstion I made iibouti the see- When ho climl-ea the uneven st^ps | °"'l "^t?" he asked, turning to Went- of the sidewalk the world had (frown [ ^^'"''th. sunnier; there was a future before ! "We were discussing it when you him, fame, riches, and the applause of Riiliiona. He reached Third Avenue, ran up t'he st:iirs to the elevated, and, puffins slowly at a cisrar, gazed on the rush of life below. He was dcliborut- ing how it was to approach Merry on the subject of chaniiinp that second came in. | "What do you think of it. Merry?" j "I really have not- had time to give ' it H thougrht." Andrew looked u,nin- I teresled. "Besides, you ynow I do j not come into that act, and I have j scarcely seen it rehearsed." lie pick- act. Oswald was a keen critic, and , ed up a towel and began to wipe the Enoch had seen the necessity of it ; m'ake-up off his face himself; it was the one weak spot'iRJ ' "It is simply this. 'Mrsi.*Esterbrook' the play. From the moment when M , is an utterly heartless woman. Dead burned the labor of half a lifetime he I to conscience as she is at the hegin- realized his own incapacity for play- ; ning, she comes out of her life's Irag- writinp. He himself could do nnthinq: edy, calloused beyond all redemption. to the drama, but he felt a chiij of It strikes a false note to have b.er re- terror at the thought of speakii^ to ' pent for even a second. She does not Merry on the subject. I know what mother-love or love of any | j^i sort means. With her last exit she CHAPTER XI. ^il ought to leave an audience hating and A city's electric lights were begin- ! despising her. Now one feels a sud- ' ning to blaze through the twlight ' den touch of sympathy. She must be when Wentworth knocked at the door ' irredeemably bad. Then, too, it is not of Merry's dressing room. : i I only true to the woman's character, "Come!'' cried the actor sharply, j but 'Cordelia' shines v/hiter against As Enoch entered he felt a throb of , it." | longing for the old warm friendship. I Merry nodded. "You're right, I j Andrew's face paled for a moment as fancy, Wentworth has only to change he looked up at his visitor. He nodded a few lines to throw the whole thing but did not speak. Kelly, who acted | plumb. You can do it in half an hour, as Merry's valet during his prosper- ' old chap." ous seasons, lifted aheap of garments , when Cswald t;irned to Wentworth from a chair and .set it before Enoch, ' he caught a look on the man's face who took it in silence. Andrew sat , that puzzled him, a flash of importcnt staring into a mirror while he ex- ' rage, hate, and apprehension. Enoch I perimented with a make-up for the realized he had revealed his soul for j a moment. He picked up his hat and , spoke brusquely. "You two finish i talking it over, I have a thousand , things to tend to." "Is Wentworth â€" is he touchy? Did he feel that I was criticizing his i play?" asked Oswald anxiously when ! For Preserving, Use LILY WHITE COifiN SYRUP One-third "Lily White" to two- thirds Sugar, by weight. "Lily White" Corn Syrup pre- vents fernnentatlon and mold- brings out the natural flavour of fruits and berriesâ€" and makes much more delicious Preserves, Jams ..id Jellies than you can make with all sugar. In 2, 5. 10 and 20 pormd tins â€" at all deaiera. THE CANADA STARCH CO. UMITED, MONIKEAL. ?.Ti â- 'i:^^M^^-^-il^'"^f^- broken-down convict in the third act He dashed line after line into his face, blending each lightly into the grease paint. Nobody spoke â€" even Kelly secnM'd to have fallen under the spell of quiet. He knelt on the floor polish- ing shoes with stolid industry. Enoch wondered curiously what the keen old Irishman was thinking. He had known nothing between them but a most fra- ternal friendship.The silence became oppdcssive. At last Wentworth spoke "Are you going to be alone soon, Merry? I want to have a talk with you a!)out business." Andrew did not look up while he an- swered carelessly, "I'll be alone in a few minutes. Kelly has an errand to do at the tailor's. You may go now," he added, nodding to the valet; "there's no hurry about the shoes." When the old man shut the door be- hind him Andrew did not turn his paze from the mirror. The reflection of Wentworth's face was close beside his own. He could see that his visitor was ill at ease. "Well?'' he said interrogatively. "Can't you turn round and face me while we talk?" asked the elder man impatiently. Andrew wheeled about and hi.^ eyes met Wentworth's calmly. "feitiiiiily' I can face you." The red surged into Fnoch's face, then hard lines wrin;-;led about his mouth. His mood had changed. Ho spoke with brutal consciseness. "Oswald and I have decided that there ought to be a few changes made in the text ofâ€" the play." "Of your play," corrected Merry. "There is one weak point in it," Enoch went on deliberately. " 'Mrs. Epterbrook' draws on the sympathy of the audience for a few moments when 'Cordelia' leaves her. A woman of that caliber could have no such feel- tog." "No?" "yo." Wentworth repeated the wor,i almost furiously. He began to twist his hands. "I suppo?,e that act ought to be re- written." "Not rewritten, simply elaborated. Strike out some lines, put in others." "Why don't you do it?" "Why don't I do it?" Enoch jumped the door closed with a hasty rap. "I don't think it's that." Merry spoke slowly, then he dashed to an- other subject. "I want to consult you about changing one of the people in the cast, little Katie Durham." "Oh, the child in the first act?" "She's a bright enough youngster. She tells me she once got a hundred dollars a week in vaudeville as a too dancer." Merry laughed. "A too dancer scarcely fills the bill for the small 'Cordelia' ." "She struck me in rehearsal this morning as lacking in something." "She is lacking in everything. She's a stilted, grown-up, liKle brat; there's nothing childlike about her. When she clings to my neck shrieking, 'Father,' in that ear-splitting baby pipe of hers, she jars every nerve in my body." "Let her go. Only it is a problem where to find a sweet, natural stage child." I can lay my hands on one immed- diatcly," saiil Merry (luietly. "It's a youngster who has never been behind the footlights in her life." "Could you do anything with her in ten days?" "I should like to try. She's a gen- tle, refined, sweet-%'oice<l little girl; besides, she has dramatic blood m her â€" that always tells. Do you rememb- er George Volk?" "George Volk! Why, of course," crie<l Oswald after a moment's hesita- tion. "What ever became of the man? Did he die?" "Nobody knows." Merry's voice had a bitter tr)ne in it. "Better for some people if he had died. This lit- tle Julie I want a chance for is his child." "Where is Volk?" "I can't tell you. If he's alive he must be far down by this time. He was a wTetcho<l sot when I .saw him last." "By Jove! what an impetuous sta^e lover he did make! I saw him in a big production the first time I came to can't help it. Have you seen the mother?" "Yes," said Oswald gravely. "What feazes me is how we could delude an nudic-co into believing that I this sharp-nosed. uncanny-looking shrill-tongued little ape could develop I into Mis.s Wentworth's 'Cordelia.' j They're different breeds entirely." "You're right."' Oswald's voice was emphatic. "I don't know why I did { not see it. Perhaps because the child has little to do except to follow her ' father about." "It's that following the father about ' which I mean to make the strongest point in the first act." "Engage the child emmediately." "I'll have to do diplomatic work to get her." "How?' "Alice Volk would rather starve than let her child go on the stage. She has been hoping we might find a small part for herself which she could play â€" crippled.". "Poor soul." "I hinted that we might g'ive the lit- tle Julie a chance. She snatched the child away as if she thought I meant to kidnap her. When a woman has seen the seamy side of life as she has â€" you understand." Oswald nodded gravely. "We must find a way to get around her." Merry sat writing a letter in the manager's office the next afternoon when Oswald entereii, accompanied by Dorcas. "I want you ix> tell Miss Wentworth about the little Volk girl," said the Englishman. "I have enlisted her sympathy. If the mother felt that some woman here would be interested in the child she might change her mind." "I'll do anything I can," said Dorcas heartily. I am glad you are making a change. It will improve the first act wonderfully to have the child sweet and real. Then the girl laugh- ed in a half-embarrassed way, "did you ever look at a picture of yourself when you were at the tadpole age and wonder if it could have possibly been you? That has been my frame of mind since I laid eyes on the little 'Cordelia'." (To be continued). pulse of rage. "That's a nice question ] America, then in London. He was the hamleomest man that ever stepped on the stage." "A handsome piece of beef! Ton years ago he married one of the sweetest, most loyal women I ever knew. She was on the stage, but she never won much notice. Her work was so quiet and delicate that she ap- pealed to the few. She was in a company with me for two seasons. How Volk made her suffer! The beast!" "Is she alive?'' "Yes. I hadn't heard of the Volks for years. I was going home last night when a woman touched me on the arm. She was lame and looked ill. A little girl clung bo her. I did not know her. 'I'm Alice Volk,' she said. I put them in a cab and took them up to Harlem, to the best old woman in thq world." "Are they in want-" asked Oswald. "They were starving, in rags and shoeless. The child pulled at my heart string. She isn't quite seven and small for her age, but the way she cares for the poor, crippled little mother â€" " Andrew laid a gray wig upon his knee and began to brush it vigorously. "I don't want to throw this Durham youngster out of a job, though^simply because I can't endure her. She's common as dirt, but she to his feet shaken by a sudden im- 1» ask me." "It has never seemed to me there was anything" particularly nice in the whole situation." Andrew's tones Were on a calm level. "We'll leave that out of the ques- tion â€" altogether," growled Went- worth. "I should nover have intruded upon you but for this reason. You can see the exigencies of the case. You've got to retouch the play." "I will not lay a pen to the play." Andrew turned as if the conversation were at an end and began to pencil careworn wrinkles on his checks. Enoch tipped his chair back against tfie wall, put his feet on the rungs, and began to think. Nobody knew so well as he that one faced a barricade with Merry in a doggedly obstinate mood. Inwardly he was at white "heat; the blind groping hope for re- conciliation was at an end; still ho knew if he were to precipitate a storm. Merry was capable of flinKing over his engagement at tha Ufit moif- ent. "Let me explain," began Went- worth laboriously. A tap at the door interrupted him. It was opened and Oswald stepped in. He seated him- self on the edge of a trunk. "Have you mentioned to Mr. Merry TOKN FROM THEIR HOMES. Inhabitants of Northern France De- ported to Germany. Poignant deails of the deportation at an hour and a half's notice of 25,- I 000 citizens from the French towns of Lille, lloubaix and Tourcoing by the ' Germans last Easter, are given in a French Yellow Book. The Germans' orders were for the people In certain districts of these towns to assemble in readiness for departure at their front doors, and none was to leave the house before 8 a.m. The orders stated that "all protests will be useless and any one trying to evade deportation will be pitilessly punished." The victims in all cases were chosen arbitrarily by the officer in charge of the deporting party. The Yellow Book continues: "The measure caused the greatest anguish and despair among the popu- lation of the notified districts, while in some cases it led to madness. "Men especially suffered torture at seeing their wives daughters and children of both sexes over the age of fourteen led away. "The protests of mayors and other officials went unheeded. "At Roubaix the Prus.sian Guard refused to participate in the raids and the work had to be ilone by the Sixty-Fourth Regiment from Verdun. "A large proportion of the young women taken belonged to the ser- vant class. When thoso deported were conveyed to the railway station and loaded into the cattle trucks they kept crying: 'Vive la France,' and singing the 'Marseillaise.' " The Paris Temps affirms in sub- stance that it is now up to the neu- trals to insist upon the observance of the conventions signed by them and by the belligerents. â€" 'J"^ Many a girl has given up an easy job at a good salary for the sake of working all the rest of her life for her board and clothes. The average amount of milk suppli- ed to calves at this .leason is by no means enough to quench their thirst. See that they get water besides. Spraying Stables. Even in Summer there is a certain amount cf disease in herd;; of cattle, and oftentimes contagious diseases hrive to be overcome, which renders it essential that stable:^ be sterilized. To secure reliable results, the work must be done throughly, as half mea- sures arc of no u.se. The following method, given in the Cape Timps (S. A.), should prove effective in most cases: â€" In the fir.st place, remove all man- ure, litter, loose, rotten boards and other things, and scrape the floor clean. Sweep the ceilings and boards and walls free from cobwebs, dust and dirt. Wash the feed box2s, mangers, bails and partitions with hot water containing enough lye or watdiiiitf powder to move the dirt. ociub ail these places vigorously with a stiff brush. Then spray the walls, ceilings and floors with bichloride of mercury sol- ution (1-1,000) or 5 per cent, carbolic solution (not crude). Fluc;h the floors with a saturated solution of iron sul- phate or a solution of chloride of lime (1 lb. to 3 gallons of water). Spray the interior of the feed boxes- mangers, bails and partitions with the 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid. This is done for the reason that there is danger of poisoning the animal if the bichloride of mercury is used for a spray upon those structures which the animals can lick with their ton- gues. The carbolic acid is absolutely harmless if used in a 5 per cent, sol- ution. A whitewash applied to wails, c"!!- ings and partitions, will add to the cleanliness of the shed. To make a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid use one part by weight ol pure carbolic acid to 20 parts of water. Add the carbolic acid to a gallon of moderate- ly warm water, stir vigorously, then, add enough more warm water to make up the amount. The solution can be applied by spray pumps, sprinkling cans, or with a brush. In the mixing and application of bi- chloriiie of mercury, it must be re- membered that this disinfectant is extremely poisonous when taken in- ternally, not only to cattle, but also to man. All of the buckets, tubs, pumps, etc., which have been used in applying the solution should be thor- oughly scrubbed with soap and rinsed with clean water before being used for any other purpose. The mercury solution must be used with caution about the feed boxes, mangers and stanchions for fear of the cattle contracting mercurial poi- soning by licking the spots covered with it. For this reason it is advis- able tx) use the carbolic acid solution on the feed boxes and mangers and the bichloride of mercury for the walls and ceilings. To make up the bichloride of mer- cury solution (1-1,000) use onc-eigth of an ounce of corrosive sublimate to a gallon of water, or one half ounce to four gallons. The addition of a small amount of sal-ammon:as will caupe the corrosive sublimate to about one gallon of moderate sublimate to dissolve more easily. It is advisable also to add the corrosive sublimate to about one gallon of moderately warm water containing the sal-ammonaic. Stir thoroughly, and after all the Win Against tlie Hessian Fly TO Escape the Main Attack of the Fly â€" sow your wheat late. The early brood is most destructive to young wheat and provides for future broods. Your own Experiment Station will tejl you this. , .• -• "^ ' ' '' THE Best Wheat Yields come from plants that enter the winter strong and vigorous. Your own experience will tell you this. TO Win Against the Fly, seed late, feed the crop with available fertilizers which will hasten growth to overcome the late start, and secure vigor with consequent resistance to later broods. Use 200 to 400 pounds per acre containing at leas!; 2 per cent, of ammonia. Acid phosphate alone doe,! not give the necessary quick growth and resistanc-i to the fly. In Farmers' Bulletin No. 640, U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, fertilizers are recommended to give vigor to late sow.i crops and resistance to the Hessian Fly. Write for our map showing best dates for sowing wheat In your locality ; also our Bulletin, "WHEAT PRODUCTION," both mailed tree. Soil Improvement Committee OF THE National Fertilizer Association CHICAGO Dept. 175 BALTIMORE 8i^;j»#Wte^^«lirit« >'^'>v^?^«Si^ particles have been dissolved, add en- ough clear water to make the requir- ed amount. To make a saturated solution of iron sulphate, as much of the sulphate should be dissolved in the water as possible. The copperas should be put in a barrel or some such thing, the water poured on and the soljtion al- lowed to stand for a day. The liquid above the sulphate of iron will be the saturated solution, which is to be used on the floors and gutters. 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