ESE] 1 By Martha Ostenso. nx Judith returned his searching 'glance with equal deliberateness: took in coolly the city cut of his 'clothes, his flaming fle, his long shining shoes that bad no bumps on the toes such as Martin's yellow Sun- day shoes had; and she made no comment upon his appearance. She Knew that Sven expected her to &ven was no'foql. He laughed. "nd when he laughed there was no 'Woman could withstand him, he ad found. He had the most en- Kagingly male émile in the wold. "4w, come on, Jude, you ain't Sore on me," he coaxed, shaking her .%oot. "How are you, that's what I'd A ward sought shelter from the noon- day sun under the trees on the| bluffs, and the milch cows in the north pasture gave up nibbling] swegt-grass for long moments to | stand knee-deep in the tepid swamps | already a-drone with ts that { ricocheted like sparks across the surface of the The season o cold morning dews changed to that of fireflies and evening mist. The yield of-the earth passed from timor- ous segdling to rugged stalk and sjem & But in the life in the Gare house- hold there was no apparent change no growth or maturing of dreams or inse water. FRECKLES Get Rid of Thete aly Spots e an ure and Have a Beautiful Com= plexion With ' OTHINE (DOUBLE STRENGTH) MONEY BACK IF IT FAILS, SOLD BY DRUG AND DEPARTMENT STORES EVERYWHERE. ah ee en had been dismissed. The room was heavy with the smell of chalk and plum blossoms. Lind felt tired and rather depressed She closed her eyes and leaned her head against the palms of her hands. She went in detail again over the frightening and delicious night of the rain. The door opened slowly. Mark Jordan stood framed against the light, smiling, bareheaded, his hat in his hand. Lind clapped her] hands to her cheeks. Then she laughed. "You look guilty," said Mark came slowly down the aisle in He the her SPECI a Se ALS FOR SA DRESSE -'16.95 BORDERED AND FIGURED CREPE TURDAY SELLING The buyer for this department is very enthusiastic about these Dresses. He declares that without a doubt this is one of the greatest value offerings fears, no evidence of crises in per-| centre of the room, looking at sonal struggle, no peak of achieve- | happily. ment rapturously reached. There "lI confess I am," Lind sald was no outward emotion dr express-| shyly. "I was thinking of inviting lige to know." "I'm all right," she replied cold- N. "How are you?" . "Fine, Couldn't wait til 1 got COLORS: Sand and Blue. "Back. Thought about you all the 'time, and I would o' written, too, if I thought the old man wouldn't "#et hold of it. Gosh, you're prettier .'n ever, Jude. Girlé in town can't ald a candle to you. I've seen 'em all." - He whipped out a sterling silver cigarette case and held it so that it flashed in the sun. It seemed that he kept At out unnecessarily long to drdw a cigarette from it. Judith looked away to the horizon, and her horse stamped an impatient hoof Sven put a hand on the horse's bridle, snapped the case together and " slipped it back in his pocket. "Come riding with me some night? I'll rot here if I don't do some- thing----or see somebody," and he, in dolently blowing the smoke upward into the air and flipping off the ash of his cigarette with his forefinger He had not done that before he went away. Do something---see some body, that was what he wanted to do, was it? Not something or some- body in particular. Judith sat silent, her eyes moodily - on the distance. ¢ "Oh, that reminds me," he went on, 'here's something I got you. All the girls are carryin' 'em." He drew a little package out of his pocket and unwrapped it. From the tissue paper he took out a gold plated vanity case which he held up to Judith, looking at her face for the smile of surprise he fully ex- pected to see there. ¢ Judith gave the glance. Then with a swift twist of her body she forced the horse to rear "upright on his hind legs, his mouth wide, nostrils distended, eves swim- ming, She dropped her head against "his mane, wheeled him about and was off*in an instant on an anima) hat had gone mad. Sven, completely dazed, stared af- iter her, saw the horse jerk from the road and take the fence that enclos- ed a hayfield at a fine long sweep, 'lke a slender boat rising on a wave. ~ "Well----I'll be--" he marveled. By gosh, she's a lve one. Worse'n ever. What did she get sore at, any- wav?" But Sven felt. uneasily that he "mew. . She thought he had been showing off. Galloping away on the Judith gave way to tears. . » . The days grew steadily warmer and longer, the distance over field and brush took on a deeper green. Caleb's herds on the prairie west- thing a quick norse, ed thought save that which led as a great tributary to the flow eof Caleb's ambition He talked now| day and night of nothing but the livestock, circled the fields by day in the cart or walked abroad with ais lantern alone at night, and com- pared the strength of his hay and his flax with that of Skuli Erickson or Joel* Brund, the husband of Mrs Sandbo's daughter Dora. The early! summer season was to him a terrific prolonged hour of passion during which he was, blind and deaf and dumb to everything save the im- pulse that bound him to the land. His flax was growing in such a way that he scarcely dared look at it lest it should vanish like a vision. He would put off examining it for a week at a time for fear that in 1 twinkling something dire had happened to it. But smoothly as affairs seemed to run on the surface of life at the Gares', there had been a subtle di- verting of the undercurrent. Lind Archer perceived it and was troub- led. Sven Sandbo had come home. And Judith's behavior was incompre- hensible. Lind had tried to talk to her about him, but she had walked rudely away. And when Lind had offered Judith a book to read which had been sent her from the city, the girl's manner had been much more like Ellen's than her own. She had no time for the book, she had said. Amelia was preoccupied these days, and. her attitude toward Caleb had become almost one of indul- gence. There had been a letting down of the familiar tension on Amelia's part, and a tightening of restraint on the part of * Judith. Caleb for a time was too engrossed in the affairs of the farm to notice any one. Unlike himself, he went puttering about haphazard _trifles, constantly looking for something fo do rather than, as usual, for some- thing that Martin or Judith might do. Lind felt that something mo- mentous had happened, and then realized how impossible it was for /Lind. anything at all to happen here save | the monotonous round of duty. | It was Lind alone who noticed | these nuances in the life at the! Gares. She had much time to her- | self in the evenings when she sat | at her desk after the children were | gone, and fell often to thinking about the Gares. But since the eve-! ning of thé rain she had thought] more of Mark Jordan. On the third day after her visit at myself. to dinner again at your house." She got up from her desk and stretched her hand out to him. He held it, looked at it, pointed to the chalk and ink stains. "Salt of the earth: a school teach- er. I was one myself for about a month. Got fired for encouraging the kids to play hookey,"' he laugh- | ed. He dropped her hand and strode around the room examining the draw- | ing and knick-knacks the children had make and hung on the walls. Taking a piece of chalk he drew on the black-board a ridiculous figure with knock-knees and turned-in eyes, and under it wrote in a child- ish scrawl. "Teacher." Then he stepped back ten paces and took aim with the chalk, succeeding in tossing it on the ledge of the black- board. This he did several times, stepping back a few paces farther each time i Lind watched the game for a while half-amusedly. Then she was conscious of a faint irritation. He apparently had forgotten she was there. His restlessness shut her out. Irrelevantly she recalled the! words of the ancient grandmother of the Bjarnassons: she would never know the secret of him. As he stood in profile to her, her eyes outlined the well-bred shape of his head and shoulders. He turned to her so suddenly that she started. { "Let's walk," he said. the matter?" "Nothing," she answered, She would have to try to understand him. "I really don't want to walk now that you have decided upon It for me so peremptorily. But I'll use you as a means to control my temper, and go with you. You are terribly used to having your own| way, I can see that. As if you were the only person on earth." "I always was--until you came, "What's | I just have to get used to the idea of your presence," he said! so seriously that she had to smile. | "Did any of the Gares see you | come in here?" she asked uneasily. | "The Gares? Oh, those people?! Don't know. I didn't see anybody | except a robin in the road, and he | didn't even turn a feather," he told | Navy and Grey. Navy and Red. Grey and Blue. White and Blue. EXTRA 200 Silk that Beautify department has ever staged. heavy weight materials, ex- quisite patterns, fascinating models, embodied in these Dress¥s. YOURS FOR ONLY ... 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Coats for Street, Dress and Sport wear--styles created to bring much more in price. 4 VELOURS TWEEDS POLO DUVETYNE hIMITED HORSOR EVER SE ~ her, going to the window while she; or them to see you, except, perhaps, natural objects for the spirit to re- cleared her desk. "Why? Are you afraid of them?" | "Oh, by no means," she said] hastily, "It's just that I don't want them to--oh, I want t6 know you! separately from them---in another world. so to speak. or talk with them, I'll feel that the Judith--" She glanced at him thoughtfully, as if to make up her mind as to the good judgment that lay in the reservation. "You walked?" she asked, after they had slipped out and had taken If you go there, a little path that insinuated itself | through the thick growth of fir trees the Klovacz place, Lind sat at her| idea of you has mingled with them. behind the school house. desk in the school house. The chil- See? I don't want you to see them ------------ Sime { | "No, I came on an elephant. It re re tern | evaporated at your door," he said, WATCH! Within the next few days a free sample of the cleanest, finest, healthiest food in the world . Shredded Wheat will be delivered to your home. Enough to remind you and your family of the crisp, flavory delight of this popular cereal dish-- enough in case you have never eaten 'Shredded Wheat to convert you to it for life. 'Make a meal of this delicious, ready-cooked and ready-to-eat whole wheat favorite. Serve worry. Directions are on the pa and they both laughed. "But curiosity impels me to see this Gare family," Mark declared a little later. "Especially Caleb Gare, They told me at Yellow Post that he's the devil himself." 'No, he's too cowardly to be the devil. He's too cowardly even for a man to want to kill him. That's why Fusi Aronson hasn't done it long ago." She told him about Fusi. "I'd like to meet him," Mark said. They talked of the strange unity between the nature of man and earth here in the north, and of the spare- ness of both physical and spiritual | life. "There's no waste--that's it." Mark observed, "either in human re- lationships or in plant growth. There's no incontinency anywhere. I've made trips atound Yellow Post since I've been here, and I haven't talked w'th a single. farmer who wasn't looking forward to the time when he wouldn't have a grain of any kind in his bins if he didn't rake and serape for all he's worth now. They seem to have no confi- dence in the soll--no confidence In anything save their own labor. Thifik of the difference there would be in the outward Lind nodded. "That's wrong with the Gares. They all have a monstrous'y exaggerated con- ception of their duty to the land or rather to Caleb, who is nothing but a symbol of the land." They sat down upon a flat rock near the trail. "I spent some time farther north --went up to a mission when I was only a kid with one of 'the priests. and later after I had grown up." "That's a country If there's a God, | imagine that's where he sits and does his The sitence Is awful, You Mark told her. for you. thinking. characters of these people if the land didn't sap up all their passion and sentiment." what's act to. We are, after all, only the mirror of our environmea!. Life here at Oeland, even, may seem a negation but it's only a reflaction from so few exterior natural objects that it has the semblance of neza- tion. These people are thrown in- {| ward upon themselves, their pas- sions stored up, they are intensified figures of life with no outward ex- pression--no releasing gesture." (To Be Continued). BUILDING AT LOON LAKE, Many Summer Cottages Are Being Reared There. Cloyne, April 26.--Spring is here at last, The robins, crows and many other spring birds are singing around Cloyne. Roadé very muddy. Nothing but water and mud every- where. A few cars are running in spite of the mud. Service in the United church Sunday afternoon and in town hall at night and quite a good crowd attended. A. Spencer and family moved from the Both property here to the P. Bey place, a mile north, last Friday. Miss Leitha Wheeler, who spent last week with friends at Northbrook has again | returned to her home here. Mrs, 8. Wheeler has recovered after a ser- fous sickness. Everyone is glad to see her around again. Angus Spencer is employed at Loon Lake just now. Many wore cottages are going up for summer 'tourists. The main order of the day is house-cléeaning. Nearly everyone is busy papering and painting and get- ting ready for summer. Mrs. Kate Meeks, a guest at Tanhill Meeks', Sunday. We are all sorry to -hear that Ody Levealr is sick with croup. Frank Wheeler is visiting at his brother's, 8. Wheeler's, for asshort time. Mrs. Andrew Meeks and Mr.'and Mrs. Levi Meeks and children visit- ed Cloyne, Saturday on business. Mr. Percy King is employed helping Harry Levere for a few days. Wil ton Spencer is helping S. Wheeler for a few weeks. A lightning and rain storm was witnessed on Saturday and a heavy snow storm on Sunday. Willlam Me- Causland was a guest at Mrs. K. Meeks, Sunday night. places and Jarge quantities of syrup has been made. Howard Lloyd spent the week-end | ELGINBURG DOINGS. Mr, Are and Mrs, Albert Stover Leaving for Kingston. Elginburg, April 28.--The men have enjoyed many days fishing and | have brought home some good fish, | as well as the usual fish stories. Miss Madeliene Boles was called home at Clarendon on Friday last to atfend her little brother's funeral. Mr. M. H. Stover has been in -bad for a couple of days, but he is able to be around the house again. Mr. E. H. Stover and sons are unloading a car of feed and one of salt. Mrs, Walter Puttenham is visiting at Perth Road while Mrs. (Rev.) Put. tenham is attending her son, George, who is very ill in Kingston. Rev. W. 'T. Mackenzie is attend- ing the ministers' meeting in King- ston. Mr. Keith Mackenzie is visit- ing his parents a few days before leaving for the west. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stover have bought a house in Kingston. They 1 9.95 | SIZES 16 to 42. i oe emt mn will be leaving here in a few days. It is with deep regret that the friends bid them farewell for : will be greatly missed as neighb. h and in the United church, where Mr. and Mrs. Stover have sung in the choir for years. Mrs. Stover is the president of the Ladies' Aid Society and Mr. Stover has been a member of the quarterly board for a great many years. While .the loss will be keenly felt by this community, thers will be gain for another. The wishes for future happiness oF prosperity go with them to their ne field of labor, Miss Storing, Den- bigh, has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. Storing. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gordanier have been visiting at Mr. Gordanier's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Storing entertained a number of their friends one evening last week at lunch hour every one enjoyed a treat of hot maple sugar. L Envy is usually the first @lviden of success. vy rf