frais th Gi TH denly he threw a sharp glance around the table. "Where's Jude?" he asked. "Une of her calves is missing," Ellen pat in for the sake of Amelia. "No doubt--no doubt," he mumo- | led, and went on eating a8 though there was no ome else present. After the meal, Lind went out and walked down the road to look for Judith. Ellen and Charlie had the milking to do. "Got cold feet, eh? 'Fraid of a couple of dead ones like the rest of em," Caleb sneered at Martin. "You'll bring back another story before freeze-up, or--we'll do 'with- out meat. Thigk I've been keepin' the lot of ye for mothin' all these years, while I've been breakin' my back to make a living out of 'this s0il? A pack of good for nothings I've got for it!" "The Bjarnassons ain't fishin' themselves, yet," Martin said in a low voice. "And I won't until they let us." "Eh? You won't, er? We'll see If you won't! Hm!" He went out with his lantern chuckling to himself. As. he moved along the cow path in the pasture and across it to the flax field, he speculated upon some way of com- pelling Martin to fish when the cooler weather came. It was not altogether "that he wanted the sat- isfaction of taking fish from the ob- | ' durate Bjarnasson: it was also that | [4 he must quell any rising independ- | ence in Martin. If he started at twenty to show a will of his own, at twenty-five there would be no hold- | ing him. He must think of some- | thing. . . Caleb walked in the approaching dusk like a thing that belonged in- | finitely to the earth, his broad, squat body leaning low over it. Pres- | ently his mind was far from the | annoying trifles that symbolized his | family. Before him glimmered the silver gray sheet of the flax--rich, beautiful, strong. All unto itself, | complete, demanding everything, | and in turn yielding everything-- | growth of the earth, the only thing | on the earth worthy of respect, of homage. North of it lay the muskeg, black | and evil and potted with water- tomatoes on the vines. They would | holes. Aronson ought to fence the | not be ripe until late in August | rotten land now that it was his. The vines were still delicate and «es ® Neled sia pioyvied. fo melis Mark and Lind agreed to meet at | Sood on her chin, trying to think the Sandbos' until the return of the dy : Klovaczs. of something for supper fo take the . place of fish. Caleb had planned Bea bol Maem Bat = ae on having fish. Anything elee, no|!iRe" she laug 9G BL Ary, o tier Now 'good, 'would ~ mot be just, couldn' stand a scene. That fish, She would have to prepare Would HNnish me as far as earning something especially savory to les-| mY Own living wid the Test of the sen. his disappointment. She would season is Spacer hat » Mark a have mew carrots and chicken--no, |, 1 would like : ri wil ies z they had had chicken the Sunday PT Jf haved litle money of my before, and Caleb disapproved of 3 : ! killing them while they were lay-| But Lind would not listen joni, ing =0 well that the eggs were pre- Nhe rou (ay Soustientions y to served for the fall market--some- s thing else would ha¥® to do. Amelia At 'the Bats the SHORE Racry pulled an apronful of mew carrots, rom ~ Se ol DL he and went Into the house to consider. Ey . 1 bd piexe the hr, Caleb came home. late that even. Mark ate them until their mouths ing from the farm of an Icelander with whom he had arranged for a| "ere puckered and dry. Mrs. Sand- threshing crew. He had not inti- 3 enjoyed having the Teacher and mated that he would be late and her "boy as she called Mark, supper was held over an hour. The around, and often served them with omelet and bacon was cold, the coffée and some trifle. At heart potatoes soggy from being heated Mrs. Sandbo wae sound, and as she . became more used to Lind's visits, over. Judith had seized some food she did not ply her usual busy ques. . % | . tions. . - -- ( The Teacher walked with Mark NL (loth Dr €SSEeS Half Price off the stove and had gone out. She had not returned. . to the edge of Latt's Slough, where . they knelt and picked tiny, black Made from finest Poiret and Charmeen ~ --all wool fabrics--main tailored in a ---- TT ------ House Wiring and Repairing All Kinds of Electric Apparatus Satisfaction guaranteed. Best work at reasonable prices, "THE DOWN TOWN ELECTRIC STORE" CO. HALLIDAY ELECTRIC CO. Corner King and Princess Streets. - - in the garden, Martin, who was building an extra pigpen for two new sows, threw his leg over the bar and herded all of |} the pigs into the shed. Then turned the milch cows that had |} (eome home and were drinking at the trough, into the cattle yard. Lind, who had been reading, put | aside her book at, the sound thunder. It had grown suddenly '§ dark, and then suddenly light again. |® She spoke to Ellen, who was baking | bread in the kitchen. | "Looks like a storm, doesn't ftom | She stood in the doorway and look- ed out. Judith was running about in the sheep pasture, getting her sheep. intd the pen. Pete was cir- cling about them, helping her. (To Be Continued). Get a bottle of Rheuma to-day and wear a satisfied smile on your face to- morrow. It's a remedy that is astonishing the whole country, and it's Just as good for gout, gclatica and lumbago as"for rheu- matism, It drives the poisonous waste from the joints and muscles--that's the sec-| ret of Rreuma"s success. But we don't ask you to take our word for it; go to Jas. B. Mcleod, or any druggist, and get a bottle of Rheuma to-day; if it doesn't do as we It will A SAFETAND EFFICIENT RELIEF FOR ASTHMA AND HAY oo IT 33 SoMrQsED OF HERBS WHICH, WHEN BURNED D Te romise ge: your money back, FUM| ED AR a OWI AL CAYING ALL TAT e there waiting for you. --~---- rn -- EE eee ee et st vt. arama is one for 'r D&A Thee every figure. DOMINION CORSET CoO, Montreal QUEBEC Toronto Makers of La Diva and Goddess Corsets | gigantic unraveling of soot, widen- warning of the approaching stozm.{ had' the effect of hollowing out a coffee." up the air was slag-gray, hanging in | It might pass over. Black, Green or Mixed--Sealed Packets only and Erik looked after him, seeing AAA. | OUL Speaking, as if nothing unusual . eo 0 the main road or branch off below Great Rejoicing by road. He thought with self-scath- Caleb's instructions--given in full gentle sarcasm and later in a strange violate the sentiment of the Ice- h 1: EEE at the back of his neck. drew the back of her hand across | on ia * > "It's never going to be like that| her wet forehead. The gray heat | Surpassing All Others ' any more," she whispered. She | was overwhelming. She looked : | - | clung to him. "We are one entity | that had been building up for ten | in General Excellence--=' | { . ' I ------------------------ | Chapter XII | Ing out to the south and the morth. By Martha Ostenso. On a late afternoon in July, be- | It drake, J lightning as Amelia | f ooked at it. " 0 | the swamp land to the north came| Suddenly a greenish light shot up| : "You go up to the house," Erik i : The herd farther away sought sheit-| luminous void between heaven and "No, thanks," Martin answered, gr with the horses under thd bluffs. sank 1." id : leb x 2] A - clucking at the horse. "Got to go Close to the earth there was a all,' said Caleb almost under' along." Erik's hospitality shamed pale, unnatural glow, ike the re. | his breath as he came out of the him doubly. sultry folds. The hot voice of the % oi shid amalia to herself, . grasshoppers was the only sound | her hand go ng instinctively to her the Hah pole and Bor in he Sankar abroad; it cut like little scissors in Hoar. oe i » . e loo around and s Cal screwed into a halt pitying, half the grass aw Caleb ironical smile. But he did not wait was about to happen. the willows to the road that went around the lake. There' was in this . . Icelandic family, a sort of grand Rh ti Crippl faith in the Monor of human kind. éuma c €s If So Crippled You Can't Use Arms ox ing of his original plan in coming Legs, A Help You or here--to slip down below * the willows and around the bend to the cove where he would not be seen belief that they would be obeyed. He would have to tell his father the truth when he arrived home. Caleb would be in a towering rage, and sinisterly effective abuse of Amelia, that Martin never under- stood. But he was glad that he had landers. He had felt the hidden scorn of Caleb Gare in Erik's words. Now, perhaps, he Icelanders would have reason to think better of a dropped her head agalnst his and | westward to the drab bank of clodd now, my dearest." minutes or more. Now it was a | fore the haying began, the cattle on ee hurrying home, bawling out their|@8 if from below tha horizon. It went on heartily. "They give you . . . . . 1S enjo flection from a white fird. Higher | barn. He would not admit it aloud. J yed by millions of devoted friends He drove out of the farm yard, Amelia, hoeing approaching. He passed her with- | to see whether Martin would take Martin did not take the lake by the Bjarnassons. Such had been which would express itself in a followed his own instincts not to Gare. | See These Wonderful ® Values Before You Buy " D&A CORSETS ith clue pane slightly Tod worn with D & A Bras sidres are just- WOMEN Amelia come out of the house as he was unharnessing the horse. Her face bore a shade of distress, and Martin guessed what she was look- ing forward to. There would be trouble somewhere--all under the surface. It would gather like a storm when the children were not around. "You didn't get the asked, looking into the back of wagon. "No," Martin answered shortly. "They're not fishing yet. Amelia left him and went to the garden, where she counted the new fish?" she the > er cr rn St np vt FRECKLES Safel d Surely and Have a ul Complexion With _ OTHINE VEY BACK ¥ IT FAILS, SOLD wy i AND DEPARTMENT STORES EV HERE, On Sale Tomorrow at McNabb's at Special May Progressive Month Prices Georgette Satin $9475 Flatcrepe Dresses -r Regular Values $29.75 to $49.75 New Novelty Frocks in shades of. navy, ashes of roses. wood rose, opal, grey, beige, champagne, copen,.sand, mili- tary red and black. Charmeen, Poiret, Tricotine and Fancy Silk 20.75 Coats Regular $39.76 to $49.78. This group includes all our best grade Coats--new styles and shades--for quick clearance Saturday. . Spring Suits Drastically Reduced the table. Caleb's eve fell on the dishes before, him. Without a word In silence everybody sat down to he began to serve the food. snails off the reeds. Lind found A. Nt. N---------- Ent. lt stan An Ottawa report says there is reason to 'believe that Right Hon. George P. Graham, Chairman of the recedtly created Advisory Tariff ' may yet accept the post of Minister to Washington, President Coolidge bas decided finally to spend his vacation this summer in the Adirondack Moun- "Did you get the crew for the first of September?" Amelia asked. after a long silence. Caleb helped himself to butter and passed it to Lind before he an- sewered. "Yes--yes," he said then as if he had just recollected that she had spoken, Characteristically, he made no re- tains in upper New York State. ference to the absence of fish. Sud: ' ' Snow-white Clothes Blue is indispensable every washday for it is the only thing that will neutralize the yellowish tint in freshly washed clothes. little waxy water files growing there, but the 'mud was too soft at the of the swamp for her to reach out and get them. "They would die right away af- ter I got them, anyway," she said to Mark, stepping back-to firm ground. "Yes, and they would be mostly long slimy rcots," he consoled her, _. They walked half a mile or so to 4 little sunny knoll at the edge of Gare's timber. Here they sat down, Lind spreading her pale, Dbillowy dress out about her. In a little while Mark stretched himself out full length, shading his eyes with his hand and nibbling at a straw. The grass below them leaned up the hill, like the smoothly combed hair of a person's head. Lind re- garded it curiously. The air was strung with humming insects, pois- od like little black periods in the light. Occasionally a blue-bottle salled majestically past, the tissue of its wings gathering the sun. , A droning bee blundered into a swarm of tiny, jigging gnats, disentangled ' and soared lazily Ei £1. £ iE nice range of colors in sizes 16 to 38 only--Each dress is tagged with original price tag and the regular prices $11.95 Ja $29.75. On Sale Saturday exactly alf, $5.98 1 $14.88 Flannel Dresses Regular $8.95 to $12.95 $3.95 Twenty-nine only Flannel Dresses--in a range of all the newést Spring styles and colors. 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Lack of space forbids a detailed description; about all we can say is there are dozens of exclusive dresses in all the new slyle effects and shades. CHARMEEN, POIRET COATS, $24.75 Regular $35.00 Wonderful values in all the newest Styles cape, siraight line and flare smodels, beautifully lined and tailored. You will find all e_new Spring' es - sented in these beautiful garments, We need the ward.