| BALANCE | By L. G. MOBERLY Author of "pan and Another," "A Tangled Web," "Sin of Allsoa Deer: ing," etc, etc. WARD, LOCK & CO, LIMITED London, Melbourne and Toronto. (Continnedl. CHAPTER XIX It is to be--Dick and | When the Inspector sent to quiet' tl:e disturbance at the door found! himself confronted by Betty's grace-| fh] form and lovely face he drew back a little, and for an instant hesitated | what he should do next. But Betty was not deterred by the sight of his! gguare, burly form, and his moment | ary hesitation gave her an opportun- | ity for saying-- : ! 1 have something very important to! tell the Coroner. Will you let me in, please? Young though she was, there was a ring of authority in her voice, an as- eyrance in her manner which made the man draw back another step, and. Pevan, who had been close behind her came forward to her side. This lady has a communication to make to the Coroner, he said in his gentle accents. 1 think she had bet- ter be admitted at once. The mat- ter is urgent. The authoritative words were enough, and Betty and her tall art- igt lover made their way through the thronged room till they came within the Coroner's range of vision. His face wore an expression of acute an- noyance; the disturbance had vexed him. and he was prepared to utter short and caustic remarks about those who had caused it. But when his eyes fell an Betty's slight young figure and on the radiant loveliness of her fave, some of the grimness on his features relaxed, and hedbent towards her with an almost paternal gesture You have come forward to offer come particular piece of evidence? he said after hearing the explanation of the inspector. INTHE 1} | takes away the worst sting. i | | i | | | but the absurdity {| | answered, abominable as well as i They look as if you were stretched on a rack. Betty whispered vehem- ently, and of course you must be when they are accusing your husband of such dreadful things. When one | loves a person as much as you love him, it hurts that the person you love should Le hurt. Yes, it. hurts, Dorothy answered gravely, as she walked up the street, followed by the sympathetic and re- spectful glances of many pairs of eyes, of the accusation 1t is a wicked accusation, ab- curd. = But the letter I found to-day must surely put the police on another track. The paper you feund? The paper we found. And Betty poured into Dorothy's astonished ears the stci of her expedition to London, and of the paper discovered in the old work-table. But at the mention of Mr. Soames' name Doro- thy's brows drew together, and she shook her head. Oh. my dear, I am afraid it has been a wild goose chase, she said, it is: quite impossible that Mr. Scames trald have had.anything to do witht the murder. He is a well-kncwn sc: licitor--he has done a great deal of business for Sir Miles, 'and this Mr. Tritton was his clerk. There could be no reason for suspecting him. Be- sides which. Mr. Tritton was actually emploving him to hunt up the proofs of his motler"s marriage. My hus- band told me that. Yes--but still, Betty said thought- fully, as they turned into ihe gates, I believe Mr. Soames was in some way, and for some reason, Mr. Tritton's. enemy. Dick and I-- Dick---and you? Dorothy stopped and looked at the girl with a sudden smile, and then her glance wandered | back along the lance down which the artist and his sister were walking to- gether. ; It is going to be--Dick and 1---al- ways now, Betty said, with a smile, breaking aver her own face. 1 aid'! n't mean to have said anything about it just when evervone is so anxious and unhappy. The! words came out of themselves, and---1 don't know what | Miss Bevan will say, she added naive-. ly, the color coming and going in her cheeks when she saw that Clare was quickening her steps and that Bevan had evidently told his sister what had 1 have found this, Betty answercd clearly, though her voice shook, and 1 {hink it may help. The girlishly simple words brought a smile to the Coroner's grave face. and as he took the paper she held ont to him, he actually found himself re- peating a line of poetry in his head or [Tp ganghter of the gods, divinely ial] and divinely fair. = i. The girl who stood before him, slim ahd crect of figu and" beautiful as ihe morning "8a <dand excitemen rill of b ) To turned next to the Inspector Joroner and spoke a few words to him in a, low voice, after which, to the extremc disappointment of those who had been development, he declared the inquest adjourned, pending further investi- 'pations by the police. The words were a signal for a babel of conver- gation, and a general movement to wards the door, and Dorothy, who had watched Betty's every movement with . breathless interest, now 'made her way as well as she could to where the. gir] steod beside Bevan. "Wy dear, she whispered, have you found some clue? 'What has happen- ed? Betty locked lovingly into the clder woman's face. and her hand touched Dorothy's with a touch that was a Ca ess. \ T--den't know, she said, 1 believe net what 1 have found may help the police to find a fresh clue--a real clue _.and ch! T hope so, I do hepe so. 1 ean't bear to see that look in your eves. Derothy smiled a little sadly as she Skin AH Covered With Eruption N. Henri Tardif. "Tried Many Remedies 3 or 4 Years. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Cured. A Quebec man, N. Henri Tardif, of St. Casimir, writes in a letter dated Mar. 81, 1911: "7 bad a very bad skin, sll covered with eruption, eight years ago. I have had all of both my shoulders covered with it, and the high part of my arms, and my face, but it was the worst on my shoulders. 1 tried many different, remedies to cure it, but nothing was any ood. At lust I went te an apothecary. He asked me if I had ever used Cuticura Soap ond Ointment. I told him me, aud 1 © bought a box of Cuticura Ointment and a cuie of Cuticura Soap. I used three boxes oF Cuiicara Ointment, but I am glad of the same, ter Cuticura Soap and Ointment completely cured me of my skin eruption. 1 spread the Cuticura Ointment on all my gore parts, an" 1 think that in washicg my face with the Cuticura Soap, it hindered my sruption from. itehin,, and burning. I tried many rem~dies durin, three or four years hut Quticurs Soap. and Olntuient cured wie." (Signed) N. Henri Tardif. 4 Cuticura Soap and Ointment" are sold throughout th world, but to tho who © have suffercd mueh, lost hope and are. with- out f2vh 1 any treatment, a lberal sample of each with a 22-p JI he shin and scalp will be ma Address Potter Tome Columbus Ave, kuuwwidy wu, <u aa hs ; sd free, on- LH udp, $0 WNL U. 13 » | ing ia: (7 heping for some sudden and dramatic taken place. {Clare was through the gate ard-by | the girl's side before she had finished , speaking, and was looking down into Belly's soft eyes with a world of kind: liness in her own. Dick has teld me, she said, taking both the girl's hands in hers and 'stoopirg to kiss her, and I am so glad, dear, so very glad. ; ¢ : Hck steed a little apart beaming d.wn unon both, whilst Dorothy watched the trio, her heart contract 'with a . pal 1 ol : iol wiftly bY Swit : 'ooked at her with "Just such an mated A : Bevaasg., they rested upon Deity, but she had never heen able to reciprocate that his expression of it, until he refrained almost entirely from any demonstira- ion ot Oliver sprang hefore her, and with it came the rcimembrance of how til-- / Until--when? Dorothy's cyes left happiness overflowed from their faces and turned towards the house just vis- the setting sun wove a veil of gold. Oliver's love had been her werld, yet her at the park gate she had shrunk from tis touch, shrunk from his pas- "distaste and dismay. And in these days of suspense that had followed quiet. acceptance of the blow fate had gtruck him, Miles' unfailing certainty her realise with a sudden flash of illumination somcthing of ber hus- her arm roused her from her reverie. . &hal' we go on, Dorothy? she said, Mrs. Dyson. They were preparing to wander away indefinitely into the en | votion as shone in Fin SE 0) devotion, she had even shrunk from tion whatever. Involuntarily a vis: much his love haa been to her--un- the contemplation of those two whose ible through the trecs, above which the other day when he had come to sionat: words, with an instinctive that meeting, Miles' patience, Miles' that all was for the best, had mode band's true worth. Clare's hand on these two eught to go back now to park, like the two children they are, and 1 have sent them home. They arc like bits of some idyll or fairy tale, - - They don't belong to this practical werd. at all.. Tlare, Dorothy exclaimed impét- uously locking her arm in her friend's. they make cone feel as if nothing prac: tical. and. prosaic really matters, as if the only things ty it matter are love and simplicity and the child-like qual- ity that belongs to natures like theirs. Miles has it too, she added irrelev- cntly. Far 'down in Clare's heart was an intense desire to be able to say-- ' (To be Continued) There is a lullaby sweeter than all-- Sweeter, far sweeter, than any to me, Morpheus calling his flock, we aie tol' : Drowsy. sleepily into the fold-- ) Tis the Song of the Sea. Few can there Be who are mute to its call unresponsive; if conscience is free, a ; People and things all unconsciously . seem J Merged in the web : of - 'a beautiful dream By 'he. Song: of the Sea. List S than 'any to me; .6 icing the 'weary to peep a region' of 'cuief and sleep-- "Fis the Song of the Sea. weeter, far swe Lring ~ Betty |. Cramming down ill-chosef" food, and rushing back to work, leads straight to dys- pepsia, with all it means in misery. Proper habits of eating, with a Na-Dru-Co Dys- pepsia Tablet after each™ meal, restore good diges- tion, health and happiness. A box of Na-Dru-Co Dys- pepsia Tablets costs but 50c. at your Druggisgs. National Drug and Chem- ical Co. of Canada, Limited. Tavre ista-luilakyisweéeter than all-- | early closing? : anly I do, my friend. Fi: Xler--Then shut yn. HUDSON BAY TIMBER Experienced Cruiser Describes Split Lake Conditions Interesting observations with regard to the timber of the Hudson Bay Re- gion (the southern a old district of Keewatin) are faux in the 1911 report of the Director of Forest- ry, published as part of the Annual Report of the Department of the In terior for 1911. Mr, J. T. G. Whyte, = aaj _exper- ienced timher eruiser. and fire ranger (who has since been drowned wiile in discharge of his duty) reports on the conditions of the forest around Split Lake on an area of about 2400 square miles. This whole territory was originally covered with forest. The islands in Split Lake still bear Spruce, Tamarack and Jack Pine, large enough for railway Hes, poles and lur ber. All the rest of the country has been burned over at least once within the past forty or fifty years, and the tim- ber which dates frem the last fire, rarely exceeds three or four inches | in diameter. The shores of Split Lake have been burned over, on an average once every sSeasol. For- | tunately in this district the soil is usually de>p. and can always support another crop of trees. The presence of merchantable forests jin protected situations proves that the young for- est now started will become sufficient ly valuable to support sawmill and pulp inductrie:. and supply a: large population. if it can be protected from fire. Very little of the land' trav: ersed hy Mr. Whyte is suitable for agriculture : ira J T. Blackford, fire ra 'which was exhibited in a shop window. '| so they © Ss simi 0 st i 1 'pompcus person, that th a fire plug. | . And I am equally confident that it is a weater-plug, retorted the mild in- dividuel, an Now, my dear sir, puffed the pomp- ous person, this device was put here primarily as a plug on which. to at- tach a hose in case of fire in the vi- lair e device is cinity. Therefore it 'is absolutely impossible that it can he anything but a fire-piug. You are entirely wrong, declared the other. This plug was plated here to supply water. Conseguently it is a water plug. If it supplied fire-- why, then of course, it would be a fire-plug. The pompous person stopped a pass- ing pedestrian. > Sir, he began, I desire to appeal to vour intelligence. This gentleman has bacome involved in an argument | with me. He insists that this de- vice is a water-plug, while I, with equal confidence, claim that it is a{ fire-plug. Will you kindly settle the question for us? | Certainly, replied the pedestrian. You say this is a fire-plug, and vour friend declares it is a water plug. Just let me investigate. He locked carefully at the plug and rapped it gently with his cane. I greatly fear you are both wrong, La finally remarked. This appears to be an iron plug. > " Dressed Fowl The country had never looked so beautiful. It was the heydey of summer, and the setting sun gilded the reses and glinted on the tiny panes beneath" the eld 'thatched roof. Litile Willie, who was a town-bred bey, and had never before visited the country, occupied an old-fashioned stool beside the farmer's wife, mar- velling at all around him. Bv and by the good lady began to pluck a chicken that was destined for the next day's dinner, and the little boy marveled the more. ; As the feathers came from the de- | funct bird and were dropped into a basket Willie's attention became more and more fixed, and his mind began to work freely. Finally, he could stand it no longer, so he blurted out: Do vou take off their clothes every night, auntie. Nf course I am wrong! I am al- ways wrong, am I not? exclaimed an irate hushand during an altercation with his wife. . No, dear was the irritatingly sweet answer; not always. ; Not clways! echoed her husband. Why, whenever did you allow that I was right. ool Last week, dear, when you admitted you were wrong. I said you were right then in confessing it. Soft corns are difficult to eradicate, but Holloway's Corn Cure will draw them out painlessly. : Yankee (boasting of American heat) --1t's so hot it burns the wines off the fA,°g. valuahle asset. Hazors of Centuries Ago We wear things and. use things daily, of the origin of which we have not the slightest idea, and were we to be asked concerning their history we wonld be at a loss to answer. This was illustrated when two young men well but quietly dressed, were admiring a well-known picture of life in the time of Julius Caesar One of the men remarked, while look- ing at the picture, that he wondered how the Romans kept their faces smooth and whether they ever shav- ed; ana if they shaved, what were their razors like? Neither of the men could answer the question, and immediately consulted var- ious authorities on the subject and found to their surprise. that razors were used for shaving in a very early part of the world'. history. The Egvrtians used some kind of a razer, though the Levitical code expressly forbade the shaving of the veard. It is believed the primitive shavirg instruments were made of sharpened flints. 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