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@- 33: + ft 4» 3:5 + £5 +- S + iii 3 0R ..-. $ + n ,5 THE. S + if CHAPTER XXVI . . Guildford Berton would have giVen something to have been able to fol- low the earl and Norah on the second day, but he had to remain to watch for the letter which he knew would arrive for Norah from Cyril Burne. The postmistress raised no objec- tions when he requested that the! Santleigh letters should be sent to: him, although such a course wasl against the rules; it appeared quite" reasonable to her, seeing that Mr. Guildford Bertin had virtually man- aged the estate for some time past, and accordingly the postman left the letters at the cottage as directed. Guildford Berton might have taken up his abode at Santleigh had he so ' chosen, but he did not care to leave the. cottage. Indeed, he dared not. In that cheerful poem, ‘jEugene .Aram," it is related, in beautiful verse, that the murderer is compelled to haunt the spot where the body of his victim lies; and in like manner Guildford Berton felt drawn to the heap of leaves beneath which rested Becca South, by a horrible fascinaâ€" tion against which he fought in vain. No sooner was he dressed in the morning than he felt bound to go Into the garden, and, pacing up and. down, eyed the mound sideways and with a. shuddering intenti'ioss. Several times during the day he w-andered to- ward it, and under the pretense of examining the trees or plucking at the weeds, hOVered about the fateful spot; and the last thing at night, be it wet or fine, he stole out and stood looking at the place where his awfil Secret lay hidden. ' When he went to bed, after walking up and down, trying to grow and sleepy, it was to commit the crime over and over again in his dreams, with all the details carefully thought of little else, or, if he inanâ€" worked out. During the day he aged to divert his thoughts, it was only for a short time; back they came to the one supreme subject like a. troop of crows to roost. As a matter of course he found it necessary to pay frequent visits to the brandy decanter in the cellaret, and equally as a matter of course he was still more depressed after the evanescence of each nip of the soul-- destroying spirit. ‘ I There might have been a more wretched, crimestained, fearâ€"haunte-zll being in the world than Guildford' Berton, but it would have been dim.- cult to find him. 'And yet, at times, he was not sorry for what he had done. It vas not remorse, but actual fear of the (lead girl.'nnd the horrible dread of disâ€"i covery, that made his days a tor-l ture and his nights hideous beyondl words. Time after time he told himâ€"l self that if it had to be done over again he would do it. If twenty Becca Souths stood between him and his ambition and his passion for Norah, he would sweep them from his path. There came letters each day, but they were business ones for the earl- and general invitations for Norau.i The former he opened and laid aside, the latterâ€"they all bore the local. postmarkâ€"he forwarded to Norah. ' Ii‘ortunately for him, there happenâ€" ed to be a. great deal to’“ be done on the estate at that particular time, and he busied himself about'it with an ardor which surprised then tenâ€" ants. His only chance of dodging madm-ss was to exhaust himself phy- sically and mentally, and he. rodel hard and fast and long each day, 1111- til he knocked his own horse up. and had to fall back upon the best tired +n+n+n+n+n+n+n+n+mn+nn+m+nmm+n+n+n+n .332 TEWARD’S SON WW4. m mm mm n+n+ré+azi +n+n+a¢s+emm+n+mn+n+n 32 l morning, “WNV +§f+fi+33€+33f+3354 WWIEHI" w“ 0 same rank as herself. One of them would be sure. to propose to her, and perhaps be accepted. And here was he tied to Santleigh, and leaving them all a clear field! Ile should lose her, after all! He left the club and rode home at a furious gallop along the hard roads which would have driven the head groom wild if he could have known it; and he almost resolved that he would set out for London the nex‘ whether the letter he was waiting for came 'or not. But when he reached home a small heap of letters lay on the table, and as he hastily turned them over his face flushed. There was one bearing the Brittany postmark. ' I~Ie glanced at the address as if it were the writer instead of the writ- ing, and then carefully opened it. The letter was from. Cyril, and was not a very long one, considerâ€" ing. - “Dear Norah," it ran in a hand which was at the best of times not too legible, but which born in the present instance evident traces of the writer’s agitation. ‘ ' Dear Norahtâ€"I cannot understand your silence. Are you offended with me? If so, tell me in what lies my offense, and I will endeavor to ex- plain it way or atone for it. But it. may be that you regret the bond that existsâ€"or perhaps I had better say existedâ€"betWeen us. Ah, it cannot, cannot be that surely, dearest! I cannot believe that anything, even your father's opposition, can have brought you to desert me, to forget the truth you have plighted, the promises you have sworn; and'yet l spend the day and most part of the night in this beastly place torturing myself with the suspicion. Norah, if you love me, fear nothing. I have the means of overcoming even you: father’s objection to our engagement Only wait and have trust in me for a little while longer. I would tell you something about the work which keeps me here, but I reserve it all until I see you. Indeed, I can write. only of the pain which your silence causes me. It is simple torture! Write, write! I will give youâ€"see. how patient I amlâ€"four "days more. If you have not writtenâ€"a word will suffice, just ‘I love you still, Cyril; be satisfied!’â€"â€"-by that time, I must conclude that you have discovered that you do not really‘ love me, and that you wish me to follow your exâ€" ample and remainâ€"silent. Yours, dearest, til-l death, Cyril. He read it again and again until. he had got it by heart; and at every loving phrase he hit his lips and ground his teeth. If only Cyril Burne lay under the heap of leaves instead of, or beside. Becca South' Then he carefully, and slowly,» and with something like enjoyment, first tore it into small fragments and then burned it hit by bit. As he did so it occurred to him that Norah, when she returned to Santlcigh, might ask the postmis- tress if there had been any letter for her on a certain date. and he sat down and laboriously manufactured an envelope, so that it might bear the appearance of having been through the post, and, inclosing a charity appeal, laid it with the other letters. He slept better that night than he had done since the one of the mur- der, and woke the. next morning in proportionately better spirits. After all, he told himself as be packed his portmantenu, things did not wear so black a look. In a few hours he would be with Norah, in the same house with her. He had an hunter in the Court stables, much ti..lnllr101180 llOlif'f in himself, and some- the disgust of the head groom, who expressed his opinion that Mr. Ber- ton had no more pity for a llOrSL‘. than if it was a steam hengine. One morning on the fifth after the. eal'l's departure, he saw a. copy of the Morning Post at the reading room of the club in the market town, and, turning the paper about listlessly, came with a start upon Norah’s name. It was an account. of a reception at the house of one of the cabinet minâ€" isters, and the newspaper man went into high-flown laudation of “the new beauty,” Lady Norah Arrowdalc. According to him. Lady Norah was not only the acknowledged beauty of this, the off season, but would asâ€" suredly hold her own and bear away the palm in the coming and regular season next year. He gave an ac- count of the reception pretty fully, but it all seemed to turn upon Lady Norah Arrowdale as upon a pivot, and he spoke of her as being surâ€" rounded by an eager and admiring throng of cour'tiers, each trying to outvio each other in attentions to the “lovely and charming daughter of ihe popular earl." Guildford Berton gnashed his teeth, and the paper shook in his hands so ' that the waiter stared at him, think- ing that he was going to have a fit. lt was what he might have expectâ€" ed. he told himself. She was surâ€" rounded by all these men, some. of them most of them, no doubt, of ‘the how he felt that he could win her. As to his secret. there was no reason why it should not remain his until he died. and afterward. Even if a susâ€" picion arose that Becca had met with foul play, there was absOlute‘y nothing to direct suspicion toward him. No one knew of his intimacy with the. girl-of that he was assurâ€" ed; and no one would suspectQ that he, the eminently respectable Guild- ford Berton, would have anything to do with her disappearance. Cyril Burne. turn up again; but not until he. Guildford Berton, had won Norah for his wife, and men when Cyril ap‘ little harm were grounds for supposing that peared upon the. scene, could ensue. After all, there good Cyril had run away with Becca. He continued laying this flattering grew unction to his soul until be quite cheerful and confident. “Keep all letters that signed in the deaf and the Court. Mind that. ‘And one,” he motioned hate people prying while I am away. he added. you never do, you know." The old hag shook her head. No, would most certainly come," he dumb lan- guage to the old woman, his house- keeper, "whether ‘they are far me or don't let any one come into the house; no twice over. “I about the. place Here are the kevs "All except the back garâ€" den gate. I've lost that or locked it up in my portnianteau; but you won't want to go in there till I come back, she said, and no one shonld come through the door in the wall till he came back. Altogether Guildford Berton start- ed for London in fairly good spirits. He was going to be with Norah. He! had intercepted Cyril's letter, and asl Norah would certainly not write to' him- in the prescribed four days,- Cyril Burno would, like. a wise man,l he, luildford Berton, would be left a_; clear field. When he arrived at Park Lane the' earl and Norah had just finished din-l ner, and Guildford Berton dressed.~ hastily but carefully, »‘a11d jOii’ied. them in the 'drawingâ€"roomfi Even as he shook hands with the. earl, he glanced sideways toward Norah, and he noticed that though she looked better, she was still pale, and that there was a sad and absent expression in her eyes. She wore a beautiful evening dress, of a more elaborate style than heI had ever seen her in before, and it' seemed to him that she was changed in other ways than that of her atâ€" tire. She looked more of a, woman of the world, and she gave him herl hand for a moment with a selfâ€"pos-= session more marked even than of 'old. “I'm glad you have come up, Guildford,” said the earl. “I am convinced that you needed a change ' and he looked at the pale face, from which G-uildford Berton was trying with a smile to smooth its haggard-l conclude that she had jilted him, and tened his lipsâ€"“Becca South. “If you are not too tired, you hadl better go too,” resumed the earl. “I should be very glad," said 1301“, ton. Then, as the curl rose to leavel the room, Berton said: “Here arel your letters. They are all answered.I “ ‘hanksf' said the earl. “Will you‘» put them on the (lavenport, please. I! will look at them toâ€"morrow," and! he went out. At the word “letter,” Norah look.- ed up, and her heart leaped. She did [not expect a letter from Cyril; why should she? And yetâ€"â€" “I have a letter for you, Lady lNorahln Norah took it and glanced at it, and-her color, which had risen, sud- denly faded. “It is only a hospital circular,” sh: said, coldly. “I sent you all that this." “Thank you,’ leaned back and unfolded her fan, the diamonds glittering on her arm with every movement. came before 7 she said, and she give you, Lady Norah." Norah looked up, and as her glance met his, her face paled. She guessed of what nature his news must' be. “I have heard from my agent here." he said, speaking in a low, confidenâ€" tial tone. “He has traced"â€"-he moisâ€" There was a marriage, there is no doubt about that, and they have left Engâ€" land , ‘ ’ Norah tried to speak, to say some ness. “I’m afraid you let the estflttil indifferent word, but her. lips refused. worry you more than you should. But you must take a holiday. There seem to be a great many people in “You will be Very glad to tell Mrs Harman that, he went on. “From "I have some news I should like to I all my man can. gather, the gull town. Fashion changes a great deal, seemed very happy.” I find. In my day there was a regu- lar season, and when it was over, everybody left London. But it is not so now, and a. great many families remain; why, I do not knowâ€" ’arliaâ€" ment, I suppose. At any rate, some friends have found us out,” be con- tinued, with a self-satisfied smile, “and Norah has been spending quite a gay time. Toâ€"night she is going; to a dance. at Gore. House, are you not, Norah?" Norah, who was reclining listlessly on a long settce, half started, and as.- seated. .-l'.‘43".i§~i":'fi i a,“ v - . l‘.‘.lji _ TIâ€"IE SETTING [HEAL-Her failures have discouraged many a poultry raiser. You can make money raising chicks in the right wayâ€"lots of it. No one doubts that there is money in raising chickens with a good. Incubator and Breeder. Users of the Chatham Incubator and Breeder have all made money. if you still cling to the old idea that you can successfully run a. poultry business using the hon as a hotelier, we would like to reason With you. In the first place, we can prove to you that your actual cash loss in eggs, which the 20 hens should lay during the time you keep them hatching and brooding. will be enough to pay for a Chatham Incubator and Breeder in five or six hatches, to say not-hing whatever or the larger and better results attained by the use of the Clmtham lnoubator and Breeder. If you allow a hen to set, you lose at least eight weeks of laying (three weeks hatching and five weeks taking care of the chickens), or say in the eight weeks she would lay at least three dozen eggs. Let the Chatham Incubator on the hatching, While the hen goes on laying eggs. Our No. 3 Incubator will hatch as many eggs as twenty setting hens, and do it better. Now, here is a. question in arithmetic :â€" If you keep 20 liens from laying for 8 weeks, how much cash do on lose it each hen, would have aid 3 dozen eggs, and eggs are worth 15 cents per dozen? Ansâ€"$9. 00. Therefore, when the Chatham Incubntpr is hatching the number of eggs that twenty hens would hatch, it is really carningin cash for you $9.00, besules producing for your profit chicks by the wholesale, and being ready to do the gem; thing over again the moment each hatch 150 . Don‘t you think. therefore, that it pays to keep the hens laying and let the Chatham Incubator do the hatching? There are many other reasons why the Chatham Incubator and Breeder outclasses the setting hen. The hen sets when she is ready. The Chat- ham Incubator is always ready. By planning; have plenty of broilers to sell when broilers are scarce and prices at the top notch. If you depend. on the hon, your chicks will grow to broilers J ust when every other hen‘s chicks are bgifigg marketed, and. when the price is not so 5 l . The hen is a careless mother, of ten leading h or chicks amongst wet grass, bushes, and in places where rats can confiscate her young. The Chntham Broader behaves itself. is a. perfect mother and very rarely loses a chick, and is not infested with lice. Altogether. there is absolutely no reasonable reason for continuing the use of a hen as a butcher and every reason why you should have at Chatham Incubator and Breeder. it will pay you to investigate. Small Premises Sufficient For Poultry Raising. Of course, if you have lots of room, so much the better, but many a man and woman are carrying on asuccessful and profitable poultry business in a. small city or town lot. Anyone with a. fair sized stable or shed and a. small yard can raise poultry profitably. ,But to make money quickly. you must get away from the old idea. of tryin “to do business with setting hens as hatchers. .‘ou must get a. Chathnm Incubator and Breeder. . . To enable everybody to get a._fair start in the right way in the poultrxbusmces, we make a. very special offer which it is worth your while to investigate. to take oil‘s. hatch at the right time, you may 1 We are making a very special offer, which, _ Norah's face grow even paler, and her long lashes swept her checks as she kept her eyes fixed on the carâ€"- pet. “Very happy,” he Went on. “Mrs. Harman need be anxious no longer, aud”â€"-he spoke slowly 'and deliber- atelyâ€"“and as things have turne'i out, I think it would be well 1‘.) write ‘Finis’ at the end of this chap- ter in Miss South's career. We need! say no more, trouble no more abontl herâ€"or her husband," he addeeld smoothly, but with a sharp glancei under his lids at her face. The Chaiham Incubator and Breeder has created a New Era in Poultry Raising. The selling lien as a liaieher has been proven a Commercial Failure. The Chatham Incubator and Breeder has-always proved a Money Maker. A Light, Pleasant and Profit- able Business for ‘Women Many women are to-day making an inde- pendent living and putting by money every month raising poultry with a Chatham Incu- bator. Any woman with a little leisure time at her disposal can, without any prevfbus experience or without a cent of cash, begin the poultry business and make money right from the start. Perhaps you have a friend who is doing so. If not, we can give you the names of many who started with much misgiving only to be sur- prised by the ease and rapidity with which the profits came to them. Of course, success depends on getting a right start. You must begin right. You can never make any considerable money as a poultry raiser with hens as butchers. You must have a good Incubator and Breeder, but this means in the ordinary way an investment which, perhaps you are_ not prepared to make just now, and this is Just where our special offer comes in. If you are in earnest, we will set you up in the poultry business without a. cent of cash down. If we were not sure that the Chatham Incubator and Broader is the best and that with it and a reasonable amount of effort on your part you are sure to make money, we would not make the special offer below. WE WILL SHIP NOW' TO YOUR STATION FREIGHT PREPAID A CHA'I'EEAM I NClJBA’E‘fiR and fifidflBER You Pay as no Gash Till After 1906 Harvest "Gentlemen,â€"â€"Your No. 1 Incubator is _:\11 right. 1 am perfectly satisfied with it. Will of} u. larger one from you next year. 11. M. oexwooo, Lindsay, Ont." "Gentlemen,-I think both Incubator and Breeder is all right. I got 75_pcr cent. out of three hatches. 1%.. S. FLEMXNG, Blattsville, Ont." Gentlemen,â€"-I had never seen an incubator until I received yours. I was pleased and sur- prised to get over 8€) per cent, and the chickens are all strong and healthy. A child could operate machine successfully. J AS. luv, Rath- wcll, Man." 1 l “’0 can supply you quickly from our distributing warehouses at Calgary, Brandon. liegzna Halifax, Chatham. Factories at CnA'rnAu, 0m, and. Damon, Mien. The MANSQN CAMPBELL (30., Limited, dept. No. let: us illith yeti prices on a gnarl fannisg Mill in gs M 'A' shiver of pain ran through Norah, but she managed to incline her head with an appearance of set- isfaction. “1â€"1 am glad it has ended 50," she said in a low voice. “I will tell Harman. She will beâ€"shc isâ€"very grateful to you, Mr. Berton, for all. the trouble you have. taken." “It is nothing,” he said, quietlv, but earnestly. “She is a dependent of yours, Lady Norah, and therefore has a claim upon me.” There was not much to findfault with in the speech.‘ It was respect- ful, even to the point of reverential. and yet it jarred upon Norah. "I hope you left all well at Sautâ€" ' . , . ’ leigh,’ she said, for the sake of $0.3“ ing something. (To be Continued.) +_______. $10,000 A YEAR FOR ONE ROOM. The widening of Piccadilly, London", has been the means of showing the enormous value of land in the centre of London, the sum paid by the Lonâ€" don County Council for a. small-area, which, of course, was built upon, working out at £34.- a square foot. This is believed to be the record, but as it included compensation for disturbance it cannot be compared with the prices paid in Cornhill, which is the higliest-rgnted spot on earth, a single room having been let recently for $10,000 a year. .4- Ton FAMILY A'FFE rrmn. The town of Chantilly, which is generally assm-ialed with charity. Mme. Mortier 'des Noycrs gape to the town in 1878 600 fr., and decreed that the dividends from this sum when invested should be applied as a reward for lilial piety. The. conditions are that candidate-s must be Frenchwomen, maids or wi~ dows, either born or domiciled for five yea-rs in the town. The prize is awarded for high character, and for love, favor, and affection shown in the family. This year's prize has been gchn to Mlle. Kaufmauu, a France, .seamstress, who for twenty years has made the wants of her infirm mother her first care. lo. 2â€"120 Eggs 5 ’ Ne. 3â€"240 Eggs THE CHA TH’AM INCUBA TORâ€"It's success [ms encouraged many to make more money {lam titty eqerz’lzoug/zt possible out of ducks. Every Farmer Should Raise Poultry Almost every farmer “keeps hens," but,whllo he knows that there is a certain amount of profit; in the business, even when letting it tako care of itself, few farmers are aware of how much they are losing every year by not getting into the poultry business in such a. way as to make real money out of it. _ The setting hen as a butcher will never be a commercial success. Her busm'ess is to lay eggs and she should be kcptat it. The only Way to raise chicks for pront is to begin right, by installing a. Ghatham Incubator and Breeder. \Vith such a machine you can begin hatching on a large scale at any time. You can only get one crop off your fields in a year, but with a (filiatham Incubator and Broader and ordinary attention, your-can raise chickens from early Spring until Winter and. have a crop every month. Think of it i Quito a few form are have discovered that there is money in the poultry business andhavo found this branch of. farming so profitable that they have installed sevoral (.fhatham Incuba- tors andBrooders after trying the first. Perhaps you think that it requires a great deal of time or a great deal of tQClllllClfi know- ledge to raise chicken» with a. (Thatham Incu- bator and Breeder. If so, you are greatly mis- taken. Yonr wife or d ughter can attend to the machine and look after the chickens with- gutpinterfering with their regular household ( u we. The market is always good. and prices are never low. The demand ii: always in excess of the supply and at certain times of the year you can practically get any price you care to ask for good broilers. \Vith a (aha/than). Incubator and Broader you can start hatching: at the r) ht time to bring the chickens to markets. lo broilers when the supply ie_vcry low and the prices accordingly high. This you could never do with hens as hatcbcrs. . We know that there is money In the. )oultry business for every farmer who will go 1 out it right. All you have to do is to get. a. Chathnm lucubator and Broader and. start it. But per- haps you are not props red Just now to spend the money. This is why we make the special offer. ‘ ‘I IS ’lfilb FAIR ? “We know there is money in raising chickens. \Ve knew the Chathnm Incubator and. Breeder has no equal. \Ve know that with any reasonable effort on your part, you cannot but make money out of the Chatham incubator and Breeder, “’0 know that we made a. similar ofi‘er last year and that. in every case the payments were met cheerfully and promptly, and that in many cases money was accompanied by letters ex- pressing satisfaction. Therefore, we ha ve no hesitation in making this proposition to every honest, earnest man or woman who may wish to add to their ycarl profits with a small expenditure of time an money. This really means that we will set you up in the poultry business so that you can make money right from the start, without asking for a single cent from you until after lt’fk’i harvest. if we know of a fairer offer, we would make it. ’Write us a. pet card with vcur name and address, and we 'wzliscnil you full ' articulais. as well as our beautifully illustra‘ book, “ How in make money out of chicks." “’rito lc-day l~:‘ (.‘halhum. , \‘v'iauipeg. New \Tcztminstcr, 3.(‘., Montreal. .512 35, (JEANCUM ’l' J s-Earxnp-E'A. v a .0:- pfif,[;'r-,nr“r. nufr'_".“l""-P.£"~,J‘x \- , its... -4 m .. . .' .I a. a, lurix,‘ .. r . .-,-_.-_._-wmn.MW-â€"â€"â€" â€" A ."“-\_~>.a. to: _ “n, 2,. n‘"’F“-‘;’v:.“!i"§':r2Ԥ - “mun. v'.‘ WMMAKE.HL§K§J§ . ,. iii-Es?“