imming, : tain, which road to take, won- in a EE [§ His heart var that . ; BARGES TE \ i 3 8 'évening, Close by him al: . : EHR ST ne a SA a rr LS aor Site ony "hatidrawn up by the pavement: be! lor ae un care wha edie : A 4 22 0 know or te care what 'wo id, He could see only that heard a word for two. of 'theif ilk) of them, except father, ¥ Blanche was no longer his; that the we must try to.get them info got : 0 Bliinche he had loved and believed asylum; or _school."' died. neyer really existed; that he ] dimly," almost unconsciously. . "os the result of the trial known : > ] ye! : "It isn't © many akylims 'that eady to. SHE * Boon atiorly Hodetved defraud: 'Yes, five years' penal servitude, would care fo take them, I expect," 7 At first glance the hi niay a od and. that, something had been | "7,00 Tore than he deserves." |iiiq Mrs. Boniface. "Poop little] ha sieser Hen I Lor onl ph 'Baken from him which could never become 5 dn " renf what will things, there's a hard fight before! hat about the only thing that is Jrefurn. 'Shall home by tent them | But what _was your plan? uniform is that they are all ta- £1 will not live a day longer,"' he en's Bits 54 N lenihve Wh, Siother, Th was just to per-|toes. The first hill has one large d to 'himself; "not an hour long-}" ries 3 ¥ o suade father to let them come to 0 medium-sized : er.' And in: the 'reliel of haying Quite by ten. Tell father that!y; 4% the five years. OF course it a om ores The a characte: will be some attainable thing to desire ar- Bardoni is free for the might he youd be an expense to him, but I hill has one medium-sized one dj fo 1 pices dently, were it only death and-annis| Santed him; 1 met him just now. |v .1d tedoh them, and help to fake several small ones. ~Perhaps the every <n o fa hilation, he quickened his pace and oad-bye: ' Then to the eonchman, care of them; afd oh, it would be next hill has three: 'or 'four' good-Istrain we will know to a cb + If the' felt a sort of renewal of energy and | The word 'startled Frithiof back | 2 Bice to, have: children about; the | Sized ones. "Another -hill has a soli-| tha a method eve : potatoes. 3 ife within him, urging. him on, ' N house! One can never be dull where | tary tuber, but of good size. Per- ; i uld i hl before him Bhs one aim | 0; the recollection of his own af-| (here are children.' haps another hill has nothing but hei several small ones, is a hot than, this, he thould Pl ; which he thought was worth pur- fairs; he had utterly lost his bear-| 1 knew she was dill at home," [little runts. - Thus it goes through! common feature of potato by itself... - 2% : B suing. ings and must ask for direction. He thought the mother to herself. "It the-100 hills. The ordinary farmer Tho. bill that Bore three. oF fous This Tequires. that each hill wi 2 He was alone again, dnd thé twi- would accost this man who seemed |... too much of a changs fof her will pick up the tubers from all of goodisized tubers i the one to fast. |be sacked separately -at plant 4 EF dight. for which he h ad Jonged was |® little less in a hurry than the rest|t, come back from school, from so the hills and put them all together. oll oUF eyes on That is the hill that|time. If the ten plats show up ast closing in upon him; a sort of of the world, many educated people and 'young | 16. does this complacently and with has ability and the one that we|of about'equal value end all good, blue haze ot lots over the io Sal Jou kindly Soil me $he way friends, to an ignorant old id Salistactio poi athens ig X bo. should get next to. /.|it is not necessary to keep % . park; night was coming on. What} yy Fl ear Eon the [like me and a silent house. Not|d, it. Why should not bef | We will assume that we have lonBer separate, but the produc of "was this horrible new struggle which : i that the child would ever allow it." | "Lite in wi every hill and that. the tem plats may be sacked « # OF ars Crs ES sy | sound of his voice, looked keenly| ing 3h aps te in winter, when he begins gether and saved to plant the : "lan beginning within him 1 Evil," | of him fo? an instant, then held out ot Of ourse, dasling saidles read the seed catalogues, het a Ping Patch the year fallowing, ~~ == $hie, would with his own life? Where | "'}, tind in cordial weloome, ~~ |' eo p-- ;was the harm in ending that which "What a lucky. chance that we| fk : # vidual inher will weigh more. and the good plats saved. --- & ' i "wak hopelessly spoiled and ruined? should ha: h"othie . a : , e will further assumé that our If an occasional farmer follows Sl : Was not suicide a perfect legitimate |; © 1" dark Tike atid ee er a i Rife are hia fost: ap % ang that. our the method here laid out, he will > 3 ending to a life? : J RG ; ; 1s are two rt in Tow. i \ ad Wil "B * A voice within him answered his been lon g = Ragland g Sy pn 4 : As is open planting, probably Joon, find th % his Distien a0 8 question plainly: rithiof, at the first word of hear- Sa hy p 7 i more open "han js eoRimonly "paac- f ) By. 4 ' : . ty greeting, 'looked up with start-| | rea RT 2 {tised, oT **_| be willing td pay him a bonus for 2% Ue rn a dated led eyes, and in thé dim gas-light} J 1 dr 4 § | At this rate of planting thers will them. . | "What he is about--it is'no worse an bo saw the honest Exgiish face and| '§ : a ah ff | be 6,200 hill asain ie i ly eyes o y Boniface. E e ' 3 i | early a perfect stand." 1 «end than to die in bed of a fever. , ; Sea : a be Pos per hill," we would iho + yield of :155 bushels + per. acre; a Sh Cache ut to: you---you who are afraid. of 3 #the suffering of life, yor who know CHAPTER. VIL 2 ol iS quite well what you are doing--to | : Meantime the 'brougham had § ; Nis d worth. sftiving for by the nae id . you it is sin." bowled swiftly away and its two oc- ; TS, 7d | onsoFight -against-it as he would, he |cuPants had 'settled themselves |" fat aes N hte could not stifle this new conscious- | down comfortably "as though™ they {= t'breed true; but the chan peace svingSiagdiay 3) ness which had arisen within him, | Were preparing for adongirive. 31 : i 'Yes, ma'am," replied the mihi [XE Only women or children could hold Are you, warm} endfigh, wn ; i host "There are ten of those hams hah % ip such a creed; only those who led|child! Betterlst me have this w : bs ii ing up there now." . TE 8 sheltered innocent, ignorant lives. dow downjand Fou ght y@urs ups "Well, if you're sure they're 3 Looking back afterward on the |58id Mrs. Boni ace, "glancing with the same "pig, ~T'll take thre a SETAE strugale; it eemed- to; im Rotherly. anxicty af, them,' replied the young beside . " a B ! : ci ¥ , a . wrmethat for ageés-he-had- tossed. o-and |. " . - rE i 7 widict oe « RORY coven srind shine fro in that horrible hesitation. In] Ge , TT awn X a digging-time is. io dig.a. fair}... rere A reality all must have been over |53id Cecil, at ONTARIO'S PRIZE FAT ya ; teh, lea: : SHE" ORED THE RING" within a quarter of an hours There | YOU Dot to worry about me. I am 8 youngster is only two months : I He! "the p Mand--When you broke the ens #¥irbde before him the recollection of | quite strong, if you wouldjgnly be- Pounds. His name is John Bras, and he rom o " or Ehgements of course, you returned his father ag he had last seen him | lieve it. PUA kT i ar MAL TTT Te 'ele hi ave arnold, Ting he £4%e Jo Sl #==§tanding on the deck of the steamer, | © (Well, well, «ks lope; yous sre," 3 E re A (of 'good 'size: a Shel Certain. _ not! hr "gd 'ho' remembered 'the tone' of his {81d "Mrs. Bonifsce; with™ & 'Sigh, u- {he pl crops olny Bi Haack any ore, oi "ef voice as hie had said: | ('But amy: way it's more than you ble you oo |of potatoes as. he pict Safhtedhy: themselves an etn #4 have not changed: "T look to you, Frithiof; t6 carry look, child. oT . Bolsy. y x ' Ia = er hicalar I ; Eng, : 3 OE ; somwonb the aims in which I myself have |, And the mother thought wistful- There is" plenty of 'room' for at jou ! "a unit. a0 ON I CHS Ww i William vy ge . failed, to live the'life that I could of two graves'in a distant ceme- | them, poor little mites," said Mrs. In our 100 is: : us pois 8, but ther ig Sondeimn 2 With to have lived' flory where Cociliacsisters lay. and | Bonifsce, WWAsd the plan is jusi close study might revesl the pres-| "pt Baws. mot pet credit Rr He saw once again the wistful}52® like' you,' dear. There's only "one. ios, 4 at oust, voi Strain or-varie'l, cated b themselves. and. 'Btin Where 'that!' wetdook in his father's eyes, the ming om objection I Have to it: "I'don't like tho ¥ had 3he ang: shat reli ate pi The..se William ¥ led love, pride, and anxiety wi ber, with: the!your binding yourself to: work for. 2a. : 2 : hills 4 dulgin' in: which he had turned to him, loath kness Of "a "rapid | so many-years--not just now while -- "90 Yet him go, and yet eager to Epeéd talker, shout Cecil's dfelicate ap-|you are 'so young. TI should have him on his way. Should he now {Pearance.. | 8 no liked you to marry. dear.'! ; 2 isappoint all this hopes? Should | ~*F am glad we have scefi Doctor | *'But I don't think that is likely;?J of : : 3B Mave seed 3 Ly ATaAl $384, deliberately 4nd in the full pos. | Royson:'" said Cogil, "because now said Cecil, "And it does. seem 80 session of all his faculties, take a | "¢ Shall fe8l giiite Somfortable; and stupid to leb the, time pass on and 3 "step which must bring, terrible: suf-| YOu won't be anxious any more, mo- {do nothing for years 30d, eats Jus Mering to 'his home people? And ther. It wonld be dresdiul, T think, | because there.is a chance that 7 then he remembered for the first [4G have to be,a'sort-of semi-invalid { man whom you could. accept may 9% time that already trouble and vexa- [All one's lif; though Tn some | Propose to_you. The chances are: By tion and loss had overtaken his fa- [PSOPl6 must enjoy i, - Doctor | quite equal that it may not be so, | a % Sher he knew. well how greatly he | Royston said that half the girls in|and then you have wasted™a great} 3 would regret the connection with | London were invalided jusbfor want {part of your life.' have I jod : ave fang 1 Hy Cm el oe pt A nr SN hae a ST wy SURFER eS 5 RG ELS a el 4 lish firm, and he pictured to | of sensible work. I rathér believe,| 'I wish you. could 5 Simcelt the a i Rave, mother, that is what 'has been the | Herbert White," said Mrs. Bani 4% sdalen with a new and unfamilias|Mabter with me," and she laughed. | face, wistfully. "He would ha %loud upon it, tal iastead of thef, "You, my dear!" said Mrs. Boni- made such a good husband." ~ glonging for death there came to him | face; "I am sure you are not at all| "I hope he will to some one ) "a nobler longing--a longing to go|idie at 'home: = No one could say | But that~would have been im i back and help, a longing to make such a thing of you"... sible, mother, quite; quite impo tf pto his father for the loss and{ 'But I am alw ving sible." =. A axation and the slight whiza bad Lo Diem Sus. othe hs 35 a 1 of t 2 Tr) gy 16 : to realize that there: was still 'something "to be lived for, Shoush To