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Or, Married to a Fairy. CHAPTER VIIL-- (Continued). 'wy would ao anything to please Th A HE os a oi me," 1 sald, trying to sSpeal : y nas th a fine blending of the judicial and speak. s e paternal, and to forget the blood of | words. seven-and-twenty rioting: in my veins, x the suggestion. ' But { you going to teach me all these things you, Yourseler: ay ¢ i \ "1 1 own I was considerably startled byl. before: 1 could e had broken into a torremt of "Because, though I'm. "that your mother was a lady, and that learning, I will try so hard to please you. you would like to be one, too." know you will like me better when you stopped to consider 'how I should have made me a lady--and I'd learn any~ Jpake Lilith my-ghoulder 'and watched. my face; dawning delight clearly shown in shining eyes and parted, smiling lps. "Go on," she whispered softly. "Well, dear," I sal Ike, when you are older, to feel at a dis- advantage before other ladies. hy her lan sound attractive to her. thing so as you "would like me better, |. shen both her small hands on! dear, dear Mr. Hervey. She slipped her arm round my eck |: and gave me a half-childish hug of a - fection. Then she sprang to her feet, and executed a little pas seul d "you would not joyousness on the firm sand just in front 0 8. You ' hung her head in sudden _ uitent re- sof 'sheer In the middle she stopped, and would }ike to speak correct English, and; Membrance. to play those dance tunes you like so 1 | much, and to: sing the songs you ad-| forgotten all about him. Bu 5 p heard your tell mire, 'and understand gomething of the, J oul always have hear as and you would look after me in future, 1 was so delighted 1 could have scr = e or make a dancer of me, and so I'd earn my people who wrote them, and perhaps- to, #péak a Httle French and German, and understand how to manage a house, and to ee after cookery and needlework." "Poor father!" she faltered. "I'd clean But when I Mrs. Nokes yesterday -as joy. rst, I thought you'd Her face fell, and she shook her head | living; but now you say I'm to be edu- emphatically. "I shouldn't like that!" she murmured. "Rut, of course, I'd do it for you. Any- thing else?" ; Well," I sald, racking -my brains to remember what the girls 'of my own class really did know how to do, "then there would be spelling and history and geography, and perhaps a little drawing and painting, and some poetry, reading, and---and lawn- tennis, and riding, and all those things as well. And, of course, "ballroom dancing." * "That is the only part I like the sand. had 'brought cheeks, She ha straw hat, and her yellow curls were blowing loosely out around her face and shoulders. her without kissing that little curved cated and made a lady of, and that I'm not to go on the stage, why, I'm so hap- n 1 can't pretend to be sorry about father. died, you wouldn't have offered to do all these things for me." Because, you see, if he hadn't She knelt down in front of me in the The sea uir and rapid movement a bright carmine to her d taken off her black- It was difficult to look at not good at}. Better food in vain they sought, = = ° "Till Crown Brand Syrup Peter bought, Now they eat it all the time ~~ Think it great and say it's fine! rose-red mouth which smiled up at me so invitingly. But ¥ had schooled my- self to a certain line of conduct with re- gard to my little ward, and I was re- solved not to be 'tempted out of it. "One thing I can't promise you, I sald, with matter-of-fact cheerfulness, "and that is to instruct you myself. But \ I will certainly come and see you while oF you are at school." This pure food costs 7s little' and goes so { i Her Tage Tell. ang het: under-lip trem- that its merits should be known in every ou "Some mice fishing. school I will 'hold. Spread it on bread when the kiddies find for you," I went on persuasively, want a ** 2 Serve it with es and 'Where évery one will be most kind to tery. Deatit to oweeven wl rt . and cakes. | Most delicious taffy and candies can be made with Crown Brand Corn Syrup. you, and no one 'will. scold you; where "1 only' want ' 2 you will have girls of your own age to make friends with," deny rE pant them. she cried, sud- Y ears, " ~ oul" Our Free Recipe Book tells of numerous economies its use will effectin the kitchen. Send for a copy. Address 'Montreal Office. The Canada Starch Co. Limited 'Manufacturers of The Edwardsburgh Brands Aiea MONTREAL CARDINAL TORONTO BRANTFORD VANCOUVER® afound of," she sald gravely. "And are are especially good for 'children 'because they are pleasant to take, gentle in - action, do not irritate the 'bowels nor develop a need | for continual or increased: doses, 25c. a box, at your Druggist's. National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, 177 A pang shot through my heart as I saw her evident grief. "Lilith, dear," I was beginning, when she slipped forward toward m s, still on her knees, and caught my hand, 'Don't send me to school, Mr, Hervey: please don't send me," she pleaded pas- slonately, "I know what school is, and I hate it. Keep me with you! I know you have a studio in London. Well, it must want gusting and cleaning, and your clothes must want mending. too, sometimes, and you must have a servant to do it. 1 don't want to be a lady. any more. because if I am made'a lady, I see it will mean being put away into one of those dreadful schools, and sneered at and looked down upon, and bothered and worried to learn things, and kept 3 80 I can't see the sea and sky--or you. b awd a: That's the worst part. Oh! Mr. Hervey, . A : don't send me away from you! I'd ras -- > : NG oa : AE NN NOSE ther be your servant, to wait on you, 1 Tablespoon each Gin- ger and Cinnamon. ; t Beat all together until than be the finest lady. in England! I can look a lot older in-a-long print frock with my hair twisted up, Let me just sweep out" your studio and watch you paint; only let me be with you, and I don't care how hard I work, For I love you, My, Hervey, and I shall be miser- fl | able if you send me away. You are so kind and so handsome, and you have been so good to me. And think how I shall amuse you, learning new dances to pléase you while you play the plane. And when you're busy and don't want to be bothered, you don't know how quiet I can keep. I'll never &tve" "you a bit of trouble if only you let me stay With you!" Hotdt : She was holding my hand tight he- tween both Hers and looking un at me 1 that kindly, well-meaning old gossip, the doctor from Sandhythe, had asked me, and which I had not been able - to answer. There would be, of course, cer- tain overstocked and underpaid so-call- |' ed "genteel" occupations open to a half- educated woman of wagdbond parent- age, ward to a man eleven years her senior. But I could not find it,in my heart to merition any Of these) ahd so I only 'stared*at Lilith in affected slr- prise, and asked her what she meant. Her answer was only too explicit, * "I mean," she sald wistfully, "shall I see you every.day after that? very, very hard, and put-up with the hateful life, and learn the horrid books, She grow sil stiff and prim and young ladylike--shall 1 be always with you af- "ter that?' - 1,1 threw away the: cigarette I was lighting; and, rising to my feét, I helped | "her to-rise, too. from where she knelt "staring 'at in 'that altogether bHewil- dering way. Then 1 took her little hands # Iz one or Hine: and, i Ying the ether. on 'Suga ty. tried to be more fatherly than ever. 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