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"his 'wishes were made know the would unhesitatingly co! 1 that was required Tr. dl went.' he a coward, and he hard and bitter feel for Enid; but he never could 1ét him- ough with the supposition that . The very suggestion was like a physical pain, . The lawyers who were acting for him took the matter up in the most practioal sort of way. 'There was no question of sentiment, no fear of intrusive question: ing. To them it was a very ordinary case, and, when once Mrs. Bryant was found, would he carried ont ae expeditiously as possible. Money can buy nearly every. thing, and money would buy Julian Bry- ant his freedom! He wae now beginning to be tortured with the thought that it was absolutely due to Lady Ellen that she should be in- formed of the rea! position of affairs, The more he waw of her the more her charming, bright, half-boyish companion. ship, cheered and comforted him; the more dishonorable it seemed to him that this woman should not know what wae passing and yet he could not bring him: self to epeak to her He dreaded todoce her. She stood for &o much in his life now, and he had the very convincing feeling that he meant so much to her. He never deceived himself. He wae almost sure that Ellen Orooper wie not in love with him, that something was holding her back. But he did know that she trusted him, that she turned to him ae 10 one who would not fail her, and that eertainly constituted the only real happinees that Julian Bryant had in life now! His mother had gone back to Italy. Bhe had worn herself out in abuse of Mr. Pley- dell, and in writing frantic letters of re proach and pleading 'to her 'son; but Ju. ian had been firm, He would have no- thing to do with his mother, Had ghe beer. poor, struggling, unhappy, 6 would nave taken all her burdens from hier," but she wanted for nothing, and he oould not forget that in his hour of reatest nead, when he had asked for olp, she had denied him! He epoke frankly and easily to Lady Ellen whoub his mother. Bhe was not wholly in sympathy with him. One afternoon, as they sat together, he ventured to tell him that she thought that he had beeu a little ornel. You don't understand!" Julian said. "It ie my mother who was cruel. You've only known me since I have had all this money, If you had known me in the daye when 1 was walking the streete for some means of earning daily bread, perhaps suit her. I hape X you would find jit in your heart to for-| very hard feeling for me because I have weaiher does get on one's nervi give me what I have done my mother." "I wish I had known you in those daye!" len said softly. "It is so nice to to do things for '@nyone one likes; and what «an I do for you? You have id Julian = Bryant, 16 and drew th e epoke like r actually came to cak more definitely? sak now, she want. ely settled. She and fancies and _behind~her nd (0 was resolved that appy - with Julian, #0 much in him that appealed ha could be of such help to him. eraveighted now with his money. emed almost helpless: at times; and Lundy Ellen had begun to make all sorts of littlé plans and schemes for the future in which this money of his was h a big part, not frivolous or foolish ambitions, but ork 8 growing a little thin and be. g nervous, She did not attempt to e from herself that she was con- , that ghe was quite gure that he in- to agk her to marry him; but what ehe did not understand wae why he never did do this. Shao laughed a little hurriedly, and said: "Peshape 1 am thinking of things, from your mother's point of view. 1 often im- agine low I should have felt if T had had: a son. 1 believe I should be a horribly jealous mother!" "There i# no c)mparison between such a nature ae youre and my mother's na. ture," Julian answered. -* They changed the conversation abruptly and he fold her mhont Ketch's departure the day before, and of the man's enthu. he and of the wonderful fortune that big, eo really believed was in store for this umble born inventor... "It somnds like a fairy story," eaid silen. "How lovely it must have you to have done something for said He shut his oyes and his memory avaft- him back to the cold, dark morning ours in the garage, to the fough work, and to Bill Ketch's sturdy friendship. There woe a little pause, and at that moment tho door opened and Colonel Daw. ney 'wae announced, ith & little catch in her voice, almost like a ery, Lady Ellen got up. "Adrian! Oh, 'you 'stranger! Where have you been Some one told me that you had gone to the Riveria."' "I paid a flying visit to Nice," Colonel Dawney «aid as he shook hands with her, + apd then nodded pleasantly to ant. "You know my sister Milly ie there, and she Hay not well lately, so 1 ran ower ow she was." © Lady, Ellen's bands were trembling a little, and there was a nervous, ted the bell, Mr. Bryant," she some fa tea, 'of ) said Jul thoug! 8 hal) be deriantog I oi some hotel? T am not in my house for the mo- "That will do very well," ; Aiked - briskly." Adrian Dawney put "hie hi stick and Anloneened his big coat, "1 hope wow't think me intrusive,| youn Mr. Bryant'-he anid; [but 1 Jae 10 put v very pertinent question ou, some little time Dist Phe Ducheds of Wil shire, Lady how to We have been waiting, and it seems to me we are likely to wait in: definitely to know what your intentions are. 1 must tell you," Dawney went on very quickly, "although I am not actually a relation of Lady Ellen's, I have known her. all my lite practically, and I--have stood to her very much in the light of a bréther, perhaps even of a father, Hence the reason" approach you." , "I won't misunderstand you;" said Ju- lian Bryant, He had grown very pale, and had moved to the fireplace, and was stand ing with ona foot on the fender. 'You als lude to ty friendshio 'with Lady Ellen?" "Yes. at the Duchess and we others are anxious to know is, ia your sentiment for Ladv Ellen triendehip only, or "have you other views? You see," Colonel Daw- new added, with his charming smile, "she is very young. I don't know what her age in really, but ehe ié one of those sort of 'women who never grow old, and she needs to be looked after, to have all 'sorts of care lavished on her." | Bryant looked at the other man for a moment, and then said-- ats "It is my earnest desire to give Lady Ellen thig care." i "Have you spoken to her?' Iie shook his head. "No." act, "Why not, Mr. Bryant?" Julian caught his breath very quickly and then eaid-- "There are reasons why I hesitate." "If your mind is not sure," Dawney said | sternly, "then you must not give the world reason to suppose otherwise. whispered about, You must not e: to gossip and comment; in short, - ant, if you do not intend to ask Lady El len to be your wife, then you must keep wway from her altogether.' "I do intend to aek Lady Ellen to be my wife," Julian Bryant answered now, very quietly," "If I haye mot done so be fore, it is becanse, as I said, just now I have resitated--but I have been wrong! I will speak to her to-morrow." "I think I can guess what her answer will be," eaid Adrian Dawney; id he stretched out his hand, smiling ; "and I hope<you will both be v happy. I think-yon are just the type of man to you. will not harbor any er spoken to you so openly.' "That would be impossible," ant; and he gripped Colonel hand almoet passionately. He walked with hie gueet out into 'the hall, and they parted with a feeling of mutual liking; but after Adrian Dawney had gone, a sudden chill gripped Julian's said Bry. Dawney's heart, He had pledged himself to speak, and | yet he knew that if he did speak he must tell all, and that would mean that Lady Ellen would never consent to be his, yife: if +o GHAPTER XXII. --~Yady Ellen thoroughly enjoyed the din- ner. She fell in love with Mre, Gresham, and ehe liked Mre was not at all favorably impressed b; Me. Hammond's. eon, who came to Totoh ie Adrian Dawney, as h to take her home. "Was it 'my idea, or did he mean to be disagreeable to you, Adrian?" "Well, I rather think you are right, Nell. I really don't know very much abou Joung Hammond; but I have come acrose im mother and aunt. > Ww once or twice lately, and now that you mention it, I remember that he al-| ways has been' rather rude in his man- ot "1 don't suppose he counts for mich," said Lady Ellen casually; 'but he isn't at all bad Jooking, ; adores him, doesn't she natural." All the wa ney to come in just for a moment. "J have had such a lovely time," said. me out very often." "I'm such a dull, Dawney answered, "not a bit of good, all jhe gay, light-hearted things you love!" She answered him very, very quickly. "1 like many, many thi esides friv- olity. Sometimes, Adrian, I don't believe you understand me one little tiny bit." He I at her tenderly. Khe was very, very pretty to-night, with a flush on her cheeks and a wonderfui light in her eyes: and her slim body moving go grace: fully about the room, in a gown of dias phonous black stuff, was most fascinating, "How did you like Julian Bryant?' ghe asked him abruptly. + "Very, very much," he answered her at 6 x nce, "He is a great friend of mine," Ellen aid, with a curious note in her vo other man anewered h « , I know, and I think- 1 oy to have such a good frie! "Shall 1 see you again soon?" Lady Bl. len asked, as he stretched out his Wand in farewell, ow Rapvoss 10 Jon, Nell. youn wilte aud toh 0 s w . 'me, wan 't ub Rem amber, your: 3 "My Bagpinesa!" ar Ellen said' aeld Adri Geld Au ete stood alone, "Oh, Or ou are covered her face with her h and; { down, she cried unrestrainedly. hE A ere Was no one to i You | must not suffer Lady Ellen's name to be | , Hammond t00, but she | very "Pm woine w Lae ; although you are now almos scold you ug afoul. home, which wae not very | far, Lady Ellen chatted away ag happily | ae possible, and she enticed Colonel Daw-! whe | 'Oh, I do wish, Adrian, you'd ask tupid old trump." | for nk LL * | ®$uen Orooper' arm myseM, and others connected with] Filen: have been Tether perplexed | This picture shows the tish prisoner of war at Doberitz in death for striking a Germ only through the intervention. of James W. Gerard. the American am- bassador at Berlin, that his life was saved, and it is now stated that the drastic sentence will probably not be carried out. In soldier may have to undergo the original sentence of ten ears' impri- military sonment, court of the German army. now? I want to get away--1 must get away, Norah." "It fen't the best weather for the eea~ side," said Mies Powis in her quietest way, "but pull. you rather enjoy roughing it, and I think it would do you to get out of London." She paused a moment, and then ehe put { a hand on the other woman's shoulders. "What's the matter, Nell," something g you " said Lady Ellen 'I'm not a bit She changed very swiftly m I can't get into the trick of best that life offers me, something more." "Well, my dear, that is not Jpeculiag to you only," eaid Mise Powis brightly. 'We Bl sigh for the unattainable at times, you know." It jen't 'any consolation to know that. Will you give me the address of the little hotel, Norah, and then tell me ean you come down and stay a week-pnd me, or are you piled up with work?" "I think I could ran away of days," said Migs Powis; "and I should Jove to. It would be very delightful to be with you aml this dnll, grey, foggy es. in a stifled sort happy, Norah." #0 stupid, aking the Aye want ell, your life ig full of interests," Lady Ellen went on. "You never have a moment, to sit 'down. and think about yourself. It is so dull thinking About one's self. I'm sick to death of me" "The best thing you can do run away," said Mies Powis. 'All the 'cob. webs will disappear. You: must be.ott in the air all the time, never mind the rain or the wind, however 'bleak 'it ig!" «= Lady Ellen laughed. a little bit more like her usnpl-chéery self. ¥Well, 1 ought to be pretty hardy. The duke used to keep me out for hours at a time when I was up in Scotland, I wi to tell him that I should look like # weathersbeaten sailor, but that didn't have much effect." % f There wae a knock at the door af this moment and the maidservant came in with a message. "Tf you please, mies, can you possibly hat a surly young man!" she said to| 8ee Mrs. Sinclair. She seems very anxious ut her into a cab | to have a few minutes' conversation with on." 3 4 ¥ dirs. Sinclair! Out in this weather!' exclaimed Mise Powis: "Ohl please let her come up. 5 ; "A Savient of mine," she exclaimed to | Lady Ellen; 'and one who has no right to be wandering in this rain. Yom don't mind her coming in, do you? "Good gracious, no," said Lady Ellen; Miss Powis went to the top of the staire to meet her. guest. "My dear," she eaid. 11, you know you are hardly -- to risk this kind of thing. What would Dr.. Hughes say?" 2 Lady Ellen heard a voice say hurriedly, "I've gomething 1 want to say to you. 1 was (obliged to come." "Ta ell," a Nob me introduce a patient of ss ei you dof: said Lady Ellen; 'and eo gave a little etart, y Whe Re eaRiaR face to face with the girl whom slie had met that by-gone after. noon 'on the rough pathway leading to Adrian Dawney's farm! The surprige was ¥o great ae to be almost a shock. + On her side Enid drew back visibly, Bhe, 400, had recognized Lady Ellen. | Te: red how ch ma e : that photograph in Colonel = Dawney's drawing-room. b This encounter with one of ie friends troubled her, how or why h ; knew, only ehe was 'conscious. of the trouble. i : "You have met?" said Miss Powis. t met," Lady Ellen eaidy = Sho wae Ze fret 0 regain composure, A Dawney 'was speaking 'to about you hot so ory "hh you," ania Mn She wag very; very pale; i an officer in the The entire matter may be taken up by a higher for a couple 'nite purpose on ¢ and children of Germany, wl en ntration cam A WAR QUESTION. Is Great Britain Justified in Fight= ing for Belgian Neutrality? . Posterity is sure to hold the na- tion that was responsible for this, the greatest and most devastating war known to history, in great ab- horence, and it is for this reason, mainly, that the German savants have issued their special plea on behalf of the Kaiser, and that her Press' has come to their air in a stupendous endeavor to place res- ponsibility anywhere, so long as Germany and her war lord are ex- is ma plied eutrality as applied to means the Yefusay. of a third power to go to war in behalf of ei always. looked upon by hard fight- ing nations unfavorably, the right is as old as history. The Napoleonic wars broke u e sinall states of 1 d 'Woen that war ended the five great powers that success- fully emerged from it formed a combine for the future government sed | of Hurope, and worked out a new scheme for the surviving small states which were especially impor- tant. as strategical .ground from their geographical location. They.called it a "perpetual neu- tralization," the signatory powers consisting of Russia, "Prussia, Aus- tria, France and England, entered into a treaty that certain designat- small countries should be re- served from conquest by every other power, and they united in what they called a "guaranty of neutrality.' There were nine such areas, not all in Europe, covered by this treaty, among them Belgium, in 1821, Lux-. emburg, Switzerland, etc., coming in at different dates later on. iy > great significance of these treaties is that they indicate & defi- s the part of the great powers to remove certain pos sible 'points of friction from the arena of war, oid 3 The Belgian tre ed by a later one, bea 1839, and all were in full force effect when the Present great war began. The chief purpose of these SETesmenta was to remove the pos- sibility of any one nation gaining an advantage over its neighbor by de- stroying or annexing a region in whioh other powers were intensely interested, and not so much to pro- toch the weak nation tg Rg me | "This system of neutralization was greatly sirongibencd 'Hague Conference 1 ' Pow i 1 estion of responsibility for | u | the war, but this has been met by |e 4, the date of German occupanc nations, 3 .| ground 4 It 'was decided, i for German critics and apologists in| official assertions, « 'scattered br t / t United States, dlaiming that Bel-| gium, between. July 24 and August' w y of Belgium, was guilty of hestile acts justifying German. invasion, ; os CHAS. M. BICE. Jan, 18, 1915. atl THE SOLDIER AND HIS WILL. nn Denver, How the State Arranges Important Matters for Him. The soldier, according to Kipling, is an 'absent-minded beggar. The British law itself seems to have the prevalent idea about Tommy Atkins ing absent-minded, for it gives him 'a special privilege which is de- nied to the civi This is in re- gard to the making of a will: © If the ordinary civilian'in the Old Country wishes to make his will he has to comply with all sorts of for- 'malities and technicalities. He is ically bound to roof \ two belligerent nations, and though | e terrors exist. He has the privilege of ignoring them : altogether; and disposing of his belongings in a very simple way. ' He does not need any witnesses, nor technical phrases, nor elaborate clauses. He can even dispense with writing if he so de- sires, and just say, - by word of mouth, what his will is with regard to his property. The law says that a soldier who is in actual military service may dis- pose of his personal estate without the usual formalities. It can be either in writing or by word of mouth. He need not wait until he is twenty-one either, as a civilian has to do. The important point which is always cropping up, however, is, when is -a soldier in actual military service ? There were some interesting cases on the point, after the Boér War. When the War Office wanted volun- teers for South Africa a certain young man offered himself. He passed all the medical tests and went into barracks, which happened to bé in the same town. He then made his will in barracks. = - Later on he went out to South 'Africa, where he was killed in ac: | tion. His will was disputed, and an attempt made to upset it on the t he was not in actual military service when it was made. however; 'that as soon as he had "taken certain steps | under orders preliminary to going FOR DISTEM Bure cure and Py ag seeend war, one of our soldiers, before going to the trench- es, told one of his officers that if he were killed he wanted all his pro- perty to go to a certain person. The r happened to make a note Later on the soldi on the roll of honor, and » dispute arose over his b i The officer produc dead man's wishes; and it was held t they were a good and valid Roman army. It was England in 1837. ene ee "You claim that you. love me," "And so 1 do,' sponded Clarence = fervently you love me enough to continued. ; that," said: Clarence," mine, you see, is an und: S. FRANK WILSON & SONS 73 Adelaide 8t. West, Toro