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The Green Sea By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK ESL rv od CIS Lo Pr ---- Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," - "The Time CHAPTER XXVIL (Cont'd). you can't see it, thank God I If you were destined to live in ity the rest of your days, it d not matter much. But:you are going to live in obscurity. Al- dy, young as you are, your name | being mentioned for a place on bench, "So dear 'Boy, try to realize this-- i can never raise the daughter of iteve Willets up to your level, but she can hold you down to hers. A wife with a stain upon her name is a Ee was in despair. Pleadings, 'threats, tenderness, sternness, alike left her unmoved. The lances of my most eloquent pointed arguments shattered against the armour of her _ resolve; it remained fixed, solid, stub- bom, a huge impregnable reality, like a mountain of granite. And all the while her splendid eyes were glori- fied with a light of love. She made 'no attempt to conceal it, nor did she manifest an inclination to resort to . those instinctive coquetries and har- . ass, but so feebly repulse, the mating male, But the light was toned and softened by an expression of sadness and renunciation that wrenched my heart until I could have cried aloud with the pain of it. It was a positive, "harrowing torture to have: this peer- less love revealed, and at the moment of revelation stand helplessly by and . see it torn away from me. In the end we arrived at a sort of compromise--a poor sort in compar- ison with her unalterable decision: she agreed to wait and hear Strang's story. "By the time you found my letter," she told me, "I had hoped to be on the train, miles away from Los An- geles. But since you have balked my object the way I had planned it, I, suppose a few hours or less will make no particular difference." "Then why should days, or weeks, or months, or years make any parti- cular difference either?" I stormed, beside myself. "You argue without rhyme or reason. You are simply atubhb fy i h Aad mded with "Oh. you dear woman!" I e a groan. Her response was a smile, a smile that was maddening. It was so ten- "der and intimate and affectionate; yet, as far as results went, my woo- ing was as certainly rejected as if I were the most objectionable creature alive. "Come, Mrs. Ferris," she said with an attempt at lightness, "Let's be - agréeable while we may. I must con- fess to having a very slight curiosity this morning in Mr. Strang and what he may reveal, or any of the rest of it. Its importance has shrunk to nothing in my mind. It is solely for your sake that I am consenting to stay." Hers was a small enough conces- ~ sion; but I was grasping at straws, and a spark of hope sprang in my bos- om that something might happen to soften her unyielding attitude. We went out to breakfast together. 'She was uniformly gentle and kind and sweet-tempered, as if she were re- solved that nothirig I might say or do would be allowed to offend or dis- turb her. But we had little enough to say to each other. The situation was become too monstrously serjous Hor speach, or even for lucid thought, CHAPTER XXVIIL g and Struber were waiting » when Lois and I got back, Lock," ete. and we all went at once into my pri- vate room. g A pleased glow went through me when she drew her old. chair to my side of the désk and seated herself close by mg. But at once my des- pondency rushed back again. The act was an unconscious expression of our changed relations; a token that the old happy comradeship was no more, and that there was nothing else to take its place save emptiness, loneliness and heart-hunger. Much to my relief, Struber showed no inclination to crow over the suc- c&ssful outcome of the affair, as I had expected he would--for, from his standpoint, it was' successful. is | face remained fixed in a contented grin, but he seemed satisfied with a husky reminder to me: "I told yuh to keep your eye on your Uncle Hei- nie. Didn't I fill on the draw? Well I should worry!" Strang's bright little eyes watched Lois intently, but his curiosity was not rude, and he was careful to avert his gaze whenever she glanced in his direction. He and the detective were whispering together while she was seating herself, and T wondered at the curious expression with which his fierce eyes regarded her, Struber abruptly swung round and fired a question at me. "Say, when you were in the auto with Farlin, didn't your scrap with Chinks end mighty sudden?" "Why, yes," 1 replied; "about as suddenly as it began." "How many were there?" "To the best of my belief, four, I'm not sure." "Not countin' the one under the carpet. Uh-huh, I see. Now then, where's the ring 1" Not since the episode at the ivory booth had I once thought of it. My gaze fell mechanically to my hands. { The ring was gone. Still grinning, squinting at me be- tween half closed lids, Struber nod- .ded his head in a satisfied way. "We found four dead Chinks scat- tered round over San Felipe; every blamed one had the death mark print- ed somewheres on his mug, an' they were the deadest bunch o' Chinks I ever saw." As evidence of my changed mental state, I may set down that the signi- ficance of Struber's words sent a dull glow of exaltation through me 'in- stead of the shuddering horror I would have felt had the incident oc-| curred a few days earlier. "My chief regret is," I savagely told him, "that I didn't get a few more-- Lao Wing Fu particularly." Strang interposed: | "KH you knew everything, you woudn't feel so sore against Lao. Don't forget that after all he's a, inaman." "I shan't," returned I, glumly. "May the good Lord deliver me from any. similar affliction in the future." "Well," Struber went on, "they'd a-got you or Harry if you hadn't a-got | | | them first. Yuh know the kind o' cannon a Chink generally packs-- {big enough to hunt elephants with. ey all had at least one apiece an' enough wire-edged butcher-knives among 'em to fill a morgue. The guy |on the floor o' the auto that Farlin slugged--that Chink was there to fix you--must a-come to an' grabbed the Mebbe it slipped off your finger," I got up and went over to where my light overcoat hung. > "Do yuh get what that Hebns?" he ten, {and everything bearing the ideograph, liriess, cun-| J ning and genius for trickery. It was = | simply by a process of deduction from what was certainly known, by: filling in the facts at hand with what was 'obviously. required to make a perfect whole, that we were able to arrive ay some of conclusions. Our earlier hy- potheses, it will be seen, were in the 'main correct, failipg principally in a, -lack of detail. rR For example, it must have been through the instrumentality of a plot hatched by Lao Wing Fue that Steve Willets's escape from San Quentin: 'and his subéquent avoidance of the} police were so successfully and easily accomplished, though the charge could, not be certainly fastened upon its author, From our Chinese prisoner: --the one who promised to respond to third-degree treatment--it was learn- ed that from the outset Steve matehed| ¥ ! his cunning against Lao's--t: to : "double-cross" him, to quote Struber.! Stones Take Place of : Steve's checkered career in China had! Copper Clock. Weights The shortage of copper throughout ~ given him a facility in the use of the language and an acquaintance with the German Empire is marked to such habits and customs that enabled him ga degree, that not only have the cop- to mislead and circumvent the white per cooking utensils (the pride of the police, if not the race whose outward thrifty German housefrau), been aspects he assumed as a disguise. ' eonverted into food for rifle and gun, Even with the advantages pointed but even the ancient clocks with out, however, he could not have fared heavy pendulums of coper have been far, of course, without material as- made to add to the war contributions, sistance and support, and this was The picture shows some quaint old given him by one of the numerous clocks in the Black Forest. The cop- secret societies, or tongs, that infest per weights of the pendulums have all our Chinese communities. There been removed and stones have been was at least one of these--the Hop substituted for them. Sings--that was not wholly amenable ali to Laos authority. They were per-| pedigreed Seed and Plants Best haps the most desparate and murder- ous gang of highbinders that have Fedigreed stock has long been re- ever played a part in fomenting cognized as the most valuable, and trouble in Pacific Coast Chinatowns. much gigas has been Jai Fi breed: It was parculiarly fitting that these ing stoc rom, Barer > od ve thugs should have furnished Steve Salitien al i det brooding o fF soegs un ith an asylum and lent' him her work is consistently followed. In Here now arises a detail that had VY orchid, small fruit Dautation done much to add to our mygtification; and vegetable or flower crop ere 3 lants that produce but lit- that had presented the most baffi are Tiny re th that obstacles to finding a motive, Lois hd w iol d ere are oliaers ha are and I were not alone the targets of T2¥Y bi era. Te o Lago's conspiracy and the stratagems RON-pE ege iS Bp Still growing out of it; Steve's attempt to such plants Porson ye nl Bo pi get the best of Lao made us also his 8 oy ® pe a th ke to victims, so thus we stood between two > an. es the fires. But in the end Lao found re- 3 o : venge for the outlaw's ingratitude; he tine rs Japidly suming Shen he planned, with the aid of his allies be pro es i kitown parent among the Hop Sings, the robbery a 3, The Iants and. seads ib be as of my safe, and Steve's greed led him tel teed as the. finest. a blindly into the trap. a a animal. In this connection, it had been mem- Teglize this. and ey offering bers of the Hop Sings that helped edigréed ants and peads. but. the Steve burglarize my office; it had P ae aaone of 'niirse : on and been Hop Sing confederates of his es are ye bus ire sales that burglarized Strang's room; but to other with such By a g. Those Lao and his tools had been respons- who purchase stock for Spring plant- ible for my enforced automobile ride, ing "should not fail to locate these the ransacking of my room, the theft progressive dealers and place'a por- of the ivory box from my desk, and :- f thei rd ith th for Mrs. Fox's death and the theft tion of heir orders with them, not y alone to show confidence in well-bred of her box. The Hop Sings, it must ad : : 3 be understood, wanted only the dia- flats but 30 insure productive plant mond, while Lao Wing Fu was ani- * mated, first, by a desire for the ring Value of Roots in the Ration. being only of secondary im-; The great value of roots for milk As shall 'appear presently, cows, even in combination with corn the stone portance. [health D. B. Etters, of the dairy depart- 'ment of the Pennsylvania State Col-|is lege, in outlining some of the essen- tials for the production of clean milk, || emphasizes the necessity of feeding i palatable and nutritious feeds which |use are free from mold or decay or any |too other defects which might injure the pear smi Ith of the cow or impair the qual- ity of the milk. - : : roots and plants bage, turnips i 11 strong odors. These should be offered {is then cooled to 65 degreés after milking, and the portions not | pure eaten removed from the stable. at|of 5 to 12 per cent. ; least three hours before milking. Cows| The best flavored butter is that pro- that are allowed to graze in fields! duced when a small proportion of several hours before milking i i 'Many objections have "been -in the pdst to the feeding of silage, under natural conditions. but these complaints are diminishing| The use of a starter produces uni- each year. Silage does not impart un-, formity in flavor of butter pro- palatable flavor to milk as many have duced from one churning and another. contended. The presence \of such in The general standard of. quality of the milk may be due to poor grade of the butter is higher and its keeping ge, improper feeding or the ab- qualities are improved, while the sorption of the odor from the stable trouble often experienced in bringing air, A reasonable amount of a good cream to a state fit for churning is quality of silage should be removed largely overcome. Before he net Silling go that the |. ' * e a not. impart the odor to 3 55 ; re Nothing for An Answer. the milk. { The cow should have access to'a| Teacher--Wait a moment, Tommy. clean supply of salt, nd as much what do you understand by: the word fresh, pure water as she will drink gogcit? . & 5 should be provided. * Under ordinary Tommy--It's what you've got when you haven't got as much as if you conditions a cow will drink three times just hadn't nothin', as much water as she gives milk, i. e., if she gives 30 pounds of milk, she will require 90 pounds of water per day, Water is essential, not only for milk production, but also for food diges- tion. In cold weather the chill should be removed from water offered to the COWS. Sense of Companionship. » "He ig never alone Who is accom- panied by noble thoughts." "Or by a bank book calling for a substantial amount." The "Starter" in Butter-making. In spite of dairymen's conventions and free literature on the subject of butter-making( the term "starter" or|' 'even the "ripening" of cream is en- tirely new to many makers of dairy To understand exactly what a start« er is it is necessary to know some- thing of the action of bacteria in milk, the production of flavors, and the for- mation of lactic acid. It is the lactic acid bacteria that causes sweet, fresh cream to assume a sour, acid taste, which is commonly associated with ripened cream. Butter churned from this ripened cream is preferred by the majority of péople ta that which is churned from sweet cream. The flavor of butter depends al- most entirely on the presence of the right kind of fermentation or bac- For hands 'and lips and il Seton, of the skin, All the virtues of "Vaseline Camphor Ice, in the form of a general stores everywhere, in cl Randy tn ober Refuse on: stitutes, {he was also impelled by still a third ensilage, was demonstrated at Mac- teria in the cream; _| thatch of brows, "but I guess you're therefore, the motive. | donald College, Quebec. When one- "scientists have developed a "starter" Among this state of affairs Steve fourth the ensilage ration was*re- composed of a growth of the right had to move warily, for among the placed by roots, the cows gained in kind of acid-producing bacteria, with Hop Sings weré many who were al- milk yield five per cent.' When cne- which to ripen cream. If such a so allied with Lao's still more power- half the ensilage ration was replaced starter is used instead of allowing the ful tong; and in was only in those by roots, the gain in milk was eight cream to ripen naturally, there is a few individuals whom Steve could per- per cent. ; but when 75 per cent. of reasonable certainty of a desirable sonally interest and inspire through the ensilage ration was replaced by flavor in the butter. motives of greed or fear that he roots the milk yield fell off three per A pure culture starter can be ob- could impose any measure of con- cent. All of which goes to show the! dence, great value of roots in the milk 1a- To gecount for the foregoing con- tion, and that the dairyman who pro- ditions and to explain 'adequately all vides his cows with both roots and en- the circumstances growing out of silage is doing the very best. i them, it is now necessary to take up; At the Macdonald College, situated the narrative of James Strang, other- near Montreal, they can grow 80 to 86 wise Samuel Willets, and consider. it tons of roots per acre, w the yield as briefly as possible, simply elucidat- of corn is 12 to 15 tons. As they have| ing such details as have not already found by years of experience in feed- béen made clear. {ing that roots are slightly more valu- "Pd 'never thought o' Steve trying able, ton for ton, than ensilage, and to murder Hef | Strang met this be- as Juey oan grow more e than twice fhe lief with eyes that glowed under their weig! roots per. . b e the College authorities. strongly urge n, but in preference to corn, or | Booklet mailed free on request. ff " UT I XR MOR XO | not far wrong. Fact o' the matter is, hock