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| Between OR, 'A DECLARATION OF WAR. CHAPTER IX.--(Cont"d.) "Is it that Jou would rather not be seen with me?" With a rush of eagerness: she ans- wered: "No--oh, no! Please do not believe that, Duncan!" "Then let us get along," he said shortly, and tramped on. Accepting the inevitable, she kept by his side, not without a certain in- ward trepidation, since a meeting would nGoubtedly be awkward. Yet what choice had she in the matter? Only the choice of offending him again by flatly refusing his escort; and she was feeling far too glad of having made her peace with this so unman- ageable man--a gladness which at this moment amounted to light-heart- edness--to court that danger so soon again. With the minutes the trepidation passed, perhaps diverted by the inter- est of the subject started, for Duncan, fresh from a conflict with the man- ager, had got launched on a theme round which his daily life was wrap- ping itself more and more closely. "He thinks to frighten me out of going to law, but he'll sooner frighten the deer off the hills and the seals out of the loch." Fenella listened with the alarmed interest which the subject always roused in her, yet to-day she was * listening with but one ear, as it were. With the other she was hearkening to the voice of the leaping burns which, through the darkness, called on: "I come! I come!" to the impatient river below. - Their hurgy and their shouts served but to maKe more pal- pable the cool, blossom-scented peace of the glen. Fenella was quite astonished when the bridge was reached, beyond which protection became superfluous; and the good-night she gave her escort was devoid of that "condescension which hitherto had marked her most acious mood, and all the warmer = that consciousness of a reparation ue. CHAPTER X. which caused most people to choose the furthet side of the road when pass- ing her hut--nor was her supposed familiarity with the spirits of the dead calculated to lower her in her meigh- bors' esteem. She might be frere | then: t 1s a bundle of lean, mus that are held i connective 3 F > There are tw: bered when cooking meat: = 7 First. When making soups, broths and téas, the meat is Water and brought EE to. nell at. 4 temperature of 1656 to 180 grees F t. By us is method, a rich delicious broth is ob- tained which-.contains all the nutri- ment of the meat. . ) Second. When searing the outer quickly use a surface of the meat strong heat. This keeps the juices ap he § of the meat will | gi f ides. ABOU its condition. e odors of poultry and cochon with as many ghosts as she chose, and no one think the worse of her. But Ardloch's large-minded- | ness in matters occult Srey the line at the arch-enemy of manhind, and it was with no less than intimacy with him that Lame liz wat universally credit- ed. Unholy rites in lonely Jlaces, the assumed form of both four-footed and all this was | feathered beasts, . down to her account. | lief, been caused by a stray shot fired {on a certain full-moon night on which | she was masquerading as a hare, | which, hitting her--for the time being { --furry hip, had ever since kept her i tied to that bed, so' often abandoned ywith evil intentions. | Upon all these points Mabel had {been informed beforegentering the | sibyl's hut, where, to her deep disap- { pointment, she found nothing but a | very ordinary 6ld woman in a night, ' cap, and with surréundings"which had nothing whatever in common with a sibyl's cave--for the unwashed plates and soiled linen, in Adam M'Donnell's hut so conspicuous by their absence, flourished here unchecked. Whatever other uses Liz might be supposed to make of broomsticks, their normal, domestic use 'was obviously much ne- glected within these walls. | But when she began to talk, matters (improved, for the store of incidents | which, with a vigour Jof consonants highly diverting to Mabel's English ears, she laboriously produced, ,was well calculated to further that rare luxury: a genuine shiver, Already the company had been regaled with ! supernatural anecdotes, and had heard expounded the meaning of the "ecorpse- lights," whose mission, floating over the Burial Island, was to forefell 'a death in one of the threp chief families of the community. nd now Albert M'Donnell, leaning insinuatingly for- ward upon the stool that was his seat, put | / Marketing Her very in<~ Many housewives try to eliminate firmity had, according to popular be-! i and nutriment in the meat. Then con! i the same. way. tinue cooking the desired length of fish 0 help you in on Ae: time. By using this method all the, By this I mean it should have a good | gelatinoidc and extractives are kept in| red color shortly after cutting. Khe | the "meat. \ fat should be creamy white and firm It is a known fect that albumen,|in appearance, and should have a gelatinoids and extractives of flavor-|pleasant meaty odor. 1 this [ing in meat are soluble in cold water.| ahsol itely essential for good meet. About 26 per cent. of the beef car- cass is in the fine and-fancy cuts of meat and, therefore, accordingly high in price, because three out of five wo- men asad] say "Steak." © this feature of the household regime as much, as possible and so order. by | | telephone' or leave it until the: last { minute and then rush out to buy any- thing, helter-skelter. The purchasing | of food Supplies shoul be the most | important duty of the housewife. In this day of advancing prices it be- hooves ug to husband very carefully {our resources. Get full value for | each penny spent. * , | By this I do not mean purchasin | cheap- foods, but that you must kno Here a few recipes for the cheaper cutsiof meat, which are de- licious and nutritious, and they wil be heartily welcomed bythe. man of. the family: Casserole of Shin Beef f Prepare two pounds of shin beef by browning quickly in two tablespoon- fuls of fat in hot frying pan. en [put in casserole dish or baking dish heir A K the Various Cuts J It wil"be. ndbang ie'to fdey By Ea fy vet and | co shots oy Ta very. who had sat. at his tab! ng" ® Are Not Already uainted ~ = ped out to hearken if more d in the two weeks. ~ And in the huts the ¥sh swords held fine harvest. bullocks our people were butcher wherefore? refore?"' asked Liz, sitting up slowly in her bed, one big, nt hand clenching in mid-air. "For e sake of those very bullocks which those fools ha not known how to herd. Ah, it was.a night that the M'Muirs had seen in their dreams for long--for long! And yet, by the mercy of God, they did not get all the blood = they wanted. The old bull fell, but the bull-calves got away: over the hills. It was the snow that helped the brave boys, the heavy snow and their own wits, = For-.more than a mile they walked as folk say the crabs do--back- wards--and so made fools o' the thick- skulled English murderers. Red wi' plood--red wi' plood-<that"s what it was!" : » (To be contintied.) " Geo. Wright & Co, Props. / let me introduce you to the Walker House (The House of Plenty), wherein homie comfort is made the paramount factor. It is the one hotel where the 'management lend every effort to make its: patrons feel it is "Just like home." ' THE WALKER HOUSE The House of Plenty TORONTO, CANADA | just what you want and the time to get it, Cook in an appetizing manner and serve temptingly and you will feel well repaid by" the hearty appre- ciation of your family. Do not order by telephone if you can pocsibly help it. lip on your hat and coat and see for yourself just what you are paying "for. Under your own personal supervision your and add four medium-sized oni six potatoes, one pint of water. Put the cover on the dish and bake for one hour in a moderate oven. Or use a saucepan that can be covered tight- ly and then cook on the simmeri burner. Thicken the gravy wit browned flour. Season with salt, | gepper and finely chopped parsley. en serve, - tains rather than look upon that which be comin" But our folks were deaf and blind, as honest folks are, and fhey went on feedin' their murderers, and the chief himself lit the candles every evenin' on the card-table, to do "She's a Roman Catholic," explain-|honor to the Fnglish captain who was, ed Albert, aside to Mabel; then aloud: | quartered upon him, \ . "Father Grey isn't anywhere near,['* "It was at the card-table they were and we won't betray you. Come: Liz;|sittin' when the signal-shot was what was the truth of that nightly |by the company from the North, com- adventure thirty years ago,--or was in' down the glen. - They'll show ye it thirty-five?" = } the thorn-bush where the gun went off, But Liz, though * visibly tempted,|and they'll show you the walls up the Leontinued to shake her large head,|8len with the mark of the smoke still in now and find ye all here, he'd guess | in a moment what you've peen after; and he whiles cooms in at this very hour," J ished Liz, the frill of her dingy nightcap visibly quivering in & crescendo of agitation. upon them and the brack growin' Cleaning =: Dyeing Excellent Work 'Send for our Catalogue Cleaning and a we = Wa Pay Caniage Charges One Way. ' ~ PARKER'S A "Red wi' plood, and plack wi' smoke and exchanging meanwhile a glance o --that's what it was-- the most hell-'amused understanding with Mabel, like night that th' Almighty ever sent made an approach to a mora delicate to curse this mortal earth." | subject. "i Thus spoke Lame Liz, propped - "Will you not tell this lady, Liz, How against a mound of chintz-covered you came to be confined to your bed?" pillows, her large flat face--enlarged | At this, in the dim light of the re- yet by the supplementary frill of al cess, Liz might be seen to straighten perpetual inightcap--looming out of | --perhaps to stiffen herself upon the the shadows .of the cupboard-bed in' pillows, while her large, knotted which she spent her days. { hands, folded on the top of the patch- This was the sort of thing she loved;' work coverlet, unclasped uneasily, and thus to hold her court in the midst of then shakily refolded,' a half-circle of attentive listeners the| "No, no, Mr, Albert! Ye know full very doubt and half-repulsion of whose | well that that's forbidden talk, just gaze flattered her secretly, tribute as| calculated to Dring Father Grey down it was to that uncanny reputationfupon me with his penances. I'm which it' was the object of her life to| thinkin' he wud no be ofer well pleased live up to. For there were gruesome|to have peen listenin' this last half- things said about Lame Ljz. That she hour, e's just wild against any talk possessed.the "second sight" no one| of the 'seein';'--suppersteeshun, he seriously doubted; but it was not this calls it. © If by ill-luck he should coom MANUFACTURER'S OVERSTOCK To be cleared out at WHOLESALE PRICES Phonograph Reg. $50 .¢° B36 An exgeptional opportunity to get a first- at a bargain. Equipped with Arm that Xlave es of records and Tone Control for 1 or modulated volume. Has, in fact, the features found on the higher riced machines. 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But for all that she writhed under the spiritual threats of the man of no imagination, and submitted to the ex- tent of never positively confirming the legend concerning her own lame- ness, though not to the point of ad- mitting--as he would have her do-- that nothing more occult than "the rheumatics" forbade her Jutiing her foot to the ground. = At this humiliat- ing confession she- stopped short, to- day as always, while the darkness of the hints which she allowed to hover around the subject, and which, issuing from the depths of the cavernous bed, gained considerably in darkness, might be supposed to reconcile con- science and desire. z From this point the company, pers haps gorged with the supernatural, had turned to more earthly matters. "Red wi' plood, and plack wi' fire," repeated, Liz, ob¥iously pleased with' her own choice of epit! ing herself in her pillows for the nar- rative of the "Massacker," for which she had been called upon. "Maybe ere read in yer history books"--("No, I haven't," interpolat- ed Mabel, from mere force of habit)-- "how the usurrper called William putt his heel down on our folk,~and "how the chiefs were held to make their submeeshun by a certain day; or else lose their heads. © Well, our chief, lan Macdonald, held out to the last-- God pless him!--and when 'he did set ut 'wi' heavy. heart and his auld, Ld pig made a mistake about the the order jven. They do ro Diab pf meeshun was op from the English the M'Muirs, of course, who d in dred years. ting for our blood. And ee of a few head o' cattle, forso which ets, and settl- | road was ower bad, or} and he missed the turn by quite Plas bit, an because of that wee bit] illiam by |" in DYE WORKS, out o' them,--for it t that shot ; ad : o! rr was at thal . ; / that the murderin' and the firin' began. 791 Yonge Street T Wi' the chief it began. 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