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CHAPTER L--(Gmtd) levis sprang buck with a whegsing But pstoreihe had she Jo reach bis | Mistress Coriachar of Baxter's Inn death ae eho oF ho drift : Borland, & amber of duck Bgures 1b the face, 'advancing on foot up the long steep, pone of life, ascent. ab at being summoned . 3 ; ! excus: anger At this Ho threw down his yp, imperiously in her own house, broom with a justifiable expression oy OE Yl Woon Mac Waiter "Mair nd male! They ony be onthe the Eigen cord ofthe bell-pul wantin' to stop ten days lke yoni "uggn vou not bring up dinner at drawing craiturs that cam' at the time ' "1 To Ey Ea upon © the snaw-storm three year syne, . and vearly ate o> oot of hoose and my arrival. Is three weéeks too short hame. At the best they'd be bidin'; Bojise Yor yal for their tea, and Hoggie will hae to 4; 0 you speci to d f and party from an| Bim i his bovhood a medical man delusion, have in a a r c I : ng the most dangerous cum Tunatics. | 18 released Yet he was a man of mone and responsibility, *It was ible | them to restrain confine him - | i : restrain or confine hr Shorten an hous before thy fal states Were hot, noted save nd he e =3 in your letter, sir, e, and she, wea and made n oi 1 tf od | and fh ating ary wait till the mistress and Meg has uoiq Mistress Conachar with dignity. |indifferent by long continued cruelty, Et i ad domo that. pod inquired | compiishiments which it is hard to con- them served. May the bl eomtries | But I will spread the cloth." mistook his moods for the natural bias | moa "Cue 'hetore the proper time. | T12c8 the drdinary observer 'are any- a' stavaigers and run-thecountries| "yes spread it and ba donel" re-|of a perverted jealousy, though a spe- One for this queer 1g | thin& but slelghtothand. Yet we find | a et freile fire, turned Walter Mac Walter, striding clalist on the alert would rather have| One resson is Queer motlon 18 in Rev. 8. Baring.Gould's delightful to forsake their ain comfortable fire- "y, to window, and standing there a |noted them as stron evidence of de-| that prisons, w eal sanitary 'ar Does a story of bis sojourn gE rangements, separate beds for each in Fretburg, a ny. which of | inmate, #nd three meals a day,' are that he was convinced that one fakir, Sides in sie weather, tall, gloomy figure, the whip still mentia. There ave lunatics who, be- Hoggie 'was at the gate by this iutched nervously in his right hand: ing sane in the ordinary affairs vo ; d a palaces of splendor and delight com- |: pared with the average native hut, Bt least dia exactly what he pretended time, and the stoutest of the party ort 13 pian te mm | Mistress Conachar erec herself, ! business and the outward relations of ; for by. ; sort of authorit [of the man who had already secured. '@ "Are you the master o hé said, politely. Hoggie shook his head with a cur- fous little smirk. "Na," he said, "I wadna tak' that upon mysel'--juist yet. But the mis- tress is busy ben the hoose, and--weel, may say onything to me that ye ae to say to her." "We are three friends out from Edinburgh on a walking tour in our Christmas holidays. At the last mo- ment my daughter wished to accom-~ pany us. I fear there is a storm brew- . ing. Could we have any accommoda-~ tion, however humble, at your inn?" Hoggie scratched his head. "Weel," he said, "ye'll hae to gang into the auld hoose. For there's a lady and"--Hoggie paused--he could not conscientiously add "a gentleman'-- "a man here already, and they hae engaged the best rooms and the par- lor. They hae had them bespoke-mair than three weeks. Sae gin ye want ony accommodation, ye'll een hae to gang to the auld hoose." - "A double-bedded room, and a smal one for the young lady, will be all we & ghall want, and we are wiling to go anywhere you can put us. Where is the 'auld hoose' of which you speak?" Hoggie turned on his heel, and pointed to a long, straggling, single- storeyed thatched house, whose small windows looked into the quadran of outbuildings at" thé back of t larger inn. "That's the au'd hoose," he said; "it was here before ever there was a Baxter." The two senlors--who were, of course, the "Orra Man" and Daniel Bisset, looked at each other. "That will suit us admirably," said Mr, Bisset. "Can we go in now and take off our; wet boots, and ease the straps of our knapsacks?" "Ye maun hae been ili-fixed at hame that ye cam' aff on a walkin' tour, an' wi' a lassie too, in weather like this! But I suppose yell be English, an' the Almighty if He has gien them sider, has surely withhauden a' com- mon sense frae the puir craiturs. Come your ways ben. I bide in the auld hoose mysel'--for the present. And I'se warrant ye'll no be waur dune to there than if ye had the best oom in Baxter's. Come ben! Cothie ben!" = i # CHAPTER LL "HOW LONG, 0 LORD, HOW LONG?" Lilias Mac Walter sat in a little chiliish gitting.roos in the contracted grate of which a fire of wood and peat was reluctantly burning u» with a maximum of smoke and a minimum of flame. She had thrown down her shawls and bonnet upon the sofa, and . mow she sat in the armchair by the 'fire looking straight before her, a dull and hopeless ache wrenching stolidly "at her heart. Bhe had suffered so much that the acuteness had gone out of the pain itself. Death and She seemed now very much alike to her. «Walter Mac Walter grew every day 'more sullenly enraged. Sometimes he would sit and watch her for hours with hateful, malevolent eyes. Again, without any apparent occa- -mion, he 'would hector and rage, threaten and bully, till only the dul- ness of weariness" end Indifference preserved her sanity. i On this occasion 'he strode restless- ly up and down the narrow apart- t. He had the whip still in his Band: clutched in the dle, and every other minute he would stop at the window and curse the snow, which 'appeared somehow to irritate him past endurance. ~~ "But for this I might have. had it over to-night," he muttered. -"Pshaw! - nothing goes right with me! But 1 am glad, though, that he place looks erent." the Ile stopped before his wife, . *Woman," he said, "rise up and ok after the fire, and see that the laid, to the fire myself," : moved Jistiossty towards the thundered her husband, "did 'that you were not to n "peri of Jour a galleon before the wind. "Indeed," she said, indignantly, "ia | this the King o' Muscovy that we hae gotten at Baxter's? 'Spread the cloth and be done!' It's not likely that Elspeth Conachar will bide where her. conversation is not esteemed a privi leege, Where's that guid-for-naeth- ling Hoggle Hough--oot at the auld 1 hooge, Fo say, wi' mair tourist bodies? {1 wonder what's ta'en the hale warld {to travel at Christmas. Never was! sic daft-like ploys heard o young days. ond hest service. Buid gens what sic a monster micht no do to. my best cheena. Faith, I'm heart-sorry for uir peetifu'-lookin' thing that he! on as for a gvife. She appears no to be lang for this warld. Ln gin I was her I wadna muckle care, wi' siccan a girnin' Hottentot for a man!"+ When Walter Mac Walter was loft alone with his wife he sat down oppo- site her, "You do not ask why I have brought you here," he said; "I know your-plny and pretence of meekness. But, my lady, I learned from a source you can- not guess at of 'your letters to the old stonebreaker, your father. not they were the means you took of sending my money to the drunkard's son. ow it seems that I cannot watch you closely shough in your own house at Kirkoswald. But I can here, 1 will not once let you out of my sight. You shall see your old father on the parish before you die. And I will make of your son just what his father was. I cannot say more than that!" Lilias had eaten nothing, and now sat with her head turned away from her tormentor, looking into the fire with an expression of more than mor- tal anguish. "How long, O Lord, how long?" she was saying within her own heart. And it was not to be long. For so the Lord of the snow and of the sea and of the heart of man had decreed. Walter Mac Walter went on. His cord was lengthened yet a little. "And let me tell you that now you are in a Jiace where you can do no- thing to help your beggar's brat or alter that which is conmiing to him, I saw Sowerby of Cairn Edward the other day, and he told me that the brat was already proving the blood he came of. He is spending his burs- ary Jioney like water in the vilest places. He will soon come to the end of it and be disgraced. That is why I will take good care that you do not send him any more. In a year I will see him back at the hedge-root, where 11 have seen his father lie. I shall live to have him sent to gaol, and you shall go to the trial--Lilias, pretty Lilias that once flouted and despised Walter Mac Walter. Have not I paid my debts in full?" And the sound of his voice the ears of three who listened beneath in the snow, and was heard also by a fourth, who stood a little way behind. "Aye," this last communed with himself, "oot o' his mind, I wad say sae. at's never the voice o' a man in his seven senses. Ye may coont on Hoggie Haugh to keep an e'e on him. I'll never tak' a wink o' sleep this nicht wi' that puir thing in his poo'er." For the excellent thoyght, had come to Mr. Bisset, 80 soon as he had hear eo 'describe Walter Mac. Walter hed should take the ostler partly into their confidence. A crisp and "crunkly" pound note OBE assisted the process, and the "Orra Man's" dis- criminating ap; tion of the horses, in the stable beneath the auld hoose o Baxter's bought Hoggie Haugh body | and soul. "He's gane to his ain bed and bar- red his door, flingin' it to wi' a brainge that shook the hoose!" was 8. last bulletin. "Il listen whiles at the puir lass's window Hirough the nicht, and gle ye a cry if n be." 4] also will watch with you!" said Christopher Kennedy, M.A. fw: aiimanass me re H CHAPTER LII. . | 6 he had dwelt morbi yids" | Lien Mae Wir hd Io known {m Eke Ey 7 fol a cast of mind ori rd brutal, without mental or upon or Wa : 0 10 land sailed out with the stately port|Mankind, and having no one in any this inn?" | n my breast. Hour after hour he would abble, tak' ben the gee | remain 80, never for a moment re- I doubt' Hoggl as a "black-a-vised Hyenacs that they | {off us?" ghe asked. wr NCR toloen rp rmer Jove for | = iE : over them, cannot ibe proved to be insane till some overt act of mania suddenly startles their world * into dreadful knowledge of their condition. Such maniacs are perhaps the most dangerous of all. It was, for instance, mo unusual thing for Lilias to awake in the night to the affrightin consciousness that her husband had entered the room and was standing silently by her bed- side with arms folded across his imoving his gaze from her face. And then as the grey light of the morning stole into the fearful chamber, and the blinds ed themselves: with | brighter light, he would steal back to his own room on tiptoé and fling him- se/f upon his bed, still fully dressed, only to repeat performance the following night, It was a vigil like this, for the first time spled upon by other eyes than those of the persecuted woman, who had borne her troubles "so silently throughout the years, that Walter | Mac alter kept that stormy fiight of !midwinter in the inn of Baxter's Folly igh on the cliffs of Sandhaven., = he two men, watching at the edges of the blind through' which the feeble glimmer of the night-light shone like 'an illumination, saw Walter Mac Wal- iter come in and stand by his wife's bed. Motionless for a full hour they Their hands were on the f he { watched him. | the window sill ready to throw u Isash and spring into the room should lay hands upon her. (To be continued.) EE Literary Work. The Acrobat -- "That ventriloquist guy says he writes all his own stuff." "Phe 'Hoofer -- "H8 ain't got 'the brains. His stuff sounds like it was written by his dummy." ee pecan. It-1s better to be able to look back to a day well lived than ahead to a month of promises. Minard's Liniment for stiff muscles. It was Teddy's first term at school; and his mother had been telling the rich old uncle how well the boy was getting along with his studies and how dearly he loved his school. "Well, my little man," asid the unole,- "what+do you do in school all day?" "I wait till it's time to go home," was Teddy's matter of fact reply. A sohool gir] who was asked to de- fine drawing replied: ~ "It is just thinking and-then mark- 'ing round the think with a pencil." : Dick had had his first lesson in as- tronomy and when lie came home from schoo] he began to enlighten his small 'sister on the mystery of the stars. ~ "Do you know," he said, "that the little star you see way up there is very much bigger than this whole earth?" "Then why doesi't it keep the rain - Joan, aged six, and Kathleen eight, were having an argument who was the taller. "a "Of course you are not as tall as I am," paid Kathleen. "Fou gre only as high as my shoulder" ~~ = with its mud floor life-preserver--and- went down." will open. know from painful experience what chilblains feel like. But do you know what catises them? blains, proved medical remedy: for broken ones: Coptiba (one odnce) and methy- lated collodion (three ounces) applied night and morning. and squalid sur: Strange Occurrence. "How did, the accident happen?" "Mistook a puncture-proof tire for a --e. Chilblain Time. In a fow weeks the chilblain season if you are a sufferer, you Most people aré under the impres- sion that the causes are external--"| cold weather, snow, frost, and so on. That, however, {8 wrong. The causes of chilblains are internal. A chilblain is merely the outward and visible re- sult of a wrong Internal condition-- stagnant wrong or poor nutrition, must be remembered, does not depend on the quantity of food eaten, but on its quality and suitability to winte conditions. por dirculation Nutriticn, it blood, Those who get plenty of exercise, .| who clothe themselves warmly, and eat nutritious "heating" "food, never get chilblains. way, must be loose, for tight boots, tight gloves, or anything that impedes the circulation is certain to produce chilblains. Porridge, fat bacon, drip- ping, and sa on are "heating" foods. The clothing, by the {8 no external cure for chil: but the following is the ap- ------ aes $ Always practice careful saving and frugal spending. - Ewen a poor boy can manage to put something in the | savings bank, no matter how little, every pay day. ha : BRIGHT. REMARKS THE CHILDREN MAKE "Why ne wish did all the work, and then another man came around and got all the money." - : i, 'Jimmy 16 three years oM*and very fond - of telling his dreams at the breakfast table. father, thinking to apply an intelligent test, sdid: "But, Jimmy; I don't be. lieve you know what a dream 1s." One morning his Jimmy's answer came. quick and sure. "Yes, I do. It's moving pictures while you're asleep." =~ A Johnny had been taken by his moth- er to a museum of natural history, and he was particularly big stuffed an _ »"Well, Johnny, wh 6 you been this afternoon?" asked his father when | inarnid hn have you been imals. he got home. a a "To a wonderful place, dad ™ ex-| - claimed Johnny... Mothbr took me. to e |a "dead circus." i ey Fo} at you foul like erying, 00" '(tor me. "1 was close to him and saw _|Irons were glowing. ~|of mine standing by lt lof Pluto, cents a pound there, and yours are || "Perhaps the most curious exhibi- tion at the fair was this--a man strip- ped save for a pair of drawers and a sleeveless jersey, who called himself the Modern Pluto, and performed with red-hot {rons in @ manner in explicable that there was no deception. He first got an iron scraper, about the size of a hoe-fron, which was heated red hot in a charcoal fire that was kept burn- ing at my feet, and in which several With this he! scraped his arm, legs, both his cheeks | and throat. The white ash from the fron fluttered about, and some fell on | my sleeve." Then "he took 4° red-hot ! «| poker and Ticked it with hiss tongue until the, iron cooled: To make sure' that there was no deception, I tried to! touch it, but had to withdraw my finger pretty smartly, and an English friend | x is cigar at! the poker after-it had ee tongue | Then 'the man took a thin flat fron bar, red hot, and worked at it with hie t teeth till he had bitten off u piece Pictured here, The jumper blouse is about, three-quarters of an Inch long, in the new finger-tip length, with col which he spat down from his mouth. Jar fastening to one" side under the Next he trod on red-hot plates, but 1 chin, or turned back to form revers., did not. think so much of. this, as he A slight ! only drew his feet over them one af- the bust by gathers, and set-on bands resting his are button trimmed. The belt, com- / * ing from the sides of the trimming- of bands, ties at the centre of the plain spoonfuls of bojling ofl. This seémed back. The skirt is joined to a bodice t rest of top and is distinguished by two in- for his face turned verted piuits either side of the front. purple, and drops of sweat stood on The diagram pictures e to the ished costume, and No. 1248 is in sizes man--TI could touch him with my hand. 16, 18 and 20. years (34,. --for any deception to be practiced. inches bust only. Size All this,"moreover, went on for eight | bust) requires 4% yards of 86-inch, or. 2% yards of bd-inch material. The bodice top alone requires 1% yards of 86-inch material, straps. over the shoulders 7% yard. Price 20 cents. ter the other without weight upon them. "Lastly, he swallowed a couple to be & greater effort than the 'the performance, his forehead. I was too .close days from eleven a.m. till late at night. 1 was told that he went through the performance twenty times upon the orincipal day of the fair." He has been examined by some of the doctors here, wio have warned him that he must &ive up swallowing the boiling ofl or ne will ruin his digestion. He replied that he knew that he would have a short life. "He had tried other ex: pedients to gain a livelihood, but had failed; 'he was driven to this by prava| necessitas." : : ni o ----an -- ae: - -- When hoarse use Minard's Liniment. et ap A Mozartian Reason. A young' composer went to Mozart one day and asked how he should set about" phony!" -- exclaimed Mozart -- "Yon | are much too young for that" But, |* ter," objected the youngster, "you had written many symphonies before you were my age." "Yes," replied the great composer, "but I didn't need to ask how it was done." In other words, 8) he did it because it was in him to do it. High Finance, Mrs. Newlywed--"And how much |. §- are these crackers?" - Grocer--"Twentysdyey cents a the" season. be of interest to every home dress- Taher Price. of the book. 10 cents, ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you 'stamps or coin ( it carefully) for ced h Wilson Publishing Co.,73 West Ade-| whiting a symphcny. "A sym. | laide St, Ti 'the safety of theiricountry, and whose - name appeared in their eyes synony-. mous with victory. > Many of the spectators were moved to tears; others knelt on Southsea beach, and invoked blessings and Heaven's protection or his head. -Nel- son himself could not restrain teags of gratitude, and; turning to his com- '| panion, Captain Hardy, he remarked: "I had their burrahs before; I have _| their hearts now," The main story of the great battle is, of course, familiar to most of us. ° Perhaps a few personal touches, how- ever, may be of sufficient interest to bear re-telling. One concerns. a gal lant seaman on the Leviathan, who had one of his arms shattered by a cannon-ball. He refusd to be carried below by his messmates, telling them they were of more use at the guns, and coolly walked down to the cockpit. . "Here he would not ailow the sur geon to attend to him until his turn came. The brave fellow, during the time his arm 'was being amputated, ~ close to the shoulder, sang "Rule, Bri : tannia!" in a clear; steady voice. Re- collect there was no chloroform in those days! Sad to say, he died in hospital." 2 bas His Last Order Another story illustrates Ne:son's great qualities as a practical seaman as well a8 a fighter. Just before his death he gave his flag-captain, Hardy, orders to anchor, Hs ; After he had passed away this order was conveyed to Admiral Collingwood, = who succeeded to the command; but he, for .reasons best known to-himselt, _ declined to do so. There was a remarkable sequel to A CHIC NEW STYLE. 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'one -who. could re 'a fragment | a memento of their beloved chief. For the information of readers who to. Patterns sent by in the Painted Hall a¢ Greenwich Hos- '| pital may be. seen Nelson's coat with | the: bloodstains and bullet-hole in the shoulder, = Fp Tm ae M------ Continents Adrift? Are Europe 'and America drifting 3 2k » * pound, ma'am." Mrs; N.~'Oh, that's too much. . I'm. olng to get thein at Bloods." (Blood's. s four blocks away'. .. So Bhe leaves, but returns in a few Mrs. N.="Oh, they are twenty-eight only twentyseven, so I'm going to get | : r--"How much do you N.~--"Half a pound!" There was a remarkable sceme at: a mF the lgnoring of Nelson's dying com- a sign from the Victory, to pleces, every- may not know it, it may be added that = -