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'CHAPTER LIL -- (Cont'd) Py Lilias moved in her dovp oi gy restlessly. The watcher Io de drew ow of A curtain. ily Bloopirig, glid ther which once ik ~ been of Tuy upon the floor. Lilias Mac Walter turned over at upon | anger hi the sound, and opened her e the startling apparition of t of her husband. awaked from sleep. "Walter!" could say no more. the chill wood of the window frame. hind him to feel his revolver easy in 8 ~ ter Mac alter backed to the door and so disa And fins oN thus hour after hour, staring at the blank black oblong of the door through which her husband had disappeared, her lips and throat not only parched but brain almost paralyzed, her soul under the influence of such deadly fear that she could not even pray the prayer so familiar to her--the eternal Bppes} of the sufferer to Him who, sitting at the helm of the Universe, yet permits the suffering to continue, "How long, O Lord, how long?" oi now it was not to be so very ong light came clearer." The day broke. It was Lilias Mac Walter's Christmas morning. . * LJ The morning was Christmas morn- ing over all the world. With the dawn air had grown keen. The soft breath of the cyclone had quite passed. Giistering frost had fallen with the ropping of the wind upon the hardy ies and stunted laurels around tec's Folly. The snow had not ante qeeply, and especially on a 80 -wind-swept as that of Bax- te 's Ness it was nowhere more than a crust; while save for a wreath or two behind dykes, the edge of the at cliffs which stand aE into the. grea an Ocean all the way to Sand- haven were blown wholly clear. It was twelve of the clock on as fine a December day as ever lighted up the white face of this northern land before life or sound appeared in the rooms occupied by Walter Mac Walter and his .wife.. Breakfast had been served at nine, but at eleven the dishes had not been touched. For Babble Mac Gregor, the maid-of-all-work, had given so terrifying an account of the ark-faced man who sat at the table- end crumbling the "dottle" of his pipe upon the tablecloth and among t yery dishes, and had growled at her to "let the fire alone for a meddle- some fool" when she went near to sweep up the scattered ashes, that it was thought best to leave everything oe for the present. - e, who did not seem to have anything to do on Christmas morning, wandered to and fro near the windows of the New House. He was prepared to assert that he was pruning the rosebushes, that is, if any one had asked him what he was finding to do there. But no one took any particluar notice of Ho, g The *Aul oose" lay apparentl untenanted, save for a pew of ip which rose "straight up into the wind- less air. It was so still that when Mrs. Conachar's Brahma rooster crowed suddenly in the yard it brought & trickle of snow sliding down the too! of the stable. Only a low growl; nf very far away could be hea "which was the sea restlessly at the foot of Baxter's Heuchs. Punctually at twelve the door of the New House opened, and a little wreath of snow wis a wavy crest, hel had b had been mi a Cambridge blue shadow upon ang collapsed in- wards on the mat. Walter Mac alter Lik door open for his wife to Lilias came out, looking Yo hase. even Eirlish in her plain black |; nes against the spotless |. The pair turned into the High road 'wl H owe from every + MB of the inn The "Auld nos | Hogel W) of Bio Siand hand oe magls sald 4 Waiper Mac Wal- began. a ought out n his hand & wie - At ro sight of it a Kind | k possession of him. He ever, his stockinged foot on the Se ashed his ~ teeth as he Bins 1d a apart Who strode on before, waxed irritab! and scattered the dust-like leaf meal] rafters she gasped, not yet fulty | _" And And still the men at the window | watched with their hands tense upon entrance of the "yard, The Classical Master put his hand be- his hip-pocket. But without a word, | r once removing the terrible fixity of from that of the woman, Wal- esiccated, her | the finest view of alll We have not] bY 1 like this for a long Us | out apparent i Only & black shoulders of e Hau word. Se Tout: aid he rogress of became so painful t that her hus and, and impatient, annot you he growled. ot ere, a shy shran rs and struggled on, sinking ek ees at every step. is willsnever do," he said; "turn back and w= will get the mare and tra SR ere--tellow, " he shouted | drunken scoundrel of an ostler?" But Hoggie was far out of sight or hearing. "I will put the beast in myself!" he said, angrily. And striding from door to door Found the yard he soon found the, blac! assured fingers of an expert to ness her. The dogcart was sheltered in the. wide bare house which in its time had held many a snowed-up coach with | His Majesty's royal red and gold on | the panels. Walter Mac Walter drew | it out by the shafts, -and had the! whole turnout ready as quickly and har- | man. "Get in!" The order to his wife came like a military command. But this was too much for one of the watching contingent behind the blinds -of Baxter's Inn. Mrs. Con- achar came out at the back door, a silver Platter § in her hand and a paper folded upon i "Will ye a pleased to Took at this; sir, before ye gang oot o' my yaird. It is the custom of the hoose!" "What is this?" The words came gruffly as Walter Mac Waiter tied, a new knot upon his whiplash. The account, sir, if your honor pleases!" Walter Mac Walter erected his head with a certain gesture of sur- prised contempt, "I'am not a trickster," he suid, very proud and high. "It is a custom o' the hoose, sir," repeated Mistress Conachar, fearless and implacable where money was con- cernéd.- . Babbie Mac Gregor said afterwards that she was "fair feared to hear her mistress speakin' that gate to him, and the muckle black hyeny lookin' "a if he wad hse etten "her. Oh, if 1'had only jaloused!" "1 am going or alittle drive with my wife," said Mac Walter. "To look at the view from the cliffs. I am not going to run away!" "Na, but I dinna ken but your horse micht!" said the stout-hearted landlady, still extending the silver salver. Babble remarked that a "reesle- reesie ran up her back like pittin' a clean sark on" at her mistress' words. She. "couldna describe it ithoryise, but she kenned it was a warnin'J" Walter Mac Walter pulled a thick wad of bank notes out of his pocket. He selected a couple, throwing: them to Mrs. Conachar with scorn, and crying, "Ter, woman, will-that con- tent you?" he helped his wife into] the dogcart. "For the present, sir, 1 thank you!" replied the landlady, with strictly non- commital curtsey. "I'l gle him *Spread the cloth and be -done'! Na, na--the "black-a-vised gorilla doesna breathe that can say the like o' that to Elspeth Conachar, though her Jeems, puir man, is dead and in his restin' grave thae fourteen years come Martinmas!" CHAPTER LIIL BAXTER'S HEUCHS. During their short drive to the heights of Baxter's Heuchs, Walter Mac Walter talked to his e as he had done during the first months of their married life. He even pointed out places ot interest familiag to him. lar! from i lr There was Sandhaven ttering in the morning light, -color in white and red as the smoke was blowing blue and gossamer fine from it. He showed her the rho mouth, and the by day, ue fire by night, lar of cloud rising from the sea as the low rr winter shone down on the myriad glasses of its 1 crown. "Now we will go across the flelds to | Hoose" stood 'blank 'and slient : with vas ping thickest: 1 wrader had not proceeded far, how- when the snow grew decper. in as faster than Suet? take my hand 'afi intermittent heave and grow) told k frofi the touch of hat 'a swell was running far oy the caves which undermined the huge retorehouse of Empire timber, The Bri- the Interior; Canada; 'was represented at the meetings of this section by Mr. D, Roy Cameron, Assistant Director of Forestry, who during the. past sea- son spent some weeks in Burope 'mak- : ing a study of forest conditions and methods of conservation. presented before the forestry section | of the British Association was given Bhe even emiled to ok how little she cared what Fok plan to They reached the hest Des: of [8 | Baxter's Heuchs, from Which the aif like whi utile 4 Shox ope of bare - grey irfige to Aashing moonlight which dwells in a lo opal when you hold it so that t prismatic colors are not seen. was blue and calm beneath, the waves mplings. But the merest dancing di headland of Baxter's Heuchs, Iilias shivered-a I the view is fine," sald her husba derneath his where nd, looking out un hand, "but 1 know a 8 can see the mouth of the Cave, with the sea Bi? into. it. place. ting!" Lilias shrank back a little, as if {unwilling to go any nearer the verge. "I am tired," she said; would like to' 80 back to the inn." "Nonsense," he cried, hilariously, Pithout, however, looking at her, "It as neatly as any professional yard- is a glorious morning, and I am going {to show you all the places I knew as a a boy. I remember walking here "i ke off short. "Give me your -hand," he said, abruptly, with a quick change of voice, And he seized her fingers in a grip like a vice. There was a noise near him, a stone dislodged itself from a crevice and trickled slowly down the bald y slope. Then with a quickening leap it sped over the utmost cliff edge and fell--féll--fell--far out of sight and hearing into the deep gulf below. Walter Mac Walter held up his left hand and inclined his ear to listen. He listened in vain. No:splash came up, gor 8 an sound save the low boom- ing from caverns under, 'Four ely feet," he said, with a kind of mounting exultation, ""Sour hundred feet--and then!" They went on, Lilias with her fine boots growing wet and discomfort- able as the shar the snow sifted in. Aterwards it ap- peared to her strange that at the mo- ment her chief thought was a feeling of regret that she-had not put on a stronger pai¥. The well of the cliff was thrown up in" a sort of bluff like the crest of a breaking wave. A little 'wind-worn gallery ran beneath, aided in the task of keeping its position by the original backward thrust of the strata, And awe turned vhediontly ag JIE, Sud then in» Sous hired too facets of the vestless. winter There wae haze % seaward, like the little. - 8he put the shawl, which 350 carried across at the her arm, about her shoulders." She "where is that alt somehow that the sea looked you Guillemots" straight I have not seen it for twenty mare, and began with the strong years, But I think I can find the It should be just by that little | pinnacle on which the raven is sit- "I think I slats cut them and | Lt Hig voico rose to sonpelley her to =' ¢ As he did so he on her arm, a and knew i " (To be (To be conciuded) Fear of Man. Canadian who administer perience. towns in the parks. upland forests. Rocky Mountains park. ance on the links. ----red Salt From Sea on Land. salt per acre on the land. cans't be false to any man." a shriek and be k heer § a. ver, with all co od Spree iy anki fell Forward oubwate downward. Parks Wild Animals Losing Hach succeeding year's round of tourists 'bring new expressions of won- derment and surprise at the rapidity with which the wild. animals in. the National parks are losing 2 their fear of man. Parks' officials, | wild lite protective measures, have watched this condition develop and to them it was to be ex- pected, but to the tourist new to the parks the holding up of one's car on a park highway by a band of friendly Rocky Mounain sheep is a novel ex- Visitors to Rocky Mountains park in Alberta are always sure to have close- up views of mountain sheep and other wild animale at different points on the highways, and bears are frequents visitors to the outskirts of most of the In the past year or two elk, among the most wary of animals, have beem reported to have made thelr appearance on the golf links at Banff while play was in pro- gress. In the early part of October of this year about fifteen elk trotted out on the fdlrway of the 13th hole, on their way from the Bow river to the These exhibitions of enimal friendliness are not confined to "In Jasper park, on the occasion of Sir Douglas Haig's visit in July of this year, two young black bears interrupted the Field Marshall's game by their appear- The growth In numbers of wild ani- mals In the parks and the ease with which they may be encountered and photographed is year by year becom- ing a greater attraction to tourists. Studies in England contiuned over a period of 26 years show that the sea deposits an average of 36. 1 pounds of ee eee "T6 thine own self be true awd it must follow, as night the day, thou Minard's Liniment for stiff muscles. The rapidity. with which European countries are realizing that Canada's forest résources are destined to play an increasing part in supplying world needs, and the growing attention be- ing focused on our timber supplies, marketing facilities, methods of con- servation, and appalling fire losses were brought out at recent forestry | conferences held in France and Great Britain. The mother country, par- ticularly, looks to Canada as the great tish Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the largest and most authoritative organizations of scientists in the world, stressed for- estry probleme at its 1926. meeting at Southampton, England. The special forestry section, which was founded at last years' meeting of the Associa- tion in Toronto, Canada, was particu- larly -mective'. and. showed promise. of developing, in the near future, into one of the strongest constituents of the Association. The Department of CANADA IS TIMBER STOREHOUSE Great 'Britain Looks to Dominion for Empire. Supply. Afforestation Work in Old Country. tour- ot: inspection, Mr. Cameron saw thousands of acres of plantations cov- ered with Douglas fir and Sitko spruce grown from Canadian seed collected for the British Government by the Forest Service of the Department of the Interior. 'tation themselves terms. not less than 160 di agricultural he yur to I only is the farmer | cash fncome to sup sion also secures & re terested labor sup The number of As interesting perhaps as the plan: is the develop, ment of the "forest holidays" policy of the British Forestry Commission. The intimate correlation of forestry and agriculture is recognized in Great Bri- tain, and in the extensive afforestation projects an opportunity is seen for es- tablishing permanent rural communi- ties dependent on both forestry and agriculture for their livelihood. 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It is believed that this subloariie town is one of the ancient ports of the Phoenicians, and it is hoped that in- garding this people and their clviliza- | BE "An Arab fishermas of Jerba, the] formation of the greatest value re: os hidden by the seaweed of the Sargasso Bea. A Poem Worth Knowing. "How Sleep the Brave." William Collins dled in the year that Robert Burns, the Scottish Bard, firet saw the Mght. During the last nine years of his life he was insane. In view of the fact that the seventh anniversary of the Armistice was cole brated on November 11th, the follow- ing exquisite lines have @ special in- terest: How sleep the Brave who sink t rest, By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to dock thelr hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's fest have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen thelr dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhil® repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! -------- nee ne. When hoarse use Minard's Liniment. | I Envy. Envious Bug -- "Oh, shucks, why haven't I got a lot of arms so I can be a great egies ik tke Mu. Spider. " A Mill L Undergrommil; On account of the intense cold in the Yukon, a-Canadian company plans to erect an underground :nill for dress: ing ore from. its gold mine. ; b , | takes second Place only to Jada than in any other {which is equalled by only, four states... 4 Jot © '| poorly supplied Buropean can form no Tha 1921 the € a population of pusien eerie ah fend of 1924 there were over La States, where the figure is 13.1 cent, among the countries of - world: Furthermor®, the gross om ings per telephone are: are ower in which there is record. a gross earnings per telephone for the' fiscal year 1023 in the Netherlands weres $61.17; in Great Britain $58.18; in the United States $18. 49; and in Can- ada $43.14. Phones General on Farms. - : This development is by no means confined to the older, more developed and established 'sections the coun- try, but, on the contrary, is more pro nounced in the newer Western tered: = tory. For some time, for instance, the city of Calgary in Alberta has led the entire world in regard to the number of telephones per capita of population, with, at the present time, one tele phote to every four and a fraction re- sidents, Practically the same situa tion is to be found throughout the other cities of Western Canada. a And the telephone in. Canada is not' by any means confined to urban centres, but enters most intimately in-- to the life of the farm, both in a busi nee sand social sense. It is inter s to note that in the Province of Mani- toba, where the population is des cribed-as rural to the extent of about. . 60 per cent., there is a telephone to every eight residents, and that¥in the Province of Saskatchewan there are two rural telephone subscribers to every urban subscriber, a situation of the Union. " This 18 a very eratityiig sists. ot af fairs ahd eloquent of Canada's marked ~ progress in all - directions along the most modern lines. The telephone has come to enter most intimately in. to" every phase of C ian life and more especially the cultural. The ~~ line of telephone poles follows rapidly in the wake of agricultural settlement: and the farmer given adequate touch with that world from which he is apart kyet with which he transacts business. | The extension of the phone through- out the _remoter farming 'settlements "isd situation of which the =~ Souception. 3: Pines Conse Foner Fifth _ The cigarette has been blamed for _| much, and the "good old en" has had many a eulogy; but experiments - carried on fn California by members. = fot the Forest. Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 'with the possible causes of what are dealing | termed "smoker fires" bid fair to turn the tables upon the highly praised briar, clay or cob, and to find it the zacause a a 80 Beautifies the Complexien. Soe by Druggists and. Department Sto. tion will be gained planes; and after that it is probable that given will explore. exist, 'puted to exist, in other parts of 'world. | + The Dutch Will 1 'bottom _ of the Zuider 3 AS | jegendary city of Vineta fs sald ; {off the coast of Holstein. .