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And YOUE own sense of taste will convince you. CHAPTER XVIL-- Cont'd.) Sho pressed her lips tight. "I'm not going to tell--yet. You've got to do some thing for me first. I'm in trouble--" she was speaking rapid- ly now, the words flooding over her lips between gasps, her eyes set, her hands knitting, "He ran away and left me for three days. The fire went out--my baby--" hysterical laughter broke from her dry lips-- "My baby died, and still he didn't come. He--" "Agnes!" Houston grasped her hands. "Try to control yourself] Maybe he couldnt get back. The storm--" "Yes, the storm! It's always the storm! We would have been married ~--but there was the storm." Then she halted, for the briefest part of a moment, to become suddenly madly cajoling, crazily cunning: "Listen, Barry. You want to know things. I can tell them to you--oh, s0 many of them. if you'll only do this for me. It's my | baby--my baby. Won't you promise for me? Take her to a priest--please, Barry--and have her buried in hallow- ed ground. Won't you, Barry? Do you want me to die too--or do you want me to live and tell you why I did the things I did? Do you want to know who was back of everything? I didn't do it for myself, Barry. It was some one else--I'll help you, Barry, honestly I'll help you." "About the murder?" Houston was leaning forward now, tense, hopeful. But the woman shook her head. ""No--the lease, and the contfact. I'll help you about that--if you'll help me. Take my baby--" The man rose. "I'll promise, Agnes. If you want to help me afterward, well and good. If not--you are free to do as you please." The woman had raised eagerly. "Then look in a box in the top drawer. You'll find a crucifix. They --they might want to put ia on her." TOBACCO LEAF BARGAIN (Reduced) Ready for consumer in 1-1b. Hande, For Smoking and Chewing. 25¢ 1b. . 20c Ib. . 16¢ Ib. bales, Prepaid, 25¢ per 1b. Burley Special Buriey 1st Grade .. Burley nd Grade .... Also in 25-Ib, Guaranteed Smooth Smoking, Sweet and Mild. Formulas on Request. COOPER PLANTATION TOBACCO CO., Limited 426 Queen St. E. Toronto, Ont. Fhone Waverley 7315 Smokers', | I'll tell them too--| In a mass of tangled, vid-iashioned jewelry he found the crucifix, its chain broken and twisted, and placed it in a pocket. Then he turned to the grimmer task--and the good-bye. A half hour later, white-featured, his arms cupped gently about a blanket-wrapped form, he stepped forth into the storm, and bending against the wind, turned to- ward the railroad in obedience to: the hazy directions of the sobbing woman he had left behind. The snowfall was lighter now; he could find his way more easily. Black splotches against the snow, two figures suddenly had come out of the sweeping veil--a girl and a man. Something akin to panic seized Hous- ton. The man was Lost Wing. The girl was Medaine Robinette. Medaine's eyes went with womanly instinct to the bundle in his arms. | "A baby!" There was surprise in her tone. Forgetting for the moment | her aversion to the man himself, she came forward, touching the blankets, then lifting one edge ever so slightly | that she might peer beneath. "Where did you find it? Whose is it?" Houston sought vainly for words. And the words seemed to come un- bidden: "Does it matter?" "Of course not." She looked at him queerly, "I merely thought I could be of assistance." "You can. Tell me where I can find a priest--the baby is dead." "Oh." She touched the bundle ever so softly, "I didn't know." Then with a sudden thought: "But Wer mother, She must need--" "Only a doctor. I will try to get Ba'tiste to come out. 2 "But couldn't I-- 'I'm sorry." He felt that he was miring himself hopelessly. He wanted to tell the truth, to ask her aid, to send her back into the woods to the assistaice of the stricken woman there. But lie could not frame the request. Instead, "I--I can't tell you. I've given a woman my word. She wouldn't understand--if you went there. With Ba'tiste, it is different. He is a doctor. He has a right, I-- I--" "I understand," came quietly, and in those two words Houston felt that her opinion had been formed; that to her, he was the father; the quiet form in his arms his own child! "You are asking something almost impossible. The nearest priest is at a settlement near Crestline." "Crestline?" Houston instinctively turned toward the hills, a bleak, for- bidding wall against the sky. "Will you lend me Lost Wing to run an errand? I want to get Ba'tiste--for her." "Certainly." She spoke to the Indian in Sioux then and drew away. Houston, point- ng with his head, instructed the red- skin. The Sioux started on, soon to be engulfed in the swirling veil of the a Barry turned again to the gir! "Just one more request: I can't Words won't dye a >» dress, or coat, or sweater, It -, 5 anilines 1 do Hat. Thats wily LS contain irom three Vi S Se than any other dye--by acfiial \ It's the anilines in Diamond the N work; that. give the colors | |v fe hen ro ig Ua \ dyed look; from spotting or ; // Next time you have dyeing to do, try n ~ Dyes, Then Zompare results, Se WV bright, ew 18 de, { 50) they thr ele Your dle your money if you don't agree Diamond are better dyes. k § Diamond is the orighul "all-purpose" phir ped Saran Tt will dye ig Sie, aed wool, rayon or any mixture of 1 So gE silk of be on 'wool rs tr silk or wool cdi ak FE ERE Will you help strap her to my pack?" Silently she assisted him in the grim task of mercy. Then: "Do you know the Pass?" - He shook his head. She tapped ome glove against the other. "It is impossible then. You--"' "I'l make it some way. Thank you p--for helping me." He started on, But she called him back. 'It's t00 2 fl and there was a note of pity in her voice. "It's bad enough on foot when there's no snow--if you're not farhi- liar with it. I--" "Tell me the way. Perhaps I could find it. It's not for myself. I made a promise to the child's mother. I'm dfraid she's dying." : A new light came into the girl's eyes, a light of compassion, of utmost pity. Slowly, she came toward Hous- ton, then bent to tighten the fasten- ings of her snowshoes. 'I know the way," came quietly, "I have been over it--in summer and winter. I will show you." "You! Medaine! I--I--heg pardon." The outburst had passed his lips al- most before he realized it. "Miss Rob- inette, you don't know what you're saying." "I know the way," she answered, without indicating that she hal heard his remonstrance. "I am glad to go --for the sake of--" She nodded slightly toward the tenderly wrapped bundle on the pack. "I would not feel right otherwise." a 4d CHAPTER XVIII, An hour found them in the hills, plodding steadily upward, following the smoother moungls of snow which Together they went on again, grace- less figures in frozen clothing. indicated heavy, secure drifts. As they went higher, and the wind beat against them with its hail cf splinter- ed ice particles, Houston saw her heavily gloved hands 80 to her face in sudden pain and remain there, The man went to her side, and grasping her by the shoulder, stopped her. Then, without explanation, he brought forth a heavy bandana handkerchief and tied it about her features, as high as possible without shutting off the sight. Her eyes thanked him. They went on. "A mile more." She said no more. He nodded in answer and extended a hand to aid her over a slippery stretch of ice- coated granite. The snowfall ceased, to give way to spasmodic flurries of driving white. And it was in one of the moments of quiet that Medaine pointed above, Five splotches showed on the moun- tain side--the roofs of as many cabins; the rest of them were buried in snow, No smoke came from tae slanting chimneys; no avenues were shoveled to the doorways. 'Gone!" Houston voiced the mono- syllable, "Yes. Probably to Crestline. too late to turn back now." She looked at him queerly, then turned away. At last they reached the cabins. There was no woql; he tore the clapboards from a nearby cabin and the 'tar-paper from the wind-swept roof. Five minutes later a-fire was booming; a girl tired, bent- shouldered, her eyes drooping from a sudden desire for sleep, huddled near #t. Houston walked to the pack and took food. "I shall be in the next cabin-- awake." "Awake?" "Yes. I'd rather--keep watch." But there is nothing--" "Tllness--a snowslide--a fresh drift. I oni feel easier in mind, Good i It's hen with his snowshoes and his ck of death, he went out the door, I plunge through another drift, to force his way into a cabin, and there soddenly about the duties of com- rt. The windswept night became wind- swept dawn, to find him still grim drawn and haggard with sleep- ess and fatigue. Then he rose at a call from without: "Are you ready?" "He affixed the pack. Together they went on again, gtaceless' figures in frozen clothing, she pointing the a3, he aiding her with his strength, in and ris ine. carry the child up there--this ve | | to make money enough so mothers can the final battle toward the sommit of | | the lines of communication 'were bro- ken. Roofless houses met them, stacks of crumpled snow, where the beams had cracked beneath the weight of high | piled drifts; staring, glassless win- dows and rooms filled with white. Gloomily Houston surveyed the desol- ate picture, at last to turn to the girl. (To be continued.) o_o mee Nothing makes daughter more In- dignant than father's mot being able dress as she does. rt rele And if the apes could chatter in our lingo they might agree that man did plenty of descending while he was at it. Ne Whenever a certain French play wright is at a loss for an idea, he plays the saxophone, After a little of this he no longer worries about ideas. foundations, that it can safely be ised } by no lesg than 29% feet. the oH, the Co akg X say they keenly appre- ciate that the security, health and hap- piness of more people than ever be- fore depend almost entirtly upon the safety of the dam, but taking this into consideration, they still hold that this great work should be done. ~The Cairo Cabinet has decided to ines its supervision to Sir Mos. och Macdonald, : 'the po | Margaret's departure were busy ones, ifor Henry and his consort. Queen Elizabeth (of York) gave their little Pf nl '| thousand two hundred daughter an elaborate trousseau, cluding "a gown of tawny cloth-of- gold tissue," another of "purple vels vet with two kirtles, and one formed with ermine," no less than three little black tails being used for its trimming . .. Margaret bad two petticoats, two hats, five pairs of knitted hose and six of woolen, three pairs of shoes and six pairs of slippers--one "lined with cloth"--two dozen pairs of gloves, twelve thousand pins, 'and some Britain's Trade Commissioner in India reports "a marked increase of a for the splendid iit] work, subject to his acceptg all the conditions laid down by the commis- sion. It is understood that, as a re- sult of the heightening of the Assuan Dam, it will be necessary to strength- en the Esna Assiut and Delta barrages at a probable cost of about £13,500, 000, to convert land in Upper Egypt and improve drainage in Lower Egypt at a probable cost of a further £E12,- 5000,000.--(E stands for Egyptian.) NEED EE Minard's Liniment for Coughs, Colds. ------------ Ruba el Khali, or Empty Quarter, in Arabia, the greatest desert in the world, remains untraversed by ex- plorers. ' ETE, GE ha In Great Britain a lithited liability company has béen formed to pur- chase all the stocks for all retail gro- cers through the country. ce between India and the Uni- ted States, which now ranks second only to Great Britain." ttt Use Minurd's Liniment for the Flu. fr Attleboro (Mass.) jewelers found that by installing radios with indi- vidual headphones their male chain- makers lost no time in talk, worked faster and "accepted "night work without a murmur." --litmnn "May I call on you?" "I'm sorry, but I'm married." "Well, I'm married and just as sorry." FARMERS Requiring British help--S8ingle men, women or families, to assist with farm work, should write . Alex. MacGregor, 43 Victoria 8t;; Toronto. These people will be arriving after March 16. ] -- SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY OF CANADA A TOWER OF STRENGTH Total Income Surplus earned during Year - and Beneficiaries Reserve An Increase of $9,157, 000 Total Liabilities Bad) * - An Increase of $41,972,000 Payments to Policyholders * Surplus and Contingency (Theluding Pit up Capital) Assets, at ber 31st, 1928 =p ilrimin Rate of Interest earned on mean invested assets (net) DI VIDBRDS To Sr St a a 1928 Assurances in force (net) An Increase of $408,925,000 New Assurances Paid for An Increase of $112,836,000 - $1,896,915,000 441,244,000 144,747,000. the ; + 40,264,000 "49,920,000 66,938,000 422,020,000 488,958,000 6:58%, Bb Bees acted to the undivided suf- paid or allotted as profits all deductions and allocations, al stock, A I es 'lat a convent, and occasionally at a {warm 'While putting out the clothes "lous handful of salt added to the lash ~ |rinse water will keep clothes from | freezing fast to the line." weight of needles and also other articles. . King Henry vil rode the first stage with the little Qaeen of Scots, tak- ing her to bid farewell to her grand- mother, the Countess of Richmond, at whose residence half the nobles of England had gathered to sped Mare gart on her way. Her parting gift from the King was a prayer-book inscribed: "Remember yr kynde and loving fader in yr good prayers, ... Pray for your loving fader that gave you thys booke, and I gyve you at all times Godd's blessing and myne.-- Henry R." Mounted on her white palfrey, with bishops riding on right and left, and the Earl of Surrey in command of the party ,Margaret started on her month-long ride with a cavalcade -* nobles as an escort, and minstrels and. trumpeters to play her in and out of the towns through.which. she passed... " Sometinies the young Queen slept at. a castle or manor-house, sometimes village inn, while her escort increase ed in size and magnificance day by day, for every town added its quotas and, till the Northern lords took on the task of guarding her, the South erners were loath to relinquish their chivalric task. - In all between fi e and six hundred people rode with this "fayre ladie . . , and a great company Lordes, Ladies, Knightes, Esquires, and Gentlemen," to announce her progress. York gave her a great welcome. The gates were flung open when word of the Queen's approach reached offi-- cialdom, church-bells pealed and out rode a procession almost as gorgeous as Margaret's own. On a "curvetting . horse bedecked with bells," sat Earl of Northumberland, "in crimson velvet; with bejewelled collar and boots of black velvet worked with gold"; beside him was the Lord Mayor in his civic robes. Margaret herself was vivid in the sunshine; a youthful figure in her cloth-of-gold gown, a girdle studded with genis, fair glittering hair; and the brilliant pink and white coms plexion that was her Tudor heritage. 8he reached Berwick at the end of July, with English border troops two thousand strong. behinu her. On August 1 she was carried through the gatés in her litter, {ootmen running behind her in their doublets of green cloth and scarlet hose, and here the Scots met her: "Lords, Knights, Gentlemer and Squires honestly attired, and a multi tude of Deople of the country, perhaps half a th d, all on h + As the English approached, the eo tish clarions blew a melody which was good to hear, and the Archbishop of Glasgow and the Bishop of Moray knelt to receive their child-queen as she stepped on Scottish soil."--From "Thir Majesties of Scotland," by B. Thornton Cook. Household Hints "If you will sprinkle a handful of coarse salt on the bottom oi the garbs age can after it is emptied, it will prevent the garbage from trcunins amy the bottom of the can." | "Strips of adhesive tape placed around the casters of the bed, dresser or other furniture which must be moved more or less while cleaning will prevent the black streaks caused by constant rolling of the' furniture." "When goloshes or overshoes bes come dusty inside, try cleaning them by inserting the nozzle of the upholsts fery tool of your electric sweeper in them, The brush may be effective in cleaning the outside." a » "On 'blue Monday' i winter pour some water into the hot water bag and slip it into your clothespin bag while the clothes are in the last rinse ing water. Keep the hot water under your pins when you go out. the line and your hands will even in near zero weather. A gener THREE Bh SC 2 Fr i of poi which Bon vo e was Ci urst i 'abov restline-- 8 the little settlement had been lifeless, ~ Noon. _ SHEE ize yosd improvements a