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4 do Frid = Ea > oe So SIRES a CT <. AR RACE a Tt a Mined a Ty 1. Cr SE RE Ap ey nC a | 5 NE. TER Ags Va RENTY RRL 3 4 HE 85 iE ALLAN ER Sera dele Re Rel LOUIS ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM CHAPTER XII "Who had--" Roger started to smile, but the smile died a-born- ing, His lips were parted. He stared hard at his aunt and saw no gleam of mirth in her eyes. A shadow there ,a hideous lurking curtain -of doubt, "A moment," he sald softly. "Just a moment! This -- this was no play, none of their make-be: Neve?" "This was serious, We question- ed them. Meride! and Rudi scold: ed them, It was no good, 'He Is the one who killed Bonhomme Fri- cot. And he laughed afterward. | hate him, hate him, hate him!' My God, Roger I have been hearing that child's. voice ever since, In the dark hours of the night when I waken and realize how old I am and remember you and remember him -- him." "They could be Youngsters like them--" "They are old, these children ot the war ---- old and wise. Roger, I'm afraid, I've been afraid since that day. | can't think of it -- can't bear to. You know how he felt about those people, He lived among them three years. He was formed by them" ) "Not to betray his country! Not to wear their" "Iiven the scar on hig chin" said the old lady bitterly, "His souve- nir of Ieidelberg he called it -- a saber cut -- they remembered that" mistaken. * » * "Don't! Don't talk about it!" Roger got up and walked to the window just as the telephone rang softly, handy to Roger's el- bow. He looked inquiringly at ma- dame and lifted it when she nod- ded. He did very little talking, a great deal of listening, "Good! We shall see you soon, my friend!" And he put the tele- phone down slowly and looked earnestly, appraisingly at his aunt. "Order that coffee and cognac, madame. You are going to .need it" - "What --" she spoke through the house phone to Gesner, turn- ed then to her nephew. "Tell me. Who was that?" "Old Delorme, your confidential agent's clerk, That black devil Follet has skipped. There's a letter in his office there for you -- and from what I could gather -- not much else." "You mean," Madame 'picked up her stick and fingered the knob, "you mean fo say that Gabriel Follet has swindled ae!" "for queries, some talk of for BETTER SLEEP... BETTER DIGESTION. BETTER HEALTHY Dr. Chase's Nerve Food CONTAINS VITAMIN 8 HOTEL METROPOLE All Beautifully Furnished With Running Water. Rates: 51.50 up NIAGARA FALLS OPPOSITE C:N.R; STATION - at is worth$5, on Sedls at 10%? Dia 5 yi ps Si Ear nt 7 Se tl ' "I shall go back to the city at once and see what's to be done, I'll get some good lawyer for you. I know that you wouldn't be fn- terested enough to come with me." , "Why not? It is a long time since 1 have been away from here, We shall go right after lun- cheon. Perhaps now that we are poor, Meridel and Rudi and the children will forget their pride and come back." The tiny back parlor ot the Coq d'or held a gay company that night, The tavern was closed early and the little ones, as a very spe- clal concession ,were allowed to stay up a full two hours after their bed-time. Roger was thelr hero, "You must come to stay with us," sald Madame, "not just to visit, If I am able to remain thero, Meridel, you and the child- ren must return to me. Now, you see, the shoe is on the other foot; it 1s I who am poor who am in' need of good friends and cheery faces around me. You would not leave a poor, helpless old woman alone!" : * - LJ] She sat in the place of honor by Jules Gouion's fireside and be- nignly let Rudolph wait upon her, which he did with obvious plea- sure, "Ah, it is like the good old times, Rudolph," she said, "I fear it was not until you were gone that I realized what a treasure 1 had in you." "Just as I, until I became a bar- on, madame," murmured Rudolph, - "did not know how pleasant is the lot of a butler." The children surrounded Roger and Meridel, questioning Roger, asking him the meaning of - the bright ribbons on his tunic, beg- ging him to tell them of his ad- ventures in the sky. He walted, as did Meridel, and .madame also, Bon- homme Fricot, "that good man whom the laughing soldier killed" They knew Rosine and Pol Mar- tin were thinking of that, but something, some childish intuition kept their little tongues away from the subject. "You could not take captives from your airplane, could you?" asked Pol Martin. "Who takes those prisoners? Y know: it's the soldlers on the ground. They take them and send them over here and put them in big wire cages. Gesner told .us that there was a big one full of them deep in the woods back of Philibert. Roger sat at the fire with Merl- del after madame had while Rudolph and Jules went over their accounts in the little en- closure in the taproom. Roger's dark eyes studied her face shyly. "This is the hour I waited for," ho said. "And I pictured ft just like this. There would be a fire and you and I would sit beside ft and I would know such happiness as never before. To be near you Is all I'd ask, to know that, by reaching out, I could touch you, that by bending I could kiss your lips--" She looked at him, then away. "But--but you do not?" "No, I do not." He, too, 'was in. tent on the blaze. "The mystic fig ure that was between my love and me"--his volce held now a little of that same wryness that had been In it when he learned of her previous meeting with the red' one --"It has crystallized Into the very solid form of my brother, Michel." "Madame told you about the pleture?" co "All about it." "And you think?" "I think with you and with my aunt: it Is a thing too awful, too monstrously appalling, to be be- Heved." "But could it--could it be? Your brother+--how could he live among them, serve with them---7" "You mean could he get away -with it? Yes, he could readily; He - was educated in Germany, spoke the language well, had many friends there, He knew the politi cal getup and admired some of the things about it. There! I swore I wouldn't talk about this business, and here I spoll our first moments together by dwelling on it. I won't mention it agaln--even though 1 know yon keep his photograph and ~--pray to it." his (To Be Continued) retired, - FS 4 Ea IY LUE TA SV al! We Noelia ain FPOREAE ARR I | ---- TABLE TALKS Tasty Vegetables A few ideas for makng vege- tables thoroughly tempting without making inroads into the butter ration, are given by the Consumer Section of the Department of Agri culture. Pickle little whole beets and keep on hand for later reheating with the thickened vingar served as a sauce. Use a dash of vinegar on hot spinach or shredded cabbage and "butter won't be missed. Try cheese sauce on green beans, baby carrots, summer squash and cabbage, as well as on cauliflower, Use a minimum of water for cooking and serve vegetables rich in flavor, color and food value, Tasty vegetables such as given in the recipes which follow give a lift to any meal. Panned Vegetables 1 cup small whole radishes 34 cup sliced onion 4 cups cubed ra wpotatoes 2 cups sliced carrots 2 tablespoons fat 14 cup water 14 teaspoon salt }J§ teaspoon pepper 14 cup milk Prepare vegetables. Melt fat in frying pan, add vegetables, water, salt, and pepper... Cover and cook 20 minutes. Add milk, cook un- covered 5 minutes. Serve hot. Six servings. String Beans With Mustard Sauce 1 b, string beans (3 cups cut) 14 cup chopped onion 114 cups boiling water 14 teaspcon mustard 1 teaspoon flour 1 teaspoon sugar 34 teaspoon salt ' 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoon vinegar _ Cook beans and onion in boiling salted water closely covered, until | minutes. Mecan- flour, sugar tender, about 30 while 'mix mustard, and salt; add beaten egg yolk. Drain beans reserving liquid. Add liquid with the vinegar to egg mix- ture. Cook slowly, stirring con- stantly until thickened.. Add beans and reheat. Six servings. Squash Casserole Arrange aternate layers of sliced summer squash and thinly sliced onion in a greased casserole, sprink- ling each layer with salt pepper and a little flour. Cover casserole and bake in a moderate oven, 350 deg. F., until squash is tender, about 30 minutes, Nazis Used Shell That Chased Target It is now known that the Ger- mans, _perfecting an entire se- quence of wire controlled wea- pons know as the "X" series, had developed an 'anti-aircraft ghell 'that practically chased its target. The clumsy Goliath miniature explosive tank which the Germans used, largely in Italy, was a fore- runner of this type of weapon, These weapons have an advan- tage of being comparatively free from enemy interference because directive impluseg run along acutual wires, - ) Ack-ack shells found were all very light and could be. fired either from the ground, or from the air. The range of wire on one type was 18,000-fect--which isn't high enough to knock down most Allied planes. 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Spoons and forks, plated accord- ing to a new British process, re- tain a lustre equal to silver without any treatment beyond Washing in soap and water. This process, called speculum-coating, has been developed by scientists. It can be Aue 0) £ppooaip pue Ajduns pajjdde metal, giving exactly the appear- ance of silver. Tests have shown, however, that spulum coated metal, which has the same reflectivity as silver articles when new, regis- ters 400 percent higher reflectivity in one month's exposure under identical conditions. Acids such as lemon juice, and beer, have ab- solutely no effect on its silver lus- tre. Other advantages of the coat- ing are that it does not scratch or flake, even when articles are sev- ercly bent or twisted. It is so tough that an average coating of one-two-thousandth of an inch is adequate to give excellent "pro- tection, Speculum plating is already be- ing used in the United Kingdom on a wide range of products includ- ing all types of household goods and fittings. How Can I? By Anne Ashley Q. What can I do for an oily skin? ' A. Wash the face in fresh water to which the juice of half a lemon had been added. Apply this treat- ment once a day. Q. How can I remove chewing gum from children's cothing? A. It can often be removed with- out injuring the material by ap- - plying a piece of ice. This will har- den the gum and cause it to _crum--- ble. zt Q. How can I make a remedy for poison ivy? ; A. A little potassium perman- ganate™and a little water in an ex- cellent remedy for poion ivy. Have solution prepared by druggist. Q. What is a good tooth wash, A, Old-fashioned cider is still considered to be one of the very best tooth washes ever discovered, Q. How can I make the white of an egg beat to the required stiff- ness? A. When it does not beat to the required stiffness, add a pinch of baking soda while beating. This also will make it more fluffy and prevents falling if it must stand awhile after beating, .. .... .... A Tall Tale of Tall Trees --p Out in California the natives are mighty proud of their state's giant redwood trees, and occasionally . their stories about them are as tall as the trees themselves, Here's one: "Big trees? Why, out our way they felled a hollow tree over a ravine that was too deep and wide to build a bridge across. One day while I was driving through this tree with a trailer I met a big moving van coming through from the other end. I couldn't back up* or go ahead, so I just edged the trailer into a hollow branch and Jet the other fellow. go past." . Valuable Wire Tungsten filament wire for three-watt lamps is drawn through diamond dies to a diameter of 3/10,000 inch at the Westinghouse Lamp Division. A pound of this wire 'one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, stretches 282 miles and costs thousands of dollars to | manufacture, What We Need i Modern Etiquette By Roberts "Lee 1. When answering a wedding invitation - what form should one use? 2, Should the bread and butter plates remain on the table through- out the entire meal? 8. Is it permissible to termin- ate a conversation that has grown too tedious? ~ 4..What is the proper way to ! point the prongs of a fork when cutting food and when eating it? 8. Is it necessary for one to give a wedding gift to a woman who is being married for the second time? 6. Is black border still popular? ANSWERS 1, The same form should be used as when replying to any formal invitation, and should be written on the first page of good, white note paper. 2. No; they should remain until the dessert is served. 8. Yes; quiet dignity and tact will succeed invariably. 4. The prongs "of the fork should point downwards when cutting the food, upwards when conveying it to the mouth. 8. Not unless the bride Is a very olose friend.. 6. No, .though it is still used by some people. Today Canada needs reassur- ance that the arena of industrial development will still be open to free enterprise, states the Montreal Star. We stand on the threshold of a new era, We are destined to become a far more numerous na- tion than we are today, and unless free enterprise can have fair play we shall not be able to keep our place in the march of the nations along the road of progress and prosperity. ~The people of Canada as a people have a keen appreciation of what free enterprise has done to help this Dominion forward.' They realize that without it we could never have become the leading Dominion of the British Empire, and. certainly never have come to our present recognized international status. The average human thigh bone can support a weight of 1114 tons without breaking, mourning stationery with ~ CHRONICLES What a lot of difference it makes on a farm when there is sufficient --and efficient--help. With Bob and young John both . working like Trojans we were really able to get somewhere with the haying last week. Given a few more dry days and all our first cutting of hay will be safely stowed away in the barn. Partner has been helping too, coiling most of the time. Son and 1 have both been urging him to take it easy. He pay some attention to us for awhile and then first thing we know he is back in the field again. rr Just imagine, with all this haying I haven't had to drive the horses on the hayfork once. And believe me, that has been a great relief to this woman. You might think after all the years I've been at it that I would be used to it by now, yet the fact remains it bothers me more instead of less with every passing year. Just old age creeping on, 1 suppose. EE Next week it looks as if the wheat will be ready to cut--and next week we also hope to have our first picking of peas from the garden, Yes, they're a little late, but better late than never. You remember we had some rain in the spring that prevented folks getting their 'gardens in early. However we mustn't count our peas before they are picked because there is just a chance some visit- ing pigs may clean up on them first in -- which case I shall feel-like cleaning up on the pigs. * One morning last week Son and I made a hurried trip to the city --we were back home again in time for dinner, We both had shopping to do but for all we were able to get we might just as well have stayed at home. For the life of me I can't see why there Wy Laing | ieeler :The romantic story of "boy- meets-girl," told in a new and amusing way. Stitches are simplest embroidery, gay in bright kitchen: colors, You'll have a kitchen full of guests admiring your laugh-making towels. Pattern 778 has 6 motits, 6% ix 7 inches; stitches. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps 'cannot be accépted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly pat- tern number, your name and ad- dress. y Gwendoline P. of GINGER FARM ."". B Clarke ® N shouldn't be less of the non-es- sential garmen more of # skin, il to see why a cert synthetic rub- ber s véd for mens', ad children's undergar- ments. wonder if it would be possible to make an appeal to the powers that be--and if so, whether it would have any effect. * » » But we were on a trip to the city . . . we traveled along the highway and as I didn't have to drive 1 had plenty of time for observation. 'And my observations were anything bat ericouraging, We passed acres of orchard ijand and never in all my life have I seen less fruit on the trees, It just wasn't there. Onl~ in one orchard did 1 see an cherries---and very few at that. Apples, pears, plums .and peaches were practically non- existent. Here's hoping this fruit famine is not quite :n bad in the Niagara Peninsula--at least we have been told that a fifty per cent peach crop is expected, » x» As for wild raspberries -- show me a patch where there are some and I'll be there with a milk pail in either hand. The most we can hope for around here is a few blackcaps. And of, course there won't even be a good crop of honey to fall back on. And then our son comes home' from Europe and in response to a few inquiries as to what he would like to eat he replies--"Well, I can tell you Mom, you needn't be afraid of giving" me too many fruits and vegetables!" He also" asked if he could have some bacon for breakfast, But he has learnt a thing or two since that second day home, especially since he went shopping for himself, ror x ; Isn't it a strange thing that there should be a shortage of so many things when an abundance is so greatly needed? One wonders is it part of the Master - Plan. Fruit famine, drought and flood con- ditions are beyond man's control yet they exist to a greater degree this year than most of us have ever known. Even the sugar crop - is a partial failure. | Surely the picture as a. whole is one to which we should give considerable thought -- and by thought I don't mean a series of complaints. We suffered little material inconvenience 'during the European war and if jour turn is coming now to suffer a little hard- ship it is"surely 'up to us to make the best of it and prove that we, too, can take it on the chin, British Building New Electric Car A new electric car with record speed range and low operating . costs has been specially designed by a firm of English engineers for export purposes. It is used mainly as 'a 'commerical delivery van in cases where frequent stop- ping and starting make the petrol driven car un-economic. You Will Enjoy Staying At The ST. 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