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The pa- per rustled in the invalid's long fingers, and he stirred uncasily, as if he felt a presence, and looked up. The paper dropped to the ground and Le cowered in his chair, * * * "My God, Sherwin, you! How did you come here?" The young man, standing in the sunlight, looked back at him, quite unmoved. 'So you know me? I came a long way, Stenhart. "Look well at me-- I came to kill you!" In the terrible silence the ham- mers seemed to grow clamorous. Stenhart tried to rise. "Local help--I'm still a sick, man, John Sherwin!" he babbled wildly. Sherwin thrust him back in his chair. *' You coward!" he said bit- terly. "You'll have your chance; I don't deal blows in secret--as you do!" Stenhart groaned. "You're crazy--I always said you were! How did you get here?" "That's no affair of came to kill you." Stenhart gripped the arms of his chair with shaking hands; he was not a well man but he tried to summon his old courage. "I'll raise the alarm--why, I can sectle you in five minutes, Sherwin!" Sherwin's eyes glinted like steel. "Can you? Try it!" * * * yours! I "Ftenhart tried again to rise, then soniething in the other man's look held him, he shrank. "My God, what do you mean to do? You-- you can't kill me out here--in cold blood!" "1 can," replied his tormentor, "but | mean to let you think abont at, imagine it, wonder how 1 mean to do it. It would be too pleasant if 1 finished you now!" Hope kindled in the other's eyes: he knew a way to end this brag- jE "i'm obliged to you for a res- pite." he said mockingly; "thank yeu!" Nut it was Sherwin who laugh- cd, and the sound his mirth sent a horrible hi frou Sten- hart. i "I kwow your plan, Friend Man" he said coolly, "but it can't sone vor shall kill you just the save only a it more quickly." Stenhart's coufage began to rise, his face reddeted. "You'll not stay here; I'M make las Palomas t¢o hat for vou! You'll see. [I can nike any place too hot for you." Sherwin looked at him steadily for an instant, then he spoke as steadily, : "It wouldn't save you, Stenhart "1 "ing will save vou--but the sooner vou drop that stuft the longer- --ou'll live. Get me?" Stenhart writhed in his chair, "You can't do it! You don't mean to do it! You're threaten- ing me to---to hush me up!" * » * Sherwin bent down and, grasp- ing the arms of his chair, he look- ed deep into his eyes. "You know what I've endured, you know what you did--do you think that 1 wouldn't kill you?" Stenhart, staring back into those stel gray eyes, wavered and blanched. He will still weak from illness; his limbs shook. "You--vyou fiend!" lie gasped. "You call me a fiend- what do you call yourself, you liar?" Sher- win's voice was low but it was terrible, He let go the arms of the chair and straightened himself, "You're half sick still. I'll let you get your strength first, but--I shall kill you presently." Stenhart said nothing; 'he was shaking now from head to foot. Something deeper than his fear of Sherwin shook him. He set his teeth, but they chatiered. Sherwin, watching him, langhed. Then he looked toward the house and saw Fanny Sewell enterge, car- ISSUE 17-1946 ©, rying a tray. % "Your nurse is to the invalid. "Get your, strength quickly; I don't care to kill a sick man, Stenhart." Steonhart leaned back in his chair He was feigning more weakness than he felt; he coming." he said and shut his eves. was trying to plan some way to rid himselt of this peril, for he knew that Sherwin meant every word he suid. He would kill him! Though his evese were closed, he listened keenly and he heard Sherwin's foot- steps retreating across the grass; then came the rustle of a woman's skirt and he looked up and saw Fanny Sewell coming with her little tray. Ihe sun was shining on her hair and her serene face, and he tried to think he had just awakened from a nightmare. - * * Sherwin, passing the young nurse, vent to the house. The door stood open ald he entered, going at once to Jim's desk. He had promised Jane to straighten the accounts; mechanically he sat down to his task, but his mind was full of the scene under the trees, of Stenhart's aghast face. He had no pity for Stenhart's apparent weak- ness; he had evidently been near death and he was glad that he had not died. It he had died he would have escaped. Sherwin knew that he did not want to escape in that way; it would be too casy, too gentle an end. A sudden fury swept him; some primal passion, some instinct of vengeance inherited from a primitive ancestor, a caveman or a pirate, possessed him. It was all he could do to keep his seat there, not to rush out again and confront-the man, The effort shook him; he saw the perspiration start out in beads on his hands. Then he controlled himself sternly. There was plenty of time, nothing could interfere now --he had found him, found the coward-- * + * There was a little rustle of paper; a breeze from the window had got among the papers that his violence had shaken out of the pigeonholes. It lifted a thin tissue covering a flat cardboard "and rustled it. As Sher- win looked down it blew the thin -paper-completely away and he saw what it had covered. A photograph, the photograph of a very young girl, hee hair in braids on her slim shoulders, her chin lifted, her eyes looking up at him, a smile on her full young li 5 ! Unconscious- ly a great change came over him; the blood rushed to his face, his eyes softened. Garden Notes By GORDON L. SM1H Flowers For Show A really wonderful showing can be made with a few annual flowers and with very little effort, Cosmos, giant marigolds, zinnias, petunias, portulaca, nicotine, alyssum, are casily grown almost anywhere in Canada. Some of the larger flowers like cosmos and marigolds and nicotine can actually be used in the place of shrubs. Seeds should be started early and in finely pre- pared soil. Plants are transplanted to permanent quarters when they are well established with several sets of leaves, Some time can be saved by buying recady-started bed- ding plants. For husky growth tall cosmos, gladiolus, dahlias, giant marigolds and zinnias should have about two feet cach way, Petunias, nasturtiums, medium marigolds, need about a foot apart for best results-- smaller things like alys- sum require six inches "each way. Give Them Room After the first garden is planted the next major job is thinning and spacing. 'This is most important and applies to- either flowers or vegetables. Crowded flowers will grow thin and spindly, will not bloom freely and the biggest plants will topple over in the first storm. They should have half as much room between as they grow tall. This means about 4 or 5 in- ches for things like nasturtiums, less for alyssom, much more for tall marigolds, cosmos or spider plants. With vegetables-- leaf lettuce, carrots, beets-- a couple of inches between plants is sufficient, Beans and peas should have 4 to 6 inches between plants, and as all the seed usually germinates it should be planted to about this far apart. Rows should be from 15 inches to 2 feet apart. Corn is usually plant- ed 3 to 6 seeds to a hill, about 18 inches apart each way or rows 2 to 3 feet apart, TABLE TALK .. The Milky Way In planning meals for the home there are children, it 1s necessary to think of them first, Milk, then is a food to be consid- cred. where of « the Consumer Section, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture say that it is casy to plan dishes thatshave the required amount of milk for the children and still appeal to the adult members of the family, Milk soups, escalloped dishes and many delicious desserts carry a large proportion of milk and yet are not suggestive of baby food. Milk readily absorbs odours and flavours of other foods. To guard against this, it should Le kept cov- ered and away from strong foods such as onions, cabbage or fish, Quick Cream Soup 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons flour 1 quart 'milk 1 1 2 The home economists slice onion teaspoon salt cups grated raw carrot or tur- nip Melt butter. Blend in flour and gradually add. milk. Cook, stir- ring constantly, until mixture thickens. Add onion, salt and grated vegetable, and cook over hot water until vegetable is tender, about 10 minutes. Remove onion, Sprinkle chopped parsley over soup just before serving. Six ser- vings. : Farina Cream 2 cups milk 14 cup farina 1; teaspoon salt 1 egg 14 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons lemon rind 14 teaspoon vanilla Heat milk in top of double boil- er. Whisk in farina and salt with a fork. Cook 20 miuntes, stirring until it thickens. Add sugar, well beaten egg and grated lemon rind; cook 2 minutes longer. Serve hot with top milk; this pudding may also be served chilled. Six serv- ings. Carrot Custard 2 cups carrots, grated and cook- ed (or leftover cooked carrots, ground) 2 egg yolks -- 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon ginger 114 teaspoons cinnamon 1 tablespoon flour 14 cup sugar 14 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon salt . 1 teaspoon vahilla 2 cups milk 2 egg whites Mix carrot and beaten egg "volks. Add melted butter. Mix dry ingredients and stir into car- rct mixture. Add milk and vanil- la. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into a greased cass- erole, Oven-poach in a moderate oven, 350°F, for 45 minutes or un- t: set. Six servings. This quantity will make two, onc-crust pies. Bake the shells for 10 minutes in a hot oven, 400°F, Add custard mixture and bake in a moderate oven, 350°F, for 45 minutes or until set. Spend happy hours watching this demure, old-fashioned girl grow into colorful, flowery life un plain linens, Such stichery! Delightful design for hope-chest towels, scarfs, cloths, pillowcases. Pattern 738 has transfer of ten motifs 1% x 2% to 43% x 13 inches, : Send!" TWENTY CENTS. in coins (stamps cannot be aecepted) for this pattern to the Needle- craft Dept., room 421, 73 Adelaide - St. West, Toronto. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, yout NAME and ADDRESS. JUST A Lhe 2k Lo cha | When Joseph Lux, Chicago, brought home a stray alley kitten, Princess, his eight-year-old spitz-terrier felt her mother-love re- kindled, and adopted the youngster. Here she gives the kitten a true cat-like cleaning. | CHRONICLES By Gwendoline P Clarke A eerie This is onc of those times when I hardly know where to begin -- so much has been crowded into one short week. Take Thursday for instance. When I was trying to light the kitchen tire first thing in the morning part of the grate dropped out. Then three hundred chickens arrived on the 8 o'clock train. You who are in the chicken business will know the time it takes getting a few hundred chick- ens comfortably settled in their new quarters--setting the stove so that it is neither too hot nor too cold. Yes, setting it just right-- so you think--then back to the house, maybe to get a few dishes done . . . ofi to the chickens again --to find the stove is too hot. You set it again and leave it while you get potatoes peeled for dinner, Then another trip to the brooder house--and this time the fire 1s toc cool! In the middle of this Partner comes to the house for hot water. Mary has just produced a calf. In between cows and calves, chickens and stoves, I manage to get some kind of dinner on the ta- ble. After dinner I think how grand it would be to have just about thirty-nine winks, But it can't be done. CE * * It is the day of our local Institute annual. And an annual meeting is the one mecting of the year one feels morally bound to attend. So - away I went to the meeting--a lit- tle late in getting there and the first to come away. And from that time until late at night the chick- ens kept me occupied--more so than usual because, you sce, I was experimenting with an electric brooder stove, the ranning of which I knew absolutely nothing. But I had heard plenty--that they are great time-savers, easy to op- erate, athough not too satisfactory in cold weather unless there is other heat in the pen. But at any rate I thought it was worth a try. Keeping a coal stove going is a chicken-raiser's main worry There is always a danger of the place getting over-heated in cold wea- ther, and you need the magic of a magi to keep it alight in warm weather. So, says 1, what's the good of the hydro if you don't make it work for you. * * L To cut a long story short the electric brooder has been in oper- ation now for nearly five days ani I am really delighted with the re- sult, It is so clean, and, when one understands its mechanism, very casy to operate. Last niglit the wind got quite strong and it was a real treat to lie in bed and lis- ten to it without having to worry about either chickens or fires. Naturally there is one draw- back to electric brooders--and it is a serious one--if the power goes ofi you're sunk. As a matter of PEOPLE ARE SAYING that Maxwell House Cof- fee is extra deli¢ious. It's true . . . because Maxwell House is "Radiant-Roast- ed" to capture the full goodness of its supremely, fine blend! ARE YOU PALE WEAKTIRED due to simple anemia You gre ana women who suffer 40 from simple anemia that yob'ré pate, weak, "dragged Sut"~- this may be'due to lack ot on an owod. So try Lydia KE, 's TABLETS with atidea iron <-- one ot the oes nome ways 10 help build up red plood "=n suen cases. Pmknam's 'Cableta are one of the most eftéctivé won conics iydu' dad bity) fact it went off for about five minutes this morning. I almost developed a case of nervous pros- tration. The only way I can think of to meet such an emergency is to put several sealers filled with hot - water and wrapped in old socks under the hoover. And no doubt by the time one had heated the water and filled the last sealer, the power would be on again. Life's like that --haven't you noticed it? * * * Now to get back to the first thing that happened Thursday morning-- the broken grate--which unwitting- ly provided a striking illustration of the difference between two gen- crations. To put in a new grate there was a front plate that lad to be re- nioved. The screws were seized up and from past experience we knew the only way to remove them was to drill them out. So Partner got the brace and bit and started the job. But he found it pretty hard work so he told me to get Bob to put his young strength on the job when he came up from the barn. Bob took a few turns at it and ex- claimed--""Heck--there's no sense in sweating your heart out at that job! An electric drill will do it in just about five minutes. And I can easily borrow a drill." You see what I mean, don't you, about the difference in two gener- "ations? . * » * "While I have been typing the weather has cleared. It was rain- ing this morning but now the sun is out and it really looks like spring. Daffodils are swaying in the wind;. sweet scented violets shyly peck through grass and leaves; a saucy robin is perkily singing from a fence post; and my men are away to the field, one with the tractor, the other with the drill, sowing our first esed of the season. Sunday School Lesson Decisive Moments in Peter's Life John 1:42; Mk. 8: 27-29; Lu. 22: 54.57; 61, 62; John 21: 15-17; Acts, 5: 29, Golden Text -- We ought to obey God rather than men, -- Acts. 5:29, Simon, Named Peter Our Lord bestowed on Simon a new name, Peter, which signifies a piece of rock, The name is sym- bolic of the rugged strength of character which its bearer was to display as an Apostle. The first question -- "whom do men say that I am?""--was to pre- pare them for the next question and to draw out the difference be* tween what the people said of Jesus and what His chosen dis- ciples. believed about Him. Peter acts as leader and spokes- man for the rest, In his full con- fession -- "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" -- Peter declares our Lord's office as well as His nature. Peter's Denial of Christ The Lord Jesus was seized ana Lrought before the high priest. Where was Peter who promised to be faithful even unto death? He "followed afar off." Peter, though sccking to hide his discipleship, boldly joined the men who haa arrested his Lord and warmea Limself at their fire. Accused by a maid-servant of being with Christ, Peter denied all. knowledge of the Lord to whom he had promised steadfast loyalty. Later he denied his Lord again with oaths and curses, Peter Fully Repents The cock crew and at this moment our Lord turned and caught the eye of Peter who re- membered his protestations again- st the very thought that he would _ deny his Lord. The look of Christ had pierced the guilty heart of Peter; it brought instant sorrow and repentance. 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