The Darkest Hour Or, The Hope That Still Lived, CHAPTER ViIl.--(Continued). ely, tee | 'kneeling beside her did not for a t. She was thinking deeply. "diegrace' had sunk deep into her , and waa raxrhling there. Prese ehe lifted her h "Mother, there ean be no fp arigrin -- am as eure of ether here et e from the sane. --you do n omacapairinely. ce--that fully dishonored myself "and you two. my children. But: the mel ary is there, never- theless, and the "s discovery of the circumetances that d me to er to-night would mean the covering of all with infamy. The world does not ask how or why a th was done. It enough for the world that has been . People t no more excuse than that for the th ah me and stones. But much? It rhe | irl cues 5 een "M does this nee an that you are in the power of Lord Yorford, and that he coward! A re yo ith and the 2 aer Sod 'da tee stood confront- ing eac! h Yoxford knows nothing thering _ gone wish to marry me 'No. are had r Ee E th o have id one hag found {t out. It that third one = fs using the n me. one of She three your « ther. rather ae a hu renee ---" over } your a You -- ve renounced enoug' nese etrangere. Will you \not renou ea 'little f for me "Under the e light of the common littl Bes » the lagt vestige of color ebbed Ghrigtiae ae She. caught ata Gale 16 to ' ft ir ie repeated ~ marks bit- ees i al ac * can you, who Ae othe: ry can Fon. who e made mag tl And ase day. other, I can't ar gear pa it a have teen different. Bui n "Christine, you a mu ust t do ft 3 "= = ro} 8 whaterer | Eo d hard Ww. has lost all feeling, eal on or for hon inthe one fierce honor. ShowF, "that between en. miust be e and SMolher' i moald 'pather 'diet rather die! fi pa m I would ut the mother only repeated her_in flexible words--"You must, Christine. You must! Listen here! She wont up close to the rembling girl, and whispered ecinething in her ear. She wae telling her the cecret The telling took some moments. When it was over, Chrictine's strength failed her. She sank down on té the bene h, help- lev dazed, anguish-stricken Her fa was «0 changed om what it had been even ten minutes before that the mother who had dealt the b'ow was almost afraid te lock at her Truty thie wae a hitter New Year's Eve. CHAPTER VIII 1 ems to me ne if people was leav- ing this 'ouse for the same reason ore rate au ship," Timo Nob aid to himself some days before when the | cle- gant luggage of Lady Dare's elegant maid suive had been in process of pilin on the roof of the cad which had been chartered to mivey that independent young woman to the railw:s station. First two men, and then a kitchen- muid, and then you. Tt looks as if it was because the 'ouse wng ing to eink like he ships that the rate clear out of, but 1 suppose it ¥ because the place 'as been so dreadful dull lately--what sith Sir Randolph always ehut up ia hi study, and 'er ladyehip alwaye looking as if she saw ghosts, and Mr. Hector dead, and Mis: Christine away, and Master Ron ald, that's the heir ree than dead When I think o' these things I than non that He didn't me a gentleman ith a name to os up, and estates to carry on in the fami A fine 'un Master Ronald is now to_ come in for this ape did ol place! raciousd I heen a gentleman, and 'ad song that on to r hing t arry on us ness ag you may 6a now wha with I'd tie 'em to the bed-rail till they wae thirty. .That's the only way as you can cep boys straight. es, or girls either, for that matter. Upon my wo ps ogc 'ud say as there was a curee on his The "departing French maid, standing ¢ ed the open doc the ca ab in clot thing ference and flighty, street in which th fara & narrow key to '8 nor a 'alf good a ine young woman lik . in order ra ~ you'd eet up a © West End n dl, reasonable early dinner was roast chicker His brid preseatly a 5 ing ma age. Taking things on t. say ac I agree with res 'em below stair< that it's the est thing in all the world that she nt to marry me, and ev which no paseibie pace outmen might not m im feagreeable. "And whatev 'ave fh mixed ngs up with this ' fish trade or? ow, that av "You just wait a bit, ric of the yeh & seocads of the, win nv cartaine e chair upholetery. @ gs muet hav o rou thi oun 'the e-elect anewered it in the cook and al en be willing to e at the e little shop wa and evil-eme'ling alley customers socuek potting 5 for e h his "aivap. ak oper millinery business ni} vould 'ave been She looked at him keenly, on laughed | " she recommend- The little shop was mean enough, having pology for a marble e elab; but the sitting-room behind was fur- The ------ arkeble, and Timothy Nobbe w auite taken aback by "Wh f the outlook were a bit better, e of her ladyehip's 'i. ~ "Why, these > chairs t heap @ to 'the cisiny butler when cover re 1 of to stad 'astonished gaze a couple of nk the money's ront er returned 'to the eitting- am, which she opened her pocket. sf : trance yd ~~ tittle p bebind the | ehcp pet. visit was cagual Ma mane papiins = 3 ° 2 BS = on exed, and y Mound it difficult to make up t course of er the oo of ip bers, he e earemh | boy walking a it an anciher andi at it in "te act of delivering the rick-red missive of hich he was Tobbs felt i, the ©) believe that them telegrams is 'The Up. come to think of it, I don't about fish Lepenel reflective ae rimy three i grini- ad floor ree gs 'was in- a deed "a ite startling when pot oo wm oot the Tururious fora nings 2 of the eitt the back aw hen I he eens 20 forty nat on ~ waste mo n tele kere ine. ry what ey wants told himee! sagely, and she en't got "erring, and one dried ' telegrams for dried 'ad- dick ona bloa He went into Sen tks shormine little sit- behind. She, wh one ned ety of one" comprehensible © be continued. ) Yd : From Bulletins Seed | Branch, . ntly important mese- Ottawa. "You Jeave money matters to me," she ---- wile ng meanwhile reassuringly. | Elevator Screcnings. Dont you think were going to depe nd | ' Fs - the shop. I'm or such a fool ae that. | Screenings from the terminal ve got other and better soure of in- aca" Hou that fac Ge eee rvice ; elevators at Fort William and Port for ever, I may as well.tell you that (Arthur are composed of shrunken tonne out a secret =< Lady Dare's aie nl and broken kernels of wheat, oats, phe's paying me to keep dark. It's always | been my Wway'in'service to find out what- | barley and flax with a varying pro- ever eccrets m dic ave had and then | | portion of different kinds of weed make them hand over t money so that . A 1 should keep my tonguo quiet. Whenever | seeds. An eighth ounce of screen 've got a place with a lady who hadn't | nga which had been ground as chop- any secret, | ueed to give her notice it feed was found to contain 233 the end of the first quarter and try for d 48 h j better rg next time. I've got half a doz- | noxious and 484 other w seeds. en paris Gy ie a yes for not let- But when the smaller weed seeds sakes ¢ oven Shes. arreupet' te cas | have been removed it is not difficy It we five hundred a year from now till a to destroy by grinding the vi iy dies--or e--and-- 'Five Nundred a year? ried Tmothy | of eee all those remaining. 2 4 aghast. n the amazeme ont ibick _ | Sma er we seeds, comprising maenned, him, he was indifferent to ¢ | from 20 to 40 per cent of the who e, ond dowble knock at the street r. Five | 5 hundred a year! yhy, it'e wieked--wick- | 47 not completely ground by ordi pi ! And if that's true, what are you eet-| ary mills and some of them are be- g up 1op at 'all for? If you've esom got eo little conscience that you can ta lieved to be decidedly unwhoh e. the money, why. you might as well liye| When graded to remove these small-!e om it gincigs of withous toying all er harmful seeds and the balance y case n't going make you '/?_ Nobbe. I won't marry a} ffnely ground, screenings make a woman that isn't respectable, and a *o-|cheap and nutritious stock feed. man that sives on blackmail hasn't got = nce, f respectabi about 'er. Ive Weed Seeds in Feed. elt all along that you'd been 'aving come nasty dealings with 'er ladyship, but 1 Bran, shorts and chop feeds are ever thought ase you'd be 'eartles sometimes contaminated by ground enough and foxy enough to keep it up| gereenings which are mix with evidently expeneive an her thin. | aia in reply, and emile tignifican uch curse upon it that if 't ye ages Bk her sere, are in pretty low water, I can "Bs the butler in lofty a precious ear, if 7o8, expect us hy t it known ough society that "Sire Randolph is an he disdainful Louise gave her too hon- eet and ye elderly lover a look of eupreme co! "What a srecious old fool you are, ae thy!' wae departing ------ This iitio -- eg a day or two ag on Year's Eve, N orig Ronde, the inrtliag gg elec to Lo in- the "Life of me what 4a) qants me for," this elderly and de- ima tisfactory tage modestly oale ag covery that dressed to an empty room. His bride elect had depart to dnswer the front door knock, and wae now returning with a 6 élegram in her hand. The elderly and dignified lover, who had just repaint. er in he: abs ane was on Me point of legely repeati his marks hen he and straiebiiy. berore her face, w was ce more interrupted the entrance by of a etranger--a young ma rdly, deed, more than a boy who advanced into the room as if he were familiar with j The --o-- Timothy, the self- pm yenginmen face and free manner changed into, veh and the ® had risen from hie seat at i his last remarks had been a e. me the interruption wag caused the table porta And then suddenly nd easy Tvant out for the day. mask- sitke countenance digni al sear of "he cae creek in e of hie service. Yet his showed a joy fe well as wonder, and he ards i ie young fellow von he thus ae wapen he woomnined him > ag ro walter for he turnet toe netantly and age aha the elderly servant had had 2. owt to follow his maeter's eye and d h had ac tom Wa widaat Tig - ee Ap toh ove hie opinion of the e on AA, id the ete; nal ~{ aw. must con sequently result, he dash out of the and shop and was in the etreet in a momen ing t, short-sighted old eyes for thet handsome, though ny of his master Sire hone would, to the mother at least, been as the coming home old Bible story. 1" he cried, eves the boyish- Jenkins the butler?" parently (was out of the house -- isos "ase ofthe prodigal! in the them in some of the flour mills. 398 samples collected throughout Canada in 1913 by the Inland Rev- enue Department 140 contained an average of 57 noxious weed seeds per pound, and only 144 of the samples were entirely free from vit- al weed seeds. One sample of chop- teal feed contained 1104 noxious ed seeds per pound. Bulletin No. 254 of the Inland Revenue Depart- ment gives the names and addresses of the manufacturers and the quali- ty of their mill feeds. Turnip Seed Situation. Turnips and other roots occupied 175,000 acrés in Canada in 1914 and yielded 69,003,000 bushels valued at $18,934, 000. Turnip seed imported into Canada forthe year ended March 31, 1914 follows: Fro: Wy, bs. Value United Eingdom 1,133, pe $95,471 gases States 62,818 France 126,687 10,4 Holland 224,162 16,855 Other Countries 39,698 _3on Total 1,577,323 $130,874 There is good reason to believe that a part of the turnip seed com- United 43) tg to Canada from the Fingdom had been grown under contract on the continent. The prospective scarcity of labor and the need for eo pate vasa ° specu proportion. oF ned supplies available Europe for use in Canada in a Sow the Best Variety. The 1913 investigation , a wondered once would not bar aa Ww well to put off say pe what he wanted to say to her for the "ot. bel ablo to go there' i f his n er, or A waiting s "tle" wo th n? until hi his i r) an cha: st' yields oe 'oats obtained 'af ne Dominion: Experiment Station in 1912 averaged 33!4 bushels more the tite lowest. Ex- Boh district shoul grow pect the variety of crop best suited to soil, climate and markets. The variety might be chosen on the advice of the nearest Experiment Siation. SIR HERBERT S. HOLT. The Most Unpretentious Bis Mil- lionaire in Can Sir Herbert 8. Holt, p ohne: recently honored with a kni ght- > . the| hood, is said to be the most modest and retiring of Canada's million- aires. He is cne of the biggest "Bir Herbert Holt came to Can- ada in 1875 as a nineteen-year-old immigrant from Ireland. He "4 been given a training in mathem es and engineering at Trinity Cel ege, Dublin. and he was given a ob by James Ross, of Montreal, on the Victoria Railway, a crude little lumbering line, extending north $ifrom Lindsay into the forests of Haliburton. Young Holt made him- self very useful, and when Rose moved to Toronto as superintendent of the Credit bay i ag 5 later absorbed by the C.P.R., he brought Holt with him. The young engineer ad a good deal to do with the con- struction of its various extensions. In 1883 James Ross moved again-- going to the West as superintendent of construction on the prairie divi- sion, of the C. .--and again he took young Holt with him. Power His Monument. About the same time Mackenzie and D. D. Mann went West. Holt soon saw that there was more money in the contracting busi- o Sir H. S. Holt. ness than in working on salary as an engineer, and he spent seven years:in that business, being all the time more or less in Mackenzie, Mann . turning to Montreal, he Honcted his energies to getting 'control of that city's power and light facilities. He first: bought out the old Montreal as company. Then he acquired the oyal Electric Company, and by degrees buying out competing com- panies or crushing them, he evolved the present Montreal Light, Heat, and Power Company. with its seven- teen million dollar capita] and 'ts almost absolute monopoly in the city and district of Montreal. Montreal Power is the monument H. S. Holt has reared to his prow- ess as a financier. e knows all about that company and its equip- ment. He is the company's own re- sident engineer, and has traveled all over the world improving his knowledge of electrical engineering problems. He is also a bank president, be- ing head of the Royal Bank. By the way he has the unique distinction of having beem president of two, banks, for he was the first presi- | dent of the ill-fated Sovereign' Bank, and held that office for three. ears. Sir Herbert i is a director of the C.P.R. and is a liberal invest- or in stocks of any kind that have a basis of industrialism. He is one of the biggest of Montreal's finan- | cia] magnates-- er oir-} tle. Pe 'y he is also man. He is rather better than six: feet in height, and his frame is! powerful and well knit--that of a; man who lived his early life out-| doors and.was very much at. home| there. There is nothing of the mixer about this new Montreal knight. He spends most of his time between his! house on Stanley Street and his of-: in the Power Building on Craig aoe Usually he makes a trip across the Atlantic onee a year, but the rest of the time he lives quietly at home. 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If you consider that they cannot understand a word of each other's language, you might imagine that real intimacy were no more than a dream. Such is not the case. Mr. Atkins and M. Piou-Piou have become actual and real friends, and to see ey strolling along in liberty hours, rm in arm and talking volubly, is a tiberal education in the possibilities of human nature, writes O. M. Hueffer. One incident which the writer. per- sonally witnessed "somewhere near the front," as tho war correspondents say, and which speaks volumes for the friendship of the allied private sol- diers must be prefaced by the state- ment that some 40 per cent. of the British troops at present at the front are total abstainers. I happened to be walking across the market place of the little town with a staff officer of the British. Just in our way were, I su pose, a couple of hundred French pri- vates. As we came up to them they fell away before us in a manner alto- gether incomprehensible, backing to- wand the nearest wall, keeping their poséd 'it meant. He replied, wi raised eyebrows, that it was altogether incomprehensible. Three minuteé later, having left the colonel at the door of h Three British stragglers, who had lost their battalions and were look- ing for them had wandered into the town. They | had come far, and on the way the peasantry, who by this time positively adore "les Anglishes," had offered them the wine which was red. Their French comrades, recognizing their condition, had flocked together to protect them from any possible punish- ment at the hands of the British offi- cers--whence the manoeuvring in the market-place. e pains which those French sol- diers took subsequently to insure thé, safety of their charges was a lesson in humanity, After long consultation they decided that the village church was the best ag oh of penriaety, and accordingly they led ere, prox cured large trusses of otra, and Jett them to sleap off their "fatigue," as one of the Frenchmen put it. Two 0 the culprits proved perfectly amenabl and went quietly to sleep. of more heroic mold, no ".--¥ oo himself abandoned, than swiftly to his feet, left the inure, and! wandered again through the market} place, hinting by signs to the passers- y that he was still athirs "His watchful French protectors nee to the occasion, led him n to the! sanctuary, and again put 'him to bed. Two minutes later he was out again, recommencing his tour of the market- place. I do not think I am exaggerat- ing if I say that this ee = gone through ten times, with un -- ge on the part of the Freneh,| men, before the infantryman-errant was at pany permitted to go to sleep.' Even then guardian angels in red breeches waited outside another quar-| ter of an hour to make sure that he' should not change his mind. 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