Ne K OR, FACE TO FACE WITH AN OLD LOVE. --S/ ~ CHAPTER. XXXI.--(Cont'd) He looked at her blankly in the greatest amazement, wondering, as he reviewed the words he had but just uttered in his own mind, what there was in them to offead her, He could see nothing; but pe muswered sadly : "T did not suppose that anything I did, or any object I had/in view could interest you. "Certainly not," said Lyndall, promptly. Without noticing her words, he went on gravely: "T merely mentioned the fack: to assure you that I did not follow you here--that your presence was a surprise to me. Will~you, believe me {"' He bent eagerly toward her, the firelight falling full upon his dark, handsome face, while Lyndall kept hers well in the shadow. 'Will you believe me, Lyndall?"' he repeated, huskily. \ Only Heaven knew how hard it was for him to stand there before her so calmly, while his whole na- ture yearned so passionately to clasp her in his arms, close to his beatimg heart, and cry out that he could not live without her--that life without her love was unendur- able, Of all the cruel experiences this world holds there is none so cruel, so bitter, as to look eagerly into eyes that have once met ours with all love's warmth and passion, and read in them only coldness and in- difference--to stand so near arms that have once embraved us with all love's glad tenderness, and rea- lize their close clasp is to be put a memory of the bitter-sweet past-- to listen to a voice that once breath- ed to our willing ears the sweetest vows of affection and constancy that were to be eternal, and hear that voice address us with impati- ence, anger and withering scorn. Ah, there is no pain like it, for such wounds strike deep to the very core of the heart. sei All this St. Leon felt as he stood there looking eagerly into the averted face kept so well in the shacow. Lyndall tried to turn and fly from the room and from St. Leon's pres- ence, but it seemed to her that some power over which she had no con- trol held her firmly rooted. there. Again St. Leon repeated his ear- nest query, and Lyndall answered, desperately : . "T do not know why I should doubt your words if you say you ~eame here for a book--I am sure the library is free to all the guests of the villa';" and as she spoke she crested her beautiful golden head, turning still further from the gaze of those grave, earnest dark eyes with haughty impatience. "Lyndall," he said, drawing a step nearer her, his voice growing husky as he uttered her name, "do not show me that you despise me so utterly--let us at least be friends,"' he added, extending an 'the keen thrust of a two-edged dag- not be worth a moment's thought to unsteady. hand toward ee pro- mise me that." She drew back from him with a+ cold little laugh that cut him like per. "That is much to ask,"' she said. "T must consider it in all its bear- ings before answering you; I might be considered rude if I answered an immediate 'No."7? "But you think it would amount to that if you considered the mat- ter?" he asked, deeply pained. "If you force the truth from me, I must answer: I do indeed.'"* "And yet there was a time when I was so blind that I believed you cared for me," he said, slowly. "Mr. St. Leon," said Lyndall, with freezing hauteur, "you insult me by making any reference to the foolish past.' He never knew how near she was to sobbing out hysterically, as she uttered these words. St. Leon turned as death. | "You are not the same tender lit- tle Lyndall whom I once loved," he said, huskily; "she has yanish- ed like a shadow or a dream, and in her place I find a cold, proud woman whom I know not. I bid you, who have little Lyndall's face, but not her tender heart, good- night." white as _-------- CHAPTER XXXII. Although St. Leon had uttered the words, "good-night, Lyndall," he still' lingered, hoping against hope that there would be a response from her white, tremulous lips, but none came. Ah! how could he part from her-like this? He drew a step nearer her, won- dering vaguely if she would accept or ignore it if he held out his hand. "There is one wish that burns its way to my lips," he said, huskily, "and it is this----" But before he uttered the words he looked at her hesitatingly, wist- fully, but not one awakened glance from those averted eyes rewarded him; she stood, proud and calm and 'emotionless as a statue carved in marble, in the red glow of the flickering firelight. "Just one wish,' he repeated, huskily, "and that is that, wher- ever you give your love, Lyndall, you may find it happily returned; for a love rejected is death in life." Was he mocking her? Could hu- man woman endure this calmly ? She turned on him with such withering scorn he was appalled and not a little bewildered. "My heart is not one to break over the loss of fickle affection," she said, proudly; "why, it would me.'"' *T should hope not," returned St. Leon, gravely ; and those words angered Lyndall all the more. "T wonder that you dared breathe such words to me," she said, pas- sionately. © "T see nothing in them to anger you,' he said, earnestly. "I only = Whenever you feel a headache coming on take - NA-DRU-CO Headache Wafers They stop headaches promptly and surely. Do not contain opium, morphine, phenacetin, acetanilid or other dangerous 2Sc. a box at your Druggist's. NATIONAL DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED. drugs. 125 Cale s Finest sugar Your love of at its best -- a expressed the hope [find happiness ; it was only the hon- est wish of an honest heart!' She laughed, but the sound of| 'then, that laughter was so discordant St. Leon was more puzzled than ever. "My happiness or unhappiness cannot affect you in any way,"' she said. 'Why -- assume that it should ?"" Hoe came up to her, looking stead- ily: down into the averted face. tha _you might "ur purpose is to quarrel with | se | me, Lyndall,"' he said, in a griev-| ed voice, "but that shall not be. If it be your object that if we meet in future it must be as strangers, I must bow to your will. This, how- ever, I plead; do not foster enmity in your heart toward me. 'When you think of me, if ever, always think of me kindly and at my best,' will you?" "Your persistent, impertinence is certainly amazing,' returned Lyn- dall, excitedly; "may I ask that you will make this very disagree- able interview which you have fore- ed upon me as short as possible?' .~A sudden sharp and unexpected blow from that white hand could not have shocked him more than her words. He was left literally speechless. \ With a low bow, St. Leon turned slowly and. quitted the library. - The sound of his heavy tread in the corridor 'without had not died away ere Lyndall's composure, which she had striven so hard to keep under control, gave way com- pletely, and-she sunk down on the nearest chair, her slight form con- vulsed with hysterical weeping. \ "Heaven forgive him for being so cruel to me!" she moaned, wring- ing her white hands so tightly to- gether that the rings she wore cut deeply into the pink flesh; but she never even felt the pain of it. "He might have spared me the pain of telling me so coolly to my face that he hoped my next lover might return my love," she sob- bed. 'Surely no woman was ever insulted so deeply or so cruelly be- fore! I repeat, Heaven forgive him for that cruel heartstab, for I never shall--never !"' Meanwhile St. Leon walked slow- ly back to his room greatly perplex- ed. He realized that Lyndall had been greatly incensed against him all through the interview ; but what he had said that might in any way vex her, he could not conceive, though he went carefully over every word he had uttered. He had heard of women's hearts falling away without rhyme or rea- son from a lover; but in his own mind he had never believed that it could be true; he had always told himself that there must be some cause, though perhaps to the world unknown; but now here was evi- dence that women's hearts were as fickle as April skies. He hoped de- youtly that some 'day Lyndall might realize how much injustice she had done him; but from that hour all his interest in life sudden- ly died out--he felt desperate. He ardently wished he had not asked Evelyn Kent to marry him. Had he been as free as the winds, and alone, he could have put the whole length of the world between himself and Lyndall, his false love. He could have buried himself like a hermit, of whom he had once read, in the heart of the Black Hills, where the foot of a fair, false wo- man had never trampled. But with Evelyn clinging he would never be able to "live and learn to forget." The desperate thought came upon him to ask Evelyn to release him from the hateful bonds that galled him so cruelly; then the thought came to him that perhaps such an action might break the girl's heart, for she was so fond of him! He thought of a scene that had happened only the day before. He had been reading an article in the morning's paper--a sad, pathetic tale of a runaway accident that had happened a bridal couple on their way to the altar. The bridegroom so soon to be had met instant death, and from that horrible moment the bride-elect had never spokén again, nor ever would in this world. Hor- ror had paralzyed the ¢ry on her lips, and left them frozen--dumb. Her voice was gone forever. Evelyn had drawn near to him, laying a trembling hand on his arm. "Do you know, what would hap- pen to me, dear," she said, "if any- thing should ever part you and me?' - "There would be a few tears per- haps," he said, with a ligh' largh; hke the rest of your sex, you would, in all probability, exon console yourself with -- anothe> lover."' He remembered how steadily Evelyn had looked into his eyes, her cheeks paling. "Just this would happen," she said slowly, "I should die in the moment we were parted or I should cleanliness and purity will be gratified by this 5- Extra Granulated Sugar It's Canada's finest sugar, fresh from the Refinery, untouched by human hands, contains 5 full pounds of sugar can supply you, : : 'Canada Sugar Refining. Company, Limited, _ Montreal. -- Each Package Your Grocer go mad |" "Tt is not right to love so deep- ly as that," he had said at the time, feeling conscious of a vague uneasi- ness. "One should love deeply the one whom. she is to marry,""she said reproachfully, "and so I love you. Tell me," she pleaded in a quiver- ing voice, "do you not love me deeply--with- all your heart?' "Do you remember, Evclyn," he had answered her gravely, "on the day I asked you to be my wife, I told you frankly that I had but the embers of a dead love to offer--that the one love of my life had already been given to another--and you agreed to accept me with the full knowledge of this? I am not a model man--as a man of the world I have many faults--but I will say this: As your husband I will be true ito you and make"you as happy as I can--further I cannot say." Evelyn had hidden her head on his shoulder, and she had whisper- ed: Are you one of these to Whoo: every meal is another source of suffering'? Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets will help your disordered stomach to digest any reasonable meals, ahd will soon restore it to such. perfect. con- dition that you'll never feel that you have a stomach.. Take one after each meal. 50c. a Box at your Druggist's. Made by the National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, 150 "My great love must win bee love in return sooner or later -- [I will hope and strive for it." How could he break with the girl--after that? St. Leon asked himself impatiently as he paced the floor of his room, going back in memory over the details of that scene, and he owned hopelessly to himself that it would be quite im- possible. The wedding-day had been set for the 20th; it wanted but three days to that date. Could he endure living three days longer under the same roof with Lyndall? It seemed to St. Leon that it would be beyond human en- durance to bear the strain of that. His convergation and his smiles to Evelyn were so terribly forced whenever Lyndall was about, that he was sure people must notice it. Ah, what an accursed fool he had been to come to Graham Villa where Lyndall was and throw himself daily in her way; and then again, when- ever he saw lLyndall and Heath- court together, the sight almost drove him to desperation. Being where Lyndall was only fed the flame of his mad, hopeless love for her. . As for Evelyn Kent, she fairly counted the slow, dragging hours until her bridal morn rolled around. "Ts it a dark or a sunny day, Lissette?' was the first question Evelyn asked her maid, as_ she opened her eyes on the day which was to be so memorable to her. "There is no sun, Miss Evelyn," returned the girl; "it is so cold every one predicts that it will snow --it will be the first snow-storm of the season--but I hope for your sake, Miss Evelyn, that it won't." "Why ?' asked Evelyn, impati- ently. "They say--those who believe in old traditions--if the first snow of the season fall upon one's wedding day, that a tragedy is sure to fol- low close on the heels of the fatal marriage; it has never been known) to fail." (To be continued.) vy AN ATTRACTIVE TAILOR-MADE SHIRT WAIST. (Notice the back view in the lower corner of the picture). The first qualities to be consid- ered in the material for such a shirt waist as the above are the qualities for wear and washing. Taffeta fou- lard is a very attractive and wear- ing material, and Oxfords and zeph- yrs are also quite handy in this style of garment. & SIGHT FOR THE. BLIND. You instinctively begin to think of visiting an oculist when vou hear from an eye specialist that only one out of every fifteen persons has both eyes in good condition. But people are far less particular than they used to be about attending to their sight in early stages of 'weakness, for they have so much confidence in the doctors--who nowadays seem able to restore the sight even in cases of almost total blindness-- that they become careless. Quite recently a French surgeon grafted on the eyes of a man, who had lost his sight through burns, the cornea from the eye of another man which it had been necessary to remove. The operation was absolutely sue- cessful, and the sight of the patient was restored to one-tenth of the normal vision. E i mond. TASTY DISHES. : Cheese Seong --Three - eggs, one-half _ tea: ~ galt, | tablespoon flour, ee 'grains. papri- ka, one-half cup milk; one-half cup Lerated cheese. Separate eggs, add salt, paprika, cheese, flour and milk to yolks. Beat well. Whip whites stiff. fold in yolk mixture, turn in- to warm omelette pan containing one teaspoon of melted butter, and lift occasionally on the edges 80 that the uncooked. portion may pre- cipitate. When browned on. the bottom, set in the oven till top is firm, cut at right angles to the han- dle, 'fold and serve on a hot platter. Pan Broiled Steak.--Wipe steak with a damp cloth. Heat a frying pan smoking hot, place steak in it and turn at once, so that it can be seared all over. Turn every few seconds until done--five minutes for steak 114 inches thick when desired rare, and seven minutes when, well done. Sprinkle with salt and pép- per, spread with bits of butter and set in oven to become hot. Serve at once, Lima Roan Salad.--One: and a half cups cooked lima beans, one- half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons olive oil, one-eighth teaspoon pep- per, one tablespoon vinegar, let- tuce, one teaspoon horse-radish, boiled dressing, one 'tablespoon ketchup, two tablespoons minced pi- mentoes. Mix pimentoes with beans. Combine -- oil, vinegar, horseradish, ketchup, salt and pep- per; add to beans, turning over till well blended, and let stand at least thirty minutes in a cool place,. then add a little boiled dressing, place on lettuce and serve. Strawberry Mousse. -- One egg white, one-half cup of -- double cream, six tablespoons sugar, one- half cup fruit juice and pulp. Beat white of egg until stiff and gradual- ly beat in sugar. Beat cream and fruit juice until solid to bottom of bowl. Combine the two. Pour into mould wet in cold water, seal and let stand three or four hours packed in equal measures of ice and salt. Baked Ham.--Two pounds ham cut 3 inches thick, one-half cup grape juice, one cup boiling water, two cloves, l-inch stick cinnamon. Freshen ham for two hours in cold water. .Drain, place in baking dish with other ingredients, cover arid bake gently till tender--about one and one-half hours. Remove from liquid, add to it two tablespoons chopped raisins and thicken with one-half tablespoon arrowroot dis- solved in a little cold water. Parsnip Cakes.--Wash parsnips and cook forty-five minutes in boil- ing salted water. Drain, plunge in cold water, when skins will slp off 'easily. Mash, season with butter, salt and pepper; shape in small @at round cakes, roll in flour and fry on a griddle. Maize Croquettes Mondamin.-- One cup of corn, one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons green pepper minced, few grains pepper, two teaspoons parsley minced, two tablespoons butter, three tablespoons pastry flour. Remove core and seeds from pepper and mince. Let boil two minutes, drain and add to corn with seasonings. Heat mixture to a boil- ing point and thicken with the but- ter and flour rubbed together. The exact amount of flour varies with the wetness of the corn. Let chill and form into balls, roll in crumbs, egg and crumbs, and fry a golden brown in fat hot enough to brown a bit of bread in forty counts. Coffee Cake.--One-third of a yeast cake, one egg, two tablespoons lukewarm water, about one and one-half cups flour, one-half eup scalded milk, paste made of two tablespoons of water and one-half teaspoon cornstarch boiled toge- ther, two tablespoons butter, one dozen blanched almonds, two table- spoons sugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon cinnamon, Melt the butter in the milk, add su- gar and salt; when lukewarm add the yeast dissolved in the warm wa- ter, and the egg, stir in flour enough to make a stiff batter. Let rise. Spread smoothly in a butter- ed pan and let rise; then bake half an hour. Make a cooked paste with cornstarch and het water, spread over the top of cake, sprinkle with almonds cut in thin slices and su- gar mixed with cinnamon; then brown. Strawberry-Pineapple Jam.--Us e 'ohe-half i the relative claims of beef, the most i ve I Goforth ° Nets si Useful for' | iti i goods. Aundrea purposes. article it is proposed to compare generally used animal source of proteid, and of cheese, perhaps the least so. : Comparing the relative economic value of beef and cheese, Mathew Williams ('Chemistry of Cook- ery"), maintains that 1 pound of average cheese contains jas much nutriment as 3 pounds of an ox or & sheep as prepared for sale by the butcher, or, in other words,~ a cheése weighing 20 pounds supplies as much nutriment as a sheep of 60 pounds, as it hangs in the butcher's|¢ shop. Estimated by the calory, or heat standard, i.e., the amount of heat required to raise 1 pound of water 4 degrees, Fahrenheit, the fuel value of cheese is 1.303, compared with that of beef .628, or rather more than double. Beef, therefore, is a dear food, cheese a cheap one. Beef is also a wasteful food--the non-edible por- tions--bone, cartilage, sinew and connective tissue. This is termed unavoidable waste, and in ordinary cuts of meat is estimated at about 15 per cent. There is also waste in cooking, especially roasting, but the percentage is. difficult to esti- mate, and consists largely of water. Cheese, on the other hand, is probably the only article of food in which there is practically no waste, except the thin outside rind, about 1 per cent. Again, cheese is a "purin free" food, while beef is the reverse, (Purins are certain nitro- genous bodies which go to produce in the system uric acid, the baneful factor in he causation of gout a rheumatism). Notwithstanding its high nutritive value, itis a curious fact that chee does not take the high place that ib merits as the chief factor in the princiap] daily geal of our workers, The rich designate it as vulgar be- cause it is cheap; the poor "cold shoulder" it because our education- al authorities have hitherto - glected their manifest duty to teach all children domestic economy a the food value and relative cost of all food stuffs, as is so thoroughly done in Germany. Yet in Switzerland cheese is dies national dish of the hardy moun- taineers, as the well-known "fon- du," is the most toathsome and sat- isfying meal that a healthy man can desire. Some people say t though they like cheese, yet can not eat it because it gives ther indigestion. While this may no doubt be true in some cases, yet for the most part such should blame themselves, and not the cheese, be- cause they do not sufficiently mas- ticate it, and so allow it to pass into the stomach in little lumps which the gastric juice is unable to pene- trate and dissolve the casein. rt enn The net cost of the British Navy this year, including retired pay, pensions, and coastguard service, is $131,250,000. "What a lot of style the Browns are putting on!" "Yes, and what -- a lot of creditors they are putting -- off ! 1?? ---- @ The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Br market for them. ] From standpoints of interest return and security, tionally high order, There is every reason to be value, ROYAL BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING R. M. WHITE Manager BONDS PAYING 6/7 INTEREST pay 6 per cent interest. The security they offer is first mortgage on 6,000 square miles of pulp and timber lands scattered throughout the Province of Quebec. The timber is insured with Lloyds of England against loss from fire. The earn- ings at present are sufficient to pay bond interest twice over, and when the mill | now in course of construction is in operation, earnings will be enormously increased. These bonds can be quickly converted into cash, as there is a ready We will be glad to send you literature further describing these bonds, SECURITIES CORPORATION uimitep os. & Company at their present price these bonds constitute an investment of exc lieve these bonds will considerably increase in pe - YONGE AND QUEEN STREETS TORONTO MONTREAL-QUEBEC-HALIFAX-OTTAWA LONDON (ENG.) with 40 per Cent. $100,000 of 7 per cent. Company, Limited, at 95 (par value 40 per cent. of common. The cap and $600,000 common, of which $300,000 ference stock $100,000 has been taken fered to the public. mand for all kinds of building mate been incorporated. End and the other at St. Lambert, being 15,000.000 bricks per year. As Montreal every year, and as the but 135,000,000, it mearvs that nearly brought in from other sources. made by Milton Hersey & Company slices, then cubed. rin alternate layers in a' granite pre- | runs. lemon and one orange. Cover the | heat slowly to boiling, then serape | ingredients of sugar. and add to the other two more pourds Gook all slowly until pine-apple is tender and jelly forms. with hack to very remote ages. is referred' to in the Book and both the books of Samuel. was evidently a very populat article ish kingdom, says Dr. CxS. Red- Until comparatively recent years it; has been used by the well-to-do only as a savory at the end of an ample meal, and by the field labor- ers in many of the agricultural dis- tricts as the basis of their midday dinner. But within the last twenty- five years it has been scientifically demonstrated as a cheap and nutri- tious substitute for meat. . Now an economic food may be de- fined as one which yields the high- three quarts strawberries, two me- | E dium sized poineapples cut into thin | Put the fruit) g with two pounds granulated sugar | § serve kettle, and let stand till juice! & Then add the juice of one: ¥ peel of an orange with water' and | & off the white; eut into narrow ee : | CHEESE BETTER THAN MEAT. |] The use cf cheese as a food dates | & Cheese! of Job FS and |g of diet in the early days of the Jew-| § est percentage of proteid or nitro- genous constituents at the lowest | | price, and for the purpose of this dimensions than the ordAinery brick, to climatic. changes, which makes it have in Canadp. Tt is While in a meacure tha into favor architects diseavered in 1880 there ore 280 plerts while in the United States, where it, plants manufacturing this class of gaged in its manufacture. \ with IN Montrenl at the present time high class brick, par with thet being manufactured selline at S18 ner thovsand, hut th trre brick at 8&7 per thousand, and the nroespectus at $12 ner thousand, _ of prost. S19 mentioned in their prospectus. thirds of frll cavacity. the compan AMvidands ond af manufecturine exrer an the common stock ere no available 19 ner cent, cart timp POPS other mater? the likelihood of the new company good price for their output from th 000, divided into 7 per cent. preference, of the demand for brick that the Canada Brick Company, The company are erecting two plants, THE Canada Brick Company propose manufacturing what is known as the sand-lime process, provement on the ordinary bricks made from clay. ings which are beire crected in the ¢ process is a new one it has been rapidly coming and builders. "le -mrst he substituted. THE CANADA BRICK CO., LIMITED $100,°03 7 per Cont. Preference Stock Bonus of Common THE Montreal Bond Company, Limited, are making a public offering of cumulative preference stock of the Canada Brick $100.00 per share) with a bonus of itakization of the company is $1,000,- of which $200,000 will be issued will be tssued. Of the issue of pre- firm, leaving but $100,000 to be of- | The great amount of building activity which is go- ing on in Montreal at the present time has created a tremendous de- rial, and it is to supply a portion Limited, has one 'at Mile ¥ the combined capacity of the two there are 325,000,000 bricks used in National Brick Company can supply 206,000,000 bricks aro required to be their bricks which is regarded by as an im- According to tests it is shown that sand-lime bricks are equal in strength and quality to the best kind of pressed brick, and at the same-time nossers greater regularity of form and unifermity of In addition, the brick is impervious invaluable in a climate such a8 WO: especially suitable for the better grades of build- ity of Montreal at the present time. In Germany where it was first in operation at the present time, was introduced in 1901, there are 74 brick. Canada has 10 companies en- such 98 will be on a by the Canada Brick Company, are e new comnany expect *o mannfaes have put their net selting price in which gives them a good margin As 9 matter of fact, they have already sold over half of their fret vesr's estimated output at a figure considerably higher than the. Placing their output at only two- y shows in profits, after rayment of $76,000. which is equivalent to As Montreal iz sitnated >t the pre- supnlies of clay-making brick and Evervthing, therefore, points to _ securing an ample eke and a ee: ne very start. 5; . ser. THE Company are fortunate in securing as members of the hoard of di- rectors men prominent in the business afffiirs of the country." Among _ these are C. H. Cahan, K.C., F. Loomis, H. A. Lovett, K.C., G. F. Gylen K.C., and A. G. Cameron. The prosperity which has attended other brick concerns in Montreal is likely to be duplicated to an even ne extent by the Canada Brick Compan Ee St. Lambert ota. early in June. € y. Manufacturing will commence at -- APPLICATIONS for Prospectus or Subscriptions may be mailed direct te Montraal Bond Co., Limited, Montreal, or to any branch of the Bank of Toronto.