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| _ ‘¥es, yes, it‘s Ralph,"" said Warâ€" riner, and all the time he spoke, _ he trotted and hopped and danced about the room. ‘"Ralph Warriâ€" k mner, to be sure; a little bit aged, eh, Jane Holt? Little bit musty ! _ Been lyin‘ too long in the churchâ€" _ yard at Scillyâ€"bound to alter your _ looks that,â€"what?‘ He skipped _ over to the writing table and beâ€" _ gan with a seeming aimlessness to pull out the drawers. â€" "‘Where‘s Miranda ?! Does she know her lovin‘ husband‘s here? â€" Why don‘t she . â€"comc? Tellâ€"me, that,; Jane Holt !‘ He made a quick, and to Charnock an unintelligible, movement at the writing table, shut up a drawer with a bang, and the next moment ‘â€" had a hand tight upon Jane Holt‘s wrist. ‘‘Where‘s Miranda? Quick !" and he shook her arm fiercely, bub _ \with a sly look towards Charnock ; _ his other hand he thrust into his _ pocket. Charnock just got a glimpse of a sheet of paper clenched in the fist. Warriner withdrew his hand _from his pocket empty. He had stolen something from the writing| _ drawer. But what it was Charnock | could not guess, nor did he think it | wise, in view of Warriner‘s exciteâ€" | ment, to ask. 5 es Charnock came up with Warrâ€" ner at the railway station. The train did not leave Ronda until three, as Charnock might have known, and so benaved with digâ€" nity before Miss Holt; but he was _beyond the power ok argument or reffection. He hurried after Warâ€" riner and caught up, and during the two hours of waiting, the two ‘men kent watch and ward upon each other, Together they walked To the hotel, they Inached at the &2 e table. they returned side by & s ~t~~ station, and seated them-l ®elves slue by side in the same carâ€" ‘ ‘‘Miranda‘s at Gibraltar," said Miss Holt quite alarmed by the mans extravagance. ‘"I told you, she is ill." * Warrinerâ€"waited to hear no more. he dropped her arm. ‘LAt Gibralâ€" tar,‘"‘ he said, and ran out of the room across the patio. Charnock followed him immediately. _ ‘‘He must not go alone,""‘ he cried over his shoulder to Miss Holt, but the excuse was only half of his motive. Passion, resentment, jealousy, â€" thlese too ordered him and he obeyâ€" ed. ‘"‘Ralph!‘‘ cried out Miss Holt. ‘"But he‘sâ€"â€"‘"‘ p â€""Hash1‘‘â€" / They followed Warriner into the room and Charnock closed the door. ‘‘Didn‘t you know ?" he asked. "I _ went to find him."" s ‘‘No,""‘ she replied, utterly bewilâ€" dered. ‘"It seems strange ; but Miâ€" randa is very secret. A little unâ€" kind perhaps,"‘ and then her voice went up in a scream as Warriner turned towards her. ‘©"Ralph! Is that Ralph ?? ‘"It‘s you at last! Miranda is at Gibraltar. She expected to hear of you, and thought she would hear more quickly there. She has been 1il, besides; she needed doctors." "INY‘ exclaimed Charnock. . ‘‘Who is that?‘ asked Miss Holt glancing across CUharnock‘s shoulâ€" der. ‘"‘Empty,"‘ said Warriner from behind his shoulder, and he pushed past Charnock into the room. From the balcony above them Jane Holt spoke. She spoke to Charnock as she ran down the stair. Charnock was sorely tempted to secure an engine as he could have done, but Miranda had asked to ~see him ‘‘once when he brought Ralph back,"" and so the next mornâ€" _ing they travelled together. _ At noon Charnock saw again the ‘walnut door encrusted with the copperâ€"nails, and Warriner was alâ€" ready hammering upon it with his stick. The moment it was openel he rushed through without a word, thrusting the servant aside. | Charnock followed him, but though he followed he had the adâ€" vantage, for while Warriner gazed about the patio into which for the first time he entered, Charnock ran across to the little room in which Miranda was wont to sit. He openâ€" ed theâ€"door. "Ralph."‘ "It‘s the Levanter,""‘ said Warriâ€" netr; ‘‘there‘ll be three days of it.‘"‘ He looked earnestly at Gibraltar as the boat.turned into the bay. ‘"Wilâ€" braham, Wilbraham,"‘‘ he muttered in a voice of anticipation. â€" Then he turned to Charnock. ‘Mind, we go up to Ronda together! we shall have to stay the night at Algeâ€" citras. Mind, you are not to charâ€" ter a special and go up ahead while I am asleep." On the following afternoon they crossed together to Algeciras, through a rough sea in a strong wind. _A NC in the Channe] CHAXPITER XXILâ€"(Cont‘d) OR, THE MYSTERY OF THE * TARIFA‘S‘" CARGO [ It was now close upon a quarter |to seven, and nine miles lay beâ€" tween San Roque and the gates of | Gibraltar. Moreover, there was no road for the first part of the jourâ€" ney, merely this unmade track across the fields. The two men urged on the driver with openâ€" handed promises ; the driver screamâ€" ed and shouted at his mules; "Hi! mules, here‘s a bull after you!‘ He counterfeited the barking of dogs ; but the mules were accustomed to threats and exhortations ; they| \knew there were no dogs at their iheels, and they kept to their 1‘eguâ€") Har canter. Charnoek longed for the fields to end and for the road to begin ; and when the road did begin, he longed again for the fields. The road conâ€" sisted of long lines of ruts, ruts Charnock and Warriner sprang into the hooded seat behind the box, the driver turned his mules, and the diligence went off at a canâ€" ter, along an unmade track across the fields. _ For halfâ€"anâ€"hour the incongruous companions, united by a common passion and a mutual hatred, kickâ€" ed their heels upon the lonely platâ€" form of San Rogque. Then at last a crazy, battered, creaking diligence, drawn by six brokenâ€"kneed, soreâ€" backed mules, cantered up to the station with a driver and a boy upâ€" on the box, whooping exhortations to the mules with the full power of their Iungs. upbee en e dne i San Roque is a wayside station ; the village lies a mile away, hidden behind a hill. Charnock and Warâ€" riner alighted amongst fields and thickets of trees, but nowhere was there a house visible, and worst of all, there was no carriage in the lane outside the station.. The staâ€" tionâ€"master had ordered one, and no doubt one would arrive. He counselled patience. _ r The manager uncoupled one carâ€" riage and the enguue, coupled them together and switched them on to the upâ€"line. Meanwhile Charnock telegraphed to the stationâ€"manager at San Roque, to have a carriage in readiness; but time was occupied, and it was six o‘clock before the enâ€" gine steamed into San Roque. f _"July," answered the manager in surprise. ‘"‘And the day of July ? ‘"The ffth." ‘Good,"" eried Warriner. ‘"You are wrong, on the fifth of July the gun goes off at eight, from the fifth of July to the thirtyâ€"first of Auâ€" gust. : ‘‘What‘s the month?‘ cried War riner. ‘"You will never do it,"" said the manager. ‘‘The gun goes off at 8 gun _g seven." Gibraltar is before everything a fortress, and the gates of that fort ress are closed for the night at gunâ€" fire, and opened again for the day at gunfire in the morning. ‘"‘There‘s a station at San Roque halfâ€"way round the bay," said Charnoek. ‘"I must get into Gibâ€" raltar toâ€"night. If I can have a special to San Roque, I might drive the last nine miles." Charnock went straight to the ofâ€" fice of the manager of the line. The manager greeted him with warmth. ‘But, man, where have you been these two years?!" he exclaimed. ‘"‘There‘s a station at San Roque Weliniet 5 n P m S piee ons m eche rov e o PC c nntnnies . die while he and Warriner waited at Algeciras for the sea to subside ‘‘We must reach Gibraltar toâ€" night,‘‘ he cried. ‘"And before gunfire," added Warriner. ‘"But how ?" Charnock and Warriner were met with the statement that the Levanâ€" ter of yesterday had increased in foree, and by the order of the har borâ€"master the port of Algeciras was closed. It was impossible to make the passage to Gibraltarâ€"and Miranda was ill. She had needed doctors, Jane Holt had said. Charâ€" nock‘s fears exaggerated the maâ€" lady ; she might be dying ; she might' ces TOnira 1 a PFD 1 as round O‘s of light which conâ€" tracted and contracted until a mere pin‘sâ€"point of sunshine was vissible far away, and then suddenly they were out again in the daylisfit. s There were certain landmarks with which Charnock was familiar, â€"a precipitous gorge upon the right, an underground river which flooded out from a hillside upon the left, a white town far away upon a green slope like a flock of sheep herded together, and finally the glades of the cork forest with the gleam of its stripped tree trunks. The train drew up at Algeciras a few minutes after five. riage of the train. The train which ’takes four hours to elimb to Ronda runs down that long slope of a hunâ€" dred miles in two hours. Charnock and Warriner took their seats in a coupe at the end of the last carriâ€" age ; they rushed suddenly into the dark straight tunnels, and saw the mouths by which they had entered The gates were opened at three o‘clock in the morning. Together the two men wene through; they had still hours to wait before they could return to the hotel. They breakfasted together, and they let the time go by, for now that they were within reach of, almost withâ€" in â€" sight of, Miranda Warriner, they both began to hesitate. What was to be the end ? They looked at one another across the table with that question speaking from their eyes. They walked down to the hoâ€" tel and faced each other at the door, and the question was still repeated and still unanswered. They turned away together and strolled a few yards, and turned and came back again. This time Charnock entered the hotel. "Is Mrs. Warriner in;"‘ he asked. _ The waiter replied, "Yes." Charnock drew a long breath. ' A seud of clouds darkened tuae sky, and one pile of cloud darker than the rest, lowered stationary upon the summit ouf the Rock. All night the Levanter blew pitilessly cold across that unprotected neck of land between sea and sea. With their numbed hands in their pockâ€" ets, and their coats buttoned to the throat, Charnock and Warriner, accustomed to the blaze of a Moâ€" rocco sun, waited from nightfall until midnight, and from midnight through the biting, dreary hours till dawn. ‘‘No, Linea is a collection of workmen‘s houses and workmen‘s potâ€"houses." The two men made their supper at one of these latter, and for the rest of the night paced the neutral ground before Gibralâ€" tar. Charnock. There was no doubt that Warriâ€" ner meant what he said, every word of it. For Miranua‘s sake Charâ€" nock could not risk Warriner‘s deâ€" tection. They must remain outside Gibraltar for that night, even though during the night Miranda should die. ‘‘The keys are taken to the Govâ€" ernor. _ There would be trouble; there always is. I know there would be questions asked ; it would not be safe. I might slip in when the gates are open, but now it would not be safe. And mind, Charnock, when you go in I go in too." _A cab stood without the iron gates. They jumped into it and drove at a gallop across the level ; but the gun was fired from the Rock, while they were still halfl a mile from the gate, and the cabman brought his horses to a standstill. ‘"What now ?‘ said Warriner. We might â€"get in,""‘ said Charâ€" nock. J It was still, however, too slow ; Gibraltar seemed still as far away. The travellers paid the driver, leapâ€" ed from their sears, and ran over the soft clogging sand to Linea. They reached Linea. They passed the sentinel and the iron gates, they stood upon the neutral ground. They had but one more mile to traâ€" verse. The diligence lurched between two clumps of juniper trees, swung round a wall, and instantly _ the wheels sank into soft sand. The huge, sheer landward face of Gibâ€" raltar Rock towered up before them as they looked across the mile of neutral ground, that flat neck of land between the Mediterrancan and the Bay. They saw ‘he Spanish frontier town of Linea ; but to Linea the sand stretched in a broad goldâ€" en curve, soft and dry, and through that curve of sand the wheels of the diligence had to plough. The mules were beaten onwards, but the Leâ€" vanter blew dead in their teeth. The driver turned the diligence toâ€" wards the sea, and drove with the water splashing over the wheels; there the sand bound, and the pace was faster. "It will be when we get to the sea,‘"‘ replied the driver, and Charâ€" nock groaned in distress There was worse to come, and Miranda was ill. see whether a wheel had slipped off from its axle. At times the boy would jump down from the box, and running forward with the whip in his hand, would beat the mules with the buttâ€"end; the lash had long ceased to influence their moveâ€" movements. s ‘‘The road‘s infernal,"" cried W riner. which had been baked hard by the summer suns. The mules stumbled amongst them, the diligence tossed and pitched and rolled like a boat in a heavy sea ; Charnock and Warâ€" riner clung to their seats; while the driver continually looked round to Health én&?sfieaafliy > a o 5J Eo m is .":"“ s o ap i2 esc & e n S c6 a6 e s i To o 2 h cce > s B h a 5 oS s Ey Cso 2 ies â€" B2 & _ s 2 " ~ > E3 BOVRIL is the conâ€" centraed goodness of beef. produces _ high vitality and buovant health, It is a valuable tonic. It renxews the blood. tone_s up the nerves and we sleep at Linea?‘ said For over half a century Dr. Morse‘s Indian Root Pills have been curing conâ€" stipation and clogged, inactive kidneys, with all the ailments which result from them. They cleanse the whole system and purify the blood. Sold everyw here at 25¢. a box,. 9 They have regulated my stomach and bewels. I am cured of constipation, and I claim they have co equal as a meZiâ€" cine." That was indeed a lucky day for me, for I was so impressed with thestateâ€" ments made that I determined to give them a fair trial. D Sn Ceaten 2 e neile on me the one ailment that caused so much trouble, yet at last I read about these Indian Root Pills. "For many years I have been troubled with chronic Constipation. _ This ailâ€" ment never comes singleâ€"handed, and I lhave been a victim to the many illnesses that constipation brings in its train, Medicine after medicine I have taken in order to find relief, but one and all left me in the same hopeless condition, It seemed that nothing would expel from 2oo es +4 1 . 1 Some men are as easily rattled as others are hard to shake. ; The pleasure of many an outing is sadly marred by the tormenting atâ€" tentions of mosquitoes and black flies. Especially is this true on long trips through the forests. A mixâ€" ture of one part of pennyroyal, two parts of castor oil and three parts of pine tar rubbed on the face and all exposed parts of the body will keep every insect at a comfortable distance. The delicate brown tint which it gives the skin simply exagâ€" gerates the tan, and can be readily, removed with soap and water. ‘ Mr. George Andrews of Halifax, N.S writes: A solution of one teaspoonful of peroxide into a teacup of water makes a sanitary wash to use in the mouth every morning and evening. When sweeping Turkish, Axminâ€" ster or any thick piled carpet, alâ€" ways brush the way of the pile, and it will look fresh and bright for years. A brassâ€"headed tack driven into each of the lower corners of picture frames prevent pictures from leavâ€" ing marks on the wall. The Butcherâ€"‘ ‘No, weighed it first." The Marketerâ€"‘"Aren‘t you wastâ€" ing a good deal of that steak in trimming it 4‘ Mr. Andrews praises Dr. Morse‘s Indian Root Pills. _ After this there is more bowing on both sides, and the guard, still bowing, vanishes. The passengers, ceasing for a moment from their rice and chopâ€" sticks, bow profoundly in return, rub their knees with their hands, suck in their breaths with the peculiar whistling sound â€"which is the special expression of a Japanese greeting, fumble among their loose layers of clothes, and ultimately produce their honorable tickets. _ GURKEUY UF CONSTIPATON | __‘‘Your most honorable excellenâ€" cles and most augustlyâ€"deigningâ€" toâ€"beâ€"pleased ones, I hope you will pardon this creature of mud_ for having been born into this world to ask you, most gracious and supâ€" erior ones, to show your augustly blessed tickets; after which I beg you will honorably deign to grind and crush me, who am but as a snail of the soil, beneath your kindâ€" ly sandals." | an â€" announcement in Japanese which I imaginatively translate as follows : When he comes round to examâ€" ine tickets, he begins by standing at the end of the car, takes off his cap to the honorable assembly, bows to the ground, rubs his knees with his hands, draws in his breath audibly,; and delivers himself of He is, like all the Japanese we met, amazingly polite. ‘‘Me big," he says in his quaint English, "but you much _ more big." Japanese Rauway Train. To see Japan thoroughly, to masâ€" ter its problems, to probe its soul, to pluck the whole heart of its mysâ€" tery, would probably need_so_ a fellow "globeâ€"trotier‘" assured Mr. A. M. Thompson= ‘all of a fort night."" So entivre thoroughness is not claimed by the author of CJapâ€" an for a Week.‘" Still, Mr. Thompâ€" son was there long enough to get a vivid impression of Japanese courtesyâ€"how the ‘"please,‘‘ so frequently entirely omitted from stern demand in the Occident, is emphasized into an art. The guard, in the train to Tokâ€" yo, who affords us much informaâ€" tion by the way is exceedingly inâ€" terested in us. He stands by my side on the platform, and laughingâ€" ly points out that the top of his headâ€"he is of more than average size for a Japâ€"barely reaches my shoulders. How the Gneration is Done on Burely if much had been amiss her the waiter would have them ; but he sa‘d nothing, he r ly led the way upstairs. (%6o be eâ€"ntinued.) "HACEETSâ€"PLEASE NOT LOST. , he mere When the alfalfa is starting it does not have the germs on its roots and so is very delicate and must be given good care. The best way to do that is to get some soil from a field that has been growing alfalâ€" fa successfully for a few years and sow it on the new field at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. The best way to prepare the soil. is to manure for a crop of cornâ€"‘ Cclean eultivate the cornâ€"then sow ]the alfalfa on the disced corn stubâ€" ‘ble, putting in eight to ten pounds | Alfalfa will grow on any good soil that is well drained ; in sand it will not do so well, and hard pan interferes with its root growth. Standing water is death to it. When | starting alfalfa it must be kept in mind that alfalfa has bacteria livâ€" ing in nodules on its roots. These germs furnish the plant with nitroâ€" gen which they take from the soil air. They put it into a form that the plant can use und so supply the alfalfa with the nitrogen that it needs and more too. The alfalfa.J plant has in a measure lost the powâ€" er of taking nitrogen from the soil | as the other crops do, so it can noti make much growth alone. It in turn furnishes the germs with food ; of a different kind so it is a eoâ€"opâ€"| erative affair, each furnishing that| which it can secure the casiest. | t STARTING ALFALFA. per acreâ€"and with the drill so a % f to get the seed buried, one to tw Alfalfa is the king among hay incl%es~do not sow any nurse cro areg t iess ons * 4t T fallow that ha o |provers, the prince among drought been kept free from weeds will als e resistant plants. Tt comes NEsS" be a Food preparation, as will als â€"|fo giving something for nothing potato ground. But in any case i than anything else on the farm. Tt should be manured. When the al will produce more hay Een Us: falla is up eight to ten inches i and hay of a high feeding value. should be cut back. This will no _| While giving that valua,bl_e crop of huft the alfalfa; in fact will do i |hay it will at the same time leave goodâ€"but will be: hard on th ‘ the soil richer in nitrogen and huâ€" weeds. The amount of soed sowh |mus every year that it gccupies the / shoulg vary with the rainfall; un land, and supplies the Yely thmgs,der irrigation, or where the rain |that the grain crops take out the}fa,ll is abundant, more seed thar |fastest and leave the soil in the"specified above should be sown. T greatest need of. Still the whole has been found by experiments thai |story is not told, as weeds ca'm“”‘r’!where the plants were nine inche: grow readily after the alfalfa S°tS apart three cuttings were secured a good stand and if they shouldjin 1910 and the yield was nearly grow a little the alfalfa is cut be-;z% tons, while where the plants fore the weeds are ripe so they canâ€" lwére only two inches apart only not go to seed. The roots go deep ‘one cutting of about half a ton was ’and so open up the soil bepter than |secured. In digging out the roots the subsoiler. The,one‘ dlsadv§n§~ {it was found that where the plants age in growing alfalfa is that it is | were far apart the roots went down a little difficult to start; so when a [seven to eight feet while in the case \good stand is secured it ought to be | ; the plants that were close toâ€" |left for several years. 16 is not @| pether the roots did not go down good _ rotation crop _ like clover. more than three feet. JThis is really no greact;] dra.wback‘ Ne 2 though, as it will produce a erop | o that is worth more than any other{NO'l\ES OF THE POULTRY YARED crop that can be grown. with told : PAINT For i you. Usefu) Hints for THE FARM ’ It isn‘t necessary to use an axe or club or cold water or any such '!things to break her up. She is only | obeying the call of Nature. & / Put her in a small yard witk |plenty of grass in it. Provide good |shade and keep her in the open air fall day. Feed no corn, but spar (ingly of some other cooking foo¢ and keep plenty of cool water be fore her all the time. | _ Summer selection should be kept up until the fowls are fully grown. EDispose of every little runt,that |shows up, because they are not | worth keeping. Do not wait until the broody feâ€" ver hen becomes chronic, but disâ€" courage her as she shows signs of it? the Tiller of the Soil Sow a patch of cow peas near the poultry yard. Do not harvest the peas when ripe, but turn the hens into them when the green grass disappears and they will thrive upâ€" on them. A correspondent who raised 300 chickens last year says they are the best potato bug traps he ever used except ducks, which cannot be beaten for this purpose. I per acreâ€"and with the drill so as to get the seed buried, one to two ‘ |inchesâ€"do not sow any nurse crop |with it. A bare fallow that has â€"| been kept free from weeds will also ‘| be a good preparation, as will also ‘|potato ground. But in any case it ‘| should be manured. When the alâ€" (falfa is up eight to ten inches it |should be cut back. This will not {hurt the alfalfa; in fact will do it |goodâ€"but will be. hard on the weeds. The amount of seed sown jshould vary with the rainfall; unâ€" der irrigation, or where the rainâ€" }fall is abundant, more seed thap \specified above should be sown. 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