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The old familiar landscape, the tender joys of the budding spring, the peculiar sense of life renewed that svoke to her in all around, touched her, and made her pulses throb in unison with it, but at heart she felt lonely and depressed, and full of a_sick louging to find near her something or someone hbeloved. Dorothy and her husband woere in the North paying a visit to an uncle of Farâ€" Such a wilderness of sweets as the garâ€" dens were! Oldâ€"fachioned gardens some of them, where all these best of Nature‘s Preasgures were suffered to run wild. "Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn‘s budding in the glen, : Aud milkâ€"white is the slae." '_Every passing wind bore on its wings perâ€" fumes delicately rich. In every hedge small birds were building their nests; their songs made countless melodies. Mingled with them was the wild, mad music of the rushing stream as it dashed over its stoner, and by its sedgy banks, almost tearing the pale bunches of forâ€" getâ€"meâ€"not from their hold. Cecil stood still and looked all round her. She could not deny to herself that a home eptring was more distinetly exâ€" quigite than anything she had found abroad. She had travelled a good deal during these past eighteen months, a strange unaccountable restlessness drivâ€" ing her from place to place, and now that she had returned to England, she scarcely knew whether she wase glad or sorry. _ _Sweet moist winds were blowing out of the south, driving baby showers before it. The rooks were building in the tall gaunt elms, and all tho land was rich with ewaying masses of yellow daffodils, Croâ€" cuses in countless thousands, purple and white . and particolored, made pretty groups here and there, whilst the pheasâ€" antâ€"eyed narcissi and the scented jonguils fought for room with the tinier, daintier tags. There you. are wrong. To have a dowdy, an uninteresting woman for a wife, pleases no man. Besides, as I say, there is a little touch of hauteur about her that will repel whilst it attracts. She is like the churchâ€"or perhaps unlike itâ€"in that she is as safe as she can be." <"When does she return?" ‘That is what no one knows. Not for ever so long, I believe. Dorothy is to be married in April, and after that I hope Cecil will feel lonely, and begin to long for home andâ€"Hilary." "Are you ever lonely?" demanded Mr. Blair suddenly, looking up at her. "I? No!l Why?" "It eccurred to me that if you were, you might begin to long for home andâ€"â€"" ~‘Pshaw!‘ eaid Lady Bessy, rising. _ April came and went, and summer sucâ€" ceeded it, and followed it to its grave, aud another Christmas whitened the world before Cecil Vereker returned to her home. It was indeed eighteen months since that terrible autumn, when she at last looked again upon the old Court. Wild March had come in like a lion, had woared its loudest, and now lay croaching on the ground, old and beaten, n-r}‘d dying, and harmless as any lamb. "Yes, at any time," defiantly. ‘"Real; honest, earnest affection,". with deep stress on each adjective, "is always a charming thingâ€"to witness. I hope matters will end well for those two. Hilary adores her, and she is quite the dearest little thing. I should.altogether welcome her as a sisâ€" ter. She,". pensively, ‘"is extremely rich, and there is something a little cold, a little special about her, that will make her the rage of the seasonâ€"whenever_she does appear." "You needn‘t be nervous about it," said Lady Bessy, who hadn‘t as yet forgiven him. "I daresay this fad of Cecil‘s won‘t last long. I‘ know in her heart she is very deeply attached to Hilary. Indeed, their devotion to each other was a thing to ‘gee." "I shouldn‘t think St. John would care about that," said Blair, nursing his knce. Well, hardlyâ€"whilst the husband was alive," said Blair. "Ah! yes. One can see the heart workâ€" ings there," said Lady Eustace, growing interested. "I should.like to be near her now, to study her, to see day by day the «development ofâ€"â€"" > T "Will Hilary go and see her on his way to Egypt?" "I fancy not. There is something mysâ€" terious about that. He almost admitted to me that Cecil had forbidden him to vigit her." "You‘ll end in an asylum if you go on like this," interrupted Lady Bessy unâ€" ceremoniously.. "Really, we shall all grow to ‘be mere ‘specimens‘ in your eyes beâ€" fore long." > m "May the saints keep me from bloseomâ€" Ing into a popular author," ejaculated Mr. Blair piously. lt d _3 mc "For once you have a true story. I had A line from Dorothy this morning. Cecil is better, and aâ€" degree more. cheerful. Two months nowadays, you know, is quite a long time, so I daresay she is beginning to forget." ‘"You are worse than Bobby!" exclaimed Lady Bessy, with a shudder. "For Heayâ€" en‘s sake cease such ghoulish talk. I wshall dream all night of horrors if you Eontinue it. For my part I would run a hundred milés rathér than see or epeak to an assassin of any sort. No, no; not another word. My nerves are quite unâ€" strungâ€"as it is. If you bring back that odlous scene to my mind, I shall be obligâ€" ed to up sticks and away to the far west, like Cecil." ‘‘‘Mrs. Vereker has only gonme as far as Naples, as yet," said Blair; "at least, so I hear." "Yes, yes! You see it as I do. It is really eseential that I should make myâ€" self acquainted with, all classes, and here was a specimen, fresh, straight from the act, as it wereâ€"with Cain‘s brand burning brightly on his forehead. No time for it to fade. Really it is very disheartening." "What was the lose?" asked Lady Bessy at last. ‘"Ohbh! my dear, I‘m sure you must UNâ€" derstand," said Lady Eustace plaintively. "Why, that dreadful ginsy creature dying so immediately after the event. I have always ‘desired so greatly to sto a real live murderer, close; and here was an opâ€" portunity given, euch as I should never have dared to hope for. Of course I could manage it in town, but thore courts are horrid; and, besides, the criminal is alâ€" ways so hedged round, don‘t you know. Now here, I daresay, I could have got quite near to him. I might even have been happy enough to exchange a word or two with him. Such a chance! And all tbhrown away because of his stupidity." @*‘So much copy gone," said Mr. Blair sympathetically. _ MX s ONxiianaidsidaiaiaddiddeadaddsada ie reaaradeusen‘d i4€ i BLACK SANDY; i & or, THE CaUSE OF VEREKERS PFEAR |a2 en irrerrrrre CHAPTER XXXVIII.â€"(Cont‘d) CHAPTER XXXIX. "Certainiy not," with shy indignation. "There isn‘t any reason â€"for hasts. How could one be ready? This is just the very end of March, andâ€"next month!" "May.â€"then 2" "Jene? That is the month on which Bessy aud Blair have decided? The 29th "Why don‘t you go on?. So they wereâ€" so they are. Aiways quartelling; sparring is perhaps the proper word. But they seem to like it, and Blair, as you know, or as perhaps yor don‘t know, has been in love with her off and on for five or six years. They are to be married in June." "It is the funniest thing," said Cecil. "Well, do you know," with all the air of one stating an unexpected fact, "I liked Mr. Blair. They will be very happy I think, and hope." . "Heard what?" "Why, her engagement." "Is she going to beâ€" married?" said Cecil, intensely interested. When one is going to be fmarried oneself, it is really astonishing with what pleasure one hears of the intended marriage of others. "To whom?" ‘Blair." "Mr. Blairt" With ‘distinct disbelief. "Oh! nonsense." "I wish she could hear you," said St. iTohn, laughing. Tt is Blair, nevertheâ€" ess." ‘"Not so happy as we shall be. Byâ€"theâ€" bye, when shall we be married? Next month?" S "Why, I thought they. were alwaysâ€" alwaysâ€"" "What am I to do about staying here?" she asked presently. ‘"I don‘t helieve," blushing hotly and looking rather abashâ€" ed at her own want of courage, "I could sleep here. It is all very well whi‘lst you can remain; but after thatâ€". The long dull evening and the night would k{ll "Don‘t remain," said he. ‘"Run up to town with ime. My aunt, Mrs. St. John, will be delighted to receive you, and toâ€" morrow I‘ll take you to Bessy. She is, for a wonder, in her own home now, at hWyg.‘t’ts. Byâ€"theâ€"bye, have you heard about er "My beloved!" said he. And then, after a pause. "Well, you must try to be quite happy for the future. You have a long, long, time to make up. And I love you so, Cecilâ€"so deeply, so trulyâ€"that I am presumptuous enough to believe that I can make you so. What! tears! Why I will have none toâ€"day. Nor any other day. ]VJVe shall begin to be happy from this our." He kissed away the drops that would have fallen, and at that she laughed. It was quite a new thing to him that laugh â€"it told, more than anything else could have done, that she had, indeed, thrown off the spirit of bondage that had for so long oppressed her, and was once more fulfilled with the spirit of youth. _ s "Yes. I love you. Oh!" she naused, and glanced up at him through eyes warm with tears, "when I saw you coming toâ€" wards me awhile ago, Iâ€"â€"* "Yee?â€"go on. What then?" ©I knew," said she simply, "that I had never been quite happy before." (A little tremulous smile broke upon her lips. "Of course, I understand what you mean," she said, speaking rapidly, as if to prevent any interruption from him. "That it is in my power to live where I will. But though I dislike this place, I have still a love for Brent. It really means home to me. Where one was born has always a claim on one, I think. On one‘s affections. Donothy lives here, andâ€" all the friends I have ever known." _ "You love me?" demanded he, drawing her into his arms. "Oh! I care for you," cried she, im petuously. ‘"It is not that, butâ€"â€"" ‘"You misunderstand me," said he. "I did not mean to suggest banishment from Brent. What I did mean was that you might make yourself a new home here, if you would." "Accepted?" questioned _ he. Then: "There is one," he said, slowly. He waitâ€" ed awhile for her to speak, but presently he saw that she would not. Her gaze was bent upon the ground, and she was lookâ€" ing strangely troubled. That little touch of distress went to his heart, and sent him to her at once. "Darling," said he, in a low voice, "will you dare to tell me that you do not care for me?" _*‘"I think not. I can hear of no house in the neighborhood to be let, or bought, "Only my maid, and Thompson. There are always people in the house. But I shan‘t stay here," she went on, hurriedly. "I couldn‘t. Even these few hours have convinced me of that. Every scene brings back the past. No, I could not live here." "Well, you need.not," said he, slowly. She colored warmly, and hesitated for a moment. ‘Yes, I knew. Do you think you could be here, so near, without my knowing? And why should I not know? You have been a little cruel to me, I think. You brought your servants?". . "When did you return?" asked ghe. "How strange that you should come here toâ€"day. I, myself, have only just arrived, but I told no one of my intention to he here." She regarded him earnestly. ‘"Yet you knew!" she said, with a soft blush. A charming thing to look at, too. A very lovely picture. Bhe was the same Cecil he remembered, yet | scarcely the eame.. The weight of many years seemed to have dropped, from her, and she stood there before him in her white sorge gown like the young girl that in reality she was. She was very pale, certainly, and nervousness was evidently preying upon her; but he noticed that the old miserâ€" able fear was gone from her eyes, and that the pretty oval of the face was rounded and warmer in tint. She was inâ€" deed beautiful. "You are looking better, stronger," said he, with all a lover‘s glad solicitude. "These eighteen months have done you a world of good. Burely they were long enough to work a thousand cures. Did ever months drag so slowly, I wonder? But now," with a triumphant uplifting of his head, "they are gone.. Dead. Beâ€" hind us!" "Well, so I was, until a month ago," said he. He had come up to her, and had taken the hand she had not offered. He was greatly bronzed, and, perhaps, a trifle thinner, but he was so strong, so good to look at. Delight shone in his eyes. ‘‘Bessy sent me word that you were thinkâ€" ing of coming home, soâ€"IL thought of coming home too.. You know you forbid me to seek you whilst you were abroad. And I obeyed you to the letter, though I refuee to say what it cost me. Have I not been obedient? Don‘t I deserve a reward? At all events, I ‘have it," said he gaily; "I am looking at you now." quhar‘s, and Lady Bessy, whom she really liked in spite of her many eccentricities, was at her own place, for a wonder. As forâ€"anyone elseâ€"why she bardly cared for anyone élse, and besideeâ€"â€" _ Well, why should she not think of him? she asked herself this angrilyâ€"besides St. John was still in the East. Even as she thought this she lifted her eyes, and saw him coming to her across the closelyâ€"shaven grass. Her heart seemed to stop beating. For one moment she thought she was ROoing to faint. Then once more life eurged strongly, almost. painfully, within her. Oh! how He recalled that past terrible timeâ€"her past terrible existence. She had hardly known â€" with what a cowardly shrinking she had been looking round on this spot and on thatâ€"until he came. But now a full horror of this place made hers by a loveless marriage was full upon her. "You!" she said. "I thought you were in Egypt." "Oh, isn‘t she mean‘! I told her not to tell you that I told it to her.‘" It is doubtful whether the person who asserted that secrets were made to tell, foresaw, even in his most ecynical mood, anything like the folâ€" lowing conversation : "‘Lottie tells me that you told her the secret that I told you not to tell any one.‘"‘ ‘"‘Yes, I told her that L woulda‘t tell you if she told me, so please don‘t tell her that I told, you !" Watching the Operation. During the progress of the mornâ€" ing bath of a few months‘ old inâ€" fant a neighbor‘s little girl came into the room carrying a doll and stood watching the operation for some time.. The little girl‘s doll was much the worse for hand usage, being minus an arm and a leg. Finâ€" ally she said to the mother of the child, "‘How long have you had your baby ?‘ The child was informed, and, looking from her doll to the baby, she said, ‘‘My, but you have feept it nilee!"‘_ _ | ; It was months afterward that he went to see Lala. He took with him a retriever, which had been the bear‘s chum and playfellow. When be asked about Lala, they said he had got very wild, and would not take his food. I give the rest of the story in the engineer‘s own words: "‘They were just going to give him rations, so I said, ‘Give me the food, and T‘ll go into the cage myâ€" self.‘ I took the retriever in with me, and T‘ll never forget the way that bear looked at me as long as I live,. The poor thing just stood up and put his forepaws on my chest, and looked into my eyes as much as to say, ‘Is this what you‘ve done to me? No. I‘ll never keep a wild animal again."‘ Ma â€" ‘"‘Tommy, you have been fighting again! Didn‘t I tell you that if anyone insulted you you were to return a soft answer?"‘ Tommyâ€""So I did, ma. I hit him in the eye with a lump of mud !‘* Soon after. the villagers petiâ€" tioned the engineer to take the bear on board again. It seemed,. that Lala haunted the village and stole chickens persistently. So there was nothing for it but to take him on board the steamer again. Then the engineer gave him to the Rangoon Zoo. , ter?l The engineer never gave. Lal® l\ aons sasin, meoat, but some one fed him once or. fa y twice on ‘"‘bully beef," and that!per cent. « seemed to make him restive. He‘matemals £ never really bit anybody, but thefbe removed engineer felt it was safest to get rid:to e !A of the beast. He got off one day at‘orable ferm the village near the defile, took the b'ad flavors bear a mile and a half away into es the jungle, and ‘"‘lost‘‘ him. l Dairy con C MR esd ‘Well, can you live without her father 1‘ The wheelman was not the sort of person to make up such a story, but the engineer could hardly beâ€" lieve him, and asked to be called the next time that the wheelman saw the bear laying plans for a chicken dinner. _ Whether the enâ€" gineer was in bed or not, Lala used to sleep not far from him on a mat by the engineâ€"room door. One night the wheelman called the enâ€" gineer up, and he actually saw the bear drop a piece of bread in the trough. He stood ready to ~cuff Lala if he touched a fowl, but the bear was too quick for him, and the very‘moment a hen put her head through the bars, the bear whipped her clean through. How Lala Managed to Have Chickâ€"=] C gon For Dinner. iluus‘ Lala was the name of a little, side black honeyâ€"bear with a white V-icon shaped mark on his chest, and helthe belonged to the engineer of theima, steamer on which Mr. A. Hugh con Fisher, the author of "Through In"diti dia and Burmah,‘‘ was a passen~| dai ger. They kept chickens on board qua in a coop, and one night Lala pulled hgs a chicken ‘out of it.. The wheelman} con declared that Lala deliberately put M a piece of bread in the chicken‘s F trough outside: the bars, and wait~,,,. | ed till the bird put its head out. |;.p, is their day. What do you say to 1st, eh?" "Of course, one can‘t go on saying NO. for ever!" said she, with such an adorable attempt at reproach, that he caught her in his arms, and so put an end to that argument. "If not ‘no‘ it must be ‘ves," said he. "Say so, darling heart." She said it. C ameiss THE ENGINEER‘S BEAR. The Important Question. can‘t live without your daughâ€" AN EYEâ€"OPENER. Telling a Secret. THE END the Every person who handles milk or cream knows that they are perâ€" Tishab]e products which require speâ€" |cial care. Failure to observe the lnecessa,ry precautions in handling ‘these products must, therefore, be considered as a disregard of the |principles underlying quality. Were ida,irymen to apply themselyes closeâ€" \ly in two particulars over 90 per cent: of the quality troubles would ‘disappear, and this raised standard would be accompanied by a corresâ€" lponding gain in net results. Cleanâ€" |liness and low temperatures are two features the abuse of which leads to ‘low grade dairy products. A large |percentage of the bad flavors in ‘milk, cream and butter are the reâ€" |\sult of dirt, manure, hair and flies getting.into milk during the milkâ€" ‘ing process, and this becomes the more serious for the reason that 75 |per cent. of these contaminating |materials go into solution and can |be removed in no way, but remain ‘to cause the development of unfayâ€" orable fermentations which produce Freshly drawn milk is at an opâ€" timum temperature â€"for bacterial growth, and unfavorable fermentaâ€" tion can be checked in no better way than by immediate cooling. If the milk is to be separated, skimâ€" ming should take place directly after milking, but the cream should be cooled before being mixed with previous skimmings. A tank coolâ€" er is so inexpensively constructed and operated that there can be no reasonable objection to its use. Such a cooler may be made from a box or barrel, and should be proâ€" vided with an inlet at the bottom and a discharge at the top. Ordinâ€" ary milk cans are successfully used as containers, and the water used Dairy conditions which need imâ€" provement include not only the maintaining of more sanitary barns, morte attention in the matter of cleaning cows previous to milking, clean milkers, properly constructed and cleaned utensils and more care in washing separator bowls, but the length of time and the manner in which the milk and cream are held, along with cleanliness, must be the other desirable feature. low temperâ€" atures. While the market milk dairyman realizes this to some exâ€" tent on account of his produce beâ€" ing more perishable, the dairyman who. sells cream often fails to apâ€" preciate the advanmntage of cooling cream immediately after separating, and thus a condition most favorable to deterioration begins to exist shortly after the milk is drawn. ©00e0%0e00e00e0.00 000880 Quality of Dairy Products. Quality is the keynote of a perâ€" manent success. Though the indiâ€" vidual dairyman may doubt this, its truth is established when the dairy business, present and future, is conâ€" sidered. Failurse to realize what constitutes success, refusal to meet the obligation which every dairyâ€" man owes to the dairy industry, and competition are at least three conâ€" ditions which have brought upon dairymen the great problem of how quality can be raised, for the place has been reached where improved conditions must prevail, writes Mr. M. L. Davis. pee%e%e%e0000e0e08%0e808 6 On the Farm in the market producâ€" Terrible The last one hundred feet or so rose steep, jagged, and iceâ€"covered before me. There was nothing to lay hold of; every point of vantage was plated and coated with ice. There was only one way to surâ€" mount this icy barrier, and that was to chop toe and handâ€"holes from the bottom to the top. Such a climb would not be especially diffiâ€" cult or dangerous for me, but could Scotch do it ? I grasped my ax and chopped my way to the top. Returning for Scotch, I startedâ€"him elimbing just ahead of me, so that I could boost At the close ol ‘a winter . trip among the Rockies, Mr. Enos A. Mills and. Ms collie,. ‘Scoteh,"" started across the continental diâ€" vide in the face of weather condiâ€" tions that indicated a snowâ€"storm. He tells the story of their experâ€" ience in ‘‘The Spell of the Rock:â€" ies.‘‘. While the wind blew a steady gale, they went forward over snowy, icy ledges, on which there was not the sign of a path, until they reachâ€" ed a cliff of ice that they must climb. § Horses‘ necks differ in shape and it is wrong to make them wear a collar that was fitted to another horse. You would have galled feet if you wore other than shoes.â€" Much worse for that pulls a load with a lar. The Horse‘s Collar. The collar should fitâ€"be. just right in length and shape. If worn by the same horse all the time it will shape itself to the neck. But nothing can overcome a wrong size. It must be snug, but not tight, free, but not too loose. The hames must be adjusted right. If the top strap is too tight the neck is pinched, and the tugs raised too high. If the top strap is too long the tightenâ€" ing of the hame ‘strap below causes a bad fit and may throw the pulling joint of the tugs too low down. Improvemen in the quality of dairy products must begin with the producer, so the dairyman holds the key to the situation. Every effort of the consumer, the distributer or the manufacture will work to his ultimate benefit. While payment on the quality basis is established, a premium of three to five cents per pound of butter fat is given for cream of highest grade. Such cream can be produced best by paying close ~attention to cleanliness and immediate and thorough cooling. in cooling may be run into a stock tank. Low temperatures of themâ€" selyes are effective in helping preâ€" serve quality, but an ideal product results when they are accompanied by cleanliness in production. Careless practices in the dairy favor the adoption of burdensome regulations. With ideal methods in use such would be eliminated, and expensive, artificial processes, such as pasteurization, would be unneâ€" cessary. CLIMBIN CertCainbey â€"< Experience in Mountains. WALL OF ICE the your own the horse misfit colâ€" Rocky Master (to Tommy, who is supâ€" posed to have been in the orchard) â€"I will not cane you this time, my boy, as there is no evidence against you. Tommyâ€"Thank you, sir. And may I keep the apples? Gripping Scotch with one hand and clinging tp the icy hold with the other, I shuffled about until I got my feet into two holes in the wall. Standing in these, and leanâ€" ing against the ice, with the wind pushing and tearing at me, I manâ€" aged to lift Scotch again to my shoulder. A few minutes later we paused to breathe on the icy ridge of the summit, between two oceans and amid seas of snowy peaks. Fcoo e mt i nesos vour o oi e When I came to a place where 16 was not very steep, I stopped to transfer Scotch from one shoulder to the other. The wind was at its worst ; it would fall quiet one moâ€" ment, and then bluster at me with the suddenness of an explosion. I was just moving Scotch, when it suddenly shifted, and rushed upon us with the force of an ocean breakâ€" er.â€" It threw me off my balance, and tumbled me heavily against the icy slope. Fortunately I managed to.getâ€"two fingers into _oneâ€"of the chopped holes, and held fast. L clung to Scotch with one arm ; we. came to a jarring stop, both saved.‘ I determined to carry him. His weight was forty pounds, and he would make a topâ€"heavy load. But as there seemed to be nothing else to do, I threw him over my shoulder and started up. & and encourage him. 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