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"I can't, think for, the life of me what she vwsums me tor," this elderly and de- cidodr- P,e,satistitctocp lover modestly said to himself over and over again as the train bore him upwards to the Met-rope- Ms. "rm of a, sober age, and she's young; or ehe calls 'erself young, which come: to pretty tmueh the same thing, And then I'm a Ila-aimlooaking man, even se’ttin' apart- the grey that s in my 'air and whis- kem, and she's sqodAooking--tt1at, is, she would be good-looking if ‘er skin watrn't sallllcnw. and if she 'adn't got. the begin- ning: of a moustache. Accordiu" to 'er, Frenchmen think a. moustache on a W0- man in a, 'andsome feature; [but that ain't my opinion. Then she seams to be getting rich, though 'ow she does it I ean't for his own as soon a; he mustered courage to go tthrough the ordeal of matrimony. Never before, surely, had the lover ot a geodalook'ing w0mart--a woman, moveover, with a, surprisingly large, income. sudden, ly and mysteriously acquired-shirked this tieal 21.3141 tsys. ttru)lyborrrylor. This little scene had taken place a, day hr two ago. And now, on New Year's Eve, T-‘mcwhv Ncibbs. the unwilling bridegroom elect, was tnava‘ling to London to in- §nect the esh shop which was to become "There's this mach curse upon it that if you and the others don't clear out of It coon you'll find ycmelves thrown out without. any wage; Sir Randolph and her ladyship are in pretty low water, I can tell you." “Bah!" rejoined the butler in lofty acorn. “You must take us for 'a precious was»): of fools, my dear. if you expect us to believe that tale. Why, isn't it known all through society that Sir Randolph is a rich man?" The disdainful Louise gave her too hon. em and crodulors elderly lover 3, look of L‘upreme contempt. ,‘Whait a precious old fool you are, Timo. th,g,!? rwygs‘her deva:ptipg; compliment. The departing French maid, standing at the open door of the cab in clothing so evrdently expensive and fashionable that ignorant strangers might at a first glance have mistaken her for a, lady, shrugged her'thin shoulders in reply. and smiled e i~g n Cticane y. _ _ "I: Learns to me as it people was leav- ing thir, 'oarse for the same reason that rats leave a ship," Timothy Nahhs said to himself some days ibeifore when the tyle, ga.nt luggage ot Lady Dare’e elegant maid Lourcas had been in process. of piling up on the roof of the cah which had been cb:vrtered to convey that independent glean} woman to the railway station. "First two footmen. and then a kitchen- maid, and then you. ft looks as if it was because the 'ouse was going to sink like the ship-s that the rats clear out of, but I “11.19030 it's only because the place Vars been so drtadl'ul dull just 1ptely-what with Sir Randcvlrph always shut up in his study, and 'er ladyship always looking as if she COW ghosts, and Mr. Hector dead, and Mies; Christine away, and Master Ron- -ald, that's the heir, worse than dead. When I think o' these things I 'tha-nk the Lord that He didn't make me a, gentleman with a name to keep up, and estates to carry on in the family. A fine 'un Master Ronald is new to come in for this splen- dai old place! Good gracious! if I 'ad been a gentleman, and 'ad sons that was _ to carry things on-to carry on the busi. 1 neg-3 as you may sat-l know what I'd do with ’51). Ld tie 'om to the bed-rail till they 'WCS thirty. That's the only way as you can keep boys straight. Yes, or girls either, for that matter, Upon my word, anybody 'ud say as there was a curse on the 'ouee.” The tolling took some moments. When it W96 over, Christine's strength failed her. She sink down on to the bench, help- Jois., dazed, anguishtstricken. Her face was so changed from what it had been even ten [minutes before that the mother who had dealt the How was almost afraid to look at her. “Mother, I would rather die! I would rather die!" But the mother only repeated her in- flexible words-ia must, Christine. You Int-3t! Liston herel”, She went up closer to the trembling girl, and whispered sgmethin‘g in her ear. She was telling her Ihr huh nu-xwumze nu. LIALC "nu, mums“ LU not], has its: all feeling, all tenderness, all thy, in the one fieoee struggle for life or for honor. "Christine, there is no room for choice and no time for delay. You mucft tell Brian Handy now, in thid very hour, that the tie between you and him up} be brpken 23:? once and for ever." "Christine, you @iiét do if. Qihitever the cost.” Lady Dare's face had hardened with the hardnegga tu pne wigs), driven to bay, fore I came to you here, he said he had a strange dread lest some calamity should come to divide us. He made me promise that our marriage should be in three weeks" time And I promised, making only the tondition that you should approve the day. Mother, I can't burn from him now. Two months ago it might have been different. But, not now-not new.” Cl lbztle thing? And you have not thought of him, His heart will break, and his whole life become barren and dark. He lavas me so well-rs? welll Just Anew, bo. "A little!" She repeated the words bit, terly, She lifts-d her aching eyes to her mother’s fa,ety, "Oh, mother, can you, who lave my father, count the saerificty of my love for Brim} and of my life with him as "Christine, you do not know-you do not know!" she answered despairingly. “There may be no real disgrace-that .- to say, if disgraice means the dishonor at- inching to a crime of a. sin wilfully com- mitted. It is true that I have not wil- fully dishonored myself and you two. my Jiihiren. But the disgrace is there, never- theless. and n" orld's discovery of the tireuirnsta.ncecs that drove me to come here tomurht would mean the covering of us mil with infamy. The world does not, ask how or why a thing was done. It is enough tor the world that it has been done, Peomle [want nq more excuse than that for the throwing pt mud and stones. But why need I tellgyou so much? It should bo enough for you that I tell you you must give up'Bn'an Bards." The girl rose again to her feet then. "Mother, does, this mean that you are in the power of Land Yoxford, and that he is cowardly enough to torture you with threats just Ifor the make of indirectly tur. theriag his son’s wish to marry me?" "No." Lady Dare had risen new, and the mother and daughter shood confront- ing each other. "Thank Heaven, Lord Yossiord knows nothing of this. Only three persons in all the world know the secret which is now driving me to ack of you the sacrifice of your whole life's happi- ness. or these three, two have been told by me. and one has found it opt, It, is that third one who is using the thumb- eerew upon me. Not one of tho three is your father. You must understand that I would rather die a, hundred times over than let an inkling of the secret get to him. You have only to turn from Brian Hardy to Lord Southport. amreverything will be trafty-for a time, at least. Chris- tine, it breaks my heart to see you heir. tate. Is the love of any man so precious that it can weigh for one instant in the balance with the honor and salvation of your family? You have renounced enough, goodness knmm, for strangers. Will you not renounce a little for me?" Under the light of the common little oil lamp the last vestige of color ebbed from Christine's lips. She caught at a chair to steady httreltl The 'ltyvely, tired-eyed girl who was kneeling beside her did not speak for a moment. She was thinking deeply. The word "disgrace" had surrk deep into her soul, and was raqkling there. Presenrtly shq Jdtot1 her head. "Mother, thore can be no disgrace con- nected (with you. I am as sure of that as I am that 'we two are together here new.” A low short moan broke from the color, 1er?s_lirys .of Ltdy Dare A Truly this was a bitter New Year's Eve. CHAPTER WL-tcont, nued) The Darkest Mar; CHAPTER VIII Or, The Hope That Still Lived. This time the interruption nvas caused by the entrance ot a tstranger-a young man, hardly, indeed, more than a boy, who advanced into the room as if he were familiar with it,. The dignified Timothy, annoyed with this cool intrusion at so inconvenient a moment, stared at him in the manner of one who would be only too wall pleased to be Given an opportunity of starting a quarrel. And then suddenly the self-important face and free and easy manner of a man-servant out for the day. changed into the maisedike countenance and the well-trained and respexytdully- dignified bearing of the man-servant 1n the house of his service. Yet his eyes showed joy as well as wonder, and he took a step towards the boyish-looking stranger. “Master Ronald!" he cried, in a voice that shook a. little with genuine devotion. “Master Ronald! Don't, you know Timo. thy Fylybs-Nobbs, the lbutler?" Did the young fellow whom he thus ad- dressed not recognize him? Apparently he recognized him tonlsr.too well, for, he turned instantly and was out of the house l before the eldenly servant had had time to recover his surprise, or to decide in his own mind whether or not he might dare to follow his master's missing and dis- honored son and heir whom he had thus unexpectedly encountered Another moment, howeverfarnd the mv cessity for action had become clear to him. Without lingering then to express to his astonished lady love his opinion of the enormity of her conduct, and the eter- nal breach between them which must con- sequently result, he dashed out of the room and the shop and was in the street in a. moment. looking about with his shore-sighted old eyes for that. handsome, though sorely changed, young son of his master and mistress, whose bringing home would. to the mother at least, have been as the coming home of the prodigal in the old Bible story. He had risen from his seat at the table and was now making the morrtifying dis. covery that his last remarks had been ad- dressed to an empty room. His bride-elect had departed to answer the front door knock, and was now returning with a sect ond telegram in her hand. The elderly and dignified lover, who had just repudiat- ed her in he' absence, was on tho point of daumlessly repeating his scornful Te. marks £151me and straight2y before her face, w en he was once more interrupted frgqn the outside on it straight oft, without trying to sell fish. But in any case I ain't going to make you Mrs. Nclbbe. I won't marry a woman that isn't respectable, and a, we- man that lives on blackmail harsn't got an ounce of respectability about 'er. Ihre felt all along that you'd been 'aving some nasty dealings with 'er ‘ladyshipI but I never thought as you'd be trartlois enough and foxy enough to keep it up continuously like this" "Five hundred a, year?" cried Timothy aghast. In the amazement which over- whelmed him, he was indifferent to a tsee- ond doable knock at the street door. “Five hundred a year! Why, it's wicked-kick. ed! And if that's true, what are you set- ting up any shop at all for? If you've got so little conscience that you can take the p"pey., Jthr, you _might as well live A double knock had sounded at the front door. His bride-elect answered it in Der- son. and presently returned to the sitting- room with a telegram, which she opened and read and then put in her pocket. Timothy Nobbs being " nature inquisi- tive, felt resentful at her omission to tell him what the evidently important mess- age had been about. “You leave money matters to me," she was saying meanwhile areassuringly. "Don't you think we're going to depend on the shop. I'm not such a tool as that. lie got other and better sources of in, come. Now that I've left ladies' service for ever, I may as well tell you that I've found out a, secret of Lady Dares which she's paying me to keep dark. Tt's always been my way in service to tInd out 'what, ever swrets my ladies have had and them make them hand over the money so that, I should keep my tongue quiet. Whenever I've got a place with a lady [who hadn't any secret, I used to give her notice at the and of the first quarter and try for better luck next time. I've got half a, doz- en paying me so much a year for not lets ting their cats out ot the bag. Lady Dare makes a. -sevemth. She's arranged to pay me tive hundred a year from new till she dieg-or I die-and--" _ l the life of me make out. ld ctaise my mas-t -Denny on it that she's been blutykmaiiiarg ' my lady; but she can't su.rcly “ave been (doing: that to the tune of a, thousand I Pound-3 in six months Then the next dit. ixfe‘rence bei,veon us is that she's ffippaut and firight5r, while I'm sober and quxet, as I a rseWresvpeoting man ought to ‘be at my _ age. Taking things on the whole, I must } say as I agree with the cock and all the i rest mt 'em. below stairs: that it's the queen i est thing 111 all the world that she shouid . want to marry me, and even be willing to fr put a bait of 'undrcdc, of Tocrds on the 'ook shels fishing for me with. Why, I there's thousands of younger men as {Emuldn’m only brake 'ty; at ,tLtr1s?rrf,t1e,' ours' notice, my would . I _ syr,, Ahu ; chance! And t1v11rirrrr ji'thdji1rf" 213;; 511;: i.;fyg)p1kaetCisiiiii' about it being very 1113S' t at she should open a fish shop. I or course ith, queer. She ain't the sort I of W-Clll‘iln anybodyid connect with fhsh. If i itviwng midliner-y not-rr'. _ _ _ _ "And where do “011 think the money's coming from to keep this sort of thing go- ing, year in, year out?" he inquired, with some alarm in his tone. He was reflecting inwardly that a recklessly extravagant wife might be anything but a blessing to him in his declining yeans. "It’s all very well to have 'undreds of pounds," he proceeded in a tone of warning. "But even 'undreds of pounds don't last for ever an.d_-. ‘B‘lgxss my» soul, what's that?" Miss Louise, ex-lady': maid, laughed her curious little significant laugh again. She gave no reply to his amazed words but invited him silently to seat himself at the table, where a most dainty-looking eanly dinner was set out. Further miss givings came to the thtrifty butler when the removal of a shining dish cover re vealed to his astonished gage a couple of roast chickens. "Why if the outlook were a, bit better, it might almost be one of her ladyship's own private sitting-rooms," he remarked, wondering, with mouth agape, at the richness of the carpet, and at the blue brocade of Ihe window curtains, and of the chair upholstery. "Why, thece chairs and things must hare ecEt a peorect'heao of money! And you don't mean to say as you're going in and out between this room and the shop, and Lwing to lay fishy 'ands on them silk curtains and cushions? Bah! I Jlf?ve1', could endure the amen of fitsh." The little shop was mean enough, having only the Tooreet apology for .1 marble slan; but the sitting-room behind was fur nished almost luxuriously. B119 difference was remaarlrahle, and Timothy Nobbts was ay/tt talrtn plback {by_it. - “It's not a, 'alt good'enough setting for a fine young woman like you," he said imsinuatinglr, in order that his disam- pointment might not make him appear disagreeable. "And whatever 'ave you mixed youmeltf up with this fish trade for? It Jroukl set up a millinery lbusinexzs in the West End now, that would 'ave been more reasonable." She looked (whim keenly, and laughed oddgy. He did not expect his ,bride-elec't's newly- opened ficlreshop in Clannington to supply him twith an explanation of this mystery of its own existence, and of her desiring that he should be its master. Yet it was destined by and by to do so. In the mean- time. however, he made no secret of his surprise at the smallness and meanness out the new premises in which his future bride had set up her new business. The Street, in which the little shop was situ- ated was a narrow and evil-emailing alley down which no pocsi'ble custamens were liktly to pass. 7 Ybu just wait a. bit," she recommend- There is good reason to believe that a part of the turnip seed com- ing to Canada from the United Kingdom had been grown under contract on the continent. The prospective scarcity of labor and the need for food production leaves open to speculation the proportion of seed supplies available from Europe for use in Canada in 1916. Sow the Best Variety. The 1913 investigation into the From Qty., lbs. Value United Kingdom 1,123,958 $95,471 United States 62,818 5,023 France 126,687 10,454 Holland , 224,162 16,855 Other Countries 39,698 3,071 I Elevator Screenings. Screenings from the terminal elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur are composed of shrunken and broken kernels of wheat, oats, barley and flax with a varying pro- portion of different kinds of weed seeds. An eighth ounce of screen- ings which had been ground as chop- ped feed was found to contain 233 noxious and 484 other weed seeds. But when the smaller weed seeds have been removed it is not difficult to destroy by grinding the vitality of nearly all those remaining. The smaller weed seeds, comprising from 20 to 40 per cent of the whole, _ are not completely ground by ordin- ary mills and some of them are be, lieved to be decidedly unwholesome. When graded to remove these small- er harmful seeds and the balance finely ground, screenings make a cheap and nutritious stock feed. l Weed Seeds in Feed. 1 Bran, shorts and chop feeds are sometimes contaminated by ground screenings which are mixed with them in some of the flour mills. Of 396 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- ped feed contained 1104 noxious weed seeds per pound. Bulletin No. 254 of the Inland Revenue Depart- ment gives the names and addresses of the manufacturers and the quali- by of their mill feeds. Turnip Seed Situation. Turnips and other roots occupied 175,000 acres in Canada in 1914 and yielded 69,003,000 bushels valued at $18,934,000. Turnip seed imported _ into Canada for the year ended March 31; 1914 follows: He went into the charming little sit. ting-room ibehind. She, whom until half an hour ago he had :egamded as his bride. elect, was not there. In spite of his shore sightednces, he caught sight of an open telegram under, one of the chairs; no doubt it had fiuttered there from her hand, or been swept there by the train- folds of her extremely fashionable skirt. He stooped, picked it up, and read it 01' rather tried to read it; it was addreked simply "o "Louise," and the message 'r it contained consisted only of one quite ire comprehensible word. 1lu1letins From Seed Branch, Ottawa. “When I come to think of it, I don't believe that them telegmms is about fish at all " he said to h'rmcelf rei1ectivoly as he crcesed the grimy threshold. The grimi. nese of door and fioor and walls was in- deed quite startling when one came to think of the luxurious furnishings of the truting-rocan at the back of the shop. The muspicious 1batler went on talking to him- self the while he (that an all-embracing look round the ittle shop. "It's only gentry that could afford to waste money in telographing for what they want," he told himself sagely, b5 and she 'aven't got clothing 'ere that the gentry would want -no tvribot, no soles, _no red mullet, no salmon: nothing but bloaters and kippers and stale 'etrringn, and one dried 'addick. People don't send telegrams for dried 'ad. dick and bloates,." "More telegrams!" Timothy Ndlybs felt, quite taken aback. Customers, in the fish hursinresss must be queer people, he thought; of course, if a large number of them habitually sent their orders by tele- gram it did not matter much that the shop was in a, dirty, out of the way alley, down which nobody passed. Still, it was very ourious. Canningtown customers sending telegraphic orders! In spite of himself he was beginning to feel suspi- cious. He had trot yet investigated the whale of this building of which he was still supposed to be dent-med master. He told himself that whatever happened be- tween Irim and the snahy-htyaded young woman whom he was going to int, he would manage somehow to go all over the house before finally leaving to catch his Irain back to Guildford and The Up. lands He wondered once as he went whether 't would not be as well to put off saying what he wanted to say to her for the good reason of being able to go,there again in order to watch for Ronald Dare. For, whether or not Timothy Nohbs was a, fool, as his plighted Louise had so often de- olared him to be, he had been wine enough to see by tho mere manner of his young; master‘s entrance into the little parlor Iac-hind the shop that the visit was not a casual one, nor by any means the first which the young gentleman had made to the premises. Indeed. young Mr. Dare, de- serter and sspendthrr'on, had walked into the parlor as freely as if it had been his own private .esitfAryir-reym yclyu could lineman? 1'nrir, "trsrrt1ivr:srccairrg he we not a, ledger here, with what object could he have gone there so frequently? Thus unrwontedly pezxplexed, the stolid and so- ber Timothy found it difficult to make up his mind as to what course of action he should take. He had certainly decided mast all question that he wua not going to ally himself matrianonially with his lady's erstwhile maid, the too volatile and un- scrupulous Louise. At this moment, the very thought of her snahy little smooth blaok head revolted him. "Addery' he called her under his breath. But did wis- dom Lie in telling her at once of his new disgust. for her, or in waiting a little to see what might happen? As he neared the door of the she? he saw a telegraph boy walking alwaJr row it and another standing at, it in the act of delivering the brick-red missive of IW‘h§(gh-he was tho bearer. But Ronald Dare was no longer in sight. Anxious, and full of sorrow for having so awkwardly lot him go, the sober butler recovered his youth again. so tar as his legs went, and positively ran from one end to the other cf them1exn and narrow bxstraet. looking for: the disgraced but shall precious human treasure whom he would, have been so psoud to persuade to come badk to his home, and there to turn to a better life. Him: search was vain. however, and at the end of half an hour, during which he had prosecuted his did. fucult quest in many difrercsnt directions, he turned his footsteps sadly hawk to- ward-s the fish shop in order to have the nocazxmry' last interview with his upsatirr factory Joeticthed. _ Total 1,577,323 $130,874 (To the continued.) There is nothing of the mixer about, this new Montreal knight. Br: spends most of his time between his house on Stanley Street and his of fice in the Power Building on Craig Street. Usually he makes a trip across the Atlantic once a year, bur the rest of the time he lives quiet!, at home. He doesn’t care for clubs and has few intimates. e He is also a bank president, be ing head of the Royal Bank. By the way he has the unique distinction of having been president of two banks, for he was the first presi- dent of the ill-fated Sovereign Bank, and held that office for three years. Sir Herbert 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 our of the biggest of Montreal's finarr cial magnates-one of the inner cir- cle. Personally he is also a big 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. Montreal Power is the monument H. S. Holt has reared to his prow- ess as a financier. He 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. 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 touch with Mackenzie, Mann and Ross. Re, turning to Montreal, he directed his' energies to getting control of that city's power and light facilities. He first bought out the old Montreal gas company. Then he acquired the Royal 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 capital and its almost absolute monopoly in the city and district of Montreal. 1 Sir Herbert Holt came to Can- ada in 1875 as a nineteen-year-old immigrant from Ireland. He had been given a training in mathemat- ies and engineering at Trinity COL lege, Dublin and he was given a job by James Ross, of Montreal, on the Victoria Railway, a crude little lumbering line, extending north from Lindsay into the forests of Haliburton. Young Holt made him- self very useful, and when Ross moved to Toronto as superintendent of the Credit Valley Railway, later absorbed by the C.P.R., he brought Holt with him. The young engineer had a good deal to do with the com 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.P.R.-and again he took young Holt with him. Power His Monument. About the same time William Mackenzie and D. D. Mann went West. Holt soon saw that there was more money in the contracting busi-l [condition of seed grain and flax ac- ‘tuale being used on Canadian farms showed that the variety 'name of 34 per cent. of the 2065 samples taken was not known by the farmers. Varities of cereal crops differ in time of maturity, strength of straw, freedom from diease, yield, per cent. of hull in oats and hardness in wheats. The three highest yields of oats obtained at each Dominion Experiment Station in 1912 averaged 33V.2 bushels more per acre than the three lowest. Ex-) periments have shown that four or" five varieties of oats cover all the conditions of Canada yet forty farm- ers in one district were found grow- ing seventeen different varieties. Each district should grow only the variety of crop best suited to soil, climate and markets. The variety might be chosen on the advice of the nearest Experiment Sia'ticii.‘ The Most Unpretentious Big Mil- lionaire in Canada. Sir Herbert S. Holt, of Montreal, recently honored with a knight- hood, is mud to be the most modest and wilful-1g of Canada's, million- aires. He is (me of the biggest power and transportation men in the Donnnzon, but he doesn't go in for social or club life of any kind and is personally known to Verv few people. SIR HERBERT S. HOLT. Sir II. S. Holt. Three minutes later, having left the colonel at the door of his headquart- ers, i discovered the key of the mys- tery. 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- "%g'saillitt,r'f nrstFiiili'torr, Baum & Parke, Hur 'pf:hi,e%"t' Co., Toronto; Wingate Chem. Co, ER C Wynne 00., Winnipeg; Bale Dru gary. 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C0t11- mon humanity have triumphed over the red bestiality of war, from an ac- tual set-t0 at fisticutts between a Ba. varian and one of the West Surreys in the space between the trenches,,with both armies as enthusiastic speetators, to a case of which I was told by an eye-witness, when an Englishman and a German both sacrificed their lives unavailingly, as it proved, to save that ot a French peasant boy who had somehow wandered into the very mid- dle of the fight. The surgeon knows how to get in side information. His watchful French protectors rose to the occasion, led him again 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 performance was gone through ten times, with unvary- ing patience on the Parr of the French- men, before the infantryman-errant was at last permitted to go to sleep. Even then guardian angels in red breaches waited rrctside another quar- ter of an hour to make sure that he should not change his mind. The pains which those French sol. diers took subsequently to insure the safety of their charges was a lesson in humanity. After long consultation they decided that the village church" was the best place of sanctuary, and accordingly they led them there, pro- cured large trusses of straw, and left them to sleep " their "fatigue," as one of the Frenchmen put it. Two of the culprits proved perfectly amenable and went quietly to sleep. The third, of more heroic mold, no sooner found himself abandoned, than he arose swiftly to his feet, left the church, and , wandered again through the mark place, hinting by signs to the passe by that he was still athirst. ment at the hands of the British oftr. cers-whence the manoeuvring in the market-place. & {Parka JJaauiltysni Loymyn Bros Chem. 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