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Yonge and Charles streets, Toronto does not ask for a better reputation than it already possesses. We get positions for many students each year Catalogue free W. J. ELLIOTT. Prim. 734 Young St. Fall Term Opens Sept. [st Ins-.149: [7r M +444"!- ood lucrative positions. Our large free catalogue explains why. “'nte for it at once. Durham High School The school is thoroughlv equipped in teachingahility. in chemical and elec- trical supplies and fittings. etc..’ for full Junior Leaving and Matriculation, work. I l‘HUS. ALLAN. Principal and Pro Vinciul Model School Teacher lSt Class Certificate. Intending Students should enter at the beginning of the term if possible. Board ('zlnhe obtained at reasonable rates. Durham is a healthy and at- tractive town. making it a most desir- able place f’: .' residence. The record of the School in past years is a flntt ~rmg one. The trustees are progressive educationally and spare no ains to see that teachers and pupils have every advantage for the PTO‘ per presentation and acquistion of knowledge. F HES : $1 per month in advance RE‘: \V. H. HARTLEY. Jo F0 -GRANTQ FALL TERM OPENS AI'GUST 31 \Valkex-ton Business College GEO. SPUTTUX. President ”~“‘““~$ss‘“~“G This school is affiliated with Central Business College. Strat- ford.and Elliott Businsss College Toronto. Our first-class Com- mercial. Shorthand and Civxl Sex-vice courses are followed by "AM: hmmrivp nositions. Our Thousands of am bitious young peopezu-e being instructed in their homes by our Home Study Dept. You may finish at 0011- ege if you desire. Pay when- ever you wish. Thirty Years’ Experience. Largest trainers in Canada. Enter any day. Positions guaranteed. If you wish to save board and learn while you earn, write for partic- ulars. u A. McLACflLAN President L M E CU RT AINS 21 yds. long 40 1115. Wide 50¢ pair 2.} yds. long 42 i11s.\\1de 75¢ pair 3365.1011g 47 ins. wide $1.00 piil % 3’ds.1011g47 ins. wide $1.50 pair All c111 tains have the new finish- New Spring Goods ed top. Fine English Crepes. white and fancy 15c per yard Table Linens at 25c, 50c and 60c Grey Cppton §heeting 2‘73“”? 7 U wide atm 9' .ocper find. â€" Heavy Bleached Sheeting. 2 yds wide at 40¢ per yalwd Heavy 11-4 Flannelette Blankets white and Grey $1. 50 pair Heavy 1‘2. 4 Flannelette Blankets white only $1.85 pair Our New Spring Prints are now in. Call and See Them. W. H. BEAN Big 4 He Sells Cheap BIG4 N0 VACATION C hail-man. 1n the 'lhe Harnessmako . M. HENRY. Principal Secretarv “It would be the saving of us all!" she insisted significantly. But Alaric was still obtuse. “Now, how would my holding and molding Margaret save us?" The old lady placed her cards delib- erately on the table as she said senten- tiously: The shbck had come. His mother’s terrible alternative was now before him in all its naked horror. A shiver ran through him. The thought or a man with a future as brilliant as his being blighted at the outset by such a misamance! He felt the color leave his face. “Engaged! Don’t. mother, please.” He trembled again. “Heavensâ€"engag- ed to that tomboy!” “She would stay with us hereâ€"1r you wereâ€"engaged to her!” “She will have £5,000 a year when she is twenty-oneâ€"f5.000 a yearâ€"£5,000 of the very best!” - There was no escape. Mrs. Chiches- ter held him firmly. She took him in her arms and press- ed his reluctant and shrinking body to her breast. “Think what it would mean. dearâ€"your family preserved and a brand snatched from the burning!” A Comedy of Youth Founded by Mr. Manners on His Great Play of the Same Title-Illustrations From Photographs of the Play “That‘s just it. It's all right saving the family. Any cove’ll do that at a pinch. But I do not see myself as a ‘hrand snatcher.’ Besides, I am not altogether at liberty.” “What?” cried his mother. “Oh. I’ve not committed myself to anything. But I‘ve been three times to hear that wonderful woman speak-â€" once on the platform! And people are beginning to talk. She thinks no end of me. Sent me a whole lot of stuff last weekâ€"‘advanced literature’ she calls it. I’ve got ’em all upstairs. Wrote every word of ’em herself. Nev- er saw a woman who can talk and write as she can. And outside of all that I’m afraid I’ve more or less en- couraged her. And there you areâ€"the whole thing in a nutshell.” Alaric thought for a few moments. The result of this mental activity took form and substance as follows: “She is not half bad lookingâ€"at times â€"when she’s properly dressed.” “I’ve seen her look almost beautio ml!” cried Mrs. Chichester. Alaric suddenly grew depressed. “Shocking temper, mater!” and he shook his head despondently. “The woman who loves always obeys!" cried his mother: “Ah, there we have it!” And Alaric sprang up and faced the old lady. “There we have it! Does she love me '2" Mrs. Chichester looked fondly at her only son and answered: “How could she be near you for the last month and not love you?” Alaric nodded: “Of course there is that. Now, let me seeâ€"just get a solid grip on the whole thing. 11' she loves meâ€"and tak- ing all things into considerationâ€"for your sake and darling Ethel’sâ€"and for myâ€"that is”â€" As mother and son walked slowly toward the house they looked up, and gazing through a tiny casement of the little mauve room was Peg, her face white and drawn. Peg decided to take a walk in the garden. As s_he reached the foot of {he stairs Alaric came in quickly through the windows. “Hello. Margaret!” he cried cheerful- ly, though his heart was beating nerv- ously at the thought of. what he was about to do;- and across his features there “as a sickly pallor. “What have you got there, all tucked away?” he ventured as the opening question that was to lead to the all important one. Peg held up a book for him to see. “The only thing I’m takin’ away that I didn’t bring with me.” “A book, eh?” “That’s what it is-a book,” and she began to go upstairs. “Taking it away?” he called up to her. “That’s what I’m doin’,” and she still went on up two more steps. “You’re not really going awayâ€"cons. In?” he gasped. “I am.” replied Peg. “Just a moment.” he cried. stopping her just by an oriel window. She paused 1n the center of the glow that radiated from its panes. “What is it?” she asked impatiently. Shé wanted to go back to her and make her final preparations: Alarm looked at her with what he meant to be adoration in his eyes. “Do you know I’ve grown really awfully fond of you?” His voice quiv. ered and broke. He had reached one of the crises of his life. "“;\'0, I didn‘t know it. When did ye and it out?” â€"_“Just nowâ€"down in that room- when the thought flashed through me that perhaps you really meant 31° leave Es. _ it weht all through me. ’Pon my honor it did. The idea positively hurt meâ€"really hurt me.” “Did it, now?” laughed Peg. “Sure an’ I’m glad of it." “Glad? Glad?” he asked In astonish- Copyfltht. 1913. by 0066. 319d b (Eampany uh I ‘ Cm w,“ m. It] ‘ By J. Hartley Manners ment. ~ “I am. I didn't think anything could hurt ye unless it disturbed yer com- fort. An' 1 don’t see how my goin’ will do that." “Oh. but It will.” persisted AJarlc. “Really it will.” “Sure now?” Peg was growing real- ly curious. What was this odd little fellow trying to tell her? Alaric felt that the moment had now really come. He paused to let the full force or what was to come have its real value. “What is it. Alaric?” Pea asked. all unconscious of the drama that was taking place in her cousin’s heart “Sure, what is it? Ye’re not goin‘ to do,somethin’ useful. are ye?" CHAPTER XXVI. Alaric, Peg and Mr. Hawkes. ” OUSIN," said Alaric to Peg. and his voice drappcd to the ca- ressing note of a wooer. “cousin. do you know, I am going to do something now I‘ve never done before?" He braced himSelf and went on: “I am going to ask a very charming young lady to marry me. Eh?" “Are ye?” “I am.” “What do ye think 0’ that. now!” “Andâ€"whwâ€"doâ€"youâ€"thinkâ€"itâ€"is?” He waited. wondering if she would guess correctly. It would be so help- ful if only she could. But she was so unexpected “I couldn’t guess it in a hundred years. Alaricâ€"ralely I couldnft.” “0h, try! Do try!” he urged. “I couldn’t think who’d marry youâ€" indade I couldn’t. Mebbe the poor girl’s blind. Is that it?” “Can’t you guess? No? Really?” “No, I’m tellin’ ye. Who is it?” “You!” Then she leaned back against the balustrade and laughed long and un- restrainedly. She laughed until the tears came coursing down her cheeks. Alaric was at first nonplused. Then be grasped the situation in its full sig- nificance. It was just a touch or hys- teria. He joined her and laughed heart- ily as Well. “Aha!” he cried between laughs. “That’s a splendid sign. Splendid! I’ve always been told that girls cry when they’re proposed to.” “Sure, that’s what; I’m doin’,’f gasped Peg. “I’m cryin’â€"â€"laughin'. Sure, I think I’d rather have Michael, my ter. tierâ€"if you don’t mind.” He started forward. “Oh, come, I say! You don’t mean that! Thinkâ€" just for one momentâ€"of the advan- ges!" To her amazement the gloom lifted from her cousin’s countenance. He took a deep breath. looked at her in genuine relief and cried out heartily: “I say! You’re a brick! It’s really aw. fully good of you. Some girls in your position would have jumped at me â€"positively jumped! But youâ€"why. you're a genuine little hall marked A1 brick! I’m extremely obliged to you." “If y meekly. He took her little hand and shook it warmly. “You’re a plucky little girl, that’s what you areâ€"a pluckyâ€"littleâ€"girl. I’ll never forget itâ€"never. If there is anything I can doâ€"at any timeâ€"any- whereâ€"call on me. I'll be thereâ€"right on the spot. TP’E G “Bless you. cousin. You’ve taken an awful load 03 my mind. I was really worried. I had to ask yen. Promised to. See you before you go!” On the 30th day of June Mr. Mont- gomery Hawkes glanced at his ap- pointments for the following day and found the entry. “Mrs. Chichester. Scarboroâ€"in re Margaret O’Connell.” He accordingly sent a telegram to Mrs. Chichester, acquainting her with the pleasant news that she might ex- pect that distinguished lawyer on July 1 to render an account of her stew~ ardship of the Irish agitator’s child. He was shown into the music room and was admiring a genuine Greuze when Mrs. Chichester came in. She greeted him tragically and mo- tioned him to a seat beside her. “Well?” he smiled cheerfully. “And how is our little protegee '2” “Sit down.” replied Mrs. Chichester somberly. “Thank you.” He sat beside her, waited a moment. then. with some sense or misgiving, asked, “Everything going well, 1 hope?“ “Far from it.” And Mrs. Chichester shook her head sadly. “She wants to leave us today. She has ordered a cab. She is packing now.” TEE DURHAM CHRONICLE “Dear. dear!” ejaculated the bewil- dered solicitor. “Where is she going?" “Back to her father.” “How perfectly ridiculous!” “But don’t be uneasy,” he replied eas- ny; “she will stay. May I see her?” Mrs. Chichester rose, crossed over to the bell and rang 1t. “There 1g one thing yammpstknow. ye don’t mind,” replied Peg m. Hawkes‘. liaison is in love with her,” she said. as though in 'a burst of confidence. “What? Your son?” “Yes,” she sighed. “0! course she is hardly a suitable match for Aim-leâ€" as yet. But by the time she is of age”â€" Hawkes was moving restlessly about the room. He stopped In front of Mrs. Chichester as Jarvis disappeared to notify Peg. marriage would be out of the question. As one of the executors of the late Mr. Kingsnorth‘s will. in my opinion. it would be defeating the object of the dead man’s legacy." Mrs. Chichester retorted heatedly: “He desires her to be trained. What training is better than marriage?” “Almost any.” replied Mr. Hawkes. “Marriage should be the union of two formed characters. Marriage between the young is one of my pet objections. It is a condition of life essentially for those who have reached maturity in nature and in character. I am pre- paring a paper on it for the Ct‘oydou Ethical society and”â€" Whatever else Mr. Hawkes might have said in continuation of another or his pet subjects was cut abruptly short by the appearance of Peg. She was still dressed in one of Mrs. Chi- chester’ 3 gifts. She had not had an op- pertunlty to change Into her little traveling suit. “Well. well! What an improvement!” he said. “I’m glad you’ve come. Mr. Hawkes‘” “Why. you’re a young lady!” cried the astonished solicitor. “Am I? Ask me aunt about that!” replied Peg somewhat bitterly. ;‘Now, IIIâ€"y dear Miss Margaret O’Con- nell”-â€"- be "an the lawyer “Certainly. Now?” and he took out his pocketbook. “This minit,” replied Peg positively. “With pleasure,” said Mr. Hawkes as he began to count the banknotes. “And 1 want ye to get a passage on the first ship to America, this after- noon if there’s nestly. “Will ye let me have £20?" suddenly asked Pee. “Oh, come, come,” remonstrated the lawyer. “The £20 I want to buy somethin’ for me father-just to remember Eng- land by. If ye think me uncle wouldn’t like me to have it because I’m Iavin’, why, then me tather’ll pay ye back. It may take him along time. but he’ll pay it." “Now, listen”- interrupted Mr. Hawkes. “Mebbe it’ll only be a few dollars a week, but father always pays his debts -â€"in time. That’s all he ever needs- time.” “What’s all this nonsense about go- ing away ?” Hawkes hunted through his mind for the cause of this upheaval in the Chi- chester home. He remembered Mrs. Chichester’s statement about Alaric’s afl'ection for his young cousin. Could the trouble have arisen from that? It gave him a clew to work on. He grasped it. “It isn’t nonsense. I’m goin’ to me father,” answered Peg resolutely. “Ahswer me one question truthfully, Miss O’Connell. Is there an affair of the heart ‘2” Peg looked down on the ground mournfully and replied: “Me heart is in New Yorkâ€"with me father.” “Has any one made love to you since you have been here?” Peg looked up at him sadly and shook her head. A moment later a. mischievous 1001: came into her eyes, and she said, with a roguish laugh: “Sure one man wanted to kiss me, an' 1 boxed his ears, an’ anotherâ€"al- most man-asked me to marry him." “Oh!” ejaculated the lawyer. “Me Cousin Alaric.” “And what did you say?" questioned Hawkes. “I towld him I’d rather have Mi- chael." “He looked at her in open bewilder- ment and repeated: “Michael?" “Me dog.” explained Peg, and her eyes danced with merriment. Haw‘ es laughed heartily and re- lievedly. As Hawkes looked at her, radiant in her springlike beauty, her clear. healthy complexion. her dazzling teeth, her red-gold hair. he felt a sudden thrill go through him. His life had been so full, so concentrated on the development of his career, that he had never permitted the feminine note to obtrude itself on his life. His effort had been rewarded by an unusually large circle of influential clients who yielded him an exceedingly handsome revenue. He had heard Whispers of a magistracy. His public future was as- sured. - But his private life was arid. The handsome villa in Pelham crescent had no one to grace the head of the table, save on the occasional visits of his aged mother or the still rarer ones or a married sister. And here was he in the full prime of life. "fielding to some uncontrollable 1m- pulse, he took her little hand in both ofhisown. Hawkes was not to be denied now. He went on in his softest and most persuasive accents: “I know one who would give you an theseâ€"a. man who has reached the years of discretion. one in whom the tomes of youth have merged into the knowledge and reserve of early middle you, admire yofiâ€"and be proud to mm mm. . age; a flan or position and of means: a man who can protect you, care_ for garet?â€"I was your uncle’s adviser. his warm personal friend. We spoke tree- 11 9! you for many. .weeks before .3: Continued on page 7. , ‘ r’S one!” cried Peg ear- N m5?» MW o o o o o o o a '0' OIOIO!OI 00.610 0 O O O 0 o O O . . . . . 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