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3110 W. Iara 'e/gs"' F"", 'g;-,TLfpfs'-j5iii, l EMS Rf ‘IE , Wert" _ "i'ligtii?f, I "iii'fi" s", iiit J , _ sreo r, Mackellar and Son By Louise Richardson Rorke. M tl I) H M D N' ll O 1 snowing t M M w at " It lender. For a Hazing straight ar r, " 11 sly .51 " M H eellar rhtful w V re ree Ar la nt er h By-and-by, because she was shiver- ing with cold, she came out again to the kitchen. She was knitting when the door opened to admit MaekeL'ar, white with snow. He had some let- tors and papers in his hand. Some weariness in his face arrested her, even as she reached for the letters. "You're tired out, Archie?” "Oh, no." He tack off his overcoat, and hung it on the 10w of nails behind the door, hmshing the snow carefully from his cap and bocts. Then he went over an! sat down by the table, his hands (h hic LAN/ma pet “I guess not; th to be any news tht no Christmas times to make them re- member." Yet, there was a sort of heart-breaking comfort, too, in re- numbering. He r tart There wcre-t".e ctit's.'e 3.211 t the barn, and breakfast, and going to read the pa- tte re doesn I) fir It , all the long day, and others-ard ' others stretching on interminably. He _ dreaded somehow to begin this long stretch of unending days without the thought of Fred. He had a "range hesitation about taking up their [simple tasks, as if, thus doing he, in Emma way, bound himself to them. {Aimlessly he reached for the circular, which he had brought home the niwht, ‘before. It was at least something tol do-a feeble barrier raised with the,' 'iltist remnant of courage against the‘ ioverwhelming flccd of despair. as it WARS in l into the .uhatte tree well up in1 enemy's line, no St. Onge, in Fr side a sacrifice It was not, after all, a circular. The business envelope enclosed another addressed simply to "Maokellar, in care of the Brockman Apple Com- pany.” He opened it 1istlessly, but as he read, his face change-d. and when he had finished, still standing by the lump-lit table, he went bark. sheet after sheet, over its closely written pages. This was how it ran: "Dear Sir:-" am visiting a frirrl of min-? in Toronto who had two Far- rcls of apples bought from tho Brack- mwl Apple Company, atrl marked "i:h your brand. I hnd seen that Away n He's putting Ir h ny, and marked us. 1 I had seen that whmo and somz‘xmy 1:05. I'l It it. I think you had ti, r this, but if I'm! "I h r only makes yoyUhnnnl ' forgive mo. I , C. p.'5 you'] like to If“. tr an! Son,' Just' his l stencil, is can-ed t, Is 'tf He at O ouch my end of things on the farm,' he raid, ‘ani I'm putting through his end here. He‘d chy well be here. if he was younger,' he raid. 'He backed me up splendicy.y when I wanted to enlist to mother and all of them. It's '.M::cke"ar and San' hav'k home where he's r‘m'ninz the fzrm .nlcne, and by Jove. it's going to be where H B be 'Maekellar and son. up here F/ij,; st Irre I'm fighting alone for both of 'eciil,,.ib, , rve stuck the sign up every- No.25! ire we've been,' he mid. ard laugh- Stun I'll bet he made it good, too. He) Chee J tbs look. "wins, " Ind to come away trcn, but we to 3:3"? mi next day that none of the men 'llitut, J "mm with those guns enamel. I Butu " tll, ught you might want to know' Mc; Cl 3 "l out tho sign. When I MW your 4.", to 4 nril, I some way couldn‘t ht'p writ- 26 to E , it to you. I Arcs, “Yours, with truest sympathy, (iii", 2° ; "Arthur L. McLeod." i'CC,, 0.; W rd. 1e If 69 lv. C 67 I”: t? MsritoU wheat-No. l Nor:herr $125; Ny 3, $i.14, M , " Manitoba Gr:e.v--Nomhtal. AY. the above, track, Bay pom. Amincan tatrr--No. 2 yellow. "Ac; No. 3 seilsw, 68:; No. 4 yellow, "ie; tmek, Tctoato. Ontario cats-No. 2 white, nominal. Onurio wheat-Nominal. Bsyrley--No. 3 extra, test 47 lbs. vr tur, 55 to 58e, according to freight: LlihlJNI HARRIS " cw tam-.510. 2 CW. P2.1ic; 50%.:; extra No. 1 feed. Toronto. we a ation new In (if " ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO 57.50. R $3.10. Br f) s the goal. --the faith mum cure the maxi. an in car, perm tt the Tre d stronger than we “who I defy "thee headlong d.: Ajax defied tho lightt1ir Yet these monumenza reetr.imrly bud and col How C often an the son ing of f And th “mat value the most ou We Guam Ute te B iuto ‘amily, y On m V Ina dy zati look round us, and We “link alt the rest an: that they a way and are doing their won will! immurity from th. =0 an r. SM Know the Teache I) h ti Old Engiah Carol. rirtmas Da if up () h t? it n n mc K iit 't " wt it t we cum-r we who an , appear rife in: Tl "ru tt' if U,