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0' V y >, You'll enjoy €)ur Orange Pekoe Blend -saiada; TEA LOUIS ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM • CHAPTER VIII Ifcridel smiled. "He had been linking some of Jules Goujon'i white wine in the inn â€" the Coq d'or. I met him right outside the coor in the narrow street of Grat^en and he laid. 'Are you real? Is this pbce real? â€" and â€" and we v.ent to the (air. and after that he wa'ked ttp th." mountain -with me and then h^ said good-by. He did not even tell me his name â€" only Michel " "Like him," nodded mi lame. "Well ii he was there when the war came :{u may be sure he's in it. There's Scotch, Irish and French in him." "But â€" but he is really good, ma- dame? He is not rea'.ly a scamp?" "A bit wild," said madame slow- ly. "But underneath the wildness and willfulness, I think he is good and strong. One could never really know. It's hard to know a man who can laugh when he is crying inside or suffer pain with a smile. And Mike Fabre was like that. Did you fall in love with him?" "I always remember him." "I know child. So did I. but I've often wondered if it wouldn't be better to forget. I'd advise you t' put him out of your mind. Roger is so steady, so reliable, so good." "Yes â€" all of that. .\nd you would think it best for me to forget the other one?'' "If you can," said madame, smiling. "I couldn't." There wasn't much time to think of Michel in the days that followed. More children came, little Polish boys, twin girls from the shambles of Rotterdam, three more boys, sons of an aide of Charles de Gaulle. There was work, plenty of work for Meride!. for Madame Mimi, for Rudolph. There were lessons to be arranged. Madame from her long years on tlie stage, had the fight of tongues. The chil- dren loved her. It was a sight, she often thought, that would have sent Miciiel ii'to shouts of laughter when she stood on the lawn with all the little ones ab.mt her, speaking to some in french,'to others in Dutch, to others in English. In the eve- nings she and Meridel sang for Ihem and led them in their native longs. In October they received word from Roger. He was flying some- where in the Middle East. "I pray that I may be home so imâ€" will you p'ease all p ay too. I have loo'Ktd every wb; f for VAe, but ttvtr a sign of him can ' find." The day after that letter came. Madam; was sitting .->! th,; ter- race with .Meridel -.nd (• i aolph when Ro ine and Pol M.irtin came to the. Rosine was crying: Pol .Martin's face was very long. He drew Rosine by ll » hand until they stooi- n t.-cnt oi madame. The littk- girl hung bcv head and her shoii'.Vrs -ho.'k w'tli her w-cp ing. "You must speak, Rosine," said Pol Martin. "I â€" I cannot â€" " "Now what is this hein?" Ma- dames bony fingers were crooked on the silver knob of her stick. "What has happened to you. Ro- sine?" "I smashed the picttiire." The words were mumbled against the Irill of her dress, but presently she lifted her chin and looked with near defiance m her tear-rfddtned eyes at madame. "1 threw it on tlje floor and ground my heel in his face. I did! 1 did! .Anu I am not sorry." "I told her not to do tliat." said Pel Martin. "1 .ried ti make her see that it is not your fault. .Ma- HOTEL METROPOLE All Beautifully Furnished With Running Water. Rates: $1.50 up NIAGARA FALLS OPPOSITE CNR. STATION THES£SrWAY TO KILL FLIES â€" • tOc p«cV.g<: of WILSON'S FLY PADS win kin moc« flio th«n $5.00 worth of «n.v * other By killer I The olJ reli«ble way for >Sy»«m. Ut WILSON'S FLY PADS to J.y' ISSUE S7â€" IMS dame Laurin, that he â€" " "In the name of the good God I" Madame hammered t e ferrule of her stick on the tiles. "What then is this! Have you gone mad, you children? Speak now. Whose picture have you smashed, Rosine?" "His. The one who killed Bon- homme Fricot." Madame rubbed her eye?. Meri- del stood up to take the children away, but madame gestured brusquely and, princess or no prin- cess, Meridel obeyed her. But she looked with puzzled eyes from Ma- dame to Rudi, who kept staring at the grass, his fingers intertwined before him. "Where was this picture?" asked madame softly â€" far more softly than any of them had ever heard her spc'.k before. "In your room, madame," said Pol Martin. "It is the one in the bright silver frame. Gesner said it was of your nephew and that his name was Michel Fabre, and that he is Roger's brother. The can- not be, madame. Say it is not so." Madame looked at them with the eyes of an ancient eagle. Her fin- gers moved no longer on the knob of her stick. She licked her lips slowly. "You mean, you little ones, that you think â€" I cannot say it. What is it again you think?'' "We know." said Rosine. "He is the one. When we saw him he wore the German uniform and there were ribbons on his tunic and he had shot Bonhomme Fricot, but he is the same man. We would know him anywhere. I am sorry, madamt. I meant never to speak' but I â€" I could not help it. " "When did you first begin to think this â€" this crazy thing?" Ma- dame's voice was flat now, lifeless, and she looked old and tired as she leaned back against the ci'shions. "It was the day you couldn't seem to eat. Rosine?" "That was the day, madame." "Y'es, ! had put the picture on the dresser, I recall. So that was it! But â€" you are mistaken, chil- dren. Thats the picture of my nephew, of Roger's brother. He could not be â€" " She stopped, closed Iicr eyes :w it the sun were too much for her. Was this madness, phantasy, child's non- sense? Or was there some dread kernel of dimsal truth in the whole bizarre business? Children were sometimes mistaken, but not often. (To Be Continued) and vanilla, fatatmg well. Mix and lift dry ingredients and add al- ternately with the milk. Pour batter into two eight-inch layer cake pans which have been lightly greased and floured and bake in a moderately hot oven. 375 F, for ti to 40 minutes. When cool spread filling (^recipe below) be- tween layers. Dust top with pow- dered sugar. Strawberry Filling: yi cup sugar % cup flour Ji teaspoon salt ^ 54 cup cold milk 1% cups hot milk , yi teaspoon vanilla OR % teaspoon lemon OR almond extract 1 cup sliced strawberries Mix sugar, flour and salt and blend with cold milk. Gradually itir in the hot milk and cook in double boiler about 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Beat egg, com- bine with a little of the hot mix- ture and add to remaining mix- ture in double boiler. Cock, stirring for 3 minutes. Remove from heat, add flavouring and coo!. Fold in fruit. Six '.o eight serving*. Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam 4 cups rhubarij 4 cups strawberries 8 cups sugar Wash rhubarb and cut in half- inch pieces: wash and hull straw- berries. Cook together for 20 minutes. Add sugar Cook li minute? or until thick and clear. Pour into hot sterilized jars, cool and seal. Yield about 2 pints. Au'J^iia~^1icdet Let the youngsters soak up sun in gaily embroidered sunsuits; each takes less than 1 yard of fabric! Appliqued boat and chicks. A 1-yard renfllant. plus scraps for appliques, makes each suit. Pattern 909 has transfer of i bibs, pockets pattern pieces for sizes 1, 2, 3, and 4. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft \ Dept.. Room 421. 73 .Adelaide St., West. Toronto. Print plainly pat- tern number, ypnr name and add- ress. CHRONICLES oi GINGER FARM Bj Gwendoline P. Clarke T » Table Talks . . . And Feast Upon Strawberries The sugar shortage need not preveiit our making the most of strawberries though tor, it fully ripe, they require a minimum of sweetening and most strawberry desserts fall into the sugar-saving class. For ma.\imum sweetneses with the least sugar the home e- onomists of the Dominion De- partment of A^fi.ulture suggest adding .i little sugai half an hour before serving. 1 hese tactics bring cut all the natural sweetness of the fruit. Strawberry desserts are also vitamin desserts, for the Nutrition Division reports a full day's quota c>f vitamir L in te.i good-sized tirrtps Summer Pudding .â- \ii cjsily made dessert is a i_aiiadiaii version of the popular i:>ritish "Slimmer Pudding". Line a mould with !4 inch slices of lightly buttered bread Fill the centre with alternate layers of crushed sweetened strawberries ,iik1 slices of buttered bread, end- ing w.th bread. Cover with a weij-hted plate and chill two hours or longed. L'nniold and serve with table cream, additional ber- ries or custar^^" saUce. Fry this dessert later on with « combination cf rasplierries and red curt'aiits and with bhieberries. Strawberry Boston Pie ,'•4 cup iiiild-flavi.uired [at Vi cup sugar 1 eSK ' J teaspoon vanilla 14 teaspoon salt I'., cups sifted pastry iiour Or I'.i cups sifted all-pnrpo.se fknir 2'i teavpoi'iis baking powder Yi cup milk l.'reaui fat. add .vu>;ar and cream well together, add well beaten egg These days we are waiting â€" just as so many others are waiting â€" for the return of our son from overseas. One letter last week said he was still in Germany; the next that he was in Holland and expecting to leave for England the following day. We listen to the radio and we hear â€" "three boats of ri turning men expected to dock next week â€" ope on Wednesday, one Friday and the "Lady Nel- son" on Saturday." We wonder . . . will it be Wednesday â€" or Fri- day â€" or is he still on English shores? Naturally we would be glad to have our son home at any time but more especially now when his help is so urgently needed as Partner is by no means well and to carry on without some one to shaie the respon*i'»iiity is prac- ti< ally impossible. What a wonder- ful thing is good healthâ€" especial- ly when one hasn't got it! It looks as if there might be plenty of field work before long. The hay is just about ready to cut â€" and it looks like j good crop. The wheat is well out in head â€" but oh dear, what a shock we got last week. I was on my way for the mail and in passing I looked over at the wheat â€" and 1 never saw so much smut in my life. As soon as I got home I said to Partner "Did we treat that wheat last fair?" "Sure we treated it." he ans- wered. "Why, what's the trouble?" (He hadn't seen what I had seen.) I told him, and later we looked at other wheat crops in the district and sure enough every one of them was well sprinkled with WHAT SCIENCE IS DOIHG Artificial Gale There never was such a wind on land or sea as that which will blew at the beck of scientists in Britain in the not-far-distant fu- ture, says T'"^ \'ancouver Prov- ince. A wnd tunnel is being construc- ted in Bedfordshire by the British air research to test and develop super-fast aircraft of the imme- diate future. The Ministry of .Mr- craft has stated in the House of Commons that Britain is "on' the verge" of designing aircraft which will attain TOO miles per hour â€" faster than the speed cf sound. To evolve a plane capable of withstanding stresses and friction.? implied in such a velocity several tunnels are to be built in ^ which air can be expelled with the force of 40.000 horsepower. .\notiier tunnel, 25 times as powerful as aiy in e-MSteiice today, will be capjbi- cf a blow equal to 100,000 horse power. The Bedfordshire air icsea-ch station will be the largest r. the world. Its electrical plant, cx:lu- sively serving the station, v, dl he as powerful as any now strrving the light and power requiemcnts ct a city of a million inhal-it.int~. smut. Huwtver Partner thinks a lot of it will wash off â€" and I must admit it dc<sn't look nearly as bad now as it did : neck ago. Some of the spring crop appears to be surprisingly good â€" that is the oats. Barley has an unhealthy tinge of yellow through excessive moisture and cold weather. I suppose the problem with most wonien these days is shop- ping. I know it is mine. But ev- ery time 1 get a bit bothered I think how little we have to com- plain about and how gladly we should suffer a few shortages in order to help those who have suf- fered so much. After all, we can still get all the milk, eggs, vege- tables and bread that we need. And given an abundance of these things we cannot legitimately com- plain. Possibly our most serious problem is not in the threatened shortage of suppHes but in how we face it. For instance we have become so accustomed to a plen- titude cf potatoes that we hardly know how to keep house without them. And yet they are not really essential â€" just more of a habit than anything else. We can get along quite well without them al- though 1 must admit they are goo<l "firiers" and ' could do with a bag in the cellar very nice- ly. My worst worry is sugar â€" but if the fruit is going to be scarce ten pounds of canning sugar will be plenty. My hopes are beginning to soar! Out in the lane at this very minute the hydro men are putting cross-arms on the poles. And there is a transformer in the truck just for us. We were told they would probably have the ucftver on by the end of June â€" but we were beginning to have our doubts as after raising the poles the men simply anished and this is tkc first we have seen of them for three weeks. And they are just as likely to disappear again for an- other three weeks. But here's hop- ing they don't. So near and yet so far! Here is the house all wired; tiiere are the poles in the lane and on the road. There is the transformer but click the switches in the house and still nothing hap- pens. These fi.xtures overhead . . . that two-way switch . . those â- plugs in the wall . . . they are all just promises. But those lamp chimneys that need cleaning . . . that stove that needs filling . . . those irons that need heatings they are realities. And that back-breaking, hand- power washing machine â€" I'll say that's a realit> ' for B£TT£/i SL££P... B£TT£/l D/GESTMH^ B£T7£ll H£Aini/ l'0.\"t-"l I'WNTI.M, IvKl'iKTS U.N CANADIAN GOLD Mines - Kiep»»rtits - Companies ASCOT AGENCY b'riir I'oibonie .^^treet TOKONTO. ONT.MIIO fh.-nr KI.L-iii <!>.S.n Folks At Home Should Calm Down The London edition of the Ma- ple Leaf, Canadian forces news- paper, in an editorial asked the folks at hrnie to calm down, say- ing "it takes a lot of work to move an army and may be a little whil« yet before Johnny comes march- ing home." It is 'only natural that families should be e.xcited and do a lot, maybe too much, of wishful think- ing. The headlines of the moment perhaps wiped out thoughts of fur- ther operational commitments, the Pacific war, long service personnel and the trouble of getting shipping space. "The beys know everything is being done to get them home as soon as possible and in order of their right to get home by virtue of service. An.xicus folks in Cana- da read big figures and start hop- ing. . . If they will just be a mite patient and realize the gigantic ad- ministrative details necessary to move the gang back it wiii be easier for a;l." 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