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WM (ll CHAPTER XI.â€"â€"(Cont’d) Patrician in every fibre, Doro- thy’s whole nature was jarred by this embodiment of vulgarity, and the strange, sinister look which flashed occasionally from his glit- tering black eyes, seemed to warn her that not only was the parvenu objectionable, but he could be dan- gerous, also. “Thank you,” she replied, coldly. -“I will not trespass on your kind- ness, Mr. Crawshaw. My cousin, or one of the grooms, will satisfy me, I know.” Crawshaw’s brow contracted, and the smile turned to an ugly expres- sion, but he said nothing; and Miss Leicester, feeling an irrepressible OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST h+~w+~+~w+m+~+-+~+w+ M-o+-¢-+---+~+~Jr-+-.+~-+ llllll : considered him an equal but who now bore with his rough, brutal ways with patience and equanimity, though, perhaps, Mr. Crawshaw would have been not very well pleasedâ€"and amazedâ€"if he had heard a few of the remarks passed on him when he had safely disap- peared. “I shall take these up to Nan- cv.” Dorothy said, as she retraced her steps, bearing a huge bunch of exquisite grapesâ€"a trophy of-her brisk encounter with Mr. Murdockâ€"â€" “and then I can come down and tell you if I want you to go for lDr. Knowles, Merefield. You will wait for me here.” Where and when would not Lord Merefield have waited for his cou- l | How she struggled from the rose garden to the safe haven of her own room Nancy never knew. She hoped to have escaped detection, more especially from Dorothy’s lov- ing eyes; but to her sorrow- that was not to be. The first free moment she had from Mrs. Darnley’s strangely per- sistent claims on her courtesy, lDorothy flew up to Nancy’s room, .041 leyes. and arrived just in time to see our poor heroine stagger, rather than walk, up the stairs, with her white, fixed face, and horror-stricken Her dismay, as we know, was more than great; and Nancy had to curb her agony to try and soothe t'Lc goldenâ€"haired girl, who had never seemed so dear to her as now, in this, the most supreme sorrow of her young life. But once Dorothy was gone, and the key was turned securely in the lock, Nancy had no further need of restraint, and with one broken moan she flung herself into the low chair, trying in vain to still the pain in her burning throat and temples, and to steel herself for the night and Darnley’s return. Derry! 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Seattle, “In. .9- “It is nothing, my darling,” her father replied, hastily, but that did not exactly please Dorothy. “You don’t look like that for noâ€" thing, dac,” she observed; “quick, before the others come l” “Well,” Sir Humphrey said. slowly, “I have been a trifle asham~ ed and disgusted, that is all I” “You !” Dorothy’s tone was pride itself. “You ashamed, daddy l” “I was in the stable yard just now; I rode Cherry in there to save Foster the bother of coming to fetch her at the steps, and I arâ€" rived just in time to see Mr. Craw- shaw behave like the brute he mustl be; he had chained his collie up all this long. hot dav. Foster tells me lhe has be ' itching to let the poor ibeast go, and then, because she a) ~ That ANYQNE Can Use. ; HOME DYEINGhas . always been more or less ofa difficult under- ; takingâ€" Not so when you use Sand for Sample ; Card and Story Booklet 90 The JOHNSON- - RICHARDSON ' CO.. Limn’rcd. JUST THINK OF IT! I With 'DV-O-LA you can color either Wool, ' Cotton. Sill: or Mixed Goods Perfectly with the SAME D e. No chance of using the WROHG Ldye ’or the Goods you have to color. I i ‘ “A. W m lh v' 1-1 apnened to jump at him, to ve sensation of satisfaction in that she .had snubbed him, turned again to Lord Merefield, and to his intense delight. entered into a brisk con- versation. “I should hate to let that man do anything for me or for Nancy,” she thought to herself. “I should have a horror that, instead of doing her good, Dr. Knowles would make her worse, if Mr. Crawshaw went to fetch him. How I wish he would go home! I can’t bear to see his swarthy face and black eyes about the place. I feel sometimes as if I could strike him, when I see him patronizing dear old dad in the horrible way he does. What on earth has come over Aunt Anne that she should be so civil to him. Brute! I suppose I am very un- ladylike; but I can’t help it if I am.” ' And having arrived at this conâ€" clusion, Dorothy arose from the table. “You will excuse me, Aunt Anne; I am going into the grounds to ask Murdock to cut me some grapes for Nancy. Come along, Merefield, I want you.” Mr. Crawshaw looked across to Mrs. Darnley as they were alone. “Miss Leicester don’t ‘exactly cotton to me yet,” he said, with a sneer. Mrs. Darnley gave a shiver at the words andtone, but made no re- ply. “However,” continued the mil- lionaire, ashe poured out a strong dose of brandy and water, “that don’t trouble me much. I can do without her. Perhaps she’ll be a little more civil to me in the fuâ€" . ture.” ’ He laughed a hard, triumphant laugh as he spoke. . “You have succeeded admirably.” Mrs. Darnley’s voice was soft, and now she rose from her seat and moved to the open window, with her usual haughty air. “I suppose you do not intend to risk any delay orâ€"--” “01', don’t be feared. your son is safe!” succrcd Crawshaw. “His reign is over, for good and all. and I don’t mean to delay any longer than I like.” Mrs. Darnlcy was silent for a moâ€" Inent. “You gave her the letter?” she asked, hurriedly. after a pause. Crawshaw nodded and smiled once again. * “That was a clever thought of yours,” he said. coolly. “' ’Pou my word, you’re a. born conspirator!” Mrs. Darnlcy’s handsome face flushed; she hit her lips. and looked out of the window. Then. as if a sudden and unpleasant thougl'it had just come. she turned to him. “What if she should go up to town, an dâ€"â€"~--” (‘rawshaw slrollcd across to herd his hands plunged deep in his pock- ets. - “She can go, if she likes: she won‘t get no satisfaction from her journey .’ ’ “You mean ‘7" “I mean that by this time Mr. Henry (fhaplin and his wife are well on their way to Australia at my expense, bad luck to him 3" “To such lovc‘ns yours. what matters a few pounds rem-e or 1053 1” observed Mrs. Darnlcy. snccring in her turn now. and with that she stepped out on to the terrace and sailed majestically away. Crawshaw muttered SulllCilllllg. thcn lounging through the window, went off to the stables. a heusc, and he could pose as man over the weeks befo re would He felt more at home there than in the great grooms. who a few have barely sin? He was overwhelmed with his good fortune, and felt almost 1n- clined to bless poor Nancy’s ill- ness, for Dorothy had rarely been so sweet to him before. “If Aunt Anne asks for me, say that you don’t know where I am,” Ishe commanded, as she moved 'away. “Thank Heaven,” she com- muned with herself, “Derry returns toâ€"night. I am always afraid of Aunt Anne when he is not here!” She smiled to herself as she went up the broad, oldâ€"fashioned stair- case, and then the smile died away as she came to Nancy’s door and knocked at it softly. There was no sound from inside, and putting her hand on the knob, she turned it slowly and gently, only to find that the key must have been turned in the lock, for the door would not yield. Her first feeling was one of alarm, her second one of pain. Nancy had never barred herself from her in this way before. Dorothy’s loving heart was vaguely hurt, and altoâ€" gether there was something strange about the whole affair which she could not understand. As she stood there 'hesitating, her maid came out of an adjoining room. “I beg your pardon, Miss Dor- othy,” she said, in a whisper, “but I fancies Miss Hamilton have dropâ€" ped off to sleep. She said as how I was to give you her love, and say she should tr ' and get a hour’s lrcst if she could.” " “Oh, very well Baines; see that there is no noise made outside the door. I do not want her to be disâ€" turbed,” and Dorothy, giving the grapes to the maid; turncd and re- traced her steps slowly. ‘ Something very like a tear grew in each eye. She had become so linked to Nancyâ€"their simple lives had been drawn so close together during the last few 1nonthsâ€"-~that she felt strangely rebuffed and sor- rowful at the first break in their affectionate intercourse. “I know I don’t know anything about nursing as she does,” she said to herself, “but Iâ€"â€"I think I could have done some little thing for her if she would only let me go in.7.' ' Then. as she went downstairs, she .cleared the shade from her brow, jand brushed any reproach'ful gthought from her heart. “She does it because she knows I would fret if I saw her ill; and, after all, she is best asleep, dear Nancy. She will probably be quite |ll€1‘ old self toâ€"night.” If Dorothy could have penetrated 'the thickness of the door that diâ€" ivided her from her friend, the feelâ€" liug of anxiety and pain she had suf- lfercd at the bare suggestion of ill- :ness would'havc been intensified beyond all description. Nancy was not asleep; she was lnot even on the dainty, white-hung ibc-d where of late she had passed such happ» nights, visited by girl- uish, joymis dreams. j She was sitting on a low chair, gher rcdâ€"ln-own trosscs strewn in il‘ungll dis-irrdcr on her slmulders, {ht-r luu small, (-nlil, trembling ihahds suppmlmg hcr aching head; !hcr two large, lustrous eyes fixed ion the carpet at her feet with an expression 50 strained. so unnaâ€" ltural, that at one glimpse the 1bluntest intelligence might have lread the despairing agony that 'crowded her breast. $1117 .0. 9 one time quickly Mops forum. cures colds. heals the throne and rings 25 cents. ! s s l l l l 'carry the sacrifice out; The line rushed to her mind. Sweet, indeed, indeed it had been, and short! Born for one day, and killed the next! Why had she ever known that he cared for her '2 Why had she not been left in ignorance? To have known the exquisite joy that his passionate vows, his tender kisses, had awakened, and to realize she must lose them now was an angu- ish immeasurable. - At one time she felt with a wild, tumultuous throb, that the task was too great, that she could not then her uncle’s pale, worn face flashed to her mind, the memory of all he did for her returned to clamour in her ears; and Crawshaw’s cruel black eyes shone before her, speaking only too plainly that he would give no mercy, and that on her, and her alone, the verdict rested. And then another vision would rise; a stern, handsome face, whose lips melted into a smile of tenderness, whose deep-gray orbs gazed into hers as though to search into her very heart itself. Ah! how clear that vision wasâ€"â€"h0w incxprcssibly dearâ€"gravâ€" en on her soul for ever! It was her lover’s countenance; her heroâ€"her idealâ€"herslâ€"no, no; he was hers 'no longer; she must shut out the memory of those eyes, she must wipe away the image from her heartâ€"henceforth he was nothing to herâ€"she belonged to another. A shuddering sigh broke from her poor, pale lips, a wan smile played for an instant over them. “But Dorothy loves him; Iâ€"I shall have saved her pain. what- ever comes; that must be my com- fort.” 7 Then the pent-up agony broke at lastâ€"she flung out her arms with a; gesture of desperation. “Oh, Derry, Derry! llIymdarâ€" ling !-â€"â€"my darling ! I cannot let you gO' I shall die if I lose you now I” The words sank away into a moan, and, crouching on the floor beside her bed, Nancy hid her face on the silken quilt, and wept such tears as had never come to her eyes before, even though all her early share of life’s sorrows; tears that sprang from a broken heart; a heart brave, strong. noble, yet crushed beneath the burden that. had fallen upon it. CHAPTER XII. The rest of the house party ar- rived at the Hall in good time for dinner; the Misses Chester were in marvellous spirits, but Lady Bur- ton was blandly annoyed, and Mrs. Fairfax downright irritable, and the cause of this was not very dif- ficult to determine; neither Lord Mcrefield or Mr. Crawshaw had exâ€" hibited the faintest wish to attend as escort to Lady Burton and her fair Amazonian daughters; and in the absence of Derrick Darnley Mrs. Fairfax had been left without an available cavalier, which was as unusual as it was annoying to the prottv faded little matron. Dorothy was out on the lawn with her father when the guests return-- Cd; she had been pouring out her anxiety to him about Nancy’s ill- ness. and both of them were re- joicing at that very moment, for she had just shown he‘self at her window, and waved her hand to them. Sir Humph'ey’s goodâ€"natured face wore an expression of vcxa- tion so new to it that Dorothy, . . , . . c z'twmmg her arm in his, and her, ‘3 ? mind freed from further care on! g g g Nanev’s account. determined to know what it meant gcome him. no doubt, he kicked heri so severely. and so savagely, thatl i] am much afraid it will be all over with her.” (To be continued.) _____._»x«___.,__ AN INTERESTING tEPORT. Published elsewhere in this issue is the Annual Report for the past year of the Board of Directors of the Canada Cement Company, as read by the President, to the Shareâ€" holders. at the Annual Meeting held in Montreal on the 21st of Februâ€" ary; and-the general attitude of fairness as to warrant more than passing comment. community reading the Report must surely feel disposed to echo the hope expressed by the President, that the increased demand and increased output in the year to come will re-l sult in further savings in the cost of manufacture; and it further can- not be but felt by the public at large .that any such reductions that may be obtained will, according tc: the broad-mindc-‘l policy of the .‘- 1n- pany, be used as an advantage to the customers of the Conipanyâ€"â€"thc concern depending for their pr: fits upon increasing volume of business. Especially interesting is the state- ment that the policy of the. Com- pany is such as to tend towards equalization of the price of cement throughout Canada so far as pos- .sible. Another noteworthy feature of the Report is the provision made for .stock. This is, as pointed out, a The frank statement of the policy} I evidenced by this address, are such . . illzcd, according to ‘ A _ iKeith, of the Royal College of Sur- ny my member Of' the geons, whose recent lecture on the . much policy already in force in some of ffilflf lift lillll Bflllllflll PERSONS ENABLED TO REGU- LATE THEIR HEIGHT. Secret of Growth Said to be Locat- cd in Pituitary Body at Base of Skull. Once more has a writer of re- mances anticipated the scientist. H. G. Wells’ “Food for Gods,” which produced a race of giants, seems to be in a fair way to be reaâ€" Prof. Arthur fossil remains of man attracted , attention. In a lecture at {the Real Institution, London, the professor encouraged the belief that the secret of growth had been disâ€" covered. “So far,” he said, “we have only unlocked the door of the unknown. We do not know exactly what the' ro'om will contain when we enter it, but we thin-.â€" that when we have done that we Shall have the means of regulating THE SIZE AND STATURE of the body at will. Modern reâ€" lsearch has proved that the growth 1of a giant is due to a diseased con- ;dition. {ecent discoveries relating to the cause of giantism have shown that the key to the growth was ‘found in what was called a pitui- tary body at the base of the skull. 011113103705 to become POSSCESOTS 0f 3 It is a little thing which would not lfill a tea spoon. It is smaller than la grape and yet we know it to be a the largest institutions, and SPUVi’Sithing of very great importance. that the Canada: 00.11161“? Company was discovered by a French psysici- are (111le to applecmte any Imeans an, Pierre Mare, who found also of stimulating interest and confiâ€" that in cases of abnormal growth deuce “POD the 1334de the :St'flfi- . this small body had enlarged. He The Strong {mammal Posmon (’1 jumped at the idea that it must se- the company is 3 well known fillet.- jcrete something which somehow of and all that is necessary to ensure ] {acted the growth of the body. the continued success of the ccnâ€" uva it has been found that in corn is continued prosperity of the the pituitary gland are secreted a country, together With W‘- Incl'efl'Sedlnumbcr of liquor substances which realization 0f the importanc‘} and are deposited in Lhe blood. Pos- economy 0‘3 cement as a bulldng sibly at a future date scientists materm‘L may be able to extract that one 1111- 'â€""‘"_’1‘ lknown essential substance and by LUCLD EVIDENCE_ lfeeding the subject with it be able to make the growth go on contmu- It was a‘ case Of “San”, and the iouslv. Now normal 0"rowth occun downâ€"trodden wife was laying her-in STmWR There in: weeks when grievances before the nriagistratffé a Chili? “He started by giving me a ‘ i .,._ r, . . . , y a r on the nut,’ ” she explained. ,"tl‘x’lls THEFAML SITE' . “My good woman,” rebuked thelThIS is followed .Jy weeks when it magistrate, “you ,1,“th talk likelgirows, the pituitary body is only that he“, I suppose you mean he ‘activc'by fits. 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