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' CHAPTER XXII.â€"-(Continucd). spinster. aged seventeen. daughter of so made and meant for Lilith that their ‘ As well as I could I soothed her, but Horace Saxon. actor, and Adrian Blakis- truth hurt me: I was suffering keenly, too. ton Hervey. bachelor, aged twenty-eight, “You are perfectly safe, now, darling," son of Colonel 'IIervcy.. I whispered. “Something told. me you I found Llllth m the big armchair. look- werc in trouble, and led me 1,0 you. ing very slight and pale and fragile, in Thank God! I was in time. But why did a black silk gown of Mrs. Morland's, six you run away from me like that? All sizes too large for her, in which her little day I and Mrs. Morland and Nicholas headbf crepped yellow curls and small, Wray have been searching for you every- childish face seemed altogether lost. where." . 'I knelt before her and put my arms “Mrs. Morlland? And Mr. “Tray?" about her waist. She kissed me in the “Yes. I know you used not to like him. readiest and most friendly fashion. told but he has been most. kind, searching for me she had slept beautifully upon the you everywhere!" cushions on the sofa. and asked me if I .“Whva-t‘ does he sayâ€"I want to know. did not think London in the fog was the because he is an old friend of y-ours-- most dreadful place in the world. about this idea. of your marrying me?” , “life shall soon be out, of lb. my darl- “He say-s lit, is the best, thegnly thing mg. I whispered. claspmg her close .111 to be done, if I am able m win you, since my arms. As soon as we are married I love you so dearly." - - we Will take .he train to Plymouth, where She was silent for some minutes. my vacht liesâ€"â€" ‘iListcuf’ She said, then, in a. very low “The Lady Margaret?" veicc. “I see it’s no good strugglhpg- And “It isn’t. called that now. I have had now you’ve saved my life in addition ‘50 the name painted out and the Marsh all the other things you’ve done for the Fairy put over it." ' for it was you that pulled me from t e “The Marsh Fairy. What a preppy “has“ 2:; fldéztfi‘est it was In name,” she exclaimed. ‘:You were think- "I sdppose my 1m; i-s 3,0111% ..But I can't mg of Lythinge.‘ weren t you Ahfi MPH; 'love you as you want. and. you mustn't Hervey. why didn t you marry me t en reproach mo and be disappointed. “I couldn't marry a child of sixteen. nothing but marrying me will make you And If you call me MI" Hervey ”Sui... happy, I suppose you must marry me. shall keep your mouthshut With 15» But marry me at once and take me away f0}: the T935 015 the day-” " to new places. Don't. give me time to " I wonder you take me when I showed th'nk ‘. . , , urn, so plainly that I didn't, want you." 1 about it or I shall run Offlyagthis “To tell you the truth, so do I! But I The im ulse came'u on me can“ . morning}: and I couldxf’t resist it.‘ I made am so certain, dear. that I can make You 1 . ‘ . ma, 3 plan that I would come to London. and hM’DV- and ct!“ make S1911 lovevme, . cutoff my hair and get boy’s clothes. and I am ”0'3 afraid you Wfi’f‘rll‘ifl“ ay again take a boy’s situation somewhere and wlgen oncgyou are-leper wife. 1, ttle never be found by you or any one. But Adrian, she » said, w1tli_ her. 1 I hadn’t the pluck to carry it through. 1 hands. on my shoulders, looking With pa- had a little money left out of what you t-lietic earnestness down into my ages. .gave me last. time you saw mom And I "If you mfu‘l‘yultIIBk ymfi will Edema 111g slipped off from Morland House ‘dt‘vnivght, the greatest 1111s a e o y ‘ _. stness and out off my hair in the train. and Something in her unwanted eaine bought some boy’s clothes in ’an old chilled. me. .. , clothes: shop as soon as the shops were "13.0 0' 0113.0“? any one else? I asked opened,’ and changed my things in a four- “3 “mi“; an one wheeled cab in the fog. But once_I‘dg0t to isnarroyi‘” y 3...... «will; m... went. to a, restaurant to get something rather not marry {1213‘}, t of her but .. l lllllv lived .. leave vle . district: ”23”.. . filial If? lffuwaafile‘igolbggfigifgalh d'ilikl read” arrang‘i‘,‘ ‘01” “1° afrgmfifym? till I am so “fed! You won't 35k me any more 31111113211 agn htfhopIIhtibaXliment. and there questions'to-night. will you?" was" much hurrying about and DflCkiDg to And the blue eye, Dear and dewy. And that infantine fresh air of hers!" him. But the bitterest part of the like- ness came in the sixth stanza: sweet. Though we prayed you. Paid you. braycd you In a. mortarâ€"for you could‘not. sweet!" call a child cold that slips ofl? one's knee to chase a butterfly. She was always glad and she hated above all things to be left alone. It was strangely difficult to paint with her in the room. Not only did my sauce. but. truth to tell, she was a. ter- stcps and ballet twirls we had seen a. any and every place of amusement where there was any dancing to be, seen. 8116 involved upsetting gloves, rib ons. 136°9- bows, and .Shoes all over the 001‘ of my out of shape, or the chambermlaid sin e things as in small. _ Lilith alternately laughed and wonder- ed at 1nv methodical, or. as she called them, “old-bachelor” habits._ T0 please me. she would now and then make a dc- sperate attempt at being orderly_on the yachtâ€"~tho living-rooms of which She speedily reduced to chaosâ€"or 1n the 110- tels at which we stayed. Her method was to make small heaps of the various a - tictles she had tossed on the floor: in on heap. two or three odd gloves.-several let- ters and programmes, a. hat. and cloak. some ribbons. note-paper. fancy work, sheets of music, and one volume of a no- vel; in another, more. heterogeneous fe- minine belongings, none of which were ever to be found when wanted. else you would like or had not been paid, and usually curled “No dear." - , - , vho ’ - ' be done unaided by old Wlenshaw. N h. l . , - _ tinu- u , . 9.. . . er ocks Wltll the receipts. She COn And where are you taking me. sent down by my landlady .i request that ally emptied my purse into her own poc- This was a question. indeed. I could , - - '. .' services that not risk Wrens-haw seeing Lilith in this {lagouég' figSE$§§°..‘{Q§E 111111;; with rheuma- travesty. and yet I was intensely anxious tism n to place her in .Mrs. Morland’s care as On. the way to the church we had to speedily as possible. It was out Of the make a digression into a. linenâ€"draper's question to leave her at any hotel in her to buy for Lilith a. black Jersey-badice to boy's clothes, and far too late to hope to wear instead of Mrs. Morland’s 09.138010us purchase others. The notion of Mrs. garments and a. pretty hat instead of the Jackson at Battersea was not to be en- elderly looking 1'“ bonnet. also belong- tertainod for a. moment; consequently. ing to flag“, lady, which Lilith had appro- thcli siudio and Mrs. Morland were my priated. .ony ope. .. _ - - rch, and At my door I had to leave Lilith 1n the Lgfi‘fl’l 1:23:13? 152:1]: lggfcfififore the cab, dreadfully afraid lest even now she wind as she almost inaudibly murmured might give me the slip again. after mak- the words of the service. The fog was so mg her'promise on her honor to remain. thick we could scares-1y see each other's faces; and both the clergyman, an ab- ket, forgetting that there was a hole 1.11 it. so «that we frequently found ourselves far from our hotel or from the Wichi- without a franc to take us back or to buy food. She could no more restst brlg‘ht any pretty things in the shops than, a savage fresh to civilization; evorythmg she saw she wanted to buy. She caused me agonies of jealousy by what Loon- sidcred hccr quite unnecessary friendliness with strangers, to whom she would talk freely on «the slightest.- provocation. In Paris. where by her special request we stayed while I superintended the ar- rangements of our new London home. the attention she attracted by her beauty. her pretty and extravagant frocks. and her unconventional liveliness, was such that I could not endure to leave her even for a few hours in the hotel without me. and I engaged a perfect Gorgon ofan el- derly French maid, named Rosalie. *0 look after her. . I could not even lay the flattering unc- tion to my soul that my w~fe would. miss me in my absence. Some rich Americans. a mother and her son and daughter, visit- ors art. the hotel. were so enormously tak- en with Lili'th's beauty and brightness that they offered to take entire charge of her during my temporary absences. an offer I was only too glad to accent. (To be continued.) >1... THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. To be silent and to let your si- lence be under-stood is the eloquence of difficult situationsâ€"Lamartine. Pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt othersâ€"George Eliot. Most. people would succeed in small things if they were not trou- bled with great ambitionsâ€"Long- fellow. - While people will not rise early enough even to say their prayers they‘ will not be really improved by altering the clockâ€"Mr. A. Les- lie Smith. Money spent in travelling is one of the best investment-s a man can make. It not only does not do him good by affording him health and pleasure, but he brings back with him pleasant associations that en- rich his life and his memoryâ€"Mr. H. Mills. inuthe cab until my return. , ' ..g§.t?,$i.il§$eindttiitiy flaili’ASYf-‘i, m,-“pukgrgllzghgvigugggg,égasr’nd’rd wilful: ssvgfaiiooil Ifg‘ghdsomfs?rgf?)llznd, behind. his snecmcles. and “.16 0mg“; looking p-ade,.tired, and flabby. I cut ligdgfiggdagfif'oggimfg53331? as 15,5. short the plaintive record of her .experl- 5mm ences by telling her that Lilith was wait- ing below in the cab. “Thank goodness!” she exclaimed. "And now that you have found her, Mr. Hor- vey, you must put her in my care. To- night we will. sleep .at a hotel. and to- morrow we will go back to Bristol." did he seem to get us all safely out of the fog-laden building. and himself home to his early dinner, that I. am convmced “Tomorrow.” I said, “I shall get, a ,he would have drlawrli) tgo lliliigsigfnothmg special license. and marry Lilith." Gave "marrying Fem 1:” efour-wheeled cab “Marry her!” almost shrieked Mrs Mor- When we 9-“ u} a ‘ ‘l'lm broke land “On the ‘top of all this mad con- to drive to thona' Station, L1 1 {5,0,1 duct...“ Mr. Hervey, you cannot, be in your down altogether and burst into a pa- ' l" _ . ‘ \ “Elfftysiiirlhe; is made up all the same," 1 .“Il’. “$1.315. 'sucfibaddrgfifg 1’01? rag: “2331 said, “and I ‘will not tro'uble you with-the anglingfidashe so e . , . care 0f Lilith after tonight.” I folded. her in my arms and covered Mrs. Morland clutched her -traveling~ her face with soft. lingering kisses. She “Ravine“:‘zii Firmsitia“..........' mlle vulva mull, trans tones “If you ,really mean to marry from me. Witlr'Lilit-hagsfgzfigeic fillitéi SIXOII, Mr.t_IItlarvey, dI fwash. tllly “'fféhfiffgrg its) obbgin this world soAllilaDIfiy an 3 0 er en- ire y, an ram is t,” 1 said. “ t e moment I decline to see her. I consider gain? 3.1330???le had, meant only she has treated both you and me abom- thisâ€"to hold 01059 to my heart the one ina-bly. I am not complaining over the woman in the world I love with all my hundred and seventy-five pounds I shall heart and soul, and to know that she is lose by her_ flight, although I am much mine, my wife. Ah. don't cry, my loved m“Slt(:fpii'PfI 125d “I will sit down now one! Willy should the}; thfiffiyoayfégng' ' ' » ' - me :ma e . and write you a. check for a hundred and ifg‘ufghfibyfsave you the least pain? No §.%lf“f.Â¥;fi§§. 12%???5503" tiffieif‘iih V3313. 0’19 m i... “a 1:31:33 gnawint‘sfi ' ' _’ ' - - e o . will for that amount sell me the contents 3,713: Igoaéufiu?n:ry 10 love me just a very of your little traveling valise, and. also ““15." . / , thatnlong dust-cloak you carry over your She obeyed with her -usual docility. MEL . h ‘l'k 'sh looking up at me at first With blue eye‘si . er brig I” 91‘” e, greeni -gra.y eyes blurred With tears. But gradually hero dilated and glistened. .. h di-mp-ling smile broke through, and a love- What can you possibly want 1' em 1y blush stole over her cheeks. _ £03? 6119.2151‘8‘1' . ' . ,. ”After all," she said,.w1tl‘i_ something For I‘lh‘t‘h' .18 1“ a bargain? between a. laugh and a. sigh. you wanted Sf: “.13 lfii‘tt‘fin‘: uremia? 3.2%... me more can avnythgg.gslggvg?d.:ii .. yo ' ' ' now on ave me. hats and one or two little things. I agree." leastyis happy_" ‘he “aid' the“ CHAPTER XXIV. And a few minutes later I accompanied ' her to the door. and saw her disappear Six months later, Mr. and Mrs. ,Adrian in the fog. walking rapidly, and not even Hervev returned to London, after a. pro- once glancing in the direction of the longed cruise in Italian waters. and took cab in waiting before the door. up their abode in a pretty. detachedred Then I sought Lilith. not without some brick house and studio in the near ViCln- dread of finding her flown. But she was ity of Holland Park. _ ‘ I had no wish to come home. but Lilith fast asleep in a- corner of the hansom, . and I had to awaken her to tell her to confided to me one day that she was tired of the sea. and tired of traveling, and slip Mrs. Morland's all-enveloping travel- ing cloak round her before she entered wanted to have ahouse of her own. And it must be all ready for her to come to, the house. Up to the studio I led her, _ . and showed her where Mrs. Morland had She said, as she did not understand fur. uishing, and could not be bothered with neatly placed a change of dress, and the other contents of her traveling bag on a. engaging servants. chair and spread a copy of an evening So at her urgent request. though sorely against my will, I left her in a hotel in paper over them. "Here is some feminine attire, dear." I Paris, while I crossed and recrossed the said. “and here are plenty of cushions Channel, and spont'my time in London buying and furnishing a house which I and the most comfortable of sofas for a. . ~ good sleep. And here is the bell which wanted to make in every way “’01”th of its lovely mistress. communicates with my man Wrenshaw'e . room, and here is another which will It was strange how much in all these awaken my landlady. a. very kind old wo- transactions I missed Madge’s adv1ce and man who will come in to you when you assistance. Until this pomt in my career have changed your dress, if you want. she had always been my right hand in a 139:, To-night. I shall stay at a hotel in change of studios. and even in the pur. the-"next street, but tomorrow early I will chase or alteration of the furniture of my calv} tind see how you are. And this time rooms. In my work, 'tOO. I missed her. to-morrow. dear, I hope we shall be man for she had invariably taken the keouest and wife.” interest in every picture I undertook, n, “You are very, very good." she said.‘ was not to be expected that a girl so young and. inexperienced as my Lilith looking up at me with warm] eyes' and ‘ ' ' after extracting another solemn promise could 9065953 lutplblvely that knowledge and j udgmenb in art matters which that she-would not run away, I kissed . her forehead and left her. Madge, who was eight years her Sénior, And thus passed the eve of my wedding. had gained through frequeming and day. ‘ studying all the picture-galleries of Eu- rope. dSelfish as most met} are;l I wanted ' in Ma go a. counse or. a. men , and sis- ' ' CHAPTER XXIII. tor. while in Lilith all I Wished for was Next day, a terrible day, fog Still. block a woman to adore. ind blinding, and drizzling rain, I arrlv. And 1 did adore her, the more madly, "1 at my studio before midday, cam-ying perhaps, that I soon became convinced 11 my pocket :1 special license for the 1 did not wholly _understand her. She mediate marriage or Lllith 8310“» was always affectionate. always sweet. >I< Envicd by Some. “When you prove that a. man is a grafter, people will regard him with aversion.” “Some will,” replied ”Senator Sorghum, “but unfortunately a lot of them will be slightly envious of him.” do Occasionally a girl knowingly marries the wrong man rather than run the, risk of not. getting married at all. Most men might be fairly happy if they could forget. all the mean things they know about themselves. “Was her father violent when you asked her hand?” “Was he? Great Scott! I thought he would shake my arm of.” Talk about a. shortage of food at one period during his last expedi- tion, Sir Ernest Shackleton tells an amusing story of one of his com- panions. On his return to England his bootmak-evr met him, and asked “How did you find those boots I made for you?” “Best I ever tastâ€" ed,” was the prompt reply. morning I should wake to miss heri‘gold- 11 riblc fidgetn She could not read. she could door not keep still. She would practise (lane: erer to the gaze of his incensed e coni. be talking fr ing, it. nu Minn charm. And yet, somehow. the notion NOTHING IS MORE CE nix-tin, SAYS nu; MARCONI. 'u g . One of these days the head of a. _"'I‘ha-t fawnskm dappled hair of hers, London business may 5:“...le to the wireless phone. “Ring up New door. theatres, for she insisted on frequenting 11134513813 “We are now _â€" . Now ’l‘alks‘v'z:T of Startling New Idea fol Wireless p 4 Co in' the future. to see me, always pleased to be with me, be that he may > “'By «short distances 1 mean up to 100 miles or so. Within temporary studio, where malt polyafli; another month or so this system “y ”19-" would “mm“ ““m I N 1 Will be working commercially. It cities by cable. over great distances is a She never remembered whether bills had ficullt undertaking than IS telephon- similar distances by cable.” It only inmuuication . ' “Will the day ever come telephonic conversation across the sea by wireless may be possible?” . “Undoubtedly,” said VMr. Mar- “I will go further. We will om' London to New York by wireless long before we will be talking between the same Wireless telephony less dif- York,’ he’ll order. . ' ' “G t m Ne Yo~k ' The man who wrote those lines might e y W 1 managei on have had my wife before him to inspire the ether.” That isn’t impossible. Marconi says so. “But i ' 1 V. -â€" 'l , l t. . - 0’ 0 mg “ 1y you won d no acle of the evtlheric waves may come It may be that the New York manager is determined It was not that she was coldâ€"as well to abstain from conversation by wireless with his boss. Guglielmo A further mir- It may even hide behind the, Even that would not, help ' . . . him. A further application of the eyes instinctively turn to her bright Dre- et-heric waves may {penetrate that and disclose the guilty Vshiv- talking for short would strum on the piano. orlpi‘etend 4:0 dIStan‘cqs by WIreless)” 81nd Ml‘. "tidy" drawers and boxes. a. process that Marconi. Very recently there appear parties to to see each 'other. clares the app paratively simple one, an of universal use. “I see no reason. said .Mr. -Marconi. too busy with my wireless to pay muc But there is not impossible in the theory.” announcement of an invention by which it may be possible for the telephone conversation The inventor de- aratus to be a comâ€". d capable to doubt it,” “I have been work'for the 'h attention to hing inherently .. He them, for Lilith was constitutionally ‘11“; is quite as feasible to talk for long ’4le as we“ as 93lravagantl “1, 3‘62"” distances by wireless as for short A distances. application of more power.” day life. has we 1‘ e MM tempered, easily amused. and easily mov- ed to a lighthearted Bohemian gaiety, MAY SEE 4 a; He has heard sounds. ’1. . A LAPSU S LIN GUAE. (The Canadian Courier). L . prominent. newspaperman in requires the Toronto tells a good story. He is a. ._.._.â€". huge manâ€"both ways. When be when was in England lhe‘went to Clovelly', along, p-lained to t- in Devon, where, at the bottom of a. steep declivity you may catch a. glimpse of the sea. The n-ewspaperman, who leans to», wards fatness, toiled down to the bottom of the rocks and got. the view. Then he looked at the steep road which the had to climb to get back. A native of the place came’ and the ncwspaplevrman com-l he old villager that! ed the there should be some motor or trac- tion car running up the cliffs. Said the villager: “When the Al-‘. mighty put those cliffs there He': didn’t expect people to be so lazy; they would complain about climbing up and down. want any motors with their oil and stench; we don’t want any rocks railway with their petrol and smell. In fact, sir, we don’t want any ver- nacular traffic of any kind Besides, we don’t '7, v '1 Making Walls 'irranspzu-ent. l The lady gave him a. glass of After Sandy finished his “We could certainly see by wire- less if anyone can see by wire,” said Mr. Marconi. more certain.” Recently he heard a. rumor of a still more startling application of lectricity to the evasions of every- -$§\\\\/Z\\’/I}- ".‘%‘<§-§77/~§‘~‘33\'\‘i711si“ ‘l I fi/x ‘ \" 42’!/.\y dusts “it'll ,_\"’/£ <\.§~\‘, -‘\’;|I't’ §=t<¢ 4" tiffi 'i.“’| fl"- " V?” m ,,.,..,. Zl 9.11 ill-9:; ¢7HM Mitts. filllll Vlgflig. flile Mitzi 7}"! :3 Mi; (fi-‘ gl||. |I.:;' whisky. glass, he exclaimed; “Aweel, my. “Nothing is lady, bh ere was never me a. thing irf my young days.” “What,” said.‘ isn’t built of concrete. Concrete crib floors and supports stop the waste be- cause They Protect Your Grain durable. and cl’can. It never wears no repairs. It is the cheap- ibs and granaries. “What the Farmer can do It tells all about the uses of con- help every farmer to have better Concrete is strong, . out and needs practically est of all materials for or Write for this free book -. with Contrcte.’ crcte and will ’ buildings and save money. 6 ravages o . Part of this hose Cl‘lb floor the lady, in whisky ‘1’ ’ Crib Floors and Supports TH EY keep the rats, rodents from carrying away your Milli is ofdollarsarel year Enough th cribs and granaries. paid by everylfarmer w squirrels and other ost to farmers each f rodents '1n Farmer’s Information Bureau Canada Cement Company Limited ' 513 Herald Building, , Montreal ~- . , '. 't/ga - . c .. F u . “z. «i‘b’rl . . -.~ w i? Willi“: . lags astonishment, ‘ ‘nd' “Plenty whisky, but may}, 6 er sic a wee glass,” replied Sand 31.1 W ,___‘__’_______________._______._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- profits. . loss is Someone has inv hf: ' he saysâ€"a. machine by which the walls of buildings became as trans“ parent glass~~tov--'him. He simply turns on: the current, projects his light ray’at the wall, and, presto! those who-may be. on the other side are exposed to his curious gaze. Mr. Marconi, knows nothing of this, but. he thinks it also possible. . “One can hardly set lbOunds to science nowadays,” he observed. Marconi’s time has of late been given over to the perfecting of his . wireless telephone apparatus and to the adaptation of wireless to the uses of the aeroplane in Lon- don. The first is now complete. For some time he had a. wireless phone in operation between his office and the Savoy Hotel, across the street.‘ , communicated between ships at sea at- distances of thirty‘ or forty miles with less difficulty than one would experience in telei phoning to a neighbor forty miles away. through his wireless phone whenl efforts were made totelephone from " Berlin to, London, but the words indistinguishable. Further work needs to be done before long distance telephony may be expecta‘ ed as "a. practicability. ' I "wk-7’1. "*6 cv' i361blfi‘4qgé «- .k-smj',‘ ,. .-