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CartesPuh bo THE CONSERVATOR, Brampton THE TIMES & GUIDE, Weston THE EXPRESS, Mount Dennis THE NEWS, Port Credit THE ADVERTISER, Mimico and New Toronto Brampton Office â€" Phone 10 C. V. CHARTERS Weston Office â€" Phone 26 S. WILSON THEN WHY NOT TRY IT Publishers ofâ€" LIMITED (Continued From Last Week) "It is imperative, for your OWn sake as well as hers, that she should still preserve the strictest incognita, Therefore, in driving to her house, you must allow the blinds of the carâ€" riage to be drawn; and however curâ€" ious may appear anything you may withess in her presence, you must give your word of honor as a gentleâ€" manâ€"nay, you must take oathâ€"not to seek to elucidate it. Mystery surâ€" rounds her, I admit; but remember that any attempt to penertate it will assuredly place her in graver peril, and thwart your own efforts on her behalf." "Such conditions from & stranger are, to say the least, cumors," I obâ€" served. "Ah!" he exclaimed, smiling, "your reluctance to accept is Iat natural. Well, I can do no more; I have fulâ€" filled my mission. The woman you love has staked her young lifeâ€"and lost. She kas counted upon your aid in this hour of extremity and despair, yet if you withhold it E must returm and tell her." "But I love her," C said. ‘"Surely| I may know who she is, and why she | is haunted by this secret dread?" | For m few seconds he was silent. | Then he tossed his cigar away with | a gesture of impatience. | "Timre does not admit of argument.. I have merely to apologize for bfimgâ€"§ ing you down here o a fruitless apâ€" 3‘ pointment, and to wish you good: evening," he said, im a tone of minglâ€"| ed annoyance and disappointment;| and turning on his ‘heel, he walked away. His words and. ‘manner aroused within me a sudden dislike, a curious hatred that I could not describe, yet, ere he had gone m dozen paces, I cried: â€" "Stop I have reâ€"considered my deâ€" cision. I must see ‘her, for I promised her my assistance, and am ready to give it in whatever manner she deâ€" sires." "You know the conditions," he said, sauntering back to me. . ‘"Do you acâ€" cept them absolutehy?" * yes."". ""Then swear." $ He had drawn from his pocket a Testament, and held it toward me. I hesitated. \ C "You may be tempted to break your word. You will never violate your oath," he added, in the same slow, deliberate tone in which he had first addressed me. ‘Still I was not prepared for this strange proceeding, and not until he urged me to hasten and declared that my oath was imâ€" perative did I move. Next second I regretted my action. I had a}vague, indefinable feeling that I had subjected myself under his thrall. But as we walked together up the steep path and gained the Terrace, he chatted quite gayly upon various topâ€" ics, and the strange presage of evil that I had first experienced was sucâ€" ceeded by lively anticipations of seeâ€" ing once again the beautiful woman I adored. & & Then, taking the book, . Iâ€" slowly raised it until it touched my lips, afterward handing it back to him. In Hill Rise, close to that row of glaring new semiâ€"aesthetic houses known as Cardigan Gate, a neat brougham, drawn by a magnificent pair of bays, was in waiting, and beâ€" fore we entered the footman careâ€" fully drew down the blinds, then salâ€" uted as he closed the door. Ti nco en ce e un palne i e on seerna ann c en o8 nunnuuu-uu|uuun|nunuumnununuuuuuluuumu-uunwnuluumnuunuluu-nununnuuuunlnmununnn-uum||lnun\n||:uuunl:|uuu-u||nu|mnnnuuulunuuuuu.. The interior of the carriage would have been dark had not a tiny glimâ€" mering lamp been. placed there, and this showed that, in addition to the blinds drawn down, heavy curtains had also been arranged so that to see outside was impossible. My strange companion was affable, even amusâ€" ing:; but the drive occupied quite an kour and a half, although we travelâ€" ed at a pretty smart pace. nlnlu|uunnuuununuunuluuuulunuuunnuluunnnuu"ununuunuuuullllunnuuuuunu|nn-unnunvuulnnuluuuuuunun!flll Presently my companion turned to me, saying: ‘"There is still one thing more.\ Before we light you must alâ€" low me to tie my handkerchief across your eyes." ‘"In order that I may not note the exterior of the houseâ€"eh?" I sugâ€" gested, laughing. He nodded, and a strange, cynical smile played upon his lips. "Very well," I said. "It is useless, I suppose, to protest." He did not answer, but folding a silk handkerchief he placed it over my eyes and tied it tightly at the back. Almost at the moment he had completed this operation, the conveyâ€" ance stopped, the door was opened, and, led by my mysterious companâ€" fion, I alighted. Taking his arm, we crossed. the pavement and ascended a short flight of steps. There were three; I counted them. I could also hear the wind in some trees, and wondered whether we were in town or country. A door opened and we stepped into a hall, which, owing to the echo of my conductor‘s voice, I concluded was a spacious one; but ere I had time to reflect the man whose arm I held said: "Just a moment. You must sign the visitor‘s bookâ€"it is the rule here. We‘ll excuse bad writing, as you can‘t see," he added with a laugh. At the same moment I felt a pen placed in my fingers by a manâ€"serâ€" vant, who guided my hand to the book. Then I hastily scrawled my name. â€" It was strange, I thought; but the events of the evening were all so extraordinary that there was nothing after all, very unusual in signing a visitor‘s book. 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Confused and mysterious whisperings sounded about me, and I felt confident that I distinctly heard a woman‘s sob quite close to me, while at the same meâ€" ment there was a whiff of violets. Its fragrance stirred my memoryâ€"it was Sybil‘s favorite perfume. Suddenly my guide ushered me into a room and took the handkerchief from my eyes. The apartment was a small study, cozy and well furnished, with a bright fire burning in the grate and lighted onmly by a greenâ€"shaited readimg lamp. "If you‘ll take «@ff your wovercoat and wait here a few momexts I will Bring ker to you," he said, adding, * you can talk here alone ®nd undisâ€" turbed," and he went out, closing the door after him. Eive eager mimutes passed while I | listened for her footstep, expecting ; each second to hear her wellâ€"known . voice; but gradually the air seemedi to Ibecome stiflimg, in mwy mouth was, a sulphurous taste, amd the lamp growing more «dim, at last gave a _,1 wweak flicker aimnd went out. Rushing| to the door, I found, to my astonishâ€" ment, it was locked! I dashed to the window and tried@ ito open it, buit could not. In despait, i beat the door frantically with my fists‘ and shouted, but my muffled woice seeme@ in that deadly atmosâ€" phere as we@rk as achild‘s. I deukt ‘whether it could be heard bexond ithose walls. In desperation I tried to struggle to my feet, but fuiled. My legs reâ€" ifused to support ime; my head throbâ€" bed as if my skull would burst Then a strange sensatien of nausea crept over me, my starting eyes smarted as if acid bad bean flung into them, my tongue clave to the roof of my parched mouth, my chest seemed held in contraction by a band of irom, as, lhalf rising, I fell mext second, inert and helpless, a sudden darkness eblitâ€" erating all my senses. Flinging smyself upon my knees, I bent to examine the. small fire, glowâ€" ing like a ‘blacksmith‘s forge, and discovered, ito imy lhorror, that the chimney had been closed and that the grate was filled with burning «chat= coal. Quickly I raked it out, but the red cinders only glowed the brighter, and even though I«dashed the hearthâ€" rug upon them, II could not extinguish them. Thoseimoments were full a€ horror, for I was being slowly asphyxâ€" iated! s What time elapsed I have no idea. Gradually I struggled back to conâ€" seiousness, and as I made desperate endeavors to steady my nerves and collect my thoughts, I suddenly beâ€" came painfully awanre of a bright light falling full upon me. My eyes wene dazzled by the extraordinary brilliancy, and I closed them again, and tried to recollect what had ocâ€" curred. â€" "Pull yourself together, my dear fellow. You are all right now, aren‘t you?‘ asked a voice in my, ear. I recognized the tones as those of my strange guide. ‘"Yes," I answered mechanicall&. "But Sybilâ€"where is she?" He made no reply. \ I tried to open my eyes, but again the light dazzled me. About me sounded the soft sibilations and the frouâ€"frou of silk, while the warm air seemed filled with the sickly perfume of tuber roses. My left hand was grasping the arm of a capacious sadâ€" dleâ€"bag chair, wherein I was evidentâ€" ly sitting, while in my right hand I held something, the nature of which I could not at first determine. My trembling fingers closed upon it more tightly a moment later, and I suddenly recognized that it was the hand of a woman. Again opening my heavy eyes, I strained them until they grew accustomed to the brightâ€" ness, and was amazed to discover myâ€" self sitting in a spacious and magnifiâ€" cently furnished drawingâ€"room, brilâ€" liant with gilt and mirrors, while two men and two women in evening dress were standing around me, intense anâ€" xiety betrayed upon their pale faces. In a chair close beside mine, sat a woman. whose hand I was holding. Behind herâ€"erect and motionless â€"was the man who had conducted me there, while at her side stood a grave, greyâ€"haired clergyman, who at that monent was gabbling the conâ€" cluding portion of the marriage serâ€" vice. The veil failed to conceal her wondrous beauty; in an instant I recâ€" ognized her. § Springing to my feet, my eyes fell full upon her. Attired in dead white satin, a long veil hid her face, and in her hair and across her corsage were orangeâ€"blossoms. She was a bride! It was the woman I adored. A weddingâ€"ring was upon the hand I had held. "Speak! Sybil!" I eried.. ‘"Speak! tell me the reason of this?" But she answered not. Only the clergyman‘s droning voice broke the silence. The hand with the ring upon it lay upon her knees and I caught it up, but next second dropped it, as if I had been stung. Its contact thrilâ€" led me; it was iey cold! Divining my intention, the man who had brought me there dashed between us, but ere he could prevent me, I had, with a sudden movement, torn aside the veil. & Horror transfixed me. Her beauty was entrancing, but her blue eyes, wide open in a stony stare, had lost their clearness and were rapidly glazâ€" ing ; her lips, with their true are de cupidon, were hard and cold, and from her cheeks the flush of life had, alas! departed, leaving them white as the bridal dress she wore. I stood uponâ€"mouthed, aghast, petâ€" rified. Sybil, the woman I loved better than life, was dead, and I had been married to her! Horrified and appalled, my startled eves riveted themselves upon the flawless face that in life had entrancâ€" ed me. *‘See! She‘s deadâ€"dead!" I gasped widly, when a few seconds later I realized the ghastly truth. Then throwing myself upon my knees, heedless of the presence of strangers, I seized her cold clammy hand that bore the wedding ring and covered it with mad griefâ€"impassionâ€" ed caresses. In her breast was a spray of tuberâ€" roses, flowers ineffably emblematic of the grave. Faugh! how CHAPTER III FOILED flsm'icken downn jhy a ‘sudden grief Iy a Kent over the stim delicate hands that | i so often had grasped mine in warm. | siffection, amd there @ame back to m®‘ i memiories of The brief joyous days in ‘the gray little mountain town, when, "ffor hours « walked by her side in I ‘raptuous transports and sat with her, i «each evening under the trees, charmâ€" «ed by her manner, fascinated by hyer: | wonderful «eyes, ‘held by her beautiâ€" ful countenance as under a spell. There hal ‘seemed some mystertuos rapport between "her soul and mime. The sun shone more brightly for me on the day ‘she came into my world, and my meart ‘became filled with a supreme ‘happiness such as I, blase and workdâ€"weary, had never kn@wn. Heaven kad endowed her with ome iof woman‘s souls embodying pity and love, a ray of joyâ€"giving light from. a better world, ‘that consoled my heing, softened nry existence, and aroused _| within mre for the first time the conâ€" viction that, in this brotherhood ‘of tears, there existed one trueâ€"hearted, _| softâ€"voiced woman who might be the sweet companton of my future life. ‘i Through those few sunny days ®urs had been an akhnmost idyllic existence, forgetful of,all earth‘s grim realities, of all the evil thoughts of the world. We had ted an almost idyllic exisâ€" | tence, inspired "by our loveâ€"making _| with great contempt for everything, ; I vainly imagining that we should have | no other care than that of loving one f 1 another. I have ever since déetested their grueâ€" some sickly odor. There is death in their breath. The despairing look in her glazing, sightless eyes was so horrible that I covered my face with my hands to" shut it out from my gaze. The secret terror that she had dreaded, and to which she had such véiled yet gloomy refererces, had actually fallen. Her incredible presage of evil which in Luch@n I had at first regarded as the fantastic imaginings of @ romantic dispbsition,_ had actually become an accomplished fact; some dire, mysâ€" temous catastrophe, sudden and comâ€" plete, had overwhelmed her. "The woman I wdored was dead! IIn those moments of desolation, Ah! how brief, @las! had been our paradise! How sudden and complete was my ‘bereavement; how bitter my sorrow! True, Sybil had spoken: of the mysterious spectral terror which conâ€" stantly held her in a paroxysm of fear, yet having been satisfied by her declaration that she was not already married, I had continued to love her with the whole strength of my being, never dreaming that her.end was so near. Dead! She could mo longer utter those soft, sympathetic words that had brought peace to me. No longer could she press my hand, nor smile upon me with those great eyes, clear and trusting as a child‘s. Only her soulless body was before me; only her chilly form, that ere long would be snatched from my sight forever. No, I‘could not realize that she had departed beyond recall. In mad desâ€" peration I kissed her icy brow in an attempt to revivify her. At that moâ€" ment her sweet voice seemed raised within me, but it was a voice of reâ€" membrance that brought hot tears to my eyes. A second later I sprang up, startled by a loud knocking at the door of the room. The unknown onlookers, breathless and â€" silent, â€"exchanged glances of abject terror. "Hark!" I cried. "What‘s that?" ‘"Hush!" they commanded fiercely. For a few seconds there was a dead silence, then the summons was reâ€" peated louder than before, as a deep voice outside criedâ€" Upon the small assembly the words fell like a thunderbolt. A third time the knocking was reâ€" peated, when suddenly there was a Toud crash and the door, slowly breaking from its hinges, fell with its silken portiere heavily into the room as three detectives in tweed suits springing over it dashed toward us. I stood transfixed. "Open the door. We are police ofâ€" ficers, and demand admittance in the name of the law!" ‘"They have come!" gasped Oone of the women, pale and trembling. She was of middle age and wore an elaâ€" borate toilet with a magnificent necklet of pearis, § ‘"‘Silence! Make no ‘answer," the man who had conducted me from Richmond whispered anxiously. "They may pass on, and we may yet escape." "Escape!"" I echoed, looking from one to the other, "what crime have you committed?" & ‘"See! there she is!" cried one the men authoritatively, pointing Sybil. ‘"Arrest her!" The two others dashed forward to execute their inspector‘s orders, but as they did so the clergyman stepped quickely before her chair, and raising his hand, criedâ€" ‘"Back I command you! Back! The lady for whose arrest I presume you hold a warrent, has, alag! gone to where she is not amenable to the law of man." The men halted, puzzled. "What do you mean?" they cried. "Look for yourselves, gentlemen," the elderly â€" ecclesiastic answered calmly. Then in a volce full of emotion he added!" "She is dead!" (To be continued next week.) inoooonennnorcniocco0cecincoo00 00 000600000e0uncnin ) 2 of to (May be Used with Temperance Application) Golden Text.â€"Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy ‘soul and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Mat: 225 37â€"39; This Week‘s S8..8. Lesson Lesson Text.â€"Mat. 22: 15â€"22, 34â€" 40. (Read Mat. 28: 1â€"39; Mk. 12:; 13â€"17 , 28â€"31; La. 20: 20â€"26, 41â€"44; PML 3; 17â€"231.) Time.â€"Monday, April 3, A.p. 30. Place.â€"Jerusalem, the temple. Exposition.â€"I. The Pharisees Conâ€" founded, 15â€"22. This is a great lesson to which the committee has given a silly and inadâ€" equate title. The parable of Jesus concerning the wicked husbandmen in the preceding chapter (ch. 21: 33â€" 46) was clearly understood by the chief priests and scribes and Pharisâ€" ees. It stung them to the quick. It did not, however, bring repentance. Truth resisted always hardens and the words of Jesus hardened them; they became more determined than ever to put Jesus out of the way (v. Lt\ cf..ch. 21:, 46)... Only. one thing held them back, fear of the people, who were still on Jesus‘ side. What they did not dare do openly and diâ€" rectly, they now undertake to do unâ€" derbandedly . and. indirectly. They sought to bring Jesus into conflict with the Roman government. â€" The Pharisees entered into a plot with their most determined enemies, the Herodians, to entangle Jesus into sayâ€" ing semething treasonable and then to ‘hand Him over to the Roman govâ€" etnor to deal with Him (v. 16). Oftâ€" en toâ€"day the bitterest enemies will join together in their common hatred for Christ. Jewish zealots spurned paying tribute to the Roman emperor and Jesus‘ enemies sought to entrap Him into saying that the tribute monâ€" ey must not ‘be paid to a heathen government. They began with words of smoothest flattery (v. 16). The devil is never so dangerous nor so malicious as when he flatters. Jesus was nt in the least blinded by these honied ,words. â€" Having baited their trap, the cunning question followed, "Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar or not?" The snare was well laid and they doubtless said to themâ€" selves, "In a moment â€"we will have Him caught.". But wait, He calls for a Roman denarius with which the tax was paid. ‘"Whose image and suâ€" perscription?" he asks. "Caesar‘s," they reply, and they. have caught themselves, and not Him. ‘"Very well" He says in effect, "You accept the money of the foreign government, you must then accept your responsibilities to it. If you use Caesar‘s money, you must pay Caesar‘s toll" (v. 24). There are things which are due to human government, and one thing due to them is the taxes that are necessary to their support in the functions of which you enjoy the benefit. Chrisâ€" tian ethics require the rendering to human governments the things which are due to human governments. But there are other things that belong to God, and we should render to God the things that belong to Him. Some of the things due to God are the abâ€" solute surrender of the will, gratitude for His blessings, praise for His exâ€" cellencies, ‘worship of Himself. See that you render these to Him. It is passing strange that usually in serâ€" mons on v. 21 the whole emphasis is laid upon ourâ€"duty to Caesar. Christ‘s enemies were utterly foiled, "they were not able to take hold of the sayâ€" ing before the people" (Lu. 20: 26). It burned. their fingersâ€"and their souls. When you pay 30 cents for a halftâ€"pound packageoft Red Rose Tea(Crimson Label) you get exâ€" actly the same tea for which you formerly paid 35 cents a package.â€"Quality in Red Rose, Tea is the ftirst consideration. .. II. The First Commandment and the Greatest Sin, 34â€"40. Jesus had silenced both the Phariâ€" sees and the Sadducees who had sought to entrap Him and confuse Him (vs. 15â€"33). A lawyer (Scribe, Mk. 12; 28) who had listened was deeply impressed by the reasoning of Jesus, and he also asked a question. He did it to try or test Him (v. 35; cf. Mk. 12; 28). The question was an important one, the answer thoroughly convincing. Man‘s first duty is to God. God in infinite, man in finite, no number of finites equals infinty; therefore, if we should perform our duty to every fellow man and failed LESSONS ON _ CITIZENSHIP 70 acres of hardy Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens and â€" « * Perennials. Plants for Hedges and Windsereens. Sheridan SHERIDAN, ONT. Send for Catalogue You "In the days of my youth," Father: William replied, "I remembered that youth would fly fast, And abused not my Health and my viâ€" gor at first, That I might need them at last."" "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, ‘"And pleasures with youth pass away, And yet you lement not the days thait anre gone, Now teli me the reasom, I pray."" to perform our duty toward the one: infinite God where we failed would. be immeasurably. more important. than where we performed our duty.. Our duty to God can be summed up: in one wordâ€"love.. But what is leve?‘_ To love another is to have a desire for and.a delight in his welfare; it is: not a mere emotion or affection, but the attitude of the whole man. To love God with all the heart and soul and mind and strength is to have a â€" supreme desire for and delight in God‘s glory, so that everything else is . secondary to that. The proof that we do thus love ,God with all the heart, | with all the soul and with all the â€" mind is that we put God first in every _ thingâ€"God first in business, God first in politics, God first in study, God first in pleasure, God first in home . life, God first in social life, God first in everything. To do this is to keep . the first and great â€"commandment (vs. 37, 38). To have failed to do this . is to have committed the greatest sin . a man can possibly commit, and at some time in our life all of us have failed to do this and have thus broken God‘s first and great commandment; so "there is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3: 23). But there is & second law like unto the first, not equalâ€"second, not first, but like the first. Its central word, too, is love; its object our neighbor, our fellowâ€" man. This second commandment reâ€" quires that we have the same desire for and in our own welfare. The secâ€" ond commandment is really involved in the first; for if we love God, whom we have not seen, we must love our neighbor, whom we have seen (1 Jno. 4: 20, 21). It is nonsense for a man to pretend to love God if he does not love his neighbor, for love to God inâ€" volves loye to neighbor. The Scribe who was asked the question was a man of spiritual discernment, he assented to Jesus‘ answer (Mk. t2: 32â€"34). There are many. toâ€" day who call themselves Chrisâ€" tians _who lack the clear moral discernment of that Scribeâ€"church= going, psalmâ€"singing, praying and Bibleâ€"reading are in their view of more importance that love to God and fellowâ€"man. These two commandâ€" ments sum up the whole contents of both law and prophets. Jesus Christ perfectly kept these commandments. We can only keep them by having Christ formed within us, then by the power of the indwelling Spirit the righteousness of the law will be fulâ€" filled in us (Rom. 8: 1â€"4) and we shall love God supremely and our neighbor as ourselves. The laws says, "This do and thou shalt live;‘s the Gospel says, ‘"Live and thou shalt do this." We get life as a gift and then obey because we have life. (BY ROBERT SOUTHEY) You are old, Father William," the young man cried; _ "The few locks that are left you are gray; Zou are hate, Father Willlamâ€"a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason,. I pray." _ ‘"In the days of my youth," Father, | William replied, "I remembered that youth could" not last; $ I thought of the future whatever I ‘‘You are old, Father Wilfiam," the young man cried, ¢ "And life must be hastening away; You are cheerful and love to converse upon death: A ‘"Now tell me the reason I pray." "I am cheerful, young man," Father William replied, wo ‘‘Let the cause thy attention enâ€" gage: ' BR % In the days of my youth I rememiberâ€" ed my God, j And He hath not forgotter my age." | Nurseries THE OLD MAN‘S COMFORTS did, . That I never might grieve for the PAGE THREE S