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# OR, A SAD hs LIFE STO A +O+-0404 ; 040s , -- - wi 3X CHAPTER XXXVI, Jim's first care on relurning to his tel is to ascertain that the depariure tor Hammam Rhira has really taken Place, and, having been reassured on his point, retires to his ewn bedroom le reconnoitre the terrace, upon which it gives. . The sun has long drunk up (he rain from the tiles, and the chairs have n sel out again, The holel guests, in all the sociability of thelr after-luncheon mood, - are standing and silling abeut, The widow Wadman, with great play of eyebrow and lig, is pacing up down in: arch conversation with her habifual viclim. Snatches of her 'alluring lalk reach Jim behind his muslin eurtain as she comes and goes : "I think that caged birds ought to be "doved I" "The prophet wis a wise man, as not he? he knew a little about us," elo, In her usual place, aloof from the rest of the company, Elizabeth is sitting in a Slinging white gown of some woolly stufl.'. With a dainty white kerchief twisted about her head, and a: bundle of many-tinted Eastern stuffs on her knees, she looks like a little Romney. Now and again, as fragments of the widow's siren sirains reach her ears, he sees her lips curl up into delighted laughter; but, for the most part, she seems to be looking round rather uneasily, as il seeking something or someone, Can it be him- self thal she, in her innocence of being observed, is on the watch for? He has no right to be playing the spy on her in any case. IL is Ciear, that, dressed as she 1s, she cannot be meditating going out. He must not frighten her by any too direct or sudden attentions. In & llitle while the other occupants of the terrace will drift away, and he will stroll oul Bnd join her, and together they will watch the shade of the ficus-tree length- ening over the red flags. But she pre- sently baffles his caloulations by: rising, and, with her bow ated pile of brocades clasped in her slender arms, slowly passes into the house, Has she retreated. thither for good? and will he have fo frame some new flimsy excuse for knocking at her door? «But again he is out of his reckoning, for in about a quarter of an hour she re-dssues, dressed for walking ;-and afterené-more-linger{: ing, and, © as jt seems to him, disa pointed glance around her, paces, a soli- tary little figure, down the hill, He lays his watch before him, and having counted five minutes on its dial-plate, sets off in pursuit. He overtakes her just as she reaches the point where the lane debouches into the highroad. = She «stands, « looking rather disconsolately, first up the hill, then down it, evidently uncertain which direction to choose. "You cannot make up your mind?" he says, pausing beside her, and taking off his hat, She gives a slight start, and a friendly, pleased 'smile runs all over her face and up into her eyes--a smile that makes him say to himself confidently that it was he whom 'her glance had been seeking on the 'terrace, "Which do you advise?" "I advise the town." He has long known her {eachableness; 80 it'is no greal surprise to him that she al once turns in the direction counselled. "As I am going bere niyself, will you allow me to walk 4 little way with you?" He makes (he request with respectful "diflidence ; and she, after "one small froubled look, evidently given to the memory of her father, assents. They seb off dow the hill together, ihe air, sharp after the rain--as sharp; ar lenst, as Algiers' stingléss air ever is "bringing the colar: lo Elizabeth's cheeks, as she steps along light-hearted- ly, scarcely refraining from breaking in to. a 'rum down the steep. incline. ~Her|byle cide 'upon the propriety or impropriety of 'any given course of female action, now answers with an almost brutal deci: siveness ; "1 do not think that there is the small eit doubt about it." A relieved look erosses her features. "Then I am sure it is all right," she says, with a joyful surrendering of her Judgment into his keeping, and so, once again, steps along with her quick feather- light feet at his side, For the moment she is the happier olf the two, since he is not perfectly pleased either with himself or her. It is in vain that he tells himself that it is no babe whom he is beguiling ; that, difficult as il is to believe it, those limpid eyes have looked at the sun for seven-and-fwenly years. He still has a' lingering sense "of discomfort at having availed himself, | for his 'own profit of her docility, 'And yet, five minutes Titer, he takes yet fur- ther 'advantage of that quality in her: They have reached the Plateau Satuliere, and the stand of flacrns thal "station. ment" there. Jim pauses. A "It is a good distance to the Arab town, 1 fancy, and very {tiring walking when you get there." "It is as steep as the side of a house; we shall be like flies on a wall," cries she delightedly. "It would be a pity to be too tired to enjoy it beforn you got there, would not it? says he /doubtfully, and eyeing her bright slenderness with an air of uncer- tainty as to her powers of endurance. "Had 'not we belter--would you mind-- our driving there?" "I am not at all tired," replies she; "I do not feel as if I ever should be tired tc-day; but Hf you think it better---" Still he looks. at her dubiously. To-him there appears to be a much grealer de: gree of the compromising in a {ele-a fete drive than in a walk. In the one case the meeting may have been accidental; in the other there can be no mistake as fo the deliberate intention. But either this does not strike Elizabeth, or she thinks, "In for a penny, in for a pound," or, lastly ' and most probably, having given up her judgment into his keeping, she finds it easier and most natural to | pi acquiesce in whatever he may propose. Fhe ungenerous -thought flashes 'across him thal if this is the principle on which she 'has guided her life, it is small won: 'der if she have made shipwreck of it He hails a fldcre, and silently 'hands her in, and again they are off. Elizabeth 'has disclaimed fatigue, and yel the - restful position is evidently agreeable to her delicate body; and she thanks him so gratefully for his thought of her that his hard thoughts of her dis- solve into remorse, and by-and-by change into an enjoyment almost as en- tite and uncalculating as 'her own. Elizabeth has astonishing powers of enjoying herself, If he had not known that fact before, the afternoon would have revealed it to him, She must have driven through the Frerich lown almost every day since her arrival, and yet its' cheerful white-shut- fered houses, its boulevards of glossy- leaved ficus-trees, its cafes, its arcaded streets with their polyglot promenaders, seem fo fill her with as lively a pleasure as if 'she had but just landed from the steamboat that brought her, The three Spahis, <ternally sitting in a row on a bench outside some general officer's - quarters, robed in their great red cloaks, with muslin-swathed swart heads and long red-leather boots, dimly descried beneath the slately sweep of their mantles, 'sitting "there motionless, 80! erable Arab, only to be ig {rom 'Abraham or Isaac by his carrying a vulg brown Umbrella a sh . Co) spirits are so evidently rising ab every | bound yard that he hazards his next step. "I 'am going fo see the b tow Miss Strut. says that I ought." . CE i. "She meant you to' ask her to show it your «ries Elizabeth, with a ough 'but she was quite 1 hes is delightful; © "Yes, once or twice; not half so often" --regretfully--*as I. should dike 0 haye 1, striding lud J licate old woman; a Biskrah water-carrier, poising a burnished 'copper two little 'baggy-trousered striped and inde] a JEAN ! y | "logs; | along, looking exactly ike a oT y 4 rd M Her laughter is quite "Never at any ou in y in your life" re peats he, his surprise belraying him into ona of those flights back into the past! yan for" which she has always showed such repugnance. "Why, you used fo love pi madly | I remember your danc- ie or ing like a dervish, What is more, 1 re- 'member dancing with you." "Oh, do not remember anything fo- day I" cries she, with a sort of writhe in her voice; "do nol let either of Us re: member anything! Let us have a whole holiday from remembering I' % So saying, she moves on quickly ; and yet with the dance gone out of her feel. It never quile comes back. : They loo! into an Arab club, where men are squat- ting, playing with odd-looking cards and drinking muddy , coffee. = "Then a loud noise of jabbering young voices makes them peep in upon an Arab. school, "where-a--cirele: of little Mosléms -is. sit- ting on the ground, scribbling Arabic on slates ; 'while between the: knees of the turbaned master a tiny baby scholar, of three or four,'is standing in a lovely dull green coallet, Elizabeth' :stfokes . the baby-learner's coppery - cheek with her light hand, and says with a jaugh, that it "seems odd 10 see little street Boys writing 'Arabic; "but her laughter is no longer the bubbling, irrepressible joy- drunk thing it was before he had in- dulged in his tactless reminiscences; it is the well-bred, civil, grown-up Sound that so often has no inside gladness fo match it. 'In his vexation with himself far the clouding over of his little heaven that he himself has effected, hé tries fo persuade himself that it is caused by bodily fatigue, ? : "If 1 were asked," he says, by-and-by, locking down affectionately at her pallid profile, *I shovld say that you had had about enough of this; your spirit"-- smiling--"is so "very much {oo big for ycur body. that one has to keep an eye upon, you," ? "It 'would not be much of 'a spirit if it were not," replies she, with a pretty air of perfectly sincere disparagement of her own slight proportions ; "I khow that 1 look a poor thing, but I am rather a fraud; 1 do not tire easily; I am not tired now." que, =, She lifts 'her stveet look, wil "of hurry of denial in it. "Most distinetly not." © = - A "You would' Lie to go on, then?" "Yes." > ke "Or back ? 40d, She. hesitates, her eyes exploring' his with; as he feels, a genuine anxiety in it to discover what his own wishes are, 80 that her decision may jump with them. "Yes--perhaps; I choice." He both looks at her and speaks to her with a streak of exaspérdtion; ~Do_ you never have a will--a prefer: ence of your own?" It is evidently no unfamiliar thing to her to be addressed with causeless irri tability. The recollection 'of her fathers fone in speaking to her flashes back re- have really no morsefully upon Jim's memcry.<. Is he| himsell going to take a leaf out of that book ? It would be a relief fo him wi sh to answer him sharply i but to di that is apparently not within her capa- bilities, though the tender red that linges her cheek shows that she has felt his snub, "In 'this case T. seally answers gently; "but was tiresome of me not to~speak more decidedly ; © let us--Jet us" have not, sh nh and silent as the cules; a ven-| after "gistinguished | Li ib is* run throu face: pot 'on "his shoulder ; |. red while: ladies | blue. | waddling along; a dozen 'of smart blue T She is' enraptured part from. hin," i ~The milk is received in in this way. They are first : tepid waler; then wash in water 100 ho for: the hand and containing some clean- sng powder or sal soda, the washing being done by brushes ralher than cloths, They are. then rinsed with boil: ing water and steamed if possible, other. wise taken Irom the rinsin loose drops shaken off an a witliout "wiping. ~The milk is. Three thicknesses of cheese cloth which pieces are washed and. scalded or. boil- allowed 10 pails washed be 1 rinsed off inl | Tiore econol hot |" "Separating water, the | ng milk is a slow job-at | It takes. from: one to {wo hours and his' multiplied by the num days in the year grows to a very per- | gepiible shars of the working {ime through two or remain et between successive hours of milk-| carr in ing. Atter straining, the ilk is either aer-|) ated, cooled a it to the factory or fhe separator. © Sepacator.--The hand separator bids fair fo revolutionize the deiry. industry. By the use of this la- bor 'and buitér saver, the farmer can take practically all of 'the fat from the milk and can do it at the time of milk. ing while the milk is warm. The skims milk is then ready for. ihe 'calves or pigs. Joi 1 Who then will buy a separator? He that has four or more cows and wants > make all the ~bulter possible from them at the least cost. 2 Why shall he buy? Becauss the amount of fat a separator saves over {he cold deep setting will not only pay the interest on the first cost of the machine tut will actually pay for the machine in a few years, if the number of cows is large enough to warrant, Because, loo, {he skimmilk is not taken into the house "Bored, then 7" with a slight accent of{{ didn't 'do things her way. You know they say you're "old-fashioned" when cleaned and easy of separation. = 'Separa'ors' Location is 'Tmportant.-- The care of the separalor is not a hard | problem if 'the location is right, (he foundation: good and the essentials in the way of accessories are convenient. One thing required is pure air. A cow stable will not do, because the air cannot be. kept pure. Although it is handy to have the separafor right there 80 you can pour the milk from the pail info which it is drawn, through a strainer at the top 'of ihe separator can, still such a practice is rightly for bidden in the stable itself. The separa- ov 'Tust be placed where the air is al- ways pure, i BE HC The room where the separator is must 'be free from dust, hence the woodshed is forbidden unless a part of it be parti: YOu see things that other people can't See, when you dream such beautiful dreams, and wheh you play nice games with what Aunt Jane would call the people 'of your imagination--though to You they're real girls and boys, just the same. y : Oh, it's fice to be "old-fushioned," es- pecially when you live In a big farm- house, with the nearest neighbor a mile Jar. It keeps you from growing lone. But, In spite of all your Imaginatio sometimes you get & wee BIE Todbaonns, Other Self, Let me Betty liked rainy days. 'Sounds tell you how this In dare say that it} | At least Betty aid, untl sho found her the | ¢ Si jumped i yhol ig ju on ------ %Tell me; said ithe = lovelorr "what is the best way to find a woman thinks of you?" os "Marry her!" © 'replied Peckhi promptly. 3 Rio THE PARTING GUEST. "And what brought you here?" "They caught me coming out!" AVOID DANGER. Mother (to fulure son-in-law, fell you that, though m well 'educated, she cannat 1 : © Future Son-in-law -- "That dot malter much, so long as, she does; PARY.E + ; :