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CHAPTER XI1.--(Cont'd) straight at her fa- her then 'and has lips 'trembled. Kicked that dear, ful 'Oh, daddy, how could he do "--her face was crimson with dis- beautiful col: |} nd anger. "What did you] 'I confess, my ilurling, my fist all ib met: Mr. 'Crawshaw's head ; fore bunately, .I restrained myself suffi- iently to remember that I was his 'host, but I think I let him see #0 g of my contempt; and } Rave Foster orders before him to ©. poor creature loose, and take her into the paddock." "And--and was she really hurt, papa » Bir Humphrey's brows met. . *'Yes, she was,"' he said, almost shortly ; "she ran lame, and imoan- 'ed at every yard. On my life, Dol- ly, 1 was never so near thrashing. # man in the whole course of my pareer!"' "1 wish you had done it!' Doro- _ thy cried, with flashing eyes. "Let \ Mr. Crawshaw kick his: dog, or show off any of his brutal ways . before me, and --" But here Miss Leicester had to _ compose her feelings and her face, and meet her guescs as they came across the lawn. 'I feel as if I shall never be able : $0 touch his hand or welcome him here again. I always distrusted and hated him, now I loathe him--- coward and brute!' she said to her- self, as she listened to the Hon. Ella's glowing account of the match, and watched Crawshaw saunter, in hig peculiarly insolent, offensively / 'pretentious manner, toward them. = "I know if I stay I shall be rude to him, 80 I had better go before comes," she mused, and, with a hurried excuse, she went up 'to Mrs. Fairfax, and strolled with her to the house. = "I will wait till Nancy is quite better, and then I 'will tell 'nes,' the said to herself. as she ran hastily upstairs to dress for dinner. "1 know she will hate him even more than I do. Oh, dear! I wish "to Heuven it was permissible to speak out one's mind to one's guests! I should not spare Mr. ¢ Thomas Crawshaw 1" She tdpped at Nancy's door and peéeped in, but no one was there. "Cone down to meet me, no doubt," Dorothy conjectured, with 'some disappointment. *'I wish I had seen her, dear thing! Well, at any rate, she is better, and that'is all 'I care 'about." . "She questioned Baines carefully "a8 to how Nancy had looked, and was very much cheered by her maid's good report. * "Of course she is 'sure to look ale, that is only natural. Do you know, Baines, 1 fancy Miss Hamil- ton must have had a slight attack of sunstroke; she will run about without: anything on her head." "Yes, miss; I think you're right, - miss," was Baines' reply; but, _ while she brushed and arranged the: soft, golden urls, the maid was * thinking to herself, shrewdly and 'gyuietly. 'It weren't no sunstroke, more like a heart stroke. : . There wore a look in the poor thing's eyes as she smiled at me just now, that give me quite a turn. I wonder what has happened to her? She's » sweet young creature, as don't teserve any misfortune, that she don't!" ' ; hah hile Dorothy as chatting lightly to her maid, Nancy was g her: way slowly to the far: ¢ \ al "What has happened? Ohl wk has happened to her!' she. cried, sharply; her great, tender heart could 'never bear the sight of a} dumb creature's pain... The groom shifted his foot un- easily. : 'She's only he answered, hurriedly. © "Lame! She is ill; dying; look at hier eyes, they are asking us to help her.' Bee, she cannot stand upright; something - has happened to her--what is it? Foster must doctor her; he is 8o clever and good with dogs." Oh," poor Zoe!' poor Zoe!" Her little white hand caressed the collie's sleek head, while a pang shot through her heart afresh at every short, hard breath that came from the poor animal. Everything was forgotten at that moment but pity for the dog, who had grown to know and like her even in the few short times iv. had been over at the Hall. ' 'She should not be out here walking;"' Nancy said, coldly, to. the man; she thought him heedless and+cruel, 'She must go to the stables at once," 2 "Begging your pardon, miss, Mr. Crawshaw made me bring her out here." "He--he could not surely know she was in such a state,"' she mur- mured, 'in faint, low accents. The groom answered her rather gruffly: < A "He ought to, then, miss, seeing as it's all through him she's like this." ~Mancy's blue eyes were turned upwards; for many a day their look of uncontrollable horror lived in the man's memory. . "Through him ?"* she whispered, faintly, ; "'Yes, miss; she did something as vexed Mr. Crawshaw; and he Kicked her. 1'don't suppose he meant to hurt her really, for she's a valuable dog; but Foster says she's injured internally, miss, and he fears she'll have to be poigoned."" ' Nancy bent lower and still lower over the dumb, suffering creature; till 'her: pale lips touched the dog's head; a great bond of synipathy was suddenly riveted between this ani- mal and hersell ; both were plunged from sunshine to gloom, both their hearts were riven in twain, to both the bitter end had come. "Poor Zoe, he might have spared vou I'. was the wispoken. ery on Nancy's lips as she rose slowly to her feet--her face was ghastly pale, her hands trembling, her," she pleaded, rather than said; to the groom, "she cannot suf- fer like this.": ; J / "P11 'fetch Foster to her; miss, Report is the You Jou must do something for a bit 'lame, miss,' |: 04 feature of provision made staploses to become posgessors policy already in 'force in. seme of the largest institutions, and show. that the Candida Cement Company |" are quick, to appreciate any means of stimulating interest and confi« Another noteworthy dence npon the part of the stall. »The- strong: financial 'position "of | the company is a well known fac and all 'that is necessary to ensure |" the continued success of the cons | cern is continued prosperity of the [ff country, together with an increased realization of the importance and Sconomy of cement a3 a building material.' Co : al and cast it to the soft summer breeze, to be carried away. to the uttermost corners of the earth. "Oh, Zoe, Zoe," ' she moaned, crouching down by the dog, "what have we done that we should be tortured like ' this? I may have committed some wrong, but you" The poor creature tried feebly to lick: hier gentle hand, and at the touch a flood of hot tears broke from her eyes, while a shiver o dréad 'and repugnance | passe through her frame; as if a shadow of the future that crept near to make her misery greater? Was it 'a grim proguostication of what was to come! She did not know; but: she was faint and ill when 'the two men came back 'through the] trees. A i i "CQarry her carefully, Foster," she said to the old head groom, who had lived at the Hall for nearly halt {{} = a century ; 'and, Foster, do not let |} Miss Dorothy know if you can help: iti; she--she will be #0. grieved. Poor Zoe! Good-bye---good-bye." i She bent = and kissed the d again, and then she = turned and walked steadily away down to that dear, well-remembered spot at the lake's edge. : Sd 'Oh, love--oh, life !" she cried, {{} to herself, as she stood alone be- neath the low-hanging branches of the trees. 'You: will never know what 1 am enduring--you will never} know. Pray God you may never bel} given such agony as has fallen on} me War) CALNE and we'll carry her between us to}, the stable," Perhaps she'll be bet- ter. to-morrow, miss.' To-morrow | Nancy shuddered. edhe would d 'call would ered her What depths of horror were exit, pressed in that word! With bent head she was turing away, when| the man stopped her. ai "1 beg your pardon, miss, but Mr. Orawshaw told me I was logk for you and give you this. know woul Then TO THE SHAREHOLDERS : oy "Your Directors beg tion of the Canada Ceme ¢ of cash on hand tion, extraordinary r ance. fo Burplus Account The consumption of 8 ar, e. nd renewals, bad debts, eto, cement durisig the i on account 'of 'the' daring tho henry shiping season; comes ly in 1910 the 'price of our 'product state that the anticipa they were able to still further reduce this We trust, when you con : . 1910 our plants. were only op tthe Bharehoer Duzing the curren