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. 'Duran and one by Chartran the year #4 4 5 f i ! x doctor in Paris matters that they dared not dis-' "Where's everybody going this after oon?" Mrs. Trafford demanded a half later with a briskness which her 'his lips and looked round at her over his shoulder. - "You seem to be lost In admiration jot yourself, Paula," he observed. "You had a portrait last year by Carolus before. _Who's your man, Paula? Give us an American this time, won't you? Say Sargent or some of those fellows." ~~ A "He is an American," Paula replied, "but he isn't Sargent. He's a new painter. I believe he has remarkable talent. We spoke of him one night at Monte Carlo. You told me about him, George. His name is Winship." | Mrs. Trafford gave a little scream and let her coffee cup fall with a crash | on the floor. | |" "Paula Trafford," she cried, "if you | want to kill me, do it now! Don't let it { be by inches!" | | "You do beat everything, Paula," her | cousin observed grimly, "for getting things on the brain. I'll bet 50 cents that you've been turning those Win ships over in your head ever since the subject came up two or three weeks ! " | ago. . { "Lady Alice knows. them," Paula | stammered in excuse, "She says he's | ,wotiderful--and he isn't recognized and his mother is blind--a0d *2ey're so | poor--and'--, zr {Goodness knows" Mrs. Trafford ox. | postulated, LL lenty of psoF | 'people in the world without hunting ,up.your own father's enemies! I don't E § . had pointed out, everything her seemed oppressively ancient. PD i 3 27 it was even stately--but to any one actually lving there her shudder. The Winships mselves were well content to have vered in the heart of the city so § HH fered in thinking the matter over. On 'the contrary, in her velvet and sables she felt herself imposing. The ease with which the conversation at the luncheon table had passed off gave to the undertaking an air of being a mat- ter of ¢ourse. Besides, after all, there was no tremendous difficulty to over- come. She would have such a conver sation as she bad held at other times with M. Chartran or:M. Carolus Duran and would come away. On the ques- tion of price she would paturaily bave to surprise the young artist, but such surprises were generally borde Dy their recipients with good grace. I'or ev- erything else she counted on her own dignity, tact and Knowledge of thas world. The entry was so dark and the slip pery stairs were so steep that on the winding Paula waited for a minute be side a window to take breath. As she gazed outward she rehearsed |once more the first few phrases she should use to Winship. Suddenly she ---- She gazed outward. On crossing the threshold she passed mt once into the full domestic life of the family. She had entered an im- mense, barnlike apartment, which was evidently studio and living room in jone. The floor was bare except for a few of the commoner sorts of oriental rags. The walls were hung with an ordinary dark red stuff which formed m background for the unframed sketches--portraits, landscapes and ar- ichitectural drawings--pinped up here nnd there agaiust it. At the far end of the room there was an easel on which the work wus covered up with a loosely thrown cloth. A couple of lay figures stood in grotesque attitudes in a corner, while near them was un open mrand plano of old fashioned make. It was only vaguely that Paula took these details in, for after the first iilance her eyes were drawn to a tall figure seated quite near her fn a high, thronelike chair. Paula knew at once that this was the (woman who had done battle with her |father until he had been obliged "to club her down." The immediate im- seemed to hear music--the faint tin. pression was that of a person sitting kling of an air with which she was Very still and erect, her feet planted familiar. When she turned from the firmly on a red cushion and a large window to go up the second flight of volume, evidently a Bible, in raised stairs the sounds became more dis- tidet, ox net letterg bpen on her knees. Over the !white bair g lace scarf of beautiful de- ; _. sign came to a point an the forehead | Presently she heard a voice singing-- 8! a woman's Volce, eect ad in foe, 'and 'fell ig Yappets to he shoulders. e the tone o but thin and worn, 1 ing her accompaniment. Fhe quite plainly: old plan on which inger was rellev r he & Boce on fastened on the breast with a large ding Paula could bear the words ©1d fashioned brooch sef with emer- the The Héverlty of the black gown was y a fichu of soft white stufr, ,alds. Clearly the face had been hand- it lieve the portrait is anything but a | "O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and tor. SOME Once and even haughty, but now ren pretext for'-- . "Even 80, Aunt Trafford, dear," Mrs. "The night is gone, And with the morn those all that had been passionate or self willed in it was subdued by time and faces smile George interrupted in her reasonable Which I have loved long since and lost SOTTO into SWeetness, There was no n a tone, "don't you think it's just what Uncle Trafford would like? Haven't you known him time and time again to turn round on the beaten and the bit: and the sore and hold out the help- ing band to them? Is there any one who knows better than he how to take the sting from hostility? And isn't it of the responsibility of wealth"-- "Oh, you needn't tell me!" Mrs. Traf- There was an amen, just as they sing in churches, and then the tinkling mu- sic ceased. Paula took a step forward toward the closed door through which the sounds had proceeded. It was that indicated to her by the conclerge, but she hoped to find. herself mistaken. While she was ready to deal with Win- ship himself, she had not counted on finding herself face to face with the women of his family. But, no; she was not mistaken. It was the door. The card on it bore the name "Winship." She was half inclined to turn away when a high pitched, quavering voice arrested her attention. . "Thank you, Marah, dear. very nice, very comforting." . The enunciation had that slow, em- phatic distinctness which belongs to That's aged persons of strong will. Paula {was about to ring when voice be- [the boy who 4 color there. at all--only the waxlike Itransparency of the aged. As Paula entered the sightless eyes were raised toward her, as if with one more use- less, piteous attempt to pierce the dark- ness. Marah Winship bad allowed Paula to stand still a moment and gaze. It was one of her rare hits of pleasure-- that instant when n stranger beheld her mother fer the first time and be- trayed her astonished admiration. It Iwas the old maid's only coquetry. It |was all that remained of the vivacity days before the family disasters. When ruin overtook them she gave up once and forever all impossible hopes for herself. She had not been with- out a young woman's love of happy trifies nor without a pleasant, vague anticipation of a home, with children or her own, nor without the half shy, half rapturous thought that if a cer- tain one of the young men with whom to.make a man of Roger, 'was 80 much younger was first {and pride that had been hers in the. poverty stricken, while she was spend- ing the money which would have pro- vided for this helplessness the setting to which it was entitled. During the second or two that had passed since she entered the room her mind had worked faster than it had ever worked | before. Wild schemes rose confusedly {in ber heart, and it was almost exult- antly that she feit it in her power to change all this, making amends for a sense of the wrong that bad been done she could not help feeling as she stood in the vast bare room a little like a fairy godmother, But when Marah Winship spoke Paula was recalled of necessity to the circumstances of the moment. "l think my brother is in. 1 will go and see. May ] ask what name | ought to give him?" "Miss Trafford-- Miss ford." She spoke slowly and d'stinctly. She meant also to speak reassuvingly. She hoped the very sound of the name would be the signal that after the long years the victors were coming to give back the spolls and hold out the olive branch of peace. She was surprised to see Marah' start and grow pale, while her black eyes snapped with a sparkle "tke that of electricity. "I---1 don't think my brother can be 'u," sbe returned coldly. ~~ ~ - "lI want very much to see bim. Won't you make sure? Paula spoke In the gentle tone of command that came from her sense of nower. Marah Winship bad suffered too many defeats at the hands of wealth to dare to disobey. "Mother," she said, turning abruptly to the figure in the thronelike chalr, 'this is Miss Trafford--Miss ['aula I'rafford. She has come to see Roger. I'm going to look for him." She sped away, leaving Paula nlone id face to face with Mrs. Winship. There was a moment's silende, dur- 15 which the blind woman's fingers rembled violently over the raised let- ers of the open page. The lips qulv- Paula Traf- ded as If unable to frame a word. "Trafford!" she murmured at last "Did my daughter say Trafford Sm Pan) Trafford's daughter," 'anla aswered firmly. She would heave no understanding or mistake "I know the name," Mrs. \Wloshin sald, making an eft wwerard self control, "but 1 haven't heard it for many years." wy dear, when the race is as nearly heaven Is opening before your eyes nothing is very painful any more." Paula was not expecting this. She noved pneasily. The sound caught Mee Winshiv'e sue © = "Come nearer to me, dear," she qua- vered, holding out a delicate white tand on which a diamond or two still twinkled. "Come here. Sit down. Let me see you." There was a tall, straight backed 'hair beside her. Paula drew it near- er to the blind woman and sat down. "I was almost afraid to come," she Jegan to murmur, but Mrs. Winship in- 'errupted her. "You needn't be. No one can live to my age without learning that in this world we can't afford to cherish enml- A Doel) = SA 1 0 "| "I was almost afratd to come," she be - & } : | ties--not against any one, not against any owe, Give me your hand, my dear," she added, groping in the dark- hess. ha IE Paula stretched out both ber hands. She Sond not speak for fear of erying. |#'Ande of Avonlea," 'Kil the Orchard," | hundreds of short stories and poems | Which have appeared in the leading "'moafraid it may be painful to you," Paula felt impelled to say, "but" -- "It used to Le--it used to be, but, oh, run as mine is and the kingdom of ! rites of "Anne of Green Gables," "of Story Girl," and magazines. cf the day, was married on July 5th at Charlottetown, P. E. 1., to Rev. Ewen McDonald, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Leask: dale, Out., in Ontario county. The ceremony took place at the home of 'Miss Montgomery's uncle, John Cameron, Park Corner fon the north side of the Island, where the scene of the story Is laid in the Avonlea books. The couple were unattended 'Ti.e groom is a native of Valleyfieid. They left on a wedding tour for England, and will travel for three months, after which they will re- turn to Canada and will make their home in Leaskdale. Miss Mont- gomery was born at Ciifton, P. E. I. daughter of Hugh John Mont- gomery, merchant, who was the son of Senator Montgomery, She got her early schooling in the dis- trict school, and later attended the Prince of Wales College, Charlotte town' and Dalhousie College Halifax Subsequently she taught school for two years, Toronto Globe. SCUGOG With pleasuse we offer congratu- lations to Miss Hazel Alldred. and Mr. Clyde Platten who successfully passed their Examinations at the Port Perry High School. - Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sweetman en- tertained a number of friends at Pettet's Grove, on July the 4th, A i most delightful time was spent, the heat was intense, but the bathing in the cooling waters of Lake Scugog was enjoyed by all Mr. Jas. Mawson, of visited his sister Mr. Geo. last week. | Myr. Orme Hood, of Toronto spent a few days at his old home, On Wednesday July 5th, the Head Ladies Aid met at the home of Mrs. Whimset, The storm that was so threatening no doubt kept some away. There wasa pleasant meeting and good financial results This was the first mceting of the 'Ladies Aid for this year. A success- ful year has ciosed. The Ladies are hoving for success in the future On Wed. July 5th the Epworth "League of the lead courch was re- organized the following officers be- hinge elected -- I Pres, Rev, Toronto, Jackson W. Totten. i Vice Pres. I Brown, | Seey. Miss B. Johnston Treas. Mr. Thos. Redman Organist, Miss Lottie Rodman The Indian Church looks splendid since being freshly painted last week All the male members and adher- |ents of the ehnreh were requested to [pasist ip pRitipg on the cepts of White galui. The Feepunec was "« and very good, some «f the men . boys spending several days at ic, and they may well be proud of the result. On Tuesday July 4th the young people of the centre organize an Epworth League. The attendance was large, and the officers were elected as follows-- Pres --Mrs. Geo Sweerman Ist Tice Pres,--R. Prentice 2nd Vice Pres,-- Mrs. Hope 3rd Vice Pres.--Clide Platten 4th Nice Yres.--Miss Hazel dred Secy.--Miss Irene Gerow Trea. --Stanldy Gerow Organist Miss M. McGregor Mr. Hiram Fralick spent Domin- ion Day at Port Hope. Mr. G. H. Shipman, of Canning- ton, ard daughter, Ruth have been visiting at the parsonage. Mrs Simmons and family of All- Keu Beach are settled in their cot- tage at Pine Point. Mrs. Metcalfe. of Cannington, spent Friday with her uncle at the Parsonage. NOTICE Take notice thai the Clerk of the Village of Port Perry has received the Assessment Roll on July 5th. 1911 and that the last day for re- ceiving appeals from said Assess-- ment is July 19th 1911, rr Court of Revision TOWN. HALL, POR?" PERRY Take notice that the first sitting of the Court of Revision to revise the Assessment Roll of the Village of Port Perry will be held on Mon- day, August 7th, at 8 p.m. of which t take notice and govern themselves accordingly. i ; Wm. H. Harris, Clerk Dat d at Port Perry 10th July, 1911' all persons interested are requested fof a kind that have been used to the: . conse LosT 3 oe / 2 3 3 4 : BL hy ® : | Miss Lucy Maud Montgomery, This ptirse was lost betu § Song Scugog, and Port Perry. It contained a note book and a cone. siderable sum of money. Finder please return same to STAR Office; or to Orval Stone, Scugog P.O-. Auction Sale Ce OF THE Petiitt Farm Proper TOWNLHIP OF SC GOOG; The Executors of the Estate of thelate - Geo. W. Pettitt will offer for sale - BY PUBLIC AUCTION At the ST. CHARLES HOTEL, Port Pe Perry, on THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1812 At 2 o'c,ock p.m. the valuable Farm Properties of the: late. George W. Pettitt, compnsi 237 acres,which willbe offered in three PARCEL No. 1 Composed of Nosth. half of Lot 2 in the 9th Concession of the: Township of Scugog, and part of North half of Lot 1, in the same i containing 112 acres, on which area & storey Frame Dwelling on stone 24x 3% with kitchen extension, Barn 32 x 71 am concrete blocks with stabling underneath, igpen, Driving House, la; young Orchard, good water, etc. Ee Parcel No. 2 The South 105 acres of Lot 3 in the 10th Concession of Scugog,, excepting the South West 10 acmes thereof. This land is well fenced and ig. splendid condition. PARCEL No. 3 Com of. the South 50 acres of Lot 2 in 10th con cession gf-the Township of ° [3 which are a comfortable 1 1-2 stemey Frame Dwelling 4 x 36 on stone, willy, extension 16 x 22, Barn 32 x 74, Oh stohd with stabling underneath, stable » 3s Hay Bain 22 x 4o, Pigpen 16 x 24, goad orchard, two wells, etc. Part of Papel No. 3 comprises the celebrated i Point Camping Grounds on which. are erected Eight Summer Cottages. If Parcel No. 2 1s not sold, 'arcels | Nos. 2 and. 3 will be offered together. The soil of these lands is clay loam; in fine state of cultivation; and Buildings are in good condition. Possession to plow after harvest; full possession Ist March, 1912. Terms of Sale ~10 per cent at the time of sale. the balance or sufficient to make one half the purchase money in twenty days theteafter, and the balance to be secured by Mortgage. Further particu lars on application to the undersigned. Port Perry, June 20, 1911. BENJAMIN PETTITT | WILLIAM H. LEONARD Executors HUBERT 1. EBBELS OSEPH BAIRD, Auctioneer FARM FOR RENT 74 acres all cleared for plowing. tiood sandy loam. Six acres of orchard, good frame house, large barn Three good wells. This property is lot 6, con. g, Scugog, known as the Mller Property. Possesion after harvest is off. Apply Thos. Hope, Port Perry. FARM FOR SALE 120 acres, being north three-fifths of Jot 2, con. + Mariposa, 5 acres unbrpken, balance in excellent state of ewit vation. Soil is clav loam J s ie EE Bank barn with Svindmill, water attachments in stable, brick house" young orchard, two pever-failing wells, also spring, Apply to Jas McTaggart, Sonya, I'. O. NOTIGE TO CREDITORS of ARCHIBALD CURRIE, late of the Township of Brock. in the County of Ontario, Min ister of the Gospel, deceased. Pursuant to Revised Statutes of Qatar io, 1897, Cap. 129, notice is hereby given that all creditors and others havi claims against the Estate of the above named Archibald Currie, who died on or about the Eighteenth day of June, gan, are required on or before the First day of August, 1911, to send by post prepaid, or deliver to Rev. Edward C. Currie, of Richmond Hill, Ont., Administrator of the Estate of the deceased, their Christian and Surnames, addresses and descrip tions, together with full particulars of their claims, a statement of their ao- counts, and the nature of the security, any, held by them. And notice is further given that after such last mentioned date, the Administras- tor of the Estate will proceed to distribute: the assets of said Estate among the persons entitled thereto, haying only to the claims of which notice at the time of distribution, have heem given; and the Administrator will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof to any person or persons of whose claim he shall not have had rotice. Dated at Port Perry the 8th day of July, 1911, HUBERT L. EBBELS, Solicitor for Administratos OSHAWA Pettitions are being circulated tax have Sunday street cars in Oshawa, If the matter were put to puhlia. vote it is very likely that a law alk lowing the running of strect car® on Sunday would carry. As there is a very large working class there: Sunday street car, # In view of increasing taxation for cducatior, The Onta io advocates an advance in st fces, ' 1