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Ona during the evening Nan | disappes search, found her : n the "rary, with 'pen in hand, writing, or pretending to do 50, at any » fa 5 «Now what is it?--what are you worrying about, darling?' " Nancy seemed to wake from some * beoubled thoughts and start. ; and---' '. (Mrs. Starritells me that Fen- ton has been asking for me; she says the poor man is in great pov- "erty ard distress." % .' "And you are goin gto help him, of course!" Dorothy was full of rightenous indignation. 'A' crea- ture who never last an opportunity of insulting you whenever he got the chance--who gasa Spy on you "Still, Dolly dear, I can't let kim starve; and I have so much; what do a few®pounds more r less matter! It is-Christmas time, re- r; and, you know, v.e must sll be charitable a®i forgive now."' Dorothy's only answer was & kiss, and a very tender one. "I may argue just as much as I like, but you will be firm all the pame ; 1 know you. Now I must go back; you will come, darling, soon 1" "In a moment,"' Nancy answer- She filled up the cheque she had written for Fenton, then, putting it in an envelope to give to the housekeeper, she rose to move away, when an uncontrollable im- pulse made ber turn to the fire and stand there. 8he was very miserable; with all her heard resolutions and bitter contempt, her love lived as strong- ly as ever for this man. Yes, despite everything, and the long year's training she had given herself, she knew she loved him ptill, her heart was still thrilling with the excitement, Darnley's resence brought. Even while she new him, by his own mother's word, to be unworthy and dishon- ored in her sight, she yearned for him; his near presenee tortured or. . While she was standing quietly, Janet came in with some letters in her hand. j . "The second post has just come, "ma'am, and brought these. . Miss Doicthy thought + r might like to ay them. The peor man is so verweighted with C' istmas cards be could n t geo bere before.' Naiicy thadked he- took, the letba =: three { r her{ another, ; full af & " {rom the vicar of maid and re from her uncle, Hateful thanks, ie parish, whom ~ she had helped so generously ; and on Eas, She third, with .lov'ng greetings, from her old friend, rD. Grantley. Her now relations, Sir John and . 'Wldy 'Hamilton, had; sent. her a; sostly present before she left towa. 'Nancy received it with. pleasure, "Jor she had a kindly 'thought for _ these people, through her sincere iking for her cousin, Darcy: ~~: + "he little knew what hopes were built on that liking by the ambi- * tious mother and father! The inclination to remain algne mod continue her sad, hopeless houghts deepening, Nancy drew up a chair aiid sat down init [ i fore the fire. aa The back was turned to the door; "snd half-an-hour, perhaps an hour had passed, when some one enter- od abruptly and Lord Merefield's voice said, sharply and anxiously, Jas Nancy rose with a 'start: «uPherve, old fellow, sit there; 1 be back with some brandy in » ; where wese only}: 'with his hands. '"And--and has hurt himsel and feteh brandy ; send : wool. Oh d, gc uigk pres , and, as Lord Merefield rush- 'away to do her: bidding; she bent over it. How brave, how noble, he had 'been | 'He was her hero again--her best beloved! The memory of his in that moment. the poor, burned hands, then, over the white lips. over her.. . = "Oh, Derry, Derry, .me! Oh, God, if he dead!" Involuntarily her he opened his eyes. vagueness, like one who is blind, pain and time to move from her knees. "Nancy--is anxiety. ed, as she rose softly. He gave a quick sigh "It--it is nothing. right. or 'any one." they were covered with blisters, and were completely useless. lump rose in her throat. "Let me help you," put her white arms round him. breath came in quick gasps. held in that embrace. "I--1 am so heavy,' he panted. "You mist not. You--you will hurt yourself." v He put out his right and to gent- jured closed again, as in another faint. tears.' 'Ob, % . : Py 'shall I do 1" she cried, in anguish. se | Derry es were Jifted for an instant, . - «You 'dre sorry, dear?' he ask- ed, with a look 'of unutterable teu- derness. 'You are sorry for me, Nancy My. darling l--my- -dar- Tin Ik . iG ERY RY VR . His head sank forward, and was pillowed; ou the girl's soft, white throat, as the door opened, and Lord Merefield, followed by Jantt, came hurriedly in. © Merefield made no sign as he saw Nancy's.arms round the half- sunken form; he only poured out some raw brandy ho put it to Darnley's lips. - Then, as Nancy saw Janet already busy with the Ae "dis od herself went softly isenans Broken sob in her throat and a mist of tears in her eyes, PREY * we An hour later a knock at her door aroused her. She had flung herself down in an agony of grief when she reached her room. Her still with Derry's ten- 'words: her pulses |'door. fi : "Derry 'was lying back in' a' creph iy to that still form and treachery was forgotten altogether "With a shudder she glanced at kiieelivig down, she bent still lower Not a breath escaped theth. An agony, an awful agony of fear came my darling, speak to me! Speak, only speak to sould be lips touched his, and, as though he had been electrified by that touch, a sigh ran through the man's frame, and At first there was nothing but and then a swift contraction, as sense returned. He closed the lids for a sécond, then opened them again, before she had it you--really you, my darling?' came in faint accents fro' mhis lips, while such a look of joy came into his eyes as bewilder- ed her, even in the midst of her] "You are better," she whisper- '% am all I told Duncan not to make a fuss--not to frighten Dolly, or-- He was trying to move himself in- to a sitting position. He could not touch anything with his hands; Nancy saw his difficulty, and a she mur- mured ; and, coming forward, she The man's pale face flushed, his Tt was like a glimpse of heaven to be ly push her back, but as the in-|- flesh rubbed her gown, he uttered a groan,®and his eyes Nancy's own eyes were full of what shall T 'dot--what t as she entered, but as hiy ears rose slowly and with some .diffi- oulty ; both hands were bouad up rd with lint and white bahdages. There was a flush on his face and a strange look in his eyes. . "This is kind of you, Mrs. Craw- shaw," he said, in quick, low tones; "'I dared scarcely hope you would come so soon."'. + His eyes went to her delicate throat; was it a dream, or had his lips rested close to it just now? "You--you want to see me?' Nancy replied, standing, with one hand leaning on the table, a grace- tul, Tovely figure. ~The man bowed. ; "I have a very painful task to perform;" he said, after a pause; "but I owe it to myself to do it." He heaved a short sigh. 'A year ago, Mrs. Crawshaw, you went to see my mother, and in that inter- view, which until to-day I was ut- terly ignorant had taken place, she --she made a statement to you, did she not?' How pale his face had growa-- white to his very lips! '"'Bhe did." Nancy, too, had become, if pos- sible, paler. Darnley moved a step nearer. "On the table, Nancy, there lies a letter! It is from my mother-- read it--read it, and give me your sympathy, for God knows I nee dit to-night; it is not ofte na man is made to suffer through his mother as I have suffered through mine!" Nancy picked up the letter with a trembling hand. It was a very long one. Mrs. Darnley had writ- ted it many days ago, and, accord- ing to 'his cabled orders, it had been forwarded to him with his other correspondence to Ripstone from his club. It was a confession, pure and simple, of her share in the fraud which had induced Nancy to be- come Thomas Crawshaw's wife; and a second one, full of bitter contrition for her falsehood to Nancy, wherein she had dishonor- ed her son to save herself. 111 and utterly miserable, the mother had at last found strength to own her sin at this Christmas time, and to implore her sou's for- giveness. . Nancy's lips quivered as she put the letter down. A flood of selr- reproach and remorse rushed into her heart. She moved forward. "Derry," she whispered, "Derry." As she lifted his dark eyes, she flung herself at his feet. "That I should have been so eas- ily deceived! That I should have wronged you so, my own--my best beloved!" } Heedless. of onjuring them fur- ther, he stretched out his maimed hands to help her to rise, and see- ing this, she got up quickly and clung to him. - "Nancy, don't tempt me--is it love that makes you turn to me? Is all doubt dead, dear? Can you take the son, remembering what his mother has----="' She silenced him by putting her fingers on his lips ; and, as he ®pen- ed his arms, she buried her face on his breast and burst into tears. "Forgive me! Oh! forgive me!" she sobbed. ; As he kissed her brow, her wet eyes, and lastly her sweet, tremb- ling mouth, with all the old pas- sion and joy restored, Derrick an- swered : ~ } "Forgive yoy, my precious! when 1. too, have wronged you! I have called you worldly, mercenary, hard, cruel, I know not what. Ah! we have gone through' a great trial, my darling. Thank God! our love has lived through all. 'Lift up your lips and kiss me, Nancy; if you could only know how I have long- ed, hungered for their touch, my dearest one!" . Nancy nestled to him, heaving a happy sigh mow and then; and 'then, by slow degrees, Derry drew fram. her the story "of what had passe en his: mother 'and glanced up at * his o| ishm "And then her. And then they were the heart of both 'there SHINGLES. 0 chair{. A person of an etymological turn of mind, seeing a case of well- caught the sound of her dress, he I'inarked' shingles, ; with' the? littlc blisters so closely set as almost tc 'overlap one another, might. think the affection wcll named from the shingles of a roof, but the word cingulum, meaning a girdle. The term was applied because of the arrangement of the cruption, which encircles the body, or one lateral half of it, like a belt. The scica- tific tern is zoster, or zona, from the Greek words for girdle or beit. Shingles, or zoster, is a skin eruption due to disease of one of the cutaneous nerves which run from the spinal -gord round the body to the middle line in front. The eruption always follows the course of the affected nerve, ceas- ing abruptly at the front, unless the nerves on both sides are af- fected, when in encircles the body just like a girdle. This complete form is fortunately rare. The eruption consists of a suc- cession of hard blisters like those of a cold-sore or tever-bnster, sc common on the lips. It begins in the form of reddish patches, upon which pimples and then small blis- ters form. These blisters are ar- ranged in groups aloag the course of the affected nerve, or they may, in severe cases, run together, forming an almost unbroken line round one-half of the body or face. For the first three or four days the contents of the blisters are watery; then they become cloudy, the patches turn brown, and final- ly dry and form yellowish crusts. For a few days or a week preceding the eruption neuralgic pains are 'felt in the part to be affected, and during the eruption the pain is of- ten very acute. In children, curi- ously enough, the pain may be ab- sent. The attack is usually ushered in by fever, sometimes slight chills, and. a feeling of general illness. The eruption may appear all at once, or may occur in several suc- cessive crops, taking a week or more for its full development. The most serious form is that of the face, for it often results in se- vere scarring, and may even attack the eyeball. The pain usually sub- sides when the eruption appears. There is no treatment which will certainly cut short the attack, and the most that can be done usually is to protect ithe blisters from irri- tation of the clothing or other in- jury. This is done by applying soothing powders of starch or oxid of zine, painting the blisters with collodion, or applying court-plas- ter. After the attack the patient may need tonic treatment for a while. There is generally only one #b- tack. Where therc are repested reourrences there is usually some underlying fault of constitution which calls for careful, systematic medical treatment.--Youth's Com- panion. AT THE PARSONAGE QCeffes Runs Riot No Longer. "Wife and I had a serious time of it while we were coffee drinkers. 'She had gastritis, headaches, belching and would have periods of sickness, while I secured a daily headache' that became chronic. "We naturally sought relief by drugs without avail, for it is now plain enough that no drug will cure the diseases another drug (coffee) sets up, particularly, so long as the drug which causes the trouble is continued. "Finally we thought we would try leaving - off coffee. and using Postum. I noticed that my head- aches disappeared like magic and my old 'trembly' nervousness left. One day wife said, 'Do you know my. gastritis has gone? "One can hardly realize what Postum' has done for us. "Then we began to talk to others, Wife's father and mother were coffée drinkers and suf- ferers; = Their headaches left ea- tirely ..@ short time after they changed from. coffee to Postum. began nt hat numbers of them use Postum in place of coffee. Many of the ministers who have visited siastic champions of . Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle k, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. *There's a reason.'! 4 5 the above. | true, and Tull is really a corruption' of the-Lati: | Ao" enquire among my | 'and found to my aston-{" our parsonage have become enthu-| 1f your druggist has not and Chemical Company 25c. a box: Drug rs -- --_--_---- causing any discomfort. Uke candy. One of the most popular of the NA-DRU-CO prépar: - ke ho 32 The children like them for they taste FACTS ABOUT OUR' " * HOME MARKETS. No Need to Turn Elsewhere for Trade in Farm Products., The old fable about the dog with the piece of meat in his mouth, jumping "into the water after a shadow, and in the end losing the good morsel he had at first, may be applied very aptly to the country, which has spleadid markets at home, but becomes discontented, and although not half realizing the importance of its natural heritage, looks abread for trade it knows not of. Buch is the position in which some people would place Canada in her present relations with the United States. But the facts do not warrant Canada looking away from her home marget. The home market is taking eigh- ty per cent. of the produce of the Canadian farms at good prices. The demand of this market is in- creasing and it will continue to in- crease as the country grows. It has the advantage o# nearness, stability, cheapness of transporta- tion and quickness of returns. The Canadian farmer is familiar with its conditions and require ments. And yet, withal, the Canadiag farmer is inclined to lovk beyond this market with longing eyes to the market of the United States, forgetting, perhaps. that the Unit- ed States farmer is looking with just as longing eyes at the Cana- dian market. There are at least twelve farm- ers in the United States looking longingly at the Canadian market to one farmer in Canada looking at the United States market. Let us remember that there are at least twelve times as many farmers in the United States as there are in Canada, and so, while one Canadian farmer will get en- trance into the markets of the United States, twelve American farmers will get entrance into our home markets. They have already succeeded in selling immense quan- tities of farm products in Canada, in spite of the duty. They have sold twice as much in Canada as Canadian farmers have sold in the United States. With reciprocity in farm products the twelve American farmers will 'lerowd the one Canadian farme pretty closely in his own hom market, The surplus production of tht United States farmer would be li: able any time to demoralize the home market of the Canadian far ner. It will cost the American farmer no more to bring his farm products to Canadian towns and cities thas it will cost the Canadian farmer carry his to the United States. | These American products are pretty well kept out now by the tariff wall. With this removed they will enter twelve to one. We must remember, too, that the Americans have the earlier season, and that their products will there fore be upon our markets before our products are salable and ge! the early price. --_------ LITTLE HINTS. Furniture Polish.--The best and cheapest furniture polish is ceda oil. It can be purchased from any gd furniture house. Take a yard of chee e cloth, divide it in half. Now wet one piece in cold water and ring dry ; then pour on as much oil as you have water; now rub the furniture lightly; follow with dry cloth. This may be used on the finest furniture, and also on polish- ed foors. It requires very little rubbing. Caviar Sandwiches.--A dainty sandwich to serve with iced tea is made of caviar. Take a slice of bread and cut from corner to cor- ner, thus making four little dia- mond shape pieces. Spread the caviar on two opposite pieces of bread, and on the other two picres place a small piece of lemon. This makes a cool lunch for hot after- noons, Nut Balls--One cupful of cold chopped veal, twelve chopped blanched almonds, one-half tea- spoonful of salt, one egg, pepper to taste, and one cupful of tomato sauce. Mix the neat. almonds, and seasoning and moisten with the well beaten egg. Roll inte balls the size of a walnut and set in a baking pan. Pour over them the hot tomato sauce. Cook in a hot oven twenty minutes. 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