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in d Lady Elle 'as cell ne and 'simost Bd a Th TEE dnt "Mr. Bryast will will be here just in time," the dug! Bhe Syl Ellen up to her nocorted Lady Too, bok, stirred the fire vigorously a8 6 ©, "He ear 28 in Liverpool on the twenty. 'third, or w wil Rravel up here, so that we shall have him for dinner on Christmas hi en the children to hang out an the eoript. argent stockin, hel, they oan Crooper laugh but as the leaving her, she eaid, ,'Don' Lob It is 80 nice to be ald. you ag! 1 won. der why T went to London. I've got th most extraordinary Jack-in-the-box sort of feeling with me these days, and it is {ime 1 Hotsied down, ien't it? 1 am get- ting quite "Fes, quite old," said the duchess with a smile. "But didn' you get yourself some new clothes 3p dy Eller. #hcok her head. + I had various interviews with X= eli, and he is wo very n to gave me so much praiee for being ememicel at 1 was actually strong enough to deny the tem i One thing annoyed me," Lady little abruptly. "1 had a very able interview with Mr. Tendert n, "Ah!" said the duchess, "And what did that Shisctionable young ~ man have to He Lady. El d "she ey "But--weil, 0 ube rd, that or: one hardly lo repent git, but he asked me "to y. him, P: y ido} oy Jucaees, ust bor- row one of my ow M04 say "He phrases 'thatPwae cheek "Yes, wasn't too said Lady Ellen. took my breath away, and then--wel, he would, haye been quite nasty only Mr. Pleydell happened to come in, and Mr. Tenderten went away in a great hurry. But--I wish I had never had anything. to do with him, I can't understand how such @ nice man as Mr. Pleydell can have him for a partner." "1 believe he is very clever," said the duchess. "Did you see anybod else?" "Yes, one or two people. Adrian wae in town just the dey 1 I arrived, and i pro- mised to dine with me, and then threw me over guddenly--in fact, rather rudely," said Lady Ellen, laughing 'with an effort. "1. am not going to trouble about Adrian any more; is no uee in a social eense! He je.only fit for his 'farm and hie pigs "Well. dearest; I hope you are going to have a very happy time with us," said the duchess, and she went forward and kissed Lady Ellen affectionately. Ww am always happy with you, Echos was Poppy. Poppy "But it. was generally recognized that Lady Ellen wae restless and out of spirite. She took her share in ali the preparations for Christmas willingly enough; but her heart did not seem to be in the work, Bhe certainly had grown thinner, though she. was mi; pretty as ever. The little Dathetie note about her gave her an added charm; a charm swhich was instantly felt by Julian Bryant whan he arrived on Christmas Eve. It- wae like @ dream to him to paes into the old hall of this wonderful old castlo, to be received as almost one of the family. Here at last he might forget for a little while! And there was so much he want- ed to forget! His mother wae in England bombarding him with letters, eagerly excited to see him. She had install herselt in his house in town, greatly to his servants' disgust; and Julian knew that ehe would be quite able of travelling up to Beotland, and foisting' herself oh hie present hosts 1f she only hud an inkling where he was. He had warned Stéphens that his where: abouts. were to be kept a profound eecret; in fact, no one but this servant knew that he wae back from America? notgeven Bill Ketch Jd yet been informed. Like Ellen, Julian had grown much 3 ut he wae, if possible, hand. somer than he had been, in his rough travelling coat as he entered the hall his likeness to Adrian Dawney wae almost painful for Lady Ellen to a Ferien Thoy stood alone for d few teuoads, and shop clasped hands, really glad to see one another, for there wae something which drew them t Rther, although n both their hearts there wae shutter as were, Coorg out al that A Wag really best and truest in both of Welcome," said dy Ellen. "I am so glad to eee Fou. Julian said nothing, Dut, only clasped her hand very, very tight! Hah, Mhey. were turning hy from the fire © e. "To came because you asked me," he said. "1 hope you won't think me a presumptu- ous aes , but I fancied .from «your leter that you wanted me to come." "Yes, 1 did want you, and Ido want you," Lady Ellen, "I feel somehow 2e if we were great friends, as if we had known one ah a long 'time, I mean, and one alw wants 'the frisnde 'whom one liked hristmae time. Last year, she caught her breath with a sharp si i "1 wae ill dn bed. I couldn't be y or with anybody else; but it Phd to be quite different, ow." 8! hick every now and gf overwhelmed like a Physical weakness, took pos: Im 'e, not, to think hat Pu in 'Guiada, altos ho Sank W! I she must s gone b i ow It hon s Jerks the are in ant HEE me 'ou were interest- hg she oid you want fented" PK ao any- ave this er" ng lad on 8 | il write to Whisnire House can be at her .die- 1 it she wishes to give a concert in Poel thie season." to 'the duchess's Colonel Dawney's wil after Christmas. h letter did not Some til He sent a few scribbi Lady Ellen, and thanked her warmly for her kind = eug- gestion 'about the concert. He told her that he feared his protege would be un- able to avail herself of this kindness. 'As a matter of fact," he , "I have only just within the laet week or so heard anything of Miss Sinclair, and I I Togrot to say that she is in very "bad h and what ie worse, in very, ver So And stances. I am doing what little I can, but the position is one which is pi diein i "deli- cate, and I find it Bracticaly | impossible tor Het to move actively,.in Misa Binelair's affairs. Acting on impulee; the duchess sat down and wrote a cheque, Bhe enclosed it with a few lines to Colonel Dawney. "1 want you," ehe said, red use this money how you like for this poor girl. Please don't refuce me, and if you would like it when I come south, I will look af: ter her al Bhe said ORI fof this dorrespondence to Lady Ellen, ik ghe did Bot wish to even mention the name of Lady Ellen had not confided id her, yet it eeemed to the duchess that things were practically settled between hershelf and Julian Bryant. At least, when Mr. Bry- ant left for London rather ory Sepresoed one day, Lady Ellen seemed vi and out of apirits. Late that night when the duchess went in to have a little confide..tial chat with her, Lady Ellen spoke of Julian, "1 like him 'very much," she eaid;. 'but do you know. Poppy, I have made one very great discovery. He is a very un. happy m "Is het "at the duchecs, hie be unhappy?' Lady Ellen shrugged her shoulders. "I don't ow. but I am gure I am right, and I wieh I could help him)" "Nell, do you like him? 1 mean in the real sendé of the word?" Lady Ellen stood in front of the fire, & slim, almost cHildish figure, in her long white dressing-gowit. "1 like him very, 'very much," ghe said slowly. "I have 'a sensé of comfort and pleasure when I am with him, but I don't Jove 8 him, Poppy. I-I don't believe I ever And he? Does he care for you?" "Hé has not said it in so many words,' said Lady Ellen, 'but he certainly gives mo the idea he could 'care. Only if wasn't rather silly, Poppy, I should be in- clined to say that he feels for me juet what I feel for him!" "Well, sympathy je a very good thing to work upon," eaid the duchess cheerily. Then she probed the matter, "Nell," ghe caid, "if Julian Bryant aske Jou to, marry him, what are you going to "why should Lady Ellen Daused a moment, and then she_ answer "It Julian Bryani asks me to marry him I shall say 'yes'! CHAPTER $XVIIL - On arriving in London Julian Bryant went to a hotel. He wae resolved not to meet hie mother. and further resolved to teach her that she could not enter into his life in any way whatever. Hig heart had hardened towards. her In the begluning Mrs." Marnock had told him on that memorable last interview Shieh had taken place between them, Ju. lian had made a whole gacrifice of his life for hie mother's eake, He had stood by her moet ohivalrously. He had burdened himself with her Shiigationa; he had be haved very generously. it when she had married a second PR and life had become easy for her, movegyer, when the opportunity had been given her to act generously is her gure awards him she mis enon, b jt was his ed ha lB oh Enid which made the man eo in bo in hie rHouEhts of 5 TF Steph e not even tel! ena~that he' was in London. He had no need of a ser- vant; inl fact, he preferred to be .quite alons; but he wrote to Mr. Pleydell and De the lawyer to see him as soon as Pho fire pant of his interview with Mr, Pleydell was easy enough, for in this Ju- lian dealt: entirely i _the question of his mother. #1 SUUhorise, Jou he said jo the daw. yer, "to acquaind ny me that I am oe Tone oh ment, for Some Tone por as this sn o pause, and then "1 have asked you to Pleydell, because ? fin Sada come to-di Thar a EA PO TR SY A Ne A TT Tn, cases," ' said ' Ploydell | 4 Cri of friendship and affords and if § you do ar Btopose. ta basis for wat talk. lor 1 had been Bryant cause and reason for received in the same spirit. ag Bryaat Zot up and moved about The treatment of neutral sip. iy. eren oThe position is intolerable," he: 'said. ping by tale 3t nations Js alway You know, Jor perhaps you don't know, |® Very. Bat 1% le. the truth, Plerdel e e; hadn't left I would never nt sepa. T from. ar : "T am glad to hear yo say that. | Mr. | will Ploydell said, and there wad real e be i ow that 1 motion over Shipping between this country very m mpréesed at the ime you itain gheat heard of Mre. Marndck's strange Tens Cini vil teat Brit ¥i in during ours: t by your Jlogaity to the woman you had jd were set- married. » oun mer ian 4 nov ans ed till ng Wie at once. ©. wol BW! L him rack into that iy righ 8 | %° in Joueh with ones ig in. 3 and that aoiiely Though differing somewhat in worked eo iantro aly aguinat Rl character from those cited in. the - Tia sthing axtraordi inary," is sald protest to Great Britain this week, Jou krow that, but I pon J never bad they held a genuine threat of war} ott that Sud rine vut's he did A brup gs bellus, for the ed Aton 5 it was then openly charg 0, and she behaved ty ydell| 'or it wae oruel to Il GR Ra acta Great Britain was purposely aiding put me here I am m now--never 10 send me the Confederacy in its efforts to de- or a e to lel © she wae living or dead. a things tre y the shipping of the North, Er oi cl, Ap,on heh uritt| There 16 no such elaim or contention "And &o. Fi want to have a o ete inva Nd A the - present or 1ly separation om Mrs. Bryant, because ahe | 10 old controversy was peacefully i You imagining she wits doing te beat | settled, and the two countries have J HE. Pins wae ofl ever gince remained on 'the most "I won't go into any reasons," said Ju: [friendly terms. There is nothing ro EP 1 aa a 'wan w my life to mysell, withaut any the, any | seriousness of the Alabama claims barrier, bec a ee Plavdal. | and 3 the dispute. that arose out of io > fe, go up, "Deion Jou Save muds Se: ans for e future. pati Rig RRL il] shall have J have no doubt that this country Divorce is a lite out of my line, Mr. , |W inatet upon full reparation fo or ryan you woul lo better to |& have ecnsulted Tendenten. Jie ia more up shipping, EE oy waren 0 Ly o is, go, lew Dampered by Proc 10 Tuas 2d interference, of the British fleet; i , rd am equally certain that Bri- "I will have nothing to de man" said Julian BYyAnt, no I 1 | 6igh justice will gladl se act for me In this---well, then, govt) for. such damages, x lk duly es- | ee Blondel bowed. + |'tablished, 5 "If you will permit me to eay eo, that: Tg jg° quite inevitable tet Sect o should wrongfully detain soms sensitive in these .. 1ipping in its eagerness to. fin x he." be said tomeely. 1 only Leontraband goods and prevent them to you firat, 1 suppose 70u_ have no ob. reaching the enemy, and to this end Jeo don _1o dealing with er "busine ng doubt the war fleet has been in- Non phatgver," said Mr. "pleydelt, structed to detain 'and search. ves- and 1 will, seoto_ your, wie es about your |sels suspected of having contraband Tae, Lot on + Sai Mr.. Tenderten| 8rticles aboard, or conditional con- discovered that, bi Parner as in con 14! traband intended for the enemy. iy to. find oat Mr. Brya ne whereabouts [is It looks as , though the real ques- wae an etsy m aster. titan to et Hoa at; Sapus je regarding the Brest, e not app ulian by eri ment of conditional 'contr: a Si noon he presented him tgs. "That this should be'treate To. be continued.) exactly as absolute contraband and' seized and conveyed to British 'ports for disposition, works a very: great {even so, I have no doubt that Great i Britain is willing to co-operate with this gounry, and with every other -- untry, in livin Perhaps no single incident of the foun of ir Ey Stoamions reat war has awakened mote in-iof neutral shipping: The protest is 'terest in the two great English: fonly a business precedure between 8 saking 5 nations than the protest|gwo friends, who have been fore. ed by the United States against| most in preserving the peace of the the treatment of Ameriean shipping{ world. That they ad forget their by the British fleet, friendship. and 'undertake to settle The despatches also indicate that] their business differences 'by the the protest is arousing keen inter- sword is too ridiculous for consid- est foro She Faters, aa tif ities er, gion. id is being widely discu in. § it hi elapsed. public. press. As indicating the{the remy vol d iy as Sle Since deep interest involved, a special meeting of the British Cabinet has been called to consider the Protests and this morning's p pers 4 fsruption fd © 5 was almost hyper: AMERICA'S PROTEST To GREAT BRITAIN. By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Colo. ears ristmas eve, has: not: hr acute crises in the. re lations pf England and the United 0; | % {the Cabinet near to ed the debate on: the subject: + In this country ameng a ce class, there- is a suspicion fortunately amounts almost to fede and pe that this Ge pro- might have hat h ia mise. ie war between tries. ' 0 There is always quis a "lasgs betwe class in every nation, w {see trouble, but these as the war had| ate 5 now existing that approaches the |: that the | hardship upon shippers, But B ent was signed 100 red countries, heer Togo in poli cal aspirations and common | thy is a tremendous fact, a tends the glory and triuinph of Eo | nations. 8. M. BICE. f{Denser, Colo., Ha 31, 1914. ERR {EAN A ZOUAVE HERO. He Sacrificed His Life for Beloved. France. A rare and stirring incident of per-' sonal heroism fs that recorded in a semiofficial notice given out in Paris on the afternoon of November 23rd. *The other day in Bel, , a Ger- man column was edvancing to attack a position in the forest of Brie, de: fended by a detachment of Zouaves. Our men noticed that before them the Germans forced a Zouave prisoner, and at the same time they heard cries of 'Stop firlng!' rifiemen and the men in charge of our machine guns hesitated. Then from the German ranks they heard the volee of the Zouave prisoner, who. cal: led to them 'shoot comrades!' "There then flashed - out from the ranks of the:Zouaves a general dis charge of rifles anu machine guns. The fire laid low the assailants of the | Zouaves, and with them fell the heroic j soldier whose devotion made it possi- ble for his countrymen to checkmate the ruse of the enemy. "If the name of the brave man is unknown to th world, at least his regiment will tain forever. the re- membrance of his sacrifice, 'which is equal to any of the most famous'in: stances of personal heroism recorded in our glorious. history." risen Mt "Wouldn't you like," his mother asked a little boy, "wouldn't you like to give your toy boat to ' that poor orphan who hasn't any father ©' The little boy looked at his toy boat and frowned. "Could we. not give him father instead 27 he asked. ; 'A well-known naval dignitary has a beautiful daughter. A young ensign; with no resources but "his salary, fell inglove - with her, and asked. the old gentleman for her . The father at once taxed with.the fact that he had only his salary--hardly enough to keep him-in white gloves and to bursish 'his brass buttons. ""Well, Admiral, what you say is true. But when you married you were only a midship- man, with even a smaller salary than' mine. How did you get along?" asked - the - ensign, 'who thought he had made a most diplo- matic defence. But not so. The crafty old seadog thundered forth: "T lived on my father-in-law for the first ten years, but I'll be hang- if ; you are going to do is Pro" For an instant our| omas Kidney, a wel ; Leeds steeplejack, has just died Tn the age of 82. He was the Idest steeplejack in England and a world's record in having : 168 cliimneys. Mr, F. Banford Thom coroner for the city of London, has been appointed to command a com- pany in the 7th Battalion the City of London Regiment, and h 'been gazetted a captaiz. = Serious damage: was caused by fire at the Manor House, Sedgley, Staffs, an ancient English resi: dence, The owner, Mr. G. Brown, andthe servants removed. all the valuable furniture $0 the lawn. Mr. George Cronhéim, a German' merchant and principal of a firm. of lace manufacturers at Nottingham, was found dead.a week ago at his residence - at Nottingham ] bullet wound in his head. The Cemetery Committee of he : Deptford: Borough Council have x gommended that a 'portion. of the the borough. There is great dissatisfaction: 3% per cent. at a time when 1 any. have enlisted and others ; ing short time. i Ng Owing to the larg® nimbg local coal miners who have 16 i the colors, there is a scarcity of): laborers in some of the coal Wi in the Manchester 'district, many Belgian refugee colliery workers are being engaged. : At Southampton Charles Bowden, cartage contractor of Eastleigh, was fined $260 or three months' imprisgiiv onment for having purchased from soldiers' a number of @rmy blank: ets, rugs and waterproof sheets, the proverty of the King : 3 The coal, cotton' and engi ering industries in 'the Manchester dis: triets are now prospering so much' that the city council have been . asked to pass plang for extension of over a score of local works to © which additions are necessary ow- ing to improved trade he - Owing to the niimber men oa' war service, the London, Fire, B gade Committee is -e perieng Sificulty at the present time i taining recruits for the hri is proposed that 10s." ( paid to each member of Rh |gade who introduces a suitable-re cruit during the next thre onths.