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bo c HARL Es EDMONDS tho a "Th Ste Fide? "The Patents Bb "The Time CHAPTER XXV.-- (Cont'd); hat an experience for a girl!" I, not refrain from breaking in--/ darling Co suppose it was strange. But oe like you, Lois! My brave 4 . everything about the affair has been! so strange and mysterious that it didn't strike me as unusual that I 'should be waiting for you in an out- of-the-wdy Chinese seftlement." Lock," ete. [needs a mother "more than. a--a there was an' odd little catch in her voice--"than a wife." 2 In this tender mood she was so al- luring, so irresistibly winning, that I nearly lost my head again. I had a very definite opinion about what I needed (quite contrary to hers, it is needless to say), 0 keep it to myself--for the time being, 'at any rate. "Miles away from anywhere, alone] and unprotected among a gang of | CHAPTER XXVL Chinese criminals and their white! «what else happened?" 1 asked, confederates." I pointed out. "Why, yi what I tried to make only a na- you hadn't an idea where you were!" | tural show 'of 'interest. "Not a glimmer," she acknowledg-| "The chief things centre in the ed. "But--I--" She fell silent. "You trusted me," I uttered her un- | finished. The important points as spoken thought. "Even when you nearly as I could gather them, are learned that you were the victim of an elaborate deception, you felt deep in your heart that I would not fail you." All along she had not resent-| ed my ardor, yet remained unrespon-| sive, I was grieved, perplexed, baf- fled; I chafed to be alone with her. I was impatient to convince her of my seriousness and to break down the barrier of her unaccountable reserve. So I added: "Now, for some silly, misguided] cause, you refuse to be your natural, candid self. You are not frank with me." Again her hand touched my arm. "Don't--oh, don't!" she whispered in a distressed way. "I shall be frank and honest--if you will only wait. I am trying with all my might to do what is right and best; you make it awfully difficult for me." i "If 1 must wait, why, I must, I sup-! pose," 1 ungraciously returned. "But I can't see the reason in this reserve and caution now. If I loved you less; if my one chief concern in life was not devotion to you, you might have cause to deter me. But I love you. You must know. it. No man ever brought to a woman a more whole- hearted, unselfish, undying love than * 1 am offering you; that I shall con- tinue to press upon you until I am given an adequate cause why I should not. If I can help it, I'm not going to let any foolish notions of sentiment- ality or mistaken conception of the Lord only knows what destroy our happiness." | "Then," shé said with abrupt de-! cision, "I shall give you an adequate reason--as soon as I know clearly how best to present it. It is mak- ing me very unhappy and miserable." "You can't," I stubbornly persisted. "And if you don't promise to wait," she went on evenly, "I'll get in front with Mr. Struber." i "Good Heaven!" I groaned helpless- ly. "I submit." | She relented a little, for the hand! upon my arm closed a trifle and she leaned closer to me until she pressed against my shoulder. Mortal man couldn't fathom or account for the contradictory emotions that plainly were swaying her. Then my hungry look descried tears sparkling on her downeast lashes, and I was at once miserably contrite and remorseful. "Forgive me!" I burst out. "I am, after all, only a selfish, unthinking -cool, but I could see that he was wor- ed my collar and exposed the 'death full of micro-organisms, such as te- fresh meal and hay before the isign. But she was half-scared to tanus, have added new dangers to the it will soon learn to eat. After it brute. And you are the loveliest, gentlest lady in all world. You are & blessed angel." She suddenly electritied me by smil- ing up into my eyes. "And you," she said, "are only a big, silly, stupid, blundering boy who dearest, the! these: "He claimed that the ring belonged to him, and that he must recover it to maintain his prestige in what - I understood to be some sort of Chin- ese secret society. He tried to im- press up me its importance--the so- ciety's, I mean--its antiquity, and a lot more that I'm not clear about. Besides, I was not much interested in his "explanations. "Then he claimed that the diamond was his. He seemed at first to think I had it, and when he became con- vinced that I hadn't, that I couldn't get it for him and wouldn't if I could, he seemed disappointed and chagrined. I declared, though, that if it really belonged to him and he could establish his right to it, you would give it to him without bother and uss. "He smiled skeptically, then for a moment his eyes rested upon me with a peculiar look. It gave me a strange, weird feeling of being somebody else--of trying to remem- ber things that were in someone else's mind; but the memories were gone before I could see them plainly.. It was like looking through a veil, or trying to make out faces dimly seen through a swirling cloud of smoke. The same thing happened this after- noon when he called at the office." "I remember," I told her. "It was when he passed you in the doorway." "You noticed, then! I tried to brush the veil away. But right away the queer feeling was gone." "The villain was trying to hypno- tize you, confound him!" I angrily exclaimed. "Go on, please. I am profoundly interested." "There isn't much more to tell While we were talking Chinamen were coming and going through the room, in the silent, unobtrusive way they have; but they didn't seem to notice us. There must have been a score or more about the place. "But pretty soon we were interrupt- ed by amp excited babble outside. Lao Wing Fu abruptly broke off what he was saying and listened with a start- led air. Next several Chinamen burst into the room, and what follow- ed was pretty much all confusion. They jabbered and gesticulated in an agitated way, and | Lao Wing Fu | seemed to be trying to calm them. He was the only one who remained ried. "Presently he stepped away from the rest and seemed to be 'debating something in his mind. In a little while resolution came to him, "He returned to where I sat watch- ing and told me that he knew about but managed to f | story Lao tried to tell me but never = my tattoo-mark. He dumfounded me again: egarding by bluntly asking if I wouldn't like aa inst iu rt unnaturally to have it removed. I rose from my fjke two stars. For a moment | chair in alarm. I indignantly told color was high, but gradually it him no, and demanded to be taken ad until her face was as pale back to town at once. This impudence aghes. "But her glowing eyes co after his tniform courtesy and polite- tinued to meet mine steadily, a ness made me for the first time doubt presently her bosom began to rise him. i : y and fall gitated , "He regarded me a while, then Bll in an aghs way said: 'I regret that you do not fall in with my desires in this respect, Miss Fox, and I see that you will be stub- born. T have no time to explain or argue or try to convince you. I am sorry because you are a lady and I am a gentleman. But I will state a fact that neither you nor I can ob- viate or alter--that symbol on your bosom has to be trased to-night, here and now.' "I stared at him wildly, unable to credit what I heard. p " 'The means are at hand,' he went on. 'If you acquiesce, you will suffer neither discomfort or pain; there will be no shock to your sensibilities, for an American woman will do the little that is requisite--just you and she alone in this room. Will you con- sent?' . "I was frightened now, of course; but I was enraged, too. I don't recall just what I said, but I gave that cheeky Chinaman a piece of my mind. He clapped his hands twice. Two Chinamen seized me and bore me: fighting and scratching into another room whose walls were lined with tiers of bunks. There were no win- dows--only the door through which we had come, and one other which was opened once or twice, disclosing a glimpse of the stars. A little wick thrust through a cork and floating in' a common tumbler of oil agorded ii g § z £3 £ in my arms; but somehow I knew that never again would I encdunter pre- cisely that glorified expression in her countenance, and it would have been sacrilege to break the spell. Presently she walked up to me and placed her hands upon my shoulders. Her eyes were nearly upon a level with mine, and I am a tall man. "Brice," she said in a voice of won- to pretend 'that I don't know--now, when I am at once the happiest and the wretchedest girl alive." With an impetuous movement, she laid her two palms upon my cheeks and held my face steady. "You have told me to-night that you love me," she continued in the same, rich, thrilling voice. "I want to hear you say it again--here--in the light--while I am looking into your eyes." £5 ; 1 gazed into depth beyond less depth of 'those twin wells of purity that met mine so unwavering- ly; 'Words retreat from and evade me when I try to describe to myself what T saw there. By and by the long, dark lashes fluttered, then lowered and hid them. I swept her up into my arms. (To be continued.) es ee '# NEW PERILS OF WAR. Wounds and Resultant Tetanus Cause Most Casualties. The. ratio betwen deaths by dis- only light. "But I could scream; and I did un- til a third Chinaman clapped a hand over my mouth. Then they forced me down upon a stool near the spark of light. Lao stood looking on. He had the nerve to say. 'You see, Miss Fox, how unpleasant you are making it. This has to be done, so why not sub- mit to something that can not harm you and that any normal young lady, The wounds in the South African would want to have done?' | war 'were usually neat bullet holes; 1 was so outraged and indignant which looked as if made with brad- that I would have flown at him if I'd als, while in the present struggle been free. not only have shells and bombs "Then that awful woman! Her face brought new and terrible kinds of all at once bent over me. She loosen- wounds, but a highly cultivated soil ed in the presenb war as compared with the Boer War. In South Africa disease was responsible for a large percentage of the casualties, whereas in the trenches in France disease has been reduced to a negligible minimum. death herself. Her hand trembled 80 most trivial kinds of fleshwound s. that she spilled the vile stuff she was: The' difference between sources of dabbing on my throat all over her-' casualties in the two wars was the iself. 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The Chinaman' traveled a half mile or more and lost whose hand was gagging me forgot stant my teeth came together in one trench dirt, which enters the wounds | of his fingers. He tore himself loose. and infects them. Men when wound- e ide! ed, usually fall into mud and water and sending the table holding the in Flanders, or into the dust, if it is dim light crashing against the bunks. 1 i er. . : | Sir Anthony said the building of i confusion. The . mut But somehow I got outside and went' considerably lessened the danger plunging the dark, ing infection. In at the top of my voice. You know the rest. ; wo more, and "ls hush 1 longed to rush over and clasp her f 'derful softness, "it would be idiotic Whether or not the calf is allowed "to run with the cow the first two or do well when fed on skim-milk, and | imm shoasure- of little 'ant, and attending to them or not at- ease and deaths by wounds is revers- building ' goes to supply heat and energy in the | eat._concentrates, as ground or whole heir force. Bombs and hand gre-| himself an instant, and in that in-'nades throw up large quantities of | dark | communicating trenches had, however, | ; the early days of the|. before this means of passing un-| ; 0 the Was ZEEE br filifes i i E it Le™ i i i § ; REP i : ! : § £ f i I ! f E : ¢ if Hi g £ F f three days is a matter of custom, but it should receive whole milk for the first two weeks at least and then grad- ually be made accustomed to skim- milk. 'The change may be made at the rate of one pound per day, and. in- creased until the calf is getting about fifteen pounds of skim-milk per day. Many feeders fail to have their calves il | i fe 8 pd i e valge as a or calves. Other feeders will point with pride to a , sleek-looking 'calf, and be particular to mention that it was raised on skim-milk. Why the differ- ence? The one has neglected to pay attention to k the pen clear and dry; the warmed to blood temperature; the pails clean, or the same amount of milk fed at regular intervals. These things are import- i | Ea sg8 i i ¥ i A i | ii bit ih tending to them is the difference be tween' success and failure. Skim milk contains all the nutri- ment found in whole milk for the of bone and muscle. It merely lacks the fat content, which Hi hh i 11 os ih § EF i i body. This can be supplied by the cereal grains or linseed meal, at a lower cost than by feeding the fat of | milk," Neither whole nor skim-milk is sufficient in itself for the growing 'calf. The calf should be taught to £1 is ¥ i ; H oats, linseed meal or bran, also al- falfa or clover hay. By putting little meal in the bottom of the after the milk is finished and kee; [Fiti 7 i HH g 1 | become accustomed to eating, only as much as it will clean up, should be fed. A calf six weeks old will usual- ly eat from one-half to one pound of concentrates per day. An important manure is ' point is to keep the feed box, pen and and spread 'pails perfectly clean. With proper labor. attention along with suitable grains| By using and roughage, a thrifty calf should an abundance gain from one-and-one-half to two tion, and pounds per day. The aim should not ing becomes 3 be to fatten the calf, but to keep it|a drudge.--Gordon Harrisom in a vigorous, growing condition, and Dairy. ; : i i : i g i i H 4 ¥ il F i i fe A