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By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of "The 'Woman from Wolvertons n : -- EE -- Before the middle of October all the parts were in rehearsal except two, An Englishwoman, Zilla Paget, was crossing the Atlantic to play "Mrs. Esterbrook". Oswald refused obstin- _ ately to give "Cordelia" to and actress that Wentworth suggested. "We must close with "somebody mighty quick," said Enoch, when Os- wald had turned down Katherine Dean. "Miss Dean is not even to thought of," answered the Englishman decisively, "She's beautiful, but where's her feeling, her intelligence? 1 sat watching her face--the light fell strong upon her while you talked. There's absolutely nothing to her but beauty." "She can act," insisted Wentworth. "Tye seen her act, It isn't acting we want in 'Cordelia.' The woman who plays 'Cordelia' must have feel- der, compassionate understanding, dignity, with a young face--not a face into which youth is painted." " 'Cordelia' must have beauty," "We may get hoth. I am not search- ing for 'Cordelia' among the stars; I; have hopes of finding her among the unknowns." "That's 'a risky proposition," said | Wentworth impatiently. . " 'Cordelia' ig a big part. Why, it's almost lead- + ing business--it ought to be*in rehear- sal now." : "Wait afew days," suggested Os- wald, "Now, tell me, when is Merry to show up? He should have been here a week ago. + Can't you wire him to-day 7" "I'll do it right away." Wentworth tossed his hat on his head and left the office. He drew along breath, when he stopped oub on the sidewalk, and lookéd anxiously up and down Broadway as if hoping to see Merry approach withh is nonchalant stride. He paused for a moment to light a cigar, then started at a brish gait down the street. He was accosted here and there by a friend. Each one offered congratulations. He was inno mood for that sort of thing. A block further ahead he saw Phillips of the Herald in the moving throng. There would . be no escaping him.: He jumped on a downtown car, and afew minutes later he was" at the Battery. He stepped off and crossed the square. The tide was coming in and a stiff breeze blew off the ocean. He seated himself on a bench and watched the spray dash over the pier. Throngs came and went, but Enoch did not gee them. His mind was cen- tered desperately upon one anxiety: Merry must be found. He had felt go certain that the actor might appear at any moment that he had allowed Oswald to think he knew where he was. He reporbed him half-sick, try- ing to recuperate, and hating the worry of a lawsuit with an agry man- ager, which Oswa)l was trying to settle out of court. He assured him that the comedian was latter perfect in his part; all he needed was to ap- pear at late rehearsals, The strain, however, was telling on Wentworth. He had grown nervous and irritable. Oswald saw traces of it, but laid ib to anxiety over the preparations for his play. Dorcas realized the change in her brother and felt it keenly, She con- trasted the care-free, generous, gay The best sugar for he Sugar bowl is ! Bopusityand "fine" granulation give it - the highly sweeten. To It diese instantly in your 'teacup orom breakfast ¢ : be of it in the papers. communicative and impatient trifies. of him, the girl was left to her own devices. She had few friends in the. city. She spent the fall days in long, solitary walks, and her mind dwelt constantly on Merry. Her brother scarcely men- tioned the play to her, She read news Through them came the information that Enoch had over ing on the production of anew play by & new author. She drew 'along breath of relief over that announce- ment. She felt sure Enoch would do full justice to Merry when the time arrived. She was too proud to as) questions. Her brother had always taken her completely 'into his confi- dence; she 'was certain he would do so again when the toil and worry were over. Wentworth watched her closely. He realized how she felt his reticence and change of feeling; her 'every glance told it. He won)lered frequently what the thoughts were that she did not put inbo words. In every woman he" had admired for beauty, intellectual or heart qualities there had been imper fections which were temperamentally feminine, Dorcas was different. Some- times he fancied it might be caused by her seclusion from the world dur- ing girlhood. Then he remembered a few of her-girl frienjis he had met. In each of them hé had seen some petty deceit or frivolity which, man- like, he accounted a typical feminine vice, Dorcas was different in heart and intellect. She resembled stalwart men he had known. He sab with his eyes fixed on an ocean steamer moving majestically up the harbor. When her whistle shriek- ed in response to. a salute, Went- worth rose with a start and glanced sharply about him. He felt thab some one was watching him. = His eyes met the gaze of his sister. "She sat on a 'nearby bench staring at him, a news- paper in her lap and her hands claSp- ed listnessly over it. "Why, Dorry! How long have you been here? Did you call me?" "I did not speak to you," she an- sweresl quietly. "When I laid down my paper a minute ago you sat there." He did not offer to take a place be- side her, thaugh she moved to make room for him. His face flushed hot- 1 ywhen his glance fell on the head- lines of a paper that bay in Dorcas' lap. "Have you seen the i about yourself in the Times?" "Of course I have," answered Enoch impatiently. "It was not my doing. Oswald insisted on it. "Every paper is clamoring for news. We repro- duce the play the first week of Decem- ber." "The paper speaks of you alone. Merry isn't given credit for even sug- gesting the plot. His name is not mentioned. : 'Wentworth's brow wrinkled into an ugly scowl. "How could he be men- tioned? He can't be found--any- where." "Mr. Oswald 'said yesterday he was in the Catskills, ready to come on at) a moment's notice." "I wish to God he were!" Wentworth desperately. "Why don't you tell Mr. Oswald the truth 2% "Doreas, you're achild. You don't understand that. I am up against a "harder proposition than I can; meet." "It seems to me, Enoch," said the girl slowly, "if yoa had not" . She did not finish the sentence. She had turned her eyes away from her 'brother and stared at the multitude or craft in the bay, jostling each other as vehicles do on Broadway. "Had not what?" he insisted. She met his'eyes calmly and they wavered before her own. you had not made a false start--if you had gone .into this honestly-- everything would have come out 2 Jap cried : ha ) ago, | y who had aged ; who was 'growing morose, retfal -un- Day after day she saw less} His plea was hard work, so| relinquished journalism and was work- | "] mean if | "It's the bread line. Had you movie seen it beforé?" pet dl " Private Prince Henry "No. fod are the men?" Who is His Majesty's third son, and ¥ lis private -in the Eton 0.T.C., the rein saryation of the: old Eton: College hi olunteers, for which O.E.'s who were ) % in them in those primitive days de ah s he have har pet name that was more expr than polite, Prince Henry has also recently elected to pursig the am amphi-| bious existence of a Wet B&b. * We do nok know. whether the ancient amammen | who used to rescue aspiring oarsmen from the watery depths of Father "1 sh ya, hs Thames is still alive, but we hope so. should have put him down as His nom de guerre sed to be "@Gin-| ten, but an officer's word is not to be ger," so far as memory serves us. doubted." DAE Sroren, starving, Taman Ww | THE Russian' Officer, Aged Thirteen, Wears So wrote a correspondent of the London Times who recently shared a to d 1 1 could talk| railway compartment with Lieut. Mis- it hill vou 1g say 3 es ou ha Turukhanis, aged thirteen, wound- "T have told: you point-blank. you ed in the. shoulder, wearing two de- are not to go on the stage." . corations for valor; and on his way to "You know how I feel about it. » Petrograd. 0 doin his i #1 wr _l army nurse--because the orders were Doreas Shoko SHY. een that "all 'women and children serving I vor cared. to dod' in the army " were~to be mysiered "When did Oswald suggest this?" | °3 "No smoking here 3 "S 1 ki . He has tal s i Ea he E age ped ked In the crowded station, awaiting the . tart, -the correspondent: saw 'a big: "He might have taken me into his ak drop kis » cigarette and come sonfidence, snarled Wentworth. hastily to 48 his cig e knew how you felt about it. Besides, Enoch," the girl's - voice';, trembled, "besides --Ilately I have not known whether you cared ,anythi about my affairs." Wentworth * did nod answer until they turned into the quieter region of Waverly place. o come from somewhere near my el- bow, and, looking down, nd SAW beside "2? me on the crowded platform a little figure in the uniform of a Cos- sack officer. It.was not much more I and its hopis " , seemed to come nearly up to where, Dont sit in judgment on, "me,lon its breast, two Geonges glimmered Dorry," he pleaded. "When the trol-%in the sun. The station gong struck ley gets swung back on its pole and (twice; thé voice ' shrilled again, things begin to run without constant! ¢ Come, children!" The burly Cos- switching, I'll return to the old rou- sacks who had been lounging about tine. Have a little faith in me. I} the platform climbed. into third-class have nobody in the world except you."| carriage, and as the 'train began to Dorcas flung away the paper which| move, the amazing little person swung she was carrying and tucked o1.. hand himself aboard at the tail of the] pro- into he i red. 1h Sazsion and followed his 'children' into "Its'a gain?" he asl ooking | their staffy quarters." Sows at beh a mile, He Jaa iravelling hy his " child. sa answered. ren" because they li to have pot} 'Cordelia,' Dorry. do as you with them ; but later he visited the please, planned my future, and did what . I correspondent and some ladies. wanted to. = A girl, I suppose, has the| * For all his dignity he was of quite Same Hight, especially if she's a girl 8 SHendly Sisposition, and he a who can' be trusted--implicitly." | soon free.of a e compartment When he unlocked the ore Dorcas] our carriage." He knew his world, too, passed in before him."As he shut it ang the iron hand of discipline that behind him she threw her arms about een in evidence on the platform his neck ghd kissed him. Wentworth. of the way station was now appro- held her for a moment in a close, af-' Priately concealed in the velvet glove. fectionate grasp. On the hall table' The sweets an admirer gave him he lay a 'mote addressed to Dorcas, also ' duly handed to 'ladies first." Only in a telegram for Wentworth. He. tore: the: dining car * he 'was a liftle per- it open and stood fi pr thought. " o 8, mingle deep in, 'he would not resort to natural weap- "Ehoch; T have an invitation Here ons, and.when I ventured to come to from Mr. Oswald to see Nazimova to-| Dis. rescue on the pretext that. his night. Do you mind if I go?" | wounded 'shoulder put him at a dis- "No. Give Oswald a message from Sdvantage in the struggle with a stub. "' 1born drumstick, his ready abandon- me. TI sha'n't have time to see him before I:leave." ot a the unfamiliar ete so me "Leave for where?" tra; no consciousness any- "For Montreal, I put a detective on ore 2 lat Bushet 8 the possibility 'of Merry's track. He has almost laid) 2% He has been on service in Poland, | age hig hand on him. Tell Oswald IT Will ) bring Merry back with me in two days and with 'a child's facility had mas- " tered Polish so well that he was able | at the latest." | ) that { "Oh!" cried Doreas radiantly, "then 10 give lessons in language to everything will be righted!" "Everything will be righted," peated her brother. ; ; CHAPTER VIII "Miss Wentworth, what does * [= four feet high, t 'gave him a decided advan- Ye tage his brother officers wi the ladies, chiefly a, om Misha himself 8! in 'The Master Builder' mean to Oswald @ thi "The order, shrill, incisive, seemed | I cut loose when father first-class carriage in which were the | lexed by the variety of cutlery. But|the extra wi a colonel of his regiment. This at-| A rim on i clover or are 'plus 'mille 'and some An animal grain, 'will grow the animal satis- factorily to within afew weeks of | butchering, when 'they should be per ned, not toa closely; and finished on good hard fed to advantage in the pork, but judgment must garding the size of each feed. Ground wheat alone cannot: be considered. a fe ka grain ration for hogs; as ni Bhely to bring on digestion trou- but mixed with other grains itd De good results. Horses and colts at pasture make | their best and quickest growth when some grain is fed with the pasture 'grass and it is a le _understoa(l that the colt should eat oats, preferably crushed and mix- ed with bran; early in Ha Jifetime. 2 When it comes to uraged to 2 Ab present prices | "1° rig for hogs, a great deal of wheat can be | desired. aE Eh '1 get at. this It becomes neceseary to. further back. = The quality was pul. into the animal by its parents, - 2 horses that are at hard work for long 3 hours as are farm horses trim 7 the. whole of the" 8 of 'grain fed, to double or more than double' the amount fed for ordinary | : maintanence. The amount' 'prescribed | in such a case by the Dominion An- imal Husbandman, is 1% pounds per 100 lbs., of horse, "of a mixture of 85 per 'cent. oats, and 16 per cent. bran. To keep the work horse in good health, it is also necessary that he he fed a bran mash at regular intervals. Sat- urday night being the time best suited for this, on account of the day's rest that follows. Turning out the work horse' to grass; on Sundays, work all right if the grass is not too soft and if the flies do not trouble the animal. This scheme works well with horses that are given to stocking up when kepb in the stall for long after hard work, but such a condition should by rights be made impossible by a treatment for the benefit of the blood.: The trying to save grain by, working horse over night, should not be considered, and it is a question if he does as well outsidé, asin | the stable, even if fed his full ration be- fore being turned out. © With this last Mentjorisd Practise ¢ is also k and time of the deam- ster to be heim me tho horse is | farm likely to get better treatment d a the work if the man who drives. hi Starts off in the morning in » satisfied} frame of mind. A cool, clean stable, screene as to keep out flies and re infected with a' wholesor dea of | the! loss of. soil on ra Fo Shoes + to increase the amount mal Sa 'waluable, ~--North Dakota peri ment Stations' | So Windbreaks Pay Dividends Windbreaks are usually more or less ornamental on a farm, and add to the contentment of the owner. Bub it is not generally known that windbreaks' actually pay dividends. It must bet admitted that. windbreaks | occupy space that could be profitably devoted to agricultural crops, and that tho roots of the trees and their shade render a strip of ground on "either - side of the windbreak relatively un- productive. © Yet in spite .of these drawbacks, efficient windbreaks do fase good than evil, oe Bdbredl reduces the veloclsy ; from the soil surface and Fi ton. a field crops, . This is equivs ad- ditional rainfall, (just asa' save ed isa dollar made." It seems that the greater yield of field crops a ap- vie all - : wi #