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| By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author ol * The Woman from w oivertons o olf icker-E asi yr More Comfortable Are you taking. advanizge of ALL ie vooders methods of saving time and trouble? Are you up-to-date in your shaving as well as in your work? Are you using a Gillette 25% In its own way the Gillette iss quick, efficient and convenient as your milker, your binder or your telephone. It compares with other razors as these modern inventions CHAPTER XXVL--(Cont'd). "Yes; but I should not have gone even if you had been well. He has given ' Cordelia' to Miss Embury, an English girl. He says she will play it beautifully. We are to open here on the twentieth of October. ~The | whole company has been re-engaged. Mr. Oswald said he did not believe' you would care to make any changes. Merry did not speak. He sat watch- ing Enoch's wasted fingers search through a mass of papers in the little drawer. . He lifted oud a bankbook compare with the things they have replaced. Without honing, stropping or fussing, the Gillette will give you the easiest and most comfortable you ever enjoyed, In five minutes or less! It makes shaving an pleasure instead of an irk- shave every-day some twice-a-week job. "Bulldog", "Aristocrat" and Standard Gillette Sets cost $5.--Pocket Editions $5 and $6 -- Combination Sets $6.50 up. You can buy them at Hardware, Drug, Jewelry, Men's Wear and General Stores. Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Canada, Limited FAMINE IN BUDAPEST. Food in Hungary is Now Practically Non-Existent. The Hungarian Government, fright- ened by the spectre of famine, is seek- ing to appoint a food dictator, but can find nobody to undertake the job and dictate with regard to food which has no existence, writes a Swiss cor- respondent. He says the commonest sight in Budapest is that of little crowds, mainly women, who wait wearily outside the shops for food which they cannot get. Mr. Tabody, in the Pesti Napolo, tells that "women have to stand one or two hours to get a few potdtoes; from two to three hours if they want a bit of sausage, from three to four hours for a quarter of a pound of sugar and from four to five hours for a bit of lard or fat. A woman who wants to get something to eat for her children every day must spend at least five or six hours waiting in the queues." People in Budapest are tired of grumbling about the prices of neces- garies. Within the last month they have again risen from fifty to one hundred per cent., but even the prices would not matter so much if only the food could be obtained. Budapest is like a town besieged, and the people will soon have to follow the example of the Parisians in 1870 and eat rats and mice. The principal trouble is that the Prussians are taking away nearly everything, and what they leave is seized by the Austrians, BREE The Important Question. "Oh, papa, Jack says my love for him makes him feel strong enough to move mountains." \ "Yes, but is he strong enough to go to work?" Mother's Idea. "Did you meet any nice men while you were away?' "Yes, mother. Lots of them." "Lots of them! There aren't that many in the whole world." trul of Parliaments present price of rubber, * is away off the 'mark. - in her tropical Dominions, British Plantation Rubber Is Saving Canada Millions Low Prices of Rubbers and Overshoes Due to Britain's Control of Situation Here in Canada many of us have fallen into the Anglo-Saxon habit of considering the " Mother " slow and a bit behind the times. The when its cause is revealed, _ affords' one of the many proofs that such an opinion Thanks fo great rubber plantations established, in the face of criticism and ridicule, many years before Great Britain at the out- There is only one new member-- Helen Capron will play 'Mrs. Ester- brook." Miss Paget went to London three weeks ago." Dorcas did not raise her eyes while she spoke. The silk thread had knot- ted and she sat disentangling it with _| her needle. "As soon as you are able to travel we are going to take you away some- where, The city is hot." Enoch stared out at the window. "Who is 'we'?" he questioned. A wave of scarlet crept across the girl's face. "Andrew Merry has offered to help care for you until you are quite strong again," she answered without raising her eyes. There still were gray shadows in his face and wan hollows and wrinkles about his mouth. His hair had whit- ened at the temples. Physically the man had changed, but a new tran- quility had begun to smooth away lines of worry and care in the color- less face. "And begin life over again?" he asked. "Yes," said the girl gently. A pathetic eagerness came into his face; then it grew still with the grav- ity of a man who had almost touched hands with death, Into the wrinkles about his mouth crept the old dogged determination, tempered by a humili- ty which Dorcas had never seen before, She flung her work aside, dropped on her knees, and drew her brother's face close against her own. "Dorry," he said aftet a long silence, "when Andrew comes I want to see him alone." » "He is downstairs now," she swered. "Send hinr up, won't you--and do an- wards I wants you." The girl hesitated. "Of course. But do you thifk you are strong enough to vigit much?" | "1 spoke to the doctor this morning and he said talking would not hurt uns less I got excited. Andrew isn't an exciting fellow." "You're looking uncommonly well for a sick man," said Merry when he you mind if he comes alone? After-| and a yellow envelope, then he set the drawer aside and laid the leather- covered booklet upon Merry's knee. "That is yours," he explained. "You will find there every cent of royalties from 'The House': It was banked apart from my private account. It grew amazingly during the spring. You are a wealthy man." : Andrew opened ib and glanced through the pages. He looked bewil- dered for a moment. "Jehu! "What can I do with so much money? I swear, Enoch, I don't care a picayune for being a wealthy man except--" : Wentworth did not answer. He was staring at a slip of paper he ha drawn from the yeHow envelope. "You remember this, Andrew?" he asked abruptly. Merry nodded. He caught a glimpse of Wentworth's name and his own upon the flimsy thing they had called the bond. Enoch leaned back against the pillow and began to destroy the paper with slow deliberation, tearing it across and across until it was re- duced to a heap of flakes which flut- tered down into the hollow of his gaunt palm. He shook them into the envelope and handed it to Merry, who | took it without a word and slipped it ' between the leaves of the bankbook. "If you can trust me, Boy, until the | right time comes and I reach the right i place, I will make full restitution be- ' fore the world." "Don't, old man, let us bury this now and forever. Good God! isn't it restitution enough to have saved my life?" "No," Enoch spoke with swift pas- sion, "no, it isn't restitution. Don't stand in my way. You have to humor sick men, you kndw. Besides, I want to lay my soul bare to you now, An- drew. Had I been a Catholic I should have done it to a priest long ago, I suppose." "Go, ahead, Enoch, I'll listen," he said gently. Wentworth turned In bed 4 and clasped his hands around one bent knee. quely, "I was wandering about in the mountains on an assign- 1 entered the room a few ts later. "So do 'you, Boy!" Enoch's eyes crinkled with a smile "You look hap- py--tremendously happy." "Of course, I am tremendously hap- py. Why shouldn't I be tremend- ously happy? I never saw a more glorious 'day; 'IT have you back, well and strong, the same staunch old friend you always were; I've signed a con- tract for next season in figures which would have given me dizzy spells five years ago, and--" d "And--" A pathetic eagerness came into Enoch's face, "Why, bless my soul, isn't that en- ough to set the average human on transcendental stilts?" "Andrew, you're half angel!" cried Wentworth. There was a quaver in his voice. "Half angel, you ridiculous old mud- dle head!" Merry smiled in his en- gaging way. "There's no surplus of angel fiber in any man--angels are feminine." The comedian's eyes be- came grave for a moment, "Still, I might 'have been gadding about on wings to-day if it hadn't been for you. Your courage--" "Courage!" Wentworth started as if he had been struck. "Andrew, never use that word about me again! It wasn't courage that made me snatch you from death. Oftentimes men who in cold blood are utter cowards leap "break of war held a firm and tightening grip on the world's supply of raw rubber--a grip reinforced by her dominating navy. From 60% in 1914, the production of these plantations has grown this year to §5% of the whole world's output, leaving only about half the requirements of the United States alone to come from all other sources. The result has been that the needs of the Allies, enormous though they are, have been s of the sup- plied, while Germany has been reduced to re; tered mails and the "Deutschland" in desperate attempts to mitigate her rubber famine. Neutrals have been allowed all the rubber they want, at prices actually lower than before the war, so long as they prevent any of it from reaching the enemy, while Canada and ~~ other parts of the Empire have an abundant supply at equally favorable Government regulated prices. In this foresight i generost he British ® ont Ait oreo ul ie ibbers a a ve as ever, while or To sh ar 23 msi forward and rescue some one from death. That isn't courage!" ° He paused, as if a word had escaped him. at is blind, instinctive impulse--the natural impulse you find even in a savage." "You're too weak yet to argue. Merry's voice was conclusive. "Only » instead of--there." "Andrew," the sick flushed, "take these" He pulled a bunch of small keys threaded upoh a steel ring, from onder bis. pillow, "Won"h you unlock the at the left of my desk and to me." ; ht 't go in for any sort of work och, Your duty at present is iy "I want that drawer, now. --one thing is certain," he turned his| thumb toward the floor; "I am here' man's face little drawer. bring Jt] to lie there and get well." - 3 SIE: ment when I fell in with a chap who taught psychology in Yale. He was nothing wonderful, but his science was fascinating. Time and again, since those days, I have planned, if I could find the leisure, to go into psychology and study the thing out.. - Still, any man who knocks about the world as I have done learns to puzzle things out for himself. There must be some- thing alluring, though, to be able to reduce the promptings- of one's own soul to a science and then to work oud a problem in yourself. Don't you think so?" ' "1 should imagine so. Still, it's an unopened book to me," Merry admit- ted "We used to sit and talk every night around the campfire. I remember once this young MacGregor explained to me why a man we had both known committed murder. He killed his wife first, then, horror-stricken, shot himself. It's a common enough story, you read it in the papers every day of the week, but it came close to us because we had both known the fellow well. He was a decent, quiet, cheerful with a genial, kindly way about him. His taking off seemed a mystery None of use had even seen him angry. Suddenly he turned into a flaming fiend, a murderer, and a sui- cide. Nothing but insanity or the Yale man's theory explained: it." "What was his theory?" Wentworth paused for a minute with a haunted look in his eyes. "He claims that the morals of every human being are molded during the, first twenty years of his life. Into a\fairly decent the life of me I can't remember his a moral lesion. Some sin which a man has committed, and you might say lived down, before he was ] "time he "Years ago," he began brus-| career there comes occasionally--for | technical name for it--I should call it : crops out again yeas after and 1 : Each 1 --- - --- - Apply to the nearest Naval Recrult: ing Station, or to the Dept. of the Naval Service : OTTA WA To 27 = ry sweetheart, he might have committed me he aw had been at hand. e a he th gun lay close to his Andrew Merry did not speak, but sat watching Enoch with bewilderment in his-eyes. "I am going to tell you about two lesions which occurred in my own life. There was a third--you know about that one yourself." Across the pale face of the invalid swept a wave of scarlet; then he be- gan ta talk slowly and hesitatingly. | "I was in a Southern academy the first time it happened. I must have been seventeen or thereabouts. Prizes were to be given for a public oration and people were coming from everywhere ! to hear us. The governor was to ad- dress us. My father was a lawyer, one of the big lawyers of the states. He went to this school when he was a boy, and he had carried off the oration prize. His heart was set on my win- ning it. I toiled and toiled over that speech; it was about the death of Julius Caesar. I can remember, as I lay awake nights staring oyt into the darkness, how the speech came throb- bing in my brain. I could never write, though, as I declaimed it to myself in the still dormitory. I used to go out into the woods and try to write. One day I gave up. I sab huddled against a stone wall which ran down the hill, dividing a pasture from the forest. Thére was a tall pine over my head 'and the crows were calling from the top of it. I can see the place yet." Enoch lifted his eyes and turned to meet the steady glance of the man who sat beside the bed. "Do 'you want to hear the story out?" he asked bluntly.. "Yes--if you are bound to tell it." "It isn't an easy task to set the stark-naked soul df man before anoth- er's gaze, éspecially when it's a man's own, soul; but I've been over this, step by step, during these bedridden days, and I'll feel better when it's out| of my system." (To be continued). -- pi A man may wake his first baby just] to see it laugh, but he never disturbs Dog Is Globe Trotter. Mitch, a Scotch terrier, was rescued from the three years ago by Capt. Haines of the steamship Somerset. Since then the dog has been around the world twice, 1 and the shadow of the revolutions of Mexico and Haiyti. 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