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you ut, Mr. A : mg Raa. ; certain that we shall , it were ne for father, I shot leaving e coun easier for Miss Fenella herself; cannot leave him in his ailing state." - This - tone of assurance that "we" was the last drop in the cup of Albert's wrath. Such a descent into details seemed to rut a seal of certainty upon a thing which he still persisted in treating upon the s level of a mere bogey. "You are a blackguard," he said, be- : ee on his "But she's oing to hastily ib od 'Albert, pleasantly touched at rec own taunt in this more bruta "It's just a yassing fancy, of course, and it's the business of her relations ~-the rational ones--to Jrevent her making a mess of her life. Trust me for that! I'll make it impossible, somehow; but meanwhile I think you ought to know "how matters nd, tween his closed teeth, yet plainly en- ou while by 'his sides his hands -~ervously closed. "And you are--her brother, eise you ! might well happen to choke upon that word." The face of the elder man had grown dark and hard, but scarcely discomposed, 4 _ With craned neck and starting eyes, his hands still clenched by his sides his body taut and ready, Albert stood close before him. One movement of Duncan's would inevitably have pre- cipitated a physical collision, that old, original way of settling quarrels, to which, in moments of elementary pas- sion, even civilised and even educated Man occasionally returns. But Dun- can, although his eye held that of Al- bert. in a grip that in itself was a warning, moved as little as does a big dog when a little dog is snarling into ite"face. His hands were in his pockets, nor did he even take the pre- caution of withdrawing them, and as little as there was a preparation of defence, as little was there a provoca- tion to attack. For the space of a few breaths Al- bert's tense attitude persisted, then gradually relaxed, and with the re- laxation came a rush of smarting shame. The boy's impotent fury felt itself silently rebuked by the man's mature self-mastery. To end the interview with as little further loss of dignity as was possible seemed all that remained. "Oh, it is no use talking while you are in this pig-headed mood," he de-| clared, gathering ' together the frag- ments of his initial haughtiness. "But ou will think better cf it, and so will | enella; I will make her think better of it. And, in any case, this pre- Posterous thing shall not happen. at am I here for, I should like to know ?" . And without waiting for a retort which was not Soming; Albert flung away down the lane, his brain seeth- ing with wild - plans of action, his vanity smarting under the conscious- mess that the advantage ofthe inter- view had not been on his side. CHAPTER XXI. Upon its death-bed of withering heather and yellowing bracken, the Ardloch summer lay beautifully' dy- ing; and from that very bed, as from a bed of birth, autumn rose up, with _ in her face a sadder, milder, more in- sinuating because more suggestive eauty . For Fenella this season of passage was a passage in more senses than one, These stormy autumh weeks held for her both a new bliss and a new torture. She had been too used to cherishing--even though calculating ---care, to petting and approval, to be able to bear disapproval lightly. much coldness after so much warmth could not but chill her to the heart. How much greater would have been|. her happiness had she been able to share it with those nearest her! , Without her father's support, there were moments when Fenella's courage might have tottered. And even his support was but a passive one. ese weeks of betrothal, full of secret happiness, were nevertheless empty of what is usually understood as joy. This was as Fenella had known it must be. Even when, in the Pass, she had felt: Duncan's hands upon her own, and had raised her face to meet his, it had been with an overflowing, but mot with a light heart. She had sinned against a social faw, and must pay the penalty, The very scene of their bethrothal--stern and. hard-featured--seemed to warn the young people of that which'lay bé- fore them: no pleasant dalliance, but a bitter struggle with the prejudice of a caste. Yet, for all the voice of reas son, it remained hard to be treated as a traitor to a common cause. From the outer' public the situation still remained screened, the engage- ment 'being so far unpublished--the one concession wrung by ABert from his father. So long as it wag not an- nounced it remained possible to con- sider it as non-existént; which meant a 'gain of time for ~~ absence of the Attertons on a ~rodnd of visits struck Albert as a providential arrangement, since even : reli. guarded secrets have a way of 'leaking out. - oc. i | To Mr. Berrell, however. ix had been necessary to speak, precisely for fear of this leaki rocess. True, in the "+ statement" which Albert, in some tre- rionally nade to his future further measures. considering your impending connec- tion gi the family.» # "Humph!" Mr, Berrell, si chair, before a table piled fell into a brown study, Li no means beautified his If ick-lipped face. so "How. 'about Macgilvray of Rock- 'shiel? He's just been making fools of you all, I suppose. If he had come to the point this couldn't have hap- pened. That would have fixed her up, you bet!" ; |" Here, also making a virtue of neces- sity, Albert confessed the truth, whose primary result was to cause the man- ager to bound in his chair in an alinost shuttle-cock fashion. : 3 | "What! Refused him? Decidedly you'd better hand her over to the near- est asylum. Preferring a quarryman toa landowner--why, it's not even de- vent! A fine connection, indeed, ha, ha!--and I who have been saying to Julia that Mr. Macgilvray's influence would probably be able to get me on | a better job than this!" ; He sat down again, drumming im- | patiently with his thick fingers upon the arms of the chair, and lending only half an ear to Albert's soothing as- surances. . "How do you mean to prevent it?" he ungraciously inquired. "First by gaining time. His father is against it, mercifully, and he is ill; | that will delay things anyway through ! the winter; and during the winter it's ten to one Fenella will become ration- tting in his office- with ledgers whose depth low-browed, 'al. | "And if she doesn't?" | "Then something else may happen, ' --will happen, in fact! I don't know amhat, but it's just got to." . = "I know what would happen if she was my daughter," and Mr. Berrell disclosed his large teeth suggestivély. "Bread and water and solitary con- finement until she tame to her senses." Not without a touch of regret Al- i bert pronounced the arrangement un- feasible. : "How about buying him off ?" sug- gested the manager, after another gloomy pause. "A hundred pounds goes a long way with a man who earns thirty shillings a week. And I shouldn't mind going halves if it rids us of him." : Albert shook his head, with in- creased decision. - To Duncan's, in- terlocutor of the other day Mr, Ber- rell"s proposal seemed almost humor- ous. "Ah, high and mighty, is he? That's the worst sort to deal with. Yes, might _have known it--had a taste of him in spring. A regular Dlg head- ed, cantankerous fellow; and always just he crossing my path." "And mine as well," laughed Al- bert bitterly. "We're in the same So! boat, so far as that goes; but sure- .1y we'd need to be idiots not to find a way out of it!" "Well, find a way out of it! It's your business to do so, since it's your imprudence that is to blame." rough the words there rang a cer- tain note of warning, appreciated by Albert at its full value. * : "Left to himself, the. black-haired manager remained scowling into space, "which was his fashion of being de- ressed. It really would be an awful bore to have to break off his engage- ! ment, but it would be a still greater bore to have Duncan M'Donnell for a ! brother-in-law. Rather than that he would let Julia go, ~ At this point of his meditations Mr. Beérrell noisily , expelled = the air from his puffed cheeks,--his fashion of sighing. For, though practical considerations had been the chief motor of his action, 'they had not been the only ones. ~~ It was hig reason which had pointed out to him the' advisability of "settlin | down," but it was his taste which ha | what "loud" personality for him that peculiar attraction which bright | golors and big patterns have for cer- 'she quite outshone her sister, if only 'for the reason that there was more of her. To renounce her would unques- a | thought of it qui ckened his spite against the cause of that possible re- ' nunciation. = Sym athy here Joined "hands with di or despite the ways wo! I blacker than 8 | should be made el | selected Julia, whose large and some- tain primitive minds. In his opinion "tionably cost g; the mere . sult withdrawn, Duncan's presump- tion of the pig still hd wy and uld; th had been e to. 'to. feel it in | Js i did not figure, the heavens tal garb.te, and thig offence was| ? s Ah, but he od oup | tablespons of Jam. - Cover tc and sparkle across sixteen inch.spaces. This electric current stimulates the growth of the seed. came up on April 18 and the current was fed it thenceforth. From the 16th of May on a noticeable difference in the growth of the oats in this field and ethers not treated by electricity could be noted. The oats, sown on the 27th of March, : costs 10c. with pullets, 1dc. with year-old hens and 19¢. with three- year-old hens in a three-year feeding test recently reported by the United; States Department of Agriculture. WHAT'S WRONG "Well, Mother," cheerfully began Mr. Benton, "what do you want for your birthday 17" ! ; "Nothing at alll" Mother answer.d defiantly. Sold "Why, Mother!" {faltered : Ruth. "What's the matter? You're not sick, are you?" : Yes," she answered, "sick=~of-hay- ing new things. come into the house when all the time it is the old things that should have attention. I tell you, these little annoyances are get- ting on my nerves and I can't enjoy my home at all for worrying about all the things that need attention. - The kit~ chen faucet leaks, - The dining-room window rattles until it nearly drives me distracted, The window-blind in my bedroom refuses to go up more on the stairway creaks loud enough to wake anyone from a sound sleep." "No wonder you are nervous," com- forted Father. "They are startling. I never thought of them collectively before. Make out a list of the little things all over the house which need attention and the children and I will give you a shower "of 'annoyance re- movers' for-your birthday. How's that?" ® "I'll begin at once!' exclaimed Mrs. Benton, determined to grasp the op- portunity. "I never fell that we can afford to have an expert come out here and attend to these little things and you nevershave time." T "Ill take a day from the plowing," promised her husband. Mrs. Benton immediately started on 1| 2 tour of thé house, trying to view it through the critical eyes of a stranger. The eyes can usually endure more than Breakfast. -- Buckwheai griddle cakes, syrup, toast, tea or coffee. Dinner.----Boston_roast, corn bread, apple sauce, tea. « Supper.--Potato soup, oatmeal muf- fins, apple sauce, tea. The recipe for Boston Roast, men- tioned above, is as follows: -- Boston Roast--2 cups dry kidney beans, 1 cup bread crumbs, 2 cups grated cheese, 8 {easpoons salt, 1% cup liquid, 1 tablespoon chopped - onion. Soak beans 24 hours. Cook in salt- ed water until soft.- Drain, put through - food chopper, add enough of the water in which heans were cooked (about % cup to moist- en). Form into loaf, bake in moderate oven for 40 minutes. Baste oc- casionally with hot water and fat, Braakfast.--Oatmeal porridge, bak- ed apples, brown bread toast, tea or coffee, un Nan Dinner.--F'ish pie, mashed potatoes, boiled 'carrots, cup pudding. : Supper.--Cream of celery soup, war bread, cottage cheese, tea biscuits, syrup, tea. - i a - ~The recipes for Fish Pie and Cup lows :-- . Fish Pie.--2 cups flaked fish, 1. et seasoned white sauce. Mix the flak fish with the white sauce, put into a 'greased baker," cover the top wi buttered bread sums: and cook in oven until the crumbs are brown, Cup Pudding.--~Put into each gr cup. 'a batter 'tablespoons of bub egg, 1 cup teaspoons than half way and the bottom board WAR MENUS TO SAVE W HEAT, BEEF AND BACON. onion, | - cheese, crumbs, niore sait if needed Pudding, mentioned above, are as fol- ho y @.4 (2 "IN THE HOME? the ear so she listened carefully f disfirbing sounds as well. wo. | may | dealers, wh has written to millers, wholesale flo quantity b] sumption in the Dominion. Millers are asked not to'sell more than the usual quantities of flour to bakers and wholesale dealers and tc advise their customers not to stocl heavily with regular grades of flour Wholesale dealers are asked not te allow retail dealers to stock heavily A squeaky hinge of the swinging door in the dining-room caught her at-, tention as she passed throughrit. Down, went a memorandum, The wind was, blowing and the offending window in the same room be its rat-tat-tat. "Never mind, you'ré doomed," promis- ed Mrs, Benton as she wrote, "West dining-room window rattles." The bathroom door stuck at the bot- tom and the window 'had to be prop- ped up_because the' rope holding its iron weight had broken. One hinge was missing from tke kitchcn cup- board door and the/spring on the back screen was weak so that the door could not shut quickly enough to keep flies out. The offending board on the stairway and a board on the back steps. which needed additional nails were noted. . The kitchen stool had ashabit of los- ing one leg at unexpected times. The iron grate in the kitchen range had to be handled carefully lest it fall into the ash pan. : Si At last the list was complete. Though much longer than she had ex- pected, Mrs. Benton viewed it with satisfaction. What a joy it was to know that all these petty annoyances 'were to be wiped out in one day! What is wrong in your home? If the items were counted, the sum total | would doubtless astonish you. Induce the handy man of the house to set a certain time to attend to all these little repairs; or be your own "handy man." You will be surpriséd and de- lighted $0 see how much can be ac- complished by determination plus glue, | nails, string and a few simple tools. Try it. A { ea Soup.--Cover a shin bone with cold water, and bring to a boil. = Boil gently for the .whole of two hours. Then add one cup of peas brose, pep~ per and salt to taste, and a very little grated onion. Boil for half an hour longer strain and serve. Emergency Biscuits.--1 cup white flour, 1 cup graham flour, % teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons butter substitdte, 5 teaspoons baking powder. Milk to moisten into a dough a little too soft to roll. Drop by spoonfuls. onto a greased pan, and bake in a hot oven. Breakfast. -- Buckwheat griddle cakes, syrup, corn bread, coffee. Dinner.~Baked beans, brown bread, baked potato. - hy Supper.--Scalloped tomato, bread, stewed prunes, tea. 4] yor) The recipes for Baked Beans, Brown Bread and Barley Bread, mentioned above, aré as follows:--. Brown Bread.--2 cups graham flour, 1 cup white flour, % cup molasses, 1% eins sweet milk, % teaspoons a, 1% teaspoons salt. Sift the flour," salt and 'soda. Add the mo- lasses, and 'the*milk. Pour into well greased moulds and steam about three flour, 21-8 cups barley flour, 2 'milk And water, or water, 1 cal pressed yeast, 2 tablespoon' su a at, on sal Barley Bread<--42-3 cups "wheat Ei with régtlar grades of flour and re: tail dealers are asked not to sell mor: than one week's flour to families, ex cept in cases where it is impossible for" the customer to secure supplies week- ly. = Millers are also requested mot to require dealers to take certain quantities of flour when purchasing other products of the mill. ~ | Mr. Hanna-states that it should be olesalers-and- retailers who do not accede to these requests will be promptly dealt with and the ship- ment of«flour by or to thes: persons will be prohibited." ; ; The letter adds that a date will be get after which bakers will be required to sell their bread hased on the price of the standard * flour. Theref bakers who purchase large stocks o patent flour may find themselves in an unfortunate position when the Order is issued for the production of bread from standard flour. The standard flour will be of high quality and will be quite as palatable as the patents and even more con~ ducive to health. Samples of flotirs will be furnished and all mills will be required to produce a quality of flour which will not be superior in color to the standard samples. Every mill must furnish to the Food Con- troller's Office every .two weeks a statement showing the quantity of wheat ground and the weight of flour produced therefrom. Failure on the part of any of the mills to comply with the Food Controller's regulations may result in cancellation of license. One hundred and sixty-seven Canad- jan flour mills' are already under license from the Food Controller's Of- fica, All the remaining mills will be similarly licensed. The profits of the licensed mills have been limited to a lmaxifaum avérage of twenty-five cents on' the-milling of enough wheat to make a barrel of flour (196 1bs.). THE RATE OF TREE GROWTH. How Fast Does a Forest Rebuild Itself? : The rate of growth of trees in the forest is usually exaggerated Dr. C. D. Howe, who during summer made a study of the reproduc. tion and growth of the ood spe- cies after logging, in the St, Maurice Valley, Quebec, on behalf of the Com- mission. of Conservation, produced the following, conclusions: & go Over 2,000 trees were analyzed to determine their Jute grow r diamete¥; height and volume. "While the results of this study have bt ye been tabulated, they have gone far enough to justify the statement that ation, it takes about 40 years forthe little spruce treés to acquire a dia- : inch; 100 years to make 2 s to reach Sigtinetly understood 'that "millers, |" pd) | of growth in |g within the forest type under consider- | & verage gopgrtion ed ( younded o orth, Spicheren, Mars "le-Tour, Gravelotte and Sedan was 'one-ninth, the heaviest loss being at Mare-le-Tours, where it was one-sixth, and the smallest at Sedan where 1 was one-twelfth. 'WOUND STATISTICS. Showing the Pergentage of Mortal In. juries on Battlefields. Statistics of men wounded in trench warfare have just been published for the period between January, 1916, and June, 1918. Seven afd eighty-seven hundredths per cent. of wounded men die on the battlefield. Ten and six~ teen-hundredths per cent. die later from their injuries or 18.03 succumb, a proportion far less than the 25 per cent. estimated mortality which sur geons drew up when the war n. Artillery causes 54.74 per ¢ wounds; rifles and revolvers cent., bayonets 0.50 ' and standard spring and winter wheat Bom artillery. wt 7 Percentages for wounds in the head and neck' are 21.92, for the trunk they are 21.63, while wounds in the extrem- ities stand at 56.4 per cent. Twenty-three and "sixty-two hun- dredths per. cent. of the wounds are classed as serious, 63.01 as medium ahd 18:07 as so slight that the victims can return to the lines immediately. Keep sharp grit, charcoal and greem feed befére the hen always.