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which diffused itseM somewhat 'N TEA ¥ sh flavor is finer than any unnowder. Tro SALADA, ght aluminum foil. | CHAPTER XXVII.-- (Coit'd.) Betty Landsborough moved #bout with a quaint smile on her face, which was hai? contempt. for Kit's fit of - the pulks, and half occasioned by a "vision of Rob Armour waiting in vain for her at the end of the loaning, where she had no intention of joining him. For, sad to relate, to' make a romise with a lad was with Betty y no means synonymous with keep- ing it. Presently Mistress Armour went into. the. little gide room,.where she and her husband slept, to put things in order for the night, The Elder was looking out of the window. He had gone in before her. As soon as they were safely out of the kitchen Betty came behind Kit and gave him a sound pinch on the soft part of his arm. "Tak' that for a silly sulky brat!" she said, and passed. on her way. She was not a commonplace girl, Betty Landsborough. "Ouch!" said Kit Kegpedy. © "Did you: speak, laddie?" said his ndmother, looking out from the closet door, "No," said Kit, instantly relapsing, and waiting for Betty to come near enough for him to kick her under the table. He was really suffering to make it ell up, but he would not say so while "no 'apology "was made; is--grand- father and grandmother were just as anxious to be friends as he, but with the Beottish dourness of relative with relative - they could not bring their minds to own themselves definitely in the wrong. Such a capitulation sub- verted discipline. So the chance pass- 2d,and the candles were lighted for "Guid-nicht, Kit!" said' his grand- father. "Good-night!" answered Offended Dignity--their several forms of speech marking their moods of mind. So without reconciliation and with sore heess the friends parted for the night. And on the morrow Kit meant to ki his promise to Walter Mac Walter. * * . . . * In the morning Kit made ready to meet his new benefactor, the man with the pipe. 'He rose before daybreak, and stole down from his little garret 80 softly that he did not even awake Betty, who slept near him. He listen- ed a moment at his grandfather's door to make sure that all was safe. He was on the point of lifting the latch and going out when he heard the Elder stir. He held his breath, and in a moment all was still again. The small-paned window of the little kit- chen only admitted a feeble grey li ht 5- mally over the floor with its whorls of whiting, and upon the ashes of last t's peats in the dishevelled grate. t had a stubby pencil in his Joskst. He found it, and approached e deal table. In the corner he found a "funeral letter" --that is, in the sh language, an invitation to at- fend a funeral. . He tore off the back; and began to scrawl some words on the broad white space within the heavy . mourning borders. JR She 3 aviation. { yourself wi ir thee 'shaft, cor "Get in," he back-board without wai ye were to vine we were drivin' through New Dalry,' 'said an, still 'without fat onyway. ; Tne an ' mhun lie wantin' oT, 'But. ve meet onybody." thrown awa' on : 1) he was'bid, and so, alter-' man. Ye Jook ss ye gaily siting up, and lying at full bow ob tes J 3 on his of cornbags, Xibs.. Man ; room travelled forth mewhat unheroically Jie - ye in thae 3 Shape' zoom : into the world. Ocensianally the man _ {To be continued.) ut a to hin an -unted : --s i ih answered it. At he tino pt cou x "You are to serve at Loch Spellan- | and greedy if I stayed and ate off you any longer. Dear grandpa, I am so: if I have been a greedy wretch, thoug' I ken that I do eat a lot. "And grand- faither, I did gang to the school yes- terday, but was late, and auld Duncan licked me for it. I didna care for that, no 'a flee. But I love you and will {write you from my new place, and I hope to send 3° some money to make up for what I have eat, So no more from your loving : "KIT." This composition took quite a while to write, and the boy was on pins and needles lest someone should come and find him at his task. He stuck this note, folded together neatly and seal- ed by a thumb mark, upon the latch of {his grandfather's little side closet, and i then, stealing to' the ofter door, | ran with all his might through the food; crossed the Grannoch lane at the Slepping-siofies, and made his wa up to the trysting place on the marc between Dornal and Kirkoswald. Mr. Mac Walter was not at the stile. The sun wis just.rising, and Kit had quite a while to wait. But he remembered that he had omitted to say his prayers that morning. So he made up arrears by repeating the Lord's Prayer twice. over, and the "Chief End of Man" no, less than seventeen times. ] Kit grew uneasy as it neared six o'clock and he watched the sen depths of the Crae wood for the light streamer of Betty's morning 'wood fire, which would mean that his flight had been discovered. But. Mac Walter had seen the little figure waiting on the stile, and it was not long before he arrived along the edge of the stone dyke, striking unex- pectedly up from the deep gloom of the plantation. He had the same gun over his shoulder, and a retter dog fol- lowed at his heel. As before he was smoking his black pipe, and at every half-dozen 'steps, regular as a minute gun, a solid blue curl of reek swept over his shoulder and thinned out to grey behind him. "Good-morning, boy!" said he with- out taking his pipe out of his mouth; "you are in time, and have kept your word. Here is.the letter to your new master, Mr. John Mac Walter at Loch Spellanderie on the water of Ken: And here is a pound to help you on your way. You will go down this hill, and through the wood towards the railway eutting. At the bridge head of the Dee you must wait till a red cart comes past. You will know it by seeing 'Kirkoswald" printed on the panels. The man will give you a ride. e is going @o my brother's farm. I am giving you a chance rot many boys have at your age--a chance' to make their own living and to rise in the world." Kit said Dothing, but looked down from the stile on waving fern. He could have sworn that he caught sight of a face looking out from it, the keen white face of a man with short- cut grey hair. But when he lodked again it had vanished, and only the bracken swayed and soughed as be- fore inthe breeze of morning. He took the money, and at Mae 'Walter's request he repeated mechan- ically the directions he had received. Then he gepared to depart, the man with the black pipe pointing out the way by which could observation. "Whatever comes, mind you are to tell no one that it was I who helped you to do this!" he said. 2 uid lin i) Siarity, He Wi not» 80 and un- selfish a friend. . ' "Besides he was now most anxio to be For even as he stood - I an looked over the green tangle of thal rose it escape he | Kit he gave vent to a short disconcerting -- 3 aigh for no cause at all that the boy Ta ml pee. YOUR ALARM CLOCK ,derie?" he put the question sharply, as || pico A he might have cracked his analy | By C. 8. Enders "Aye," said Kit. i i is id The man produced a crackling noise from soméwhere near the red "shils bin" of the cart on which he rode. "Micht ye be acquainted wi' Mis tress Mac Walter?" Again he shot the question as from a pop-gun. "No," said Kit, as briefly as before. Again-the man produced the curious mechanical sound, which in some way seemed to be an attempt at laughter. © "7 thocht Bae," he said. "But ye willl Oh! yes, ye will be better ae- grained with Mistress Mac. Walter o h Spellanderie before a' be done. Lie down, here's a man coming!" Then in" a little, as they Jried up the long and fertile strath of the Ken, | the man broke forth with yet another question.- " igri "What do you think you are going to be?" "A great man," said Kit, as easily as if he had been declaring his inten- tion of becoming a stonebreaker like {his grandfather or a forester like Rob. ad always known that he would be a great man one day, and had al- ready un to be anxious about the writing "of his biography. There were various matters he felt that he would like to conceal from his biographer-- the affair of the hens for instance, the truancy by- the lochside-=indeed, atl that one seldom stops to consider their real value, and how much they actual ly do mean to us, .¥f all the faithful timepieces fn Canada were Buddenlyto dgase running, the result can be bet- ter imagined than described. And if it were not for the thousands of alarm: clocks which "tick" faithfully all the night and then ring merrily to warn us that time for slumber is at an end, well--there'd . likely be 'many catas- trophes in the business world first morning! " . It is, sometimes advantageous to] have a number of alarm-clocks about the 'house. One of them makes an ex- cellent timekegper for the kitchen, and the alarm feature cam be used to "tell when to start the meals, or call out the time whenthe bread or cake should be taken out of the oven. Anether in the bathroom enables the man of the house to figure train-time to the min ute, while he is shaving; and he'll most likely be on time for breakfast, too! Alarm-clocks may be used to advant- age in. the Aibrary, the living-room or Clocks and watches are Bo common | that Juent than just to dean the dirt from our | pile, or the stinkin; pool have the to SHENG' it. # x 4 A 3 'With feet clogged with foulness he 1 an on the spoons, on the forks, on {the butter, the sugar, the rim of fe drinking vessel, the meat, the edge of the milk pitcher. "And be sure that as muddy boots will lédve a track across {a crimson carpet so the fly will leave his tracks on everything he touches. : 1s he satisfied with making his call on the eating utensils? Not at all. - He | our' hands our faces and he particular ly affects the cradle where lies the must be when the fly alights on the baby's lips for it to leave behind the germs of disease. 'It has been proved, a that the house fly may carry the germs the garage; one installed in each of the various buildings, 'such as the dairy, tool-hoyse or barn, enables<the busy farmer tell the time=without stopping to cofieult his watch. Onithe buginess-man's desk it has a place, while in the factory it may-be used tos advantage on the foreman's bench, to regulate special and particular shop operations, "But these are only a few 'the interesting revelations which make the modern biographer the terror of his race; Kit, old-fashioned, be- gan. early to provide against. But the taciturn driver from Kirko- swald had once been tickled and now could not contain his mirth, At every new turn of the winding road up the green valley he chuckled to himself. "A great man--and going to Mis- tress Mac Walter o' Loch Spellan- derie. Ho! ho!" But neither he nor Kit Kennedy saw a figure which kept the cart in sight all the way from the bridge head of Dee to the loaning gate of Loch BSpellanderie, a figure which dodged darkly through bracken patch- es and behind stone dykes--that kept a beeline through the hazel coppice of the Dornal Bank, and was waiting within a hundred yards of Kit when red cart reached the further bend --that skulked among (Le heather on the purple side of Bennan when there was no shelter by the w. yside and the highway ran long and straight into the north. Kit Kennedy was less alone than he knew in his great adventure. CHAPTER XXVIII AFTER MANY DAYS. But wé have now to turn back some considerable distance in order that the tale may run plain and clear. The tramp was at last clear of both prison and hospital. Physically his three months' hard labor and six of nursing and nourishing féod in the hospi of - the - combination "poor= house had infinitely improved him. The unhealthy, mottled appearance had gone from his face. It was still a pale face certainly, but with a look {of health and vigor strange to it for many days. * The Sheriff had not forgotten him, you discover others, pectliar to your | needs, the clock will become 'more and more serviceable to you. , My, How We Abuse Them! Alarm-clocks suffér abuse from the average owner, and this abuse often tests them te the limit. Perhaps it is because of their usual faithfulness that they are so badly neglected. But whatever .the cause, it is certain that the life of an alarm-clock may be-great- ly prolonged by proper tréditment. For instance, changes in tempera- ture are very injurious to.thé mechan- ism. Your clock is in a warm room all day. At night you wind and set it, then open the windows. You can hard: | ly expect your clock to adjust itself to any kind of weather--zero-cold or the damp night air--and ring exactly on the dot the next morning, And yet, these are the conditions under which most alarm-clocks must serve, and of- ten they stand up better under the strain than higher-priced clocks. Bear- ing in mind these facts may make us a bit more tolerant when our faithful alarm-clocks vary a few minutes in time, Fra os Probably you've never thought of your alarm-clock in just this way be- tore, It's a pretty useful member of | the household, isn't it?" And so inex-! 'of the uses for your 'alarm-clock. As!' and when Christopher Kennedy, M.A., laid aside his hospital attire he re- ceived: in exchange, not the stained and ri suit of odds and ends in which had been convicted, but a rig-out of Skye homespun, woven for Sheriff Nicoll himself. by. the good Women of his Bative island, It ray rough and loose, arge at cl fully adjusted if it is to d d and infinitely too Mboral at pa caret Po Sek with this SARE of girth for the spare hunger-hollowed | ;,04 1m ent and you do away with: ac- igure of the tramp. But all the same; curacy. First-class alarm-clocks have 8 Soran nator I fox the €| movements that are adjusi 0 gl a foc 8, shat the 'White shirt a little better timekeeping ~ qualiti frayed at the cuffs which had accom-| wheels turn on reedlefine pivots of ied the tweed suit, and a blac 5 pensive, too! . So much go, in fact, that many 'people consider it a sort of | rough-and-ready, low-priced article' that doesn't require careful treatment. | p. Keeping Accurate Time. But just here:1s 'where they err. Any| good timekeeping Instrument must be dod by the kindly -poor-house duced in this watch-like mechanism, a Fig-out" which, | = Needless to say, the better you treat n ji, 'was. &| your clock the better it will serve you, Hethe deal mair ng 1 the Earl Xs good | 4 ise. Fo u-conplete disguise ore good. Steam 18 injurious In the bathroom, polished steel. Friction is greatly re-| ,* A YOUTHFU worn with a straight sip it makes an attractive lounging-robe. The kimono '| pattern, No. 1188, is finished with . shirred ribbon, contrasting faces the neckline and sleeve-edges.| == y elabo Youthful negli-| J ful style. It is cut f ee n shootin' " § : y ; Ao x tie enough Sesiit lh ; ; to} d L NEGLIGEE. . A simple negligee for use in madam's " room is "this very simple] straight-line kimono, and closes at low waistline, When It is surplice material and i baked vie 1 laide St., Toronto. 'you wish?" 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