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1 "= hail) now libe dong 'stood {owed this © "thing. with stur _ such troubles should be spoken of out- in SALADA are | lpn a CHAPTER XLitX.--(Cont'd.) The other letter was from Betty! Landsborough. It ran more briefly: ! | "Dear Kit.--I write to let you know about your mother. Walter Mac, . Walter is, Rob and I both think, plain- ¥ going out of his mind. And we ink something ought to be tried to get her away from him, lest he do her | @ mortal mischief. He locks her up; in a room at Kirkoswald and kezps the key, tting none go near her but him- ge.f. Heather Jock brought the word, but Waiter Mac Wa.ter has threaten-| ed to shoot him if ever he catches him about the house again. ! "Dear Kit, they say that you col- legers have holidays at Christmas time. Come home if you have to walk all the way, and Rob Armour and you and mo will try to get her away from that man. It is not safe. We are all in some measure of health here. Your grandfather and grand- mother are well at time of writing. : Laziness is all that is the matter with Rob, also conceit of himself. "Kit, I hope you are behaving your- -se.f among the Edinburgh lasses, and have not forgotten your oid friend, | BETTY a ed . * ». . While Kit perused his letters the "Orra Man" sat looking noticeab.y improved in appearance since the day after the Elysium. He Bisset's, but a well-cut overcoat,' frockecoat, and grey trousers.' His: carefully-brushed silk hat lay on the' tab.e brim upwards. He continued to gaze wistiully sag eagerly at the letter in Kit's hand. Kit laid it on the table whilst he read over Betty's. : "Wel?" said Christopher Ken- "nedy, M.A. a white and quivering anxiety setting down upon his pale . face," He fi ntly smoothed his ly sprinkled with sil-| ver; and "pulled at the moustache,' which, however, still remained black and long. An impulse tame over Kit. It was; a» old adage of his grandfather's, which he had but lately begun to; understand the meaning of, that no- thing steadies a man like responsibil- | ity or women like children of their own. | Impu;sively he thrust both letters across to his father and sat looking at him as he tried to peruse them. Christopher Kennedy laid the papers down, gravely drew out a double eye- glass, carefully adjusted it upon his howlers wi' a killivine." (Underline nose, and lifted Lilias Mac letter with shaking fingers. As. he read his head drooped on his hard, and the letter was laid down on the tablecloth, with a fast-falling rain of tears falling upon it. | Kit sat silent and waited. { At last his father looked up. He read both communications more than once. "Kit," "he said, in an almost in-) audible voice, "do you think you can! trust me with these letters? I have too apart as unworthy and al-| iniquity to go unchecked. | Now, thank God, by the help of my, two friends and fellow-townsmen, Alexander Strong and Daniel Bisset, ! .I am depending upon strength that {5° not my own. There lies spon me a responsibility of which you know n0-| 'Will you trust 4 little lorig- er, and do nothing in this matter till have laid these two letters before them?" : : "What has Mr. Strong or Mr, Bis- set to do with my mother?" said Kit, | Scotch unwillingness that alter's side the family. i A much : : than any Gunpowder or Japan. Tryit. | Kit Kennedy BY 8. RB. CROCKETT. | 'prelim.' | will shove him through." agreed 'take Kit Kenne three s + n 2 © 0d Par he " tips from high ; te kirk summer ! indeed, and on the a liquors in "Mr. Strong nothing, save as one in whom I have confided, and who has that Hop helped me as it does not often fall to totum of one man to help another. He has put | ower and purpose into my poor life. |of ter! T are most intimately connected wit all that concerns Walter Mac Walter." | the That is another matter! depth. But the look of power and |! dignity on the "Orra Man's" face was |fixed upon 80 surprising that he suffered hi overpass which abide in a kin P 2 ered Bim bo iid unclassed and uncounted at the game's ending. As for Hoggie's other name it was seldom heard, but on these occasions was pronounced with the exact sound of some one impoiitely clearing . throat. o + folk Y oggie stout fellow, Walter Mac Walter into our hands, Frond not el look upon, | |and accounted to be "far ben" with his mistress. There were those who even paid a kind of provisional court carry off the letters, Christopher Kennedy rose with the two papers in his hand. "I will return as soon as we have decided upon a plan of action," 'he! said. "Fear nothing. God has given and the wronged woman who has been sp long in the.valley of the shadow shall again walk in the light." He ed Sough went down stairs. i the door and|to Hoggie, it, sitting silent | 5 behind the over _his books, could hear the door of [rattle the coin into the till, the cop- {the Bissets' flat open 'and shut. Then |pérs into one so@nding compartment res- | and the tinkling silver into a place in a while it opened again; and ently looking past the edge of the by itself. blind he could see the broad shoulders ndy street arm in arm. And he not fro: knew that the ex-drunkard and the| gent oman and Christian minister, the leaden verend Alexander Strong, of the! and sniffed now "wore, not a spare suit of Mr.'more than Metropolitan Church of : came from the south-east. | moist in his nostrils. And Hoggie sol- Rob Grier came back in the highest lioquised as he leaned upon his broom: Saint Laurence. spirits and slapped Kit on the back.[ '"Snaw," "I've got a berth for you after the 8agely; New Year," he cried. "What do you and rifts think of that? There's a cousin of my | Christmas, cub's who is going in for his medical He has. yarned his father that he has passed already, and now the old man is on the war-path and is coming up at the end of the session | to prospect. Besides: he is ready to take his first professional, and he can't unless he has passed his pre- liminary. So I've promised that you that they "Why don't you do it yourself, Rob?" said Kit, smiling up at him, "Oh, Rob Grier kens his place," eaid the ex-smith, dropping into the vernacular. "It's mainly Greek that he wants. Besides, I hae as muckle afore my nose as I can manage!" ; The two lads rose and shook:-hands without words on either side. "Now," said Rob, "just cast your blinker ower my version, and tick the Lord, here other seat. wiapred the bad mistakes with a lead pencil)~ of shawl. For this is the sort of -macaronic speech produced by a few months of college life acting upon a base of rich Galloway Doric. bare study of Alexander three men sat round a table. host was summing up. Their | Wi "What you have to do is plain. You, | Hoagie, under Hr vo a : , will ye? Bisset, must keep some of your people, that on their track from the moment<they reach the city. If Walter Mac Walter is'a madman, he is most certainly a madman with a plan in his head. The brother of the dead Mary Bisset may have his own idea what that plan is." "And you, my old college mate," he turned to the Classical Master, "you have also your part to play, 'in strength of a man,' as Bisset might say; 'by the help of God,' as I would put it. Right is on your side. We will support you in that rig 5 This to that's a'!" If Mac, Walter shows fight I bring pbor Nick French with me. But he will not fight. At all hazards and at any cost 'we must this wron; woman out of his hands rn y eed ~ "Then," said Daniel Bisset, "it is at we to Sandhaven and and Mary Bisset 8, in the ew p- "Eh, 1 with us. That The others nodded, and then, stand- ing up, they a'l shook hands-solemnly | upon their compact. = fh - et RS ne - CHAPTER L. along a ; a dozen fi i , shep! turning from Fairport ryst, many sea bathers in the time--an. overpress of them .eepin| . dining-room table of Bax- "ter's, 60, at least, they said in Fair- At alk "pufficie: man of Mistress Meysie Conachar, the plump and rosy hostess, who with her own shapely hands. served | money into the till. It was a dullish December evening in sweeping: out the stable- Hort res istial ut as to Daniel Bisset and his daugh- | Won u ristian name DED- | it 'could bo catled that none") upon the ice at the play of curling stones, He suffered as a Kit felt that he was beyond his|Player from a chronic inability to pass "hog-score," a Hoggie communed with himself as of Daniel Bisset and the tall slender he swept his besom steadily to and figure of his fathew, striding down the 'fro--or rather, to be exact, to, but Ww , gL D "It's saft like, but it's gaun to be k at him with Infidel Lecturer were on their way to safter afore a' I @ hungry look in his face. He had take counsel with that eminently noble to the clouds. a!l which had spread above "an onding o' snaw--wgxeaths Year. And packs o' vessitors in the hoose, or on their road. Guid send way, for I kenna what they will do wi' themsel's. mistress. has flour an' meal; hams in 'raws and raws, and saxty baulks--every hen o' them guid lay- ers even in winter time!" He sniffed the air again. aboot tea-time, Hoggie," he said; "I wish ye could smell the ham fryin'-- As he spoke a high dog-cart whirl- tin and, ed past and drew up in.the corner of the yard with a spirited clatter and a spraying of the sand and the tense forefeet of the between the shafts. A tall dark man jesped throwing the reins to ed to assist a veiled lady from the from theycold in many folds "Here, take the ribbons, den't stand malingering there!" cried the dark man to Hoggie, "and if %ou don't let An hour afterwards, in the great, her cool slowly and feed her well, I'll Strong, | tan the hide off you, my good man th the bullet head!" "The buliet head--very weil," said Hoggie Hau a-gentleman's words. sees ane or hears the ither." And Hoggie Haugh, having led the black mare into stall, turned about and "squared up" scientifically at the back of the visitor which was vanishing into the bar, the silent | woman following meekly ind. puir thing!" | "Hoggie went back to his sweeping, 'but now with:a more pe. ry dili- in about equal measure' (To be continued.) shers : di d aibingzed us Io For ali in tiers in the barn' ustom sul to a fairly rich wo- the the bar and clinked the Haugh, hostler and fac- istress Conachdr, was aa, T oggie had obtained his oh a sort of great gulf the rink, those failing i: 0 as not unlikely to stand bar some day himself and be dune," he confided He looked up at the at the light breeze, which It smelt he said, nodding his head o' snaw--a close cover for a white and sleekit New be storm-stayed on their It's a blessin' that the s on the "I's they come!" ravel from .ack mare down, and gie he turn- She was clad in black, and "I"1 mind vided into Suality iuterma ed famijes; | a in Dare in thatshed cottages ol river-- What errand took him only he. could know, : He had the will, he had the wings to " ' 7 e ~_Roselle Mercer Montgomery. « yv ----t frei When hoarse use Minard"s Liniment. "A Bridge Hard to Cross. Persian followers of Mahomet have slowly but surely devised a very clever scheme by which -the unfighteous are sent tothe place of eternal torment. This scheme is not in accordance with 'the 'teachings of Mahomet but is a natural outgrowth of fanaticisms like | quiver, 0 oar Across the chasm end the roaring| of the Road. The motorist was quite certal mit, says the Motor Magazine, and #0 he was astonished when ihe village policeman. held up his hand and brought him toa standstill. . "Say," protested the driver," "I wasn't doing more than ten miles an hour--1 swear it." Wa SE "Oh, that's all right(" replied the of ficer. "But I'd be obliged if you'd lend me a few drope of gasoline. I'm go- ing to a wedding to-morrow and I'm going to clean my gloves." = « I. A matchmaker often gets-her fin: gers burned. Xo gk in he. time. 3 ; When the end comes, according to this Persian plan, all the dead are forced to cross a long bridge and this bridge crosses directly over the mouth of the headquarters of the devil. ° Phe bridge is lke the sharp edge of a sword and walking over {t 1s like doing a long stretch of tight rope walking. 3 Persons who have lived according to the best rules and regulations cross A PERFECT SPORTS FROCK... Such «a two-piece frock is noted at every smart sports event. The blouse carries the smartest of details, from ite perfect fitting colar to inverted plaits either side of the front and back, and poékets for golf ba'ls. The siegves show an interesting treatment, and run inte the meck. The inverted plaits extend into the skirt and pro- vide extra fullness, an essential fea- ture of this sports frock. The dia- gram pictures the simple design of blouse No. 1231, which is in sizes 84, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust: Size i ees the other day. 36 bust requires.2% yards of 86-Inch,| «you mean ammonia, don't you, or 2% yards of 40-inch material. The yaggio?" replied the lady. : skirt, No. 1165, may be made with orf "No, indade, ma'am; I mane what I without the camisole top, and is in]eqy I have had-an eddication as well sizes 28, 80, 82,784; 86 and 88 inches a4 another body," vigorously answered waist. Size 80 waist requires 2% | the domestic; as the flat-iron came yards of 86 or 40-inch material for down on-thie shirt-boson with renewed but the sinnems knowing they have been bad, become giddy and sip off in- to brimstone, fire and such things. ) A Ammonia. "Have you eny pneuonia fu house, me'am? 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Our designers originate their patterns in the heart of the style centres, and| their creations are those of tested popularity brought within the means! of the average woman. Price of the -book -10- cents the eopy. HOW. TO ORDER PATTERNS. + Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number find. size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in: stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept.d Wilson Publishing Cei, 73 West Ade. |- laide St, Toronto. - Patterns sent tleman "and nd he neither kens a himself, and then with a sympathetic glance at the silent figure standing wait mured, "Eh, the puir thing, I'll wager she has nane o' her sorrows to seek' wi' a black-a-vised Turk Hike that! Tan my hide, will he? Let him try't, ng in snow hg mur-. ust said Hoggio - 4 Walter Mac Waiter taking hi folk te broad Hiakes of "moist snow, there" . - - "> "lwhich had begun to tal lightly and atri man, ard | and Tori may Spee 8 Ry 1 d an the frizzle of the HEP meagre | ret@rn mail, - as well. A HATA AL i goods. On a raw winter's day you wouldn't 'venture out without a good overcoat to keep out the cold. © But your inside wants keeping warm 'known after wands and do 'with health conditions. that eyestrain, very common defect, [lays a part In various diseases of the nervous tem. \ Already It is SY8-, When we begin to have difficulty in ng, Rea "| seeing .emall print or our eyes ache the time has come to take stock of our/ visual resources. We must give our eyes the help they need fn the form'of suitable glasses, or we should give them a rest for a time 3 * in a bad light is a potent cause of eye trouble; light for reading should come from behind, and, pre- ferably, over the left shoulder, Fine needlework should not be per- sisted in too much--fewer women would need glasses if this were noted and acted upon. TAR ! Removing Eye Irritants. 'When a forslgn body: lodges in the tiny 'groves of the upper eyelid, a good way of removing-it is to take hold of the lashes of the upper lid bétween the finger and thumb and draw the lid out. wnwards; the lashes of the lower lid, acting as a brush, sweep 'the offending object out: of its bed, while your tears, brought about by. the irritation of the eye, will'do the rest. = = . When an object rests on the eyeball Canada's | itself and fa visible, the safest method of applying first aid is to take a strip of clean white blotting pc per, moiste : | the tip, and apply it to" the spot. The foreign body will probably' adhere to the strip; ils presence is readily de- "tected! Nowpossible harm can | be done by this means, as would be the case if one were to try to remove ~ | the speck with a sharp Tnstrument. The latter 'practice is to bestrongly . _condentned. 3 aid , moisten ~ Covered ee Areas. nowaadys a ---- i 4