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to h--4-0-4-0-4-2-f-0--0-4 0-0-4 -0-+4-0-} 4-0-0} p09 hoo} op obo b-0 CHAPTER' XII.--(Cont'd) Dinner progressed very well, that the little' ho grossed in her-own thoughts. The Hon. Maude was seaied next to Mr. Crawshaw, and improved her op- rtunities in a manner worthy of i mother's daughter. Mrs. Fairfax "sat beside Lord Merefield and yawaoed audibly, but every now and then her face bright- ened as the clock chimed the quar- ters, and she remember that agit would be with them direct- 'y not- Dorothy, too, began to awaken as the hour of nine approached. 'Derry should be here by this time; but then Derry was not like any one else; perhaps, for aught they knew, he might have come in quietly, without safing a word, and was now sitting comfortably in his own room."' Dorothy said this to herself, half pettishly, little thinking how near the truth she had guessed, for Der- rick Darnley was at that very mo- ment passing outside the dining- room window, from when, carefully hidden himself by the shrubs and terrace, he had a good view into the room. He laughed softly to himself as he quickly scanned them all, but 'his laugh soon died away. "Old Williams at the lodge must be right, and she is ill," he thought to himself; "my poor darling. must find out and satisfy myself; perhaps she will grow better when I am near." He smiled tenderly to himself as he went very noiselessly into the hall, and fortunately met Baines, who at that moment was coming downstairs. ; "Miss Dorothy is anxious about Miss Hamilton; is she in her room, Baines?' he asked, careful not to arcuse any curiossty by inquiring for her on his own account. "Lor', no, sir; Miss Nancy went downstairs hours ago. I've just bin in her room, sir, and I know she ain't there. I see her go into the garden, but I thought she was at dinner now, sir. ' Mr. Darnley muttered his thanks, and, waiting until Baines had dis- appeared, then strode into the gar- den, and turned off resolutely in the direction of the lower lake. "She will be there--there, where our Jove-dream was _ aioe darling }--my.~.darling!--my_ eyes hunger to see your face again! The soft, tender look crept over 4 his features, his heart was thrilling and beating with his love; all na- ture seemed to harmonize with his feelings; there was music in the soft rush of the night air, the burr of the insect world seeking its rest; there was balm and powerful fas- cination in the fragrance wafted to him by the nodding flowers; it was the. very place, the very night, for love's witchery. And there, just before, lay the corner which he knew by intuition sheltered the wo- man whose heaven-blue eyes made the world his world, whose sweet lips were his own, whose love sur- rounded him with peace, happiness and delight, such as rarely comes to man. : . The pale summer moon had just broken through the dusk as Derrick Darnley reached the well-remem- bered spot by the lower lake. His quick, eager eye had caught the gleam of a white gown through the trees, and his heart beat quick- er in triumph and glad array. He saw the slender figure but dimly, for the light was dying fast, and her silent attitude, born suppressed, agony, did not strike on him as it would have done at an- i He had walked fleetly almost run--now he paused. . She had not moved; she had not turned; perhaps she had not heard, he crept so softly. anc el "N . He called it gently, but she start- ed back, started like a frightened deer that saw its doom approach and no aid near. "My darling! my dearest heart, did I frighten youl"--he was side her in an anstant, and had clasped her in his arms. "Nancy, it has seemed a century since I left you; has it been long to you, sweet? Ah! I need not ask--I need not ask," he laughed joyously, and his hold tightened on her trembling f form, '"'for you have faded and drooped away from me; you have been ill, my darl.og--ill--what ill dare come to you, my own, my sweet !"' Ah! if he could but have guessed _-zif he could only have ! nown. m -- my) stole off at once to find yon; am I not "clever, eh, little one?' He stopped suddenly. "Kiss me," he whispered, tenderly, passionately ; "kiss me, dearest, and welcome me back again." With a sobbing cry she drew abruptly from him, just as his lips touched hers. "No, no," she muttered, hoarse- ly, "no, you must not." The words died away in a moan as she covered her face in her. hands. Darnley stood rooted to the spot. "What is it?" he asked, hurried- ly; "'have I really frightened you ?-- forgive me, darling, I forgot you had been ill. I am a brute; come to me again, Nancy, and I will soothe you, dearest."' © She made no sign, only stood with her face covered up. A sudden cold pain struck at his heart. "Nancy !--Nancy!" he cried, huskily, "what is 1t, what has hap- pened; tell me quickly, what has come to you, dear one?' e put her hand as if to ward off @ blow. "JT am your--dear one--no long- er!" Each word was uttered sharply, keenly; then rang on his ear with exquisite and horrible pain, so curt and hard did they sound. He passed one hand over his brow. ig! o not understand," he said, vaguely, then, seizing her by the two arms, "Speak !--speak !"' he cried, 'do not torment me; you are not the same Nancy I left; something has changed you, I do not know what; tell me, am I wrong ?"' Her breath was coming short and fast, like that of a person in acute pain, yet she knew she must not fail now; she had to act, and it was not. a moment to deliberate, or her stréngth would go, and she would have told all and betrayed her uncle, her guardian, her rela- tive, her friend. She dared not lift her eyes to his ace as she answered, curtly: '"You--you are not wrong." "You are changed," he repeated it over and over again, his gaze burning her palid face. "Nancy, for God's sake, don't trifle with me, tell me the worst! You--you don't ove me? it was a mistake ?" She paused, his fingers were clenching her fair young arms, but she did not heed the pain. What was it to the agony that lived in her heart "Tt was a mistake,"' she said, de- liberately, in a dry, choked voice. His breath came in a panting sob from his lips. 'You do not love me!" he cried, brokenly. "You do not love me!"' She made no answer. She check- ed the moan that rose from her tortured heart. She could not bear much more. "You do not love me!--you, my darling !--my promised wife !" She raised her eyes to his; the moon's pale light shone placidly downm*on them. . '"T can never be your wife." He bent forward to look at her, but did not release his hold. '*Go on," he muttered, hoarsely ; "go on, there is more to know an I am not g al waiting." Nancy bent her head as a flower droops under the hot heat of the a i=] n. "JI have been very wrong. I-- deceived you. I was not--not free to listen to you." "Not free???' The man repeated the words three times, then he bent nearer to her. "His name? Give me his 'name, I say!" he asked in a hoarse whisper. She paused only an instant. Then two faint words passed her lips: "Thomas Crawshaw !" Derrick Darnley gripped her till he forced a cry of pain from Tr; then, with a short, hard laugh, he flung her from him and stood alone. "You hypocrite! God forgive you, you have done an awful thing, for you have ruined my life !" He stood silent for a moment, then he strode forward and drew up her trembling form from the ground, where she had fallen when she staggered back. He clasped her in his arms, and strained her to his heart; then, bending his head, kissed her pas- sfonately--fiercely. "Oh! sweet. false, cruel lips!" he cried, his voice hoarse and al- tered. "You may simile on happily, for you have spoken my doom!" Once more he kissed her, then, releasing her suddenly, he turned aside and strode away. The girl's form faltered, her two "They do not know I am bere; I --------LLEESS -- & 0, TtA- O22 a let LIPTON'S TEA d make it_the favorite of all of good tea. | | pes cut any i le drink to sip throughout a luncheon in lieu of wine. went out feebly towards him. rry--Derry, my love!". she moaned, but as the sound of his dying footsteps reached her ear she fell prone to the earth, lost for a time to remembrance in merciful oblivion. CHAPTER XIII. "Tt is very odd," Dorothy Lei- cester said to herself. -Dinner was over, and every one was scattered about the grounds and lawn. She could just catch a glimpse of her father lying back serenely' asleep in his cosy chair. Mrs. Fairfax was chatting to Lady Burton, deep in some fresh and de- lightful bit of scandal. Over to her right strolled Mr. Crawshaw with Maud Chester in persistent attend- ance; while her sister endeavored, without much success, however, to follow her example with Lord Mere- field, who was all eager to join his dainty cousin's side, and was, therefore, not a very interested listener to the Hon. Ella's loud-de- claimed accounts of her own and her sister's prowess with the tennis hands "a De at. Dorothy was alone; she might have joined her aunt, Mrs. Darn- ey, who was sweeping to and fro majestically in her long black sa- tin robe, her diamonds glistening in the moonlight, and an air of un- disguised pleasure sitting on her handsome face, but Dorothy infin- itely preferred to be alone. "Tt is very odd," she said again. She was thinking about Darnley and his non-appea, ance. And where was Nancy -- what could be keeping her all this time-- it was so unlike Nancy to hide her- self in this way Dorothy bit her pretty lip, and tapped her foot impatiently on the ground. Her aunt sailed up to her at this moment. "Something has detained Der- rick, I suppose," she observed, slowly, '"'it is too late for him to come now." Her cold eyes were fixed on a form emerging in the distance as she spoke--a form which moved slowly and languidly as that of a man weakened by illness and suffer- ing, and at the sight a tinge of color crept into her cheeks. ~'They have met--we have won!" was the quick thought in her mind --a thought full of triumphant de- light, ignorant of either a woman's pity or a mother's sympathetic love. She put her long, slender han on Dorothy's shoulder. "YT think we must reconcile our- selves to the fact that he will not come to-night," she said; and then she gave a start of surprise. It was marvellously ~done, and deceived Dorothy immediately. "Talk of the angels, etc, et.,"' Mrs. Darnley said, hurriedly: "here is Derry at last! He must have walked from the station. Dorothy jumped up at once, all annoyance gone. ; ere you are,' she cried, ex- tending both her hands in greet- ing. "You naughty man you !: We have been imagining you lost or drowned,vor attacked by brigands." "While all the time it was only a common, everyday headache that made such a furious onslaught on me.'"' ~ The man spoke languidly. His hands felt hot and .everish to Doro- thy's touch; his face was strangely haggard in the moonlight. . She looked at him anxiously. "T hope you are not going to be ill, too, Derry."' . He passed his hand over his ach- ing eyes. "Why! Dorothy? '"'Nancy has been very ill all day. I have been quite alar about her. But come in and have~ some food; you must be hungry and tired. Whatever induced you to walk such a hot night as this!" '"'A whim--a mere whim, pretty cousin."" The man let his hand linger in Dorothy's. Her simple, unaffected delight at seeing him vaguely soothed and pieased, even while it pained him. There was such a dif- ference in this greeting from the one that he had just experienced under the trees by the lake edge. "Don't you see .Aunt Anne?' whispered Dorothy. Derrick Darnley had seen his mo- ther plainly enough, but he shrank from speaking to her then. He felt that her keen, cold eyes would pierce into his heart, and read the sorrow written there. Besides, he had a grievance against her--a grievance that swas augmented by strange doubt. : (To be continued.) --------kh__--_ pave you other invalids, Orange Juice.--Orange juice can be-made to serve as a most delici- ous drink for luncheons if only a little thought and time be spent upon it.' Serve chilled in tall glass- some banana, a grape and seeded, a bit of pineapple or D b séasonable friit is an following: SER Gepalntone of the ountries named, in 1909 :-- 2 ee ee. ee 63,879,000 FONCG 4... eth sics nbs. 500s OMh tALY oe, ee be eee ee eo 84,870,000 Spain Iese sevens +o19,945,000 Belgium 6... sxe. wise 23 T/ABR, Netherlands' .... .... sis 6,911,000 Ortugal ictus Gases see 340,000 Switzerland ........ ...3°3,584, OBEN ..ctinbess ves + ++ 5,476,000 Denmark nat « «eee 08,692,000 Norway + Cogpest™ hace oR 2,370,000 Austria-Hungary (1908) .49,163,000 Russia (1908)... 2... «++ 157,079,000 ee Europe the .foltowing. figures are given :-- United States .. . 88,566,000 Japan ..., 1... ceeees 49,905,000 Argentina .... .. ....- 5,884,000 WORLD'S GREAT CITIES. The population of the world's Great cities show some interesting comparisons with London, the fig- ure for which at the last census New York (1900) ...... 3,437,000 Paris (1906) ...4.4. ..+ 2,763,000 Tokio (1908) .... .....- 2,186,000 Berlin (1905) 2,040,000 Chicago (1900) .... ...1,699,000 Vienna (1900) .... .... 1,675,000 Philadelphia (1900) ....1,294,000 St. Petersburg (1897) ..1,265,000 Osaka (1908) .... .....1, 7,000 Moscow (1897) .... ...1, Buenos Ayres (1905) .. Perhaps one of the most interest- ing features is a comparison of the respective growth of populations in the ten years, 1898 to 1908, which works out as follows :-- , ncrease in 10 years. United Kingdom .. .. 4,166,000 Germany .... .... «6 8,574,000 FRANCO 2 (sivas, seve 522, Russia .... 02.6 ee eeee 28,614,000 United States 14,222,000 APON .... cee cee oe 5,048,000 Austria-Hungary 4,054,000 -------- THE PARLOR CARPET. A Touching Story Which Some Hus- bands Should Read. The district school teacher, sweet and twenty, had married the farm- er's son. er hours, writes author of the every-day tragedy be- low, which Gomes from the Crafts- man, were lengthened from six to sixteen, and her modest stipend stopped. But she was congratuiat- ed: "For now you have a home,' She smiled happily in response. "Now," she thought, "m room will.come true." The young people were well-to- do; no labor-saving device was wanting for the men. The farm equipment was of the best. But in the house she found that the old way prevailed; and while her wishes were not denied, they were unful- filled, ignored; they were unim- Men's time meant money; hers meant only love. The agricultural journals that phrased the bucolic mind and ad- vertised quite eight cclumns of most elaborate and expensive mach- inery for the ten-hour men outside the house gave ier a scanty wom- an's page, not of the expenditures for her comfort and development in taste, but of makeshifts for her economies. Even the new cream separator meant not an advantage to her, but the withdrawal of t butter money to her husband's purse, Moreover, the parlor carpet was yet to buy. Five years had toiled away, and the blue and white par- lor,-painted and papered by her own hands with careful care, drap- ed, but as yet unrugged, waited. Braided rugs elsewhere, yes, but not in one's parlor on a prosperous me if only for the neighbors' pride. She was reduced at last to artful appeal. 'The Dorcas Band meets here next time.'"' Then the man: 'I'm going to town. Give me your.money and I will get the carpet." hey were not even to choose it together. She left the room with- out a wo She returned with the original pieces of her savings, hard- ly a paper bil] in the roll, and handed them to him. "Remember the color, Henry," she said, wistfully. "and if you can- not get blue, de not get a red one, even if we wait till fall. plate hangs there, you know."' He came home late, but jubil- ant. "T've got a bargain Smith could- n't sell. The color isn't good, he says, but it will wear forever. I saved five dollars on it towards the .binder." The carpet which she had to sew was red and green. : _ The Dorcas Band met with them in the parlor, now carpeted for a lifetime. The y: ---- A VICTIM. -- _She--"Are you against long hat- pins for ¥ 4 My delft = school-teacher | - MOST PERFECT MA is nothing "just as good." * ™™ E. W. CILLETT CO.LTD. i4"7 Rr = - Hints for Busy Housekeepers. Reekpes and Other Valuable Information @ Particular laccrest to Women Folka FAVORITE RECIPES. { there are persons to be served. Be- gin at the small end of each egg, tuce leaves crisps. Lemon teaspoon salt, one of one lemon. Mix into a paste with three tablespoons of lemon juice. Spread upon slices of whole wheat bread and cut into fancy yellow ribbon. colander. and add a cupful cream. cups of boiling water and the car- rots. Add one level celery of condensed ing and serve hot. Bunnies.--One_ small brown. Croquettes.--Take some mashed potato, well seasoned, fry quette shaped. to a hot platter. Remove carefully With a tablespoon hard boiled eggs gver the tops. Sunshine Cream.--Rub one can of apricots through a sieve into a basin, add one cupful of sugar, one and one-half heaping tablespoonfuls of dissolved gelatin and one cupful of whipped cream, one-half cupful of cold water. Pour into individu- al molds. Turn out when set and garnish with yellow flowers. Place a large spoonful of whipped cream on top of each mold just before serving. Rhubarb Short Cake.--Cut one small bunch of rhubarb into small bits. Cook in a stone crock with one cupful of sugar and half a cup- ful of water. Make a dough of one quart our, one-half cupful water, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoon of sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder, and milk to make a soft dough. Lay on a greased baking tin and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes. When cool, separate into two parts (upper and lower) without cutting; spread with the rhubarb sauce. Place together and serve with cold sweet cream. Pork Tenderloin.--Select thick tenderloins and place in roasting pan with a little bacon fat or but- ter. Have in readiness the sweet potditoes, pared, and parboiled, and place them around the meat. Bake in a hot oven for nearly an hour, basting frequently with hof water and butter. Season well and when done make a gravy in the pan with milk instead of water, and Into this mixture stir four | Lily Salad.--Remove the shells Year old fowl if possible. from as many hard boiled eggs as ys for boiling. Put plenty of but- r Chicken Dumplings.--Use plump Cut up or, if you have it, chicken grease, into a hot double roaster. cut the whites lengthwise in five Roll sections. Cut almost to the base, Salted flour and put in roaster in taking care to leave the yolks rather hot oven. Brown each piece, whole. Turn back the petals thus turning once, and then cover we formed so as*to make each' egg si- with boiling water. Put on roaster mulate an apen lily. Roughen the lid and cook about two hours. To surface of the yolk with a fork, Make dumplings: lace these imitation lilies, not too OMe-half teaspoon salt, one heap- near together, on small crisp let- img teaspoon baking powder, sift spread on a shallow Well; add one teaspoonful butter, flat dish of clear glass. Serve with Work well into flour; add enough mayonnaise and bread and butter milk to make a soft dough. Remove chicken from Sandwiches.--Mash the Platter. yolks of five hard boiled eggs, add 2 spoonful of dough at a time. Cover one tablespoon of butter, one-fourth tight and cook in oven about twenty teaspoon of minutes. chopped parsley, and grated rind @nd chicken tender and juicy. ' | light | own sugar, one tablespoon-'and par ful of butter or lard, one pint of three-quarters of an inch thick. Cut pastry flour. Rub the butter and into biscuit and bake in a quick sugar into the flour with the fin-'oven twelve or fourteen minutes. gers. With beaten egg flavored with ;The chief requirements for go vanilla wet to a-paste, sufficient to | biscuit ar roll out thin. Cut into shage with sticky, cardboard form, insert bits of. rai- oven. If not allowed to touch each sins for eyes and bake to a light other in pan they will be lighter | | } thicken it with flour. Boil five min- utes and then pour around the meat. éach piece of chicken in well One cup flour, roaster te covered Now drop into the broth Dumplings will be light BISCUITS AND BUNS. Biscuits.--One quart of flour, one shapes or fingers. Fix with narrow 'level teaspoonful of salt, two tea- spoonfuls of butter or lard, milk or Yellow Cream Soup.--Cook three milk and water to mix (about one carrots until tender. Press through 'and one-half to two cupfuls). Beat two egg yolks well together the flour, salt, and baking Stir powder. Rub in the pan lightly with fhe fingers, working until it is well blended with the flour. Then I teaspoon of mix to a soft dough with the milk salt, a piuch of salt, two or milk and water. tablespoons of oyster cocktail dress-'knife for mixing, as it cuts the Always use a dough more thoroughly. Turn the cupful of dough on to a well floured board with hand until about e a soft dough, almost little handling, and a quick and more delicate than when they fresh are placed close together. uns.--One and_ three-quarter to # golden brown in hot fat, cro- | pounds of flour, one ounce of com- pressed yeast, one ounce of. mixed spice, four ounces of butter, four make a deep depression in each one jounces of brown sugar, four ounces and fill with highly seasoned minced ,ogf sultanas or currants, two ounces chicken. Strew the grated yolks of of chopped mixcd peel, two eggs, three-quarters of a pint of milk; the spice into.a bowl, mix the yeast and a teaspoonful of sugar together with a wooden spoon until both are liquid; heat the milk until it is just lukewarm, then mix it with the yeast; make a well in the middle of the flour, then gradually strain:in the milk, etc., stirring it in smooth- ly with the wooden spoon. Cover the top of the bowl' with a piece of paper and put it in a warm place for half an hour or until the top of the "sponge" is covered with bubbles. Sift the rest of the flour into a large bowl, rub the butter lightly into it, then add the chop- ped peel, cleaned fruit, and sugar. the hand for this. Continue this mixing and beating until al] the dry ingredients are mixed with the sponge; add the béaten eggs gradu- ally as the mixture seems getting dry. Beat vigorously until the dough can be pulled right out of the bow] in a thick, ropy mass, it crumbles, add a little tepid milk. Now cover the bowl. put it in a warm place until the surface is coy- ered with little tracks; it will pro- bably take one and alf hours. Have' ready some greased baking tins. Flour the hands, take small pieces of the dough and form into small balls. Put these, well apart, én the tins. With a knife cut or mark the shape of a cross on the If | meat 4) | warm place for the buns to rise for twenty minutes. Then bake them. ina quick oven for about half an hour. This quantity makes about two dozen medium sized buns. LAUNDRY HELPS. Starch Making.--One-half -cup good brand box starch (never use" balk or flour), three-quarters cup cold water, mix with starch; three- Quarters teakettle boiling water, stir constantly while mixing and while cooking. Boil slowly for twenty minutes. Teaspoonful of shaved paraffin should be added while boiling. While the starch is cooking prepare a blueing water to add when the starch comes from the stove. Make one starch thinner than the other for articles needing but a little stiffness. Cover both vessels with cloths to keep out the cold air, as this prevents caking on the top which will be sure to spoil your starch. For nen articles, table linen, dresser scarfs, or sheer linen waiste add a tablesp@onful of starch ta two gallons water, and they will iron with a stiffness like new; re- member always to iron linen on wrong side first. Wash starch ves- -sel in hot suds, never cold water; use pieces old underwear with a few buttons on to save finger nails from bruises. For scorched articles use perox- ide. -Wet two cloths; place one be- neath and one on top and watch the space become clear in fifteen or twenty minutes. Let stand this long without disturbing. Removing Grass Stains--Before wetting rub the stain with molasset and wash in the usual way. Use ,on either white or colored material. 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