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suu1i 1 the tea that comes to you fresh from the gardens a a april escapade by kathleen norris ri mary kate ohara in order to help christopher steynes escape- she atten tions or a russian countess agrees to go to budlnsnme and act ttie itrt of ms wife for a nikht llr iwotho- martin her in steynea home and that nikht breaks in to protect his sister as he thinks from harm tie is taken for a burglar and shot ivuee take mary s rut e and address and she is in terror of hr family aniline out martin s releas ed and returns home mary discovers that she loves steyms and tells this to cass ktating to whom she is engaged then chris fearing that mai y s roan iinme will suffer offers to marry her but the offer is declined christoyhers and again she did rot speak continuing io measure the room with a bright curious littlegirl lok rather tightening her hold upon chriss hand behind her so that she was diawn even more closely toward his breast the light from the single lamp the greenshaded lamp underneath which the children did their evening home work wavered softly in the clean homely kitchen the clock above the sink ticked audibly and the hot water faucet dripped a few intermitter drops upon the scoured zinc above the drainboard a window was opened to the soft warm night she s promised to cass her- mrs ohara observed with the little indicative gesture of a thumb mary is chris said dispassiu ately cass had thrown away his cigarette and was sitting back in his chair with his arms crossed and his shrewd kind halfsmiling young eyes fixed upon the girl now he said undis turbedly but id never hold her she knows that shes as fie now as if she had never known me at the sound of his voice mary kate disengaged herself from christophers hold and crossed the kitchen to tre what new york is wearing by annabelle worthington chapter xxxix contd chris turned to tom 1 know throckmorton he said what tom shouted if you really want to go n for aviation id be glad to give you a letter let me know will you oh ma tom said almost cryi ig chis shook hands with cass 1 dont have to tell you that 1 roiilratuiate you he said you have my best wishes youre he paused youre very fortunate he said simply thanks cass responded goodby mrs ohara chris was bending over her he had her hand i i certainly admire your family he said with a brief laugh they all i ghed i think theyre all stars they have the the vitality of of anyway theyre all stars youve seen us at our worst to night mrs ohara assured him maybe youd come out and have dn- rer with us some night and wed treat you a little better im sailing on sunday wei goodbye and god bless you thin mary kates mother said with a sudden penetrating glance that saw- through all the layers of veneer to the lonely littleboy heart of the child in side him her changed lowered tone spoke only to thit thank you ohris said stirred clearing his throat he blinked his eyes as he smiled at her and bent his head suddenly over the fine work- worn capable hand then it was mary kates turn she stood bv the door and chris took ho her hands and looked clown at her as he said unexpectedly incoherently and you wont marry me the girl looked very tall and very pale and was oddly unsmiling as she answered conventionally no but thank you for asking thank you hi face reddened and his voice kckcned and for a moment their hands held them united and their bewildered eyes were fixed ajon each other and it was as if both were asking the same question what are we saying what does ill this mean is this goodby alum5num lawn mower a lighter easier tun- nins and lonscf lasting mower aluminum drive wheels and side plates barium metal sellaligning bearings steel diivc wheel axles and steel drive wheel bushings at your hardware dealers canada foundries forgings limited jscsscnprt suddenly chris laying aside hat and gloves with a quick gesture gath ered both her hands against his heai t and bent over her so that his browned j chair she had occupied at the bc-g-n- almesi stern face was close to her ning of this incredible and dreamlike evening the chair at the table where she could cup her chin ill her hands and look at them all without moving a muscle the jormalness the generosity of casss words his untroubled manner and confident glance appeared to waken her from a trance i dont think youre going to throw me over are you mary kate he asked a sudden smile lighted her eyes and she answered speaking for the first time since the strange tense- scene began ah no you know- id never do that were hunting houses and were talking about a wedding arent we cass asked affectionately smilingly sure sure we are she admitted hurriedly nervously chris was standing near the door theres one thing i left out mary he said they may as well hear this too its this he went on in a deadly silence i didnt count on this but i love on very much did i say that the ground began to sway gently beneath mary kates feet waves waves lifted her from the floor and the drumming and rushing of ninny waters was in her ears no she whisper d you did not say that she turned to face the others in the kitchen her shoulder almost touching chris as she leaned back against him his hand that had been holding hers still gripping her lingers and his arm half about her and it was as if standing there she measured two worlds the one against the other iuustruted dressmaking lesson fur- nushed with every pattern on one side was only this protect- h hnds in the square big side pockets i ing arm and this gripping hand she i of his b coat his heati had fallen knew little more of him a little forward his eyes moved from and on the ohei were all the asso- j one speakers face to another ciations that she knew were all her know i wouldnt hold you happy adored protected years the whatever promise you might hao kitchen with its worn linoleum and familiar fryingpans and chairs and oilclothcovered table mart hand some and resolute and fiercely protect ing tom who was developing so rap idly now who had come just of late so much more close to his older sister who had seemed just of late to need her cass clever and successful and devoted planning a happy normal life with her a fortydollar flat curtains dishes a wedding in the new domini can church in a few weeks time years of love and labor shared children some day a country home and last and first and all the time mother mother with whom she hur ried sleepy and chilly to early church and with whom she walked home at peace for her coffee and special sun day roll mother who had taught her talked to her scolded her praised her all her life long even while she fumbled in her flat purse for movie money for mart and mary kate or patiently thumped the heated iron that meant exquisite frills and blouses for the beloved eldest daughter to choose chris meant no more kit chen no more cass no more tom and in the dear home sense at least no more eager ambitious headstrong marty it meant that she chose alienation distance it meant more mother made me dont you mary kate cass asked oh no she answered in herj clear quick troubled voice i know youd want me to do what i wanted to do what i had to do shed be happier with one that knew her own sir mrs ohara said i to chris rather timidly rather ap- pealingly i know she would christopher admitted not ceasing to frown faintly not moving his eyes from mary kate and isnt it happiness that counts with all of us the mother pursued christopher glanced at her nodded happiness counts with all of us he echoed in a decisive voice but still there was something un said something unfinished to be continued song chapter xl thats a strange thing io hear you y mr steynes mrs ohara said i in the hush j i know it chris agreed with a brief laugh mary kate continued to stand per fectly still her bright eyes on the group in the kitchen or watching cass and wondering tom and mart in the big chair with his arms band aged and her mother nuzzled and anxious and gentle in the rocker one of her haids had been locked in chris fingers as she wheeled about and their grip held so that her arm was twisted behind her and her bright head with its rings cf disordered cip- pery hair was close to chriss big shoulder shes only a little girl mrs ohara said troubled i dont know- did you mean to sav that to her she added doubtfully i didnt chris admitted unsmil- ingly mary kates eyes moved to his and read what they saw there and went back to the circle again i never thought of this the j mother murmured maybe he only said it because your brother she paused martin was looking at chris with keenly suspicious eyes now he said uncomfortably april april laugh thy girlish laughter then the moment after weep thy girlish tears april that mine ears like a lover greetest if i tell thee sweetest all my hopes and fears april april laugh thy golden laughter but the moment after weep thy golden tears william watson selected joems you didnt have to say that to issue no 18 31 j mary kate for all me you didnt make me say it chvis- topher answered promptly j if if you felt that way martin i pursued in the puzzled silence that held thorn all you could have told j her herself not liko this it never occurred to me to tell her herself chis answered again with a faint frowning scowl then then you wouldnt feel he meant it would you mary kate martin appealed uneasily to his sis- tot again aer eyes moved swiftly to quiet rooms montluton july i was looking for rooms in a hotel near the railway as the landlady and i went along a cor ridor upstairs i said i hoped the noise of trains could not be heard in the bedrooms one hears nothing she answered positively she opened the door of a room and a tremendous en gineshriek met us seeming to drive us both back from the threshold she shut the door and tried another one and we were met instantly by another remondous engine shriek she burst out laughing i laughed too if she bad not proved her sense of humor i might have walked straight out of the hotel but her 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armies with ten xronx oth wliles in their plane suddenly one of the chinese attacks captain jimmy the song of the robin by e chester allen the- slender rowans are grey and bare but theres promise of may in the april air the grass grows green by the gar den gate and a robin calls to his tardy mate from the highest peak of tho rowan trees to his mate who is coming fer southern seas come come dearie dearie come to me quick i am weary weary come to me come to me quieki quick a soft green covers the rowan trees theres a touch of june in the lato may breeze and the turquoise eggs are snugly laid in a nest neath the lilacs scented shade but the robin calls from the rowans high when the rainclouds drift from the eastern sky quick quick cover them cover them close close hover them hover them cover them cover them quick quick tho rowans are decked with coral red and tho lilac blooms are long long dead the autumn skies are cool and clear but the claybuilt nest is empty and drear and the robins note is tender and low tense with tho foar of the frost and snow haste haste coma with me come with me south south follow me follow me follow me follow me quick quick for a moment i was paralysed my fierce attacker raised his weapon to strike then before i could move a thin spare form hurled itself at my assailant careless ol the danger ous knife point it was one of tho three men we nail rescued from tho tree on the day before i held my breath amaz ed that the timid shrinking chinese s h o a 1 d display such nerve spring ing to help him i hit the big fellow on the ehiu with all my strength by this time the plane was in a spin and wo were so near the ground that tiiere was no way but to land 1 had lost all sense of direction for the moment and had no way of telling whether we were over enemy territory or not scarcely had the wheels stopped rolling before an excited chinese sentry showed up and challenged us ask him where we are i direct ed the interpreter him say much bad chinese bloy him belong enemy tell him i belong enemy too i said he say you clazy you make muchee noise wakee colonel getee telly mad shootee bang all done by which i gathered we were in the enemy camp that the colonel would hear the plane get mad a be ing disturbed and have us shot not a very encouraging prospect then a chinese sergeant and a squad of soldiers appeared out of the inky darkness when he saw the three deserters from his camp he raised a terrible rumpus first he accused us of stealing his men then after a long powwow with the three they evidently convinced him that they had been taken prisoner and we had helped them to escape anyway ho took them back and probably they were far better off in their own army than among the enemy so much for the three captives but our own position was extremely dangerous something had to be done quickly or soon we would all be marched to headquarters tell the sergeant that 1 brought this plane to give general ming i said tell him to march two soldiers ahead and keep the road clear then i turned tho searchlight on and taxied along the road behind the two soldiers after a few min utes the road straightened out for a stretch of a quarter of a mio or so now was our chance in an instant i snapped oi the searchlight and opened tho throttle full with a roar the plane fairly leaped forward and rushed down the road on the two soldiers who med n panic bang bang went the rifles ol the soldiers who followed us and a few bullets ripped through the wings but we were gathering speed rapid ly a moment more and we were in the air free as a bird gas was running low however so we headed back for our own lines with the help of our searchlight wo picked out a railway line spiral- ing down we bumped to a stop on the roagh ground and scrambled out while the unknown chinaman who had tried to knife me followed cauti ously cness who it was- tho last per son i ever expected to see colonel tien of general lus army a fine chap that colonel tien three times i had to knock him out to make him behave then he explained that he thought 1 was trying to take him over to the enemy camp in that ease i could understand why he was so des perate for it w o u id have gone hard with colonel tien to bo caught by the enemy far to the north of us a locomotive whistled a little clump of bushes grew beside the railway track and toward these we pushed and ugged our plane to get it out of sight an other few minutes more and a freight train rounded the curve stopping not over two hundred yards from our hiding place ito be continued garden talk h l3otdmi chocolate malted mi the healthgiving delicious drink for children and grown ups pound and half pound tins at your grocers size of us dogs reduced in decade purebred ones increasing in number as mongrels decrease washington there is about one dog to every 20 human beings in the unite states the department of com merce has found out the movement of population from the cuntry to the city during the past decade has not resulted in decreasing the dog population but has changed its makeup by reducing the size of dogs and increasing the number of purebred animals to make up for the decrease in the number of just plain dogs the department has discovered that the well known fox terrier maintains a high degree of popularity because it is small and does well in cities men are not so keen for the pekin gese chow and pomeranian and they prefer the terrier as a lot of dog in a small package today not tomorrow but today calls for the best that- is in us life is made up of daily performances the nobler sweeter and purer our activities tho better for ourselves and for others a popular novelist says that while lying awake at night ho has several times hit npon an idea that has re sulted in a fulllength novel in somnia can be terrible thing the humorist canada decalcomania co ltd vsbr ikincvtrejft eajtoftohtpi np iiiiiiiliiiimiiuiiniinm delicious taste kraft oldfashioned boiled salad dressing and youll instantly acclaim its fresh delicate flavour youll like its velvety texture and revel in its creamy smoothness further a large 12 ounce jar sells for ooly 25 cents onehalf the price youre used to paying for this standard of quality try some today kraft om ojvjmsa boiled salad dressing miic in caaa by the mates of kraft cheese aid vclvetu care of perennisls for best results in keeping down weeds iu perennial or shrubbery borv ders writes professor a h tom- linson of the ontario agricultural college it is necessary in the grow- ing season to use a hoe quite fre quently a dutch or flat hoe is shaped something like a large square chisel attached to a wooden handle and in doing this work the hoe is pushed from the operator and s easily handled the ordinary hoe is liable to go too deep and usually much more time in hoeing would have to be spent than with a dutch hoe with a perennial border the plants grown should be allowed to become thick and if this does not happen with the plants already es tablished the seeds of annuals may be sown in vacant spaces including shirley poppies california poppies fortulaea gypsophila elegans and for he front sweet alyssum an nuals may be set out by way of seedlings about the end of may and may consist of petunias verbenas phlox drmnniondii asters clarkia and so forth gladiolus may he planted in the perennial border or even among shrubbery if there is enough light a time saver sometimes a milch that is a light layer of chopped straw lawn clip pings leaves or special paper sold for this purpose is used in the vege table garden instead of cultivation this is particularly valuable among those plants and bushes such as tomatoes raspberries strawberries head lettuce and cabbage which are hard to hoe around or are trans planted the small gardener may find the use of mulch particularly valuable during the early summer when he is rushed for time in the case of paper mulch it is usually laid down immediately after the garden is prepared for planting and tho plants are put into the earth through small holes cut in the paper willi the straw or leaf mulch the garden is usually planted and cultivated a few times befoi- the application is made plant peas tarty in recent years market gardeners and commercial growers have found that they can plant peas much ear lier than they used to consider pos sible and that this early planting results in larger and longer crop ping generally speaking the first of the garden peas can be sown just as soon as the ground works up nice ly some of the very best results have been obtained where the seed was put in before the last snowstorm in fact many commercial growers will tell you that rnless you get your peas in early enough to receive a snowfall or two the crop will not be large all the pea family makes its best growth during the cool weath er and the garden pea is no excep tion to obtain the maximum yield and the longest season that is to have your peas coming in to the table for a month instead of a few days select at least three types about nehalf of each packet in the earliest sort a medium one and a late one then just as soon as the ground works up nicely put in ten days or so plant the remainder this will give you a supply of peas which should last from the very ear liest part of the season until the very last and in favorable locations close to a month peas like rich open soil plenty of cultivation mois ture and fertilizer they may he grown between rows of later matur ing vegetables such as corn toma toes cabbages and parsnips and they will be but of tho way before the others require full room with those peas which grow to a height of from twelve to eighteen inches it is a good plan to plant in double rows that is two rows about fifteen inches apart with twentyfour to thirty inches space between tho double rows the vines when planted in this way will help to sup port each other although brush sup port for tall sorts is also advisable jungle air line may link colombia and venezuela bogota colombia the possibil ity of an airmall and passenger service across the jungle from a point in venezuela to bogota is re vealed by julio enrique tascon minister of communications american italian and german companies are negotiating with the ministry of communications for per mission to establish an air transport service between bogota and arauca on tho colombianvenezuelan from tier tascon said these same com panies are investigating the possibil ity of an aerial route from bogota down the amazon biver through j brazil the colombian government tas- con said was considering the advltt- i ability of establishing its own air lines operating on a commercial basis i over the more remote sections of tho j republic may cease tipping london under a resolution befor the house of commons waiters in the houe restaurant would be paid 1300 a year and members of parliament would he absolved from tipping thern i j happiness is a wayside flower that grows along the highway of useful ness jean paul richter