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I, (To 'contin,uedV)v. know at good soe without seeing the _in- e" Way Nit. is put. together.` The name of a 3- most every_manufacturer make different hoe_ ._get for yon; money that counts. lings ....I__A 0 1 u isn't right I will madesright. at intend doing. To advei-- he shoes so much dearer. the shoe ; but come to the and tell you tbs prices free for about] the same price i; * W9 !-ll V vu V-"CC-7 J -III ; I` .E- YRIB quick! IIGGH-Ml! our 0131111011 fl`0O W on - v v v - 90! H1 ! 6. t other an 1.1 _t:-tot! and P .: n'.`:...' 2.. .m.,`' : "3? Anyone sending a. Ikatoh and doocrigtlon may Communica- mu... "'9". open whenyou are offered ____ ,.-.. --nvyn-$45 uuu vuuu_ av, 5'IVV us another yarn about the -old man,7 :n:d--somehow he set the boys think`-1 ing about some other 6ld- women, and .~;mue other old men, and-`-and-w-lltati d `ye thixik we did with the little Sky: Pilot that n i;:h.t-.3 We carried him- nvm_\' To :1 (`lean Spot in.th`e um": built :1 re, and we made him out g.'Lee.~t\ at the nolbbiest supper "we could, srrznlw to;.rether;[ and We g0t himwto; .sn:;_r `Home, Sweet Home" ,for us :Iyuin--am1 when he d nished -I m-- IVH-9-`I if -he didn t make the lot of"u's In-I}: him with the Doxology. Here, I .~:1:A\'. what's the mat.ter`P A .|':ml was sitting stonily erect,_ his x.~1(.n innnovably focussed on the . smr-;_rvn1x11o1 space above the rim. of Mr. wu. his cheeks wan and bearing tl. .~t.-mnp of pain, and when Walnton L- _.---' ` " ` `H':1\ - u].]v-nu;-n.l L3-n Th Reiaiproity milking machine would soon drain t-he Canadian cow. u--__`---- A breach in the tari wall would nlead `to many breaches of faith on lthe part of our Yankee cousins. V unrn Through `fraln 7 second class. seat. will to Oct. Isth PIORORTIONATE RATES FROM ONTARIO POINTS fhrnnnnh -r-----A - - VANCOUVER COAST $41.05 gziazzls PORTLAND SPOKANE .1-Rom Tonomo [together erroneous. When a vote is cast for Haughton Lennox it is cast 'not "only for one of the cleverest and :m'os't upright Conservatives in Canada, but against reciprocity. `There is no other way for an elector of South `Simcoe to indicate his disapproval of the Star-Spangled Pact. - Beeton i`World. - ` .-. ` SPECIAL RATES And after that, he ran. his fingers through his yellow hair, yellow` the sand when the sun has baked it, and threw us a smile and said that instead of preaching a. sermon` he d pitch us a yarn, and--and I m blast; if he didn t be-gin. about the oldvwo-` mau--his mother; and= then he, gave nu nnnfhnr vnrn o'hnn+ +1. 4.1.: ........ -t}u: best known to modern rnedctno -48 the active principle which makes SCHNEIDER, Prop. Enzabein si. on . nnzAmLAnn NEAiLY QUICKLY ...--- 1 TIUUI` froln Toronto to Vancouver pol". d."yn tedued are not TO THE CHAPTER XIx.-(Gont1n1;od.). Fire them! Heavens! you -__di_)n t: know our little Sky Pilot.` He `never gave us half a -chalice. He_ got ` his own shot in first, and winige.d,..-the` lot of us. We thought he'd have fa Moody and Sankey to sta.rt'with,1and~ we were going to l~et.him have`- i.a cayenne and ginger, camp song-for the chorus, but `instead; of} that- ;he Jet. drive at us with `Home, Sweet- Horme -sang it himse1f--and when he d done the bloods were as tame as` ' Jack rabbits. I ` ...--, v--ax: vv Joust VV GUIHIII :l11'o.<.=e him, he shrank for- his head -drooping upon his Barrie Branch, Five Poidtx,' >' ` over ` $58.000.000 'i'JZEv","" s;o.2oo.ooo Total:ssts SAVINGS? % 'ACx,OUNTS SOLICITED \\ .a . _ I .\'.a1ton again demanded, ma+tte1'? You re not ill, - -- v-v-- gr`-'I.l.`.""`W and never _wa:I_ regular, and _ the - be aring-dow-ng.` ixains were terrible; _ was y_e_ry _iu_-in .. "" `V W3 H IlUI1II(l_ tumor. No one knows what I 'lIlf- . feted. I would . always be worse ` atgertain perigdg, an neumr `Inca By 0;: wnaraage L ` ., u_ (551 ,.n'.Il.!I!I_ll`-'--.|_l-ul;,., WI me ping; yaw I J Jof_ -th'i sf`Baxi.k are annxuallyvsxjb?` ; m,itt[ed fjto aA" strictly ._independ- F - -entT.CAojifripany for e'xam'ination.~` -vu.uu ,Jvu ytqmva ' _ I h . ` Fo1ind" m.e}A. _ .Emser`_M._'eehoed - the ` words I in-. - amazemnt,`-;then*- and`: dem'a;ngi'e"cl; ` ` Han ; ._yo_:n ` Qipexxj; -A .for. me};-wnp;% toldi bu-24-fwas` it `fathertii - " 1'1 -:9 , .1`. `~ 3 .'~`.--' "H01; `A '~ fiO auuuva I - , ` ` Yes; ;'if' is one." "of-_ my a0:4_8{l.'tli.-1'il1" ---1:-inuw .n nu-Duo} .I.,ll}ll' $318`: found-yotii aft 1I:ist;!"-- " I C'Eh;.`. ....1--'.'.`.-l.)9 I Mr` f`rase,r!- ,"A A In <-tha .,' mvomennt fun! If IUCOUIVW J: 53?` I was granted a vision of a 1'rl_Iite;-h`a'ir -; ed man passing from a %polic'e$co1_z1-t; desk to a .cottage `in the slums,'_'anVd`in" deance of -ihig~ wi11 ,h_i's vgige 1-1o`se.:to~ a. joyous shout. jIVt;.;,1-1eag_<:_hed jshe `ear: of _ the .ma:te, "ind brought hini tto thbs; break; of Ipoqp, _wAhg1fice': being 9, ,13 1an.: of d~is~creti_on.; .`.1_ e'ired: 1 in ._ silfm}e`_; v after be mad "vrhard;7'_.?few?` .w ;;: 'I"l'I_.'..._`.'I 9 I ', 'I'h._.-'r'~.'~;.`;l`_".'!I 1'1III-n .. ' " go vu_-5 IIIJ Kill-I '~1vme`:r ~ Jvu -54- u-an-awn vvaavvuo , . _ . Yes, -I m James `Walton-e-though"! what.`,vou re` drivingmat. I _can t* size up. Ifvebeen James Walton since I went wrong. `I had enough conscience` to screen "V the (yd -name` from `r_1igg1:ace.~ Bu-1; when I lived~' fat*hqn1e rny'nam_e was-\-James-_ Fr.Iieer., ? -. _ ; IlK_.,_,,,,II lm`"`"O'f course it o'ou1d.x1 1: be",- - ,h:eVii41x'1`-VI:-. tered, your name prove; that-- you re. James Walton! " ` ` L" 1117-.., 1'9... 1--__-_ '*-n.'u_"_ u, ,.-.1 Cured by Lydia ham s Vegetableoompollndi to a. wildly romantic possibility. One `some of the blank spaces certain -Jun an aauuvuclusl I7. I A statement `of. the baldest hareness this, `but as Paul made it he found it invested yvithv talismanic power, reviv-` ing old` `memories, opening the door by. one the pieces `of .Walt'on"s story- fell :into- .their own` 1-def, and into-` fragments , of another story antoma- A tically slipped-; thus suspicion? made a` move towards assurance. lBnt, when; ` Paul turned` and` looked . sli'is- friend searehingly in the face, he"remember--f" ed a forgotten `fact, and at `ones; 1511 ' back into the ,slough'o_f. disappoin-t- .. ` `Av " vo--vvovla vuvuau uvu 65:-lu, UVLUEII: llllllo I did write, t alton_ retu:-ned,1 ` ` but the letter came back. `No suchj address. I expect -the old place had` been pulled down. It s a way they `have in Lan cashire-they re always letting the tuoks out , always pulling down and building up. La;ncashire!_ ~ ' ' T . - Ay, do you know the county! I thought you were .9. Northerner. ` I ` am,.'but I ear my bread and :butter in Lancashire__. ` ' 1 ..L_L_...___L'..`_.A J. a C. .v- ----.-.1-`'"- But "you `might have written,`l Paul interrupted. He. had "taken his place- by the other man s side again, had the strings of control. in his hands once more, and was determined that emotion should not again defeat hizn. (IT .11.! -cc-:4- )9 'IIY-11.-_ ..-L--_._ It 'wasn t until; the Orient was clearing` theHeads at Sydney that the queerness of my mission struck me. I d no more idea than. the skipper! where the old man might be; _all.I. knew was that he d left the old home, and" here I was; a prodigal _in search of his father amongthe millions of Ex_1gland." ~ ' D--L '_--__ V ._._!__`:L VI-` g.. -- ..-_ ..-_, ..--- I , stains about me but I wante'<'i--to get _ a bit of the dirt cleaned off, so that . the old man s sorrow for me might a be lightened=, and shame in such a son made less. .And so I stayed at the dvigg'in~gs another Siear, slaved like a, nigger, banked all the dust that I: worked, and-and satised the" little] Sky Pilot. Then I made a move, and as the coach rat-tled out of the camp the Pilot was the last man that I saw, his `God be with you! the last word , that I heard`. ` . llTL L..,, I v OI` 0'\1 U`I|IVU > . ~ J `Shame? says he, `why.man,r your father s heart ll "be just brim full of love, and won t have any room . f for shame or blame. He s hungering to see you, _and never thinking of 1 your wrong-doing. And, then, when 1 I argued that the love might havmi died-, he whipped round on.n1e,- and " bowled me over. `Man, he cried, .1 `h92ven t I been: telling you `all the ` time that nian s- love is--part of`God s ' love, and d ye think the~'stream s go- wt 7 mg to day while the .well s brimming I ioveri There was one point I held I` my own upon, and I m sorry for it 3 new. He begged me to start right 3 away,_ just as I was," withiall my sin-. 1; wanted--to H` .. me .4: n... .:-:..I .t..-.~ -- -- - * ere, he plunged ngain into his own; T `story- ``There s no need to spin. the _`thing out. In three months the little Sky Pilot wasthe boss o 1.'v_the camp, and the prodigal son had begun to pack up. _`I was-n that all set on the idea at first, for I d get a notion that after the shame` I d put on him the old 'man wouldn t care about seeing me. But bless you, that person `had ~ only to get his j`ay~taac-Akl_e moving, and he d talk round any man in the. camp in no time. ' . cc :m`i.__._-n- vjva uulnnxl vvvvnuwu Pam: m`ea. [ .1` i we -1 1. _;| or-.'; DOCTOR ADVISED OPERATION: To Paul Muegrave this was the hour of revelation; it was also the hour. of, condemnation. 4 Stoutly had -he defended his book against its aeeueers; with condence denied that \_. in any of` its pages there'_ lurked the seeds -of poison, that in any of its words. there was the inuence of harm, `andrnow the castle.-that-he had build- ed lay in ruin around him. Revelation had been volcanic.` From the lips _of_ `a wandering prodigal he had learned that a man's. labour iseither to good or to evil, and that,` for hi_ms_elf,".~ he had given mortal? `wounding to Va `A soul. = , ;` " _ Swiftly the lightsbecame darkened-, ` ahroas 5 the `kindly face ot the. moon : 3 ,,v`eil,.wa,s'-drawn,` `-the tender stars_`to'ok t 7`1li8.,1,1-ti: ?:$1;i.n hi5; 9,i#1'I.I_e_,t:1I 4?r._i,!01Ig"0'fi the. .3 `.ee;.--;.th9 fmnsicsotgjthe wi'nds-,"the `voice \: : ,s~19?7 `A-a""ch0i'118 of: .h8f..hr V : %dism9'ht chords,.,:,"And then.-_ theevqinde M; :.I!i!i0`i,. 11if'td*'$i1!I!. ftllf V9-t`.1'8. 13&3?"1.!`~a ,. ,-..l:',i is_',Iie`.(1:,-` and`. ';,6iiIy~,_-the. :xfoi'ce_.o"- theji}an,.. w ` -`1i"B!1i.11`-V ."'. :t.3Y.9`, 5.;.t9i?151`.i`?8'.i,1f . i `cut to*h1zns::'f,a1!$@!I9i1?<`L@#8hin&`:i.1-< .,:. 4? `i"@91!'h,j ..,3,1.'1"8"0?..1""f~7*_`1"`?i ' ind *2 I _ . ........... uuuu uuuurv also puts 01! her idissembling and exposes that Truth for which her creature has been blindly groping through, the years . And sometimes the movement is in-' aveeted with "sacred symbols, and` the" being bows his head in reverential adoration, and sometimes it glows with `the hea_tAo1"ac'cusing x-e,*an_d the man, grovels in `the ashes" and "tho ,du`et. `~ ` .... us uucr csuuuoc, IIUU pauper 8.8 Well :'as the prince, there comes an epoch when Life becomes impetuous in its] operation, when Nature abandons the methodical progression of evolutionary force," and moves forward with giant. stride. When Nature `also puts o hardimmmhiino any` ..n....... 51...; |--BQIHVVI 7 To nearly, all men, t~he`unlearned as well as the erudite, the pauperr as well '88 nfin, {HA1-A nnunnn n-- A---`- V- a u v wauluvllo W ._You say you have thrown Hope overboard-, he began, b`ut' Hope`! may be` rescued", and as for Love,` If know qthatait lives. I tell you again,f your father is waiting for you. " Ever since you` left him, he has_ kept .a, room ready for you, not once has he; locked his door, he has never sat down i to a meal without having a place at. the table `laid for you. Tell me -the) rest of,your story.,'of the man who ltunned you: from your search, how he qmanaged it, and why... It may be that, "I can help you. Who isthe man?! What has he done? ' F urm.....a-- T - -i ' ' 1 .,..._..... ..u..m:q uuwu to their vigil, that A} he'threw back his head` and into the immensity of the heavens cast that look of,ag'onise'd inquiry which Paul` had trapped when he came on deck. It was the action ofpai soul crying from the depths of abyssmal darknessi `for -light, helplessness praying for ;help. Hesitgnt no longer-,_Pau1 cross- I ed the deck, and after.;his own lame: faehionx attempted to light the lamp "" of -revelation. " I _ You _ you Hope bVelrb03!1`d'." he b. l{nl~' 11':----3 ' ....,.-.... an we sounds or the ship, r.e- I `mained; stdtuesquely posed by the rail, digging, deep into the mysteries .of the past and the present, and 'it was .......u uuc amuuon Jay. ' Seven balls were struck, but Fraer, I deatto all the sounds of the ship, statueaauelv nneml Inc. +1.. -..:I ' . . . -, . - v, 1. '4 2% \..,"l',"'`.SJt: a-.:~ '_- "_ ,:v '7' ,;: .7 g j " 1 5, ``-_Waiting , fo`r"a;'m`e=#-waiting. `_ for f he a wailed," "".`d 3I. ve: ;th,r'own' " I1ope~`.o_verbea`rd, and "lea-lled arms a ._ lie.`..Waiting ~_for and I'm ,running_. ;.a way~. ,_ Then _j,the "'-demon of, `fury 7 swept in~t'o,his e'o`ul. Curse the man `who : driven` -me `to this! hecricd and passing, across the deck he leaned himself upon the rail, gazing outtupon that C spectacle a into, whose - bewitching beauty he had only a little while be- e fore endeavoured -to read a message of- Omnipotent Love and Divine de- I183. . V V . ~,` ,. -. _ '1`-here mqments~ in a man s life when isolation -is imperative,v"siIence i the only balm, and as Paul,fr-om. the 1 7 screening `shadows of the- mainmast watehed; the development of the drama,`he realised that the speaking of a word at this juncture might be , Ia blunder of `i the first magnitude: Fraser must be left alone with his] memories and his thoughts. It was: obvious. that the story was still in- complete, and while he waited the time of action Paul again a_nd again` dissected the puzzle, but-in all his re- ,arrangement of the fragments he} never achieved the perfect` .pi.`cture,l never, suspected how near /to his own [hand the solution lay. ' I sevfl 1nIm `m-I.4-`- `---` "` I9 that it? Have--you-got--an, ~-~(-'n1--won1:Ln-as well? Then, Wi:th_-- :1 .~ug;:o.'s-rive shrugging of his should: you. You have lled his thoughts`), 5 _% .. .,,cx_it_en;eg: 'r;=-:h1ti!;se}f,,. t~t;.1- l.7| 11"..1;1.'!~*'9".3`"1`Vi"*8'Vv 80.1 i<.t$r".. .he had . 19!) ;i:99%t;:;PiiP8?19# it _!1.1.- for .i19ma:`ii:9;niteati.tion i off gixjanaas an-` the` 'p"art`t',of.*'his"1 tend. ms ` own _eyes 4 jWi'e`_ -with .jay,-_ nlregdy, he was ' > beginning `to fpiatnre. jthq `rupture of gth`e'dl_d' man "waiting: `in the-slums`, the ,- glory? of the night tndeed'_wisAb_eing .re.ect'ed` in` his.jown;_soul;V but ~ ' . _.d_e_i1ly:.the4 night tirrnd dark, `when Fraser pasged from the throes of be- `t wilderment/into the iron grip of de- ` ..8Pai1:. -' ' llTIT-!4!,, -, t Id t ` he clung. of/the eight-bell}. ?ailed away on_the wind, '3 znbersa of` the middle watch 3 `down to their vigil, that ;` ml: hie. ham!` am: :..4.. n-- A uuvv IAHIUVVII Hope ' ` ` Hope; ' and SIG FA!` T.A1vn- 1 - -uauno: you 1 7_1%)i_3cI:A:AA1 ?. -~ my 213' a"ig fo[?. W111 dsmed` vvith ` -reverence` and awe. f"1`he-re wa.xa ertain watchful: curios- ity also_ in the attitude. of.. the dales`-` foTk,'1but curiosity that was entirely kind. For~it happens that maids have eyes thatsee'ai)d ears that hear,`some- - `times also toh`:g'u_~Vs" that `talk when "sxi`IRence were beattergand they "of Ghyll- thwaite had. let it be '_'-Jk_n.o'wn_ that Margaret S onjly_.: unsatisgd _ws'a'n,t` was" grlsert "pM`ce8 61 <`h9993'9i.I I 1 the $.0.1i twho`h..Wa$'-.tt*~v03r#8ins: irii t.hf '0ffft1!'Qf* 8'!A`95.9t`*888- 1-~50 ' , > No, no! " J`m not ill. Please go on. I Want to in-.'1r the rest. {A was the muttere`d reply. .1 Still \\':1lton regarded" him with urimw interest. and, instead of yield- ing to the request, he bent down, an_d \\"li.~`l>(`I`L`d2 `fie `I~Iave-you-2ot--an; % giiw much`actua11y.,dpda ,?`o:g;;hsL T.f:h.. d to . T anc:'t:h;irV: 3!}; ..:av oval l`Ull5_l_..|_`g . I jvgnderef ' a rei;'u_r1av, _-`V o(11VLy:`. V-`1;1~1_i_; , ,--_, ..,._..... upon one uuuxung nui- eides, there lay the menacing sense of loss-_-a. sense so determined that; `although the hand werestill uplifted, it were as though its blow had already been delivered. From the big house _ by the. Force the -word had . been passed, showing that _-to Margaret Mus-. a grave the .hoxnecall- had come, and to the elders it stood for the sign of an emptying world, to the fathers N and mothers the cloud ,hnngflow and grey.- Poignant.and_ direful _though death may be in.;the.toWns; pin the. sol'itary places it 4is`pim'7ies?te(1..witlx`the inajegsaty which belongsto it, and}g1re eted iwith, `reverence and-' '. `T 5 . o ._,m____ __A . -__ ___-w-- I V In all -the hamlets of the dale, and in} _lonely- hemes upon the anking mn- -aldes, Day _ngei1ae_ing -,--_--r-vu, ,uunu LIUVU 1.5 110 119- .1 ]know it. I have lookedtin-to the eyes of Love, and have seen its truth. I_ know it, _for I too am a fugitive-_-I! ` also am running away" from Love,' from its sorrow and its reproach. - _ Poor beggar! Then you, too, are! a man with a_ story? ' ,. I think, Paul answered, that sat. present my name will interest you more than my story. ' - - V " Your name--David Garth! -. My name is Paul_'M1i3grav,e, and 7 your father calls me his friend. J\l`C VI-`IO ~lllU" - - ' I tell you, Paul sofy, interrupted, `fthat Love is know haye looked'_in~tc I--.. 7 - .. ....u uuv LUIACIEIJUBS ugaln 1 H1300. .:T;;ove for the diggings and the old life, _and` now something--wh:at is it? has `thrown . mevup against you, and you tell me--- `- _ 1 ur ;_n ,, ._...-.m 2;. u ualmn IIUW. :8 I Impressed by his comrade s conduct, `impelled, too, by his longing for illu- I mination, Fraser turned the refusal; f which sprang. to his lips into a1 " grudging consent, and; again picked 5 up the broken thread of his narrative. pr Well, as I ve alreadytold you, F e began, when I` was preparing 8 for `the voyage home, I picked up a ibundle of books, and in --the lot there 9 was one called `The. Ring o . Stones. 3 , Man! if you haven t read it, and [you ve: any` of the fear of God left, I you d. better leave -it alone. `It s 3, !book that de_al~'s with God and man, ; ` with faith and superstition, with -the I `mythical blunderings of the past and _ sthe iniquities of the present, and when |"you ve got to the last page you're .`as chock-full of doubt" as the man ziwho wrote it. , I That book lasted me the voyage, i-t,was meat. and drink ..to. me. And as I read it`I added. my own exper- gience t_o what it told me, and by the 1 "time" I d set` foot in England I d gured it out that if God was a lie, 1 Love was a` lie `as well, and that ` there was nothing much that matter- t `ed. The rummiest thing was that I :didn t feel half so much like a prodi- I gal as I did when the Sky Pilot 0 {found me--I was simply a -man who d I 'been having a good time-and I reck- ` `J Foned it up that if Love was a, ction , [the old man wouldn't care a" hang *7 l whether I -turned 'up, or I d-idn,, .t. And so--I went down into the sty among the swine again--.what did 3 iii: matter, if there` lsn t, any God? 35 iAnd I didn t try to and the old man `=1 i-what did it; ma-tter, if "there isn t 1 `any Love! And 1 when I d got to the 3` husks and the loneli-ness again I made '1'; .3. 1110179 for flan Rina;-.n.. .....I 4.1.- -11 I. ; ' ` . |8c.c1denr_ts, but. I want {Please let me have it imllst`-I l1 listen now. I ~Tn.u........-.'I n___ s 0 An Act of Surrender. ."`fl<-1'0," \ wh:1t`.~ H10 me '\`u1l?" \ the much df e the shoe; come t tell the prices and make you none the wiser,` for you cannot se store where I will be pfeased to show you the shoes *.of'charge. What you vqillse` is better shoes about the same you hxvebeen `paying for inferior ones. _ ......u ;uun'- awry again-you i now- ' wistfullyv T F\\7A `R van 1:n`~ 1,; Just North of Vail : -G ArocerSr : : L. yo1m'_- tory Q(1QI!I__ `van. pa).ring for. inferior ones, .` `,`Sve-veral-farmers-have -been ,:in my stage-during `the `past few weeks, and \ smyke fas; they tgught there would bitwo banpts at 'thefelect_ion. on Sept. gid ": 0\i;;:'1#`8hTed- ..\)0h,f the ?`da1es- % }pe_p_le ;a1fe terribly 'poor climbers,` ;n:a:ther:2e - - = % ;-an -` HH- HM V .. a_r -- `. vary` VI HUD, she` could look away to`the hills. . `I .`-:`Just watching the clouds'_at their, play on Scawfell. And feeling son-y,i ;an5j blaming myself . for the chances "I"v.e-1had~and never taken. `.._`H'ow,* mo;her_9 .. L .. `_.;`We1l, d ye`__know,. .Robertr` I've! "never been up them, among the dour c1;ags,- where the bonny-vsn'ov5`v nds` its` rst resting-place; end the lights_ ,o_.-heaven are the hlasjteteo ,-1`ea.ve,- and J _the;,,el`0uda"_:1`re.far evef `coming and go._ing,i (like--,-like messengers from Vt/,h`B`.rGa.te9. . . - `A ' ` -no-mu uuv uuourr, 119 at 01108 l'6t1l1| ed. `to Margaret : side,` and, peeping round the curtains of the big ma- hogany four-poster bed, he encounter-. ed: the glance -of a pair of mild, blue Iteyfee--eyes| that were rtired, some- what gad with watching-, and yet withal restful. ` ' ` ,` ~ * `_`W'ell,'~ mother! Quite easy now! Quite, thank "yin, Robert. I've just been watching them. - I 1 .Watehin~g what!" _ ' _ _8h`e turnedyher-face to the window] whence, through a gay?` in K. the trees,` she couldlook away ~to'the ' ,`;`.T1u:l- nvohnl-win... 4.1.- -I---J~ ' - _ ,_,. ~~~..-_.-~v~ ~--v -yyu-GUN] UH conscious of any special measure of devotion, SarahtLosh con-ded to Bar- 'b_ar-'a` her `own opinion that while iMaister Robert was nu-t likely to set Thames slow, he was just t yan to_ giye peace till a woman body when ,she- meast needed it. ' Having dis- missed the doctor, he at once return- A +1; `M ..m.....u.. ..:.=I- --3 ' ' vi vvu 11. a _ Fromv the hour of her breakdown, Robert -had made himself his mother s unfailing attendant, spending every spareable moment in her room, and ithough .Margaret was apparently un- iiconscious any special_measure J __.L_' _ _, vwuuvu Lu: \:u1u.I.UIl. You must keep a stiif upper lip,` Robert.- There s a hard task in front of you,eand you ll need a heap of dis- cretion and courage. Just keep her` `mind asjeasy as may be. And-and Death can be `wonderfully kind at` times. Then you really think ! It would bea cruelty to tell you anything but the truth, Robert, and gyou d be -the last man I know who thank me for a trick of that sort. She has neither ache nor pain, but there s no reserve vitality to draw upon, and, -she s weaker to-day than yesterday. But there, I ve -a long round in front of me. Above all else, keep her mind as pleasantly occupied as possible. `Good day. i `wanna LL- L_-1- 3 ` ` ` l.cau_u.uc "mug 0' Stones. And Robe?-t, seeing the look and noting the 1 break in the speech, decided'that 3' reply was not necessary. It was the doctor who spoke again, words in- tended for comfort. I (1 T7... .-- I wort Tomi 01:2" _ ughly effective. theynever gripe, purge or cause nausea, end never lose them effectiveness. One of the best of the NA-DRU-C0 line. T a box. If your druggist has not yet stocked them, send 25c. and we will mail them . . , 23 run-doc-3.-au..a.ie.-Icq-a-nwoc..aa..-unsaoa. . . . Mound. . I u: frail! I H;n.s .`u] uzmi. 11~z1<'l'd1'0<