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a eup of salada green tea invigorates and refreshes salada green tea fresh from the gardens april escapade by kathleen morris syxofs1 mary kate ohara engaged to ca kfiunk agrees to play the part of gbrk stejnes wife and meet the countess alarka at llurliiiisftmo then she goes to tenes homo to sleep overnight lnr- iiik the night her brother martin not knowing to circumstances breaks into steynes house ana is shot as a burglar upon her return to herhome mary rinjs fho has fallen in lov with steyns then mary martin cass ami chris meet at the ohara home ami during the dis cussion the willow ohara walks in an1 demands t- know what the trouble is khe declares she believes mary kate in nocent of any wrongdoing then chris asks mary to marry him chapter xu contd and youre not afraid dear xiskcd chris yes she said with the first flash of natural laughter the had shori tonight im horribly afraid i know ill make mistakes ill bo snubbed and after a few years you may not love me any more than lots and lots of men love their wives after a few years he added suddenly grave but this thing she said her fingers in a clutching pressure over her heart this thin has pot to he quieted k is like a pain le dropped her hands and turned toward her mother he was on one knee beside the older womans chair mrs ohara he said may i have her there was a ionr pause and in it cass keating slipped quietly from the there is no substitute for ihrfafties owroots for nearly so years preferred by the mothers of canada because of their proven purity and high quality only christies can make christies arrowroots important have you seen he new mcclary coal and wood ranges new different beautiful efficient they represent the finest value ever offered canadian women 7 kitchen without anyone noting his going how would you know your own heart mrs ohara said then slow ly dubiously but she had laid one hand upon the big square shoulder of the coat just the same how wouid she know hers an1 you and she strangers this fortnight agonet she asked il be very good to her shell be the most spoiled the most loved woman in the world chris promised humbly youd say that now the mother said not unkindly but i mean it he persisted youre rich mrs ohara mused studying his face with her own plain face very sober youre very rich but theres other things but cichss iow do i know that youre fit for a little girl like my molly i know what you think of me chris answered looking straight into her eyes and some of its true but not the worst things ive never wanted girls much im idle i play cards and polo and tennis and golf and the tables at monte carlo but the only woman who ever had a hold on me is well mary met her and she isnt afraid of the countess marka suddenly mrs qharas face quiv ered and her eyes brimmed with tears itd be what mary kate wanted in the long last she said unsteadily he got up and went into the bed room that adjoined the kitchen ton- kissed his sister laughed a raw bewildered laugh lumbered en his own way to bed dont you care molly he said its the darndest break i ever saw martin commented from his chair he gripped the chairarm with his right hand got to his feet balanc ing himself carefully because of the wounded arm im going in to talk to mother he explained mary kate her sapphire eyes starry was standing by the sink watching the emptying room as a child watches a christmas tree mother 11 be all right martin predicted oh yes shell be all right mary kate whispered back shes worried about uncle robert wouldnt you know hed choose holy week to die in martin commented wouldnt you know it but in her aching heart she thought it doesnt matter what uncle robert does now or whether regina writes her composition or iennihan has a grocery sae it doesnt matter whether the geary street ear is crowded or not on a weekday morning the rents of the new apartments dont matter to mc any more and my best slippers with the loose heel i was going to have fixed and mothers new meatchopper nd being in the play of the church dramatic club all gone all gone she and chris were alone in the kitchen do you think its the dariidest break you ever saw too mary he asked im a little scared she admitted with a laugh he hed her hands and her bright hair fell barf as she looked up at him ave you scaled chris im happy he answered simply yes im terribly happy too im mary kate turned away with a little shrug despairing of express- free largo illustrat ed catalogue o new and rebuilt bicycles from 110 up motor cycles boats oi tboari motors tjillos tc prmimjor tation paid write to duke cycze and motor jo 625 qutcn street w toronto out aluwnlim ll6hlff lasts longer than iron mowers remarkably light because of its alumi num pads remaikably durable because of its barium metal bearings sled drive wheel axles end steel diive wheel bushings your hardware dealer has it canada foundries forgings limited janes sneit plant brockvillc onlaiio irc herself it had to be like this j she said from the pegs n the little passae she caught a loose brown coat toms coat as it happened and slipped into it come out in the yard a minute she aid j they went out into the narrow i space between the shabby fences where there were- barrels clotheslines sheds poles and the childrens scoot ers and coasters chris put his arm about her and they looked up at the the great block of apartment houses on geary street rising tiers of little squares of pale gold marking the lines of windows higher and higher against the dark blue sky the great electric light sign hashed and wheeled and dimmed unj tiringly in the night motor cars honked in the street whizzed and were gone and the feet of pedestrians chipped on the sidewalk beyond the fence but millions of stais throbbed over head and the soft scarf of the milky way hung low and glittering close to the warm spring world the banksia rose by the kitchen doorway the great gnarled lilac by the fence the mock- orange that covered with creamy blooms stooel close to the porch steps all helped to scent and make magical the april dark chris and mary kate stood silent breathing it in their hands locked her upflung head resting against his shoulder for a long while what are we going to do next chris get married arent we i suppose so her voice was dreamily confident like the voice of a protected child tomorrow dont you think tomorrow well why not you see the long er we delay the more time there i3 for newspaper reporters and fuss nd vablegrams and telegrams and whatnot oh horrors mary kate shud dered ought you do anything about keat ing about keating cass keating oh oh yes i ought to write him ill write him tonight and tomorrow night well go to where where do people go here in california shall we go in the car ha we have a car it amused her youll have you rowri car i cn drive it she reflected aloud simply in summer you can in winter youll have to have a driver chris don you like that idea it had silenced her she was re flecting will i have to have a maid oh 1 think so mrry ha she exclaimed again this time with a sigh what time do you think the city hall opens chris asked ten then ill be here at quarter of ten and if theres any special per son you want to marry us there is then telephone him and arrange it will you will your mother hate roe shell neither hate you nor like you well visit her and the count in paris hell like you never fear hes fifteen years younger than my mother shell want to talk clothes th you any gossip you can pick up about persons she knows and theyll take us to the races and to dinner at some russian place and your father dads absorbed in madeleine shes i about twentysix and rather large and blond regular swede blond and j she lisps shes the girl who but you wouldnt remember that shes tho girl who sang wouldnt you choose the blues to lose your heart to two years ago but youll like dad hes cry businesslike and square and ai that and i have a sweet old grand mother who runs a cattle farm over in now jersey chris went on with sudden enthusiasm you will love them all i mean the people who work for her and the calves and the horses and everything your little sisters we ought to get them on there some time for a long minute she was silent tfadventukes of fittdjutdoty scottie- what came fccfore captain jimmy and scottic fctiauu lost in the darkness while ii- fn ovr the chinese war zone n janduij- they are captured by chinese tandils captain jimmy escapes and pian to set iree the remainder of his party cautiously 1 moved toward the camp the arts had burned to em bers and new and then flamed up fitfully certainly the outlaws wouldnt be looking for an escaped prisoner prowling around their tents at that hour rolled near the largest of the fires lay tho figure of a man carefully i crawled nearer a small twig broke under my knee and i stop- red motionless not even breath ing for a minute or two as i wiggled closer i could make out his features sure enough it was poor old fu hsu foo soo tho interpreter he was cramped and so cold and scared i held up a finger in a warning and worked my self along to a point where i could cut his bonds with a jack knife all asleep 1 whispered he nodded quietly we crept away toward the cool spring the fresh cold water revived him won derfully he drank as though ho never intended to stop then i questioned him what happened to scottie the dog bowwow blandit hit him on the head dog ho bite blandit tie deg to tree no idea where doggie and the colonel i asked colonel he blandit now he cook whispered the interpreter hell probably make a better bandit than a colonel meanwhile a plan hac been form ing in my mind quietly we picked our way to where the burros were hitched wo tied a dozen of them together so they would lead in a line the other burros ve cut loose so it would take time for the banditsto catch them and get on our trail taking the halter of the lead bur ro i healed down the valley that led through the cleft in the moun tains fu brought up the rear with two more burros their lead ropes tied around his waist for fear he might drop it he was the most hopeless chinese i ever saw loose etoncs began rolling and the burros instead of walking on their tip toes seemed to stamp along on their heels you know how loud everything sounds when you want to be quiet and it certain ly scerueu as if the noise we were making must wake the whole camp finally we cams to the narrow defile beyond that notch there was a bit of a plateau it was here that the bandit guard would be the oandits had just risen to their feet at the sound of our burros com ing through the pass plainly they were puzzled had we come riding out into ttem like a whirlwind they would have understood and started tiling on us but here was string of burros peacefully wending their way into the light of their camp tire leaning forward from the neck of my burro 1 pricked the last of the string with my jackknife with a shrill cry he jumped against the icxt one ahead who in turn rushed tho next in a moment they were in headlong flight tliey scattered right and left among the bandits and when a burro failed to bowl one over the rope caught his feet and tripped him then in the midst of the uproar we dashed out yelling the rout was complete we just waited long en ough to grab a riflo and went on a mad scramble down the mountain side mile after- mile we rode at break neck pace far back up the valley the whole bandit camp were in hot pursuit when my burro showed signs of slackening speed i thump ed him in the ribs and off he went again amid a shower of dust and loose stones rounding a corner we came sud denly to a rail- r o a d track where five or six decrepit old freight cars stood and a rickety old en gine we could hear the hoofs of the outlaws burros pounding down tho valley as we reached the cars i leaned over and grabbed fu by the slack of his pants as i heaved to pull him in a dark body came hurtling in caught me amidships and over we all went in a pile on the floor to be continued isofdmzs chocolate malted milk the healthgiving delicious drink for children and grown ups pound and half pound tins at your grocers why colored to save the childs eyes they were both laughing and for an inst his brown lean cheek touch ed her satinsmooth fair one and her silky hair brushed his cheek no but because theyre so kind to babies she explained seriously well have a country place my grandmother yreelands place to be continued issues have a way of disappearing after elcction and never coming up for decision calvin coolidge not the cye but the spirit furnishes the best proof of theories albert einstein no haul feelings lady have you ever been offered work tramp only once madam asido from that ive met with nothing but kind ness hudson star checking up on ma mother why are yon reading that book on the education of children son to see it you are bringing mo up proper- 1 ly utica press here is a neverfailing form of relief from sciatic pain map making most ancient of arts aviation now demands special maps outlining course of flights map making is commonly credited with being one of tho most ancient of the arts the desire to illustrate his travels or to boast of them probably induced early man to put his ideas down in the form of primitive sketch ings which may bo considered as th forerunners of our maps of today these crude beginnings presently gave way to more permanent forms such as recording on the skins cf ani mal- graving on wood or none ast with the early chinese maps cnvl painting on silk or cloth which de veloped later into printing on paper although map making is one of the most ancient of the arts it never ceases to reach out for new and mod ern ideas together with better methods of applying such ideas to its own pur poses a generation ago the science of heavierthanair aviation was not yet born now however aviation has progressed so far that it is a commer cial actuality with aerial photography for mapping as one of its offspring in the matter of map production aviation has reached the stage of de manding for itself the topographi cal survey department of tho interior has just issued a strip map covering tho aerial mail route from winnipeg to regina this map is in two sec tions which may be joined together to make one long strip one side of the map presents information of in terest to the aviator high voltage transmission lines which are always dangerous for the airman airports light beacons seaplane anchorage anil air lahos all in glaring red other important features from tho airmans viewpoint are shown in bold colors so that the map can be easily read as the route is flown fourteen colors in all are used elevations are indicated in steps of 500 feet by different tints quick changes being shown by hach- ures on the other sido of the map is shown a profile of the whole route and large scale drawings of airports and intermediate aerodromes in regu lar older mouse is delicacy on animal menu that the wee mouse is the piece do resistance on the lunchcounter of wild life would appear from a bulletin just issued by the roosevelt wild life station at the new york state college of forestry syracuse ny the bulletin contains a study by robert t halt field naturalist of the station entitled the biology of tho voles of new york the word voles is a general term including certain mouselike rodents birds beasts and reptiles have an irresistible fondness for mice as food through this natural tendency if not interfered with by man the control of the depredations of meadow mice and their relatives is comparatively a simple problem orchards nurseries garden crops small forest trees and sometimes other agricultural products may be damaged by mice but in most cases it will be found that man is to blame and not mice becauso man has destroyed the natural enemies of this rodent which in some cases has resulted in mice epidemics at least nine different species of snakes thrive on mice even the hull- frog and the turtle take their toll hawks and owls destroy largo num bers of mice many mammals from tho weasel up to the bear consider the field mouse a choice morsel but tho tremendous mortality ot this little ground dweller is taken care of by nature for he is a prolific breeder and he therefore sometimes becomes a source of considerable damage to tne fanner highest prices paid the canadian wool co ltd 2 church st toronto trke aspirin tablets and youll avoid needier suffering from sciatica lum- bago and similar excruciating pains they do relieve they dont do any harm just make sure it is genuine trademark reg tie in canada itsolite aluminum lawn mower issue no 2031 chapter xiii chris arc we crazy i am he admitted 1 intend to remain so i feel as if i was born again i start fresh tomorrow im going to do different things go after different things thees something to work for i tell you im different and besides what do we care if they all fuss and talk and get photographs and rant around he demanded cour ageously and what do you are if my mother and aunts like you or not oh but i do care mary kate answered promptly thats going to lc part of the fun she predicted youthfully im going in for all this tremendously chris im going to dress smartly but plainly you know im going to speak french and ger man like a native french like a german native anl german like a french native ah well you can be funny but you wait and see and im going toi lave a houseful of children boys in linen suits and girls in fuzzy hair and smocks nnd a fat baby with a colored nunc t i power lawn mower 30 inch cut manufactured and serviced by h w petrie limited 147 front street west toronto 2 phone elgin 1271 write or phone for descriptive folder and price the english woods in the springtime i like the english woods in spring time for then the earth is carpeted with fern and velvet moss and in its softness grow clusters of primroses scenting all tho air i love the springy soilness ot the turf as i kneel to pick the dainty yellow flowers one by one i love to lie and dream just in this mossy sunlit dell all among the secret woodsy things from where i lie just through tho trees i see a peep of meadow land something stirs ah tis a lark see how she soars up and up and ever higher have you ever seen an english lark rising from meadow in the spring warbling all her love for england to tho skies i love this english wood because i here among its thousand hidden joys i you can forget the world here where i all its fairy nature fills jour heart with tender love for all mankind you can make big resolves see how the sunbeams flicker through tho leafy glades a boo drones from flower to flower gathering honey a butterfly flutters over a wood violet the leaves begin to rustle with a brcezo n chestnut falls i love the englisn woods in springtime mst in tk christian science monitor there can be no concert in two where ihero is no concert in one r w emerson