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s jill of the fields 8 a romance s s by kennaway james synopsis motherless jill merridew becoimj on he death of her father owner of a frni she counts on mark hanson head man to assist her in the management mark rebents remarks made by phillip barbour who professes to be investigat ing the history of old county families on returning to london harbour meets two foreigners the reason for his in terest nroves to be a chemical fertilizer discovered by jills father which he had not made known to jill on returning to the farm barbour finds jill upset over mark hanson who had declared his love for her harbour comforts jill and old tjeorge tells mark of harbours attentions mark quarrels with jill but is interrupted by the news that the body of a man has been found in one of the tlelds a lighter is found under the body which is proved to be long to old teorge jill realizes that mark and harbour will clash eventually chapter viii contd you must have thought me an idiot to cry like that answered jill its not often that i cry though it has happened a few times lately why jill asked barbour oli just because things all seem wrong the farm isnt doing too well and thon there are all these strange things happening to upset one i mean the burglary and this murder it makes me tbink theres something strange come over the place a srt of curse then you have come upon the scene surely im not a curse laughed phillip no on the contrary youve been awfully nice you were positively sweet to me last night when i broke down like a kid barbour took her hands in his for a moment and then released them you are only a kid jill he said i think i understand you pretty well you have been running this farm with that clever little head of yours living indeed almost a mans life but youve got the heart of a girl a heart that is quite easily bruised jill jill made a little exclamation and stepped back in sudden apprehension philli stepped forward jill youve got to listen he said theres one thing only to ease your troubles and that is to have someone to look after you and im going to do it you know what i mean my dear est i mean that im going to marry you i havent forgotten how i felt when you were sobbing in my arms last night i wanted to look after you ilways like that and i still want to jill had not forgotten the previous light and the comfort of him neither nevertheless she drew back and sank into a chair thus almost reacting the scene phillip completed the reacting by sitting on the arm of her chair as he had done previously well jill what are you going to say he asked when she failed to make reply then impulsively he knelt at her feet knowing that to give her that moment of triumph beloved of all women was to bring his own victory nearer jills brain was working rapidly as she sat there there came to her a series ol instantaneous little pictures she saw herself lonely fighting against difficulties she saw herself and mark in a state of per petual quarrel the murder the police and the newspaper men came before her and she looked down at barbour she coild not say she loved him though she came very near it at this moment jill darling he said looking up at her pleadingly suddenly to his surprise jill burst into laughter why you havent even said yau love me yet she cried and barbour inew that the day was won no more ha i he replied laugh ing too jill darling i love you i love you i love you now kiss me a few moments later there was a nock at the door and mrs blore entered that newspaper mans come back again miss jill she said in a tone rhich implied that she thought it was her fault let me deal with fiim said phillip making for the door he found a short man wearing glasss at the door im afraid you cant see miss mer ridew he said is that her decision or yours mr barbour asked the man who had handed phillip a card bearing the name of hissop and that of a leading daily newspaper phillip was taken aback a little at hissops use of his name these news paper men knew a fearful lot how ever did they manage it as a matter of fact this one managed it by getting it from mrs blore who whilst on the point of taciturnity indoors was quite loquacious out it is my decision said phillip im sorry but there it stands i bow to it sir said hissop but perhaps youll kindly tell me what right you have to make such a deci sion because said phillip slowly be cause i have today become engaged to miss merridew in which case sir i offer my con gratulations tnd withdraw phew said hissop to himself a few moments later thats a bit of luck miss jill merridew murder- day engagement romance follows scarecrow crime that should please the gods of the news room thus had phillip helped a good jour nalist he was soon to regret it for when he returned to jill to take her in his arms again she whispered dont tell anybody yet phillip not a soul and phillip not knowing what makes a good journalist prom ised the scoop in a certain well- known daily newspaper next morning however did much to enlighten him and now said jill after he had given his promise lets talk about an extraordinary girl called jill merridew who promises to marry a man about whom she knows hardly anything well in the first place she is the most loveable girl in the world and im inclined to think she is the brav est why for promising to marry me in the circumstances she has taken me at her own valuation and has had the courage to stand by her intuition well you musnt let me down then said jill of course i wont replied phil lip and now- im going to tell you a little about myself i have already told you that i come of a very old french family we became merch ants in london by the time of the middle ages but some time after that we seem to have disappeared from all records we picked ui the family again in the days of the early georges who apparently were squires then a hun dred years later we went back to france where we had some lands these were sold and we lived the life of ease my father died out thre leav ing me a little money sufficient for you and me jill whether we stay at stone farm or not oh we shall stay at stone farm said jill i couldnt bear to leave it but what have you done with yourself since your father died havent you ever done any work of course i have replied barbour i came over to england and held a post in a show connected with agri culture then i was in the last part of the war and here we are today but since the war barbour hesitstcd a little well since the war i have held various secretarial posts and of course have done some writing on antiquities of which i have some knowledge having delivered himself of these various pieces of fact mingled with fiction phillip took jill in his arms again and kissed her goodnight for darkness had descended long ago on stone farm and its troubles two policemen had been left on duty and the sound of their tread echoed about the quiet old buildings and distressed those who heard them the body of the dead man had been moved to denbridge to await the in quest a fact for which jill was truly grateful the publication of the news of the crime had brought her a number of messages of sympathy from old friends also there had been several callers from jimong her neighbors in cluding herbert norgrov a middle- aged farmer from beyond denbridge for wlum jill had a great liking and whom she invariably met when she went to the denbridge cattle market he said he woulc come ovei again on the following morning to see if he cculd do anything to help norgrove was a wellmeaning fel- low and as reliable as the earth he farmed a widower of some years standing he had often wished that jill might marry him and had made his intentions plain but to no purpose he was therefore another to be sur prised by the morrows newspaper containing the news of jill and phillip barbour jill had not encountered mark since the arrival back ftom london of phil lip though he had not been out of her mind she now felt rather as though she had lost a jewel and had replaced it by one which might possibly turn out to be paste somehow her engage ment to barbour had not brought her that supreme happiness which most girls feel on such occasions but this she attributed to the vicissitudes through which she had passed during the recent crowded hours her reflections were interrupted by a maidservant entering the room with a letter taking it from tie girl she looked at the writing on the envelope it was that of mark hanson when jill received mark hansons letter she laid it unopened upon the oak refectory tablt and sat regarding it pensively its arrival had brought a sudden flood oi memories which al most brought her to tears for mark was inepctlficably part of the farm that for there to be any sort of quarrel between them came near to heart breaking she felt she had no need to guess about the contents of the letter mark was going she was sure and if he were not it was almost a certainty that he would go when he heard that she was definitely engaged to phillip barbour that was one reason why- she had asked phillip not to tell any one the news she preferred that she should tell him herself jill had all the compassion of a woman towards a man who has sincerely declared his love for her and she knew mark was i sincere indeed she doubted if he hadi ever had any sort of love affair before to be continued keep busy delightful quality tea fresh from the gardens pithy anecdotes of the famous in the third year of the reign of queen elizabeth when she was 2s her silk woman mistress montague pre sented this redoubtable daughter of henry viii with a pair of black silk knit stockings for a new years gift relates robert cortes holliday in unmentionables from fig leaves to scanties after a few days wear ing these articles pleased her so well that sho sent for mistress montague and asked her where he got them and if she could help her to get any more liked silk the enthralling conversation which ensued is thus set down in stows chronicle also in mr hollidays unique history of feminine things sac red and profane mistress montague answered say ing i made them very carefully of purpose only for your majesty and seeing these please you so well i will presently get more in hand do said the queen for indeed i like silk stockings so well because tlrey are pleasant fine and delicate that henceforth i will wear no more cloth stockings clergyman inventor it was during queen bess reign that the reverend william lee of notting- edouard later to become famous him- ham a clergyman witli a sock in- self as a basso and the manager years later for the same sum by the austen family he did well one of the greatest tributes ever paid to jean ue reske the prince of tenors came at the end of a proces sion of his colleagues to his dressing room at the metropolitan opera house new york to offer their con gratulations upon his successful re appearance after a years absence through illness enter the electrician who thrusting a horny hand of toil into that of de reskes exclaimed jean you done fine all in thegame jean de reske started out as a bari tone but made no great progress dis heartened he retired from the oper atic stage only to reappear later as a tenor and what a tenor the story- goes it is told in jean de reske and the great days of opera by clara leiser that the premiere of massen ets herodiade had been postponed for a year because no suitable leading tenor could be found one day mas senet happened to hear jean singing in the back of a paris music shop the long sought tenor was found at last stage fright but on the opening night de reske faltered and refused to sing remon- strations naving failed his brother to have originated william iv when duke of clarence and lord high ad miral it an official dinner is related to bavi said to a waiter pointing to some empty bottles take away those marines an elderly major of marines present rose and said flay i respectfully ask why your royal highness rpplies the name of the corps to which i have the honor to belong to an empty bottle the duke with the unfailing tact of his family saved the situation i call them marines he said be cause they are good fellows tfho have done their duty and are ready to do it again here are a few examples of war slang salt lots wife a coffin a wooden overcoat a doctor castor oil artist a cigarette a coffin nail keep your face with sunshine lit laugh a little bit gloomy shadows oft will flit if you have the wit and grit just to laugh a little bit j e v cook move on if you do not liko your home town or the speed at which it grows if you do not like its scenery or its climate or its shows if you do not like the people that your borne town fascinates there are cars and trains now leaving for other towns and states if you cannot boost your home town where men rise and fall each day if you cannot use the bright sunshine to make glad somebodys way if you cannot join in boosting then you must have knocking traits and theyre selling tickets dally for other towns and states magic less than ij worth for a blfc three- layer cake thats all it costs when you use magic baking powder and you get a 6ne quality that never varies absolutepurity and dependability no wonder canadas most prominent cookery ex perts say it doesnt pay to take chances with doubt ful baking powder bake with magic and be sure made contains no alom tbb tatctneat on tery in tin i you luwsbtm that milc biking powder to canada ut from slum or toy twroful ingredient baking powder even the horse laughed farmers throughout the united states being urged on every band to reduce their production in order to re lieve the surplus situation and thus to raise the price level are passing through a period of perplexities as this letter to the new york herald tribune from a new england farm er who may or may not be genuine clearly proves to the new york heraldtribune this morning i went out to the hen house and called a meeting after all were present with the aid of a hand ful of corn i said look here you fellows i always call em fellows sounds more go to it like than ladies ive got word this morning from washington no not george washington washington dc that you fellows have got to lay off this twoeggaweck stuff only one a week from now on or ill get fined for over production and maybe sent to jail at least thats what i hear about those fellows down south raising cot ton they got to quit so i snpprfse you and ill have to quit too now remember what ive told you i cant stay hero talking u you any longer ive a lot to do ive got to hustle down to the pond and tell it not to freeze so i wont overproduce ico i got a lot of apple trees to cut down therell bo too much cider im going to set flic to those hay stacks down in the lower field i got too much hay these cows have got to case up on that milk stuff i must tell them and i got to speak to the geese and ducks and turkeys i dont want to be lined or go to jail a new england jyrmer wellesyc mass feb 3 1034 ps when i left tho barn i thought i heard my horse make a noise it sounded kinder like a laugh i won der winchester press faithful canine greenfield eng having evidently tried valiantly to arouse- his master by snuffling into his ear and biting it henry listers dog was found beside him on the ground after a fatal attack of syncope vented a machine that would do knit tingthe stocking frame which has been called the most perfect of prim ary inventions no less illustrious a fancier of fine stockings than queen elizabeth it is said was induced to go to lees hum ble quarters to see it says holliday but the stocking knitters became gen erally alarmed with the result the par soninventor did not get his patent a handicraft postponed tho advent of the- machine age adds mr holli day refuses patent in refusing the patent elizabeth wrote v had mr lee made a machine that would have made silk stockings i should i think have been somewhat justified in granting him a patent for that monopoly which would have af fected only a small number of my sub jects but to enjoy the exclusive pri vilege of making stockings for the whole of my subjects is too important to be granted to any individual lees first machine was not capable of knitting more than eight loops to an inch width too coarse for silk ex plains mr holliday an irish tale major a w long in irish sports of yesterday relates this anecdote of a quaintly hibernian flavor patsy and tho driver went into the hotel dining room then i heard patsys explanation of the unpardon- 1 able absence of whiskey and poteen followed by but did ye ever taste benedictine tis made by the holy monks then through the open door i saw the driver swill off a liqueur glass of the best benedictine and after con templating the empty glass for some time he said to pat thats gran stuff god bless the holy monks whatever but to hell with the man that blew the glass for short- nes of breath take heart young and ambitious writers who feel discouraged because publishers refuse to put their w between covers may take heart says mr fin ger when told that the hist publisher who read jane austens pride and prejudice would have nothing to do with it and tho the publisher who bought northanger abbey for the equivalent of fifty dollars pigeonholed it and so it remained until many locked him in a dressing room thrust him into his costume and at tho right moment pushed him bodily on the stage with what result the world now knows jean again became panicky on the second night and threatened suicide grog the origin of that comforting word grog dates back to 1740 when ad miral vernon ordered that the sailors rum at that time usually called ar rack should be watered says eric partridgo in slang today and yes terday displeased the sailors named the insulting beverage grog because the admiral was already known as old grog from his habit of wearing a grogram that is a coarse fabric garment either cloak or foulweather coat or breeches sounds rather groggy more origins the expressive term claptrap highsounding nonsense is nothing but an ancient theatrical term and signi fied a trap to catch a clap by way of applause coster is a slangy abbreviation of costermonger originally costard- monger a seller of apples monger is a merchant costard a large apple when sir thomas lipton spoke of lifting the cup lie was merely using a provincialism as in shoplifter but when the people of the united states took up the expression in good- natured mockery it became slang speaking of slang do you know how tho expression dead marine synonym for an empty bottle is said in more senses than one life is not a merrygoround you dont cover the same course twice eggs wanted we pay top prices for eggs write for our weekly quotations whyte packing co 7880 front st east toronto i atlantic city e pteemlneai hotel achievement people may fairly be judged by th use which they make of their leisure time their happiness and true suc cess in life depends argely upon thai use too many loot upon spar time a something to be murdered and got rid of tney cannot endur the ourden of leisre it hangi heavily upon their hard thej lavish it too often oi arjflcia and uuwlolesouie amusements ho true this is of every locality to greater or less extent and yet it i quite true that the value of work at a meaut of haopiuess anl those who have any leisu- car be employed wisely and tn the own uplifting ot unwisely and to their own hurt in speaking before the community we fore council of ontario some time ago dr bruce lieutenautgovernoi ot ontario said life soon loses all meaning il mind and body are allowed to re main in that state of inaction and idleness which is a pitiful kind ol stagnation life and motion are in separable only in death is there perfect inactivity the proper use of leisure is to do something to in terest and to occupy the mind to car for and to develop the body and to preserve sometimes in the face of grave difficulties that coordination ot all the faculties which is true health and which brings an abiding contentment fortunately for this town there are many organizations all of which ar noteworthy and are doing exception ally good work along the lines of im proving the minds of our boys and girls and men and women among them being the several church organ izations in both town and country the township womens institutes th schools and institutes literary so cieties the home and school cluj and many others then there is th latest organization started and con ducted by many of the young lneivej the town namely the olympic 3ta whose aim is to provide a place 41 recreation and means of advance ment by debating delivering ad dresses reading and discussion on the topics of the day in addition to these there are the many fraternal societies but it is a regrettable fact that the members as a body have overlooked the advantages to ba gained by attending if only occasion ally and taking part in the discus sions which arise here one may acquire the faculty of public speak ing an art which is becoming all too uncommon and which is attribu table to a great extent by lack of op portunity perth expositor your hidden trouble inrompleto elimination of body waaua iu to a far greater extent than is generally realised even people with the moet regular habits often uffer from this condition incomplete elimina tion is why you often feel weak and weary or suffer heauches and indigestion the euro way to correct this condition is to follow the andrews hules of health eat moderately satisfy your body and once or twice each week take ft bracing sparkling gla of an drews liver salt andrews liver salt will keep you in the pink of condition by helping nature to keep your system in thorough work ing order your druggist sells andrews io tins at 31c and ooo and the new largo bottle 75c sole agents john a huston co ltd toronto heres quickest simplest way to stop a cold mining chatter an interesting illuminating semiweekly review of the mines and the mining mar kets we would be pleased to mail this to you regularly upon request write for our special com prehensive review of ashley gold mines j t eastwood co members toronto stock exchange 11 jordan st king edw hotel el 9208 wa 4611 toronto issue no 1034 dry skins need protection from wind dry skins need in addition to nour ishment and adequate protection from sun and wind cosmetics which havo no drying effects for example cream rouges are con sidered better than powdered ones for dry complexions cream rouges blend easily leaving no rough edges and give a smooth velvetlike appearanco to a skin which is otherwise pretty dry always smooth on a foundation lo tion or cream before you start to ap ply rouge heres a little rouge trick which probably will prove helpful to anyone who ias trouble getting tha edges smoothed out dip your fore finger lightly in your cleansing cream and then into the rouge pot youll find that the combination of the cream and rouge will aid you in blending th color on your skin try powder before you buy it the texture of face powder is just as im portant as the shade of it sonic- times a heavier one containing a ittl oil is flattering to a dry skin if your lips are dry use a creamy lipstick which will tend to keep them looking moist and freshly made up drinkfuliglass of water repeat treatment in hours almost instiant relief in this way if throat is sore crush and dissolve 3 aspirin tablets in 1 halt glass of water and gargle according to directions in box thesimplc method pictured above is the way doctors throughout the world now ircat colds it is recognized as the quick est safest surest way to treat a cold for it will check an ordinary cold almost as fast as you caught it ask your doctor about this and when atpmim tamlcts aak maoc n canaoa youbuy see that you get aspirin tablets aspirin is the trademark of the bayer company limited and the name bayer in flu iorm of a cross is on each tablet they dissolva almost instantly and thus work almost instantly when you take them and for a gargle aspirin tablets dissolve so com pletely tbey leave no irritating particles get a box of 12 tablets or n bottle of 21 or 100 at any drug store does not harm the heart things which cannot be done there are certain things which w cannot do and it is foolish not to recognize the fact not long ago a certain flyer was soaring above the wilder regions of tho itocklca and he took occasion to drop down towards tho earth to see how the wild ani mals would treat his plane he saw a pack of wolves aritl flew just about twenty feet abovo thorn while they watched him apparently petrified with astonishment but when ho dived down to make the acquaintance of a huge bear the animal rose on its hind legs and began beating the air with its huge paws evidently fully prepared to try conclusions with the new monster and as tho plans swept by tho last thing tho flier saw the bear was still waving his paws as a challenge to combat there aro certain things fn life which it is useless to challenge tho man who defies the law of gravity will not hurt gravity but ho may suffer himself tho man who refuses to recognize that times have changed and are changing will fight a losing fight any man who sets himself against tho great underlying laws of all na ture and defies righteousness and truth will discover that no man can ever win in that battlo there ar certain things which mankind hat never be done and which cannot b9 done the sooner wo learn this tha better winchester press it is vain to gather virtues without humility for tho spirit of cod d lighted to dwell in the hearts of th humble erasmus