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ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XIII.-(Gont'd) Fiithicf breathed more freely when the Home rH had left Rowan Tree House, and indeed every one seem- ed to feel that a weight had been removed, and a delightful sense of ease took possession of all. "Cousin Oeorgina will wear os- preys to the bitt-or end, I prophe- y," *.!.<; Roy. ''You'll never con- rince her that anything she likes is really hard on others." "Of course, many people have worn them before they knew of the cruelty," said Cecil, "but after- ward I can't think how they can." "You see, people as a rule don't really care about pain at a dis- tance," said Frithiof. "Torture thousands of these herons and eg- rets by a lingering death, and though people know it is so they won't care; but take one per&un within hearing of their cries, and that person will wonder how any human being can be such a barbar- ian as to wear these so-called os- preys." "I suppose it is that we are so Tery slow to realize pain that we don't actually see." "People don't really want to top pain till it makes them person- ally uncomfortable." renliftd Fri- thiof. "That Bounds horribly selfish." "Most things ooine round to sel- fishncss when you trace them out." "I'm going to make tea, Roy," aid Mrs. Boniface, laying down her netting, "and you had better show Herr Falck his room. I hope you'll orU>n oome and spend Sunday with us," she added, with a kindly glance at th Norwegian. In the evening they had music. Roy and Cecil both sung well ; their voices were not at all out of the common, but no pains had been epared on their training, and Fri- thiof liked the comfortable informal way in which they bung one thing after another, treating him entirely as one of the family. "And now it is your turn," said Cecil, after awhile. "Father, whre is that Araati that somebody wnt you on approval. Perhaps Herr Fa 1 , k would try it." 'Oh, do you play the violin 1" aid Mr. Boiiiface ; "that is capital. You'll lind it in my study cupboard, Cecil ; stay, here's the key." Frithiof protested that he was utterly out of practice, that it was weeks since he had touched hie vio- lin, which had been left behind in Norway; but when he actually MW the Aniati he couldn't resist it, and it >nd<-d in his playing to Cecil's accompaniment for the rest of the vening. To Cecil the hours *eem<xl to fly, and Mrs. Boniface, after a prelim- inary round of tidying up the room, cuuK 1 and stood by her, watching her bright face with motherly con- bentment. 'Prayer-time, darling," she said, as the sonata came to an end ; "and ince it's .Saturday night we inuetn't be late." "Ten o'clock already?" she ex- claimed; "I had no idea it was BO late .' What hvmn will you have, lather t" "Tho Evening Hymn," said Mr. Boniface; and Frithiof wondering that when they stood up to sing "Glory to Thee, my Uod, this night," he did not cavil at each line as he would have done a little while before, but stood listening reverently, conscious of a vague de- sire for something in which he felt himself to be lacking. "I wish I could be like these peo- ple," he thought to himself, kneel- ing for the first time for years. And though he did not hear a wore 1 of the prayer, and could not honestly have joined in it if he had heard, his mind wa full of a long- ing which he could not explain. He owned as much to Cecil the next day when, after breakfast, they chanced to be alone together for a few minutes. "Have you found any Norwegian service in London, or will you come with us?" she asked, unconscious- ly- "Oh," he replied, "I gave up that sort of thing long ago, and while you are out I will get on with some translation I have in hand." "I beg your pardon." she said, coloring crimson, "I had no idea, or I should not have asked." But there was not the faintest shade of annoyance in Frithiof's face . "The services bored me so," he explained. "Oh," said Cecil, smiling as she recognized the boyishness of hie re- SIMPLIFY YOUR COOKING of the pleasures of Ufa Is lott In tlie worry of preparing meals. Bovrll resourceful woman Borrll itirred In the hand* of a solves the problem. N'mi.l.T loto hot water and flavored to taste makes an eiollent buiiilUm. MoaU reheated have their original lla.. .r restored and enhanced br a little Bvril. Bovrll constant demand Bandwiuhei ar to by old and young, specially by children. B vril Tea- hot or cold --can ! served at any time with orackars, and as a last thing at ight to induce sound deep, hot Bovril 11- unequalled. this fellow, so it's no good my say- ing anything against it. I hope you may find him all you expect. For my part I consider him a most un- promising young man ; there's an aggressiveness about his face and bearing that I don't like at all. A dangerous headstrong sort of char- acter, and not in the least fit for the position you have given him." With which sweeping condemna- tion Mr. Horner left the room, and Roy, who had kept a politic silence throughout the scene, threw down hie pen and went into a subdued fit of laughter. "You should see them together, father, it's as good as a play," he exclaimed. "Falck puts on his grand air and is crushingly polite the moment Cousin James puts in an appearance, and that nettles him and he becomes more and more vul- gar and fussy, and so they go pok- ing each other up worse and worse every minute." "Then the side aisle, if you pl&se, sir. The middle aisle is reserved for friends only." He quietly took the place assigned him and waited. It did not seem real to him, the crowded church, the whispering people ; all that seemed real was the horrible sense of expectation. An icy numbness crept over him, a most appalling feeling of isolation. "This is like dying," he thought to himself. And then, because the congregation stood up, he too dragged himself to hin feet. The march had changed to a hymn. White-robed choristers walked slow- ly up the rnkkile aisle ; their words reached him distinctly "Still in the pure espousal, Of Christian man and maid." Then suddenly he caught sight of the face which had more than once been pressed to his, of the eyes which had lured him on eo cruelly. It was only for a moment. &he passed by with her attendant bride- maids, and black darkness seemed to fall upon him, though he stood there outwardly calm, and just like an indifferent spectator. Yet through all the whispering and the subdued noise of the great Sick headaches neuralgic headaches splitting, blinding headaches all vanish when you talcs Na-Dru-Co Headache Wafers They do not contain phenacetln, acetanilld, morphine, opium or any other dangerous drug. 25o. a box at your Druggist's. 123 NTIOHL DRU 4 CHtMIOLCo Of CNO. tlMlTr D. EVERY DAY THE SUN SHINES. Heat and Light and Hoiking. Power for congregation he could hear "It's very , nf of K*IUI saw Mr. Boniface. "If he means to get on in life, he will have to learn the art of rising above such paltry an- noyances as airs uf patronage and mark; "I suppose every one goes 'manners that jar on him." through a stage of being bored. Roy ! Meanwhile, down below in the used to hate Sunday when he was ' shop, Frithiof had forgotten his last little ; he used to have a Sunday pain which came on quite regular- ly when we were starting to chapel, so that he could stay at home." 'I know you will all think me a encounter with Jamen Homer, and as he set things in order for the Saturday afternoon closing, his thoughts were far away. The in- stant two o'clock sounded the hour shocking sinner to stay at home i of his release, he snatched up his translating this book," eaid Fri- hat and hurried away ; his dreams thiof. of the past had takon so strong a "No, we sha'n't," said Cecil, hold upon him that he felt he must quietly. "If you thought it was ' try for at leaet one more sight of right to go to church of course you would go. You look at things dif- ferently." She found him pens and ink, tore a soiled sheet off the blotting-pad, the face that ha unted him BO per- sistently. Feeling as though some power outside himself were drawing him onward, he followed with scarcely a drew up the blind so as to let in ' thought of the actual way, until he just enough sunshine, and then left found himself within sight of the him to his translating. Lancaster Gate House. A striped "What a fttrange girl she is," he ' red and white awning had been thought to himself. "As frank and erected over the steps, he caught outspoken as a boy, and yet with | sight of it through the trees, Jid all sort of little tender touches i his heart neemed to stand still. Has- about her Sigrid would like her; lily crossing the wide road leading liale what was to h:iin.> n obediently took the place asigncd linn, uaw with Rome astonishment that four white-capped maid-ser- vants had come into the drawing- room and were sitting near the piano, and that Mr. Boniface was turning over the leaves of a big Bible. "I will ! ; ft up mine eyes unto the b'lln frrn: whence cometh my help," read Mr. Boniface. And as he went on, the beautiful old poem with its tender reassuring cadenc- et> somehow touched Frithiof, so PRIVATE OFFICE Cramming down Ill-chosen food, atid rushing back to work, leads straight to dys- pepsia, with all It means In misery. 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The next morning his new life be- gun, he turned his back on the past, and deliberately made his down- ward step on the social ladder, which nevertheless meant an up- ward step on the ladder of honesty : equal world!" to the church, he gainod a better view of the pavement in front of Mr. Morgan's house; dirty little street children with eager faces were clustered about the railings, and nurse-maids with perambulators flanked the red felt which made a path-way to the carriage standing before the door. He turned sick and giddy. "Fine doings there, sir," remark- ed the crossing-sweeper. "Thx-y sny the bride's an heiress and a beauty too. Well ! well ! it's an un- and success. Mr. Horncr, who wai the sort of man who would have patronized an arcliangel for the sake of showing off his own superior affability, unluckily chanced to be in the shop a good deal during that first week, and the new hand re- ceived a large share of his notice. Frithiof's native courtesy bore him up through a good deal, but at last "Got a copper about you, sir 1" he asked. Frithiof, just because the old man made that remark about an unequal world, dropped a sixpence into the outstretched palm. "God blees you, sir!" said the croBsing-K weeper. Like one in a nightmare, he reach- trie church door. The- organ was his pride got the better of him, and I crashing out a jubilant march ; he made it is perfectly apparent to there was a sort of subdued hum the bumptuous little man that he desired to have as little to do with him as possible, that James Hor- ner's bland patronage speedily changed to active dislike. ' ' \\ hat induced you to choose that Falck in Smith's place?" he said to Mr. Boniface, in a grumbling tone. "He is a friend of Roy's," was the reply. "What is it that you dislike about himt He seems' to me likely to prove very efficient." "Oh, yes; he lias his wite about him, perhaps rather too much HO, but I can't stand the ridiculous airs the fellow gives himself. Order him to do anything, and he'll do it as haughtily as though he were master and I servant ; and as for treating him in a friendly way it's impos- eible, he's as stand-offish as if he were a Croesus instead of a poor beggar without a penny to bless himself with." "He is a very reserved fellow," said Mr. Bonifnoe; "and you must remember that this work is pro- bably distasteful to him. You see he has been accustomed to a very different position " "Why, his fatht-t was nothing but a fish merchant who went bank- rupt." "But out in Norway merchants rank mnch more highly than with us. Besides, the Falck* are of a very old family." "Well, really I never expected to hear such a Radical as yo.u speak up for old famflf and all that non- sense," said Jamea Homer. "But I see you are determined to befriend of eager anticipation from the crowd of spectators. "Are you a friend of the bride, ir?" asked an official. "No," he said, icily. Blanche's clear voice. "I will al- ways trust you," she had said to him on Muukeggen. Now he heard her answer "I will" to another question. After that, prayers and hymne seemed all mixed up in a wild ooa- fusion. Now and then, between the heads of the crowd, he caught a vision of a slim, white-robed figure, and presently Mendelssohn's "Wed- ding March" was struck up, and he knew that she would pass down the aisle once more. Would her face be turned in his direction! Yes; for a little child scattered flowers be- fore her, and she glanced round at it with a happy, satisfied smile. As for Frithiof, he just stood there pas- sively, and no one watching him could have known of the fierce an- guish that wrung his heart. (To be continued.) Has the sunshine really been har- nessed at last? Can its life-giving properties definitely be utili/.od for supplying motor power. It would really appear as though they could. At any rate, a Frenchman, M. Charlee Winter, has just achieved a most remarkable result. By means of a special battery and a particular chemical solution, this modern wizard has undoubtedly succeeded in storing electricity which gives a small current. The battery consists ef two thin plati- num plates, one of which dips into a solution of perchloride of iron, the other being in conta-ct with a mercury salt. When placed in the sunlight a chemical change takes place in the contents ul the battery and charges it with electricity ! When the current is used up it leaves the battery in its original condition again, and it is ready for the life-givirg sunshine once more. It is difficult to realize at once what a tremendous change even in domestic economy alone such a sun- shine storage-battery would bring about. First and foremost every house would surely have its own electric light. And most houses would well, for heating would then cost much les than coal. And cooking would almost certainly be accom- plished by electricity. A thrifty housewife would be able to put out her storage batteries in the daytime, and the house would practically run itself in the evening. If there was any doubt about the supply running a bit short towards morning, the batteries could be put out at three o'clock on a summer's morning and you could have your cup of tea at seven o'clock, your warm bath, and your breakfast later without the slightest difficul- ty, and all at a comparatively small cost. The only trouble would be foggy weather. As regards the cost, it would mean practically only the initial one of purchasing the batteries. For practical and commercial pur- posee it would be impossible to use platinum for everyday use owing to its expense. But it is the idea an4 the definite achievement which count. Now that tihe storage of electri- city by sunlight has a-ctually been achieved there is nothing to mtep the further development. 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