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Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. Vi! "Take it off altoKethcr!" directed j Albert, with the same sharp decision | ar before. "Ribbon neckhices are all very well for old wnmon with wrinkled throats; but y.iu've no parti- cular reason for hiding your throat now of. Ves: that's much CHAPTKR II.â€" (Cont'd.) | The child over whose cradle poor Ella had shed such bitter tears on a certain aKitated evening long past, has developed into a big, well-built, but alas! carrot-haired young *oman,' |^'"'"'" '"^' with her mother's light-blue eyes, only ["^^ l _k of a -smaller and sharper make, andj"«tler. With a shower of those pale-brown "You will soon learn to overlooK freckles almo.st inseparable from the such trifles as pins." argued Julia, in wrong shade of red hair. Throughout the soothing tone of one comforting a the three children the red M'Donnell; child. "With the dance music in strain had triumphed ove.- Ella's flax- your ears, I don't believe you'll even en locks, though with widely difierent feel them . One has to suffer, in order results. When a year after Julia's to be beautiful, you know; and I'm biith Klla had presented her husband sure I wouldn't mind a whole paDer| with the son he had covetcl, th? un- of pins running into me if that would j mi'takuble tint of the soft down cov- 1 buy me your look.s." Julia laughed j ering the tiny skull had awakened in goo<l-naturedly as magnanimously she him a. secret hone, for might not the added: "But I'll try nnJ findthis parti- afTinity in complexion denote a simil- cular pin, if you like. There!' she arity of tastes? Another vain dream! announced, a moment later. "That's Its vanity more surely proved with all I can do. I. ike to have a look at every year that the boy, whom Klla, yourself? Janet, don't stand gaping In defiance of all associatioii.t, had in- there, but get away from before the BJstcd on christening Albert, grew up. mirror." Even the physical likeness between With a breath of relief Fenella father and son served but to em- stepped cautiously to the ground, phasise the moral differences. The Mounted upon the footstool sne had small, narrow head was there, with its appeared over-tall, but revealed her- close-grown crop of ru<idy gold, but self now as of merely medium height, yet in its very poise, and in the ncrv-' Julia, having scrambled to her feet, ous rapidity "of its movements, was overtowered her by well-night half a obviously the head of anotl er sort of head. man. That spareness of feature; There had been a trifle of ill-humor, which in the father suggested the mixed of fatigue and impatience, upon ascetic, made for businesslike keen- Fenella's face as she accepted her de- ness in the son. The brown eyes liverance, but in the moment that she were there too, but with all the differ- stepped before the mirror every cloud ence that lies between the ga/.e of the vanished. The picture reflected there mystic and that of the positivist. A was indeed calculated to stimulate certain re.stlcssncss of nis thin lips the spirits even of people who were recalled his mother, but was more , not standing upon the threshold of likely a reflection of that modern dis- their first ball-room . | quiet which stand.'- for what used Albert had been right. The un-| formerly to be healthy activity. For broken white was the thing. What this descendant of generations of need of any artificial color, beside the quarrymen had been caught by the glorious depth, the triumphant spirit of the age, or by as much of it warmth of these heavily-wound as he hail been able to assimilate dur- tresses, beneath whoso weight the ing the years of study, which miracles fmall head might have been in danger of economy on the part of the family of drooping had it not borne itself so at large had rendered possible. The straight and fearlessly, with just the result was clearly visible upon this slightest tilt bcakwards, dictated by face oi twenty-three, whose keen the exigencies of balance? The face brown eyes and cL-an-shaven set of ; itself was small and exquisite, witli r;!! jaw spoke far more of twentieth cen- those delicious roundnesses of chin tury precocity than of that joie de and cheek and throat which are never vivre which used to be the privilege rarrjej very far out of childhood, and of his years. 'with dark -brown eyes under delicate-. As now, clad m a black tail-coat, of ly level brows supplying just the point! whosf defects of Quality he was bitter- „f contrast necessary to the wonderful Iv aware, he sat half-turned upon his copper tints of her hair. When a chair, one elbow resting on the bac-k, red-haired woman's complexion is and his -yes fixed critically upon the „„<,j ^t ail-that is. when it has es-' figure of the girl in the white dress, ^gp^.j ^^^ hcsetting danger .t freckles bis expression testified to his powers [ _then it is usually almost perfect;! of mental concentration upon what- j ^nj p-en^Hg ^ad not only escaped that, ever might be the question of the rno-^^j^g^,. j^^j j„ ^^^^ matter of sunburn I ment Just now It was the question „nj frost-bite, and all the ether perils whether Fenella should wear white or j,, ^^^^ ^^^^j^. y. ^^^ ^^^^ watched "Oh, I!" laughed Julia contentedly. "What do I matter? I'll be dressed ii a flash, somehow or other." "You know Mrs. Perkins said that they would begin tharp at 'nine, and it would be too dreadful to miss the first dance. Oh, Julia, do hurry up! 1 will help you." "And cru.sh your flounces and dls- 1 arrange your flowers in the process? No, thank you. I've had work en- ought with them already. Janet will come upstairs with me, and meanwhile you will sit here â€" no, you had better | stand. Bertie, will you see that she; doesn't do anything foolish until I'm down again? Come along, Janet!' You can look ^t yourself in the glass i meanwhile," remarked Julia, from the door, by way of consolation. | Submissively Fenella remained; standing upon the spot Julia had ' pointed to, but she no longer saw heri own reflection. Visions of the com- ing event had risen between her and' her bodily imago; for a dance within' an available distance was nn event : there. What a splendid idea that had been of Mrs. Perkins, the wife of the quarry doctor employed by the com- pany, to celebrate her only daughter's coming out In this fashioni Miss Perkins, being five feet high, with the j gait of a duck well prepared for the market, could not easily look to more dLsadvantage than she would In a ball- ' room; but this circumstance could not be expected to weigh upon the minds of irresponsible guests. She furnished the pretext and that was enough. Viewed in tnis light. Fenella was even prepared to admire ner. Presently, in the mirror, Fenella met the eyes of her brother fixed upon her earnestly and a little severely. "Fenella," he .•:aid, in the same mo- ment. "Yes, Bertie?" "You remember all that Julia and I told you yesterday?" "About not giving too many dances to one person?" "About not giving them to the wrong persons. To the right ones you may give as many as you like." "I'm afraid I'll be so excited that I'll mix up the right oneu and the wrong ones." "I hope not. You can't have alrea'ly forgotten all the directions I gavs you. j And mind that even if Mr. Berrell, should not ask you at once, you must' keep at least two dances, in case ho a.sks you later." ' at all?" I jgh Vouf "But if he doesn't ask me at "That could only be through . own fault. He can't help notfclnj? you, since he Isn't blind: and after that â€" well, I don't kn<J» how Wo>»ieil manage these thlngis, but if you play your j-ards at all well, ho is bounJ to ask you. "I'll do what I can," said Fenella, a little doubtfully. ''Butâ€" but some- body was saying the other day that he is very ugly." "Ugly f Not a bit of it! He's n very striking looking mnn; afid be- sides, he's the qnly eligible pefidh for miles around, tlis income inusl be at least eight hundred; and he'll mount higher, for he has no want of push. Poor father never things of these things, of course; but I shouljl not be doing my duty as your brother if I did not call your atteptlon to what may be a great opportunity. You see, I can-] not forget what 1 promised mother at; the end. From a practical point ofj view, she knew quite well tnat you I were being virtually left fatherless as! well as motherles.s . That's why 1 feel \ more as though I wei"e talking to my j daughter than to my sister,' smiled the youthful monitor. "Of course,! nobody thinks of forcing your inclina- tions, he added in a tone of general . concession. "All I ask of you is that' you should not set your mind against! the idea. It's a great chance thla| new man being a bachelor, and on thej look-out for a wife, as they say. You've got nothing but your face, re-| member; and the chances of its being; seen are not many, in this wilderness." "Oh, no; I'm not setting my mind] against it," agreed Fenella, almost: readily. I As the beauty of the family, she| kniw what was expected of her. In-, deed, she had heard of little else al-i most since she had attained the age ' of reason. i In the next instant excitement pure] and simple had retaken possession of her shining eyes and smiling lips, asj she stood still, listening. ! "Surely that's the machine? Isn't that Janet coming to tell us?" j But at the same moment the door opened to admit not Janet, but a long, black figure, somewhat stooping In the shoulders, and with scanty silver hair framing a high and narrow fore- head. The neck appeared to have lengthened, whereas it had only shrunk, -and the small face to have grown yet smaller, as is the manner' of some thin faces. In contradistinc- tion to those countenances to whom age invaHably brings expansion. But the orowrt eye* Were hot ettan^^d; they eazed out us mild and as anild- like from beneath the grey wisps as they had evfer done from under the luxuriant shadow of the ruddy-golden locks! y«!t through their very mfldBesS there bierced at this moment a deep agitatfon. "Oh, Father," exclsimec Fen«lla, turning quickly towards him. "You have jUst come in time to see my dress. Tou know you promised to look at it. but I do believe you had forgotten!" With a startled sort of surprise, and yet with evident blankness, John gaz- ed at the dazzling vision. "I am afraid I had forgutten," he admitted, in a tone which verged on apology. "I came in only to say â€" " "Has anything happened, father?" asked Fenella, standin>? still to gaze alarmed at hi."! altered face. "Yes; something â-  has happened. There has been a bad accident at the quarries â€" a premature explosion, it seems. Adam is half-killed, they say, and Duncan too is hurt. I must be otf to thetn at opcc. Kcame In to r WUt* fo* my ninatxkted Booklet DIAMONDS •â€" Xt'i rrM I. J. POTTS, 1710 Royal Bank Bldg. TORONTO tell Julia that I shall require, nothing more to-night." "'^ "Oh!" said Fenella, genuinely star,, ed, and yet with the thought cross^ ing her mind that surely â€" oh, surely, this wag not going to interfere with the evening's programme! ' "Poor fellows! This is bad luck, certainly," remarked Albert, with a subtle stiffening of tone; "that is to say, If It is true. You know how thick the color is laid on whenever anything happens in the quarries. Really, father, you shouldn't take on 60, until you know how matters stand." "What's he not to take en about t" inquired Julia's high voice, as she ap- peared behind her fathe. , her ma?siv# shoulders and arms emerging triumph- antly from a blue tulle gown. The minister hastily explained. (To be continued.) Abquf the OUSi colored flowers to-night -a point which to an outsider might appear ir- relevant, but whicii neither he nor Julia were inclined to treat carelessly. As to Fenella's own views on the sub- over with a solicitude as assiduous as any that ever fluttered around a pro- fessional beauty preparing for a Lon- don carreer. 'The average British maiden decolletee is apt to startle by ject they appeared to be of minor im.l^j,e hard-and-fast line on throat and portance. Moderately patient and slightly bored, .ihe stood there upon wrist, representing the limit of ex- Bi.gnuy ooreu, .,ne s.ooa u.ero ui,o„ ^ between Fenella's face the footstool which she had obediently ;;„,, ^ ' , shoulders no note of rm^a^ifd 'of "h^r Vlo^'n^illr" t;^f â€" ' <â- -•" »>"- ^'-^ "•â€" i t u;*. I ; .1 i.» ea. j "I think she will do, won't she?" asked Julia, looking exultingly to- wards her brother, who had risen from his chair, and with hands behind â-  the lec- bare, white arms hanging down l)e- fore her, her hands lightly clasped. "Pink, of course, is impossible," argued Julia, still upon her knees. "Tnat unfortunate color of hair leaves ... ... ^i.ir. one so very small a range. Hut what ^'* },\^'h '^"'' '"^mg f^nal sl<,ck of t do you say to this bunch of forget-me- ^•'""'^ °^ '"""y ''"y'' >"'""• «"'' •"«"' nots, Albert? I think the effect is ,?, ... , . .,, „ , ., , • „ rather good;" and she held a tuft or , / .^"'"^^ s*"? *'"/•,*'*. """' ^"^^^^1 artificiaT flowers against the white '"^'''K'l'''^""t'y..«'h'le Janet groaned bister's dress , louiler than ever in the inarticulate el- Aliiert put' hack his head, sha.ling ^"'[^ "'' expressing her feelings his eyes with his hands, and gazing' I'dneHu herself whh the last to hard at the forget-me-nots. "I'm sure they will do very we ; speak. She was still gazing Into her own eyes in dumb astonishment. It remarked t'enella, beginning to fidget,"'*'' "er hair which astonished her upon her footstool. "No; they won't do," decided Albert, most. Personally, she had always hafed its color, because of tlio kinship In a tone which admitted of no con- J' I'rodaimed to the populace around, tradiction. "Away with them! White f'"''' to-day she had regarded it as the â€"unbroken whiteâ€" that's the thing ' '''"t^ "P"" her beauty -for she knew for our money. The M'Donnell hair that she was beautiful, - now suddenly won't be hidden, and that's a fact, so' '* occurred to hor that instead of being let's make a virtue of necessity, and 'he blot it might possibly prove to be brazen it out. It claims to be the , the crown. only color in the picture, and spits at I All at once she clapped her hands every rival Nothing for it but to let together, curtseying to herself In the It have its own wav . " IklasH. "The white hawthorn, then. Janet, "Of course I'll do. I hadn't an hand me that trail. Do keep quiet idea I'd look like that! Had you for a few minutes longer, child! You know bow terribly important it is that you >-lii)uld look your best to-night." "Hut there's a pin running into my shoulder, Julia! and that ribbon round my neck is choking me," Julia? Yes, I suppose you had, or you wouldn't havo taken so much trou- i)le. Poor dear! and you haven't got your own dross oi. yet, and the ma- chine will be here in n moment. Oh. please, pliiHse be (piick!" Don't PAINT YOUR SHOES FEED them with TiUQGET Shoe Polish "NiigK^t" AlWH n(»t put «»n a surfnrc Hhinc that diuuppcurH Jp ap hour. "NugBel" feeds i the leather. Keeps yoi.T .shcM\s Hofl, makrs them watenx'oof "''<• K'ves u brilliant Hhine that will last all day. A.sk for "Nugget" at your dealers. BL.ACK, TAN, TONEY RED, DARK BROWN. I0o. per tin. "TAKB OABB OF YOUB BBOBB." Preserving Cherries. 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Bring to a boil and cook for five minutes, then add two pounds of prepare.', cherries. Cook after the boiling point is reached for twelve minutes, then fill Into glass jars. Pluco the rubber and top in position and partially tighten; now place the jars in a hot water bath and process for ten mini tes after the boil- ing strats. Cherry Jam.â€" Threo-quartars pound sugar, one pound stemmed and stoned cherries. Place In a saucepan and cook until thick. Fill Into Jelly glasses; allow the Jam to cool, and then cover the gasses with parowax. Seal and store in the usual manner for Jellies. Cherry Jelly. â€" Cherries do not make good jelly, owing to the nbienco of pectin. This pectin may be added in form of apples. Peel one large lemon very thin, discarding the peel. Cut peeled. lomon in Binnll piecfi.s. Cut a sufficient number of apples in small pieces to measure three cupfuls, then add; Three pounds cherries, one quart water. Place in a saucepai and cook until Koft enough to maph, strain in the usual manner for jellies and meas- ure the juice, allowing an equal meas- ure of sugar. Return the juice to the preserving ketto and boil ten min- utes. Thou add the sugar. Cook until it jellies when tried on a cold saucer, usually about tijtht or nine minutes. If a thermometer Is used, cook until 221 .legrees Fahrenheit is reached . \2% pounds of unslaked lime in five gallons of cool boiled water and use the clear liquid after the lime settles. Containers for eggs must be clean and should be scalded with hot water after washing. Eggs preserved in water glass or limewater should be rinsed in clean, cold water and used immediately after taking them from the solution. They can be used for -oft boiling up to No- vember, frying until December, and after that until March for omelettes,, scrambled and In cooking. How to Preserve Kggs. 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