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Whenthe Pie:was opened the King be ;auto sing:
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cpzestion, � g "What can we have tonight?".,
BENSON'S PREPARED EPARED CORN
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Well send you a beautifully gotten up little book of
recipes, if you'll write for it.
CANADA . STARCH • COMPANY
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Or, Married to a Fairy.
CHAPTER XIX.—(Continued).
"That sounds very charrriing, •but it
would not prevent you from feeling
hurt and angry when your relatives
snubbed and ignored your wife. Think
how unfair' 'to the girl such a union,
would be. I may be considered cynical,
but I am always inclined to the belief
that the peasant wife of the Lord of
Burleigh faded away and died, not on
account of the burden of an honor into
which she was not born, but because
she really oould not endure the snubs
of herhusband's high-born female re-
latives, Why should poor little Lilith;
who is really very happy and contented
as she is, have to submit to a similar
ordeal?"
"She herseif is the best judge of what
shecan or cannot endure," -I said. May
I see her?"
Mrs. Morland rose with alacrity.
"1 will fetch 'her;" she said. "But you
must not be too much discouraged If
•she says 'Yo.' She likes you very much
as a fii.end, but the child has no
thoughts of marriage, nor will she have
for •years to come in all probability.
Her temperament is by no means pas-
sionate, and site is more child than wo-
mellllstill.
5'tt,e Was leaving the room when I
sprang from my seat and stopped her,
"May 1' ask," I said, `that some one
be sent to fetch Lilith here? I want
to be myself the first to tell her of my
wishes. Will yen let me king for the
maid?"
I had my hand on the bell as I spoke,
so that she could not refuse me; but I
could see quite well that she did not
relish the arrangement. But she acded-
ed in a graceful and ladylike manner,
resuming her seat and giving orders, to
'the servant who entered, to ask Mies
Saxon to noinn to the drawing-reera.
MY heart thumped faster; and faster
' during the short interval 'before Toilettes
appearance,
What would she say? Row wOuidshe
look'".' ealcl she wear the White frock
in which I had last seen here
She soon solved all doubts, entering
like a dream o:f youth and beattty, in
Parisian -looking loose blouse of rose-
colored lawn and evhite lace insertion
over a skirt of fawn-oolored sfllti a, rose-
colored silk sash round tier waist, and
a lovely color In her Oheeks and bright -
nese in her dancing eves, ..
It i5 strange how (tress alters a Wo-
man. With her yellow leafy elegantly'
dressed high On her head and low &MA
on the nape of her neck, her little feet
encased in silke stockings and French
high -heeled slippers, and one gold ban-
gle on her left wrist, Lilith looked no
longer the lovely artist's model I had
last seen, but abeautiful and . refined
young Iady. Had she entered in rags,
my love andher beauty would have
stood the test triumphantly; but, as it
was I told myself withpride that she
would have been a fitting wife for a
prince, and that a prince might well
congratulate himself aver winning such--
a
ucha prize.
"Lilith," Mrs. Morland began hastily,
and in evident nervousness "Mr. Hervey
has come down here to say»something
to you -something. which I think will
surprise you very much."'
A swift 'glance, the purport of which
I did not understand was exchanged by
the two women,' and Lilith grew sudden-
ly very pale.
I was shaking hands with her by this
tired, and held her hand a song ' time
within my own.
"You 'are' not angry with me, are you?"
she said artlessly, looking up into MY.
face.
I saifar from Nein angry with you,"
d, taking her two hands, and held-
ing them close. "that I'. have come to
day to ask you to be my wife,"
She stared at me with dilated eyes,
and then lboked away, and began to
laugh In a nervous, half -hysterical` man-
ner,
"How absurd]" she exclaimed. "But,
of course, you are joking. I am supe
Lady Maigaret would be cross if s
heard you talk such nonsense"`
"Lady Margaret has nothing to do
with it," I' said, still retaining her hands
and trying, to make her 'averted eyes.
meet tele% "We are no longer engaged, i
We never' loved. each other, and we.
found out Our Mistake stow,.I have al-
ways loved you, Lilith, and I want you
to. try and cove me.
Oh I cant! • It's impossible. You
can't 'be in earnest, .You. must forget
all this et onee. It's quite out at the
question!" panted Lillie in excitement
'cw.liic.h it weepitinfill to witness,
Then,suddenly wr iii h in her hands
e h
from imine, She buret into a passion of
teats,
Mrs, Orland put her alms affection-
ately round the sobbing girl and.. treed
to seethe her, glancing �signititantly at l so T determiner take t,flitlt away frOrn
me over, t,Esihot shoulder' the while., d eiiIO arid el , r and Bind" and i influence of Morland House Lor the
"Lllitlt.•att hot atroiig;"; She saki,: `aril very hairs n eve , the
the nephew o,iw- an earl, and FX, genius ---I
knew ail that, '+and I llav'e ttfte t been
Old about it lilt you must not marry,
any one like me ---e little beggar it'1
that danced about in taverns tor PT'
living, It is quite, quite out oX the
(luostion. And it's only a sudden notion
Of yours. or why didn't you tell me
when you put me twee to Sohoel that you
Meant to tante me out and 'marry me at
the end at a year? I am .sure I wee
tuiserebie enough thee '.to want some
oornforting."
"I was not free then, dear, or I would
gladly have done sq. I telegraphed to
Mss. Morland yesterday :within an hour'
CI haying my erigatement • rlissoiv ed by
Lady Margaret 'Lorimer,'
You thought oT me directly*?" she
eatd, looking at me for ..a Sew seconds
intently In silence. Theft she 'gave 1t,
quick little sigh, "It is too late," she
said ' 1 have a changed my mind alto -
get er within 'the past Year. I don't
love You now at all, And. I shall never
starry any one." ..
CHAPTER XX.
1 1
had did ,notintended stay atdoingl3ris...to1 that night, as
Bag and baggage, I departed back to
town, a;ftet• a
tete-a-tete talk with Mrs,
Morland had sucoeeded a tete-a-tete
tack with Lilith.
1 could not take no .for an answer,
There was something odd and reserved
about Lilith's manner, and her iits of
friendly affection alternating with her
unaccountable aversion againstthe idea
of becoming my wife induced me not
unnaturally to believethat. girlish ca-
price wasat the bottom of her refusal
of Inv' offer.
She had terminated our interview by
suddenly dashing from the room. in 4
flood. "o1 tears. Just. before, she had
owned that nobody •had ever been so
good to her as I, and that nobody but,
I had ever loved her. She strenuously
negatived illy suggestion that she had
another sweetheart, assuring me that
shah' was Par from being the case,
"I have never met anymen here, as
you know," she said."How should I?
1. am sure no one could be half so good
to me as you. But I can't marry your
and you mustn't ask me. ,Your grarnd.
relatives would be always looking down
upon me; . wouldn't they now? '. And that.
Splendidly dressed, cousin of yours.
whom 'you were going to marry, would
want to kill ,me. No, you mustn't call
me changeable. ]' know I would have
Jumped ' at .the thought of marrying you
in a year had you asked me at Lythinge,
But I'm ever so much older now, and T
know that when a man marries beneath
him, he is always sorry, and makes his
wife eo ry, too. And I'm not really a
bit civilized. I hate things settled and
regular, I like pickuicldng better than
dining, and I feel uncomfortable when
servants stand about in the room dur-
ing meals. Do you remember how I
wanted Mr.- Wrenshaw; as 1 called
him, to have his dinner with us? Well,
I'm just a little better than that now.
1 lknow the names ofthings, and how to
pronounce them in fi'rench, and I can
pick out tunes with tile notes on the
Piano, and I don't make mistakes in
grammar and utter the common expres-
sions I used to. I've been too much
scolded for that! But at heart S am
very much the little gipsy I used to be,
and I never look at the sea without
longing to take off my shoes and stock-
ings and bound along with bare feet.
at the edge of the waves. And I hate
women just . as much as ever. Men I
like, and'I love the smell of tobacco, and
do enjoy a puff at a cigarette now and
then. But women are so prim. I hate
the girls`. here, who au affectedlyrlandanmimic
and areealwa =s tryi mimic o be thought er so i fine
,ladies and something °much• grander
than they really are.
And I never hear an organ, in the
street without wanting td catch up my
skirts and dance to it, as I used to when
I was a little child. And—one thing
more I must tell you—when I've been
many weeks living in a civilizeii sort of
way, ani:.of a sudden a great longing
comes tome to be up and out of it all,
like in the old days when, father and I
got un before daylight,and crept out
of some barn where we'd stolen in to
rest, before we were worried out of it
by the farmer's lads, I don't like houses
overmuch; they stifle . me, somehow..
And.I hate stopping in the same plane
long. •I'want to be out under the blue
sky and in sound of the sea. Oh, I'm not'
fit to be a gentleman's wife, Mr. Hervey,
and if you'd seen a bit more of me dur-
ing the past fourteen months, you'd
know it."
There was a touch of sadness, ahnost
of bitterness, if bitterness were possible.
In Lilith, ringing through her tones.
But, loving her as I did, very word she
uttered brought her nearer to. me.
'Youwill be an artist's wife,' I said,
"and, you have the artist temperament,
I am r,0 fonder of houses or affected.,
stuck-up people than you are. I chafe
just as you do at the silly restrictions
of society, and long for a fuller, a inore
real, and, more open existence, And I
cannot live long away from the call of
the sea. So that we have all these
tastes, which you think are against you,
entirely in common,"
But, Mr. Hervey—"
"Won't you call me Adrian? And won't
you try to feel a little fond of me?"
"I will call you Adrian; if you like,
and I am very, very fond of you. But
I can never, never be your .wife!"
4nd•with that she had bttrst'out cry-
ing andfled from the 'room.
To her had succeeded Mrs. Morland,
the sweet -voiced, comfortable, and com-
forting. She strongly advised me to
go back to town, and- return in a few
days to see whether in the interval Lil-
ith had grown used to the idea of mar-
rying .me. It was. Thursday; ,why not
Come again on. Monday, to receive her
final answer? •
When I hesitated, Mrs. Morland has-
tened to assure me that she herself
would do her utmost on my behalf.
"Frankly, I think little Lilith- is too
unconventional and Bohemian, .in spite
of all my teaching, to make a suitable
wife for a distinguished and popular
Painter in your brilliant position," she
said, "Perhaps she has not been quite
long enough with me yet to tone down
her tipsy instincts. Now, if you wouid
only let me counsel you to go away for
a whole year—at the end of that time
Lilith would still be only eighteen; but
she would be old enough, no doubt, to
appreciate the honor you wish to confer
upon her, and would very likely be only
too glad to accept your offer." _
"It is she, . not I, who would be con-
ferring an honor," I said, and I should
not dream of waiting a year. If I had
my way, Lilith and I would be married
to -morrow"
Mrs. Morland shook her finger at me
with indulgent playfulness.
''You young men are so tempestuous'.
and impatient! she exclaimed. "Any -
.how, wait' until Monday and be assured
I will do my very best to advanceyour
cause,"
1did not in the least believe her. It
seemed to me that icr manner betrayeda most patent artiticlality, and that her
tones rang false. 1 had not seen her for
so longa time, and I had therefore fail-
ed' to note that the purring quality • of
her voice was accompanied by a 'Very
feline look in her 'scintillating, almost
l,upilless green -gray eyes, I ; began to
dislike the woman whom I already dis-
trusted, and I rose somewhat abruptly.
"I will come again on Monday, as you
the shock and surprise have ,been too•
much for ler.
.if'you will leave us alone for a few
minutes," I suggested. "I will try and
reason with her until she gets usede to
the idea,"'
"She will never get used to the idea,"
Mrs, Morland returned emphatically.
'Lilith has a great dislike for . the very.
idea of marriage. I was just the same
at her age. •Consider how very young
she is
"Will you allow me to speak to her
alone?" I' repeated icily; and Mrs. Mor-
land, with: a slight deprecatory shrug
of her shoulders and lifting of her eye-
brows, released Lilith from her embrace
and rustled out of the room.
The door had hardly closed upon her
'a very evident wish to esoape a tete-a-
tete interview with me. I intercebted
when Lilith made a spring toward it, in
her, and, taking her hand in mine, I led
her to a seat. I do not deny that I felt
startled and pained by the manner in
which my proposal had been received.
Had I. been halt, or maimed; or blind. in-
stead of a'healthy and passable -looking
man of eight -and -twenty, my offer
could,:not apparently have inspired
greater repugnance and alarm.
Tell me, Lilith dear," I said very
gently, seating myself on, the .sofa by
her side, why should the idea or mar-
rying me seem so dreadful to you?. I
thought you were fond of me and happy
with me, . It did not seem, so very long
ago, that you s with
u 'i want ed to he always
me. Have you already forgotten?" t
w
eI was a child then," she faltered,
blushing crimson.
"You are not much more than a child
now. Listen,; dear. I am not rich, and
you say yOu aro extravagant, But t
have no doubt I shall be able to make
quite as much as you will want to frpend:
I have an allowance of a thousand a
year, and at present I am making' as
much by my art--"
1
"Two thousand a year!" she exclaim-
ed, opening wide "And y0u -say
you are. not rich'
'Well, anyhow, •you will be able to
have Plenty of pretty froclts---as• pretty
as the one you' have 0n--*-'
Oh, that isn't mine. Mrs. Morland
lent 1t me to make ire lscrk nice• for sideways.
WhichWaydolf
t3 'r 1u?
Do you say decisively;•
4A. 5-1b. package of 1U DPATh snow,
or "A 20.1b. Bag of 1 1DPla'i-1", and
.-get a definite quantity •
of well-known quality,"Canada's hot"
—clean and uncontaminated
--in the Original Package ?
Or do Oa say, # e title $' ..
"A quarter's worth of Sugar", or
"1A dollar's worth of Sugar", and get
—an unknown quantity
—of unknown quality
—scooped out of an open barrel
—into a paper bag ?
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entire afternoon, so that I might induce SUMMER "DON'TS."
her to speak without reserve.
•ai n . steaxnec't rote London' on a
- The tr
foggy and depressing autumn evening.
Nothing much was doing in town yet.
and as I glanced at the- posters an-
nouncing the • contents of the •evening
papers exhibited along 'the sidewalk, the
chief item.anveared'to be .'Death o1 a
British admiral from sunstroke In 'Vir-
ginia,,,
My: great-uncle. Admiral Adrian
Maidstone whom, as a child, I had only
once seen, . had, so I recollected, some
property near Richmond, Virginia, • and
I therefore expended a halfpenny to dis-
cover;whether the paragraph referred to
him. Standing under a gas -lamp near
the entrance to the station, I scanned
the columns. of the pacer, and discover-
ed, with some slight shock, that it was
Indeed my distinguished relative, my
mother's uncle, a man' of seventy-two,
whose death was chronicled, there.
Already he had been dead some days,.
for his estate was situated in a coun-
try district, and the news had apparent-
ly only just reached London. In hir:(
I had lost. an art patron, for he had re-
cently- bought:one of my pictures, and
had expressed himself as highly delight-
ed with it. Naturally I was. sorry for
the old gentleman, but a man of twenty-
eight, very much in love for the first
time cannot be expected to cherish ally
very . deep feeling for' a distant conned •
tion of over three -score years and ten,
whose very ap1earance is unfamiliar to
him.
I crushed the paper in my noteeet, to-
gether with another wince I put'chased
to glean further details, which last'told
me that "the late distinguished officer
was nearly related to the • brilliant
young marine painter, Adrian Hervey,
Mr: Bervey's' mother fraying
been the.Honorable Clara Blakiston, Ad-
miral Blakiston's niece"
At my studio I found Wray, who a. -
claimed ;
Back again, Hervey? I thought you
weren't expected until to -morrow?"
Then why in the world did you Call?"
I asked testily, for I had to wish to
meet* the man at that: moment.
"Oh, to plague Wrenshaw here. • and.
to try and borrow five shillings of him,"
he answered iniperturably. `But Wree-
shaw was net to be touched. Now you've
come, it's all right' I'll come in with
you."
I stood on the door -step in the worst
suggest, I sant.. But may I ask that
Lilith be here to see me, and not either
with assistant teachers at Ilifracombe,
or with schoolfellows' at Weston -super -
Mare? •
The shot told home, Mrs. Moriand's
clear skin grew crimson, and her pupils
seemed to contract as she glanced at me.
your visit. I have never had steel. a
expehsrve dress as this. But 'perhaps
'ought lot-clhieckiin to heyou,"
- otv �tors' "Don't let her know,""
-con-
fidences."'Very well, dearest. I was .going to
tell you that 1 am godson told grand-.
nephew to old Admiral Blak sten, who
bought my 'lest' large painting of, a
Neapolitan flshing-fleet for five hundred
pounds, and that he always talks
leaving rile something. Bet it is better
to trust to what ,X shall make myself;
and, with you to work ;for, you to inspire
me, I. am certain of wealth and
1 Orsi ,tell you these thins, ditrling, be-
u 1. knbw YOU are fond of spending
Cq. lie
money, and T don't icnO'* ho.t'• else T.
Mateo o • you like me bet-
ean say to 1 t c y t to,
te��,"
I do lute von," she said, looking u1t
at me, her belie , twee stl'earnieg with
tears.I am very fond or YOU, indeed,
and very grateftl to yott, and hind,.
are.
"'t'hat is really unitincL of 'you," ehO
mui'irltired, in gentle lenlonstrance,.1
would never have let her leave my roof
for half an hour had I guessed: that you
disapproved of, it." i
I could not even bid Lilith farewell.
She *was locked in her own room, so I,
was told, and dict not'feel equal to see-
ing me again. So; puzzled, disappoint-
ed, and profoundly hart, yet by eo means
hapelees, I left Morland house and
drove•backto the station, whee e d
left mY bag, having been too g
see. Li11th' to drive first to a hotel.
The inorc, T thought abate her con-
duct, the more firmly I believed that
seine pressure was being eifdi'eised to
induce her to believe 'tyith Stich {.strange
caprice, ,riotibtloss Ihfrs. Morland would
prefer to keep for another year 0. pupil.
on whore behalf two hundred a year
was paid by sregular quarterlyinstal-
i
nerts. ,
011 �7n ddee,.1tf>w ever, I woltic
of tempers_ •
:"Pl ankly; Wra;'. I am •not in 'talking
humor.'
Nor am T. dlut I'm in smoking hu-
mor, if you'll let . me have a pinch ,' of
tobacco. Do. Hervey. I haven't .smok-
ed since yesterdat-, and I'm expiring 'fer
a pipe." -
'Come up, then.'- I said, suppressing
e, sigh, "but 'don't -step long, there's a
good felIow.' I wouldn't he drawn' into
talking :to -night, if a fortune depended
upon it."
All right. 1'11 tape the' tobacco and
go."
(To be continued.)
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Jack—"Once more, Molly, wi11
you marry mel" Molly—"For the
twelfth .time this hour I tell yeti
I will not." Jack (of the navy)
"Well, twelve knots an hour. is. not
bad .speed for .a little craft like
you "
Tereato's HealthOfficer Offers 14 -
vice for Summer Vaoationists.
In the summer: number of .the
Health Bulletin, Dr, Hastings,
Medical Health Officer of Toronto,
i for those ' s this ad f x ho on
offer t advice s a
vacation at a summer hotel, board-
ing house or ,cottage
Don't drink from a spring that iii'
coming from a rocky district, which
is not heavily overlaid with sand or
earth. Water contaminated by ha
man beings may flow fax miles in
such country without being puri-
led.
Don't drink water at a, hotel un-
less you know personally where it
comes from.
Don't drink milk, or at least do
not feed it to your children unless
you have assured.yourself that, it is
pure. You may get the surprise of
your life if you quietly find out
where your hotel milk comes from,
and then investigate the: producer's
dairy herd and premises.
Don't stay ata summer place
where flies abound.. It is a direct
evidence that the surroundings are
urisauitary.
Doaa't scratch mosquito bites. Ii
mosquitoes bother you very Much
rub a little citronella oil on your
hands and face.
Don't fool with poison ivy. If
you' get poisoned use the crushed
jewel, weed to rub on the . parts
affected
Don't en;•er a canoe if you call
not Swim., Don't take' with you in
a canoe a companion who cannot
iswim. There is no excuse nowadays.
for not being •able to swim.
Don't delay in case of drownin-
in getting the body ashore and at-
tempting to save life. The Schafer
method Is probably the easiest and
Should be persisted in for at least,'
two hours.
Don't: go into cold water or for'
long swilms unless your circulation
is good. So-called 'cramps are fre-
quently 'heart failures which come
as a result of the strain on the
heart.
If ,you don't want people to like
you, criticize what they do.
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cause the keep children out of the
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Equally important is the fact that they never. wear
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