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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-2-24, Page 2The Green Seal Sy CHARLES d?,DMOvl)S WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," ,]The Paternoster Ruby," "The Time Lock," etc. CHAPTER X.Y.--(Conth1). - "What 'an experience fora girl!" I coeld not r fret„ 't (gra breaking in--. "fox ;a g=el like you, Lois! :til: brave darling!" ' I srppose it was strange. But everything about the affair has been so strange and mysterious that it diahft 'trite nes as unusual that 1 ei!-told be waitdng for you in an. out- s, a the -waxy Chinese setziernent. ' `^3lile:; non ay from anywhere, alone and unprote a ted ::moan;; a gang of Chinese criminals and their White cterfetlar+ate:." I pair:ted out. "Why, yeti hadn't an idea where you were!" "Not a glimmer." she neknowletig- ed. "Bet—I---" She fell silent. "Yon tru-ted rite." I uttered her un- • spoken thezight. liven when you teeniest that you were the victim of Tan tit l>t•.atct ,!e':•ttnth'r•=. you telt. deer in iteitir heart that I aak)nM not hail yeti:" sa (Ilene i•he had not resent- ed rnt' sealer, yet rc'naaineril unreepoi:. sive. I was grieved. ivied:kteed. kith fled; I cls, a€eel • t:) lta alone with her. I was inrit tk'nt tet tion `ince her of my e•ri hent s- and to Lireaak down the • l.ariair t4' her tnn Gsountaaltle reserve. So I :titled: -Nita., air seen' silly, misgoitetl cause, yeu lefty -e to, be yattar 1?Chlorali candid self. Yee :renet free with me., Again tar hand tautinel my area. • IDen"t-oh, t can't"' she whi pored in a dis,:es: a way. 'I gehapt be frank and hews it —if you 'will only wait. I aid: t' ym;' 'with rill 1.1r\ n.?ght t.) d.) %tit:i, TA sq iht 'a!aa? beST: you nuke it aatt ilia . i e:hit for nit'" "d- I meet wait. ally, I mast, I sup - I' pasie" I ince atiensy returned. "But I d ft see the fee :•n in this reserve aril t aa,tion new. If I loved you less; if ma one eloief ee?rn in life wag tee • devotion w you, you. might have crUifg t w .;ter r.e. Bet I hive you. Yoe n..: t lariat R. No man ever Naught- to a woman a mare whole - hearts', unseitish, undying Rive than I am ef€s. rir.4 yeti; that I shall con - Value to xrress upon you until I am giver: an 'adequate cause why I should net. If I can help it, I'm net going to let any ft-oli.h nation; of sentiment- ality or mt:talieu eoncertion of the Lent only knows 'what destroy our happiinee . ' "Then," she :said with abrupt de- cision, "I shall give you an adequate reae"an--its aeon as I know clearly how best to present R. It is mal;- ing me very unhappy and miserable." "You cant," I stubbornly per.isted. "Aid if you don't promise to wait," she went on evenly, "I'll get in front with Mr. Strutter." "Good Heaven:" I groaned helpless- ly. "I submit." She relented a little, for the hand upon nay arm closed a trifle and she leaned elanser to me until she pre.:ad against my shoulder. Mortal man couldn't fathom or account for the eatntradietery emotions that 'plainly were ewaying her. Thee mg hungry look de cried tears sparkling on her downcast lashes, and I was at erase miserably contrite and temorseful. ".Forgive me!" I burst out. "I am, after all, unay a selfish, unthinking brute. And you are the dearest, loveliest, gentlest lady in all the world. You are a blessed angel." She suddenly electrified me by smil- ing up into my eyes. • And y:.+u," she said, "are only a big, silly, stupid, blundering boy who 14.4 c leiteas needs a mother more than a—a"--- there wee an odd little catch in her waits *'than a wife." In this tender *good she was so al- luring, so irre istibly winning, that I nearly /list my head again. I had a Wry definite opinion about what I needed (quite contrary to hers, it is needless to say), but managed to keep it to myself—for the time being, at any rate, CHAPTER XXVI. '•What else happened?" 1 asked; with what I tried to make only a na- tttral :how of interest. •Tlxe chief things centre in the .tory Lao tried to 441 me but never finished. The imvertant points as nearly a. I coups gather them, are thee: "He e`air_aed that the ring belonged tt) hint, and tbat he must recover it to maintain his prestige in what I undez.sttu•tl to l.e sane sort t'f Chine esti secret : oeiety. Ile tried to ini- pra $S UP Este its importance ---the so- ciety's, I mean—its antiquity, and a lot more that I'm not clear about. Besides, I was not mush interested in hie explenatia)ns. "Then he claimed that the diamond was his. Ile seemed at that to think I had it, and when he bet'ame con- vinecti that I hadn't, that I couldn't get it for him and wouldn't if I mita, he seemed disappointed and chagrined. I declared, though, that if it really belonged to hien and he eoald establish hie right to it, you would give it to him without bother and -He smited skeptically, then for a :raiment his eyes rested upon me with a I"c.uliar latel:. It gave me a strange, 'weird feeling of being somehrely else-- of trying to remem- ber things that were in someone ease's mind; but the memories were gone befc.re I 'could see them plainly. It was lisle looking thrvai„ h a veil, or trying tqa make out faces dimly seen through a swirling clouts of smoke. The came thing happened this after- noon when he +.`ailed at the office," `•I remember," I told her. "It was when he passed you in the doorway." "You noticed, then! I tried to brush the veil away. But right away the queer feeling was gone." "The villain was trying to hypno- tize you, confound him!" I angrily exclaimed. "Go on, please. I am profoundly interested." "There isn't much more to tell. While we were talking Chinamen were conning and going through the room, in the silent, unobtrusive way they have; but they didn't seem to notice las. There must have been a scare car more about the place. ''But pretty soon we were interrupt- ed by an excited babble outside. Lao Wing Fu abruptly broke off what he was saying and listened with a start- led air. Next several Chinamen burst, into the room,. and what follow- ed was pretty much all confusion. They jabbered and gesticulated in an agitated way, and Lao Wing Fu seemed to be trying to calm them. He was the only one who remained cool, but I could see that he was wor- ried. "Presently he stepped away from the rest and seemed to be debating something in his mind. In a little while resolution came to him. "He returned to where I sat watch- ing and told me that he knew• about AFTER A DAY OUT DOORS Yau can prevent chapped hands and lips by using Vaseiine 'lYrilc 3S;utc Camphorated Cream It allays all irritations of the skin. Sold in clean, handy tin tubes at chemists, department and general stores everywhere. Refuse substitutes. l!leterie ballet free on regoe t. ,�: iMiiQal G�y.Fit9. 1'LaCRE.1.5 CHES'ea;ROUGH MFG. CO. 1880 ChabotAve.datCd7 Montreal my tattoo -mark. He dumfounded me by bluntly asking if I wouldn't like to have it removed. I rose from my chair in alarm. I indignantly told him no, and demanded to be taken back to town at once. This impudence after his uniform courtesy and polite- ness made me for the fiat time doubt hint. 'He regarded me a while, then said: 'I regret that you do not fall in with my desires in this respect, Miss Fox, and I see that you will be stub- born. I have no time to explain or argue or try to convince you, I ani sorry because you are a lady and I am a gentleman. But I will state a fat that neither you nor I tan ob- viate or alter—that symbol on your bosom has to be tra_ed to -night, here and now.' "I stared at hinx wildly, unable to credit what I heard. "'The means arc at baud,' he went can. 'If you acquiesce, you will suffer neither diseemfort or pain; there will be no shoek to your sensibilities, for an American woman will do the little that is requisite ---just you and she alone in this room. Will you von - sent ?' was frightened now, of course; but I was enraged, too, I don't recall just what I said, but I gave that cheeky Chinaman a piece of my !Hind. Ile clapped his hands twice. Two Chinamen seized me and bore me fighting and scratching into another room whose walls were lined with tiers of bunks. There were no win- dows—only the door through which we bad come, and one other 'which was opened once or twice,disclosing a glimpse of the stars. A little wick' thrust through a cork and floating in' a common tumbler of ail agorded the ; only light. "But I could scream; and I did un- til a third Chinaman clapped a hand over my mouth. Then they forced me down upon a stool near the spark of light. Lao stood looking on. Ile had the nerve to say. 'You see, Miss Fox, how unpleasant you are making it. This has to be done, so why not sub- mit to something that can not harm you and that any normal young lady, would want to have done?' "I was so outraged and indignant that I would have flown at him if I'd been free. "Then that awful woman! Her face all at once bent over me. She loosen- ed my collar and exposed the death sign. But she was half -scared to death herself. Her hand trembled so that she spilled the vile stuff she was i dabbing on my throat all over her-' self. I know how it burns, for I couldn't feel the needle pricking me, and she handled it awkwardly, too." The spisade was so outrageous as -----GOOD DIGESTION +-- Mother Seigel's Syrup corrects and atrmulatm scarcely to be credible. 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But somehow I got outside and went plunging through the dark, screaming at the top of my voice. You know the rest." Only a minute or two more, and we drew up at Mrs. b'leming's. A hush fell upon us, and we quite suddenly became aware of the profound silence that brooded over the city. My t watch had been rendered useless by. my own vigorous encounter, but Struber informed us that it was past three. "How dreadful!" murmured Lois in a shocked tone, nervously trying to remove the last traces of her ad- venturous night. As the machine rnoved away, Stru- ber added; "Strang and I'll be with yuh some time during the .day—soon as we get up,,, When we were alone on the walk together, with a recollection of the Wane -Oil. Tank and Pump Company, 'Limited numerous rebuffs I had met during our ride soil tingling in my mind,I riOO TECUMSEH STREET, WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO. hesitated, unwilling to: leave ."tools so -As ` abruptly. It was past three o'clock, 07 too. But in a decisive way she put an end to nay irresolution. Pausing with one foot on the first step, she looked back and extended a hand to me, "Come with ane," she invited in a low voice. "We will have the parlor to ourselves. Mrs. Fleming can think what size wants to."' Through the half -drawn curtains an all-night light in the front room shone. I "took the outstretched hand in mine, and we went up the steps to- gether. We would have afforded, a remarkable spectacle, had there been any eye to see; both of us hatless, torn and disheveled, but still borne up and stimulated by the excitement of what we bad so recently undergone. There was something in Lois's at- titude that mystified and eluded me. Despite her graciously sweet and #en- der mood, something in her bearing warned me to be careful. I felt that the initiative no longer lay with me but with her. And heaven knows she was beautiful now! She had assum- ed the regal splendor of a queen. She was at once firm and decided and soft and yielding; she carried herself haughtily, but did not hide a glimpse of humility and sweetness. She closed the parlor door, wheeled round and stood with her back against it, regarding me. Her splen- did eyes were unnaturally brilliant, like two stars. For a moment her color was high, but gradually it ebb- ed until her face was as hale as ashes. But her glowing eyes con- tinued to meet mine steadily, and presently her bosom began to rise and fall in an agitated way. I longed to rush over and clasp her in my arms; but somehow I knew that never again would 1 encounter pre- cisely that glorified expression in her countenance, and it would have been sacrilege to break the spell. Presently she walked up to me and placed her hands upon my shoulders. Her eyes were nearly upon a level with mine, and I am a tall man. ,:Brice," she said in a voice of won- derful softness, "it would be idiotic to pretend that I don't know --now, when I am at once the happiest and the wretehedest girl alive." With an impetuous movement, she Iaid her two palms upon my cheeks and held my face steady. "You have told me to -night that you love me," she continued in the same rich, thrilling voice. "I want to hear you say it again—here—in the light—while I am looking into your eyes." I gazed into depth beyd•.ati measure- less depth of those twin wells of purity that met mine so unwavering- ly. Words retreat from and evade me when I try to describe to myself what I saw there. By and by the long, dark lashes fluttered, then lowered and hid them. I swept her up into my arms. (To be continued.) NEW PERILS OF WAR. Wounds and Resultant Tetanus Cause Most Casualties. '. The ratio betwen deaths by dis- ease and deaths by wounds is revers- ed in the present war as compared with the Boer War. In South Africa disease was responsible for a large percentage of the casualties, whereas in the trenches in France disease has been reduced to a negligible minimum. The wounds in the South African war were usually neat bullet hales, which looked as if made with brad- awls, while in the present struggle not only have shells and bombs brought new and terrible kinds of wounds, but a highly cultivated soil full of micro-organisms, such as te- tanus, have added new dangers to the most trivial kinds of fleshwound s. The difference between sources of casualties in the two wars was the subject of a lecture before the Royal College of Surgeons by Sir Anthony Bowlby, who attended the King dur- ing his recent aecident in France. He laid the destructiveness of modern warfare to close -range fighting and the use of high explosives. Shells have such varied effect's that there are no typical shell wounds. Even rifle bullets tear the tissues badly, owing to their terrific velocity at short range. In Africa the bullets traveled a half mile or more and lost their force. Bombs and hand gre- nades throw up large quantities of trench dirt, which enters the wounds and infects them. Men when wound- ed, usually fall into mud and water in Flanders, or into the dust, if it is summer. Sir Anthony said the building of communicating trenches had, however, considerably lessened the danger of infection. In the early days of the war, before this means of passing un- der cover to the rear was tried, wounded men had to be kept in the advanced trenches until night afford- ed some protection to the stretcher bearers, for any attempt to collect the wounded in daytime drew the enemy's fire. One man he treated lay for 10 days before he could be rescued and consequently lost both feet as the result of gangrene. Now the men are carried out of the trench- es by means of chair stretchers, which get around the corners. But men falling in front of trenches have to be rescued at night as formerly. Not only the time elapsing before aid is received but. the physical con- ditiot of the nien due to lack of food, drink or sleep must also be' taken .itis to acount in estimating their chances of surviving. The man who can contribute and will not is a traitor. A quail, on toast is worth a dozen in the other fellow's game bag. Thzr 's a Subtle Charm about the delicious flavour cf This flavour is unique and never 243c nd in cheap, c d nary teas. Let us mail you a sanapi . 1a 3 s Mixed or Creen. diere ? �� + �� .a�..3� : .. T. ^val�)t r,— .' - .--.7:-.,--4,,,,,'":.` -.-�':, ' u.� ¢1y. -t ,. Raising the Dairy Coax A profitable cuu- cannot be raised in purposes. a year. It elates back to the a=ncestors: If the calf is dropped in the fail it and if they were annrafit .'le the will be able to go on pasture in the chances are that their, progeny a' spring' and d salol: after itself. If it is be unprofitable, and vice versa. Hay- a spring calf, it will be b.^ t to keep ing bred right, the dairyman enlist xt in the stable ur paddock alt sum- illt.rt his feeding when the coli i.,neer in order that it may la'ct'ose 8t - the embryo stage, l.y I;rolrnrly star-'tentian. As a yearling, the !e• -t win- ing for the mother, and then I• pre- ter' quarters will be to r1JTa.a ).]amber pared to care for and feed the young ..of them loo::ee in a large box s=tall or calf firm the time it is dropped, the sheltered :;heel. It need not he too proper rations required to erode • warm, as nature will supply them trong,•, lusty animal. It I. w Il known 'with a cl;at of hair sufficient to keel) that a neglected heifer calf neves then warm. Silage, root, an good makes the most profitaiil^ dairy cow. clover liar, with a little salt and The value of the calf at birth depends Plenty of ^ater, will bring them largely on its breeding, but the feet] through the winter in pxime cot.'lition, and care it receives while yotast ; is gut The heifers should be bred t•) drop important factor in deciding its fut- thele fart calf at about. thirty 'months e usefulness. of age, and teen milked as )near the Whether or not the calf is ellutwtl.l full year as possible, it being claim - i of at a heifer ad'fen that le only milked !especially when being raised for dairy el to run with the cow the ibiat two• or • seven or eight months the first pact- , three days is a mutter of aitt .t 'ztx, but ]tion period will have a tens t c it should receive whole milli air the e a aa fir'vee. ,t twok- at least go dry in succcttling yea: after and)then glad- milking about that length of time.ually be made accustomed a•) :lam-. It is a mood plan fi'a't a milk. The change may be made at the hanalie than heifebeforeotl:she frc' bens rate of one pound per day, and ala- the first time. Less trouble will creased until the calf is getting about ten be experienced. in getting her ac - fifteen pounds of skian-mint per day. customed to lacing gained, As the Many feeders fail to have their calves : dairy animal is marc or leso of a nerv- do well when fed 0it skim -milk, ant ' outs disposition, kindness at all times immediately decide that isltim-mill: is is essential if the highest returns are of little value as a feed for delves.: to be secured. The cow will also give Other feeders will point with pride tel a larger flow of milk thraug;he,rrt the a thrifty, sleek -looking calf, .tnd be particular to mention that it was year fed and milked at regular in - raised an skim -milk. Why the differ -1 ter«I`'araaiez"s Advocate]. if ence? The one has neglected to pays Good Stable Arrangement. attention to keeping the pen clear g Owing to the scarcity of efficient and d • th '11- rye'oaarnled to 1)l00d farm help and also to lessen the cost temperature; the pails clean, or the t) f winter milk production, we have same amount of milk fed at regular found it necessary to have the stable intervals.. These things are import- equipped as conveniently as possible. ant, and attending to them or not at- In aur stable the cows stand in lave tending to them is the difference be t rows, running lengthwise of ' the tween success and failure. !stable, both rows being fed from the Skim milk contains all the nutri- same alley, which I think reduces the work of feeding a great deal. We have a silo at each end of the feed al- ley, the silage being thrown directly from the silo into a feed truek and from this is pitched into the man- gers.. The different grains are mixed in the granary overhead, coming doter a chuie into another feed truck, which can be wheeled to wherever re- quired, thus doing this part of the feeding with as few temeeessary steps as possible. The cattle are wa- tered from individual basins, which are supplied from a tank in the barn, the water being pumped to this with a snnall gasoline engine. become accustomed to eating, only j The stable being reasonably wide as much as it will clean up, should be' gives ample room behind each row of fed. A calf six weeks old will usual-' cows to drivet hrough with the ma- ly eat from one half to one pound of nure spreader, and in this way the concentrates per day. An important manure is hauled directly to the field point is to keep the feed box, pen and and spread with very little extra pails perfectly clean. With proper' labor. attention along with suitable grains! By using these few conveniences, and roughage, a thrifty calf should an abundance of light, good ventila- gain from one -and -one-half to two tion, and punctuality, winter dairy- pounds per day. The .aim should noting becomes more of a pleasure that be to fatten the calf, but to keep it i a drudge.—Gordon Harrison in Fame in a vigorous, growing condition, l and Dairy. ment found in 'whole milk for the building of bone and muscle. It merely lacks the fat content, which goes to supply heat and energy in the body. This can be supplied by the cereal grains or linseed meal, at a lower cost than by feeding the fat of milk. Neither whole nor slim -milk is sufficient in itself for the growing calf. The calf should be taught to eat concentrates, as ground or whole oats, linseed meal or bran, also al- falfa or clover hay. By putting a little meal in the bottom of the pail after the milk is finished and keeping fresh meal and hay before the calf, it will soon learn to eat. After it has MMIrMaarantaMMIMIZMAIMMAORM suet: lliisplpi61111111111111 i'�� 5� 6�" STIFF lllll{li�!li��Yi��a �� Ill 1.0• whyhea s-4 tIo pain 7 ROXIMOM t��.�vti;sn'rxi, A singRe 'h Jfdle will convince yotE w Si gin' Lhihnei. Arrests Inflammation. Prevents severe compli- cations. Just put a few drops on the pain itt spot and the :parrs; dis- appears. •