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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-1-17, Page 6%vee CHAPTER XVIII—(Cont'd.)- suitable for an attack which woi. d "If you did not love him, then I thank Gori that you sent him away:: Another- man, will be more fortunate, and be will find your heart free;' Fenella said no word, as across the road thou eyes oncemore irresistibly drew together • "He will find your heart free?" ask- ed Duncan, with an acuter note in his voice,. I3111: Fenella hacl borne his gaze as long as was in her. Down went her chin again, : and back went the um- brella-point into the half -bored hole, "Your heart is tree, T'enclla?" She had a mad desire to flin her hands over her face, so as to escape those inquisitorial eyes, but made, i;stead, a faintly negative sign, while her lips gave nervous jerks, and her eyelids burned intolerably. He looked at her as though doubting• his g up probably, after all, be, only a skirmish. enella, with her back to the room, bent a little lower over a cyclamen from which. size was picking; the with- eeed leaves, and remained silent. "Come, Fenella, you have something to tell .me, have you not?" This time there was a touch of bon- homie added to the breeziness. 11 „ Yes; I bttve something to to you. 1.?he voice seemed to come up from "Itisabsurd and non- Germans withdrew to their hems among the cyclamen, half suffocated; savageness. s d bythe crowded blossoms. It ivas the' sensical to talk ,of it as an engage- ports. I t' t• h' 1 ti t t h h anent, just because he had, the irripu German mines sank a few British. it now --but it hasconquered me. 'What! NAVAL HISTORY OF THE WAR. is why 1 sent away Mr. Macgiivray. I --- meant to keep my secret and never to ljr�ief Summary of the Conflict's Prat. mal'ry anybody; but yestcrd ay, in the• i eks ozr the Scat. Pass, I met Duncan, and thee---it—it happened." On the Lien Great Eritaiil showed her "You have seat away ,Mr. nlacgil- supre11ac'yinranediately after the de- vray?" cried Albert,' getting to his elevation of war, forcing the german feet, again,- and in. the action shaking' wive to elm to eovee i..:...i T eligo ofl the hairs which; F0(10 ,t had laid lanai bight and in the Kiel Canal and upon his shoulder. It was the first 'itenz of her speeeh eonipelling'Crerman merchant vessels upanwhich his znindfelt 'able to fast- to seek neutral- harbors all over the en. Here cvas something which lay world. The few German warships on within the 'limits of comprehension and the high seas were run down. The of belief; whereas the text-- !chief naval exploit of the war was ' "Of course, I have sent frim away, the battle of Jutland, which took place What would be tile .use .of his staying,, oli''May* 31 and June '1, :1.016, off the here, now that 1 am engaged to Dun- const of 'Denn1. irk, in which Germany !" Iost three battleships, six cruisers and "You are not - engaged tci. Duncan five destroyers'and Great Britain six said Albert, very quickly, turning upon his !sister,, with 'a touch almost of cruisers ancl eight destroyers, The iv e r ra secre w zc she had been hugging to her heart esterd•t as muni e rzr i dente to make Iov eto you in the. Pass vessels, among them the armored since yesterdaywould be a secret and Y , Y � ZI b cruiser Hampshire, in which Lord ze num ankness vas gone from, Kitcherxer'and tali' were travelling bl both voice and eyes noir, and in ;its to Russia on Tute 5 916• TheBra- in t l'os'es in his brain, as the revived blood car- ish;have lost ten battleships, nine light culates in the. veins of a half -frozen cruisers,;and a large number of de-. body stroyer s, submarines, torpedoes, arm- Fenella turned very red, but her ed znerehaiiif auxiliary cruisers and by eyes did not fall before those of her Oct. 15, 1916, 2,000,000 gross tons ! of brother. shi i pearl : one-tenth he : pp ng, yof t i`He diel not make love to me -he whole Bxitish mercantile..tonnage. j. 'slid nee mean to; he thought 1 had ac- During :the first eight months of cepted 11r, Maegziyray. It was I who • the present year 4,561,000 tons of betrayed myself." "You?" Albert's lips twitched` into shipping were Sunk, including , allied a sneer. "Has the intercourse with and neutral ships. New construction peasants, which' I was mad enough' to was then estimated at about a million tolerate, brought you as low as this, tons, leaving 'the loss to shipping at Fenella?"' 8,500,000 tons, Although she grew redder, yet her The climax of,the destruction came head went up by another inch.. in April with 55 ships sunk for the "I don't know what you;mean by week ending on April 22. The week- -"I brought low. Duncan cares ly sinkings have lately been reduced. .for me, and T care for him, and have Shipbuilding is increasing. Tonnage let him see it—just as Julia has let Mr. Bernell see that she—that she is amounting to 5,466,100 has already ready to marry him.If it is no?dis- been contracted for in the United grace for her, then why for me?" States alone. Although 20 per cent. "And you imagine that you will be of the British merchant tonnage had allowed to marry this boor?" been destroyed, Great Britain's im- "I am sure father will allow it." ports show a decrease of only 6 per (To be continued.) cent: compared -with last year. More-. the pant of exposing it to publicity his s was almost as great as the apprehen- sion of results, "The die has fallen then?" "Yes." "You are engaged to Mr. Macgil- senses; and 'when sLl ddenlY a clear. 1i V and,with la tolestraight, enol stood �l s fir' i' drop splashed upon the lambing um- brella, and hung there fol a moment a sort of wrenchofresolution, faced like a crystal bead, he made a quick round towards her brother. step forward,..and checking himself, , "1 am '•engaged, A.lhert—to Duncan drew back again. M -Donnell; L• Al- ba playwith me Miss Fenella", The weds were. quite plain to ire said,with a new andirather e etern •bent's; ears, and even. to his under- ra r?, saexbn standing, if that which beats against soThero • "Amt 1 the man?" our :consciousness without being ad - hisThere was that in the urgency of his tone which. beat down even bash- niitted into its inner circle can be said fulness. • Almost as solemnly as the, to be plain. question came the -low. but clear ans.. i "Duncan M'Donnell?" was all he were said, without either astonieliment or, "Yes; it is you•" I anger, and with as 'great 'a blank in Again he Wade an i i his voice as though he 'had never heard 3 impetuous for-, avant! movement, 'and again 'stopped, the name before. himself forci, keeping still riga:11'yYes—our cousin, you knoll, Al - ...to Ins side of the road bent. "Wiles Fenella!" he sad deliberately, ! Sinceice�hen?" aslcecl the same blank "this cannot be -done-in a hurry; not"Since yesterday." unless you are quite certain that you Albert happened to be standing near 'what you are doing. Maybe it ° is pity that is moving you;. but I` a chair when the blow fell; he •sat would lint• be taken out. of pity," All down' upon it without taking his eyes the old scorn. was in his voice •as he off, his sister—all the restlessness sud- said it .denly died out of his limb, and in the "It is not out of pity, Duncan," i new position still continued to stare "And you will not regret what you' ou .at her with an attention which seem are givin. g up?. I would rather have ed struggling to transform - what he at s ` able nothing than only half your love." h 1 jn t heard mte an intellig "You shall have the whole," 1 thought. She had drawn nearer now, "You are ready to be a workman's! and was speaking in haste. wife?"e, •l;isten, bertie; I. know, of course, "I am ready to be your wifDun- ithat' you will not like it -you cannot can. I like it -and it hurts me to go against "And you are strong enough for the' you, •but.I cannot help it. I have been tbitterfight it.will b i fig a ,, fighting against it all, summer --I know; 1� 1 ,wi e. "With' you I am' strong enough for r ---o anything " Ile paused one moment longer, then slowly came across the road,' and slow-, ; ly took her two hands in his. "But for the way in which t1iey' shook, nisi outward calmness might have deceived her. Very slow too and gentle was the first touch of his lips upon hers. But the second 'was different, for already something had begun to race in both their veins. The first kiss had been that of the humble worship- VALUE OF STATIONARY DEVICES per at the feet of his' goddess, the sec- ond was that of the humanlover to his There is a great difference between Every device can now be 'bought.an, human' love. a modern home ,kitchen and a mod- a clamped form. There is the bread Then for a space Fenella leaned diz ern hotel or institution kitchen. This .mixer, which can be fastened equally zily:- against his arm. Round her the, difference is not so much one of size well to shelf, stool or table. There is hills seemed to turn in a circle, -a as of principle. For instance, in the the cake mixer, which screws to the magic circle which kept out the world• home kitchen we liaise separate de- table top. ; There is the meat chopper A long, long breath came oyez her tache cl tables, stogy>es, etc.; and port --just consider how mild.' more effici- lips, such a breath as is breathed at the end of a struggle, both by the van- quisher' and the vanquished. After a space Duncan spoke thoughtfully: "And now it is we two against all the others." "We two against all the others," she repeated; and a moment later added: "Not against all, father will be on our side, I think:" CHAPTER XIX. Frowningly Albert M`Donnoll watched the dip of the oars in the wa- ter. The week -end was not yet reach place rage was beginning, to circulate ova 1!Y KNOW DADDY t5 C0IIF�RT'AL LE,.' j f i' 1$;: S AY I N& A'r T`W WALKER t1C?USE THE, tiou,sE op, PLF.-is, 'Y Denmark on Rations. Denmark is now looking forward to a reduction o1 wheat rations. Final figures for the c real Ivy t 11 • total of about 62,00'0,000 bushels, which is 20,000;000 bushels less than in 1916 and about 10,090,000 less than tinrated in the summer, when v io provide a new food product the over, the destruction of the subnia- United States bureau of fisheries will _sec. atines themselvesas increasing. experiment with canning and corning Food Shortage in France. seal meat Next time you are in town, drop in at the hardware store and get.a small coal -scuttle. • Take it -down to the granary and; keep it there for putting, grain into sacks. Beats anything you ever tried. able smaller equipment. 'Very little is built in or permanent. In the in ent this tool is than the bowl and hand -chopper which it supplants, stitution kitchen,. on the other hand, merely because it is fastened instead tables are more likely to be connect- of loose and wobbly! There are also ed with the stove surface, all equip- excellent devices for beating eggs and meat is at the same height, connected mayonnaise also clamped. Coffee by various means, so that work may be grinders may be fastened to wall or "routed" on done one step after the .table; contrast such types' with the other, old-time square coffee mill, which the Many more pieces of• equipment, too, worker held in her lap and which re- are permanently instglled The ad- quired a vast deal of turning on the vantage here is that everything is lap until the coffee was ground. ready when it is needed, and need •In the kitchen there should be some not be -adjusted; moved' around or pox- sort of shelf so `firm that even .heavy sibiy lost. Iii the home kitchen of devices may be kept` permanently ed, but n note from Julia caviled him the future this ideal will have to be clamped an it. The utility motor, for home. It contained a good piece of met—stationary, 'permanent - installa instance, which take's the place of any news, though -not the one he had been tion, similiar in type, similar in finish, servant in the home, should be ata- looking for. Mr. Bernell had spoken, height of surface, etc: It is this ties onary Thele is need of mor and all was right between him and Julia. So far so good. That cat was killed, anyway. But in propor- tion as there had been little doubt re- garding this issue so was elation at ideal' which is now so well worked out in shop sand factories, in hotel' kitchens, screws and less drawers in the average in cafeterias, etc. kitchen.! If a device is really worth Stop a moment and think what any while and is used fres gently enough • t•f its urchase' it should be the accomplished fact tempered. The one does in making a cake in the usual bus r y p , affair still waiting to be dela with was i manner. How much of the work is permanently installed instead of he - df a far more critical nature, as after spent in actual beating and how much1 i giSeere t aye nt en a 511be 011 ord out every r in a draw - the note of this morning he could no in holding a wobbly bowl in place? ' longer doubt; for it had brought news Every act of beating, mixing, grating, of Fenella as well, though crowded in- molding bread, etc., which is done in to a postscript by the writer's personal a wobbly way, is increase in difficulty pre -occupations; "I ean't make her out at all," Julia and muscle strain 25 per cent, Now, wrote at the bottom of the page. "No- why does not the housewife see the the actual energy needed -for the task thing seems to have happened between advantage of the clamped, perms- itself.. Therefore, it really doubles her and Mr. kracgilvrev the other neatly fastened fixture? Recall athe work instead of making 1t easier, time it is needed, The reason the portable device is inefficient is because it takes so much energy to hold it in place, aside from night. And yet she doesn't seem at all unhappy, although f heard yester- day that he had left Balladrochit," It was this postscript which, like a trumpet -note of alarm, was calling Albert :to, A.rdloch. He could have lived two days longer without press- ing Mr.' Berrell's hand, but he'felt that he could not sleep another night without knowing the r asoe of Ronald Macgilvray's departure. At the Rectory he began by taking his measures, which consisted in giv- n Julia h orders,tacked si ht gain, the mixer for mixing eggs or syrups With the clamped de ice liovever all used at the modern soda fountain. Is the energy of thd' worker' can go'.i into it not clamped or screwed to the shelf the actual task of beating, grinding, surface and self,operating? If a wo- or whatever it may he. man did it, would ,she not still cling "Clamp, clamp, clamp," .should be to the traditional way of holding n one of the housewives' slogans. It wobbly bowl and operating a jerky; will mean more efficient kitchens and beater? !less wasted energy. HOW TO ECONOMIZE ON FLOUR. IN BIIEAD. Tile familiar 'war. bread' means so completely absorbed. Much of the bread prepared by combining a mini- graham flour on the market at pre - on to the someivhat.httrrzed felzcita- x; g u iher tori mum amount of wheat 'lour with oth- sent is merely white flour.to which ,, tions --for an undisturbed halfehaur er materials roe bread malting, Since, bran has been added. with Fenella was the first requirement. in the process of manufacturing' pet - Some of the materialsvrhich may it was in the bovrawindewed sittirires ent flour, about theee-Tourths 01 the be substituted .for wheat flour are; cornmeal, buckwheat flour, soy bean meal and potato flour. Cornmeal may, be used in the proportion ofono pari cornmeal to two parts wheat habitual perfect coolness, and Blinking teriai would be greatly irtereased, flour Buckwheat [lour combines well best to conceal'tbe fact by a restless ldded mineral matter may be room that they were left alone *,ey mineral salt :is Lost, it is evident that, speedily--T?enella ne3:vously busy with t by milking a larger percentage of the the":flowers in the window' -boa, Albert1:wheat, the food value- as well as the somewhat provoked at missing hie positive amount of bres.d mating ntia, This < ere rinetion o£ the room, • i " Come a vl.rtl factor in maiciug• ul1 the ? ani sure Julia will be hap"py„ diet of e17ildreri. be observed, as the door closed upon i the ,,,a�;I fiancee, Then, as Fenella i .the rnanufnacture c,f, old -bine gra- end something acquiescent but not 1 haat £lour, or wheats meal; which is with wheat flour in any::proportion; Soy },read meal and cotton -seed meal are. both useful in small an:wants, Potato 'f1911r, such as has been rn ,lwithout o sine ;1y the entire grain cleaned and used, abs'oad, i; not 1 '"n_er<zily avail cj�, t intelzt„,il.lc, he went on i ithut 1. ,� t, „ i.. 1 ' c t r lie ,y but' boned as <i l ,,, se � •rotlnci, has }teen almost entirely .able' in r . m'tz ,., z < m h Fen? Surely .- , s _ed ot«,oes,-ina r ,be stilistituted for rand how a.botzt ,/o1a, 1 ri1 . ai.5a1'lclonecl, ,,a doulri, bc.Ca:u,,e aC its 1. 3 y' itr littl * afriiir i>' settled biz 1111.; t pes•ishahility- Due tr., it;; been seed slightly less than halt the :flour. Boil l>? ft i4r end be ra11.1,' o : , f' ; t;1;.c. •�r�ocl €`a:,7:,, rn,c,eral 5rllc, ciyr,tcatt ;sr az: thir> tyjit; ed 1100,tinay also bcsizscrl u'xth fl (1LxY• iii.. O rral;,r.' a (io?,b],h reetext of le?" ., 1.5. elhoxi tee gtapic: )rn orieon. slit` r. F the "13'3c,n<r1 o:C .eKi �r,,n;; <.M 11is. 1,10'',,0iise.., I, k.<It e III s, 44 lit F 1 are nit;F n ,ta:liret).10 ts1l}1i;11„ ii 'Lite px•o- Equal late -eel lres;of cooled bean pulp 133 IP- I9%!d (=regi.(I t.hIISSt F !,?f '- nv , T1,1 14 1"15 )1 10)10 0,s lee One ttlo,"strt011) Qf i110 ('un. .,1• .i'i0i,.y 111iEj Ilett-hs1 (10(1 are atisi<lctcitiy' ii7, 371tiifli7si Shortage of wheat in France is be- Next o coming more and more alarming each week. M. Maurice Long, Minister for General Revictualling of Franoe,,indi- cated , recently that a further reduc- tion of 20 per cent. in the bread ration would soon become imperative. 'The manufacture and consumption of'pas- try regarded as a luxury was entirely suppressed on Tanuary lst, except on Sunday and' holidays. Switzerland on Rations. The food situation in Switzerland is rapidly falling to the danger line. A ration that is far below the consump- tion, in many of the countries`at war has 'already ,been ordered. Under the new regulations, the., Swiss may have only a pound and a.half of sugar per p•ef'soia per month, The bread ration has been fixed at about half a pound a day, and the butter ration at one- fifth of a pound a month. C "` An attachment for telephone receiv- ers which silences all the buzzing, whirring and jarring noises has been invented by a Dutch engineer. the populace was put an bread zafaons. 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