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LOve Gives Itself
THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD
EY ANNIE S. SWAN. •
(111.•06.....1•09.•••••••••..•••
"I'm peeteetly well end at, Tny
dear, I've had no totter thia nanning, -
and it'e e 1 auppeae you.
haven't had one eithee and that is
why you've come?"
"I have had one, end •that is why
I've come," seid Judy, as she pulled
it from the Maier flap or her hand-
bag. "There it is. Sit down, quick,
and read it, and tell me what you
think."
• Carlotta sat down on the edge of
a straight-backed chair on one side
of the fireplace, while Judy squatted
oil a low Ottoman sico:. covered in
black atie, whieh showed up against',
the pale pink of the carpet. '
She watched Carlotta very closely
while she was reaclitigis but the ex -I
paessien on the 'beautiful face was
not self-revealipg,
Carlotta was certainly thin, and ilea
clessic features, shern of every, line;
of superfluous fullness, looked exqui-I
t.N site la cameo. The six months' un -
milting study and toil had added at
strange almost unearthly beauty to
that face, and Jady's eyes were full
of yearning pain as they dwelt upon
it.
Carlotta came to the end of the
letter, kaned her chin on her hand,
• and looked across the intervening
space into Judy's eyes.
'Well," she said, in an odd, dry
voice, "there isn't much in that! Some-
"Lova glees itself and is not boughtr—Longfellova
CHAPTER XXIII-- (Coet'd.) 1 her her paiks! Miss Carlotty •got
"Very well, Miss Judy; but you'll evenWr ra her, though she added, with
be dooe again at nicht?" •Ian undoebted note of satisfaction in
"Oh, yes—about eight. Carlotta her voice. g
goes to the theatre at seven, so therei The next timeCarlotta came to
is no use staying later. You'll walk, Cambridge there was a noticeable
round to Peterhouse, like a dear, and:change in Christy's demeanor, even a'
tell Claud I've gone, and give him:sort of servility which indicated a surd
Alan's letter—or I10, you can't do that, render, shall we say, of matter. to,
for I must consult with Carlotta about mind? Nay, it was surely something
it. tell you what—ask 'Claud, if higher! It was the soul of the un -
he has nothing on to -night, to meet lettered woman that had responded to
the eight -fifteen train."
the spirit and genius of Carlotta. Any -
"Very weela my Iamb. get ye how, the conquest was complete.
something to eat," said Christy, bust- ' That had been far back in the sum -
ling away. mer, through wilich "The Search -
Now that she had something definite light," with Carlotta in the cast, had
to do, Judy seemed to wake up. To steadily held its place in public favor.
says that she was happy in Cambridge Judy, in her quiet, little old-world
would hardly be true. Adaptable,house in the cool depths of the love -
both by nature and habit, she did her liest college city in the world, had
best to setle down, and not to grizzle. actually no idea how great a person -
But the life was narrow, the house age Carlotta had become, how many
small, the lack a definite interest ap- waited on her smile, and what tempta-
palling, tions she had to forget or grow cold
Judy was undergoing that acute to her absent lover.
form of rnental suffering --:-the forced Judy's faith in Carlotta, however,
Inactivity of an active mind. She had was complete. And the love betweeni,
made sense friends, for Claud was them had never faltered once. They
both fond and proud of his sister, and both possessed that rarest of all gifts.
had brought his own circle about the —the capacity for a perfect friend -I
house. Then certain Scotch Profes- ship.
S011i—some of them of high standing Judy's spirits insensibly roseas thel
—and their wives had. called, and train sped swiftly over the Great
there was a modest amount of social Northern line to London and Car
- Jetta. A visit to or from her never
But to Judy it was as dust and failed to act as a' eharm and an .in-'
ashes. She read so many hours a day, spiration. She had an entirely differ -1
and, for some unknown reason—to ent kind eof -Wisdom and philoaciphyt
steady her mind, she said—had taken from that posse.seed by Judy, and,
to. the study of Greek. But her mind, their natures seemed' to fit into one
long dissipated by the hundred and anth th be t
one minor practical details of a house-
wifely life, did not rapidly incline to
the classics, and Claud. openly laugh-
ed at her.
The microscopic house, so quaintly
built and furnished, with which every-
body fell in love, was perfectly man-
aged by Christy, with the aid of a
young Scotch girl she had lured from
the service of a bigger house in the
neighborhood. It simply ran on wheels,
and cost remarkably little. To Christy,
it was nothing more than a play, which
had to be made the best of until all
the wanderings of the Rankines• should
cease, and they should be restored to
the house of their fathers with proper
ossible resiflts.
Carlotta was now Prying with her
father and mother in one of the small-
er houses in the l3loornsbury Square
which she had once indicated to Judy.
as being the
an abode he the whole of London., an'
most desirable place for
the receipt of a large salary, the sal-
ary of a star, -in fact, she could have
afforded something more elaborate and
expensive; and her compeers frequent-
ly expressed surprise at the simplicity
of her life. She drove to and from
the theatre in a hired brougham, and
was guilty of none of the extrava-
gances common to her profession.
No photographs of Miss Margaret
Tenterden in her latest motor -car, or
dignity and splendor. in her country garden, were to be,
She cherished a dark and. unreason- found in. the illustrated papers. 'Shel
ing hatred against the inoffensive and lived as quietly and austerely with heri
completely satisfactory tenants of Parents in Bloomsbury Square as if
Stair, whom she invariably referred
to as "thee folk," as if they were the
dirt under her feet, was, and made daily advances towards
Carlotta had been a very bitter pill PerfectiGn in it. Graham Madox had
for Ann Christy to swallow; and it indeed had frequent occasion to bless;
was not until Judy, hoping. to close the happy day when Viola Fancourt,
her mouth, took her to see lone left him, in the lurch, and brought himi
Searchlight," that she actually swal- Carlotta in her place.
lowed the pill whole. She sat out the Judy took an omnibus part of thel
performance—a queer, little old wo- way from ICIng's 'Cross, and walked
man, in a bonnet of a bygone day and by the short cuts, with which frequent
visits had made her familiar, to Car-
lotta's,house, arriving there soon after
two o'clock.
A page -boy opened the door, and,
knowing her, admitted her without a
moment's hesitation. He was aware
that his mistress never denied herself
to. Miss Rankine. '
"I hope you are quite well. Raw-
she had been a schoolgirl.
Devoted to her art she certainly
a httle white shawl about her shoul-
ders to give her a more dressy ap-
pearance. And she never spoke a
word!' But more than once Judy de-
tected tears on the withered cheek,
and once she shook her fist quite open-
ly at the stage. .
When the performance was over
her sole coaarnent was, "She's terrible
clever that can dae yon, Miss Judy. son?" said Judy, her natural habit of
An' she looks like an angel ooten kindliness to servants asserting itself.
And I hope Miss Carlyon is alone?"
"Yes, miss, she's all alone; for mas-
ter and missus 'ave gone to Reigate
for the day."
"Oh, indeed. Then I may go up. Is
she in her own sitting -room?"
belieee so, miss. Shall I go and
see?" •
But Judy, perfectly familiar with
the house, declined his escort, and ran
lightly up the crimsone-arpeted stair-
way, and along the first corridor to
Carlotta's door.
„ Carlotta had taken the drawing -
room floor for her own use, and had
converted the smaller half intb al
study. It was shut -off by folding
doors, and looked very cosy and invit-
ing with the glow of the firelight on!
its white vralls and • delicate, pink,'
Aubusson carpet.
1 Carlotta, writing at her bureau,
wearing a neat,. workmanlike morning
skirt and serviceable shirt of serge,
had none of the artistic woman's
abandon. Loose garments she ab-
horred in working houra, though she
, had to wear them sometimes on the
stage. •
"It's Judy, Carlotta!" said judy's
eager voice in the doorway. '
"Oh, you blessed wonsa.n!" cried
Carlotta in tones which left Judy in
ho doubt about her welcome, "I was
at this "Very moment weiting to you!
Have you Just eome up and have you
had any lunch? I betieve they could
bring you up a chicken bone new.
I've finished mine."
"I had it before I left," said Judy,
ae she returned the eieterly kiss, then
held Carlotta off, to losk at her more
closely and criaically,
"I did say to Cheisty they were
'working you to death! ?au look quite
thin and white."
heaven—God forgie sne for sic a
thocht; for, mind ye, I'm not at a'
sure that the Almichty approves or
peemits thea:yters. There seem to be
a 'terrible lot o folk wi' naething to
dae but fill tfiem! Eh, an' wasna yon
Ither yin a hizzie? I could hae gien
;
_After' ettint or smokint
Wrigleyb freshens the mouth
and sweetens the breath.
Nerves are soothed, throat is'
refreshed and digestion aided.
So eisy to carry the little packet!
'
afitt. eit,ery meal Ats3
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thing wrong, Judy!"
"Horribly wrong! You feel it—don't
you? What do we want to know
about the birds in Central Park, or
the squirrels on Manhattan!"
"Madisen 'Square--imit it?" put in
Carlbtta, with a little wavering smile,
as her eees reverted s gain to the
meagre sheet "In a way, it is worse
than no letter, this. It seems to open
countless do,"
"Shut them, you mean, surely?"
"No—I merie, open them. Alan has
something to hide, judy. How. are we
to find out what it is?"
"Ask me another," said Judy sav-
agely. "And don't look at me like
that, Carlotta! Alan's my brother,
and I'm feeling pretty cheap about av
him. Why, we don't en know what
he is doing! You can' a imagine whet
I'm feeling about it!"
"Can't I?" asked Carlotta, and an
enigmatical smile just flickered for a
moment about her pathetic mouth.
"Well, perhaps not. We must do
something, Judy."
"Welt, what can we do? Put a pri-
vate detective on his track? I don't
happen to know anybody in New York,
or even anyone here who knows any-
body there," said Judy getting a trifle
mixed. "And what is the use of our
writing and asking questions? He
never answers. What kind of letters
does he write to you, dear?"
"What kind?—oh, . love letters, but
they're getting shorter and • ahorter•
and as I say—sornething's got tbbe
demi:
"The suggestion will have to come
from. you then. If only he had any
money Claud'rnight Fo'ouf the, hbli-
days; only he has Just taken a post
as travelling tutor to Lord Lyndale's
two younger boys, and y're going te
Davos on the eighteenth cf this month,
to stay till the end of January."
"He can't afford to lose that—be-
sides, it wouldn't do any good, Judy.
But I've something to tell you. Mr.
IVIadox has signed for an American
tour, and we open in New York in less
than two months' time!' I
"Eight weeks toamorrow. It was
only settled by cable yesterday." .
"And you'll see Alan?" a
"I hope we'll both see him" said
Carlotta. firmly. "You'll come, Judy
—in fact, you simple inustr' I should
be lost without you. You will—won't
you?"
"At your expense, Carlotta!" said
Judy, in a low- whisper. I want to,
Most frightfully; but there's just a
wee bit of pride in the background
which won't let me."
"We must find that wee bit of pride
in the background and grind it to in-
visible powder," ..said Carlotta cheer-
fully, "for I have quite set my heart
on it. We shall be three months away.
Christy can surely oast without you
for that time!"
"Oh, yes. Christy could exist per-
fectly without me! We could let the
'refuse for that matter—nothing would.
be easier—and she e.ould go home to
Ayr and see her fele Why, that is
just what we will do, and the rent
Win pay my passage!"
Carlotta shook her head.
"I want you to come with me as a
sister, Judy, and no quesaon of money.'
I need somebody to stand between me
and the people I don't want to se.. Let
us put it like that, I Promiae that'
you shall more than earn your pas-
sage," she added, with a little laugh
in which Judy Joined. 1
"Yon are certainly the most won -1
degful person in the world. Carlotta
she repeated. "But shall we tell;
Alan?" ,
"Not a word! If we did, something
inside of me warns inc that either we
should find him gone, or something
eLso untoward will happen. We shall
be our own private detectives, Judy,'
and find out together just what Alan
is doing in New York."
Judy turned away her face, and
looked for a moment dolefully into
the dancing flames. •-
"Carlotta," she said presently, but
without turning round, "what do you
"Nothing—er at least nothing which
is going to.connt in the l'ongerun, I've
think he is doing?"
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Fly—"My, it's hot down here in
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Bug—"Wify don't you come up here
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Taking and Retakmg a Ship.
The London Graphic in a reminis-
cent article concerning the war tells of a
a British collier that was going to ,
Hamburg when war was imminent.
The Germans were counting on her
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I I . •
The Strange Roxnance of
Ocean Mary.
As I write this etary, says a coatri-
heter, there Ilea betere Ole 4 Plooaea
gray India ellk perheps twelve inohee
square. .A.hout it is „wovea a web at
Fere romance. For aught we know the
eine may be five hundred years old.
The ,mystery of its origin was buried
with 'a pirate captain two *centuriee
1
About the year 17.45 two youeg peo-
ple, hushend 41/(.1 wife, embarked from
northern Ireland for Ameeica. In mid -
ocean, while the ship lay becalmed ,
tele wife gave birth to a girl. ,
On the ,third day after the. baby's
birth the captain' described throughl
his teleaeope, a mast -head on the hori-
zon. To the vOyagere thronging the
deck there slovrlY amieared an ap-
proaching vessel; •ehe was, graceful,
and her masts were tall. The captain
of the emigrant ship gave ordera to
slacken sped. Nearer' and nearer
drew the mysterious craft, A puff of
enrolee appeared. A cannon roared,
and a phot ilaslied across the ship's
blew. The crafewas a pirate,
1-1
ofei
The awe-stricken passengers stood
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to. A boat dropped from her side, and
down a, rope ladder climbed the pirate
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the intervening space. •The captain The stubborn road 'to fame,
Let gladness cam* you along
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*era 6°°n tii ir°1313' The pirates pre: ' Who seek a lustrous name. .
pared to scuttle the Ship, In the courae
child. His - coUntenance swiftly
captepi, Keep doing good from day to day,
of his sinister work the pirate
came to the sta.teroem„of 'the. Mother. For that's the thing to do,
Rudely enteiing, bech'eard the cfy of a
Let friendlinese illume your way,
changed. Then, swiftly reco-vegng his vi,7,.aeheeney:somiiil:asuwhielllpfoa.fimoiavnyionun! eed,
• Or shift his heavy pack, - ea
Run to his aid with. loving speed
And ease his aching back.
Heap coals upon a fireless grate,
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Place feed upon an empty plate,
And smiles will follow you
compoe.ure, he inquired how old. the
„child was and whether it was a boy or
a girl.
"Have you given her a name?" he
asked. -
The mother, trembling, said she had
not.
"Permit me to name her and promise
to retain that name and I will release'
your captain and crew and leave your
ship Unharmed."
• The woman quickly promised.
• "I name her Ocean Mary," -said the
pirate.
- Then he left her cabin, released his
prisoners and ordered his men to the
boat." They rowed slowly back across
the walee and went aboard the Ship.
Soon it disappeared over the horizon.
Three days passed—days filled with
thanksgiving at the providential es-
cape. Ocean Mary became the object
q.everyone's adoration. On the third
day the mast of the pidate ship again
reie on the horiton. .Again a cannon
boomed acroSs the waters and a boat
was lewered.' This time tb,e pirate
captain cime aboard alone.
Under his arm he carried a packet.
To the captain he said, "I now come In
on a peaceful errand. Take me to the 1857
cabin of Ocean Mary." Descending, he ants
entered and laid hie parcel on the hed. 8111168.
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STORIES OF \Val.;
K1NOWN Peopa
H.R.1-1, "Shirdno Sun."
However democratio a Prince may
feel, there are times when lie is forced
upon his pedestal. Recently, at um.
tate, the leading chief of the Pondo,
Pingo, and Tembu tribes thns address.
! ed the Prince of Wales: .
1 god, Our life will be happy after we
"Great Chief, you are our. earthly
. have, Seen your Royal Highneee. We
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this mannera-to.see our father, There '
is not a shigle 0110 WhQ feels bad in his
heart, now we Pee you, because our
god has descended from heaven and
Is now on earth."
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concluded, "Sun, shine on us, oh, Sun!"
Henceforth, the Prince was known
as Lange, Liyakanya, or "Shining Sun,"
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Prince Henry on Bablee.
The other evening at a dinner at the
Guildhall, Prince Henry amused his
audience by describing his repent visit
to the Infants' Hospital,
"I learaed a gbod deal about babies
of which I waS ignorant before," lie
tiaid. "For one `thing. I never realized
that their feeding was so Complicated.
1 thought one .gave them an occasional
bottle, and the chief object was to stop
them from howling!"
That is, possibly, the chief masculine
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That famous sportswoman, the
Duchess of Somerset, who.hi company
with her 'husband has shot big game
In various parts of the world, dearly
loves a good story, especially if it -has
rting flavor.
e of her favorites, concerns 'a go -
u please race between a tout
eman and a leopard,
to dusky nativewatched the race
obvious interest.
an you spot the winner?" asked
of them excitedly. ;
he -winner is spotted," replied the
A
Exa
Afip
Pra.
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M in
"I leave this gift for the child, It IS '
Sobbed.
a web of India silk for her trousseau -•
when, she marries. I bid you farewell." :
He passed through a mute throng to ten job. Where did you learn how to
The Head Gardener—"That's a rot -
his boat. A few minutes later a gun triln P. kedge?"
boomed a parting salute, and not long His Assistant ---"I took a course in
Another month passed, and the ema the bazber's school."
afterwards the pirate vessel Vanished. ;
grant ship dropped anchor in Massa-
chusetts Bay. The young settlers fin-
ally made their home. in Londonderry,
New Hampshire. • At the age of twent
Ocena Mary married, and her wedding
dress was of India silk. . Mother of
many children, she lived to an ad-
vazieed age. The wedding dress Tess -
ed as a cherished heirloom. from one
generation to another and was finally
divided and distributed among surviv-
ing heirs. One large section is •now
in possession of the Mack family_of
Londonderry. I first heard the story
of Ocean Mary while eeated before the
blazing hearth of the Mack home -
A small piece of the India silk lies be -
stead. My interest la It was reW'arcled. -
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Beautiful as an ornament, it is a pro-
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known it for a long time, and he's
just on the point of giving up. If
we don't go soon, or there isn't some-
thing done, Judy, the last tragedy of
Stair will be worse than the first." '
Judy wrung her hands; and in her
kind eyes deep shadows lay. • !
"Life is most frightfully hard, don't
you think, Carlotta? Why should all
this have happened to us, as a family?
What have we done to deserve it? No-
thing very special I'm sure!"
"Nothing. But there is nothing
surer in the world than this, Judy,
that every human being has to pay
something on account sooner or later..
Perhaps, on the whole, it is better to
make' the payment soon than later." ;
"But Alen will soon he thirty-three,
Carlotta, and he's not had much of a
chanee! .1eNfw I wonder hew Peter
Garvock is feeling'?" she added pres-
ently, ea new and rather vicious note
creepirg into her voice,. "I hope he
is nice and comfortable in his mind1"I
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Iid and can All it right under the tap or by dipper s
because the opening is at the side, not the centre, eg,
abet irevortant, theta new lip -to -date kotilen ceiet no more p
then tho old Tashidped kettle,
ENAIVIEL-r-rD
TEA KETTLE
It Sounded Too Fanciful.
quaint story concerning George
rd Shaw was told by a friend of
'
famous'playivright was -a describ-
sorae children, ill their mother's
ace, how it happened that a cer-
et cat became itsmistresg" "door
or, in other words, the weight
ne places against a door to keep
it open.
"T'ae lady',s hobby," said G.B.S., "was
plaster modeling. One day she left a
dish containing liquid plaster on li-er
table, and returned to find her cat
lapPing up the last of what it no doubt
regarded as'a new kind of milk. Later,
while the cat sat by the fire, the plas-
ter, as plater will, set. Thereafter the
*lady, ceeibining economy with affec-
tion, employed her petrified pet to
keep open the door on warm summer
days—"
• At this point the mother interrupted.
"Mr. Shaw;" che saitl gravely, "I be-
lieve you are telling those children
fibs." -
Who Owns the North Pole?
• The North Pole has been much in
• the news lately but few people know
that it may be regarded at part of the
British Empire. -
During a discussion M the Federal
, Parliament recently, Mr. Stewart, Min-
' ister of the Interior, exliressed the
view that the whole Northern Archi-
pelago belonged to Canada. Referring
to a proposal that parties going into
the hinterland of the North-West Ter-
ritories mast obtain a permit from the
1 Canadian. Government, he said:
"We •are getting after men who go
in, presumably for exploration pur-
poses, but possibly there may arise a
question of sovereignty over some is.
land that they may discover in the
northern portion of Canada, and we
claim all that portion."
I Asked whether Canada claimed right
up to the North Pole, Mr. Stewart re-
plied, "Yes."
Why the Seaside's Healthy.
Why does a visit to the seaside tone
us up so thoroughly? The doctors tell
us it is bemuse there is iodine in.the
sea and the spray from the waves is
• full of it. So, with every breath of air
We take, weabsorb some., precioua
• iodine.
The importance of iodine is now be-
ing preached by the doctors. To em-
phasise thbir contentioa that it is
necessary to fltaess, they point to. the
people who live in very sheltered vale
ley, where all the iodine has been
taken from the air before it reaches
therm Such pimple become Weak and
undersized.
Suggestions' made recently for giv-
ing us all more iodine include the
iodising of the water 'supply, Mean,
iodieed saZie chocolate, and but,
teressiotch .11a,ve been placed on the
market,
,
Both Wes.
First Prieoner—"I was jailed for
driving while intoxicated and running
fete a pedestrian. tcrilat are yeti in '
for?"
Second Prisoner—"Beleg a pedes.
Irian while intoxicated."