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CHAPTER XXXII.—Cont'd. )
Samething queer ;in, the tone of
Ardington's voice—something quite
apart ;from theeodd: dragging in of a
Scriptural quotation --made Merrin
g'-
ton glance sharply at
Ardington's
face. And curiously enough, Merring-
ton saw Arlington smiling pleasantly,
The Ardington: of the portrait had
given place 'to a gentle, sorrowful
Ardington.
"He's thinking ' about that ghost,"
said Merrington to himself. "He
thinks he is going to die," and sud-
denly he felt very sorry for Arding-
ton:
"Yes," we will make the most of the
daylight" he replied. "It will be a
foily" dr've. But are you sure you
eel up to it?"
"Of course. Why not?"
"Oh, I thought you looked rather
tired, Ardington. I don't want you to
tire yourself' in order to give me
pleasure.
"My dear old chap ,we haven't been
thirty miles yet, and we shan't have
been seventy by the time we get home.
What are you talking about?"
Certainly Ardington did not seem
at all tired nor even odd in his speech
as they proceeded on their journey.
On the contrary, Ardington seemed
to be in the mood to enjoy everything.
Again and again he slowed down the
car and pointed out some bit of scen-
ery or some effect of light on hill and
field and tree, or some glimpse of the
-Channel and the distant white cliffs
of France. And when at last they
t:eached Canterbury he suggested that
they should look at the cathedral and
Some of the old houses in the town.
Ardington
seemed
to be intensely easel _ '
terested in every detail of architec-
ture.
He took Merrington to see some
of his (Ardington's) `work in one of
the churches. And then he suggested
that they should have dinner at a
beautiful old inn and drive back in
the dark.
"It'll be a change for us," he said,
"and I can phone to the house ;;and
tell them not to keep dinner for us."
Herrington offered nolo 'tis
• ppm n to
i i.
S SCh a,:
ewe. H_ had` na desire tor e -
..urn to Dedbury at all. Naw that .
he
had overcome his fear of ir`iotor'cazs,
he found ,'keen delight in the e swift
movement. He would. have liked to
Start off -there and. then on a tour
through England and Wales. His de-
sire fr peace and solitude had left
him. This Iittle trip had whetted his
appetite for fresh scenery and build-
ings and faces.
They had an excellent dinner and
shared a bottle of champagne between
them. Ardington was as normal as
any man could hope to be. It was.
not until the waiter had brought the
coffee that anything happened to dis-
turb the pleasant atmosphere.
"Have you any pink'noyeau?" Ard-
ington asked the old waiter.
`No, sir -I'm sure we haven't, sir.
There used to be some, but no one
ever asks for it now."
"Well, you ask the good land-
lord if there's any left in the cellar.",
"Yes, sir, but I'm sure—I haven't
seen such a thing for years."`1
t The waiter departed, and the two
men looked at each other across the : s
table. Merrington's eyes were alight k
,with fierce resentment and his face
waS very pale.
"Isn't this—rather cruel?" he said' e
in a low voice. n
"No, my dear chap. You're snaking
a fresh start to -day. A week ago
you'd have told me it was cruel to t
take you out in a car." s
"Well, even if they have the stuff, o
I shan't drink any of it." It
"It used to be your favorite liqueur,
Herrington. Come, you mustn'tgive
way to your' fancies. Yeti must ive' c
down. the past, Next week I think you' a
1
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llS-BURLANI
had better return to London and start
your old life. You rnusn',t be a cow-
ard, Merrington. Your health—"
"P11 leave that to:my doctor, Ard-
ington,°"
"Ah,thebuthealth o
of your mind
and souL"
Merrington was silent and' lit a
cigarette. The waiter returned with
a bottle in his hand.
"There is just this one, sir," he' said,
"but there's no call for it. And' I'ni
afraid, sir, that if we open the bottle
you'll have to buy it."
"How much?
"Two pounds, Sir. It's very scarce
indeed,"
"I'll buy it. And you needn't open
it. I'll take it away with me as it is.
Bring me the bill, please."
The waiter left the room, and Ard-
ington said. "I'ni sorry, Merrington.
I don't want to hurt you. But I do
want you to put aU the past behind
you."
Merrington was silent. He had
glanced at Ardington's face, and once
more it was the face of the portrait
-grotesque and horrible.'He was
sorry now that he had come on this
expedition. For a few ,moments he
even thought that he would stay the
night in Canterbury and let Arding-
ton return to Dedbury alone."But he
wase afraid of Ardington's annoyance
and of rousing Ardington's suspicion.
Whatever happened he must.not let
Ardington know that he` was afraid
of him.
Ten minutes later the car had left
the town, and Ardington stopped it
and rose in his seat, and - pointed at
the `great towers of the cathedral
risingblack against a n 1'
Zoon rt sky.
g Y •..
"Look at that, Merrington," he
cried.
"Yes, it is very beautiful," Herring-
ton replied.
"It is not only beautiful, but it is
strong," said .Ardington, and ;'then,
after a pause, "Iwish I had been one
of those four knights who, killed
Thomas°a=Beckett."
„why r,
"Because theywere"not_afraid
to
kill when they Thought it Was their
duty."
1MIerrin •ton mad
e no'reply.
•it ora
g
few moments ` Ardington; remained
standing with his: gaze fixed on those
great black towers. Then he seated
himself at the 'vheel again, and
laughed, as he let in the clutch.
"I've' been talking nonsense," he
said, "but 1 should like to_ have lived
in' those days."
CHAPTER XXXIII.'
When Ruth's mind came out of the
darkness and she opened her eyes she.
saw Fletcher bending over her, and.
was first conscious of Fletcher as
something enormous against the light
of the lamp. There was a taste of
brandy in her mouth and'the strong'
smell of ammonia and lavender from
a bottle of salts that Fletcher"was
holding close to- her face.
"I felt giddy," she explained to
Fletcher a minute. later,"quite sud-
denly, directly, after Mr. Ardington
had left the room—I sat deign on the
ofa'-and must have fainted:"
Fletcher asked no questions. Flet-
cher was capable and kindly and
racticale She insisted on her mis-
ress going to bed and Ruth offered
o opposition.
Ruth.did not wake. until the next
morning grid then she was able tp
hink mare clearly. At first there was
oniething horrible ;el out -the clearness
f her thoughts. Then s' able
g h n ne was , e
o reason with her fear. Was ib likely,
$he said to herself, that the police
would have taken Ardington into their
onfidence if they had been going to
rrest.. John Mervin ton? The Min.was absurd, impossible! Ardingtoe
ad invented' the story. Ardington
vas mad—queer in his head... Only, a
nadman could have invented such- al
tory-and, e'en if it were. true; only
madman would have struck at her
with it. Ne man of honor or even of
ommon sense would have behaved,
eo
ruta.11y to a woman who had never
njured hien:,, She -could d not forget the
ook l
k Tai Ardingtons,eyes as he !sacs
old liver this -horrible—this.; aboniin- I
able thing. It was as though .he hated
er, and wished to destroy leer. . Or
erhaps it was Herrington he wished
o destroy, and -lie hated her becattbe
she had been in love with. Merrington.
Her' mind was soon brought from
heory to 'the practical side of the
uestion. Ardington, road or sane
was no friend of the man he seemed
o have befriended. It was quite ob-
vious that Arlington had not told!
Merrington this grotesque lie. But
perhaps he would tell. him. - Perhaps,
yen now,'Merrington, unable • to re-
member anything in those lost months
of hie life, was Lacing this horror
his invention of Ardington's. Met -
1 aton evae weak. He would not dis-
believe Ardington, He would see no
reason for
disbelieving his friend
rdington. He might even be grate-
ul to Ardington
for warninghire)
,
nd they would tails over Borne plan
a1? escae. And then IVI,'errington,' who
had notso very much to live for would
after every eel
Cleanses neorm8aa sand
Ea;¢ i and aids digestion.
Relieves that over-
eaten seeming! ansae! acid
mo@ntiitd.
Is i$>gt..i 2.m t1Eav{ssn
s attsitles the caving ior�,
sweets.
liiiheigley's is" double.
value in else benefit and
�leeitor a it no's ides.
Scolvd in ifq Pt;rify
d''aao,ka ;gel
t
t
t
a
escape by the only road. that he could
see, and take his own life.
Ruth Bradney rose from her bed
and rang the .bell. No one answered
it, and when. tihe looked at the clock
she saw that it was barely half -pact'
sift. She went to her husband's room,
where F`letoher was 'sleeping, and
knocked at the door. She roused I! let -
cher from her 'sleep, In a few min-
utes the house was astir.
By eight• o'clock,the car was at the
door, and a few minutes later Ruth
Was on her way. to Dedbury. She told
Fletcher that she was going to Brigh-
ton for the day, and it was not until
the car was a mile from South Bar-
ton that she told Phillips to go to
'I'rehorn's hoose at Dedbury. It seem. -
ed to her that it would, be better for
her to call and see Trehorn, and find'
out if he knew anything about the.
natter. Besides, she did not. want to
meet Ardingtan again, and she
thought' that Tr;•ehorn would go over
to the Priory and fetch Merrington, if
it: was decided to warn Merrington
against Ardington's enmity and take
, ham away from., Ardington'L� house.
And as the car •travelled north-
wards she was more and more; certain
that Ardington was mad. If he had
been sane he would certainly have told
her the story in a very .different fa-
shion. And, having told it,` he would
not have left her• lying unconscious
on the sofa without saying a word,to
Fletcher, She, Ruth, ' had 'told Flet-
cher that she had fainted after•Ard-
ington had left the room. But that
had been only a lie to explain an ex-
traordinary r !nary act of brutality. Her
last memory had been that•of Arding-
ton's evil face looking down.at:her as
he caught her in his arms. Of course.
the man must have been mad.And
the terrible thing was that he had
made no attempt to behave like an
ordinary. human being. • It was : as
though he, did not gcare—as though the
hideous story had been the beginning.
of the end of everything, so far. as
Ardington was concerned.
The car passed through Dedbury
and turned up the by -road that led to
Trehorn's house. And a few nioments-
later Ruth -saw the entrance to the
drive. It seemed to her that the gate
was open, but as they passed between
the gate posts she saw that one of
them was leaning at on odd angle and
that the, wooden gate itself had been
splintered into fragments, and that
the fragments had been heaped up on
a flower -bed.
And then a little farther on she saw
a queer thing that she did not at first
recognize as a motor -car. It was ly-
ing close against the wall of the
house, a yard to the left of the front
door. Above• it the bricks were smash-
ed and loosened and black, as though
they had been scorched with fire.
(To be continued.)
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TROUBLESOME WELDS AS
CREEENS.
"If these country • men and women
would learn that there are better
spring tonics ' in their meadows and
fields than can be faund"in any drug
store, , they would be -Better off," a
physician once told me. Many house-
wives would „consider some of our
"noxious weeds" delicious -if they were
sold on the market as early green
succulent foods. But when these same
plants may be had fol the ; picking
they are scorned. These' early greens
are wonderful blood purifiers and
should make a large part of our
spring diet.
There are many elaborate salads,
etc., in which dandelions , and other
spring greens play an important part,
but to most of us the old-fashioned
"boiled greens" are the best. A simple
and reliable way to cook them is to
boil till tender in salted water, with
a good ham bone, or lacking this,
slices of bacon or salt pork may be
used. When tender, drain and cut
across several times with a very sharp
knife. Pour ham, bacon or pork fry-
ings, or- melted butter, over them and
serve hot. If any are left, they may
bo reserved by molding -in tiny cups
and French dressing added just be-
fore serving.
Never be careless in cleaning the
greens. Each leaf should be washed
separately, and on each side.
Purslane may" be cooked alone or
with other greens. It makes a deli-
cious addition to stews and ` soups,
and is ` a member . of the Portulace
family. It is one of the few greens
that is good when served either hot or
cold.
Long before our garden greens are
ready for use—find sometimes before
they are planted—the sour 'dock is,
ready for use. We consider it supere;
,or to either kale or spinach, and ale
though some people object to using it'
because of the acid contents, there is!
in reality not enough acid in the plant'
to be in the least injurious. These'.
sante people eat' rhubarb without a;
thought of danger from the acid, and
yet there is more acid in a single stalk
of rhubarb than; in enough sourdoek
for an entire meal. This plant will
furnish greens until there are plenty
of others to take its 'place.
Lambs' quarter is not liked by some
people because of its flat taste, but
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other leaf with a eharp taste, is deli-
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Y g sprouts of milk-
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YIELD I-IIOI-I RETU
Depattnent. of Indian Affairs:
Reports Harvest of 1,277,-
029 Bushels.
That the Indians of the three Prairie
Provinces, whoup till a fe"w years ago;;
were nomadic' Bunters, produced ln,`,,
1923 the astonishing total of 1,277,029
bushels of grains of all kinds is infer
motion most gratifying to all interest-
ed in the welfare of those wards of the
Government. The significance, of thie•
great crop which is a half a million
bushels larger than the crop of 1522
will be made more apparent by an.11
lustration.
This crop ,of grain, if placed in box
cars of the average capacity, would
fill 816 cars, which at :111 cars to the
train would make 10 trainloads of
grain. These trains, with . theirloco-
motives and cabooses, placed' end '.to'...
end would reach`a distance of six and
one-half miles. '
,As there are 31,066. Indians in the
Prairie Provinces, or in round num-
bers ..6,200,farilies, thie Means'a crop
of over 205 bushels per family, and
this in spite of the fact that, of course,
with many engaged in' hunting and
fishing, all the Indians: did not partici-
pate in growing this crop.
The kinds -and quantities of grain,
grown were as follows: Wheat, 638,-
213 bushels; Oatsn 573,905- bushels;
barley, 62,204 bushels; rye, 2,157 bush-
els; Indian Corn, 450 bushels total,
1,277,029 bushels.
In addition to this the Indians raised
58,809 bushels of potatoes, 9,233 bush-
els of turnips and carrots, 57,69'7 tons
of hay and 9,980 tons of green feed.
They broke 6,896 aces of new land,
summer-fallowed 20,519 acres, 'and
cultivated 273 acres of gardens,
Good progress was' also made in
stock raising, the number of cattle on
the reserves having increased by
about two thousand head during the
year. In this article, however, atten-
tion is confined to the field crops.
Best Crops in Alberta.
In common with the crops of white
farmers those of the Indians were not
uniform. Generally speakingthe
smallest crops were harvested on the
Manitoba reserves, returns were bet- —
1 ter in
Saskatchewan, v
an
and bumper
vests were reaped in Alberta. On the
reserves in the last-named. province
417,951 bushels of wheat : were har-
vested from 13,165 acres, being at.the
rate of 31.8 bushels per acre, a high
average for any farming community.
Agents report that the work of pre-
paring the soil is being better done -
each- year and that en some of there-''
serves it compares with .thatoft he
best ,white farmers.
Thebig era
p of 1.19
23 was of course
primarily due to the .bountiful har-
vest, but it was also due to the in- creased'+area sown v and to the good cul-
tivation given th,e land." The progress
made in regard to the two latter fact-
ors has been owing to the methods
adopted for the teaching of fanning,
Farming Is, of course, the chief indus-
try, taught to the boys of the'residen.
tial schools maintained by the Depart.:
ment of Indian Affairs, but in addition
to that the teaching is brought in a s
most practical manner right to each
Indian farm. On each, reserve there
is a farm instructor who, instead of
carrying ,on a model farm for the In-
dians to admire, is constantly on the
none in a buggy or eight motor • car,
isiting all parts of the reserve advis ' -
• encouraging, exhorting, and re -
roving the Indian Mariners. Thus, -
while there is no one. "show" farm, all
he. farms on the reserve are 'raised
o a higher level than they would be
otherwise
Hon. Charles Stewart, Superintend -
let General of. Indian Affairs, whose
tnowledge of farming- operations in
Westet•n Canada enables him to ap-
roach this subject from a practical
tandpoint, has given this matter per.
oriel attention and he is naturally
leased with' the n results. The Indian ,
armers of tb.e, prairies , have., still,
much to learn and much progress tee
lake, but the fact that in shoot -forty
ears thesean
w c1ering hunters haver
ecome settled and have progressed
o far in farming as to reap a harvest
1 over twelve hundred thousand,
ushels of, grain, . shows that ' the: of-'
orts of the people and Government
1 Canada on their behalf have borne
nod fruit:
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Y
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,ably he will be much the'senie-to-m.or
row, His nature cloes not change with
the ages. In the extracts frons MI's.
SJaines T. Field's diary,, collected by
Mr. M. A. DeWolfe,Howe''and publish.
ea as the Memoirs ,of a ITostess, James
Russell Lowell is quoted as relating
50111e experiments that the boys at his `
school used to 'make on riles to see
how muchweight they- could carry.
Ono day he attached ;a thread that
lie had pulled out of his silk handicer-
chief to afly's leg, and to the other
and a bit of paper with •'"the master
is a fool" :written. on it 1p small, dis-
tlnct letters. , The fly flew away and
lighted on the master's 8s s nolo, but, re-
gardless of all except the lessons; he
.I bru.shecl. it off, and it rose with its bury
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