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l A MONTH;
OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTE,it XXX1V.—(Cont'd)
But Frithiof steeped down and
silenced her with a kiss. "You see
the harm it has dune," he said
"but you don't see the good, Come,
stop crying and let us have tea, for
your news has given use an appetite,
and I'm sure you are tired and hun-
gry after all this."
"But could it ever have entered
any one's head that such an im-
hrobable thing ehould actually
appen ?" said Roy. •'To think that
Sordoni should get change for his
note, and Darnell steal it on the
very dart- that !Swauhild had given
you that unlucky contribution to
the debt fund!"
"It is just one of those extraor-
dinary coincidences which du hap-
pen in life," said Sigrid. "I be-
lieve if every one could be induced
to tell all the strange things of the
kind that had happened we should
see that they are after all pretty
oommon things."
"I wonder if there is a train to
Plymouth to-night'1" said Roy, "1
shall not rest till I have seen Dar-
nell. For nothing less than his
confession signed and sealed will
satisfy Tames Horner. Do you
happen to have a Bradshaw?"
"No, but we have something bet-
ter," said Sigrid, sniffing; "on the
next landing there is Owen, one of
the Great Western guards. I know
he is at home, foe I passed him just
now on the stairs, and he will tell
you about the trains."
"What a thing to live in model
lodgings 1" said Roy, smiling. "You
seem to me to keep all the profes-
sions on the premises. Come, Fri-
thiof, do go and interview this
guard and ask him how soon I can
get down to Plymouth and back
again."
Frithiof went out, there was still
a strange look of abstraction in his
face. "1 scarcely realized before
how much he had felt this," said
Roy. "What a fool I was to be
so positive that my own view of the
case was right ! Looking at it from
my own point or view, I couldn't
realize how humiliating it must all
have been to him—how exasperat-
ing to know that you were in the
right, yet mot to be able to con-
vince any one."
"It has been like a great weight
on him all through the autumn,"
said Sigrid, "and yet I know what
he meant when he told Swanhild
that it had done him good as well
as harm. Don't you remember how
at oue time he cared for nothi.lg
but clearing off the !debts? Wel1,
now, though he works hard at that.
yet he cares for other people's treu-
bles too—that is no lunger his one
idea."
Before long Frithiof returned.
"I don't think you can do it,"
he said, "Owen tells me there is
a train from Paddington at tee°
this evening, but it isn't a direct
one, and you won't get to PIymouth
till 9.28 to -morrow morning. A
most unconscionable tinte, you
see,"
"Why not write to Darnell?"
suggested Sigrid.
eNo, nee he would get out of it
in some mean way. I intend to
pounce on him unexpectedly, and
in that way to get at the truth,"
replied Hoy, "This train will cki
very well. I shall sleep on the way,
but I must just go to Regent Street
and get the fellow's address,"
This, however, Frithiof was able
to tell him, and they lingered long
over the tea -table till at length
Roy remembered that it might be
es well to see his father and let
him know •what had happened be -
lure starting for Devonshire. Very
reluctantly he left the little parlor,
but he took away with hien the
grateful pressure of Sigrici's hand,
the sweet. bright glance of her
blue eyes, and the echo of her last
words, spoken softly and sweetly
in her native lanmuage
"Ferrel! Talc' steal De have."
(Farewell ! Thanks you shall have.)
Why had she spoken to him in
Norge ? Was it, perhaps, beoau,e
she wished him to feel that be was
no foreigner, but one of themselves':
Whatever her reason, it touched
him and pleased him that she had
spoken just in that way, and it
wits with a very Iight heart that
he made his way to Rowan Tree
House "
The lamp was not lighted in the
drawing -room, but there was a
blazing fire, and on the hearth -rug
sat Cecil with Lance nestled close
to her, listening with all his ears
to one of the hero stories which she'
always told hint on Sunday even-
ings.
"Has father gone to chapel?"
asked Roy.
"Yes, some time ago," replied
Cecil. "Is anything the matter?"
"Don't leek se frightened," said
Roy, as the fire -light showed hire
her dilated eyes. "Nothing is the
matter—I have brought home some
very good news. Frithiof is cleared,
and that wretched business of the
five -pound note fully explained."
"At last!" she exclaimed. "What
a relief! But how Du tell me
all."
He repeated Swanhild's story,
and then. hoping to catch his fa-
ther in the vestry before the service
began, he hurried off, leaving Cecil
to the only companionship she could
have borne in her great happiness
—that of little Lance,
But Roy found himself too late
to catch his father, there was no-
thing for it but towait, and, anxi-
ous to speak to him at the earliest
opportunity, he ,nade his way into
the chapel that he might get hold
of him when the service was over.
When by and by he listened to
Roy's story. told graphically enough
as they walked home together. his
regret for having misjudged Fri-
thief was unbounded, He was al-
most -as impatient to get hold of.
Darnell as his- son was.
"Still." he observed, "you will
not gain much by going to -night
why but start to -,sorrow by the first
train?"
"If I go now," said Roy. "I shall
be home quite early to -morrow ev-
ening. and Tuesday is Christmas-
eve—a wretched day fur traveling.
Besides, I can't wait."
Both the father and mother knew
well enough that it was the -thought
of Sigrid that had lent him wings,
and Mr. Buniface iidd no more,
only stipulating that he should be
just and generous to the offender,
"Don't visit your own annoyance
Fe
r
v
and
eft` r
this
5 -Pound
Sealed
Package
Ask you
Grocer about it
on him, and don't speak too hotly," f "Yes, I was very much afraid,
he said, "Promise hint that he ; But all went well, and I. intended
shall not be prosecuted or robbed' to go out qukkly at tea-time—it
of his character if only he will make! was close upon it then—and do what
full -confession, and see what it was' I could to get it straight again. I
that led him to do such a thing, I thought I could invent an excuse
can't at all understand it. He al- for not returning to the shop that
ways seemed to use it meet steady, night; say I'd been lake') euddenl'
respectable man." ill, or something of that .sort. It
Roy being young and baying suf- i was Ma'. Falelt's turn to go first;
tercel s"verely himself through .lhtr•! and while he was out, as ill -luck
null's wrongdoing, felt anything! -would have it, ids. Horner caste to
but judicial as 111-, trrui 'iod wo:,t-jteko change froin the till, and the't
e,ar•d on th•,t cold 11e1.•eoaber night ; all the row begtw, I made sure 1
he vowed that liorstesinerieg would was ruined, and no one was more
be too good ,for such a sceuit..irel, surprised than myself at the tern
mud rehearsed interviews in which that affairs took."
hi- attack was brilliant and Ilatr-
neli's defense most feeble, Then he
(breed a little, dreamed of Sigrid,
woke eeltl and depressed to final that
he must ehange carriages ta,es ak Bri;t+ I, Hugh Clark is known as a very
and flcl tl ly. after Branny vicissitudes, funny man,
t, as 1•,1elecl at 1'lvnl.nuh at half
past nine art at damp nett cheerless As editor of the Kinenrdine Re-
view, the genial member of the
Commons representing South Brace
is never at a lose for a dry and hu-
morous reply .to any old kind of
question.
Hugh is the colonel of the Send
Bruce, and as such is some enter-
tainer. During a recent camp he
(To be continued.)
IIUUII CLAIM'S JOlili.
wintry morning.
Now that he was neurally there,
he began to dislike the thought of
the work before hies, end to doubt
whether after all hie attack would
be as brilliant in reality as in imag-
ination. Rather dismally, he made
a hasty breakfast, and then set off
through the wet, dingy streets to
the shop where Darnell was at pre-
sent employed. To his relief he
found that it was nota very large
one, and, un entering, discovered
the man he sought behind the coun-
ter and quite alone. As he ap-
ptnached him he watched his face
keenly ; Darnell was a rather good-
looking man, dark, pale, eminently
respectable ; he looked tip civilly at
the supposed customer, then, catch-
ing sight of Roy. he turned a shade
paler and gave an involuntary start
of surprise,
"Mr. Hebert!" he stammered.
""les, Darnell; I see you know
what I have come for," said Roy,
quietly. "It was certainly a vary
strange, a most extraordinary co-
incidence that Mr. Flick should,
unknown to himself, have had an-
other five -pound note in his pocket
that day last June, but it has been
fully explained. Now I want your
explanation."
"Sir 1" gasped Darnell; "I don't
understand yeti; I-1 am at a
loss"
"Come, don't tell any more lies
about it," said Roy, impatiently,
"We know now that you must have
taken it,' for no one else was pre-
sent. Only confess the truth, and
you shall not be prosecuted; you
shall not lose your situation here.
What induced you to do it?"
Col. Hugh Clark.
was host to Hon, W. J. Hanna,
Provincial Secretary for Ontario.
There were big times around the
colonel's quarters between the
guests, and the newspaper men and
the P.S. had a fine time sleeping
out and telling stories.
One morning about two o'clock
several privates on late leave, who
had been down city celebrating, got
past the guards and wandered
"Don't be hand on me, sir," about the streets of the white vil-
stammered the man. "I assure you lage singing "The Holy City" with
Inc'bitterly regretted it many a a vengeance on the chorus, and .be -
time." fore long the crowd was augmented
Then why diel you not stake a by a couple dozen from the various
regiments.
Mr. Hanna heard the noise and
turned over on his cot. Next morn-
ing he asked Colonel Clark what
the rumpus was.
"Oh," said Hugh, and he never
cracked a smile, 'I'll find out." He
went out and gathered a coterie of
newspaper sten and officers back to
clean breast of it to my father?
said Ruy. "You might have known
that he would never be hard on
you."
"1 wish I had," saicl Darnell, in
great distress; 'I wish to God I
had, sir, for it's been a miserable
business from first to last. But I
was in debt, and I thought of my
wife who was ill, and I knew that
the disgrace would kill her,"
"So you went and disgraced your-
self still more," said Roy, hotly,
"You tried to ruin another man in-
stead of yourself !"
"But he wasn't turned off," said
Darnell, "anal they put it all on
his illness, and it seemed as if, af-
ter all, it would not hurt him se
much. It was a great temptation,
and when I had once given way to
it there seemed no turning back."
"Tell me just how you took it,"
said Roy, getting rather more calm
and judicial in hie manner,
"I saw Mr. Horner give Signor
Sardeni the change, sir, and I saw
him put the note in the till; and I
was just desperate with being in
debt. and not knowing how to get
straight again,"
"But wait a minute—how had
you got into such difficulties?" in-
terrupted Roy, "and how could a
iiv,'•r mitt note help you out
again 1''
"Well, sir, 1 had been unlucky
in a betting transaction, but I
thought I could right myself if only
1 eould get :something to try again
with; but there wasn't a soul, I
could bur row froze, na I thought
a ht I
should get straight again at once if
only I had five pounds in hand, and
so I did, sir; I was a0 my feet again
the very next day."
"I alight have known it was bet-
ting that had ruined ;you," said
Roy. "Now go back and tell when
you took the note,"
"I kept on thinking and planning
i
through t the afternoon, sir, and then
presently all was quiet, and only
Mr. Feick with me in the shop, and
I was just wondering how to get
rid of him, evben Mr. Heiner open-
ed the doer of Mr. lioniface's room
and called to me. 'Phen I said, '17o
go, Mr. Flick, for I have an order
to write to catch the post.' And
he went for me, and I hurried across
to his counter while he was gone,
and took the note out of the till
and put it inside my boot; and when
he came back he found me writing
at my desk, just as he had left me.
He came up looking a little- put
out, as if Mr:" Horner had rubbed
him the wrong way, and he wet()
me, 'It's no use; you must go your-
self after all,' So I went to Mr,
Horner, leaving Mr..Falek alone ie
the shop,"
"Were ;you not afraid lest he
ehmkd open the til] and find out
that the note was gone 4"
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his guest's tent for the fun. When. Watrlt of (h" British !Flint.
all were comfortable Hugh slotted. Some eo]+, iSal fig•
ures demonstrat-
" Did you know that Hanna was
given a 'tremendous' ovation lay ing the enormous industry of the
this camp last night?" he said, ante British Mint were given in a recent
all listened -for the news. report of current coinage. for 1011,
"Yes,," he continued. "it was an when over 33,000,000 sovereigns
immense ovation for him. I)urinit
the night there were throngs pass- were coined. But such extraordi-
ing find repassing his tent crying nary despatch was even rivalled by
'Who's Hannal Who's Hanna? the average output of silver during
Who's Hanna to the Bing.' "
tk
We Do Hope It Wasn't Yon.
"There goes a man who hasn't a
single bad habit."
"Excepting the bad habit of con-
tinually bragging that he has
none."
When fools are glad wise men are
sad.
•
Lord Byron, in reference to a
lady he thought ill of, writes:.
"Lady -- has been dangerously
ill, but it may console yon to learn
that she is dangerously well again."
tlwt same period, which amounted
to something like 50,000,000 coins,
while the bronze circulation follow-
ed closely with 44.270,400 pieces.
Indeed, so heavy in point of weight
was this later coinage that its di-
mensions had to be taken in tons,
reaching 2401:, 71 3/5 and 1814
tons respectively for pennies, half-
pennies, and farthings. It is also
interesting to note with regard to
the gold circulation that more than
5,500,000 ounces of bullion was
brought into the toentry for the
purpose of transforming it into sov-
ereigns and half-soveerigns. While
worn and thin gold eoin to the tune
of £2,000,000 was received back by
the Mint to await recoining.
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Benefits of fares Drainage.
There: are in general three condi-
tions of soil needing draiea go
First, land which is wet and marshy
bemuse elf a heck of surface drain-
age ; second, that which has so la egg
an amount e,1 t t OtIlIe a tri. i' and
such }WA%y clay that wiser caonut
melt penetrate it; third, soils with
heavy, compact clay -subsoils al rid
hardpans, lipun such subsoils the
al lack of the air from above and
beneath flowing drainage, and deep
plowing or subsoiling, made possible
by drainage, has a loosening and
mellowing influence that nothing
else can accomplish, writes Mr. O.
P. Noi•good,
One of the most obvious results
of drainage, from which all other
benefits accrue, is the removal of
surplus water. Plants require a
moist soil, but cannot grow in a
saturated soil where roots come in
cuntact with standing water below
the water table, Plants obtain
their moisture almost entirely from
capillary water; that is, the water
which is held in the small openings
between soil grains as oil in a wick.
Since capillary, water is only avail-
able in the unsaturated soil above
the water table, drainage, by low-
ering the water table, makes room
for more capillary water, thus in-
creasing the supply of water avail-
able to plant roots and snaking pos-
sible the storage of large quanti-
ties of moisture during a wet sea-
son against the time of droughts.
With drainage tomes also the more
favorable condition for the forma-
tion of mulches and consequent
prevention of waste of moisture by
surface evaporation.
By the downward percolation of
water toward the drains, the plan
food, of the fine surface soil and
the manures, is carried downward
to become thoroughly incorporated
in the soil, rather than to be washed
away by surface overflow. More-
over, the deepening of the soil in-
creases its capacity for water and
prevents the overflow which washes
away the saturated, muddy top soil.
Vegetation can use only plant
food of finely powdered soil easily
soluble in water. The passage at
air and heat into and through the
soil, made possible by the removal
of the standing water, and the iq-
terehange of air through the soil
between the bodies of air in the tile
and the stir above the soil, disinte-
grates the soil particles hitherto un-
available to plants, and produce#
that fine, crumbling, workable con-
dition of the soil known as fine tex-
ture, in which is found the maxi-
mum amount of soluble plant food
and the most favorable conditions
for plant growth, The toughest
clay soils are in this way made frt'-
able, responding with increased
crepe. The increase of heat and air
prevides favorable conditions for
the increase in the numbers and ao-
tivity of bacteria, the minute plants
whose function it is to set free plant
food and change the form of the
constituents of•soil into a food for
plants. Moreover, the constant
passage of surface water into soil
carries in chemicals which act vig-
orously'to set free plant food bound
in varipus chemical combinations.
Since it is very difficnit to heat
water from above, a water -soaked
soil is very slow to become warm in
the spring; but well -drained soil,
like a metal, is easily and quickly
heated in the spring, hence is an
early soil. The growth and exten-
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for obtaining nourishment for the
later growth of the upper part of
the plant must take place during a
certain definite period previous to
top development. This period and
consequent root development is
shortened by a cold, late plant bed
in the spring, but increased by a
warm, early soil, hence the remov-
al of water by drainage, by permit-
ting an early, rapid heating of the
evil, insures a vigorous root system
to supply abundant nourishment
later for the growth of the top.
It will thins appear evident that
many of our apparently dead,
worthless lands art; so because of
lack of drainage, and that drainage
• can unlock the fertility of these
dead sails and make thein- alive,
warm and Fertile. •
The deeper the drains inc placed
the lower d(, they make the Water
table with a given distance between.
drains, Drains do eat lower the
water table to the same level at all
points. •. Close to the drains it is
lowered tet the depth ofthe drain,
whereas at the point midway be-
tween cira•ins it may be several inch-
es or ••even feet higher, depending
upon the openness and persneabil-
itv of the soil to water. The water
table is thus formed into a series of
calves, the enol of each at the level
of the drain and the crest appronoh,
ing the surface of the soil. There-
fore, the deeper the drains the -far-
ther apart may they be placed with-
out clanger of bringing the erect of
the water table toe near the sur-
face, •
In some instances the land is too
wet in early spring only, while later
the water table lowers auflicicntly
through natural causes. In such
raises depths of g,/d teat alae usually
sufficient,