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CHAPTER BII.-(Continue3), opened, and Fra entered. La<ly Bdith
Clive walked slowly down Parliament
started, and looked up. with a frown,
Street, the old mans words haunting "What ie it, Sara?" oho demanded, with
him; for Lord Standen had spoken the i11 -concealed impatience.
truth: the •man who married Lord Ches•
terleighe daughter, with her vast wealth
andthe great family intermit, would And
his political road smoothed for bite,
would find the path of his ambition
stlewo with rosea instead of the Elute
nvhich lie so thickly on the cruelly rough
Toad to fame and power.
Peihaste the thought was still with
lits waren he went up the stairs of the
great house In Groevenor Square, far he
g preoccupied. But Lady
Edith greeted him brightly, and appear-
ed to be in the happiest of moods.
"Sow tired you look!" she remarked.
"X thought you looked as if you didn't
want to be bothered with the talk and
chatter- and I have told them that I am
mot at home to any one else; so that you
ppan rest, and drink your tea in silence,
if you like."
"That was very kind of you" he said
gratefully. "Bat I want to talk."
tea she ,amid. Aciihd tlnow, tit iyocup
mast
talk, tell me about --oh, anything that
you are doing.'
She leant forward. Far tee fixed t bis in which the marriage of convenience is ries to' the occasion, No (heer; unt-Wet-
reep with so evident an interest. that Olive ae frequent as any other act of exchange ed his silences, and, when he bad finlehed,
responded at once. and barter, that he was not startled by the ap levee was so faint that, Olive
I'm still pursuing the uneven tenor of knew
my way," he met "I with we sousl be the idea. siigfrom 1 by the old se of Butthat he had lost his pawns over
able to do something with the Housing he recoiled from it with a sense of dit- them. He sat down with a sense of fail -
Ile told her inn few words -there was
no need for a lengthy explanation for
she had had the whole matter at her linger She was very beautiful; the advantages
ands -of the pror,oeal of the Government; "I vant to ask Mr. Harvey a question,
and she. listened latently, putting fn n of such a match were as great, as un• von question only," said IiosLki in 3120
word, asking •t question, now and again, deniable, as
ha Standen et dealt; ihonKehi Guttural voice. And 3-ve a.11 -vont a
and leading him on as a clever woman ] straight answer. This is It: Dose- he or
can lead a man by talking of the, subject by doing it sbe should gain all that le does not mean to oppose the Bill be hes
nearest his heartt leo would he ha a shrunk f o the ides "b
Yes; it is better than nothing," she 1 k He sat Lon, said. "But you will get all you want in
time; you are one of the mei who al�waye
succeed sooner or. later,'•
Re laughed. 'that's a rather too flat-
tering estimate of my poor powers," he
said. "Bot, tell me, You were kind
enough to say you could get some more
Sara had stopped just within the room,
and bad shot a swift lance, malign, al -
moot threatening, at Clive; but with a
gesture of apology she bent her head low.
and put out her joined Banda in an Ori-
ental salaam.
Pardon, my lady," she murmured. "I
empty.did not kPnrdon eolith!"
the room wa0
She had gone, had glided out in a mo-
ment; but her entrance had broken the
spell, and Clive rose with a feeling of re- greeting larked the warmth and open -
of -wee ft eremite? tensity which were sociallyy accorded
him. But he was IIlmtlst indSff°real and
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"I .take Yon at Your word. I'll a<xeipt g
your kind offer, Lady Fdith,' be an d, tug he passed on to the platform, lie Telt
gravely. "If I need any help I thank you
eau give me for some of my 0000 people,
I mill come to you. I am very grateful."
She gave him her hand in silence, her
eyes downcast. her face now pale; and
for some minutes after be bad gone elle
sot breathing painfull and gazing at
the chair in which ho had sat.
As Clive went down the Stains and into
the street, he too breathed painfully, and
again Lord. Standon's wors came book
to him. Ile lived in a world in which so
man marriagee without love are made,
as if it were the semblance, the mere ord.-
ward ehell, of himself which stood there.
He noticed that a large proportion of
the audience appeared to be foreigners,
aliens, and that these were occupying
Places neer the.. platform; and that iu the
Arai rows were flittingKoahki .and his
Anarchist friends, TAe slight cheering
soon ceased, end Clive began his address.
He know that 1115 manner and his tone
were lifeless, end that his audience moot
think him lukewarm; but he could not
taste, of resentment, which arose from) are and weariness. teat rose, and the
something within him that ley deeper cheerio which had been denied to Clive,
than the mere Surface abjection to a or rendered .grudgingly, greeted the Polo
loveless union. with a hied of suppressed significance.
t • vin for,Art yet a tow w.
from
of marrying Lady Edith as be shrank
now? Why had he become so scrupulous?
What . bed happened to make him eo un -
sen 1014mL on, of
ti 7 wn his smell eyreflxed on
Clive, his tongue moisten,ng his coarse
lips
5.0014I3? Olive roue. "My answer needs a. fore.
As if in answer to his question, 3fina'e ?fug "word of explanation he began;
face rose before him, but he throat it but lioshki rose estrndfu a dirty band,
aside; he would not accept the mute an- nuc. almost 0''13' 0 ib t bim•
ower. 1 e want a yet or nn; " he ,shouted.
When be entered the Tate Gallery the "`Ne,' said Clue r-root
next afternoon and looked round eagerly, ee withhki turned to the rest of the and!,
he twos conscious of a pang of dleappclit• ince a laugh and a sneer; and a
sent: for she was not there, He ,va,ene 'murmur which rapidly grew to a groan
luickly through the rooms, devoured by TO Ynu tree lh3de t a3c1.00 lou see, my braz-
and presently, with a sense of :
julii.Pll nd ladneee. he saw her coming zero! what ve lire told is true. Zia man,
award him. ;Os fine ehentlemnn, zer Trent of the
Hor faro wee pale, and there was n People"' --fro laughed ecornfully-"30 a
roc3led eapreseion in the grey eyes as
pupgils for my friend?"
'Yeo• I have another one, I thick," she
said brightly'. And the deeervee all wo
pan do; for he is really very clever, and
es a capital teaoher."
Clive thanked her again. "I can't tell
you how grateful I am to you,"he said
warmly, so warmly that the color ro
to her face, and her eYee became dour.
oast; then she raised them, and glan:.•el
at him swiftly.
"It is I woo should be grateful to yyou, ,he gave :him leer hand,
she said in a low voice. Until I-1 kites "I ani late," sbo said iu a low voice, her
ou I cared for nothing -I mean" --quick- eyes ;voiding his. • I -I did not mean to
y, .Jeer color deepening- that nothing in-
terested me, that I was quite indifferent
shout things, everything. Life seemed
such a .wearisome bueincca, so many din -
nerd, so many balls, so many receptions;
and I was terribly tired of them all. But
I know now why you -and men like you
•-keep on trying to do good, despite all
sorts of disappointments and diecourage-
ineota."
She paueed for a moment; then went
on again
"This little thing I have done for yon -
you can't tell how much ole two b
given me. I suppose it is bectuse I have
been of some use in the world; perhaps
because I have been of some little neo to
'the liiiend of the People.' W11 yon let
me be of more use to you? isn't there
something else I can do? something big-
ger, that will give me real trouble: this
twee none. .There now! I am selfish- I
come,
lot mean to come? Why?" he asked,
thoo.gd.1 he foreSear, with a sinking cd the
heart, her reply,
Yo," she said, meeting hie eyes with
an effort, but steadily. I—I thought it
over after I left you. I knew ISMS'
would be angry, aud- and I did not tell
her. I Stave not told her that L was at'
the meeting the other night. And -and -
no: I did not mean to come. But L -I
could net keep away. It eeemed so fin -
grateful not to come and tell you why."
I undetetand," he said in a voice as
low as hers. "You think it is -'wrong,
Mina?"
She inclined Far head: there were no
tears in her eyes. but to 'view that et0
was afraid lest tbere should he.
Yes; 1-I suppose it ie. Tibby would
know. I did not think of 2t until 1 dis-
covered that I did not want to tell bar.
•it wrong?"
am forgetting that you aro tired, and She •would know. And 3'
want to rest: anti I am plaguing you.- elle asked almost piteously.
No; you shall not, humor my whims and Clive stood, battling with his conecienee.
gander, :hall not talk. Lean back and Her Demons() •sa0 ae ogee! us myrrh to
rest, won't you?" • him. There was an irreeetible Lamina -
She took a ouehien from the long divan, tion 14 her innocence, her halt -uncoil.
and put it ,at the Lack of his chair with scioue desire to avoid evil. What should
a half -apologetic -laugh, but with an ap• he say?
peal In her eyes, 'Perhaapps Tihby is right." ho said at
Clive put out his hand to refuse the last; but even as he epoke be rebelled
cushion, and their boucle met. The blood against the scruples which were dividing
rushed to her face at the contact, and her them, "But all the some, I am glad you
eyes grew ,left and melting. Embarrassed. litheWill you tay eve -
'with a strange sense of foreboding, Clive
let Ills hand fall. and looked at her now
downcast faro with a troubled regard. It
W/18 an awkward moment; bit before
either of them could speak the door
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Clive had eat down. but he epi'n•ng up,
Iris blood roused, hie eyes flnahing; but
his words could not be beard above the
din, the enarlo, the yells which rose from
nearly all Bides, especially from the
aliens in the front seals.
A traitor!" repeated, ICoshki, his face
purple, his eyed gleaming. "Bat is vbat
I call .him, That ve nil call him. He has
betrayed us, m brims:ere! He is a sbem
and a fraud. He bee sold uo; sold us who
were fools enough to truest him. Fools,
yes; ve vere fools to put our truet in an
aooureed aristocrat."
The yells of the angry men drowned his
voice for a moment, but he held up his
grubby. hand and got a hearing again.
I said not I 'could ^sic him von ques-
tion; but you 0hn11 eek him anozer. A,ik
him that he ie going to be paid for sell-
ing us; eek him,"
Olive went slowly down to the edge of
the platform and looped down at the
angry crowd calmly, though his eyes
were flashing' and Sus bands clenched be.
roar 'woe too greetdto• permitbof bin be-
ing heard, erd with a siiruo of the *haut-
ders he laughed.
This u•se Koshka's cue. Shaking both
Rete at Clive, he roared:
Ho laughs at us; laughs! He treats us
like dirt, like doge! It is hots he treated
me ze ozer night Then I implored, viz
tears, my brurzere, im'1'ored like n brus-
zer mat be vonld riot Tote for zie Bill!"
Clive's fore grew red, but he kept 31101-
11 well. in liana
hate come, . ""That is a lie, Herr Knshkil' he ;aid,
ten minutes now you, are here?"
She looked round wistfully, thou up. at "Lie glancing
us ee lie!" frientd Konllki, his
him doubtfully, eves glancing 0t 1110 friead0 and com-
a
.minutes, then,' she faltered with! patriots near hien. I tell him, zits
a sigh. There -there is one of the pin-: hdzar,l ole
a, ntateerd we fir clot n , t!it i
three I want to see again."
'Toll me which it 18; we will go and ed, sold like sheep."
look at it together," he said. A roar wont up; a large part of the
She went straight to one of the rooms. nidie1'"0 were on their fret,
Sheri woe e a
and they stood before Waterbouse's mag• rush. for the P ntform.
niflcent and pathetic "Lady' of Shnlott. had sticks in their hands, as if they had
Tule is it" she said in a low voice, her acme provided with weapono, othcrn
oyes flxed c1 the picture, "lt is beau- naught a choirs: and the stroke and
out
toad that I notcould'get w chairs were l f,n' rd,thrPa don h the
tlilt at my mind; though I don't know craved messed forward, fn . of off r:don, or.
it be the bate -me -Tee
q of four, r affection, or
of bate --mires quickly, barn; flemolY in
a mob, large or small, mewl:Illy in a
mob composed of such elements ae this
one woe compered of. It sloes not mean
to do mnrder; but it is too apt to de it
unintentionally. All it is conecions of is
the cleire to 'break, to crush: and here
wan something thin ono could satisfy its
desire on.
It
WAS not the first time Clive hod faced
an angry audience; but hitherto it had
been In the open air, where there wee
room for the evil spirit to spend itself.
Here, in this hot. stalling room, the fury
of the audience noted and reacted; and
there grew that hideous hysterical desire
to main and destroy which is always ly-
ing dormant in such men as those who
threatened Clive.
Is there a back way?" he shouted to
the chairman, a weak-minded man who,
white and trembling. bad shrunk back
against the wndt. If. so. get out of it:
quickly. I'll keep them tall you're clear,•'
Ae ho spoke, one of KeshId'e friends otos-
ed the •front door and bolted it, and ran
towards the one nt the back. Clive turn,
ed to bid rho chairman burry un, but the
raging crowd, thinking that Clive medi-
tated flight, yelled furiously. as if theY
were about to be baulked of their prey;
two or three of tbom leapton the plat.
Worm, and one man raioed a chair to
strike him.'
Clive caught the chair, and. patting ant
his leg, tripped the anon up; but in doing
so he laid himself open to other attacks,
and several blows were dealt him by
sticks. He woe still calm, even smiling,
and be struck mit right and left, flooring
two of itis ass•1•ilants; but another, blanc,
011 the side of the head this time, made
him stagger, and he was afraid that Ire
should .fails, To fall nvould, 11e knew, be a
serialist
tdiioLirtantbinng,lZawouldermledtd r
foot by lite men, who were, indeed, at
that, moment more like wild beasts thou
hum an beings.
Ae he pulled himself together and
caught the 3iowe which showered on him,
be (vas aware of a Fly, a pinpoint: boort-
rending erreavr that rose above the din;
and, looking in. the direction. of the cry,
he saw-MinnsThesight of her white
face, her eyes fixed 'on him with terror,
stupefied him for a moment; laud he can•
04 to her --of course, inaudibly "Mina!"
She saw 3510 lips move, and, with a chok-
ing sob, oho pressed forward, Then an
oho 'moved, Cltv6 *aught sight of '.Cabby
beside her.
Poo' the first time he thought of the
!police: would they arrive in time to save
tier? I]ia cyee were chained to here, be
tried to shout to her -loud enough to be
board -to keep book; but he could not
Wake hie voice pierce rho awful din; and
be could only wave his hands, signing -to
her to keep envoy from the p'latdorm. Batt,
what St moane.
•It i0 0110 of Tennyson's poems," he
said. •I will send dt le you.'
"No, no!" she aid. I can borrow it
from thandhow library.
nh poyIHoI lovely stsh.1
cooled,
could forget 0o
'Come and look at some of the others;'
he said in a voice that came painfully,
'Phey walked round elatvly, and she
gazed at the pictures, but with lessened
interest, and when they reached the door
she started slightly and stopped.
I will go now," The said. "I—•X am glad
I came, that I have seen the picture once
more."
Yon can come again," ho Told, still
with labored voice. "You can 001110 alone,
Mina:
yhe shook Iter head, her face averted.
No; I shall not comp again." ehe said
almost inaudibly. Dont' don't come
with me, pleas*. I would rather you did
not." filer voice Broke and her lips quiv-
ered. Oh, bow tcngro.teful you must
think mei But I'm not, I'm not!" She
raisedher eyes to his face, and he saw
the tears in them now. But I -I could
not tell Tibby.' The tears threatened to
fall. and she turned aside anal put her
band to her eyes with a swift movement
Clive:" that wrung heart. Good-bye."
He held her hand a moment, has own
(.losing over hers 1•ightly, then sbe with.
drew It from his grasp, and before be
could realize that ehe had gone, she had
peeped out.
He stood looltine at the door like8a
ment h atflrh brentb with
turned atter
her; hot when ho had reached the en-
trance he stopped short, biting his lips,
his Mee pale and strained, 'his heart
beating
heavily;. for ,vitt! the primingof
that alight, gulls!! figure Something
seemed to have passed out of hie life,
But she was right --the instinct born
of bar purity, her innate goodne4e, her
child -111m shrinking from an unknown
he moat sea her no sero,
evil. was right:
Yes; something Mail gone out of hie life,.
a gleam of brightness, a vague halrpincest
and he .felt the lues co acutely, that hie
voice and manner p,•ociatmed 1t pin.tnly.
He went about Itis Parliamentary (1 uties.
as usual, but, in a ItaUsns, perfunctory
:way, lie was to haves�roken on the third
night n,fter their artingt bot he made
an ox011se le rho Wide, and sat clnmh and
inert in hie plat*. It vvon with something
like a ehoeic that, tinning over his en•
augment hook it, week Inter, be sane that
he was engaged to speak nt the Work-
men's 1101 again. The hill for the Thole.lug of the 'Poor bed been brought in by
the Government; it was absolutely no.
epheary that, 11e ahenld go down to 1116
Hall one oxplalu ' it to the Bond et
/]rotherhood,
11.11 vt lttr some not00 --forcing' 11.1111081?
ret!-�nsd of
the of ht appointed wont
tato a setoblenee of interest in the
with agony, be eats that o Lias dicot
in i e
aid• g h ° ig»allod in3nuc ons, a
ho Hoff, at she was pressing nearer and nearer,,
greeted with t110 110004 applause; the P e was ek0 On reseed by his approhon-
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h awn, n
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I
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Canada -Cement Company Limited, Montreal
On the Farm
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Wheat Plant and Dry Farming.
An examination of the under-
ground portion of the wheat plant
will bring to light some very inter -
eating freta. It will be found that
in a well developed plant, growing
under favorable dry -farm condi-
tions, that as many as 00 roots or
more will descend to a probable
depth of eight feet Each root is
supplied with a system of laterals
which vary from elle to six inches
in length and which are spaced on
each side of the main root from
one eighth to one fourth of an
inch •apart. A very conservative
estimate of the combined length of
all the Laterals of a single root
might be placed as ten times the
length of the root itself. It thus
becomes a simple matter of calcu-
lation to learn that the entire root
system of a single wheat plant may
approach a mile in length—a fact
not so startling when we consider
that a single seed can reproduce it-
self 1,000-folfi. With plants which
possess such an enormous root sys-
tem it is now apparent why some
farmers can mature plants without
one drop of rain falling during the
growing period. It must be borne
in mind, however, that the wheat
plant cannot mature without mois-
ture, but if given half a chance will
forage into the depths of the soil
in search of that moisture which
bite wise farmer has stored up dur-
ing years of plenty. Yet in spite of
this fact, not one farmer in 10,000
is acquainted with the range of the
root syetem of the wheat plant he
grows year after year. In fact, it
is a current belief among dry farm-
ers themselves that such roots
penetrate the soil to a depth of but
six to twelve inches.
Tho roots of the wheat plants of
farmers who do not believe in the
theories which underlie the storing
of moisture in the soil, are burned
out during times of drought. How-
ever, the plants of the deep-rooted
farmer go down ten feet into the
soil, and this farmer sells seed
wheat to the shallow -rooted farm-
er. Does it pay to learn how the
wheat plant grows')
Improved System of Breeding.
If one will plan to have the calves
come at all seasons, the fall and
winter calves escape the torture of
the extreme summer heat and the
swarming, pestering flies,
For this reason the fall and win-
ter calves develop into much more
desirable cows for the dairy tuan
the summer calves.
Where all the calves are dropped
in the spring it's a, big job to care
for and handle all of them whole
they are young. ,
If a short space of time inter-
venes between the coming of each
calf there will be little time lost
in. attending to each one during its
early career -when it is the most
trouble and more susceptible to
some derangement if slighted.
Then, having some heavy milk-
ers at all times in a profitable
plan. This all -the -year -around -
dairying is what brings in the
steady income, which will be espec-
ially welcome in the dead• of winter
when the price of dairy products
soars skyward, '
It will also prove a great conven-
ience in supplying for the kitchen
and table those most necessary ar-
ticles so often missing in winter;
milk, cream .and butter.
Another big advantage to be de-
rived from having Use cows freshen
at different seasons of the year is
that of avoiding the handling 1f
calves and almost all the dairy pro-
ducts at a time when -the farmer
ought to be in the fields planting
or cultivating his crops.
Although winter has its draw- -
backs as a .dairy season, so has
summer, and certain it is that the
farmer has so little else to claim
his attention in the winter that he
can well afford to manage so that
parb'of the herd will be yielding
their most satisfactory amount of
dairy products at this time, thus
furnishing him with profitable em-
ployment at a usually idle season.
!Zest.
Bodily rest can only be gob by
leaving the muscles completely re-
laxed. The ordinary sitting posi-
tion in a chair is not atifl'l.cient, as
the lower extremities are still more
or less rigid; says Dr, Musgrove in
"Nervous Breakdowns.'''' The
chair should be an easy one, with
an extension or a footstool to sup-
port the lower limbs just a trifle
below the level of the body. A bet-
ter rest can be had, however, by '
lying full length ori a pouch or bed
with the aria and legs sprawling
in the manner adopted by the
tramp when lie takes a sleep by
the wayside, This attitude assures
ease, if not elegance. And it does
mere than relax the limbs, for it
gives repose to the heart its well,
When the body is in tingosition
the heart beats more slowly than
when we aro standing, walking, or
even sitting.. '
"What a mistake it is to judge
1)311 by their clothes!" "Yea, I
know a self-made millionair'e who
drosses as well as any of bas elrrka
in his establisltment,Y1