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“Old House"
Or, Dulcie's Confession
oreseTE1t V. -(Continued),
"Yes, everything that -vent before is
oaltl1c�elled-maturttfly," elle agreed.
'Naturally. Only wecannot help re•
mem'bering some --hinge, can we?"
I. d0 not remember anything," replied
Delete with Motrft.
T dare *ROY I shallforget, too -when I
have another girl to kiss!"
"Yon are exceedingly rode!"
"1 can," Ito replied. But truth will
outt. '
11eeriott leaned easily against n tree,.
and looked at Duleie coolly and dabber
. atels%
I suppose," said the girl, "you loss
every girl you go for walks with?"
"A goodmany of them," he allowed.
"Of cdnrae there are some who do not
'Permit that sort of thing, but on the
whole I must confess--'"
IIe .broke off, smiling, and his a teres•
cion mode Dutcie furious.
You boast of your conquests," she said
scornfully.
Nothing of the cart," be retorted. "But
what is the nee of either of us pretending
to be what we ore not? You know we
fancied we were in love with each other
a few woolus ago.'
"I thought you were a gentleman!"
cried Dniele with flaming cheeks.
'And I thought you were a charming
little girl," he replied, smiling,
"Both of no were evidently mistaken."
Harriett bowed.
"Now, as we have tad each other what
WO think, shall we say goodbye or Shall
1 pretend I asa:Belturbeta" he asked.
You are beneath contempt!" Dulcle.
assured him. 'I don't care whether you
go or stag Y'
She, did not grove, however, and Her-
riott's expression changed.
'Let ve sit down and argue it out," he
proposed amiably.
They seated thr eeelvea accordingly on
o: fallen tree, and quarrelled in an agree-
able manner for the greater part of an
hour.
"I suppose I had better do the thing
thoroughly, and see you home," said
Jim, when Delete rose to go, and as she
did not take any notice of the remark he
accompanied her to Blue Poets.
She did not tell Primrose that she had
not seen Belturbet, but acknowledged, to
account for her pink eheeke and shining
eyes, that she had not enjoyed herself
so much since. the garden•party! It was
tine that lier'riott had been exceedingly
rude to her, and said unkind things,yet
she could soon bring a eatiataotory look
into his face and a light to his eyes,
while all her efforts left Beltwrbet un.
moved.
"Arthur Ls as cold and unfeeling as a
stone! elle murmured impatiently. 'It
is like sitting with an icicle when I wan
with 1tim. And dull! Heaven only knows
how dull it is!"
The girl..beeame so irritable that Prim-
rose wondered if she had quarrelled with
Belturbet.
Three days later Herriott walked boldly
to the front door of Blue Poets, rang the
bell, and inquired if Mier Duleie was at
:home. The .small servant said in a
frightened voice that she would see, and
' - presently Delete came down the stairs.
• Jim produced it note from Belturbet,
which Duleie read.
I suppose von know what it eels?" she
asked.
I don't know how it begins or ends."
replied Heriott, smiling, "but I know Bel.
. turbet has to go to London to -morrow
for a few days --on urgent business. Ile
hasn't - a monopoly of the woods, you
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Dulcin held bee head very .high.
-Indeed?” elle said,
Yes," he retorted, "Indeed, I say,
can I see Miss Primrese?"
"She is very tired -I nm afraid not."
'Give her my love, then.!' said lieriott.
"Good-byel"
Ile lifted his hat and hurried away. Dul-
eie bit her lips. She wns longing for some
one with whom to talk, Primrotto-as
usual -,was tired, pale, and sad. while old
AAtrths, was so erase and insolent that
life a; Blue Poets was very unattractive.
Evert tate thought of the time when elle
would be free from it all failed - to con-
sole her. It was not surprising, there -
Lome, that silo wandered itt her favorite
woods the next dam where site onoountor•
ed Heriott, 'whose eyes twinkled as ire
craw her corning.
They spent a delightful hour, laughing
and talking nonsense, and as Jim strode
back to Old House hewhistled and salv-
ed his eo418,c1e00o -with many assurances
Of Duleies indifference to his friend.
1t is only the place elle likes. not the
man- 'All's fair in lore and war,' and 1f
Arthur Belturbet is in love with her,
I'll eat my hat!"
He realized, . however, that to matte love
to the promised wife of his oldest friend
was not a very honorable .proceeding, no
!natter if there were extenuating e1rculu-
stances, and he did not feel very comfort-
able about it. He would have felt even
less at ease had he known that Philippa
took the trouble one slay to follow him,
and that site saw him eittisng with Delete
on the trunk of a fallen tree.
adisa Heriott wondered how she could
tura the present imbroglio to her own
account. I0 seemed rather di%cult -with•
out betraying Iter brother. and although
Philippa would have betrayed Duleie a
hundred times without the slightest com-
punction, yet with Jim it was a different
matter.
There seemednothing to be done before
Beltnrbot's return, which canna an'expgct-
edly one afternoon half -an -hour after the
receipt of the telegram announcing it.
Jam -vas out, Philippa met Belturbet,
and welcomed him cordially.
"Where 1s Jim?" he asked.
"Ile went for a walk -•towards Staiptead,
I think," she replied, knowing that etal•
stead was in the opposite direction to the
w oods.
I will go and meet him," be said, but
Philippa, fearing that he might encounter
Sim and Duleie, managed to detain him
until past six o'clock.
Heriott did not, return, however, and
Belturbet declared again that he would
go and look for him.
Daylight was fading before he left Old
House, for September was nearly at an
end. He did not meet his friend, so
thought he would take a short cut
through the woods, earl at Blue Poste,
and see Duleie for a minutes. His letters
to her had not been numerous, for her
perfunctory little notes beginning "Aly
dearest Arthur," and ending Yours af-
fectionately, Melee," 11104 not made him
feel any desire to write to her at length.
Belturbet soon reached the woods, and
as he -a-as walking along the paths, now
carpeted with newly -fallen leaves, he saw
in the distance a man and woman walk-
ing arm•in-arm. The light had waned. so
much that he could not distinguish who
they a'ere, bot seeing them engrossed in
each other he considerately slackened his
pace in order not to overtake them, They
appeared, however, to have, heard his
footsteps, for • they vanished into a side
Path, and emtling. to himself he continued
his way.
Calling at Blue Pests he saw Primrose,
who told him that Delete was lying down
in her room with a very bad headache.
Belturbet sent a polite message of •gym•
paths, and inquired after lir. Camara -
me.
I ant afraid he le worse," said Prim.
rose eerily, her gray eyes filling with
teats, because Belturbet's 00150 w'as so
kind, and she was unstrung, weary of her
father"'s harsh tortes, if.'+rtlta.'s Insolence,
and Duielt a alternate fits of depression
and ehildiel glee.
Be',turbetlonged to say something con-
soling. but could find no words -at least
no worths be dared utter. He became
stiffly polite, stood he honed Duleie would
be well en0t1011 to see him the next day
and walked eni,•kly away with a pang a.t
his heart. The girl's pallor and the tears
1n Iter eyes matte him Song to take her
in hitt arms and comfort iter.
"Olt, what a fowl I have been!" he told
himself angrily. "Whitt a. blind fool!"
He strode Beek through the weeds like
a man at war with everything about Won.
CHAPrEB.YL
Later that evening, while Belturbet
and Heriott were playing a desultory
game of billiards, Duleie,. with Rushed
cheeks, was walking rapidly about, her
room. She smiled e,t the recollection of
how she lied hidden in the woods with
Heriott while Belturbet had walked past
them, and how the bad run nearly all the
way to Blue Poste ht order to reach home
before Belturbet, had tushed to her roam.
breathlcsnty told Print ,se to say she had
a headacb.e if Belturhot called, and then
lay on her hod convulsed with langltter,
while Primrose, considerably puzzled, .did
her bidding.
It really had been a delightful joke,
later but somehow a fern hunts 1 at the affair
d id not appear in quite such a roseate
light. nixed her
using Arthur Belturbet had
hetiaer and Jim in the wonds and
had ecru their lover•like attitude, what
would happen?
No doubt, if Arthur threw her over,
there, was Jim; but he hath no money, not
a halfpenny, and what vie tate use of
marrying a penniless either? Besides,
there was eometbin.g about ,T!•m she could
not quite undetsta'nd, Arthur, as a, hue.
band, the felt, would be always polite and
considerate, even if he did not ears very
much for Iter -but Jim? Jim she fancied
might be the reverse of polite if he were
crossed. .Sometimes eho almost -believed
ha did not think very highly of her,
"Perhaps," she told herself with a little
sneer, "he doesn't think an engaged .girl
ought to let another ,man make love to
her -anyhow, if I am in the wrong, so id
he."
It will be seen that her thoughts were
not altogether reassuring, and when
Primrose topped gently at her door, she
saki Come in," very ungrariouely, for
site did not want to explain why ;he had
reigned a headache in order to -avoid
Belturbet,
I•ferlott had promised 1,0 send iter to nolo
in the morning telling her If they had
been recognised.
Primrose's thoughts, however, were not
of Dalcie at all; and site had not the least
sttepicion that her aieter was meeting
RerfoiA every afternoon. Her father's
illness occupied all her time, and she had
ffairq into
PO? tr
the baoltgtouns. What would happen to
her when Duleie married Beitnrhot would
have to be decided another time.
• Bet something had occurred that
blanched her cheeks and thaleen her
nerves, Sven Dtioie'e eyes were quick to
see the vntlppintes in her etatar'a ,face.
"What: is .the scatter?" elle asked, "Is
father worse?"
Ne --Ire has been better all today," re.
tilted P'ritnroso 'bat Martha,mitst have
I telling tales of no again, for when
I tool{ in his ton, ata eommenOed to find
fault and grumble. I did nob answer, be-
cause I feel so sorry for him lying there,
with his brain so active and his body
11011110681, Ire begun with the mist 00m•
plaint that we were lazy, ttselese,, 1111(1
good for notbbifd,"
Of oeuvre " snappedilnir.ln
"And thee," said Primrose slowly, "he
s'ald that we sltoutd .pay for it some day,
its he .didn't intend le leave us his
money."
"lila 1010118, money, indoedt" cried Hakim hot.
ly."It wife our mother's ,mo my -not a
Penny belongs to him rfgttty,
Yoe, T. know," sthawereel Primrose. "llut
liet calls it his now. Ito said than we
Amnia not totu'h 1t .penny of 11, es be fins
left it alt to charity, except a legacy to
Martha for the euro eho has taken of
lira and Stay nouatde a your to mach •of
us It will just keep you from starving,'
he raid, 'and thab's all I mean to do for
yon
"Ile's a wicked old -'114 l0r" Du?ele de.
(larod passiOnately, "I don't sbeliove the
law'tvould let hint do euNa a taring."
"Ho can do what he likes 'wi'th his own,"
Woe the 'weary reply, "only 10 is rather
hard on na."
"Boor cad Prim)" said Basle ecvrpDos•
niomately. 'But it terSey doesn't platter;
you must ;live with ane when I am mar.
rlod."
"Do. you ]snow, Duleie,. I ,believe father
is meetly very r{oh, for out';mother had
0. largo dortune, and since her death fa-
thor cannot have sperm it all, It seem,
tiniest that he should treat ms so' very
that
"It is horribly wiakcdi If we were x'ieh
we 0ould live whereere diked, and -and
marry or not, as we L=eased:"
Duloie's expression obnnged, no 11 a
new thought had occurred to her.
"Yes," site murmtuettt "see could marry
or not, as we pleased."
"I wasn't thinking of marrying, but of
other things," said Primrose.
Dulcle nodded.
I know" site said absently.
Her brain was busy with a new train
of thought. It had occurred to her that
if she were a rich woman, tilts need t100
ma017 either Arthur Belturbet rr Jian
Heriott, but -,:he could cheese whom she
liked! With iter youth and beaety--for
she wee well awart of the latter -she
might marry any one, become a lady of
title perhaps, as many ghee did. Wlty
should she have to marry before she bad
seen the world?
the revolved tltie new idea slowly in her
mind, and the longer she thought of it,
the more it appealed to het'. Could no•
thing 'be done to prevent the money which
had been their mother's passing into
other .hands?
'Where there's a will, there:, a way,' "
site thought, and the word "will" clashed
into prominence. "A will!"' That was it!
Their father must ,have :made a Will. If
she could only and it and see if he had
really carried out his threat! Brad he
alael0 a Will recently; so that on his
death his money would not vase to Prim•
rose and herself?
Duleie yoke early the next day, and as
soon as she was dressed, slipped out of
the hostas into .the misty September
morning air. She walked a litre way
down the road to a .place in the hedgo
which she and Heriott had converted into
a..private letterbox. Between the flat
atones which lay anion -a tangled growth
of grass, quite of eight, was a sheet of
paper, and on it was written: Ala safe."
There was no date or signature. Dutcie
folded the paper carefully and put it in
her dl'ees. She stood irresolute for some
minutes, then took out the piece of paper
again, found a pencil, and 'wrote below
the words already there: 'Invalid 'worse;
impossible to leave temhouse."
There!" site anuranured. 'Now he will
understand that I cannot sleet him to,
day."
She placed the sheet of paper between
the two stones, and returned to Blue
About
Posta.
About twelve o'clock, Arthur Belturbet
called. Dulcle was watching at an up-
stairs window for him, and ran down
ingcat hepfrontdoor,, sootkhat Martha
should not see him and report to Air.
Carwardine that he bad called.
"I cannot ask you in," rhe laid. "But
I can come out for a little time, if you
like."
Belturbet said that he would be plane -
ed, and inquired alter Primrose.
"She is quite well., thank you,' replied
Douala, glancing at him, and`thinking rt
was a pity he did not hold himself up•
eight;
taccenttuated,morning
andlois
hito face thin-
ner
hin
ner and -trader.
"You don't look very well," she re.
marked cheerfully.
Don't I?" he asked ]n surprise. "1
feel very fit."
Did you have a nice time in London?"
"I should not call it exactly nice: I
was with my solicitors most of the time,"
Dulcle nodded and their noticing his
depreseion she exerted horeelf to etitertatu
and amuse him.
Boltw'bet smiled at her septet, but his
remarks were few and often wide of the
point. and whew Dulcle said it was time
for her Y
e he aspasdrelieved.
"Gob Arthur!" he ,anec'r
ona19. "You
are not in ennead for cares-
ses, 60 T won't kiss you!"
She waved her hand and eau away
laughing.
Otto is quite right," thought Belturbet,
and es he walked back to the Old House
his reflections werenot those of a hap•
pilyengaged man.
Duleie ]summed gaily as elle strolled
through the garden.
"I dem t mind!" she said, "If he doesn't
care for me, neither do 1 for him, so we
neo quit:, And dull! Could any one be
duller than Arthur Belturbet? What on
earth shall I do this aftern0011? 1 won-
der if Jim has seen my note?"
She went to the letterbox between the
stance: The pieee•of paper was there, but
had been wrpencilled
tten 11 It run spas follo 'e
"Six -thirty, Stone Gap."
Duleie smiled. Jim wanted to see bier
if Arthur did not, She would meet him
this evening -hut for the last time. It
was not safe, with Belturbet home, yet
it would be far more exciting than. going
for a silent walk with her "lover:"-
Ae dusk was gathering, Dulcle eddpped.
on a long dark coat, a close cap, and
stole out of the house. She knew where
Heriott meant her to go. An old stone
wall ran through a part of the woods, and
one portion of it, broken down and dilapl.
dated, woe 1150.0n as Stone Gap. It:eriott
was waiting for her, and as she onine to.
wards him with a sunny smile, feelings
which he bats hitherto kept within bounds
refused to he repressed any longer, He
strode towards her, caught her in his
arms, and kissed her foes or five times.
Taken b surprise- it. wee some me •
moues before the ,g]rl realized what 'Otto
hapvoning, and then sloe freed hetrrolf
from 1116 embrace
'How dare yowl" she cried .furiously.
"How dare You!'
I love you, Dudek, that's why I dere."
"If you touch me I will never speak to
you again I"
"1 said something very much like that
to Ion once," Beriott assured her, loolt-
tng,at ]tor intently, "but it did not malts
math difference, I love you too wairh:'
"Well, I don't love yon!" retorted Dal.
ole angrily."How dare you do it?"
Do what?"
"Why, ]cies mel"
"Don't be silly l" reviled Heriott, mho
had got himself in hand again. "Alen al-
ways hies girls when they are in love
with them.'
He felt a trifle nelmmed of himself, but
Delete, who found this sort of eouverets
tion numb more to her tsst• than any,
thing Arthur Belturbet had In sr afforded,
regarded tomo with friendly lvee.
4att't you find eomeu•hcrc for mo t0
sit.?" situ aelte<l molly,
Heriott found a -?lace art the atone wall
where they could out side toy side, and as
it was not very safe, ho slipped an um back again,
round cher waist, to proven/ her falling. From hedges in a ltaw•thorne-blos-
It is quite uneeth eery, " rho remmv 1>
stratod. Boned lane;
"Yes, but it is nine, 110 answered, And the same Poses bloom, and web..
come. give
Back to tri the sheltering walls where,
he did live,
He thrills with joy at sound of sky -
lar k s sing,
Gazes, until the tiny speck among
The cloud is lest,and when it dis-
appears
'qe aitkhes tearsto ,find his lashes wet,
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THE DREAM.
(To an Old Englishman).
By Nina Randall.
Home is to hint a clinging: memory
He dreams, while sleeping in his
chair, that he
Down flings • himself to kiss the
bles sed sod
That dearer seems to him than
aught, save God.
Forgotten are all later doves and
Vo0S,
He plucks a primrose 'neath the
greening boughs,
Or sits 'mid bluebells on a grassy
knoll
And harkens tQ the old, old church
bell 'toll, -
"Ding -Bong." How many a tale
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Those wonderful enclatnted days be-
fore
Adventure led him far by law( and
seal
How strong were then his arms,
how full his heart of glee!
And now his youth. seems wafted
Duleie sighed contentedly, Heriott wan
really much nicer than Arthur. At thte
moment he kissed her again, The pretty
flower•lilte fate 00 close to him wars more
than he could resist.
You really nowt not behave litre title!"
protested Duleie.
"1 trust ho tncdete<l:
Bald:, became slightly alarmed,
"You tnnnt not," she said more decided
ly. "You sere to forget that Tam On.
gaged to Mr. Beitunhet.
Ynn may he, replied lterinit, "hut yell
are going to marry rne."
Dutcio made, an attempt to means, but
he held her 'labile.
"Look hare, darllug, you have only, been
pin.ying with 11c•lttubrt anti tor, but you
moot be serious 11010. 1nr 1 .tin in rerttest.
You 'won't < m e a se rate for tum <1r 7001
wottltln't. have nte0 me here every day
whilst he has 1.0010 50 Loudon:" " Dntela
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wa•fat heh1 her firmly. 'hutyou 1140eur do. now,--rontinuet atm, is to give
Beltnrhes 1115 1 nntt'e, and then we will get
married, 01 <•oorse, I know I am not ss
good s mateli 00 he, -tut,after all, love
1111 hissed her na• 111 wall such fltot) •
,Ince that Delete grew really frightened,
(Tu ha continued•)
Fair Prop esi lou.
She --Papa preaches on "Love
one. another" This evening. .Lien
We go and heal" him V' ..
Iter Beau- No, Jet's :stay it borne,
and practice what he's ;preaching.
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by its mother. 1n localities famil-
iar with dairying this is well under-
stood, but in outer places is virtu-
ally unknown, and a strong pre-
judice exists against feeding skim
milk on account of the unhealthy
and undersized calves that have
been raised in this way, Such
calves are the victims of ignorance
or carelessness. The skim milk
calf properly raised differs little,
if any, in size, quality, thr'i'ft and
value from the same animal when
raised by the cow. The poor re-
sults which havo so often followed
the feeding of skim milk have been
due to the faulty methods, and not
because the cream has been taken
out is of so much importance to the
calf, Skim milk does not differ
from whole milk except in 'butter
fat content. 'Whore whole milk is
used the problem is to raise the
calf by using as little milk as pos-
sible. It is important tditot the calf
be fed milk while it is young, bttt
where milk is scarce or expensive
they may be raised from three
months on with substitutes.
'While the question as to whether
calves should be dr•'pped in the fall
or spring may bo d ,•icled by special
conditions, on :he whole, fall calves
have superior advantages. They
come at 'such a time that work is
not urgent and they can have the
best attention of the farmer or
dairyman. The disadvantages of
winter feeding are more than off-
set b,y hot weather and annoyance
from flies. The fall calf is weaned
in the spring and cart be put on
grass without further attention,
while the spring ealf goes on dry
feed when weaned. For tire !lest
three months it does n.tt :na.tter
materially whether calves are eat-
ing hay or pasture, but the seeincl
six months they will do hater cn
grass than any other ratio:-. Or-
dinarily the cow which ca•Ives in
the tall will produce a greater yield"
during the year as the slimmer
grass stimulates secretion - during.
the latter part of lactation.
The calf's quarters should not be
allowed to accumulate a lot of
damp, dirty materials ail this is al.
most sure to result in sickness and
bad results. The bedding should
be abundant and changed often, In
order that the pens or stalls be
kept clean they should be in the
Choicest part of the barn where
sunshine arld light are abundant,
In summer they should have access
to a pasture where there ie plenty
of shade.
Where valuable calves aro raised
it is advisable to have a separate
pen for each animal, Calves Should
be fed in a stanchion. The most
common trouble in calf raising is
scones, or indigestion. This is
beongltt on by overfeeding, feeding
sour or old milk, cold mills, and
ditty pails; troughs or stalls, Suc-
eese depends largely upon the abil-
ity of the -feeder to prevent senors.
It is easier to prevent scours than
it is to cure theme, By watching
ills small points and keeping con-
ditions right success will take the
place of foilttre,
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Mttu'o'-War's Provisions,
The following are the amounts of
provisions cal'rIed on board a man -
o' -war with a crew of just under
800 mon: Fresh meat, 1 ton; fresh
vegetables, '2 tons; salt pork, 020
lbs. ; flour, 45 tons; bisenits, i ton;
preserved meat, 3% tons; tinnea9
salmon, " tton; tinned rabbit,
1,418 lbs.; pickles, 1% tons; suet,
:340 lbs,; split peas, % bon; dried
beans and peas, 1% tons; celery
steeds, e3 lbs.; condensed mill-, 5�
tons; sugar; 20 tons; tea, 1% Ions;
coffee, % ton; drinking chocolate,
ie.% tons; jam, 1X tome; raisins, Ix
ton; ]'ice, j ton; tna0ta.rd,Bee lbs,;
pepper, 2110 lbs.; salt, l'/2 t>lis;
vinegar, 150 gall�oo11o; 1`ttnt, 1,21",3 gal.
ions; soap, 8 tons; tobacco, s
tons. ,