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The Brussels Post, 1914-11-5, Page 2cy Nakcs Or, A Strange Stipulation. cy 9 CHAPTF,It IV. When the lawyers employed by the date 'Mrs:' K eenoak, who were administrators of cher estate, lead informed Me. Bryant of the extraordinary legally left to him by their late olient, they bad further be etructed ham that he was to be allowed only 0 certain amount 01 time ie which h 1 to come -to a decision. valet, Messrs. Pleydell & Cou ens showed Mr. With half•elo-ed eyes Bryant wzdthed Julian .Bryant .the greatest courtesy, and "Dearest husband, Enid bed written. this man lIo tray a,ranging some clothes in a'degree sympathy. I "I -want you to forgive me, but 1 hevo on a chair, puuiae out 1 nue smart socks It 00Beared that Dir. Pteydell, the senior grown tared of thio life, so tired of being 011 1 bedroom altllpealy; then he naive and partner, had received -direct lit instruct.ore a useless weight 00 your shoulders. You I st Woulytl you lake to be slaved now, sir?" only a week or so before her death, from say you -will not let me work, and thou mrs. Dfaate h eie�n ar regarding'thtlto agree with mvou, and eorI met going tot ale 1 be naked. money B yt^filch she had, ' q "I erct.always shave myself," the man 9n bed informed Bryant. She had, it appeared, tdl duly to r share y the burden. I am going I answered informed rho lawyer that with this be. to work For myself. To live on as we art ! The valet mala no remark, only 01100 t•- gnest a certain condition was attached; living now, don't you feel as I do, that eel_ and Mr. Pleydell was the arse to assure the sweetness and the beauty of ivory- ••Mary well, sire' and turned away; but Mr. Bryant, that had he been aware of the thing is lest? 1 shall always love you, as he was scans Bryant called to him. very peculiar nature of this condition, but 1 mast work, and if you are wise you •I say, who etre you? What are you he should have don his best to have ad- will not try to bring me back again, at doing here?" vised hie late client to abandon it. I least not until things are better for both „ray aamo is Stephens, sir. I was oat• It wee not, however, until after her 1 of ,l0... gaged bt your lawyers.' death, when a sealed letter arrived and) flow long have you been with me?" had been opened, that Mr. Pleydell had ! After her signature there were a few "Going on, for a month, sir; said Ste. been informed. of what had been in hie - more words— piens, Doti t about me, I can take erre 'A month!" repeated Bryant; then he late shout's mind. He had n0 hesitation ' of myself, and 1 ,vlll •rutile to you when I seemed to welts up completely. Ile drag - fret in declaring that ho found the suggestion ,havo goat Wows." ged himself into a sitting position, I something more than peculiar. "Silo must bo found!" Haid Julian Bry don't remember anything,' he said; and It is a downright incentive110 to immor- i alit, '•she must be Pound!" Stephens answered— Deity," he had said in hie first interview' Dir., Pleydell folded WI the Lotter and . No, air; you haven't seemed to notice with ne Bryant; and the young man put it on the table. anything. I'm glad, six, you have had e had answered mor latterly— , It is evident that your wife knows no- turn for the better. World you like to a It is not immoral, it is inhuman. Mrs. thing; • Julian nnid. get up, sir; the doctors, especially Sir Marnook was vary angry with mo because But Julian shook hie head. Joseph, wish you to be roused. He thinks I rnarraed without informing her of my ! "She'd never have left me;' he said• at would do you good to sft up for a while intentions to do so. She disapproved of wen he stretched out both his hands to every day early marriages, and. though they never the lanycr. Bryant looked at him in a curious mot, site hated my 1 wife. This is her way ••pleydell;' he said. "help me to Rnd kir., Pasb ant then he avid - independent." lilting t. me far having dared to be ! I have got nobody else to whom I can go, in'Verydcurioue," Mr. Pleydell had said, 1 to the 11bone (001to goneeyit bac&rtkoeou.ngl a ers "but Mrs. Me0noek was a very unusual got my chance at last; they've taken me st nnlisnal" ' mt as a regular driver." few minutes he would bo asleep again. Go 11e mutt not Meal again, ho must get up lie opened his eyes quite wiiielee The loom was changed, It wee larger, melt Prettier: there were 110we1•0 ou the table, 11e looked about hint with hes browe tem- tiaeted u1 a puzzled frown, and et that Moment the door opened and a Marne came in. "Xt. le Limo for your medicine, Mr. Bela ant,' site acid Julian lifted himself on hie elbow and looked et her. "efedietne,' he seed. "I 'want my break- fast,' The nurse laughed. J You have had your breakfast at long time ;ego." o into the country, and i tea, ;• ge -In: quaty in a muddle," the youon manOther Uack till quite lute Enid ween t there I said lveakl . 0 sank back on the their own and sten Laths, They. u what 1 felt like 'when I Pillowtt agnw. leo swallowed Cha mete, ,are Willing t0 listen with interest I can't ten you couldn't find m iviPe c.ae, and the nave moved away fu liar to long speeches and eager to dil- a Y soft t'askion. AI'. lite door Mite i1:tuNed-• II anywhere I roused the people in the - ••Your servant Stephens i3 waling to e11Ss them later, far tater are traiti- rural model farm under a Govern- ment instructor and the girls in a model farm home; brit the nights are spent at their OWIn homes Here they learn to do by doing, and they still got physical exercises that they may have strong bodies. They also have Danish folk high schools, which most of the young people at- tend. As a rule the young men go in winter and the women In sum- mer. Hero they get lectures on myths, history and literature of homac, and they told me he land gents coma in." ed to think rather than to be away early in the afternoon, and L0," Julian Bryant made no aunwer, and the �� elle had left a letter for me. liege it bas 1 nurse peeeed out, her plate bekm takelt walking encyclopaedias. Alco they The lawyer took the leiter from almost immediately by a tadnl-loekang have local rural schools of agrlcul- tremb'ling, outstretc ec hand. "Yee, Ill got up. But it was not an eoay task; more than taught to manufacture its raw pro once he would have fallen if Stephens had not held him firmly; and when at duets and 'sell it in the world's Iasi he was sitting in the ether by the market, thus eliminating middle - 'tune where the young man learns technical and practical agriculture, while the young woman is learning home economics in another. When through these schools the young folk are filled with a love kr itheir country and its soil and join hands and build up new hollies. His second 'address was on "Dan- ish Agricultural Co-operation." Co-operation seems to be the key- note of Danish business life and success, They alav0 co-operative bacon factories, creameries and egg -circles, as well as a system of co-operative credit under. which money may be borrowed alt 3% or 4 per cent. interest. The Danes raise white pigs and the desired weight is from 120 to 130 pounds. B'e'fore killing all hogs are scrubbed and taken to 'a bacon factory, where they are tested and stamped before and after killing. Only pure meat may be sold. The country boy is woman, mo I would rather a thousand times she i ••I will ' I can;' aaad Mr. Pleydell. window w•rapp ed a out in a silken dress. , had forgotten me;' Julian Bryant said. ! "et won't be difficult. I am sure we sha11..mg gown, he felt too weak to speak. men's profits. He lead the agonteing conviction preeeing have some news of her before another daY He wee roused from another epe11 of His third address was on "The on his heart that she had misread that hes gone. From what you have told me vain thought by Stephens asking him a . 7 h had sed if, •f has no friends She New Farm School. Even during est .appeal, and that she ' 0 sullpo yours , your 'wife - ours on. him not merely beaten by fate but self. s�s(annnot, therefore, have been helped by • The car as here, sir, and the chauffeur pioneer and home economy days, onPeedly -unhappy in has married life. anybody oboe, and people do not disappear b k The mere thought was so cruelly disloyal to Enid, he told himself, he would rather die than let her ever know of this strange legacy. He had sat a long time tanking matters over with Mr. Pleydell in that first inter• view, and finally lead gone awry in a most wretched condition. His attitude had -'been firmness itself. •If tine money had been six times what it is; ho said, "I should refuse it" Nevertheless, it was almost pitiful to note the way in which Bryant 'woe drawn to go back again and again to e office Just to talk over the legacy,. if by some means at least a little of this money could come to him. I .hate myself for even giving it a thought," he said to Mr. Pleydell on one occasion; "but when a man's down as far as I' am it is simply awful to he mocked by the knowledge that there is so much money waiting duet out of reach." Pleydeb1 & 00usen ought counsel's opinion, but without any satisfactory re- sult. Grotesque, immoral, inhuman, call it what they might, the terms attached to this legacy were biudin If he chose to remain with his wife, -a Julian Bryant would not inherit one penny. He stopped going to the lawyers after the Sant fortnight, but every now and then he wrote, and always the aamo an- swers camp hack to 'him; and the time was growing shorter and ehorter. The h h t i his decision 00 easily, you know, Mr. Bryant. :1011, won't you promise me to go home and take care of yourself?" into the office at Mt Tenderten e o that moment and Soaked enquiringly at kis partner. Dar. Pleydell ex - Mr. Bryant is ill,' Y ex- plained. ' He hae had a great shock. I am persuading him to go home." "What sort of .shook?' asked Mr. Ten- derten. For answer Mr. Pleydell picked up 19nid's letter and gave it to his partnere. Mr. Tenderten read it through and then put it down with a alight smile. any- how," this leaves the way clear, how; he said. "This fulfils the condi- done required by the testator." The man in the chair opened his eyes nerd looked fiercely at the speaker. He straggled to his feet with difficulty. "I won't touch the money," he said bhicicly, passionately. "Do you hear me? I won't touch the money! That's my last word, I had to give it to you sooner or later, and now you've got it!" Jvct for an instant he looked into Mr. Pleydell's eye0. "I trust you," he said. "You aro going to find her; you swear it." "Your wife shall be found, Mr. Bryant," the elder lawyer answered hie quietly. Julian Bryant closed his eyes and stood swaying uacertalnly on his feet for a moment, then he moved like a drunken date on lvhic a mus give man to the door. was drawing very close, "Don't come with me," he said to Ten - The - younger member of the firm of derten. "I can get along alone." Pleydell and Cousens was a certain Mr. But as he spoke lie caught at the door Tenderten. He was of a different calibre and hie eyes closed again, and then smi- te Mr. Pleydell, who was an old.fashioned dente he let go his hold, swayed to and man• one who wee just a little over- fro helplessly for an instant, and then weighted and flustered by the new ele. 81100 Plea her than gellt agitated r. broughtmeat. witch Kra. Marnock's will had "We must scud fora doctor," he said. into the firm. Poor fellow! I knew he was not flt to Mr. Tor' Julian professed a little gym- " - Paths, for Bryant pe was not He knelt down and tried to lift Julian, as0married man himself, eo Perhaps that i but Mr. Tenderten advised him to leave was ono reasth why he thought it was . ridiculous of the other man to allow sen- the.We it must get him said Mr. Ploy - dell. "What will he do when he gets home?" naked the other man. "There is no one to take care of him. The thing's gone dead out of his hands. You can Deo that, can't you? Whether tette is etraightfor- ward, or whether they are noting in col- lusion, the foot remains that the condi• Mons are fulfilled. This money belongs to Bryant now. "I don't think we must go so far as that, Tenderten; staid Mr. Pleydell,: 'Me. Bry- ant was most emphatic. You heard Slim yourself. Possibly this ,illness may per. mit us to give him a little longer time, but we must not act without him." Mr. 'Penderten shrugged hie shoulders, then went into the next room and called a clerk. Ile sent him for the nearest doe• tor, ,and when the medical man arrived it wee Mr. Tenderten who interviewed him. As far es the doctor could diagnose the case he Prcoalounced it a form of influenza, accelerated by emotion and fatigue and look of food. He preectibed conditions which in the little place practicallyeeJlian Bryant had been tieing, ,ter. Tenderten very gladly took upon himself all the burden of arranging to conduct the sick man to a nvesing home, "Mr. Bryant le a very valuable client of ours," he said. "He has come unexjeoted. 1v into a large fortune, and the whole thing has bean too much for him." Mr. Pleydell held himself aloof from the arrangements' which his partner made and the younger man was perfectly well aware that his action was not by any means approved of by the other lean. This, however, did not trouble Mr. Ten. derten. He 11,10 eiOeutially practical, •Ito s111 be the first to thank me ono of these trays'• he said to himself after he had eeen lir• Bryant comfortably housed in a large, airy room with everything inu ' 000001y tor me comfort sarrounding h "We will he responsible for all expense, he had .said to the dilator; and he went back to the office very well ;m110110(1 with the morning's wor• k timent to stand 111his way; 1111 then Kr. Tender?teu .did not really believe that Ju- lian Bryant would hold out to the last. He was prepared to take a bet on the sub - loot. He rather annoyed his colleague be this a°staranee that no man living would eacriiice so much money for such a reason, "You'll see, hell fled ,1 wayl" lee declar- ed to hits partner; but the days went by and nothing liannoned to prove Mr. Ten- derten•0 ednvietion. On the morning of the day before that on which Julian Bryant was bound to give Otis decision one way or the other. the - young man appeared at the office of Pley dell and Cousens almost 'before the doors were opened. Ono of the junior clerks informed him. that nobody had -arrived, and that Mr. Pleydell was not expected for nearly an hour.. He asked Mr. Bryant to wait, but Jplian refused. Ile timid he would walk • tel and down outside. To sit, in the dull lawyer's office would have been absolutely manoesible. Tenderten, alighting from a taxi, stew him in t'he distance, and was quickly enlightened by the man's 10018 that some• thing had developed. Inside he was given the information by hie-aefk'that Mr. Bryant bad been wait. ing nearly an hour. "Wouldn't Colne in, eir; seems upset about. something:' He is waiting for Be Pteydell." • "All right," said Kr, Tenderten. He felt quite excited, and only regretted that he bed not forced hie partner to take en the bet he had offered. Mr. Pleydell walkod'sedately to his of. e. floe, end lust as he reaehed the entrance ate 11•.x1 ececeted bv a wild -looking man, Whom at first the hardly recognised. Yon have broken your word to me,' Tadd Bryant, "you 11aVe done a dreadful thing!" Tuetently the lawyer grasped that he had to deal with a rum who was hardly sane. tlomo inside." he said. "We can't die - meta bueiness here, Mr. Bryant, tsho office was on the first floor. air, 1P',,&ioydell noticed that Julien staggered, said had to hold on to the stair railing like -e, man who wee not sure of himself, or 11£eown oteength, When 110 -wee an. hie office Mr. Pleydell pushed forward a big chair and the young man fell into it with a groan. "Ohl t my Dead 1" he said, "the pain -the vain 10 torture." In fact he 'was trembling like a man Leith ague. Yeu are not at to be out," said Mr. Pleydell. You aro very ill." "I have been walking the streets all night" Julien Bryant answered, speaking. 114Qarsely. My wife, hes gone-gone--- Cen,•what shall I do?" Tome, come," said Mer. Pleydell, going forward and putting his hand kindly on 7uliateeslteulder: "Pull youreelf tee gather, Bryant. Toll one what hae hon. nod0d, Enid has left tee,:''the ,young man an- seemed to him, driving through the duet moral. "SOmehow-somehow she hes got and the seemlier heat and then through to know of firmscursed business, and that the cool,eviashint' rain, Ire heel got e, along fleet rate, doing fax better In fact than he, had (epee ed to. That lane a brilliant idea of Derryman's, the suggestion• of learning todrive a car, The work 'was ,so intoresttag, but it was very dirty. 5ti11 dreaming, Julian ,lifted hist hinds to the bed gild looked at thorn. How had they managed to get ee clean? Tho grease and the dirt bad seamed to stain diem beyond all vedette. Mon, end he heel once been ao vain of lett hands: eerion0 haw tine tnind drifted back .anti back; 11e could see things quite clearly in the days when the had been a littlo boy. If he shut lice ogee quite close. lt' :he wee-wetli0ally living,111 that time. 1111 turned oleo again on hie pillowe. ThO' bedw,as oortainly Very'.0nlleing 1 hut. it meet be: mere Meet time to get up: Then ail at one0 he remembered that 1;e had arranged to tak0 a day off, a very eensihlo thing 1 d. oto e a oiili001117 really of Hine; Catrinsie wants to know if you have any orders?" w'l1en pave people w'�P+Tebuoy mei In r Bryant looked at him. homes 'and furniture, they gener "A car? A car?' "Your own car, sir. It comes every day ally had a log school where the h iever aux- this time. Sir Jose Y aboutt a t pmen who love that you should go out in the ear. � three R s Were taught by m I have got a light overcoat waiting for believed that "licking makes learn you, air: I took. measurements from your ing." After that Came a time when other clothes." I dont want to go out." saki Bryant. going to the city seemed the beet, The valet retired, and the sick man sat but Once again the Dry Seems t0 be, on thinking; but his thoughts troubled' yard trembling a little and said- i people are rural -minded, keep them " him. de Stenhene came back he sat for. Back to the land.' But unless "I want -S want Mr. Pleydell, Send " ask him t. Dome, 1' mist Como, "I'll ring through, air, to the office." church did the neighborhood, then andan the city. In early days one ,In a very little while Stephens was back followed many, until dead and with the information that Mr. Pleydell was away, and would not be back in Lon- abandoned. churches became Com - don for a fortnight or another three mon; now ithe tendency is church weeks. "Mr. Tenderten is at sora• service, sir," "No," said Bryant. "No; I don't want him to come and see me." (To bo continued.) DENMARK'S ADVANCE. Notes of Interest t0 Fltl'mei'S, School Trustees and Teachers. At the Rural Teachers' Confer- ence at the O,A.C.1 Guelph, Mr. H. W. Foght, specialist in rural education from Washington, gave three lectures. The first was on "The Schools That Made Denmark Famous." He told how after los- ing nearly one-third of her Country and people in the war with Austria and Germany, Denmark saw that she could not claim greatness of size. So the people determined to remake their country, .and schools, until now the Danes are the most scientific farmers of the world. They drained the swamps and tied down the sand dunes with trees, and it is every farmer's aim to leave his farm better than he re- ceived it. They have rural elemen- tary schools for the children from 7 to 14 years of age. These have beautiful grounds and experiment gardens. Nearly 85 per cent. of the teachers are men who remain for years in the salve school and live in the teacher's residence near the school for seven days a week dur- ing twelve months in the year. All snbjeets are well taught and cor- related with agriculture. Each school is provided with a gy'nkna- siunl. Nearby are the church, the graveyard and the in:anse. From the ages of 15 to 18, as a rule, the CHAPTER 1r. Julian Bryant lay in the small, ex• qu501101y neat, bed and watched the sun- light 111tor through the lace ourteina. Tho 'window was open and the blinds moved to and fro with a ploasant ry1hmiaal sound. He moved a little on hie -pillows end gave a sigh every now and., then... It wa0 a0 pleasant to Be an] and wake up slowly, Pleasant, and yet there twee that maw of doing something seat ought not to be done, that this erpell of luxurious ease would .be followod 'he a need for ex- tra haste' and industry. He had been dreaming en busily and he had worked ea beard in hie dreams that he felt be might permit himself Inst 8, few minutes mote. For miles so it ie wily she 1100 gen ' "She has heard nothing from me. Mr. Bryant,: the other ea.id'quletly.. "roar inetruation have been taboyed to, the let ter!" Hitting forward with rile aching head ennhoetedwith his two :halting handle, Julian said doggedlY: "Well, thou, alio has got to know of it some -.other way, - But, that doesn't mat• for now, ,ail that matters is -she alae gone and 1t to going to kill me, Pleedell;, that's what it's Relit% to t1e.' 'Lets talk this ant, Mr, Bryant,: 1oee1.. 1117 there toy 11e some mistake. Tell me everything.' 31111an sat heels in Ilse chart, and for an instant,119 could not sneak. Ills brows wot'b'6matkacted with nein. In that brok-, m1, tndietinet 1101.00 bo eald: 'You know I alive been 'working at a Ritrage lately,' ,learning to drive a car. Ce (61,48y I 'got m17 .first 101111. I had to union. Singe early days we have gat many public .schools, often with a few pupils, high taxes and ill -paid (women) teachers. 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In. an East ,London store the back of an envelope was torn while the manager was handling it, and three postal orders for one pound each fell out. The name and address' were still legible on the en-' velope, and by this means the postal orders 1y0re returned to the owner, who preyed to ba an aged woman. The: money had been sent her by a son. working in 1:11e north of Eng- land, who had refrained from men- tioning his gift in his letter, and the mother, being nearly blind, had not noticed the orders when pulling out 111e letter. ,A, bundle of lova letters, delicate- ly seen tad and tied with bine ribbon, was discovered among 41 quantity of colored panel. used fat' fancy th;- corations. They Were human 1ibIle epistles, starting in a bright, Opti- trastic vc1n, gradually dwindling 11,1- 1p a sad diminuendo,'and telling the whole story of a courtship and a severance. But it its in the rag trade that most discoveries are made. For every opportunity there is of losing things among wastepaper there is a dozen among old clothes. Romance in rags! People put a purse or a document in a pocket, and, discard- ing the garment, forget all about it. In this way a budding author re- cently lost a manuscript on which he had pinned high hopes. While re- vising it he was disturbed by a visi- tor, and placed the valuable docu- ment in an inside pocket of his old working coat. Tho next morning his housekeeper sold this shabby coat to an "old clo' " man with the manuscript Still in the pocket, For- tunately the housekeeper knew the man to whom she had sold the coat, and the Writer was able to recover manuscript, The finding of wills among rub- bi$h is more easily understood. Many probate suits are caused by the action of eccentric old people secreting their wills, and several cases are recorded of these docu- ments being picked out from among waste materials. Marriage eertifi- eetes, too, have a habit of, turning up in unexpected places. The Swedish Parliament has re- jeeted the woman -suffrage bill, Lady -- Pour reference says, among other things, 1111at you are 'accustomed to coopinss. coarse din- ners. Miss Casey (indignantly) — Coarse dinners, is it! Sure, *01.11r1, then it do he a mistake. 1 cooks very tomo dinners; A 'bitter cold wind blowing on a horse's abreast does much perman- ent harm, encouraging rheumatism, stiffness and like ailments. Always turn your horse's back to the wind, if possible, when tying him, .and ,put a blanket on. Keeping a blanket on the horse in the stable and keeping him tied out of doors uulblanketed is much like a soldier wearing a heavy over- coat in barracks and discarding the same while doing duty out-of-doors as te sentry. It is not best to keep oohs tried up day after day, nor is it best to allow them to run with the mothers while the latter are at work in 'the t fields. Keepep them in a to t that has good fences, where they can run and play and yeb 'be in .tile sun- shine. "Well, Bobby, dial you have all the pudding you wanted at din- ner " "No;m; before I got half what I wantedVI got full." She—An agent was around to -day with a machine for aerating bread without the use of 'baking powder, and I bought one. He—Well, of all the ways of. !blowing in one's dough, Nervous Wife. --0h, Harry, clear, do order a mouse -trap to be sent home to -day, Harry -33u1 you bought) one last 'week, Nervous Wife—Yes, dear, but there's a. mouse in that. "What animal is salis1re1 with the least n(ruxislutionl.i" asked ilia pro father, `"Phe moth replied his son confid sully. "It Cats no - biting but holes."