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Moana 0/ ••LO, wo,,e Corn $we -F ann'e LIMITED I/IIIJJllt11//rylllltltt/1111i11111pt/piliWil iiiiiM!liiiglMilillllllll!mlllllll p111111IMIIIIIIIIIi111iII1111111111111111116NI111t0iti111 2so Our new recipe book, "Desserts and Candles", will show you how to make a lot of really delicious dishes with "Crown Brand". Write for a copy to our Montreal Office. THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By iSABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " se question. "You were not hurt?" h whispered. "No, old man; no. I didn't have scratch. You took it all. You save my life, as you have done more than once, and, Enoch, you understand - we are back where we stood in the old days, with everything forgotten everything buried, buried so deep tha neither of us will ever give it an- other thought." The thrill of warmth over that strongest of all things human -a bro- ken friendship made wenn and secure again -ran like the vigor of transfus- d ed blood through the veins of the sick o man. Happiness flushed into the wan u face and his feeble strength returned , Merry's grip, o Andrew laughed aloud. "You under- - stand, Enoch, we are friends friends e that nothing can separate again as u long as life lases." The wistfulness of gratitude dim- med the eyes of the sick man. "As long as life lasts! That won't be a great while, Boy," he whispered husk- s ily; "only now -it is all right -and it e seems different. I felt like a coward s a little while ago. You remember that writing chap who died lately? He said something just before he went. I thought of it this morning -'I'm afraid to go home in the dark' -wasn't that what hes aid? I felt lonely -and I know-" "Listen, Enoch." Merry spoke with, , a tone of passionate conviction. "Look! • ; here, old man, you're not going 'home' Inc the dark nob yet. You've got thirty' or forty years before that homegoing." He turned imperatively to the nurse. "Push back the curtains, won't you? !Push them away back. There's a glo- rious nun shining -let it in." i The woman understood. She ran up a curtain and flung back the shutters. The r oomrev suddenly Y g r e 1 whits and ,radiant. "There!" cried Merry. "Talk of go - ling home in the dark? See how the 1 sun is shining! Go home in the dark, the idea!" A pathetic eagerness flushed into' the eyes of the man on the bed. The glare of the sunshine showed clearly the wanness and ghastly shadows in the bandaged face. "She says," the actor pointed over his shoulder at the white -gowned .nurse, "she says you are out on the highroad -coming back to stay with CHAPTER XXIV,-(Cont'd). "No, I felt that way at first. Then - it seemed foolish. Ono night I deter- mined for a minute to set myself free, to get the play back, and to make you understand. It was the night: that night -when you took ma home -when you found me in the -when you gave me new courage and a fresh outlook on life -when you made a man of me." Dorcas rose and stood facing him with her eyes searching him. "Why didn't you do it?" she asked. "Because," said Merry, unsteadily, "do you remember you -no I -I - asked you -when a man had fallen as low as I had if he had anything left that would pull him to his feet. You said, 'Yes, so long as he has honor, there is no end of a chance for him." "Oh!" cried Dorcas aghast. "Oh, to think that I should have put that in your way!" "Pat what in my way? Dearest, that night 2 came around the corner -1 I had been wandering in the desert. 'Suddenly I found sunshine,; I found love and hope, 1 found you. I That night -when you went away -I began to understand that it was the. most wonderful chance God ever put in a man's way." An instant later his arms were; about her and she felt his kiss upon, her cheek. "Don't," cried Dorcas. "Don't!" I She freed herself from his clasp and! held him away from her. "Can't you' understand, don't you see, Andrew, after what Enoch did to you, that I cannot be your wife?" "You cannot -he -my-" He stared at her in bewildered dismay. "Yes, that is what I mean," she whispered tremueously. "Don't you understand? How could I marry you. with the thought of this horrible wrong constantly between us? I could never forget it. Remember it was Enoch, my brother -don't you' understand? -my brother -who did this! How could you go on loving me and-" "Remember -it was your brother who saved my life," said Merry pas-, sionately. "How could I go on lov- ing you, dearest? How could I stop loving you? I could go through hell for you, and yet I confess I-woul rather be with you in heaven." H flushed and his face grew grave. "Yo ' are mine -all mine -and I am yours so wholly and truly yours that I haw grown to think of this world as mere ly one spot -one little spot -where w can make a home and I can have yo beside me -for the rest of my life." CHAPTER XXV. 1 Wentworth's chamber was dim a twilight when Merry entered. Th outer world lay white and breathles !under a dazzling sun, and the sudden 'change to a darkened sickroom for a moment made Andrew grope vaguely on the threshold. As his eyes became accustomed to the dusk he saw a white -gowned nurse standing beside the bed. Under the sheet lay the mo- tionless outline of the man's long body the head wound with snowy bandages Merry's hands gripped together con- vaisively. The nails cut into his palms and an ache which hurt tugged at his heart. Wentworth's chamber held memories for him: he thought of nights when he had lain helpless upon that same bed and Enoch had taken care of him in a lumbering fashion. es g Durin e Y da s he had seen the rugged face grow e g ow wan from want of sleep; still for him a smile always lit the stern features, Suddenly, as the last remnant of an old scab sloughs off, every fragment of hatred, of resentment at injustice, of pain and rebellion which for ten months had been warping his nature and clouding his life fell away from Merry's heart. The love, the implicit confidence even the boyish dependence upon the older man, came flooding back into his soul like a high tide. All that had stood between him and Went- worth seemed unimportant compared with the vital fact that they had been and still were friends. When the nurse beckoned he stole noiselessly across the floor. She pointed to a chair by the bedside. "He has dozed off," she explained in a low whisper. "Ile asked for you just before he went to sleep. I told him, you were coming. Sit here so that he can see you when he wakes up." Merry dropped into a chair. He began. to see perfectly through the gloom. Wentworth's grim gaunt face had startled him for a minute, The eyelids were closed, with depths of shadow below them, The man's domi- nating nose stood out like a silhouette against the white pillow. The mus- tache had been shaved away and lines, chiseled by days and nights of pain, wrinkled about the quiet mouth. Merry sat staring at the haggard face with a dull, tugging hope in his soul, which he could not voice even to Dor- cas. He wanted time -time enough to tell Enoch that the old enmity was dead, that the old love was alive, strengthened by new ties. A spasm of pain ran through the sick man's face, wrinkling the pallid forehead and twitching the lips. Merry look- ed up at the nurse. She read the question in his eyes. "No,' she whispered, "he is going to live. IIis brain is clear now. He has a great constitution. That was the only thing that saved him." The woman had a strong, intell- ligent face and her manner was full of calm conviction. She was not young and must have watched over many a battle between life and. death. She knew! Merrysighed with relief and peace of mind, even with a mad throb of joy. The thought of Dorcas and the future came with the conviction that there was still time to take up the all bonds of love to begin life again, The face upon the pillow moved and Enoch's eyes opened slowly, Recog- nition flashed into them, then a smile crept about the lined mouth, "klnochf" Tho young Man drooped on his knees beside the bed his fi gore stole under the sheet and caught in a strong grasp the hand which he had thought was slipping from his reach, Wentworth's eyes held a breathless us -indefinitely, you understand, Enoch? She knows, Don't you?" Ilii looked into the woman's face with are dent pleading in hie eyes, She srnikd anci: nodded, She oval the embodiment of health and vigor Her stalwart body and her wholesome rosy face were pleasant for sick eyes to look upon. "Yes, you've corns back," she said emphatically. "When the doctor left an hour ago he said we had pulled you safely around the cor- ner. Now all the job I have eat oat for me is to see you are kept quiet and patient and happy." "Yes, happy -that's the biggest part of the prescription," repeated Merry with a laugh, The sick roan looked up. The con- fession in his eyes was pathebic. "It, seems ages since I was happy, Boy," "Well, you're not going to be al- lowed to think, even to think of past ages. You've only to lie there and get well. It is our business -a sort of job cut out for Dorcas and me --to keep you happy. See?" "I see," whispered Enoch. The flick- er of a smile stole into his face. It brought peace and a pale, eager hope- s fulness, as if a bhonght of restitution and atonement was drawing in the a man's soul. The nurse lowered the d curtain and blotted out the radiance which flooded the room. "The doctor has ordered quiet." she whispered, "and sleep -as much sleep as possible." y Merry rose and laid his hand on Wentworth's forehead. "You hear her orders, old man?" He laughed gaily, "It's no use running full tilt against the nursing profession. Each one of them thinks she knows it all! But I'nl not going to say 'Good -by." I mean to hang around here from dawn to dark and deep in every time I can sneak past her -or the doctor!" CHAPTER XXVI. Occasionally during Enoch's conva- lescence Dorcas found him listening to common noises about -the house with a feverish anxiety which was half -terror. "I don't know what he wants," said the nerse one day. "I wish I could find out. The doctor orders me not to bring up any subject that aright dis- turb him. 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At Hardware, Drug, Men's Wear and Jewelry stores. 220 Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Canada, Limited Office and Factory: GILLETTE BUILDING, MONTREAL. se - his elbow and his eyes were fixed on Suicide Decrease. the door as if he dreaded seeing some The number of suicides in the city - of Paris has decreased 15 or 20 a s week since the war began. It has I been suggested that this disease is one come in. He asked who the wo man was I had been talking to. Hi temperature had gone up. I wish knew what he is worrying about." "I think I understand." said Dor- cas. She returned to the sickroom carry- ing a bib of needlework. An eager senile came into her brother's eyes when she opened the door. He lay propped upwith pillows. She sat down beside his s bed. "Shall al1Ir cad ?" she asked, "No; go on with your sewing. I like to see your hands fly with that bright silk between your fingers. Men have an idea that women are one- sided creatures. They• are mistaken. You sew beautifully, and yet, while you stitch, 2 think of your 'cordelia.' " It was the first time since his acci- dent that Wentworth had mentioned the theatre or business of any sort, Dorcas began to trace out the pattern she was embroidering with the point of her needle. Her fingers trembled. She spoke without looking up.. "You haven't cared to hear about business, Ent eh. There are some things you may want to know, since you ase strong again., Mr. Oswald sailed for England a fortnight ago. He hated to go, leaving you before the critical point was passed, but the Strand Theatre offered open time for August and it had to be attended to. He is rehearsing an English company now for 'The House.'" "Didn't he want you for it?" asked Wentworth, (To be continued). HOW SHE FOUGHT FOR SERBIA. Englishwoman Describes Her Life as Sergeant. Miss Flora Sandes, an English- woman who served as a Serbian sol- dier, gives her experiences in a book, which has just been published in Lon- don. She worked as n voluntary nurse in Serbia for eighteen months before the Bulgarian invasion, and was with one regiment when it retreated into Albania before the overwhelming en- emy forces. She ultimately reached Durazzo and Corfu. Finding her oc- cupation gone, she enrolled as a pri- vate soldier, and within a short time was promoted to be corporal, and later to the grade of sergeant, While she was with the retreating Serbians they were fighting a rearguard ac- tion practically for six weeks. She ends the volume with the an- nouncement that she is "eagerly looking forward to the time when we can get another whack at the enemy and march victoriously bads to Ser- bia. With any luck, I hope some day to be able to deeoribe how we accomplished it, and the triumphant entry into Nish, which we were al- ways talking about" Combined Age of Crew is 478. One of the best fi.shfng crews at wont off Scarborough, England, Is that of the Sussex, seven men whose combined ages Is 'i8 years. The "daddy" of . thetit all is 75, and the "kid" 62. ON THE FIRM Meat Production and the Demand. - Tllat meat production has not kept pace with the increase In population and that its•.8ailtu•e to do se, combined with increased cost of production and diminished purchasing power of the money unit, has contributed to higher prices nob only in the United States, but all over the world, 1$ stated in Part 1 of the exhaustive report an the meat situation in the preparation of which specialists' of the U. S. Depart - Mont of Agriculture have been engag- ed for some time. This country, ib is said, is participating in a world- wide movement, and It is not expected that the situation will undergo any radical change in the immediate fu- ture. 0n the other hued, it is be- lieved that, there will be a gradual growth and expansion in the world's production of beef, mutton, and pork, which may or May not equal the rate of increase of the meat -eating popu- lation. In America this gradual expansion appears to have begun already. Be- tween 1907 and 1913 there was a marked decline in the number of cattle in the country, but in the last two years this has not only stopped, but has given way to a perceptible in- crease. The estimated number on farms and ranges on January 1, 1916, 61,441,000, is, however, still hutch be- low the corresponding figure fur 1907, 72,534,000. With the exception of temporary checks due to losses from hog cholera, there has been in re- cent years a persistent increase in the producbion of swine. On January 1, 1916, the number in the coui?try was estimated at 68,000,000 as compared with 58,200,000 in April, 1910. On the other hand, the number of sheep declined during this period from 52,- 500,000 in 1910 to 49,200,000 in 1916. As the decrease, however, is nut suf- ficient to offset the increase in cattle and swine, ib may be said that the total production of meat in the United States is increasing, bat that the in- crease is not yet proportionate to the growth in population. The available supply of meati would be much greater if it were not for the due to curiosity, every one being so normous losses caused by disease and anxious to see what the outcome of exposure. Since 1900 it is estimated the war will be that they refrain that from 1,100,000 to 1,476,000 cattle from taking their own lives, hoping have died each year from disease, and for a French victory. from 600,000 to 1,500,000 from ex- posure. With sheep, the losses from - T d -GOOD DIGESTION -• Mother Seigel's Snap corrects and stimulates When your digootlon le faulty, wealmen and the digestive organs, and banishes the man, pain are certain and disease t. invited. aiimoate which arise from iodige.don. ' isease have been about the sense, but corn exposure much larger. With swine the relative prevalence f hog cholera is perhaps the deter- mining factor in the animal loss. In 1894 this was as low as 2,200,000, but Inc 1914 it 1 tamu amounted to 7,000,000. If these 7,000,000 h o s had been saved, g it is said, they would have produced Hough meat to furnish every family n the United States with 40 pounds f pork. Despite these facts, the United tater remains the greatest pleat eat- ing, as well as the greatest meat pro- ducing nation in the world. Approxi- mately twice as much neat is con- sumed in this country as in Germany before the wm•, and the total normal consumption in Russia, Great Britain and France is less than in Germany. The per capita consumption is also far greater in this country than any- where else, with the exception of Aus- tralia and New Zealand. Our own exports now consist large- ly of pork and pork products, and these are derived to a great extent from corn. In the fiscal years 1914 and 1916 we imported more fresh, chilled, and frozen beef and mutton than we exported, and more beef of all descriptions was imported in 1914, tan was exported. Inc this limited espect we have joined theg reat ma- rity. Practically the whole of the orld's export trade Inc meat is main - fined by nine countries -Argon tine, nstra.ia, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, under normal conditions, New Zea- land, the United States and Uruguay. Hog Notes. - If left with larger pigs, small ones will become stented by being crowd- ed from the feeding troughs. If the larger earlier pigs are fit for market it will not pay to feed them longer. Sell as soon as lit; do not sell until fit, Sweet corn will grow pigs more rapidly than many people renlize. Corn should be used Inc the finishing - up ration. Don't sacrifice an old sow that is a regular and prolific breeder. Such sows make the pig business certain, Give her a good pasture no she will keep active and healthy. 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