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THE BR JSSEIS POST
Missing The Mark
BY LIALIAN IVER,SON
He smiled et her vehemence, which
aeliareodiy pleasee bane, for his face
softened and serve of the tension, leas
blotted! out.
"'So you have beard.You know all
about It?" he said, in a fiat, toneless
voice, joist a'e If all hope had been
snatched. from', him, and he was
threading Its way through a thicket,
without a gill nurser of light at the
other earcl.
"'l know all about it. I guessed it
fit the first,". affirmed Bridget, al-
most with motherly tenderness' now.
"It's a cruel shame to make you
suffer. I—I—oh, I wish I could
s'tolp it all Bob, but I cant, It's
quite beyond) my power'."
'Good, little pal' he said thickly,
"but your sympathy helps. Mp word,
how it helps! I was at the end of my
tether when we met, I believe God
meet have sent yon; he added, rever-
ently. 'I shouldn't wonder if He
put all that strong feeling for others
in you. I was getting down to the
rook bottom. of despair. ,Don't think
me a fool, but the load seemed too
heavy to carry, You see I was so
trustful, so densely trustful, so that
the blo whas been all the harder.
I know she didn't care much, but
she promised: and pretty faithfully,
too."
eSte Is a beast," stuttered Bridget,
and was asi.amed that Anne and she
were Mertens. How deeply Robin
cared. Abi she knew that Anne,
In. spite of a11, had been flirting with
him, .playing with him to wile away
ber leisure hours. She had let Rogin
deliberately fall in love with her,
then had thrown him over because
see fancied that she cared for Mr.
Fallleiand, and chose to think he
varve over to Hopcolt on her ac-
count.
"I shall give her e. piece of my
mind before the day is out," she de-
cided, inwardly, and longed again to
comfort Robin and career him up and
get him to realise that Anne and her
type were not worth all this affec-
tion and acute disappointment.
Robin glanced at is, watch and be-
gan to move on, but Bridget had the
satisfaction of recognising that be
was loath to do so, that to Iinger at
her side helped' him anal lessened the
strain for him,
"Will you alwlays stick to me,
Biddy?" he explained, and there was
a shrill note in his voice to hide his
agitation, "Whatever happens, will
you go on• feeding aa you do now?
I've no riybt to talk to you like Leis,
but it would make all the difference
i! I 'mew you were, well, where you
are now," he spoke og lamely.
She nodded. 'SI shan't change. Trs
lot your fault, but you'll win
titronpll,' she anelwered bias, using a
phrase, she, bad heae'd on Adrian
P'0alitlarvd's. lips and admired, nlet in
the least aware that it had beep, rat-
tered''by.agood many othetts before,.
"Are you. going on that '' big wig,
Falkland " be asked, rather wish.
folly. "lie's at 'Hepeoet a lot, I
know, and, Saome say he Gomes for a
purpose. Some -say 4t'a _ you, and
others. Anne. There's a lot of talk
about it. Sbr whom does he come."
Midget !anew she must not say
Attie that would only he hurting
Roble afresh, andshe would not con-
nect Adrian Fa1kland"s' visite with
herself, that was ;too insane for
words Why couldn't the cottager/
mind their own business, What
was it to therm how many callers,
they had at Hopoolt Farm, and why
they elected' to present themselves?
It was all so very prying and rude.
Did It trouble her if the Goat daugh-
ters for instance- came over /rote
Hardwicke every day of every week
or not at all?
.She urged this upon Robin, but he
only 5•hrugged Iris shoulders and
pointel out hedges had eyes and
ears, and news spread in the wilder
ness quite as rapidly as inthe town.
Then he strode an, a fine figure, but
pathetic to the watcher, who knew
all he was going through.
Why should things bappen so?
Wy must: Rabin have fallen so des-
parately in. love with Aune when the
latter did not care a flg about him
and was upsetting herself because
Adrian Falkland was not attempting
to annex her?
If only Reba had wonted her!
There the terrible silatennent had
been uttered, the words resting
across her brain like 'a fiery stream,
escaped from a bidden source, of
which she herself had scarcely been
aware.
Haw long she had wishel this she
could not have said, until then she
bad surely looked' upon Robin as a
jolly neighbour to have, an agree-
able companion who was likely one
de yto many her sister.
Bat now she coloured 'roily at the
strangeness, of it all, and blamed
herself roundly for giving her .ova
unasked. 0f course she must forget
it, stamp it out, wipe it oat and do
all she possibly could to be a friend
to Rob. Perhaps she might influ
ence Anne to be more senSaible, a
kinder, more honourable.
Then she dropped her face in her
hands and sat very still and very
much afraid of herself and this
violent revulsion to do anything of
the sort, Crudely, her wants stood
revealed, bleakly as a tree in winter
holds out its bare boughs to defy the
icy blest.
bt was. in that moment Biddy
stepped over the threlsbold• elle wo•
menbood, sheltieg off a gay content
meet of childhood, .And it was be-
cause Robin needed . hes' she took
this enforced. journey, Adrian Falk-
land load nothing to do isa the" least
with the swift transition,
There wase no opportunity to dis-
cues any private ambleot with Aune
until the evening, for ,they were
both kept glued to the kitchen.
where, Lydda was making apple jelly
and quince marmalade and required
a fair aanaunrt of helping. Mutiny
also was to be taokled, and It decid-
edly consoled the woman to ciwe•11 on
the foot that others were working as
head as herself over this, since
Lydia loathed the Wind of work ane
advertised' it 58 blatantly as site dar-
ed.
Bub in the evening, when Mrs.
Gray was talking to her husband in
thesmall vroom where he did his
accounts and pored over the figures
with growled -out laments and. bitter
acousatone against the world in
general, Biddy buttonholed Anne,
detea'minediY.
"Why do you spall his life." she
eccciaifned, harshly, "Why didn't you
leave him alarm Pou must have
known •tisat you didn't went Wm
Why should you be allowed to do
tbese things It's— It's intolerable.'
"If you'd just explain what you
are raving about it would be more to
,the point," Anne's voice broke in
coldly, "as it s, I am quite in the
dark and rather inclined• to think
you have taken leave of your senses.
Who le this person I am supposed
to have treated so rottenly It is
the first time I have heard of it,"
-"Cam referring to Robin Cardrew'r
and Bdtily had great difficulty in
keeping her temper. "Dont let's
fence, Anne. Grandma will soon be
back again, and give us more mend.
ing to do. Let's get this over!
Wiry have you behaved so horribly
to Robin? He feels it awfully"
Bridget was surprised how enorm-
ously it hurt her to utter these
words. All within her rebelled at
having to acknowledge now that
Anne's: caliousiness meant so excruc-
fdingly much to Robin,
"I am still wholly at sea and
most certainly you are so, 'too,"
Anne answered slowly, and with a
smile of disdain. "it so happens that
Robin has never proposed to me or
mentioned love in any way, wwhat-
erer. It is all fancy on your part.
You gen an' idea firmly rooted in
your head and nothing will move it.
That is why I've given up trying.
I simply let you say what you will,
and .don't fag tb contradict—you
Royal Canadian Pacific Engine at World's Fair
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An impressive feature in the
"Railroads on Parade" pe
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Fair, Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive .2860 is attracting
marked attention. The Royal de-
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of Their Majesties Ding George
VI and Queen Elizabeth and make
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without engine trouble of any
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still In perfect condition and
could, if necessary, be turned
right around and operated back
to the Pacific Coast again. It is
one of 40 engines of the samo
series capable of a similar per-
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Four times daily during August
the Cyclopean Canadian Pacific
locomotive goes on display at
New York; and four times a day
spectators echo the words of Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth when
she inspected the locomotive dur-
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gine?"
Standing on the engine is this
pictUre are the "Gay Lassies of
Yesterday and Today," members
Of the cast of the pareant.
Ti. purest tars 1. wbicb
reb.eca can be rushed"
Iusoww no more aibout me anti ea7
letter snit heal life than tlrat 'hideous
old deck over there standing. an the
ptbntelpiece, It's, aeavays been like
that! You let your imagination
rat rich, and ethers bave to bear
with your ,spite."
"But hes seitI—he said 'she,' "
whispered Bridget, unbelievingly, "he
so clearly stated that ire ,had, been
too trustful, densely trustful, ' he
phrased it, He mentioned a prom.
Ise, a wotnatlfss faithilut promise; and,
of coulee, I thought tihet woman, was
you, Anne:"
CHAPTER le
Biddy is Engaged. 1
,"Well, it wasn't me," snapped Anne,
ungramanaticaliy, "and .the sooner
you sitop flinging abuse at me the
wiser It will be for you. I don't
want Rollin. I keep ou telling You
so. We may have been friends, bort
I shan't even be ilha•t 11 all this fuss
is going Lo crop up between use so in-
cessantly! I daresay he has a girl
away he is fond of. He hasn't been
the same since the returned from
Glasgow. They are a weird family
altogether for they are always Milt-
ing
hilting their hoarse. The more I see of
Robin. the more I assure myself that
I'll never marry unless I can be the
wife of a man who counts."
"How do you mean?' demanded
Bridget, sirar'p1y.
"I should hate to get into debt, to
be associates with debt;" amemde
Aurae, "it weuedi he a terrific strain
to one of my melte-up to feel not
quite sure of a hueband. In other
words, Robin's father ie a spend-
theift, eveydhing proclaims that.
Pee not so match what Robin says,
but wthat he hold's• back has taught
me this. I knew at orrice why Robin
was, glad. to have his father marry
the third .time. 'lit eases the burden
for his son. Probably the different
wives have had money, and managed
the, old man, I cant understand
wily you haven't geasped all this.
You would have done but for your
childishness! There never has
been any need, to fear I should give
myself to a boy of •that, ilk. The
grandparents may approve of nim,
but that doesn't influence me and
my outlook. New do forget the
tiresome baring topic, and let me
read, before I shall be doomed to
thread my needle again."
"A girl away-" Brdget kept on re-
iterating that sentence, numbly. She
had! eatpected. Anne to storm the cita-
del of lobo's heart. .She had
mem agcub.tomed to that probate"
ity, :But 'this', it rather turned her
world. upside down and made her
feel very small and ignomant and
wholly outside the things that were
realty happening,
She was .still very bewildered over
this totally fresh; horizon, to her life,
Sho very fact that Anne refused to
have the subject out with her made
it worse. Her brain was, in, a per-
fect whirl when Mellen Falkland
arnivedi the next afternoon! and the
Change in her could not fail to be
noted by him,
Be Put down her pallor and
troubled' eyels, to his negle,ut! She
had evidently been expecting him 'tlte
day before, and: the long hours of
waiting crowned with disappoint -
matt had hunt her. What a tender
little creaiture she was, and so un-
able to fend for herself Possibly
the grandearents. bad been hard,
and her sister, too. Must slavery be
the portion 01 this child for ever,
unless he saved' her from it by step-
ping in and offering her a home?
hires absence of her gay ethatter'af-
fected him, and so did her aitarty
eyes, ,She, had something on her
miuth—a big something to her, She
wee nervous and. 111 at ease, She
bad. lost, for lee time being, her an
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solute frankness end inherent iru
pulsivences. There wasa reason. for
this umaratural quiet and. aloofness.
'Dien it carie to him with unPleas-
anh force, that Anne had teased her
unkindly concerning his m'arke't pre-
ference for her society. Her grand-
parents May have had, also, some-
thing to say about at. The poor
ileitis girl did not know just what it
all spelt for her, She felt plunged
in an awkward p0Sition. and it was
by hie own selfishness anid stupidity
that these conditions ,had come
about,
It menet end, be saw it, and, to be
candid., all he could think of at this
moment wee to atone for life selfish -
nese and the invidllous situation in
which he had pieced her, He must
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Seadon, before she 'had listened to
his rattier incoherent reasonis, for
llding Hopcalt Farm and the Grays,
They had reached a pat's wirer -
grown wits, rank twisted tune 00
grass., and Adelann laid his hand on
Biddle's aim to •prevent her from
stuaneliog, Not that she was likely
to do anything of the sort, and on.
some dayw be would not have contvid-
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Iver whole tesoiai'rmeut seamed
changed, and ali his being strove to
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