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THE GOLDEN KEY.
Or "The A dvenlures of Ledgard."
By the Author of "What He Coat Her."
CHAPTER XV.
Probably nothing else in the world
cou d so soon have transformed Scar-
lett Trent from the Gold Coast buc-
caneer to the law-abiding tenant of a
Surrey villa. Before her full, inquir-
ing eyes and calm salute he found
himself at once abashed and confused.
He raised his hand to his head, only to
find that he had come out without a
hat, and he certainly appeared, as
he Stood there, to his worst possible
advantage.
"Good morning, miss," he stamina -
ed; "I'm afraid'I startled you!"
She winced a IittIe at his address,
but otherwise her manner was not un-
gracious.
"You did a little," she admitted.
"Do you usually stride out of your
windows like that, bareheaded and
• muttering to yourself?"
"I was in a beastly temper," he ad-
mitted. "If, I had known who was from the station."
outside—it would have been differ-
ent."
She looked into hisface with some
interest. "What an odd thing!" she.
remarked. "Why, I should have
thought that to -day you would have
been amiability itself. I read sat
breakfast time that you had accom-
plished something more than ordin-
ary wonderful in the City and had
made --I forget how many hundreds
of thousands of pounds. When I show-
ed the sketch of your house to my
chief, and told him that you were
going to let me interview you to -day,
I really thought that he would have
to her because by all the ordinary
standards of criticism, he would. fail
to be ranked, in the jargon of, her
class, as a gentleman, He represent-
ed something in flesh and blood which
had never seemed more than half real
to her—power without education. She
Liked to consider herself—being a
writer with ambitions who took her-
self seriously—a student of human
nature. Here was a specimen worth
impaling, anoriginal being, a creature
of a typesuch as had never come
within the region of her experience. It
was worth while ignoring small. idio-
syncrasies, which might offend, in
order to annex him. Besides, from a
journalistic point of view, the man
was more than interesting he was a
veritable treasure.
"You are going to talk to me about
Africa, are you not?" she reminded
him. "Couldn'twe sit in the shade
somewhere. I got quite hot walking
He led the way across the lawn, and
they sat under a cedar tree. He was
awkward and i11 at ease, but she had
tact enough for both.
"I can't understand," he began,
"how people are interested in- the
stuff which gets into papers nowa-
days. If you 'want horrors though, I
cansupply you. For one man who
succeeds over there, there are a dozen
who find it a short out down into
hell. I can tell you if you like of my
days of starvation."
"Go on!"
Like many men who talk but seldom
raised my salary at once." he had the gift when he chose to speak'
"It's more luck than anything, he of reproducing his experiences in vivid
said. "I've stood next door to ruin though unpolished language. He told
twice. I inay again, though I'm a her of the days when he had worked:
millionaire to -day." on the banks of the Congo with the
She looked at him curiously—at his coolies, a slave in everything but
ugly tweed suits, his yellow boots, and name, when the sun had burned the
up into the strong, forceful face with 'brains of men to madness, and the
sleep. I'd wake up in the night and
fancy that I heard that cursed yelling
outside my window—ay, even on the
steamer at night=time if I was on
deck before moonlight, I'd seem to,
hear it rising up out of, the water.
Ugh l"
She shuddered..,
"But you both escaped?" she said.
There was a moment's silence. The
shade of the cedar tree was deep and
cool, but it :brought little relief to
Trent. The perspiration stood out on
his forehead in great beads,.hebreath-
ed for a moment in little gasps as
though stifled.
"No," heanswered; "my partner
died withinmile or two of the coast.
IIe was when we started, and
1 pretty wellhad to carry him the
whole of thelast day. I did my best
for him.indeed, but it was no
good. I hadleave him, There was
no use sa ng oneself for a dead
,man" •
She incl her head ;sympathetic-
ally.
ympathetic
al" Was heEnglishman?" she
eyes set in deep hollows under the
protruding brows, at the heavy jaws
giving a certain coarseness to his ex-
pression, which: his mouth and fore-
head,
ore-
head well -shaped though they were,
could not altogether dispel. .At the
same time he looked at her, slim, tall,
and elegant, daintily clothed from her
shapely • shoes to .her sailor hat, her
brown hair, parted in the middle,
palm wine had turned them into howl-
ing devils. He told her of the na-
tives of Bekwando, of the days they
had spent amongst them in that
squalid hut when their: fate hung in
the balance day by day, and every
shout thatwent up from the warriors
gathered round the house of the king
was a cry of death. He spokeof their
ultimate success, of the granting of
escaping a little from its confinement the concession which had laid the
to ripple about her forehead, and foundation of his fortunes, and then
show more clearly the delicacy of her of that terrible journey back through
complexion. Trent was an ignorant the bush, followed. by,the natives who
man on many subjects, on others, his had already repented of their action
taste .seemed always intuitively cor- and who dogged their footsteps hour
rect. He knew that this girl belong- after hour, waiting for them only to
ed to a class from which his descent
and education had left him far apart,
a class of which he knew nothing, and
with whom he could claim no kinship.
She, too, was realizing it—her inter-
est in him was, however, none the less
deep Ile was a type of those pow -
ars which to -day hold the world in
sleep or rest to seize upon them, and
haul them back to Belmando, prison-
ers for the sacrifice.
"It was only our revolvers which
kept their away," he went on. "I shot
eight or nine of :them at differen
times when they came too close, an
to hear them wailing over the bodie
their hands, make kingdoms tremble, was one of the most hideous• thing
and change the fate of nations. Per- you can imagine. Why, for' month
haps -he was all the more, interesting ,and months afterwards I couldn'
an
a
very nil
I did,
t0
sacrificing
rued
an
asked.
Ile faced the question just as he
had faced death years before leering
at him, a few feet from the muzzle of
a revolver.
"He was an Englishman. The only
name we had ever heard him called
by was `Monty.' Some said he was a
l?roken down gentleman. I believe lie
was."
She was unconseious of his passion-
ate, breathless scrutiny, unconscious.
utterly of the great wave of relief
which swept into his face as he realiz-
ed that his words were without any
special meaning to her."
"It was very sad,. indeed," she said.
"If he had lived, he would have shared.
with you, I suppose, in the conces-
sion?"
Trent nodded.
"Yes, we were equal partners. We
had an arrangement by which if one
died the survivor took the lot. I
didn't want it, though, I'd rather he
had pulled through. I would, indeed,"
he repeated with nervous force.
"
sureshe an-
swered.
am site of that,"
q
swered. "And now tell me something
about your career in the. City after
you came to England. Do you know,
I have scarcely ever been in what yon
financiers call the City. In a way it
must be interesting.
"You wouldn't find it so," he said.
"It is not a place for such as you. It
is a life of lies and gambling and de-
ceit. There are times when I have.
hated it. I hate it now."
She was unaffectedly surprised.
What a speech for a millionaire of
yesterday!
I thought," she- saki, "that for
those who• took part in it, it possessed
a fascination stronger than anything
else in. the world." ,
He shook his head.
It is. an ugly'fascination,"he said.
"You are in the swim and you must
hold your own. You gamble:with
other men, and when you win you
chuckle. All the, time you're whittling
your conscience away—if ever you
had any. You're quite dishonest, and
you're never quite honest. You' come
out on top, and afterwarcls you hate
yourself. It's a dirtylittle life!"
"Well," she remarked after a mo-
ment's pause, "you have surprised me
very much. At any rate you are
rich enough now to have no more to
do with it."
He kicked a fir cone savagely away.
"If I could," he said, "I would shut
up my office to -morrow, sell out, and.
live upon a fartn. But I've got to
keep what I've made. The more you
succeed the more involved you be-
come. Its a sort of slavery."
"Have you no friends," she asked.
"I have never," he answered, "had
a friend in my life."
"You have guests at any rate!"
"I sent 'em away last night!"
"What, the young lady in blue?"
she asked demurely.
"Yes, and the other one, too. Pack-
ed them clean off, and they're not
coming back either!"
"I am very pleased to hear it," she
remarked.
"There's a man and his wife and
daughter here I can't get rid of so
easily," he went, on gloomily, but
they've got to go."
"They would be less objectionable
to the people round here who might
like to come and see you," she re-
marked, "than two unattached
ladies."
"May be," he answered, �� "yet I'd
give a lotto be rid of them.
He had risen to his feet and was
standing with his back to the cedar -
tree, looking away with fixed eyes to
where the sunlight fell upon a distant
hillside gorgeous with patches and
streaks of yellow gorse and purple
heather, Presently: she noticed his ab-
straction and looked also through the
gap in the trees. •
"You have a beautiful view here,"
she said. "You are fond of the coun-
try, are you not?"
"Very," he answered.
"It is not everyone," she remarked,
"who is able to appreciate it, especial-
ly when their lives have -teen spent
as yours must have been."
He looked at her curiously. "I
wonder," he said, "if you have any
idea how my life has been spent."
"You have given me," she said, "a
very fair idea about some part of it
at any rate."
He drew a long breath and looked
down at her.
"I have given you no idea at all,"
he said firmly. "I' have told you of a
few incidents that is all. You have.
talked to me as though I were an
equal. Listen! you are'probably the
first lady with whom I have ever
spoken. I do not want to deceive you.
I never had a scrap of education. My
father was a carpenter who drank
himself' to death, and my mother was
a factory girl. I was in the work-
house when I was a boy. I have never
been to school. I don't know how to
talk properly, but 1 should be worse
even than I am, if I had not had to
mix up with a lot of men in- the city.
who had been properly educated. 'I
am utterly' and miserably ignorant.
I've got loco taste and lots of 'em. 'I
was drunk a few nights ago -I've done
Most of the things men who are
beasts do. There!' Now, don't you
want to run away?"
She shook her head, and smiled up
at him. She was immensely interest -
"If that is -the- worst," she said
gently, "I am not at all • frightened.
You know that it is my profession to
write, about men and.wamen. I belong,
to a world of •wornout types, and .,to
meet anyone different is quite ie lux-
ury."
"The worst!" • A sudden fear sent.
an icy coldness shivering .through his
veins. His heart seemed to stop beat-
ing, his; cheeks• were blanched. The.
worst of him. He had,not told her
that he was a robber•, that the found-
ation of his fortunes was a lie; ,that
there lived a man who might bring all
this great triumph of his shattered
and crumbling about his ears. ,A pas-
sionate fear lest she might ever know
of these things was born in his heart
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at that moment, never altogether to .enough not to press any hospitality
leave him. upon her.
The sound of ae footstep close at "His—little girl!" he murmured.
hand made them both turn, their heads. "Monty's little girl."
Along the winding' path came Da (To be continued.) ,
Souza, with an ugly smirk upon his - "'
white face, smoking a cigar whose NOTES OF THE BIG WAR.
odor seemed to poison tbe'air. Trent
turned upon him. with a look of than- Electrified Wiree Kill Animals—Bad
der, Boys: Make Good.
"What do you want here, Da
Souza?" he asked fiercely. • The number of special constables
Da Souza held up the palms of his in the London Metropolitan area is
hands. 32,617,
"I was strolling about," he said, The speed limit for motor -cars. at
"and I saw you through the trees. I the front is twenty-five miles an hour,
did not know that you were so pleas and it is one of the duties of'the mili-
antly engaged," he added, with a wave taffy police to see that the speed is
of his hat to the girl, "or I would hot not exceeded,
hove intruded,
Trent kicked open the little iron Rheims holds the record of being
gate which led into the garden be- the moat. heavily bombarded town in
gond. France, having been bombarded on
"Well, get out,; and don't come here 288 occasions,
again, he said shortly. "There's "Two men- with' a machine-gun," a
plenty of room for you to wander very distinguished British general has
about and poison the air with those
abominable cigars of yours without said, "can hold up a brigade" (6,000
coming here. men).
Da Souza replaced his hat upon his A sentry never gives up his rifle to
head. anyone—not even. to his general, no
"The cigars, my friend, are excel- matte? how persistently the latter
1 smoke the to-
lent. We cannot all s may demand it.
bacco of a millionaire, can we, Miss?" Cats, dogs, rabbits, and chickens
The girl, who was making some have been killed in such numbers by
notes in her book, continued her work the klectrified wires protecting the
havingngt tshim. appearance of Dutch -Belgian frontier that the Ger-
Da heard' him.
Souza snorted, but at that mo- man `soldiers have had to set to work
ment he felt a grip like iron upon his to bury them.
shoulder, and deemed retreat ` ex- The shrapnel that the enemy is
pedient. using is filled with the most extra -
"If you don't go without another ordinary collection of scraps of every -
word," came a hot whisper in his ear, thing'likely to hurt. Nuts, bolts,
"I'll throw you into • the horse -pond." scraps of iron, even marbles and chips
He went swiftly, ungracious, scowl- scfraps
are common.
ing. Trent returned to the girl. SheNo fewer an 19,648 boys who
looked up at him and closed her book.
"You must change your friends," have received.their training in Re -
she said gravely. "What a horrible formatory and Industrial Schools in
man." Great Britain have served during the
"He is a beast," Trent answered, war in the naval or military forces.
and go he shall. I would to Heaven Three of them have won the Victoria
that T had never seen him." Cross.
She rose, slipped her note -book into The high explosive favored by'the
her pocket, and drew on her gloves.
"I have taken up quite enough of Austrians is called ecrasite. The se -
your time," she said. "1 am so much cret of its composition is known to
obliged to you, Mr. Trent,' for all you only two men, who are natives of
have told me. It has been most in- ' that country. It is an explosive' of
teresting." i particularly destructive power against
She held out her hand, and the forts and earthwork.
touch of it sent his heart beating with,, The Italian private soldier's pay is
a most unusual emotion. He was small—three cents a day—but he is
aghast at theidea ofiz her imminent well fed. Besides ordinary rations he
departure. He realized that, when
she passed out of his gate, she passed gets plenty of fruit and macaroni and
into a world where she would be hope- other Italian dishes he loves so well.
lassly lost to him so he took his cour- Cigars are regularly served out to
age into his hands, and was very bold him, and often also wino.
indeed.
"You have not told me your name,"
he reminded hes.
She laughed lightly.
"Hew veryunprofessional of me! I service medal, on more than 500 civi-
c 1
ought to have given you a .card! For Bans. The list includes the names of
all you know I may be an imposter, shoemakers, tailors, doctors, chemists,
indulging an unpardonable curiosity nurses, mechanics, teachers, and
"1My name is Wendermott-Ernestine scores of other workers throughout
•GS'endermott." Germany.
Ile repeated it after her. It is reported from Northern
"Thank you," he said. "1 am be- France that the Germans are using a
ginning to think of some more things
which I might have told You.' metal -destroying liquid. It consists
"Why, I should have to write a no- of a mixture contained in a cylinder
vel then to get them all in," she said. under high pressure. By simply turn -
"I am sure you have given me all the ing a screw the liquid can be thrown
material I need here. a few feet against barbed wire, which
"I am going," he said abruptly, burns through more quickly than
"to ask you something very strange wire -cutters could possibly sever it.
The Kaiser has conferred various
orders and distinctions, from that' of
the Black Eagle to the silver signal
and very presumptuous!"
She looked at him in surprise,
scarcely understanding what he could
mean.
"May I come and see you some
The earnestness of his gate and the
intense anxiety of his tone almost dis-
concerted her. He was obviously
very much in earnest, and she had
found him for from uninteresting.
"By all means," she answered pleas-
antly, "if you care to. I have a little
flat in Culpole Street—No. 81. You
must come and have tea with me one
afternoon.
"Thank you," he said simply, with
a sigh of immense relief.
He walked with her to the gate, and
they talked about rhododendrons.
Then be watched her till she became
a speck in the dusty road—she had 're-
fused a carriage, and he had tact
4:
All Cut-up.
Laundry Proprietor (showing visit-
or through)—"This is the` mangle -
room for the clothes."
Visitor (sarcastically)—"Ah, that
explains it. Some of the shirts that
come back look as if they were sent
through a half-dozen times."
They Were Even.
Maud — I'm through with you,
Laura; your father keeps a pawn -
.shop.
Laura—And I'm through with you,
I Maud; I sawy our father coming out
of it.
It is usually the man with the least
to say that talks the most. •
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ABOUT, TIDE
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HOUSEHOLD .J7J
Selected Dishes.
Currant .Telly Sauce.—Make sauce
of three tablespoons browned butter,
four tablespoons flour, one cup milk
or brown stock, and one-fouitth tea-
epoon salt. Add one-half cup currant
jelly and one teaspoon lemon juice.
Toasted Cern. After• boiling new
corn six minutes to insure. partial
cooking, remove to bread toaster and
toast over hot coals or in broiler of
gas oven until evenly browned. The
delicious flavor imparted . this way is
worth the extra trouble.
Pineapple Pie.—Cream one-third
cup butter with half a cup of sugar,
add two cups grated pineapple which
has been heated to the boiling point,
Then add two beaten egg yolks mix-
ed with half a cup of rich milk and
one tablespoonful lemon juice and the
grated peel of a lemon. Fill pie, bake
and cover with a meringue made of
the whites of the eggs.
Vegetable Jardiniere. -For this dish
use cauliflower, green string beans
and carrots. Goo1i vegetables sepa-
rately, seasoning each with butter,1
pepper and salt. Arrange on serving
dish, with cauliflower in centre, car-
rot tubes at each end and' beans at
either side of cauliflower. Pass plat -1
ter, allowing each person to help hitn- 1
self to vegetables desired.
Duck Stuffed With Potato.—Choose
young, fat duck, with webbing of feet
soft. Dress, stuff and truss for roast-
ing, as chicken. For potato. stuffing,
have ready two cups hot mashed go-'
tato, one-half cup salt pork cubes, two
tablespoons. .onion, one' teaspoon poul-
try seasoning, salt and pepper. Cook
onion in pork until yellow; add re-
mainingin redien s.
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Apple Soup.—Wash, quarter and
remove cores of six tart apples, but
do not peel. Put into saucepan with
two quarts water, one teaspoon salt
and one-half cup rice. Cook until
tender, rub through sieve and return
to fire, with one-half teaspoon ground
cinnamon and one-half cup finely'
chopped citron added and sugar to
taste. May be served hot or ice cold.
Cornmeal Muffins.—Sift together a
cup of cornmeal and a half cup of
flour, a teaspoonful of baking powder
and a half teaspoonful of salt; into a
pint of milk whip three beaten eggs, a
tablespoonful of melted butter and
two tablespoonfuls of granulated su-
gar. Make a hole in the meal mix-
ture and gradually pour the liquid
into this, beating steadily. Beat, hard
for about five minutes, pour into
greased and heated muffin rings and
bake in a good oven.
Bread Sauce.—Put crumbs from a
stale loaf into a saucepan containing
one pint of water. " Tie in a cloth a
eve peppercorns and one small4onion
and a blade of mace. Boil a few mo-
ments and then remove them. The
sauce /mist very smooth. Add a
piece of butter and a little salt. Add
before taking from the fire a spoon-
ful of milk; this will give it a nice
color. The sauce must not be too
thick. Serve in a sauce boat.
Baked Omelet.—Heat 6 tablespoon-
fuls of milk and melt a small piece of
butter' in it. Do not let it boil. Take
6 eggs, beat the yolks with a tea-
spoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and
a tablespoonful of flour, Stir into
the hot milk, adding lastly the stiffly
beaten whites and a little parsley.
Pour into a well -buttered frying pan.
Put into a hot oven. In a few minutes
it will. have risen, delicate brown.
Slip on a platter, folding it in the
middle.
Corn Omelet.—To 2 eggs, the yolks
and whites of which have been beaten
light and separately as usual, add the
pulp from 2 ears of corn grated, Sea-
son with salt and pepper and add a
little parsley if liked. Mix with 2
tablespoons of water. Cook in a hot
skillet in the usual way, fold, and
serve on a buttered platter. Many
variations may be played on this
theme, just as with other omelets, us-
ing tomatoes, cheese, etc., if desired,
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Hints for the Home.
Canned fruits - nbake excellent -pud-
dings in winter.
To keep suet fresh, chop, ioughhy
and sprinkle with a little granulated
sugar.
Salt water, applied with a brush,
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Add a little ammonia to the water
in which you wash silver and glass,
ware. It brightens both of them won
derfully.
Before baking apples make a small
slit all the way round each with 2
knife. This will prevent their split.
ting when cooking.
When preparing rhubarb dip each
stalk into boiling water. This will
not injure it, and it will require less
sugar in cooking.
To prevent blue from streaking
clothes, mi.it one dessertspodnful of
soda in the bluing water. Baking
soda, of course.
Old brass may be eleaned to look
like new by pouring strong ammonia
on it and scrubbing with a brush.
Rinse in clear water.
To get onion juice, slice off the
root end and proceed to put half of
the onion as you would half a lemon
in the juice extractor.
If the stains on a dirty mackintosh
will not come off with brushing take
n raw potato, cut it in two, and rub
the soiled parts with it.
Washing fabrics that are inclined to
fade should be soaked and rinsed in
very salt water to set the color be-
fore washing in suds.
To remove paint and varnish stains
from woodwork, apply Javelle water
by means of a brush. Repeat if ne-
cessary and rub with a cloth.
When grease is spilt on the kitchen
table or floor pour cold water on it at
once to prevent it soaking into the
wood. It will quickly harden and can
be lifted with a knife.
To prevent the juice running out of
a fruit pie make a roll of clean paper,
hold it upright, and insert it through
the crust. The steam then escapes,
and the juice remains in the pie.
The flavor of an apple pie inay bt
improved by sprinkling the fruit with
lemon juice after it is filled into the
crust. Then cover with tiny pieces of
butter, and add sugar and nutmeg in
cinnamon.
For white spots on furniture hold
a hot stove lid over the spots and
they will soon disappear. They can
also be removed by applying spirits of
camphor or ammonia.
Always scrub the way of the grain
of the wood. Have plenty of clean
warm water. Only scrub so far as
the arm can reach at a time, then
wash and dry that part. Change the
water as soon as it is dirty. Do not
use more water than is necessary tc
clean the boards. When scrubbed
clean rub the boards well with a
clean flannel wrung out of clean wa-
ter, and then dry with a dry cloth,
rubbing the way of the grain. After
scrubbing wash the brush immediately
and hang up to dry, so as to harden
the fibres.
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you can always absolutely depend upon St. Lawrence Sugar
as its quality never varies. Remember, the slightest foreign
matter or impurity in sugar will prevent your jellies from
setting and cause your preserves to become sour or ferment.
FOR PRESE
It is well worth your while to ask for St. Lawrence
Extra Granulated, and to make sure that you obtain it.
Get the original Refinery Sealed Packages, cartons 2 or 5 lbs.,
Bags 10, 20, 25 and 100 lbs. each.
ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR REFINERIES, LIMITED, MONTREAL. 3915