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CHAPTER XII I stretched wearily in his chair and but , she brushed his arm away.
The Princess Meridel of Gratzen "Just," he explained, "so that 1 I—"
and her cousins arrive in Canada to tvay open thorn and see you a11I She tughtened.tlte grip of her bony
visit Baron Rndi de Mo-rpin, her about me. It has been so Iong,",fingers on the knob of her -suck.
uncle. ` He had been employed by His hand' reached out and touched 1 "It is nothing," she said. "Nothing.
Madame Fabre-Lusignan, who turn- Meridel's where she sat close to Just •a little weakness. I shall go
ed the , estate over to the Reren in him .° "This is real." he said' as if to'� to my MOM and rest for a while,
order that he could entertain the himselfy "All o£ it real. And you No, I do not want anyone .to came
Princess without her knowingof his are going'rv, to be with Me always.1with me. 1 wouldbe alone."
reduced circuanstanees. Roger Fabrel•Meridel. . 1 thought sometimes I Madame ,went .slowly up the stairs'
of the Canadian Air Force and' :should never return to you, that any to her room. ,Her step was firm,
nephew of the Madame's falls ?n leek would run out. But it held—it though her heart beat so hard that
love with the Princess.' Pol Martin' has held so far?' lit pained her breast. ,She walked to
and Rosine find a photograph on the' "Yeti '".have done well, Roger°~"ihe window and looked out for ,a
Madame's table and, learn that it ie''said madaiae.•'.f'We read of Your,few moments. She could tell that
the ,man whom Roger ha• vowed to i exploits, saw your picture in this he was there; she 'could almost feel
kill. They then learn that the man .,paper and that." j his eyes looking up at her out of
is Roger's brother. The Princess 1 He waved his hand. "We do not lthe blackness;_ For only • an instant
learned that the Baron was not the reason why, madame. ' When we she 'hesitated, then she lifted her
owner of the castle, so they all left 'are doing the things they praise us hand and beckoned to him,
for Coq d'or where he ' bought an for, they do not seen` of great im' "He never before obeyed' .moi"
interest in the Golden Cock. Roger portance, and when the world finds she muttered, tinkering with her
returns to find the Princess gone and then` so—well, we are puzzled. Tell teeth that were, gnisbehaving this
Madame's fortune in 'a bad way. Ile ace, was there ever any more word night. "Perhaps he won't now. What
sets out with Madame to find the about Michela" in God's name does he mean 'by
Princess and have her and the chit- i "Nothing," said madame. "Re-
dren return. While they were togeth- Gently we read that his friend, _Kehl,
er Michel and a companion escaping was arrested by the American po-
closed his eyes. l ",A,t'e you ill? Is there something
skulking out there in the darkness,
peering in at windows! I'll—" she
clutched her stick "--PII do what I
from a prison camp, appeared " and!ice, along with smite dozens .of used to long ago; I'll lay this across
took the keys to the car. Roger sentothers and held on charge of espi-
his thick shoulders; I'll knock some
out a general alarm for Michel. onage. Perhaps he was among them, of the devil out of him. If I had
While search was in progress orders Ido not know, Roger." done the right thing—ah, there!"
were received for Roger to report She watched the • doorknob turn
back to his command The Princess "Strange, Well, I shall give it up slowly, the door • as slowly open But
remained with Madame during the as one of the riddles of the age. To- he entered quickly, without a sound,
absence of Roger and helped with morrow, Meridel, I want to go shop- closed it behind him and turned the
the children, ping with you. I want to buy you key. He flung his hat deftly at ,a.
things -a ring -the .loveliest ring.: I; chair in the corner and grinned as
~want to see it. on your fingei, then it landed safely. He wore a trench
A few weeks later, toward even- I shall begin to think you ' really coat, a white scam, his hair was
belong to me." redder eve that '•she remembered
ing, just• as they were 'finishing the n
evening meal, those at Philibert I . In' the busy *reeks
eeksthat followed it, He smiled at ,her and said qui--
heard the raucous tocsin, the creak- Roger seemed
o" get
as rnua en etly, "For once, Tante Mimi, I
ing music of the horn on the station J°yment as Mendel or madame out obeyed you. T was about to bo off
wagon that had more lives than a °f the multifarious preparations for` into the cold, dark, windswept night,
'whole fancily of cats the wedding'. He was on hand the as they say. in the books, when I
ERNEST W. HUNTER
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
57 BlowStr. W. . Toronto Ont.
M I wh c Meidl ws
in-'"Roger!" cried Pol Martin. "It is to try on the wedding dress. lovely figure, standing in the win-
! peach
peach pudding that was the dessert at her as Rice a young princess hesitated only briefly;, then I came
fthat night was at once forgotten, soon to be a queen, she walked just to say hello -and then good-
and even. madame. • joined the soon to be a queen, she walked Iyyn
streaming exodus from the dining with stately step toward him. "Sol
evening in arc c m r e a saw your light go on and your still
Roger returning." And the excellent "It is . lovely said Roger gazing dow. When you beckoned to me I
room and made her way through lovely—yet not half lovely enough The black eyes, hawk's eyes,
the crowd on' the steps to bid him for her who wears it" bright and gleaming; never left his
welcome, to hold him in her arms, 1 "You find me beautiful then, mon-:face. Every inch of it they studied
to weep a little as she saw the look sieur?" the long jaw, the stubby nose and
on his face when Meridel came to' wide mouth, the blue eyes in which
I "So very beautiful, Meridel." He I the devil danced even as in her
hire and put her arms about his came Erin the big window in thew
neck and kissed' him. , own. His shoulders bullied huge in=
living room, where he had been sit I side the blue coat. He was taller
"I always like to return at twi- ting, and bent to her and kissed her than Roger. He looked, she thought,
light," he said, mounting the steps 'upraised lips. "My- love," he whir- like some Milesian King of old. Give
with Pol Martin and Rosine on his pered. "So soon to be my bride." hint a winged helmet, a jerkin of
shoulders, "It had always seemed . Ile saw only Meridel.: So it was chain mail, a battle-ax—
to 'me the .best time for a 'home- I with Rudolph, with " the birdlike '<Oberlieutenant Fabre," she said.
coming. I don't know why, maybe Mademoiselle Corbin; only old Mimi i He clicked his heels and bowed
the cheery lights and the warm fire I Fabre's ageless eyes glimpsed the stiffly, his face like something gray-
and—ah, it is• good to be back!" 'face that for a moment came close en in stone. Then all the disguise
Isis gaze had scarcely once to, the windowpane and , then was t dropped from him in a moment
strayed frotn Meridel, His eyes had gone. It was Roger who first noticed ! and the eyes sparkled again. He
a hungry look in them. He laughed the pallor of her parchment skin, i gave her a neat salute and said,
and talked and made the children' the whitdness of her lips,the way ~ ".Your mistake,ncadame—Captain
laugh at his. nonsense, but when her hands trenibled, • Michel Fabre, of the British Intel -
they had• all trooped' off to bed, he , `Tante Mimi!" He hurried' to her, ligence." •
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL.
Fire Insurance Company
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
OFF'ICE'RS-- President W. R.
Archibald, Seaforth, Vice -President
Prank McGregor, Clinton, Manager
Secy-Treas, M. A. Reid, Seaforth.
DIRECTORS— W. R. Archibald,
Seaforth; Frank McGregor, Clinton;
Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris
Leonhardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar-
tha, Clinton; John L. Malone, Seaforth
Alex, McEwing, Blyth; Hugh Alexan-
der, Walton; f George Leitch, Clinton.
AGENTS— John E. Pepper, Bruce -
field; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; J. F.
Prude; Brodhagen; George A. Watt,
Blyth.
Parties desiring to effect insur-
ance or transact other business will
be promptly attended to on applica-
tion to any ofthe above' officers ad-
dressed to their respective post offi-
.ees. Losses inspected by the director.
CANAdiAN,NAi00NAL RAILWAYS
TIME TABLE
Trains will arrive at and dart
from Clinton as follows:
Toronto and Goderich Division
Going East, depart .... , . 6.43 a.m.
Going East, depart ...... 2.03 p,m.
Going West, depart .., . (... 12.04 pm.
'Going West, depart ...... 11.10 p.m.
London and Clinton. Division
Coming North, arrive 11.20 a.m.
Going South, leave . .... ..3.10'p.m.
A Boy and Dog Stands Alone
In his speech of July 6, Mr. Chir- The City that stood cup to the might
chill revealed that the terns "South- of Hitler in earlier ,blitzes, and "took
ern England", used. in connection it" before Brit'ain was strong enough
with the Nazi flying bomb, general- to "hand it out" as, well, is going
ly denotes London. Up oto 6 a.m. en about its (business with a quiet eon -
July 6, 2,754 bombs had been launch- ( fidence in victory.
ed, tram bases in the Pas de. Calais, I Photo Shows—A little boy and his
"Mickel!" She had not made a
step before he had her in his arms,
picking her lip as if she were a
child, kissing her, and pressing his
rough cheeks against hers.
After a moment he set her down
and led her to the armchair. He
stood above her, looking soberly at
her, Then he sat in a chair facing
her.
"I fooled you, didn't I?"
"Not—oh, not .for long."
"You mean you were fooled but
yon wouldn't admit it. No disgrace,
you know. I've . fooled even clever-
er and deadlier ones than you. A
whole crew of them are behind bar*
now because they were fooled. You
just wanted to believe in me, didn't
you?" 1.
"Yes, l'lichel."! The old eyes were
fond. "You were always a devil
but I always loved it."
"Gently, darling. Don't go all
soft on me now."
"I could have killed you when—
when
hen when you struck your ,brother."
"Do you think I loved it? 1 had
never hated my job so ninth as 2
did that night. But mark this, if I
hadn't poked old Roger one, Kehl
would have shot him dead. h had
to •do it."
Something like . that, came to me
afterward, when I tried to think it
all out. But there.. were sa many
things—there .are still so many.
Those little children, Pol Martin and
Rosine, started
"Ah, the little Morpins. L re -
2,752 people killed, some 8,000 inky- ',dog stand raining bricks and mortar member those cute • little monkeys
ed. A very high proportion o?'the from his damaged home in Southern in St. Como, :.in France, during the
casualties had occurred in London. England, blitz. l used to have rare fun with
THURS., NOV. 2nd, 19441
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THIS AnvERTISEMBNT TO SOME MANOR WOMAN O
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then."
"You used to—but they hated
you! They found your picture on
my dresser and the little girl
knocked it down and stamped upon
it one day.."
"Eh! Oir,, I see want you :mean.
They were stamping on Oberlieu-
tenant " Fabre. It was Bonhomme
Frioot they used to like so much.
I taught them that old roncleau we
used to sing when we were kids.
You know—Bonsoir, Nigaud, Bon-
soir, Frieot—grand song."
"How oould you be Oberlieuten-'
ant Faber and Ronhomme Fricot
both, Michel? They saw you go into
'the old man's cottage, heard shots,
saw you come out—and you were
laughing. That was what they 'hat-
ed."
"The devil! They were around the
but that day 'then! : I have it now.
You see, it was like' this: The para-
chutist they saw gointo the hut was
not the one they saw cone oht."
"You mean that you—"
"I mean that he was ,going to
pop ,ire off with Iiia Luger, so I
popped hien with nine. I had to
get out of there anyway and that
poor devil ,seined to be sent right,
frpn heaven. I cut off a lot of hair
and whiskers, changed outfits with
him andleft the hut. And yes, 1
guess I was smiling. I even had the
Iron Crass."
"The children , loolced in the but
and saw Ronhomme Fricat, as they
thought, lying dead. Then the .planes
came over and tile hut ' caught
fire—>,
"And they wept for Bonhonune
Frlcot. I had a job to do ,around.
man, a brave man. Ile did work know it's no use, If you must know
of the greatest importance. A cap. —and you know it anyway—I did
tain, no less, A British agent. Cap- not want to horn in on Roger's wedgy
twin, Michel Fabre. "What happened ding. You see, I-•-•"
after you left St. Como, Michel? "You ha
How did you land here?" pltento he in love" with
the girl he is about to marry.
"It was all " planned, I got my- The blue eyes met her dark
self captured by the British and bright stare steadily, g'ra'vely.
was shipped to Engiand•. My own "Yes," he said.
chiefs. bad been praying for just "And she is in love with you."
such a chance as was given to us He shook his head. "Oh, no, shy
then—my knowledge of Getman, is lovle with 1 rte: "
Heidelberg, even the saber cut. -SP" "roti telyou know she—"
pristil It was as if trade bo order, tI ant no fool, madame. If she
They put me next to Manfred Kehl, is in love with tae]cow does she
I stayed next. to him all:the way to happen to be goi,ng ulp the altar
Canada. Together we engineered steps with Roger?"
the escape. Philibert was the near- "You were always a stubborn
est place we could get a car. The ,lie, Mirhel. You
only time I weakened was when I just said yore
fooled as all—
knew I had to .come here. I hated «Nat you! I didn't fool you, did
that, Tante Mimi. You will never 1?You -vent on believing in nue, did
know how much 1 loathed it. To you not?"
see you all after so long, and to see
the look on your faces—well, it was (TO BE CONTINUED)
my job. 1 had to dol it.. In the V
States Kehl took me to the people "
we were seeking.. They are now in WITH LIMITATIONS
jail. So: .is he." Mrs, Newwed- %leery, I thought
"You're a fine boy, Michel. A aro eyol p.ci oete hat your hank loaned
splendid boy. Now—" the old la- Mr. 'Newwed•--So it does, dear.
dy's voice. was very, soft and gentle
Why?
"—now why, after coming to Phi1i- I Mrs. Nowa ed W411, it doesn't.I
sent the maid down there with a
bert tonight, were yon going away note telling thein I wanted to borrow
without a word to inc, or : to any- $100 and they wouldn't give it to her
one?"
"Well, i—" he . fidgeted in his Work thou .for—pleasure—Paint, or
chair., His cheeks 'grew red° There. sing, or carve
was nothing noW of Obet:lieuten'ant 1 The thing thou lovest, though the
Faber: be was only ,a boy whose' body starve
cherished secret is. found out. "All Who works for glory misses, oft the
those explanations," he anumbled.l ` goal:
A lot of "datn,ned rtr't° " planned, to
who .works for money coins his.
St. Como—hence the masquerade *'rite to
you. oz'- m see yon tat-� very soup
there. I've been ,some queer things" el." Work for the work's sake, then, and -
in in my time, duchess—"Captain " ' pta.!n la'a.bre,i, Madam grinned I it may be
"t can believe it." Tice old lady's at 'him slyly. :`You '•wouldn't try That these things shallbe added~
eyes were •admiring no}v. Ho was to foolyour aunt, would you?" unto thee.
her boy, Michel. Ile was a great - Michel mailed resignedly. "I Kenyon Coxa