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It
was in the nature of a lunoh.
Within twenty-four hours he would b
wanderingt.over Pails as he had wa1
tiering yesterday, That would not d
at all, Of course, he could pec
up and go en to England, but at th
moment he felt that it would be eve
'worse there, where all the world spok
English.
• "Suppose I order young Hamilton t
leave Paris?" he asked,
"Dut what right have you to order
hila to leave pails ?"
• "Well, 'I can tell him he is annoying
you end that I won't staled for it," he
• declared.
• For a second her eyes grew mellow;
for a second a -more guttural red flush-
ed her cheeks. •
"If you were only my big brother,
now," she breathed. •
Monte saw the point. His own
cheeks turned a red to match hers,
"You mean he'll ask—what busi
ness you are of mine?"
"Yes- t
And Monte would have no answer
He realized that. Asa friend 1
had, of course, certain rights; but the
• were distinctly limited. IIe had n
authority that extended beyond tit
moment; nor was it possible for Mar
• jayy-herself to give him that author
ity. Young Hamilton, if he chose
could harry her around the world, an
it would be none of Monte's business
There was something wrong with
Situation of that sort. If he ha
only been born her brother or father
or even a first cousin, then it alight b
possible to do something, because, i
necessary, he could remain always.a
'hand. He wondered vaguely if there;
were not -some law that would make
him a first cousin. He was on the
point of suggesting it when a bell'
jangled solemnly in the hall.
The girl clutched his a.rm.
"I'm afraid he's conte again," she
gasped.
Monte threw back his shoulders.
"Fine," he smiled. "It couldn't
be better."
"But I don't want to see him! I
Won't see him!'
"There is not the slightest need in
the world of it," he nodded. "You
go upstairs, and I'll see him."
But, clinging to his arm, she drew
him into the hall and toward the
stairs. The bell rang again --impati-
ently.
"Conte," she insisted.
He tried to calm her.
"Steady! Steady! I promise you I
won't make a scene."
"But he will. Oh, you don't know
him. I won't have it. Do you hear?
I won't have it,"
To Madame Courcy who appeared,
she whispered:—
"Tell him 1 refuse to see him again.
Tell him you will Ball the gendarmes.
"It seems so foolish to call in those
fellows when the whole thing might be
settled right no1v." pleaded Monte.
He turned eagerly toward the door,(
"If you don't come away, Monte,"
she said quietly, '•I won't ever send for
you again."
Reluctantly he followed hahaup the
stairs as the bell jangled harshly,
wildly,
CHAPTER IV.
A Proposal
Dejectedly, Monte seated himself
upon a trunk in the midst of a scene of
fluffy chaos. Marie had swooped in
from the next room, seized one armful,
and returned in consternation as her
Mistress stood poised at the threshold.
Then, with heheyface white, Marjory
closed the door and noticed it.
"He's down there." she infornt`ed
Monte.
Monte glanced at his watch,
"It's's charter of twelve," he an-
nounced. "I'll give him until twelve to
leave."
Marjory crossed to the window and
stared out at the sun -lighted street.
It was very beautiful out there ---vett
. of
warm and gentle and peui. And
at hehertack all this turmoil. 0.ee
again the arts peeken cry that sprang
to her Tip was just this:—
"It rant Lair—it lent fair:"
For ten years site had surrendered
herself to Aunt Kitty --surrendered
utterly the deep, budding. tea •ef her
young womanhe od. To the feet Mi-
nute ahs' had paid her obligations in
full. Then, at the moment he had
been 1' :t to spread he Ion iotlei
wings 1n;i sear into the sunshine, this
,,
ether eomplicet n had come. Vi -hen
the lawyer inform i her of the fortune
that was hers be had caught her
breath. It spelled freedom. Yet
the asked for so little—foe neither
luxuries nor t i0 for just he
privilege of leading c'r a space her
own life, undist ,rbed by any reeeetnsi-
bility.
Selfish? Yes, But site had a right
to be selfish for a Iittle, She had
answered that question when Peter
Noyes --Monte reminded her in many
ways of Peter—had ems down to hee
.farm inLittlefield : , , t t Sho
had seen mere e f Peter -r ti 1 - y
other -mon, ani knew Arai o 1 1 :arta
Ile had leen res gentle e t -Il her,
and veryeons/aerate; hutshe knee;
what was: 11 ills lie.tt,Co S. :.:.,i pet
the quest rt tc It t h 1 t
If site those to toilet' tilt reed te
which he lent? r t e . 1 :he r
to all those wonderful hopes t a;, heel
surged in upon her tr ei ,---lt.,
had only to nodi of she 1 her-
self
l :et et -
self go she could have ved Peter.
Then--ehe drew haek at, s, surrender-
ing
s
Ing her elf. It meant a rew set of
self.sacritices. It meant however
hallowed. a new prison. Beerrn e tf •
she loved, she would lova Lar,l.
e
a
lk against my wishes, Monte?
If that's the only way of getting
11 rice of him," he anst�tered coolly,
e "But don't you see --don't you under-
stand that you will only make a
0 scandal of it?" she said.
"What do you mean?"
"If he makes at scene it will be in the
papers, and then—oh, well, they will
ask by what right—"
"I'd answer I was simply ridding you
of a crazy man."
"They would smile. Oh, 1 know
them! Here in Paris they won't be-
lieve that a woman who isn't married
she stopped abruptly.
Monte's brows came together.
Here was the same situation that
- had confronted him a few minute, be-
fore, Not only had he no right, but
if he assumed a right his claim might
be misinterpreted, Undoubtedly
Teddy himself would be the first to
ymisinterpret it, It would be impos-
e Bible for a man of his sort to think
e in any other direction. And then—
well, such stories were easier to start
than to stop.
Monte's lips came together. As far
d as he himself was concerned, he was
a
d,
fi
t
zrn
A,
Monte glanced at his watch again,
"Five minutes gone! I•Iave you
seen him leave?"
"No, Monte," she answered.
Be folded his arms resignedly,
"You don't really. mean to aet
Willing to take the risk; but the risk
was not Itis to take, A$ long, as he
found Jahnself unable to devise itny
scheme/by which he could, even tech-
nically, make himself over into her
father, her brother, or even a first
eousiitl there appeared no possible way
in which he could 0550010 the right
that would not lnillte'it a risk.
Except one way,
Bore Monte caught his breath,
Then he walked slowly to Marjory's
side. She turned and met his eyes,
On the whole, Ile would have felt more.
comfortable had she continued look-
ing out the window,
"Marjory," Ile said—"Marjory, will
you marry ale?"
She shrank away.
"Monte!"
"I mean it," he said, "Will you
marry me?"
After the first shock she seemed
more 1ru1't than anything,
"You aren't going' to be like the
others?" she pleaded.
"No," he assured her. "That's
why --well, that's why I thought we
might arrange it."
"But I don't love you, Monte!" she
exclaimed,
"Of course not."
"And you—you don't love me."
"That's it" he nodded eagerly.
"Yet you are asking me to marry
you?"
"Just because of that," he said,
"Don't you understand?"
She was trying hard to understand,
because she had a great deal of faith
in Monte and because at this moment
she needed him.
"I don't see why being engaged to a
man you don't care about need bother
you at all," he ran on. "It's the car-
ing that Seems to make the trouble—
whether you're engaged or not, I
suppose that's what ails Teddy."
She had been watching Monte's
SOUP BY INSPIRATION.
I was once accused of making soup Rice, barley, macaroni, split peas,
by inspiration. Itis my conviction navy beans and other cereals and len-
that good soup is a dish which must the are all useful.
be more the result of good taste and 1 Here is a roughly prepared list of
judgment in combining ingredients, ingredients which have appeared or
than of any closely followed receipt. rather disappeared in soups of mine
Indeed, soup ought to appear frequent- that have received high praise.
ly on all dinner tables and it is some- Baked apples, lemon peel, cooked
thing that any housewife, whether oatmeal and various cereals, scraps of
rich or poor, ought to be able to make bread, crackers and toast, mashed
for herself, without a cook book, which turnips, gravies (either thick or thin)
may list a number of ingredients that left -over portions of hash, stew, cold
are not on hand" meat, ham bones, sausage, bacon or
For instance, on my morning visit salt pork, cooked vegetables, potatoes
to the ice box, I found these left -overs: Prepared in any form, liquor left from
one small cupful of stewed tomatoes, cooking meat, vegetables or poultry.
half a cupful of cooked cabbage, two In short, with a little practice, al -
fried sausages, some scraps of beef- most anything that is clean and whole-
, steak with a good-sized steak bone, some may be added to the soup pot,
and some outer stalks of a bunch of with benefit to the family health and
celery. great saving to the family purse.
I cut the sausages and celery into
pieces and placed them with the other Wartime Recipes.
ingredients in the soup kettle. To Golden -Corn Tea Rolls.—Sift toge-
thcm I added two onions sliced, four tier one cupful of cornmeal with one
small potatoes sliced, salt and pepper cupful of white flour, four teaspoon -
to taste• a pinch of poultry seasoning fele of baking powder and one tea -
,and about two quarts of cold water, spoon of salt. Work in three table -
according to conditions. spoons of lard or vegetable shortening
I I covered the kettle closely, let the with the linger tips. Add enough
1 soup come to a boil and placed it to . milk and water in equal parts—from
sunnier gent y for six hours. A fire- three-quarters of a cupful to one sup -
i
,less cooker is ideal for preparing these' fun to make a biscuit dough. - Turn
inexpensive soups, out on a floured board, make into rolls,
• When sufficiently cooked, I put the lay on greased tins and let stance for
soup through a rather coarse colander,' fifteen minutes in a cool place, Brush
using a feint to press through some of aver with milk or melted butter end
the t cry tender vegetables for thick -1 bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes,
ening. The soup was then set away War Cake. -2 cups brown sugar, 1
.in a cold place so that the -fat that i teaspoon ground cinnamon, 2 eups hot;
- would harder: (,n t }. could be reales-i water, 1 teaspoon ground cloves, 4
ed. The basis of the soup was then tablespoons lard, 1 cup raisins, 1 tea-!
ready and might be finished and serv- spoon salt. Bail together for five mi -
ed in several ways,. Cooked rice, notes. Then cool and add -5 cups of
macaroni o1 noodles could be -added, or flour, ane'. 2 teaspoons socia dissolved,
a mall teacupful of tomato eatsup to in 1 teaspoon o' hot water. Bake i±
make a ,erLty of tomato soup, or it two loaves in slow oven an hour and a
might be merely reheated and served quarter.
with el -Le eraekers. Boiled Haddock.—Wash and scale
A:1y L usekeepe- will have other! thoroughly, wipe the inside, and fasten
left -overs es peel or better than those the tail in the mouth with a skewer.'
I used. le there had been no 0010/101 Put 2 oz. salt into ?o gal. water, and,
on hand, a little chili sauce might have when it is dissolved, put in the fish,'
been substituted. :after the straining Bring the water to a boil, remove the •
and skimming. when celery fill., scum, then simmer gently 'about ?_
there is always celery salt, seed or the heel.). until the flesh eaves the bones
dried and pulverized leaves. If there easily, Take it up as soon as it is
is no meat. a teblespeonful of beef x- eu(F1eien-ly cooked or it will be hard'
tract ,added after sk;nlming) or a and tasteless, Garnish with parsley-,'
scant tablespoonful of melted flet can and serve with melted butter.
take its place. Barley cones: 1 cup barley meal,
'!This is the trat •egret , f the `am, as 1 sup wholewheat flour, 14 teaspoon
French soups, a secret w :i1 its salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 2
w'ci;;ht in geld to all beu el,ivos. .t aableepcons let, 1, cep sour mint,, 1-5
all dies in 1n0• r hoe- te a 1111111, The teaspoon seta, Sift f:?ni, barley,
minute bits et geed food that then meal, salt, baking ponder and soda
wise m114(0 be thrown away and se together ani work in far with tips of
Boning them -eo lightly that the flavor fingers or two knives. Combine flour
is delicate rather than prenourcti, mixture and :our milk tee form a soft
Tees strong. .e .:ming :,,:..p for dough. Turn out on a well -loured
meet 1 ersens. ; hoard, kneed l :tly, roll u' uile-halt.
Stillt . Iter secret 1r mahleg i11eh th t L cut in diamond
ed81, is a discreet -i a of ,.n3 harp 1e a Iltt oven,
a ad ever. a pulite Rice ere Cornmeal (riddle t'ekes.—
t t... 1die n :I cue 1 cup c,.1$ 0 t . e .. i rite 1 cum 0085.-.
1.. v l r t t11c me 1 t 1,. , f mi:k, cup flour, 1
.l._.t ..e 11 71 .,,gid 8 h 81MALie 4 t:aereenis baking powder. 1
eayr 1 1.o art _ ;, 1 1 r fate a
t t ,vc f- r a seey 1 ..1 eial mix welladd 'n est of in -
a.:.1 a:-„ eat t t icf them goee a eetelients and the '! e .en etrg. If
l . e wey, Seep te1. e geed must I is too thick. add a :Itch mere milk:
.a,.and u0 .ail ,cart,.? -1 of all+,el the oaking powder and
to L 1 1..• `1111 til. Bek. ver; rove , r, , a hot
Far tho tahatgr ell griddle.
C lcuid be ken t.1' Lima l) ac roost.. tete dried -
hard: 11.1 -1- ,)y (tnc' home-! Limit ieeime 1 .•up p.
na:.s. 1 cup
rric:i a pewee. eielstele erembe, 1 t e' e
aacpx' S1 OliaUn
lc•; ie 1 'u ,+ nit me. l.t e. 1 teaspoon ,1 t, pepper. :oak
ewe,: 1. 'J0:. bey lc tea.( len i., h 18'e. (OV(rwith 1511 -
and 1 re ev: eeet. such t5. es tt t:.ic tmei erne ell rin tende5. frese
i
c .ver. t' 1 111 :zed eids, trier: i throagh eoliteder. Pat uea ut
ecel, t.d.mtg.
rt.r.pOr anti st.:lat1111', 11„11 ., t.: at g,i#'! r. ;flit weit
elretament i, 01 to eateep, wallah ea ! 1 e an pulp Add onion Iuiee. edit,
ep and aiy e tome 1 e'l si flavoring. ! o":., : bread a d untbs,
eyes; but she turned may for a
second,
Of course," he continued, "you can
came ---without caring too much, (lan't
people care in just a friendly sort of
wily?"
"1 ehould think so, Monte," site ans.
\cored,
"Then why can't people become cin_
gaged--ln fust it 'friendly sort of
waYar
"It wouldn't metol very much, would
it ?o
"Just enough," he Bald.
He held out his hand.
"Is It a bargain?"
She searched his eyes, They wore
clean and blue,
"It's so absurd, Monte!" she gasped.
"You can call me, to Yourself, your
eecretavy" he suggested,
"No --not that."
"Then," he said, "call me just a
camarede de voyage,"
ger eyes warmed a trifle.
"1'll keep en calling you just
Monte," she whispered.
And she gave him her hand.
(To' be continued,)
Food Control Corner
Every pound added, to the nourish-
ing things to eat,—animal or vege-
table,—will count In this momentous
year of 1918, No one should shirk
taking up work an a small plot
through too modest an idea of its
value. Food Control has to begin
on the email scale. It will be chief-
ly effective through its thoroughness
in the small but innumerable house-
holds in the land. So, if more foods
can be grown on the home plot, no
matter how small, there will be a sav-
ing in exportable food and to that ex-
tent an increased amount of food will
be released for shipment to the Allies.
Every new bushel of vegetables next
Spring and Summer will release its
equivalent in wheat. It is the drops
of water in the ocean that go to make
up the mighty tide of the Bay of
Fundy, The essence of more produc-
tion does not mean simply more acres
put to wheat, but more eatable things
from each man's labor. A small acre
well looked after is often more profit-
able in an 'unfavorable season than a
large area. An English farm is often
measured downwards, i.e. by the depth
of its productive soil, rather than
valued for its sheer acreage.
Of the need for all exportable
Canadian food products no one should
longer be in doubt. The first of a
series of fortnightly cablegrams from
France to the Food Controller states
with a plainness that would be piti-
ful if it were not so noble, how badly
off the French civilians are. "The
supply of broadstuffs is causing grave
anxiety. Imports are very short.
Our bread card machinery
has been completed but present lack
of cereals will not permit of its ap-
plication," it says. What does that
mean? Simply that France is so
short of bread that it cannot risk even
a readjustment of what must be liter-
ally a hand-to-mouth system, lest
scme should starve. Yet France fights
on gloriously! Surely a common
pride in an Ally fighting the bravest
fight of all the ages should be enough
to make anyone determine that in as
'far as in him lies he will aid such
a noble race. The cablegram adds
that sugar, farinaceous foods other
i than wheat, butter and meats ore all
dreadfully short acid that oils and fats
aro preetioally unobtainable, As the
only one of the British Dolnielolis
prhetieolly accessible to cargo car-
riers 1t. is manifestly "up to
Canada" to strain every nerve toe
hl-
! crease the eportable quantities of
crease the exportable quantities of
overseas,
Cottage Cheese.
When the curds of cottage cheese
refuse to be anything but 'tough and
lumpy after they have been drained
through a cheesecloth bag, try running
them through the food chopper and
see how light and delicate they be-
come. If you want to add piquancy
to cottage cheese, either purchased at
the store or made at home, add a few
chopped -up cherries. Another way of
varying the flavor is to mix in it tiny
chopped onions or caraway seed,
Potato seed should be purchased
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as safe to ship without freezing,
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DOCUMENTS
U$l l) 'i'() J)I (1l tYJ11 IGNORANT
1IIISi4JAN SI1N'1'I(bgS.
Story of the ttort+n:It Revolution When
a Tailor's 13111 Dud Duty
AR n [lass,
During these troubIous days .of up-
heaval and 5011(8010e in Itussin there
have been many curious incidents,
same tragic, some farci,oally funny,
owing to the dense ignorance of the
Peasant population, Naturally there
was trouble when sentries or self-ap-
pointed guardians of the public weal
who eauld not read, clime to ileal with
the passports andpapers of suspects
whom they had halted or arrested.
Ivan of Russia, seeking his freedom
to -day, often groes about it blindly and
blunderingly enough; but so, a century
ago, did Citoyen Jacques i3onhonime
of France, Citizen Ivan is at one moe
Merit too confiding and at the next
oversespieious; but so, in the murky
dawn of the French Republic, was
Citizen Jacques,
Recently a foreigner, who e,caped
from the clanger zone of Russian tur-
moil, related with pride that 11e had
bluffed his way past an ignorant but
•auspicious guard by presenting, with
an air of mingled authority and an-
noyance, the birth certificate of his
haby daughter, She had been born
abroad; although not in Russia, and
the document was official and impos-
ing, A glance at it quite satisfied the
dutiful but illiterate guard.
In the days of the French Revolu-
tion a young noble, disguised and fly-
ing for his life before the Terror, once
did better than that. After escaping
desperate perils, he had nearly reach-
ed the frontier and safety when, at - a.
small village inn, a moment's relaxa
tion of his carefully rough demeanor,,
an inadvertent glimmer of native. ele-
trance, brought him under suspicion.
TIe was seized and searched on the•
snot; but nothing incriminating was
found upon his person, unless it were
s, paper that some.one produced from.
e hole in the lining of his bag, into.
which it must have fallen unnoticed as•
he was packing.
Saved by a Doctor's Wit.
His captors could not road, bet one
of them ran out and hailed a country
doctor who was riding by and brought•
him in to decipher it. He was a
known and trusted patriot, with no
love font the nobility; but as he stood
on one side of the hearth and the
m•isoner, firmly gripped by the arms
by two scowling peasants, stood upon
the other, he felt a sudden distaste for
the guillotine; Ile could not bring hire-
eelf to doom to the knife a head so
young and held so courageously.- He
met the prisoner's eyes fair a moment
and then broke into laughter as he
accepted the paper.
"Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! he
eried gayly, "My good Mende, you
can let this young fellow go without
endangering the republic, I assure
50u This paper is t;he rough drnf 1 of
an oration that our friend here must
have delivered at the dedication of a
liberty tree. doubtless in the square of
his native town. He is an orator. that
is all that ails him;' that aeconuts for
his fine manners. I warrant he de-
livered his little speech with an air!"
The prisoner drew a long breath,
their and theeyes met again; th-nks were
impossible. The good doetnr rode on
his way, and the youth, who was re-
leased with good -nattered a'nlogies,
left as. quickly as he dared. Once
more, when he was only a s•11ort leegue
from safety, he was almost held up
on the road by al fernier and h1e man,
who were suspie€ous of a straq,ger rid-
ing in hecto. But, with his recent de-
liverance in hind, he pulled out the re-
stored paper. as soon as 11.11 pe"' ^,iced -
their int entien, waved it authoritative-
ly in their faces, calling out that it
was a pass from the government, upon
whose urgent business be rode, and
galloped on without slackening speed.
The precious document he carried
was neither pass nor oration. It would,
indeed, have been sufticisnt to prove
his quality and secure his condenma-
tion before any tribunal of the Terror.
It was a tailor's bill for the making
of "one cherry -satin coat, laced, and
embroidered o11 the flaps and )lockets
with flowers in divers colors, the lilr-
ing of white satin, the buttons of ,shell
cameos with 8iirer settings.. Also a
pair of white satin breeches,"
♦
Fixed Prices for Bran aid Shorts.
'rhe Food Controller has fixed the
`prices for bran and shorts at $24.50
x11(1 125.50 1'e pectively, per ton 1n
bulk, f.o.b., Fort William Tho prices
for feed at Western rn points will be the
fixed prices lees height -to Fort Wil-
liam. At plauee west oftle points of
milling, the prices will be the' Fort
\1111!.tn1 fixed l.lices h'ss"freight from
the mills to Fort William, plus freight
from the point of milling to destine-
; tion. At iEastern points the prices
1 will be the fixed prit•es, plus freight -
from Fort William. The cost in bags
will be about P1;,311 per ton highei in
each ease.
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When it €s leaking is It poor time to
lnen(1 the root',
While the -tot ser was trying to
keep it a secret ilea the Prince of '''
WOOS 111(1 yenehed the Italian front
tis Ptin'e himself wee. making friends
without knowing it in ,the war Gone,