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HAMBLY "I've been very uneasy about him," said Cal, with a note of reproach in 4 b his voice. . ' ; "I'm sorry. Don't be cross. Be sides, I was going to. telephone you presently that he was here." With a push of his foot on the 'ground he set the hammock slightly swinging, Annie saved her balance by ;clutching his wrist: "Yes you might have done that," he repeated. "Well, to -morrow's the limit," agreed, "But why did you bring him "Well, about lair not beingmarried, "If it shouldn't eome to -morrow, at all?" ' and.. all that." What are you going to do? "All what?" Jackson regarded him for a mo - Jackson junior carte to his broth- ment: Br's aid "Gander isn't a, D "D Cal, "It had better come to -morrow," he h ►.' moping Flax" By Robert J, C. Stead MR1.14•1141111i 41.11.H..046.1.111121.0.1•11 "What is it she doesn't deny-' he Maybe to -morrow, "Reed's n nice boy." "Well?„ "So are you." "Oh, thanks. Really—" and his language doesn't conte easy. 'said, ominously. "If it doesn't you'll "And this was the last day of the Ile meats thatMrs. Frain couldn't re- 'have tocome through with your wa- term, To -night. I leave for home, (rain." Cal felt the blood jumpto his face. Here was a chance -snake an issue of it now -strangle those *mocking eyes ges, I'm not going to stick it here Perhaps I'll be "here again•aiext term; any longer. I'in fed up," 'perhaps not. You old goose ---don't "You won't have to" stick it any 'you see?" longer" said Cal, with a show of am- i He spoke gravely again. "You into an eternal stare. To think he ;ability: "I promise. you. By the way, wanted me to come. over, Annie? You had argued with his conscience about how about a little excursion on the 'could have 'sent nee' a message." I thought of that. But messages a- man tiler tliatd But le a again.ent This la"Whatifor?" sometimes fall into wrong hands. And his wits were in the saddle g � ? was not his hour, and he could wait. `Ostensibly, to fish. There's a boat the telephone is worse than the Plain - "After all, I don't see what differ- that we can get. Actually, to see if ville Progress. It was my little sub- ence it males," he resumed, quietly, we can't come to some sort of terms." terfuge, Cal. Forgive it, won't you?" "If the woman sinned, she has likely "You know my terms." 1 "Of course. In fact, the pleasure is paid for it. They usually do,. Iviore "Yes, but I've some terms, too. I all mine. But I'm sorry I didn't than their share." His eyes were want a clearance, so far as Reed is know; then 1.could have arranged it 'straight on young Jackson, "More concerned. better. I've another engagement to - than their share. In any case, the "Just how?" night, about nine." boy is not to blame, and those young "I want you to sign off your claim' "Oh, Minnie you have with you al- savages at school, taking the cue from on him." 'ways. What's one engagement, more 'their elders, are making his Life a tor- "Don't think that would interest me" or less?" ;rent. I'm glad Reed has gone home "Perhaps I could make it interest He was about to correct her, but he with him," you" held the words on his tongue. As "Well, I hope people won' say any- "Well, --money " talks." well let her think that; it would take thin' about it," Mrs. Stake quavered. "All right. See you tp-night. Nine less .explaining. "Why?" Cal was busy -empaling his o'clock. Better meet at the beach, if `!You're going to -night?." he picked exhibits on their pins and there was you don't mind." up the thread. - "There's no train un - in ' no mercy in him I Jackson nodded and Cal turned to til morn g. Mrs. Stake's voice weakened threat- his horses. I"No—I'm motoring. Friends of eningly. The issue had gone from Reed did not come home from Tine, from the South; they're to call school that afternoon, and Cal, scent- sometime to -night. It may be late, her head to her heart. - "Because, we've always been a de - Ling trouble, hurried through his stable but they'll be here. I've everything 'cent family, Cal. . We ain't much for l workand started out with Antelope. packed and nothing on my mind. Say manners or eddication, but we've al- i To mislead Jackson he set out in a di- "I look it." that. ways been' decent. It's.different' with 1rection the opposite of Annie Frew- "You look -no, I don't mean you—I don' mean you ain't decent, • die's. Once upon the high road be- Annie, you're positively fascinating." too, but you see things. different, an';hind the poplars he altered his Bourse "Oh, Cal, what a dear you are! Ev LI can't argue with you about that ,and bore rapidly down upon the Ern- en although I know 'you're lying, and boy."homestead,• r Annie had her you wish yourself:away, it sounds so But Reed is like—our own:Her ,ton 'whe e Y voice was breaking. "I've held him ,lodgings. There was no time 'to lose good to hear you say it See. , it isn't on my knee, many a time, -when you. if he were to be at the beach by nine eight yet. Can you put up with me didn't know, jus' because my heart 'o'clock. until nine?" 'was somehow reachin' out aroun'-him. The Ernton buildings lay behiiid. a' 1"Until nearly nine. " Annie, I wish ' an old wo- I grove of Manitoba maples fringing I didn't have to go; and that's the I guess - I m getting to be � man, Cal" -she was talking to Cal the northwestern corner of the -f arra. truth of God." into.-his,and their 'only -"an' God hasn't give me any lAs the Ford loped along the short, Her eyes leapt g ran'children. If Jackie there -So leafy lane occasioned by this ,shelter hands found each other. I'm `awfulon Reed, Cal, an' `belt, a sudden `Yoo;hoo". brought Cal 1 It was. darkening under the trees : set ' ' that'd make'to attention and his car to a precipi- when, after a while, she spoke of wou:ldn like for..anythinthe any of us ashamed—" - ,tate stop. Half erect in a hammock Reed. - "Tell me about Reed," she ``Don't worry, ,Mother. Nothing. will - under the trees sat Annie Frawdic, whispered. will makeyou ashamed.!with with one hand,waving to him a wet. "There isn't much to: tell, Annie.' My happen that ,, e you."It was the first time' Come, while the other adjusted. a 'sisters' boy; both parents dead; he has IPromis he had called her mother, and the -skirt gone somewhat awry from her been mine since infancy. He calls word justslipped ed out from him. But ',sudden change in. position. A foot me. Daddy X,, which means that I am .. s l the old eyes, which had gone wet,1 and ankle swung clear below the ham- not really his daddy, but, just suppos shone out again with a new light, ` ' I mock, and, caught in a lane of yellow en to -be." "What a Hamilton had slipped away, feeling tsunshine, cast an exaggerated shadow "Yes," she breathed. 'that -the conversation was on danger -!across an open space of grass and up funny name! Like algebra, and a bit ground. round. -Grit and Gander wentithe bare trunk of a neighboring tree. of"mystery about it. - Quite appropri- out together, to discuss under. :the I" Cal sprang from his car and cut iately, for you are mysterious -both 'friendly shelter of the stable in detail short her salutation. "Is Reed here?" of -you. And his name, Reed. That's; the deflections of the erring . Mrs. he demanded. -'' unusual, spelled with two e's. Did Frain, andP Cal's unexpected ected chain- ` "Uh-huh. I brought him over, as you give hint that?" � her, and to u' two and you •said." , "It was a whima:;sort of whim, I. pionshig of , . P o ether and speculate as to � "Then he's all right?";'suppose. In the hospital where• my two together P" whether they made four. Young j "Of course. What's wrong with sister—died—there was a verse in a always aloof resently fol you, Cal? You're ;positively .pale, if little frame; just one, the only relief P lowed themand Cal found himself -one could be pale behind such a coat on the bare walls ofthe room; -I alone with the farmer and his wife. of tan. I was going to say such a lo- wonder why hospitals must have their "I hope you weren't annoyed that I vely coat of tan—" . walls so gloomy?—A bruised reed —such an tinconventional one as I-1 "Thank you, Annie. I'm afraid I'm shall he not break, and the smoking gear these days..flax shall he not quench. That was called you ;noshes, he said, when he too much on high some found the old woman's eyes gripped 'And I was uneasy about. Reed. _ .it, and it seemed , y, to fit her. on his."He's safe as Sunday; gon for the case, so I called him Reed." .Annoyed? Why,child,every w o-1 cows, ' I think, with Master Jim. It's: "It's a nice name. I like it.'she man, at myage, hankers r . , " h k for that name you that are in danger. I begin to said. B.Sc., PILD., C.M. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Children, having taken tgradzate work in Surgery, Bact- eriology and Scientific Medicine. Office in the Kerr Residence, bet- ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church. All business given careful attention.. Phone.54 P. O. Box 113. Dr. Robe. C. Redmond M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Land.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. C1aisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario 'College of Physicians and Surgeons. 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Cal found himself caughty in an em - an' she put herself through, an' I al- "'I've known that for some. time," he barrassment not easy to explain. Al"-. Al- ways built on him settlin' down an' admitted, "but knowing it doesn't though he had his own fairly definite maybe gettiri married an' Navin' chil- seenl to help." - views on religion he was not given to deni but he never did, an' Dad an' me ; She swung the other foot to the a discussion of therm. '-He found an feels we're"gettin' a bit more alone ev- "ground. "I think it will hold you," absurd difficulty in talking frankly ery year. Now, a boy like Reed—No, she suggested, and he sat down beside with Annie Frawdic on such a sub-: I ain't sorry you called me mother." her. Her face and .hair seemed to ' juct. "Because -I hope to call you that, al -'take on something of the amber of the 1 "1 suppose it's poetic," he ventured. ways, after a while," said Cal, boldly. 'evening light; her eyes seemed full "A picture of'the tenderness of God. For a moment the dark eyes nar and deep; her angularities were soft-'Sometimes—I wonder." rowed; then a faint, happy, fleeting , ened and smoothed as by some my- j "So do 1," she said - quickly, "Life smile flitted over the austere features. stic, gentle hand, He was glad to idle isn't all tenderness, is it,Cal? A good "You're Lhinkin' o' Minnie," she said.' a moment or two with her, seeing that bit of the other thing. Has been for "I'm glad." lithe night held such portentous doings. me, anyway." She dropped, her voice CHAPTER EIGHTEEN I "At any rate, my suspicions were confidentially.' "You know, Cal, I Whileploughing in the'stimnier-fal- founded," he reinarked, when the ra- ,have counted myself something like low Friday afternoon, Cal ran over wither delicate adjustments of their cen- that—'a bruised reed,' you know, gopher. The hapless creature, darting tres of gravity had been completed. bruised, but not broken. I will not 'but from the deep weeds, became con "Young Jackson: was around for let myself be broken:" fused among the horses' feet and ran Reed? I: He had no answer,' and they sat on klirectly under the sharp colter,,. Or- She did not answer. ' in silence, gently swinging in the in-tat- ldinarily Cal would have given the . "What did he' say?` What did you tice of dimming light which sifted trident no further thought, but he had say to him? Tell me about it." i 'through the leaves about them. his it wasn't just that way," she 1 "At any rate, I'd rather be:the sheen living in'the morbid side of "Well, J � ,, . "You're some bruised reed than the smokin flax," mind for almost a week, and this sud- said, after a pause. Yo !� den little, tragedy stirred him strange- 1 prize suspector, Cal, and 1' didn't she continued, after a time. want to disappoint you." I "I never ttnderstood that part "You mean that Jackson didn't it," he said. come at all? Then why—" I "Then; you have never used a flax. "Not really, he didn't That is, not ,taper, I guess.,We don't, now -a -days, right to the school. But he may with our oil lainps or 'electric light, have been just over the ridge; you The smell—you'd understated. It isn't know, iti the little hollow between the pleasant: The desire to gttench it is scool and Stake's. I couldn't see, but ;very hutiiait and natural. You know, 1 thought it better to take no chane Cal, that figure seems to me more cos, and so I brought Reed home with striking than the other, It's easy "Yes: . . Don't ask me how Ito interrupt. know. Reed told me about his ver- I ...And then the strangest thing se, as he called it, and I looked it up ;;happened. When the cloud was gone in a coinn'ientary. You see how in -:''the shadow was gone,- too;; bothof terestedI have been in him- and you." But Cal was on his feet. "It's a new light, Annie," he was saying. "I never knew what it meant. I've been in the stench of it. Horrible—I. wonder—" A tremendous thought had gripped him, and his ribs seemed tightening about his heart. He had not been too Weak forsympathy,; for forgiveness; to "the bruised reed"; could he deny. the same sympathy and forgiveness to "the smoking flax"? The one had been slender, touching, appealing; the other vile, nauseous, disgusting; but. they were linked together -in this ver- se of tenderness.. which he and Reed had made peculiarly their, own. Af- ter- all, was this the way out? Was it? The voice of Reed, playing with Jimmie Ernton, chivied over the lilac hedge that screened them from the farm buildings. Annie, mode sweet, more companionable than he had ev- er known her, draped in the vague`ar- tistry of the gathering twilight, swung gently in her hainrnock, her toe stirring and restirring the scattered leaves at the lowest segment of her arc. The air was as still as though it had been glass cast in a ,;nighty mould overhead the sunset was splashing vagrant. whiffs of cloud with crimson and copper; already the colors of the east were fading into the drab death of another day. It was a time to be at peace with the world., Cal looked at his watch, a quarter to nine, By leaving at once he could barely make the beach by the appoint- ed hour. And he had`•no desire to lea- ve at once." What of. Jackson Stake? Smoking flax! Offensive, but. surely not a factor in life. - Let him go. There was another way out. A self- renouncement, a price to :pay, but- a way ort. He would pay it. Even as he made the resolve he ;suddenly knew that he was sane again. , "Must you go?" she was asking. "1 suppose it is .nearly ` nine o'clock. Couldn't you eancel it, Cal, for to - "I have cancelled it," he said, with sudden decision, .. ."How. about. Reed?„ "I think the boys are planning a camp fire to celebrate the closing of sehool. That , 'is how they love me, Tell flim you're here; they'll be glad, of of the chance to wait up until you go." "l3ut your friends?" "They ntair be late, I said." The light had gone out of the sky save for a faint curtain of letrion that still flushed the horizon north and west, _t ted it was black darkness ainid the maples when Cal at length sought Reed at the fire, Approaching quiet - ,enough to have sympathy with tete ly from the rear he paused to hear'a ly. He stopped, got down from his 'plough, and rolled back the clods which covered the quivering atom of "that which, a - moment before, had been life.... , When he passed by on this next routed he saw it was already `teeming with flies. At boon he met young Jackson in the stable . yard, "Any word from Winnipeg yet?" : Jackson demanded. "Not yet. There's, hardly time. me," 'em gone together. Daddy X says. - that's the way of it in life. It's about jealousy, I think, whatever that is." "It's very strange," said Master Jim,.. stretching, his sun -browned legs to- ward the fire On the way home Cal uncovered to. Reed somewhat of his new resolve. "Things- have happened," he said,. "which make it necessary for us to. leave Mr.'Stake's farm,_and the Plain- ville district, at once. Are you... game?" "Sure—with you, and Antelope. Where are we going?" "I don't know. Just going. , And'_. 'we're to start right away; to -night." - "But they'll be in bed. Ain't you., -aren't you -going to say good- bye?" "No; we're going out silently, like an army breaking camp and not lett- ing the enemy know." "Are we in retreat, Daddy X?" "No -advance. The greatest a tvance we have yet made." "All right. But I thought you'd want to say good-bye to Minnie. . ,.. I'd like to say good-bye to Grandma." "In war -time we can't always do - these things, Reed." ° "Yep. I know.- But the knight al- 'ways says good-bye to his lady, does- 'n't he, Daddy X? 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