The Herald, 1912-04-05, Page 2i
�� CN�9D'S'RNI`ER,
OR, THE DUEL IN THE GLEN.
CHAPTER, V.
neon • forget the eireumstances of this
mttrx'iage, replied the ,girl "yon insisted.
upon an immediate ..marriage in order to
-catch the outgoing train whteh leaves
London within the hour. I could make
t .
no preparations. You were content to ,aIce
me jus°, as I am, you said. I had not
thought 'about the eolor of my dress."
He was not, as he said ---a superstitious
man --but the idea of his bride standing
at the altar beside him robed in blaek
crape, filled him with dismay.
How gloomy the interior of the dim old
church seemed to Irene -with its stained
glass windows, marvels of richness and
color, with figures of eainte upon them
with palm branches and golden crowns.
The white-haired minister looked at the
couple he was to wed as they advanced.
Ilow lovely the bride elect was, and how
strangely ill at ease the handsome bride-
groom appeared. "It is all. right, I sap..
pose," he thought.
For the sake of the fair, young face,
he asked few questions. Yes, it was per-
fectly, legally right -no business of his.
Then he opened his bock. For a momeut
there was deep silenee, broken only by
the song of the birds outside, and the
rustling of `the leaves stirred by the wind
tapping the window pane.
Then slowly, solemnly the words were
spoken and the responses uttered that
made this fair young girl Karl Heath -
cliff's wife.
They signed their names in the regis-
ter in the vestry. The old minister touch-
ed the lovely, pale face, wishing her joy.
and shook the bridegroom's hand, wishing
him -every happiness. "I have never seen
a more beautiful young bride." be said,
"always be kind and loyal to her."
Irene was startled at hearing the bells
peal as they walked down the aisle to-
gether. Karl .Heathcliff's face was flush-
ed, Irene's was pale and frightened. It
was the very solemnity of those words
"Until death do ye part," that had
startled her, she -trembled as she thought
of them -such solemn words -such terrible
vows; she had never thought, never
dreamed getting married was anything
like this; all the people she had ever heard
speak of marriage did it with a light,
careless laugh as ehough it were some
great joke, and here it proved to be so
terrible, so real that the memory of it
would always alarm her.
"My wifel" whispered Heathcliff, hand-
ing her into tbe carriage. The sun was
shining -the trees with their green foli-
age trembling in the summer breeze; the
belle filled the air with sweet music; how
well Irene remembered every detail of
that scene in the dark days that follow-
ed.
To the railway station, - street,"
Heatheliff directed the driver; adding, "an
extra pound it you make it within ten
minutes."
Looking from the w£ndow of the car-
riage, he had seen a face in the crowded
alarmingly and 'seemed for an instant. to
'festinate him.
Ile here! It cannot be him," he mut-
tered..:"Gooe heavens, of tt,ehould be!
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And 'I'-44it ri 7 hexer' �ln o g er•
thoroughfare, that made his own pale
Ixene'had s-okeiuta'hint, ;but his ag?
i'..-vc -cosi he had not oven
•asp
Iver' whipped tilt his he' Ilseg -,rind
in leas: -titan ten' minutes landed .them: at
Ute railway -enation, '-earning the extra
pound. Then be was dismissed. •
';.We cannot leave in this summary lash -
len . without letting ' Mrs. Grey know,', I
• Irene suggested here.
"When we reach the end of our jour
ney we can telegraph her, explaining
matters," be replied.
He diel not think there was any use in
telling her the truth just then -that he
meant that no one should ever discover
,whither they had gone.
The railway station at this hour was
always crowded. Heatholiff found a seat
for Irene, murmuring as be bent over
her;-
You shall never regret this step, my
darling."
Crossing over to tbe ticket office. he in-
quired in a low voice -after glancing
carefully and keenly at the group of men
near him to learn whether or not he was
particularly observed -"Can I get tickets
1:► here for Edinburgh?"
"No, sir," answers the agent; "get them
at the Scotch mail route depot, three
blocks down tbe street; wrong depot."
"How long will it he before the express
starts?"
In f,fteen minutes, exactly: .you'll be
very lucky if you catch it, sir,"
Heathcliff returns to Irene's side, hur-
riedly.
"We are at the wrong depot it seems,"
he • said -"I am sorry I dismissed that
cabman so soon; 1 shall bare to ret an-
other. Wait here until I return. It is
just twelve o'clock now, Irene," he says,
comparing his watch with the huge clock
on the wall, "we will have bare time to
make the train. I shall be back for you
within three minutes."
"Had I not better go with you, Karl?"
she su^-ested. He shook his head, with
a smile, hurrying away.
As he reaches the doorway, a very di-
lapidated looking individual in a crushed
bat and very muddy cutaway coat, hie
face so bespattered with mud. he was
hardly recognizable, ran directly into
Hcathcliff's arms.
'Souse me, -'sense Inc, sir," be hie.
coughed, in a voice thick with wine.
"Yon had better look out where you
are going to next time, fellow," retorted
Ileatheliffe, angrily. brushing the dust
from his coat sleeve and Immaculate shirt
front, with his silk handkerchief.
The "fellow" looks after Heatheliff, and
attempts to utter a low whistle, but it is
a failure; he is too utterly "gone" for
that.
W -why that -that's 'Eatholiff, 'Pon my
-may-seal," he hiccoughs. "Guesh 'ee
didn't rec rec-nize me. I o mat-ter-
(hiel-'ees a mean fellah any'ow that
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'Eathcliff.--So mean if 'ee lay in the gut
--ter, h' I, wouldn' pick 'ire up with .a
pitch fork."
At this juncture, Mr. Lennox=for it is
he, -is taken in charge of bytherail.wev
officials, and hurried summarily from the
h
e wish-
es
i the
t t 1
waiting -room,
tl o g protests
es
es to buy a ticket and go on that train,.
much to the amusement of the passen-
gers; even Irene was diverted from her
thoughts for a moment, in watching the
amusing spectacle.
"Have I done right in allowing Karl to
Persuade me to marry him?'s she won-
dered, vaguely, takiug up the thread of
" -oh Heaven
n I
her communings again,
n f
set o
forgive me, I am beginning to repent
it already The very touch of hie band
clasping mine always sends a cold chill
through niy heart: I cannot tell why.
She glances at the clock on the wall,
and perceives with a start of dismay that
fifteen minutes have elapsed.
"What can detain him?" she -asks her-
self -"he was to return in three min-
utes."
Irene watches with dreamy eyes the
throngs of people that came and go. The
mobiOnts drag themselves wearily on, but
much to her surprise Heathcliff does not
return. Surely he could not have for.
gotten her, she thinks..
The clock ou the wall marks the boor
of one; fifteen minutes more pass, then
another half, and with fascinated eyes
she watches the hands of the great clock
creep round to the hour of two. Time
seems to fairly fly.
Should she wait longer or return home:
she is so puzzled, so bewildered, by all
that has transpired she cannot think
clearly.
Once again, the irrepressible Lennox en-
ters, this time carefully brushed off -and
little the worse in appearance from the
dizziness of two hours previous.
There is the usual pushing and scramb-
ling to secure the necessary bit of paste-
board; and amidst the throng two un-
wieldy ladies, weighted down with innum-
erable bundles and boxes, make a rush
for the door that leads to the trains,
when it is thrown open.
"One at a time, if you please." shouts
the official, but neither of the two ladies
thinks of giving way to the other, in the
struggle for supremacy to be first; each
holding her parcels high in the air to
escape the iron railings.
One small boy sets an example to the
amused bystanders; he lowers his head
from contact with the huge boxes and
bundles, and scoots through the archway
thus formed with a derisive shout of tri-
umph.
Lennox watches the spectacle With a
smothered titter.
"I'll bet on the one this way for a
place," he says sotto voce to tbe official,
"Lewd pity the poor devil. ah, as to pay
for the other 'alt ho't the seat with ei-
ther h'of 'em, don't you know."
"You'd bettor get your ticket, sir, if
you intend to go-by this train," suggest-
ed the official.
Lennox made his way to the small win-
dow from - which the. ticket agent's face
beamed out, With . alaeritre that re, eonl-
sidtwitrc• iafe �di.aiueis ••.elf •a•• bed thaw
seemed eonsi�deretriv to4.lerlc .tor:bia ;Stat
1 ;Irene •was, by lots' time'. n ter' y ,.I,r2.i'-
,. - :a a i. is •:: a rrt i r
'what v tr rt•lr o
i4 9',•til
ri
u
her thcugli,tu were. Hai dastxil<-'.r•tl.,:. 1313
-Oh Karl -liar what can'aetain you?"
sebbed under her breath . "I Brow.
+slit
pocket -it saves her from bete
the nearest hospital.
Her white hand holds the pail ,•
ed so tightly that they do /lot a
to remove it -a hamm= .le tiuxekiv ea
the girl placed in it and in a very tthart
time She is lving, unconseioue still, nl,or
her own white bed in her\Own *ootaz,•
the Middleton Villa.
Mrs. Grey, the housekeeper, had lie
greatly alarmed over the girl's nttitr acre
absence, and more shocked still whetter/le
was brought home in .e deadly swoon, she
Bait!,:- •
The payer she holds in her handle a
key to the mystery -we purchased cue r�1
those extras a little while since our elvr s, •'
and found, to our intense joy and eft/ -
prise, the Middleton Safe Robbery with
the mystery sbronding it, was cleared ritY
last in those columns, No wonder rroor
"'maw Irene swooned when she read ally
wonder the shook did not kill her," ••
0r07.5 nothing OUko a delicious nap of Toa
6 delightfully irefroshhhj stimulant and
OHAPTEIL VI.
No wonder all London was startled.-bq
the thrilling tie
t 11x expose oontaiited txi 1
extra's. There as a detailed at.coniit
of IIoatheliff's arrest. How: he was eha
dewed by the Scotland Yard dotecttves
who had lest suspicioned him through
seeing him pass one of the new bills of
the same issue as those taken.from Ban
ker Middleton's safe on the night of, the'
robbery.
More bills of the same issue found thetas
wayfromsuspicion deep-
enedr his purse;:then de p
ened into a certainty in their minds. They,
would have waited further developneetiks.
.but, meeting Heathcliff coming out' of
the railway station, and- realizizig lee,
was on tiro eve of flight -to use their ow
words -they nabbed their man ivieho•e r
-further parley.
At first he tried bravado, declaring
was all a mistake; but that failed hint,
and then when he heard the charge them
which he was apprehended, and saw elle
handcuffs, and that there was no cbxun )
of escape, he burst into tears. Re felt
back like one half -fainting, when tlx
drew from the breastpoeket•'of, his 'eon,
two of the identical 'packages of menea'
abstracted from the safe.
"It is all up with me," they heard ,hue
mutter, in a husky oice that soundel,
like nothing human., • "1 have played for`
heavy stakes and -lost."
He tried to bribe the detectives to 1a12'
the money. whieh -was about him still,--
tixe diamonds ho wore, -everything,.. and
let hien go free, but they refused. They
were not men to be bought.:When he,
found out how useless all his pleading
was, he turned upon them with the 'fa-
roclons desperation of a criminal brought
to bay. and in the melee which followed,.
he was severely wounded -he could be
taken in no outer way.
"If I must go, take me away at once."
he cried, glancing fearfully back at the.
waiting -room windows, then down . at his
manacled wrists.
They hurried him into a coach sad
drove rapidly to the nearest police •ata.
tion,
I When the 'doctor connected with 'thee
precinct looked into his face, •he shoo
his head sagely.
"Well," said the Inspector.
' will i�' returned the doctor.
the
"Hedie,"
could not recover save by a miracle and
there are not the days of miracles. ,Ile
may last until sundown -not longer."
e• laugh, low and mocking, fell from
i the lips of the incredulous prisoner who
had been listening intently_ '
1 "Such nonsense -sheer nonsense," he
cried. "I have only the slightee'i kind of
la pain --to toll me I .shall be 'dead ,by
sundown is the rankest kind of nonsttixte.
It is the business of doctors to- er k
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anxious, territied-what can it mean?"
and make people miserable.", he added,
grimly.
But as the hours rolled b5' and hi ;1;lale 1
increased, he grew gxeatly::trqubl
"Do you want atny,hfng?" a
1
Sealed Lead Packets Only. Beward of Su'lbstiituteei.
ora
kited by his comrades and was as good-
riatlnred as he was brave.
• mgpe night soon after the sun bad set
elate was a terrible endo neer bet;t"cen
the hostile armies, our regiment was lit-
Almost. the first to
al cut topieces, h
lit -
rally ly
fell was my -breve young English com-
ea:de Heathcli.ff perhaps he was the most
tteekless and eared the least for his life.
e'T ;. caught him. as he fell baexward,.
struck down br a shell; he Lingered but
a few short moments, dying at length, in
my arms. •
Leon -Leon Forrester,' he called,
hoarsely -'are you there?' 'Yes,' T an-
swered; pressing his hand as I le'd Item.
down on the powder -burned grass.
+' It will soon be all over with me,
comrade,' he said, 'there will Le no mere
wanderings, no more 'ravels, no more
sterlit nights on the Spanish hilly, no
more camping out, no wild adz s'-cru-i,s,
no perils such as make the hoar, boat
and the pulses thrill -no more for me
It is not quite fair. after all, I rave
had but a very short life of it; and now
b d bin; d Ids
tooling• water to iilimil frac, 40
ITT.•,_fy braid -
thnnght I hail to' d e
"IYo yc-•u really tbtirk i am
tdie?"and the woman saw hit
and gash at the very thought.
to be cut . down like this.'
'Do me ono favor, Forrester,' he whis-
pered, faintly;' 'if you - live to return to
England let them, my uncle and my cou-
sin, know my fate. He will not care, per -
baps -but Irene, my cousin Irene, will
shed a tear for me when she knows how
I died. You will find my uncle's address
in a note -book on the fly -leaf, and next
it my cousin Irene's picture -take the
note -book and the picture back to them
and-'
The sentence never was finished -he
fell back in my arms on the battle -field
-dead,
' I took the letters and papers. together
-with the picture,.. from his breast -pocket
and transferred thenf to my own. Amidst
the heat of the battle I could . nos stop
to examine them. Months passed before
that campaign was over. I came out of
it unscathed, and when I reached Eng-
landcomrade I bethought of the ,
left` deed on the battle -field.
"Searching among my effects I found
the packet I had thrust into my breast-
nowefor4the that
time,dand for opened
first
time m^ eyes gazed upon the pictured
face of Irene Middleton.
"I need not describe to you what the
picture was like -you Have both seen the
original, I fairly held my breath as I
gazed on the pictured face of the most
beautiful being I had ever beheld. I laid
down the picture and took up the uncle's
address -John Middleton, residence. Hyde
Park, Loudon.
How strange a fate that Iteathcliff,
who would have inherited so much wealth,
ehairtd:-have .keen. ;struck down, and I, a
Mire , be ivy et", y e xxx t ,too r . 0 1 attaggi"ng, -struggling art-
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At this juncture the train bell rings
and Lennox flings down the paper on the
nearest bench, making a bee -line For the
now•moving train; everything else for the
moment forgotten in the excitement of
The waiting -room is quite deserted now,
and Irene paces the floor, rainy too be-
wildered to think.
"I cannot restrain my anxiety," she
matters -"my heart almost stops beating
with strange apprehension, How Karl
will laugh at Inc when I tell him how
frightened I have been,"
T1ie paper attracts her attentlou and
she picks it up mechanically, telling her-
self she will look it over it few moment's
Ito pass the time away.
As she opens out the page the first
words her eyes rent on are:--
Capture of the most daring and ex-
pert robber, London has ever known. The
mysterious Middleton Safe Robber clear-
ed at last. A correct portrait given be-
low of the man, taken by our special art-
ist who wan present ,at the scene of the
arrest. The desperate ;resistance of the
officers -a full history of '.he remarkable
crime "--•
Irene stops short; her gaze has encoun-
tered the pictured face -her eyes dilate --
she feels for an instant the cold eh.ill of
death creeping over ber. She holds the
paper off at arm's length, repeating the
name that seems to . stand out in letters
of glaring ilre beneath the picture -Karl
lieithe.liif I
4br. elutrhee the raper tightly in her
band; the fluor and the ceiling seem to
meet in the first forward step she takes.
She tries to cry out, but the deep, awful,
heart-rending cry dies away on her lips,
;taking no sound. 'rhe thretvs up her
]rands on one of which shines the wed
elide-riiiq the man wbasn nteturnd ere,
e
n, the great
serulett u hu-.
ninptation that
tt o -m o- to,. catch ,claiy `Breath with a
r. conscience
s ' m to
sharp gasp. Ila• Y no
1G never had any and I
listened
hands of the clock on the wall point-
ed to twenty minutes of three.
Lennox had been. regarding thebeau-
tiful face of the young girl pacing so
restlessly from window to window that
he had almost forgotten the necessary
bit of pasteboard.
"Ticket to Liverpool. my good fellah,"
he eaid, "what's the damage?"
"Train hasn't started; can't tell that
yet; replied the ar_ent, "Want a lite in-
surance ticket, too, sir? -Insures against
all accidents."
"No, my good fellah-ticket to Liver•
pool; h'I'Il take it straight," he cut in,
lawWally."Extra!-Extra!"-cried half a dozen
news -boys, darting their heads through
as many open windows and doors. sine-
ing out in a chorus the startling denoue-
ment:-
"Extra! -All about the capture of the,
most daring and expert robber in Lon-
don! The startling arrest by a Seeiland
Yard detective -Extra --Extra!"
There is as usual a rush for the papers, ,
'Ere lad -lets 'ave a copy,' nays Len-
nox, and be secures one.
His eyes begin to stare as he reads :he
headlines. The shock he sustains as he
reads further on succeeds in completely '
restoring his rather dazed faculties.
"By George, now who'd 'ave thought it,"
be mutters under his breath, 'who'd 'ave
suspected 'im h'of hall Molter men. By
George, now Ix'I'm astounded--h'I'll never
get the fifty pound oe h'owes me now,
that's sure•
, confound tbe fellah. Egad,
•
-_ .,xx ve - eagerly
o the yoke Orthe tt)nipter, which said: -
Here is' a golden opportunity; .fortune
never knocks twice at a man's oor. Do
not let this chance slip by you; why
should you starve, live from hand. to hand
on your wits with a chance for a fortune
before you. Heathcliff has not been seen
be his friends for years. They have grown
out of all remembrance as to how he
looks. No one save yourself knows of the
untimely, fate which befel him. Why not
impersonate him -it had often been said
we resembled each other -take his name;
go to Banker Middleton, presenting my-
self at the ilyde Park mansion as his
scape-grace nephew, returned to settle
down and lead a quiet life.'
"With the private papers I had in my
possession who would doubt me?
'At best I had nothing to lose. If! de-
tection through -..some unforeseen event
Ahmed come about -it could not disgrace
a poor devil of a strolling artist to anv
amount. All it required to carry out this
grand scheme was pluck and cool auda-
city.
I will bring a, long story short by ad -
hitting that I was successful beyond my
wildest plans. I was taken into the house-
hold of the baniter- with stern admoni-
tion 1n regard •to the pee", life I bad
been leading -and the threat unless I
proved myself worthy of becoming• his
heir, -I should find myself a beggar.
I was now launched fully on the tidal
wave of sueeess as Karl Heathcllif. I
was lost in happy meditation of all this.
h the banker broke in suddenly upon
"I dare not tell' you an untruth," ;. the
nurse- answered, pityingly, Ton are.,
sinking very fast. Is there •anything Ys
can do for you? Any message ran send
anyone?" '.:
"And I ant going to -die," he muttered,
"and I -I have thoughts so little about
death. I have always had a queer faney
that the old fellow with the reaper would
out others down, but somehow spare mole!
"Listen/' he cried: 'If I thought I was''
really going to die, I would make a -a-µ•'
confession. My lips hold a secret and I•
meat tell it before I die, I should not
rest in my grave if I did not. My idea of'.
death is rest, a long dreamless rest deep-
er than any sleep. I do not know what?
comes after it, I have never given any'
thought. to that. I should not like me.
rest disturbed. I should not like to come
wandering back to this world, haunting,
the place, perbaps, where I have sinned."
"These are feverish, restless thoughts,"
said the nurse, "the dead do not come..
back,"
I ate not so sure," muttered the dying
man; "night and day, I have been haunt-
ed by the terrible fear of expectiug the
spirit of a man bank to this world, who
had been foully murdered. The terror
of wa ehing has cursed my life, 'If I am
sinking, bring some one to me to hear
what I have to say."
She brought the Inspector and two of.
the officers.
1 'rime was," muttered the prisoner,
"when I would not have dared tell my
terrible secret, for. I should havegene:
to the gallows for it., but now -you are.
sure that I shall die?"
And the three voices nnswerecl-"Snrele
"That sounds like a death -knell," ntur-
mneed the dying man. -
After a moment of deep thought, lre
began speaking, slowly and with ilii.
Ileulty.
"I need net inflict the story of my -child-
hood or youth upon you. Saifice it to say,
they were more desolate than seldom fouls
to the lot of childhood. I can not, recall
one harnv scene• -I do not remember one
happy hour; have known every tenor'
every suffering that poverty is heir 'to.
No wonder my reckless, misspent life hat
rounded oft as it lens: I am glad to die
and end it all, I will tell my story hr;ct'
ly it is no common one," he said, herrn,
ning with the acknowledgment -that it was
sure -to be known sooner or later. "1 ani
not the real Karl Iienthetiff1"
If his eompanions felt surprise, their
faces did not betray it; they made tui
comment gad he continued:- ,
"Nature made me an artist, but a revs
ing disposition and love of adventure
made me a soldier. I had drifted to Ray
Paris; to Berlin, and front thence Into
Spain. It was at the time that .hostiti'
ties rent the unhapnv kingdom. 1' volute
teered at once, rather plea:ett with 4,lie
idea of a brush with the <'arlistij. flat,
campaigning on the warm Spanish bin's;
where lances bristled and eaenon',reaped.
was the sort et life I loved. Ammer ehe
ocher volunteers was a young l.ngliah•
man, between whom and myself a wrm
friendship sxrun up-he-was-ger/
ft » 1 g 1 li 1
Ileathc.lfff.
"I learned this much of his lxieterye be
was the nephew -of a wealthy ln,axilon
banker, John Middleton, whom he hitt not:
seen since boyhood.. '.Che advant -curl of, a
liberal education at Heidelberg lInitisttdity
was given hire with the nncleratannnitg
that he 'was at afuiure date to,luhcet
the greater portion of his uncle's gar a:ir
{ statale air it liel, placed therdd surf) a
short while ago--aud falls in a deep swoon
to the finer of the waiting•room. It would
have been better had elle died at the altar
than lived to have faced the dark fu-
ture.
Rough hands, but kind ones, hasten to
lift the slight figure, and she is quickly
given In charge of the Matron who has
t<harie of alrch eases.
l.t Is by the merest ohenee that Irene
happens to have 0510 of her cards fn her
Ivh"r+h Ifo
Vet egetr 1',Xixosinr, iaid-
i'ei.klc tl always fit disgrace",'
Fore always on the worst twssihlo VI 4.1U
with his stern uncle who WAS exi'rar
the look out for Somme prank of the tering
fellow's for which he shonlcl have tp p,t;l*,
•`he univeriatr for
expelled from. •.
Il° was »
hazing, and as his 01)010 vowed he sli ,\ctrl
not come to London, he travotierl. 1, .ut
on the eon -team t, at last :drifting int • ,t
/army ; though of this last , 0 a u;
unr.11i knew nothing. Ile was
every clanger -he knew no feat,•..'
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M. S. & 5. CO.
Preston, Ont.
KEEP THE BOYS ON THE FARM..
Fathers want to keep their boys•
on the farm,: but too many of them
do not want. to give the boys a start, „f
writes U, Carr. They say, "Let.1
thein dig their way out as 1 dict be-
fore them." ' ,et
Every boy cannon work hard all
of the time in heat or cold, or in
'rain or when the sun shines, but,
he asks for a holiday often he
i ' eat b and
ss back a sere a
heavy heart, and many a boy on the ;
farm seldom gets a chance to go
anywhere for pleasure. That is. dis--
couraging.
The manyfarn boys are denied
a 1ithe spending money, which
every boy craves. He ought to hay
a little, change that he can spell
my thoughts saying. as he touched a sil-
ver hand -bell close by:-
"'I shall send for your cousin Irene;
she is much changed from when you saw
her last -a shy, timid little child of sev-
en.'
admit-
ted
makes great changes: I c
ted modestly. 'Ten years will have made
Irene quite a young lady. I presume.'
"You have been gone over twelve; re.
torted Banker Middleton, sharply.
"I saw at once the rock on which I
had stumbled, and hastened to make
amends, assuring him it seemed but yes-
terday that I had left him -a stripling
of fourteen -and that I could hardly im-
agine myself now a bearded man of six
and twenty.
"While' we were sneaking I heard the
sound of pattering feet in the corridor
without, and .an instant later the door
was thrown open without ceremony. and
the loveliest young girl I had ever beheld
stood on the threshold.
'Did you send for me, uncle?' she asked"
coming forward with all the grace of a
young fawn.
Yes, my dear,' said the old banker,
fondly,
As she advanced I had every oppor-
tunity of taking in every detail of this
superb young creature. •
"She was equipped for a ride. and the
blue velvet riding -habit she wore, which
was °deed with silver gray fax fur, ficted
her slim, wineries figure to perfection.
"She looked like a tall slip of a girl
not over sixteen, yet I had heard in ad-
vance that she was nineteen.
A blue velvet cap with a scarlet bird's'
wing at the side, was pushed carelessly
back on a head running oxer-with.dark,
curls, •which were tied carelessly back by.
a bit•of;xibbdtl. file dark, sparkling eyes
rosei a face
t' u t't e
I l torr .0 5 from ha £ ,
loo
kine
ttizl . lx*ri tea ;4ad otry one with tiff lr`
vivrd'loveUrxess.;
"In o it • ' nantleted hand -she held.
one 1 , le. g.
the skirt of her : habit, loosely' gathered
an. displaying a charmingly dainty kid
boot and in the other hand' .' she held a
pear riding -whip.
"Did you want me, uncle?' she re-
peated.
"'Yes, Irene,' he answered. 'I want you
to welcome your cousin Karl -Karl Heath -
cliff. He has returned to us after an ab-
sence of twelve years, You remember
him, do you not. Irene?'
"She came quickly up to me, and I
have but a confused idea as to the words
in which she welcomed me as she held
out her little hand. I was conscious, how-
ever, that she added:
"'You do not look one particle like the
little boy Karl -my old play -fellow whom
I remember so well,' and I felt my face
grow hot under the keen gaze of that
pair of black eyes.
"Of what use to describe the weeks that
followed. I fell violently, madly in love
with Irene Middleton; and she -well, she
cared as little for me as the wind that
blew -I felt it -I knew it,
(To be continued.)
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just as he pleases, I know farmer'
who always leave their boys
home to care for the house and th,
stock while their parents . go off t
town or to places of amusement
This always makes a boy sore.
This is only one side of 'the. ques-
tion, On the'other hand some fath-
ers indulge their boys too much and
spoil then. They say, "I have
worked too hard all my life and now
I ale going' to give my boy a chance
to make a living easier than I did."
Another says: "I will give my boy
nothing but tools ancl let him make
his own living." I think this is the
best plan.
Boys, to be content on the farm,
must have some stock and pets of
their own. This will do more to
keep them contented than anything
else. I' know what I am talking
about, -for I live, on a farm.. I have
stock of my own, and I wouldn't
change places with any town bob* I
know. I am only thirteen years
old, but I have a horse, a cow and
some hogs. I am proud of my stmt.
For sport the boy likes a. gun, and
he likes to trap rabbits and other
game.
He also likes to have a room-iof,
.
his own where he can keep all of liis
own things. A bookcase filled with
books will gladden his boyish heart,
and fathers should buy their boys
books when they know they want
'then?,
rfor one •7311r�
.Some ., bo s• are born
aft
and some for another,
p• Pariah13:e ;
find t w
' out 17at
and sh
iSt1 t
can do bes;t,W-,and then ,help him :i
that d.recxtionr
Continual faultfindingmakes
n mak
boy's heart sore and discourage
him. A boy should not be punishes
for every little fault, but he shell(
be talked to and shown where he, i
wrong. Most boys are good a
heart and do not intend to d
wrong, and if they can be helped t
see what is right, they will generall,
do it.
CARING FOR THE PIGS.
In order that we may take, prop
care of the young p'gs, it is nese
sary that we know about what; ti
to expect them.
I have made it a rule to keep
record of the date, on which t
sows are bred.
By reference to my record 1 f
that my sows farrow from the 11
to
1.15th day from breeding.
Some claire that an old sow
go -longer than a young sow, bu
bred a yearling, a two-year"old
a six-year-old sow all on the, s
date. These three' sows all far
on the same day.
I like for my sows to be int
thriving condition when the.pigs
farrowed. In fact, I like for t
to imp:•ove in flesh during the,
title per'-od of gestation.
Some people are afraid of ge
their sows too fat, and 1 ' sup
that they can be made too fat,
they ought to be in good
They should have a surplus lai
for the suckling of the young
because it is hard to keepa
from going down in flesh ra
while the pigs have to depend
her for their food.
The sows areg iven senora
with a good shelter, close
house, if the weather is cool,.
a week before -they are due tr
Tow,
The, sows are fedi sparingly
few days after farrowing, i`Ow1�
n�, the
dually brought up to a full
It has always been hard f
to keep from feeding the "s
much while the pigs are youn
as a result I have had severa
of scours with the young pig
W%on'I:find the pigs 'begin
scour, I give the .sow Rift
twenty drops of laudanum
feed for a felt feeds, Her
reduced and this usually Leh
scout's in n day or 0, If T 1
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