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der Grat L.ve;
Or, A Struggle For a Heart
(J:c .Al?T1i11', ILLI.—(i ontinued).
"I am 'very glad," said Gaunt in a low
ice: "Anel you think that Id:iea Deane
accept him?".
'I ti ink so," said Mr. Bright. Than he
gan to talk about' the e Bete, Gaunt
t'ened, but absently, and presently he
se and ;mid: •
'I think I will go and change, Mr.
°tght. It Will be quite pleasant to get
to evening dreee, You will dine with
to -night?"
t'. Br-ght accepted. Gaunt rose and
the room, and Mr. Bright went and
ervieived the cook. The result was a
y nice little dinner which Mr. Bright
u]d have enjoyed if fiord Gaunt had
played any interest in it; but Gaunt
med•to have little or no appetite.
Ie seemed disinclined to talk though
to willing to listen to all that Mr.
ght had to say. Whenever Mr. Bright
erred to the Deaner, -Gaunt was eaten -
n itself; but other subjects attraoted
le of hie attention.
'fight endeavored- to draw Lord Gaunt
the subject of the exploration; but
int courteously refused to be drawn.
made light of the privations and per -
which the expedition had gone through,
said nothing of hie own share of the
tertaking. Any one listening to him
d have thought that the affair was
to a commonplace business, unworthy
otioe.
right, at last, said ""Good -eight."
C shall see you in the morning, Lord
ut.?Rhe said.
1;,. Yes," said Gaunt. "But I shall go
the aarly train."
hen Bright had 'gone, Gaunt left the
ni and went on the terrace with a
retie.
o she was going to bo married to Lord
'nster. And why not? He hoped
t the young fellow wee all that Mr.
ght had described him. He hoped that
would' be worthy of her. Ala, no! No
n could be, worthy of his girl -love, of
Deoima!
e
'went down the steps from the ter -
e and eauntered through the park In -
the road. From there he could just
e the chimneys .of The Woodbinee.
he was there—asleep; and he was hero.
t what a wide gulf yawned between
em!
Aad she was going to be married! Ab,
ell, that was quite right. It was as it
weld be. She was young and beautiful;
d this young fellow—well, it was right
t oho should marry one who was
uhg and well favored. A wave' of bit-
rues::swept over him. Ile tried to *rush
wn the love of her that rose in hie heart.
would go in the morning. Ile would
t see her. He would go back to Africa
meet the death which would come soon:.
or later; sooner, ho hoped.
As he turned away toward the Hall, he
a sharp light spring into the sky. It
ned to come from the spot a,t which
had been gazing, from The Woodbines.
He stopped and looked earnestly in the
eaten of the light. It grew and ex-
aded, and there was the sound of an
lesion. He ran up the hill and looked
nestly, anxiously, in the direotion of
flames; for there we. -e flames now, and
eke was red above the spot from which
y sprung.
was a fire; and at The Woodbines.
e stet -cif• running.
.03TATTER, XLU,
aunt rain aeroes the lawn, and olimb-
dhe park fence, got into the road. As
went, he was hoping that it might not
The Woodbines, but a,hay-eiack or
near it; but when he had gone an-
er hands -ea yarde or so, he caw that
as ,the Deaner' house that wad on fro.
versa. other persons were running in
same direction, and by the timo he
gained the front gate, a crowd had
eeted and was shouting and ruehing
ut excitedly.
aunt pushed lass way through and
gilt a man, the nearest to hien, by the
ire they all out--eafe?" he asked.
fore the man could reply, Mr. Bright
e running down the path from the
ning House.'
e that .you, Lord Gaunt?" he panted,
turned and' addressed the crowd.
:no one; run down to the farm and,
ig tip a ladder—the longest you can
bring two, and ,some rope! Has any
gone for the -engine?"
-ea, yes,. ear!' replied n, voice.
e they all out; Bright?" demanded
nt. He spoke quietly and calmly
ash, but he looked from Bright to the
se with a terrible anxiety.
I --I don't know. I have only just ar-
d." replied Bright. "I saw you get
the fence. The servants acre out and
I saw them just now. There they
and Mr, Deane—he .was here just
ud Decima-lMtee Doane?" said Gaunt,
atiently.
r. Bright shook hie head,
haven% seen her. Has any one seen
Deane?" he shouted,
ere was a silence as the crowd looked
h eno to the other; then the cook
led her way up to Bright, wringing
hands and crying.
h, whore le the young mistree•s? Where
lee Deeima?" she wailed. "1 can't find
! We—we thought she had come out
h us, but I can't find her in the crowd!"
sant took"her by the 'shoulder.
ou't be afraid,' he teed quietly, "Tell
hh^laich room?"
he, gird °topped wailing and crying for
no:itent.
'be %back room --at the top, my lord.
s lleebna le elooping, there for a night.
two; her own room as being done up.'
how rnel'?,.eaid Gaunt, quickly.
he ma -eroded. to the back of the house
pointed,ee.a Window of the top room.
That's tt, •my lord! • Oh, may poor young
trees t'
he nicht had gown dark, and a slight
azle had'cofnmeneed. The lire had not
abed ;the baek' of.,the house as , yet;
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though it was speeding rep'idly, 'ins: he
could not see anything•let the window. FIe
noticed that these were iron bans to• it;
the room had been used as a nursery by
a former tenant
Gaunt shouted "Decimal" but no apewer
came, and he ran ronrd to the front
again., The house was se old one, and
having: been bent when timber wee cheap
and Jerry building unknown, there Vas
plenty of wood 4ai it. The ftcmes )aad
caught at the thick beams and quarter -
hies, and the whole of the front of the
house wee a sheat of fire.
One of the sten bad b ought an ax and
broken in the front doer, ^-d the draught
was driving the fire up the sta'ronee and
through the lower rooiro fiercely.
But Gaunt did, not hesitate te. a moment,
Deeima might have rsoaped and bo srfo
somewhere in the crowd; but ho would
not leave it to chaeoe. )le meant' Vine,
into the house. Putting his arm up before
his eyes, he ran toward the dope.
Bright saw him and sprung forward.
"Where are You goleg. my lord?" he de -
demanded. "You can't go inside—it's im-
possible!"
."Have you fou"d Mies Deane?" asked
Gaunt over hie .shoulder.
"No," said Bright;' "but you can't go
In—it's certain death!"
Gaunt broke from him and ran into the
house. A volume of fir.me and smoke sur-
rounded him and shut him from Bright's
sight. The crowd roared .with excitement
and yelled "Come back— conie back!" and
some of the women screamed. Genet, with
hie face covered by hie erns, blundered to
the bottom of the staircase and looked
up The flames had traveled through the
Bret flops' and were itching rou"d the bah
retrades of the landing; the smoke• was
so thick that he oould see nothing but the
flames.
Decimal" he called. "Deana 1"
There was no answer, and half blinded
and suffocated, he was about to rush up
the stairs, when they fell away from the
landing with a dull crash.
The smoke and dust rendered it impos-
eible for h'im to see anything for a mo-
ment, and well -night stifled him; but pre•
gently he thought he heard a voice above
the roar of the fire and the eeackling of
the wood -work, and opening his eyes, he
saw a white figure standing on the land-
ing above him.
"Good gracioue!" he said, under his
breath, and for a second le was paralyzed
by fens for the fleet time in his life. It
was only for a second, the next he was
himself again.
"Decimal" lie cried to her, "Decimal Can
you see—hear ane?"
A tongue of flame shot up between them,
and they could see each other plainly. He
saw her start and hold out her arms to
him, heard her ery upon his name, and
he held out hie artne to hers intending to
toil her to jump; but he checked the com-
mand that sprung to hie lips. In the un-
e,ertain lieht, in her't•error, .she might miss
him or jump short. and if ehe did so she
wuld inevitably injure herself.
"Decimal, ran you hear me?"
"Yes, yest" she cried back to him; and
her voice, though thick and trembling,
was free from the frenzy of terror. "Go
back! Oh. go, go! You cannot eave me!''
Ile laughed fiercely,
'Can I not? I can, and will eave you!
Do not be afraid. Go back—look! Is the
stairs above you safe yet?"
She glanced upward.
Yes, I—I think eo!' Oh, Yee; pray—pray
go! The fire is all around your I can
see it!"
"Go up to the top room—the one at the
back!" he shouted. "Let me see you go!
Quick!" '
She paused a moment and looked down
at him. Surely it was not terror on the
white face which the flames lighted up so
plainly, not 'terror alone, but cin indefin-
able tenderness and Joy.
"Go!" he repeated, almost eternly.
"There is not a moment to lose! I will
save you! Go to the -window, but do not
break it --the draught—"
She understood, and with another glauoo
at shim, sprung up the top stair's.
Gaunt turned and fought his Way
through .the flames and smoke into the
open air, Half a dozen men seized him
and dragged him away from the house
and beat out the sparks and spots of fire
which smouldered in his clothed. His face
face was black, hie hair scorched, and he
was almost blinded by tho •smolce.
"All right!" lie said, shaking himself
free from the .anxious, kindly haude. "She
is safe—as yet. The ladder!"
"It's here!" cried Bright. "Aro you
hurt?"
No, no! Take it round to the back—
the window with the bars. Quick!" said
Gaunt.
He was cool and eelf-pessessod, but hie
lips trembled.
They tore round to the back with the
ladder and set it up against the house;
but the ladder would not quite reach the
window. Gaunt looked lip. Some ivy was
growing against the side, and he thought
he could manage to reach the window.
He sprung to the ladder, but Bright and
some of the other men seized him.
"No, no; yon can't do it, my lord! wait
—for goodness sake, wait until we've tied
the small ladder on to this ono."
"You can do that when I'm up," said
Gaunt quietly. "I can reach the window
by the ivy. Let me go, leasoi"
• He pushed Bright aelde and tore off
hie coat, with hie toot ou 'the ladder. Then
he ran up. They held the ladder firmly,
and gazed up et him with white, ecnxed
faces. When he had gained the top rung
he twisted his hands in the ivy as high
above hie head as possible and drew him-
self u .For a moment Or two he hung
by thie 'frail support, and the crowd, as
they •stared upat him, gave a kind of sob
and gasp. When they saw him loosen one
hand and. reach for the window -sill.
"He'll never do it!" exclaimed a voice
below. "He'll fall --drop like a stone! Some
one apt some blankets --something to catch
him!'
But, Gawat's strength was • herculean,
and it was }lacked by 'pall cool courage
which has made the Bngliehntan master
of half the world. He raised himself inch
by inch, got a grip with hie other hand,
and presently had one knee on the -win-
dow sill. The crowd sent up a wild cheer;
but there wag terror and appreheneiou in
it as well se admiration.
Fortunately, the sill was one of the
wade, old-fashioned ones, and Gaunt found
it possible to kneel on it. As he dick so,
he saw Doclma. There was only the gloms
between their two faces; hem white and
strained with tori,'dr—for him, not herself
--his blank and grimed with smoke.
Ile smiled at her encouragingly and
spoke her narno.. Then he gripped one of
the bars and tore it away, and with a
cry of warning to those below, flunk ib
down. The second bar tame away as eas-
sly, but the last held feet. ' It had boon
nailed with clamp nails arid_ resisted, all
hie' efforts for. a. tante, .and he .could not
put forth all his stt n tb, for fear et-Ra-
iug hie balance and falling. Bvery mo-
•
meut was precious.
Ile saw at• gleam of light'behind Deeima,.
and knew that It was the 1!nnmerr which
had marched the to story and would take
hold of the room iteelf,.preeently. Meg,.
lee to .the 'side of the, window, he exerted
all .the force he dared„and the bar came
awaysuddenly that lie stage
gered and swayed, cis the spectators be.
heath groanedand tlio'trfed warningly.
"Open the .window now,” h'e said to;De
ci ue,
With trembling haus» she• Oiled, and
the neat Institut be wee in the room and
Calle wee in his a .rine. Pore space ehe hid
1 her fade ctu his breast, and e convulsive
(lob shook her: then with her hands cling -
ins. to hie she:adore, she looked up lit him:'
"You willbe ki11001 011, why have you
done at—risked-•-„
Hie eyes. 'met here calmly, with Oven a
smile, beethe did not kiss her, though he
held hor tightly for this second or two.
"We shall be all richt," he said, ctuietly.
"Don't be; afraid.;; Do ,lest as I tell you.
"I am mot afreiciewtth you! 1 ern not
afraid --now!" she panted. "Ie it rattily
you, or am 1 dead and--anct Etme gazed
up at him with wide eyes,_and her horde
touched him. pressed upon his shoulders,
as if she wished to assure herself of the
reality of his presence •
"You are not deod-a
-'ucl not goin tq die,'
pleaec God." he: said, quietly, Now, you,
w 1l do .9a 1 tell' you. Lorne to the 'window.
Don't look down. Stand theta, with your
face toward me." ,.-
She obeyed, Ire •sprua to Ilio bed, and
'+
teoring elf the clothes, the het and
counterpane together into a;: rope, The
end of this he gassed under her areas and''.
knotted entirely.
"Oh, what—what are you going to do?"
she breathed.
Ile smiled.
"Let you down—into safety," ha sold.
"Get tp on to the window." Ile lifted her
on to the Bill. "Now kneel down. Good!
Hold my arra; Now 'shut your eyes, and
do not open them until you are aide on.
the ground beneath"
He leaned forward front the window to
toll those below what he was about to
do; but there was no need. Mr. Bright
had guessed at it. and he and another,
a etreng young fellow, were already on
the ladder, waiting te, receive „her.
"Now lit go your IIiends" ,ea_d Gaunt
in Decima's ear. "Don't open your eyes,
and do not cling to anything. • fust let
yourself go, Can you do it? Ah, but you
e ani You will be brave?"
"I will do anything. everything, you tell
me 1" she p•aaited. `But you—"
"Never mind me. I am all right," he
said, impatiently. "Are you ready?"
She opened her eyes and looked at him
—the look. which a woman gives the man
she loves, the man who is coolly and calin-
ly risking his life to save here—the look
no pen, .however graphic and eloquent,
can hope to describe; then she closed her
es
eyagain, and gradually loosening her
hold, folded her arms aerees her breast.
Gaunt lowered her slowly and gently.
Her slight fleee swayed to and fro, but he
set hie foot against the wall and steadied
the linen rope, and so lowered her gently
until she was grrsred by the eager hands
upstretched for her.
A wild, enthusiastic cheer rose hoarsely
from a hundred throats, the women
sliiieked with 'rel'ef,and joy, and Gaunt
as he easy her surrounded and darted at
by the crowd. smiled and drew a long
breath of relief and gratitude.
She was eafe.
"Come down! come, down 1" roe* the slxone
from every voice., Quick! The fire!
He put his knee on the sill and looked.
over As he didaeo. a tongs a of flame shot
out from the window beneath him. The
Bre had reached the back of the house..
Deeima had been only juet in time.. She
was safe, and the thought, the joy of it,
filled Gaunt with a kind of exhilaration.
He had conducted and carried through
many a forlorn hope, but no success had
ever elven him ,such satisfaction as this.
"Come down!" shouted the crowd; and
one mon, in his excitement, screamed out
an oath.
Gaunt steppedon the sill, and was
about to lower himself, but the flames be-
neath him curled round the ladder, and
he saw that it had caught fire. He hesi-
tated; the crowd groaned and yelled. He
saw Deeima—bei• figure, in its white dress-
ing robe, lighted up by the fiamee—break
from a group of women and spring to 'the
foot of the ladder. She stood with her
face and arms uplifted to him, and elm
iottld ahnoet fancy that lie eaw her lige
neve. He heard the burning ladder
crackle and hiss as the flames licked it.
Then he did the only foolish thing he haul
done. Ile left tlie-window and ran to the
door of the room. But the fire had obtain-
ed a firm hold of t]tg upper landing, and
no one could hope .to pass through it, and
live. He returned to the window, and,
without further hesitation, lowered him.
self by the ivy to 'the ladder, and began
to descend. But the few seconds --they
were scarcely more than five—had permit-
ted the names to eat through the ladder
anti his weight broke it off at the burned
part
IIs fell, clutching at the sides of the
ladder; but hie weight was too greet for
the strain. and he came down to the
Remind with a dull, heavy thud which
smote every .soul with horror and pity.
He was unconsciout for a •moment, and
in that space•of time he knew that a white
robed figure was kneeling beside him, that
its hands were holding him to its bosom;
then all became it blank.
(To be coutinued.)
COL. W. 13. 'NORTHRUP; H.C.
Would Make It as Easy for Poor to
Get a Divorce as for the Rich.
Should Canada have an equal
divorce law for the rich and the
poor? Col, W. B. Northrup, K,C.,
member for East Hastings in* the
Dominion House of Common*, is
firmly of the opinion that the pre-
sent facilities for severing the mar-
riage tie in the Provinces of On-
tario, Quebec, 1VIenitoba, Alberta,
and Saskatchewan, are only within
reach of the well-to-do, inasrnuch
as a special Act of Parliament, ini-
tiated by the Divorce (Cfommietee of
the Canadian Senate,' 'has to be
passed in every instanee,- and an
Act of Parliament ,costa all the way
from $500 to, $5,000, according to
the foes charged by the lawyers and
the distances the parties :to the
case and their witnesses .Live from
Ottawa. In the Maritime Provinces
and in, Brutish Columbia there aro
divorce courts, Col. N¢rtl rttip ac-
cortlingly-- moved in the House of
Commons the other day that the
Government should take the ques-
tion into, consideration with aview,
to'" reform during the present s•ese
sion. Ho did not advocate increas-
ing the grounds of divorce, but that
there should ,either be no divorces
or else there should be divorces for
rich ;and poor alike. As a, result of
the• debate which 'followed- along
non-party linos a' conference will
bo held ,with the Senate,and it joint
coixr'mittee appointed to investigate.
the w'bole quest ot. with a view' to
eirnp.Uifying P.arliarnentary 'proce-
dure, Apparently. the Dominion
legislators ,are not yet willing to
recognize " divoreo. •
Col. .Northrup obtained his alar'
nlentary education at 73ellevilde
Grammar' School and 'Upper (Can
Ades College, having the diatinetioa
•being "head boy" at the last-
named ills itittiola, and captain' of
the seh•o'oI cricket team for two sea-
sons. '.the same 5ear he won the
olsanapions•hip scup at the . ,a11n tial
races.
At `,1oronto. University he alis°
distinguished 1iimself, taking
Opt, W:.B. Northrup.
merous honors and - obtaining the
degrees of B.A. end M.A. He was
calked to the Bar in 1878, and at
onee began practioe in Belleville,
his native town, and he has remain-
ed these !ever since. He was cre-
ated a Q.C. in 1896 and first elect-
ed to the House of Commons in
1892, to All a :recency caused by the
death of Mr. S. B. •Burdett, against
whom he had been the'unsuccess:ful
candidate et the previous election.
He was defeated at the general
election of 1896 but elected- in -1900,
1904, 1908 and 1911, his majority
being 1,066 at the last election,
whereas it was only 71 in 1900. Col.
North: up, who is now fifty-eight
yews of 'age, has been twice mar-
ried, his,present wife being the wi-.
dog?i Mr, CIemow, of Ottawa, and
sreter ,a£ Lieutenant Wen. Fitch, of
thee Royal Grenadiers, who lost his
life jr the •charge of Batoche in
1885, Mr. and Mrs. Northrup dur-
ing the eession entertain largely 'at
Ottawa, in fact mora than any of
the.'`0rneervative circle outside. of
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Prince Erik of Denmark, a ne-
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shortly go to Holland and Belgium
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It is said the stay of the Prince
in England is due to the ade-iee of
Minister of Agriculture Pedersen,
who encouraged his own daul;,hter
to study domestic life as a maid
servant in England, It is well
known that Denmark is facile prin-
ceps in dairy farming, but M. Ped-
ersen, while visiting England some
time ago, was impressed with the
profitable English method of using
waste lands in hog rearing, which
he is alleged to have described as
the best he leas ever seen. Aeeor-
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father of Prince Erik, to send the
latter here.
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family on an equal status with its
members. He works hard, and for
long hours. Occasionally he pays a
visit to his aunt, Queen -Mother
Alexandra, at Sandringham.
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ready sale at over $300, and real
choice ones of this elass in the large
est cities bring from $400 to $600..'
There is every evidence that : the
heavy horse is the coming work ani-
mal for both farm and city and that
good prices will hold, if not in-
crease, for years to come.
The farmer who is in the field for
making side money from his horses
will be wise to breed the weiglit arid
finish. -
If you own an undersized- mare
don't keep her 'for breeding :pur-
poees, as -there is •positively „no pro -
fain breeding t ''ibis class.. lir the
first place, it' will be a miracle 'if
the colts- from;Nherle ever gain, suf, •
ficient -size to make 'what is termed
a marketable . horse. To in•any
rai'mers breed to these undersized
mares and in consequence fait most
signally in horse raising that , is,
from a business,view-point. w.
'Whitewashing.
The old-fashioned habit faf white-
washingeverything, from 'the front
yard fence to the stable, at least
twice a year, was a most excellent
one, and is one of the old-time cus-
toms which the present 'generation
might well 'adopt. -
The following is the receipt for
snaking whitewash, published by the
United States department of agri•
-
culture.
Slake half a bushel of unslaked
lime with boiling water, keeping it
covered during the process. Strain
it and 'add a peck of salt, dissolved
in warm water ; three pounds of
ground rice put in boiling -water and
boiled to a thin paste; half a pound
of Spanish whiting and a pound of
clear glue, dissolved in warm water.
'Mix these well together and let the
mixture stand for several days.
Keep the wash thus prepared in
a kettle or portable furnace, and
when used put it on as hot as pos-
sible with painters' or whitewash
brushes.
Trees Injoretl by Rodents.
Every year thousands of fruit
trees are injured by mice, and i'ah:
bits. Some are damaged to such :ap
extent that there is no chance ,of
recovery, while others are not in-
jured to an appreciable extent, but
for those trees which are not donr-
pletely -ruined, what means can be
used to save them? Professor C.
C.• Vincent says that by resorting
to the following method the 'trees
may be saved.
First, if the injury extends only
around a portion of the tree and is
near the base; it will heal over in
ane or two seasons, by banking up
the soil over it. This should be
done before the weed beeolnes "Iry
The soil should, be piled about t a
foot high and ):tressed firmly around
the base of the tree., In case t11r,
wound- cannot be.covered with Wit,
ib slluuld be .cot-ered with soft
graftiltg wax and Wrapped with
three car •four layers of burlap. New
bark should so ori fau'in under the
cover if the exposed sin'fece hal nee
become too drys Trees c mtpletely
.girdled Have been saved in this way.
If C'onsisten'cy, is a ;jewel, why is .
�±1 that so few \remelt wear it t •