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BY KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD
his arms, tightly, clumsily, the; tall'
rnan Watched her; his face turned to;
Viand fa.^om h,er, as lids eyes .wandered
apprehensively about the hut, and to
the door.
there, ma'am," .lie &aid at last,
snarling overr the words, 'where's your.
wean'( I've no nation for him to come
in and corner u$ if that's your game,"
"Hee away," she replied, "and well
not be back—perhaps for a day or
two,,
He .stared at her.
Copyright by Hodder and Stoughton "1 should never have thought Davey
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters, eleine and laid Davey down on a shawl would be so good with a stranger,"
Donald and Mary Cameron are ear" at 11er feet.•she added, her eyes travelling from
Ing a home out of the Australian wilds. When she lead a slender thread of Davey's round head on his e,rrn to the
When little David was four months old Y'i'n going and the spinning' wheel be- man's dark face, and. the:' eves that
his father set off to Port Southern for gan its,familiar, communicative little leapt and glittered in it. She smiled
fresh supplies, dick clatter, her mind was set to old into them.
themes. She forgot place and time as Davey was crooning and gurgling
CHAPTER III(Oont'd,) her fingers, ,pursued their familiar He had crooked his little hands into
trach. A gay little air went fluttering the strangers beard, and his mother
She stood watching the wagon go
along the path they had come by from , moth -wise ever her lips to the aceom saw with joy that the stranger held
the Port, until its roof dipped Gut of then tpani�rtantiro the offs etrearles a little
.1 dgeead as those litblegh hands fea•
red to dis-
sli lxwen over
slowl *back alae the the hill;
hread-
glanced attbthe child every now and "No games, ma'am," he growled,
she t a then, laughing and telling him that his "or it'll be the worse for you. We're
like path among the tees. mother had found the wherewithal to desperate men. It's our lives we're
A white -winged bird flapped across beep her busy and gay, as a bonny fighting fom"
her path; already fear of the stillness baby's mother ought to be, and that
was upon her. When she reached the the song she was singing was a song
break in the trees and the clearing was that the women sang over their spin -
visible, the hut on the brow of. the Hing wheels in the dear country that
hill had an alien aspect. The air was
she had come from, far across the sea,
empty without the sound of Donald's
axe clanging in the distance,er of his But the shadows fell quickly. The
voice calling Lassie. birds were calling, long and: warning-
She was glad when Davey began to alnndv busied herself she carriedtf r thehel evening
cry fretfully.. But she could not sing milking,
to hien. She tried, and her volae way- Wherever she went the dog that had
ered and broke. Every other murmur
tome from the Port with them, follow -
in the stillness was subdued to listen ed. He trailed in her footsteps when
to it; she went to the creek for water, or to
The day seemed. endless. At last the cow paddock. He lay with watch -
eight name. She closed and barred the ful eyes en the edge of the clearing,
dor
doof the hut at sunset, glancing to -
when she sat at her spinning in the
wards the shelf where Donald had put
afternoon, or walked backwards and
his gun. The firelight flickered and forwards crooning Davy to'sleep.
gleamed on its polished barrel. At about noon on the fourth day f.
Eneeling by the hearth she tried to while she was making porridge for
pray. But her thoughts were flying in her midday meal the dog started to
an incoherent s'sleieptht like scattered his feet and barked furiously. He
birds. Davey: p,peacefully on the
bed among the grey 'possum furs she had been lying stretched on the mat
had wrapped round him. She watched in the doorway. For a moment her
him sleeping for awhile, and then un- heart stood still, Then she went to
him.s ng noiselessly, lay down- beside e ddoo',at is it, Jo?" she asked. e.
She did not sleep, but lay listening; The dog's eyes were fixed on the
trees and scrubby undergrowth to -the
to every sound. The creak of the
wood of the house, the panting of the left of the hut. Every short hair on
wind about it, far -away sounds among his lean body bristled. He growled
the trees, the shrill cry of a night tree- sullenly. Later in the afternoon, when
she sat in the clearing spinning and
singing with Davey on his shawl be-
side her, he started to his feet sud-
denly and snarled fiercely.
1Vlary looked at him again question-
ingly and her eyes flew to the edge of
the trees in the direction he pointed.
No quivering leaf nor threatening
sound stirred the quiet. He subsided
at her feet after 'a moment, but his
ears, kept pricked, twitched uneasily;
his eyes never left the edge of the
trees. Once they twisted up to her and
she read in them the clear expression
of a pitiful uneasiness, the assurance
of deathless fidelity, a prayer almost
to go into the house.
She picked up the child and walked
towards the hut. The dog followed,
glancing uneasily towards the edge of
the clearing. She shut the door on
that side of the hut and went to the
back door,
"Jo! Jo!" she called long and clearly.
He flew round to her.
Though her limbs trembled, Mary
went up to the paddock and (brought
the carr down to the shed. She milked,
with Davey on her knees and the dog
crouched beside her; then, with the
child on one arm and the milk pail
on the other, she went towards the
house again.
She did not go down to the creek
for water, as she usually did.
"It's not because I'm afraid, Davey,"
she murmured, "but Jo would not have
barked like that for nothing. It was
a warning; and it would not be nice
of us to take no notice of him at all."
As she left the shed the dog darted
savagely :away. She did not notice
that he was no longer at her heels
until she had re-entered the hut. As
she was going to call him, the words
died on her lips. Two gaunt and rag-
ged men stood in the doorway!
0I3APTER IV.
rens, and the two inaneal]s as mention*
ed. To facilitate the passing of the
fingers from one keyboard to the
other, the beck end of eahh, white note
on the bottom manual is rained to the
level of the sharp eotea. The upper
manual is everywhere an octave high-
er in pitch than:, the lower one, and it
is claimed that the pliayer, by passe:
rapt:ley from one manual to the other,
can execute the most difficult arpeig•
gee without moving the bland ]itera;l'ly.
The octave coupler is operated by
means of a centre pedal. Sincetwo
notes Tieing k bne"n
wix le the
are coupler iestrucin opeyraotion,fithereger
iso, of manse, an increase in, the weight
of touch; but as one finger is re'aale'.
doing the work of two, theme is no ex-
tra labor involved, A. further eh rao
teristie of the Mistral. eat :is the harp -
etcetera effect, which the inventor bas
produced by bringing a row of metal
strips into contact with the wires, the
ordinary hammers' being used for
striking the, strings as usual. It is
pointed out by the inventor that the
knew that when I saw you," she use of his instrument wile result in a
said quietly.
She put sone bread on the table, a
mug of milk and 'e piece of cold ;meat.
(To be continued,)
A New Two Keyboard
Piano.
A piano with two keyboards,' the
manuals somewhat resemb'ling' those
of a pipe organ, except that they are
not so widely separated as In the or-
gan, has been invented by Emmanuel
great simplification of ,technic, elimin-
atiog Huge skips and different exten-
sions of the fingers, white at the same
time. securing an orchestral sonority
of tone hitherto impossible with one.
pair of hands,
That the invention will prove an im-
portant factor in the musical life of
the people is believed to be certain, it
having received the -en,dons'ement of
many celebrated musician4sand threads
of musical organizations and institu-
tions.
Moor, a Swiss. The instrument has -p
one set of strings only, one set of.livam-' Minard's Liniment for Burns, eta
ture, every stir and rustle, until the
vele light of early dawn crept under
'Else door, and she knew that it was
day again.
While she was busy in the morning
she was unconscious of . the world
about her, or the flight of the day, but
when her work was done and she stood
in the doorway at noon, the silence
struck her again.
All the long day there was a faint
hum of insects in the air. It came from
the grass, from the trees ---the long
tasselled branches of downy honey-
sweet,
oneysweet, white blossoms that hung from
them. Yet this ceaseless chirring of
insects, the leafy murmuring of the
' trees, twittering of birds in the brush-
wood, the murmuring of the wind in
distant valleys, the intermittent croon-
ing and drone of the creek—all the
faint, sweet, earth voices dropped into
the great quiet that brooded over the:
place as they might have into a mys
terious• ocean that absorbed and ob-
literated all sounds. The bright hours
were rent by the moneenatav;y screech-
ing and chatter of parr'rquets, as they'
flew, spreading the red,.green and
yellow of their breasts against the
blue sky. At sunset and dawn there
were merry melodious flutings, long,
sweet, mating -calls, carollings and
bursts of husky, gnomish laughter.
Yet the silence remained, hovering
and swallowing insatiably every sound.
She gazed at the wilderness of the
trees about her. From the hill on
which the cow paddock was she could
see only the clearing and trees—trees
standing in a green and undulating
sea in every direction, clothing the
hills so that they seemed no more than
a dark moss clinging close to their
sides. In the distance they took on
all the misty shades of grey and blue,
er stood purple, steeped in shadows,
under a rain cloud. She remembered
how she had wondered what their mys-
tery contained for her when she had Mary stood back from the thresh -
'first seen them on the edge of the del The fear that had haunted her
plains, and she and Donald had set for days had suddenly left her,
their faces towards them,At -first glance she had seen that
She looked down on the child in her I the men had rough pieces of wood in
arms, and realized that ,,hey had their hands. Her gaze was arrested
brought frim to her; from him, her by the taller, shaggier man who had
eyes went to the brown roof of the! sprung forward. He was about to
hut with its back to the hillside, a speak roughly, breathlessly; but she
thread ` of smoke curling from its . anticipated him. Her eyes flew past
brown and grey chimney, and to the' h
stretches of dark, upturned earth begI
fore it. They had brought her this
too, all the dear homeless of it, and a
sense of peaee and consolation filled
her heart.
To throw off the spell of the silence i
she decided that she must work again.
About the House
Canning. Helpers.
The process of cold' pack . canning
has been given so many times that it
does not seem necessary to repeat it
here. Remember to blanch greens
with steam; do not dip in boiling.
water. This may be done by *Pend-
ing the cheesecloth like. a hammock
over the water in the canner.
If asparagus, beans, peas, and corn
are allowed to stand too long before
canning, a sour taste often develops.
They should be canned as . soon as
picked. Never let more, than two or
three hours elapse before calming..
Corn turns dark for three reasons:
Using corn too old; canning, ;with
water that contains iron; blanching
too. long.
Corn becomes waterlogged for four to' use them in cases that call for a
reasons: Allowing it to stand too long to us and neither should theybe used
in the cold water after 'blanching, let-
when the hair is removable by the
I think it is worbh while to try to re-
move such a growth of hair witch
drugs. I have often wondered what
objection there •can be against shaving
in such a case. It is true that shaving
will.make the hair firmer and stronger,
but, even. so, it is seldom indeed that
hair growing on a woman's face is as
aggressive es the softest type of
beard in a roan, and the man with a
mild beard'can easily keep his face
clean by applying the safety razor
daily. I would much prefer to see a
woman with a clean face that gave
some. evidence of acquaintance with a
razor blade than one with a straggling
growth, of nondescript hair.
Drugs known as depilatories are.fa-
miliar to.all doctors. Sonie very good'
ones are made. It is a mistake to try
ting the cans stand on.the table• dter
they are packed... Always 'plunge`i
mediately into the canner; heati
corn in warm water over a. s•1
opening cans to serve and -all ?:ern}; lied , a careful doctor gives
ears to stand' in the cold water. It tory, ;app by ,
ne . very satisfactory service.
move .cans .as soon as ope d
Beets lose their color: because: tops
Studies in White and Gold.
and teal are 'cut too closely. Leave on
at least an inch of the top and all of Why not' let the color scheme for
the tail while blanching. Then scrape your meat dish during these warm
instead of peeling. summer days be white and gold? The
Peas turn cloudy for three reasons: housewife who has given little or no
Cracking the skin of the pea; blanch- thought to the composition of eggs
ing too long; using very hard water
or mineral water.
Be sure to make currant jelly. Do
not pick currants after a rain. Look
over carefully and remove its of;leet,
wash and drain, but do not stem.'•;. Put
in a porcelain or acid -proof kettle` and
cover with water. Cook until currants
turn white, then drip through a jelly
electric 'needle. But - there are many
cases in which the hair is not' very
�:vigorous nor does it cover any great
=face. In- such cases a good "depila-
has much to learn of their nutritive
food value..Care must be taken in
their' . cooking, however, if this food
value is retained. In the words of the
poet,
"0, egg, within thine oval shell,
What palate tickling joys do dwell."
One sof the simple things to remem-
ber in the cooking is that the albumen
bag, boil juice ten minutes; add sugar in the egg, coagulates at a high tem -
which. has been heated in the; oven, Pera:ture• In order to have that soft
allowing cup for cup of sugar' and creamy consistency so much desired,
juice, and boil for three minutes. Then the egg should not be subjected to
test by taking a little juice in the extremes in heat or length of time in
spoon and pouring off the side. When cooking.
two thick drops form on the side of Het or warm water makes a much
the spoon it is done.: more tender omelet than milk and
Raspberry, blackberry and•.straw- there is little excuse for failure of
berryjelly may be made by adding these toothsome dainties if one is
rea-
equal measures of apple juice, or,by sonably careful. A good omelet pan
using a commercial (pectin. is necessary. This steel spider must
In making jams allow three-quarters be smooth and at the right temper -
shadow.
to the man who hung d his of apound of su ae to ever pound of
ffattire to insure success,
shadows Theu gash of a wound was e y Following are some of the various
just visible under a grimy piece of fruit, Crush the fruit and put it on g
rag wrapped across his forehead. stave to heat slowly while the sugar' ways of making eggs palatable:
"Ile's hurt!" she cried, a sure in- beats in the oven. When berries' are Plain Omelet: Put one tablespoon-
stilict of protection urging her. "Come heated through add one-third of sugar ful of butter in a steel spider and heat
n, and rn bind tip your head. It
ii ten minutes. Then add one -
But what to do ? Donald had said no but you look starving, both of you! half remaining sugar g
ar and bail for ten
wants water and a clean •bandage. Oh, '"""� '" •
fires were to be lit in thestumps be-
cause the smoke might attract way-
farers on the road, or wandering na-
tives to the clearing. She sang to the
child, fitfully, softly. Then, remember-
- the spinning wheel which stood in
its muffling cloths against the wall in
the hut, she brought it into the sun -
Have you frost your way in the hills"?
It's terrible to do that.! you're
Now add all the sugar and
But ou're coo• k until thick enough to spread:!
welcome indeed. Come in and have Store in glasses like jelly. ('
something to eat and rest yourselves." A glass of jam added to a pint of
1iCiou
s
in the doorwaycream makes a de
The tall man bun whipped g iIltf't
as though speech and reason had de- mousse, Pack in equal parts of ice
serted him. But the other, whose and salt and let stand three hours to
thatch of reddish hair stood up
strangely from the filthy rag that a freeze.
bound his forehead, raised his arm and
took a step forward,, the glare of road- Superfluous Hair.
ness in his eyes, But that movement There is at least.- one manly Char.
was the last spurt of energy iii him- acteristic 'longed for by boys and.
Re pitched forward and lay across the young men with great anxiety whichles f that cid fool say he. was rorniarg Doak
They said that I must keep you quiet
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Sun -Maid raisins—rich in energizing nutri-
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Raisins also furnish fatigue -resisting iron
for the blood.
Serve plain raisin bread at dinner or' as a
tasty fruited breakfast toast with 'coffee.
Make delicious bread pudding with left-
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• raisin bread. -
Begin this week the habit of raisin bread
twice weekly in your home, for raisin bread is
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Make delicious bread, pies, puddings,
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slowly. Break four eggs into the bowl course of a study of the heat -resisting
and only beat enough to'thoroughly:prapeaties of various materials, found _
mix the whites and yolks, add four' that ordinary quarter -inch wall -board.
tablespoonfuls of warm water, .a little I was very suitable for this 'purpose.'
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nutmegand salt. Draw spider to the; Tests showed that;vall board permitted
hottest part of stove and when butter' the passage of only about one-half as
is ;hot, not browning, add the eggs.
Let cook a moment and then with the
spatula, loosen the omelet at the edge,
allowing the uncooked part to- run
under and continue until the omelet is
"set." Now sprinkle with finely chop-
ped parsley and with the spatula turn
over Dee -third of the omelet, then fold
once as you turn out. Serve at once,.
This omelet may be varied by adding For many years it has been thought
chopped ham, peas, tomatoes, bacon or drat the only timber that would give, a
cheese, just before folding, reasonable period of services as fence
Creamed Egg:—Ohop five or six posts was cedar. The Forest. Products
hard-boiled eggs, not too fine. Make a Laboratories of the Department of the
white sauce of a cup of milk, a. table- Interior, Canada, state, however,' !that
spoon of butter, a tablespoon of flour by employlug a comparatively simple
and salt and pepper. When this is method it is passible to treat posits oS
cooked, put in the eggs and stir gently certain hardwoods in such a way that
for a few minutes. Serve hot on a they will have a life at least twice as
dish with suitable pieces of toast. 1 hang as cedar posts, The preservative
Egg Gems:—Use one cup of chopped, effect of ,this treatment is clearly
cold meats, one teaspoonful of melted shown in fencing erected at the Do -
butter, one cup of bread crumbs, salt minion Forestry Branc e forest nursery
and pepper. Mix together meat and at Indian Head in 1917. Here posts of
bread crumbs. Add the butter, salt Russian poplar were us�e�d, ho-th treated
and pepper and enough milk to bind it and untreated, and it is interesting to
together nicely. Have ready gem pans mote that all the untreated posts erect -
well greased and fill with the mixture.; ed at this time haved+ecayea and hem.
Break an egg on the top of each, sea-{ removed evhile the treated poets are'
son with salt and pepper and sprinkle, all still in service and appear as. sound
with cracker crumbs. Bake eight as the day they were placed in post-
n g I tion.
minutet.
Liniment for Dandruff.
much heat as other materials ,afters
used for this purpose. As waW$ oard
is an article widely manufactured in
Canada, and not at all expensive, these
experiments open up -a new field for
its use.
Creosoted Ferxce-Posts Out:
Last Cedar.
Egg Salad:—Boil the number of
eggs required for twenty minutes.
When cold shell and remove whites
carefully from the yolks. Chop the A. doctor had been called to see a
yolks
leavethe olks hal.
and whole. whites� man who was very 111. FIe examined'-'.
Serve en lettuce leaves with a boiled hint and said to the nurse:"
dressing and small balls of cottage. 'you mut waltr�h, the rose very
cheese, ' closely through the night and tell:me
Escalloped Eggs; Moisten bread, all the symptoms when I aroma back .in
crumbs with milk or meat ;broth. Place the morning,"
a layer of this in a well -buttered ;halt -1 The man beeauie'w worse in, the night,
ing dish, slice some hard-boiled eggs •ld talked s lot of nonsense in hes
upon it with bits of butter here and fever.
there. Then place a layer of minced When the doctor returnee in the y
h&in, veal or chicken; then bread � rnorngng, he said to the em.,, 0:
crumbs. Bake until well heated and-
criimbs are browned.
An Observant Nurse.
Growing.
"Tell me exactly what happoned
after T left"
"You were hardly out of the room, r
she began, when he curd: "When, didt
"Oh,
d, ; is never coveted by any women of how- Dear Sirs:, --•-Afton suffering
r wards the patient were
e bb lost sensible,
"Oh, bring him in and put him on, ever masculine type; that is the Se ca far over 1d yeas wind. And wrote down carefully all the haute again?' y
the bed there, and I'll try and doof your echedule.
something for him," Mary cried, her growth of Bair uponthe face. I know spending money on. medicine,
rnanw asoo m r
He did as she asked and turned to & "tom avinat, you wanted
her with watchful eyes. k What tan a woman with a. tendency tsll'FJ Ii}, wlElay.
"You hold the child for me while I to superfluous hair do about it? Must' 'Venire truly. Anti lay down halide you, worn out
bathe his head," she said, "it may she just give up and let it growl Wm, rl' fay, with yorir, weeping,
.bring hii n to.. t1r E rxl ,lt, 'p e is rt ,rr►ra:to S' ou slept liazppily, clot+e to my heart.
She t runs Davey into hfs arms. It depends very much upon the am- ' Yottle anon, were you lonely so &won?
"Sit down, won't you?" she asked, Dunt ..and character of the hair. If ,
or. i rt,,,,,
%(tie for' ' oUar, (:linage:tli Porter Wyokofi,
at -tilling towards }elle, as she set some there are only a few stronx a res -1 ,,. Wes
f rive Dollars.
needle w`11 IX
eyes flying from the fallen body to the of no facial disfigurement that creates bathe,
�le cie beltsr, alio„ whets Food and sleep, they said, that was all No man can feed his soul who is
h stood ' thedoorway. ° in a man so much complacency or in a did me no , T woe' nasi by you needed, starving his servants.
using ore cr' of your NEW But batt night. when •I could:. not tell
woman so great consternation.. 1
, evatet on the fire and poured -some sive hairs, the electric ne rIX 17slit t)I I5v
R, rprotection of Table '['ops,
in ,w tv `r,��g ,p,; s, , none into a basin, make short work of therm The needle. Mailed direct to Sttrm Customers.
Sh t r a r e of lanae and The careful housekeeper is solid -
began very gently to bathe the un- so it is •a tedious, job if there are very LIPID Elie- tottbU trriltpartu taus for the preservation of the finish
Hoar, i'otonta'anci Montreal Ftec io Can- e tore up p•e o must go to the follicle of each hair,
Oen-
;torts eve" night, Just as though you conscious maws 'head, 'Be groaned as
were lri one of these great Hides, with ' the pain .stirred again. She spoke to many, I do not advise that it be 7g West AdcM�aido i;l:, Toronto
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oco Marconi Radiophone (Model C), minx, saying that the wound would art anpted ini ass tiro hairs ate so few oanwrd
Write Tar ftdf lefornetion and prices, mend the sooner for being cleansed, thirst they can he readilycounted.
•± 1'tw gagegege and and that it was a wonder he was alive Where there is a large surface, eov-
Thr. !; U iG i- at all with the state it was in, Sitting erect with vigorous hair, I do not ad -
TIME:
! RECORDERS
G.OilCNTO CANADA in Donald's chair, holding Davey in vise' the use i the areec11 ,neither do `
•�x!'T
on the dining table, and usually pro-
vides some protection for the surface
from the heat of plates, eh ctric toast
ars, teapots, and other articles, the
Foreat Products Laboratories of the
Department of the Interior, in the