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too late for anybody to be coming our
way now-- nd a bad night. Ill
lock up." ..
ayes, Deirdre," he murmured itleep-
ily; "it's a bad night and too late ,for
,anybody. to be coming our way."
She pulled the bolts across the
doors at the front of the, shanty andv:
locked and bolted the door from the '
Lures.
bar into the kitchen; then. she took his BY KATHARINE SUSANNAH Pl•"�ICHARt?
--...de Re had fallen back into it, nodding 1 Applesshelf,
on the aria, and helped him out of his•chelr. i A posy on the table,
:
drowsily a, aim She led him over to' Goodies in the cupboard
Ahoi'..t the House
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Copyright by Hodder and Stoughton.
his room, w ich opened off the kitchen.
Cop3R' pd"I'll see the lights and the fires are
CHA,PTER XLII.—(Cont'd.) gave each other recipes, for creamout," "butI to finish•a
she said I want
theIt
Long, cheese, and jam,. anal cakes to be bit of mending before go to' bed,"
11 was on rhe roadside r by g
Gully that:Mr. Cameron had. died.. The , ,� eggs. a "Right," I, -
madedAeiwitI vet discovered a sure way peirdre he ; murmured. "Right,
old tree by the gully had fallen at d in the winter•," The noise of the wind carried of the.
andon one Cameron. I f l' hens la
hisI. voice. butit .,was
That you have made yourself --
These are. things the fairies love;
And do remember rids—
A pot. of honey in the porch
Will never come' amiss.
last, Donald C At o making.
- A robin 'in the' shrubbery,
h were re living, sazd. Mrs. Ross droning tones of y,
there, while Dan and been killedby` "Have you?" replied. Mrs. Cam- onlya few moments before she heard
there, a man had been Daisies in the glass,
fallen tree,but it was strange'that.Bron, listlessly. • his heavy breathing again..
died in "Yes, lacked; and.I'll tell you just!: The Schoolmasters sock which' she
Davey's •fisher t hld have d
this way, she thought, he who. had what itis, Mary"!''K,, ;was darning dropped from her ;hand:
been the first settler in the hills; "Oh, it's of no interest to me now, She stared into the darkness beyond
She wondered if he had ring -barked with Davey away and his fatherthe dip -light. She did not want to to
the tree—scored its living green wood gone," Mrs. Caimeron cried. ,to bed—to be:alonei �hte eitdarknelss,
—if he had killed it, and in .turn it She kept her Bold of Deirdre'sewith her thoughts In
n
had killed him, pinning him to the hand. , i heard the creaking gossip of the ,fire
earth with its great bulk of dead'`and To think of him--Davey's.father and the whisper of falling embers.
rotting timber. She could, see Davey's —in there, Deirdre—lying so, ''still Besides, she wanted to keep her hands
bather, heavy, squarely -built, in shab- and cold', he that was so strong and and brain busy. In the darkiziess there
y, dark clothes, lyil}g-beneath it, his nobody could break, or turn,"she would be only the voice of the wind
•ey hair blood -dabbled, his face said:=a•'You .haven't seen him yet, .her ears, and that was like the cryi,`ng
rue ed, and blackened. The man who You must come with me."+. of her heart. She listened to' the
t.-1.
"Presently; dearie, . but you must 'wind now. A mournful, passionate
ade conquered very wilderness had lain it about the house
there, on the.road he had made, drink your tea.and eat; this little b thing, it murmured
broken, cast aside -a thing that life pf • -scone first,"Mrs. Ross said. nervous- I rising wildly, ddeeanp rafte yback in blants of
had. done with. It was- gee -if the wild The neighbors talked again sudden g ,
erness had taken its revenge.. 1y, eheerfuliy, in subdued tones, of thin, pitiful wailing of helplessness
g rife 'weather, the sales, and what the and despair. She .wa$ afraid to listen
She slipped from 'the chestnut's- nien of their households were saying' long, afraid of what this commuxiicat
backad in a sunny clearing •aof freekled nd gather_ about things in general. �� ling, interpreting murmur might . do
eyed, handful white honey-flowers,d twisted "We mustn't let; her brood, theytwith her reason. Yet the wind, was
9 e tendrils o f creepers nd blades said anxiously to each other. Iwith her, she'thought. ; The wind knew
som d fMrs. Cameron did riot seem to hear her heart—the wind was the voice of
of g ferns among them, and tiedfthem or notice them. When she stood in her heart crying out there in the dark -
When
together with a long pis g t grass. the silent room with ..Deirdre looking iiess,
weatherboard house crouching against down on the white -sheeted figure of She shivered, trying to banish the
the purple wall of the hills, Deirdre Davey's father, she turned to the girl strange, fantastical ideas that sevarai-
realized again what Donald Cameron with a sharp cry. •'
had done: The cleared paddocks. Its a sad•, sad thing t be parting
spread round it on every side. An fyour life s ma e,
rom air r ,
'orchard climbing .the slope to the left said. "To think that he should have feel. Tomorrow McNab would be
showed in dark leafage against the died like that .... after all that he's coming. You pays y'r money and you
said.
nt •Deirdre,"
he
had
uchoice,D
hill co r
e
this county.,,
thatad
done—he
n green Cattle o emy, -
gzey and g e n of the forest. To have gone without a word from She saw his face as he had spoken;
da led the furtherest hillside. The:. his twisted, sallow face, the glimmer-
ing " of • his malicious eyes, with the
smile that spilled over from them. She
•had made her choice. She had set her
Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Morrison took mind to it. There must be no waver-
her, each by an arm, and led her ing. If the Schoolmaster got off, she
back to the sitting -room. ,.The hum must marry McNab; if he was sen -
ed upon her.
How to pass the night—this long:
night in which she must not think, or
barns and sheds and stables behind; anyone, ora clearing -up of the mis-
the house formed a small village. He undersDaveytnotfngs to see him between
aus. "-And
had made it, cleared the-forestforit. She broke down and sobbed utterly.
He had done all this, she realized,
and so much besides, and now he was
dead, the man of iron will and inde-
fatigable energy.
There were two or'three of the
neighbors' carts in Cameron's yard.
Deirdre opened; the gate and shut
it *hen' she and White Socks had
passed through. She hung the chest-
nut's bridle over a post by the barn,
and lifted his saddle.
Speckled fowls and handsome buff
and yellow pullets stalked about the
yard, •pecking industriously even
under the legs of the Ross's and:
Morrison's horses, which, with .hark
ness looped back on them, their
noses deep in fodder bags, •stood be-
side the carts. _In the brilliant sun-
shine, on a wood stack, struck against
the clear blue sky,, a black rooster
crowed at intervals.
Mrs. Cameron's sitting -room was in
semi -darkness. Deirdre heard the
hushed talking, 'exclamations'' and
sound of weeping as she went into it
"It's you, Deirdre I" Mrs. Cameron
said when she saw the -girl. Her
A rainbow -colored way -of -the -wind
Made of;tinkling glass.
A.. big bush of lavender,
A bed of;mignonette,
,And a thatched wooden summer -house
For ' dancing when it's wet.
A fire,' in the parlor ,.
On chilly summer nights,
=A, -pretty sound of singing
(Not too many lights)—
These will here -the fairies in;
And I would have you know,
So long as fairies vlsit'you .
Your luck will never go.
of strained, subdued and cheerful' con-
versation began again.
Mrs. Cameron went to the door with
Deirdre.
"If only they'd let me be. It's very
good of them all to bother, but if
only they'd let me be!
tensed to three years' imprisonment
there would perhaps be time to scheme
and out -manoeuvre him. She would
set her - wits - to that. But she could
not think of the next day. She must
think of Davey, or Dan, or Steve-
any of them. There ' must be no
As the chestnut padded softly along shrinking, shrieking, or failing. -What
the track home to Steve's, Deirdre had to be done, had to be done, . and
wondered again what effect Donald the first thing that had to be done
Cameron's death would have on Davey was to give McNab •her:=word.
and Dan. It would make Davey a " (To be continued.)
rich man, siie knew. Donald Canieron
had been reputed wealthy when she
the �Ye StoCl�ings
and the Schoolmaster :fest came
tb,
hills," and. he had not been drinking Blouse or Sweater.
long enough to have squandered much
mone y, "It would -take more than a Dim
gallon of rum to make. eld Cameron ': R , d
loosen his purse `strings, she' remem- 'Diaar x AWN:. • -
' ered`+bavin •heard •Conal say. to worn, `' faded slur s,'.
b g y
To ;Dan and to her it would make stockings, svreaters, covei..
very little difference in the end. There ings, draperies, ev erytliing.
would still be McNab. The train of package • contains directions sio Sim
any v,roman can put new, rich, fadeless'
colons into, her worn . garments or
draperies even if she has never dyed'
before.. Just buy Diamond Dyes no
other kind—thenyour material will
come out right, because Diamond Dyes
are guaranteed not to streak, spot,
fade, . or run. Tell your druggist
whether the materiel you wish to dye
is wool or',sril- k, or whether it is linen,
cotton or mixed goods.
Five Ways of Cooking (Chicken.
At first the chicken' .staid and
••roasted brown,
With cranberry sauce and fixings all
complete.
And then the fricassee, : all covered
o'er
With thickened gravy,poured with
lavish hand
To hide the bones. And then what may
b e left
•Is done up into pies, with pastry tops
Just fitted to the dish. Last course .o f
all
Of this eventful bird is chicken soup-
The general leavings and the scrap-
ings -up
Of wings, legs, tails, .necks, bones and
everything.
and a little ham may be added. Cut
up the chicken as for,frying, pare and.
halve the potatoes, sift • the baking
powder and flour together twice, rub
in the lard and mix to a soft dough
with ice -water, Cover the lower por-
'tion of the sides of a large pot with
dough rolled to one-fourth of an inch
in thickness. Put in a layer of chicken,
sprinkle with .. salt, pepper, flour and
a dash,, of cayenne, :and, a 'few 'thin
elices of onion and ham; thena•layer
of potatoes and .dumplings cut from
the, dough, and repeat with the rest of
the ingredients, Roll out the remain-
der of the dough to a size to cover the
pot, cut a cross in the centre and turn
the corners . back.. Add, a tablespoonful
of vinegar to sufficient water to .All
the pie up to the crust, cover the pot
and set over the fire until it boils, then
place where it will simmer for • an
hour. Take off the lid and' put in the
oven for another hour. If it browns
too rapidly, replace the lid for awhile.
As the water boils away, add boiling
water.
Pussy -Willow Season.
Wlien it's• pussy -willow season
An' it's almost fishin',time,'
An' the bobolink gets busy,
Why you almost think in rhyme!
There's a funny little kinking
Gets tangled cin yodr brains,
An' a ldltinese and tiltiness
Goes racing through your veins.
There ain't no fun just like it
When the Spring gets- bald o' you --
Of course you don't believe it,
For it's too good to be true---:
A something that makes sorriness
A surae and, awful crime
When it's pussy -Willow season
An' it's alin'oat fisliin' three.
Then the school -seats seem the hardest
When dressing a chicken scald the - An' your pulse goes: awful quick,
feet, and the skin will peel off like a An' your,head's a burnin' furnace
glove. Cut- off the horny claws and An' you're sure you must be sick.
cook the feet in a little water, adding
seasoning. - This will make a cupful
of delicious jelly,, or add richness to
the stew.
Left -over chicken can be used to ad-
va
But'when you pass the schoolhouse
door „
Thu get to feelin' prime,
When it's pussy wwillow "season
An' its almost fishin' time.
tage when combined with macar Minard's Liniment fo Coughs IL Colds
thus; Cut the chicken into small
and to one cupful of chicken add
cupfuls of macaroni, which has
oiled until tender, drained and
Behaving Mannerly at Table;
"My dear," said a tlhloughtful lady,
addressing a ,email boy who with his
Melt a piece of butter in a parents was a guest at her table,
r•:oven- las di h ut in �' 1' ou like tc leave your meat
an o g, s p wa udii't
y •
coni, moistened with --chicken' cut up, for you ?"e
v `sickened. Cover with '"Oh, no, thank you," replied the toy
n; '•slarinkle with with great politeness, though he did
oven not look up or desiet:•from lits deter -
n ned:.:striiggie with• .11,1S'• help?ug•o
h
,.: •
beef..,..=qV
; e •often. have 'meat,as� tong .,
this at Koine."
voice was flat and tired; she seemed 'her thought snapped. For a moment,
to have scarcely strength enough to
speak.
Deirdre- kissed her with quivering
lips, and eyes welling.
The room was full of people. She
did'not see who they were at first in
the half dark.
"If only Davey were here!" Mrs.
Cameron cried.
Deirdre knelt beside her.
"Perhaps he'll come," she whis-
pered.
his-pered.
"Did you gather the flowers for
his father?"
Mrs. Cameron's eyes had fallen on
the little bouquet in Deirdre's hand.
"I brought them for Davey,"
Deirdre said.
Mrs. Cameron's hands quivered in
hers.
"We must keep her cheerful, not
let her spirits get down," one of the
visitors said in Deirdre's ear.
Jessie Ross brought in tea, and
some newly -made scones.
"You must eat this now, dear to
keep up your strength," Mrs. Ross
said. to Mrs. Cameron, taking a chair
beside her
Mrs. Ross talked of her milking,
and the calves she had poddied during
the wet weather; and the other wom-
en, gathering round, talked in serious The big kitchen was very quiet.
•and melancholy fashion of their milk- The log that had been smouldering on
ing and the calves they had had trou- the open hearth all day broke. Deirdre
ble with during ' the winter. They swept back the scattered embers and
_. thrust the broken ends of wood to-
gether. Flames leapt over them, light-
ing the room.
They penetrated the shadows that
bulked, huge and shapeless, at the
end of it, revealing a hoard of store
casks and boxes piled almost to the
roof and half -cloaked with hessian
bags sewed together. The barrel of a
rifle slung on the walls glimmered for
a Moment; the fire -light showed stir -
with all her passionate, youth, . she
envied Donald. Cmeron his stillness.
A night and a day remained before
she would have- to' tell McNab that
she had made her choice. Every beat
of the chestnut's hoofs on the soft
roadside drove what he had said into
her brain. She knew, no more now
than she did a week ago what was
going to happen to Davey and the
Schoolmaster, or how the case was
going. Perhaps less, since . Donald'
Cameron's death. But her mind was
made up as to what McNab's answer
would be. She had never really had
any doubt as to what it must be,, and
had asked for time as one asks to
have the window open before settling
down to passing the day in a dark
and airless room.
Deep inher mind there was still,
however, a vagrant hope, . a fairy,
child -like thing, a phantom assurance
of the impossibility of what was de-
manded of her, a, belief, like thistle-
down, as faint and fragile, that some-
thing unheard of, miraculous, would
happen to help her, and at the same
time save Dan and Steve and Davey,
CHAPTER XLIII.
IN place of the tense grip,
end severe strain on the
wrist, encountered whetetts-
leg ail ordinary iron; the
Hotpoint way pernnts a
light comfortable grasp with
the thumb resting on a firm
projection. The Hotpoint
thumb rest is an exclusive
feature found only on the
fatuous Hotpoint iron:
Por sale by dealers every-
where,
eeasel in Cadada" t'
Ce *diad General Mettle Co.,
Limited
Read Office Tnroniir
Work for Pleasure.
Work thou for pleasure; paint or sing
or carve,
The thing thou lovest; tho,igh the
body starve,
Who works for glory misses oft the
goal;
Who works for money coins his very
soul.
Work . for work's sake. then, and it
e
well may be,
That these things, shall be added :into
thee. —Kenyon Cox.
Bovril Limited Reports
Good Business in 1922
The report submitted at 'the 26tih•
Annual General Meeting of Sharehold-
ers of Bovril, Limited, in•London,'Eng-
land, last' month, was most' satisfact-
ory.
A net profit was shown'of 2306,709
--out of which after payment of regu-
lar dividends on preferred stocks a
dividend of 9% on the Deferred Shares
---free of Income Tax—was voted.
Sir George Lawson Johnston is
Chairman, The Earl of Erroll, Vice
Chairman, and. Mr. Doiighte Walker,
'Managing Director, Sir Coriithwaite
rug irons and missal aneous harness-12asous",
a former premier of Western
ing gear, halters and bridles hung Ras", has recently accepted the
over a peg near the door, a couple of
horse -shoes nailed to it, and two or position of Secretary.
three hams in smoke -blackened bags Bovril exports in 1922 exceeded
with bunches of herbs 'beside them, triose of 1.921 by 22%, and 1923 shows
strung up to the rafters. every indication of still further growth.
A tailor dip cast a halo of garish The lncreasleig amount devoted to. `s 'oofuls. of utter, and them put in
light about Deirdre where she sat vaHone forms of advertising eves one p
sewing, a load earn
Incemptythe,,
4 A { Irk
give your Moen -
tion a Vick" with
WRIGLEYS.
Sound. teeth. a good
appetite • and proper,
digestion mean MUCH
to your health.
,_WRIGLE'V S is a
helper in all this
workr. a ,pleasant,
peCelicia' picl-me-uP•
Both• Old -Fashioned.
An old physician of the last genera-
tion was noted for his brusque manner
and old-fashioned Methods, says the
Eddngurgh Scotsman. On one mese
sion a woman called him in to treat
her baby, who was slightly a•l11ng, The
doctor prescribed castor oil. ' "But,
doctor," protested the young mother,
"castor oil is sudht an old-fashioned
remedy" 'Madame,' replied the :doc-
tor, -"babies
octor,-"babies are aldrfasliionedthings."y
East or. West
Eddy's Best
EDDYS
MATCHES
Insist on. having
EDDY'S!
icleen, it is often
g or the . head of, the'
nd the portion preferred by
est To prevent, -this, put the
es on the platter as nearly as pos
le. in their- original position: lay
ontheorboiling-withallowa
spend
anted,
A
,y.
LACK
GH
:STOVE P.0)1.1511
ill fir? E
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f1 -
Burn
•
;EElrYOUIt.STOVE fi'IRIi'UT
minutes,
tl the chicken. Cook -for
•c• opera battorn ' Pour over this a cupful of
was drawn u ,d •
t fromthe kit } e •A Queen of Sheba. cupful of stock or, a cupful of hot
giving the dingy windows of the ieit to a well-known school with a Stew gently
p before the fire. tion was
The doer to the bar, reached by it
us,. stewed and "strained tomato, and a
does to
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66 Temperance St..
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step ie i c a .n, was open.
l water seasoned with celery and onion.
dip; burned on the bench there too, A woman of the new rich type }laid until, the chicken is ten- ,
shanty a gleans for wayfarers, It was view to placing her boy there. Slee as,. dei•, take it up and keep hot in the
a wild night; the wind blowing from rived In a il.olltelloyce elaborately.
the south-west beat.against the doors i dressed and loaded with e ellrv. tell
incl rattled the windows rswofere
•the frail ing her interview with the 1iead mbar
building The doors were all shut
though at was still early, ter, whom she embarrassed and fait -
oven, covered .closely, Have ready,
three-quarters of a cupful of rice
Soaked for one hour in cold water, put'
the rice with the gravy in the pot and
cook until soft. Put the clacked), back
.. , . „ the poor
Steve at last Poll asleep � ii his chair., .pressed with or grandeur, in pot,' falx with rine, simmer three
Itis heavy -labored breathing had the; man remarked, Madan:, yctt remind.e dric, hotmand
sound of a child sobbing. Deirdre. 'mc of the Queen of Sheba." minutes, arrange platter
looked up from her work, again and - "Really,e•said the Iady. "1 lad nosprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese.
again, troubled by it It increased her ides she bad a boy in this school," Ord-fa,shimt cl chicken potpie re
The ...,.0.. svelter two poul'ids of flour; one-half
'sense of desperation to hear him.
sound became unendurable. She got :. llapriy is the. roan who is too brow pottnd of lard, a 'rounded tablespoon-
u1"flrllast nd41evakened hien. to think about being overworked, Ful of Salt, two teaspoonfuls of bale
adn t ;you better go to bed, Uncle
Steve," she said, iinnatiently. "You'll i ing powder, two .fat old bons, and
each your death of cold like this, rt's ; N!En ird s Liniment tor Corns and Wars
eight large potatoes. ` Sweet potatoes
-Pre-
vents
chapped
hands, '-
cracked lips.
chilbla ins.
Makes your
skin soft, white..;
clear and smooth.
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