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The sadness of 112errieirten's bcauti-I lee ---•—r:
ful face had always appealed, to Ruth. I
To her he was rather pitiful. kle ought
to have married some v,ro n n who.;
would look after him, Merrington and t
her husband stood as far apart as the,
twoales, Her husband woe, not the
sort of man who required to be loolred 4
after. He had always been in perfect AN ATTRACTIVE NEGLIGEE.
health and had never seemed to have
a care in the world, except the tee
mendous burden of his work, John
Herrington had wanted a .wenuss to
"mother" him. . . And she was in
love with John Merrington,
"You are giving up so much, Ruth;"
Merrington continued after a pause,
Fl434 "and I—I am giving up so little. ' If
you did change your Mind I shouldn't
blame you.»
His humility hurt her more than
any words of reproach could have
done. "Jack, dear," she said hurried -
1 ly, "1 only meant that_it would be
About the Ilouse
The Hidden Hour
safer for you to stay at Mr, Arding-
ton's. I could take the train on to
Folkestone: Of course I hav"en't
changed my mind. Do as you like,
dear.,,
"We'll keep to our plans," he re-
plied. "Difficulties mi ht arise—un-
foreseen difficulties. T can't think
what put that idea into your heard,
BY J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND . 9 Ruth'
She shuddered 'and shrank from the until the needle of The speedometer
He quickened the seed of the f car,
CHAPTER II.
Swifter than the car moved through
the daarkness moved the thoughts of
Ruth Bradney, seated in silence by
the side of John Merrington. Far, far
ahead they travelled down a long road
that seemed to wind round and round
the world—a road that it would take
years to traverse, a road over which
she might move very slowly after the.
first rush: of passion and excitement
that had swept her off her feet, whirl-
ed her along like a leaf before the
storm, and sent her spinning into
what might not be a new heaven but
was most certainly a new earth.
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ISSUE No. 35-'23.
Pointed to nearly forty miles an hour.
immensity of that which lay before
her. Wrapped in her fur coat and It seemed to him that if he did' not
sitting close to the man she loved, and drive furiously something would over-
protected by the wind -screen, she, take him and .'rob him of all that he
shivered with physical cold, and with had in the world. The little car,"tee
an effort of her will she turned her light to hold. the road at this speed,
thoughts backwards to the events of . jumped about and vibrated most, yin
the past few hours. I pleasantly.
How skilfully they had planned it t Ruth closed her eyes for a few Min -
all so that her husband could do no- otos, and then suddenly opened them
fat what sd thtbe the thing to to interfere -with their schemes, port of a peemeistol. She saw the car lurch o o
er
It was curious, she thought, that she the left should have troubled to "cover upt her t o • e t towards the strip •.a grass
tracks." Not 'so very long ago she • grbyinding the side of the 'road,- heard `t the
would have laughed if anyone had ttonndi g of the brakes, and Herrings:
suggested that she was afraid of he'r: ca o t My God!" Then, as hiss
husband. But all that had changed.Ileft arm swiftly shot across her face
Ito shield her, she felt herself lifted out
As a loyal wife she had not been
' of her seat and -flung sideways
on to
afraid of him. She had held her own something that gave beneath her
against his coldness and his anger,'
and even against a streak of brutality weight and wrapped her round and
that seemed to have come into his held her fast like a network of strong,
thick cords.
nature. It was not until she had actu-
ally decided to leave him that fear When Ruth, half dazed and cruelly
shaken, managed to free herself from
had begun to creep into her life. the wide, tall hedge that had broken
And it was fear that had made a her fall she could see nothing but
cunning woman of her when it came to i the white and red tail lamp of the car.
the taking of the last decisive step. It It was'an oil lamp, and though the
was fear that had prompted her se- I electric headlights had been extin-
eretly to purchase a new trunk and a I guished, it still burnt steadily. She
completely new outfit of clothes, and groped her way to it, called out "Jack!
leave the trunk in the cloak -room at1Jas !" and then, receiving no reply,
Victoria Station. It was fear . that managed to get the lamp out of its
hadinduced her to tell her maid that socket and flashed the white• light
she was going to the theatre, and that' from the number plate on to. the grass.
her maid was not to wait up,for her.1 and road. .
And then she had taken a ticket to She saw that which she had feared
Clapham Junction, and John Herring-; to see, and running forward, she knelt
ton had met her there withhis small : by Merrington's side.. He was'lying
car. Except that.she had not dressed' on his back: quite motionless, with
for the theatre there had been nothing i arms stretched out and eyes closed.
labout her movements to attract sus- His face was uninjured and so calm
picion. Her husband would not return I that he might almost have been asleep,
to the house until about three o'clock, She caught hold of his left wrist and
in the morning. He would believe her, pressed her fingers against; the pulse.
to heeen: ed and asleep. He would not It beat faintly but steadily Th of t
knr ,a y Y e ...
no 5.;h*,y*
would 'els
truth, an
morning that she had fear passed away from hes „.e.
4.4 q ',he house , A long time 'f "He has. only fai i.ted,"t els ,;'
iso . before he learnt the herself. He must have fol?;en
then she would bo beyond heavily on the hard road andshat=e
his reach. Folkestone, Paris, Rome! consciousness. T She must find some
She had a swift vision of the flight. water—get brandy from solneyrlrere,
He would not follow them farther
e him
than a day's journey, But so long as here rhaiii t es. oroad could
doubt tvwotild
she was in England she was afraid of onl`\be a matter of a few minutes be-
in
him. She pictured him as swift to fore some car came by, and: she could
avenge his honor—a strong, terrible ask for help. They were on a main
man who would commit murder rather road, -and had already passeddozens
th
carsfrom the moving south east to
London.
Before a minute had elapsed she
saw a white fan of light in the dis-
tance. It was travelling in the same
direction as she had travelled. She
rose from her knees and went forward
to meet the car, standing in its path
so that it could not, pass her by, and
waving her arms. It slowed down and
stopped within two yards .of her, and.
man called out, 'What's
the
mat-
ter?"
"An accident—I want help." She
came to the side of the car. "My hus-
band's hurt," she continued. "He's ly-
ing in the middle of the road."
"Far on?"
"About a hundred yards."
"Jump in," said the voice. "I'm a
doctor. My name's Trehorn. 'I only
live a couple of miles away from
here.";
She Seated -herself beside the driver
and said nothing. She had suddenly
realized that she would have to be
careful what she said. Already she
had spoken of Merrington as her hus-
band. There was no reason why she
should not have called him. "a friend.
But the word had slipped out of her
mouth unawares,
The big cer glided on for a. few sec-
onds and came to a standstill. Dr,
Trehorn sprang out of it and knelt
stone, and you—you could leave your down by Merrington's side. Ruta
friend's house early in, the morning-- alighting more slowly, for she was
in time to catch the boat." aching in every limb, saw Trehorn for
Merrington drew in his breath the first time in the glare of the head -
sharply and slowed down the car, until lamps, He was a young nian with a
it was travelling at no mare than kindly, clean-shaven face—a rather
twelve miles an hour.
ordinary young, ulna of ,medium height
"Rath, you—you have, not ,changed end with nothing very remaritable
your mind?"
"No, no; Jack -1 only though':—" abouthis appearance. But shecabed
"If you have changed your 'mind," ;they look of him. He live?” hed capable.
ed,
he continued—"well, it is not too late." " Whroe he do yoyx live. asked,
Far from here?"
She was silent. She had not Bhang "Yes --in` London. We were on our,
ed her mind, but she was meat hot way to Folkestone."
ribly afraid. Her mind had golte Cot "You're off the main road," he said,.
ward into the future' and back into busy all the time with his eyes and
the past, and it had travelled in s ;ern fingers. "Did you know that?"
and darkness. "No."
He had not been angry at her su't- I "This is a by -road to Dedbury " he
gestion. "Perhaps," she thought, `he' continued. "Lucky 1 carne along' Not
too is afraid." The fact that she loved many people go along this road at
him did not blind her to his amts. flight."
Che knew he had little strength' of 1 "Dedbtrry,'' she echoed, and sh re
character. Be'had not even been able � nfembered that Arrington live at
to cope with Paula, his pretty, pew..Yjedbery,
lant, empty-headed butterfly of a wife; I "Yes --'well, you've got pluck, and
whose selfish extravagance had been i you'll keep your heacl. your husband
the cause' of so' many quarrels over may be rather badly hurt. I think I'd
money and an ever -widening breach; better take him along to my house. Be -
in his married life. I tween us we can get him into my car.
She glanced up et Merrington'sl:..can do nothing for him here."
face, dimly beautiful in the faint light I Ruth .faltered out some words of
from the Tamp on the dashboard. It., gratitude. She could do nothing less,
was the face of one who sooner or But it seemed to her as though elle
an
be robbed do
f o
ne
of his
posses-
sions, even if he were tired of it.
And she.had forced. John Merring-
ton to take the same precautions.
John Merrington had a friend who
lived in Kent fifty miles out,of London,
and he had
told
his wife fe th
at he was
going to spend a couple of days with
this man. That had been very simple
indeed. "Like a : thief—like two
thieves," thought Ruth, "flying from
justice."
That Ugly idea came into her milid.
and asserted itself. There was no get-
ting away from it. In the fierce tu-
mult of the last fortnight her mind
had perhaps not been e
P p able to think
quite clearly. Love had obscured
everything'. But now, rushing through
the cold night air, she was more criti-
cal of her action,
"How far are we from London,
Jack?" she asked.
"Oh, about forty miles, dear," Mer-
rington answered with a laugh.
"Are we anywhere 'near Mr. Ard-
ington's house?"
"Ardington?" he queried.
"Yes, Jack'' dear—your friend, who
lives at Dedbury."
"About ten miles farther on, I
should think. ` Yes, about that."
"Don't you think you had better
stop the night there?" said Ruth,
after a pause. '"I will go on to Felice -
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CHILD?
Your child's usefulness, happiness
and success in life are . dependent
largely. upon the care you give it, the
watchfulness you keep over it and the
intelligence with which you guide tt.
"From 10 to 15 percent more. pub-
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they hadsa physical over -hauling be-
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declared. an educational expert at this
time last year.
"Adenoids, defective eyesight' -or
malnutrition, sometimes all of them,
tisually round,'.' he said. "The
Aei oids and'eye"'trouble can be cor-
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Will give the matter 'serious attention.
Take the children to.the family doctor,
and when he' gives advice in reference
to these' matters, act at once."
Statistics covering many years show
that nine out of every.ten persons
over twenty-one usually have imper-
fect sight. At thirty-one
g the propor-
tion is larger. Above forty it is al-
most impossible to find a man or wo-
man with perfect sight. For the last.
100 years the profession has wrestled
in vain with the problem, obleui fin i
p , d ng no
means compatible with the conditions
of modern life for preventing errors.
of refraction, and no means of reliev-
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It a
was learned some years rs ago by
the examination of several thousand
school, children in `one of "our large
cities that 66 per cent. of them had de-
fective vision of such a degree as to
warrant the wearing of glasses.
Quite recently the examination of
more than ten thousand employees in
factories and commercial houses show-
ed that 53 per cent. had uncorrected
faulty vision, 18 per cent. had defects
which were corrected, making 60'per
cent, with defective eyes.
These two surveys were made under
different auspices several years apart.
The figures are startling. They mean
that a very large majority of the pub
lie have eyes defective to such a de-
gree as to require glasses to conserve
vision and make the individual a hap-
pier and more efficient, member of
society,
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So often the little things are the
most helpful. Tea leaves, for instance!
After the tea is made, do not throw.
them away? Why not keep -them and
turn them into beauty'spectacles?
Then you won't have to worry about
the attractiveness of your eyes, for
they will be young and sparkling, with
smooth lids and'unwrinkled corners,
Make an oblong,bag of white cheese-
cloth. Fill it with old tea leaves and
tie it in the middle, so -that;. by a
stretch of the imagination it looks like
a big pair of white spectacles. 'Now
dip it in' a basin of warm water and
lay it over the tired, old -looking eyes.
If possible, lie down and relax when
you give yourself this treatment. Try
to think only of pleasant thoughts—
such as how rested your eyes will,
look when you get up. If your eyes
are very tired, you may renew the hot
water two or three times during the
treatment. But if. you have been tak-
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rest for a' few minutes, remove the tea
spectacles, and wash your eys in cold.
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Apply this paste to the' face and let it
stay until it powders off.
And here's 'a recipe culled from a
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can work wonders
for the most.neglected hand. Mash a
banana into a soft paste, and add a
little lemon juice. Rub this over the
-hands at night, and draw on',a pair of
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later would give something of extra-
or'dinary beauty to the world—a poem,
a song, a picture, a building, or a sta-
tue. It was almost a contrast to the
big, strong, athletic body of the man
-too small a head for such a vigorous
Framework of bones and muscles.
was already In the storm anrl',dark-
ness she had seen—so far of on the
long road of life
(To be continued.)
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