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ADDRESS ALL ENQUIRIES TO - * err+ LIMITED 655 DROLET STREET, MONTREAL. :7Z /// r:n�...e r �",:..�:,_s.��-a.,,:n:n'""4ic<tJ�'!'�«,eii�^1,'-"dl'1"Sc*.,.S+at `:?;win�'w`;ziE"'.'=:rises,e„.,,:a�1-,W3:�Ae,.,.�:,,,,,)�k'r•. FINMMCM .12.1911119===2...1====2.S.111.5M661.31\31CM=E16 The La y ncaster Orr,, Leonora West's Love. CIIAPTER XXIII,—(Continued). When Leonora West said "please” in that coaxing tone there were not many people who could resist hor. Mrs, West did not. She said to herself that it would bo no harm to walk about the grounds fz bit with her niece.. She could not refuee her a breath of fresh air, certainly. She caw Lady Lancaster sitting in a chair in the ballroom, sand ebe did not think it likely that' she ~could stir from her eeat for at leset an hour. "So 1"11 iun the risk," said the kind hearted woman. „Come along, Leonora." They went down into the beautiful grounds along the moonlighted paths; Past gleaming groups of statuary, ghost- like inthe weird light, past beds eif rarest flowers past thickets of roses, walls of honeysuckles. with the white 'radiance of bite ancon .shining over everything. "How sweet this is!" the girl whieper- ed. "When ve were crossing the ocean, I grew eo tiredof the water and the eky; I longed for the green grass and the flow- ers. How eoft.and fragrantthe air ie, and how beautiful the moonlight! I think T could stay out here ell night," "You would catch your death of cold, Mre, West eaid, aghast. "The dewe are: very heavy." "Oh, of course, I don't mean to; but it. is so romantic. It is like en Eastern night, so soft and • balmy, and—oh, ohl Aunt West. is that the nightingale — the English nightingale papa used to love so dearly?" She clapped her little hands, It was the nightingale, indeed, hid in :some flow- ery covert„ all alone, "Pouring hie full heart, In profuse strains of unpremeditated art." "Yee, it 1e the nightingale," said Mrs. Went, de-ig]hted that Leonora had found something at last in England to grow en- thusiastic over. "There are eo many of. them here, and it is down by the Magic Mirror you hear that .one singing. It ms their favorite. resort." "The Magic elirrore" echoed Leonora. "Yes It is a pretty pond of water a little further on ell fringed with willows and ro':es. ' It, ie as smooth and clear as .e, mirror, and there is an old tradition that the vcnth or maiden gazing into the Magid ;horror by moonlight, in the month. of June, may see there reflected the face of • his or her life companion." "Orr, Aunt West, let ue go there!" cried the girl, eagerly, "WFatl you don't believe in that silly tradition?" laughed the' ;rood woman. "No, no, but to hear the nightingales," cried Leonora. Is it far, auntie?" "No; only a short distance further on, . at a little bend where two paths meet. But we have come so far already—" "And yon ere tired" said the :girl, with generous ;rompu.nction. .:I otight to have rear•,'rnbrr°erl that:" She pushed lids, West gentle into te law rueti<' seat by the path, ai'l, kindly: "Sit here an rest while I gr. l h:rl it rnyeolf. The nigbtingala's veal! guide ane." ••1'r. 'WI i ,,)t be long?" said liens. West, hi, 1f 11•;'•'.' �r„ flay Tgo, .bunt Weet? Will v °: ,:t f , ^ me here?" pleadingly, •4•- 1a.e-red the kind, indulgent 'r, iora ere, en at a gtrioic pane, r.' I r ''.wird of the .nigbfingale's Y. Hag ander ' her breath •role ,to the nightingale ',V(11 ter Scott; •a "Beautiful nightingale, who chair portray All the varying turns of thy flowing lay? And where ie the,lyre whose cliorde shall reply To the notes of thy changeful melody We may linger, indeed, and listen to tl: ea; But the linked' chain of thy harmony Is not for mortal hands to unbind, Nor the clew of tby mazy music to find. Thy home is the wood on the echoing 'rill;, Or the verdant st Aird softhillas the south wind the branches of the fore among, Thy plaintive lament goes floating along." She went' on swiftly through the beauti- ful night, guided by the nightingale's voice, and with a feet -beating heart; for, with. all a young girl's folly, she meant to look into the Magie' Mirror to eee, per• chance, the face of her future lord and master. Louder and nearer grew the notes of the niglheingale as Leonora hastened on. She thought she had never heard any- thing so sweet. At first it had only been one bird, but now several had joined ;their notes together in a medley of in- toxicating mune that ewelled deliciously upon the fragrant air of the night. She walked lightly, almost holding her breath as oho came upon the scene, for fear of 'frightening them away. She passed from the shadow of the grand oaks that had overhung her path, out into an open epa.ce, and the Magic Mirror burst upon her sight—a little lim- pid lake fringed with willowe and sweet- brier' and water -lilies,. and so clear that the fell, white radiance of the moon and stare We mirrored on itaa tranquil breast, while. hid in the thicket of .rose and willonv, the night' were pour - Mg out their hearts in song. Oh, .how sweet!" cried the girl. Site clasped her hands in an ocsitaey. Her heart was touched by the peacefeil beauty and enchanting repose' of the scene. Scarce a. ripple stirred the bosom of the quiet lake, A.nd the water -lilies, drooping to look at their fair reflections, were scarcely ruffled lay the soft; light breeze that played around the enchanting spot. Leonora moved softly forward to the verge el the Magic Mirror, andebendfng forward, with a slightly quickened heartabeat, gazed down into, ite crystal clear depths. She saw her own face gaz- ing back at her with 'all its fresh young beauty, its eager eyes and parted lips, the dark veil twisted careless •y about her head, and the loose tresses of her hair ftowine beneath it. She sane alt this clear• ly as in a mirror, and for a moment she remained intently gazing at it, wonder, ing if tike old legend were indeed true attd if the farce of her future husband would indeed rise from those mysterious depths by the aide ofher own. So absorbed was she in contemplation that she did not detect the faint scent of cigar smoke that euddenly filled the air; she did not hear the approaching step that wag muffled also, not to frighten the birds away. She remained gazing, .In• te,utly into the water, half bent forward, her hand grasping the slender branch of a willow, until suddenly, in the mystic pool, a face locked over her, slhoul•der-- the face of: her fate. y , CHAPTER XXIV, Something like a startled cry burst from Leonora's lips as she, ,thus beheld . that face beside her own .:.drat fair, strong, handsome me .face that was as r fa n,'1- far as her o n— iv th e fa ce01' f Clive, rye Lord Lancaober. She believed for a <moment that his "face had indeed ouisen from. the depths of the enchanted t.col. and after that one start led cry she was silent, watching it with dilated eyes' and bated breath, expecting every moment to see it fade into the no, thingness from which it had sprung. But, instead of fading, it grew clearer to her sight; it changed its expression. At first it, had a half-mieehfeeoue emilereupon the lips and in the eyes; this changed to gravity tenderness, and passion, It was the face of a lover on 'which Leonora now gazed with rapt interest, unconscious that— "His eyes looked love To eyes that spoke again." It was a moment of silent happiness. The light wind stirred the 1ilybude on the bosom of the lake that held those two fair faces mirrored in its breast; the nightingale's song pierced their hearts with exquisite pleasure that bor- dered on pain. Leonora, wandering for one moment in the Land of Enchantment, vas recalled to the present and to theactual by the man's folly. He should have stolen away ae he had come, in silence, leaving her alone with Mr beautiful, . strange illusion, to bear ite fruit in due season; but— "Men's hearts crave tan ' dernefis, gable, close 'teu- Love's presence, warm and near." He yielded to e, tender impulse without trying to resist .11. He was close beside her; his cheek was near her own; his eyes looked into her eyee as they gazed up from jibe water, and ,those soft orbs had a look in them that made him dizzy with delight. He slid his arms around the graceful bending form 'and whieper- ed in her ear: Leonora, is it fate?" Alas! "A tench, ae kiss! she charm was swept!" Like one startled from a dream, eke looked up and saw him holding her in that strong clasp,' gazing into her lace wiith a passion than :frightened her, She tore herself from Brie arms. "How dared you? oh, how dared you?" she cried out, indignantly, 1 Her angry 'words, her scornful glance, chilled the fire that, burned within him, He realized his Molly. Why. had ,he'touo11- ed her, frightened her, and so broken the spell of. enchantment that held hex? She would, never forgive him, perhaps; for his "Did you think, because you avere my Lewd Lancaerter, forsooth, and I'only the' housekeeper's niece, that you could in- sult nuc thus?" Her voice broke cold :and sharpon :.the stillness, The nightingales had all flown away at the first sound of her angry tones. Insult you?" cried the culprit, agita- tedly; he wee too :much shocked at the .re. snit of hie hasty act to speak calmly. "Be. lieve me, Mies West', I meant eo insult. I dict not think that you would take it so: lIle words were unfortunate. They irri- tated Leonora even more, "You did not th!nk ee?" she cried, gaz- ing reproachfully at him, "And, spray, ;sir, what eanr>e had I given you to—to think that your careoses could be,•agreeablo to Ile stood gazing at her: in silence.. If he' told her the real truth—told her that the face in the Magic .Mirror 'had fooled' him with its soft ogee and tender lips, and led him on to the commission of that impulsive sot rho would bo 1001'0' angry than ever. She would deny that her •own looks had tempted biro, made :e fool of him, Ire would not stoop to ex- culpate himself Brom tho anger of one eo manifeally 'unjust, All the Lan:meter pride flushed into hie face ashe stood looking dawn mi cher from his ha'nglity height, ills acme folded over hie broad breast, ••What cause had I given you," elle re- netted: stamping her little foot angrily •on bile earth, "to think that your eares- see were agreeable ea anon" Sino is n little ebrewl" lie said to hint• self, with ;sadden anger, "1 will never. !rive another thought to her." with that thought he answered, coldly: "If you itea'e like other women, Miss West, I might exculpate" myself in your eyes. But ae it ie, can only gay that 1 meant no harm, and I humbly crave your•. pardon," Ince other women!' she flashed, haughtily. "what hart do you mean, Lord Lan :aster? Does' the miefortune of my poverty and lowly birth place me beyond the pale of your respectful cone/dere- Von? Perhaps were I Lady Adele. East-, wood it would be different" "What the deuce does she know about thr earl's daughter? " he asked himself, in extreme astonishment; but he answer.. ed, eagerly: ' Yes, indeed, it would.be different, Mies Wcet. I .should not look into the Magic Mirror over Lady Adela's shoulder, ear- tainly; nor 'would 1: put my ern around her waist, l:ut—' Ile could nee say another word, for she inte'rented him, gloyelng.ue Teeth angry beauty. • "So you acknowledge the truth to my very • face. • Par shame, Lord Leneaeter! You throw discredit upon your name of gentleman; you make me hate and de- spise you for those worde? No; I will' never: forgive you as long as I live!" sob- bed Leonora,. bursting into angry teem; and .then she fled away from him in the moonlight, leaving him standing like one dazed by the side of the Magie Mirror. 13mt it was only for a moment that he remained thus motionless: He thought apprehensively: "It was most unwise in Mrs. West to al- low her niece to go roaming about alone' at this hour. Even upon my grounds she mcy lose her wary; or meet with some un- pleasant adventure.. I will follow her at e safe distance, and see that She gets bark safely to the Hall." Be set out hurriedly, and, turning the bend in the road, 'almost ran over two figurce etanding anotionlese under. the tall trees that bordered the lane—'Mrs. West,. 'with Leonora sobbing in her arms. ' The good woman, looking` up, uttered . a ery of relief. Oh, Lord Lancaster 1 I aan so glad to see you," she exclaimed. 'I am so fright ened. Soanetbing must have happened to Leonora. You wee how sho'e prying. Well, Gabe came out, for a breath of fresh air, and then ehe wanted to hear the nightin- gale's at the Magic Mirror, and so I sat down and waited for her; but she stayed so long I went to look for her; and there she came flying imto my arms, and crying like some hurt thing. Did yet see any. thing ,nr any person, my lord?" anxiously. He was intensely annoyed. The sight of Leonora sobbing, grievously in the wo- man's arms (bitterly irritated bum. why would she miejudge' hien' so per. eistentiy? why misundesetand him al- ways? He looked at the graceful black figure with its head bowed'on Mae, West's plump. shoulder, and said, curtly: "Mies West is unnecessarily .alarmed. She Inas seen no one or nothing but my- self. Dt was the night of me that :alarm-. ed her." "Oh, leneh 1 I did not mean to tell her!" cried Leonora through her •eons. Mere was a note of warning in her. voice; but in his vexation he did not heed it. Mrs. West was1anxious- ly. looking at him aux ly "Of course, she would not • have been fregilufeliaeat the sight of you, my lord, one exclaimed. • >. I—T=aes not frightened at 'anything—e Was only ,'angry, ".,Leonora; ;said, lifting her head at this moment and hushing hinn oher low soba into silence. `e•had 'Lght, Aunt West," else added, incoher- ently. • No right!" echoed the good woman, looking from one to the other in amaze- ment. "Why, what has he done, -my dear?" "Nothing;. only looked over my shoul- der .into the water—and—and frightened ane. Please don't think me -silly, Aunt West. I think I'm nervous to -night. Let ars go," said the girl, without looking at the tall handsome form, standing so near her. "Let me come to -morrow and explain, he mid, humbly, coming nearer to 'here but she turned her face resolutely from him. • "No," she eaid, icily; "it is quite unno- aeesa.ry. Come, Aunt West." She dragged the good woman away. and left him standing there en the moonlight, with a settled shadow upon his face. `What, .a contretemps!" he said to 'him- self, ,gloomily. "Ah! how little I thought, when I came out to -night to smoke that solitary ,cigar that. I should meet with such an adventure! How angry she woe! Every' time 'we meet we drift further away from each other!" Ile went back to. Lady Adele' and his guests after weehile. The earl's daughter ehided:him because ho had left them for that odious - cigar. It was most ungallant! 'sem declared. . "You are .mistaken. I went to consult that oracle, the Magic Mirror," he re- plied. , Lady- Adela had heard the old legend. She 'smiled and bridled. aid you see your fate?" she asked him, and he answered, in a strange tenet 11.1111111,11111111.1 When A Woman Wants her. summei "• Dresses her "frilly things"—her fine linens --to look their whitest and daintiest- -s'he is very particular to use Silver Oioss LAUNDRY STARCH It gives that delight- fully satin finish. : YOUR GROCER HAS IT 56 The Canada Starch Co, Limited, Montreal "I saw the . woman I love in the Mage Mirror." The earl's daughter was e little puzzled by hie reply. She wondered if hers was the face he had ween in the water, but she dared net put the thought into words. CHAPTER XXV: < Several days passed away very quietly after Leonora's first day and night at Lancaster Park. The girl stayed in the email roome to which she was restricted quite as closely as the housekeeper could have .desired- She did not even offer to go out. seeing to have tacitly resigned herself to the situation. She unpacked one of her 'trunks and showed Mrs. West the ,sketches she had Promised to shone her; she took out all her pretty, rim,ple 'back dresses, and hung them on their pegs in the little dressing -closet her aunt assigned her. • When she had nothing else to do she read or embroidered. Her aunt noted with pleasure thatshewas seldom idle. She did not know of the long hour Leo- nora spent, when alone, curled up in a big easy -elixir, with her milkavhite hands folded in her lap, her eyes half shut, with the dark lashes drooping against the pink cheeks, and a 'thoughtful, puzzled expression on ,the fair ,face. I£ she had seen her, Mara. West would have wondered much what her niece was thinking about. In :the meantime, the gay life of the great folks- at Lancaster went on from day to day. • Leonora saw no more of it, steadily .de- clining the well -meant offer of her aunt to provide. her with surreptitious peeps at it. "I donot care about it," Leonora 'would say, Taith an eloquent glance at her blackatk dress. "Gayety only Jars upon me, auntie, dear. • I should bike to go out in the fresh air, a little; but 11.1. can not do tihat,'I have aro 'deeire for ithe rest." But Mrs: West, however Twilling she wee, did not dare advise her niece to go out into the grounds where the 'gueote might. i 1 rad .at anyt acre or even old be encountered Lady •Lancaster herself. She.' knew that Leonora's pretty ,face, once seen bythe guests, would'excitere mark. 'It• ]had' already won the admira- tion of the house -maids. ' These latter persons, having caught ,oc- casional glimpsee of Leonora' in their er-' rande to the housekeeper's room, were disposed Ito be very sociable with the fair American girl; but Mrs. West put an end to their .weilaneant cordialities by •say- ing, gently: "My niece would :rather not be disturb- ed; she Is in great trouble;'she has re- cently lost her father." After that 'the maids did not court Leo- nora's society any more. They accepted her • aunt's excuse good-naturedly and sym'pat'hetically,and contented them selves by talking, about her among them- selves, and praising her beauty, 'which they declared` to •each other was even greater than that of the young ladies who -were eojourning at Lancaster --great- er even than that of Lady Adele East- wood, 'who, it was confidently whispered, was to be the next mistress of Lancaster Park. Mrs. West grew downright sorry for her pretty prisoner, whose pink cheeps were fading in the close, dark rooms 'where she was kept. She said to herself that this would not do. She must not have poor Dicke orpphan child pining for lib- erty and light and the blessed sunehine that was free to all. - '•'l will not do it; no, not if I have to leave Lady Lancaster's service and make a home for the' girl eleevihere," she said to herself. 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An old feed lot rich in plant food, and very likely in dis- ease germs, 'too, can be made apron fitable pasture, and the ibzeakingof :the ground preparing orf ellhe seed bed, ;and the growing ,crops may be a valuable sanitary meastre. Of eourse a good seed bed is an important factor and 'when this iq made drill in one`` and a half bash - els of early oats Sind .barley mixed half and half. B.eardleas barley should be used as so -me will likely mature and ripe barley cards are not good for hog feed. Ten follow with a grass seeder sowing_ a mix- ture of four pounds Dwarf Essex rape seed, three pounds timotlhy and eight pounds of legume seed per. acre. I have been "using;al.sike medium. and mammoth` clovers but this spring shall include alfalfa. The more kinds of legumes suitable : for earlysorwin;g the better. I cover the seed with a weeder going crosswise. A light spike tooth harrow will answer'alsa, When the rape is about aix inches high which will be in six to eight weeks depending on the season and the time of sowing the flogs may be„. turned in. The rape, barley, and oatswill furnish abundant' pasture for about twenty-five shoats per acre. Last Until Late Fall. In the meantime the !timothy and clovers are growing to sup- plant the maturing :barley and oats and with the rape will furnish a well balanced ration until covered with snow. The economy of this plan is only realized when one finds, as I have found in every trial, that the next year it furnishes the best meadow or pasture on. the. farm. I .also found it paid 'big to divide this pasture into equal parts soas to -pasture each alternately, at in- tervals o'f one or two weeks, and this can be done cheaply iby stretch- ing 28 inch woven wire, :this will turn pigs;. and ,with ,two barbed wires albove, will turn all kinds of stock, Last year I supplementedsuch a - hog pasture with Canada' field. peas on an adjoining lot, sowed just as. soon as the frost was out of the ground (which was plowed the pre- vious fall). the hogs having free access to 'both lots after the bulk of the peas were ripe. This lot, enriched by pea vines and hog voidings, was plowed the latter part of July, rolled and har- rowed twice, and the Sod of Aug- ust I sowed alfalfa thickly in .a.seed bed that suited the factidiou's tastes and exclusiveness of this legume. Alfalfa regards every 'ogler plant as an intruder and weed and hence the necessity for tllicalc seeding ire rich, well prepared ground, Double. Seeding of Alfalfa. In this case I used .a hand seeder for sowing the alfalfa, going over the ground twice to get a more evendistribution of the seed, using twelve pounds each time. I covered it by going over the ground with .a weeder, then cross- ing, and the thick evenstand and luxuriant growth made last fall; proves the extra seed and work a good investment. A good yearly rotation to make cheap pork from spring pigs' in six to seven months is as follows: .A hog pasture as I have above de- scribed, a suitable sized patch of Canada peas which are best suited for southern. sections ; ,for southern sections soy beans and cow peas tan be substituted, and a patch of sweet corn, an early and a late variety separated by a hob .fence when the early variety is readyto pasture, thus prolonging :the feed- ing season and avoiding waste. I am perfectly confident .that those who try the above mentioned plans •of making hogspasbures will be entirely pleased witch the re- sults. 44 Newly Married. . 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