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Mt E.XCiTAG PRESET -DY ROMANCE,
BY W ATH-iERBY C iESNEY
CHAPTER XX.—(C..•nt d.; the present, and be ready to come in
at the last minute. So you see we
"Oh, yes, we've settled Wall! '1'liex<t enghtn't to frighten him yet."
were rather a lot of people who sof- "Exactly," said Mona. "But that's
fered in the Carrington and, Varney just what I meant by suggesting su estin a
smash, you know, and most of them
picnic. If he zees you and Phil moon -
were poor. We had deck d that the ing about here, he'll .now that you are
diamonds should be sent to the lige:{- patching him; and you may be stare
Bator in bankruptcy, to be turned into he will see you. But if we all go,
a small dividend of something or oth- He'll think it's just a picnic party, and
er in the pound."„ roe shall be able to explore the whole
"She resigns all her ownclaim. neighborhood without exciting his: or
said Elsa to Scarborough. "Isn't it any body else's suspicions.”
splendid of her? She says that the "And Mrs. Carrington?" said Scar -
poor people suffered more than she borough. "Who's going to stay and
did." watch her? I had counted on you for
"Oh, no, it isn't splendirll, or heroic, that duty, you know."'
or anything of the sort," Mona cut in "I forgot about her," said Mona rue -
before Scarborough could answer. fully.
"Don't run away with that idea, Elsa, "I don't think it will pay to forget
I've got two reasons, both are very ,,
ordinary ones. The first is that I've her
As he said this, the door of _the
got a feeling that I should hate to room opened suddenly, and Mrs. Car-
trouch a penny of the money which the rington herself stood smiling on the
pian who stole it from me lost his life threshold. .
in defending. That's silly perhaps,
"No," she said, softly, "it won't do
but I can't help it. The second is to forget me. Elsa, introduce the
that I don't need it." young man to me."
"Not just now," said Scarborough.. Elsa had jumped up, and was gaz-
"Buff if you grow tired of your wand-
s* ins life with the circus -troupe—' ing at her mother with a look of min -
"Oh, dont bother!" said Mona. filed contemptthe!" and anger.
I tell you;
"Mother!" she said scornfully.
I've got plenty of money, ' "You have been—"
but it's a theme I don't want to Bis- i
"Listening," said Mrs. Carrington
cu: s just now, I have a reason for Icalmly. "Yes, child, I have. Do you
that, too, which I shall perhaps tell:expect me to be ashamed of admitting
you some day, and perhaps not. It all it? Don't be foolish. Introduce me."
depends upon whether something I : Elsa stood where she was, and made
very much wart to happen, does hap-
; no movement to do so. Mrs. Carring-
pen. See?" ton laughed.
The others noted with astonishment !
"Very well," she said. "I must in -
that she was blushing, and Elsa be-, troudce myself. I am Rachel Car-
gan: Irington, the woman who retired to bed
"Why, Mona—"I with a headache, utterly routed after
"Change the subject, please!" sala battle of tvorl.'.s with two young girls
Mena with a laugh. "Mr. Scarbor- I But even after a defeat the enemy
of gh, you haven't reported what you sometimes rallies you know, and
and Phil. found at the vents." while I have been standing behind'
Scarboroagh told them the result of that door I have rallied considerably.
the visit to the vents, and of Varney's You I presume, are Mr. Horace Scar-
sugestion that the Furnas district borough, the young man who, my hos-
should be watched night and day, in band informed me, would very pas -
order to catch the man Gillies. Of sibly be my son-in-law one day."
course Gillies knew nothing about the "Mother!" cried Elsa again. ,
scratched stone, and if it was he who Mrs. Carrington laughed again.
had stolen the plan from Mrs. Car-� "Elsa's blushes suggest that I am in-
rington, there was still that link miss- discreet." she said mockingly. "But,
ing in his knowledge; bait it was also 'Horace, if I am to be your mother -in -
possible that he had other reasons for law, you ought to have the opportun-
:n"ew:nag, or guessing, the place to
ity of knowing something of me. I
which the plan referred, and so could shall join your picnic to -morrow, and
de without the stone. Anyway Var we can enjoy a talk together. You
ney was quite right in saying that he don't look pleased. Surely the ar-
must he watched." rangement is a good one. It will ob-
Yvr are going to ride over and re-
viate the necessity of leaving anyone
1;e�•e Phil in the morning?�--Zona here to watch me!"
asked. , She threw herself into a chair, and
' Yes." her mocking laughter rang out again
"•1 car: improve on that plan. Elsa g
and I will go with you, and we'll call
on the way for Miss Davis. We will CHAPTER XXI.
mak". a regular picnic of it."
Scarborough shook his head. Mrs. Carrington was enjoying the
"Teo conspicuous," he said. "We situation. These young people were
shall frighten cur man if we go in a really delicious. They thought they
sw.:.ini. Phil suggests, and I think had • outwitted her, and were disdass-
he't right, that as Gillies seems to ing gravely what they meant to do
1•:raw more than we do, we should let with the diamonds when they got
Ian. ge ahead without interference for them to her lThe ose ndwerec tbeoeehsnn ed
for
distribution amongst the widows and
. ajaeat , e .a a . ne ee . sea a , orphans in England; it was a touching
- - ' scheme, but it was not the one which
Mrs. Carrington proposed to see car-
ried out.
But though she enjoyed her triumph,
and did no mind in the least that she
had gained it by admitted eavesdrop-
ping, she was really tired. Moreover
her headache had not benefited be
half an hour's crouching with her ear
to the keyhole of the door. She ex-
pected to spend an energetic day to-
et 1'� �;,p morrow, and she did not think she was
- = je,r y7.� likely to gain any other information
-. ile to -night, so she sacrificed present
gratification to future profit, and an-
' pounced that she was going to bed.
"Really to bed, this time," she said
"But don't go, Mr. Scarborough, on
that account! I don't suppose a chap-
eron is really necessary, as Elsa's
friend is with her. No doubt that
'was why . Mademoisenlic Mona de la
ua !pie with difficulties, and' he rather
c„7 I ;
r-,. rvelcamed them as adding zest to the
n ,, game. .
"I should like to hear what you
mean to do with me,” she said sweet-
ly. "I am corning tao your picnic,
but I realize that I shall not be very
welcome. 1 am an unfortunate com-
plication—how
orn,-plication- how are you goign to deal
with it?"
Scarborough smiled.
"I don't think there is anything to
be gained by saying," he answered.
"Yon hope to be able to leave me
out afte rail?"
"Olt, no," said Scarborough. "If you
say you are coming, I have no doubt
that you will. But you will probably
make your own arrangements.
Mrs. Carrington gave him a quick
glance.
"Young man," she said, "you are
not a fool! I admit thab I hoped you
were. Good night."
the swept smiling from the room,
and Mona jumped up and opened the
long French windows that led to the
garden.
"Elsa and I will see you on your
way to the Cable station," she said
to Scarborough. "There are no key-
holes in the open air! Never mind
your hat, Elsa. It's warm."
When they were clear out of the
house and the trees round it, Mona
halted in an open space of the road.
"I think this will da,". she said.
"There isn't a hedge within fifty
yarlds, and the sick -room of our head-
ache patient is double that distance
away. Our voices won't be heard.
But speak without pointing at things
There's a bright moon, and an intelli-
gent observer can deduce a good deal
from gestures. Now, then,. what's to
be done?"
"I think," said Scarborough, "that
you two had better give up your plan
of going with me to -morrow; stay
here, and watch Mrs. Carrington. If
she goes—"
"Oh, she'll g right enough," said
Mona.
"Yee, I think she will. If she does,
you can follow her. Does she bicycle,
Elsa?"
"No:"
"Then she'll have a carriage. You
on your bicycles can prevent her giv-
ing you the slip. I'll carry oW my
original plan of joining Phil at Fur-
nas"
Mona turned to Elsa.
"Are you willing to give up your
picnic?" she asked.
"I don't mean to give it up'," saild
Elsa quietly. "I am going."
Mona looked ab Scarborough
queerly. "A determined family, the
Carrington's," she said. "I thought
Elsa wouldn't submit to be bullied by
the Iady with the headache. "Pau
see, Mr. Scarborough, we're going.
But instead of Mrs. Carrington giv-
ing us the slip, I suggest that we
should inflict that experience on her.
What time can you call for us in the
morning?"
"I am on duty till eight," said
Scarborough.
"Couldn't you get one of the other
men to take the last bit for you, just
for once? Could;ft you be here by
six—or better, half -past five?"
"Perhaps Scott would do it," sailtl
Scarborough doubtfully; "but what's
your plan?"
"To be off before the lady suspects
that we are even awake," said Mona.
"She will follow, of course, but we'll
leave a competent detective to shadow
her."
"Who?"
"Val B. He's at the Cable Station
now; he has been dining with Mr.
Scott there, and he's going to stay
the night. He'll do it if you say I
told you to ask him, and he'll do it
thoroughly.'
"Does he know, Mrs. Carrington?"
"No; so you can tell him what you
like of her. Say that sire's an in -
interesting woman with a very sad
past, a fascinating creature with
abnormally developed criminal tend-
encies, and that a day spent in
watching her will be well worth while
to a close observer of character. Val.
B. Montague thinks himself rather a
connoisseur of character, and is al-
ways complaining that the female vii -
liens he meets are bloodless and feeble
—no real gritty vice in 'ein, sir! Ex-
plain to him," said Mona laughing,
"that thisone is real hard sand, and
he'll do anything you ask for the
chance of studying her."
Scarborough thought for amontent.
"You know him better than I do,"
he said at length. "Don't be annoy-
ed all what I am going to ask. Is he
absolutely trustworthy?"
(To be continued.)
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THE CANADA STARCH
CO. LIMITED
MONTREAL, FOI
BR
BRANTF013D, RTWILLIAM.
More Blouses, Lingerie and
Skirts --more Table Linen --
more Sheets and Pillow Cases
•-' more Curtains—are
starched with "Silver Gloss",
than any other starch in,
Canada. Your grocer bas it.
1
Makers of "Croton Brand" ana
"Lily White" Corn Syrups, and
Benson's Corn Starch. 2.53
Silo a Paying Proposition.
It is safe to say that more silos will
be built in Canada this year than in
any previous year. Corn silage has
proved to be superior to roots as ,.a.
succulent feed for dairy cattle, and
when it is realized that a bon of corn
can be grown far anywhere from
thirty cents to one dollar more cheap-
ly than a ton of roots, it is ap- risk, interest, profit, etc.
parent that the man who keeps cattle R. C. Ashby of the animal hus-
bandry division at University Farm,
began a series of tests two years ago
to determine whether raising fall
pigs is profitable in Minnesota. The
margin of nearly five dollars a head
is the result of the test.
Eleven sows farrowed fall litters
for the tests, and the pigs were wean-
ed December 16. They were put on
feeding tests two days later. The
records kepb cover all feeds consumed
by sows and litters from farrowing to
weaning and from the time the act-
ual feeding test was begun until it was
finished.
The total cost of feed for the sows
and Scotchmen but it looks as though
the corn felt feeders had at last been
driven to adopt the methods of the
feeders across the water."
These Fall Pigs Were Profitable.
Fifty-seven fall pigs fed at Univer-
sity Farm, St. Paul, last winter . and
marketed recently, left a margin of
$4.56 a head to cover cost of labor,
and has not got a silo is not making
the best of his opportunities, says the
Canadian Countryman.
If growing corn instead of roots ef-
fects a saving of half a dollar per
ton when eighteen or twenty acres is
reserved for succulent feed each year
(which is by no means an excessive
acreage), by growing corn, over $150
would be saved in the season's crop.
This is enough money to put up a
silo.
Although for amany years silage
has been regarded as one of the best
succulent feeds for dairy cattle, it is
only comparatively recently that it
has received proper recognition as a and pigs up to weaning time was
feed for fattening steers. Some ex- $186.81. From weaning time to the
periments carried on in the States re- time marketing the feed cost $577.88,
cently show that cattle that are fed. as making a total cost of $13.42 a head.
much as fifty and seventy-five pounds The feed was counted at these prices:
of silage per day sold for almost as Shelled corn, 75 cents a bushel;
much as those fattened chiefly on ground barley, 65 cents a bushel;
grain, while the cost of making one shorts, $26 a ton; tankage, $55 a ton.
hundred pounds gain was from $2 to - The pigs averaged 191% pounds
$3 less. We quote from Wallace's when sold May 6. They were sold at
Farmer: "At the Missouri Station, $9.65 in South St. Paul, a price equi-
one lot of steers which received an valent to $9.40 _at home, The sell -
average daily ration of 37.6 pounds of price of$17.98 left a balance of $4:56
silage, 4 pounvls of alfalfa hay, and 5 ! each. No account of manure is
pounds of oil meal sold for $9.65 per , taken in these figures.
cwt., while another lot received an The pigs were fed in five lots, three
average daily ration of 16,3 pounds lots from self feeders and two lots
of silage 3.9 pounds of alfalfa hay fed by 'hand. Those in the lots in
and 15.3 pounds of shelled corn, sold which the self feeders were used did
for $9.75 per cwt. In other words, better than those in the other lots.
the steers getting no corn, but a large The corn -fed lots required about seven
amount of silage, together with oil . bushels of corn, forty pounds of tank -
meal and alfalfa have sold within 10 ! age, and from thirty to forty pounds
cents of those getting 15 pounds of
corn a day. These high silage steers
adatally sold 5 cents higher per cwt.
than two 48-oaylstvwrites.
than another lob which received an
average daily ration of 17.5 pounds of
silage, 3.7 pounds of alfalfa hay, 15.6
pounds of shelled corn, and 2.6 pounds
of cottonseed meal. It is interesting
to note also that the steers receiving
the larger amounts of silage did not
shrink any more than those receiving
the smaller amounts. The dressing
percentage was almost but not quite
so high in the cast of the low silage 1 jes' out o' inquisitiveness, tains' no -ase
steers. o' wastin' -time, an' if you's holdin'
Ripe Cherries
and
make delicious and
economical preserves,
Order LA1 TIG SUGAR by
name in original packages
2 and 5-1b Cartons
10 and 20-1b Bags
PrnnS1RRVINC LABELS TrtEe—gond reel
hall trade.xaark for hook of 64 printod
g"tromed labola to L,�tlantie Sugar Refineries Ltd.
rower Bldg. eiontreal 40
Mar—I have got your professional
name right, my dear, have I?—that,
no doubt, is why Mademoiselle Mona
cle la Mar insisted upon staying. I
am not needed, so I will retire. You
have arrangements to make for to.
morrow. I am afraid I have compli-
cated them somewhat." ea
"You have." said Scarborough, Distrusted the Promise.
quietly. She was trying to anger ""Why so sad and downcast?"
«
him, he thought; but he was not even
annoyed; and he rather admired the My Fifa has threatener to leave
woman's impudence. She was a me.
type that he had not met before, and "Cheer up. Women are always
he realized for the first time the trezn- threatening something like that, but
endows advantage that a s iniple they hardly ever do it""
"That's what I was thinking."
shameless gives a plotter who has
brains to use it effectively. Mrs. -""`
Carrington had the gift of shameless- Promising.
ness, but she also undoubtedly "Every time the baby looks into
had the gift of brains. She was an my face he smiles," said Mr. Meek%rts
added difficulty of edu ce, but his "Well," answered its wide "it)
hands were not tied by inisund- not be exactly polit o, 1t i3 ,t s'ho'Wa
erstanding now; he was free to grap- that he has a sense tit bpiti O,t,,a'
tom the Ocean S lore
BITS OF NEWS FROM THE
MARITIME PROVINCES.
Items of Interest From Placeai
Lapped By Waves of the
Atlantis
Lieut. C. M. Cameron, son of Coat -
troller Cameron of Sydney, was killed
in action.'
Tho Minto Coal Company's mines
at Minto are again shut down by a
strike by the miners.
Henry Brown, an aged man oi!
Stanhope, fell 41 meet from a railway
bridge and was killed.
• Farmers at Sackville, N.B., are be -
corning alarmed at the disastrous in-
vasions of the army worm:
Henry B. Gordon, an. I. C. R. con-
ductor for thirty-six years, died in
Moncton of locomotor ataxia.
Thos. W. Morrison, Public Works
Department, St. John, died suddenly.
Death was due to heart trouble.
Mr. Peter Collins, an elderly gen-
tleman of Fredericton, saved a four-
year-old boy from drowning.
Charlottetown fishermen reported
good catches of mackerel from St.
Margaret's Bay, Shad -and Blind Bay.
Mrs. John Robinson, wife of a
stoker on board H.M.S. Niobe, died
suddenly last week of carbolic
poisoning. `
Corporal A. C. Stokes, of Moncton,
was seized with cramps while in
swimming and was unconscious
when rescued.
All Sackville, N.B., turned out to
bid farewell to the 145th Battalion,
C. E. F., which had been quartered
there all winter.
Miss Jennie Currie, daughter of
Rev. A. W. Currie, of Penobsquis, was
struck by a C.P.R. train and later
died of injuries.
Tames Gilbert Walker, a former
bank clerk of Pictou, .S., has been
killed in action. He had been recom-
mended for the D.C.M.
On the way to St. John from Hali-
fax the Durango, near the southeast
edge of St. Peter's Bank, passed a
dory containing the dead bodies of
two fishermen.
Lance -Corp. A. Ballard, of St.
John, N.B., who has joined the 104th
Battalion, is one of six brothers to
don the khaki. The other five have
fallen at the front.
The British Admiralty gives great
praise to Capt. Blanchard Henry of
the Ionian. Capt. Henry's home is
in Montreal, but he and his wife
came from Pictou, N.S. • '
An automobile carrying three men
was struck by a T.C.R. train at
Marysville, N.B., and cut completely
in two. The men were hurled forty
feet and sustained serious injuries.
Capt. J. 13. Lambkin, with his son
and daughter, all of St. John, are in
the service of the Empire. Miss
Lambkin was honored with the Royal
Red Cross Medal and Ribbon from
H.M. Ririg George.
Capt. J. E. Bernier, of Quebec, the
well-known Arctic explorer, has
sailed for the Arctic on his own
ship, the Guide. He expects to be
gone 15 months.
Preparations are being made by
the C.P.R. to handle more freight
than ever before at West St. John.
The official frog of St. Andrew's
Society at St. John, which was over
one hundred years old and which
was lost for four years, has been
found. .
of shorts for each pig frora weaning
time to the close of the test.
The pigs were fed grain alone. They
were given no milk and did not have
access td the cattle yards. Mr. Ash-
by thinks that when milk is available
or when the pigs can pick up after
cattle the margin will be correspond-
ingly increased.
A Cautious Witness.
"Where did you get that chicken
you had for dinner yesterday?"
"Looky yere, boss; if you's axin'
"The Missouri experiment, when
taken in connection with Iowa and
Pennsylvania experiments, indicates
very strongly that the beef cattle men
have finally reached the point where
they are almost compelled to rely on
large amounts of silage. For years,
the Englishmen and Scotmen have fed
their average steer 70,100, or even
120 pounds of roots, together with not
more than eight or nine pounds of
grain.
"Silage is a little more concentrated
than the roots used by Englishmen
an' investigation, you's got to staht
in by provin' dab I had any chicken in
de fust place."
Pretty Small.
Hewitt—What sort of a fellow is
he?
Jewett—Well, he will never have to
say to his conscience. "How you have
grown."
A grouch is its own disagreeable
reward.
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FILMS SHOW CRATER FIGHT.
London Movies Display Soldiers Seiz-
ing New Ground.
London is flocking to see the first
film recording crater fighting — the
real thing. The description of the
incident is taken from the official
daily record: "Yesterday we sprang a
mine near and occupied the
crater."
The operator shows five minutes in
the life of a company of mud -bespat-
tered Connaught Rangers. First one
sees the Irishmen hugging the drip-
ping wall of the trench with fixed
bayonets waiting for the mine to be
sprung. There is a spout of black
earth a little way off it in the desolate
fields, and at once the Rangers
tumble out and walk, rather than run,
through the sticky mess toward the
crater.
The camera man evidently went
with them, for he was there when
the Rangers took possession of the
hole, and he filmed the hand grenade
throwing that followed. The soldiers
remind one of workers busy with
risky blasting operations in a railway
cutting concentrated on a shift of toil
that has nothing to do with fighting
man to man. This is as near fighting
the Germans as the camera has got as .
yet, and short of a bayonet attack it
is as near as anything eve are likely
to see on the film.
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Naturally.
"TTe'a a very polished gentleman:"
"That's why he ;:bines in society)