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LondonbYand Toronto CHAPTER VL--(Cont'd.) chance nor you, George, and people "That's something like," said many said I was a fool for not taking him; but I couldn't." nidof Alice's friends; "Alice will make al "That was a different thing," said snButwh neister's at length Mr. Skelton pro-! George Lister hastily, "that Pollard posed to Alice, she had no difficulty m• boy went wrong. Besides; we need answering him. He could offer her a not think about that now; Alice gave far better position than Tom dreamed' him up, and very likely he will be of; the work she would have to do asI killed. a minister's wife, too, would be thor-1 On the night when Tom was alone in oughly in accord with her tastes and j the trenches, Harry Briarfield made desires. But Alice cared nothing for his way to Mr. Lister's house, and it Mr. Skelton. Her heart was sad; was not long before Alice and he were when she saw how pale he looked at' left alone together. Harry had made her refusal, but she had no hesitation.; up his mind to make his proposal that The problem which faced her now, night, and he had but little doubt as to however, was not so easy to settle.! the result. Young Harry Briarfield was not a I "Look here, Alice," he said present - comparative stranger like Mr. Skel-} ly, "I want to say something to you, ton; she had known him all her life„ something very particular. You must they had been brought up together illi have seen for a long time how fond the same town, they had gone to Sun 1 am of you, and perhaps you have day School together, they had sung wondered why I haven't spoken. 1 duets together at concerts, and al- f wanted to badly enough, but I waited though she had never looked at Harry until father took me into partnership. in the light of a lover she had always You see," he went on, "at the begin - been fond of him. 1 ning of the war things were going bad Harry was in a good positiontoo;: with us; there was a boom in the cote, his father was a manufacturer in a! ton trade about a year ago, but when fairly large way, and he had just been! the war broke out there was a regular admitted as a partner into the busi-1 slump, and we thought we were going ness. He was twenty-four years of; to be ruined. • Now; however, things are going very well again. We have got some war contracts, and we are making money." Alice's heart beat wildly, although by an effort she appeared calm. "I wonder you have not joined the Army, Harry," she •said; "every day there's a call for more men." "Not if I know it," replied Harry. "At one time I did think of trying for a commission, but that would have "I knew our Alice would do the been foolish; you see I might not have been able to have got it, and of course right thing," aid Mr. Lister to his a man in my position could not go as wife; "for a time she went silly about a Tommy." that Pollard boy, but she threw him "Wily not?" asked Alice quickly. "I over of her own accord. Harry's a am told that lots of men of every nice lad, and he's making a tidy bit of , order join as privates." brass, while George Briarfield has "No, thank you," replied Harry, about made his pile. In two or three with a laugh. "I know one chap who years Harry will have the business en- did that; Edgar Burton. Do you know tirely in his own hands, and then there him? He joined at the beginning of will not be a better chance in Brun- the war, but he quickly got sick of it. Brun - ford for her." He said the life was terrible; he des - Mrs. Lister sighed. cribed to me how he had to wash up "I don't think our Alice has fre- dishes, and scrub the floors of his bar - gotten Tom Pollard, though," she re racks, and how he had to be pals with plied. a lotof chaps who didn't know the "Nonsense," replied her husband, "what is the good of her thinking decencies of life. Besides, think of me a shilling a day!" about Tom? I thought he would have on Still if your county needs you?" done well at one time and if he hadn'tesy taken up with ;.1at and Powell lot • su"i amddoing more important work he might have got on; but he did, and at home," replied Harry; "they could then he went for a soldier. What is not do without me at the mill. It's the good of our Alice thinking about all very well for boys like Tom Poland, him? Even if the war were to finish who used to be so fond of you, but for next week and Torn were to come people like me it's different." back, it would take .him years, even There was a silence for a few min- if he had luck, to make five pound a week, while Harry's making a thou- sand a year if he's making a penny." "Ay, I know," replied Mrs. Lister, "but you can never judge a lass's heart. You know how it was wi' us, George; at the very time you asked me to be your wife you were only making thirty-three shillings a week, and William Pott was making hun- dreds a year: He was a far better George Lister heaved a sigh of re- lief. "Ay, well," he said, "it's perhaps. lt. good thing not to say yes at once. Hold him back two or .three days and it will make him all the more eager, When a man comes to me to buy cloth I never shows as 'ow I am eager to sell. But of ourse you will take him ?" "1 don't know," replied Alice, "Don't know! Why don't you know? You like him, don't you?" "I don't know, father," she replied, and then she • rushed out of the room. "What's the meaning of this, lass?" said George Lister to his wife. "Has she told you anything?" "Not a word," said Mrs. Lister. (To be continued.) BOMBING A HOSPITAL • age now, washighly respected throughout the town, and was looked upon as one who in a few years would hold his head high amon,; commercial men. During the last few weeks Harry had come often to Mr. Lister's house, ostensibly to talk about business, but really to see Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Lister had nudged each other and smiled at Harry's fre- quent visits. Geo. Wright 8i Co., Props. If You Are Not Already Acquainted let me introdue ,you to the Walker House (The House of Plenty), wherein home comfort is made the paramount factor. It is the one hotel where the management lend every effort to make its patrons feel it is ,"just lite home.' THE WALKER HOUSE The House of Plenty TORONTO, CANADA A Nurse Killed and Doctor Wounded By a German Shell. "I was attached to an advanced casualty clearing station when I. got hit." The speaker was a wounded R.A.M.C, corporal. "It wasn't a Ger- man shell either, but a bomb. A frag- ment of it got me in the chest. And there are a few more like me, for the beggars are aiming specially at hos- pital and clearing stations now. I s'pose they think they'll put the wind up our chaps by killing off doctors and nurses, and wounded men, and that. Why, that's the very thing to make our chaps a whole lot keener on strafing them! "No, it's not only over here that night raids by aeroplanes are taking place. •. We are getting them over in France, too, behind the lines. They come over in the dark, drop a bomb or two wherever they think they have a chance of hitting something, and clear off as quickly as they came. Of course our guns got on to them, and every night we are getting them down. But we always have to keep our tin hats ready to slip on at a mo- ment's notice. "I was in the casualty station itself when I got wounded. We had a good many German casualties in at the time, and all hands were busy attend- ing to them, when the German aero- planes came over and started bomb- ing us. One bomb burst right in the operating theatre. Here's the bit of it I got." He drew a round piece of casing nearly two inches long out of the little bag in which the wounded. keep their treasures and exhibited it with pride. • utes, and then Harry went on again: "Alice, you know how fond I am of you—in fact, I have loved you all my life. You will harry me, won't you?" Harry was very disappointed, and not a little surprised, that Alice did not answer in the affirmative right away; but he had conceded with fairly good grace when she had asked for a few days to thinly about it. "It is all right," said Harry to him- self as he left the house that night, "I am sure she means yes. And she's a fine lass, the finest in Brunford." That was why Alice sat alone that night thinking. She had promised to give Harry her definite reply in three days' time, and although she was very fond of him she could not bring herself to give him the answer he desired When he had left the house her father and mother had come into the room. "Well, Alice, have you fixed it up?" She shook her head, but didn't speak. "Come now, lass, you needn't be so shy. I know he's asked you to wed him; he asked for my permission like a man, and then he told me he was going to speak to you to -night. You can't do better, my dear. Have you fixed it all up?" "No," she said. "What!" cried the father, "you don't mean to say you have been such a fool as to say no!" "I have said nothing as yet," was he, answer. orth Protecting A good article is worthy of a good package. 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The repeated air raids on London under the harvest moon,' which have done little more than to drive the peo- ple of London to cover in the under- ground railways and the basements now and then, have crystallized the determination to send into "Germany at the earliest feasible moment a vast aerial armada to deal a smashing blow at some important nerve centre of munition making or fortification or military storage and equipment, writes a London correspondent early in October. The high-minded element of Brit- ain's population is frankly and ear- nestly averse to tactics of mere re- prisal or retaliation that would launch destruction on the heads of wo- men and children. England intends to keep her warfare on a loftier plane,. than Germany's, despite the extreme provocation. She feels that she must be able to say to the world and to her God, as well as to her allies at the council table of peace, that she came through this war clean -handed and pure -hearted. It gave her profound perturbation to be obliged to answer gas with gas when Germany tried her applied chemistry to the base uses of diabolism rampant. But that was a matter between armed men. As a measure of military necessity Britain employed against soldiers what these had used against her troops. French Air Offensive. While in many cases the man on the bus would cordially consent to bomb- ing any German place the airmen could reach, a finer and more sensitive - conscience is holding the leaders in British warfare back from the air at- tacks upon unfortified towns and de- fenseless civilians. Who is to blame a man for seeing red when members of his family have been killed and his home has been gutted by the terror that flieth by night? In a blind rage one may hear a man cursing the Gov- ` ernment for apathy. The attitude of the Government rightly discerned is sympathy, not apathy. And it is not the least of the wonders of Britain's spirit in the war that she has held off and has not sent an air 'fleet to wreck the peace of. open, unfortified_ places hitherto immune. The tactics the war leaders of Brit- ain approve are such as the French have just employed with marked suc- cess upon Stuttgart, Treves, Coblenz and Frankfurt. Stuttgart is 125 miles and Frankfurt is 150 miles from Nancy in an air line. Stuttgart is, of course, a fortified town. The Germans bombarded the open town of Bar-le- Duc. The French answer was not a "reprisal" or a "retaliation." It was an air offensive upon what was re- garded as a legitimate object of at- tack, and it succeeded in dropping 660 pounds of bombs from two airplanes upon Stuttgart. The Value of Ostend. Railway stations and junctions, aerodromes, factories, warehouses, camps, barracks, bridges, are fair,._ game, without resorting .to the foul tactics of desperation that wresk hos- pitals and sink Red Cross ships and annihilate day nurseries. If the great offensive now in pro- gress east of Ypres repeats for a mat- ter of a few weeks more its cumula- tive successes, the Germans cannot hope to hold Ostend. Ostend will then become exactly the point of leverage or half -way house the British want for the big drive in the air, as well as a haven for their destroyers. In the reduction of Ostend the destroyers will, of course, play a commanding role, and before winter sets in it is not too much to look for a naval battle off the Belgian coast that will be much more significant in its results than the Jutland engagement. It is the last act of furious folly for the Germans to invite the aerial in- vasion that is a looming certainty of the near 'future. 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