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will receive prompt. attention. Night calls received
st office. 1871-52
LEGAL
JAMES L KILLORAN,
atikits Solieiktr, Conveyanoer and Noiary
POW,•Meng to loan, Nice over Piekard's Store
Kals Street laidorth, 1628
R. 8. HAYS,
Iserieter, Solicitor. Convayarioer and Notary Public,
iollanorforthe Dominion Bank, Office—in rein of
testagoa Bank Seaforth. Money to loan. 1281
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F. W. TVVEDDLE,
DENTIST,
ramie of Royal College of Dental Burgeons of On
.sno, poet graduate course hi crown and bridge work
deekell'eS3bool, Chicago, Local 'aesthetic% for
csisiess extraotion of teetb. Offioe—Over A. Young's
grlaery store, Seaforth, 1784
MEDICAL,
Dr. John McGinnis,
N. Oradea: London Western Univereity, member
it Ontario Oollage 01 Phyekdarta and Burgeons.
S$$4 lestdearm—Pornterly otempted by lb. Wm.
ridged, Violate Street, next to the CatboUo Church
liellight wile *Waded promptly. MUD,
DR. H.HUGH R088,
Graduate el Univereitly of Termite Faculty of Med
dee, member °red ege of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario • pan graduate courses Chicago
Clinical School, Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospl-
lel, London, England : University College iloepltal,
'London, England, Cleice—Over Greig & Stewart'a
store, Main Street, ilea/erne 'Phone No. 5. Night
calls anowered,from reeidence on John street.• 1890
OR, F. J. BURROWS,
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Office and Residence Cloderich street, east; of the
athodist church,
ntrittrIEON1 No. 40
Romer for the County of Miran.
1880
DRS. SCOTT & MaCKAY,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
aiderlah street, opposite Methodist ohusch,Seaforth
G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria suid Ann Arbor, and
member Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Coroney for Comity of Huron.
O. itaolCAY, honor gradmite Teiniey Univenrity,
ffold medalist Trinity Medical College. itember
College of Phyeielans and Surgeon., OnSario.
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AUCTIONEERS.
trHOMAS SHOWN, Licensed Auctioneer for the
Counties of Huron and Perth. Orders left at
A, M. Campbell's implement wareroems, Seaforth, or
Toss Expostrort, Office, will receive prompi enaction.
atiefaction guaranteed or no charge. 170841
TAMES G. MeMICHAEL, lieensed auctioneer for
•IJ the ecirrnty of Huron. Sales; attended to in any
pert of the eounty at moderate rates, and satisfaction
gnseanteed. Orden; left at the Seeforth post office
or at Lot 2, Concession 2, Mullett, arill receive
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Meek Charges moderate. Satisfaction guarankied
Or 00 pay. Ali orders bit 416 Hensell post office or
&newt Concession 2, Hay, will be InollsPUY
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AMES A. etifITII, licenaed auctioneer for the
connth of Huron. Sales promptly attended to
are part of the eounty and satisfaction guarare
wear. Address; Winthrop P. 0. 188541
Drc: WORKS.
••••IIINI/MINIF.••••••=i0"
awing bought out- the intend of the dyeing bus's -
2040 from Mrs. Nickel of her late htssband, Henry
Male, formerly of Seaforth, I am prepared to do a 1
kinds of dyeing, cleaving and ermine. All work
done on short notice. J. T. SEWARD, Victoria et,
e few doom south et the 0, T. R., Clinton, Ont,
1868-tf
MARRIAGE LICENSES
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SBUED AT
THE HURON EXPOSITOR OFFICE,
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
NO WITNESSES! REOUIRED,
tallEhh
MAR!
HAMILTON'S
ROMANCI
By nal STRANGE VINT-I&
[Copyright, WV, by the Author.]
A few minutes later she had passee
out eh the house and away from her old
life forever.
She had made her plats easefully
with a view to furthering her reeources
to the uttermost—she had taken a single
room in a respectable house in Blooms-
bury. She was not destitute, for she
had still nearly £100 to call her own.
Mrs Hamilton's life had been insured
for a sum which had almost covered the
cost of her illness and burial, and Mary
had bought her mourning with a keen
eye to economy; in fact, she had spent
and meant to spend nothing that she
could possibly avoid. She knew that, if
need be, she could live for a year on her
little store, and she knew, too, that it
was a totally different thing to seek a
living free and independent, Rothe was,
to seeking It while tied and hampeeed
with an EnTalid mother.
But she did not find it an easy thing
to drop into a pleasant, comfortable po-
sition, such -as she wanted, by DO mean&
Per several weeks she tramped to ahd
flee here and there, always seekihg
something more or less indefinite, a
something which she found it difficult
to describe in words.
Then she pulled herself up short old
began to think the situation out in a
different way, and she came to the con-
clusion that she could not go on in this
vague, indefinite way; that she must
make up her mind to follow a certain
course, and she must follow it. The
question was what. She went over all
the openings which she had already
tried to follow up, and she came, after
much anxious cogitation, to the con-
clusion that there were only left to her
now—either of which she might take as
her metier and train herself to become
proficient in—nnrsing and typewriting.
She inquired fully into the merits
and demerits of both. She found that
she could properly qualify for a nurse
under a training of at least three years.
Even then she would not• have gotto
the top of the tree, and it was more
than likely that long before three years
had gone by she would have broken
down, for she was not physically or
constitutidnally an especially strong
person. If all -the tales she heard of
hospital or infirmary training were
true, she felt that a month or six week*
would about show her how fruitless it
I was for her to attempt a career of which
Magnificent health and nerve are the
very first requisites.
So practically the career of a nurse
was disposed of and put on one side as
an imhossible one. There only remained
then open to her that of a typewriter.
The accounts which she gathered of
this way of making a living were inore
hopeful: She would pay 10 guineas to
be taught the trade; and six months
wOuld see her in a fair way of earning
a decent living. Shti could, until she
was proficient, live very cheaply and
quietly in her modest little, room, and
she would have every interest in forcing
herself ahead as quickly as possible.
There was nothing in the manipulation
of a delicate and intelligent machine
(this was the way that a young girl,
whose acquaintance she made in a tea.
shop, epoke of her typewriter) which
could he in any way revolting to her
or which was in any sense beyond her
powers.
"And of course." said the girl, "if
yon go in for ishorthand as well, you
just double yonr value from the very
start,"
"Is it difficult?" Mary asked, rather
diffidently.
"Yes, it is difficult," the girl replied,
"but by no means insurmountable. And
the advantages are enormous. Oh, it is
a grand life for a woman. Any woman
of average intelligence can make a liv-
ing at it, and a woman whose intelli-
gence is above the Average can do more
than make a living. She can command
her own price. , Then it is a free Wei I
mean in this way. If a woman goes in
for nursing, she needs years and years
of training, and goodness only knows
whether she will prove herself a really
skilled nurse at the end of it. She needs
superhuman etrength, endless patience,
infinite tact, and for what? To earn at
best 2 guineas a week; to be treated a
little better than a servant, to be al-
ways in a position that is entirely tem-
porary. A typist, on the other band, es-
pecially if she is also a stenegrapher,
can easily make 2100 a year, provided
that she is really good at her work. She
has her fixed hours, her fixed holidays.
She has always her Sundays and her
Saturday afternoons. All the tact that
is necessary for her is to mind her own
business and hold her tongue, She has
her evenings to herself. and. if she like -s,
al enjoyed good health until about two years
axe when 1 noticed my back began to ache fre-
quently; it became sore and lametand headache
soon added to my misery; also found that my
general health diminished. 1 became thin and
weak and nervous, having severe pains at regu-
lar intervene' writes Mrs. Augustus Hmory,
Treasurer New Century Club, 34 Dean Street
(Roxbury), Roston, Mass. She continues "My
Work which before -had seemed an easy task
Soon seemed like a heavy burden, 1 dedded
to try Dr, Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which
several of my friends praised so highly. I felt
relief within a week, my appetite Mlle back, the
pains gradually decreased -and 1 enjoyed sound
sleep. Within fourteen weeka I had completely
recovered my health. I seemed built up anew,
nay pulse, which had been weak became nor-
mal, and new life animated my entire being.
1 gladly endorse your medicine."
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Presoription
restores weak and sick women to sound
health, laT curing the local womanly dis-
eases which are generally responsible for
the failure of the general health. A wom-
sn'irentire being is centered in lier wom-
anly nature. When the delicate" womanly
organism is attacked by disease; when
there is irregularity or a disagreeable drain;
when inflammation burns and ulcers gnaw
the general health will reflect the progress
of disease, in increasing weakness, nerv-
ousness, backache, headache, loss a appe-
tite and sleeplessness.
So sure of it is the World's Dispensary
Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., pro-
prietors of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion, that they offer $ao° reward for wouien
who cannot be cured of Leucorrhea, Fe-
male weakness, Prolapsus, or Falling of
Womb. All they ask is a fair and reasona-
ble trial of their means of cure.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate the
stomach, liver and bowels.
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one can get extra work then so as to
put by an extratesune to her ordinary
earningtafor herriummer holiday. It is
a fine lite for a thonaan—there is no info -
take about that."
Therm:at-of this chance meeting and
conversation with an utter stranger was
that Mary went straight away to a cer-
tain school of typewriting and at once
entered basalt as a pupil for the entire
course, and then she set herself to work.
She was an apt pupil. Her well bal-
anced mind, tinged by disappointment
and trouble, but unruffled by the great-
er passions of life, quickly grasped the
intricacies of the cnrions dots and
dashes which seemso mysterious and
confusing to the majority of mortal&
She made rapid progress, and before the
six months which "she had allowed her -
'self for her pupilage had come to an
end she found herself established it the
office or a small firm of brokers at a
salary of 15 shilling's a week
It was of course but a beginning.
Still it was a beginning, and Mary had
accepted it gladly, both for what it
brought her and as an earnest of better
thing�. to come, And each evening when
she had left the office and bad had tea
at the nearest X. Y. Z. shop she went
off to theischool and worked bard at her
ehortband.
A.few months more ;taw her in differ-
ent circumstances, for she left the firin
of . brokers and engaged herself to a
lawyer of large practice, who paid her
80 shillings a week and treated. her
pleasantly into the birgain. After near-
ly a year in this office her employer sud-
denly died, and she was thrown out of
work.
Not that she was destitute --by no
means. She had lived carefully, almost
frugally, keeping always in mind the
poissibility:of a rainy day in time to
come. She took a week's holiday and
spent it atDovercourt, where she sat by
the glorious sea, basking in golden sun-
shine and the keen brisk air, reveling
in novels and drinking in A full supply
of health and strength, which would
last her for at least a year to come.
Among the books she had taken down
with her was one which had been lent
to her by her one intimate friend, the
girl Lucy Chalmers, who had first given
her information about the life and ca-
reer of a typist. Mary had been three
golden days by the sea ere she began to
read it. It was called "A Lover's Creed
of Love."
It is almost impossible for me to tell
the effect that this story bad npon Mary
Conway. It was a story of passion pas-
sionately written. It was fervid, full of
life and stir and color, and it was clean
and wholesome in tone withal. It was
unmistakably the work of a man rich
in imagination who was yet full of
common sense and sound judgment. It
; fascinated, enthralled, amazed her. She
went to bed and dreamed of it,
She read it over again several thites
during the rest of her week's holiday,
leaving the other books unread after the
first glance into their, to her, meaning-
less pages. Duting those few days she
lived with it.
Then she went back to London. She
was feeling stronger and more really
Eight cents a pound is
what a young woman paid for
twelve pounds of flesh.
She Was thin and weak and 1
paid one dollar for a bottle of
Scott's Emulsion, and by tak-
ing regular doses had gained
twelve pounds in weight before
the bottle was finished.
Eight cents a pound is.
cheap for such valuable ma-
'tcriaL S6mc pay lnOre some
less, sorne get nothilg for
their money. You get1 your
money's iwiorth when you buy
Scott's Emulsion. '
We Will Send you a little
free. -
scurg & BOWNE, CHEMISTS,
Toronto, Ontario.
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It fascinated, enthralled, amazed her,
free just then than she had ever done In
all her life before, She was independent,
she stood face to face with the world, it
is true, but it was no longer a world a
which she was afraid. She stood firm
upon her own feet. She owed not a pen-
ny to any man.
Iler first errand was to go to a great
shop where typewriters are sold: '
"I wish to put my name dowu on
your books," she said.
"As typist'?"
"And stenographer."
"What is your speed?"
"One hundred and twenty," said
-
Mary, with quiet assurance ?such as car-
ried conviction with it
"You are used to our machines?"
"Yes; 1 have used no other."
"Well, if ye‘u will give me your
name and address, I will let you know
If anything suitable offers itself."
"Thank you—Mrs. Conway, 201 Wel-
lington street, Bloomsbury."
The clerk wrOte down the name and
address, and Mary turned to go. "By
the bye," he said, "I don't know if you
wouldn't be juat the one for a gentle-
man now on Or list. Let me see,'
turning over the pages of a big book—
"'Lady—not young girl—quiet—mnst
have speed over 100.' Yon might go
and see this gentleman. give you a
card. It is Mr. Alm Stacey, the novel-
ist."
"The author of 'A Lover's Creed of
Love!' " cried Mary, breathlessly.
CHAPTER VIII.
ALAN STACEY, THE NOVELIST.
It was with , a beating heart filled
with nervousness and apprehension that
Mary Conway found herself waiting at
the house of Alan Stacey, the novelist,
In Fulham..
It was evidently a somewhat old
house and was inclosed in a high walled
garden. It was at the gate of this gar-
den door that she waited patiently after
giving a humblepull at the handle of
the bell, such as she wonld tot have
given at the door of a duke. Ali last she
rang again, and then her summons at-
tracted attention. She heard toptsteps
on the other side of the door, and then it
was flung open, and a man in the penal
decorous garb of a servant stood to hear
what she wanted, I
"Does Mr. Alin Stacey live here?'
she asked.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Is he at home?"
"Mr. Stacey is not out, ma'am," the
man replied, "but he does not usually
see any one at this hone Mr. Stacey is
in his study, ma'am."
"Still I think he will see me," said
Mary, eagerly, "if you will give him
this card." -
"Walk this way, ma'am/' said the
man, taking theard between his finger
and thumb in th peculiar manner of a
well trained servant.
' He led the way down a broad flagged
pathway which led to the house. It was
covered by a kind of 'veranda, and on
either side a charmIng garden spread
until bonnded by the old wall. It -was
a charming garden, rich im anciente
mossy turf and gay with many flowers.
All manner of creepers intwined,thena-
selves about the plllars which supported
the sheltering ro
hydrangeas bloo
themt,
The hone° w
long windows op
wide veranda rn
This veranda wa
colored tiles, on
and there rich
chairs, wicker t
-made a pleasant
flowering plants
"Will you tak
'said the man, i
"I will inquire
tyou."
Mary sat dow
into the house,
f overhead, and great
ed at the bases of
s long and low, had
ening like doors and a
ning its entirelength.
paved with brilliant
hich were flung here
king rugs. Huge easy
Wes and a hammock
Lounge, and there were
verywhera
a seat here, ma'am?"
dicatinghi large chair.
Lf Mr. Stacey will see
, and he disappeared
he sat drinking in the
pleasant scene, doubly pleasant after
the arid etretchetvof Bloomsbury brick
and mortar, to hich she was accus-
tomed. To her
retreat far, far a
turmoil of cities
could bear her
servant, apeakin
answering:
"All right. 1'1
man's voice. -
The next mom
gray clothing ca
Mary was in Ala
"Mrs. Convea
t seemed like a 'sylvan
ay from the rush and
here strife lives. She
rat acquaintance, the
and a man's tones
come out," said the
nt a tall man in light
e out 14 the window.
Stacey's presence.
," be said, looking at
the card in bis hand and then at her.
Mary sprang' to her feet. "Yes, I am
Mrs. Conway," she said tremulonsly.
ngby thought that I
"Messrs. Bloom
should snit you.
"As a typist?'
"And steno
,prquickly.,ay
sit do
kindly and hims
enough to talk
yon t speed as a s
"A hundred* a
- "Good! Yon
is more to the
with any author
"No," answer
with a solicitor
was work needin
cision."
"Ah, yes! An
biln"lid" id not leave him," she replied.
"Unfortunately f ar me, he died."
"I see. Do you think you would like
my kind of work"
"Yes," said sh promptly.
"I am not ve easy to work with.
I'm as crochetty s most other literary
men," Mr.Stace said. "I have just
got rid of a man an excellent fellow,
for no reason tha that he sat on the
edge of his chair nd waited. I would
have forgiven hip many things, but
his wai ting becamb oppressive. It killed
every ideal had. Before that I had a
young lady. She *new Shairempeare by
heart and could unote Xenophon, but
she would mend rny copy as she went
on" --
"Oh, how dar d she?" Mary thirst
out. Mr. Stacey ooked at her with al
vague sense of a usement. "I assure
you, Miss—well, zever mind her name;
it is immaterial, but Mies Blank we
will call her—thonght very small pota-
toes of me. I cen't write by hand.
I've got writer's ramp, and I have al-
ways a terrible la of work in hand. If
I had gone on with Miss Blank, I
should have been s dead as a doornail
by this time, ft e could not do my
work without ir Ding it out as she
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cr.:tin well? Bowels
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• .9 bi.:7's Pills.
;voI have 1,,r,own all
apher," she added
n," said Alan Stacey
If pulled a chair near
ith ease, "What is
orthand writer 2"
d twenty."
ook intelligent, which
•int. Have you been
efore?"
d Mary; "I have been
and that, of course,
r great care and pre -
why did you leave
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euralgit
is Rheumatism of the face.
Ude Acid left in the blood
by disordered kidneys
lodges along the nerve
which branches from the
eye over the forehead, and
across the cheek to the
side of the nose. The
cause is the same as in ail
Rheumatism— disordered
Kidneys. The aura is like-
wise the same—
easeetemettemeeme
went along, so that every vestige or
style and individuality was eliminated
completely."
Mary gave a little gasp. "But I
thought she took down what you dic-
tated," she said almost breathlessly.
"Yea, but if she saw what ehe thought
was an error she was always kind
enough to mend it for me," said Alan
Stacey,. smiling at the remembrance.
"She knew just a little too -much for
me. She must have been overeducated
or something. My last helper had, on
the contrary, no ideas. He had a note-
book and a sharp pointed lead penciL
When I was in form, he was excellent
When hhad to get a certain amount of
copy turned out by a certain time and
I hadn't so much as the ghost of an idea
In my heah, he used to sit on the edge
of a chair waiting till I did gettan idea.
If he would have read the newhepaper,
gone to sleep, walked about the garden;
if he would have yawned even, I should
not have minded, but he never did. He
said once it was all in the day's work
whether he worked or waited, So, when
I couldn't work, he waited. I had to get
rid of him. I found him an excellent
billet and swore I would never have an-
other helper of any kind. Then my hand
came in and said: 'No; I'm hanged if
yon shall tise me. I'm delicate.' So I
sent to Bloomingby's. So now, Mrs. Cos.
way, you see what kind of man I am
to deal with—nervone, irritable, almost
eccentric."
"I am not afraid," said Mary, mill-
ing. This man was wholly delightful
to her, surrounded by a halo of ro-
mance, still young, strong, unconven-
tional and wholly human.
"Have you omen any of my work?"
he asked.
"I have read the 'Lover's Creed.' a
dozen times at least," she answered.
"Alit Then you will to a certain ex -
.tent understand me. I should need you
from 10 to 5 each day. Well, not on
Saturday afternoons. That goes without
staying."
"I am ready," said Mary.
"You would lunch here—by the by,
where do you live?"
"In Bloomsbury,"
"That's a far cry."
"T should seek for rooms in this
neighborhood," she said quickly, "I
am not wedded to my present quarters."
"Still better. You are married, Mrs,
Cosway?"
"My name is Conway," she Raid
gently. "I am a widow."
- "Oh, forgive met One Hies to know'
everything. Have you children?"
"None—nor a single relative in all
the world."
' "Itaor litthesoul i" The words slipped
ont nnconscionely, as if he were think-
ing aloud. "Then about terms."
"I will take what you are accastoin-
ed to pay," said Mary.
"I have, let no say, 2 guineas a
week," be returned hurriedly.
"But won't you try me first?" said
Mary, rather taken aback by this un-
ceremonious way of arranging the mat-
ter.
no. Your speed is 120, and
you look as if you would just suit me."
"But ray references!" she exclaimed.
"Mrs. Conway," said the novelist,
turningaand looking directly and fixed-,
1
"My name is Conway," she said gently.
ly at her, "I would just aresoon not see
yonr referencee. I know tub well the
lies one tells When one wants to pass
some one on to one's friends. I know
too well what they are 'worth. Your
list employer died, you tell me"—
"But it mightn't be true," she fal-
tered. "I would really rather"—
"Do yonwant a character with me?"
he broke in.
"But everybody knows yon," she
cried ingennonely. "Everybody has
read your books."
"I wish they did. I should make a
decent income then. No, no, Mrs. Con-
way. 1 know what I am and what I'm
not. I know my own limitations and
exactly what I am capable of. It's my
bt181DC88 to read character. You may
not milt me as a secretary, but only
time can show and prove that. So far
as you yourself are concerned, honesty
is the dominant note of your life."
Mary could not help starting. Alan
Stacey continued: "Yon give yourself
away continually because you cannot
conceal your real feelings. In a sense
you are bad for yonreelf because you
cannot dissemble. You couldn't tell a
downright lie if you tried, and you are
•
so honest that you wouidn'
"1 do hate lies," mid Mary in a tone
as if such a fact were rather to her
detriment than otherwise.
"Let me look at your hand. Yes; it
is capable—precise, upright and highly
nervon& We shall be able to work to-
gether very well, I am certain. At all
events, let no try tomorrow morning."
"Mr. Stacey," said Mary, rising as
she spoke, "1 will do my very best."
"We shall get on splendidly," be re-
plied, holding out his hand. "I am do-
ing a particularly difficult piece of work
just now, a most difficult subject, in
which the handling is everything, the
whole difference between succeee and
failure. I was writing with my fist—
yea, doubled up so --in despair, when
my servant told me you were here.
Look at this" --spreading out his hand
andshowing an angry swollen red ridge
of muscle which rose between the first
and second fingers and extended beyond
the wrist "That means the intensest
and most exquisite agony. It seems to
disappear above the wrist and to rise
again in the underside of the arm,
from where it runs in a rope of pain to
the very armpit."
"It must be horrible," said Mary.
"Are you working now
"I was when you can.'
"Why don't you let me begin right
away, sir 2" she ventured to say.
He looked at her again with the same
quick, alert glance as before. "Don't
nail me 'sir,'" he said, half amused
and half irritable,
"I always called Mr. Desmond so,'`
ehe said raeekly.
"He had an office and a lot of clerks;
that was different. I don't require that
kind of thing. One 'sir' would upset
me for a morning. Come into my study.
I like yon for tackling the work straight
away, We'll try how it goes."
Mary followed him into the study, a
long, low ceiled room with many hooka
a few pictures, some guns, fishing rods,
golf clubs, two luxurious Etofa aomages
and half a dozen capacious chairs. A
rough terrier dog lay before the open
window and a big Angora cat, brindled
like a bulldog, was in poesession of a
fur rug befohe the empty fireplace. It
was a revelation to Mary Conway—she
had never eeen such a room in all her
life before.
She established herself at a table and
they began. She was amazed at the
ease and rapidity with which Alan
Stacey poured out his story, taking it
up at the last written word and spin-
ning it out in the most vivid and inter-
esting way, almost, indeed, acting it all
So for nearly two timers they worked
without a hitch, until the servant came
to say that luncheon was served. Aka
Stacey drew along breath andnose to
his feet
"Come to lunch," he said. "I used
to have ideas about not interrupting
the flow of genius—but I take my meals
at regular tfniea now—it pays better
all round. Do you think you've got all
that?"
"I think so,"said Mary, "If you
will allow me, I will transcribe it after
lunch so that you can eeefor yourself.'
1••••••••••••••••
CHAPTER IX,
THE INTERPRETER,
To Mary's surpriee the table was only
laid for two persona It was eesentially
.4 man's table; it was Amen and was
spread with a nice clean cloth and ser-
viettes: its dominant note was a cruet
stand,
"Take that seat," said Alan Stacey,
with a gesture to a chair, "It will be
a simple lunch, I warn you, If I eat a
big meal now, I am no good for the rest
of the day. Some people like a regular
dinner at midday. I believe it means
apoplexy if you only eat enough and
sleep sop enough afterward. What
have you today, John?"
"An omelet, sir," said John, "and
cold beef and salad."
"A luncheon for a king, if the ome-
let and salad are properly made. Don't
you think so, • 31ra. Conway?" said
Alan Stacey
"I do," said Mary, wondering
whether she ought to be honest and say
that a dish of scrambled eggs was the
nearest approach to an omelet that she
had ever tasted in her life.
"I have a little Frenchwoman who
makes both to perfection," he went on.
"Some people like to make a salad at
table. I don't. I know several &light-
ful houses where it is the task of the
young ladies to dress the salad, and
they do it with a diffidence whieh re -
stilts in loathliness. Tell Maltide that
this omelet is excellent, John."
"Very good, sir."
Mary ate le -r portion awl allowed
herself to be persuaded into taking a
little more, but she refused W1114.1 and
persisted in taking only water. "I must
keep my bead clear," ehe said firmly.
"I want to do pinr work and myeelf
justice this afternoon."
Alan Stacey tried hard to overrule,
her, because, as be said, they ought, to
have s mild celebration of their that
day's work and their lint meal togeth-
er. It is true that he liked and re,-pect-
ed her the better that she held firmly to
her point.
"When tbe book is Welted, Mr
Stacey.' she Paid. "if von then think
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k worth celebrateng. I will do
And then began a Imo spell 01 hard work..
it with pleasure, As yet you don't
know whether I have not made the
most fearful hash of your work or
whether I may not trim out to be ten
tin2es more aggravating than either
Miss Blank or the good gentleman who
did not mind waiting!'
"I don't Wilk so," be said in a tone
of conviction.
His instinct proved to be correct, as
the instinct of a man who has given his
life up to the study of character usual-
ly is. After a delightful luxurious half
hour of chat Mary went back to the
study and began to work, and by
o'clock had finitshed her transcription ot
the morning's work. Alan Stacey, who
was as keenly interested in the result
of the experiment as elle was, Zane in
from the garden and read over the fair
typewritten pages. He did not speak
till he bad read to the end.
"Mrs. Conway," he said then, "you
are a perfect treasure. Can you keep it
upt"
"Row I"
"You have taken e down literaily,
word for word, point for point You
have caught the exact opirit of my law
Mrs. Conway, if you can keep it up We
shall get on splendidly."
She had flushed up scarlet in her eZ-
citement and eu spense, and Alan Stacey,
looking at her, said to himself that
-
merely his star had been in the ascendant
when such a dainty creature had sud-
denly fallen from the aldee in lien of
the bulldog features and staring goggle
eyee of the patient individual who had
but just left him.
"I am so glad," she said with her
Pretty, shy "so proud to be able to
help you. try bard never to be any-
thing but your interpreter."
He laughed aloud and held out ble
hand. "That's a good name for yot,
Mrs. Conway," he said. "I can river
say 'my typist does this' or 'my etenur
replier &eta that ' You're not me ectn.
retary, and it would sound pretenjtious
to call you no. But quterpreterd—that'a
a splendid name for you. 1 shall alwayo
call you by it."
And so he did. She went that wavy
veiling and looked at various rooms in
the neighborhood, tying on some in a
quaiat ont of the world nook whicb
my call Parson's Green. I don't mean
ell that intricate bewilderment of small,
.atureless, mean little Etreets which
lie between Fulham palace and the
cemetery, lett a corner on the other vide
of the railway line, a eorner which then
was Ftill rejoicing in tall old trees and,
eparious wide fronted IMIlt3e.", :311Ch as
kept an air of dignity al.eut them
which came as a aurprito :*tranger
wandering through the naighinahood.
And then began a long spell Of hard
work, yet work that was intensely en-
joyable in charatter. It is almost hal-
Poesible adequately to describe the
effect which this way of earning her
living had upon Mary Conway. She
was still quite young, little more than
a girl, and during all her early years
romance and the joy of life had nevr
had any t hence of growing and fiourieh-
the' within her.
(To be confirmed.)
DVICE TO MOTI1 DRS.
" Keep your la do mire., .
inab asil tiwy will in . eriil
tyb,_
Lappy end grow nen." Title le thc
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reputation. One mether, who followed this
advice—Niro. Albert liotevert, $t. Claude, -
Que., prove the truth of ite 8he Faye :—
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Tablets; ter pm -1g ()Midi -km, and J alwaess
ekneeep eetvhellffel1irn. IsTeallitPavuhtfi' es13;;;;;4thipaltiliYon 14atntifl
sour eternach. 1 gevo them the Tablet*,
and they are risi w perfeetly well. time in
a. while 1 ie ill glee them a thaw, to preveat
the twill& teeming hack." If all eeneible
mo' here follew this ad viee th-re will be
fewer emote, pew iTh, balm e in 1 ne
land, Then Te.blete aro guaranteed to nn -
tin co opiate or harmful drug. Seld by
i medicine dealtaii everywhere, or sent by
4 ,
mat ati. ee.ntiemg „a Lox by writlee Dr.
le/iams- eaeoreine Co,, Ilneekville, Ont.
—Mrs, Catherine I. Fuller, of Hamilton,
ha* been appointed lady euperl'beer.dent,
the Maedonald Instituto at Guelph, at a
salary of $700 per annum. 8h3 will hove
full charge of the women's re eidenee.it
matron for the inatitntiOn WM be appoint-
ed later.____
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