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Weare not only a Cream Market
for you, but we are also a large
Dairy Industry in your community.
We respectfully solicit your Cream.
Oar Motto:
Guaranteed Accurate Weights and
Tests.
Courteous and Prompt Service.
Highest Market Values.
Cream Grading.
A difference of 8 cents per pound
Butter Fat paid between No. 1 and
No. 2 Grade Cream.
Cash For Cream.
Cash paid to any Patron wishing
it when Cream is delivered.
Creamery open Wednesday and
Saturday Evenings.
The Seaforth Creamery.
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HEAD OFFICE.`—SEAFORTH, ONT.
OFFICERS:
J. Connolly, Goderick - - President
Jas. Evans, Beechwood vice-president
T. E. Hays, Seaford' - SecyTress.
AGENTS:
Ales Leitoh, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; U.
Hhnehley, Seaforth; Jo1a Murray,
Brucefield, phone 6 on 187, Seafortk;
Z. 'IC Yeo, Goderick; R. G. Jar -
Muth, Br'odkagen.
DIRECTORS:
William .Sinn, No. 2, Seatortk• Jolla
BOiriew1ee Rrodhagen; Jamie brass,
�woad; a'I, McEwen, Clinton; Jas.
trllIyy, Goderick; D. F. McGregor,
R. ; :'No.; 8; Seafortk; J. G. Grim,
lifts: 4 . Walton; 'Robert Ferris, $sr.
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Diseases 'Tr'aneuiltted by Milk
—Points Charged Against Pas-
teurisation --- "Safety First" w
Good Practice.
(Contributed by Ontario De arflment of
Agriculture. Toronto.).
The prooesa applied to milk•, that
•
we know as paateurjzatiou, was orig-
inally used by Pasteur toprevent the
souring of wines and beer. and it L
now universally applied in the con-
trol of milk supplies of )arge cities.
At first it was intended for the pre-
servation of milk, that is, to prevent
souring, but now it is used solely
with the idea of destroying disease.'
producing micro-organisms.
Pasteurization Is Not SterWaatton
Pasteurization 1s not ateriltzatioa.!
A much greater beat 1s required to
sterilise than is applied in the tor -
mer process. Pasteurisation consists
of heating the milk to a temperature'
of not lees than 140 degrees and not!
more than 160 degs. F., for a per-
lod of not less than 20 and not mover'
than 90 minutes. and then rapidly
cooling It to 46 deice. F., or under.'
and keeping it at that temperature
until delivered to the consumer. In'
addition to this, every care must be
taken to have a clean product. The
process does not remove dirt; there-
fore those responsible fdr the super-
vision of milk supplies haslet on a'
high quality of milk for pasteurisa-
tion.
No matter how carefully milk is
handled and bow well cows are in -,
there still remains the den-�
1
ger of the carrier, that is. a person
harboring the germs of a disease and
yet not affected by them; or of the
person who is developing an intim
tious dlaeaae, yet is not sick enough'
to atop working. These people may,
unwittingly infect the milk by.
coughing, sneezing, by their lolled
hands when milking or washing ves-
sels, or indirectly in many other
ways. It is true that if the milk
U kept cold these disease -producing
bacteria will not multiply, but they
may remain alive and fully virulent'
for a long time and the original num-
ber be sumclent to cause infection.
Disease Transmitted by milk.
Bone of the diseases of man that
may be transmitted by milk are:
Septic sore throat, typhoid, scarlet
fever; diphtheria and tuberculosis.
Some animal diseases transmissible',
to man through milk are: Tubercu-
losis; cow pox, which may cause in-
fection of the digestive tract in young.
children; mastitis, which may cause,
gastro-lnteetlnaL disturbances; foot
and mouth disease; trembles; acti-'
nomyeosis and others. Pasteuriza-
tion destroys the organisms that are
the cause of all the foregoing dis-
eases. In regard to bovine tubercu-
losis it Is known that though adults
may be relatively immune to infec-
tion from a bovine source, children
are quite susceptible, and a consider-
able percentage of cases of tubercu
loris In young children can be shown
to be of bovine origin. There are'
certain biological differences in the
bacilli from humans and cattle
which make it possible to differen-
tiate these infections. A cow may be
dangerous even though the -udder 1s.
not infected, as the germs are passed I
out with the excreta before any clin-
ical evidence of tuberculosis is pres-
ent, and owing to the position of the
udder it is almost Impossible to keep
them out of the pall as they fall in
with the tiny particles of manure'
that are on the cow's body and that
silt down in the form of dust. Apart
from the recognized disease produc-'
ing bacteria, it is known that large,
numbers of ordinarily harmless ones
in milk may cause a serious and fre-
quently fatal diarrhea In children
during the summer months.
Points Charged Against Paetenriza.•
tion.
Some of the arguments put for-
ward against pasteurization are:
That the cream is reduced; that the.
milk is rendered indigestible; that
the milk will not sour, thus doing
away wltn nature's danger signal;
and that the vltamines are destroyed.'
The last Is the only argument that
now carries any weight. The cream
is not reduced in quantity, but by
beating the fat globules are broken
up amailer and do not rise to the
top so easily, thus causing the cream
line to appear less. As a matter of
fact at 142 degs. F., there is very
little reduction even in the appear-
ance. With proper pasteurization
the chemical and physical constitu-
tion of the milk is not appreciably
changed, at least not to an extent
that 'renders it less valuable as a
food. The lactic acid bacteria that
causei souring of milk are not all
destroyed by the heating, and con-
sequently properly pasteurized milk
may sour like raw milk, thus indicat-
ing its age and condition. Recent
work on vitamines shows that the
anti -rachitic and anti -neuritic factors
are not removed by pasteurization.'
but that the anti -scorbutic vitamins
probably is. It should be replaced'
by giving daily a teaspoonful of
orange or lemon juice diluted with'
water and sweetened.
"Safety First" Good Practice.
Until methods of milk production'
are much more perfect than they are
at present the ',only way of main- I
taining a Bale milk supply would
appear to be by pasteurization, in
which the rapid cooling and keeping,
cool is given de much attention as
the maintenance of the correct tem-
perature for the proper length ofl
time.—Ronald Gwatkln, D.V.S.c., On-
tario, Veterinary College, Guelph.
The moot profitable use is made of
beet tops when they are shoed and
fed with alfalfa hay or other forage
and possibly supplemented with grain'
or concentrate feeds.
The chief value of cowpea hay lies
in its high percentage of digestible
protein. This has been verified by
numerous feeding teats.
The air of Zululand is so clear
that objects can be seen at a distance
of seven miles by starlight.
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that could jfesia the eitbflierattng 4e -
light ofwor sheep, blttitrarinetl I
and discipline becomea a minae
of vigilance and'unfaltoringlaertsice.
"One of the- most beaatiful- things
I have ever seen wad• the. behayionr
of a' couple of sheep -dogs" in an af-
fair in which I was"concerned:It-was
in the days when my old friend Chun
was -unreformed and when the sight
of a flock of sheep filled him with un-
governable thirst for adventure.
Away he bounded, and had the crowd
of, sheep flying helter-skelter before
'him. I shouted in vain. Suddenly
two sheep -dogs appeared and leapt
on him from either side. They did
not bite him. They simply rolled him
over.
"He rose the most humble and con-
trite sinner you could desire to see,
and turned and trotted towards me
with one sheep -dog on each side like
policemen in charge of a criminal.
They brought him to where I stood,
and having delivered the offender to
higher powers turned and trotted
back side by side to their duties.
"And of what other animal can
such a story of mingled loyalty and
intelligence be told as that which
Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, records
of his dog Sirrah, a fellow of some-
what surly temper, disdaining to be
flattered or caressed, but of a faith-
fulness and skill never to be sur-
passed. One night a flock of 700
Iambs in Hogg's care were seized with
sudden panic and scampered away in
three separate directions.
"It was growing dark, and Hogg
was helpless. 'Sirrah,' he said to his
dog, 'they're all awa.'" And at the
word Sirrah vanished. Hogg tra-
versed the hills in vain during the
night, and as the morning dawned
turned cheerlessly homeward to tell
his master the bad news. As he
walked he saw with joy in a deep ra-
vine Sirrah keeping guard over some
lambs, One group, then, had been
saved. But when Hogg had scram-
bled down to the ravine he found not
oils group but the whole 700, not a
lamb missing.
"By what miracle Sirrah had round-
ed up the three flying groups and se-
gregated them in one spot, Hogg
never knew. 'All I can say,' he said,
'is that I never felt so grateful to
any living creature as I did to my
honest Sirrah that morning.'"
LAST OF OLD WRITERS OF THE
DIME NOVEL
Many a man of middle age, per-
haps millions of them, heard the other
day with regret that the author of
the "Old Cap Collier" series of de-
tective stories had been obliged to sell
his little collection of mementoes,
letters from Mark Twain, Roosevelt
and others, in order to raise a thou-
sand dollars so that he might retire
with some dignity to the local poor
house. Thomas C. Harbaugh is down
and out. His name meant nothing to
most of his .readers. Sometimes/ it
was attached to his stories. Some-
times it was not. In any event, the
boys of thirty or forty years 'ago who
read.. dime novels did not long re-
member the names of their authors.
They remembered the stories and they
remembered most of all the charac-
ters. Certainly they remembered
"Old Cap Collier," who was in the
view of the writer, who had almost a
reprehensible acquaintance with the
outfit, the best of the old detectives
of the dime and half -dime novel. He
was vastly supel®or to "Old Sleuth,"
for instance, yet "Old Sleuth" had his
hundreds of thousands of devotees.
It was in 1867 that Harbaugh, a
mild-mannered little man, began
writing in Casstown, Ohio. He was
secretary of ...the Maryland Society
in Ohio and was interested in local
history. He w r o t e senstimental
poems of which he was fond, but
which brought him little money. He
was also fond of collecting old books
and of growing flowers. These in-
terests and the occupation of tun-
ing out the dime novels, occupied all
his thought and time. He never
married. He had written various
stories of adventure for New York
publishers for some years before he
hit on the character that was to
bring him fame. That was "Old
Cap Collier," the detective. The
first of these stories he wrote in
1883 for N. L. Munro, and so great
was their popularity that his pub-
lishers sought to keep him on the
same line ever after. In alt, he
wrote 650 dime and half -dime
novels, receiving $250 for the longer
story and $150 for the shorter.
At his usual rate of speed he
turned out two a month, but if
necessary he could produce four. In
the, course of his career, therefore,
he' must have earned large sums of
money which, if they had been pro-
perly invested, would have left him
wealthy. How he disposed of his
money is not said. The general ex-
planation is that he was a writing
man. And of course there came a
time when there was no demand for
Aarhaugh's dime novels or for any
dime novels at all Tastes changed.
Boys to -day probably get the thrills
at the movies that their fathers got
out of Beadle's library, and the Har-
baugh technique is not the technique
g q q
demanded' of the writer of scenarigs.
The present generation is altogether
too sophisiticated to enjoy the art
of Harbaugh which was frank in
the extreme. We daresay that the
boy of to -day, aged sixteen, would
regard as ridiculous the characters
which held his father enthralled
when he was the same age. Do boys
of to -day read the Boys' Own An-
nual? We dont it.. They do not
read Jules Verne, nor Captain Mayne
Read nor R. N. Ballantyne nor W. H.
G. Kingston—none of the writers
that the boys of thirty years ago felt
tfley could not live without.
The stories of .forty years ago
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ur. Thomas . Haran
the yelleve',tnewejtapeh
killed OL pale novel. Ther motto,. of
the ' latterthrill to 'every other
parfgraph*,;;,, ecame the motto of the
yellow l;s, and they bad more-
over s tion of reality -that the
a
dime rigte ` eked. The editor "of a
publislu douse which tried to con-
tinue dm Me novel after the era. of
Beadle ,e7tpressed the view that the
cheap magazine killed Cock Robin, by
developing .& .slightly better reading
taste, though we doubt if most of the
readers -0.091d Cap Collier"- are to-
day readingCheap magazines:
An iMp!oytant accessory in the
deep damnation of its taking off was
a cold-ble ded ruling of the Ameri-
can Post -Office in 1898. Before that
time the thine novels had been car-
ried like • newspapers as second-class
matter. Bat the authorities ruled
that as each issue was a complete
story in itself it did not come within
this category and a higher rating
was demanded. This increased the
expense which the publishers were
unable to recover from the nickel or
dime which • they charged for their
libraries, and being unable to raise
the price some of them went out of
business. In the same year there
was a financial panic -which added
to the troubles of publishers. Two
or three of then tried to carry on,
but a new generation was growing
up, and of course the preceding'gert-
eration, when it got to be about
eighteen years old, atoppe ading
dime novels. Probably the r quent
denunciation of the books from the
pulpits and other seats of authority
had some influence in stamping out
the practice. In any event the habit
has been. broken, and that without
the adding of another amendment to
the United States Constitution.
THE STORAGE OF FRUIT AND
VEGETABLES
The storage of fruit and vegetables
for home and market must receive
greater attention than it has hither-
to been accorded. The amount of
waste annually is very great. As a
first step towards eliminating this,
every farmer or household with suf-
ficient land to grow vegetables, and
perhaps fruit trees, should understand
more about storing the crop. Some
crops keep best in an atmosphere
that has a high moisture content,
whereas other require a low percent-
age of humidity. So it will be seen
that there cannot be a condition to
suit all vegetables and fruits in the
same cellar or storage building.
Apples, pears5.,yotatoes, carrots, cab-
bage, soon deteriorate in very dry
storage; while on the other hand win-
ter squash, pumpkins, marrows and
other such crops like a dry atmos-
phere. Moulds.and rots soon destroy
them.
If you know your cellar is a very
dry one and you wish to keep apples,
etc., in it, make provision for adding
more moisture to the air by introduc-
ing wet sacks spread out or by
sprinkling the floor, the idea being
'that a large surface must be wet and
evaporation quick. The atmospheric
humidity can , be tested with a wet
and d'ry'bulb thermometer. Take the
readings and check up on the chart
which is supplied with it. A hum-
idity ranging from 75 to 85 is satis-
factory.
In case of squash and pumpkins,
etc., any frost proof place which is
dry is suitable—the top shelf of the
pantry for instancesor shelves in the
passage. Quality is often lowered by
poor ventilation. Where crops are
stored in large quantities ventilators
should be open as much as possible
to carry off gases and heat coming
from a large bulk of any crop. When
severe weather occurs close up the
ventilators. Do not 'store a large
volume of any crop while,it is warm
from the field unless you know that
you can reduce the heat by proper
ventilation. More attention must be
paid to this when commercial storage
is being done h1 the Fall and our
growers must help •waren asked to do
so.
HOW MOTOR TOURISTS MUST
CROSS BORDER
A 'bulletin dealing with Canadian
and U. S. customs regulations has
been issued by the Department of
Public Highways for Ontario, and it
gives the following information for
the benefit of motor tourists:
"Motorists who are residents of
the United States may bring their
motors into Canada for touring
purposes only for a period of one
month without filing'' a bond. They
may return either by the port of
entry or any other port.
"On entering danada the neces-
sary forms must be •filled out, the
duplicate copy being carried by the
motorist and surrendered to the
Customs officer on leaving Canada.
"Registration cards identifying
the motor vehicles should be carried
at all times and shown when demand-
ed by the Customs officer.
"For a staylonger than ong one month
and up'to six months !n any one
year a bond will be necessary on
entering Canada. Motor vehicles
used for touring purposes only can
be under bond, duty free..
"Canadian tourists entering the
United States are not• required to
furnish a bond -at the • port of entry
provided that their stay is not to
exceed 'one month. They should
have a letter of identification from
the United States Counsul, in which
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Ise full duty may ,he requlre;d',
return. of the Rooter :vehicle to;
"fn every ,eeaie the nu toeist shOaht;
4iry:' his automobile ' registration
card as furnished by the Ontario
Department of 'Public Hi 'hwayd,
'The entering of motor' vehicles.
not manufactured in the United
States for a period of ,six Menthe Ie`
permissible, Provided bond . is tar-
nished for- double the, estimated'
duty and in addition a consular in- '
voice, including a declaration sworn
before a United States Consul stat-
ing that the motor vehicle is enter-
ing the United States for touring
purgoses only, is required:"
FACTS ABOUT CANADA
Lethbridge, Alta,—The first cutting
of alfalfa on the irrigated area east
of the city is well under way. It is
eitpected to be the largest alfalfa crop
ever harvested in Southern Alberta.
The area this year is somewhat in
excess of 10,000 acres, or abbot 1,500
acres more than last year. The aver-
age yield per acre on the first cutting
will' be in the neighborhood of two
tons, so 'that there will be about 20,-
000 tons of new hay after this cut-
ting.
Toronto, Ont— Authorized capital
of $18,656,000 is represented by com-
panies whose incorporations were re-
ported during the week ending on
June 30th, compared with $14,332,500
for the same week last year.
Ottawa, Ont.—Records of the De-
partment of Marine and Fisheries for
the month of May show the total
quantity of sea fish landed on both
coasts to be 739,986 cwt., valued at
$2,770,894, while that for the cor-
responding period the preceding year
was 839,435 cwt., valued at $2,464,-
899.
Vancouver, B. C.—Vancouver will
have shipped about 19,000,000 bushels
of grain when the crop year 1922-23
draws to a close this summer, accord-
ing to statistics issued by the Van-
couver Merchants' Exchange. During
the previous crop year about 5,750,000
bushels of grain had been shipped.
Up to the end of June, 18,376.587
bushels of the 1922 prairie crop had
passed through Vancouver.
Dawson, Y.T.—The continued sus-
pension of royalties on coal mined in
Yukon territory for a period of five
years is the subject of an order -in
council dated June 7th. This suspen-
sion has been in existence since 1913.
AFool and His
Money
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aboriginal American means "Man-
-a- i t h -t h e -Strong -Arm -Who -Carries -
Baby."
"It is very nice of you to ask me
up to dine with you," said I.
"Isn't it \about time I was doing
something for you in return for all
that you have done for me?" she in-
quy)•ed gaily. "We are having a par-
ticularly nice dinner this evening, and
I thought you'd enjoy a change."
"1t change?" said I, with a laugh.
"As if we haven't been eating out of
the same kettle for days!"
"I was not referring to the food,"
she said, and I was very properly
squelched.
"Nevertheless, eaking of food,"
said I, "it may int to know
that I expected to have ra r a
sumptuous repast of my own to ele-
brate the deliverance. A fine pl p
pheasant, prepared a la Oscar, co n
fritters like mother used to make, pa/
tatoes picard,—"
"And a wonderful alligator pear
salad," she interrupted, her eyet
dancing.
I stared. "How in, the world did
you guess?"
She laughed in pure delight, and I
began to understand. By the Lord
Henry, the amazing creature was in-
vitirid me to eat my own dinner in
her salle manger! `Well, may I be
hanged! You do beat the Dutch!"
She was wearing a wonderful din-
ner gown of Irish lace, and sle fair-
ly sparkled with diamond8. There
was no ornament in her brown hair,
however, nor were her little pink ears
made hideous by ear -rings. Her
face was a' jewel sufficient unto itself.
I had never seen her in an evening
gown before. The effect was really
quite ravishing. As I looked at her
standing there by the big oak table, I
couldn't help thinking that the Count
was not only a scoundrel but all kinds
of a fool.
"It was necessary for me to bribe
all of your servants, Mr. Smart," she
said.
"You did not offer the rascals
money, I hope," I said in a horrified
tone.
"No, indeed!" She did not explain
any farther than that, but somehow I
kffew that money isn't everything to
a servant after all. "I hope you don't
mind my borrowing your butler and
footman for the evening," she went
on. "Not that we really need two
to serve two, but it seems so much
more like a function, as the news-
papers would call it,"
It was my turn to say "No, indeed?'
"And now you must come in and
kiss Rosemary good night," she said,
glancing at my great Amsterdam
clock in the corner.
We went into the nursery. It was
past Rosemary's bedtime by nearly
an hour and the yohngster washay-
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lag great dikculty iq'keeping awake.
She managed to put her arena around
my neck when I took her .up, from,
the bed all tucked away in her warm
little nightie, and aleepllyy presented
her own little throat for me to kiss,
that particular spot being where the
'honey came from in her dispensation
of sweets.
I was full of exuberance. An ir-
resistible impulse to do a jig seized
upon me. To my own intense amaze-
ment, and to Blake's horror, I began
to dance aboutthe room like a clumsy
kangaroo. Rosemary shrieked de-
lightedly into my ear and I danced
the harder for that. The Countess,
recovering from her surprise, cried
out in laughter and began to clap
time with her hands. Blake forgot
herself and sat down rather heavily
on the edge of the bed. I think the
poor woman's knees gave way under
her.
"Hurrah!" I shouted to Rosemary,
but looking directly at the Countess.
"We're celebrating!"
Whereupon the girl that was left
in the Countess rose to the occasion
and she pirouetted with graceful
abandon before me, in amazing con-
trast to my jumping -jack efforts.
Only Blake's reserved and somewhat
dampening admonition brought me to
my senses.
"Please don't drop the child, Mr.
Smart," she said. I had the great
satisfaction of hearing Rosemary cry
when I delivered her up to Blake and
started to slink out of the room in
the wake of my warm-cheeked hos-
ess.
"You would be a wonderful father,
sir," said Blake, relenting a little.
I had the grace to say, "Oh,
pahaw!" and then got out while the
illusion was still alive. (As I've said
before, I do not like a crying baby.)
It was the most wonderful dinner
in the world, notwithstanding it was
served on a kitchen table moved into
the living room for the occasion. Im=
posing candelabra adorned the four
corners of the table and the very
best plate in the castle was put to
use. There were roses in the centre
of the board, a huge bowl of short -
stemmed Marechal Niel beauties. The
Countess's chair was pulled out by
my stately butler, Hawkes; mine by
the almost equally imposing footman
and we faced each other across the
bowl of roses and lifted an American
cocktail to the health of those who
were about to sit down to feast. I
think it was one of the best cocktails
I've ever tasted. The Countess ad-
mitted having made it herself, but
wasn't quite: sure, whether she used
the right ingredients or the correct
proportions. She ase ed me what I
thought of it.
"It is the best Manhattan I've ever
tasted," said I, warmly.
Her eyes wavered. Also, I think
her faith in me. "It was meant to
be a Martini," she said sorrowfully.
Then we both sat down. Was it
possible that the corners of Hawkes'
mouth twitched? I don't suppose. I
shall ever know. .
My sherry was much better than I
thought, too. It was deliciously oily.
The champagne? But that came lat-
er, so why anticipate a joy with re-
alization staring one in the face?
We begun with a marvellous fliers -
d'oeuvres. Then a clear soup, a fish
aspec, a— Why rhapsodise? Let it
be sufficient if I say that in discuss-
ing the Aladdin -like feast x
and ,faithfully promised my `Chef.. a
material increase in wagey..:1.,.bad
never suspected him of being aitch-*
genius, nor myself of being such a
Pantegruelian disciple. I spust main- ,
tion the alligator pear salad. reef"
three weeks I had been trying to bjiy
alligator pears in the town. bard •by:
These came front Paris.. The Chef'
had spoken to me about them that
morning, asking me when had ord-
ered them. Inasmuch as 2 had .:!sot
ordered them at all, I couldn't sate fy
his curiosity. My first thought wee
that Elsie Hazzard, remembering my.
fondness for the vegetable -mit is a
vegetable, isn't it?—had sent off for
them in order to surprise me,. It
seems, however, that Elsiehad noth-
ing whatever to do with it.. The
Countess had ordered them for me
through her mother, who was in Paris!.
' at the time. Also she had ordered a
' quantity of Parisian strawberries of
the hot -house, one -franc -apiece vari-
ety, and a basket of peaches.. At the
risk of being called penurious, I con-
fess that I was immensely relished
when I learned that these precious
:jewels in the shape of fruit had-beeu
paid for in advance by the opulent
mother of the Countess..
"Have I told yyu, Mr. Smart, that
1 am expecting my mother here to
visit me week after -next?"
She tactfully put the question to
me at a time when I was so full of
contentment that nothing could have
depressed me.. 1 must confess, how -
,ever, that 1 was guilty of gulping my
champagne a little noisily. Thu
question came with the salad course,
"You don't say sol" I exclaimed,
quite cheerfully.•
I "That is to say, she is coming it
you think you can manage it quite
safely."
"I manage ii? My dear Countess.
why speak of managing a thing that
is so obviously to be desired?"
"You don't understand.. Can yeti
sriruggle her into the castle without
any one knowing a thing about it?
You see, she is' being watched every
minute of the time by detectives,
spies, secret agents, lawyers, and
Heaven knows who else. The instant
she leaves Paris, bang! It will be
like the starter's shot in a race. They
will be after her like a streak. And
if you are not -very, very Clever they-
will
heywill play hob with everything."
"Then why run the risk?" I ven-
tured.
"My two brothers are coming with
her," she said reassuringly, "They
are such big, strong fellows that—"
"My dear Countess, it isn't strength
we'll need," I deplored..
"No, no, I quite understand. It is
cunning, strategy, caution, and all
that sort of thing. But I will let you
know in ample time, so that you may
be prepared."
"Do!" I said gallantly, trying to be
enthusiastic..
"You are so wonderfully ingenious
at -working out plots and conspiracies
in your books, Mr. Smart, that I am
confident you can manage everything
beautifully."
Blatchford was removing my 9sd-
ad plate.. A spasm of alarm canto
over me.. I had quite_forgotten the
two men. The look of warning I
gave her brought forth a merry, a-
mused smile.
(Continued next week.)
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