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DR. W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
niversity of Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of 'College of Physic-
ne and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
Dh. R. P. II. DOUGALL
onour graduate of. Faculty of
2ffedicine and 1VIaster of Science, Uni-
versity of Western Ontario, London.
ember of College of Physicians and
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east of the Methodist church, Sea-
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DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
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TEMPLIii'laARIAIST
Author of Contrary BlilarYi ZU.
GaOSSET DUNLAP
New Ted:
•alte thouaht for a giaaacant with
Wear••
"To the sell?. Pink elk. A heave a
eer eyeS an the free. Wtelet she rats-
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enlY pink. have lust Ibhuglit it, asa ed tb.em it was to say, °NiTauld you -
last week.
\ I paid more them. I should for it." want your little mister, MP* to take
She had an hour before train the "Such elstasvagance!" ") jewels from any man?* ,
and she lingered a little, - stopping "I'm to lbe Cynthia NIVIarfield-dike
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at this window and that, and all the 'the Portrait in the Crossroads libra.ry you,,
.es. If he loved31 love
- tea' as
M my grandmother. It wane to me It was out, and they stood aghast.
Then Geaffrey stammered, "Can't you
see that my soul kneels at your feet?
That to me 'these pearls aren't as
white as your -whiteness?"
The rosy silk bad slipped to the
flocr. She was like a very email god -
dere in a morning cloud. "I can't
take them. Oh, I can't."
Ile made a quick gesture. But for
her restraining hand he would have
cast the pearls into bhe flames.
"Oh, don't," she said, the little hand
'tense on his arm. "Don't -hurt me
a-likethat."
Ile dropped the pearls, into Ms
pocket. "If you won't wear them no-
body shall. I suppose I seem to you
like all sorts of a fool. I seem like
all sort of a. fool to myself."
He _turned and left her.
An hour later he -came beck and
found her still sewing on the rosy
silk. Her eyes were red, as if she
had wept a little.
"I was a brute," he said, repent-
antly; "forgive me and smile. I am a
tempestuous fellow, and I forgot my-
self."
"I was afraid we weren't ever go-
ing to 'be friends again."
"I shall always be your friend. Yet
-who wants a Blind Beggar for a
friend -tell qne that, Mistress Anne?"
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at year tears wera---0, filvaglietam," Nat"
'Silence fell between theca, aud af- walla ea aeleindaaaa,•.
(ter a While lee asked, °What obeli Yoe "Then take them."
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time the money whielt she had felled. -
ad, to save burned a hole in her
pocket.
For there were sueh things to bur
Paseing, a flower shop•there were
violets and rases. Passing a candy
shop were chocolates. Passing a hat
shop there was a veil flung like a
cloud over a celestial chapeau! Pass-
ing an Everything -that -is -Lovely shop
she saw an enchanting length of
silk -as pink as a sea-shell-eilk like
that which Cynthia Woefield had worn
when she sat for the portrait Which
hung in the library at Crossroads!
Anne did not pass the Lovely Shop
she turned and went In, and bough
m
e
ten yards of silk with the oneytha
she had meant to spend -and the
money she had meant to save!
And she missed the train!
Beulah was waiting for her as sh
came in breathless. "There isn't an
other train for two hours," she com
plained.
Anne sank down on a bench. "
am sorry, Beulah. I didn't know i
was so late."
"We'll have to get supper in th
station," Beulah said, "and I loav
spent all my money."
"Oh, and I've spent mine." Ann
reflected that if she had not bough
the silk she could have paid for Beu
lah's supper. But she was glad that
she had bought it, and that she had
it under her arm in a neat package.
She dug into her slim purse and
produced a dime.
"Never mind, Beulah, we can buy
some chocolates."
But they were not destined far sueh
meager fare. Rushing into the sta-
tion came Geoffrey Fox. As he saw
the clack he stopped with the air of
a man baffled by 3fate.
Anne moving toward him across
the intervening space saw his face
change.
"By all that's wonderful," 'he said,
"how did this happen?"
"We missed our train."
"And I •missed mine. Who °is
"Beulah is with me."
"Can't you both have dinner with
me somewhere? There are two hours
of waiting ahead of us."
Anne demurred. "I'm not very
hungry."
But Beulah who had joined therm,
was hungry, and she said so, frankly.
"I am starved. If I could have just
a sandwich
"You shall have more than that.
We'll have a feast and a frolic. Let
me check your parcels, Mistress
Anne."
Back they went to the golden -light-
ed streets and turning down toward
the city they reached at last the big
hotel which has usurped the place of
the stately and substantial edifices
whita were once the abodes of ancient
and honorable families.
Within were soft lights and the
sound of music. The rugs were thick
and there was much marble. As they
entered the dining -room, they seemed
to move through a golden haze. It
was early, and most of the tables were
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Taculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do-
zainion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Wight calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
DR. WILLIAM ABERHART
Graduate of Faculty of IVfedicine,
University of Toronto. Member of
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario. Licentiate of Medical Coun-
cil of Canada. Late interne Toronto
Western Hospital. Office, Queen's
Hotel Building, North Main Street.
Phone 89. Night calls, phone 111.
D. .I. A. MUNN
Successor to Or. I. R. R000
Graduate of Northwestern Universe
IV, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal
College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto.
ce over Sine' ardware, Main Ste,
Seaforth. Phone 151.
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to:roams, Toronto. Office over W. It.
Smith's- Grocery, Main Sereet, Sea -
forth. Phones: Office, 185 W.• real -
derma, 185J. 3055-tf
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when 1 saw the silk hi the shop vrist-
dow. II shall have to do without the
Iresaile, but I have the lace filotinces.
They were left to my mother."'
"And so 'Ctinderella will go to the
ball, and dance with the Priuee. Is
Brooks the Prince?"
She flushed and evaded. "I can't
dance. Not the new dances."
can teach you if you'll let me."
"Really "
"Yes. But you must pay. You
must give the Blind Beggar the first,
dance and as many more •as he de-
mands." '
"But I Zarat dance all of them with
you." •
"You can dance some of them. And
that's my price."
° To promise him dance.s seemed to
her quite delicious and delightful since
she could not dance at all. But he
made a little contract and had her
sign it, and put it in his pocket.
Going home Anne had little to say.
It was Geoffrey who talked, wlhile
Beulah slept in a seat by herself.
empty.
Beulah was rapturous.. "I have al-
ways wanted, to come here. It is
perfectly lovely."
The attentive waiter at Geoffrey's
elbow was being told to bring
Anne's quiok ear carught the word.
"No please," she said at once, "not
for B,ielah and me."
His keen glance commanded her.
"Of course not," he saki, easily. Pres-
ently he had the whole matter of the
menu settled, and could talk to Anne.
She was enjoying it all immensely
and said so.
"I should like to do this sort of
thing every day."
"Hleaven forbid. 'You would lose
your dreams, and grow self-satisfied
-and fat -like that woman over
there."
Anne shuddered. "It isn't that she
is fat -it's her eyes, and the way she
makes up."
"That is the. way they get when
they live in place.s like this. If you
want to be slender and lovely and
keep your dream:s you must teach
school."
"Oh, hat there's drudgery in that."
"It is the people whe drudge who
dream. They don't know it, but they
do. People who have all they want
learn that there is nothing more for
life to give And they drink and take
drugs to bring back the illusions they
have lost."
They fJ 1 into ,silence after that,
and then it was Beulah who became
voluble. Her fair roiled face beam-
ed. It was esecommorilittleface, but
It was gooda, honest. Beulah was
haring .the tltlseof her life. She did
not know that she owed her good for-
tune to Anne, that if Anne had not
been there, Geoffrey would not have
asked her to dine. But if she had
knovers, it, she would not haws eared.
"What train did you come in
she asked.
Anne under her own lovely gown,
running over now and then' to take
surreptitious peeps at Cynthia'e por-
trait. She had let Mrs. Brooks into
her secret, and the little lady was
enthusiastic.
"You shall wear My pearls, my
dear. They will be very effective in
your dark bair."
She brought the jewels down in an
old blue velvet box -milk -white a-
gainst a yellowed satin lining.
"My father gave them to me on
my wedding dejr. 'Seine day I shall
give them to Richards wife."
She could not know hew her words
stirred the heart of the girl who stood
looking so quietly down at the pearls.
"I am almost afraid to wear them,"
Anne said breathlessly. She gave
Nancy a shy little kiss. "You were
dear to think of it."
And now busy days were upon her.
There was the school _with Richard
running in after closing time, and
staying, too, and keeping her from
the work that was waitingleat home.
Then at twilight a dancing lessen
with Geoffrey in the long front room,
with Beulah playing .audience and
sometimes Eric, and with Peggy cap-
ering madly to themfusic. •
Then the evening, with its en-
chanting task of stitching on yards of
rosy silk. Usually Geoffrey read to
her while she worked. His story was
nearing the end. He was wearing
heavy goggles which gave him an owl -
like appearance, of which he com-
plaiseed.
"It spoils my beauty, Mistress
Anne. I am just an ugly gnome who
sit at the feet of the Princess."
"You are net ugly, and you knew
it. And men shouldn't be vain,"
"We are werse than women. Do
you know what you look like with all
that silk around you?"
"Like Aurora. Do you remember
that iSteveree-n speaks of a 'pink
dawn'? Well, you are a pink dawn."
"Please stop talking abofut me, and
read your last chapter. I am so glad
that you have reached the end."
"Because you are tired of hearing
"Because of your poor eyes."
He took off .his.gogglee. "De my
eyes look different? Are they chang-
ed -or dim?"
"They are as bright as stars," and
he sighed with relief.
•
"At noon. Brooks thought I ought
to see a apecialist. He doesn't give
me much- encourfagerment about my
eyes. He wente me to stop writing,
o but I sh tilt until If get through with
my book."
e He spoke recklessly, but Anne coma
the shadonr on his face. "You aren't
O telling as bow really serious it is,"
O she said, as Beulah% etterition was
O diverted.
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CHAPTER X.
In Which a Blind Beggarand a But-
terfly Go to a Ball.
In My Own Little Room.
Uncle Rod, I went to the party!
I came home an hour ago, and since
then I have been sitting all shivery
and shaky In my pink silk. It will
be daylight in a few minutes, but I
shan't go to •bed. I couldn't sleep if
I did. I feel as if I shouldn't ever
sleep again. -
Uncle Rod, Jimmie Ford was at the
Crossroads ball!
I went early, 'because Ma -s. Nancy
had asked me to be there to help
-with her guests. Geoffrey Fox went
with me. He was very picturesque
in a ragged jeritinOvith a black band-
age over his eye and with ald. Mende
leading him at the end of -aaseerd. She
enjoyed it immensely, and they at-
tracted a lot of attention, as he went
tap -tapping 'along with leis cane over
the polished floor, or whined for alms
while she eat up on her haunches with
a tin cup in her mouth.
Well, Dr. Richard met us at the
door, looking the young squire to per-
fection in his grandfather's old dress
coat of blue with brass buttons. The
people from New York hadrat come,
so Mrs. Nancy put the pearls in my
hair, and they made me :aand under
the portrait in the library, to see if
I were really like my grandmother.
I can't belieee that I looked as lov-
ly as she, but they said I did, and
I began to feel as happy and excited
as Cinderella at her ball.
Then the New York crowd arrived
in motel's and they were all masked.
I knew Eve Chesley at once and Win-
nifred Ames, but it was feted to be
sure of any one else. Eve Chesley
was a Rose, with a thousand flutter-
ing flounces of pink chiffon. She was
pursued by two men dressed as But-
terflies, shrill and shining in close
caps with great .silken wings -a Blue
Butterfly stnd a Brown one. I was
pretty sure that the Brown one was
Philip •lVteade. It was quite wonder-
ful to watch them with their wings
waving. Eve carried a pocketful of
rose petals and threw them intal the
air as she went. I had never imag-
ined anything ao lovely.
Well, I danced with Dr. Richard and
I danced with Geoffrey Fox, and
danced with Dutton Ames, -and with
some men that I had never met be-
fore. .It seemed RO good to he doing
things like the rest. Then all at
once I began to feel that the Blue
Butterfly was watching me. He drift-
ed away from his pursuit of Evelyn
Chesley, and whenever I raised rny
eyes, I could see him in corners star-
ing at me.
It gave me a queer feeling. I could
not be sure, and yet -there he was.
And, Uncle Rod, suddenly I knew him!
Something in the way he carried him-
self. You know Jimmie's little swag-
ger!
I think I haat my head after that.
I flirted with Dr. Richard and with
Geoffrey Fox. I think I even flirted
a little with Dutton Ames. I want-
ed them to be nice to me. I wanted
Jimmie to see that what he h scorn-
ed other men maid value. I laughed
and danced as if my heart Was as
light as imy heels, and all the while
I wee just sick and faint with the
thought of 1te-"Jinamie Ford is here,
and he hasn't said a word to me. Jim-
mie Ford is here -and --he hasn't
said a
'And nsrw it 'VMS young Michel who
whispered, 'God is good! In a mom-
ent we shall see his face, an.d we shall
say to 'him, "We fought, but there is
not hatred in our hearts. We can-
not hate -our brothers
That was the end.
"It is e great book," Anne told him
solemnly. "It will be a great suc-
cesa."
He seemed to shrink and grow small
in his chair. "It will come -too
late."
She looked up and saw the mood
that was upon him. "Oh, yes, you
must not -not that," he said, hur-
riedly; "if you give up now it will
be a losing fight."
"Dem't you suppose that I would
fight if I felt that I could win? But
what can a man de with a thing like
this that is dragging him down to
darkness?"
"You mustn't he diecouraged. Dr.
Brooks says that it isn't -inevitable.
You know that he'said that, and that
the specialist said it."
"I know. But something tells me
that I am facing -darkness." He
threw up his head. "Wlhy should we
talk of it? Let me tell you rather
how slouch you have helped me with
-my bin*. If it had not been for you
I cohld not have written it."
"I arn glad if 1 have been of ser, -
vice." Her words eounded formal
ter the warmth of his osier, '
He laughed, with a touch of bitter -
nese. "The Princess serves," he said,
"alwaya anal lalwaysi serves. She
never grabs, as the rest of usi do, at
ha nese."
"f shall grab when it "comes," she
said, smiling a little, "avid I am hap-
py nava beesunis I am going to wear
my pretty gown."
"Which reminds me," he said, quick-
ly, and larouglat froin his pocket a
little box. "Year costume won't. he
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me that any man has tried to break
your heart?"
I think I was crying a little. "Yes.
But the worst of alt is my -pride."
"My little Princess," he said soft-
l"that this should have come -to
you."
Uncle Rod, 1 think that if I had
ever had a brother, I should have
wanted him to be like Geoffrey Fox.
All his lightness .ared frivolity seemed
to slip from him. "He has thrown
away what I would give my life far,"
he -said. "Oh, the young fool, not to
lcnow that Paradise was being hand-
ed to him on a platter."
I didn't tell him Jimmie's name.
That is not to be spoken to any one
but you. Ahd of course he could not
know, theugh perhaps he gueseed it,
after what happened lathe.
While we sat there, Dr. Richard
fame to hunt for us. "Everybody is
going in tosupper," he said. He
seemed surprised to find us there to-
gether, and there was a sort of stiff-
ness in his manner. "Mother has
been asking for you."
We went at once to the dining -
room. There were long tables set
in the old-fashioned way for every-
body. Mrs. Nancy wanted things to
be as they had been in her Own girl-
honci. On the table in the wide win-
dow were two birthday cakes, and at
that table Dr. Richard sat with his
mother OM one side of him, and Eve
Chesley on the other. Eve's cake had
pink candles and his had white, and
there were twenty-five ea-ndlea on
each cake.
Geoffrey Fox and I sat directly op-
easite; Dutton Ames was on my right,
MTS. Ames was on Geoffrey's left,
and straight across the table, with his
mask off, was Jimmie Ford, staring
at me with all his eyes!
For a minutk I didn't know what
to do. I just eat and stared, end
then suddenly II picked up the glass
that stood by my plate, raisedeit in
salute and drank smiling. His face
red, he hesitated just a fraction
a second, then his glass went up,
and he returned my ereeting. I won-
der if he thought that I would cut him
dead, Uncle Rod?
And don't worry about what I
drank. It was white grape juice.
Mrs. Nancy won't have anything
stronger.
Well, after that I ate, and didn't
know what I ate, for everything
seemed as dry as dust. I know my
cheeks were red and that .my eyes
shone, and I erniled until my face
aehed. And all the while I watched
Jimmie and Jimmie watched me, and
pretty soon, Uncle Rod, I understood
why Jimmie was there.
He was making love to Eve Ches-
ley!
Making love is very different from
being in love, isn't it? Perhaps love
is something that Jimmie , really
doesn't understand. But he was us-
ing on Dille all of the charming tricks
that he had tried on me. She is more
sophisticated, and they mean lees to
her than to me, but I could see him
bending toward hes. in that flattering
worshipful way of his. -and when he
took one of her roses and tonehed it.
to his lips and then to her cheek, ev-
erything was dark for a minute. That
kind of kiss was the only kind that
Jimmie Pard ever gave rile, but to
me it had meant that he -cared -
and that I eared -and here he was do-
ing it before the eyes of all the world
-and for love of another woman! '
At lest I couldn't stand it any
longer, and when I was dancing with
Geoffrey Foe I said, "Do you think
we -could go &WV to the Garden
Room? jI must get away."
tule didiet ask any questioner And
presentla we Were down there in the
quiet,. and be had his bandage off, and
was looking at me, anxiously. "What
-has happened, Rifistress Anne?"
And then, oh, Uncle Rad, I told
Min. 1 don't know how I came to do
it, but it seemed to me thalt ha Would
understand, and hi did. •
Writitliv•.1 hg6t1 'fit:JAM his fto_ice- was
white brat "Do yotrtattn, 'to tell
el
said, very gently, "Would you like
to go home? You look like your own
little ghost, Mistress Anne."
But I lhad, promised one more dance
to Dr. Richard, and I wanted to
dance it. If you could have seen at
the table how he towered aboire Jim-
mie Ford. And when he stood up to
make -a little speech in response to a
toast from Dutton Ames, his voice
rang _out in such a -man's way. Do
you remember Jimmie Yard's falset-
to?
I had my dance with him, and then
Geoffrey took me home, and all the
way I kept remembering the things
Dr. Richard had said to me, such
pleasant friendly things, and when his
ars?"-I knew what you wanted me
my poket to school, and when I rang
to answer. I earried your letter in
the bell I kept saying over and over
to mareelf, "Life is What we make it.
Life is what we snake it," and all at
once the bells began to ring it:
"Life is -what we -make it-
ighe
is -what we --make it."
When the childrenecame iii, beers
we began the day's work, I talked to
them. I find ft is always uplifting,
when we have failed in anything to
try to tell others how not to fail!
Perhaps it isn't preaching what we
practice, but at least it supplies a
mother told me "good -night" she too it working theory.
my face between her hands and kiss- I made up a fairy -story for them,
ed me. "You must come often., little too, about a Princess who was so ill
Cynthia Warfield," she said. > "Rich- and unhappy that all the kingdom waS
ard and I both want you." 1 searched far and wide for some one
But now that I am at home again, to cure her. And at last an old crone
I can't think of anything but how was found who swore that she ha&
Jimmie Ford has spoiled it all. When the right remedy. "What is it?" all
you have given something, you can't the wise men asked; but the old we-
ever really take it back, can yea? , man said, "It is written in this scroll.'
When 'you've given faith and con- To -morrow the Princess must start
stancy to one man, what have you
left to give another?
The river is beginning to show like
a silver streak, and a rooster is
crowing. Oh, Uncle Rod, if you were
only here. Write and tell me that
you love me.
Your
LITTLE GIRL.
In the Telegraph Tower.
My Very Dear:
It is after supper, and Beulah and
I are out here with Eric. He likes
so have her come, and I play propri-
ety, for Mrs. Bower, in common with
most women of her class, is very
careful of her daughter. I know you
don't like that word "class," but please
don't think I am using it snobbishly.
Indeedei think Beulah is mach better
brought up than the daughters of
folk who think themselves much finer,
a-nd Mrs. Bower in her simple way is
doing some very effective chaperon-
ing.
Eric is on night duty in the tele-
graph tower this week; the other op-
erator has tee day work. The eve-
nings are long, so Beulah brings her
sewing, and keeps Eric company.
They really don't have much to say
to each other, so that I am not in-
terrupted when I write. They seem
to like to sit and look out on the
river and the stars and the moon
coming up behind the hills.
It is all settled now: Eric told me
yesterday. "I am very' happy," he
said; "I have been a lonely man."
They are to be married in June,
and ,the things that she is making are
to go into the cedar chest which her
father has given her. He found it
one day when he .was in Baltimore,
a.rel when he-eshowed it to her, he
shone with pleasure. He's a, good old
Peter, and lie is so glad that Beulah
is to marry Eric. Eric will rent a
little house not far up the road. Et
is a dear of a cottage, and Peggy trel
I call it the Playhouse. We sit an
the perch when we come home from
school, and .peep in at the windows
anti plan what we would put into it
if we had the fUraishing of it.
should like a house like that, Uncle
Rod, for you and me and Diogenes.
We'd live happy ever .after, wouldn't
we? 'Same day the world is going to
build "teacherages" just an it now
builds parsonages, and the little Nous -
es will help to dignify and uplift the
profeesien.
Youridtear letter came just in time
and it was just right. 1 eleou h3Ve
gone to pieces if *092 hdd Irgiatt 024
for I was pitying myself dmail2tely.
Mut when I real: "Little Solitel-tet,Oat-
er, what would von tell vote tette.
After supper he came around the
table arid spoke to me. E suppose he
thought he had to. I don't know what
he said and I don't care. 1 Only. Irma/
that I wanted to get away. I Walt
it was there that,Osoffrey For anr,-_,,s-
ed. For when Jimmie Toad' S'Oits isa
"
out alone upon a journey. Whatever
difficulty she encounters she must op-
en this scroll and read, and the scroll
will tell her what to ac..”
(Contiriued next week.)
I am inclined to say that in the case
of very great matters, love, life and
immortality, a plain answer to a plain
question is never possible. -J. A.
Spender.
What every young girl should know
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