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(Continued from last week) i etr'eiet Q-tr BIIa's 'side -Of the table
But yorteltaveu,t asked her The She there appeared to be ••something 'poli-
made the poison for that she gave in imus, and -hardly was the meal fin,
'mistake .to /Wee, 'when I was, lying i.ished when. this began to come •out.
3eaforth helplesg lip,'l►ed?t' For•one instant i1Q'rs. As•'he pushed,'hie chair back, she ask -
Phone 173 Kingsworth shot a 'contradictory leek ed, 'in. a' gpiet, hard sort of Nay: -
at Bella, and her expression of apathy
changed to ,one of retaliation; yet ons
EDiICAL• ly for a second. Derreck's back wets
towards her—she eopld bear ,Befla''.
taunts without flinching; they did not
add to. her sorrow and hat impot-
ence which was• maddening at times.
R .,But Derreck's attack' wouid be a dif-
Graduate of ,University . -.of Toronto. .ferent thing .eatiFely. So she let the
accusation pass. Derreck's hand was
reaching °the door -knob. As a - Parth
.ian shot, flippant,'ecrid. and accusa-
tive, Bella said, :with a 'final glare at
the old woman, -"Why don't',you. 'ask
'her why she tried to'poisou your wife
and poisoned' your child instead?','.'
This Was nek more than a passing jeer
flung out by .anger agd the ,'heedless
desire ,to say something. 'For Bella
• would • have beets very worry if he had
asked "why." Whet she• meant„was
that he should take his mealier to
on n the whole matter, particulaiv
ly as to 'the attempt on her life; and
'his not • doing so wale salt in her
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Derreck opened the door' and s-
ed out. Bella followed, and they eat
along the road side-by-side—she in a
tumult of feeling, half -satisfaction,
Some disappointment, anda lurking
notion that there was something
wrong on 'her side in the whole of
this affair. Bella could not ,see that
the sudden shock of it all had tem-
porarily depr ved Derreck 'of. any in-
clination to reproach his mother. His
silence was construed as another in-
dictment against herself, with a• con-
sequent readiness to flare up at any-
thing and everybody. Derreck, with
his grief at Alice's death so fresh up-
on flim and this terrible knowledge
—which he could see no way' to dis-
believe—about ..his mother, making
him feel stupid, hardly knew whether
he was in, a"nightmare or not.
Thus •they, came to the ship -chand-
ler's, and Bella said she would ascer-
tain hew—Mary was, then come home
and, prepare ,tea. With no more than
a lookof agreement Derreck contin;
ued 'on and turned along the jetty, in
sorrow, thatcould not be spoken and
out of sheer habit to talk to his•com-
panions in 'Iongshtre Struggle. Here
he was received quite casually , and.
as casually entered into conversation,
Judging l;y his reception; -he might
have been on. a "hobbling" trip up 'to
Bristol or across to Cardiff instead of
ship -deserting and fever -contracting
down thatr
"whiteman's grave" ve" in the
Atlantic; till •old Aplin remarked on
"Hoa, good.,it r910 be to diefir{
pasele,y alit! htf • t1he ' (41,7-•.•i ake .a,:sort
: of eacrihee of it. ,:"They'd •.think•Iov
ingly of ane then, 'and cheHsh:. mp
memory." "Yes,; hate'.and- again she
thought ' of the 'dreaded. crossing o8
"What made. them send youramme that barrier; thuja. arose and wander,
harp in' .mistake for the drowned ed • about till Derlrogig: in pity search: -
man?` " Non,plue,.s,ed at the question, itig -fqr her and half -expecting to. find
.hat-a.isleed what ahs said. Bella repeat- her the ,wprse-;tor .drink, found '''her,
ed her words, and he• replied: - and took her home—saying that they.
"Ob, a,mistake,•I suppose." must make the best`of their burdens;
"Yes, but what caused it? ... Did he wothld do so, and alopecia that she
yon hale -a hand in • it?" ... Knows• would try to do `the.; same. But his
edge of what she lnight have -clone un • -were a man's-hearit-•and, mind; hers
der the same circumstances was lead- were a woman's; and she had Wet all
ing Bella 'on the right,track , , , "You that waa.. most `-dear•tta both hart''and
don't seem to like the, subject" memory. .. •
. • "Well, it isn't a pleasant one -is Sunday, passed very quietly with
its?" • , Derreck • and, Bella.. In the afternoons;
."It wasn't here—when it came'o'n' she went in. to see Mary and returns
m just after my illness and . Mice's, ; ed with the information that the;;Iil
'death, and sent Mary orazy „ &, was ,praetically all right again, It' was
"What?" - then that Bella' said, in rather grudg-
".:,•- it?".net,,. .. " only
Oh, that stirs,y.!ou .up—does ed explanation— .She came tar
'What did you say?"he • asked her senses on ., Friday, over at that'
sharply. wreck .up` there." .Sfe=far their mutual'.
"That the news of your death turn-' '•feeling about Mary was one .of great
ed Mary'crazy:; Is that plain enough?" constraint-and!awkwardness; in adds
She knew that she was not telling tion there was a tacit understanding
the whole truth. But what of that? between them to let unpleasant sub -
Whilst heehad loiteredeta the jetty, jects lie passive. So that "little was
Beale had been upstairs, seen the pa- said on either side beyond the' neves=
pers in his little parcel—left untied sities of the moment. Nor di'd Der -
in his haste to, find Alice, and forgot- reck mention these matters to other
ten in the ' horror that followed— persons. For the present he knew en -
Mary's poems amongst them, and was ough—too much—and was afraid, in
bent to know the worst without di, ` a way,' to learn ,more, lest that more
1'ay, . should .prove to be equally bitter to
"Good God;" he muttered, rising to swallow.
his feet. ' - Then Monday came and brought .e
"Yes. - but where ,rip I come in" mild surprise in the shape of. Mr, .Mil-..
Derreck stood stiffly by the 'window, roy suddenly taking. Mary off ' to
looking into the backyard. "You, didn't Bournemouth—"Fora few weeks, to
thinkof . that, any more than you do . her good," said Jane, when Bella
thought of ine—did you?—when the went' in, as -was now ,usual.
mistake happened—because I believe -' Thus matters between Derreck and
you had a hand 'in it .. Why did Bella at once settled' down to be con
you go "away. on the second voyage, siderably`.what they were just before
from that foreign place, instead, of the' death of Kingsworth, Without be-
coming 'home? . Was it ,to 15e rid ing so hysterical as she had been,
of me?" Here there was a slight soft- with much less to,;eay than formerly
ening in her voice, :a faint choking at and continuing the• new habit—dire .to
the throat but . sahe kept the rising her care of Mary—of keeping 'apart
.back. Pride was serving her tn.,the from neighbors, Bella quickly, lapsed
place •of dignity. He could" see no back to some of . her old . irdulgenees.
loop=hole of, escape. He must either Now feeling that she was utterly
admit the truth, or let it go 'against alone and never free from. hopeless -
him by;'defau'lt. "It wasn't' to be' rid ness. and despair, she certainly did
• of Mary -=was it? Any more than you not care what became of hes: At the
canoe home for my' sake—did you? back of her mind there' was some of
. No, or you'd, have taken •my old, •that previous idea, of .drinking herself
_love -letters, with you, same- as you to death, as the irest ,.end easiest,' way
thole. Mai y's. 'poems." ..: Bella" aros = • out of it-all..I rerretereevas 'lits et and
arid added with all the impressiveness forbearingem:1 h•�little to say; but she
she could, "Derry, tell me, as the Al- knew that' kindness, was • his na
mighty's your , witness, did you come tural way of doing what he consider-
home for my sake?'. . . Was it to see ed to be his 'duty, and 'no more. Be-
rne that you came -back again? .. - fore he ,went away he blamed her en -
or' Mary? , , , pI see, and God help me' tirely for the misery she had brought
upon them. Nowa" in-' his secret
thoughts, he . found much 'excuse for
her delinquencies: He saw how mis-
erable she must .be, and, knowing
that he was powerless to ehange the
matter into ,a.,„better course, be left
hereto ease, her” pain in her own way,
He 'hal-'Ya1tned the longs•hore'life;
working the "Night Queen" with Bob
Aplin in Kingsworth's place. His in -
ten -'flans was-fri remain there till Mary'
returned_"P'r'ays just, before Christ,
mss," 'Jane' had now, told Bella=then
to 'beg her forgiveness for the calam-
it' he had caused her, make some
such arrangements' for Bella as be' did
before, ,and go away for good and all.
As • to his mother, matters between
him and her were just the same, as
when he walked' out'. of her shop on
the dee • oft his home -coming. Since
then• he had •not seen -her, had never
spoken of bee' 'except on the rare oc-
casionsnwhe'"she u as mentioned to
him, and then only in the briefest
words possible. •But about the middle,
'of November she gave' him cause to
speak of •hear rather frequently for a
—why • human ,affeles could not run week ,or so. Apparently without,. -a.
'snore smoothly? - why such bitter word of explanation or- good-bye to
grief and worse matters should, come •anyone, she suddenly soid her —lit -
out of what'begair so happily? Hating tie business." and, went away, no one
to be alone and knowing 'not what knew where.' Derreck's •first int!tba-
else to do with hitt 1f, be took his Von of the matter was a neighbor's
cap and, went to the A•plin's, to • talk. ve'`srence to the old woman's house
about the °Night Queen" and his in, being ,occupied by a'• stranger from
tention tp resume charge of her. Poriock, and a hope that she would
i When Bella heard him go out she be comfortable! where she, Had gone.
dried 'per tears, came. downstairs and Of, course, other intimates made al -
went out also. Definite goal 'or put- lusions to the subject. And what
pose she had none. There was no- could:. Derreck ,say in return but—Yes,
where for her to take her overwhelm- she had gone; and, so far as he knew
frig sorrow, yet .she felt' that she must she was all right. It was well knows
be out of the house. ,After traversing that. because of Bella's drinking, he
a piece Of the• foreshore where she and his mother were "not on the best
and Mary' had walked so much of of term." There the affair ended. On
late, Beila sat on, a boulder, listening his ,side Derreck felt the severance;
to the heavy surge of the, in -coming for, after all, she teas 'his .mother,
tide, dreading the morrow and all the one whose misleading virtue had been
other morrows there were for her, too strong a desire to see him get
and hvishing broketi:ly that there nee- on in the world. With him it was a
er Would be any Lthat she Could die wrench to life-long sentiment, . spiri-
gnietly...there; 'go to sleep and never tuat in 'a'way; yet b thougflt wo
it' uld
wake up again. End it all by her own be for the best,e
and left8it there. At
actioir she knew she could- not, had the same time he regretted that he
not,,.,the courage to ' do • so. Yet, oh, had not seen Mary and, gone a.tvay
this awful weight • of ionetineas, • of himself before this happened,
.lost hope and despair! She rocked So came the middle of ,December.
herself on the stone, praying that she Derreck was looking 4 -fora -tied to
•would become mad there and. then and Mary's return and to his long good -
never regain her reason. She remem- bye to the place immediately after
bered that, when Derreck went- away Christmas. His plans- were alil made,
she had Alice and the hope that all clown to the last detail;' and; thinking
would be weli again When be 'cattily that Mr. Milroy was Possibly keeping
back. Now•—slow she had nothing -e : Mary away because of his presence
nothing. - .in Minehead, he now` wrote to the
• "fi I• were only dtrad and oat Of the ship -chandler, telling -hire privately 6f
*ay, tt}eyl could; be happy together," '.his intention "forr'tire 'game reason
she .muttered, hardly hearing her as' before"—and asking if be -.would
verde' f#i "the, drill roars ot` the surge• again see to the-, working of the
•
his changed appearance,,and a young- if ,you see' me much longer." And,
er man than himself jocularly asked with the pall of her hopes now fairly
if there were no razors where he had •on her and. o'dercoming even her
been.. Then questions 'became gener- clination • to 'fly ,into hysterics, she
al; interest stood on tiptoe a', tides; went upstairs, crying- piteously, -
and Derreck talked quietly on. He'had . • How Derreck haters himself, as he
no• desire to go home to tea; seeing stood there looking out at the gath-
Mri'ry was oat of the 'question; the: •ering •night! In one way he -felt as
child in whom he' had thought to have guilty as Bella teas in another; but
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found companionship, joy, . and; the it wee too late to alter anything. He'
a
re of Week -Mg for, -�,zs—w�__e
�; :heard --her• •sobbtng'-'lier .vti'ay- up- the
bosom -friend he had none in'the place, staircase. •Withpu-t 'being able to re-
since the death of his step -father; fute her words—and that was;where
solitude was t}nbearable. and work the tragedy lay—he had noted the -in -
vas not to be had for some hours at creasingly bitter , pathos of her last
least. What, then, was there for him few 'remarks, and he knew ,that she
LONDON and 'CLINTON to,do but talk' to those who talked to.. -was. carrying up into :the seclusion
hint? Yet ever in the midst of it, in above a heart as near"broken as hers
NORTH intervals . and in - cross -conversations r could be. "Lord God!• what have I
A.M.• amongst his habitues of the harbor, a come home for?" he exclaimed. in,.his
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10.17 there were thoughts of .his mother and, anguish,,•,and, thought how much.-bet-
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10.3 t this horror . that, had conte into his , ter it would have been if death had
10.43 ears concerning her -now questioned come to, him in Bissao. He was the
10,55 a little, then :proved by her silence very.opposite to suicidal men, yet •he
11.20 and Beila's flippant triumpli-; • of; could have wished himself dead where
SOUTH Mary,,, her awful affliction and what be stood. ale turned away from the
had enused it; of the dead child,and window, wondering vaguely why there
was it actually 'dead?. pales future in must be ,so much trouple,in the world
the place, and cpuld he, remain there?,
and of Bella and there •being' no
change in her, that he could pee. He
now recognized the tremettdous •rea-
son that,• •.she had for hating his
other rvitli
man unholy hatred, and
saw 'Why she had let • him go thete
for news of Alice • when she herself
6,15 2.30 could have told him aU. without the
6.31 2.50 pain and shock he had •received. But
6.43 3.03 . then, this was Bella's way—hurt • or'
6.59 2.21 benefitted unusually, she must jump
7,05 ' 8.27 to' retaliate or pay tribute. And—fa-
712 3.35 tal comparison—thi•s was not as Mary
'7;25 3,47 would have done: As for the poison-
WES'Tt ing--unbelievable though -it was 'in -^a
, . Mitchell ....... . . .... 11.27 10.33 'degree and staggering to thing of in
Dubiia 11.37 10.44 •
any ease—he knew that,Bella'•s drink -
St. Coluinbari 11.40 ing must have been the real cause,
Seaforth • .... 11.51 10.56
Clinton . 12.04- ilea Thus, somewhat confused yet clear
Goderich - - ' 12.35 11.35 enough for -it to tell; he came back to
;' this: drink, death. and his love for
,C2 -.R, TIME TABLE - Mary had sent hiin far away; love,
EAST how that loye and affection for his
p.m.
child had brought him back to death,
4.3e drink and apparently worse things.
4.40 ,The- other men begen to filter away
4,49 for .their evening meals, To. he left
11.58' alone out there on the, jetty • at suck
5.49 a time would say tOo much of home
'5.21 affairs, so with the last two or three
McNaught . -... • • • • •• 6.33 he Went -.hack to Quay Street and in -
9 -45 doors. Tea passed off ih comparative
A.M. silence. The brief fact, given in an -
8.20 swer to 1Derreck's question, that only
P.M. Mary <atid Bella knew the truth df the
12.04 poisoning affair, that the tow.nsfelk
32.15 thought it was• an accident, and a few
12,28 generfilities of their neighbors and
12,39, .
1,2 47 town , matters were all that husband
12.54 and .wife said to eachother. On Der-
04 . reek's part it Was sorrow and re -
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'Wes a midweek morning, 414
uek j 'leen tuitltDerreclt and
air hhlpe, FidYer,,t3o thal::th4Y, ignaresi
alt 011410114 titl eatening "in the ` north-
eaaE, nod 1ve> , liStw?a G1ta4u'net q. try:
1400744n, ,;flo off i urleetone.
Pellet or }n rO#OCk Hay'. To, their
pleasilre tiley did aQ '.017-04 atiY,4ey
!hung on longer Athan A001.911, settee
dictated, for they, hid to beat tip
against a frieehening ;breege -and
nasty lope .. silo average bQax' ,lether
•-harpor wonky"have e.tit d' up against
-that weather. 4s they : came thrash
ing through! • it, _of[ frees sleigh 'sud:
le eentortably. close -in, the news;
"•went' -around that the "Night Queen"
was in •cleaner. Quieklya he heriaes.
along,._Quay Street and about .the foot.
of Che jetty were emptied and the
people gathered, loosely at the' latter
spot to watch the boat hamrnerieg
•her way along mender' a -two-reefed
salt. Those persons who knew *e
situation said that only the fact of
there being a flood -tide could save
her„ from a smash-up. on . the stones.
Old- Aplin, big, and inconsiderate as
his son was sometimes, made it hia
business to go to Bella's front door;
"ripen .it, put, his`'head• in •a„nd call out.
merely ' as a ' warning that Derreck
Was_ in danger:
"Mrs. Kingsworth, 'ere ;be your
;Derry erzaucin' the .devil agen!" Then"
'back bee went,, , lleaving, the' door ajar.
Bella somewhat -drunken and doz-
ing on the couch, as was now ,her
afternoon habit—jumped up awkward-
ly,' •wondering if her movement was
"decent" and if the ;person had seen
it, then hurried to the doorway, know-
ing only that something had been
said about Derreck. She saw the
crowd at the juncture of the quay
and the jetty, knew that there must
be some unusual occurrence going on
to cause such an • assembly, associat-
ed' it with Derreck's name and, quite
heedless of herself, ran to the crowd.
They -made way for her, soire'of them
pointing to the boat' and saying what
the situation .was. By this time lee -
drift had carried the "Night -Queen"-
quite in-shore.,SShe was then standing.
up Channel, -On- the- -port tack; :and
would . have to go about at once and
-make a board, outwards in • order to
weather the head of the jetty and get
into harbor. Bella • heard someone says
that if the 'boat- missed in stays she
would-be done for. Then• there was
a shout—the "Night Queen" was tack-
ing. . .. ,
"She'smissed!"••' cried •a voice.
",'She'll be ashore in a minute!"
"She 'hasn'tr" said another.
But before that contradiction could.
take effect, Bella was away••overthe
stones, grinned at by someof the
spectators and pitied by others while
a few dashed after her, toe be••of ser-
vice if the boat did strike. For Bella
there .was but one actuating motive:
Derreck was in danger --with its ,ac-
companying thoughts that this was
What. Mary would do fir the.present
circumstances; that :for once she
would be Mary's equal; •.that Derreck
should see she could be, and that all
these people should witness that she
was as brave and sacrificing a wife
as any of'thent. For even in her de-
votion Bella could not foreetethe the-
atrical. So she ran, half -stumbling
how and then on small .boulders, but
kept onward to where the boat was.
just gathering way to haul off -shore.
Before anyone could put out a hand
to stay, her, holding her breath at
the impact and momentarily thinking
as she saw' 1rtr'--w'as'-'strlesafe°--in the
boat, that it was probably all useless, -
into the water she •welft to_the__azton-
ishment of Derreck and Aplin,• and
crying:
"Derry. I'll. "help you! I'll="
Caught' by` a heavy sea, not a hun
dred yards from the spot where she
had accused 'Mrs. leingsworth of try-
ing to poison her, Bella was flung vio-
lently' • backward on the beach. She
would have been taken out again by
the retiring wave, had not the run-
ners
unners behind come up in tithe to seize
her. As they dragged her out of dan-
ger, blood was seen to -drop on the
stones, and one of them lifted his
head tp ,shout to Derreck; but the lat-
ter was then staggering out of the,
heavy, surge. Seeing Bella go under
the mauling breaker, he, had instant -
1'P -thrown off his oilskin 'Slid jumped.
to her rescue, leaving Alpin to get;
the boat into harbor. Four of them
hurried Bella up the beach, and home.
She was white-faced, insensible, and'
the back of her head was bleeding. A.
bad rase' of compound fracture of the
base of the skull, said. Dr. Gray, half
an -hour later; there was no hope.
Waren darkness drew in that even-
ing, and Alpin had safely anchored•
the "Night Queen" in the harbor, Der -
leek stood reverently over the body
of his wife, thanking God that her
physical suffering had been so short,
and paying her memory and her
death the tributes of sorrow and jus-
tice, It was nothing to him new that
life to her had been no more than a
whim with. the „point of a- poisoned
Thorn; but it was' to be • to his lif;e-
eong regret and self -condemnation
'that in her love she died for him.
EPILOGUE:
.MOORLNGS
A year and a baht had gone by, sev-
enteen months of whichh• Derreck had
spent in two voyages, the second one
being as a master mariner. But what
mattered that, when he would pres-
etntiy be•Mtiry's husband, stay ashore
and share the 'shipchandler's business.
into which he had already put his
avings and some, eighty pounds
which had been left to hips by his
mother. The old woman bad gone
away, it tippearedy to 'an. isolated cot,
time down in Debon, where no one
knew hef.,; and Where, a few months
afterWards,,l lre had die'ci in her chair,,
oris-•T'of• a .peltahea ' heart r'•' .said
ural superstition llel the „medical;
�4ertiiicate said: t`syticope."
It •was trill use,, There ',Were.' gay
•doing - at: ti '" •TO.O. rs4taxrn `.til ' N4r$h
Hill 'l' iarxrrer and. bis••wife *ern,
h,41i1ig' thexr,Pilver *414 -ug, •0414 :4-•
`Milroy> 'Mary and Derreo;k (who
retur11e1 on the previous day frohra
prOtrsetfitl voyage). Wer0 0-m9,1* e'
`gt•eat$.Airile,'a ,long threateniz►8'Pruf
,ders,.,torm sari,xll!5t•l*a. raged;ovtet^
:filth 3,44 #eii;.'ti)o mill men ,and wo.
„men h!adr danced ,end made, merry;
SerrragY xilt-41V,I *.na.', tt sat away.;
"Rorie of -their eider #&d'rgoiien asleep
otbere had' gone ,botrie,- the ship
chandler being one Qf , e
Now Derreck suggested 04 he end
Nary, should go also. Thus. t?jhey star'"t
ed, but. were in no hurry la resell,
Minehead. To them "the furthest way
round was the shortest way honte,1"
and. by, the elope of the bluff they
went, as they had gone on an evelt
nitre memorable ocoasion. There they
strolled and,, talkedi.' and were silent
anad happy, as the hemi -darkness awl
the pearl -grey of passing night . gave
way td the clear , op'al of dawn. They
had tuarkenethe,:reterenen sink - behind
a . bank above the western sea, soil.
and • profounded 'before that lashln'/'
tumult begat._ Together, in an interl.
val of the- gaiety,, ,they had "watche`
the , big, round moon•-- ge_ t u, p in •th'.
deep, indefinite blue of -the the easterfl
AY; aver a . vague outline of inland:•
trees, and fields heavy with green
grain slid;, thick with . mewn grassi At
:it climbed a little higher, Mary ;had
:spoken of its beauty, saying -that "it
hung pendant -wise below the star;
eyedface of night" Later on they
hadnoted it, now awl then, as- it
peeped. here and there ,through the
black. clouds of the storm; and she
;had drawn from it all an allegory that,
reminded them of old pains and suf-
feriegs, and pointed the moral which.
both of them had learnt. In silence
ndw they looked again at `the moon,,.
paling away in the dense horizon ov-
er that sea into which tine sun had•.
gone. Then off they turned oece more
teethe east, the point of hope, of new
things to *eine' ` and ` their way home.
With no talk now, they watched the
thinning of the shadows, marked the
gradations of hue and tone from
deepest blue -grey to opal -grey, opal
flushed with pink, pink '-growing
quickly warmer till a yellowy -golden
broke 'through it all and flushed the
upper heavens with. the fact. that •day
had come again=a day that !promised
to be as Ane as ever'a day had 'beec-
The augury' was good. And Mary turn-
ed to look at the -sea, now tinted by
the . risen sun, rippled by a 'light
breeze. and clothed with a quiet. gran-
leur. '
They paused sad stood logether,
looking down at the • distant water.
Yes, she said, meditatively, it • was
like love — savage and devastating
when • tempest driven;. • -. frothing.. and:
'running to littleness in itsshadows;;,,
furl of moods; always subtle, and dif
ficin! ,Q iui[�erstand: gyen
who new ..it well * gs'au
.loop on at' most ti'npes
giver, hat .frightful,i:nj'
actions;. •endless in' its
limn * stir 4etpth 'a;4 * ' ,.,..
Again tlitpy terned;141., wa
each • one's ••face- there was
and, aitmex1►11F8 m4t11e:,;D{ai4
cense of stiffer ing In her ;
p bi
eyei3 -mere iwet teams ' 1 , i}ia ti
there was an thar'rassing ' IUUIj
had bee tezy sad ":Yea, but so'
life s great lessons she nald, Ai
soon the Present .put the peat tV refit,
Thus 'poi wanted into thy':Orttad n,
ing day, while the climbs g• sun ,filo] ..
ed .them .and ,.all at#hingselahaut th+,14t.
with a growing warmth that (*peter-
ed_ the chills of the, iffht' •gpne''by.
They 'hart eaten- of the bread Of tear*,
—why • should , they not drink 'of Ow
wine' f solace? '
THE END' . • -
tho
'O.y to
MAPLE SUGAR .RATIO'NS~.
•
Effective March 1st one „sugar'.eb
pon wi1i.,be good for the•purchase of
80 fluid entices of maple syrup' instead
of the usual 48• ounces, according'fo
an announcement by -the . Ration Ad
ministration. The new increased va
lue will be efiectiye °iritis lffay.3ls , -
Maple sugar ;remains at the usual
rate of four pounds per coupon. ,For.
those• who order maple syrup by Mail'
the consumer may'ebtain a purchase •
voucher °from'. his •' Local Ration Board.
For each purchase voucher valid for
eight pounds of iap'1e sugar or for
one gallon of , maple syrup, , the eon-
sumer surrenders two valid sugar
coupons. .• ' `
•
Primary producers of ,:maple syrup,
and maple sugar . must. register at
their Local Ration Board. Coupons or '..,
purchase vouchers; must be collected. • •
'from consumers ordealers, for each
sale • of maple syrup 'or maple' -sugar• '
and these coupons with any other's•.
tion documents must be mailed to the
Local Ration 'Board each ''menthe Spe,
•tial envelopes1or_which.no.,.pestage;ia_
.required,, are ..available at the Local.. _.
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C1beNA:PSI4OT GUI
PiCT.URINa FAMILY GROUPS
IY
125..
I obtain . appeal and interest in group pictures, pose the, subjects
1 carefully put naturally.
Making successful group pictures-
is
icturesis a challenge to every, amateur
photographer, just as it. has been to
every artist. 'It certainly requires
thought and planning •to !rake a
portrait of a single, individual that
really tells a stob and I••"comes to
life." 'Picturing a group of individ-
uals multiplies the problems in-
volved. ,
Actually, however, you will •find,
it is fairly simple to make a suc-
cessful group. picture if you keep a
few basic pointers je mind the next
time you tr�ky o •get a group to-
gether. The r�ewatds for success will
be great enough so that they will
well repay yott for every bit of time
and thought you expend. •
The 'first problem in picturing a
group is to get the individuals related
in such a way that they have "group
unity." it's not enough just to line
,them up and tell thein to watch the
birdie. Create some incident or sew
tivity which will arouse the interest
, of all members ,of the group and
insure aotual, participation. It this
incident 'is amusing enough to make
them laugh, so .much thee better.
But have Auer minter' of attention.
This center ,of attention can be
either outside the -group, as In the
snapshot above, or it tato be within
the group heels.
A method at planthrg the center
of attention within the group itself
would be to have the group seated
around a Mable, for example, con-
centrating on an exciting and amus-
ing game. Or you can have brother
Bill explain how his new „fishing --
tackle works, or sister modeling a
new bathing suit.
You will get dozens of ideas for
group organizations as you - think,
about -it. The important thing, how-
ever, is to enlist the participation
of every,member of the group;^ vhrith-
out letting the group look stiff or
posed, r
Often unusual group pictures result
froem getting above or below the
level of.. the group to make the
exposure.. Today's illustration is a
good example of hat an unusual
viewpoint can result in a much bet-
ter picture than it made from the
conventional eye -level position!
In group studies, be sure you have
eneugli (With of fielda to get• -all ,the
tnembers of the group , he focus.
• Above all, b7,71;tSht:ter
.rer ' at the r eyelialgicalmerit.• -
!Phes'n !tons are all'y'ottt
need 'to rill re eistentty 'interest.
ing -grotty pietunea-the it tut off "
snapshots that will mean ce tsSp
p calm a for those the1015ah'nvazt eu