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The Wingham Times, 1911-08-24, Page 7' 4++++++++4r+++ + Linked by Fate BY CHARLES GARVICE Author of "The Verdict of the HeArti "A Heritage of Hate," "Nell of Shorne Mills," "Paid, • For,' 1" "A Modern. Juliet," Etc. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++4+++++++++ on you, boon try to stand. Lean on Me. Oh, poor girl, poor girl! And ic Was my fa.ulte-rninel I heard the storm, I Ought to 110V0 (30110 with you to have seen that thee eut wee • I sate". - • As be spoke he Pressea her to him 'still more closely, and so great wee her weaknees that elle yielded to Its enibrace-for it was nothing lees- atal, lialf unconscious es she was, found n• subtle pleasure, 'Comfort, in the yielding, -ill take you to the other hut," he. said. "No, you can't walk. I Mast eatery you,. Ae, let me!" . She struggled faintly, feebly, but he lifted her in his strong arms and earriee her into his hut and laid her on his bed. "Now rest them Try and sleep!" he exhorted her in a, low and gentle voice. "Let me see if you are hurt. Where did the beam fall on .Yee - your arms, your chest?" She shriek her bead and feebly etrove to put his hands front her. • "I don't think you are badly hurt. It must have been the shock, the fright. Tell Me, do you . feel any pain?" "NO, nal" she gasped. The gentle, reemnesserating touch of his strong hEmds was liee an anodyne and hyp- notized her. 'I am in no pain; I am zot hurt, If -if you will go pewee" ' He rose at last, but still bent ov- er her, his face lined with anseety. "All my fault!" he muttered. "Let me put the pillow higher,' for you. ,Olt, God, if 'there were only a doc- tor to see youi . I don't know, whe- ther you are hurt or not!" ,,e "No, eo, lenenot hurt!" the'gasped once more, but in vo low, so feeble a voice, that he bent low on his kneeg to catch it. "Go -now." He went at last, slowly, reluctant- , ly, and with a backward glance that held pity -and was it something •warmer? -in it. The storm fell as suddenly as it 'had risen; and Mannering slowly and 'with immense calm and patience re- built Nina's hut. Ifis heart was full of pity for her -of something warm- er, of which Ile was only partly and dimly C011601011S. He did not know that he had kissed, her, that his words, els actions had beeg full of love, of a man's love, for\ the wo- 0100. i Mid Nina! She lay aWake tossing fronn side to side -on his bed. The :memory of the kiss burnt in her cone isefousness, She had lain In his arms; she had yielded herself to him; she had, though he did not know it, been glad of his embrace, the touch of his lips. ' Maiden shame burnt like a fire within her -bosom-a 'fierce, merciless fire. Had he known, guessed at, the ;thrill of surrender that had Ma ;through her at his embrace? Had he :known what his kiss meant to her? Like a flash of lightning from the ' erent skies she knew that she „ loved :hina, This man who had saved . her Aire at least twice -first from the sea ,and secondly from the Lascar-who had watelied over her, guarded her, .provided for her life's daily needs, was more to her.thaa life itself -ewes 'the being one, means when. one whis- per "lover." And he was her hus- band by the caprice of Fate -her hug- ' band against his will. Had he kissed her or did she ima- 1 •gine it? Li! he did it -made matters ten thousand times worse, for he had kissed her in pity, not in love. Not in love, for did he riot carry in his breast the portrait of another wo- .inani She rose, feverish ane parched •with thirst; but above her physical -suffering towered her mental, spirit- ual agony. She loeceletim and he - The fair race or that other woman HAS USED - •DR. 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"If anyone wishee to know what an excellent remedy Dr. rowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry is, I am willing to tell them what it has done for me." ASK FOR "DR. VOWLIMPI AND INSIST ON GETTING WHAT YON ASK FOR. 1Viatiniktured only by Thil T. lawn oo.. Limited, Toronto, Out, moo before her mockingly, email ge`> ly, and embittered, poisoued tle ylorious, wenderful,dawit Meth rose iassiaati.ad, ur neele elern the Wee As if impelled by the spirit of her maidenly pride, which would not let her rest, sew went down towartie the beach. thr 11P1' way she had to pass the saloon, and, after a. moment's besitation, she opened the door and looled. in, elionlering ley at full length be- fore the lice, his head resting on his 111110 Was n the b10041 of a wound eeueed by one of the falling, Imams, leis face was troabled, his breath elope short and painfully. own grew labored aro puiprui as she bent oat, him, and ber love for hen welled up in eer heart and ran •over, so that it was hard for her not to touch him, if with her finger tips on- ly. As it was, she bent egy low that her lips nearly •touebed lels, and her lereath stirred his hair. leut alas, and , alas! at that moment be moved in his sleep and she beard him muyinier, "Judith, ud i th! She rose as if eemthing lead stung her, and in a conflict of emotions went down to the beach. It was high tide and the raft tugged at its moor- ings. She gazed at it thoughtfully, teen the color rose to ber pale face and her eyes glowed with an idea, ` She knew that if she remained on the island with tem her love ,Would betray her. Why should she not go? Here were the ineans-the Providen- • eeal means -of eseape. The provisions which Mannering had prepared were close by the raft; it was as ready for use as on the day he had intended that she and poor Fleming Should set sail. Why should she not go? She might reach the group of isle ands of which Mannering had spoken; im the other hand she might not. At any rate she would bave saved her self -respect -would save herself the shame of revealing ber love for this man. Tho idea, the thought, sea the blood to her. face. She ran up to the ha and put her spare clothes in a bundle. and wrapping the marriage certificate and Fleming's diary in a • piece of oilcloth, put thent in • the bosom of her dress, then returned to the beach and the raft. But she could not go Without. a word of farewell. She was !loving as . much from herself as from him, but she owed ben a word of explanatt n -of good-bye. She, tore a, blank leaf from nem- ing's journal and weitehg on it, "I am going for both our Rakes. Re- member our promise. Nina," fixed it with a, stone tothe rock nearest the spot where tee raft floated. Then she took the box of provisions on board, set the raft loose from its moorings, ran up the sail to the mast, and pushed ole into the rolling sea. Mannering did not ewake until some hours later. His phenomenally • bard work of the previous flay and the stress and Strain of the events • of the night had exhausted him. Ho Worked, with the guilty consciousness of being "bete," and he went about the routine tasks of the morning. e Ile laid and lit. the Bre and filled the can with water; and all the time he was performing the tasks he wits doing so mechanically, with the =che- ery of last night's experiences hum- ming in his brain. He had held Nina in his arms. Had he -had he kissed her? Had he spoken a word of the Iove for her that welled up In his heart? He would know when he saes her - when lie looked into her eyes, Would she be angry, resentful? he asked bine- self. Poor girl, poor girl! ShoUld be tell her that he had lamed to love her, that be wanted her for a Wit0 in more than name? He went up to the hut intending to call her -to get her outside and have • it out with her there and then. Af- ter an, she was his wife. His wife He murmured the words to himself fondly, With a thrill of 'passionate longing. His wife! How much , it meant to himl nut he would not call her. No doubt she was tired. He Would wait, and at breakfast, as they 'sat oppo- site to each other, like husband and wife, he would op= leis heart to her -would tell her that he loved her, would -yes, claim her! • lie %volt back to the saloon. No breakfast was laid; but he made, up the fire and sat delete to Wait pa- tiently, Half an hour passed, them thinking that he had better call her *that she would be angry if he did not cle so -he Went up to his hut arid knocked at the door. N0 ensurer came, atid alter lomat- ing again, he Strolled &Mit to the beach, Ile inissed the raft in an =- Etna eled attired with surprise at the place E11 which it. had been moored. Then the piece of paper fluttering un- der the stone on thr rock caught his attention. He went to it, toek it from under the atone and read it. Read it not mice or twice, but a dozen times; then stood gazing with unseeing eyes and torture -racked heart out to the Sea on which the frail raft had veritored, bearing away • front hire the girl he had learned to loVe as only strong men can love. otrArrnn Premiering sank on to those& on which Nina, had placed her farewell letter, and, covering his face with his hands, sat motiortlese as a statue of grief. He did not think of himself. -- of the awful solitude to which her flight had doomed him. Only end thought reeked him, end that WAS that adia had dowit beettuae she 'Wad afraid of him. She had preferred to trust the treacherouS, murderous sea • THE WINGTIAN TIMES, AUGUST 24 1911 rather than him. It Was a hideous reflection, and it uearly+drove him mad. She had not waited until the boat bad • been launched, but had taken the raft -- had run all and every risk rather than remain weber -day on the is- • land with him or cenfide herself to • his care in a Joint vaYago, lioure passed. and he atilt eat *tir- ing with vacant eyes at the 0014. It did not occur to Ititn to launch the boat and ittemp t to follow her, What good would it be if ho came up with her? She would probably throw herself MO the sea at his ap- • proach, she ' was to proud, 09 trustful of him. He got up at last, and wandered about with the air of 41 man distraught. Every now and. then he plucked a flower or picked Up a shelt and gazed at it as if it were of the most ntense interest to him, but he was scarcely conscious et what. he held in his hand, Ile felt neither hunger nor thirst; but alter a time a strange feeling et exhaustion, 01 craving for eleep, Mine over eine anh he dropped down just outside his hut and fell into a deep sleep. It probably saved his reason and prepared him for the still heavier blow Alia Fate Wee to deal him, •Ile slept right through the night and past the dawn; and it was the soughing of the wind and the harsh crash of the waves of the beach that awoke him. It had been reining heavily and he was wet through, but he did not . feel cold, for fever was • warming his blood with a baleful heat. As he stretched himself back came his misery with a sharp tor- ture; and with a groan he dropped his arms to his side and looked round as if he were trying to per. suede himself teat it was a dream, and that he should see Nina coming • 'swiftly teemed him, • But instead of the vision of her fair, fresh grace and beauty, his burning eyes fell upon something on the beach. Long before he bed reached it he saw what it was. • It was the raft, or rather the re- mains of it, The sail had gone, the mast was broken, half the logs had bben torn away; the thing had been weeekecl in the storm which had rag- ed whiie be slept, and the incoming tide had cast it at his feet. . And Nina,' While .ho stared from the wrecked raft to the sea and back Again from the sea to the raft a small object floating on the water caught his eye. • He fixed his gaze on it, beginning to tremble and shake, flung himself Into the water and swam Mr the thing. When he came back with it clutched in his hand, his facewas white and his eyes starting. It was the little woollen cap .Nina had worn. • I'anting with his exertion and the agony- that the assurance of her death caused him, he lay full length on the sand, his face upturned to the sun which broke out suddenly • and mocked him pitilessly. • It was three days after this that in a dogged, sullen fitsheon he hauled tee canoe down to theebeach, and, • putting in scene provisions, made reedy to sail. He was going, ,not because he hact uny desire for life or to go back to civilization, but be- cause the island had become intoler- able to him. You see, it was im- possible to forget her en a place of which every. feature kept,,her vividly, agonizingly bit his memory, and he knew that if he remained any longer brooding, brooding over his loss and the tragic circumstances attending it 'net he must inevitably go Toad, Once or twi e, in his terrible soli- } tude, a devi • in his brain called "Silleide" ha whispered alluringly to him. Hewas going because there was just enough. of the spirit of a man left in him to make hen ehrink from insanity tind self-destruction. For the last time he wandered over the familiar scene, the exquisite- ly. beautiful place which. his dawning love had been rapidly erensforming into Home; but it was a. hell now. His lack -lustre eyes fell Upon the heap of gold 'quartz which lay out- side Nine's hut, 'but It did not keep. Itis attention for a moraent,'Iand it never occurred to him to ta.lce even a sped -ahem Of what use was wealth to a man who had lost all hope in life and only craved a natural and painlessideathe .Instinet rather than any desire to choose a favorable time made him wait until the turn of the tide; then he got into his canoe and, keeping his gaze fixed seaward, set. sail. The weather was more favorable .to hen than it had been to poor Nine, and etterie.d him due south. Once or twice he thought how full of joy and hope he would have been if she had been with him in the boat, and he sighed with callous indifference to 1118 good 'fortune. Why had Fate not spared her instead'of him -her so full of life mid the joy of living*? -Why had it struck down ser rare and beautiful a creature and left hini to drag on an exietettee ol anguish and futile remorse? For a couple of days the weather reinained fine, then the wind changed and grew rough. trig cramped posi- tion, the solitude of the sea, and the glare of its sun -flecked surface, which iwoduced an almost intolerable burn- ing of the eyes, began to tell Upon him. His small supply of water was rapidly diminishing, and he had to . put himself on short rations. On the 'fourth day he caught him- , melt holding snatches of convereation • with Nina, but shook himself and tried to pull himself together; . but again and again he relapsed into this form of delirium, and when the trading schooner, Eliza, Anne, bound for the port of London aintoet ran tioWn the canoe, it picked up a half crazy man Who laughed and tried lei te breath and implored, the captain with frantic gestures and broken ace cents, to put the ship about and • search rot "Nina." The captain was a good-hearted fellow, and, thinking that there might, be a beide Of reaSeat in the • eastaway'e rivinge, he hove about for some time ill the latittele in whieh the taboo had been found, but he tame acreee tioteitig to reward his humanity and while lifer:tiering was Prostrated In his hunk with brain fever, the Bliza, Anne got on het course .again and made for London. Them months later Mannering was one night wandering along the Strand. it, was just niter eleven and the theatree were pouring out their crowds leto the already congested tborimghfato. Mannering had not reached, London destitute, for, all tine ceutselintsly, he had brought with him, the small amount of money he bad with him on the Alpine; but he had, since his disembarkation, Reed with little regard for comfort or appear - Meese and as lie moved, elowly With the cerevil he looked, in his old sergo Stilt weetheresteined -cap, SO much a tramp 'that uow and again the policemen eyed him with something like suspicion and one had aetpally bidden elm "move ons, • gen nering obeyed mechanically, Maine, neither to the • right nor the left, but Witting aimlessly with the crowd which surged along the wet pavement. The crush, the noise of the cabs and carriages, the shouts of the 'bee conductors and the talk and laughter of the people acted as narcolie and soothed hint after a 0aFin.011. But in the midst of the tare moil be could hear the 1)0010 of the sea on the Fends of the Weed and hear Nina's voice calling to him "Dinner is ready!" or 'Will yott bring me some wood for the firer acodot.17 m commonplace phrases took to themselves a ystic,. sacred, signi- riac0Presently he found himself brought up against the 'Gaiety Theatre. The people were just streamieg out awe Mannering was standing ler a lamp post waiting for an opportunity to go on aud, looking absently at the beautifully dressed women arid the "smart," men emerging from the il- luteinated doorway when one of the gentlemen said: my man, will yet; get a cab for es?" Mennering looked round and 'saw that the request WAS addressed to him by a gentleman by whom a lady licitly dressed was standing. A grim sense of humor seized Manner - leg, for he knew them both, and he forced his way down the street and got a cab, "Thanks!" said the gealeman, and be teed out a shining; then, as Mau - Tiering laughed mirthlessle, the gen- tleman threw up his head aed looked at the supposed cab -runner, aid broke .into a low exclamation of amazement. 'llannering! Good Heaven!" he cried; and before Mannering could re- ply or step away, the gentleman caught hint by tee aren and, turning to the lady, said in eager consterita- U°11: "Blanche, it is Mannering! Get in- to the cab; follow." lie kept his grip of Manner- ing's arm, and When the lady, too startled to do anything but stare at the pair, had gone, he called anoth- er cab and almost pushed Mannering toward it. "Get in, get in, for Heaven's sake!" he said. "Why, Mannering, you, and here in London, and in thie-this state! Why, we all thought youel gone to Australia. We've been search- ing for you. What's happened? You're ill, meat you? Where have yhootim:e„en? What- But you shan't answer any questions till I get you Mannering gazed before him a the crowd with its canopy of umbrellas, 100 !lashing, ever moving lights of the cabs and carriages. This man's voice was like a voice from the life of the past -the past he had left be- hind -lost. "I was wrecked, Lachford," he said, hoarsely, as if, he had only just been piedied up in the canoe. Sir ..- Charles Latchford looked at him twenty, curiously,' and not a Be- tio pityingly. "Wreekedl But, no, you shan't ten ine till we get home. Have cigar, old chap!' It was a 'subtly wise and kind sug- gestion. Mannering's hand closed oa the cigar, and lighting it he leant back and smoked himself into calm - twee; he had not Mem able to afford a cigar for the last fortnight. • The cab drew up at one of the handsome houses in Sloane Court and Sir Charles led Mannering into PM dining -room, It was as ex- quisite as modern taste and lavish expenditure could make it. Sir Char- les looked round. "I3lauche- You remember her? • We were married two moths ago-" Mannering nodded in an absent way, and Sir Charles scanned him, aghast. "She has gone to her room. Come to my dressing -room and have wash, Supper is laid. The servants have gone to bed." He took Mannering to his dressing -- 'Nein, then went into the bed -room to Lady Letchford. "Great heaven, Menthe!" he ex- claimed. "I scarcely knew himt I took him for a tramp, The Man has aged, is broken down -looks as if he were drugged; You remembee what he was!' "Poor fellow! Oh, yes, I remem- berl Of eourso 1 remember, Did -did you tell heti, Charles?" Pelle asked in a low voice. "No! There been% been timel lIcea washing his hands. You must help me, Blanche, go to him!" Ile found Mannering seated at the dressirtgetable absentbr negering the silver -bathed bruthes, and took him down to the diniegetoone • Lady Blanche, in the splendor of her even - Mg dress, came to meet him cordial- ly but hall fearfelly, for there was a strange, hunted, strained look 111 h s eyes, .ttut so glad to see you back, Mr. Matmoring. And of course you r0. member nes--illenche ravasoin"-she blushed as she gave her maiden,. nalue---"Judith Mete's; great friend, 3 0t, know., Matittering's eyelids flickered as he bent over her bend. "I remember," he said in the deep, hollow 10100 'With width he had :Tub en Mace the day of his great lees. 'Sit down,'said Latchford, with 21. \certifier glance at, his wife, glafice that said, "Let Men alone for - time; leave hini to me." lilanmiting did not look down at his unsuitable attire-, did not appear conscious of himself 01" his eurrounds Mph but gunk into the chair 'and aceepted Idate of the soup which • „tviiattitle. been kept warm a . t the Are "Itattling good piece at the • SnietY," Said Letshford: and be went on to speak of it, addressing Ids wife rather than Ziannering, and Studiously avoiding loolcing at him. Alannering got through hie soup and some cittlets in eilence, ,glancing, In 1110 same absent-minded, pre- occupied Way a his host and beau-* *WM hostess. Vresently Lady Blanche rim, but her husband signed to ber t4)40017144g0, o, Blanche," he aeld with the nervousness of the man who re-. lies cm his wife in difficult moments, -We W00110 NM 0.04 Wall Vane. Now, old chap" -he leaned. forward mid laid his band on hiannering's arni-"tell us your adventures!" dilannering looked from one to the otner, first with a kind of suspicion, than blankly, and he sighed, the sigh of a man who has been living to him-. self for months. "Adventures? I haven't had any.. Ah, yes; I was wrecked, The Alpinn lost ber course, struck and went down," ood Loral Anti you -you were Picked up?" exclaimed Letchford. Mannering was silent for re moment then he said, as if mechanically, "Yes; I wee pieked up!" van tho sils(1:1:elaYtdhuoalwlt of your former self, Vane! You lutist have had 41. bad a:tore:1(1.e You-youg reitt dea deal? ul tilOO "Yeseef suffered," assented Manner- ing, staring at the teble-cloth wed fitgunr eeteluaatghis fruit -knife. "Oh, yes- 1 si. "And. was no one else saved?" ask- ed Letchf ord. , "No -no one else was saved. She -" His voice died away, and his head sank on his bosom. Lady Letchforcl leant forward, all tender Pity and anxiety; but Letch- ford rose and got some cigars. • "Smoke, old man," he said. ,. 116(s 3iitni, ethe, derma niece in fact, she 1 Mannering • took the cigar as gager., ly as he had taken the one eiffered him in the cab; and as he smoked his face cleared of seine of its gloom. "And -and so you came .tel Lon- don'?" said Latchford .with seeming casualness, "And have you seen any- one, any of your .people, the Les - borough Weyer, anyone?" no one," said Mannering. ' "That's -that's strange, and -and it's a pity!" murmured Letchford. Mannering raised his eyes. "Why? Why should I see them? / didn't want money. I have some etill left." tie put his hand in his pocket and. took out a few, a very few, shillings,. Letchford stifled an exclamation. "My dear fellow, my dear Vane! Do you 1110011 10 say that you have been wandering about London in poverty, in -in this condition; and that you didn't know -oh, good Lord, help me, Blanche!" Iler face flushed as she leant for- ward and put her white hand' on' Mannering's heed but shapely one. "Mr, Mannering, Charlie is trying to tell you something, to break something to you; and he wants me to help hen, And I don't know howl e-aiteousle="bet 1 must try, Z must try, and you -you must he patient with me." Mannering looked at her with scant interest, and with a sigh she went on: 1-otr have not been down to Les- borough?"Mannering shook his head. "No; why should I?" "I know that you and your uncle, Lord Lesborough, were not -gage Wields," she said, "but 1 thougitt yen might eave gone clown, mipiht have heard-" Mannering shook his head again ‘'No: I've not heard anything. What is it?" Letehlord rose anti went to Man - net inges side and laid a hand, at once soothing and warning, upon his sh "It's -it's bad news, Vance," he said, gravely. "Pull yourself to- gether. The earl's dead!" Mannering nodded and his lips twitched. "I'm sorry," he said in his deep, hollow voice. "I -1 -liked the old man, though we never got on to- gether. He thought me too indepen- dent: -I wouldn't accept his money. Poor old fellow: He was a good Sort! Dead! And so Augustus is the Earl of Lesboroughl" Letchford drew a long breath, shrugged his shoulders and looked helplessly towards his wife, and of course she came to his relief, "There is still -worse news, Mr. Mannering," she said in her sweet, gentle voice. "Lord Augustus und his boy -you remember him, he W104 at Eton? You were fond of him." Moellering nodded. "Yes; flier boy, Harry. The only one of the family eared for," he said, thoughtfully. "-Were going down to the funet•al. There -there.-" A "There was an accident to the train," Letehford took up the bur- den of the story as her N'Oie0 falter- ed andebroke, "A bad accident, teen killed. Amongst 'inn W418-,-WSIS 'Augustus and his boy-" efarinering looked up and front one • to the other. "Relied! 'Me boy killed! ten -1'm 1 -Tis 'voice grew hoarse, "A hiee boy; we were great friends! meemee nee ede, exchanged glances and Leteefortl's hand eIu.sed more firmly on elannerieges shoolder. "Yes it's bact, sleuthing bad!" Im • Said, slowly and impressively. '"Apil ;easel it altere things for old lean, doesn't ill" • Mothering looleel round at him. -Alters thinly.? Ilow?" d cl“11("it7-iclei lintl‘ele)tsi'l 11 t 51it1"141.017.101:. ford, wrile ohl earl 18 dead, and Ali- gustus, aud the poor buy, mei 80- • 114141 "MV. ikraltnering, eon are the Vail Of L'Olorouglis" said Ludy Inaielie in a low %Mere Alte seet The Mad 'Itou Have Always nought, and which has been in, use for over SO years, has barna the signature of 9_andhas been made Tinder his per. sonal supervision since its infancy.* ••'r"r"r-r."0-# roF Allow no one to deceive yellin this* Ail Counterfeits, hnitations and, 44 Just -as -good" are bail Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health or infants anti Children—Experienee against Experinteuttel What is CASTORIA Castoria, is a harmless substitute for Castor 00, Pares', gorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups, It is Pleasant, It) VOntainS nefther eidam. Morphine nor other Nareottei substance, Its age is its guarautee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea, and Wind Colic; It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation., and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the' Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and, natural sleeve, , The Children's Panacear-The Mother's Vrieud, cEfititHE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. ditlIFESSINSILECrN.'UA "',1111118115"". " ""'"Avvtvg25511111; Canadian National Exhibition August 26th TORONTO September 1 ltb CORONATION YEAR LEADS THEM ALL Live Stock and Agriculture-- Aft—Gems from Euro - Greatest show on contin- pean galleries -masters end Special Prizes of f rom best collections in $500 each, Increased Canada and United Prizes in all classes. States. Manufactures -- Greatest display ever shown i n Americal. Goods man- ufactured while you wait. THREE GREAT SPECIALS Festival of Empire—pictur- Coldstream guards Band— • War Beneath the War/s— ing the glories ofthe-Cor- Mlisicians of the Roya.I Showing a battlebetween °nation ceremonies. 1,500 Household, by speical a Dreadnought and a performers in uniform permission of the King. Submarine. nosis OF OTHER ATTRACTIONS L.Y.R.A. Reeatta--Athletic Sports -Soy Scouts Revlevs-Vaudeville-Jepanese Fireworks— Twelve Massed Military Hands—Trottingand Pacing Races, etc. MAGNIFICENT DISPLAYS OF CORONATION FIREWORKS For all Information write Manager 0. ORR, City Hall, Toronto. niannering looked from one to -frit, other dully, than he began to tremble, and presently his head was bowed in his hands, and his great, gaunt frame was shaken by tearless sobs. •••••••••••• CHAPTER IX. The storm did not break upon Nina upon her raft until the favoring wind had carried her far out to sea; mei it may safely be said that she did not z•ealize the rash nature of her enterprise until the first flash of lightning and the first clap of thun- der; for, like most of her sex, see had acted on the impulse of the mo- ment, and without counting the east, But as the sky grew inky black and broken only by the weird streaks of lightning, terror and remorse as- sailed her in equal proportions; ter- ror on her own account, remorse on Mannering's; for here she was on the raging sea, and she ,lutel left him to the awful solitude of the island. She had picked up enough of sea- manship to lower her sail, and she lay, or rather crouched, on the raft, drawing the sail over her to afford her partial protection from the rain end the wind. Presently she felt ra- ther than .5025 111411 the raft Was be- coming disintegrated, and, rising to her loves, she reached foi• the sheet, the rope attathed to the sail. and, Winding it round lwr, efestened it to a couple of the poles of which the raft was composed. She clid Ode me- chanicalle, and after, half uncon- sciously, asking herself what Man- nering would do if he were in her plight. It was singular how, even in this moment of her solitude and ex- tremity, she relied upon him. , It was Well that she had taken this precaution, for, the starl growing i more furious, the raft soon after broke up and she Sound herself float- ing on the smaller portion. The l' howling of the wind, the dullroar of the sea deafteled, and tile salt arid , spume of the waves blinded her, caul Me closed her eyes and prepared for death; but instenel a the death width she wield have welcomed there fell upon her a kind of swoon, the stupor of exhaustion mei term'. The storm 'felt ns suddenly tit it i had Arleen, and elm opened her eees to see the Rim Alining through a thick Inifn, 'no Sea 211114 (114111., •1111111 0025 011(1 the logs to which She Was tied floated almost motioelessev. See 1508 parched with it thirst ' which made hunger of uo rieeount, and ehe knew, in a subtle fitelline teat her brain 12110 giving wry. .TaSt aS sieving had done, 51,, found herself taleing mul holding remereatioes , with him: NW, went through the Wholo of the Marriage eeremeny with him, tre-enarted the scenes is the salient, i, lived over again the life in the W- iald, Then the fell into a, warmed . (To be continued.) RECIPROCITY IN 1851. The Farmer's Sun reprints a letter from the British Colonist of January 1851. The same stock arguments were used then as now. The privilegedclass of that day had its back to the wall. Men were accused of being disloyal; the British Minister at Washington came in for his share of the trade, just the same as Minister Bryce; the ne- gotiators were eonsidered knaves in trade. The only difference is that the Toronto Board of Trade favored reci- procity, /101V it opposes the freer trade. The Sun concludes a comment on the letter mentioned thus: "The supporters of reciprocity in 1851 assured the people of Old Canada that, with the American market open, forests will be converted into wheat fields, lakes and rivers would groan un- der the burden of commerce, and the whole country would prosper. Well, reciprocity came, and the promises or rneterial advantages were fulfilled tO the letter, Whitby, Port Hope, Well- ington, all the harbors along the lake Ontario front, were crowded with ves- sels taking on produce for the Ameri- can -market; along every leading road droves of cattle and great numbers of horses were driven towards the Ameri- can border. In ten years the popula- tion of Ontario showed ahnost as great a relative increase as it showedht forty years after reciprocity came to an end. And it will be the same again. History will repeat itself. Reciprocity Will come, and the noise of those now op- posing will be drowned in the hum of inereasitig prosperity for the Canadian farmer." Oid residents of Elgin say the trade at Lake Etie pOrts of Port Bernell, Port Bruce and Port Stanley was the equal of that on Lake Ontario. Far- mers will see similar aelivity when un- restrinted trade between the two coun- tries is again establiebed. "Up in Dunkirk," said Assemblyman Sullivan,"there is a lawyer who has the kneel: of saying nasty thing at a mom. ents notice. One day a, ratim fresh young man was attempting to have fun with him whon no lawyer said." "Say young titen, the ewe Lord (r.linarily makes a human head to hold brains, but in your ease it is e% Mont that he midst it to hang your ears on.