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Surelyit cuu d not be—yes, it was
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though! Every instant and every
oar -stroke mode it more impossible to
mistake the cast of those shoulders
and the sit of that dark head, To see
here, in the flesh, the man who for
weeks past had filled all his thoughts,
whose image: since yesterday had be-'
come an unbearable obsession, was al• -r
most like seeing a ghost. Whatever
had possessed him? Fenella's doing,i
perhaps? The broken questions shot'
through his head. He was so complete-
ly astonishedthat he remained im-!
movable at the water's edge, with no
thought of avoiding the meeting. I
Nor did he move yet when Duncan!
having with some difficulty made the,
landing -stage, fastened the boat and
then stood up, touching his cap as be'
did. so. The wet dripped from hirn,
and there wasa pool of water at the;
bottom of the boat. Taking from'
the stern a small parcel wrapped in
oil -cloth he stepped
ashore, shaking
himself ,the
while, in the fashion of al
Newfoundland dog fresh from; his t
bath.
"Your sisters were anxious .for you
to have this to -day," he said, with as
perfect an equanimity as though they.
had parted last on the most friendly
of terms; "and so I made a shift to
"Thank you. You must have had
a bad tossing. I am obliged to you.
Had you to leave ,your work for this?" quarry is shut to -day. In
"To be sure. Of course, work
would be impossible. Well, 'I am'
glad you have not lost anything' by.
this wet—"
order began to. get back into 1 s
thoughts, FIe, would speak to '"him
Vthe w= ,
net c s e culttfred man to the or c-
rawl,
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maul, but as one man' to another.
Neitherr would he be so extreme in his
demands. The word "rupture" shou d
not be pronounced, but only that of
"postponement" Strip posing, now,
Duncan would consent to. put ori' the
marriage—not without a shudderr
could he' pronounce the word even in
thought --until Venetia Was of age.
No—he could not let Duncan go with-
out `trying this, one more chance, And
as he thought so, he became aware
that the room, lately so dark;+, was'
perceptibly lightening,
He stepped to - the window. One
after the other—as each veil in turn
was lifted—the ghostly forms of the
hills were emerging from the cloud -
curtains, until, as though. by magic,
the. void is filled, the circle completed.
Mnuntaiu and mist. begin to draw
apart. From moment to moment it
becomes more triumphantly clear that
the world, after all, is not ell grey.
As the cloud-yeils drift away -.the.
browns and purples of the foreground,
the azures and amethysts' of the dis-
tance creep back into the picture, And
now a watery sunbeam—the last of
the day—falls into a hollow, black but
a moment since, and fills it.to over
flowing with a luminous vapour, as a
cup is filled with wine.
"He will be off now!" was Albert's
thought, as, snatching up his cap, he'
stepped forth,
At the door one of his men met him
with„ the news that two of the -boats
had been torn from their moorings
during the squall, one of these being
Duncan's
tom Industrial Agent to Flight Comma
Interost eg, tlespetehes of itfeideilts then they are seat to. France.We do
to the lives of flying inn in England all kinds of fancy performances—loop
:.ire given in letters to friends written the loop, roll, make spinning nose
by Acting Flight Commander Graham diyes, sidee slips, and vertical turns/'
'Waters Curtis, formerly Industrial He describes; how "little' ekeite
Agent of the Canadian Pacific Rail,- ments" happen when one aeronaut
eta i i 11Tontreal who is no�v a gets into the "wash, or slip -stream of
instructor in England. The school in .air" made by a preceding navigator.
which he teaches is a vast expanse of The letters indicate that Acting Flight
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countr close to a beautiful seaside Commander Curtis is a lucky master
Y z flying
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Acting Flight Commander G. W.
"crash" at.a train
resort. He"writes: "The view'from
the air is superb,` and we often fly out,
over the sea, and dive down near the
British Warships and wave to the sail-
ors. When diving we only travel at
the rate of about 175 miles an hour!
I
arn kept very busy instructing and
am turning, out a lot of expert pilots.
The school I am connected with is one
in which flyers finish their course of
training. A lot of chaps froni Borden
your errand:' I • "He'll jhst take one ofours," said come to.us to get final lessons, and
"I came because your sisters wish- lbert impatient y:, "Where
sere is he'?
ed it," said Dnncan again, with a. I want to speak to him."
slight emphasis which reminded Ald "We've only two sound ones re-
bert only too plainly of whose wish he, niaining, sir. Niel Moffat's boat got
meant to speak, a leak on Friday, if you remember."
He stood silent again, asking him-1"I'd'ell, one is enough to catch the
self desperately how to close the others -with. Never mind about that
interview; and aware that Duncan now. Ah, there he comes! Back to
was watching him closely and rather Your work, Donald!"
expectantly. 1 As Duncan stepped out of the next
It was during that brief pause that cabin, Albert went forward to meet
the significant whistle of the wind be- hint.
gan to rise again hi their ears. 1 "You will: not mind my' borrowing a Correct Diet as Health Insurance.
"Another squall coming, I'm' boat, Mr.; Albert, 1 trust," said Dun=
afraid," said Albert, snatching at the' can stifi'y. " Wine has got loose, and Isn't it queer that when so 'alleleobvious remark. 1 I've no time to go hunting it. If I that is vital in life depends upon food
idon't get hone before night father and correct feeding, so few of 'us
"I'm afraid so too, Air.:4lberi, and
I am sorry for it, for it makes it am will be fretting" understand a thing about balanced.
possible for me to free you of my "`A'li right, all right. One moment,
cam all asoon asIshould hav 'Duncan- Duncan --I've a word to say to you." ration, `or pay any attention to feed-
p s e ing ,the human family sanely.. We
wished. Whether I will or no. `111,1 "Mind yon don'ttake'Niel Moffat's are told that food will play a big
have to bide out what's coming." ' i boat," Donald called after them. "Ti's
He spoke differently T now with a ito just"sot:nd." part •iu winning the war, yet we go
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tIavor of bitterness in both voice and'With a fairly successful display of about conserving with only a hazy.
mien. Whatever his expectations had; a calm which he did not feel, Albert, idea of what we can best use .as
been, it was clear that they were de -1 while the two ineu walked towards the foods if we wish ' to conserver our.
ceived. 1 landing -stage, 'brought forward his strength and development,' as well as
' Of course," said Albert, makin l'suggestion. It had been planned as: conserve wheat.for the 'allies.
the one more effort which appeared' an appeal; but the bodily presence of ,e lin le
l Yet the whole thing so s p
necessarte "You can't start in this the hated man -turned it almost into•a r
weather, and no doubt you'll be hung?y demand.' Away from his enemy it that even the way -faring man,
too. The men have only just had his actual vicinity the conciliating Enough a fool, need not err therein.
dinner—they will be, able to give you tone -aimed at refused t'o be struck— We eat to promote growth and to
something. 'I.!hat's their quarters the words of peace.: stuck in his throat. give us srtength, or, •as the experts
over there." The coldness of his tune was reflected .say, to give us heat or energy. There
With a would-be careless nod he in Duncan's answer.
turned towards his owu cabin. "''our demand would be just, Mr.
Duncansent one look biter him, Albert, if your sister was of that of these three. They are the proteins,
gave one more shake to his wet shoul- mind. It is her wishes I go by, not or' the fodds which promote growth,
ders, then slowly moved in the given my' own; and I' happen to know that 'and the carbohydrates and fats, which
direction. she does not wish to delay- beyond the give us heat and energy. The pro-
It was time to do so; for already, spring. '
beyond the two nearest shoulders of "She. •iii lit consent to ` a dela if teids consist of lean meat, eggs, milk,
hill, seen like things in a dream, all the reasons were good." y' and the legumes. At.least these are
"And, if she consented, would you the important - proteids, though.
pass your word to give up your op- many ; cereals contains proteins, and
Curtis and his Machine just after a
ing camp in England.
of the high school in which he soars.
He says: "We have a lot of smashes;
but very few deaths, considering
everything. None of my pupils has
been killed yet."
Acting Flight Commander Curtis
has lately been recommended by his
commanding officer for a first lieu-
tenancy, and: expects to be sent • to
France at any time. He joined the
Royal :Flying Corps on 'November
15th,. 1916.
are three classes' of food and every-
thing we eat- may beailacecl in one
had grown void.. The distance of the
loch was one sheet of driving cloud.
Alone in one of the cabins—for the position to the marriage?" asked the proteins contain others of the food
men had returned to the smithy— Duncan, with a piercing side -long elements. For instance, milk con -
Duncan sat before the fire, reflective- glance. tame fat in the shape of cream, and
ly smoking his pipe, while the steam Then, in face of the other's visiblewheat contains. proteid—the gluten
rose from his wet clothes. It would hesitation, he smled grimly. which makes wheat bread elastic. The
"Don't trouble to spealt,. M. Albert.
Your face says that you wouldn't.— carbohydrates are the starches and
Whatever your tongue might say. sugars, and the :fats we all know.
seem that be had come for. nothing.
For it was not the delivery of the
spirit level alone which had decided
him to risk the stormy transit. When
What, then, would.be thergain for us? It will be seen at once -that children
last' night Fenella had told him of the If I thought it was for her pease of must have plenty or proteids if they
difficulty of finding' a boatman for the mind I would wait, 'light-heartedly; aye to keep up a: normal growth while
loch -end in this 'weather, the idea of but I see that .it would only be a draw- adults who have attained 'their full
offering himself for the errand had ing out of the pain It's a kind of
struck him like an inspiration. If it torture she?s livin •• in,as it,'is and 'development may get along with just
did'' nothing: else it, would show Al- the sooner it's put an nd to`the bet- the amount of proteids necessary to
'cert that he bore no griiclge for the ter:' ne replace wornout cells, that is, to build
"Then you will not fall in with my the body up claily as it 'is burned out
encounter in the lane„ and might
prove the first step towards an under-
standing being
nder-standing';being come to. Fenella had
first 'caught at the idea, and then de -
proposal?" " • with work.
"I cannot fall in with it." ' Here is where Mir danger will
"And you imagine that you will come in' during these days when.we
marred, because of.' the possible clan- marry her' in spring?" are asked to save food. We will be
ger, at which. objection Duncan, as "1 more than imagine it, Mr. !filbert. tempted to economize on the milkstemi
able an oarsman as any that Ardloch Short of an act of God, I do not see eggs given our children, a''thing we
have no . right to do. The, children
They were at the landing -stage al-
ready, and before he had done speak- must be properly nourished or their
ing, Duncan had clambered into the health will be impaired :for life. Those
nearest of the three boats, and was - of mature growth may get along on
busy fittingng the oars ilio the row -skimped ed rations with only temp
oralY
1 three' hadrain-pools at inconvenience, locks. ,i,.1
provided the food.
ed—quite the reverse; but for Dun- the bottom, but the fading daylight shortage does not last too long. But
can's purpose almost preferable. By warned too loudly to let him consider' children must be fed,
raising the value of the service rend- the advisa4bility of baling out the 'UP until seven .,moni'hs the bthy
ered, it would he more likely to make water.
on Albert :the favorable impression he Duncan was just loosening. the F.
held, merely laughed. Perhaps the what is to prevent .inn.
weather would have improved by next
day, she had hopefully surmised; and
then whether they could get anoth-
er boatman or no, Dungan would take
thep arcel.'
It not improved, asso ha i en -
t wasp 1p
• should be fed nothing but 'milk. Moth -
hoped. for. He made haste to be off, chain when when he appeared to ve- err m11k preferably., Failing that,.
without again enrountering Fenella. member something. consult the best doctor you can secure
But now it would seem that he "I'ni all right in this boat, am Te as to the right way to modify cow's
might as well have stayed at home— ,not? Didn't Donald' say something' ' '
so far as any advance in their inter- about a leak?" • '
eats was concerned. Albert's cold "Yes, you're all right," said Albert
politeness told him more than any re- mechanically, seeing neither the, boat
petition of his late excitement could nor Duncan,
have done. He could read that fixed But, even with his words, the blood -
eye and tightened hp. It came to red cloud., passed away, :and he saw
this, then, that be had been a fool :for both boat and boatman clearly
his pains --,.and as likely as not would "Stitt?" -
not be able' to get back before night-� There was a scarcely perceptible
;'all, certainly not if this wind held. on . pause before Albert' said:
much longer, which would mean a{ "Sure
world of worry for his father, and ! "Good evening,. then, Mr. Albert, It
perhaps of anxiety for her. will: be night' before I make Ardloch,
And while lie sat musing, solitary, but I trust to get in before the next
another eolitary man likewise Mused' storm."
In the very first moment Albert The boat had got some twenty
had: been too much taken by surprise yards when ha took his halide from
to do more than decently get through his pockets, and pttt them to his
the unlooked-•for meeting. Now, in mouth, as though he were About to
theenforcedretort-el of leisure, some shout; but no sound came. Plunging
• them bank again, he ttirtred upon his
heel, and., without, one glance back-
wards, regained id;w cabal,
('00 be enntinacd.")
01 a 1;,rc-bird of Austt tlio-o,:tvhich
is about the size et e pheasant, is the
largest siongbird in, the world,
pared baby food because some one
else gave it to her child and it "got
along." And don't ' give condensed
milk except as a Inst resort and on
a physician's orclet. It is too sweet
for a perfect food.
At seven months the salivary glands
are able to do their part in digesting
starch. Begin with a wheat break-
fast food, or rice. Either is more
apt to be digested by the average
child than is oat meal. Feed only
a teaspoonful the first day, and note
the effect. If the cereal you choose.
is not digested, causes distress,
choose another. Reinemhey each
child is a law unto' itself and you
must decide what yours can best
digest, ' If thea e is a tenclendy to
constipation oat, meal is good as r.a
corrective, If the tendency is the,
other' way, rice is a good Toed
After a .few days' trial,;if, the
st'tc:chy `Pce<i is properly digested, try
to introduce ` egg into the diotat y,
in our ultimate success or failure,
An eight-year-old bay in our block
developed tuberculosis of the .hip
bone, He had practically nothing
to eat until he was two years old 'ex-
cept condensed' milk in a bottle, His
mother would` not, cook hirn cereals, it
took too much time to sit down and
feed;, him, Fresh eggs were too ex-
pensive, He used to throw the
bottle away and, lie, on the floor and
cry with hunger, but the mother' de-
clared he could take the milk- or go
hungry. She had too much to do to
bather with "a kid.".
When tuberculosis developed the
mother blamed a fall at school. Other
mothers, whose boys had worse ;falls
with no ill effects, blamed' wrong feed-
ing. And they were right.
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Orange juice, a tablespoonful to "be
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