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By HOPKINS MOORI-10.USE
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CHAPTER IL---1;Cerit'd,) .
'Will you please Q'xplair how you
happened to be waiting for me at
that particidar spat ?"
"B1 you heart, madam, I waSn't
waiting for yaul I happen. to live
nearby and was getting ready to step
ashore when yen grabbed my eanoe
and ordered ma to keep quiet I dui
so, Heee we arca"
"Your dis2retion was coma-lens:t-
able)" she approved. 'It certainly is
most extraordinary. I don't see where
on earth -1 guess my -escort has taken
French leave." She tried to laugh
eareleeely, but she eguld not hide the
fact that he was greatly disturbed.
"Will you paddle tee across to the
city ?"
"And leave poor Joe out in the
eohl gray fog? Don't you think it
weak' be better to turn back and give
h°11er or two"
"Never mind him. He has gonel picking daisies for -the sick kiddies
home already very likely. I will pay over at the Children's Home, I pre -
you orie dollar to paddle me over. Is some—but, to be perfectly frank with
that satisfactory ?" 1 you, I doubt it. Besides, there is the
"It all depends. Supposing I re-jiattle ,anatter of the launch.
fure?"• "Why are you so interested in that
"Then I IfOUld have to ask you to !launch?" •
'step into the water and swim to shore"Because I happen to be the nephew
while I do my own paddling and keep t of my uncle who. happens to own it
down expenses." land. to have left at in my charge dur-
"Pi•esupposing, of course, that you; nag- his absence, said Kendrick de-
cwn the canoe." Iliberately. "I'm laying the cards face
"It is too bad it is so dark," she i up, madam. The launch is the pro-,
retorted impatiently, "or yea wouldlPerty of Honorable Milton Waring, of
know that a revolver is pointed 'whore you may have heard. Undoubt-
straight at you this very moment." I edly it has been stolen."
Kendrick laughed in pure enjoy- I He was nat prepared for the laugh -
went a the situation. 'ter with which his unknown passenger
"My dear young lady."—he had greeted this bold. announcement He
decided that she was young and he lmeav she was trying: to smother her
wondered if she were pretty --"you Mirth, but it filially broke all bounds:
force me to the conclusion that either A very musical laugh •it was, very
you are bluffing outrageously or you Pleasant to hear.
are a, despetate character! Please "Oh, please forgive -me," she gas -
don't be frightened. Pia neither Steve ed finally. "It is very rude of me, I
Brodie, the bridge juniper, nor the itnow; lout—you said you were the
famous Jack Dalton, and In this age Honorable Milt's nephew—" Again
of safety razors Bluebearals are extra , she laughed in spite of herself.
nruros. This isn't tile opening spasm; -"You know my uncle?" he asked
a Mlle blood -and -thunder novel, you eagerly.
know. We're right here en Toronto 'read the papers" she said, evae-
, e
Bay where one can get into trouble ively. "Everybody knows a publia
for not showing a light after dark., niSin•
Will you oblige me by unhooking the, Trn laying the cards fare up,
larnp at the bow there and pa.seing, it madam," repeated Kendrick solemn -
back to me so that I can light up. I lY- "My name is Kendrielc---Philip
Headrick. I was an my way home
promise then to start earning that,
dollar -without further delay."
when you—well, shanghaied me.
He heard her fumbling with it !Won t you meet Inc half way by equal
There was a splash in the water, a, frankness, so that we may avoid—
iittle of well 'feigned dismay. well, any unpleasantness?"
"Oh, how eareless of mei It—mean--" She had stoppedslip-I
ped out of my hand." !laughing.
Phil grinned cheerfully as he be-; "That unless you answer legitimate
gan to dip his paddle, intelest amein, questions I shall be forced to hand
mien. It was a neat side-stepping you over to the police."
of hie inconsiderate attempt to scrut-: "I warn you that you would regret
Mize her. She had 'oaken the first it," she said quietly.
trick. "Very much, agreed Kendrick
yonire iIt' anyway," .he said;
dropping all hint of banter in his
' tone. "I'd advise you to meet a few
straight questions with straight ens -
Wets. First, who is this Joe person
you Were expecting to 'do the canoe-
ing for you?"
"My husband,"
1. "And the people in the launch?"
"How should I know who they
were? 13Y what right do you .as
me that?" she demanded, .
"The circumstancesare seinewhat
unusual, madam:, you must adniit,"
Kendrick reminded: her sharply. "Do
, you wish me to play Safe by handing
.you over to the police?"
"Police? My Good Gracious Me!
' What crime have I committed?"
"That Would be a matter for offi-
cial enquiry. It may be that you and
t your husband are in the .habit Of
wandering about the Island in a thick
I fog at two .O'clock in the morning-
"You do yourself an injustice readily. "I would be sorry to cause
madam. Are you usually so careful, You any inconvenience; but surely you
when you are careless?" I see how impossible it is for me to
• "You have not told me your name avoid being inquisitve under the cir-
yet," she reminded him, apparently cumstances. Are you going to be
more at ease now that she anew he frank with me or not?"
intended to paddle her across the basal She did not answer him immediate -
"Hy name? It's an Indian name—' 3Y and he smiled to himself as he
Watha—Hy. A. Wattle, at your ser..! paddled in silenEe. For, if the truth
vice, and I am very fond of canoeing.; must be told, Mr. Philip Kendrick was
What's yours?" enjoying himself immensely. He had
"You need hardly ask that Mr., only the sound of her voice from
Hiawatha, when you knew nay sister, I which to draw deductions; but the
Minnie, so well," she laughed. "I am cultured tones of it and. the lilt of
Mary Ha_aele her low laughter bespoke an educe -
"You don't say!" chuckled Kendrick tion and refinement with which he
im appreciation. "The original little failed to reconcile the idea that she
Merry Ha -Ha, eh?—Little Laughing-
;was a lady burglar. Yet—
Gas!' l He stopped paddling to listen in -
you are Hiawatha, why are you! tently. Several times now he had
tieing a paddle?" she pursued. "I al..) thought he heard a sound off in the
ways understood from the Poet that darkness behind him. It came again
all you had to do was to h. -aide your, —a slight hollow sound, as of a pad -
canoe with your thoughts. ' dle scraping against a canoe. They
"Not when they're travelling in at were being followed. Had the girl
circle. But this looks more like; heard it, too? He waited for the
'Mind Man's Buff' than 'Ring -Around- wail of the fog -horn to die away—
A-Rosy,' don't you think? Or are and found -her speaking.
you trying to play Tag with me? • —frank with you, Mr. Kendrick,"
she was saying. "The circumstances
are less extraordinary than they ap-
pear to you. My—husband and I were
at a party at a friend's house on the
Island.. We paddled over in a canoe
and Joe went ahead of me to locate)
it In the dark I must have missed
the spot where he was waiting for
me and when you came along so
eilently and so close to the bank I
naturally thought it was Joe. Ridi-
culously simple, you see." •
"You have forgotten the launch,"
prompted Kendri,ck severely.
"I know nothing about the launch,"
she denied with resentment. "When
I heard those people coming I thought
it was some of the guests from the
party who had said they would race
us home, Will you please paddle on,
"^r, Ealadriook• 1+ts tla-aln and chilly
In— this fog and am naturally in al
hurry to get home.
He laughed with skepticism, but
pfied hie paddle again. He was not
as concerned about the launch as he
pretended, of course; at the Warst it
probably meant that Stinson had. been
entertaining some af his friends on
Ihe sly. He had no intention of hand-
hiti Mysterious passenger to the
pollee. tut was he to let her laugh
at him and disappear unchallenged
into the fog out of which she had
cents/
Phil Kendrick's experience with the
opeeite sax Was Very limited, he had
8ito confess, l'Its had been to Complete -
ly absorbed in athletics, te efford,gbas.
more tifall passing attention., Those
of his soda' set—those he had met—
had failed to' impress him, One or
two of them were, attractive enough in
a general way, he realized; some were
amusing tp him and some very, very
tedious. h was, •a new experience to
find himself actually interested in a
gitle-er rather, her voice! He wished
he could get a look at her till he re-
membered the poor showing he would
make with his blackened eye. Then
he was thankful for the darkness,
Phil planned to land her at the
Queen City Yacht Club at the foot of
York 8t., or at the. Canoe Club; eit•her
sveulcl provide an easy landing. •They
must be well across the bay TIM:, but
it was hard to say just where they
would come in. Ordinarily be could
have steered by the illeminatod diel
of the City Hall clock and the sPire
of St. James'; but the fog obliterated
all landmarks.
They were both very damp „from,
exposure to the mist, but it is doubt-
ful if either of there was aware of
it. He made several further attempts
to discover her identity without avail;
at every turn she evaded lihn skill-
fully and it was beginning to look as
if she avould step ashore and vent; h
into the fog without leaving behind
her a single clue for him to follow.
This illusivenese was an added spur
to his deeire to know this girl. He
cud not believe that she was a mar-
ried woman at all. It was a concha-
sion which seemed to be justified by
her -elaborate precautions to make
him think otherwise, Because of some
foolish notion of the conventions she
intended to go as she had come, tak-
ing advantage of the fog to write
(Iowa the night's adventure in a hook
which must be closed to him for all
time and forgotten.
Deliberately- Phil held back the
canoe. They were within a few
strokes of the landing now.
"Listen to me very carefully," he
began. "I am going to ask you for
the last time to tell me Your name
or the name of some friend whom I
can get to introduce me to you prop-
erly. Isn't that fair? I have told you
the truth about myself and will hand
you my card to prove it. You must
plats equally fair with me or
"Or what?" she demanded haught-
ily as he hesitated.
'Or—well, take the consequences,"
he finished lamely.
"Which are—? Be explicit, Mr.
Kendrick."
"Well, I might turn around and
paddle you back to the Island and
leave you there, for one thing. The
circumstances are not such as entitle
you to the consideration I have shown
y011. For all I know, you may be an
ordinary crook.' Think it over, ma-
dam. Is there any reason why I
should not call you `Icidclo' and help
myself to a kiss? Is there?"
"Yes—the fact that Philip 'Ken-
drick is a gentleman. I dare you to
prove it otherwise!"
"It is kind of you. If you are so
sure of it, why won't you give me a
chance? Come on, be a sport. I will
promise anything you wish to meet;
you legitimately, 'and I really would;
regret it very much if I thought "1
I have already told you that it is
impossible,' she interrupted coldly. "I
always understood it was a woman's
prerogative to choose her acquain-
tances. I am grateful for your ser-
vices to -nig -ht, of course; but beyond
that— The fact is, I do not care
to know you Mr. Kendrick. Please
put me ashore and say good-bye."
• A cold fire of resentment burned in
Kendrick's eyes as he drove the canoe
to the landing with a few skillful
strokes. Why had he been so foolish,
as to tell her his real nan-ie-? Why
didn't she want to know him? With-
out a word he caught the canoe in
one hand and stepped out. He felt
along the gunwale to the bow and
fastened the painter to an iron ring an
the planking, then handed her out
safely. He retained his grasp of her
hand. •
"A moment ago you dared me to
kiss you,", he said gravely. "I am
net in the habit of taking dares from
anybody." ,
"Let go my hand at once, air. You
know very well you cannot so far
forget yourself as to take such a lib-
erty. I dare you to prove yourself
no gentleman." •
I warn you
"I dare you!"
"Very well! On your own head be;
it, then! The boatman is worthy of
his hire," he paraphrased and laugh-
ingly he seized her in his arm e and
kissed her. '
The next instant he received a re-
seunding slap, in the face. It had
young muscles and indignation be-
hind it and, at found him unprepared.
He started back automatically, trip-
ped, lost his balance and fell into the
water.
"Oh, you—you rniserable—fresh
Aleck!" came her mortified cry:
She lingered only long enough to
make sure that he could swim As he
drew himself out of the waterthe
sound of her running feet died out
on the pier.
With chattering teeth Kendrick cast
loose, seized his paddle and drove it
deep into the water. Ye gods, what a
fool! Very angry at himself, he set
out across the bay once moreaeguided
bythe derisive bawling of the fog-
horn at the Eastern Gap. :
(To be continued.)
1)2
Dyed Her Draperies
and a Faded Skirt
• "Diamond Dye,s" add years of wear
to worn, faded skirts, waiste, coat,
etocklegs, sweaters, coveringe,, bang.,
ings, draperies, everything, Every
package centabee directions no simple
any weMan can put new, rich, fadelese
colors into her Worn garments, or
draperies even if he has never dyed
before. Just buy Diamond DYes—no
other kind—then your material will
come out right, because Diamond Dyes
are guaranteed not to streak, apot,
fade, or run. Tell your ,druggist
whether the material you wish to dye
is wool or silk, or whether it is linen,
cotton, or mixed goods,
• A sewing machine works twelve
times as fag as the hand,
Keep Wilnard's Liniment In thehouse.
• The High School Girl s rass.
lf you. are in high sehool 01' if you,
are somewhere hi your teens, you
are just naturally interested in
clothes. You want to look your best,,
s,eoalli,ygood
e'a,ottore clothesathat tare
i
The first requirement of clothes' is I
that they be eppropriete Aacliteeetfp).
school rmist be simprd hdughnot
severely' plain. It must be service-
able -and easily cared for. -a one-piece
dress is beet for 'winter and giewhain
for summer. Last year's party dress
is not appropriate for school this year,
although last year's "Sunday" dress
made simply of French serge may
serve for school. Georgette blouses,
silk and satin dresses, gaudy ribbons
sacnbdooLbeads, are not appropriate for
If you observe well-dressed bus-
iness women you will -realize that they
wear surprisingly- simple dresses,
which are well tailored and invariably
clean and , pressed. You .will nOtice
that they are very careful of details.
They never have loose buttons or
snaps, soiled collars, or unpolished
shoes. • A. woman realizes that it is
a business Asset for her always to
be well groomed. Her shoes must
never be ill-fitting with run -over, un -
shined heels.. They are broad enough
to afford comfort for the toes and to
avoid the misery ef corns and bun-
ions. •Military heels are necessary
for comfort and .health. Rubber heels
make walking easier and are better
for the nerves. , tgigh French heels
are absurd. Hose are thick enough
for modesty and for the cold weather.
Her fingernails must receive three or
four minutes' atention daily and her
hands be washed often enough to
keep them white and be dried thor-
oughly to keep them soft. Gloves
must be perfectly mended. The hems
of her dresses must be adjusted to
hang evenly. She certainly never gets
up late and neglects to give her face
and neck a soap and water bath. She
takes baths and changes underwear
often enough to rnhintaiIi personal
cleanliness. Her hair is neat and
well kept.
Since- good looks are a social and
business asset, you should acquire
'early these habits of successful bus-
iness women, only being younger, you
will wear girlish clothes. Wear them
while you are young, for some day
you will find yourself a sedate lady
and you have lost your thence to ap-
pear young.
• Pethaa-the're are girls in.youe high
school who wear veryywhite- noses and,
wads of hair extending three inchesi
beyond each ear. The really worth-
while person will achnire the girl with
good looks and a roMinium of arti-
ficiality about her. It is one thing to
attract attention and quite another
to win sincere admiration.
Suggestions From Other Women.
• When you discover that your bed-
spreads are becoming thin and ele.ezy
at the ends, you may make them al-
most as good as new by making use
of the following method':
Take a strong piece of muslin bout
twelve inches or more in width and
as long as your spread is wide. Ar-
range this strip or facing on the
wrong side of the spread on that part
which is -worn. Foldninder raw edges
of the facing and Stew to position.
Treat both ends the same way. It is
only a few moments' ;work and fully
repays one for the little extra expense
and time involved. A spread thus
reinforced will pist off the 6711 day a
year or mere before 11 will oe 1 eces-
bsuaaya
y tortedwunoinale.s.,._..11 Lar;,R
ten-ds
o.Ilar hill to
Make a bag of cretonne or some
suitable material the width of the
right-hand'endeof the sewing machine.
The length 'Ma' y be as liked, say about
15 inches. klem hoth tam encli; and
jtist tack one '-of them to thcarriaht
'harid end of the machine. Ydu will
find it a' great time and labor saver,
as you can throw all small scrape into
•when • you are sewing. Then they
are not en the floor.—E. W.
A. great many people have admired
the sturdy little 'suits of he lay blue
denim which my little -two and three-
year-old boys wear on the farm for
everyday. Some say, "l3ut I didn't
know you could buy suits for such
small boys!" You can't. I could not
even purchase a pattern for then,
but I found it an easy matter to adapt
a one-piece pajama pattern to the
purpose. The pajama pattern will,
of course, have a drop seat, but in-
stead, lay the sections of pattern to-
gether and cut' with a seam `straight
down the middle of the back, and then
the little garment will open only down
the front. Put a stitched pocket on
each hip and one in front so it will
look like Dad's, and double -stitch all
the seams to give a tailored effect—
Mrs. N. H. D.
••I had a pair of old, high white
canvas shoes which were past wearing
as they were. I neede& a pair of
shoes for working in the garden and
so tried the experiment of dying them.
I dissolved. a package of dark brown
dye in less than a pint of boiling
water and applied the dye with a
small brush' to the shoes.—M. E. G.
When I inquired the price of flour
sacks at a bakery recently, I was
amazed when informed they were 20
cents each. I decided, I'd find a sub-
stitute, and did. I took seven old
window blinds and put them into e
tub of cold water with a small cup of
sal soda, and soaked them overnight.
In the morning I drained off the
water, rinsed them and put to boil
in soap suds and soda. When I rinsed
and blued them they were very -nearly
WthhitheLaw'C
Caoediau Cream 04 Malt Extract,is
made riom Pure :gaited iSarley and the
yei y best Hope.
used se directed, will make a finer
.11001e brotv that you, can make with any
other inatexials, or cow brew that you
can buy in bottles or kegs. You do not
multi) an initiation (04-SUbStitate With
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The Alan, the Wife and the Qhildren
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On sale at all leading Qrooery and
' nits wanted ^in all territOrle$
g'(,, • • ,
1 C A Nitk:3„eLae ssl sTatrAeLE: nv.no.icotrnt 0 Co,;
white, and made fine soft tea -towels.
—F. A. R.
My screened porch blessOmed out
with aneeatire new set of tinily cov-
ers after harvest this year—all of
dark peen burlap,' SOMe' plain and
some enlivened with little strips of
detenne. A dime's worth of dye
covered the cost, for the•material was
the accumulation of twine sacks found
'on the farm after harvest. I also
covered a porch stool with the same
material.—N. H. D. .
Minard's Liniment used by Physicians.
-Five, among the Chinese is a sacred
number,
--IHE postman and expressman will
bring Parker service right to ,your
home. We pay carriage one way.
Whatever you send whether it be
hot sehold draperies or the iuot
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to their original freshness. When you
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think of PARKER'S.
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In This Respect the Tendency
• Differs 'from That Sen in
Eizrdje and thilteaStittes;' 41
In all reason man was intended.to"
live ,apon the land and olgn a s.mall
plot of 'mother earth. • Yet it is them '
existing state in the older European .
countries, and the trend in the 'United '
States, is to fast bring abeut the pallier
condition,l'for all the land to Come into
the peseeasion and under the control
of it minority of the pointlation. Thus
do not only all the men of the nation.
not possess land but many agricul-
timaliets do not own the holdings they
till and cultivate, but are merely
tenants paying reut to their landlords.
diurnally for the fruits the earth yields.
to their efforts.
An agricultural survey of one of the
counties of Minnesota recently appear-
ed ,which indicated that nearly half of
the farmees in that county aye merely
privilege of, aiding the land to become
tenants and not owners, paying for the,
productive. This is a purely fortuitous a
example and in. the absence of statis-
tics it is not known how this propor.
tion would agree with that for the
whole state or the- total farming arei
of the county. But certain it is that
a great number of the Sarino-rg -i;*f the
T_Tnited States do -116‘t OW31 the land
they farnl, and each year are under .
the obligation of returning to their
landlords a substantial portion of that
revenue they have induced the land, to
yield. Aud with increased population
and settlement the tendency is all this
way. In the British Isles and 'hand-
.
nental Europe the hope of land tenure
is of course much more hopeless and
the absolute acquisition or. a plot, of
ground is practically beyond the as-
piratia,ms of the average citizen.
Tenant farming is in every way un-
satisfactory, and. on the other hand
there is a gratiffeation in owning a
piece of land which nothing oleo exact-
ly imparts. The . natural satisfaction
.which the owner of a piode of land ex-
periences, material and sentimental,
In improving it and -maintaining it in
perfect fruition is denied to the tenant,
who, in addition to lacking the induce-
ment of ewil.-L'ship, •pays rent accord- t
ing to the value and productivity.of
the farm ho occupies. A man who ins
fonds to occupy a farm all his life is
certainly going to treat it better than
'ene who -may be gone at the close of -
the aeasan, and it logieally follows
that the first 11121-1 is going to be the
better citizen and greater national as.
Set,
A Land cf Farm owners.
Canada farnishee a diametrically op.
posing picture a land of farm owners
and farm land -wanting owners. Broad,
ly it may he stated that there are few
tenant farmers in Canada. The Do-
minion may 000101 to this etat-3 event-
ually but the tmme is llOt in sight with
the vast tracts of virgin agricultural
land of proved fertility awaiting settle-
ment, millions of acres to make per-
manent farms for tens of thousands of
farm GIV11015Improvea -farms, close
to railways and markets, can be pur-
chased yet for prices even lower than e
farmers in other eountries pay to cul.
tivate for one year. And not only haye
farmers bought farms in Canada at the
same purchaseprice as they were ac-
customed to paying rental, but it has
been no uncomm.on occurrence for thee
first crop to refunft them the purchase,
price.in its entirety. •
Homestead land, the aVailable ex.
tent of which is fast decreasing under
She absorption of settlement, inlay be
secured for but the fulfilment of a few
residential and cultural duties, offer.
ing for notjiing in return, a permanent
hoin.e and a farm of a quarter of a
.square mile in area for all' time. It is
• difficult nowadays to secure home.
steads except at some distance from
the railroads, but in the rapidity 01
settlement and increased production,
towns with alltheir improvements and
cenvenieaces 'spring up, railroads are
extended, and the homesteader finds
that he is in the centre of a thriving
thing- rip to $100 per acre, of whichy
farm colony and his land worth a.n,•
hin
is the sole owner. '
With wide tracts or rich agricul•
tural land awaiting.settlement and fm.
proved- farms to be ,purchased at lo*
rates inrCa.n.ada, offering e,ornfortablo
homes and substantial land holdings
for all time, the wonder of it is that
there are still farmers who are Content
to be tenant farmers elsewhere.
• Mistakes.
It's not a crime to make mistakes,
if we'll but profit from our breaks, and
with d.etermination seek to doctor up
the place that's weak.
Nor is it rated a disgrace to meet an
error face to face. Or failure doesn't
start '1111 when we make the same Mis-
take again. •
Perfection In the first degree is
hardly asked of you ,a.nd me. None
look for us to go along, and never o
make a move that's wrong,
But etill, it's neither, wise nor nice
to malee the self.same blander twice;
and each mistahe that we repeat but
phearea as nearer to defeat.
• --N. A. Ls
Yew trees were (1tiginaIly planted
in ,elourohyarde to prottaet then from
cattle, and So PreSerats totteM d!ov
waking ol,):tolvo tv,n4 4g/ow'.
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