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The Brussels Post, 1912-8-15, Page 2ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER X111, --(Gonia) Frithjof breathed more freely when the Harpers had left Rowan Tree House, and indeed every one seem- ed to feel that a weight had been removed, and a delightful sense of ease took possession of all. "Cousin Georgina will wear os- preys to the bitter end, I prophe- sy," said Roy. "You'll never con- vince her that anything she likes is really hard on others." "Of course, many people have worn them before they knew of the cruelty," said Cecil, "but after- ward I can't think how they can." "You see, people as a rule don't really care about pain at a dis- tance," said Frithiof, "Torture thousands of these herons and eg- rets by a lingering death, and though people know it is so they won't care; but take one person within hearing of their cries, and that person will wonder haw any human being can be such a barbar- ian as to wear these so-called os- preys." "I suppose it is that we are so very slow to realize pain that we don't actually see." "People don't really want to stop pain till it makes them person- ally uncomfortable," replied Fri- thiof. "That sounds horribly selfish." "Most things come round to sel- fishness when you trace them out." "I'm going to make tea, Roy," said Mrs. Boniface, laying down her netting, "and you had better show Herr Falck his room. I hope you'll often come and spend Sunday with us," she added, with a kindly glance at the Norwegian. In the evening they had music. Roy and Cecil both sung well; their voices were not at alr out of the common, but no pains had been spared on their training, and Fri - thief liked the comfortable informal way in which they sung one thing after another, treating him entirely as one of the family. "And now it is your turn," said Cecil, after awhile. "Father, where is that Amati that somebody sent you on approval. Perhaps Herr Feick would try it." "Oh, do you play the violin!" said Mr. Boniface; "that is capital. You'll find it in my study cupboard, 'Cecil; stay, here's the key." Frithiof protested that he was utterly out of practice, that it was weeks since he had touched his vio- lin, which had been left behind in Norway ; but when he actually saw the Amati he couldn't resist it, and it ended in his playing to Cecil's accompaniment for the rest of the evening. To Cecil the hours seemed to fly, and Mrs. Boniface, after a prelim- inary round of ticlying up the room, came and stood by her, watching her bright face with motherly con- tentment. "Prayer -time, darling," she said, as the sonata came to an end; "and since it's Saturday night we mustn't be late." "Ten o'clock already ?" she ex- claimed; "I had no idea it was so late ! What hymn will you have, father ?" "The Evening Hymn," said Mr. Boniface ; and Frithiof wondering a little what was going to happen, obediently took the place asigned him, saw with some astonishment that four white-eapped maid-eer- vants had come into the drewing- room and were sitting near the piano, and that Mr. Boniface was turning over the leaves of a big Bible. "I will !;ft up mine eyes unto the bile frern whence cometh my help," read Mr, Boniface. And as he went on, the beautiful old poem with its tender reassuring cadenc- es somehow touched Frithiof, so PRIVATE OFFICE Cramming down ill -chosen food, and rushing back to work, loads Straight to dys- pepsia, with all It moans in misery, Proper habits of eating, with a Na-Dru-Co Dys- pepsia Tablet after each meal, restore good diges- tion, health and happiness. A box of Na-Dru-Co Dys- pepsia Tablets bolts but 500. at your Druggist's, National Drug and Chain - foal Co. of Canada, Limited. 140 J that when they stood tip to sing "Glory to Thee, my God, this night," he did not cavil at each line as he would have done a little while before, but stood listening reverently, conscious of a vague de- sire for something in which he felt himself to be lacking. "I wish I could be like these peo- ple," he thought to himself, kneel- ing for the first time for years. And though he did not hear a word of the prayer, and could not honestly have joined in it if he had healsci, his mind was full of a long- ing which he could not explain. He owned as much to Cecil the next day when, after breakfast, they chanced to be alone together for a few minutes. "Have yell found any Norwegian service in London, or will you come with us?" she asked, unconscious- ly. "Oh," he replied, "I gave up that sort of thing long ago, and while you are out T will get on with some translation I have in hand." "I beg your pardon," she said, coloring crimson. "I had no idea, or I should not have asked." But there was not the faintest shade of annoyance in Frithiof's face . "The services bored me so," he explained. "Oh," said Cecil, smiling as she recognized the boyishness of his re- mark; "I suppose every one goes through a stage of being bored. Roy used to hate Sunday when he was little; he used to have a Sunday pain which came on quite regular- ly when we were starting to chapel, so that he could stay at home." "I know you will all think me a shocking sinner to stay at home translating this book," said Fri- thiof. "Ne, we sha'n't," said Cecil, quietly. "If you thought it was right to go to church of course you would go. You look at things dif- ferently." She found him pens and' ink, tore a soiled sheet off the blotting -pad, drew up the blind so as to let in just enough sunshine, and then left him to his translating. "What a strange girl she is," lie thought to himself. "As frank and outspoken as a boy, and yet with all sorts of little tender touches about her. Sigrid would like her; they did take to one another at Balholm, I remember." Then, with a bitter recollection of one who had eclipsed all others dur- ing that happy week on the Sogne Fjord, the hard look came back to his face, and taking up his pen he began to work doggedly at Herr Sivertsen's manuscript. The next morning his new life be- gan, he turned his back on the past, and deliberately made his down- ward step on the social ladder, which nevertheless meant an up- ward step on the ladder of honesty and success. Mr. Horner, who was the sort of man who woulcl have patronized an archangel for the sake of showing off his own superior affability, unluckily chanced to be in the shop a good deal during that first week, and the new hand re- ceived a large share of his notice. Frithiof's native courtesy bore him up through a good deal, but at last his pride got the better of him, and he made it is perfectly apparent to the bumptious little man that he desired to have as little to do with him as possible, that James Hor- ner's bland patronage speedily changed to active dislike. "What induced you to choose that Falck in Smith's place?" he said to Mr. Boniface, in a grumbling tone "He is a friend of Roy's," was the reply. "What is it that you dislike about him? He seems to me likely to prove very efficient" "Oh, yes; he has his with about him, perhaps rather too much so, but I can't stand the ridiculous airs the fellow gives himself. Order him to do anything, and he'll do it as haughtily as though he were master and 1 servant; and as for treating him in a friendly way it's impos- sible, he's as stand-offish as if Ire were a Croesus instead of a poor beggar without a penny to bless himself with." "He is a very reserved fellow," said Mr. Boniface; "and you must remember that this work is pro- bably distasteful to him. You see he has :been accustomed to a very different position." "Why, his father was nothing but a fish merchant who went 'bank- rupt. "But out in Norway merchants rank much mere highly than with ns. Besides, the Falcks are of a very old family." Well, really I never expected to hear such a Radical as you speak up for old family and all that non- sense," said James Horner, ":hilt 1 see you are determined to befriend SIMPLIFY YOUR COOKING Much of the pleasures of life is lost in the worry of preparing meals. Bovril In the hands of a resourceful woman solves the problem. Bovril stirred simply into hot water and flavored to taste makes an excellent bouillon. Meats reheated have their original flavor restored and enhanced by a little Bovril. Bovril Sandwiches are in constant demand by old and young, especially by children. B vril Tea -- hot or cold -can be served at any time with crackers, and as a last thing at night to Induce sound sleep, hot Bovril is unequalled. this fellow, so it's no good my say- ing anything against it. I hope you may find him all you expect. For my part I consider him a most un - premising young man ; there's an aggressiveness about his face and bearing that I don't like at all. A dangerous headstreng sort. of char- aober, and not in the least fit for the position you have given him." With which sweeping condemna- tion Mr. Horner loft the room, and Roy, who had kept a politic silence throughout the scene, threw down his pen and went into a subdued fit of laughter. "You should see them together, father, it's as good as a play," he exclaimed. "Falck pats on his grand air and is crushingly polite the moment Cousin James puts in an appearance, and that nettles him and he becomes more and more vul- gar and fussy, and so they go pok- ing each other up worse and worse every minute." "It's very foolish of Feick," said Mr. Boniface. "If he means to get on in life, he will have to learn the'. art of rising above such paltry an- noyances as airs of patronage and manners that jar on. him." Meanwhile, clown "Below in the shop, Frithiof had forgotten his last encounter with James Horner, and as he set things in order for the Saturday afternoon closing, his thoughts were far away. Tho in- stant two o'clock sounded the hour of his release, he snatched up his hat and hurried away ; his dreams of the past had taken so strong a hold upon him that he felt he must try for at least one more sight of the face that ha unted him so per- sistently. Feeling as though some power outside himself were drawing him onward, he followed with scarcely a thought of the actual way, until he found himself within sight of the Lancaster Gate House. A striped red and white awning had been erected over the steps, he caught sight of it through the trees, and his heart seemed to stand still. Has- tily crossing the wide road leading to the church, he gained a better view of the pavement in front of Mr, Morgan's house; dirty little street children with eager faces were clustered about the railings, and nurse -maids with perambulators flanked the red felt which made a path -way to the carriage standing before the door. He turned sick and giddy. "Fine doings there, sir," remark- ed the crossing -sweeper. "They say the bride's an heiress and a beauty too. Well ! well ! it's an un- equal world !" "Get a copper about you, sir ?" he asked. Frithiof, just because the old man made that remark about an unequal world, dropped a sixpence into the outstretched palm. "God bless you, sir !" said the crossing -sweeper. Like one in a nightmare, he reach- ed the church door. The organ was crashing out a jubilant march; there was a sort of subdued hum of eager anticipation from the crowd of spectators, "Are you a friend of the bride, sir?" asked an official. "No," he said, icily. "Then the side aisle, if you plase, sir. The middle aisle is reserved for friends only." He quietly took the place assigned him and waited, It did not seem real to him, the crowded church, the whispering people; all that seemed real was the horrible sense of expectation. An icy numbness erept over him, a most appalling feeling of isolation, "This is like dying," be thought to himself, And then, because the congregation stood up, he too dragged himself to his feet. The march had changed -Lb a hymn. White -robed choristers walked slow- ly up the middle aisle ; their words reached him distinctly— , "Still in the pure espousal, Of Christian man and maid." Then suddenly he caught sight of the face which had more than once been pressed to his, of the eyes which had lured him on so cruelly. It was only for a moment. She passed by with her attendant bride - maids, and black darkness seemed to fall upon him, though he stood there outwardly calm, and just like an indifferent spectator. Yet through all the whispering and the subdued' noise of the great congregation he could hear Blanche's clear voice. "I will al- ways trust you," she had said to him on Munkeggen. Now he heard her answer "I will" to another question. After that, prayers and hymns seemed all mixed up in a wild con- fusion. Now and then, between the heads of the crowd, he caught a vision of a slim, white -robed figure, and presently Mendelssohn's "Wed- ding March" was struck up, and he knew that she would pass down the aisle onee more. Would her face be turned in his direction ? Yes; for a little child scattered flowers be- fore her, and she glanced round at it with a happy, satisfied smile. As for Frithiof, he just stood there pas- sively, and no one watching him could have known of the fierce an- guish that wrung his heart. (To be continued) Sick headaohes—neuralgio headaches --splitting, blinding headaches—all vanish when you take Na -Aro -Co Headache Waters They do not oontaln phenacetin, aretantltd, morphine, opium or any other dangerous drug. 25o• a box at your Druggist's. 123 NATIONAL CI Stag t. CHEMICAL CO. or CANADA, Lim ITte• EVERY DAY 'P1111 SUi' SHINES. Heat and Light and Power for Nothing. Has the sunshine really been har- nessed at last? 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In other words, the disposi- tion they make of the feed they con- sume over and above the amourit needed for maintenance determines this class, writes Mr. W, S. Cris- man, When we take into consideration that cattle are only machines for converting hay, fodder and grains into some product for human food, and they are the only machines or factories known that will convert, those materials into beef, milk, but, ter and cheese, we get a much clear- er conception of the real meaning of beef cattle, milk cattle or butter cattle. By beef cattle we mean those types of cattle which will use their surplus feed to best advantage in the manufacture of beef. Of this type we have three prominent breeds t Shorthorn, Hertford and Aberdeen Angus. While these are the three leading beef breeds, there are others, such as Red Poll and Devon. By some writers the Red Poll and Devon are classed as dual purpose ; but for the present we will eonsider them beef breeds. Of the three breeds mentioned first, we can scarcely say one is better than the other, for they be- long on the saane plain. It is a mat- ter of choice or preference with each man himself which he likes best, and then that becomes the best far him. Every one of us will give our best attention and efforts to the things we like best. There- fore, the breed of cattle we like best will give us best results and be- comes best for us. The two remaining breeds are good and in some sections are very popular, but for strictly beef pur- poses are rather small and have a tendency toward the dairy con- formation. When we go into the business of producing beef we want the breed of cattle that will produce that product at the least cost and in the greatest quantities. Then it be- hooves ue to select one of the best breeds. I say one of the best breeds and I mean one. Do not make the mistake that so many have done and think that you can produce better steers by breeding together two breeds than pure-bred steers of ei- ther one. Just remember whenever you breed together two distinct breeds you are producing grades of both breeds and going down hill. Again, when you breed together two distinct breeds you are much more apt to confine the poor qualities of both breeds in the offspring, As an example, and one that is com- monly practiced, if you breed a Hol- stein cow, which produces a large quantity of milk, but poor in butter fat, to a Jersey hull, a breed which produces a small quantity of milk and rich in butter fat, you are very likely and most apt to produce a heifer that will produce a small amount of milk, the character in- herited from the sire, and that lit- tle poor in butter fat, the character from the dam. The reverse is your desire, but you may be disappoint- ed. Knowing these things, and also being able to buy the pure-breds of any breed we may fancy, let us act wisely in the matter and pur- chase our foundation stock of pure, breeding. I take it we do not expect to raise beef cattle, or any others far that matter, except for the profit they give us in consuming the products of oin own farm, converting them into beef and establishing a new channel through which to market these products. Then, if this is our desire, do as we would in purchasing a piece of machinery for any other purpose— buy the machine that was manufac- tured for that particular purpose, and buy the best. The best is the one that will do most satisfactorily the greatest amount of work and at the least cost. 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