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ark Shadow;
Or, A Corning Vengeance
CHAPTER XV, -(Continued).
Mina wa0 ignorant of the ways of the
world -how should elm beothorwiseP but
oho know that Clive would be "marrying
beneath him" in marrying her. She wish-
ed that they had not met until she heel
raised herself a Sitt:e higher. She would
never, oh, never, be worthy of him • but
perhaps if she had succeeded as a singer
=a real concert singer -the difference be-
tween them would not have been so great,
But, if they had not met until that hour
for which she wee working, and towards
which she was looking so eagerly and
earnestly, she would have missed so
much: the memory of that night he had
Raved her from the hooligans, the pre.
0i01113 timee they had spent together at
"Oh, lor, yes," she retorted emphati-
cally. "A man who can put away a
couple of heggs in the flist-olaee 6710 as
e did just now is strong enough to go
rend -mending. Not, underetand me, hie.
Clive, that 208 begrudges you the heggs;
not by 110 means. We're well aware that
but for you there wouldn't be any heggs
at all."
"Tiny 1" murmured Mina, flushing.
Tibby looked over her shoulder at her.
"Well, don't I say so!" sho exclaimed.
"An', come to that, it seems to me that
you've wasted quite enough time. There!"
as M11108 eyes filled with tears, "when I
sty wasted, I mean lost,. o' eouree. Pears
to me that I'm the only cue in this falli-
blythe picture gallery, the solemn experience as ever :speaks her mind; an when I
do the Fa
of having stood between him and that Fate tho fire. is That's all the
howling Crowd at the meeting, and those thanks I get."
ae eolemnty sweot moments by hie bed- Yau're right, Tibby;' said Clive re11a-
aide, when, helpless as a babe, he had had cauoedly. 'I have loot you time, and
to rely on her tender care. caused you too mach trouble not to feel
Yee; let the future be ever so black, no- that the sooner I take myself off the bet-
thing
etthing could rob her of these happy ex- ter. I wish I could tell you how grate•
periencee, of the subtle joy of his pre- fol I am. But you must let me come and
hence. tell you in a day or two,"
Clive woke to And her eyes oh him, her Why not write?" she said as she open -
hand in his; and her name sprang to his ed. the door. •'You can send four ounces
lips at the first instant of his awakening. o knot
gratitude for a penny, now, you
ell you
Mina! I've been asleep, and dreaming;
a bad dream. I thought I'd lost you; Butt
there is something else I want to
that you had wandered away into a dark tell you and E..isha," he went on;
wood, and that I was hunting for you,
and could not find you. I was half -mad
with fright and grief; and I fought my
way through the bush -you know how
things obstruct you in a dream, clinging
about your arms and legs, and holding
you back? -and all the time I could hear
your voice crying to mo, 'Clive! Olivei'-
Phew! It's nice to wake from such a
nightmare and find you here, close to me,
dearest.'
She shook her head, though she blushed
a rosy red.
"You -you must not call me that!" she
said in a low voice. "Remember lour
promise."
He frowned, and laughed up at her, hie
eyes ardentand reproachful.
"My promise: ah, yes! Forgive me,
darl-Mina! I am to wait; yes; yes! How
grave you look, child; as if I were out
of my mind still! But I'11be good, Mina.
I won't distress or worry you. $ut though
you can prevent me telling in so many
'cords that I love you, you can't prevent
me looking itl"
No; ohs could not prevent that; and she
tried to turn her eyes awa7 lest the love
in them should tempt him to break his
word; and she made a resolution, though
it cost her a grievous pang, that she
would not be alone with 11m more than
she could help.'
So Olive, much to his disappointment
and regret, found that either Tibby or
Elisha was now almost in constant at-
tention on flim, and that only on very
rare occasions did Mina permit herself
to be alone with him.
This self-denial of here, of eonrse, has-
tened. hie recovery; and in a day or two
he wile up and able to go out. If he had
had doubts of hie capacity, to leave the
house, Tibby would have dispelled them;
.for though she had been kind enough
while he was 111, something of her char -
actor etio - mood had returned when he
was. convalescent.
I /suppose you're fretting to getback
to your businese, Mr. Clive?' she said, as
she tied on her bonnet and rolled up her
work apron. "Well, that's natural
enough: I felt like that when I 'ad the
measles."
"Do you think he's quip strong enough
to go out; Tibbs" Elisha put in meekly.
but Minh gave him a reproachful glance;
and Tibby eyed him ungraciously, and
Jerked her bead.
"Put it in the same envelope," oho said
sienifioantly. I'm devoured by curicsihy,
o' course; but I can't stop now, or I shall
be late. Good-bye, Mr. Clive."
"You won't mind her, sir," pleaded Eli -
she. It's only her way. She don'tmean
art of what she says, don't Tibby-you
won't go because of her barking at you,
Mr. Clive?"
"But Tibby's right," said Olive, as he
got his hat. "But you must let me come
back, ae I et/Ad.-Mina, I wonder whether
of it eostreet?"
with me as far as the end
Mina hesitated, and turned her fade
away, but Elisha exclaimed "0' course,
she will, sir!" and she put on her hat
and ,jacket, her hands trembling, her
face Dale.
Clivesaid hie good-bye to Elk:ha-re-
fraiuing from wounding him by a single
word of thanks -and Mina and he went
down the stake and into the street in
silence, and walked for some little dis-
tance before either spoke; for they were
too full at heart for words. At last, when
they had reached a quiet etreet, he stop-
ped and tools her hand and said:
It was a hard promise, a hard task you
set me, Mina, But I understand, dear-
est, and I honor you for insisting on it.
See now, I'll come back to -morrow.
The day after," she murmured implor-
ingly.
He looked at her reproachfully,but
yielded a reluctant assent.
Well -the day after," he said; "but
that ie the very longest I can. wait. Don't
you understand -ah, ye0, you do, Mina1-
how much I want to feel that youbelong
to To know that you are mina, MY
very own; that you aro pledged to me for
my wife. Tb0 day after to-morrow1 After
that I may come and see you, take Yell
out -Mina, one of the Snit places we will
go to shall be the Tate Gallery! And you
will not be harrowed by eoruple0, 'will not
want to run away, as if we were doing
something wicked! And soon -it must be
very soon, Minae -eve will be married!
Don't ery, dearestl"
I am not, I am not!" she murmured
brokenly, as she event the tears from her
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ease, and looked up at him. "But --but It
seams ea unreal, BO- 00 linp0ssibl0,"
"Impossible!" He laughed andpressed
hot' hand tightly. "Why should it be im-
possible? And yet you're right, Mina! It
(thee 0nem unreal that you should care
for me, that you ehould be going to give
Yourself to me for all your 11th, all your
life!"
Her eyrie were dim, her lipe moved, re.
Pealing hie words, and though she trial
not to do so, her hand returned the pr0s-
sure of his.
"Goodkyo, Mina," he Mad With the grav-
ity ,of patting. "It's 4.1 a dream but it
will. }est as 10x11 ae our lives, p1oa00 God,
dearest. QWIt-b701--"till the day after to•
my lessons'
marrow." Still ho hesitated, What will
Yen do In all that timet" he naked meet.
fully. ' I shall have so much to occupy
me, so many nrrear'e to 1401t up, to help
me pass away the time. And you?"
She mullet( through her tears.
I shall prntis0 very hard; and I have
Ile nodded. "Lessone1 What a ehild-
wife you will be, Minae" he said with a
tender smile, My little girl -wife! Ah,
my child, may I etrivo to be worthy of
Your love, to make You haply!"
They were the last worde. As if ho
could not trust (himself to say nuns,he it' 1 ht',
raised her hand to hie lips, and waked not "lou
10 ?urAriseds silo sled, He did
qu1cltly. But he turned and looked Yobs Alt,acre that li e.their way.
bn These sahibs, they are fel alike. It was
(leek before he had gone very far: for wrong, it was wicked of him."
she was still standingthere looking after
hila through a mist; but she moved weary Yeo marryaryou say that Mr. Clivi a got
tgo11t117e 11011 torn Boma °Id 61 notmgpbb lc last hevvery lowy'bu1Lgo steady na
walked on to the Embankment and Mood,
her eyes. is it true?"
leaningon the sono wall, and gazing It is quite true;' said Sara„ "Why
should 1 say it if it were not? And why
at the river. _ should it not be?' M y1
fearful -reverie awoke
lad frhgha ther
at ho time 'beautiful lady -oh, ho iBmost beautiful
she had lost, turned home. thelia, had Ugly to ne the
plower, she " Iler f clasped ° her t
hands in a kind of raptu:a. "She is fair,'
fair as a lily, with eyes like the sky, with
hair like the 0un for gold' -Mina re.;
membered 01iven: incoherent words, "Got -I
den hair, golden heart," and another l
palig eltot through her heart -"elle is as,
graceful as a fawn, as a Nautoh girl; her
voice ie like musts. She is peerless, lovely,
beyond words, is my mistress, the Lady
Edith. All men are in love with her; all
men wart to marry her -why not Mr.I
Clive Harvey?"
Mina moistened her lip0; they were dry
and burning. "And she -Che—?" she;
Sara shrugged her shoulders. "She
loves him, yea' she replied with an air
of re0lgnatron, coudeseension, 'There are
others more worthy, more wealthy, morel
noble of rank, and as handsomo and as'
straight of farm; but my mistress has
fierce scrutiny that stu'tified the axed 0ust a favorable oye on him. She fs a
smile which twisted the shall, full pipe, her ch ilk, the ret of us, and will a for
"You are the girl called Mina? Yes? I ( his choice, It is a good marriage for
anted to see you," she said in her broken him. Ho is Roar and -what you call itP•-
great sahib, Lord Cllestorlelgh," said
Nara as slowly, her *Yee watching the
girl's face intently,
Mina remembered the "Edith" which
Clive had murmured in his delirium. She
had thought of it, of //owe*, very often:
it might have been just the name of
friend or an eoquaintance, But nolo she
repeated it meohnnfoally, with a sinking
of the heart and a swift pang of jealousy
-her first, But her oyes met 0teadlly the
dark 01100 fixed au her, she allowed no
nlgn of sudden feat', of the doubt that
w'a0 creeping over her,
CHAPTER PVI.
Ther° WW1 a silence, during which Sara'e
expreeslon changed 1n a subtle way, ne
i1 elle had rondo a mietake In her eoti-
mate of the girl, as if oho found it n0-
01'a0nr7 le change Iter mode of attaok;
for elle knew now, the knowledge had
been growing upon her convincingly overy
moment, that, whatever Mr. Clive Har-
v0y's iuoutlon0 were towards this uirl,
hers were good and true. Tho^ dullest
comprehension --and Sara wa0 ae quick
nent0 as even a Hindoo can be -would not,
fall to be Impreesed by Mina's innocence
and purity, Nara'e tone changed to one
of hersuaolon sad ever hu nt
gone to his lessons; the rooms were empty
and silent: 00 empty ea her heart.
She sat down to the piano, end made
an effort to concentrate tier attention
on tho cam/ekes; but there were many
pansies, her hands lying motionless on the
keys, her eyes half-closed as she recalled
his face, his voice, hie words, "I love
you,"
She was 0o absorbed in the joy of re-
collection, of dreaming, that she started
guiltily ae a knock at the door broke the
silence. She reefs and opened the door,
and etood gazing with surprise at the
Sgure of a Bindoo woman, with bronzed
face, big gold rings in her ears, and her
head enveloped in a white shawl, which,
with her white hair, showed in (narked
contrast to her swarthy, olive complexion:
The woman had dark and piercing eyes,
and she settled them on Mina with a
1 811011.
Mira inclined her head. She was at
first almost too mite/lithe(' to speak,
"Will you come in?" she said at last.
Sara glided in and stood, smiling still,
but still scrutinizing her with those
piercing eyes.
"Won't yen sit down?" said Mina. "Is
It me you }rant t0 see, 110t my sister -
'ribby, or Elleha?"
"It is you I want," said Sara, ea she
seated herself, still gazing at the girl.
"You have a gentleman here, a sick gen-
tleman, Is it not so?"
The color r000 to Mina'° face, but she
fought it down.
"You mean Mr. Clive?" she replied. "He
has been here; but he has gone."
Sara nodded. 'That le well," elle said
slimy. "He is better?'
"Yes," said Mina, too engrossed in won-
dering what this strange woman could
want with her to feel confused any longer.
"Yee; he left this morning. He has been
volt' ill, but he1 1s better.'
Sara looked round the room with a
swift, all -embracing glance, then her dark
oyes returned to Minae face.
Tho sabib'a-LMR gentleman's friends
have been anxious about him," she said
.slowly, ae if she were choosing her
words, feeling her way. "They have miss-
ed him -it wee natural."
Mina colored. "He did not wish them
to be told," elle said.
Sara shrugged her shou'ders. "Sol He
wished to be hidden. Ah, yes. That is
like these sahths, when utero is a pretty
face. -You Nursed him, lleee Mina?"
"I -rare. Why have you come, what is
it you want?" demanded Mina, panting a
little, but speaking calmly.
In a little while I tell you," said Sara.
She looked round again. "That is a fine
piano. It cost a great deal of money. You
buy it?"
No," mid Mina; then she added. "Mr.
Clive gave it to us."
So? He gave it to you. Ho is very
kind is the sahib. And he got you jewels
-'why you not wear zeta?"
Mina thee and staredat the woman.
"Got me -jewels? Bol" sho said. "Why
do you—?'
"Wait: in a moment" said Sara. "Why
yon 0o angry? How long you know the
sahib?" she added, leaning her chin on
her skinny hand with its big Indian
Hugo.
Mina was silent a moment. "Not -
long,' she replied.
"Not longi And you can him Mr.
'Clive! But that's of course, eh, my dear,
eh P"
I call him Mr. Clive, yes," said Mina
with surpri06. 'That's 1118 name."
A part of 1,ie mane, yea; (hie Christian
name, ae they say," said Sara. "Do you
tell 1110 that you did not know that he le
Mr. Clive Harvey?"
.lir. Clive Harvey?" repeated Mina.
"You did not know? Ah, well, that ie
the way of these sahibs. They hide their
nam00 sometimes: it i0 very wise."
Inde --'wise—?" echoed Mina. "Why
should Ile hide 140 name? And why have
Yon come to Holt me then° questions?
Please answer me. I don't know who you
are, what right you have, to say these
thiuge, to question Inc."
"I. will tell you, dearie," said .Sara with
asoil°, a gesture of friendly confidence,
I am the servant, the old nurse of the
lady the sahib i0 going to marry."
Mina's hand closed, and Pressed on the
table, but she neither started nor called
out.
Dli', Clive -Mr, Harvey is goingto
marry your mistress," she said slowy, in
a dry voice. "Who is she? What le her
1lttme P'
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Yetis; Mina understood. A heavy weight'
was pressing on her heart, her breath
came slowly and painfully. Sara paused
and arranged her shawl; and then 10111
on in the same pereuaeive manner,
"2 love my mistress; I love her better
than life itself. Sho lay on my bosom
when she was a little babe. She ]tae
grown into my heart." She struck her
bosom with her skinny hand. I have
nursed her, watched over her, tended her
all her life. I would die willingly to gain
half an hour's happiness for her. I am
like a mother to her: she is like my
(Mild, I get everything for her elle wants,
If she wants this Mr. Chive Harvey, she
must have him• That ie why I 001110 to
YOU. One day I eee him with a pretty
girl, a very pretty young girl. It would
not matter to me, if my mistress did not
love him, if he did not love, were not
going to marry her; but for my mietreee's
sake I must see what this means. so I
follow her."
She paused again, and leaning forward
smiled at Mina, who sat quite motionless,
but Palo to the line.
Those sahibs are all alike; it is the
same here in England as it is in my
country; they will all run after the young
girls with the pretty faces. Ah, no; it
is not you that is wicked, but the sahib.
That makes 1117 work all the easier. I
came to offer you money' -Mina's eyes
flashed, and her hands clenched, and
Sara }fastened on -"I came to offer you
money, because if you had been the girl
I thought you, you would have taken It"
She shrugged her shoulders. "But I do not
offer it to you now. Ab, not I wish to
argue with you, to appeal to you. There
is no doubt that Mr. Clive Harveylovas
my mistress, and will marry her -if you
do not /stand in the twat' I truly think
that he has a fancy for you; but"-eho
Weed out her }hands--"itis but a passing
fancy,. He would not let it come between
him and 1110 fortune, his real life. He will
tire of you -oh, very quickly. He would
not marry you. I know theeo eahibo."
She leant back, and smiled and nodded
her head sapiently.
They will not marry beneath them.
And you, my pretty e1111d, you are not
of hie caste. You are graooful and beauti-
ful. Ah, yes! But you aro of lower rank,
of the people; while he is of noble birth
and already a great man." Mina's lips moved, and at last she fal.
tared in amazement;
"Of noble birth? A great man!"
Sara nodded again, and smiled. "Yee;
it is so, Ho did not tell you, he has hid -
don it from you Ah, yea, It is eaey to
uud0retand. He did not 10011 you to
]snow, did not want to trouble him when -
when ho had done with you."
Mind rose, and stood looking down at
the swarthy, smiling fade; but she said
nothing, and saner into her chair again,
her hands clasped tightly, her 070e axed
on Sara, as- 0110 went on iu her soft
broken English:
You did not know that he ie the son of
a lord, the son of an earl, that ho ie one
of your English Parliament, a lawmaker,
a ruler? He kept this from you: it is
their way, the 'way they stalk their prey,
these sahibs. Now, why should he hide
all this from yon, if ho meant well by
7011, if he meant to marry. you? But he
does not. He is going to marry my mio-
trese, the Lady Edith; and he but anlueed
himeelf-what you call 1t?-pooeed the
time with a prr1ty girl."
(T0 be continued.)
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Marketing the Lamb Crop.
Every fioalc Cli•ue1' 0110111d de tote
particular attention to the . h;tnd-
ling of his flock in such manner that
his e1'op of lambs will be in proper
condition to market when the price
is right to sell.
The man with a flock of high-class
mutton sheep has et field of opera-
tion all his own. To -day there is
n steady demand £o1' all the lambs
he can p001111ce at any season of
the year and at prices that insure a
fair margin of profit.
It is simply a matter of having
his lambs in good condition when
the markets are not overloaded
with the products from the large
feed lots. In close proximity to
the large cities there is a profitable
field for the winter lamb"business.
This is a branch of the sheep busi-
ness that can aeve0 stiffer because
of competition with the large feed
lots. The consumers of this class
of fancy mutton are the rich peo-
ple who have money to pay for an
article that pleases their palates
and who will never accept the feed-
lot lamb as a substitute for the ten-
der, juicy and palatable lamb that
possesses superior qualities.
Another branch of mutton grow-
ing that perhaps is better adapted
to the average farmer is that of
maturing spring lambs Sor the mar-
ket. Such lambs are ready for mar-
ket shortly after the winter Iambs
are sold. As a general rule, suoh.
lambs bring more money than those
that are held back and finished
along toward autumn.
During late years there has been
an increasing demand for the late
summer and early fall lambs to
supply the market for a few weeks
in August and September:
This class of mutton has been
supplied largely from the farm
flocks owing to the fact that many
flock owners plan to dispose of
their lamb crop at weaning time. In
many respects this is an advantage-
ous time to sell.
The flocks require less attention,
for the lambs are dropped during
the warm weather, and if the ewes
and lambs have good pasture they
go through the summer in good,
thrifty condition without supple-
mental feeds.
Provided a man has excellent
pasture and lacks the equipment
necessary to handle his ewes and
lambs during the cold weather, this
class of lambs will prove far mora
profitable than those dropped ear-
lier 1n the season.
The lambs are dropped when the
weather is favorable and the losses
at this time are slight. The ewes
and lambs are fed principally on
pasture grass, the cheapest and
best feed on the farm.
Each branch of feeding and mar-
keting the lamb crop possesses cer-
tain advantages. The question of
profits depends largely upon the
quality of the mutton, the location
of the farm and the ability of the
owner.
The production of winter lambs is
a business that demands the skill
of a master shepherd. The man
who keeps sheep as a supplement
to other branches of farming will.
find early summer and fall lambs
better adapted to his system of
faiming than those that come ear-
lier and require more painstaking
care.
The man who is nearby to a good
market, who has good barns and
plenty of time to look to every de-
tail that will add to the comfort of
hie sheep will find good profits in
producing winter lambs.
If a man has plenty of roughage
.and grain, it is often best to hold
his lambs over and condition them
for a late winter market. Good,
thrifty lambs will more than pay
kr the feed required to put them
in the best possible condition.
If he holds his lambs for -a later
market he should have plenty of
forage and pasture to feed during
the late summer and early fall.
Pasture grass and forage crops are
cheapest and best feeds for the
lambs during this period of their •
growth and development.
Rape is an ideal forage crop for
sheep pasture and can be grown at
any time during the growing sea-
son and brought to a condition of
pasture in less than eight weeks-
after
eeksafter it is sown.
By sowing it in successive sowings
he can have an abundance of palat-
able and nutritious forage from
June until November.
Look After Ilio .Fontes.
Don't forget to fix the fences. A
trip around the ,pasture and field
fences now and then will often save
trouble, strength and the time of
having to drive the cattle back in-
to the pasture, Animals are al-
most human when it comes to go-
ing where someone does nob want
them. Remove the suggestion,
therefore, by nob allowing any sags
in the wire or any loose or decayed
posts in the line. A well -kept fence
is an indication of a good farmer.
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