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The Wingham Times, 1911-08-10, Page 7THE Mann TIMES, ,MTGITST 10 111 • ++ f++4 +++4 ++++ +44 ++++++++++++++++++4++++44 Linked by Fa Mt CHARLES GARVICE IAuthor of "The Verdict of the Heart," "A Heritage 1 of Hate," "Nell of Shot—e Mills," "Paid + / 'For," "A Mo.lern Juliet," Etc, keney you wohld prefer tt to -to his proposal '' Her eyes were fitted on him with, breathless earnestness While he Woe speaking, then they dropped, "Hoes -does Mr. Fleming consent?" she asked in a IOW VOiee. "The risk is bis as well as mine, 1 lave no right to lot him take it!" "He consents," lie said. She raised her eyes again. "And. you -you would be left here. alone? Alone!" She tried to repress the shudder that shook her at the idea, "That is all right," he responded. "And tbe provisionsyou would be left without sufficient food-" . "1 shalt not starve," he said, qUietty. "There are plenty of birds, other things. I will keep the gun. There is the fishing- Oh, I shall do. , well enough!" . "You -you wish it?" she asked al- most inaudibly, her eyes hidden from Win by their long 'Relive. "I don't know," he Seta almost Toughly, for his nerves were on edge, his pity for her making CI, kind of madness in his brain. "I think any- thing would be. better than -the thing be ,wiles you to do, Do you think I don't realize it? You knew Inothing of me. You would commit yourself to the keePleg of a man who, for all you know, may be the greatest villain unhanged-would be the \vile, on compuleien ageinst your desire and will, of one *for whom you do not care. Oh, I know how it must •seera to yonl-how you must think of it! My plan is full of risk and den- er, but I ftincy that you will consid- oer it a better one than his." Foe one moment she looked him full in the eyes, hi hers was the ques- tion: But you, you, too, realize' that you would be chained to one for -whom you do not care -do you wish ther, for your own sake, to go? His eyes were averted and he did not see the interrogation in hers; his face Was glowering, frowning with the strain on nerve and brain; and it is little wonder that she read an af- firmative to her question. "I will go," she said alniost in- audibly. Mannering made a slight gesture With his hands. "I thought you would," he said in et, N•oice almost as low as her cam. 1: think you are right." He went to their hut, to which trim/ling had ,crawled. "She has decided," he .said, curtly. 'She will go.'" Fleming had been sitting with his, theed bowed in his hands. He let ahem/ fall and looked steadily at .Mannering. "Very Well," he said, resignedly. '"But you must be ginck, Manner - dug," he added, significantly.. Mannering nodded, took up an axe .and went straight -to the pine wood. Ile worked like tt. man' posSessed, and the trees fell before the , strokes of his axe with a,' dull crash which reached Nina where she sat listen- ing, He worked until nearly night- fall, then he remembered the gait wanted mending. lie took it up over his shoulder and went to her. She was cooking the evening meal and scareely turned her head when ho. stood at the door and said: "Do you think you could -mend the Sall, Miss Nina? I could Manage it, but I should be a long while about and time is short." "Yes," she replied. "I have one of the ship's needles are; can do it, Supper is nearly ready." "All right," he said; "You and Fleming go on; don't wait. I want to work while there's light." Ile went back. to the wood, drag- ged one of the felled pines to the bench. and aot the ends behind two 4,•,‘ A.4 b 4 4 4-l.4 -L+++++++ rocks,. then strung a rose round the middle of the log, end, ssing it as; winch. hauled down, its fellows. It was dark when he had ' got the last of thet felling. done, and he was: so giddy with exhaustion that he had to sit dawn -awl met. ilet Ni- na's sweet, clear voice called to him, (MEI he got up, and assathirig 11 C Item' fulnese-he even tried to he in - went towards the men's hut ie. which the Olive took their meals, She had persuaded, Fleming to take a little food, but, she had .not touch- ed hers; and as 'she put Mannering's before hita, she avoided looking at him and went to the sail,. tie was almost too tired to eat, but he forced himeelf to do so, 1118 eYes fixed on his plate. But present- ly he looked at her, rose and went out. "Put this on your finger," he wad, when he came back, dropping a sail - maker's thimble on her lapi, "Your hand will be rubbed. It is fortunate X remembered it." ' "Thank you," she said, simply. Fleming, from where he lay beside the nre which they made every night, watched them with sad intentness. "You forget nothing," be said, af- ter awhile. "At every turn f find some instance of your care. and thoughtfulness. Te there nothing I can do?" "Yes; go to bed," retorted Man- nering, cheerfully. "It's time we all turned in. Miss Nina, you can't work by this light." can see quite well," .she said; "but if you wish it -good night!" After she had gone the two men were silent for a few minutes,; then Mannering said: , ''Iltas she said anything? Is she frightened? ,On a raft in the open seat It is enough to alarm the bra,v- est!" "No, she has saidahot one word," replied Fleming. "I don't think she, knows what fear means," said Mannering with some- thing like a groan. "And yet she must realize the danger; she is so quick, so intelligent -- "She is the most intelligent and acute girl I have ever known," said Fleming. "Will you give me your hand, Mannering?'' Ile was so weak that Mannering 11110St carried him to their hut. Mannering 'Would have lain awake that night brooding over the situa- tion, but the next day's Herculean, toil loomed before hien and be forced himself to sleep. ' But Nina did not sleep. She went ever Fleming's . proposal, Manner- ing's words, in endless repetition; called up the expression of his face, hist quick, short gestores. Rather than marry him she was going to leave him alone on this desolate island. She did not think df her own peril, on a raft on the open sea with a dying man, but of the ter- rible Scilitude of the nian who had saved her 'life, who had •worked like a slave for her comfort.' Imiumerahle little acts, amongst the big ones, occurred to her, against which, small as they were, his fight with the Las - car was diminished. My brothers, it is our little deeds, our small acts of conSideration, which weigh with women. It is the wrapping of a cloak round them, the finding of a chair, the proffered hand in some smallsdifficulty by the way, that counts with them. Heroic self- sacri rice is all very well, but, if you want to win a woman'S heart, screen her from the sun, keep her feet dry, help her over the stile. The girl lay and thought of the thousand and one little acts of kind- ness and consideration which Man - Tiering had performed on her .behalf, and elle ,was sa busy With the mem- ory of them that she had not time left in which to think of her own comieg And yet, how eager he must be,te, avoid Marrying her, seeing thdt he was willing to letaher run the risk of setting sail on a raft for an Un- known destitution! MEIER COMPLAINT ono of the most tronbleconui :roubles of the Hot Summer Days. The .Old and the Young, The reflection stung her and -made .tho Strong and the. Weak ars her face burn. Mothering was up with the dawn - and really, it was almost worth be- ing ,shipwrecked to see the dawn of day on that lovely island1-but early as it was, Nina had risen and was standing at the door of the men's hut, "X 'have got your breakfast," she said, simply, 'Hoe/ iS Mr. Flem- ing?" The pearly light fell like a benedice tion on her lovely face and was res fleeted in the Oahu of her violet eyes, and something stirred hi Mannering'S bosom; perhaps tile' thought that very soon he would not see her in any light, "ITe was asleep-eit least, / think So; he is very weak," he said as he took the Slice of bread tual .the tiit of tea "I am afraid he iS Voty ill," sho Be sure and ask for Dr. Fowler's and said, sadly, "I Will go to him, Yoti insist on being given what, you ask for. are felling trees?" etrength. "Have yen (Mt down all these -in so elitert. Aliale? Seefull. impoesilsle." "There it Ile titral to 1050," he os no Kt 4.1eiVit the mug, "How iss Mr, Fleming getting on? have 'ft hope' that the voyage,. the erfOrt,, Will do him geed." She looked Wend graVely ea Ole answered; "go is Much weaker A am nfrnid. 1' have been Pitting with hint mending the Sail, It is finished, Is there anything elee afill f10?" Sha looked at the logs. "I am strong Very strong. It is strange, Wet native grOwn stronger el= We hare been on the Wend. It la the air, I sup - poem" Mannering nodded. "Anti the pox - cite,. You are on the moYe from moreing to night. I have Watched Yhh. And the simple food. We eat too much over there in England." • She looked round almost wistfully. "It. is a very beautiful itiland, ',have never seen anything hall so beauti- ful, The colors are fia lovely. If only there Were more people!" she sighed and sWept the dark hair from the sunburnt brow,. "Can not help you with these?" "No," he said, abnost curtly; "they are too honey, But. you can get the provieions together -the tin- ned meats and condensed milk we brought with us from the wreck -in- to a box, and Strap up the rugs; in tarpaulin, And mind and put your Spare clothes in the middle of the bundle, so that they can't get Wet." Tshhee gsraver vipngast, barsothhee. stood, lingers, and he extended his hands his bare neck tanned by the tamable above their heeds and panted out the brow knit with, thought of her. benediction. With a great effort he wrote sone° WOCLI$ Olt a sheet of pap - "Very well," she said, and, taking up the empty intim left him. et' and put it in Nina's hands,sthen, By nightfall Mannering had got with a, low cry, he fell back, the last of the loge down. to 910 Meningitis • sprang to his feet and beach at the edge of the high tide mark, and he worked On in the moon- to over him. "He is-Slead!" he cried, hoarselY, light until he had joined the logs to- to Nina as she knelt, with her facto gether and constructed his raft. cevered her trembling hands. "He When he dragged himself , up the is dead -and we are married!" he beach, Nina was standing at the added, inaudihly. door of the men's hut. • "You are late," she said in, a low. voice. "Sapper has been waiting CHAI"rEit V. long time," "I'm sorry," he Said, "I wanted Mannering had road the Burial Ser - to finish the raft to -night, and I vice over Fleming, and Nina, who, have done so. You will be able to had stood besiide the grave until thd'. start tognorrow. Where is ale. last specie, full of earth had fallen, Fleming?" he asked, as he entered went slowly, and with bent head and and saw that Fleming was not there. tear -blinded eyes, 1.0 her hut. • "He was too weak to leave his' When his task was finished, Man - bed and come down here," she reg tiering leant on his spade and gazed plied. after her with a moody and perplex. - "I will go to him," he said. • ed brow. The girl and he was mar - "Not till you have had something ried; they were alone on this desolate to eat," she said with a touch of island; hut they were man and wife command' in her low voice. "He has in name only; they were as far amen - taken some milk: 1 have been sitting' der as the poles. with him: Have your supper, What a situation! And how were please." • they going to take it? Would she bead; hing rely on his word, or would "Have you packed the bcix with the provisions?" he aaked as he sank she be -afraid of him? The thought on to a Seat. ", made his bends clench tightly on the "Yes," she replied. pouring out spade and the blood rush to his coffee. face. Already a feeling of ember - 'All will be ready .to -morrow," he rassment, a tragic shyness and diss comfort, had assailed Mins and he said. "I. have been studying the cur - knew that she. must be feeling in ex - rents. You ninst steer south by on the actly the name way, liut worse. It southwest. I Will shoW you compass, If I QM right 'in my idea* was for him to help her; it was his of the position of the Main grout), ditty to neike life possible under the circeunetanees. He knew that it you will sail and drift for it with-' out 'any difficulty, and should reach would' be better to, leave her alone it in- twenty, or, say, thirty hours." for a while, and he got his fishing "We may find the men there," she lines and went down to the rocles to said. "The boat may have taken catch fish and think over the situa- tion. thent there." tie stepped the mug on its way to Meanwhile, Nina closed .the door of his mouth, then he shook his head. the but, and put. in its place the "No, thank Heaven! The wind was, thick bolt of wood that Mannering in the other direction when they had fixed for her. Then she sank into the chair and covered her face wont. No, they drifted oute to the open,sea. If I were not sure of that with her hands. Grief for the 1088 01 the young clergymen whom 1 -ie had I would not, let you go. Better run. loved as a brother mingled with the' the risk of -marrying me, thao fall into their hands. But there is no dismay aud embarrassment of ' her chancel of that; you need not be own condition. Prgeently she took afraid. Aren't you going to eat from her pocket the piece , of paper something?" which Fleming had pressed into her She came to the rough table and hand - all affected alike. DR. FOWLER'S' ; Extract of ; ;Wild Strawberry Is the most effective remedy known for the cure of DIARRHCEA, DYSENTERY', COLIC, CRAMPS, CHOLERA MORBUS, OWL. tERA. INFANTUM, AND ALL SUMMER COlNPIAINTS. This sterling remedy has been on the Market ior over 65 years and has yet failed to do what we claim for it. ri 044ti$M0 .01 11.0. 55 "Whet fire, yell gropig to do. Viem- 5110 rose from her Ieat beside ftie ing,i ;alike 1.0,1 egnyti The ra,ft 10 lire, then &tipped down .again l'ehdY„ but you heed not flail to-dayl" bent over her pot. el, um eyiegie geed riming; Mannering had ephooled himself, .0101einnlY. "1 ,Aet that 1 could, net hact, indeed, rehcareed his pare -end wititgethat it would be too tate, he came in With cheerful euuntene ilathering, yeti remeMber .0ise eoee .nnee as if no marriage • had Walt VerSatien? Y-Okt .lineW that I an a Pleee-ah if their position towards „ right. Yoh -you consetit?" each, other had suffered no alteration, "Yea, xt:titreplica Mannering.. Nothiege--no word of his Sign, - scarcely. 00080100s of what lie said. he had sworn to himself, sho'eld re, "Put, Mise Nitiarg" mind her of tim .fact that ehe Wee "She unigt eonSentl" gasped nem- tied to 11110. Ines "She eanuot refuse. There is, "Pinner ready? I've bed gOod hick no alternativet ,Thice-take her hand, to -clay," he ,Raid, holding up the ileh Save • you -have you anything' that •he had caught. "I mean to catch a. Will serve as 0, ring? Anything-" lot of these fellows presently and Salt diannerhig, hypnotized by the, them down for the winter.' solute .cernesteess ot the dying man, She Palseed as she west. lifting the Wig the signet ring front his flinger, pot from the lire& paused. with dis- "There, if YOtt itittStl" he side., may at the prospect, but he theught hoareely, ' it was because. the tides WaS tOO :bleating had found the Service el heavy, and he wefit id her and toek ljoly Matrinioey •aral began to read it frolli her hand. 11. sloWiSe• pair/mite, with pauses in "Let nie. It smells deliciottat .A,nd whice he struggled tor breaths fettrf011Y end wonderfully butte Ae, If 1n a dreath Nina, and, Man- gl'S," ,nerieg, prininited by the dying He forced him self -e -he been ree Made the propee response, Bravely, hearsing his' facial expressions AO with faitering aceeots ana . heroic well es his words -to look steadily stroggies with hie death weakness, and 'frankly at her as he sat opposite the teverend Arthur Fleming' read her at the table, and she contrived the iiiarringe Service. to meet his gaze as openly mut as an - At the, proper umment Mansierieg reeervedly. took ,Nina's hana-it wee limp and "You have proved yourself a re - yielding to his touch -and- plated the markebly good, cook,' • he said, as he ring tie her linger. tasted the -stewed duck. "You would The solemn words of eXhortation he worth at least thirty pounds a were gaimea by the young priest, the Year in England." l'eaYee thiek. arcmped from his. week She winced at the word which meant Home. Olt, how dear, how Sacred, was the •werd. to the girl cast, on his desolate island! . And full of re/novae, be murmured, "Forgive me! I beg your pa.rdon!" . But she ignored dhe slip and res sponded. with a cheerfulness egnal to his own, "Should really? That's strange; for I know nothing whatever . ebout cooking. My father" -she kept her voice steedy,-"and I lived. alone, He lied given up practice for some years. and amused himself with scientific ree search. Re used to write articles and things for the magazines and reviews, and I acted as his nmannen- sis; so that I .had. no time for what Is celled domestic ditties. If I had only known that I should have need- ed a knowledge of cooking and, oh, so many other things. that other we,. 'men can dot" "yeti have loon picked them Ida" he said, promptly. "It is wonderful how quickly you have learned to do things; by a kind of instinct, It's the inteiligence of the culture mind. It's always, easy for an educated pee - son to learn the duties of a servant. That's why lady belps should be such a success." "But are they usually?" she .asked • as she took her plate' and cut hine-a slice of bread. "I've always been given to understand that the lady help. does everything but help. She .pria sides at the table, over am underdone or overdone joint and a watery pud- ding, and is much aggrieved if sho. is asked to do anything in the shape et.- Work." • Mannering nodded and kept tbisball rolling: "Yeag,something like the ordinary landlady. I used to live in lodg- ings, and the leedlady-she was too liberal with her t's and said she was the daughter of a clergyman -left the cooking to an infant of sixteen whose /lotions of a Meal would make a lied Indian . quail. Until I Was landed here I scarcety knew, away froni home or at a restaurant, what a decent dinner meant. You make, coffee splendidly. It is quite a sur- prise ta •(Ind that it doesn't taste like baked hoehe beans." "I am sorry to say that the coffee is giving out," she Said, gravely. "011, he iesponded, cheer, fully, "we can manage without it-' though IS•ii sorry for your sake. It's supposed to he bad for the netwee." Nina smiled. "I've altdost forgot- ten that X had. any," she ,said. "You have- gone through so moch," he commented., seedy. 'Mere is no- thing half so good • for nerves as real down trouble and danger and right down. laird work." As he spoke he drew his chile. to the lire and took out bus old briar Moe, then remembeeed that he hail nothing With which to fill it; arid, lifter. a loving look at . It end (1asigh. replaced it in his docket:But Nina, epon whoin no action. or word of bis was lost, took a packet feom het eecket and held it out to him, "You've no tol ince, 1 :weeder -of -cense, it won't- mit I wonder whe., thee t.his woeld ee? I found some 'eaves, on the Hee of the planta- t(on, and they looked se like tobac- ••••••••,1 0. n. Mills, Teulon, Miin„ writes: "Yes, ' he said, trYing to Speak in batist a line. to let you kuow that have a little girl five years old, and during the lot weather of hist sunirner she was very had with the Suirtmer Cornpynt, in fact / thought we Weed going to lose her. WO •tried eVerything We could think of but Without success. One day one of our , neighbors Staked what Was the trouble with the little girl, and we told him, lie .advised us to try t)r. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, which we did. honestly believe it was the Ohly thing that saved Iv little girl's life, / don't think there is anything better for Sum - bet Complaint then Dr. Fowler's nxtract iof Wild Strawberry." Price 35e. Motu - featured only by The 14. Milburn CO,, ' Limited, Toronto,.0n,t, a et -tonal way. -1 have rteat1 ins 1 ed. I hope to have Made the raft by i there was not time. 1 011:a.V3t1 '0,t twilight. Don't Worry about the Sail; I can finieli it when, I come itt." have to do as I. said 11,1y -my Pray - '"It Will be dote before that," She er /look! Quick! My voice -411y , said, very slowly and ctuietly. 1 breath—aro going. Nitta, My child, He Went off and resumed his Work, I Where are Yoh?" The day grew hot and he Was thirsty I Nitta stank on her knees beside the Mid was relectantly thinking of go- bode Mitettering heal got the Brayer itig to the Spring for a drink of wa. I Dook from underneath the pillow, ter When Nina cathe treVarde 'hint ad Fleeting almost thatched at it "It ie too bite," he period. "neaVen hos decided. You -you can - watched her approach. tiot resist its decree. Kneel, Man. "Is there any heed tui Work gc:i tiering," herd'?" she asked in a low voice, her Maimering, meclintically, sank onto I eye§ half raised With, on. her tide, his kneeS beeide Nina, whose face the Womaife insti +A eic__ve appreciation --- ei.eier, is tee isevele end unconscham worship of his h was a cert:ecate of marriage, poured oith a cup of coffee. It was and at she read the feebly written the first meal they had taken alone, and he watched her under his lower- liras, a burning blush rose to her end, Cheeks and her ties quivered, she ed lids ler a time then rose went down to the beach and gazed was married to a man of whom she know nothing but his name. She was at his raft with grim 'satisfaction. in his 1.31;7er-the power which. a hue. awake, and stood' over Fleming,' At dawn the next morning he was bend Igo ds over 'ids :wile:. had d tnat the tear/ease should be who, Mannering thought, was asleep, .00 „ and o name. •ohly. Age], ah, yes, she but Fleming' opened his eyes could trust inni1 Ile had proved smiled wanly.- himeelf so brave, so unselfish, so self - 'Nearly ready, Fie/nine," said sacrificing.; he lied even risked his hfannering: "How do you feel?" 1' lee for hers. Nils, she told herself, Fleming smiled and moved his hand striving to gain confidence from the feebly, and Mannering went 'down to reiteration of the assurance, that she the raft. He fixed up a mast for the could trust to hie honor. ' sail and rigged a rough, and he WAS, She sat for some time, the anti - going up to Nina's hut for the Pre -I ecete in her heed, her brain half visions when he met her combag a with thougat; then she remote - daze • swiftly dose the beach, bored that she tied work to do, and "Everything is ready, I think---" . -blessed be drodgeryl-sheespeang to Pis said, but she broke in upon lum with an anximie cry. her feet with the sense of relief ahich comes at. the mere thought of stalest, - "Oh, come at once! Mr. Fleming of something definite, ili ill -worse!" howeVer trilling, that nusatotthebtcl!thalge: Ho etrede beside her, his brows eomplished. knit. and 11,03 . entered the hut: . And -and after all it 'Was the duty Fleming wee lying on his back,. his of a wife -the name swag her' -to few white arid pinched, his eyes dos- feed her husband. . of f s .., k She opened the door and looked ed. _ ,".,te "Itt i' cw$ l‘t„allw,l'ing..f, Ilt• ask out with shy embarraesment, but eu in so low a voice tent mannering gianneri ng was Oat or sight on the coult scarcely hem' it. rocks, and she went to the spring "Yes, it's I, What's the matter, and filled the Can Mid truSeed the 'Fleming'?" replied Melieerieg.' "Are wild deck she was going to cook for, you ill -worse? The raft -everything tihmet„. she smiled es sin, perform - hi reedy," , ed the task, It was en extraordt- mtoo latel'' told Fleming", cainily, nary wedding, a singular honeymooe. It is wonderful how calm your dyine e., e a nem were the bridesmaids, the Man can be. For him. all earthly breakfast, the. wedding-goests in turmoil, all earthly -streaks, doubtS, freek Coats and gorgeous coetumes, difficurties, are over. "I cannot go. the 111011Stl'OUS 1121d. always hideous I am dying. I am sorry. Where-- „gee, to an of which ehe had looked where is Miss Nina?" forward, like all other properly She was beside hine her hahd oh brought up girls, as the fitting and his Wrinkled Vow, her pitying eyes full of tears, it:ilitilgye danyccionmanineents of her MY - 'no sorry, Mannering. I would Every how and then as she moved have doh* what yon wished, but - - idiom, keeping as near the hilt tie * pOSSibk., SlItY glanced, eapecting to see Mannerieg; but. .hu' did not make toe appearance,' old at the tieual bour she ettelied the meal to the men's hut and wetted. Half an. hour three-qUartere. laiSs- lel, and he dia not tome. A grim suggestion hashed tteroee her mind and sent, the blood to lier Mee: had he, in terror at 'what lte had three, token the vet mut left her -fled from tslilleiriv:o7nian he had been forced to The idea, was a wild mid foolish tine, arid she was meffering from the r,hathe of it when the heard his step. with a mig iim,..water,. 110 itrid pressed it to his eheSt. straightened bie betek, and, With an tineoeschatie admiration of her grate, 111101111111111.1.111111111.1110millummulemismIlemlemmemmemenolefoOmmell, gee': ‘a, a%i..`,Skse'%NaN'te .,S..VA.'eN `N.Vesa\sei The Nand You Have Always Bought, and which haa lu uso for over 3O years, lias borne the signature 9g awl has been made under his perm , sonal mtuervisiou since its infauoy, ' Allowno one to deceive OTL1U thigt• Ail Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just -as -good" are hut Experiments that trifle with and eudouger the health of Infants and Children—ExPerieneo against IfixPerinlealts What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare. goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. 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She laughed, but. as she cleared the things away her eyes went to Iiim where he sat smoking Ode:cable% Old there Was it strabgely happy glancck in them: There was ghetto, for a tilliet bent Were thinking of the demi; but Man. nering would not refer to them -- Would not sae 0 word to voice their tense of solitude. *siro-morrow I intend exploring the Wand us far as 1 can.'" he said with ; 110 eneinned casuelness: "1, shell be away all 'day. "You won't mind?" ''No,'she said.' '*Uhy should I? There is no ono here hut ourseet es." It eels oute-lied slipped out at hist , --mut she sWenta pale, then red; Abe COMM ftWay t1v11t1y, alld 103 fed not noticeher embarrassment. "1 thought eou might get lonely," In' said, "1„ have not been eo far tinny before. l'ethepe 1 eught tO heNt• OW 0511103,3 01t1 before 11(134 1 Muth egt ito another signet (111 the north, though 1 tint ton\ iar(411 that no /Mimi pess Hatt "any. 1 yo- itiornhOr-a-it's hot' tlithgS tame 'Mtn tame memory alive you think they have game toreserle-eveing these islands -411' whot I tbitik were ilivOt...itt13 nitp at home." • "Ves." fetid, meeleinitalls; for she Vta34 Whiwt. 1.44 'n11111100' 1185. Shollitt She ttSk 1610 it 'MIS heunting.and burtlentamee this entia ulete itinerancy of his Past lit8turY, hit yery identity. t ut before sbe could find courage to put her' ques- tion be went on: "I believe the mainland of Aus- tralia is behind us, so to speak, but I'm not sure." He 'sighed as if im- patient of his ignorance. "It is just poasible sonic traders may drop in on us; on the other hand we may be left-" He had been communing with him- self as much as talking to her; and as he suddenly realised that he WW1 telking aloud, he glanced at her peni- tently. But there was no sign of grief or pain on the beautiful face, and she said, quite cahuly: "There is nothing for it but pa - he sighed. She moved about in the quiet, soothing way some women -bless themt-pOssess naturally, then, pre- sently, she looked round as if every- thing were done. and said, quietly: "Is there anything else I cart do - anything else you watit? If not, I Will go." "No, thank yoer he replied as quietly. lle rose and opened the door for her, as if they were parting for the night in a house in Itlaefair, and, drat:Wing het' cloak round her, She passed him. "flood night." she said, and "flood night," he respouded. Ile waited by the operi door until he had seen her enter the hut, then he closed the door tied lay down by the fire, lie eould net sleep that night in the hut he anti Fleming had °eel/pied: It ll'aS too full of Mentor - \s‘' 1(1'ii,n12114 1.;1(1)(s)t‘sv-i';:l. el 11 wiativer4111111 ndgf rkagludd, went to the door he Artie Nina run- ning toward the ite•n'S hut. She etopped short at sight of tiini and c'ipel 1 led t t thee, itt. ter a ssistiss tulles to eall anti and could not make you AN ir eXOlitittirq. 100121 to hat face, fresh as the morning itself and "Yon gese me et fright:" elle said, andos Vet: Mold here." he said. "WIT. where did yon Odd, I had gone?" said, eat her coldly. "Breakfast Is really. 111 11111.1 , bet] WS 'Moll:it:it SWIM le the T.:1111i1. h1y, end a !allied to find the down with him. hreal.faSt 1411.. did pet sit "I have had mime- she said. as she gave him soil reall,v well -rooked fish and the remains of the duck. 1401!0‘ 1300•11 to take with you. Netter et seven, I auppose?" WaTsi." rteTtetti*bli:it,tctko .111V11041.131; That's right," "I shall want some more birds to day," she said, "I'll get them before I go," he re- sponded. "Is there anything else?" "No, thanks. I'll leave you now. X ant very busy turning out. iny hut." After he had finished his break- fast -it was not so pleasant a meal as that of last night; he missed her -he took his gun and went down to the piece of marsh where he usually found the ducks. It went to hie heart to shoot them, for. being un- aegoainted with the tender mercies of men, they were friendly and Un- afraid, .and, being a sportsman, he had to frighten them on to the wind before he fired. He got a collide or brace and 'Went up to her hut with them. It was the first time he had approaehed her quarters since Fleming's death. She Was standing outside in the midst of a fairly good imitation of a "spring eleae," and she paused in her task and regarded his approach with a. touch of color in her elughe and a certain coldness in 1103' eye$. "Sorry to internee vote" he said in a matter -of -feet ney. "Here aro the det•Ise." "Thenk sem," she said. "Will you put them on eromids ;dense? Oh" -es (ewe her end was walk- ing 'aisay-"What. ehnil I' do with these?'• pointing to a smell heap of st ones. "Tilos are the stones fathet found." Mannering nodded. "Yes; they tug gold," he said, re- sarding them with indifference. Then be Nildiod. 'strange td think that if we were within reach ' of the World and eivilwation sant Would be rich -rich 'beyond the dreame af evarice.' " "t'Ve, yoe mean," she corrected hitt, with a smile, Then the blood burnt in her wine, for it flashed upon her that he would think she had remembered and reicre red to the fact thht they were mad and Wife and held things in com- mon. But Mannering. with It meet dull- ness, took her liteinlly, "No," he ;said. 'You forget that yeur father found it. end that ynn are hie daughter and heiress." "Oh -a -es," she vaid„ caSually. What Shall I do with theill? They AVO' in the way and make my room untidy." "Pitch them onyWhere," he replied. "They are of no use, unless WO ehould be Annul and rescued. Put them in a heapa-oh, better bury them! 1"1 I get t01, S'ifttle." "011, tioll't trod/lel"' elle mid; "1'11 put them SOttleUbt,t't.." "I wish thy %04-1.0 80:11 Man- tierilig, eyeing them thoughtfudy and etnnplainingiy, "Or Detatare or pots of•marnialado stroLieppliutte4,) •