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I *a»pl it/ir I'irR* a#r . tint CMAPTEK VI —Continue* Kisr in* n* it hour I »u busy ren- | taring the loot neiim ill but**, for th* l»i» bod a wr**t peculiar j 1 twos it aa*> aiid lighted candle*, but j It was not Its*- laa.|* ?»t reading th> lu« Ink «|k« tt- bed. I bolted l-wsi that n«* Khr a time ! sat In the di.. tg hall but could not stay ikm- Fie* in tbe urrnia 1 still bad t» light off aoatecfcing ntangible, a Oettse of being watched. a present: anat f ml coming -* rtly nearer t"k.-«*d the door wbi b ted into the huwr 1 opened that which gate *»P«b the yard, the* idacwd a flickering mtiil* on the cmthf sad my chair M front of tt tact** the darkness la the presence of the dead which I’.ttn their resting place* serene with •iwtei beauty, instinct with tenderness toward all living hearts That pres «an had entered the good log house a borne of human warmth, of kindly ruwluit *'*de hoi. co-ism rate, where gwuipki would hush tfce.r tuice*. con strained to mertsir tad m Ue g'aiiuu* monotone of •he rata, roapwid of iokw Joined ;n nutatem. 1 t H a sooth ihg melancholy In*), iwSUlg W. 11 bo-1 I- _Ce not of tbta world had reae into the home Wtead. Hat outs *4- tk>t. bej !b th» dread (orcOl. a threat a menace Ailed tlw wicf 4»rltti»*« Krar clutched at Kir fcBft a preoetum.. nt loW a.- of •nj. of ipotant danger Thru. a* tb.ugb tba horror in the night moved other heart* os oeM as n..ee, the' fhtnm cook ctai> groping his way threat* the d.m. r h .!i aad humbly acr*k'-4 at the duor I let him ia aad be crept to a Hurl a the neat corner I whispered fo him: “Are jroo fright. n-4. star “Too plenty much ‘ he quavered, *W fiiard bad “ He itgfci-d hi* p i* and senaM. Ithe me. to be rawed by hutnaa nin pact Om» only hr moved, and tn 'V mow mot may came a .th his Ion* yrji .w £«(w> U> toorb me. then timid, but r«-aesarrd. rr-pt bark to hts stooi la be corr - r • «» Name !*ant.<a >> tied ua. her ba-r a corkier, ts. look ins very peri »b because she had not pnoo '•a!i»-d at midnight What's the KisMa-vr* she aaktd crossly. and for •starr 1 pulled down the blinds She ! otuvecod aa she pasie-d the open door •o take a chair behind She l..rg»-d ■m to rioae the dour but (be i^ght was •arm. aad beside* f dar-d not Nurse nod < hitmans each had a slat* of port, aad a» did I. feeling much bet ter afterward Aa boar poased. the r'h.namaa nod dm* like tboae ridtruloua mandarin Scares with loose beads, the nurse pallid achtnst (be gloom sUfing until obe cm am mjr nerves | always dis bfced that woman with her precise row tine and iarce Sat feet. Par of I beard the thud of a pun •hot then three shot* all together, and afterward a fifth The evil in the oicfci oaa roBisc nearer, and I said to m> self. If I were really frightened ! -hould close that door. I'm half a coward.” The hero himself had strung his Vic toria ( rose upon a riband which 1: wore about my neck. Could I wear It: - cross and set an example of cow ardice to those poor creatures who crouched in the corners of the room? to show fear is a privilege of the un derbred Hut 1 did long for Jesse. Through the murmurs of the nearer ! ram. I felt a throb in the ground, then heard a sound grow, of a horse gal loping The swift soft rhythm, now loud now very faint, then very near echoed against the barns, thundered acro»s tae bridge, splashed through the rtnod'd yard, and ceased abruptly i Hill' bad come home from the Falls.! h<- was stabling bis roan, be was cress mg the yard in haste, h.s spurs clank- | •*d at the door-step and. dreading his news a sudden panic seized me. I fled behind the bar II- entered, astream with rain, shad ing his eyes against the candle-light; : hen as I moved he called out, as j ’sough I were at a distance, begging me for brandy His face was haggard, his hand as he drank was covered ' with dried blood, ho slammed the glass on the counter so that it broke You heard the shots?” he said. At .Spite House?” 1 whispered, lie nodded You were there?" I asked Half a mile beyond When I got there it was all dark. Looked in ■hrough th** end window, but the rain *< * down niv nek, so l went round 1 he front doer was standing open. I • '.ened a while No need to get shot mys< If Thought the place was deroiict Then I heard groans. Struck a bunch of matches then. '<■ :nd the hall lamp, and got it alight. \\ .shed 1 d got a gun. but there wasn't othing handy except the poker, so l to k that and the light—just followed the groans He was lying on the bar room floor" Brooke?*' Yes Shot through the throat, b.ood spurting down the side of his neck, making a big pool on the oil • loth Y'ou know the thing you make w :th a stick and a scarf to twist up? A tourniquet, yes. Well, it choked the swine, so I quit. He whispered some thing about my thumb hurting the wound, so I told him my father's neck hurt worse. l*p to that I thought he was just acting playing pathetic to touch my fc-lines. Once he muttered your name, and then he was dead.” "Brooke dead!“ "Yes. he'd been shooting Polly, too. ! traced her blood tracks all the way to the front door. Hello, what's that? 1 thought I heard—" 1 ’tstened and there was only the sound of the rain. I suppose it's all right." said Billy, wed b-tter close that door, though" But before he could reach the door, Nur*e Panton called him away to her A Revolver Crached on the Doorstep. i or»er. where she spoke in a whisper 'O that I should not hear, sending him perhaps, for her cloak. Mean while I came from behind the counter to my former seat before the open doorway, where I sat staring into the darkness, unable to feel any more, but .st benumbed Actors my weariness Hiclc«red the mournful soliloquy of a i«x»- barn-door fowl—“Yesterday an •Sg tomorrow a feather duster! What's the good of anytin', why, nothin'." Then 1. too. heard a sound in the nirht. and because Hilly and the nurse were muttering, I stood up with the candle-light behind me, trying to see 1 in the darkness. Billy said afterward he had moved quickly, to shut the door, but I waved him back just as the I shot rang put. The explosion blinded, deafened, seemed even to scorch me, while the mirror on the wall came crashing down. Stunned, dazzled, horrified, I felt a dull rage at this attempted murder. A second revolver-shot stirred my hair, and I'm afraid then that I lost my to; .per. I am not a fish-fag that I should stoop to fighting a creature such as Polly, but I would have died rather than let her see one trace of fear Hilly rushed past the firing to reach the door and close it. but I ordered him to desist, then grasped the candle and held it out to show a better light. "Lower your lights!" I shouted into dark, 'you fired too high!" \ revolver crashed on the door-step, and low down within three feet of the ground, I saw a dreadful face convuls- ‘ ed with rage, changing to fear. The woman was sinking to her knees, she buried her face in grimy, blood smeared hands, and rocked to and fro in awful abandonment of grief. The danger was over now, the men ace of evil in the night had vanished. 1 felt an immense relief, with hands ! wet, mouth parched, knees shaking, { ana great need of tears. I knew the ! strain had been beyond endurance, but' now it was gone, although a velvet darkness closing round me, black night swinging round me, sickness—I must j not faint, when 1 had to fight, to keep command, to set an example worthy of Jesse's wife. And there I was sit ting In my chair, with drops of sweat forming and pouring on my forehead. 1 ;lly, groping on the floor at my feet, had found and lighted the candle, and was holding the ttame iu the palms of his hands till it steadied and blazed up clear. "Huck up. missus," he was saying. “Cheer-oh Don't let ’em know , you swoomed. Grab on to the cross, and make It proud of you. That's right. Laugh, mum! Laugh! Wish'd I'd half ver grit.” I had come to myself and only Billy i knew, who was loyal. As the candle i blazed up 1 saw the Chinaman gib bering like some toothless mask of yellow india-rubber, but that nurse still kept up her silly screaming, un til I ordered her to shut her mouth, which she did in sheer surprise. There lay Polly prone across the doorway on her face, racked with con- j vuisive sobs, until feeling, I suppose, the lashing rain on her back, she rose on hands and knees like some forlorn wild animal crawling to shelter, while • behind her stretched a trail of wet I and blood. I stared until in shame she sat up. still for all the world like i an animal lost to human feeling, and to woman's dignity, until as she looked at me a wan shamed smile seemed to apologize. She sat back then against the log wall, limp, relaxed with weak ness "Nurse,” I called, still with my gaze on Polly, "this woman is wounded. You are a nurse. You claimed to be a nurse.” But Miss Panton indulged in hys terics, so I turned to Billy. Run into the house, get the hip bath, warm j water, blankets, bandages.” “Aye, aye, mum," he touched his forelock, and swinging the Chinaman to his feet: "Come along, Sam,” he grunted, and bustled him off on duty. Polly looked up, trusting me with her tawny bloodshot eyes. Her voice was a dreary hoarseness, demanding liquor. But with an open wound, to quicken the heart's action might be, fatal, and Polly knew well it was no use pleading. Instead of that she pointed at the nurse, and said, “Send that away.” i turned upon Nurse Panton who sat forsaken and ostentatious in her cor ner. "Go,” I said, "and make beef tea.” Sniff. I took her by the shoulders, and marched her out of the room, while | Polly grinned approval. I came bat * 1 and asked where she was wounded. She pointed to the left hip, but I dared not remove any clothing which might have caught and sealed the flow of blood. A sole diet of alcohol and months of neglect had made her condi tion such that 1 shrank from touching i her "So you’re Kate,” she lay against: the bottom log of the w’all, head back, eyes nearly shut, looking along her nose at me, “Carroty Kate." Her own tawny hair, draggled, and TYPICAL DINNER IN FRANCE Prioceas hmmk Teds of a Meal and Its Service in tn« Land of True Epicures, A typical Preach dinner—not an rtrroootul oar. mark you. but such • <1 in tier as a small tradesman's fain tly would hart— Is incomparably su perior to the plain roast dinner Thorw mould be first of all. a few relishes accord Ln< to the season of the year Radishes. Ice cold, sardines, altera, earlsr. Just a little ef each with which to awahea the appetite, ihtm (ha soap to eaciie gently the liquids of the throat and stomach, thra a little entree usually a bit of Ctafc with its appropriate vegetable, sr a handful of vegetables ftarored with meat sauce Then, and not till ihoa. how the chief course appear It may he a roast, or game, or thicken, or chops, bat In no case will . he anything which is not In bar -aooy aith thd>previous courses and It will be eaten In moderation, for the fdge of the diner s appetite will have seen d-"«d by the lighter foods which | hav* preceded It. With It comes the salad— varied throughout the year by all the possible changes of the sea t-on. and never, never by any possi bility ail) jt be such a dreadful green hjbrid a* the romaine. strawberry and green pepper thing. After the salad there will t>e fruit or mellow cheese, and then coffee. It will take two hour* to eat such a dinner, but It will take only half what the typical American dinner costs to pay for It, and there will be no indigestion aft erward. no matter of what the din ner is composed.—Princess Hassan in an Interview by Louise Rice in the Delineator. Tanbark. Perhaps the most important of waste fuels in the United States has been sp«nt tanbark. A rough estimate •vould indicate that this material gen erated a few years ago an amount of steam that would have otherwise re quired the yearly consumption of alout two million tons of high-grade :aal. Yet thia valuable fuel was at one time regarded ae a mere detri ment and an expense to the leather industry. It was disposed of by dumping it into rivers. Ailing in waste ground, and by making roads with it, often making necessary the paying out of large sums for its disposition. This strikingly illustrates a case of how the improvement of a furnace convert ed a hitherto supposed combustible into a valuable waste fuel of the auto combustible class, and shows how an enormous waste was converted into an equally great economy.—Engineer ing Magazine. It Was Still Hard. Bridget, a green maid, was told by her mistress to cook a soft-boiled egg for her mistress' breakfast Five minutes later she rang for the maid, and, asking If the egg was done yet, received an answer in the nega tive. Thinking Bridget had not boiled the egg immediately, she waited a few minutes longer, and again asked if the egg was ready. "No, ma’am,” replied Bridget. “Why not?” asked her mistress. “To be sure, ma'am, an’ the egg Is still hard, for didn’t 1 just feel of If hung in snakes, was streaked with dirty gray. "Ye took Jesse," she said in weary scorn, "so I ruined him. Then this Brooke, he fell in love with yer, so I murdered him. Take everything, give nothin'; that’s you. Carrots, give nothin'. That's you. Carrots, give nothin' away, not even a drink. And 1 gave everything. "So you're good, and I'm bad; you're high-toned society, and I'm a poor sporting lady. Oh, I saw ye lift yer skirt away when ye passed—calling yerself a Christian, when just one word of Christian kindness would have saved the likes of me. "Ye needn’t look over my head as if I wasn't there. I’m no fairy, 1 ain't— no dream. I’m facts, and ye’d better face ’em. 'Sisters, of Sorrow’ they calls us, who gave everything, who gave ourselves. “And you good women pride yer selves in virtue, which ain't been tempted. Your virtue never been out doors in the rain, gettin' wet. Your virtue never been starved and froze, or fooled and betrayed. Y’our colors ain’t run. 'cause they've never been to the wash. You don't know good from evil, and you set thar judgin' me. “Tears running down yer face, eh? You think you struck it rough when you came up agin me. Poor Carrots playin' Christian martyr. 1 done you good if you know'd it. I'm all the schoolin' you got in real life. I waked ye from dreams to livin'. And you an' me is women, sisters in pain. I wish'd I'd auburn hair like your'n, Kate, and a baby David to favor me with hair an' eyes. And if I’d had a home! Hut 1 didn't get a fair show ever, and every | time 1 done good, I got it In the neca. ! Well, what's the odds? "It wasn't you brung me down. Kate. Don’t cry like that, dear, it don’t matter. Nothing matters. It was This Brooke which done for me, nof you Once More With Jesse in Cathedral Grove. or Jesse. Brooke's only a thing I took in like a lost dog 'cause he was hungry. He said he'd manage my business, and he shorely did—invested all I'd got in a governess, and a bon fire at Mathson’s, and a stampede of mules. Then he fooled a widow down to Ashcroft to start him running a tourist joint, and I was to be turned out. And he fell in love with you. “1 guess that's all, excep' I got to tell you one thing. It was nursing the sick men kep’ me straight all them years, kep' me from drink. You see 1 was meant for a nures. trained for a nurse until—until—well, never you mind. Brooke stopped the nursing, and I drank. I'm only a nurse gone wrong. i es. your eyes is wondenn why they don't come back with them ban dages, and the bath. Don’t worry about that, ’cause I'll be dead by day break. Jesse loved yer Brooke loved yer. and somehow, well, I’m kinder ranging that way myself. And if I go. you’ll get back Jess, eh?” Rallying what courage 1 had left. I knelt down and kissed my sister, my poor sister. For a moment 1 let her stroke my carroty hair, which she liked. Then I ran to hurry my people to bring the beef tea. the hot water, the bandages. I found that wretched nurse detaining Billy and the China man, with some pretense that I must not be disturbed. 1 was telling her to get out of my sight, to go to her bed, when A revolver-shot rang through the echoing house. Polly had crawled to the doorstep, found her revolver. She who gave everything in life, had given me back to Jesse, and lay dead, her forehead shattered in with the revolver-shot. For some seconds Billy and I hung back, watching from the doorway while a slow coil of smoke unfolded in the wan light of the dawn. The rain had ceased, and the east was all aglow with golden radiance. Billy knelt and touched the poor broken forehead, then looking up at me, "This time,” he said, "it’s real.” EPILOGUE. Once more with Jesse in Cathedral Grove! The breath of evening stirred its tangled coral, the long needles clustered in globes were swaying as censors sway, with heavy incense. Beyond the purple night swept up over glowing cliffs to whore the upper forest like an edge of flame burned against deeps of sky. "Come to the hilltop: blackbird chor isters Peal their clear anthem to the kneel ing gorse." Jesse lay dreaming while I sang to him. Crisp silvered hair, and the deeply graven lines of his dear face, gavg him at rest a sweet sad dignity; but presently he would look up. bis big mouth humorous, his eyes alight with fun, a man of commanding power matured in »isdom. in sympathy, and valor to lead his fellows. Through the east window of the grove, I could see a little procession of my closest friends pass on their Sunday stroll. First came Pete, ill at ease in his Sabbath suit of blacks, and with him. arm in arm. was Mrs. Pete in silk, full-skirted, prickly, and so very grim. Then Billy passed slowly by, h>'s mother stumping beside him. bound to keep the pace. They had the uew rabbit with them, collared and chained like a bulldog, and were fol lowed by David's nurse, dear Patsy, Billy's wife—plucking my young anemones—the wretch. Out on the perilous edge of Apex Rock I could see young Mr. Xisted, Father Jared's nephew, a pupil in Jesse's school of colonial training, with rod and line he was seriously fishing—for birds! "Don't you reckon," said Jesse, re lighting a stale cigar, "that's it's time we stopped our book?" “Oh, but—" ‘It's tempting Providence, young woman: it's encouraging the police. From the moment you started the thing, we've had more'n our share of adventures. Put up a notice. 'Book Closed. No more adventurers need apply. Try Surly Brown for a change. "But what shall we do?" "Publish the blamed thing, and serves it right. Tliow it to the crit ics.” "Rut it’s all secrets!” "Change the names and places. We ll be ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith,’ well meaning private persons located some where west. I ni going to have blue eyes.” “Rut mine are blue.” “I made first grab. You can have green, and a large mouth, and your Christian name is Carrots. Hello, here's Raby David.” My son was coming through the scented dusk, and in his arms he car ried a large dog. a china dog with gilt muzzle, split from the nose to tail, but carefully mended "Sohny,” said Jesse, "don't you drop Maria, or she ll have puppies.” “I did, and she didn't; so there! ; Something dropped out, though See, j mummie." David had thrown Marie into my lap. and danced about in the gloaming with some strange trophy, the tail of a large animal. "Sort of reminds me," said Jesse. j "of being a little boy. That's the In spector's tale. This is a long way. too. from the Labrador" The wind made quite & disturbance, | telling the pines to hush, w hile both ; my son and Jesse wanted to play with 1 the wolf tail, and would not be quiet, though already the stars and the fire flies had lighted Cathedral Grove, and the great river like an organ crooned j the first deep notes of nature's even- i song An awed expectant silence ( came to us. "Lighten our darkness,” said the grave old trees, “we beseech Thee.” "Rv Thy great mercy." pleaded the ; little flowers. "Defend us from all perils." the small birds twittered. "And dangers of the night,” the as- ; pens quavered. "For the love of Thy only Son," ; cried the South Wind. "Our Saviour Jesus Christ,” a wom an's voice responded “Amen." the cliffs w ->re breathing. “Amen." the high clouds echoed. “Amen.” said the organ river, came: And from the reverent woodlands "Amen. Ampn." [THE END ] Earth Eating. Earth eating is a habit often ob served in India, and is very widely distributed. It often manifests itself as a symptom of disease or perverted appetite, but among many healthy people it is a regular habit. In addi tion to India, the Soudan. China and the Malay archipelago are mentioned as places where the custom prevails, but these by no means exhaust the list. It is said that in Siberia and l.aplar.d. earth consisting of the fos silized siliceous shells of diatoms is mixed with meal to make a kind of flour. It is also said that the Ainus of Japan used to eat a paste made of a mixture of diatomaceous earth. The Indians of Guatemala eat a yellowish edible earth containing sulphur, not so much as a food, but as a prophy lactic against disease. There are peo ple in Bengal who regard the tine earth of which anthills are built as a delicacy, and the explanation has been suggested that the flavor is due to a digestive fluid added to the earth by the ants to make it more easily worked. “TELEPHONE” FOR THE DEAF Letters and Numbers to Be Flashed on Buttons by an Electric Key board, Is the Idea. An optical telegraph intended to fill the place of the telephone for talking with a deaf person has recently been invented by a deaf and dumb married couple of Berlin, Germany. It consists essentially of a keyboard, as in a type writer, through whose keys single elec tric currents pass. In each circuit is included an. incandescent lamp with a flat surfe.ee, bearing a letter of the alphabet or a Roman numeral. Press ing any key causes the corresponding lamp to glow. Thus words and sen tences are spelled out and numbers are formed. The keyboard can be operated as fast as that of an ordinary typewriter, so that with practice communication be- j comes very smooth and rapid. Each station, of course, must contain both a sender and a receiver and these may be in different rooms or in houses a long distance apart. The instrument c*" be conveniently used for conversation between a doat person and a normal person who is ig norant of the finger language. The silence with which the device is oper ated is a very important point in its favor. This feature might make it especially useful where quiet or se crecy in transmitting information is desirable, as in sending war news or secret instructions in business houses. How to Wed. Why should not the church which solemnizes marriage go behind the ceremony, encouraging young people to wed and giving them needed In struction concerning marriage life? Just this the New York diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church proposes to do. In the discussion of the mar riage problem it was unanimously agreed that health certificates should be required for marriage. The much greater problem of how the church is to bring young people together with marriage as the aim and bow to make the married state happy and perma nent has been turned over to the so cial service commission to work out.— Leslie's. Weakness. The sick Seaman Evans ruled the destiny of the Scott Antarctic expedi tion. The weakest link in the chain gives the value to the chain. Civiliza tion follows the path of least resist ance. The drone or black sheep of the family centers the attention of the group on him. impairs its eco nomic efficiency: in effect dominates the household. The enduring charac ter of a society is determined not by its cultured group, but by its ‘'sub merged tenth."—or live-tenths. Not Leap Year, Either. Ethel—This craze for gold seems to ; me very foolish. Now, a very little would make me happy. •lack—How much? 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