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• â€" 11* I it OR, A LOOK INTO THE PAST CHArTEll XXlV.-(Con:'<l) / It was not exactly tlie kind uf letter a s.<jn might expect t j re- eeive from a mother wlio ha-d not seen him for montlvs ; but Derrick knew his mother too well b^' this time to be disappointecl at any lack of wo.manly or maternal warmth. Ho folded up the epistle and put Ifc into the envelope, with a tiny Bigh that escaped him unconsci- Duslj-. Perhaps, had his mother been there to hear it, she might have changed a little in her ma'i- ner towards him ; for, as lia,s been stated before, with all her cold worldlinesa, Mrs. Darnley had some love in her nature, and this love was all her son's. However, she did not hear it, and Derrick was never likely to woo more warmth from his motlier In his present hopeless and unhap- py condition of mind The fifteenth of December would be due in a week's ti^aie, and bear- Ieo; this in mind. Derrick deter- mined suddenly to accept an in- fitation contained in another let- ter to go over to Irelaiid for a week with a few baeheloi- chums, their cheery society would at least take him out of himself for a while before finally returning to his work. How little do '^le poor mortals know of the str»^ge workings of life! On the evening of the day fal- lowing the one that saw Darnley's departure for Ireland a four- wheeler stopped af; the door of his charal>ers, and a tall woman, re- spectably attired, alighted from it and rang the bell. On being told tbat Mr. Darnley had started the evening before for Ireland, she seemed perplexed as to how she should act next, and, turning slowly, went bacE to the ca!b, where she held a short, whis- pered conference* willi some one inside. "Can you give me Mr. Darn- ley's mother's address, please T' van the result -of this. The woman of the house hesitat- ed. •Is it very important?' 'she ask- ed du'bioHsly. "Very," was the curt reply. "Well, Mrs. lJ)arnley lives at ei- ther 300 or 305 Park Street, Park Lane, but she ain't at home now, I know. She's coming next week, Bc Mr. Darnley told me." With a word ot thanks, the in- quirer turned and re-entered the cab as the door of the cliambers was closed. "And now, ma'am what sliall you do?" asked Janet of Nancy, as they progressed slowly through the streets back to the humble lodging which had sheltered them since their hurried flight from tlie Manor House the previous uiglit. "I shall wait and see Mrs. Darnley," was the resolute reply. Nancy flung back the thick veil lh.at had -shrouded her face, and lighed deeply. "How can I ever thank you, Janet 't How can I ever show my gratitude to you?" she said, in fo-w. hurried. nervous tones. "Wl^at â€" what would have become of me but for you?" "You promised rac you would not talk of it again, ma'am," an- swered .Janet in her tiuiet, stolid w.ay. "After all, I did no more Ib^an my duty as ,a woman." ,' "And to think I doubted you, And thought you hard and heart- /le.«s at times!" the gill murmured. â-  "Janet, I .shall never forgive my- iclf for those thoughts'" "Better turn your mind to others, uia'am, now that you are 'Iree from your troubles." "But shall I be free long?"â€" tho »ld hunted look' came into those rweet blue eyes. "Janet, I feelâ€" t know--they w\*ll follow me, find me. and take me back, and th.it uriU kill me. Janetâ€" it will kill m« ! L could not go back after all that irror 1" "Now, be comforted, my dear, W comforted. I tell you they won't find you, in the first place: »nd. in the second, .your hu.sband iron 'I be ablo to leave his bed for weeks, maybe. 1 know souiethi.ig »bont delirium tremens, ma'am." ^a>ncy shuddered. "You are right, t will not think >lMiut it any more, or I shall go Bad : only I swearâ€" yes, I swear itâ€" if 1 am forced to go back, Ja- »<t, to -to him, I will kill myself jooner than endure Surelyâ€" rorc'ly I" she exclaimed bitterly, •'it cannot bo right, it is not hu- l)*n to force any creature to lead luch tiM existence! Oh! Janet, I rn feci bis armi rouiul me now! can SO'.' ih.-it knife lla.sliing in the Irelight! It wns hsrribleâ€" so lior- hW*!" aiu'.ddering and tror4j.l>l.ng ^ every limb, the girl croueheil back in the corner of the cab, and bunjt into a flood of tears. Janet did not check thi.s ; indeed, she welcomed it as being a certain relief to Nancy's overcharged heart and brain , she had been gro'wiug very anxious all through the long day just passed as she had watched the girl's white, con- tracted face, and saw the mental suffering in her eyes. This was the verj' first moment that Nancy's calmness had given way since .sh.e had regained con- sciousness in the lodge-keeper's cottage, and Janet knew it was the best thing that could happen to her. The past forty-eight hours had contained enough mental trouble to crush the stJ-atest heart. When Nancy haa opened her eyes after her second fainting fit, she 'nad been too prostrate to utter a sound for nearly an hour ; but, af- ter that, as the full horror of what liad occurred returned to her, she had become feverishly awake, and 'finding that she was actually free from the prison walls of the Ma- nor Housi, she nad determined, Lvithout a second's hesitation, to escape from it once and for all be- 'fore she wa.s drawn back into the â- mesh again. And here, in this her hour of greatest need, she suddtnly found a friend. Janet proved once more the Irruth of the old proverb of not (judging by apnea rinces ; her (|uiet, imatter-of-faot manner was the Ivery best nerv? tonic to Nancy in iher excited, distraught condition. In a few curt words she explau.- ed how it was she had beei able to come so effectually to her young mistress' rescue â€" how she had seen that Crawshaw had been on the verge of madness, as he had keen drinking heavily for d.ayis, and overhearing him in a quarrel with .Fenton declare that he would bring h's wife to her bearings, she liad waited and watched outside iNancy'.s bedroom in the passag.; for his coming. 'Her height and strength stood her in good purpose a few mo- ments later, when, having shouted to Fenton to bring help without delay, she liad grappled with the infuriated man herself, literally iholding him down by almost super- Ihuinan force while N;inc.\- had man- aged to crawl away, and Fenton, 'for once frightened into sobriety, ha/1 rushed in with the two other men and secured the raging drunk- ard with no little amount of dif- ficulty. "And now, ma'am, if you will let me advise you, you will go over to Ripstone Hall as fast as you can be driven," she had said, •when all was told; but to her sur- prise, Nancy absolutely refused to do this. "No, I will not drag Miss Leices- ter into my trouble and disgrace," the girl had answered, in low, quiet tones. I shall go to London ; tl have work to do there â€" 'will you help ine, Janet?'' she asked, sud- denly, turning to die woman; and Janet's answer had been to hold out her roughcnetl hand in silence and clasp Nancy's slender one. Without protesting or trying to urge the girl to what was obvious- ly the easiest thing she could do under the circumstancesâ€" claim the protection of the house that I had been her homeâ€" she had set about arranging their speedy de- 'parture without more ado. It was impossible to le.ave before the morning â€" no one would stop .then, for Fenton had ridden over post-haste t'j the neare.it town for a doctor, and Thomas C'rawshaw â- was lying down tied to his bed, lost to everything in the mad horrors of delirium tremens. "Yes, I •will go to London," the igirl said once or vwice, as she had .sat staring out at the grav, cold dawn th.at crept above the leafless trees of the manor woods; "I will 130 to London." . A sudden gileani of hope had icrome to her. Those words of Craw- shaw's about tricking her into a marriage â€" what if they should be •true.' They might bo the ravings, of a lunaticâ€" 'but again they might have escaped him when he was not â- ma.ster of himself or his secrets. She would go to i^ondon, at any rate, and search it out: lier aunt, Iby this lime, might be returned from Australia. Dr. Grantlcy was there to help, and with grim deter- â- mination the girl resolved to go to Darnley's mother and f|uestioTi her on this subject to find out if she really had had a share in the â-ºnatter. Her heart beit In a quick, nerv- ous way as she planned all this de- liberately. If it should be tru« â€" then jiv. • tice and right should protect her from this man. Lf she found this false â€" the mere mad ravings of a oiunken mind â€" well, there was always one way of escape, and deathâ€" dark, mysteri- ous and awful deathâ€" would be (better tlian a continuance of her past misery. liSo together she and Janet ar- ranged evei'ything, aided and a.belted by the lodge-keeper's wife, who herself stood at the door and 'waved farewell and hearty good â- wishes to the young mistress of the Maiior House as she was boriio swiftly away in a humble cart witli her new but faithful and good friend beside her. .'\rrived in London, Janet had taken the girl to some respectable though poor lodgings, kept by a re- ilation of hers. This was done for two reasons â€" to escape detection and to avoid expense, for the only capital they possessed was a few- pounds Janet had saved from her wages and the diamond rings which C'rawshaw had insisted on Nancy wearing above the plain gold one that marked her as his wife. They had done nothing all through the long day that follow- ed their arrival. Nancy was iih.v- isically and mentally exhausted, •vnd lay on the small, hard bed with such a «et, white face that tears i?aime uninvited to Janet's eyes as .she glanced at the girl every now â- and then. But the next morni:ig all lethargy was gone, and Nancy- was ex'oitedly eager to be out early. •She was met by disapiK)intment idt the first outset. Dr. Graiitley was not in town, and therefore she could discover nothing about her aunt till two day« later, when the ttoctor was expected home, and might he able to tell her if Mrs. Chaplin was back in England. No one else could give her this infor- j mation. After this Nancy sat down and [ struggled with herself. She did I not know â- where to find Mrs. Darn- I ley, but she had carefully tren- isured the card which Derrick had slipped into her ha;ul that morn- ing in the woods. From him she could learn his mother's whereabouts at once, yet she shrank from going to him at tnis moment. Her womanly mod- esty warned her that it would be a severe trial to both of them, and yet â€" yet she hungered t<j know the truth, to learn if C'rawshaw's words had been spoken in earnest ; it meant so much co herâ€" so very much. She never doubted that the law, that justice, would come to her rescue if she could jjrove these words true ; or that freedom would be given her immediately, once it was known that she had been tricked into her hateful marriage ; and freedom was all she asked at this moment â€" freedom from the horror of living as she had lived the last few montlis. Her eagerness won the day, and so it came to pass that she .and Janet drove to Mr. Darnley's chambers together as evening was drawing on. Nancy had decreed that he was to know nothing <>{ her jireseMce there. Janet w.'is to a.^k for him, and get his motlier'.s iKldrcss with- out disclosing the fact that her mistress was near. The result of the drive lias been seen, and perhaps Nancy's tears came not only from the natural re- action, but from the sense of iiain and disappointment that arose X SPOON SHAKER. Straight From C'ofTeodoni. Coffee can marshall a g)ood squadron of enemies and some very hard ones to overcome. A lady in Florida writes : "I have always been very fond of good coffee, and for years drank it at least three times a day. At last, however, I found that it was injuring me. "1 became bilious, subject to frequent and violent hcad,achcs, and so very nervous, that I could not lift a spoon to my mouth without spilling a part of its con- tents. "My heart gfjt 'rickety' and boat so fast and so hard that I cmild scarcely breathe, while my skin got thick and dingj-, with yellow blotches on my face, oaused^by the condition of my liver and blood. "I m-ide u]) my mind th.at all these afflictions came from the cof- fee, and I determined to experi- ment and see. "So I quit coffee and got a pack- age of Postuni which furnished my hot morning beverage, .'\fter a little time I was rewarded by a complete restoration of my health in eveiy respect. "I do not suffer from biliousness any more, my headaches have dis- api^eared, my nerves arc as steady as could be desired, my heart beats regularly and my complexion has cleared up beautifullyâ€" the blotch- es have been wiped out and it is such a pleasure to be well again." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Re.ad the little book, "The Road to Wellvillc," in pkgs. "There's ft reason. " I l"- til 1 10, t-u?. and full of human Interut. HEALTH WATER SUPPLY. The healthiness of the household is largely affected by the character of the water supply, which must be considered both as regards its de- gree of hardness and its purity. Hardness results from the pres- ence of lime and magnesia dissolv- ed in the water. "Temporary hardness," which is removed by boiling, is due to car- bonates, "i)ermane?it hardness'' to sulphates of lime and magnesia. Hard water is readily detected by its behavior with .soap. Everj' householder knows how with certain waters the soap pre- cipitates in flaky particles before it is possible to produce a lather. This means that part of the soap is used up in softening the water, or, ill other woids, that there is a daily waste of soap. Hard â- water causes the limy de- posit in kettles and boilers, and in time chokes up the hot-water pipes, involving danger of explo- sion if means are not taken for clearing them from time to time. It is also unpleasant for domes- tic use, causing roughness of the skin and "chappmg" in winter, and is a fruitful cause of many bod- ily derangements, including dys- pepsia, glandular swellings, gout, and rheumatism. Every grain of lime per gallon of water constitutes one degree of liardness, and it has been laid down by authorities that no public water supply stiould exceed 10 de- grees. When this is exceeded it is worth while to instal a softening appara- tus in connection with the domes- tic system. An efficient water .softener consists of a separate cis- tern in whicii a certain definite amount of "anticlaire." or other softening agent, is intro- duced automatically into the water as it leaves the main, and a filter system for intercepting the limy deposit which results. Well water may be similarly treated if forced into a cistern l>e- fore use. Even more unpirtant than hard- ness is purity. This may be affect- ed by the presence of an undue amount of mineral or other mat- ter in suspension, generally visible to the eye, and the remedy is ef- fi.cient filtration. On the other hand, the water may be contaminated by the pres- ence of organic matter and disease germs. If this is siispected, it is best to have the water examined by an expert. Generally, it may be said that water from surface wells should always be viewed with suspicion. Deep well water is safe if not con- taminated in the cistern. c »l< THE BEST HOME PRESERVES" These arc made by rigbtly coiubiiiiug luscious fresh fruity with EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR The be.st results are (hen assured. Ask your grocer for Rodpath Extra Granulated Sugar. Ho knows then that you want the bost. The Canada Sugar Refining Co., Limited, Montreal Established in 180-4 by John Redpath. /^ THE FARM Useful Hints for the Tiller of ths Soil when she learned that Derrick was not in London. Though she was firm as to their not meeting, still it had been an indescribable comfort to her to think that she was near him â€" her dearest, her living realization of all that was good, noble and hon- orable. (To be continued.) UTILIZING FARM WASTES. When an animal dies upon the farm instead of sending the carcass to the phosphate factorj- or dump- ing in some out of tho way place, if the body is reduced by the owner, several loads of the best fertiliz- ing material will be the result. The carcass should be drawn to a suitable spot and placed upon a bed composed of four or five loads of soil or muck, then ci>vored thickly with quicklime and at least a dozen loads of soil placed ujion it. Let it remain undisturbed for nearly a year and the result will be several dollars' worth of a good fertilizer for all crops. In this way all dead animals may be utilized, using less soil or muck as size of animals warrants. Bones furnish valuable fertiliz- ing material also, and should be saved. To 100 )>oiinds of bones add the same quantity of wood ash- es, ^j pounds of lime, and 12 pounds of salsoda finely pulveriz- ed. Let remain about three weeks. Add water to moisten well. After decomposing it should be turned out upon a dry place and mixed withdry soil to ])re))are it for use. If diluted sulphuric acid is pour- ed over bones, they will be ready for use sooner, and will prevent escape of ammonia. Caustic lye may be used also in reducing bones speedily. A good fertilizer is made by gathering the> refuse from pigeons and poultry houses, with muck leaves and wastes of different kinds. Stable manure inav be ad- ded. L'^nslacked lime should not be mi.xed with manure, as better re- sults are had by the use of lime and ashes by themselves ; if used to- gether a large portion of the am- monia will be liberated and wast- ed. But if a large amount of soil, muok or other absorbent matter is added to the Compost, then ashes or lime may be used, as tho car- bonic acid will be produced in de- composition in sufficient quantity to take up tho ammonia as fast a& it is set free. A cow produced in a year about \j]:l cords of solid manure, and three cords 01 liquid manure. This if all saved, would equal in value her milk. Yet not one out of 20 farmers save or make an effort to save the licpiid manure. It is com- paratively easy to construct a wat- er tight basin in the stable yard in which liquids may be deposited. tJutters <an be made at the rear of cow stables and the liquid refuse carried from there to the basin in the yard. By turning to account all the farm "waste" mentioned many dollars can be saved which have j been heretofore spent in the pur chase of commercial fertilizers. 1-^. THE HOG RAISER. It is common sein^e .tJiat a malur© sow will produce larger and mo perfect pigs than a very young one. Do not attempt to raise fall jiigs without having first prepared a perfect system of housing for the winter. Spring pigs can get along very well without shelter except from rain until fall, then if you are so shiftless as to fail to provide shel- ter they are better able to stand cold and rain. Some jieople claim that a hog is a , scavenger by nature, but he cer- tainly thrives better on clean feed and decent surroundings. Free range for hogs does not mean tliat they should be allowed to run in the highways and through the neighbors' fences. Every inclosure for the hog should l)e perfectly tight, and with the excellent wire fences that are now manufactured this is an easy matter. ED. S ISSUE 29-11 in Cash Prizes for Farmers Your Photograph May Win a Prize AMONG tho prizes w« are offerins In our bl* Prize Contest i.i one of $100.00 (Prize "O") for tho farmer In each Province who fur- nishes us with a photograph .showlne tho best of any particular kind of work done on hlu farm durlns 1911 with 'VA.VADA" Cement. Kor thU prize, work ot every description Is included. Now Just as aoou as you flnislj that now silo, barn, feeding floor or dairy, that you've been thinking of 'building, why not photoffrnph it and send tho picture to us? The photogr.iph doesnt naoesaarliy havo to 'be taken by a professional or an expert. In tact, your son's or your daugh- ter's camera will do nicely. Or, falling this, you might use the kodak of your neighbor's son near- by. In any ovent, don't let the idea of having a photograph made deter you from entering the competition. Par- ticularly as WB have reque»t«d your local dealer to help In cases where it is not conveni- ent for the farmer to pro- cure a camera in the neighborhood. By thl.i means you are placed on an equal foot- ing with every other contestant. Get the circular, which gives you full particulars of tho conditions and of tho other three prizes. Every dealer who sells "C.\NADA" Cement will have on hand a supply of these circularsâ€" and he'll kivo you one if you just ask for It. Or it you prefer, you can use the attached coupom â€" or \ postcard will do â€" send it to us and you'll receive the complete details of the contest by return mall. If you haven't received your copy of "What the Parmer Can L'>o With Concrete," write for that, too. Its a finely Illustrated hook of 160 pages full of useful and practical in- formation of tho uses uf concrete. Write us to-night, and you'll receive tho book and the circular promptly. ^ pi<h»« , Do not delayâ€" sit right down- /^t«*"rc'uUr take your pen or pencil, and HU ^ a^J iKwk, out the coupon NOW. Canada Cement Company, Limited, NatioBol Bank Building, Moahraal