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THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL QORDoNf CURTIS, Author of * The Woman from Wolvertons " v5 CHArTKU XIV.â€" (Coiil'd). "Enoch must iiol go out there alone," she protested in a low voice. "He must not do it. You should be with him. It is the last clmnce he has to make restitution, lie will never, never do such a thing as tlii.s !" "Listen." she heard Merry's whisper clearly through the din. "Hear, It does not matter. What does anything mat- ter ? The play is a success. You be- lieve in it. I did itâ€" for you. What do 1 care about the people out there ? They are nothing to us." "Oh I" cried Dorcas, "oh, 1 will ^o and tell them myself. They must know !" She darted toward the edge of the drop curtain, then she stopped. A silence had fallen, not only upon the house, but behind the scenes. Stage hands who had Ix'cn dragging proper- ties about stood motionless. A shiver crept over the girl. She felt Merry lay his hand on hers with a steadying clasp that seemed to quiet her. She could hear Knoch speaking. He had a strong, vibrant voice. Kvery one bcf- hind the scenes was listening and un- derstanding except herself. His voice brew blurred as faces In the audience had been. She turned to glance at Merry. Once a look of con.suming hat- red fitted across his face, and Ills lips grew pallid as gray ashes. Dorcas pulled away from his clasp- ing hand and ran to her dressing-room. She was choking with sobs. She felt her Angers tingle where Andrew had > touched them, and there was a look of i terror in her eyes. Alice Volk sat waiting for her in the dressing-room. Little Julie jumped to, her feet when Dorcas entered. The ! girl did not speak, but clasped the' child to her bosom. "Alice," she whispered, "help me to dress as soon as you can. And Julie, | ask Dugald to get a carriage. I want • to go home." | The woman kissed the girl's neck as she unbuttoned her gown. It ha.s been an awful strain. 1 know all about It â€" but Miss Dorcas, your future Is made " I The child returned in a minute. "Mr. ! Wentworth has a carriage ordered. Dugald says will you go with him ?" ; "So." cried Dorcas ; "tell Dugald I'll be ready in ten minutes. I am going home alone." Merry stood waiting at (he stage en- trance when she went out. He had heard Julie deliver the message. "Good niglii, MisH Dorcas," he said. "Sleep well. Itemeniber, everything is all right. I owe li lo you, 1 owe you more than you uiulirstand. Yon made good tonight ; the papers will tell you Ko In the morning. (Jood niglil. (lod bles yon !" j "Good nighi" The girl slilvored for a moment. It was Intensely cold, ' and she drew a fur coat close to her chin. The cabman drove quickly, for, the streets were emptied of vehicles. ' Along Hroadway the theatres were! dark. | Jason stood waiting to open the door when the girl ran up the stepR. His dusky old face was one grin of de- light. He had jusl returned from the theatre and was growing Inipallent for the iriumph of a honn'comlng, ".Ml.'-sy," he cried, "yo' cerl'ly done us proud. .My soul ! I couldn't er b'lieved de baby 1 toted yeahs en yeaha oga ud ebber a' lived to act ez line ez yo' done. I used to play 1 was yo' black mule. I nckon yl' don' 'mem- ber, honey, ridin' mule on ol' Uncle Jason's back, do yo ?' Kn dar yo' was, honey, a-workin' me up lifl 1 'clar to goodness I inos' cried my ol' eyes out. When Mar.-ie p-nodi come out en made I dat speech folkses hollered en got to der feet clappiu' en bangin' sticks on the lloor, 1 'clar to de Lawd dar wa'n't a prouder ol' darky in .New York den ' Undo Jason." i Dorcas Ixjgan lo laugh and cry at ! once. "1 don' VNonder yo's all dono up. ' .Missy. I's got de Ones' supper ready ( fo' yo' yo' ebber see." I Dorcas was too unnerved to eat. She swallowed a cup of coffee and nibbled at the good tJilngs Jason liad prepar(!d. i Thou she went upstairs and began to undress. She brushed licr hair, plait- ed It in two long braids, and slipped ; Into a gray kimono, which folded It- ' self about her In sheeny waves. The coffee had driven sleey away. She tossed a shawl about her shoulders and ran down through the silent house to the library. Wentworth often read there until long after midnight, and a ' coal fire was burning brightly. She pu.slied an armchair clo.se to the hearth and uropped into it wearily. She realized that she was very tired. She had not thought ('f nerves or body during tlio long weeks of rehearsal, with tho incessant study, the multi- tude j' detail, and lh<" strange Irregu- lar' y cf life. j â-  he began to live over again the last few hours and drew a long breath as; she remembered the strangling terror j which laid hold of her before she madej her first entrance. When she heard 1 her cue she felt dumb, crippled, almost blinded for one moment. The smile on Zllla i^aget's face, as she stepped ! from the wings, stung her into action.' There was scorn in It, and cruelly , smoothed over by a sweet, beguiling perlldy, which aroused In the girl a sudden hate that she had never felt In her life Ijefort. The haired made I her forget everything except her part.* The recollection of a bit of gossip' had flashed to her memory : Zllla Paget had pniph(>sled that her "Cor- delia" would bo a dead failure. Be- fore the end of that second act the In- 1 tense loathing and scorn which Merry | had put Into her lines became real. ' The wotnan understood. She shrank With a terror v\hich was scarcely simu- . lated during the girl's denunciation of a mother who had lost all claim upon â-  a child for love or respect. Seven times the curtain rose and fell upon the two women. Once a volley of hisses was hurled at Zllla I'aget, and she smiled In happy triumph. Oswald and Merry stood In the wings watching the act. Thi' intensity which D()rcas threw into her |iart stirred both men ^ strongly, as It did the audience. They' had anticliialed womanly sweetness and tenderness, but lliey had not gauged her emotion to lh(> depths. "I nevt.'r dreamed she could do any-' thing like this," said Oswald slowly. Merry did not speak. He had caught Zilla I'aget's subtle smile. He knew there was more than acting In the scene. , While Dorcas sat gazing Into the red caves of th<' coal lire she went over, each situation In Iho play, step by step. Once she burled her lace in tho| folds of her shawl ; her cheeks were throbbing holly. She felt .Merry's kiss! burn uiMjn her lips. There had been no real kisses at rehearsal. The trust and love and gralltudo wllh wlilch the! broken old convict turned to his child] seemed real for a moment ; she felti it when the actor touched her llpg. ' Then she had fallen -solibing into his | arms. She heard the audience sob with her. When she turned to glance aside through halfbllnded eyes, nhe met llie derisive smile of Zllla I'aget, who stood in the wings. There was Jealousy in her scorn. Her part was over for the night ; she was dead to people in front. They had forgotten her. In spite of the applause she bad won a half hour before. It hurt hor vanity. Dorcas came out of her reverie with a start. Tho door behind her closed, and EInoch walked In. Ills face was glowing with eager, impetuous tri- Umpli, his cheeks wer*^ flushed, and his eyes shone, iio stooped suddenly to kiss his sister. She did not speak. j It sei^med years since she had seen hini In such a mood. "Dorry," he cried, "why did you rush home ? Everybody was waiting to con- gratulate you. You lifted people off their feet ; I swear, you took me off mine ! The critics went wild over you and wanted to Interview you. To-mor- row you'll be the talk of the town." Everything that had blurred life seemed to vanish. It was wonderful that in a few hours tlie dreams of a lifetime should have come true. The glrl"lauglied. Ilcr heart had suddenly grown light. "Enoch, I cannot make myself be- lieve it." He stood beside her with a proud smile upon his lips. "Dorry, you're a queer proposition. Any other girl would have had her head turned by the triumph to-night. Why, child, in j three hours you climbed straight onto [ a pedestal that many women work half a lifetime to reach. Even then they often miss it." Enoch l>ent and lifted her face till her eyes looked Into his turned to Dorcoa with such autnority as ho had never used to her before. "1 want to say one thing before you leave the room. It Is about the ques- tion of the authorship of this play. It is not to be brought up again at any time between us. Do you under- stand ?" "I understand," Dorcas answered quietly. "1 understand it is perfectly useless to appeal to a conscience which is dead." (To be continued). . . LESsSlfY DURING^THE WAR WHAT AN IRISH ALIENIST HAS TO SAY. Presents Remarkable Picture of the Tonic Value of Great Conflict. An interesting sidelight on Presi- dent Wilson's remark about the world going mad is given in the an- nual report of Dr. William Graham, of Belfast, one of the most highly re- puted Irish alienists. Dr. Graham presents a remarkable picture of the tonic value of war. He says: Let Him Help Himself CROWN^BRAND a>RN^Sn«JP r T will do mora tlian tatlsty his craTlng for "«omol h Ing sweel"â€" it will supply (he food flloments needed to build up his little iMdy and help htm to gain In health and strength. "Crown Brand" Is « wholesome, nourish- ing foe â-  â€" £3 well as the most delicious of table 8yru;-3. The recipes In our new book. "Desserts and , Candles", will tell you lust how to «»•'•. •" ni»^ "<"•' ways. Write for a copy to our titontroal Oflice. Dealers everywhere have "Crown Brand" In 2, S, 1 and 20 pouTid tins â€" and 3 pound glass |ars. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED MONTHIAL, CAKDIMAl, •IIAIITrOdO, rodT WILLIAM. Miikrrs of Lily While" Com Syruf'. Benson's Com S.'arch and 'Silver Clou" Laundry Starch. jEM^Maj "It has become common practice "Tliere were gipcg August, 1914, to say the world minutes," he said fondly, "when I-ig growing mad, and there is a wide- actually questioned whether It was the spread popular notion that the dis- littlo sister herself or not." tress and ajfony of a conflict so ter- Dorcas had never seen her brother Lible as the present one must end so strangely e.xcited. She wondered .jn a profound disturbance and alien- ] vent) rust. It is impossible to con- fer a moment if ho had been drinking, Ution. Yet the fact is indisputable trol rust entirely but loss from rust but she saw It was the Intoxication of that insanity, like corns, has lessen- , may be reduced considerably by acting cd during the perio<i of the war." j upon the following suggestions: Can Rust Be Prevented? There is no way of treating the seed or spraying the crop so as to pre- sudden success, not of wine. He paced about the library, talking, laughing, building a thousand plans for the future. The glil watched him cu- riously. It was a strange transition from the sullen silence of months. The Enoch of light-hearted boyhood days had returned. "You have a great future, Dorry." Ho stopped abruptly and his voice grew grave. "There Is one thing 1 want to say. Don't," he hesitated and began to pace the room again, as if choosing his words carefully, "don't make a hero of Merry. Ho did well to-night. I have seen him set tlie whole town talking as he did In 'Esterbrook' then topple back and go down, away down." Dorcas rose from her chair and best assurance of an increased yield of wheat, and that, after all, is what every farmer is working for. â€" Can- adian Farm. Feeding Fat into Milk. Improve Health of .Men. | 1. Destroy as far as possible the J^^.^^ P;P"'"ly ^"PPo^ed *at th« So far as the future is concerned. Common Barberry (Berberis vulgaris.* Dr. Graham is equally encouraging. ' and ^he Buckthorn (Rhamnus cath- He says: "There are solid grounds ' artics) growing in Ontario. Rast for the hope that, especially al- 1 may cause serious loss in districts though exclusively among women, where these shrubs are not found, but, wc shall find a great diminution in when, they are present, t4iey do un- those neurotic disorders that form doubtedly tend to increase the amount. I a part of the mental abnormality ' 2. See that fields on which grain is of thousands of men who have gone, to be grown are well drained. Rust) or are preparing to go, to the front, ' is nearly always worse on poorly- who have all their life been sub- drained land. Such land remains ject to the iKJiidage of neurasthenic colder longer in the spring, and hence , weakness and incapacity of psy- the germination and early growth of cliasthenic fears or hypochon- the grain are retarded. In wet sea- driac fancies. They have never sons also grain ripens more slowly on known what it is to live, but at tho poorly-drained land. This slow de- country's call they have flung from velopmcnt of the crop and the e.xces- off them the spell of ancient inhabit- give moisture provide the conditions t(,ss..d the long braids of hair over her ations and long established imprac- most favorable for the development Her eyes and che<'ks were ticalities and have gone forth to of rust. face wounds and death. Only when summoned to possible surrender of life have they learned how wonder- "Wliat do you mean ?" • j ful life really is. The physical re- "Viai know what 1 mean !" Ili'r .-aw gime under wliiih these men arc her chin tremble. In spite of her ' compelled to live can have nothing shoulders blazing. Wentworth's face grew in- exorable. "Enoch," she cried, "how dare you say such a thingâ€" to me ?" milk depends on the feed- \ ing of the cows. This is not the ' case. So long as a cow is not fed in sjch a way as to derange her general health, change of food has very little permanent effect on the quality of her milk. A sudden change may impair her milk slightly for afew days, but as soon as she is accustomed to her new diet her milk returns to the nor- mal. Very succulent grass does not produce inferior milk unless it de- ranges the health of the cow by caus- ing her to scour, and this is commonly avoided by giving the cow two pound* or three pounds per day of cotton seed meal. j Professor Wood of Cambridge Uni- versity, England, writing in the Cam- I bridge Chronicle says: Q i.^„,. „ . . .. » _ "The following obser^•ations show d. tndeavor to have the crop mature ' .!,»* » < ., *« i- * • ii i . , _ -L, n^i_ L that a too watery diet is more likely as early as possible. This can be to reduce the quantity of mifk than to 4. Avoid those varieties of I. . . « . ... which give poor returns and are also _ , „, i. .^, , i ^u â-  anger she was on the verge of tears, but the best effect on tho^e subject b^Hy injured by rust. See table at per he»l per day, and their milk done to some extent by early seeding ; ... ,.* »i. i /? â-  „ „. ,, , , u J I impair its quality. Aherd of cows in a well-prepared seed bed. ^ j- .,. -> . 1- H <=«=" "<; . I feeding on watery grass in August ^?'" were given two pojnds of cotton seed When people were calling for tli<> nu thor, how did you dare to go cat and take till! a|)plause 7 Have you no con- science, no h(<nor left ?" to end of t?his article provided by Prof. , ZavitE, of Guelph, showing the ex- tent to which different varieties are ' attacked by rust. 6. Do not mix varieties" of seed its discipline Women Learn of Life. "Especially significant is the . change coming over the lives of wo- ".Mi'rry got as much applause as one men of the middle classes. These man could stand. " Ho looked at her sheltered dnughters of the merchant, grains, the following is th eresult of with dcgged defllance. j Qf ^i,,, profcst ional man, victim of varieties of oats, biit use only pure "That makes you nono the less- a mid-Victorian traditions of gentility, see 1 of one variety to secure uniform "''^'•" I are now falling into line with their ripening. Enoch did not answer. He piilh d a sisters of the higher and the hum- G. Treat all seed grain to prevent cigar from his vest pocket. 111 it, and , bier social ranks, and are discovering smut, as plants infected with smut besan lo smoke. He dlil not lllnch be- that life is something greater than are very subject to rust, which may fore liis sister's gaze. \ the "I should liav weighed and analyed. Some of the cows then had their cotton cake re- placed by 28 pounds of wet brewer's j grains, a watery food reputed to pro- ! duce a pious flow of milk of infer- ior quality. As a matter of fact, the change was found to have decreased the flovf of milk and to have increased the percentage of butter fat from 3.38 per cent, to 3.46 per cent. ' The iilea that> water may be put into the milk by giving the cow a watery I diet assumes that the cow is a mere latest novel or a game of tennis, get started on them and then spread i '„..^ ^. .... been the huppiest or even the tepid gossip of the church to healthy plants machine, an assumption which is en- •' ' â-  ' ttrely at) Variance with all our know- Healthy and This can be secured by the caVeful use '^«" °^ '^" physiology of the secre enough f(rr what liu.i hap- word." "It Is nic pennd." "Do you know," asked Wentworth, with grave deliberation, "what did hap- pen ? Has Merry ever taken you Into his conlldeiice about Ihis traiisncllon ?" "Merry has never said (uie word against you to me." tion of milk, and with all the results cow is very much a live animal; she makes or intends to make her milk for her calf and as a mattjcr of fact she can be actually starved of food for some time before the quality of her milk is seriously affected. The Fall Hogs. It pays to keep a sharp lookout for girl In the world tonight, almost fool- sewing meeting. Idleness and ennui 7. Sow only sound, plu.np grain. Ishly happy." There was a pitiful have lost their hold. " ' ' quaver in her voice. "I feel now as if , unselfish activity is now the prevail- of the fanning mill. Shrivelled grain ",' - ,, . , 1 wore disgraced. Men have gon(> to ing fashion among war-enfranchised jg very likely to have been produced °^ <='»'<>'""y 'â- e<^<^''<'ed experience, tho penitentiary for stealing less ' women. It has set them frer from by badly rusted plants, than you did." j the benumbing conventionalities that' g Qn rich soils be carel?jl in the Wentworth laughed scornfully. He | threatened to stifle their psychic ' use of manures containing large tossed his cigar Into Iho hi'art of the ' •'"<'''(?>'. «"'' «" f'"" 't has contributed amounts of nitrogen, such as barn- fire and turned upon Dorcas In sud- ' '" 'he soundness of mind and nerve y^^il m:inure and nitrates. Such den rage. "Stealing Is not a nice nmong the mighty sociological forces manures on rich soil produce iv\ xces- which thc_ present world conflict set sively rank growth, which invU^-s rust, in motion. j g Rotation ^f crops, p oper man- ^ __.. i uring, thorough cultivation, freeing LOSES EYE ON FIRST AIR TRIP, fhe fields from weeds, and all such the fall litters farm practices which tend to promote I There is profit in the fall litters if British Fher, Malmea, Shoots Foe. healthy growth and the proper ma- they are properly cared for; if neg- " lected, they can be worse than a dead __ w>^,..-,â€" „ '°'3 don from the front "Then reserve your judgnii iil until I "f « Hoyal Klylng Corps observer frains, the following is the result of , 'V "market, he does. If you were to ask lilm, and ! ^^â- '"'*^'' *'> ^' ^^"" "''"' '""• A (ierman experiments conducted by Prof. Zav- i Utilize the fallen fruit with the If he played fair, he would tell you ;''['''.'''' «';' " "''°' "'''''"'"' ''is first jtz at the Ontario Agricultural Col- ; g''*'" "'ation to help make ra.ii: thai it wa.s a straighl, hones, bargain, '''^^^ZJ^ I'tT iV o, e'r" weTe '«^« '" "^-f""^ '-''"« ''''^"-t -^ ' ^r*" , ' . a bargain bought and i.aul and signed i ,,,.,j.,„g j^ mandolin when the bullets ^^^^^ "^ ^«™ '^''"P^' '^^^ following Every pouwl gained now, costs less M.^ry, wllh all his fallings, Is no came through tho wires of our ta^'e gives the average of five years' ; than when colder weather. comes. machine," he said. ; results (1910-1914 inclusive) in num- The price of bacon and all pork pro- One missile gouged out his eye and ber of days in reachinfr maturity, in ducts should convince any one that it embedded ilseli' In the frontal bone. ^ yield of grain per acre, and in per,''"** ""t pay to neglect the pigs. I Oosplle the Injury the observer let go ' cent, of rust on the straw of each of Separate the pigs and put the larg- Lands, Cables Mother. turing of the grain Ics.sen tho chances An army niedicnl olllcer back in Lon-Iof rust causing serious loss. reported the case In connection with the r.ists of i Get the early pigs ready for Ihe ear- for welcher "llought and paid and signed for ?" repealed the girl in slow bewilder- ment. "How could you buy and pay for something conceived by another man's brain and wrlllcn by another with his machine gun and drove off jg^t v.irieties of oats, three varieties ,". stronger ones together. Th';. 'pl'lf., brought the machine back \ "^^ «--rowed barley, and ten varieties ' ^^''^.^^^^ thr/'lltch" uo to the Dritisli lines and helped the ob- ! ?^ \y^nier wheat: use of a quick-act- ""a ^^"tch them catch up extra care man's hand ?" "That is my business, wholly." an- scrviV to "wa'l'ir t'lV' 'the'''cau8uanty ^ fertilizer on the fields in the fall,; "^^^ ^'K ""«* rob the smaller ones swered Rnoch coldly. "It Is an affnir station, where he cheerfully asked that ' just as soon as general infestation be- , *"'' "^^^P them back, no wdinaii would understand." llo'h's mother be informed that he was comes apparent, with the idea that the Be sure the hogs have no Ice on paused to light another cigar ; then be ' '*"'5''".^ injured.'' Iluns Across liu> Sea. The ( 'stributor of bread and meat cards â€" his wife and do^. Be sur fertilizer will so quicken the growth them. of the wheat plant that is shall ac- | P'^s that have lice will nat grow. quire powers of resistance and recup- ' ",*® some good spray, regularly, until eration which will enable it to with- '''^'' '^'"^ **'' Kone. stand the attacks of the fly, and which ! ^ P""'' scrubbing with soap and wa- also will send it into the winter sea- : ter will often start growth in a thrift- son well prepared to withstand the 1 '*** P'^- cold weather. Whole oats scattered on a clean The fertilizer which should be used â-  platformwill help to grow, strong 6one. Sweep the hulls off the plat- form every day. for this purpose is one which shall have from 2 to 3 per cent, of am- monia, in order that a quick and vigorous growth of the plant may be Called, assured. The result is that the plant "My country calls me!" exclaimed tillers more freely, and even after the emotional patriot, suffering some damage from the fly, j "lb shouldn't have been necessary it will send up head-pro.'ucing stems to call if you have any usefal ser- in the spring. There is nothing \ vice to perform. You ought to have wonderful or mysterious behind this | been on the job." method; merely the taking advantage of the productive capacity of a fertile ' The Lesser Evil. and enriched soil. In fact, it is so j Old (Jrumpâ€" Why doesn't Ethel eminently commonsense that it ought ; marry that young idiot? I am getting to make an appeal to every farmer. | blame tired of his coming here so The plan especially commends itself, ' much. for it promises not alone compura- j His Wife â€" I believe I'd prefer to tive immunity from Hessian Fly dam- ' have him come hereâ€" if she m ;'rie'< »gc, but as well it holds out the very him he will stay here.