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wf^mmmm ^ ^' THB rUSSHlBTON ADVANOB. CThe Quiet Observer Lady^Macdonaid. Many sjikmUid memories are reviv- ed by ih© ^asshiK o( LaUy Mucdouald, or, as the American usage would bavo It, liartHiMb Macdouald. After ahe was wtiuwtd ou June 6, ISSl, she was granted a peerage in her own right, but it dieH with her. All who were in- timate w»»h the great Canadian Pre- mier dM4 his wito testify to the im- mense rtSPltilance she was to him, how valuable her Judgment, how uteadying her iDfliH«uce, how wisely patriotic. Sir John Macdouald was already mar- ried whe» he tlrst saw I.ady Mac- donald This was in 1S56, as related by his biugrapher, Sir Joseph Pope. He had he.n dining in Kllahs Hotel, on KroulSlr.H-l. Toronto, when he saw her and hor brother enter, and asked H ho they were. He was told they were au English fiunily settled on L,alie Simcoe. Sir Johns llist wife was his coasiB. Mi.<s Isabella Clark, and «ha 4i.i ID li^Ob. leaving ""« '""•;7- ing eon, the Prt-senl Hon. Hugh John, in this year. 1858. Col. Uernard be- came private secretary to b.r John, and at a concert in Shallesbury HaU, Toronto, he pointed out Sir J"»»" ^ his siaU'i. It was not liU a year later hat Sir J.hn called on Mrs. Bernaru mother of his private secretary, and was iiit»«duced to Mise Agnes her daughter. Six years later the Ueru- ards we.t back to England to live, and here, .ne day in 1»««, Sir John, Tuo wa«' i. London in <^"';"'>'="°- with husi-ess concerning the Con fTnleratl.. of Canada, accidentally ue, mLh Bernard and l.er brother u. Bond Street. He proposed «"ortly te- fore Chrifllmas and the marnuge took X-e two Bonths later. How mucU shT!o»t'»b«ted to his subsequent suc- refs has *^^ recognized by all his b^^^apher.. Probably «t>e ^'"P^*- « zed the Bote which Sir John Wm- self always had made prominent m his^llcL. which Lord Kosebery 5^!nt^ .-t in his speech at the un- ^ lTn?of the Macdouald memorial n tbi cfypt of St. Pauls Cathedral: ••We m'ognize only this, that Sir John Macdonald had grasped the central idea that the British Empire is the sreat^t secular agency for good now known to mankind; that was the secret of his success; and that he determined t« die under it. and strove that Canada should live under it." [AbuBdance on the Farm. â- X universal verdict acclaims the harvest of 1920 as the greateet Canada ha.s ..ver ^n. All the exper s and authorit^e^ have but one opinion on the subject. The bountiful yield and the quality of the product are beyond comparison. Ontario has shared the common fortune, and th^ weather has been propitious lor harvesting ana threshing. Wheat prices have Ijeen ranging from »2.20 to $2.50. The fod- der crope are equally abundant with the cereals. Hay is sold at from $22 to $28 a ton. The only drawback to the general prosperity is lack of he p. FYuit is lost on this account, and to- bacco growere are also complaining. Fanners who do not pay atlent on to their poultry should be intereBted In lire report from the experimental farm at Kentville, N.S.. where a Ply- mouth Rock pullet has laid 104 eggs in 104 day?. This constitues a record, so far as is known. There are record* of five or six dozen without a break, but 104 wins the medal. The 200-egg hen is the desire of the ordinary poul- try man, but what good layers will do is usually wasted on the ordinary farmer, who will feed out his good grain to ecrub stock when he might as well be cherishing the finest laying strains In the country. The ignorance and neglect of many farmers in mat- ters of selecting and breeding stock. and It applies to <atlle as well as fowl, coet them enormous sums. The ie4-egg ben should serve as a hint. and labor must alwaya be a much heavier item for trucking. It la ad- mitted now that the Toronto-Niagara Hadial must be completed. Opposition to the eastern llu» appears to come .„.,„„ from those who desire to have no op- speak of o\ Ixindon. Kngland, on "Scientific Imperialism." It was not so much scientific as religious, and not so mu(!li imperial us Individual, but he received much applause in the oourse ul' au address, in which he expressed u number of ideas that are familiar to suulonts of mysticism and occult- Ikiii, but are not often heard in public outside a Theo.sophlcal Society. He paid tribute to "the noblest of the world's Empires," and went on to a loftier imperialism that IMjsltlon In the east to the develo|>- is looming all around iis on the Intel ment of land values in the west. Educat For Labor. Janioti Murdock, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Uailroad Train- men, whose resignation from the Board of Commerce formed a drama- tic episode some time ago, made a notable Kp«M»ch at St. Thomas on La- l(or Day. He dealt with the various pirases of the economic questions of the day. but emphasized the real ob- ject of labor organization, which wae not, he declared, primarly to get bel- ter wages, but to secure education. Once the worker gels this, •'other benelils follow as surely as night fol- lows day." Such edu<:ation is not merely, of course, the learning of books and schools. It is "a knowl- edge of what is justly theirs" which must be got by labor men "before tbey can hope to gain tlieh' lawful lectual horizon." The old imperialism of absolute, utter, abject subjection oil the one hand and arbitrary donilnatien ou the other, was quite dead. The subjection he wished to see was the subjection of all the de- veloped and undeveloped powers of the earth to the triumphant chariot wheels of man. As the mighty forces of nature wore laid under contribu- tion man would be relieved from toll iiiid freed to devote himself to his own moral, intellectual and spiritual ilevelopment. The greatest authority on radium assures us there is sufll- dent foh'e wrapped up in radium to do all the work of the world. There v,'as not a single cunoii uf human progress and huniaii freedom violated by such a prograniiiie, and the prin- ciple had been outlined centuries ago by the Founder of Christianity, who declared that "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that liroceedeth from the mouth of God. rights by the' force of logic. Such an i "e might be challenged, he said, on education," he insisted, 'must recog- I "'« I'"'"'^ l''a' 'f '"»" ^^â- '"''' »" »et tiize the rights of tlie <>mployer and the employe, and not be founded on prejudice or unfairness." He exiiree.s- ed one principle that if generally ob- â- served would probabl.v wipe out nine- ty per cent of the labor difficulties of tire day. 'The employer must learn that without the employe his liusiness would be as nought, and that the em- ployes must receive for their labor sufficienl to maintain healthful, happy, normal niandai'ds of living. Employes should and iiiust learn that earnest, honest labor in the interests CLEVER HAIR DRESS III FOUR MOVES . 1. Part the hair on the sld^ small section of part Indleatad la picture. a. Arrange a cop. as shown. soft buftant oa free to study his spiritual and mental destiny, was there a field for such study? He considered the oppor- tunities boundless. He suggested two directions in which the intellect might expand. None of them, how- ever musical, could visualize the whole of a musical triumph, such as r.eethoven's Moonllglit Sonata. at once. They could only enjoy it as a succession of notes and chords. But tliey could think of the faculty so de- i \eloped that thcy could see the entire sonata at once us one beautiful , w hole as they saw a picture. Sim- of the employer is <lue in exchange j jlarly the range of vibrations in the for e(|uitable wages and treatment, tihereal medium might be opened 16 and that u tbirty-niinute hour is just ' ' "â- " •••>>•â- "'" "' ciTht unH us dishonest as a lifly-cent dollar. Or- ganization of men. properly conduct- ed, actuated by proper motives and governed by conservative methods lias brought about such an education, and the results «peak for theinselves." He repudiated any llioughl of labor lieing in sympathy with "aiiV plan thai linds lit; basic puriioses in the destruc- tion of governmeiit or the recognized forms of law and order. ' .Mr. .Mur- dock's line speech undoubte<lly repre- sents the great bulk of labor opinion in Canada. Sir^Adam's Double^Devotion. Those who know Sir Adam Beck in- timately are aware that he is the most devoted family man in Canada, and that he adores his wife and daughter. It is a measure, then, of his fidelity to duty and the trust im- poeed In him and upon him by the munlclpalitleK of Ontario that he de- cided to stand by the less personal re- sponsibility at the lime when he was torn by apprehension for I^ady Beck, who was in the hands of the sur- geons; and the Hydro-Electric pro- ject was passing through the critical strain of power shortage, labor em- barrassments political obstruction, and the general confusion attending the transition conditions after the war. Lady Beck'e return to Canada will be a source of satisfaction and strength to him In a time when a last great effort is lielng made to block the Important work to which ho bMa given the best years of his life. To Judge from the statements being made, the opposition to the Hydro radial plans Is taking the course of consoUdating Its force on the point that there should be no unnecessary duplication of lines. The real oppo- sition com«« from other sources, and the emphasis laid upon the value of motor truck traffic as compared with radial railways indicates the origin of much of it. Motor trucks are ex- cellent on good roads and for limited distances. This has been demonatrat- ed in England, where after years of experience It has been found that to make motor truck traffic profitable it must be thoroughly organized through tUckly populated districts with com- paratively short runs and with repair â- hops established at convenient inter- rals. The constantly increasing cost Of g«»ollne contrasted with the stable or lowering cost of electric energy in an adverse factor in motor tratttc. Unrest From Industrialization. Sir Auckland Geddes' line speech at Ottawa analyzed briefly the various causes alleged to be behind the pres- ent world unrefil, and put lli<>m all aside but one â€" industrial revolution. This main cause is reinforced from many sides, by social unrest, and geo- graphical unrest in the Empire, chief- ly. He paid special attention to these two elements. He had found condi- 1 10116 during his recruiting experien- ces ill the war which were iiuite un- expected to him a jihysical ill-being "lo an extent and on a scale that 1 iliink no one iiiiaKined to be pos- sible." He found men wlio were ma- I hine minders, whose duty it was, vvliiise daily task it was. to look after -onie automatic Miaclilne or group of miichines. and he found their minds I ontinually starved of the exercise "of that lirst and most important function of the luiman mind, the fnriclioti of (real ing something; for they had nothing to do ijiit to \vat(;li and Id allow Iheir minds to stagnate and lie callow." The result Is that h" is found either in bitter revolt or Willi the ambition lo get drunk and .•â- lay drutik and so forget his misery. He found hundreds of thousands of niiMi and women under conditions that made it impossible for them lo niariy. Unrest was bound to result. â- Pbe voices of unborn chihlren rung in Iheir ears crying of an unfulfilled destiny, and this caused a iirofouiid unrest. The inrlustrial levolution which gave llie power and the wealth lo the iiuliistrial'zeil democracies pioduced the world unrest as a by- product, and with this was associated the geographical unrest which fol- lowed the conlrol by the indiistrlal- i/.ed democracies of lands far outside their borders. He outlined llie clash between the Idea of governments In the East, which held their power, as it was believed, from (Jod direct, and the representations of governments who were appoiiiled not hy God. hut by the pooiile. The war, and the plot- ters, the clash of governing theories, are but secondary lo the main cause of unrest, which Is the IndustrlallBm ol the nations. The solution of these problems will he the work of many palient years. The Engllshspeaklng nations would have a foremost iilace in this work, and it would be the part of Canada lo brldg" the cIiuhiiis of ignorance and the abyss of misrepre- .-entation hy which some hud sought to create mlsunder.slandhiK between the British and American peoples. us beyond the ranges of sight and vision, showing a world transcending ill beauty anything around us. He believed tlu' gulf between the Cave .Man und the man of to-day was not as wide as the gulf that would sep- arate the Canadian of to-day from li.e Canadian of 2UU years hence. He liad been impressed uy the enthusias- tic, burning, patriotic loyally of Can- ada. The Empire was not only an aggregate of components, but was also un organic unity. Directly one postuluted il as such one was thrust upon one of the noblest of concep tlons. In the old le^al view a joini stock company as liistlnct froir its s'liaieholders was a fiction. A later ai.d more enlightened jurisprudence VMS lieginiiing lo urge that souietliing !i"vv was really brought Inio exist- ence. There iiiiist be some iiiagniH- cenl loality. he thought, in the back- gr;iii;d of the organi<- unity know.i us ;lic British Emiiire. There was really being developed a great Imperial soul, a real Personality, a kind of suiier-emiiieni tiuardian Angel, which had the care of this realm. What took your sons and daughters across the ocean? he asked. Loyalty to the King (t'rlainly. but what was behind llie King was the majestic reality of the Empire soul. That touched the hearts of Iheir sons und daughters and stirred the souls of all of them. In 19i;! he had been at Niagara with a great American lawyer, 92. years of age (this was surely Rutus Choatei. and he had brought up the weak Doinl of the United Stales constitu- tion, which he had declared was the cnllre absence of a personal nucleus cf palriotic devotion for the nation, which was, Iheretore. liable to liarochlalisni and lack of vision. "I'm (.-(ling to say a daring thing." declared I'he luwver. "If you live to the or- dinary span you will see the great \iiierican Commonwealth make an eflorf to come back to the Hriti-sh flag. What is it that these British people have ihal we haven't got? they will ask, and they will answer Iheinselves in the words more preg- nant now than three thousand years â- igo 'Where there is no vision the people perish.'" Dr. Powell con- cluch'd 1)V picturing the soul of the Kmpire. "pouring down ils inspiration on your sons and daughters, and cniding them lo a fate more splendid I'haii any seen among the sons of men." « Divide nalr In two etranda U) middle of back. 4 Cross strands and bring aruund bead and fasten in back. FACTS ABOUT CANADA Canada's present supply of commer- cial timber has been estimated at from 500 to 800 billion feet, board measure. It is estimated thi,t the merchant- able limber of Canada covers an area of 250.000 acres, being about half of the forest area, and does not include areas covered with piilpwood and lire- I wood. Foolish Francesca By Olive Wadaley lirilish Columbia contains 50 mil- lion acres of commercial timber, esti- mated to be equal to 400 billion feet, board measure. British ColumbLi (ontains more saw-timber than any other province. Frankie clutched his arm. "What'a wrong with me; what has happened f" shf! stammered. "Has anything happened t" An- struther chuckled. And then be re- membered Nathan had actually given this girl an engagement and he stop- ped laughing. "Been ill, or some- thingt" he inquired. Uhe nodded dumbly. "Cold, lung trouble, throat trm- blet" She nodded again, fighting her tears away. Horror ao intense held her that her mind seemed only a blur of fear. She could not define what had happened. She could scarcely think coherently at all. Her frantically pitiful eyes touched even Anstruther. "Have you tried to sing before you came to mef " he aiked quickly. "No," she just breathed. ' ' Had the doctor tested your throat or anythingt" "No." Anstruther lounged over to the win- dow and mixed a brandy and soda ; nd came back with it. "There," he said, "get this down, you'll feel better." Frankie stared at it, and then obe- diently drank it. A little life crept buck into her veins. "I'll go now," she said tonelessly; ' ' thank you for â€" for trying to help me." •'See here," Anstruther said, "you'd better go to a doctorâ€" a spe- cialist. 1 dare say your throat's only temporarily bad." He lied. He believed her voice to 1/e gone absolutely. It seemed difficult to think she had ever had one; but he felt awkward and bothered. He ran a thick finger down the F 'ti in the telephone book. '•Farren â€" Sir Charles," he read out, "15 Harley street." Fraukic went to the door. She want- ed to get away and hide herself and I ever see this man who had witnessed her agonized humiliation again, but she turned to say good-by, and thank you, and even smiled a little. The girls were on the landing, and the youth. •'Hello, Mme. Patti, " he said to I'rankie; and the girls yelled with laughter and Frankie crept down- stairs and out it^to the street. In .\lberta there are four and a half luillion acres of commercial saw-tim- ber amounting to 21 billion feet, hourd measure. About SO per cent of it is spruce. â-  The timber urea of Saskatchewan I ir, :!.:!S4.0tlO acres, containing about 14 billion feel, board intusiire. The lum- ber at present cut consists almost en- tirely of spruce, with some hucli. jack pine, and poplar. The land in .Manitoba covered with I saw-timber has an iirea of 1.920,000 acres, containing about 7 billion feel. bt.urd measure. Spruce forms about 9" per cent, of the lumber sawn. Ontario contains about 85 million acres of saw-timber on which stands l.'iO billion feel of merchantable tim- ber, board measure. The annual cut consists of 1)0 per cent of white pine. In Quebec there are about 90 mil- lion acres of merchantable saw-tim- bi r. contuliiing about 100 billion feet. board measure, of saw-lumber. A lit lie more than one-halt the cut is spruce. A TRAVELLING KITCHEN. The Soul of the Empire. What must have seemed an extra- ordinary speech to many of the busi- ness men who heard il at the Empire (Mub was given recently by Dr. Bills Powell, editor of The Financial News Some years ago an inventive fel- low wltli a kindly feeling for wo- men and an eye to inoflts. pro- duced a contraption he called a kitchen cabin.a. arrangeil In hold in (convenient (luantities ju-l ubinil everything a woman needed for cooking and baking, says the Oma- ha Bee. It was a very successful venture for him. the strong selling factor being the convenience (ind the amazing saving of steps in the preparation of food It comes to mind on noticing that an Eastern womun in :!n years has walked a distance euuul lo that from Ohio to Sun Francisco and back- plus six trips up Pike's Peak â€" haf the distunie carrying a pall of water. The annoying thing about II Is that with piping that would have cost only $42 her hus- band could have saved the womun all those unnecessary steps and the water burden. The forest area of .New Brunswick I' about 12 million acres, with stand- ing timber estimated at 22 billion feet, board measure. Spruce forms Sii per cent of the annual cut. Nova Scotia is estimated to contain i. 740,000 acres of forest land, with about 10 billion feet, board measure, of coniferous saw-timber, and much hardwood. Only a small part of Prince Edward Island is covered with suw-tlniber. The annual cut is about equal to seven unil a hulf million feet, board measure. QUEEN MARY THE MOTHER. POEMS ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION. Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dote. The linnet, and the thrush say "I love and I love!" In winter they're silent, the wind is so strong; What It says 1 don't know, but it sings a loud song. Hut green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather. And singing and loving, all come back together. And the lark Is so brimful of gladness and lovo, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings and he sings, and forever sings he. I love my Tjove, and my Love loves me. â€" Samuel Taylor Colsridge. Queen Mary is preeminently the mother. She is motherly in ail her ways. She lacks affectation or pre- tence. She is always glad to give motherly and housewifely advice. I came across a little Illustration of this recently at a fete given in the Uoyal Tlotanical Gardens to aid the fund for ex-officers. The King and Queen visited the fete and spent some time there. As they were walk- ing along Queen Mary paused to whisper a word to a little girl who was seated on the grass. "I>on't you think," she whispered, "that you may catch a cold if you sit too long on that damp grass after all the rain." And then, with a cheerful smile to the child, she passed on. The Queen has set a new fashion to middle-aged Englishwomen. Her hair has recently been growing very grey. She Is not ashamed of It. No dyes or subterfuges for her. And I am bound to add that the grey hair Is eminently becoming to her and adds to her matronly, handsome looks. ACCEPT DECREASE. Two hundred girls, employed In a hosiery mill near Philadelphia, have agreed to accept a X0% de- crease in wages rather than have the mill close CHAPTER XII. What Sir Charles Said. On the way back to Oxford street Frankie relived that time at the pi.'sno. .She had not believed it was her voice ut uU; and then slit* had tried to sing again, and again the dreadful, hideou.' SMiuil had come. What should she do now( Wha« could she dot" "Oh, somebody help iiicl" she cried inwardly. She had to wait to see Sir CharU-s Farren. it was nearly live before si o was shown into his big room. His keen ryes swept over her. He spok* to her genially on trivial matters, .Mid 'hen said: 'And what is the troublef" Very gently Frankie found herself ^•uided to a chair, her head plaeei in a rest, and then the room was iu tlark- icis save for the electric bulb wh'ch gle: med in the band over Sir CharU'j' need. The examination was a lonj; one. N\ hen it was over and the room wa.s fi.'cd with light again, Sir Charle:, t.ined and smiled at Frankie. "It's not so very fearful an exam inntion, is itt" he said. Frankie got up and went ovor to mil., her big, dark eyes gazed implo- i.'iply at him. â- 'Shall 1 ever sing again?" si o said. "Tell me the truth." "I ean't tell you that now," ii'ir Charle.? said very gently. "You mu .t ei,iue to i!ie agani iii six months, and then I will tell you. Oue thing I can tell you. It is this. You will eertai"- iv uot be able to sing again fo.r an- other year. Vour throat requires at) solute rest." His practised glance ran over Ii,'-. He noted everything, from the small. dirty shoes to the pale face under the -iliabby, scarlet tam-o'-shanter. "I'll send you a lotion with which to paint your throat and a touir for it," he said. "I have your addres-', you know. Be brave; you've no idea 1 1 \v bravely helps to cure things. It does, really. In six months come bac k to me, won't youf" He held the door for her. "Theâ€" the fee," Frankie faltered. "At the end of the treatment, {lease," Sir Charles said promptly. And then he gripped her hand warmly .•lid took her to the hall door himself. "Poor little soul," he murmured as he went back to his consulting room. The poor little soul walked unsee- iugly up Harley street and across Ca xendish Square. Faints, life, herself as one of the big crowd had faded away from Frankie. Unconsciously, and yet with inttnse hope, she had always believed in her future as a singer. Now that future would never be â€" til the hope was dead, all the vague, ecstatic dream a hideous opposite real- ity. She was nothing now, and she had no future at all! She gazed at the busses rolling past, put up her hand at one at last and ciimbed on to it. It was going city- ward, but that she did not notice. She paid her fare apathetically, glancing at the few coins with a shiver. The motor bus surged onward down Oxford street into Holborn, from there into the city. Frankie awoke to the everyday sur- roundings at the sound of the con- ductor's voice saying, "Mansion House" insistently. She looked vaguely round out of the window. The crowd puzzled and bewildered her. "Shepherd's Bush, I waat Shep- herd's Bush," she hazarded. Tk« eon- iluctor smiled pitingly at her. "Come tho wrong way, y»u have, tnat's about it. Take 38 back, fare's threepence. He helped her off into the whirling, seething roadway. Frankie stood on an island, staring about her. She had never in all her life seen a plate fike this. She felt terrified and yet intefasted. The never-ceasing traffic parted sod- denly, leaving a clear path across to that side from which the 38 bos start- ed. Frankie ran breathlessly to the pavement. The incident of the wrong ticket had taken her out of herself for a little. She was conscious of feeling faint with hunger. A policeman standing near told her she would find a teaahop on the right, a hundred yards far- ther on. She hurried on, jostling and being jostled on her way. .>jj? The tea-shop was down a Itftle flight of steps. Frankie went in hum- bly. It seemed a sort of rose-shaded p,ace with pretty girls in pink dresses and coquettish mob caps, serving tea at various little tables. Frankie saw a table in a eoiner. It was the only free one in the room. All the others were occupied by men â€" young, old, middle-aged â€" all appckxent- ly quite friendly with the pretty nait- resses, all having coffee or tea and smoking cigarettes. While she waited for her tea Fran- i>ie studied the place. It was pretty and dainty, though not expensively gotten up. There were eane chair's with high, dark-stained, wooden backs, and little cheap tables with pink cloths and pink china and pink paper napkins. At a desk in the other corner a girl with hair which shone like ripe corn beneath the hanging electric light was giving change and receiving payment. Francesca saw one young man rise, leaving sixpense beside his plate; once (•r twice again she saw the same thing lappen. The idea came to her that these girls' lives could not be particularly arduous. A sudden bold resolve was born in her. When her pink-garbled feirl came with her tea Francesca looked up and said: "Do you ever want a new girl heref" ^ The tall, slim girl with the eurlv bair stared at her. "What you want '.0 know for?" she asked in a pretty but commonly accented voice. Francesca impulsively got up. "1 want a job most fearfully bad- ly," she said quite simply. "I've only a very little money; I don't mind working hard, ' ' "Could you buy a kit like thisf" the girl asked nervously. ' ' This French stuff, you know, and the mob- cap f We all have to get our own and keep the caps laundered and that. "Fact is, we are short-handed; but you look a bit small. If you like I'll take you up to Miss King; she's tho fupe here. If you're coming, come on, or I'll get a tine for keeping me tables waitin '. " Francesca followed her upstairs to .1 small room where a very smart wom- ai. dressed in black was sitting be- side a gas fire and reading. "Young lady looking for the job for the extra five tables, Miss King," the pink girl explained. "You can go, Miss Cave; I'll see the young lady alone," the superin- tendent said. The girl ran lightlv downstairs, and Francesca's orJeal began. "You are very small. Have you had .'•ny experience waiting J" ' ' N'o, but 1 am quick. I mean I learn things quickly." "Have you ever worked for vour l.vingf " "No, but I must now." "You have not run awav from homef" Francesca shook her head, a little smile twisting her mouth. "Oh, no! My people, at least my sister-in-lawâ€" the only relative I haveâ€" is in India. I live in Shepherd's Bush in a board- ing-house." "Have you any rcferei.cesf " Francesca's heart sank, then rose again. "A doctor's, and the head of the boarding house, if those would dot" Miss King bit her pencil med- itatively. She had at once seen Francesca's air of attraction, and her voic« was cultured. Also, the pay at the tea p'ace was small, and they were rcallv two girls short already. "1 will give you a trial," she said briskly; "wages teu a week and your tea. You must be here at ten o'clock every morning, and as a junior you wilt have to lay out the tables and t'dy up in the evening. "You must provide your pink dress and muslin cap, and wash the caps as well. Miss Caveâ€" Gladys Cave- will show you your work. Please come en Monday. Good evening." Francesca went down stairs again "Any luckt" Gladys Cave whis pered, hurrying by with a plate of crumpets. Frankie signaled "Yes," arid went back to her table to her tea. She looked round the place now with the eyes of a coworker, and was in time- to Sep one very shining voung man seize Gladys's hand and press it. "I suppose all that's thrown in for ten shillings," she told herself. CHAPTER Xm. Sir Galahad. Life held something at least, if it was only a waitress's work in an un- derground tea shop, as franceaea jolt- ed home in the tube. Danvers was not very enthosiastie o\er the news, and announced his in- .\