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Your Guarantee It insures tea that is fragrant and pure Try it. QREENMANTLE BY JOHN BUCHAN. (Copyrighted Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.) CHAPTER XIV. (Cont'd.) We were dismounted now, leading our horses, and after about fifty yards ! the path ceased and came out on u well-made carriage drive. So, at least, we guessed, for the place was as black R.. pitch. Evidently the house couldn't be far off, but in which direction Ij hadn't a notion. Now I didn't want to be paying calls on uny Turk at that time of day. Our {ob was to find where the road opened nto the lane, for after that our way to Constantinople was clear. One side] the lane lay, and the other the house, and it didn't seem wise to take the risk of tramping up with horses to the front door. So I told Peter to wait for me at the end of the back-road, while I would prospect a bit. 1 turn- ed to the right, my intention being if 1 Haw the light of a house to return, and with Peter take the other direc- tion. I walked like a blind man in that nether-pit of darkness. The road eemed well kept, and the soft wet gravel muffled the sounds of my feet. Great trees overhung it, and several times 1 wandered into dripping bush- es. Arid then I stopped short in my tracks, for I heard the sound of whistling. It was quite close, about ten yards away. And the strange thing wan that it was a tune I knew, about the last tune you would expect to hear in this part of the world. It was the Scots air: "Ca 1 the. yowes to the knowi-a," which was a favorite of my father's. The whistler must have felt my presence, for the air suddenly stopped In the middle of a bar. An unbounded curiosity seized me to know who the fellow could be. So I started in and finished it myself. There was silence for a second, and then the unknown began again and topped. Once more I chipped in and finished it Then it seemed to me that he was coming nearer. The air In that dank tunnel was very still, and I thought I heard a light foot. I think I took a tp backward. Suddenly there wus a flash of an electric torch from a vard off, so quirk that I could see nothing of the man who held It. Then a low voice spoke out of the darkness a voice I knew well and, following it, a hand was laid on my arm. "What the devil are you doing here, Dick? " it said, and thers was eomething like consternation in the tone. I told him in a hectic sentence, for I wus beginning to feel badly rattled mys*lf. "You've never been in greater dan- ger in your life," said the voice. "Great God, man, what brought you wandering here to-day of all days?" You can Imagine that I was pretty cared, for Sandy wns the last man to put a case too high. And the next econd I felt worse, for he clutched my arm and dragged me in a bound to *he side of the road. I could see no- thing, but I felt that his head was fccruwed round; and mine followed suit. opened the door. The lady was over the threshold before I was at the step. I followed her heavily, the wet squelching from my field-boots. At that moment I noticed that she was very tall. She led me through a long corridor to a room whe/e two pillars held lamps in the shape of torches. Tho place was dark but for their glow, and it was as warm as a hothouse from in- visible stoves. I felt soft carpets underfoot, and on the walls hung some tapestry or rug of an amazingly in- tricate geometrical pattern, but with every strand as rich as jewels. There, between the pillars, she turned and faced me. Her furs were thrown back, and the black mantilla had slipped down to her shoulders. | "I have heard of you," she said. "You are called Richard Hanau, the American. Why have you come to this land?" "To have a share in the campaign," .' I said. "I'm an engineer, and I ; thought I could help out with some business like Mesopotamia." "You are on Germany's side?" she' asked. j "Why, yes," I replied. "We Amer-l leans are supposed to be nootrals, and that means we're free to choose any side we fancy. I'm for the Kaiser." I Her cool eyes searched me, but not Woman's Sphere Every Meal Have packet in your pocket for ever-ready refreshment. Aids digestion. Allays thirst. Soothes the throat. For Quality, Flavor ind tho $IH Piekago, And there, a dozen yards off, were the acetylene lights of a big motor-car, j It came along very slowly, purring like a great cat, while we pressed into the bushes. The headlights seemed to spread a fan far to either side,, show- ing the full width of the drive and its borders, and about half the height of I the over-arching trees. There was a figure in uniform sitting beside the chauffeur, whom I saw dimly in the re- flex glow, but the body of the car waa dark. It crept towards us, parsed, and my ! mind was just getting easy again ^ when it stopped. A switch was snap- ; ped within, and the limousine was brightly lit up. Inside I saw a wo- man's figure. i Tho servant had pot out and opened the door und a voice came from within | a clear soft voice speaking in some tongue I did not understand. Sandy had started forward at the sound of it, and I followed him. It would never do for me to be caught skulking in the ( bushes. I was so dazzled by the suddenness of the glare that at first I blinked and saw nothing. Then my eyes cleared , and I found myself looking at the In- : side of a car upholstered in some soft I dove-colored fabric, and beautifully ; finished off in ivory and silver. The woman who sat in it had a mantilla , of black lace over her head and shoul- ders, and with one slender jewelled hund she kept its folds over the great- er part of her face. I saw only a pair ,of palp grey-blue eyes these and the I slim fingers. I remember that Sandy was stand- ing very upright with his hands on his hips, by no means like a servant in the presence of his mistress. He was 1 r a fine figure of a man at all times, ' but in those wild clothes, with his head thrown back and his dark brows drawn below his skull-cap, he looked ( like some savage king out of an older world. He was speaking Turkish, and glancing at me now and then as if angry and perplexed. I took the hint that he was not supposed to know any other tongue, and that he was asking who the devil I might be. Then they both looked at me, Sandy with the slow unwinking stare of the ! gypsy, the lady with those curious beautiful pule eyes. They ran over rny clothes, my brand-new riding- breeches, my splashed boots, my wide- brimmed hat. I took off tho last and made my best bow. | "Madam," I iuid, "I have to ask. pardon for trespassing in your gar-i den. The fact ig, I and my servant , he's down tho road with the horses ' and I guess vou noticed him tho two of us went for a ride this afternoon, and got good and well lost. We came in by your back gate, and I was pros-' peeling for your front door to find some one to direct us, when I bumped int^ thin brigand-chief who didn't understand my talk. I'm American, I and I'm here on a big Government proposition. I hate to trouble you, but If you'd send a man to show us howi to strike the city I'd be very much in | your debt" Her eyes never left my face. "Will i came into the car?" she aaid in troubling with the question whether I was speaking the truth. She was sizing me up as a man. I cannot de- scribe that calm appraising look. There was no sex in it, nothing even of that implicit sympathy with which: one human being explores the exis-' tcnco of another. I was a chattel, a: thing infinitely removed from intim- acy. Even so I have myself looked at a horse which I thought of buying. ' scanning hi . shoulders and hocks end paces. Even so must the old lords of Constantinople have looked at tho slaves which the chances of war brought to their markets, assessing their usefulness for some task or other with no thought of a humanity j common to purchased and purchaser. THE BORROWER. Judith's door opened cautiously, and Sarah Fell stood apologetically in the doorway. How pretty she was with her golden hair and her arms full nf jade crepe de Chine 1 "Oh, you're studying!" she exclaimed. "I won't interrupt you but a moment. I just wanted to ask you which you'd have this made up with if you were I, silver or black? Or would you use both?" "Prue said silver, Connie said black, and Mary Bald both," observed Judith dryly. "Sarah, don't you ever get tired of borrowing?" "Of borrowing! Why, Judy, I never borrowed a cent in my life!" "I'm not talking about money. Why don't you decide something for your- self? Really it's heaps more fun. Oh, you're a wheedler, and it's awfully hard to resist you, but somebody's got to do it for your own good. So I de- "Why, Judith!" Sarah excViiraed. "I mean it. We're all in a conspir- acy to help you rob yourself, but I'm going to get out Try standing on your own feet, Sarah, and see how good it feels!" "But Professor Baker laid one of the requisites of success is willingness to learn from others!" Sarah exclaim- ed triumphantly. "I know ho did. But that doesn't mean you should go round borrowing other people's brains to avoid using your own," Judith retorted. "Nonsense!" Sarah replied lightly. "Go back to your old calculus. If my duty, buffer "my essential qualities. 1 1 . A , we f k 'f^arah was luminaned felt that I was under the scrutiny of. * the dean 8 offlce - Miss Fel1 - tho one who was a connoisseur in human dean 8ald . " J am afraid your report is nature. going to be a shock to you this term, I see I have written that I knew no- so I called you in to talk it over with thing about women. But every man has ! you." in his bones a consciousness of sex. I j She waited till Sarah, white of face, was shy and_perturbed, but horribly , j, ad read ^e card twice Then "Do the pillared lights, with her fair cloud of hair, her long delicate face, and her pale bright eyes, had the glamor of a wild dream. I hated her inftinc- tively, hated her intensely, but I long- ' ed to arouse her interest. To be valued coldly by those eyes was an offence to my manhood, and I felt antagonism Knglish. "At the house 1 will give you a servant to direct you." Sh drew in the skirts of her fur cloak to make room for me, and in my muddy boots and sopping clothes I took the seat she pointed out. She said a word in Turkish i<> Sandy, switched off the light, and thu car moved on. Women had never come much my way, and I knew about as much of their ways as I knew about thr Chi- nese language. All my life I had lived with men only, and rather a rough crowd at that. When I mada my pile and came home I looked to se a little ! society, but I had first the business of ! the Black Stone on my hands, and I then the war, so my education lan- ' guished. I hnd never been in a motor- car with a lady before, and I fi.-H like a if li on a dry sandbank. The soft cushions und the subtle scents filled me with acute imensinesH. 1 wasn't thinking now abo'it Sandy's gravo words, or about Hlenkiron's warning. average height, and my irritation ntif-j fened me from heel to crown. I flung' my head back and guve her cool glance for cool glance, pride against pride. Once, I remember, a doctor on board ship who dabbled in hypnotism told, me that I was the most unsympathetic' person hi had ever struck. He said I was about a.s good a mesmeric sub- ject as Table Mountain. Suddenly I begun to realize that this woman waa trying to cast some spell over me. The eyes grew large and luminous, and I was conscious for just an instant of some will battling to subject mine. I was aware, too, in the some moment of u strange scent which recalled that wild hour in Kuprasso's garden-house. It passed quickly, and for a second, her eyes drooped. I seemed to read in' them failure, and vet u kind of satis- faction, too, as if they had found more in me than they expected. "What life have you led?" the soft voice was saying. I was able to an.swcr quite natur- ally, rather to my surprise. "I have been a mining engineer up and down the world." "You have faced danger many times?" "I havo faced danger." "You havu fought with men In bat- tles?" "I have fought in battles." Her in.. HIM rosu and Ml in a kind of sigh. A Mm!- a very beautiful thing flittod over her face. She gave mi- her hand. "The horses are at the door now," she said, "and your servant Is with thum. One of my people will guide you to the city." Pater and I jogged home In tho rain with onu of Randy's skin-clad Companions loping at our sidu. We did not speak a word, for my thoughts were running like hounds on the track of the past hour*. I had seen the mys- terious) Hilda von Klnem. "Mad ami bad," nienkiron had called her, "but| principally bad." I did not "It is because you are trying to live upon borrowed capital. We could not be sure of it at first, so we waited, giv- ing you the benefit of every doubt. Think it over. How many papers have you written, how many problems have you solved, how many even unimport- ant things have you decided without help from others?" "Why, I I didn't suppose I thought " Suddenly aa in a dream Sarah saw Judith's clear eyea chal- lenging her and heard Judith's voice: "Try standing on your own feet, Sarah, and see how good it feels!" woman should ave wrinkles or sagging skin be- fore she is sixty. Lifebuoy keeps the skin young. The health odour vanishes quickly after use. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED Toronto LbU A PREm APRON FOR "MOTHER'S HELPER." 4472. Figured percale in white and blue la her* portrayed. The styla la easy to develop and eaay to adjust. The strap* may be fastened to the belt with buttons or anap fasteners. The Pattern it cut in 6 Sizes : , 8. 10, 12, and 14 years. A 12-year lise requires 2 yards of 27-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on Even if vanity does not prompt a more careful toilet, every mother will appreciate the comfort this arrange- ment offers for tired feet. If the attic does not harbor one of these old swivel : piano stools, one can be bought at! second-hand very cheaply. And inci-j dentally let me add that such a stool is exceedingly handy in the kitchen as well. THIS DOUGH WON'T STICK. The other day I saw my aunt knead-! ing bread on a cloth-covered bread- board. I had never seen this done before, so asked her her reason for! using the cloth. The answer was that the cloth prevents the soft dough from sticking and it can be worked up much softer than on a floured board in the ordir.ary way. She said it was also splendid when cutting doughnuts, as they stick so easily to a floured board, and to be good should be very soft. The idea is not original, as she once saw the doughboards covered with cloth in a big doughnut factory. The cloth cover is best made from a large- size flour sack, which is sewn into a tube to fit the doughboard; or sew tapes to a square a little larger than the doughboard and tie these so that the cloth will be smooth and stay in place. Louise E. Nutritious Banana*. The producing power of the banana Is forty-four times as great as that of the potato. The dried fruit Is readily converted Into nutritious flour; it may- be also manufactured Into sausages; beer can be made from It: while th* kin can be turned into doth, and th* juice made to do service either as Ink or vinegar. 0> The first negro was Drought to tht U.S. in 1619. The flrst astrological issue of Old Moore's Almanack was published ia 1697. ! woman must play in it. I wan thlnk- or aliout. my Job and the part this I ! ing only that 1 felt mortally shy. The ' darknea.4 made it worse. I was sure ! that my companion was looking at me | all the time and laughing at me for a clown. I The car stopped und u tall servant i Before we arrived our guido had plucked my knee and spoken some words which he had obviously got by heart. "The Master says," ran the message, "expect him at midnight." (To he continued.) .. The lowest priced tea Is .int the cheapen*. 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So it was with surprise and interest that I re- cently saw in front of her dressing- tatle a rejuvenated piano stool brought down from her attic, where it had remained in useless oblivion since superseded at the piano by a more ambitious bench. "I cannot tell you what a comfort it ia," she explained. "I'm only pro- voked to think thkt I did not get it down sooner. 1 sit here in comfort and arrange my hair as carefully a I choose. Then I swing round and scrutinise result* from all angles. "No more scolding-locks for mother! Daughter is so delighted with thia one improvement that she donated the cretonne cover." ISSUE No. M % 8S. Sun Spoils the Effect. Bo often the light ohinlng through cretonne nraprlea will mar the beauty ! of the (Itwlgn. A lining of aoft cloth ] of a harmonizing color will bring out the pattern both day and night. KELSEY Heal thy HEAT ^^^^1^^ Kelsey Heating i*I?Jght Heating The Kelsey warm air gen- orator will heat every room In your house. 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