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mfllfiv‘uu to awfully," he told her, * the fact is I‘m too busy to think of getting away. Williams is piling a whole lot of work and respounsibility on i me these days. Williams, you know, _> San‘t what you‘d call an casy boss. If ~â€" he raises a imman‘s salary he sees to it . #hat be gets his money‘s worth. He * simply won‘t be bothcred, even with . mantters that ain‘t precisely details." i\~. "It‘@â€"because he trusts you, Jimay," _ "Ol€ : a ed him with an intonation Wisly.near to tenderness. 8 ¥¥ou see," he went on, "It‘s easier W NBW BeÂ¥ about bolidays than to get SBBWLâ€" 1 shouldn‘t be hbere now, for | PWE â€"working Sundays as well as other at present, ouly that 1 had to ome up on a matter of importance." "Ob." she said, with a pout, "I ought you came to see us for ourâ€" Ives, mot on a business trip. No nore berries tor you. "1 came for the express purpose of seeing you and of talking to you ; ming, to the dangerous study of the ¢ heart that . Abat had held it so long inviolate. Whe knowledge that he loved her with «wuch stesdfact intensity rekindled love um the dead ashes her husband had o T mfter the shock of Brooks‘ ac _ tiese bhad c to obsess ber and he â€" had : K further and further to wilnd a memory, she had set free her um @4 > inclinations, Once more to the heights of the ideal and romanâ€" "Emma, do you remember that on that night just before you learned the #ruth I told you atout that chap in Her heart fultered vioiently, suffocatâ€" Ingly, again. To meâ€"nlone?" ‘ "Yes. I‘ve seen Joc." The pronouncing of hber husband‘s name was to ber as a beavy blow. Sweet, timorous exspectancy, hot, turâ€" bulent blushes thait she had bent to hide vanished instantly, and she lookâ€" ed up at him startled. "Joe walked in on me five nights ago. He looks well and is doing well." "What is that to me?" The words came in chilling accents, and hoer eyes grew hbard. "De you believe what you are telling nic, o Jimsy Smith?® _ pays and cheerfulness replaces grouch when stomach, liver, kidneys and boweclis are helpcd naturally to do their duty by Cheerfulness â€" PAID IN FU ind, and for the very reason Fm bis sentiments in held unswervingly to the line rm«l ber he had followed whe had refused to take seriâ€" sectet passion until in her § he became the incarnation mess, of desire, of all mortal Novelized From Eugene Walter‘s Great Play offer of martinge, this love n stronger, fiercer, until it hber life. She saw that she i instead of spending you: in the hot city? You ough‘ ght a heap of blueberries to oured them into his joined they seated themselves on it them and to rest. the most enjoyable picnic years," she said gayly. "I an inspiration of yours to cation and stay here for » s your [boniemads and procure & â€"«â€"BÂ¥.«. JOHN W. HARDING Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillinyham"Co, n Secnring the Agency for _ :. .. "Forgive and forget! Yes, I have forgotten, and oblivion enshrouds forâ€" giveness with it. Joseph Brooks is fdead, as dead for me as though hbe were in his grave. I bhave even ceased to bear his name. Sometimes I have wondered if he ever existed. If 1 reâ€" member him it is as one recallsg a hightâ€" mare from which one is glad to have awakened." ‘ She laughed a little mirthless laugh and, plucking a feru branch, began to pick the fronds from it nervously, letâ€" ting them fall to the ground. ‘"That‘s all very well, Emma," he objected gently, "but Joe is nome the less very much alive, and hbe is your hbusband. You mustn‘t forget that ever. And be‘s all right, I honestly believe. If he did fall into temptation he meant well. He thought he could put the money back easily enough, and he wanted you to have more comâ€" fort and be happy. The best of us ain‘t no better than ‘we should be if you come right down to the contemâ€" plation of the naked fact You know that the book says, ‘There is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not.‘ To me the man who is real sorry for baving done wrong, "You are the one man I know whom I would never have suspected of barâ€" boring a treasury of such homely platâ€" itudes," she said scornfully. "If it were only a question of forâ€" giving a man who had sinned so weakâ€" ty as that, but it isn‘t," be went on. "More is involvedâ€"his absolution and salvation by duty if not by love. Emâ€" such a pardonable motive as Joe‘s bad, is as good as he was before be did the *"Do you believe what you are telling me, Jimey Smith?" she asked gently. "Do you, speaking from your inmost beart, order me to return to the arms uf that man?" The little cool clad form with its clinging skirt returned slowly. "Jimsy, why did be charge youwâ€" to tell me these things ?" "Why? 1 don‘t know. Because I‘m his friend and yours, 1 suppose. Beâ€" cause there was no ome elme could do He released her wrists. She had lisâ€" tened to him at the last with averted face that was bloodless and looked ghastly under its coat of sun tan. She walked away wrestling with herself. Smith stood as impassive as fate. But on his brow a dampness had gathâ€" ored, and she had seen the sweat beads >ome there as he spoke. bank at a good salary, has saved monâ€" ey, and all he wauts is for you to forâ€" give and forget and start over again. voe‘s all right now, there‘s no doubt about that, for I‘ve looked up the recâ€" ord he‘s made since you‘ve been sepaâ€" rated. Not only that, but he loves you more than ever. That‘s gospel truth, you were governed in your decision by the rule of right and wrong." ‘"That was about it, if you cut out the qualification of me." "Emma," he said, "1 guess we‘ll go down now. And we‘d better take a short cut, if there is one, or we won‘t be bhome for dinner. You must be bungryv. and of all the"â€" against his shoulders and speaking with intense earnestness: ‘"Emma, there are some things on this earth that we‘re called on to do, ordained by an all wise and merciful Providence. We may not like to do them, but it is not a matter of inclinaâ€" tion. We have to make our decisions by the rule of right or wrong. Is it right or is it wrong? It‘s an arbitrary rule, but I guess it, works out for the best in the end. It bas always seemed to me so. Therefore 1 say go back to Joe, your husband. Joe pleads to your beart that was his. ‘Tell her,‘ he said, ‘that I‘m more sorry than [ can exâ€" press; that I‘m sorry and miserable. Tell ber that there is no light in life without her.‘ Those were about his "And, having been influenced to asâ€" sume this role of ambassador by a sense of duty and loyalty, feeling bound to do so for the very reason that would hbave deterred a man of ordiâ€" nary moral caliber, you would have adbered to the rule though every word of your counsel had been to you as the sear of a white bot fron and its utterâ€" ance bad been death." prised to bear from him. Since you For the first time in her life she saw a look of sternness pass over his face. And it was mingled with pain. She did not finish the sentence, but sat gazing at him with wide eyes, stark with agony and amaze. nonest ilte. rme ns i youu jou m a Denver who was long on love and short on honor and kind of took the view that it was his wife‘s place to "Well?" "Well, I‘m still of that opinion." "Do I understand that youâ€"that is sold at 50e That the rapprochement would he effected he entertained no doubt whatâ€" cver. er present position, he was continced, must be intolerable. He planned to make her bomecoming an occasion of festivity that wonld mark the beginning of a new, unending honâ€" eymoop. He had laarned mnch from trust was in the keeping of his bonor. His. role of platonic friendship was ended. fMis privileged relations with the woman who was dearer to him than lifs cou‘d no longer be mainâ€" tained. ‘The home of the Harris famâ€" y could no longer be the refuge of his loneliness, the pleasant oasis in the desert of his existence, where he could find consolation and rest for his suffering heart, berond which the world lay dark and indiscernible. CHAPEEN_XX11 T nas to Brovis an iutermdaable week that clapsed between Ina visit to Smith and the latter‘s reâ€" turn from bis mission | Patience was one of his virtues. Having taken the decisive step toward a reconcliiaâ€" tion with Emma, he yearned more than ever for his wife hersclf. lHe saw ber now only as she was when he had made hber his bride, only as she had been in the full fowering of ber rhap sodic adoration, and the vision abided with him by doy as well as by nigbt, inthralling all his senses. A great sigh was the indication of the conflict that was raging in Smith‘s beart, and for one single instant the mask of impenetrability fell from his face. She read the answer there. Removing feverishly the glove from ber left hand, she forced from hber finger the wedding ring that in the years had tightenced closely upon it and hurled it from her. It ricochetted on a rock and went bounding over the outer cdge of the plateru far down into the pathless, tangled brush of the almost perpendicular declivity. Smith turned away in silence, and in silence they made their way back along the little path up which they har‘ come. Neltber spoke, even at the difficult places when be stretched out his hband and helped ber with its strang, sustaining clasp. Jimsy was grave and abstracted. In his Gethscmane be had drunk too decply of the waters of knowlidge, and they were bittersweet, hbeavily Impreznated with regret and dismay. Emma had discovered the secret which for years he had guarded so jealously andâ€"oh, the blissful torture of it!â€"had revealed to him that she loved him. This was the outcome of his self sacrificing mission on bebalf of the husband who stood between them with the right of the might of law and the conventions and whose "No, doun‘t interrupt. Hear me to the end and then_speak. What is this thing that you are asking me to do? You are asking me to go to a living death, to make of my heart a sepâ€" uicher Mf all sweet or elevating emoâ€" tion, to surrender my lips to the fetid kiss of an Iscariot, ‘to deliver my body to his loathsome embraces, fl!%i'hi" soul sickens with disgust and borrorâ€" my body that he would have betraycd, hired out for a piece of silver and, gloating, taken back again. You are asking me to immolate myself with all that I hold sacred and beautiful on an altar that you style duty. Now apply your rule to this Is it right? Is it wrong? Oh, Jimsy, answer me! Beâ€" fore God, is it right?" She stood trembling with the vebeâ€" mence of her defeuse and the strength of her feeling, her arms outstretched in interrogation and appeal. _ uor honor is kept alive eternally by the virtue of an cath in the face of deâ€" lusion and worthlessness. Gold was tinsel; diamond was glass, You were witness to the slow murdering of love, and you saw it strangled and thrown down at the last as he would have strangled me had you not preventâ€" He would have spoken, but she checked him with a gestrre of comâ€" "No, Jimsy, near me," she interruptâ€" x1. "You must and shall bear me. You bave said what you bad to say, Now it is my turn, and I, too, will speak plainly. You believeâ€"you know â€"L am and always have been a good woman. You believe that 1 was faith ful“:: far as was bumanly possible, to spirit as well as the letter of "I told her that you were leading a straight lifg, all about your cireumâ€" stances, that you were sorry for what had ‘occurred and that in future. it would be all different and you would do everything in your power to make her happy. 1 told her that you loved her more than ever. But it was no tné desolation or :1 io that had bored him : "Didn‘t you advise her to make up?" "I did, Joe. 1 urged hber to forget and forgive, pleaded hard for you, told ber 1 thought she ougbt to return to you. She said she could have forgiven the matter ofâ€" money, but that in sendâ€" ing her to Captain Williams‘ that night you killed every bit of ber love for you and she would never pardon your act as long as she drew breath. ‘He is dead to me for all time, dead and burâ€" fed,‘ she said. I hate to have to tell you these hard things, but you asked me to act for you, and 1 am bound in common honesty to give you the result just as it is." "You believe she teally meant it?" "I am convinged she did and that nothing will make her change ber mind." . "It‘s all rot!" remonstrated Brooks, nngry ond nggrioved. "She kneow she was talking rot too. Sbo herself told me that nothing bappene@® to her when she went to Wiliiams‘. She gavre bim some soft talk, cried a little mayhe when she pleaded for me, and because be liked her he gave her the paper reâ€" leasing me. That‘s all there was to it. It was as easy as rolling off a log. and effort to that endâ€"shown hbim that a new and brighter fiame, all consumâ€" Ing, all purifying, had enveloped her beart and that it had purged it of every trace of the old slain sentiment. The knowledge that it, burned for him "I‘m sorty, Joe,"‘he said, almost beâ€" fore his visitor tad seated himself, "but there‘s notbing ?2‘1::" Brooks® expectant 8 died out. "How do you mean nothing doing? Wasn‘t she there? Weren‘t you able to see hert" 8 . M "Yes, 1 saw hef, und W She will have nothing fu "toâ€"do with you." > Incredulity gave place quickly to bitâ€" ter disappointment. Brooks picked up a jnckknife and rushed at him. _2"""%‘;"“"',;,5':";"'; hours and on Bunday while Smith was away in looking up apartâ€" ments !a':.d hmh' preparations for the resumption of bousekeeping, also in elaborating the programme of celeâ€" lodgings on Monday evening, baving ascertained at the boarding house durâ€" Ing the day that bis friend bad‘ reâ€" turned that morning from his trip out of town.~ . . > â€" Smith was of too frank a pnature to keep him for one minute under the deâ€" lustonâ€"be saw by bis manner be enâ€" tertained. â€" Emma bad demonstrated to him the impossibility of living with her husband and the futility of furtber bard and painful one. "How‘s that? What did you say to MINARD‘S _ LINIMENT CURES DISTEMPER. tate Institute. _ Mr. Gray asked some time ago that his department be given _ senior. grading, which would entitle him to specialists‘ pay, _ in stea« of assistant‘s par. The board did not see fit to do so, but _ when Mr Gray received an nfier of $1.100 a vear from Brantford it was decidesd to grant his request and give him specialist‘s stanaing and $1,400 ~a vear. St Thomas Board of Edncazion will be asked to endorse an increase in salary granted to (George (iray, B.A., History Master at the Collegâ€" iate Institute. _ Mr. Gray asked some He rushed out, bounded down the stairs, and the front door slammed violently SALARY I NCREASED "It‘s a mighty bad thing, as a genâ€" eral rule, to let your ill humor get away with your nerves," chided Smith. "You have acted tonight like a petuâ€" lant kid, instead of like a man I‘ve tried to help. You‘ve put yourself out of court, and I‘m through trying to do anything for you." "Aund I‘m through asking you to do nnything for me," Brooks retorted, jJumping up and clapping his hat on bis hcad. ‘"I don‘t want any more favors of the kind you‘ve been bandâ€" Ing out so smugly. I know what I‘ve said tonight, and it doesn‘t carry any apology with it either. You can all go plumb to Podunk, every one of you â€"you, my loving wife and the old woâ€" man. I‘m through with the whole crowd for good and al}." the family in my bome? I‘m not blind when it doesn‘t suit me to be, and I‘ve had enough of being fooled and walked all over by everybody who wul:gpvlpothdrtesonm' ~, myboy, you don‘t know what this," be said, "and I‘ll tell you what it is. Youâ€"don‘t want us to come toâ€" gether again. _ It ain‘t to your interest.. You‘re standing in with that mother of hers." turned ‘Smith earnestly. ~ "I bave doné all I couldâ€"for you." y "Yes, you have!" sueered Brooks. "Why don‘t you want us to make up? Do you think I don‘t know? Dé you think I haven‘t seen that you‘ve been Jealous of me ever since Emma turned Brook8s picked up a jackknife which at the time of his arrival Smith had been using to cut the leaves of a book and rushed at him. Jimsy‘s big hands déscended on both his assailant‘s wrists. Brooks was strong, but he strained in vain in the grasp of iron. His right arm slowly weakened and twisted gradually until the fingers opened and with a groan of pain he dropped the blade. Smith conâ€" tinued to twist until he had wrung all the fight out of him and he had him. limp and helpiess. Then he let him go and picked up tie knife. "You‘d better leave weapons out of your arguments, Brooks, or you‘l} sure be hurting somebody one of these into a chair, tears of humiliation and you down? â€" Do you"â€" Smith also rose and faced him, very white, all the kindliness gone from his visage. "Do you think I don‘t know why you‘ve been smooping around her when you cool down." â€"â€" me sick with your slow taik and olly ousâ€"dangerous to yourself as well." Brooks, sullen and panting, dropped "It was your faultâ€"you drove me to it," hedeclared. You‘ll give me that sddress this minâ€" ute or by heck I‘ll ha~k it out of your his eyes. [To be continued} "It‘s dangerâ€" a â€" fravelling man, alleged the other dav, as he went on a hunt for reâ€" dress to the city hall. He made a deâ€" mand that the hotelman‘s license be revoked, stating he *had been refused accommodation at the house hecause of his color. He was referted to the police magistrate who‘ promised _ to Mons Amposed .by . the :Onifcd States, o popate m aae in the end, _silts in & markâ€" _ ed‘ degree. _ During . the greater part !uw past season The market uas nc Imi&:; a b:yun,-. u:uv TW i u“. m & sheep in the â€" Unitedâ€" \States 4w6 stemdily ~ ceclined. ‘The recent: shee, sales at the International were none too . satisfactory â€" for Canadian breedâ€" ers, and it was evident that the outâ€" she "isâ€" have competitors in meM There is a movement in A Germany which will eventually . reâ€" sult in the opening up of these countries to _ a â€"chilled and frozen meat trade. A steady market _ is without Goubt thus assured for all the mutton tiat Canada can produce. The Breeders of Pure Bred Shcep, therefore, if our argument holds, would do well to direct their enerâ€" gies to the development of the sheep Industry in our own country would _ create a thoroughly healtlfy home market for brecding sheep and one much to beâ€".desired. The opporâ€" tunitics in this direction may _ well be worthy of somewhat careful conâ€" sideration.. It is fortunate that, at this ‘time, the Federal Government is interestâ€" ing itsell in the Sheep Industry â€"of the Dominion and is making a thorâ€" ough investigation, with â€"a view to the adoption later of a policy which may lead to its general encourageâ€" ment and development. There _ is reason to believe that sheep raising in Canada may become at no distant date a decidedly profitable industry, and the Minister of Agriculture has undertaken a measure which we may expect to be productive of much good result. We learn that the members of the investigating commission, havâ€" ing completed their researches in the United _ Kingdom, are to spend the next few months in stus;ing condiâ€" tions in the Dominion and are now engaged in interviewing a number of the prominent sheep breeders of Onâ€" tario. We are hopeful that they may meet with the full coâ€"operation of sheep raisers, and farmers, generalâ€" ly in the prosecution of their work That / a Woodstock hetehman diew the _ color line is what a colored gentleman, who. described® himucl as PREW COLOR LNE iambs were snipped to East Buflalo from Ontario, while in 1907 almost 100 carloads went to that city. The Toronto and Montreal markets have absorbed _ practically the whole outâ€" put during the past season and / at prices equivalent to that paid for similar grades in Chicago and Buflalo It is clear also that the great and natural outlet for our surplus mest products, including those of mutton and lamb is to be found ecross> the sea, where the producing power of the lanw is unavle to yield sufficient for the necessities of the crowded populâ€" ations of.long inhabited â€" countries. Great Britain has bitherto absorbed all the surplus of the world‘s _ meat «upply, but it seems probable that the United Statés, ‘the safest outlet for ‘the Canadian product is still to be found in the Btritish and, possiâ€" bly . at an early date, in the Eutropâ€" ean markets. The Erglish wool marâ€" ket‘is the centre of distrfoution for the product of the great wool proâ€" ducing countriecs of the world, includâ€" ing Australia, New Zealand and the Argentine. _ } the Shetép InJustry in this ° country can ever ‘bet dcveloped to reasonable proportions, it is not to be expected that any â€"moreâ€"naturâ€" al or reliable market can be found for surplus Canadian wools. In addition to this, when the extent of the inâ€" dustry may make possible the necesâ€" sary grading an» sorting of the proâ€" duct, such that it may be placed upâ€" on the British market in attractive condition, the prices. realized may ‘be found much more remunerative than those at present obtained. * a fact in itself indicating the strong and growing demand for mutton â€"on the Canadian markct. 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