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<PECG 0‘ MY Pm S *xmars"what .'\“1.': said Peg. "An‘ ye‘d>give yer life\into his kapin‘ to so that no dqent man or woâ€" n would ever lock atiye or spake to again." W :i ~ "No! ‘That is overl is over! 1 es «on is “""-2".‘....«-#"'“’“ hize sobs. "Ob, how 1 o "Ethel acushlat Don‘t do that! Darlin‘, don‘t! He‘snot worth it. Kape yer life an‘ yer beart clane until the one man in all the wurrid comes to ye with his beart pure, too, an‘ then ye‘ll know what rale bappiness means." "Come to my room," said Peg in a whisper as she helped Ethel over to the stairs. "I‘ll watch by yer side till mornin‘., Lane on me. ~That‘s right Put yer weight on me." She knelt.down beside the sobbing girl and took Etbel in ber arms‘ and tried to comfort her. She helped ber cousin up and supâ€" ported ber. Ethel was on‘the point of fainting, and her body was trembling with the convuisive force of her balf suppressed sobs. Bbe picked up the traveling bag, and togetber the two girls began to ascend the stairs. Etbel gave a low choking woan. â€" "Don‘t, dear; ye‘ll wake up the house," cried Peg anxiously, "We‘ve only a little way‘to go. Aisy now. Not a sound! 8â€"sh, dearl Not a mor :lEI o‘ noise!" Just as the two girls reached the I{maig® Tes in OUC anaiccy steppeq short, missed the top step, lost ber foot. ing and fell the entire lengtb of the staircase into the room, smashing 5 tall china fower vase that was ropo' ing on the post at the foot of the stairs. The worst thing that could pessibly bhave happened was just what did bap peu. â€" 5z instantly made up her ming inat they were not going to kunow why EtheL was there. Ethe) must be saved and at any cost "Holy mother!" she cried. . "The whole bouse‘ll be awake! Give me yer He began a systematic search of the room until suddenly the reflector from the fashlight shone full on the two girls. [.cl'o- to the switch and fovded the room with light “‘Whnt does this mean?" asked Mrs. chester severely. m "Bure Ethel heard me here," answerâ€" Peg, ‘an‘ she came in, an‘"â€" € What were you doing bere?"‘ was goin‘ out, an‘ Ethel beard me came in an‘ stopped me, an‘"â€"â€" ere were you going?‘ persisted old lady. "Just outâ€"out there," and Peg pointâ€" to the open windows. Irs, Chicbester bhad been examining . minutoly. Sbe suddeniy exâ€" Ethel‘s bat and cloak. Hoer own sbe flung out of sight bencath the great ouk table. "Now remember," she dictated *ve +wm= sore vecause ye neard me. Ya weren‘t goin‘ out 0‘ the bouse at all. Â¥e just heard me movin‘ about in here. Stick to that!" The sound of voices in the distauce broke in on them. "They‘re comin‘," said Peg anrâ€" fously. ' bat! Qu! bagt" P "Take care, materâ€"keep back. Let me deal with them." And Alarlc, with an electric Oashlight, appeared at the head of the stairs, followed by his mother and the servant Jarvis. _ Ethel was sitting back fainting in a chalr, clinging to Pog, who was stang ing beside ber trembling. "Ethel!" cried Alaric in amazement. "Margaret!" said Mrs. Chichester in anger. Peg Fell the Entire Length of the Staircase. A Comedy of Youth Fpunded by Mr. Manners on His GreatPlay of the Same Title Weil, I mean to say trations graphs ~of the Play By Hartley Manners itck!. An‘ yer clonk, an‘ ger eg began quickly to put on hat and cloak. Her own sbe t of sight bencath the great 91 saved and at any cost ri~ she cned. . "The e awake! Give me yer From â€" Photo by Dodd, Mead & Company. HEART ejacuiated the llius p. | claimed: "Why, that is Ethel‘s coat!" e "Sure it is," replied Peg, "an‘ this a | is ber hbat I‘ve got, an‘ here‘s ber bag." t Peg was striving ber utmost to divert s Mrs. Chichester‘s attention from Ethel, . |mwho was in so tense and nervous & @ condition that it seemed as it she e might faint at any woment She \ ’ thrust the dressing bag into the old lady‘s band. Mrs. Chichester opened * | it immediately and found just inside it Ethel‘s jewel box. She took it out and "‘ | held it up accusingly before Peg‘s ‘" | cyes. "Her jewel bor!l Where did you _ | get this?" * | _ "1 took it," said Peg promptly. 1t Mrs. Chichester opened the bor. It *‘ | was full. Every jewel that Ethel ownâ€" _ | ed was in it MR. D. MCLEAN _ 4 Orillia, Ont., Nov: 28th, 1914» "For over two years, I was troubled with Constipation, Drowsiness, Lack of Appetite and Headaches. I tried several medicines, but '.ot no results and my Headaches became more severe. One day I saw your sign which read ‘Fruitâ€" aâ€"Lives‘ make you feel like walking on air. This appealed to me, so I decided to try a box. In a very short time, I began to feel better, and now Z/ee/ fine. Now I have a good appetite, relish everything I eat, and the Headaches are gome entirely. I cannot say too much for *Fruitâ€"aâ€"tives‘, and recomâ€" mend this pleasant fruit medicine to all my friends". DAN MeLEAN. "FRUITâ€"Aâ€"TIVES‘ is @aily proving its priceless value in relieving cases of Stomach, Liver and Kidney Troubleâ€" General Weakness, and Skin Diseases. "Her jewelsâ€"Ethel‘s jewels!" "Yes, I took them too." "You were stealing them?" "No, I wasn‘t stealin‘ them. I just took ‘em. 1 wantedâ€"to wear them," answered Peg readily. Suddenly Peg saw a way of escape, and she jumped quickly at it. "I wanted to wear them at the dance." "What dance?" demanded Mrs. Chiâ€" chester. "Over thereâ€"in the Assembly rooms â€"tonight. ~1 went over there, ap‘ £ danced, an‘ when I came back 1 made a noise, an‘ Etbel beard me, an‘ she threw on some clothes, an‘ sbe came in here to see who it was, an‘ it was me, an‘ we were both goin‘ up to bed whem 1 slipped an‘ fell down the stairs, an‘ some noisy thing fell down with me, an‘ that‘s all." Alaric called out from the window; "There‘s some one prowling in the garden. He‘s on the path. He‘s comâ€" ing bere. Don‘t be frightened." 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25¢. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruitâ€"aâ€"tives Limited, Ottawa. Alaric pusbed his electric light full into the visitor‘s face and fell back. "Good heavens, Jerry!" be ejaculated, completely astonished. "1 say, you know," be went on, "what is happenâ€" ing in this house tonight?" Jerry came straight down to Mrs. Chichester. "I saw your lights go up, and I came here on the run. 1 guessed something like this had happened. Don‘t be bard on your niece, Mrs. Chichester. The whole thing was entirely my fault 4& asked her to go." Mrs. Chichester tooked at bim stonily. â€" â€" "You took my nilece to a dance in spite of my absolute refusal to allow her to go?" 0 Mrs. Chichester looked steadily at Jerry for a few moments before she spoke. When she did speak her voice was cold and hard and accusatory. "He had nothin‘ to do with it," said Peg. "I took him to that dance." "Surely Sir Geraid Adair knows betâ€" ter than to take a girl of eighteen to & public ball without her relations‘ sancâ€" tion ?" "I thougbt only of the pleasure it would give her," he answered. "Please accept my sincerest apologles." Peg looked at him in wonder. "Sir Geralid Adairl Are you Sir Geraid Adair?" "Yos, Peg." "So ye bave a title, have ye?" Peg felt somehow that she had been chented. Why bad he not told ber? why did be let ber piay #nd romp aad joke and banier WHL Lins as though they had been children and equals? "I am ashamed of you! You have disgraced us all!" cried Mrs, Chichesâ€" tor at Peg. * \ "Have I7" screamed Peg fercety. "I‘ve disgraced ye, havre 1? ‘Well, none of you can tell me the truth. I‘m goâ€" in‘ back to me father." "Go back to your father, and glad: itwnq years before down to the presâ€" we ate to be rid of you!" ®nt day. It was fascinating work for Before Peg could say anything fur @ him, embodjying as it did ail be bad ther Ethel suddeniy rose unsteadily wyer felt and thought or done fur the and cried out: _ _ ; ‘w“' "Wait. mathor! @ha mustn‘t ca Wa have all been grossly unfair to is L should go. Tonight «he a fromâ€"she saved me from"â€" Sbe Siibped trom Per‘t sime to the :fimunmmwuc“ Peg knelit down beside ber: "She‘s fainted. Give her air!" Peg loosened Ethei‘s dress and taiked to her all the while and Jerry and Alaric burried out in different diree tions in quest of restoratives. 4 Mrs. Chichester came toward Ethal,‘ thoroughly alarmed and upset . But Peg would not let her touck‘ the inanimate girl, B t "Oo.'um-icr'cblhiy terically. "What do ye think can do her? Whm:uh.v “‘7“ 222 chilithcs." ȴ2 dod t Cooe hew w In a few moments the two wen reâ€" turned with water and saits. After awhile Etha opened her eyes and lookâ€" ed up at Peg. Peg, fearful lest she should begin to accuse herself again, helped ber up the stairs to ber own room and there she sat beside the unâ€" strung, bysterical girl until she slept, ber hand locked in both of Peg‘s. One thing Peg had resolvedâ€"ahe would not spend another night in the Her little beart was bruised and sore. ‘The night bad begun so bappily; it had ended so wretchediy. And to think the one person in whom she trusted hbad been just amusing himself with ber, leading her to beâ€" Meve be was a farmerâ€""less than "I was goin‘ out and Ethel stoppad me," said Peg. that," he bad once said, and, all the time he was a man of breeding and of birth and of title. Poor Peg felt so humiliated that she made up her mind she would never see him again. In the morning she would go back to the one real affection of her lifeâ€" to the man who never hurt or disapâ€" pointed berâ€"her father, We will now leave Peg for awhile and return to one who claimed so much of the reader‘s attention in the early pages of his historyâ€"OQ‘Connell. It had not been a happy month for He felt the separation from Peg keenly. At first he was almost inâ€" first letter came. It contained the news of Kingsnorth‘s deathâ€"Peg‘s enâ€" trance into the Chichester family, her followed by more letters, all more or less in the same key. Finally he wrote urging her to give it all up and come back to him. He would not have his littlé daughter tortured for all the adâ€" wantages those people could give ber. _ That Peg was developing ber char acter and her nature during those few weeks was clear to O‘Connell, The iwhole tone of ber letters had changed. But no word of bers gave him any clew to the real state of her feelings until one day he received a letter al most entirely composed of descriptions of the appearance, mode of speech, !Mhod of thought and etpression of ene Jerry. The description ‘of the man kppealed to him, he apparently baving so many things in common with the mysterieasâ€"person whoâ€"brd soâ€"riridiy !5::73:7_-:4 himantf en Pn# A nnaorent. ‘ iy Peg was bait trring o unprove berâ€" self. ‘There wns n «istinct note of seâ€" lnwunu about the Inst letter. ‘Then ber letters took on a different aspect. They contained a curious balf mpote of bappiness in them. No more best of the conditions in which she ‘ These Inter letters set O‘Connell wonâ€" G@ering. Had the great message of life come to his little Peg? Although be always felt it would come some day, now that it seemed alâ€" most a very real possibility be dreadâ€" ed it There were so few natures would understand ber. He lived entirely alone in the sm* room# hbe bad with lteg when she was aummoned abroad He was preparing, in his spare time, m history of the Irish morement from twenty years before down to the presâ€" ®nt day. It was fascinating work for ‘The days passed slowly until Peg‘s Finds Help in Lydia E. WOMAN c d getting h-fl.l H or of time, as 1 was such a su troubles. But I took | o poos hiaith sog heve am To t wrvne ie m en 5 L# neighbors for they all know what a wreck I was, **Now I am health .wgudh-v. and owe it all to ly-!“ Pinkham‘s remedigs. ‘You may publish this letter if you like. I think if more women used your remedies they would have better health."â€"Mrs. J. T. Coox, Lot No. 7, Cape Wolfe, P.E.1., Canada. m",:xblmfid doctors e you no not continue to suffer without J::.( Lydia He opened the door and looked in amazement at his visitor. He saw a little, round, merry looking, baidbead ed gentieman with gold rimmed specâ€" tacies, an enormous silk bat, broad: eloth frock coat suit, patent boots with gray spats on them and a general air ‘of prosperity and good nature. E. Pinkham‘s Vegâ€"table Compound m trial. It surely bas rm cases of female ills, such as inflammaâ€" :ku ulceration, d:;glmment;.. tumors, rregularities, periodic pains, and it may be exactly mtyww.. Pog‘s Father. NE night a ring ut the bell cansâ€" ed O‘Connell to look up frownâ€" ingly. BHe was not in the Nub« it of receiving calls. Few zo ple ever dared to intrude on his pri vacy. ‘The Pinkham record is a peerless one. It is 27 a record of constant )b victory over the obâ€" stinateills of women â€"ills that deal out despair. It is an esâ€" tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkbam‘s & o Vogenbhcompflxd D, has restored health ® "Dido‘t ye bear of me old grand uncle McNamara of County Sligo dyâ€" in‘â€"after & eseless lifeâ€"and doin‘ the suly thing that made me proud of him pow that he‘s goneâ€"may he slape If peaceâ€"lavin‘ the money he‘d kept such a close fist on all his life to his God fearin‘ nephew so that be can spind the rest of his days in comfort? Didn‘t ye hear that?" "It is," said O‘Connell, trying in vain to see the man‘s features distinctly in the dim light ~ took off his beavy silkâ€"bat and looked «p at O‘Connell with a quizzing look in his langhing eyes. "McGinnist" "That‘s who it is! "Talkative Mcâ€" Ginnis,‘ come all the way from ould Ireland to take ye by the hand." * The ‘two men shook hands warmly. "An‘ what in the wurrid brings ye here, doctbor?" asked O‘Counell. _ to thousands of such suffering women. Why don‘t you try it if you need such a nedicine ? k "Is that Frank O‘Connell?" cried the little man. "I did not And who was the neph ew that came into it?" "Meself, Frank O‘Connell!" "You! 1s it the truth ye‘re tellin me?" O‘Connell took the !ittle man‘s hand and shook it until the doctor screamed out to him to let it go "May 1 nivver spake another wurrd if I‘m not." "It‘s sorry 1 am if | burt ye. ®o it‘s a wealthy man ye are now, ducthor eb ?" "Middlin‘ wealthy." "And what are ye doin‘ in New York ?" "Sure, this is the counthry to tak« money to. It donbles Itself out her« overnight, they tell me." Be pansed, then continued: "I bope ye‘ve not lost the gift o‘ th« iub. Hev ye got it with ye stili Frank O‘Conbell ?" "Thisâ€"that ten years from now. with her own government, With her own innguage back agtinâ€"Gaellcâ€"an‘ what inngunge in the wurrld yields greate music than the old Gaelle?â€"with Ire tand united and frelind‘s innd in the éare of Irishmen, with Ireland‘s peo ple seif respectin‘ an sober an benithy an‘ educated. with Irishmen empiuyed on Irish industrics®"â€" "ialven pe wont win uappeni . back will go the Irishinen in tena o‘ thou sands from all the other counthries they were dbriven to in the days o famine an‘ oppressivn An‘ coercion &n bucksbotâ€"back they will go to their mother counthry, An‘ can ye see far enough into the futnre to realize what they will do? Fu can‘t? Well, l tell ye that too. The exiled irish, who have lived their lives abroadâ€"takin their wives, like na pot. from the peo vie 0‘ the counthry they lived in an‘ "Faith an while I‘m talkin‘ of the me thing in the wurrld that‘s near ur beartsâ€"the future of Irelandâ€"} vant to prophesy"â€" "An‘ what‘s it ye‘d afther prophesy =~>~â€"â€"â€"â€" m1u came TBIO LO€ TOOM CHAPTER XXv. (To be contimued.) Pronkt {Â¥Connell. 1. love .to ‘s Vegetable =~~ mt shets f’-fi%i’Tfi"fin’flsflififs'{iafm * ~Swiet COT WAy T0 CONSTANTINOPL E Berlin, August, 11.â€"London Times dispatch.â€"The King of,Bavaria in addressing a large crowd celshrating the fall of Warsaw before the Witâ€" telsbach Palace in Munich, said : _ 5 & GERMANS REALIZE THEY ARE NOW _: FIGHTING AGAINST WHOLE WORLD "Im the east we are fighting with good success, In the west against superior enemies we are defending a line which, notwithstanding attacks, cannot be broken and cannot be taken, â€"@ *« = __ _ ‘"This victory has prought us a good step forward towards peace. Peate, â€" however, is still far away, for _ we are fl;htin'gflminn the whole world. x+ Ks ‘‘The grievous sacrifices made pythe 'hk' German people and the families whose dear ones have peen left upon : field of honor all. deâ€" mand that we do not conclude peace until the enémy is overthrown." © GEAMAN SALLY FROM TRENGHES IN l ARGONNE REPULSED BY RIFLE FAIRE® Paris, Aug. 17.â€"The afternoon statement . says: "Last â€" night saw a spiritéd «cannonading at various points along the front, notably at Boesâ€" inghe and at Quennivieres and Lorraine in the vicinity of Arracourt and at Leintrey. There was fighting with hand grenades in the Argonne at Fontain Aux Charmes and at Haut Chevauchee. At this latter point the Germans came out from their trenches last evening to deliver an attack but our fire drove them back to their lines. Paris, Aug. 13.â€"The afternoon statement saysâ€" In Artois district a German attack last night to the north of the Chateau of Carleul was easily checked. In the Argonne the Germans late yesterday afterâ€" noon renewed their attacks in the sector Letween â€" the ALLIES REPULSED GERMAN ATTACKS . AFTER VERY SPIRITED FIGHT road from Binarville to Venne La Chateau and the ravâ€" ine of La Naulette. They were repulsed after a very spirited fight in which hand grenades and bombs were used. _ _ â€" front. London, Aug. 13.â€"The Russians, for the time being, are holding in check the Baltic flank of the German armies which are struggling to cut the railway from Warsaw to Petrograd and are battling toward the River Dvina, beyond which lie the roads to the Russian Capâ€" itol. This has been accomplished by the aid of reinforceâ€" ments and through the effect of one counter attack after another. Kovno still holds out. The German attacks toâ€" wards Riga lrave been repulsed and the railway jungâ€" tion at Dvinsk remains in Russian hands. . â€" RUSGIANS ARE HOLOING IN CHEGK RALTIG FLANK OF GERMAN ARMIES: THREE MORE mon danger This projéct excites no surprise nere, having been predicted â€"by c o n n Soous Tages panins Cabhe ie vektres declared Germany en mee en io opan ic ied "The mlnm.uhmm*m-”m“ydflumm in dflowing their Jealousies to distract their attention from the comâ€" AUSTRIANS DRIVEN OoUT BY ITALIAN ALPINE TROOPS TRANSâ€"ATLANTIC 8STEAMER OF 3,000 TONS SUNK statement _ announced the repulse ofâ€"twoâ€"Austrianâ€"attacksâ€"on â€"Monâ€" day night by the Italian Alpine troops at the height of 10,000 and ll-,‘l(l(t feet. ‘The Alpinists counter attacked and drove the Austrians out. have been sunk. The chief engiâ€" netr.;fl%r, and the mate‘s wife on lfe Summerficld were drowned All/others were landed. 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