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The Lady of ‘ ~Famous for its Flavorâ€"Just tzy a sample. Not once during the long speech hbad Meredith Lansing moved. Actâ€" ivity and intelligence seemed lo have left him at once. He listened in dumb anguisb, his blue lips fallen away from his white teeth with hideous ghastliness. V.Jhen Erle Childes ceased speakâ€" ing a silence that seemed almost tangible oppressed the room. . It seemed to weigh upon them both with a heaviness that was suffoâ€" cating, At last, when Childes could bear it no longer, he heard a groan that seemed to issue from the very depâ€" ths of the man‘s soul; then he was conscious that Meredith Lansing had risen, but being unable to stand, was crouching back in an armcbair, his eyes glittering like those of an animal that helplessly faces death, knowing that no escape is possible. He 2(!011 his hand feebly and raised the damp hair from his 1oreâ€" head as though its weight distressed "It has come at last!" he said unâ€" der his breath, in a tone that none would have recognized. The secret which I bave kept for years, and which I have always told myself would one day make a madman of mre, must be made known, and to you, to you! Oh, God! If I might but have escaped it I am a coward, Erle! A frightful, cringing coward. Give me time!" Childes was striving with all his might to find something to say, but mo words seemed to suggest themâ€" selves. He was dumb. vetr, Then Meredith Lansing, grasping the arms of his chair to â€" gain strength, began again, his voice too dead to admit of even & quiâ€" "More than twenty yenars 2go, Erle, I met Mignon Blair atâ€"â€" Well, what matters it when wor where? She was the handsomest girl, the â€" most exquisite bit of womanhood whom I had ever met, and it is not to be wondered at that I fell violently, madly in love with her at the beginning of our ac quaintance, She lived with an auntl at the time of our niceting, a Sisâ€" ter of her father‘s, a grasping.| hardâ€"hearted demon as ever djs-l graced the name of woman, I was! rich, but in the humility that is‘ born of love I forgot that. For' some months 1 worshipped im sll-l‘ ertce; then, unaple ¢o keep m)" secret longer, I told it ‘to ,\llgnonA‘ When I had done it L was startled . at myself for my temerity. I exâ€" pected nothing but my rejection, but to my surprise and delight Mignon said that she would be my wife, There was none of that shyl tenderness in . her . manner that‘ characterizes a woman who kwes;‘ but, blind fool that I was, I (:ouldI see nothing of (hat. She did not! resist when I drew her to me :mdQ kissed her, and in my wild ecsâ€" tasy I saw nothing of that which afterward came to me with slunn-' Ing force: the strange whitenlng‘ of her face, the cruel clinching of the small bands, the look of desâ€" peration in Â¥he passionate eyes. "The time that followed was A blissful dream to me and afterâ€" wards a torturing curse. I loathed myself because I had been a blind _ is guaranteed the finest â€" when it bears the name affords an unequalled opportunity for the investment of small or large amounts for the purchase of an annuity of from $50 to $5,000 a year for life, to begin immediately or at any future age desired, and to be paid in monthly or quarterly instalâ€" Annuities may be purchased on a single life, or on the lives of two persons jointly. . Alter contract issues, no restriction as to residence. Employers may purchase for their employeesâ€"School Boards for their teachersâ€"Congregations for their Ministers. Cannot be seized or levied upon. No medical examination required. Free from Dominion Income Tax. THE DOMINION GOYVERNMENT ANNUITIES Descriptive booklet may be obtained by applying to the INDEPENDENCE ALADA" SECURITY â€"THE DOMINION OF CANADA k 4y 4k _â€"% Beaufort Park bE writing, tm » s _[0¢ Pn I:ll inhnn &:-vn-ln'. ".: Al:n:lti:l. D-O!hwm ig, kindly state sex, and age or ages last birthday. BY WENONA GILMAN fool‘ I loathedâ€"â€"God! Let me get «.. .; from that time and go on. We were married. 1 shall never forget the day. I did not see Migâ€" non until she joined me in church upon the arm of her father; but, madly infatuated as I was, the terâ€" rible pallor of her face, the wild yearning in her eyes, startled me. The next moment standing beâ€" side her, I bad forgotten it. It was horrible! horrible! "From the moment of our marriâ€" age my life seemed to take the: most frightful dislike to me, If L came into her presence, she utterâ€" ed a low ery and fled through another door. If I by accident met her in the hall, she trembled like a frightened animal. . She locked her door upon me as though she feared my presence. Then, one day, when I was about yielding to the hideous belief that she was mad, I received a letter from her. In it she entreated me to allow her to go away for a time with her aunt, assuring me that she would return a better wife to me. "To tell it sounds so cold, but the intensity of its pleading touchâ€" ed me. I consented. She left the house without seeing me, and four months afterwards she returnâ€" ed as suddenly as she had departâ€" cil Her aunt had written me several times that Mignon was well and would be home soon, giving me no address, however, . When my wife came, the terrible pallor of her face, her wasted form, shocked me. but you can never realize my joy when she came up to me on her own accord and lifted her face to be kissed. "Meredith," she said,"I want you to forgive me for my conduct to you, will you not? 1 have beenl very wrong, but I am so sorty, dear. If you can forgive me, you shall have nothing to complain of in the future. If I had not loved you before, your patience would have made me love you now." "Then do you love me." I asked, miserably enough. "More than my life," she answerâ€" ed earnestly, i "From that day, Erle, existence _began anew for me. My life was a :drenm. X\iy wife was tenderness |itself._ and I was happy, untilâ€" ; One day she came to me Qnd asked if she might go for another trip | with her aunt. She was very much ‘ out of heaith, and as I could not ; leave my business then I consentâ€" ed "Mignon wrote every day. Then at last, a week passed and I did . mot hear. _ A telegram from her. aunt explained it. 1 was a father, it said, and mother and daughter were doing well God! how happy 1 was, Still, with a man‘s brutal yielding to the claims of business, I did not go to her. The next I knew I received a letter from the physician who had attended her, saying that he had ordered her away to Europe, as her health was extremely poor. â€" Terribly alarmed, I ran down to gee her. “‘She recei\'e,d me with hysterâ€" ical tenderness. The baby, I was told, was suffering with its eyes, and until the doctor had prosured some sort of an arrangement for .;:.j ing, she told me,; but while the baby was remarkable constitution ally, letters, tonishingly precocious, but it seemâ€" ed that nothing could save her sight. It was a terrible grief to me, I had my wife take her to all the best specialists in Europe, but it was useless. At the end of a year she returned. The child was a marvel of strength and precocity, but totally blind, How I adored them both! . "Well, Erie, I saw my wife shortâ€" ly after that begin to fade before: my eyes. At times she would be in the wildest spirits She would fling her arms about me and de clare she loved me better than her soul. Then for days~ she would not allow me to see her. And then she grew to almost loathe the childâ€"Bebe. She would not allow the little one in her presence, and one day she attempted to hrow the child from the window, preâ€" vented only by the nurse after a furious struggle, _ Of course you guess the truthâ€"my wife was mad! ‘"The time that followed was too horricle to speak of! _ For years she was an inmate of a private asylum. At first they gave me no hope that she would ever recover, but she began to grow better. All this time Bebe was growing up in ignorance that her mother lived. I could not tell her, and I would not allow another to do so. "One day the doctor sent for me and told me that I might take my. wife hogae. Heavens! How happy I was. All the way home she talked to me rationally and quietly, but mever once mentioned the name Of our child. As she entered the drawâ€" ingâ€"room she saw Bebe standing in the conservatory among the flowers, I cannot forget the exâ€" pression of my wife‘s face as she clutched my arm and pointed in "Well, Hrie, she went away, the girl‘s direction. "Who is that?" she gasped. ‘ "Have you forgotten our little one, Mignon," I asked gently. That is our childâ€"Bebe!" ( The horrible ery that fell trom! her lips froze me. * ‘No! no! no! she cried wildly. "That is not our child, but Maurâ€" ice Moreau‘s. _ Were you foolish | enough to believe it, Listen: I beâ€" lieved myself his wife, but he deâ€" ceived me, and my aunt made me marry you. I went away soon} after and she, that girl, was born., She was blind and my heart almost broke. I loved her then, loved her| more than anything upon earth, ; except you. Then our child was | born, but much as I loved you lt! could not take the place of myf first born. It was a great; strong, ; l healthy clild, but L loved my little| | delicate one best. I detemined that I would deceive you. I went abroad | with my two children, waiting (orf t them to grow to an age when 1/ | could deceive you. Just before 1. came home I met Maurice Mnreau.‘ He had heard of the child. He“ | threatened me, telling me that he ‘ would make the story known to 1‘ you if I did not give him his child. | Merpdith, 1 gave‘ him yours! ’ From that day I began to despise | the child. : From idolatry my feelâ€" ‘ ing changed to hatred. She began | to grow more and more like her \ father. She looked like him, talked | like him. was himself again, until ‘ one day I could bear it no longer; one day I could bear it no ‘ONBC!, 1 tried to kill her." "Well, Erle, up to that time she told her story with comparative quiet, but at that point she began to rave in the old way again, and I knew that all hope was gone forâ€" ever. The same afternoon she was returned to the asylum a raving maniac. _ No words could ever ie you what I suffered. From her aunt I learned the rest of the atory. Moreau had brutally deceived her. I was rich, her reputation was at stake. I was made the vietim. I learned that my own child was dark and like my wife; my child, but once, and then in a dark room. Under the will of the late R. B. Angus, made in notarial form, the estate is left in trust to the teltl-‘ tor‘s childrem, after provision being made for several special legacies. The more important of these beâ€" quwaths, the house and property at 240 Drummond street, to the testaâ€" tor‘s son, Donald Forbes Angus, and the house and property at Semneâ€" ville, St. Anne de Bellevue, to the second son, William Forest Angus. while a sum of $10,000 is left for diâ€" vision among the domestic servants in Montreal and the superintendents at Senneville, such division to be made according to the discretion of the executors, who are named as follows: Domald KForbes Angus and William Forest Angus, sons; and CHILDREN GET ESTATE. gentle and joving, pame . ~Her health was improvâ€" (To be Continued.) A LITTLE MORE SPEEDI Heâ€""What would your father do it 1 told him I wanted to marty "you?" Shoâ€""He‘d‘ refer the matter to you do?" Sheâ€""I‘d refer the matter to the young man who proposed to me and was accopted while you were trying to make up your mind." HOPEFUL PRO8PECTS, Algernonâ€""Tommy, do you think your sister would marry me ?" Tommyâ€" "Yes; she‘s marry alâ€" most anybody now, from what she said to ma." ONLY OnCE. ‘The motor car, travelling at & tremendous speed, was just about to turn a very dangerous corner. â€" "Do people lose their lives here frequently?" asked the nervous pasâ€" senger, “Not' more than once!" yelled the intrepid driver, as he took a firmer grip on the wheel. BESEECHING HER GOODâ€"WILL. An American, after many years as a happy bachelor, found himself at last hooked and booked‘for matriâ€" mony. Early on his wedding day a friend met him carrying a wreath tied up with mourning ribbons. "Good heavens, man," said the friend, "IL thought this was your wedding day!" "So it is," was the glum reply. "Then what on earth are you doâ€" ing with that?" "Oh, it‘s all right," explained the bridegroomâ€"elect. "I‘m just going to lay it on the Statue of Liberty!" THEY SAW HIM COMING. "Any luck on your fishing trip, old man?" "Mighty | little. If fish go in schools they always seem to be playing truant or have a holiday when I go after them." He (hopefully)â€""And what HE KNEW BEFOREHAND, Doctorâ€""I think I shall hav? to call in some other physicians for consultation." Patient â€" "That‘s all right; go ahead. Get as you can," WHICH IS THE CRIPPLE. Advt.â€""Foundâ€"What appears to be a valuable dog by a child with a broken leg, evidently having been run over by an auto."â€"Owner call or phone, etc. â€"Boston Transcript. READY. Billy was sleepily going to bed| when the trained nurse ‘appeared | and told him the stork had brought him a little sister. Toward midnight she told him quietly, "And now, Billie, you have‘ a little brother.‘, When the inquisitive little fellowi awoke next morning he called, "0\ nurse, now how many are they?" | thick." "No Tommy â€""Mother, do I have to wash my face?" Motherâ€""Certainly, dear," Tommyâ€""Aw, why can‘t 1 just powder it, like you doyours?" THEâ€" MISSING BLUSH. He told the shy maid of his love, The color left her\ cheeks; But on the shoulder of his coat It showed for several weeks. _ â€"‘Texas Scalper Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was black as tar; She sold it as a bak of coal, And drives ber motor car. "I called Muriel my precious litâ€" tle pearl last night and it never even drew a smile out of her." "You _ should vour little phece UNCLE‘S ANTHRACITE. Mayâ€"Poor Uncle Jack is so unâ€" lucky. He had $15 worth of hard coal put in the cellar. Ray (with l\rrprlse)â€"Unlucky? Mayâ€"Yes, he stumbled over the lump and broke his wrist, SORTA ARTIFICIAL, Helen‘s cheeks are like roses." Aren‘t you laying it, on pretty le: but Helen is * * system, makes new Blood '!!. old Veins. Used for Nervous old Veins. Used for Nervoul HER DARK DEED. WHY NOT? ~PHOSPHODINE. The Great English trom, k” and invigorates the whole sOFT COAL many accomplices as [ run five miles eveTY| waTERLOO SEPARATE SCHOOL | REPORT FOR OCTOBER. have _ called her of coal." passed an order in Council, appoint~ ] ing Major Gen. Sir Henry Thornton, K. B. K., general manager of tlo‘ Great Eastern Railway of England, and lorrorly with the Pennsylvania Rallroad of the United States, as the new head of the Canadian Natâ€" .ioul Rallways. The order also formâ€" ally merging the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk lines into the Canadian National Railway System, was also passed at the meeting of ‘he Cabinet on Wednesday last. Sirâ€"~Henry is Americanâ€"born, but was naturalized in England, He will return to that country immediately to settle up his affairs there, before taking over the direction of the National Railway System within about a month. At $50,000 a Year A contract was signed, extending over three years, under which he is to be paid $50,000 per annum. Clausâ€" esin the contract, it is stated, give protection to the Government and to the new president and general manager of the railways in the event of either side wishing to terminate the agreement before the end of the three years. > The resignation of the existing board of dTPectors of the Grand Trunk System were accepted by the Government and the new board was appointed to administer the joint system. I The migration .of 10,000 meore | _‘ fesfare Mennonites from Canada to Mexico _ The Tavistock Milling Company‘s will begin this month, the Mennonâ€"| buildings at Tawistock, filled to the ite Church hbad advanced $4,000,) rafters with grain and flour, were 000 to the families contemplatiog! burned to the ground on Sunday. theâ€"{rip, J. F. D. Wiebe, their l‘e'l The fire was discovered by Norman \ presentative announced here. Beachler, who rang in a general " The 1,600 Mennonites who Sf’t'{ alarm, and the Tavistock firefightâ€" | led in Mexico last year have done| jing yvolunteers tried to cope with the \ wiell with their cropg and havel fire, but it was beyond their equipâ€" ‘ erected adobe barns and granaries| ment. A call was sent to Stratford | and stone houses and are working ; for assistance, but too late to save ‘ on churches and schools. Mr. Wiebe‘ the mill, eam by the time other MENHONILGS! ___ . _ _ _ _________... _ __coszuess The board consists of the followâ€" ing, in addition to Sir Henry, who is president of the system and chairâ€" man of the board of management: John H. Sinclair, K. C., New Glasgow, N. S., former member of Parliament for Antagonish. Richard J. Gough, Toronto and Montreal. James Stewart, of Winnipeg, formâ€" er chairman of the Canada Wheat Bo! and now general manager of ti Maple Leaf Milling Company. Ernest R. Decary, exâ€"president of the â€" Montreal Civic Commission, Montreal. The Frederick G. Dawson, wholesale merchant of Prince Rupert, B. C. Tom Moore, president of the Canâ€" adian Trades and Labor Congress, Ottawa, representing labor, Graham A. Bell, deputy minister of railways. Gerald G. Ruel, general counsel. 10,000 MENNONITES LEAVâ€" ING CANADA FOR | TAVISTOCK FLOUR MILL IS MEXICO. |\ _ _DESTROYED BY FIRE mennnnczens SUNDAY. on churches and schools. Mr. Wiebe said by the time other Mennonites arive, they will bave wells dug, good roads built and enough extra houses for temporary shelter. Each new family will bring two to four cows, four to six horses and some sheep and poultry, all blooded stock. The migration when complete will involve settlement of 200,000 Canadian â€" Mennonitew Mr, Wiebe Room 7. Kathleen Moran, Lucy Heric, Wal ter Weiler, Rita Hartman, Bernice Fischer, Vincent Dehler, Oliver Han nenberg, Teresa Homeyer, Catharâ€" ine Holle, Albert Stockie, Jerome Beaupre, Gerard Mowat, Cletus Esâ€" baugh, Alphone Arnold. Room 6. Alice Steffler, Frances Hergott, Mary Hughes, Margaret Dyer, Irene Preece, Elmer Kropp, Leona Meyer, Priscilla _ Wey, _ Joseph _ Bullman Joseph Hause, Edward Ottnad, Vera Gatschene, Jerome Fischer, Fernie Fehrenbach. Room 5. Marie Lackenbauer; Raphael Mcâ€" Govern, Florence Haln, Carl Kuntz, Josephine Ottnad, Florence Fehrenâ€" bach, Leona â€" Boatman, _ Florence Schickler, _ Beatrice Hertel, Fred Yantz, Isabelle Dorach, Mary Bopâ€" pre, Dolores Brisbow, Milton Guenâ€" ther, John Buchheit, Edna Lorentz, Arthur Schnitzler, Louls Dorscht, Florence Weber, William Weber, Raymond Hartman, Edith Calcutta. Room 4. Ursula Montag, Thomas Eliert, Bernadette Ellert, Eva Guenther, Patricia Hergott, Helen Lorents, Vermont Kessig, Alvera Kroétach, Genevieve Bubiman, Irene Hahn, Beatrice Dietrich, Marguerite Bop pre, Gilbert Schants, John Hartman, Kileen > Dyer, Priscilia Merringor, _ _â€"â€" _ "|~ Agnells Mowst, Augile Homeyer, Agnes Ellert, Florabelie Lorents, _wt‘ Hmldumwm ki Carl Wilheim, Colette . Weber, Maristella Mowat, Loretts Hahn, Pa tricia Lang, Verna Meyer, Marguer: ite Seibel, Marjorie Lorents, Harold Mickus, Edmund Lackenbauer, A Marie Gatschene, Stells Boppre, Fdward Schlosser, Alex Letin, Harâ€" old Kieswetter, Wilbert Montag, Robert Bauer, Rose Tricomo, Marie Salm, _ Vincent â€" Reinhard, Carl Hause, Esther Schlosser, Irene Kuntz, Elizabeth Ottnad. Arthur Hartman, Agnes Lorents, Alex. Farrel, Walter Rumig, Esther Kieswetter, Lucy Kuntz, Bettie Lang, Oscar Lackenbauer, Jerome Uhrig, Lester â€" Wambold, Robert Pimm, Raphael Reitzel, Harry Uebâ€" erschlag, Marjorie Pinim, _ Sllvina Hause, Rita Boegel, Margaret Wunâ€" der, Marie Stumpf, Helen Wey, ‘Theodore Sobisch, Eugene Herringâ€" er, Michael Cisarshuk, George Hausâ€" er, Llioyd Wendel, Walter Seibel. sCHOOL FAIR IN WATERâ€" LOO â€"BIG SUCCESS. The School Fair held at the Watâ€" erloo Central school on Monday was a big success, a large number of peoâ€" ple a¢tending in the afternoon. There was an increase in the number of entries over the previous year and the competition was keen. An dded feature this year was the field day, Mr. Carley of the Y. M. C. A. had charge of the program and the varâ€" ious events, including races, etc. proved mO)t interesting. The exhibits of vegetables were koused in a large tent erected on the ground. Fruit, flowers, fancy work and homemade baking were exhibited in the portable school and the children are deserving of great credit for the splendid â€" showing made. The poultry exhibit was also good, _ Principal Playford and his staff are indebted to the judges in the various classes, who gave of their time so generously. The vegelzbles were judged by. J. S. Knapp, government representaâ€" tive, and his assistants, as were also the manual training and poultry. Miss Eloise Noecker and Miss Lotâ€" tic Valentine judged the children‘s work, homemade cooking and the hendiwork â€" of â€" the â€" girls, while Messrs. Colcart, R. Sim and H. Brown judged the flowers. ment. A call was sent to Stratford for assistance, but too late to save the mill, eimte o Sn n‘ Some quotations from recent reports 1 m\ "Of 48 cars of fruit for immediate sale, twoâ€"thirdd were sold by Long Distance." 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