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s Pure, Fresh and so Deliciotuesâ€"Just try it. aÂ¥ you Soeur Mathilde. You have not joined the sisterhood? Tell me that "I have taken no vows except to serve France in her great need." "‘Thank God for that!" "But who are you that know me and are so interested in my fate?" "I must be changed indeed when evem you do not recognize me, Duchess. Those hungry wolves, the Conimunrists, have done their work An expression of slow horror crossed her face. "Notâ€"Lilford?" she gasped "Yes, Lilford,‘ he replied bitterly. "Overtaken at last by a fate which you should not regret." s She caught his hand getween hers and held it closely "But I do! I do!" she cried earâ€" nestly.. _ "Can you think me so small of soul as that. Oh, Lilford, is there no chance for you*‘ "None!" he â€" answered slowly. "None!" he _ answered slowly. "The doctor has already told me. Why should you care? I ruined your life for you." ‘No!" she exclaimed passionately. ‘"The ruin I brought upon myself! It was all my hideous selfishness, my stubborn pride You gave me, perhaps without intending to, a husband whose only fault was lovâ€" ing me too well I wilfully threw away a heart that I would give now all the world to possess again. The error was mine, not yours." "You say that because I am dyâ€" ing." ‘"‘No, believe me! Let me go for a doctorâ€"â€"â€"" "It would be useless!" he lnterr-! upted. ‘"Besides, I do not wish to | live. What is there in this world mow that is worth living for? I) have done all the harm I can, I have | lost the only woman who ever had | te power to save my soul, and now | I am ready to pass the remanider | of the years of which eternity is composed in the perdition that is\ prepared for such as I." "Lilford!" ! "Do you know what I have done,‘ Duchess? I have wound up an un-l boly life in a fitting way. I havel murdered the woman whom I lovâ€", ed!" "I do not regret it for I kept her pure! If I have sent my soul to perdition to accomplish it, it was worth the price. Listen! Do you reâ€" member that little blind girl who thought she was your husband‘s wife." ‘‘She was his wife! Our marriage was annulled on the ground of fraud. _ It was not h divorce, you\ see, but was made as though it had never been." | ‘‘But that could not be, Duchess. You married the man, neither his mame nor his past, and only God had the power to annul that marrâ€" lage by death. Bebe was not his wife, and I loved her. It was the single holy passion of my life, but just at last a demon took possessâ€" fon of me and I tried to force her Into a marriage. She refused and 1 left her presence with a threat I had scarcely done so when my better seif returned. I went to her to beg her forgiveness, to entreat her to go on living as we had done. I found herâ€"gone! She had fled for fear of me, and because I fearâ€" ed evil for her I followed. . By "An American. You are Virginia eaufort! Tell me that it is true!" "My God!" ‘Bebe Lansing came you here? They call toâ€"night use RAZâ€" }o‘ny lor Asthma« brought peacefu! nigh :flnhm‘l‘m" red the agonies of Asthma. on ady of Beaufort Park BY WENONA GILMAN in possession of me. I have no reâ€" lcollectlon of what occurred except that I shot at him andâ€"killed her. I Then I staggered from the room and 'Im,o the street. The Communists were passing. I think I hardly saw | them. You see the result! I do not ) regret it. I am glad my darling is 'dead. Perhaps in heaven she will i know and forgive me." chance I saw her enter a little public house to avoid the Commune, with a man whom I discovered she loved. I determined to save her at any cost. 1 entered the room where they were. ‘The demon was agaip ‘‘But she is not dead!" exclaimed Miss Beaufort eagerly. "She«is#=here in this building, dying perhaps, but still alive." "Bebe?" "Yes!" The eyes of the dying man glowed almost fiercely under his exciteâ€" ment. "Let me go to her!" he cried. "For God‘s sake don‘t refuse! It can only mean a moment more or less to a miserable life, while it may insure forgiveness in the world to come. Let me go to her!" ‘"What do I care for the doctor! 1 tell you that I must see her! Duchess, I am dying! Don‘t refuse the last request of a man who feels himself condemned to cternal perdition." «‘Wait!" "I cannot wait There is no time to wait Let me follow you. I tell you that I am strong. I shall reach her and die happy because I am beside her. Duchess, don‘t refus>." "Be â€" quiet. The â€" doctor will neverâ€"â€"â€"â€".." "I shall not if you will allow me to have my way. If you are not quiet the doctor may refuse. Remain here until I prepare her to see you, and I will return." Something in her face told him the truthâ€"that she would return with a physician, that his request would be denied. With the cunning of mania, he determined that he would have his way. Quietly, obediently, he replacâ€" ed himself among his pillows, and lifted his eyes pleadingly but meekâ€" ly. "Make haste," he s ‘‘There is so little time." Hastily he glanced about the room. There was a nurse at the far end of the room, but her back was turned toward him. Miss Beauâ€" fort ‘had already started uponâ€"her mission. Silently he threw the covers back and slid to the floor. He endeavorâ€" ed to stand, but his bruised limbs refused to support him. Upon hands and knees he crawled, leaving a trail of blood behind him. He knew that it meant death, but it dil not cause him to pause a moment. He was following Miss Beanfort. She opened a door noiselessiy and passed in. He crept up to it and pulled himself up by the door facing. A low cry from someone in the room caused Miss Beaufor: to turn quickly. She never forgot the ghastliness of that spectacle. Some of the bandâ€" ages had slipped from the face, leaving bare the hideous cuts from which blood was beginning to issue in little trickling streams. He saw Bebe at that moment, Bebe lying there before him, her beautiful face upturned, cold, still, dead. He uttered a cry like that of a baffled animal; then summonâ€" ing all his strength for one supreme effort, he fought his way against weakness to her side. He fell exhausted upon his knees, his face buried in her bosom. The clothes that covered him were being rapidly covered with it. Beâ€" neath it his eyes gleamed like redâ€" bot fire. "~ 2CRCJ: WAll! Wail‘ God, letMEDICINE is a constitutional remedy. it come! Let death come, and qnlck~m"": .':.“..":-.L'.‘.? ly, that I may join her, if only 10 Infinmed Fou heve & romel .':.a" one brief instant. Lord in Heaven, m'fi’.".m. and when ' is entireâ€" am I worse than the thief upon miw.'z‘: T eduben. your cross? Have 1 sinned beyond mwififi giveness. 1 beseech Theeâ€"pardonâ€" the for her sakeâ€"for her sake! Waitâ€" » : "Dear love," he whispered, "you were always the one pure thing in my wretched, wasted life. Wait for me, take me by the hand, and pray God to forgive me. Only a mon;en;.m. w..fl:. ':'Q. 8 darling, only a moment and I s wae heaipcage *4 m"{g‘."‘c‘;fi be ready! Wait! Wait! God, letMEDICINE is a constitutional 9 said _ softly "ug PeIKT o MAE NY 15 Th: CS 4 lar\ &‘ ; | there; Bebe? Take my hand, dear/ God will not refuse me admlssion to paradise Iif you ‘ask Him. I see you, dear. How deliclously cool your ) hand is upon my burning brow. You were so good to wait. I am ready!* ‘The iast word was scarcely more than a gasp, but Virginia Beaufort upon her knees begide him underâ€" Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured She had taken the poor, unfortunâ€" ate, sinful head from the dead bosom to her own, and held it there as gently as though he had been a tenderly loved brother. . She watched the breathing grow fainter and fainter until at last it ceased altogether; then she motion ed them to take him from her. CHAPTER XXXV A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS ‘The beautiful, moonlit face of Soeur Mathilde was very pale and tremulous with emotion as she enâ€" tered her little private office in conâ€" nection with the hospital. To her surprise a man came out of the shadow and extended his hand. "Poor little woman," he said gentâ€" ly. "How tired you look. There i# little resemblance between our regal Duchess of the old time and paleâ€" faced, sadâ€"eyed Soeur Mathilde. I am afraid it has been too much for you dear!" ©"Ah, no," she replied wearily. "But for my work I think I could not have lived through all this dreadful time." ly ‘"Don‘t say that, Duchess!" he inâ€" terrupted, tenderly placing her in a chair. "It was not your fault. There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will, and that divinity has guarded you through all your sore trials, dear, bringing rest and peace at last, It is much better as it is, Duchess, and you must never doubt but tha‘ God knows best." "‘Tell me of Childes‘ whispered. ‘"She is dead! Oh, Charlie, I feel as though I were to blame for that poor child‘s fate!‘ But for me she might now be well and happy with him. I alone am censurable, andâ€"" "But one is surely not to blame that from our infinite standpoint one cannot always see it so," she cried, with suppressed passion. "I have no cne to reproach but myself, Charlie, and I do not! I do not! My odious pride caused it all! I set myself up as a guide, and God has very bitterâ€" ly punished me. But I should not speak to you like this, and I beg that youâ€"â€"â€"" * Hush, dear. You do not intend it, but you wound me. Do you think I am so little a man that I should wish to blind myself to the truth? You promised once that you would be my wife, Duchess, but you never told me that you loved me. I am going to ask you that question now, dear, and you must tell me the truth, for my sake, Virginia." "Charlie!" "There! I will not, dear. It was unkind, ungenerous of me. I am goâ€" ing to ask an unnusal thing of you, Duchess, and I want you to underâ€" stand and forgive me in advance." The voice was suspiciously tremuâ€" lous, the eyes curiously bright. Her hands held his nervously while a little fluttering sigh escaped her. "Is there anything for which I would not forgive you? You have been very good to me, Charlie." He understood and kneeled beâ€" side her, encircling her waist with his arm. "Duchess," he said caressingly, "you know that your happiness is the dearest thing upon earth to me. and because I am sure you would never be happy as my wife I am going to ask you to take back the promise you gave me". "Charlie!" "Perhaps I am not altogether fair in putting it that way, and I want to be that to you always. If you had loved me, or if I ever could have boped to win your love, i should uever have given you up,. and no man would ever have considered himself more blessed, no man could have been happier, but you don‘t and something has forced upon me the belief that my love for you has changed to the tenderest affection that a man could give hisâ€"sister‘" She drew toward him eagerly, and acting under an impulse os strongest gratitude, she kissed him upon the lips. The act told him more of her delight that any number of words could have done. He presséed her hand affectionate (To be Continued.) wife!" he was worth that to find out that it wasn‘t safe for him to go home just then. He‘s coming down the road now, mum. Would you mind setting the dog on me again?" away?" ? * "Oh, yes!" repliecd the wiiness cheertully. "I can see millions of sir, THINGS BETTER LEFT UNSAID Father (reading newspaper headâ€" line)â€"The Turks are killing one another. "Well," said the witness, "what about the stars?" He was a very affable tramp. "How do you do mum.‘ he said. "You don‘t remember me?" "No, I don‘t," said the thinâ€"lipped "Ah, yesâ€"I remember now." "Yes, mumâ€"and as I cleared your fence I met a little man, who gave me halfâ€"aâ€"crown. He said it Fat Boyâ€"I betcha I can eat more‘n you can Thanksgiving. Little Freddie (explosively)â€"Ohb, Daddy man, then you won‘t have to kill one of our turkeys for Thanksâ€" giving! . housewife. while ago, and you set the dog on stretch like ever‘thing. "Do you object to my bathing suit?" inquired the beach belle. "Not personally," replied the vilâ€" lage cop; "only professionally." Father O‘Brein had préached on "Married life and its duties," and am old Irishwoman said to her friend as they came out: "Sure it‘s a fine sermon his reverence gave us this mornin‘." "It was indeed," the other woâ€" man replied, "and it‘s â€" me that‘s wishing Oi knew as little about the matter as he does." TOUGH FARE. Dixon Merritt, a Tennessee newsâ€" paperman, is sponsor for this one. He claims it is true. but then, as stated, Merritt is a newspaper man. He says two old Confederates in a little town near Nashville were describing what tough fare they had in the Civil War, and especially in the last days of the same, when the Southern larders were empty and the soldiers foraged on an already stripped and exhausted land. One of the vets told how for four weeks just before the surrender, he lived on parched corn and muskrats eaten without â€" salt. "Bill, d‘ye ever eat any jackass ears smothered in coal tar?" ONE OF HIS OWN. Big:â€"Phew! How can you smoke such cigars as this one you‘ve just given me. Dix:â€"I can‘t That‘s the on« you gave me yesterday. His old comrade sat silent for a minute; and thenâ€" according to NMerrittâ€" he softly inquired: HI8 SHARE. Brownâ€"They say Jones owes evâ€" erything to his wife. Smithâ€"Not everything! He owes me a tenner. DRIVEN TO IiT. "Why did you take your little sister‘s chocolate, Dick? Why didn‘t you ask her if you could have it?" ©"I did mummy, and she sald I couldn‘t." SOME PLAYER Rubyâ€"Just think, Algy is on the football team! Bettyâ€"That‘s fine! What is heâ€" halfâ€"back or fullâ€"back? Rubyâ€"The captain of the team says he‘s a drawback. IN FRONT RANK "You mean to toll me," he sald, hat you saw this happen in the Scott‘s Emulsion Codâ€"liver oil is different from other fats because of its great richness of vitamines and is so readily absorbed by the weakened system. is an effective agent in imâ€" affp proving nutrition and READY TO EAT BRAGGARDS building up the te where he took part in the conferâ€" ence between the Imperial Govern ment and the Canadian Government, re the lifting of the cattle embargo that has, for the past thirty yoars, md%“. very little more than the freight and other expenses "Once the Imperial Parliament has passed the required legislation the only obstacle remaining will be the high freight rates which now maintain on the railways in this country, on ocean vessels and on the railways in Great Britain as well. Canada is making an effort to gradually lower these transporâ€" tation costs on her railways; freight rates are coming down to some small extent in January nex} in Great Britain, leaving the ocean transportation charges the only part of the cost that does not at present show a tendency to decrease Breeding Stock ‘"The admission of breeding stock is, subject to control by ol'der,i hence might be stopped at the will of any Government or blocked by an adverse vote in the House. This feature, was, of course, not very acceptable to the Canadian delegaâ€" tion, but it was maintained by the Imperial representatives at the conâ€" ference that it was the best that could be done just at present. Desire to Coâ€"operate. "There was evident, on the part of both the Imperial representatives and the officials taking part in the conference, the very greatest desire to meet the wishes of the Canadian representatives, and a very strong feeling of amicable coâ€"operation beâ€" tween the Imperial and the Canâ€" adian representatives was apparent throughout the whole proceedings. The Bacon Trade. "In the case of bacon, in which too great a proportion of the sides in evidence were too short and just slightly too thick, as compared with the Danish which easily topped the import market and was usually selling for fifteem or sixteen shill ings per cwt. (11% lbs.) that is, somewhere around three cents per pound more than Canadian bacon wholesale. from shipping stockers or store cat tie to Great Britain In am interâ€" view Dr Grisdale expressed the opâ€" ditions in England and probable de velopments here, Dr. Grisdale said: "The demand for stores is keen in falls very considerably short of what could be, and woyhd be fed if availâ€" market to Canadian stores will th@refore be welcom@i by many British farmers anxious to feed but prevented at present by lack of catâ€" tle. injon that if the embargo were once Demand Better Type. ‘The demand it must be rememâ€" bered, however, will be for our well bred, good tyre stoves. Inferior stores actually being fed at present tainly prove a losing proposition to both producer and shipper, as the Names for Butter Needed "Our butter, due to variation in quality is at a great disadvantage as compared with butter from New Zealand and South Australia where the output of individual factories is very great and where cattle are on trade names for Canadian butter l-‘ a further disadvantage to our proâ€" ducts and a disadvantage that is hard to overcome. In addition our packages do not seem to be as well made and are certainly not as atâ€" tractive looking. Canadian Chesse Excelient. ‘"Our cheese, while still enjoying an excellent reputation can hardly be said to now hold the first place on the British market since, while it may sell for only a few cents less a cwt. or possibly the same price evem, is not commonly taken as first choice, the New Zealand arâ€" ticle now enjoying that distinction, this being due, it was claimed by some of the commission men, to greater uniformity, to better packâ€" ages and to a smoother texture, with a cheese slightly less acid com to say that due to the grading so rigidly enforced by this Department our egge enjoy a reputation seeond to none on the British market and show it by the price they command. groatly from day to day. On ome Egges Command High Price. Lower Freight Rates. prices were llluminating. Canadian chilled shipped from Toronto was selling at 64 per pound; Canadian frosh killed at 84 to 94; Argentina course would account in some measâ€" ure for the very low price. Minister of Agricuiture which have been approved by him:â€" (1â€"That we appoint a first class business man with a wide knowledge of agricultural products to act as Canada‘s representative in Great Britain in comnection with our baâ€" (2) That we, as a country, make more effective displays at shows and exhibitions of one kind and another and perticipste more entlhusiastk Government and to producers as to how improvements can be brought about; (c) to help trade by judicâ€" fous propaganda in connection with our products in the Old Land and (d) to be of use as a referee when necessary in trade disputes. cally in such large exhibitions as may (be organized jor enginecred from time to time in the Old Land. His Final Word. My final word, therefore, to the producer and to the people of this country generally isâ€"Canada, wake up! Success and prosperity await our every effort, but mediocrity and failure follow in the wake of the course we now pursue, as there is nothing attained by our competiâ€" tors as above referred to that we may not equal or surpass." How It Happened. "Rarly last year," said Hon. Mr. Biggs, "we found that the legal exâ€" penses of the Highways Department were becoming greatar than the cost of having a "full time" soliciâ€" tor in the department, who would ‘always be available and thoroughly in touch with the work. In order to get the very best man available for the post, I wrote to various legal men for recommendations, asking them who, in their opinion, would be the best man to carry out soliclâ€" tor‘s work in connection with roadâ€" than the Canadian chilled beef, was exports (a) to study conditios; (b) Sixtyâ€"five Chinese buccaneers, who might have stepped from some anâ€" cient log of the Spanish main, traâ€" velled as passengers aboard the British steamer SuiAn when she left Macao for Hong Kong. Seizing the ship a few miles out, the pirates held her for thirteen:hours, and the crew and the passengers made Hong Kong Monday with their captors driven away in sampans, after a fierce battle, in which two men were killed and sgeveral wounded, includâ€" ing the captain of the Suiâ€"An, a French priest, and another European The British steamer was carrying a large number of Europeans and Chinese passengers. The pirates, heavily armed, were disguised as first or second class passengers. Hon. F. C. Biggs has the followâ€" ing to say of the appointment of his cousin, 8. P. Biggs, to the post of solicitor to the Highways Dep‘t., in an answer to his critics. HONâ€" F. C. BIGGS DEFENDS APPOINTMENT OF HIS COUSIN. ways, arbitrations, expropriations, and matters that arise in connection with roadway extensions. Entirely Since returnipg I have made the For Acidity or Bile Beecham‘s stomach T ake PIRATES SEIZE SHIP Beecham‘s Pills act as a splendid tonic to the digestive organs. They remove acidity and fermentation and excess of bile from the stomach and bowels and promote the secretion of the gastric juices. In thus correcting morbid conditions and stimulatâ€" inz the digcstive processes Beecham‘s Pills naturally have an excellent effect upon the general health. 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Ont. independent of each other, the reâ€" commendations were for 8. P. Biggs." He Was the Best Man. Primarily because he was the best man, and had had experience with the Canadian Northern Railways in x similar capacity, said the Minister, Mr. Biggs was appointed. The only other consideration that might have entered into it was that he had a splendid war record, serving from the outbreak of hostilities until after the armistice was signed. The Minâ€" ister said he was a Toronto boy, and a graduate of the University of Notary Conveyancer, etc. 13 Web er St. Kast, Kitchener, Phone 190 5 Hoim Apartments, Young St, Phones, Office 1383J, H, 1283W. Solicitor, Notary Public, Conveyâ€" auncer, etc. Money to loan, Office, Molsons‘ Bank Building, Waterlo0. Block, King West, Kitchener. dry Streets. Phone 77, Kitchener, Ont. rister, Solicitor, b{nhry Public and Conveyancer. Office Mer \â€" ant‘s Bank Building. _ Telephone 247, Kitchener, Ont. Notaries, etc. Office, upstairs, Economical Block, King St. West, Pequegnat Block, next to Marke M$ St., Kitchener. 5 Kitchener. R. F. u. HUGHES, DENTIST, Oddfellows Block, Waterloo. tal Surgeon id P yal Coll Dui:lr gurge::s of %l‘:ro?tq.'f)e:! tal office in new Molsons‘ Bank Building, _ Waterloo. _ Denti try pucfioeé in all its branches. PROFESSIONAL CARDS ELECTROTHERAPEUTIET DR. A. HOLM, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR DENTAL Te