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do plied, “somet? ship, I’ve 1051 Betrayng nc 'esty simply nc David proceed the Habakkuk bf which goss him guilty. T1 at. excuse, no no \vluimperinl thing but a 51 vancc in the 1 sure and of m; tain sense he r but the trial w doxcs, for the acc inn-1 die! sist out whe edâ€" the Wisps of string slung arou Shoulders, a, pair of pruning in hand, and herself arrays long gan’lening apron auc bonnet, Miss Manesty w lightly from bed to bed, a] engaged in snipping off a that had had its day when crossed the lawn to her si‘ “Hallo. David,” she me on the other suit? of your door.” “Um,” another searching glance from the sharp grey eyes, and then, “In that; case you’d better let me have the story out here. Come along,” and she led the way to a. garden seat on the farther §ide of the lawn. “Now, then, what is it?” she asked, making room for him by her side; “pocket picking or sheep “That’s exactly what _I’ve come for, M155 Manesty,” Dand replied, engaged m snipping off a branch that had had its day when David crossed the lawn to her side. “Hallo, David,” she briskly cried, “that you; just in time to make yourself useful. Here, get hold of this branch while I tie it up. Then I’ll talk to you. “Odd, isn’t. it?” she rattled on, “that trees should be just as fool- ish as folks, and that’s saying a. lot . You’ll not find many who’ll grow right until they've got a. bit of string round them, and when you seek to put them straight, they job their spikes into you and make no end of fuss. Just like folks, just like folks. she We Kept Its Faith; m trial was a. bundle of para- , for the accused was also the 2r. With scrupulous care he d the counts in his own in- ent. and with merciless perâ€" : 10st something,” David reâ€" “something more than a. i’ve lost my name.” Lying no surprise, Miss Man- mply nodded her head, and proceeded with his story of bakkuk and the base motive ch gossip had pronounced ilt‘y. There was no attempt xse. no sparing of the lush, pressed them 1 rd of comment rd him to t1 had finished, 5 )ermg, no se. a steady, re the process 0 of maceration he resembled Or, The Girl With the Nut Brown Hair and Dreamy Eyes. 1b are M of th 1f pii entle E self @@@@@ 1155 Man- end, and expo mpt ash, no- dropped your insu she drin responded. “And so you’re your ships on a, new _Mane filled “David,” she said, clasping her hands behind her back and lookâ€" ing up into his face, “you’ve not told me everything.” “I’ve told you all I can tell you,” he replied doggedly. “Umâ€"and you’ve remembered something else since you landed?” “One can’t forget when they’ve you to deal with.” “What is it, Dezvid?” “.Oh, it’s nothing, nothing at all, nothing to fuss about.” “What is it, David?” "Only abusiness trifle, only an incident about that wretched ship.” mess that even the flowers or her garden never provoked. His eyes roved from her’s to the mountain heights and back, and again he found utterance. “I’m afraid,” he began, “that in a way I’ve only myself to blame. You see, I’ve altered my mon'mmts E8): “What is it, David?” How merciless she was, and y about her look there was a ten ‘6 mess that even the flowers wf i1 a. little b up the in and~and had her ‘ u had her cast away. “And you told me your were clean, Davic.” “They are, Miss Manest EY€ Eldes- “As clean as your own, MISS Manesty. I’ve had not-hing to do with the loss of the Habakkuk.” “Then come inside and have something to eat.” Away towards the house the old lady flounced, David in her wake, but his steps faltered and he halt- ed irresolutcly. Should he accept her invitat-ionâ€"~â€"should his lips 1~e~ veal all that his heart had know- ledge of? Oh, a plague upon this honesty in other folk, why should it insist upon so much in return? On the gravelled path Miss Man- esty missed him, eyed him curio- ously for a. while, and then came back to where he stood. “David,” she said, clasping her “David Graham,” sh “you’ve told me what 0th are saying about you, bu1 never had a word to gay fl self, and I’ve got a questio you. Your name. seems got a. bit of dirt on it, 1 your hands clean “I” ship not ondut oâ€"datt you’re making mom 1 . 1. I711 sw'ear they are hing to do with the 10 And you 'told 6 clean.” Miss Manesty, you toâ€"day to It’s only until , W112 wouldn y resumed, th deep tln â€"no-â€"that is the busine lines.” o-date line: Lfraid,” he began, “that I’ve only myself to blame. I’ve altered my men'muts it, andâ€"andâ€"and I’d put; surance on the Habakkuk that’s why folks say I’ve 1110 re )e vid in her wake, :red and he halt- Should he accept ould his lips re- heart had know- plggue .upon this 11‘ fat} 011E; rove W011. 1116 KC haven’ 'r, trifle 9.1) ance Lm 011 0mg urs« hone nde a '4” MISS a. pause 1: you ates," *peat- name came Mar- mno- n they Â¥hgd Alss (is V “Ever since I knew your house, David, it’s been famed for the soundness of its craft, and nowâ€" Vgo and tell Margery Manest-y that for her honor and her comfort and her pleasure ,they’re to be turned into coffin ships, go and tell her that. and then ” “You shall not say these things of me. I thought you were my “For Margery’s sake,” he-husk- ily repeated; “it is for her sake I want -a. bigger, better fleet than I’ve got, that I may give her the place she ought to have. I want more money, but only that I may give it to her.” “Then go and tell that to Mar- gery herself and see what answer she’ll make you.” The scorn in the old lady’s voice out deeper than any words she had yet spoken to him. ' “These underwriting tricks, they’re a gamble with other men’s money, a gamble with the lives of men as the stakeâ€"tell Margery that for her sake you’re doing that. “You’re breaking the promise you made to your father â€" tell Margery it’s for her sake you’re doing it. “You shall not say these things of me. I thought you were my friend. I thought you would under- stand me, that you would see the reasonableness of what I’m about, and approve of my enterprise, and yet you are harder on me than any of _‘tl_1058 gossips in Allerdale.” the he pat soni father ed fox and go 1 Say you if tli I’il wasn’t be his own . he should Man ship ‘tal neu' conch 1d been ry’s sake .3ity thEy (I you, they’d Ma )u’ re THE 111d have And no with a. and 3. cc the day id,” she cried, “you’ll give won’t you? Just take the the Habakkuk as a. lesson back to your father’s ways. 1 will, laddie, for my Mar- did h( he “18.! E the cr I’ll JI :, Dav old-fa ,1 1‘ :1 Graham.” I’ll go down to the lake Margery comes, Mis: he replied, “and the: thought oi elf. andâ€"w Wlth COD thanked etermlneo‘ he declal say no n ' don’t care still mor y’d be harder on yo ’ she interrupted. w quite well that; m 5 sound as ever the continued; but who I bade him think c on when his ambition aalized. he abandone more lden sovefleig ow It’s mock . name tha 3.11 'abher id '2 ‘ HSCICH ) IDOI'G UX‘HS, than was a. fool, He worked on 111 when his ships ,ented men on God for the nd gave little to misu :d 1n1pa , you‘ found erelgns ne’< modern me was requn- ever they but when . think of ambitions ,bandoned that w God h it ’IISS elp lks IIC “What, is your opinion of cold- eatching, doctor?” said I, reflect- ing that every other person in town and country seems afflicted with some species of cold, particu- larly throat complaints, writes Marcus Woodward in the Lon-don Express, and the wise and learned doctor in whom I trust made me this answer :â€" “Extremes of temperature, in my opinion, are chiefly responsible for the prevalence of all 'manners of colds and bad throats to-day. Downstairs, rooted as it were to the spot whercon she had left him. David waited. Through the gable Window he beheld the \vhite-robed Bishop poised in stately solemnity on the shingled preci ice of Barf, as it was easy to thin {. he had al- ways been through all the ages; over there, on the other side ofthe vale, the Low Man dropped his shoulders to the plain, as he had ever done; upon a. gently swaying hough beyond the drive a. thrush filled the air with thanksgiving, and.it seemed that he had been singing for centuries, seemed as if the world had ceased to move, that for time immeasurable be him- self had stood there waiting, waitâ€" ing, waiting. ~ “David!” The. spell was broken, the world was moving again, the hour of reâ€" nunciation had dawned. He turn- ed, and Margery was in his arms, her eyes pronouncing Love’s bene- diction upon him. her voice ten- derly thanking him for the sweet surprise of his coming. He bent to kiss her, all the resolution with which he had armed himself batâ€" tered down; but, as she raised her head for his caress, Margery saw the anguish stamped upon his face, all the joy in her own fled before the assault of fear, and, drawing her-self back until she held him at arm’s length, she criedâ€"- SHUT THE (WEN WINDOW Cold From Sleeping in Frigid Bedroomsâ€"Too Great Change From Hot Room. 611012 “What is it. dearâ€"are you.illâ€"â€" or has something gone wrong?" “No, I’m not ill, Little Chum, butâ€"there isâ€"somethlng wrong.” “Why, what-ever is it? you look as though you had lost all your ships, or, worse still, as though you had lost me. That would be the worst, wouldn’t it? and”â€"â€"this, of course, to cheer himâ€"“you’ve not, you know.” uuv, Juu nuv u . A wan smile flashed upon his face and fled, and then, at the girl’s bidding, he dropped into a. chair, whilst Margery, nestling on the rug, clasped her hands across his knees and waited for his story. (To be continued.) whom men cal to her own r0: on the way th blinded by tear VIEWS OF A LEARNED AND WISE LONDON DOCTOR. 8K 1t e. 33. 10: ad that Outside in t} gain, but this as transformc 'erfully find re 11 16 meu )LD 3m< Lre very heavy sufferers; hanges of temperature affect their throats, and s-piratory diseases ramp- form 80 per cent, of chil- in this thi the manly 3.1 himâ€"and And the called. 11 room, a bedr BEDR '16 at ‘ temperature, in chiefly responsible ice of all 'manners and throats to-day. lnt'O and he t1 Ice 18 De “'l‘C linst t1 t1 1rd as it were t( had left him Lgh the gable 3 whiteâ€"robec )O 311‘ ' belh than foul at ni he ages; ide~ of the upped his 5 he had ’ swaying a. thrush ksgiving, cept. the w] fish and inv MAN NOT A COW. “To sleep in the cold is madness. Man is not, a, cow or a horse, Prim- eval man was a caveâ€"dweller, and We have wandered too far from the Garden of Eden to sleep in a, gat- d-en today. It, is against Nature’s laws. We might as well think of sleeping in a. cold bath to keep the pores of the skin clean and open. 7 “Animals are adapted for sleep‘ ing in the open in a. manner pecu- liar to themselves, and the air they breathe is heated by radiation frbm the body. The sparrow puts his head under his wing. N0 ani- mal is intended to breathe ex- dear: trezI thr diff pez 50 degre tubes. W not able about 50 it comes our wot] “Nature steps in and endeavors to warm this night air and impede the current as much as possible by providing a, laiger heating sur- face at the back of the mouth and nose in the form of enlarged tomr sils and adenoids. “Well, a. child falls asleep with the window open. Some 50 degrees of heat must be taken with each inspiration from the tonsillar re- gion for air-warming purposes â€"â€" 15 times in the minute, 900 timeq in the hour, 7,200 times during the eight hours’ sleep. When not in perfect health, this is too great a. strain, the vitality is lowered, the throat gives way, and ulceration or congestiori follows. th-e D or atu “As there is no scientific system applied to bedrooms whereby bad outer air is purified, filtered, dis. infected, and heated before being breathed, the safest plan is to sleep with the door open. allowing pure, but warm air to enter from halls and passages. Air in pas- sages is likely to be pure, because of the many chances the“: fresh air has to enter, and it is never so cold as air through the window. Cold air is not necessarily pure air, nor warm air impure. at 1n ax The ma. ten ll‘C w1t Lperature may be 90 degrees, suddenly at night; in bed- .vith the window open to 50 z. The (inference of the mperaturc and the day tem- e is about 8 degrees, which us considerably. But the ce of body and night tem- ‘e in our bedrooms is nearly fees. And the bronchial when in a weak state, are e to stand a. difference of i0 degrees, especially when ‘5 during sleep. In winter rkrooms Indy stand at 80 , and our bedrooms at, 40 HEAT GIVEN OFF. TOO H 2’1“ out) L11 CII 1‘. :nly at nig he window he dtfl’eren Azure and tk bout 8 dng vimed t 111' u I V00 11 1n )T illnesses begln : nervous system :ulation quiet, .‘ at rest. Then steal a. march : 0F TROUBLE. aroat illnesses and begin. The temâ€" bodies in health In summer the, air .1t‘ncxent 1d bath line 1t ates. ROOMS sits too 1 to take a cold c :n: the summe uld )I i011 system by bad 3d, dis~ a being 1g 11] '. the pira- 1t 11 IS and the and all?