The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

"You never were further out." he said. “He flirtsvoh. my aum. how he flirtsPâ€"but as to falling in laveâ€"Did you eVer see an iceberg, Miss Falconer?" She shook her head. "\Vell. it‘s one of the biggest. the most beautiful frauds in the world. \Vhen you meet one sailing along in the Atlantic, you think it one of the nicest. sweetest things you ever saw: it's so duzziingiy bright, with its thousand- andâ€"one colors glittering in the sunlight. You fall quite in love with it. and it looks so harmless. so enticing. that you're tempted to get quite close to it; which no doubt is amusing to the lee- berg. but it slightly embarrassing for You: for the iceberg is on'you before __-.....‘.. vu - \. u»...,l.y‘_ J -v u~- 7. V which no doubt is amusing to the lee- berg. but it slightly embarrassing for You: for the iceberg is on you before you know it, andâ€"and there isn't enough left of you for a decent funeral. That's Stafford all the way. He's so pleasant. so frank. so lovable. that you think him Quite harmless: but while you're admir- ing his confounded ingratiating ways. while you're growing enthusiastic about his engaging tricksâ€"he's the best rider. the best dancer. the best snobâ€"oh. bu‘ you Imust have heard of him!â€"he is hearing down upon you: your heart goes under. and heâ€"ah. well. he just sails over you smiling. quite unconscious of having brought you to everlasting smash." "You are indeed a friend." she said. with languid irony. "Oh, you think I'm giving him away?" he said. "My dear Miss Falconer. every- body knows him. Every ball room, every tennis court, is strewed with his wrecks. And aii the time he doesn't know it; but goes his way crowned with a. modesty which is the marvel and the wonder of this most marvellous of ages._” 'I'Iit-Eafihds 11k; a. herB oi? of one ,'Ouida's‘ novels." she remarked, listlessly as before. '"fiflffiéhffid‘fiéé’ibwered lids her eyes Were shining with a. singular brightness. Howard mrned to her deugbfiedly. “My dear Miss Falconer. if you were a man I should ask to shake hands with you. It so exactly describes him.That‘s just what he is. Frank as a boy. a5 gentle as a woman, as staunch as a bulldog. as braveâ€"he would have stop- ped a. drayman‘s team just as readuy as yours last nightâ€"and as invulnemble as that marble statue." He pointed to a statue which stood whitely on the edge of the lawn. and she raised her eyes and looked at it dreamlly. “I could break that thing if I had a big hammer." she said. "I daresay." he said. “But you can't break Stafford. Honestly"â€"he looked at herâ€""I wish you could!" "\Vhy?" she asked. turning her eyes on him for the first time. Howard was silent for a moment. then he looked at her with a curious graxiky. _. . . n .L.“ a... .,. "Because It would be good for hlm: because I am afrald for hlm." “Afraid?” she echoed. "Yes." he said. with a nod. “Some day he will run against something that will bring him to smash. Some woman -- But I beg your pardon. Do you know. Miss Falconer. that you have a dangerous way of leadlng one to speak the truthâ€"which one should neverâ€"or very rarelyâ€"do? \\'h}' on earth am I telling you‘ all this about Stafford \V'Véiy irai‘elyâ€"do telling you_ a Orme?" said. who will be quite unworthy 01 always the case. The block ( cannot smash with your big: mm' is broken into smitheret needle. That‘s the peril befox â€"but let us hope he will pro ceptlon to the rule and esc: safe at present. at any rate." She thought of the scene sh messed. the girl sitting side Stafford Orme‘s horse. and flushed for an instant. in A ‘Emlish Young Man; M S1713 shrugged her shoulders ‘Are Quit CH AFTER XV u were all St .‘e a sigh of resignation. are irresisuble‘. Some I woman be quite unworthy of him. It's he case. The block of ice you ‘ 13511 with your biggest ham< Jroken into smithereens by a That‘s the peril before Stafford . us hope he will prove the ex- to the rule and escape. He's ched in mg in th beauty there ‘ tell me hed Or, mg soB’iéWv'bman.” She ant. she said (Continued) Iy rate." scene she had wit- rtation , : anyth ng ml as he she the Belle of the Season. )w. soft laugh think suddenly. tlgress he had ah's zoo. as she ‘ a thing of soft- death. amusing conver- confide Witt int: turning} mocking 11g ten that y her lle n n y It‘s the on. But eaf and serious [ha unt his 'ilh the beautiful girl looking up at his an air of languid the beautiful girl. lying back now iand looking up at his handsome face wlth an air of languid indifference. "V’Vhat a. lovely day, Miss Falconer! “'here are all the others? Are you not going fqr adrlve. on the lake, some- where?" , _ L. _ u... Yr-_‘»_.1 I have just been as] to take me for a row, he has refused." Stafford laughed and watch. “6‘ c: Ln.” “Not unl Miss Falconer. She looked after S‘afford as he away to the stable. “Nor I." ‘ess I am? sure of winning, ” he said. significantly. . rode she retorted, with a smile. "As you will see." She leant back with the sunshade over her shoulder. and Stafford, as he row- ed out towards the centre of the lalge. looked at her with unconscious admir- ation. She was simply. perfectly dress- ed in a yachting costume of white and paleâ€"blue. which set off to the fullest advantage her exquisite complexion and her red-gold hair. But it was admira- tion of the coldest kind. for even at that moment he was thinking of the girl in the well-worn habit. the girl he loved with a passion that made his slightest thought of her a. psalm of worship. And Maude. though she appeared half asleep. like a beautiful wild animal ‘basking in the warmth of the sun, glanc- ed at him now and again. She had made her wager with Howard on the spur of the moment. prompted by the Vanity of a woman piqued by the story of Staf- ford's indifference to her sex; but as she looked at him she wondered how a W0- man would feel if she fell in love with Ihim‘ But she had no fears for herself; there was a coldness in her nature which had hitherto guarded her from the fever which men call love. and she thought herself quite secure. There would‘ be [amusemenh triumph. in making him love her, in winning her wager with that cynical Mr Howard, who boasted Jof his friend's invulnerability; and when she had conquered._ and gratified her LA Aneu- When Stafford and Maude Falconer went down to the lake after luncheon. they found a party from the Villa just embarking on board one of the launches; the air was filled with laughter and chatter. and the little quay was bright with the white flannels of the men and the gay frocks of the women. The party greeted the two with exuberant Welcome, and Bertie called out to ask them if they were comlng on board. “Perhaps you would rather go on the launch. Miss Falconer?" said Staf- ford: but she shook her head. “No, thanks," she said. languldly. “I hate crowds of that kind. I‘d rather stick to our original proposition: it will bore me less. But perhaps you‘d ra- ther join them?" “Is it likely?" said Stafford. with a smile, as he signed to the man to bring up a skiff. "Now, let me make you as comfortable as I can. We ought to have a gondola," he added. and he handed her to the seat 'in the s_ter_n. ,, _L_ :. A‘vnf mu: uau ~v...,uv.vv., _...~ vanity Ah. well. it would be easy to step aside and bring the curtain down upon her triumph and Stafford's dlscom- fiture She would wear that cynlcal Mr. Howard's ring. and every time she look- ed at it. it should remind her of her conqugst Stafford rowed in silence for some minutes. His beautiful companion did not seem to want him to‘talk: and certainly showed no desire to talk her- self; so he gave himself up to thinking of Idaâ€"and wishing that it was she Who was sitting opposite him there instead of this,girl with the face of a Grecian goddess, with the lustrous hair of a hourl. At last. feeling that he ought to say something, he remarked. as he gaz- ed at the marvellous View. “Very beautiful. isn't it?" She raised her eyes and let them wan- der from the glittering water to the glorious hills. v- .-,A1_x-‘ 1 this X: form small “011 but arked Stafford “No; just th‘ any. “Nearly “Why. everyb sâ€"â€"what shall 1t her Lâ€"worldly 1f :11 M ficult autifu CHAPTER rld hy ' fatheg 'gt’rl. wup has 1 asking Mr. Howard row," she said. "but [e think spent h uggling 28.11 the tl-x'é sunshade ovgr XVI silence forj some glanced at his Et ;" indeed interested the face apparel 3f circle senti- about they laugh rap- 1 m athe and and world at your feet. that you are only waiting to see which duchess you pre- fer to throw your handkerchief toâ€"â€"" Stafford colored. “What rot!â€"-I be: your pardon. \Iiss Falconer. Of course I know you are only chaffing me." “Isn't it trueâ€"about the duchess. I mean?" she asked. so coolly. so indir- ferently. that Stafford was compelled to take her seriously. .“Nary sword." he said, brightly; then. with a sudden gravity: ‘If you happen to hear such nonsense again, Miss Falconer. you can, if you care to, contradict it flatlyi I am not in the least likely to maxry a duchess; indeed, I wouldn’t marry the highest and great- est of them, if she'd have me. which is highly improbable." 1“Do you mean to say that you have no ambition. that you would marry for â€"love?” she asked, Stafford stopped rowing for a mo- ment and looked at her grimly. “W'hat on earth else should I marry for?" he asked. “Wouldn’t you?" Before she could answer. the steamer came abreast of them. and so close that the swell from its screw set the slight. narrow skiff dancing and plunging on a1 the Waves .uv n u v w... Maude uttered a faint cry and leant forward. and Stafford. fearing she was going to rise, stretched out his hand, and ~touching her knee. forced her into her seat again. and kept her there un- til the swell had subsided. The color flooded her face at the pressure of his strong hand, which “as like a steel Weight. and she caught her breath. Then, as he took his hand away and reâ€" sumed rowing. he said: I “I beg your pardon! I was afraid you were going to get upâ€"â€"â€"a girl I once had in a boat did so and we upset." "The boat is very small," she said. in a low voice, almost one of apology. "Oh‘ it's all right. so long as you sit still. and keep your head." he said. "It could ride over twice as big a swell as this .3. She looked at him' from under her lowered lids with a new expression in her face. a. faint tremor on her lips; and. as if she could not meet his eyes, she glanced back with an afiectation of interest at the steamer. As she did so. ‘solx‘nething dropped from it into the are. ,. ....A . .. u,“ A “What was that?" she said. "some« thing fell overboard," “Eh? A man. do you mean?" he askâ€" ed, stopping. "Oh. no: something small." ‘ “A parcel. somebody's lunch, per- haps." he said; and he rOWed on. She leant back. her eyes downcast: she still seemed to feel that strong lr» resistible pressure of his hand under which she had been unable to move “There ought to be an echo some- where here." he said, as they came opâ€" posite one of the hills. and he gave the Australian "coo-eel” in a clear. ringing voice, which the echo Sent back in a nfiisféal imitatjpn AIIUBIL‘II Allll‘wu-v-nu “How true it was!" she said!" and she opened her lips and sang a. bar or two of the “Elsie” song. Stafford listened to the echo, which was almost as soft and sweet as the girl‘s notes. __.. n, :,_‘-__v “A: A A . . A . . Lnanl" 'Rccout Discoveries Will Be Pic-tur- od in Lundnn. The London Society of Antiquarâ€" ies will soon hold at Burlington House an interesting exhibition of the papyrean and other fragments discovered by the Egypt Explora- tion Fund at. Antinoe, Oxyrhyn- chus, and other sites of ancient civi- lization on the upper reaches of the Nile, hundreds of miles south of Cairo, That human nature has not alt-er- ed much is shown by an order for an inquest on a slave who had fallen off the roof of a. liduse in his anxL 5....) . ...... ““What a. wonderful voice you hai‘e!" he said, almost unconsciously. “I never heard a. sweeter. What was that you sang 7‘ She glanced at him with an affecta- tion of languid amusement, but she was watching him intently. ‘That‘s not the best in the opera," She said. “I like this better? and she sang the “Swan” song: sang it so low that he leaned forward to catch the notes which flowed like silver from her soft. red lips: and when she finished it he drew a long breath and still leant for- ward looking at her: ‘ 7 If] - “Thank you. thank you!‘ with so much admiration :1 in his voice that. as if tn it. he said: “I'm fond ‘f I’m forgetting your ten. S back to the ‘Ferry Hotel some?" ,, “I'm in your hands," : languidly. He turned the boat and along the centre of the LaSuddenly she bent forward (To be continued T0 DISPLAY EGYPTIAN FINDS. off the roof of a hOuse in his anxx- ety to secure a, good View of some dancing girls; an announcement of some athletic sports; allusions to home racing; a. list of articles left with a, local pawnbi‘oker, and a curious indictment by a. wife of a. crossâ€"grained husband who refused to give her the household keys and bolted the door when she had gone out to church. ~ ern v151t have lettc visit the the him the dead an interestmg prototype in ordering certain civic oflficia vc evel‘ythlng ready for H very near Dovsn They ,rations Common 1n . on the occaslen ( member of Park: (‘uru llvr. Senator the time was t of Parliament protortypgr ip _a, u!" he said. and gratitude ~ apologise for f music. But Shall we pull tel‘ and get 3.1M she pulled bacl (e in silence 18C and he for the ncl’uding affecta- she was plied VIV take invention Just atented and sold by us 310,000 offered fog not complete list. 01: a. turn. you: Mom into monoy. Oh good your fortune 1- made. Ideas developed: Inventions pe tected. Manufacturers are constantly writing us for new ldeaa, Nioilogpaid for bg and deserlption of your Idea for Free Patent Office Search. 6': or. Send i . vnnuu“ ‘ end a e ‘ Patents Sold Dr No Charge The cause that underlies a. case of delirium must first be found, be- cause the treatment will vary in accordance with it. Few of us are called on to deal with delirium tre- men's or with the' delirium of star-l vation, or with that terrible form known as acute _ delirious mania, which generally ends in death. But the delirium that accompanies ty- phoid fever, ' pneumonia, or the acute infectious fevers of childhood is of common occurrence, and it is well to know that much can be done to prevent it, or to bring reâ€" ‘lief after it has begun. Sedative ~treatment, such as a warm bath .with cold applications to the head. will often ward off an attack; but when there is great m'ostration of strength, stimulation is usually ne- cessary. Delirium is always ex« hausting; see that the patient’s strength is kept up as far as pos- aihlp, And never leave a delirious sible .â€" And never WANTED NEW INVENTIONS F armer's Information Bureau Canada Cement Company Limited 5'2 Herald Building, Montreal ' ' ='\’7£5§'" _V"”‘ "1. '3‘ Concrete Tanks and Troughs wfi Never Rot or Leak are ju farmc that HE most practical tanks, whether for water or sewage, are bulk of concrete. They never rust, rot, dry out or lcak. They nevar need new hoops or paint. They last a fifetimc and seldom require repairing, whlch makes them the Cheapest tzmks that can be built. watering troughs and oth1 every farmer manv dollars W} Clean, Sanitary Watering Troughs sta at nuonn a. murmur a; 00.. DOpt. w x Paton: Benetton. 12m: 3143., omws, 0815A :r can 30 001: that nd other saniury patient alone, even for a minute: There are too many cases of sick people falling from open windows‘: We are all of us eager to maké the last years of those who are neai’ and dear to us as happy and com! fortable as possible. Old age, e've' when the health remains go brings certain obvious disabilities’. As the old person has to give one activity after another, days grow longer and more barrena especially for those who find it ficult to sleep more than four or fivé hours a, night. ’llhe ennui of the 33‘ is a pitifulbhing. But much can be done to alleviate it. Sometimes |the habit of waking i the middle of pthe night can b traced to the wrong sort, of supuei“ or to tea. or coffee or tobacco. 01 people do not like to give up th habits of a lifetime, and it is :1 Wise to change those habits sh 4 denly. But. they can be graduall modified. Occasionally it is an ex cellent, thing to give a. little stimu lant in hot wafier just before goin '1 to bed. In cases where (the streu - is seriously impaired, it should bd' given after t'he person is actually' in bed. Poor circulation is a ireJ quent cause of restless sleep. The?! can be helped by wearing warnil lamb’s wool socks or by sleeping} with warm water bottles. If the digestion is disturbed, esÂ¥ pecially at night, try the slow sip! ping of raglaLSS of waf‘m water with) plug UL a: slum: v1. "alum "awe- u--.- a little bicarbonate of sodadissolvll ed in it. Old people often d‘rlitl into the habit of taking no exercise of any kind ; that is a. mistake. Only those 'who take a. little exercise every day can keep in a. reasonable condition of health. If the weathe is bad, a few minutes’ gentle exev cise several times a. day will ‘hel: to maintain health and prevent that stiffening of the muscles. Some very old people are afraidI of an open window. To nag theml about' the necessity of ventilationl .usually does more harm than good, but as they move from one room to another during the day it is gener-l ally possible to give a thorough air-I ing to the room they ‘have just left. The clothing of old people should? be light, but warm, and always} loose. Daily, but not prolonged,l j massage is useful; it occupies the; \attention of the aged; it rests“ lthem, and at the same time gives' them gentle exerc15e.â€"Y0uth’ s‘ Companion. The Care of the Aged. rit Cf: kfrommcm. The n his stock is in- ter from a trough etc that will save 3V is the