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iremained silent; he know very well! .tliat he was face to face with a urcot‘ i w Icrisis. Of all things this was the. {most fatal which could have happeirl _ Pie He rememâ€" THE GOLDEN Or "The Adventures of Ledgard.” by the Author of “What He Cost Her." KEY *rwfâ€"Wxi: CHAPTER XI.â€"â€"Cont’d). “My dear friendl”, D21 Souza ex- claimed, depositing his silk hat upon the table, “it is a very excellent Joke of yours. You see, we. have entered into the spirit of itâ€"oh, yes, we have done so, indeed! We have taken a lit- tle drive before breakfast, but we have returned. You know, of course, that we would not dream of leavmg you in such a manner. Do you 'not think, my dear friend, that the Joke was carried now far enough? The. ladies are hungry; will you send word to the lodgeâ€"keeper that he may open the gate?” Trent helped himself to coffee, and leaned back in his chair, stirring it thoughtfully. ‘ I “You are right, Do Souza,” he said. “It is an excellent joke. The cream of it is, too, that I am in earnest; neither you nor any of those ladies whom I, sit at my table You do see out there will again.” “You are not in earnest! not mean itl” “I can assure you,” Trent replied grinning, “that I do!” , "But do you mean,” Da Souza splut~ tered, “that we are to go like this- to be turned outâ€"the laughingâ€"stock ' of your servants, after we have come back, too, all the way ?-oh, it is non~ sense! It's not to be endufied!" ' "You can go to the devil!” Trent answered coolly. “There is not one of you whom I care a fig to see againl You thought that I was ruined, and ylou Scudded like rats from a sinking 5 ip. jolly good thing too. All I have to say is now, be off, and the quicker the better!" . Then Da Souza cringed no danger, and there shot from his black eyes the venomous twinkle of the serpent whose fangs are out. He leaned over the tabla, and dropped his voice. “I speak,” he said, “for my wife, my daughter, and myself, and I assure you that we decline to go!” CHAPTER x11. ‘ Trent rose up with flashing eyes. -Da Souza shrank back from his out- stretched hands. The two men stood facing one another. Da Souza was afraid, but the ugly look~ of determin- Well, I found you out, and al iforchcad, and he remembered what ’the English doctor at Cape Coast 5 Castle had told him. So he was silent ‘ for a moment. wiping the perspiration away and struggling against the {car iwhich was turning the blood to ice in ,his veins. For Trent's face was not ,plcasant to look upon. 5 “Anything else?” i Da Souza pulled himself together. “'Yes,” he said; “what I have said is 1as nothing. It is scandalous, and it would make talk, but it is nothing. lThere is something else." 1 “Well 7" l sertei ." “It is a lie! I carried him on my Eliack for twenty hours with a pack of lyelling niggers behind. We were lost, {and I myself was nigh upon a dead Who would have cumbcred him- self with a corpse? Curse you’ and your vile hints, you mongrel, you hanger-on, you scurrilous beast! Out, and spread your stories, before my fin- gers get on your throat! Out!" Da Souza slunk away before the fire in Trent’s eyes, but he had no idea of going. He stood in safety near the door, and as he leaned forâ€" ward, speaking now in a hoarse whisa per, he reminded Trent momentarily of one of those hideous fetish gods in the sacred grove at Bekwando. “Your partner was no corpse when you left him,” he hissed out. “You were a fool and a bungler not. to make ,sure of it. The natives from Bekâ€" lwando found him, and carried him ‘bound to the King, and your English :explorer, Captain Francis, rescued shim. He’s alive now!” I Trent stood for a moment like a ,man turned to stone. Alive! Monty lalive! The impossibility of the thing ? came like a flash of, relief to him. Thr :man was surely on the threshold of (death when he had left him, and the iage of miracles was past. l .“You’re talking like a fool, Da Souza. Do you mean to take me in with an old woman's story like that?” “There’s no old woman's story about . man. - what I’ve told you," Da Souza snarlâ€" ed. “The man's alive and I can prove ‘it a dozen times over. You were a fool and a bungler.” l Trent thought of the night when he had crept back into the bush and had “You had a partner whom you dc-. led to him. Monty alive! iliered the old man’s passionate ,for life, for pleasure, to taste once (more, for however short a time, the joys of wealth. Monty alive, penni- (‘I‘Y 'less, half~witlcd, the servant of a few‘ lill-paid missionaries, toiling all for a living, perhaps fishing with the ‘,natives, or digging, a slave still, withâ€" ,rout hope or understanding, with the end of his days well in view! Surely it were better to risk all things, to have him back at any cost? Then a thought more terrible yet than rose up before him like a spectre, ,‘Lhere was a sudden catch at his heart- ‘strings, he was cold with fear. would she think of the man who do- (scrted his partner, an old man, while life was yet in him, and safety close lat hand? \Vas it possible that lCould ever escape the everlasting stiu‘ ma of cowardiceway, and before him {in great red letters he saw \vritleii in and all would point with bitter scorn, indubit~ lalile, overwhelming evidence against ,liim. He gasped for breath and walk- ‘cd restlessly up and down the room. Other thoughts came crowding in upon him. He was conscious of a new ele‘ .mcnt in himself. The last few years lbad left their mark upon him. With lthe handling of great sums of money and the acquisition of wealth had grown something of the financier’s \fever. He had become a power, solid~ ly and steadfastly he had hewn his way into a little circle whose fascina- liion had begun to tell in his blood. Was he to fall without a struggle .ment, to which she lstripped of his wealth, shunned as 'a man who was morally, if not in fact, a murderer, to be looked upon with neverâ€"ending scorn by the woman whose picture for years had been a religion to him, and whose appearance only a few hours ago had been the lmost inspiring thing which had enters fed into his life? He looked across the lawn into the pine grove with steadfast eyes and knitted brows, and Da Souza watched him, ghastly and ‘nervous. At least he must have time to decide! “If you send for him,“ Da Souza 'said slowly, “you will be absolutely ruined. It will be a triumph for those whom you have made jealous, who have measured their wits with yours and gone under. Oh! but the newsâ€" papers will enjoy it~that is very cer- tain. Our latest millionaire, his rise and fall! Cannot you see it in the placards? And for what? To give wealth to an old man long past the enjoyment of itLâ€"ay, imbecile already! You will not be a madman, Trent?” Trent winced perceptibly. Da Souza day, any‘ he‘ ‘tbe air that fatal clause in the agree; others ‘ .from amongst the high places, to be’ I i l l l Tea out-rivals and l l out~sells all others, Sh i solely through its delicious flavour l' at' and dowmright all-round goodness. Protect the Skunk. The skunk stands among the most .important animals that choose for 1 their diet insects harmful to the farmâ€" i er. It is the best-known enemy of army worm, including the common ‘ army worm, the wheat head army worm {and the fall army worm, all of which late destructive to small grains, corn ,and grasses, and cause heavy losses every year to farmers, according to the United States department of agriâ€" culture’s biologist. Two kinds of tobacco worms, which also attack tomato and potato plants are eaten by the skunk in large numâ€" bers. These worms change their diet ,from tobacco to tomatoes with such ’adaptabili‘ry that they have spread lover wide areas in the United States. The skunk’s eagerness for the worm is such that he will dig them out from the ground in great numbers in the late summer and destroy them. The white grub is also dug for by the skunk and consumed by him, and the strawberry growers generally reâ€" gard” this animal with favor, even though in its eager search for the grubsit may uproot the plant or eat a few berries. The skunk also eats many mature May beetles and June bugs which hatch from the white ati'on remained u on his white face.lfound no trace of Monty, and gradual- Trent felt dimly t at there was some-1 ly there rose up before him a lurid saw it and rejoiced. There was an- El‘Ubs. thing which must be eitplained be- tween them. There had been hints of this sort before from Da Souza. It was time the whole thing was cleared up. The lion was ready to throw aside the jackal. “I give you thirty seconds,” he said, “to clear out. If you haven’t come to yo'i’ir senses then, you’ll be sorry for it.- “Thirty seconds is not long enough," De Souza answered, “ me to tell you why I decline to go. Better listen to me quietly, my friend. It will be best for you. Afterwards you will admit it." “Go ahead,” Trent said. “I’m anx- ious to hear what you’ve got to say. Only look here! I'm a bit short-tem- pered this morning, and I shouldn’t advise you to play with your words." “This is no play at all,” Da Souza remarked, with a sneer. “I ask you to remember, my friend, our first meeting. Trent nodded. “Never likely to forget it,” he anâ€" swered. > “I came down from Elmina to deal with you," De. Souza continued. “I had made money trading-sin Ashanti for paint-oil and mahogany. I had money to investâ€"and you needed it. You had land, a concession to work gold~mines, and build a road to the coast. It was speculative, did business. Icame with you to Eng-iface twitched, and his finger-nailsiFence Sugar WhiCh tests Over land. I found more money." “You made your fortune," Trent said di‘ily. “I had to have the money “ worked with Trent for years without l {03' this sugar‘ The be” way to bill" and you ground a share out of me which is worth a quarter iof a million to you!” “Perhaps it is,” Do Souza answer- ed, perhaps it is not. worth nothing at all. stead of being a millionaire, you yourâ€" self are a swindler and an adven- turer!" “If you don’t speak out in half a moment," Trent said in a low tone, “I’ll twist the tongue out of your head.” “I am speaking out," Do Souza an- Perhaps it is swered. “It it an ugly thing to have to say, but you must control your» self.” The little black eyes were like the eyes of a snake. He was showing his teeth. He forgot to be afraid. “You had a partner,“ he said. “The concession was made out to him to‘ gather with yourself." 0 “He died," Trent answered sliort~ ly. “I took over the lot by arrange- ment." o “A very nice arrangement,“ Da Souza drawled with a devilish smile. lpossibility Da Souza’s story was true. The very thought of it worked like 'madness in his brains. When he spoke he strove hard to steady his (voice, and even to himself it sounded ilike the voice of one speaking a long 'way off. - } “Supposing that this were true,” he said, “what is he doing all this time? lWhy does he not come and claim his share?" Da Souza hesitated. He Would have ,liked to have invented another reason, 'but it was not safe. The truth was best. “He is halfâ€"witted, and has lost his memory. He is working now at one lof the Basle mission-places near l Attra.” l “And why have you not told me this ,before?" / Da Souza shrugged his shoulders. “It was not necessary," he said. “Our 1 interests were the same, it was better i for you not to know.” ’ “He remembers nothing, then 'l” Da Souza hesitated. “00m Sam,” {he said, “my halfâ€"brother, keeps an ‘eye on him. Sometimes he gets rests" ,less, he talks, but what matter? He has no money. Soon he must die. He is getting an old man!" “I shall send for him," Trent said slowly. “He shall have his share!” i It was the one fear which had kept iwere buried in the. flesh of his fat. :white hands. Side by side he had ‘being able to form any certain estiâ€" ‘mate of the man or his character. lMany a time he had asked himself I what Trent would do if he knewâ€"only ‘ the fear of his complete ignorance of} Perhaps, in-j the man had kept him silent all these: ’years. Now the crisis had Come! had spoken! It might mean ruin. “Send for. him?” Da Souza said. l“Why? ifor occasional fits of passion in which he raves at you. What would people say ?~»that you tried to kill him with Ebrandy, that the clause in the con- ;cession was a direct incentive for :to get rid of him, and you left him in f the bush only a few miles from Bucko- marl to be seized by the natives. Be- ‘sides, how can you pay him half? I lknow pretty well how you stand. On paper, beyond doubt you are a million- Jaire; but what. if all claims were sud- , denly presented against you to be paid in sovereigns? I icll you this, my 'friend, Mr. Scarlett Trent, and I am a man of experience and I know. To- ,day in the City it is true that you ;could raise a million pounds in cash. He His memory has gone~save? you . other awkward silence. Trent lit a ‘cigar and ufi’ed furiously at it. “I will t ink it over, at least,” he said in a low tone. “Bring back your wife and daughter, and leave me alone for a while.” "‘I knew,” Da Souza murmured, “'“that my friend would be reasonable.” “And the young ladies ?” “Send them toâ€"â€"â€"" “I will send them back to where they came from," Da Souza interrupted blandly. (To be continued.) +- . OFFERS SUGGESTIONS FOR FRUIT PRESERVING. In an advice circulated throughout Canada, the Fruit Branch Dept. at Ottawa suggests as being best for preserving purposes, certain brands of peaches: St. Johns, Elbertas, Craw- fords and Smocks, and for plums Bradshaws, Gages, Lombards, Reine Claude. The advice is timely and to it may be added that many of the most sucâ€" cessful makers of preserves have for years insisted on securing from their , grocers the St. Lawrence Extra Gran- ;ulated Sugar (Pure Cane). } It is well known that the slightest Eorganic impurity in sugar will start but We Do Scuza silent. The muscles of his l fermentation in the jam; and St- LaW' 90 V5 .pure has never failed the housewife. ,Grocers' everywhere can fill orders it is in the original refinery sealed [packages 2 or 5 lbs. cartons, 10, 20, 325, and 100 lbs. bags. o.â€"_.____ BURIED TREASURE IS SAFE. [Valuables Worth $250,000 Escaped 1 Huns’ Thieving. A refugee Belgian professor, who buried his entire fortune consisting of $250,000 worth of stocks bonds, .jcwcls, gold. and plate, in his garden at Malines, before he fled from that city, has just roccived word from the i United States Consul at Malines that his property is safe and has been taken under the guardianship of the United States Government. The house was bombarded and later burii~ L‘l'l to the ground, but the buried tron- sure in the garden was not disturbed“ Some time after he reached London the professor went to the American. I‘Zmbassy. gave them a detailed plan of his house and garden, and told THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT- Skunks also destroy the hop grub, grasshoppers, cut-worms, crickets, Sphinx moths, sweet potato beetles, The animal is especially useful in destroying the rats and mice that commonly infest farm buildings. If a skunk takes up his residence abundant, it will remain there if not disturbed until practically all of the rodents are destroyed. So useful an animal should be fully protected. With insects increasing and gardener is put to great expense and labor in fightingfithem, and any of the soil to fight their insect battles lMany farmers are find, to obtain for the skin a price that seems high, but compared with the good it does. Protect Stock From Flies. Relief from attacks by flies may be lbrought to live stock on the farm by the use of sprays. spray is suggested by F. L. Washburn, lof agriculture. Three parts of fish oil and one part ,keroseue. The spraying is best done 'with a knapsack sprayer, and it takes ,only twO or three minutes to spray a Colorado potato bbeetles, field mice' . and rats. . l near premises where these rats are with wonderful rapidity, the farmer, animal that will hélp the cultivators. ,should be encouraged and protected. shortsighted ‘ [enough to kill every skunk they can}: is nothing as i The following lentomologist of the Minnesota college! ’steer or horse. The spray appears to fkecp off all flies for two days. , The Split Log Drag. l The split log drag has contributed lmore toward the economic mainten- .ance of public highways than any {implement of modern usage. It does ,V not require special acts of the legis- \ lature, bond issues or expensive educaâ€" ltional campaigns, to make it avail- able as usually proceeds,construction work. A drag can be built or purâ€" .chased for $20 and easily operated by {anyone who_can drive a team. l Pruning Dont’s. Don‘t prune with an ax. Don‘t cut off the lower limbs. Don't cut oil the short spurs. Don‘t leave stubs. Don’t use dull tools. .0 FOREIGN SCIENCE NOVELTIES. Subject to government inspection 16,000 New Zealand farmers keep ‘ bees. i In some portions of Germany alcoâ€" hol is being made from chicory root, which grows there very freely. , At the present rate of consumption, .‘ Great Britain’s mines are estimated to hold enough coal to last about 175 ,years. In an English boxmaking machine i the nails( driven at an angle through ‘two boards at once, are turned back .to forln a hook in the second board. The engine of a motor driven street sprinkler in England alsois' used to operate one pump to fill its tank and another to help scatter the water. A museum of the horse, presenting la complete history of that animal from the earliest known period to the present, has been established in Paris. Though 2,000 miles from a railroad, l Yakutsk, in the extreme north of Asia, maintains an electric light plant ‘ the year around. That there is more food value in one 'acre of beets than in four of wheat is the contention of German agricul- tural scientists. French scientists have demonstrated . that the vapors of iodine and bromine pass through thin glass, even at or- dinary temperatures. Success has attended experiments in England with spinning a textile fibre from a form of sea weed'that grows plentifully in Australia. A French engineer has invented a sand box for locomotives in which a stream of water carries the sand to ’the rails with a minimum waste. ..‘X'Mâ€" -/_... Why She Was There. ,' Judge (of divorce court)~Aren’t you attached to your husband? ‘ Plaintiffâ€"Certainly. I came 1 to be detached. here ‘ i ‘v 01 pound: 41m cairn every year ‘V'W'm’fjggg; Ell -. Edwardsburg ‘€rown Ersnd’florn foil/rug} is so economical and so good. ll‘.".l it is little wonder that millions “He is old and weak. You were with’ but let me whisper a word. one little from» firmedâ€"film cliiLirnz‘s with ‘CI'orwz Brand" Corn Syrup and the children‘s craving for swccis will be cw dupletcly satisfied. Ilrunl and ‘L‘runvz firm/(1" form a perfectly lmlaiiCul foodâ€"rich in ilie chum-ins ilm go to build up sturdy, litaltliy cliildrcii. /’:‘../="‘-° a; “A”? ’ in Illi‘ lie-mics oi Canada. i.ii‘oriI<-- is him up at Bekwando where there aref no white men~no one to watch you] You gave him brandy to drinkâ€"you watch the fever come, and you writel on the concession if one should die all oes to the survivor. And you gavel im brandy in the bush where the: fever is, and-behold you return? alone! When people know this theyl will say, 'Oh, yes, it is the way mil~l lionaires are made.‘ ” i He stopped, out of breath. for the veins ware standing out upon his) word. and you would be hard pressed to raise a thousand. It is true there is the Syndicate. that great scheme of yours yesterday from which you were so careful to exclude mc~yuu are to get great monies from them in cash. Bali! don't you see that Monty‘s exâ€" istence breaks up that Syndicath smashes it into tiny atoms. for you have sold what was not yours to sell. and they do not pay for that, eh‘.‘ They call it fraud!“ He paused, out of breath, and Trent then} where his treasure was )llllrltl). The search was successfully carried! ‘ out by the American Consul at Ma- liitcs, and the property is now rcezisa lcl‘ml in his name, pending its release , from German trustccsliip when the v.11 r is Liv-31‘. 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