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2; a '1“ (7!? en f’.‘ CHAPTER ).)~'I.â€"â€"(Cont'd.) "You meanâ€"" He placed his hand upon her arm, and she ventured one more look into , his eyes. He was frowning. She must not allow that. She must send him away in good spirits. That was the least she could do So she forced a smile. “All right," she promised; “if it will make you more comfortable." “It would worry me a lot if I thought you weren’t going to be happy.” “I'll go out every fair day. “That’s fine.” He took a card from his pocket and scribbled his banker’s address upon it. “If anything should come up where â€"where I can be of any use, you can always reach me through this ad- dress.” " She took the card. Even to the end he. was goodâ€"good and four-square. He was so good that her throat ached. She could not endure this very much U longer. He extended his hand. “S’lonfi and good luck," he siid. “Iâ€"I ope your golf will be better than you think." Then he said a peculiar thing. He seldom swore, rind seldom lost his head as completely as he did that sec- ond. But, looking her full in the eyes, he ejaculated below his breath:â€" “Damn golfl” The observation Was utterly irrelev- ant. Turning, he clicked his heels together like a soldier and went But. The door closed behind him. For a second her face was illumined as with a great joy. i In a sort of ecstasy, she repeated his words. “He said,” she whisperedu“he said, ‘Damn golf.’ ” Then she threw herself ‘ into a wicker chair and began to sob. “Oh!” she choked. .__.- CHAPTER XXII. Monte left Nice on the twentieth of July, to joinâ€"as Peter supposedâ€" Madame Covington in Paris. Monte himself, had been extremely ambigu- ous about his destination, being sure of only one fact: that he should not H If_if_n return inside of a year, if he did then.l Peter had asked for his address, and Monte had given him the same ad- dress that he gave Marjory. “I want to keep in touch with you," Peter said. ,Peter missed the man. On the ride with Marjory that he enjoyed the next day after Morte's departure, he talk- ed a great deal of him. “I’d like to have seen into his eyes,” .he told_her. “I kept feeling I’d find something there more than I got hold of in his voice and the grip of his hand.” “He has blue eyes,” she told him, “and they are clean as a child's." “They are a bit sad?” “Monte’s eyes sad?” she exclaimed. “What made you think so?” . “Perhaps because, from what he let drop the other night. I gathered he wasn’t altogether happy with Mrs. Covington . ” “He told you that?” “No; no directly,” he assured her. "He’s too loyal. I may be utterly mis- taken; only he was rather vague as to why she was not here with him.” “She was not with him,” Marjor answered slowly. “She was not wit him because she wasn't big enough to deserve him.” “Then it’s a fact there’s a tragedy in his life?” “Not in hisâ€"in hers," she answered passionately. “How can that be?" “Because she's the one who realizes the truth." “But she’s the one who went away." “Because of that. It's a miserable story, Peter.” “You knew her intimately?" “A great many years.” “I t ink Covington said he had known you a long time.” llYes-n I. “Then, knowing her and knowing idiiinz’wasn’t there anything you could o. “I did what I could," she answered wearily. “Perhaps that explains why he hur- ried back to her." “He hasn’t gone to her. He‘ll never go back to her. She deserted him, and nowâ€"he's going to make it per- manent." ' “A divorce?" “Yes, Peter," she answered, with a little shiver. “I know all that he mean she choked. “She loves him?" “With all her heart and soul." “And he doesn’t know it?” “Why, he wouldn’t believe ltâ€"if she told him. She can never let hi know it. She‘d deny it if he asks her. She loves to her,” gals." will be wasted. Willll FENCE 3.000 Rods, from 32 cents per rod. up. Shipped promptly from stock. Write for Price List. A. R. LUNDY 255 King St. West . Toronto (Confirm) him' enough for she sald- l (C gh/garl/ /’! / exclaimed Peter. Lord!" “‘There’s a mistake there somewhere." l “The mistake came first," she ran “Oh, I don't know why I’m tellâ€" you these things, except that it is a relief to tell them to some one." i “GOOd on. mg i “Tell e all about it," he encouragâ€" ,ed her. g“I knew there was something ! on your mind. ” 1 “Peter,” she said earnestly, “can lyou imagine a woman so selfish that , she wanted to marry just to escape the responsibilities of marriage ‘2” “It isn't possible,” he declared. Her checks were a vivid scarlet. Had he been able to see them, she could not have gpne on. “A, woman so selfish," she faltered «ahead, “that she preferred a makeâ€" believe husband to a real husband. he causeâ€"because so she thought she’ ,would be left free.” i “Free for what?" he demanded. , “To live.” ' . “When love and marriage and Ch‘ll- ldren are all there is to life?” he askâ€"‘ ed. 1 She caught her breath. “You see, she did not know that . then. She thought all those things, lcalled for the sacrifice of her free- dom." , I i “What freedom?" he demanded‘ , again. “It‘s when we’re alone that, we’re slayesâ€"slaves to ourselves. A“. ‘woman alone, a man alone, living to, lhimself aloneâ€"what is there for him ? {He can only go around and around in; a pitifully small circleâ€"a circle that grows smaller and smaller with every year. Between twenty and thirty a man can exhaust all there is in life for‘ himself alone. He has eaten and {slept and travelled and played until!~ his senses have become dull. Perhaps, , a woman lasts a little longer, but not 'much longer. Then they are locked away in themselves until they die.” “Peter!” she cried in terror. 1 “It’s only as We live in others that we live forever,” he ran on. “It is‘, i only i by toiling and sacrificing and suf-. fering and loving that we become imâ€", mortal. It is so we acquire real; freedom.” . 1 “Yes, Peter," she agreed, with a gasp. ‘ ’ . “Couldn’t you make her understand ' that 7" “'She does understand. That‘s the. “And Covington?” “It’s in him to understand; onlyâ€"J ' she lost the right to make him under-ll {stand Shchshe debased herself. So, I she must sacrifice herself to get cleani i again. She must make even greater ,sacrifices than any she cowed away i from. She must do this without any, ‘of the compensations that\comes to, those who have been honest and un-; afraid.” l, “What of him?” ' “He must never know. He’ll go, iround and round his little circle, and she must watch him.” “It's terrible,” he murmured. “It. will be terrible for' her to watch him do that. If you had told him how; she feltâ€"” “God forbid!" “Or if you had only told me, so that, I could have told himâ€"” She seized Peter's arm. , “You wouldn't have dared!” “I’d dare anything to save two peoâ€"g pie from such torment.” ’pity of it." I “Youâ€"you don’t think he will worry '2" E i “I think he is worrying a great ‘ deal.” . l . in. he will be quite himself again. has a great many thin s to do. has tennis and-and go f.” , She checked herself abruptly.‘ (“Damn golf!” Monte had said.) i “There's too much of a man in himi now to be satisfied with such t.hings,"j said Peter. “It's a pityâ€"~it’s a pity there are not two of you, Marjory." j ' “Of me?” ‘ i ‘ “He thinks a great deal of you. If, ‘he had met you before he met this otherâ€"” l l “What are you saying, Peter?" ' l "That you're the sort of woman {who could have called out in him an, honest love." There, beside Peter who could not see, Marjory bent low and buried her face in her hands. . “You're the sort of woman," he. lwent on, “who could have‘ roused the ’man in him that. has been waiting all this time for some one like you." ‘ “Only for the moment,” she broke He; He? 2 l How Peter was hurting her! How he was pinching her with hed-hot, irons! It hurt so much that she was: "glad. Here, at last, she was beginâ€" ning her sacrifice for Monte. So she made neither moan nor groan, nOr covered her ears, but took her punish-. lment like a man. i "Some one else must do all that," l "Yes," he answered. “01‘ his life» He needs to suffer» H needs to give up. This thing we,l call a tragedy may be the making of; him.” i “For some one else," she repeated: Peter was fumbling about for her, ha d. Suddenly she straightened herâ€"1 sol . I “It must be for some one else," hei said hearsayâ€"“because I want you for myself. In timeâ€"you must be mine. With the experience of those two before us, we mustn't make the l breath.” same mistake ourselves. going to tell you this until I had my, eyes back. But, heart 0' mine l‘ve‘ held in so long. Here in the dark one ., gets so much alone. And being alone is what kills." She was hiding her hand from him. “I can't find your hand," he whisper- ed, like a child lost in the dark. I Summoning all her stringth, she placed her hand within his. “It is cold!" he cried. Yet the day was warm. They were speeding through a sunlighted country of olive trees and flowers 1n bloomâ€"a warm world and tender. He drew her fingers to his lips and kissed them passionately. She suffer- e‘d it, closing her eyes against the‘ pain. “I’ve wanted you so all these months!“ he cried. “I shouldn’t have. let you go in the first place. shouldn't have let, you go." "No, Peter," she answered. “And now that I’ve found you again, you'll stay?" v He was lifting his face to hers# straining to see her. wered any way but would have been to turned face. “Iâ€"I‘ll try to stay," she faltered. “I'll make you!" he breathed. “I‘ll hold you tight, soul of mine. Would )youâ€"Would you kiss my eyes?“ Holding her breath, Marjory-lightly brushed each of his eyes With her li s. p“It’s like balm," he whispered. “I've dreamed at night of this." “Every day I'll do it," she said. “Onlyâ€"for a little whileâ€"you'll not ask for anything more, Peter?” _ “Not until some da they openâ€"in answer to that call,” lie ‘replied. “I didn't mean that, Peter,” she said hurriedly. “Only I’m so mixed up myself.” “It’s, so new to you," he nodded. as he pleaded strike that up- (A dozen years. Long I knew I was getting ready for Nowâ€"what do a few weeks matter’2”, “It may be months, Peter, before I’m quite steady.” “Even if it’s years,” he exclaimed,‘ “I've felt your lips.” “Only on your eyes," she cried in terror. I “Iâ€"1 wouldn’t dare to feel them exâ€" cept on my eyesâ€"for a little While. Even there they/take away my (To be continued.) ..._._-,_. Food Control Corner The farmers of Ca ada will very shortly have to undertake the harvest work with the help of green labor. In this connection they should remem- ber.that we are at war; They should adjust the work throughout the farm to suit the new conditions, and they should begin right in their own minds. The first adjustment necessary is to change the point of view from one of criticism, discouragement, and fault-finding with labor conditions, to that ~of the soldier and war worker, and realize that we are going through a crisis, the most serious the world has ever witnessedewithout any exag- geration whatsoever. There used to be talk among farm: ers derogatory to the city man and other inexperienced laborers who sometimes sought employment tem- porarily on the farm. Such talk is out of place now, with the Germans sixty miles from Paris and every available man in Britain and France fighting to save not only his own country but this country as well. Suc'h Canadian farmers forget that they themselves have been farmers all their lives and in war time they can't expect to secure men volunteerâ€" ing from the cities with an experience is an impossibility. But it is not im- possible that farm production of this, 3 country be increased, despite the‘ . shortage of experienced labor. That cuce of this country in the manufac- Luie of munitions. 1 ‘When the war started Canada wasi 3V aosolutely inexperienced, unskilled in,[ for the‘ and without the machinery manufacture of’munitions. But the‘ manufacturers got to work. The)" Iâ€"I wasn’t! I l To have ansâ€", To me it’s like a day foreseen a: before I saw you‘ you.‘ , infarmwo " .' .‘ “But soonâ€"â€"in a week or two-1 - rk equal to the” ow“ “mt this is true is proven by the cxperi-,l , 1,. l together by 1,000,000 acres. When in 1917 820,645 men were taken from in- dustrial organizations and placed in the Army the War Office replaced them with 804,000 women, and yet the production of guns was increased 80 per cent, air craft 250 per cent., while the shipping tonnage amounted to 1,165,000 tons, additional. The best recent illustration of what can be‘done in an emergency when only inexperienced men are available is that of the battle of Picardy when Ithe fifth army under General Gough was overwhelmed and out-numbered. It looked inevitable that the Huns would break through and capture the city of Amiens, which would have imeant the interruption of railway communication between Channel ports and Paris, cutting off the British from one of their chief bases of supplies. General Carey, however, saved the situation. lof men behind the lines, whether they were soldiers, cooks, camp followers, railway construction men, Chinese \laborers, medical service men, trans- port men, or whatever they were and organized them to fill the breach. With these men he succeeded in d0ing ,what the 5th Army failed to do~he Iheld the line! With no training in trench warfare, and no fighting ,organization before that time, Gen- iand this nondescript gathering of 'troops kept the Iluns back for i days and nights until re-enforcements arrived. General Carey did not say ,"I can’t use this untrained class of ‘men”, but he set to work without a monment's hesitation to make the best of them, and he succeeded in sav- ling the British army and its allies from a desperate crisis. Similarily, if the Canadian farmer i makes up his mind that these are war times and war measures are necesâ€" :Sal‘y there is abs‘olutely no doubt he can utilize to a tremendous advantage the man power and the woman power of the towns, where people are only too willing to go to his assistance, if they are organized to do so. He must not expect them to be experi- details of farm work as he does. has taken him a life-time to acquire ‘his information. Townspeople have spent their lives at different work, but with his knowledge of farming and ‘his intimate acquaintance with his farm and all its needs he should have the ability to organize inexperienced help and show each helper his or her particular job and ‘how‘best to ac- complish it. A few hours’ patient teaching in any one particular line of work will very soon enable a greenâ€" , horn to “Carry on", as they say in the Army. 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