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The “Aul'd Hoose” lay apparently untenanted, save for a pew of reek which rose straight up into the wind- iess air. It was so still that when Mrs. gouachar’s Frahma rooster Erowed suailenly in the yard it brought a trickle of snow sliding down the roof of the stable. Only a low growling Sough very far away could be heard, which was the sea restlessly at the foot of Baxter’s Heuchs. Punctually at twelve the door of the New House opened, and a little wreath of snow with a wavy crest, which had been making 8. Cambridge blue shadow upon itseif, collapsed inâ€" Wards on the mat. Walter Mac Walter held the door open for his wife to pass. And Lilias came out, looking slender and even girlish in her pl'ain black dress outâ€"lines against the spotless snow. The pair turned into the high road together, watched, however, from every window of the inn. The “Auld Ho gie, who did not seem to havel unyth ng to do on Christmas morning, ) wandered to and fro near the windows f of the New House. He was prepared to assert that he was pruning the: rosebushes, that is, if any one had, asked him what he was finding to do‘ there. But no one took any particiuari not}?! of. Reggie- 1 sweep up the scattered ash-es, that it was thought Mt to leave everything alone fqr thg prgjsent. ‘ The morning was Christmas mornâ€" . "Will ye be pleased to look at this, ing‘ over all the World. With the dawn $113. before ye gang oot o’ my yaird. the air had grown keen. The soft It IS the custom of the hoose!” breath of the cyclone had quite passed. “What is this?" The words came Glittering frost had fallen with the gruffly as Walter Mac Waiter tied dropping of the wind upon the hardy 8 new knot upon his Whipl'aSh- hollies and stunted laurels around The account. Sil‘y if your honOr Baxter’s Folly. The snow had not P1985651" drifted deeply, and especially on 3 Walter Mac Walter erected his slope so wind_swept as that of Bax- head With a certain gesture of sur- ter’s Ness it was nowhere more than PFiSEd contempt- a crust; while save for a wreath or “I am not a triCRStel‘." he said. Very two behind dykes, the edge of the WOW! and high- great clifls which stand out into the “It is a éustom 0’ the hoose. sir." German ocean an the way to Sand- repeated Mistress Conachar, fearless haven were blown wholly dear, Iand implacable where money‘was con- ;iféjiagltwelgg‘of the clock1 or;1 as finelgltzed- dBaEbie hMaC Gregor said a ece “Sei’” ay‘ as‘ever ig fed up WM 5 t at s e was “fair feared the white face -of this northern land to hejir her mistress Speakin' that gate before life or sound appeared in the to 11.1151. and the muckle black hyeny molmioccupéed byBWal‘tfr Mic Xvilgerigofikirfi Ia}: (if he wald hade‘ etten her. an is wi e. rea ast 21 en ,1 a only ja ouse ." flayed at me, but 3}? Eleven thesishesj "I sign going lift a little drive with not n touc e , For abbie ~1hy Wi e," sai ac Walter. “To look Mac Gregor, the maidâ€"of.all-work, had i at_the View from the cliffs. I am not‘ given so terrifying an account of theigom to run away!" daEk-facegl manhwhtzi sat; at the table-lh ” 3, b1}? VI dinéia hken but your en crum ing t e “ otte” of his pipe: Orse mic t." sai t e stout-hearted upon the tablecloth and among thezlandlady, still extending the silver very 'dishes, and had growled at hersalveL. to let} the fire alone for a meddAeâ€"l Babbie remarked that. a _re_esle- some fool when she went near tOXreesle ran up her back like pittin' a mfiie light came clearer. The day broke. It was Lilias Mac Walter’s Christmas morning And iilias lay thus hour after hour, staring at the blank black oblong of the door through which her husband had disappeared, her lips 'and throat not only parched but desiccated, her brain almost paralyzed, her soul under the influence of such deadly fear that she could not even pray the prayer so familiar to herâ€"the eternal appeal of the sufferer to Him who, sitting at the helm of the Universe, yet permits the suffering to continue. “How long, 0 Lord, how long?" long. giroâ€"n}; terrible flxity of his gaze from that of the woman, Wal- ter Mac Walter backed to the door and so Adjsgppgarqd. _ _ m And still the men at the window watched with their hands tense upon the chill wood of the window frame. The Classical Master put his hand be- hind him to feel his revolver easy in his hip-pocket: But withqgt 3. word: Vi‘IWQIEewr!” she gasped, npt yet fully awaked from sleep. “Winter!” And could Asaywnio more. .Lilias Mac Walter turned over at the sound, and opened her e es upon the startlmg apparition of t anger of her husband. “Presently Lillas moved in her sleep; and moaned restlessly. The watcher: by the bedside drew back a little inbol the shadow of the' curtain. Then, as! She became still, he again approached“ and, swiftly stooping, glided his hand. under the pillow. He brought out in his hand a with- ered spray of heather which once had been white. At the sight of it a kind of fury took possession of him. He stamped his stockinged foot on the threadbare carpet, and gnashed his teeth as he tore the dried fibres apart and scattered the dust-like leaf meal “P9Qrthe floor. But how it WES not to be so CHAPTER LII.â€"(Cont’d.) ISSUE NO. 49.25 the window BY 8. I. OBOCKETT. She did not reply, but gave him a gloved hand. and they went up the field without a word. A curious kind of amazed apathy had come over her. it was_ the first titâ€"ne he E'ad spdlééâ€"ri her Chrlstian name in kindness for ten years. “This way, Lilias," he said, reach- inghis wife a hand to help her over a great; wreath of snow which undu- lated behind the dyke and rose into a final swirl that pushed a white nose a yard or invqthrough the gate itself. BAXTER’S HEUCHS. During their short drive to the heights of Baxter’s Heuchs, Walter Mac Walter talked to his wife ashe had done during the first months of their married life. He even pointed out places of interest familiar to him from boyhood. There was Sandhaven itself, glittering in the morning light, a water-color in white and red as the wet tiles took the sun and the warmth beneath melted the thin snow. The smoke was blowing blue and gossamer fine frog it. He showed her the fish» ing boats bending their sails to fare forth from the harbor mouth, and the distant lighthouse, a pillar of cloud by day, of fire by night, rising from the sea as the low sun of winter shone down on the myriad glasses of its crystal crown. “Now we will go across the fields to the finest view of all! We have not had a' holiday like this for a long time!” he said, cheerfully, leaping down and tying the reins to a stone gate-post. ' Thbugh the mere had scarcely come half a mile, he slung the bag of cats over her nose, and left her to feed at the entering in of the bare field which divides the high road to Sand- haven from the yet more bald and wingsxvept sliff-edge. “I’ll gie him ‘Spread the cloth and be done’! Na, naâ€"the black-aâ€"vised gorilla doesna breathe that can say the like 0’ that to Elspeth Conachar, though her Jeems, puir man, is dead and in his restin’ grave thae fourteen years come Martinmas!” “For‘the present, sir, i thank you!" replied the landlady, with strictly non- conlmital, cprtsey; Walter Mac Walter pulled a thick wad of bank notes out of his pocket. He selected a couple, throwing them to Mrs. Conachar with scorn, and crying, “There, womari, will that con- tent you?” he helped his wife into the dogcgrt. Babbie remarked that a “reesleâ€" reesle ran up her back like pittin' a clean sark on” at her mistress’ words. She “couldna describe it itherwise, but she kenned it was a wamin’!” horse inicht!" said the stout-hea'rted landlady, still extending the silver saiver. “I am going for a little drive with my wife,” said Mac Waiter. “To look at the View from the clifis. I am not goin to run away!” “ a, but dippa_ ken bu_t your _ Walter Mac Walter erected his head with a certain gesture of sur- priged contempt. r But this was too much for one of the watching contingent behind the blinds of Baxter's Inn. Mrs. Con- achar came out at the back door, a silver pl'atter in her hand and a paper foidggnupon it. 7 “Will ‘ye be pleased to look at this sir, before ye gang oot o’ my yaird It is the custom of the hoose!” “Get in!" The order to his wife came lilgg a. military conqmgnd. The dogcart was sheltered in the wide bare house which in its time had held many a snowed-up coach with His Majesty’s royal red and gold on the panels. Walter Mac Walter drew it out by the shafts, and had the whole turnout ready as quickly and as neatly as any professional yardâ€" man. ‘And striding from door to door round the yard he soon found the black mare, and began with the strong assured fingers of an expert to har- ness her. WEffiivinggiéVés‘hr out of sight or hearing. fl “’17 the beast in myself!” he said: vernal: r r‘firiereâ€"feliow," he shouted at the entrance of the yard, “where is that drunken scoundrel of an ostler?" But she shrank from the touch of his fingers and struggled on, sinking to the knees at every step. “This will never do,” he said; “turn back and we will get the mare and trap." They had not proceeded far, how- ever. When the snow grew deepepxn the hollows, and the progress of Llhas became so painful that her l}us.banyd, who strode on before, waxed 1rntable and impatient. “jihis Way?" said Walter Mac Wal- ter, cheerfully. “Canhot you go faster than that?" he_grov-{Zed.> “Here, take_my hayd!” Home" stood blank and silent, with- out apparent observer. Only a black lump sped seaward behind a dykeback where the snow was lying thickest. It consisted of the hunched shoulders of Hoggie Haugh. And his wife turned obediently at his word. CHAPTER LIII While accompanying Lord Loi'at Chairman of the Commission, on a One of the most noteworthy papers presented before the forestry section of the British Association was given by Lord Lovat, Chairman of the Bri- ‘tish Forestry Commission, describing the progress in post-war forestry de- velopment in the British Isles, and the Commission's plans for the future. The Commission is conducting a very extensive afforestation program and beginning this fall 39,000,000 trees will be planted in Great Britain. By the spring these trees will occupy 22,000 acres of what would otherwise be chiefly waste land. Since it began its work five years ago the Commission has planted 52,500 acres and assisted local authorities and private owners to plant another 50,000 acres, resulting in 184,000,000 new trees in England, Wales, and Scotland. The program spread over ten years provides for the planting of 250,000 acres with 450,000,. 000 trees. Great Britain Looks to Dominion for Empire Afforestation Work in Old Country. The rapidity with which European,tour of inspection, Mr. countries are realizing that Canada's ? thousands of acres of r forest resources are destined to play ered with Douglas fir a1 an increasing-part in supplying world [grown from Canadian needs, and the growing attention be-ifor the British Goverr ing' focused on our timber supplies, Forest Service of the marketing facilities, methods of com the Interior. servation, and appalling fire losses As interesting perha] were brought out at 1‘60th forestry tations themselves i conferences held in France and Great ment of the “forest hon Britain. The mother country, par- | the British Forestry C0 ticularly, looks to Canada as the great intimate correlation 01 storehouse of Empire timber. The Bri- agriculture is recognize tish Association for the Advancement min, and in the extensi‘ of Science, one of the largest and projects an opportunity most authoritative organizations of tabhshing permanent r scientists in the world, stressed for- estry problems at its 1926 meeting at Sowthampton, England. The special forestry section, which was founded at last years’ meeting of the Associa- tion in Toronto, Canada, was particu- larly active and showed promise of developing, in the near future, into one of the strongest constituents of the Association. The Department of the Interior, Canada, was represented at the meetings of this section by Mr. D. Roy Cameron, Assistant Director of Forestry, who during the past sea- son spent some weeks in Europe mak- ing a study of forest conditions and methods of conservation. ties dependent on boil agriculture for their 11‘ cordingly, the Forestry acquire agricultural la the plantations and 19381 terms. The lessees a not less than 150 days w from the Commission 31 mainder of the year to agricultural pursuits. I] only is the farmer sun cash income to supple duction of his farm, bu sion also secures a re terested labor supply. The number of holdin determined by the ifibOl The edge of the cliff was thrown up in a sort of bluff like the crest of a breaking wave. A little wind-worn gallery ran beneath, aided in the task of keeping its position by the original backward thrust of the strata. They went on, Lilias with her fine boots growing wet and discomfort- able as the sharp slats cut them and the snow sifted in. Aterwards it ap- peared to her strange that at the mo- ment her chief thought was a feeling of regret that she had not put on a strgngelfi pair. 7 “Four hundred feet," he Said, with a kind of mounting exultation, “four hundred feetâ€"and then!" He listened in vain. Néfisfiplévshucame up, nor any sound save the low boom- ingvfrom the caverns under. There was a noise near him, a stone dislodged itself from a crevice and trickled slowly down the bald grey slope. Then with a quickening leap it sped over the utmost clifl' edge and fellâ€"fellâ€"fellâ€"far out of sight and hearing into the deep gulf below. Walter Mac Walter held up his left ha_n_d 3nd inclined his ear to listen. "Nonsense," he cried, hilariously, Without, however, looking at her. “It is a glorious morning, and I am going to show you all the places I knew as a boy. I remember walking here with " He broke ofl’ short. "‘Give me your hand," he said, abruptly, with a quick change of voice. And he seized her fingers in a grip like a vice. ting Lillas shrank back a little, as if unwilling to go any nearer the verge. “I am tired," she said; “I think I quld like to g9 back to the inn." “Yes, the view is fine," said her husband, looking out underneath his hand, “but I know a spot where you can See the mouth of the Guillemots' Cave, with the sea running straight into it. I have not seen it for twenty years. But I think I can find the place. It should be just by that little pinngcle on which the raven is sit- Lilias shivered a little. ‘She put the shawl, which she carried across her arm, about her shoulders. She felt somehow that the sea looked chilly. There was haze to seaward, like the moonlight which dwells in a large opal when you hold it so that the prismatic colors are not seen. The sea was blue and calm beneath, the Waves the merest‘ dancing dimplings. But an intermittent heave and growl told that a swell was running far into the caves which undermined the huge headland of Baxter’s Heuchs. She even smiled to think how Kittie calf}! what shoplq happqn to her They reached the highest part of Baxter’s Heuchs, from which the cliff began to drop, first in a little short sIope of bare grey turfage to the brink, and then in a four hundred foot fall}, sheer down upon the myriad flashing facets of the restless winter sea. ' flu Yorun'u "annual [or Inc-tram“. II IMHIHON with Bellemo and Allled Manna". New York Clty. oflm I three yanrl‘ Cour" fl Tnlnlnu lo young women. having (h: rtlulral education. and desirous o! bawmlnl nuruu. 7m- Haupltu rm ndontod 1h. «lynx. hour IyltanL Thu nunlll fecal" unllorml of flu Bnhwl. A monthly lllownnuo Ind (ruollng nutmeg lo Ind from New York. Far 1mm: Informaflan ugly to flu *Superlnlamcnz. 'n CANADA IS TIMBER STGREEOUSE NURSES 0 she This forest holdings policy is con- sidered by authorities to be one of the soundesvt and most feasible “back-to- the-land” movements yet advanced in the British Isles. The supplementing of farm work with forestry labor, paid in cash, enables the holder to bring under agriculture, lands formerly too poor to support a family in Great Bri- tain. The basis of the whole is the treatment of the forest as a crop to be handled in perpetuity, rather than 'as a mine to be exploited and abandoned. The number of holdings is of course determined by the labor requirements of the plantation project. The rate of afiores-tation is so adjusted that plant- ing will continue year by year until such time as the earliest plantations will produce marketable thinnings. The work required to thin these areas will occupy the time of the men no longer needed for planting. Thinning operations are in turn adjusted to last‘iintil the timber on older areas reaches maturity and the final crop can be harvested. Following harvest- ing each area will again be planted. As interesting perhaps as the plan- tations themselves is the develop- ment of the “forest holidays" policy of the British Forestry Commission. The intimate correlation of forestry and agriculture is recognized in Great Bri- tain, and in the extensive afforestation projects an opportunity is seen for es- tablishing permanent rural communi- ties dependent on both forestry and' agriculture for their livelihood. Ac- cordingly, the Forestry Commissioners acquire agricultural lands adjoining the plantations and lease them on easy terms. The lessees are guaranteed not less than 150 days work per annum from the Commission and have the re- mainder of the year to attend to, their agricultural pursuits. In this way, not only is the farmer sure of a steady cash income to supplement the pro- duction of his farm, but the Commis- sion also secures a reliable and in- terested labor supply. grown from Canadian seed collected for the British Government by the Fores-t Service of the Department of the Interior. tour of inspection, Mr. Cameron saw thousands of acres of plantations/cov- ef‘ed with Douglas fir and Sitko spruce 9 Parks Wild Animals Losing ‘i Fear of Man. Each succeeding year‘s round of r tourists bring new expressions of won- {derment and surprise at the rapidity 'with which the wild animals in the Canadian National parks are losing their fear of man. Parks’ officials, Awho administer wild life protective measures. have watched this condition idevelop and to them it was to be ex- pected. but to the tourist new to the parks the holding up of one's can- on ‘3 park highway by a’ band of friendly Rocky Mo'unain Sheep is a novel ex- perience. “To thine own self be true and it must follow, as night the day, thou cans’t be false to any man.” Studies in England continued over a period of 26 years show that the sea deposits an average of 36.1 pounds of salt per acre on the land. Minard's Llnlment for stiff muscles Visitors 'to Rocky Mountains park in Alberta are always. sure to have close- up views of mountain sheep and other wild animals at difl’erent points on the highways, and bears are frequent visitors to the outskirts of most of the towns in the parks. In the past year or two elk, among the most wary of animals, have been reported to have made their appearance on the golf links at Banff while play was in pro- gress. In the early part of October of this year about fifteen elk trotted out on the fairway of the 13th hole, on their way from the Bow river to the upland forests. These exhibitions of animal friendliness are not confined to Rocky Mountains park. In Jasper park, on the occasion of SirxDouglas Haig‘s visit in July of this year, two young black bears interrupted the Field Marshall’s game by their appear- ance on the links. The growth in numbers of wild ani- mals In the parks and the ease with which they may be encountered and photographed is year by year becom- ing a greater attraction to tourists. 0n Walter Mac Walter had been hold- ing his wife by the arm as they went up the last steep ascent. Now they paused on the very edge. The world seemed suddenly to ow hollow beâ€" neath them. And the eart of Liliesâ€" nay,‘ all her body seemed hol-low also. Her instinct was to clutch the arm of her companipn, and only gn intens'e ersonal loathing kept her from yield- ng to it. ‘Come here and I will show you the mouth of the Guil‘lemots’ Cave!" he cried, m an excited tone. He almost dragged Lilias to a lower jutting pinnacle. “See,” he said, ointing downwards into the gulf with his finger, “they are flying out and in like spiritsâ€"like ghosts of the dead, while the sea calls beneath. Four hundred feet! Lookâ€"look! They are beckvn'ing us!” Salt From Sea on Land. (To be concluded.) Empire Supplyâ€" Submarine cities exist, or arcs re- puted to exist. in other parts of the world. The Dutch will tell you that several ruined towns are sunk at the bottom of the Zuldé‘? Zee. and the legendary city of Vineta is said to lie of? the coast of llolsteini 0n quiet days, so the fléluirmen of the region will assure you. the toiling of the bells in lhe spires of its sunken churches The Emerald 1510 can 2 its submarine towns. 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