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a heavy load for the last few years,
Margaret Anne, and it is no wonder
that you are a bit unstrung. We are

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I do wish you could haye brought

them with you.” s ¢
“I am not going to the office except
in the mornings while you are here,”
continued» Maudie after I had deliver
ed all sorts of messages from the chil-
dren and told of their latest escapades
and clevernesses. “Every afternoon
we are going somewhere or having
company, and every evening too.
You'll never get to bed early, so you
must not think of getting up in the
morning before ten o’clock—oh, don’t
look so seandalized, Mother and I have
it all planned. This is a holiday,
Mrs. Aylwin, don’t forget that.”

It was a holiday, there was no doubt
about that. Mr, and Mrs. Jones wel-
comed me as if I had been a long-lost
daughter and presented me, figurative-
ly speaking, with the house and all it
contained. The first night B.F. came,
over for dinner and I was so glad to
see the old dear that I almost wept
over him. He was a trifle plumper
and-a trifle more old-maidish than
when I went away, but as kind as
ever, and so glad, bless his good
heart, to hear how greatly Murray had
improved.

That was the one night during my
visit that Maudie and I were in bed
before twelve. And at that we talk-
ed half the night, for I shared
Maudie’s room as I used to do when
we were allowed to spend the night to-

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be made to fit quite satisfactorily. In
the office I found the older men aged —
more than time alone would account —
for, and many of the girls were mar-
ried, their places haying been taken
in most cases by men who I did no
know. And each personJ met seem-
ed to carry a burden—even the Mid-
dieton girls and Kathleen Manner:
were restless and dissatisfied, hating
private nursing, and full of wild plans —
to go to China or Australia or some —
other green field where, they heard, —
it wasn’t so deadly dull as in Canada.

I was learning my lesson and I folie
that the days could not pass quickly
enough to take me back to Herring:

and Maudie and I sat in front of the
fire and talked and talked and talked.
Monday, Thanksgiving Day, we went
to church in the morning, had the
family dinner at noon, ran over to see
the Robertsons again during the after-
noon and then went to the Walker in
the evening.

There is a fair sample of the way in
which my time was spent. Teas and
luncheons and dinners kept me as busy
as a debutante, busier socially than I
had ever been in my young days. And
I enjoyed it all. I enjoyed too the
morning I spent with Maudie, the visit
to our old office, and the almost daily

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Robertsons were failing very quickly,
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OPENING
DOORS

— BY —
ELINOR MARSDEN ELIOT
Author of “My Canada,” and Other
Stories

fairly serene. family. She would see to the filling | ing in their old quiet way, a widowed rf

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Nothing hurt so much as the knowl-| of the rest. And, like the little red| daughter having come to keep house} een Wwinnipee aS eae the
edge that I was not fully in accord] hen, she did. for them, and were sermon and bene- streets looking for work when there

diction in one to this scurrying, worry-| was no work to be found, and. there
ing age. Like tired, happy children| ya; q scarcely-hidden undercurrent
they were ready to rest, caring little) o5¢ fear and distrust very different
how or when it came so long as they | from anything I had ever seen before,
might be together. I found them) tne pest possible material for agita-
living much in the past, Granpy, 1| tors to work upon. ft
know, confused Nicolas and me, and (To be continued) “i
she often spoke to me as if I were _
Mother.

with Murray. I did like Herrington’s| The first afternoon we went out to
Hope, and so long as I could look for-| Deer Lodge to see Leslie Ormond, then
ward to something different I really came back and had a cup of tea with
enjoyed our daily life. But, to make, the‘Robertsons. The next day, Sun-
a clean breast of it, I did not feel that} day, we went to church in the morn-
I wanted to stay there all my life, es-jing, and in the afternoon, while
pecially if crop failures were to be| Maudie went to the hospital, B.F. took
common. Murray, on the other hand,| Teddy and me down to Kildonan Cem-
had quite obviously found his voca-| etery, where Mother and Father were
tion, a yocation that he would have| buried. Jessie Middleton and Kath-| Even the young people had changed.) The difference between a planet and
given up without complaint at my re-} leen Manners, who had come home| Reg Jones had grown into a steady,)a star is this: A star shines by its
quest, but how could I ask him to go] from overseas after I left the city,| rather guiet young man, hobbling | light. Janet by light reflect 1
(Continued) back to the city when he was so well| came for dinner and instead of going back and forth to the Medical College | OW ght, a planet by light reflected
an an artificial leg that could neyer | by another body. oS

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Murray insisted that I should not
recall my promise to visit Maudie for
Thanksgiving.

“It will cost very little,” he said,
“and you haye not had a day off since
I came home—it will do you a world
of good. °

“Neither haye you had a holiday,”
I pointed out.

Whereupon Murray declared that
every day was a holiday to him and
that he could not go to Winnipeg, if
he were provided with a private car
for the journey and a suite at the Fort
Garry, I hope he may be forgiven!

It ended, as it usually does, in Mur-
ray having his own way, but I stipu-
lated that in return he should accept
Jack Mowbray’s invitation to go moose
hunting with him when the. season
opened.

I would not admit it, but I agreed
with- Murray that the change would
do me good—and perhaps make me a
better companion for the long winter
dread. I hate to

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pressing pain on the top of my head,

vain in the nape of my neck, and when

i stooped over I could not get up with-
out help, because of pain in my back.
I did not sleep well and was nervous
at the least noise, I keep house, but I
was such awreck that I could not sweep
the floor nor wash the dishes without ly-
ing down afterwards. A friend living
near me told me what Lydia E. Pink-
ham’sVegetable Compound had done for
her so I began to take it. With the first
hottle { felt brighter and got so I could
wash dishes and sweep without having
to lie down. ,Later I became regular
again in my monthly terms, I have
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all better. I can truly say that your
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for nae health and yim into a wo-
man.’’—Mrs. JAMES H. MACPHERSON,
309 Greenwich St., Brantford, Ont.

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and-so much his old self that our bad
luck had after the first shock stimu-
lated rather than depressed him? Al-
ways at the bottom of my heart, side
by side with the faint but insistent
longing for my old environment, lay
the memory of those terrible months
when I did not know whether Murray
would ever be well again. And
though he is so strong now I do not
think I shall ever lose the scars left
by the old fear.

All this is very mixed and incon-
sistent, | know. It does not seem
reasonable that I’should have known
definitely that I would never ask Mur-
ray to leave the farm, that I sHould
have liked the life there, have grown
so fond of our neighbors, and still have
known the cravings for the city, but
such was the case. I scolded myself
whole week before I went to
Maudie’s. “If you had to make aede-
cision, Margaret Anne, you know what
you would do. Then why make such
a fuss?” I would say to mYSelf. But
self-administered scoldings are not
nearly so effective, I have learned, as
treatment by someone else, and I can
see now that Murray's prescription
was what saved me—saved not my
life but that far more yaluable thing,
my self-respect. \

The children were greatly excited
by the prospect of my absence, and
my heart almost failed me at the
thought of leaving them. I had ney:
er been away from them in their lives
except when I was with Mrs. Fenwick,
and then I saw them often. A week
seemed, in prospect, an eternity.

My preparations were soon made,
and more than once I felt thankful
that I had always been the tailor-made

account. Murray, man-like, felt bad-
ly that I could not have a complete
new outfit, but when he saw the trans-
formation Gwen had worked on my
old black lace dress he said so many
nice things that I almost wrote to
Maudie that I could not come—my im-
provement dated from that moment, I
think! B
As our train pulled into the Union
Station the morning of my arrival in
Winnipeg it seemed to me that only
half of me answered Maudie’s affec-
tionate greeting. The other half was
at home with Murray and the twins.
To one half the sights and sou ds of
the city were as familiar-as if U had
missed then: but a day instead of more
than a year, to the other all was con-
fusion. I wi really ashamed of my-
self, here I was where I had wished
to be, and now I was wishing to be
Somewhere else.
“You are as unreasonable as Gwen,”
I told myself severely. “I give you
just one week to pull yourself to-
gether.” .
“Glad to be back?” asked Maudie as
we turned down Broad
“Rather!” I replied valiantly.
“Tf only Murray and the children
were here too,” Maudie"teased and rhy
spirits rose unaccountably. Perhaps
I wasn’t a case for the Psychopathic
Ward after all, I thought.
“My feelings are vather mixed,” I
| admitted, just a little sorry to see that
Maudie was able to understand me, for
it showed how far she had come from

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to church again in the evening they

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HAT is more pleasant and exhilarat-
ing than a brisk walk in the crisp,

he bloom comes to the cheeks and you
feel fine.

The vital organs are put in fine condi-
tion by walking and many ailments can
be relieved mainly because the liver action
is aroused.

And yet we do not walk.

It is so much easier to ride in an auto
or street car that walking is becoming a
lost art.

Since we do not take the necessary
exercise to keep the liver active dnd the
bowels regular it becomes necessary to
resort to other means.

The most popular family regulator is
-Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liyer Pills, for by
use of this medicine once or twice a week

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The Healthful Walk  __

ONE PILL A DOSE
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re can be sure of the healthful action of
iver, kidneys and bowels.

sort of person, my simple and conser- fresh ai is rs
yatively-cut clothes did not show their resh air, a Our greatest danger in this. age of oy
age and I had no fear that Maudie You_ breathe sary The blood is sedentary habits is from overeating and :
would need to feel apologetic on my urified. The circulation is quickened. .

neglecting to pay attention to the regular-
ity of these eliminating organs.

Most of our ills come from this condi- —

tion. For proof of this statement you need
only enquire at the hospitals where there
is always a rush of appendicitis and liver
and kidney cases after the holdiay season
and during the winter months when we

‘so much artificial food and liye cooped
up in houses from which fresh air is care-
fay, excl gded

ou will notice that while the price of
Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills nae been
inereased to 35 cents, the box now con-
tains 85 pills instead of 25 as formerly.

Likewise Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food is 60 cents

a box of 60 pills, instead of 50 cents a box for
60 pills.

Edmanson, Bates & Co., Ltd., Toronto.
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