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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, They were liv-

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— 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

; f : A , helter, plain though both mi, ht bi 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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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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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.

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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.

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