1913-09-20 — Page 3

SHORT STORY.

THE MORTGAGE.

BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON.

(Continued from Monday) Precisely. Because you are, ty-five and Nancy's fifteen. er youth and enthusiasm aro ken out of herself and focussed a large abstract cause, with the st results. Your experienced

"More so than to any one else aturity, your very disillusion- I imagine. Why?" ents"-be lookel keenly into

"Lucia ?" He was all atten- tion: her hand was still in his.

"Does Max Fettaner talk freely to you, Dr. Starchon-intimately I mean?"?

"Because, if it is possible for

r eyes-"make you an admir you to warn him to bo too le balance-wheel for many frank with Lucin, I hapen 13 men who have not your excuse know that it will save him a

› leisure. Far from contesting great deal of trouble.”

ar self-imposed activities, I Tco frank? Too frank?" he buld be glad to profit by theirl largement. I wish I had you queried, staring at her."'What the Hospital Board," Appessed in spite of herself,

only smiled nervously.

But the real reason you indon me to civic work is not

usefulness-but my forty

eness !".

Your forty-fiveness, yes," he swerd simply.

They looked at each other ently, till her eyes dropped wly, weighted with her tears. adenly she lifte i them defiant and stepped back into the

四.

I suppose you think it's my

lt that we hadn't any children,"

said in a dull, strangled voico,

ut as a matter of fact it isn't

shouldn't have minded, ever!

d of lats years we've, becp y sorry

He rose and took her hand.

I know, Marie, I know," he d gently; "those things aro

hard.".

Jabout?"

She sighed impatiently,

"Oh, what do you suppose?". she said. "The tariff? Or the

tango, perhaps?"

certainly," he suggested mechau

"Both are subjects of the day, ically, searching her eyes.

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"But the subject I refer to was subject of the day before the tariff or the tango was born or thought of," she told him, "and

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a little more about the three sides of this affair than anybody eles, I imagine, and so I'm warning you to warn Dr. Fattauer to go very lightly over the confidences I understand he intends to make, Escause they won't have the effcot he intinde or expzola, owing to bis fiancee's somewhat extraordio- ary views, which I happen to have heard. Do you see ? !!!

Stanokon sat hard in his ohiar and fired her with a non committal eye. Do I under- stand that there is a woman who han claims upon Max "? perturbably;

"Not all," she replied im shadow of a claim upon him, so "nobody has " s

far as I know."

"Nor that presses any claim ?" "Not the slightest."

(Continued on page 8.)

THE DYSENTERY EPIDEMIC.

How to Avold it, and How to Fortify the System If Attacked.

The gravity of dysentery. which is often so rapidly fatal, cannot be exaggerated. Hence this artiole, which is published. in the best interests of the com munity,

diarrhen everyone should consuli While at t'e first onset of bis d ctor, that the disease may he nipped in the hud, he should remember that the same treat met which will build up his rength to overcome the digase will also prevent him getting it. Dyseniery is eminently a ques opposed, l'u a little worried tion of nutrition. Hence, a food about the situation. I hadn't which is easily assimilated and supposed there could be any new entirely absorbed from the

by curious coincidence, I know the views of the three principal parties concerned, and 80e that they are unalterably

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