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Здун ho's bringin' omethin' rare and precious from the North! What could it be, I wonder!" grinned Buck,

"A stem-windin' watch 'maybe!"

THE STORY THUS FAR! During the Mardi Gras of 1850, Miss Julle disturbing smile. “You've made it up Livingstone! Marsden, beautiful and wilful ward of General Bogardus, invites society for me!" to a reception at which she means to announce her engagement to Pres "Well, then. goodbye Pres!" she Dillard, banker, She comes late to her party, and in a riding habit which said, trying desperately to be ensual, shocks the crowd, and later quarrels with Pres because he lets a bank As he was about to talte her extended directors' meeting delay him. Buck Centrall, a former suitor, has a duel hand she struck him across the face. on account of Miss Julie. To taunt her fiance, she buys a red dress which is against custom, to wear to the Proteus Ball, which ends the Mardi Gras feativities. Pres commands her to wear the white dress. She writes to Buck Cantrell telling him to come to her at once. After the duel he does a),

CHAPTER II

his daddy than ever I've seen him!" Then he added with quiet emphasis, And I never saw Tom Dillard look Uke that-without somebody go!

CHAPTER IV

"Run after him, Julie, and call him back! Please, please do!"

A disturbance at the other end of the bar claimed their attention. A man had slumped to the floor, sul- denly stricken

with the plague. Dr. Livingstone called at the home of General Bogardus to discuss with him and Aunt Belle further ways and means of coping with the epide nie. Julle seemed but faintly aware of the impending tragedy, so enrap tured was shie with the news that Pres Dillard was on his way home. she cried, her eyes bright with ex- "I knew he'd come, Aunt Belle!" citement. "He had to come to me! He couldn't help himself! And I'm going to tell him how I've hated my- "He'll come back, Anat Belle, Humble

self for being like I was! Oh, I'll you'll see! He'll come back to-night: Belle!" She laid her head wearily myself before him. Aunt And when he comes!" She wax vit against the shoulder of the older her way upstairs to hide the sobbing "Tell him I've retired! Tell him to tween us will be she could not control much longer, woman. "All that ever stood be-

"Never, Aunt Belle!" For a moment a strange fear possessed Julie, making her long to go after him and ask his for- giveness, but the next, pride forbade it.

come-to-morrow!"

But Pres Dillard did not

People said he had

back.

gone

come

takes me in his when ho

"I know it will dear child "Oh, I've a wonderful idea! We'll North go to the plantation! It's the only on business for the bank. During place for our meeting! We'll give

was a party, Aunt Belle! Invite every the year that followed · Julie never seen abroad except on horse- borty! A huge party to celebrate!" She called Uncle Cuto, Zette, and back. None of her friends were ad- the other servants to begin packing, mitted to her presence--not even the negroes song at their work and Duck Cantrell,

Julle sang with them:

"Oh, but Miss Julie," protest ed Buck, "Pres isn't goin' to like me takin' you to the ball! You must have had a set-to with him, killed!" or you wouldn't be askin' me!" Pres paused before the group with "You're afraid to take me!" she Julie on his arm, His handsome retorted mockingly. "Afrald Pres face was ashen. "You all have the will call you out! That's It, isn't privilege of Miss Marsden's acquain- tonce, 1 thlak gentlemen," he said, "Oh, he'd do that naturally," sald bowing low. There were courteous Buck, smiling down at her

the good murmurs of recognition but naturedly, "Couldn' blaine him group soon began to meli nway. much! Where do I stand, carryin'

The music was in glamorous sway his Indy?

now and Pres and Julie dancing with "It Is you isn't that enough?" the crowd. The floor became more "Not this time,

Miss Julie! I and more deserted tll the walls were think too much of you to help you filled with the black of men's sulls do something you're goin' to regret!" and the shining white of the crino-

"I know exactly what I'm doing?" lines. "Most Ikely you do, Miss Julie- Finally the

1wo were dancing but you're wrong! That

red alone. fool dress of yours can cause no end of The music stopped but Pres mo- trouble! Folks'd keenly resent your tioned the lender to go on. "Let me comin' to the Bull in iti"

Let them! They're Just petty and breath, "Let me go

go," Julle was pleading under her

Then again the scourge of yellow } narrow-mintied!"

you don't fever in New Orleans! Holding her in a viselike

Buck Cantrell, in the St. Charles "No, ma'am. It's just that they've grip he forced her to dance. And bar, listened as an acquaintance got rules, and they go by 'em-sume through her anger and mortification advised straight Bourbon as a sure as you and I."*

"And

she was conscious of the delicious preventive for the you prefer to go by your own thrill of als mastery of her. She now," drawled Buck, blowing a ring disease. "Me, rules?"

loved and hated him for it. "I always have, Miss Julie, and

from his cigar, "I got me unother They drove home silence. idea. The bugs get iiquored up same I reckon you'll find Pres does, too!" After Aunt Belle and the General us you do, Mister-mean drunk-and

Then I'm sorry I troubled you, went in, he lingered behind. Mr. Cantrell! Good night!"

then they begin fightin' among them "Good bye, Julie!" he said coldly, selves, and they kill each other off, "Is that all you've got to say to like the Kilkenny cats! As a matter o' fact, ain't no more yellow fever than this time last yeart Folkts never Below stairs there was serious talk think of it in racin' season!"

As he spoke, a conveyance passed "They might have had to wait for among the guests about the delay, slowly-drawn by black-plumed the Sheriff horses.

pass them through the "Pres is comin' back, Buck!" cried guards are patrolling the roads as

Parlal line," said

one. "Armed young Ted Dillard, hurrying up to far up as Riverview," said another, his older crony, and speaking with "and

wan attempt at galety. "Just coming from the city! They're talk- they're stopping everybody heard this minute. from uld

Doc ing about sending everyone sick with

it to Lazarelle Island where the lep *ers are!"

She slammed the gate and turned

In

toward the house as he drove away, inhere's nothing more to say!"

The next evening the exciting evening of the Proteus Ball-Aunt Belle and the General waited below. stairs nervously till Prea Dillard arrived. When Zette, the mulatto girl, announced him, Julle threw her evening cloak over her arm, and biting her lips to make them more the colour of the gown she wore, bil- jowed down the winding stairs to the

room door.

we ko, Pres?" she asked.

curtseying.

Not be answered sternly, "until you are properly dressed.”

"Why must everyone be so pro- per?" She addressed the remark to Aunt Belle and her long-suffering guardian, then turned venomously toward Pres. "Why don't you admit, Mr. Dillard, that you're afraid- atrald some one will insult me--and you'll find it necessary to

defend

her

here was a shocked silence after) deliberate challenge to his cour- nge which had cut him to the quick. He gained control of himself, how- ever, went to her silently and helped her, on with her wrap.

When they reached the ball-room crowded and

the foyer was

more couples through the į

women's

them with

and

checking

street door. The men were taking

wraps their hats, The red showed glaringly below. Julle's cloak and when Pres asked her for it, she drew it about her more closely, be- ginning to realize the humillation she had brought on herself.

She let him have it later and when they were running the gauntlet of curious eyes in the ballroom she ear- ried herself with high disdain. AL the far end of the room Pres noted Buck Cantrell and Ted. With them was good

ood old Dr. Livingstone who had suggested the tanning for the faming of Julie. La Cour was ask- ing him about the duel between Can- trail and De Lautree, and the doctor reported that the Frenchman had suffered only a leg wound.

Suddenly Ln Cour's face stiffened with amazement. "Why, It's Prea Dillard," he foltered, "Pres Dillard and

Pres Dillard, yea," Bald Dr. Livingstone, "and looting more likel

"Even if I were wrong?"

but

"You couldn't be wrong" he said evenly. "You're Julle Marsden!"

"Am I to go down on my knees?" "It would be interesting... utterly useless!"

"Evidently you've made up your mind?"

"No. Julle," he answered with a

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At the plantation all was excite- ment. Pres would be driving up the long lane any moment now. Julie was upstairs with Zette, putting on the last touches. She had made up her mind to stay upstairs-till should come to her. No one must see their meeting.

he

Suddenly Julle knew by the chorus of greetings that he had come.

She would stay out of sight, He would be asking for her. He would be exploring the old rooms that they. had played in when they were chil dren.

Yes, she was right. He was com- ing up the stairs.

"Oh, Pres

you

lung

1 can't believe it's I've dreamed of it so

"But Julle... I.

was strangely drawn,

His faec

"No, Pres, no! Don't say it yet! I put on this white dress for you- to help me tell you how humbly I ask you to forgive me. See, Pres, see, I'm kneeling to you make you forgive me

me

..

must as I love you

and love "Julle, please She read the agony in his eyes. He was looking beyond her to the doorway. "Julie, this is

1. this is Amy wife!"

.. my

"Your wife?" She looked from one to the other, her face a blank. then her inherited grace came to her ald and she arose as though in con- pletion of a curtsey.

"And you are--may I say-Cousin Julle?"

"You're Pres wife! "She took Amy's hand. "My felicitations, Prea

Belle called and Julle ex- cused herself and went to her. "Julie, child," she began, "I am 30 sorry

"For

heaven don't be gentle with me now," Julie sake, cried fiercely, "Do you think I want to be wept overi I've got to think to plan how to get rid of that tlie washed-out Yankee! Pres is mine- he's always been mine! If I can't (To be continued to-morrow}

have him

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ried about the "Yellow. Pori" problem. And a very real problem It is. A recent Federal Inquiry re- vealed that a tenth of the Dominion already falling Into Japanese hands,

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During the last few weeks the Canadians have shown Das, anti- Japanese fever such as they never exhibited in any previous "yellow peril"

scare. The provocation 14 there, and it is receiving 11 lively response of temper. Along the en- tire seaboard of British Columbin and for

scores of milics inland the Japanese have carried out a pro- gramme of peaceful penetration akin 10 the system by which they rat Altered into China.

The great trees of British Colum- bin's forests fall, cut down by Japa- nese hands and destined for Japanese mills. British Columbia's mines are being explored for metal which may prove useful, in the first instance, ngainst the Chinese. And

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Japanese Penetration base metals and logs!"

In the ten years prior to the 1931 census the Japanese in British Columbia doubled their number. They never had to pay a head tax. For a few years they entered Canada unrestricted. Then "gentlemen's ugreement" between Canada and the Japanese government limited the number of Japanese immigrants to 400 a year, o figure later reduced to 150. The chosen, 160 are supposed to enter Canada as domestic servants or farm labourers, their livelihood. guaranteed for three years by the prospective employer.

In the seven years since 1931 British Columbia's Japanese popula- tion should have increased by 1950. Instead, it is estimated, by adding

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On all the little islands near Van- couver a smuggling trade in Japanese is carried on. A month ago a minor regiment of forty Japanese were de- tected landing from a floating can-

nery.

Just before that incident seventy new faces appeared in the course of a month in a little fishing village.

Thanks to their low standard of living and their willingness to work unlimited hours, the Japanese pros- Fer financially and whito men--are thrown out of work. "If there were British fewer Japanese here Columbia there would be no unem- ployment," declared one observer.

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Housewives are trying to retaliate. by refusing to buy Japanese goods, even a Japanese-grown lettuce." Yet the tide of the yellow man sweeps on. The famous fishing Industry of the Fraser River is now dominated by the Japanese. The Fraser fruit industry is falling to the yellow man. A steady stream of money from Japan helps to buy the most valuable farms, factories, and forests in the province.

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Still worse is the situation senward within the three-mile limit. Japan has turned greedy eyes to the zich pickings on the eastern shores of the ash-eating countries in the world. Pacific. She is one of the greatest

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