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I r J5he Making of BooKs 1 "OA, that mismo onomy would make a hook. Conducted By R W McAdam it 1 Miss 'Rutherford’s Literature ,ISB MILDKKD LEWIS RUTHERFORD. the well- known teacher of litera ture of Luoy Cobb Insti tute, Athens, has supple mented her admirable text book. "American Au thors,” with two more similar publications, one on “English Authors'’ and tlia ‘bi - on ' “French Au- ki' Her first book vai an invaluable treatise on American literature, a sub ject on which the last word has not yet \ ' bc-on said, by any means. Encouraged by her deserved success " with the difficult subject of American authorship. Mass Rutherford has issued he two other textbooks mentioned, and from the. favorable press notlcep she Is vecefUin*. it Is evident that her work has found , a largo and appreciative reading public, tiler last book, “French Authors,” to qutite from the preface, neither pur ports to be an analytical nor a purely i critical, review of French literature, but k • simply an outline study of Its history, dealing with the most prominent literary men and women In Francs, and giving , short sketches concerntg their hom e life. The book has been compiled from lecture ", notes, and is published for a fourfold * purpose: 1. To aid students who are not familiar - with French, and who therefore fail to - become acquainted with many writers of France, whom they know by name only. 2. To aid mothers and teachers in de ciding what French authors should be l-e.-i'l by the young people of the day. Finding the sketch of the author’s life, ancT learning something of the charac ter of his works, those who have not time', to read the book for themselves may i Judge whether a work by this or that author can be read without injury. While many may differ as to individual ' merit or demerit, none will deny the harmful influence of most French novels. i \ 3. To aid those who are students of the t \French language in sclaools and colleges \ to obBain a knowledge of the home life of the, author whose woilc they are trans- i ^ latlng .and criticizing. 4. To .aid all libraries, private and pub lic, for • the collected Information con cerning 'tlurse literary men and women i ^ It Is hoped will be found of real encyclo pedic value, as no published work as yet contains the' sketches of some of the liv- ‘ lug writers of France. '• These three 'n.>o»ks were printed toy the Franklin Printing Company, of Atlanta, and^aell for SI.50 each. v ' Mr. Bryan as an Antbor. TtVis Unit generally known that William Jennlng;-- Bryan Is a prodigiously literary worker. even,whll e on his travels. He Is returning to America with the manu scripts of at least two works about regdy ■„ for publication. (He expects to Issue In a tingle volume the description of hls travels,-yvlth comments on what he saw. To other jvork will b e Issued In ten vol umes, and will be an extensive compila tion of “The World’s Greatest Orations,” from the ancient times to the present. Mr. Bryan aims in this latter work to cover pracfHcaily the field of oratory much more satisfactorily than It has been presented heretofore by any author, devoting one volume to the leading Gre cian orators, one volume to the Roman, two volume®' to the orators of continen tal Europe, i two volumes to the English, one volume*to the Irish and three to the American. Some of the orations will be . somewhat tabrldged and, when necessary, annotated. It i6 the’purpose of Mr. Bryan to give an Introduction to the "orations” of each country, elaborating IiIb views as to the characteristics, etc., of the oratory of each nation. Jlr. Bryan's well-marked oratorical temperament peculiarly fits him for tills editorial work. Francis W. Halsey, .Hie fbunder and for six years the editor of‘the "Saturday Book Review” of i The New Work Times, Is associated with Mr. Bryan in this work on the “Ora tions,” and. is now with him in Europe. It Is proponed Jo publish a popular edi tion of the work to sell at as low a price 1 at $10 per set. The Funk & Wagnalls Company, Mr. Bryan’s publishers, expect to have this work ready for delivery tills full or earlylwinter. Washington’s Familiar Letters. Doubted ay. Page & Co. have Issued a *ong ptomisedrvolume of the '’Letters and Recollections of George 'Washington,” and It proves to be a moat interesting (presentation of the fattier of his country at home und In familiar correspondence. The lioou includes ninety-one letters from Washington to Tobias I .ear. hls confi dential secretary and intimate friend. ■Practically all of them were written from \ 'Mount Vernon and deal with domestic matters. They show the great execu tive ability as well as shrewd business sense of the foremost American. These letters hawe had a most eventful history. After the death of Mr. Lear's third wife they passed out of the hands of hls de scendants and have been widely scatter ed. Fortunately, however, copies of them were made at the time by Tobias Lear’s son. Some of them passed into the pos session of John FIske. the eminent his torian, who married a descendant of I .ear. The most direct descendant .’s Mrs Louise Lear Eyre, his granddaugh ter, at Westchester, N. Y., wiho collected the epistles and wrote the Introduction for the present volume. The whole cor respondence with Lear shows that Lear had. In a quiet way, much Influence over Washington. Pipes of Pan. The publication of Bliss Carman’s “Pipes of Pan” In a single volume, by L. C. Page & Co., Is good news to lovers fo poetry. Carman is the most lyrical of American poets today. No other singer equals him in the feeling for nature and none surpasses him in the power of melody. Years ago, when he and Richard Hovey gave us their “Songs from Vagg- bonlda,” readers of poetry realized that here were two true poets. There was perhaps an echo of Veraline in those verses, and a fresh breeze from Steven son, yet they were individual, vigorous. Inspired. Hovey died, after some am bitious and worthy experiments in dra matic poetry; and Carman has been cul tivating his gifts of song ever since. He has cony; very close to Greek joyousness and simplicity, as we find them in the best of Hellenic lyrists from Sapplio to Theocritus, andl In few moderns except perhaps Goethe and Matthew Arnold. Tho “Pipes of Pan” series was first is sued In five single volumes, whose titles breathed their spirit—"From the Book of Myths.” "From th e Green Book of the Bards.” “Songs of the Sea Children," “Songs from a Northern Garden,” "From the Book of Valentines.’ That all these have been collected In one volume Is cause for rejoicing. That volume con tains some of th e best lyrics written In America since Sidney Lanier and Mau rice Thompson died. From Poverty to Power. The best brief representation of James Allen’s book, “From Poverty to rower," published by the Science Press, Chicago, ip to be found in Mr. Allen’s “fore word.” ”1 looked around upon the world and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suf fering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around but could not find it! I looked in books, but could not find it: I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy. I found one law, the law of love; one truth, the truth of a conquered mind and a quiet an<j obedient heart. And I dreamod of writing a book which should help men and women, whether rich or poor, learn ed or unlearned, worldly or unworldly, to find within themselves the source of success, all happiness, all accomplish ments, all truth. And the dream remain ed with me, and at last became substan tial; and now I send It forth Into the world on its mission of healing and hies-, eednessj, knowing that it cannot fail to reach the homes and hearts of those who are wailing anil ready to receive it.” The book represents the ’’advanced thought’ ’ now attracting so much atten tion. Mr. Allen is one of the most con spicuous of English representatives of the “advanced thought.” Price, post paid, S1. Publication Notes. The Harpers have just Issued a new edi tion ortho novels of Sir Walter Scott, to be known as the Heart hdr Edition. The set is complete in thirty octavo volumes. Illustrated, bound In cloth, with deco rated title pages In color. The volumes may, however, be purchased singly. Helen Nicolay's "The Boys’ Life of ILin coln,” largely based upon the standard life of Lincoln written toy John G. Nico- lay and John Hay, will be among the im portant. Issues for young people this fall. Captain Harold Hammond’s “Further Fortunes of Pinkey Perkins” and Ralph Henry Barbour's "The Crimson Sweater” are also to appear in book form this fall. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's series of fairy tales now appearing in St. Nich olas are to be published in book form, one to a 'book, each little volume with a number of Illustrations in color. "The Troubles of Queen Silver bell” and "How Winnie Hatched (the Kooks” will be the first to be Issued. In Molly Elliot Seawall's new novel, “The Victory,” which D. Appleton & Co. announce for autumn publication, an Intimate picture of life on a great Vir ginia plantation during the days of the civil war Is given with little of the fa miliar stock in trade of such stories. The novel is said to toe unusual in its denote ment of tthe baleful effect of the war upon social life, and. though tine book ends happily with love and marriage. Miss Seawell lias unfolded with something of a tragic rclentlessness the domestic panorama of loss and sul'ST'lng. Georg? Moore’s new book, '’Memoirs of My Dead Life.” which D. Appleton & Co. ■bring out In the autumn, Is said to be one of the most remarkable books yet writiten by this remarkable writer. Apart from the fundamental interest of the subject, Mr. Moore's masterly English style has never been shown to greater advantage than in the present hook. One of the most attractive books of the fall season will be Lloyd Osbourne's automobile story, ’Three Speeds For ward, ’ to be published by the Apple- tons. Tho hook Is unusually well Illus trated, with decorative designs. Mr. Osbourne has almost preempted the au tomobile for purposes of fiction. H. F. Provost Battersby, an English author, gives through D. Appleton & Co. hls first books to the American pub lic. "The Avening Hour” is said to be primal emotions and their attendant re sults in the complex social life of this day. The story is English in its set ting. Albert Abendschein, in hs forthcoming book. "The Secrets of the Old Mas ters’* (D. Appleton & Co.), wll make a very real contrbutlon to the literature of the great art of the world. Those artists and critics who have already seen the book proclam It of unque in terest and value. The new two-volume edtion of W. B. Yeats, to be issued this fall by The Me Millan Company, will, it is promised, contain the entire works in verse of the Irish poet. The first volume will be de voted to lyrics and mlscelaneous poems, while the second voluirt; will contain those remarkable dramas In verso, “The Countess Cathlcen,” “The Land of DENTISTRY If you arc Interested in a Dental Education, mail this Coupon to the Southern Dental Collets ter beautiful, Illustrated free Catalogue. DR. S. W. FOSTER, Dean, 100 N. Butler St., Atlanta. Ga. Send me Catalogue Ne.. 2 .of Southern Dental College. Heart's Desire,” “The King's Thresh old,” “On Baile’s Strand” and “The Shadowy Waters.” Tho United States Is now growing old enough to have well defined tradi tions in its literature, art and drama. The last named—the life of the stage— has perhaps never received general at tention because of an arly prejudice against actor folk. But Montrose J. Moses, a New York critic. Is brtnlgng out a book on '‘Famous Actor Families in America.’ which, it is predicted, will go far toward according this profession the high standard It lias deserved and won. The book Is to be published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Mr. Gustav Kobtie has written a boc* entitled "How To Appreciate Music.” which Moffat, Yard & Co. will publish in September. The need of a book which will really intenpret this subject to the millions who are newly showing living Interest in good music Is a pressing one, and Mr. Kobbe Is specially fitted for the task. In this volume he not only informs the reader, but helps him to dis criminate. While recognizing that no art, last of all music, can be “explained,” that discrimination is not a matter of rules, and that 'here Is no “royal road” to the understanding of music, hls book is remarkably successful In clearing the way of such an understanding. Ho is consistently unteohnical. A poet who in this day can write an epic and have It published serially in a magazine of high standing may well seem entitled to ret'rement on hls laurels. There is. 'however, no sign that Alfred Noyes. the man who has actually ac complished this feat, contemplates retir ing. On the contrary, he is evidently on tho threshold of a career. His "Drako: - An Epic,” which has been appearing se rially In Blackwood’s Magazine, is the more remarkaide as the performance of a man who is only 25, and whose first published work date* hack no more than four years. Within this period Noyes has published two or three volumes of verse in England, but his first appearance tn this country will be In a volume of "Poems” which the Macmillan Company will bring out this autumn. Broadway Publishing Company. 835 Broadway, New York, announce the pub lication about October I of this year of "Astyanax: An Eipic. Romance of Illon, Atlantis and America.’’ by Hon. Joseph Brown, of Atlanta. Ga. Mr. Brown, who i s a member of the railroad commission of Georgia, has been engaged on this work for many years—it 'has almost been to him (as his history was to Maonuley) "the business and pleasure qf big life ” It will remain for the critics to pass upon t'he literary merits of “Astyanax.” but those who have read the manuscript con cede that in plan and scope no work more daringly and brilliantly original has ever appeared in American literature. i Literary Driftwood. Oorky and Bishop. Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, NT. speaks harshly of Maxim Gorky, calling him “that vllllan and scoundrel and pol luter of womanhood.” He doesn’t like his "coming to America to ask us to turn on Russia.” We guess tho bishop Is somewhat too fervent In tills matter. Gorky may have serious defects of discretion, and he may be unsulted to the errand that brought him here, but the bishop's no tion that he Is a vllllan. a scoundrel. ; and a polluter of womanhood does not at all match such Information about him ns has come to our notice. Awaiting further In formation, our notion of Gorky la that be Is essentially a good man. As to "‘liv ing with a woman who cannot be recog nized aw his wife,” Bishop McFlatil was bound officially to disapprove of that, but it is possible that he would disapprove less vehemently if he had fuller knowl edge of the facts about Gorky's domes tic concerns. Gorky seem® to be a good deal more married to the lady who came here with him than ever was George Eliot to Tyotves. A great many lies wore pvintod about him In our ne*w*pape « and Bishop McFaul seems to have read them, an<j not to have read the denials and explanations which followed them.— Harper's Weekly. Booth Tarkington *s Litle Joke. Booth Tarkington, the author of “The Conquest of Canaan," and other popular novels, is known among bis friends tr* somewhat of a practical loker. A good story of hls Princeton days is related In this month’® Bookman. Tie managing editor of the Nassau Llterrry Magazine at that time was a person ’.-ho took him self and hls literary responsibilities with portentous seriousness. Le was wont to deplore the lack of suitable material at his disposal, and to speak In accents of emphatic scorn of tho quality of the sub mitted contributions from which he was supposed to make a periodical worthy of tlito senior class. One day he found in his letter box a poeiti which moved him to more than usual disgust. “See here,” he snorted, contemptuously, to a group of which Tarkington was one; “this is what some fool freshman sends In and calls poetry. How am I going to make a magazine out of stuff like this! How am I, I ask?” "Oh, that!’’ spoke up Tarkington. “Yes, I sent that in myselC" ”So you wrote it, did you?” growned the managing editor. “No.” said Tarkington. sweetly, "I didn’t write it, I only copied It. It was written by Tennyson.'* Sales of French Novels. (From September Bookman.) And yet In France, as in the United States and England, the successful cir culation of works of fiction Is not only an art, but a metier—a trade in which author and publisher are the manufac turers of the commodities sold, and the names of the authors the trade-mak’rs th e wares bear when placed on the mar ket and secure their sale. Let us note a few of the more popular of these at the present moment—In short, the French “best sellers.” At the head of the list must be placed Georges Ohnct, who. despite Is industry, his vigor, hls graphic descriptions of the “Battles of Life,” lias not yet written himself within the charmed circle of the> “Forty Immortals,” or even won the esteem of the literary critics. Any 'book by Ohnet will sell to the extent of 200,- 000 copies, while several of hls more popular works, such as “Serge Panine,” “Comtesso Sarah,” “Lise Fleuron” and others, have exceeded thfs figure. Only one of them, however, his “Maltre de Forges,” came near doubling It. th e lat ter having been printed to the extent of 380.0000 copies. The “Maltre de Forges,” moreover, has had a vast circulation out side of France itself. Only on e other French author can be ranked wi*h Ohnet In the manner of sales. Edmond Rostand's “Cyrano de Bergerac” has been bought to the extent of 280,COO copies, and of hls "L'Alglon’* 250.000 copies have been printed. When SUMMER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST! $750.00 Cash to Constitution Agent’s. Contest Opened May 1st, Closes October 1st, 1906. Creat Distribution Among Subscription Workers. Constitution wants an active, hustling agent at every postoffic© throughout the Sooth, on every Rural Mrreo Delivery route, and m every mill and farming community for its great new edition, THE TRI-WEEKLY CONSTITUTION Issued Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Three Times a Week for Only SI.OO Per Year. These agents are to canvass thoroughly the whole territory within their reach and make weekly reports •f all clubs secured. Our subscription offers and premium lists have never before been so attractive. 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Regular agent's commission allowed on every subscription tho work Sub8Crxptlon ordor9 0X0 not crcdlted to a « en t unless or until paid in full, less commission allowed on This is tho best business opportunity for tho best agents for the best paper ever given to the peonlo of this country. Send today for outfit. peopio w Address all requests and orders directly to TH ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, OA. It Is considered how often these two dramas have been acted In France and elsewhere on the continent, to say noth ing of England and America, these figures are certainly extraordinary. The success of Ohnet and Kustand has not been equaled by any other French writer of fiction now living. Magazine Melange. The September Century will present the first f-fil authorlta.Mve and scientific dis cussion yet pulilfihed of the difference (between the white man’s brain and the negro’s. The paper Is the work of Rob ert Bennett Bean, M. D., instructor In anatomy at the University of Michigan, and hls scientific research into the limi tations of the negro’s industrial develop ment, based on the size and structure of the brain, throws valuable light upon a subject of vital Importance in our coun try today. Dr. Bean's text will be illus- tiated with a number of interesting dia grams. The September number of The Open Court is very fully illustrated. Professor. Edgar L. Larkin, of Lowe observatory. Echo Mountain, California, contributes a timely article on the vast geological and alluvial changes which have been taking place in the southwest. Ho describes “The New Salton Sea” that has arisen In a few weeks where formerly it had takeu ages to accomplish so great a change. Professor Larkin describes the appear ance of the affected region from hls per sonal observation on June 4, and again on July 5, and hls article is illustrated by photographs taken at Mexicali awl Calexico at different periods. A relief map of the seoflon, made for the recla mation service of the United States geo logical survey, has been reproduced, with lines showing the present direction of the Colorado river. The utmost that engi neering science can do Is being done to restrain the floods and control their di rection. If these efforts do not succeed the Salton sink will be filled to the ocean level and climatic changes would con tribute to the formation of a new sea. If the dam which is to be made fo fill up the great put Is a success, the water will evaporate, leaving a deep layer of silt over the layer of salt. The September Indoors and Out pic tures the care-free days of vacation time. Ralph Bergengren describes, with the aid of many 'beautiful illustrations, “The ■Hermit Ledge SeTtlement,’ 'a summer community of artists and professional people at Annisquam, Mass. A series of articles devrted to the various materials for building country houses is continue! this monrt’b by a discussion of half tim ber work. An illustrated article on “Lawn Bowls" deserrb ss that charming and ven erable game, which Is so popular on the other side of the water and is coming Into favor here. Abundance and a variety characterize the contents of The Home Magazine for September. There is a delightful diversity of topics, and each Is nicely handled, concisely and completely, while the pic torial features continue to be of high standard. The magazine opens with a serial by Zona Gale, appropriately called “Romance Island.” Nestled In the embrace of I-a lies Su perior, Michigan and Huron lies the gem of the north seas. Mackinac island. It Is a famous summer resort and abounds in historic and legendary lore. The cover of the September Pilgrim shows a sunset at this enchanted spot. It is truly a striking thing and is the most beautiful cover The Pilgrim has ever shown—which Is saying a great deal. The Pilgrim seems to see and print vital articles—take “The Work of the Juvenile Court,” by Judge Murphy, In this latest issue. What can touch more vitally the youth life of our great cities? Then there is the finely illustrated article "On the Fast Mail. ’ giving the facts regarding our railway moil service in which 14,000 highly train ed men give their lives to hustling ah ng the correspondence of the nation. “The Call of College” is pertinent to the month when thousands upon thousands are mak ing ready for college—also generously Illustrated. "Real Southern Hospitality” Is another engaging theme told in beauti ful pictures and realistic story. SLIP-KNOTS. Continued from Third Page. done for them, and not unhopeful of the future. I stopped! the nl^ht with Mackay and he gave me the latest news of our friends. "The two older brothers are shaping fine,” he said, as we drove out next day. "They will get on. Pete and hls pretty wife somehow don't- seem to settle down so well.’* "She’s homesick. I expect. I saw it In her eyes when they went on the ship. ’ Wo reached the Treskar place just in time for the midday meal, and so got all the family at home. They gave us a hearty welcome, and after dinner James and John, with little Pete and Kitty a9 advance scouts, insisted on taking us all over the place. “It's a fine place you’ve got here, Mrs Treskar,” I said, when we got back to the house. “I am delighted to see it all, und to find you all so well and happy." “It's a fine place.” she said quietly. The rest were al lontside and we were alone in the kitchen. "Have you heard anything of Dave. Mr. John? Is he well?” It was the first question she had asked concerning old country matters, and her eyes had the same pathetic look in them that had haunted me before. “TTe was very well tho last time I heard. lie’s at Portland now.” and I saw the sad eyes fill with tears, and her bosom heave with sobs. In the next twelve months I saw them three times. The firm looked like flour ishing exceedingly. They had taken up more land; they had horses, cuttle and much wheat, and were on the high road to prosperity. pete and hls wife alone seemed not to fall in quite comfortably with their sur roundings. They seemed, however, grow ing by degrees more accustomed to them, or to the state of 'mind in which they accepted them. My fourth visit to the Tresltar’s place I am not likely to forget. I was on my way bac kito England. As we drove along. Hector Mackay, who has the eye of an eagle, said suddenly: “Why, here’s one of our friends com ing to meet us, and in a deuce of a hur ry, too. Doctor! I'll bet you. It was James Treskar in a two-horse buggy, going at high pressure. We drew up as we met, and in his haste he quite forgot to give me hls usual hearty welcome. “Anything wrong?” asked Mackay. "Ay; Pete's done for, I'm afraid. Bay stallion kicked him badly In stomach this morning, and he’s putting up a deal of blood. He wants doctor and a mag istrate. Who'll I get?” “I'm a magistrate," said Mackay. •Get Dr. Henderson. Well go on.” Pete’s injuries were evidently serious. It needed no doctor’s eye to see that he was going. The dying man was in full possession of his senses and his face ha! lighted up almost cheerfully at sight of Mackay and myself. He looked up at his -wife, and said: “Kitty! kiss me, dear; then go,” and she fell on her knees by the sofa and kissed him in a frenzy, and his face was W'et with her tears when they took her out of the room. “Listen!” he said huskily, between chokes of bicod, as Jim came back and closed the door, and we stood by the couch. “Write as I speak.” Jim had pa.per and pen ready. He knew all that was coming. Mackay took the writing things and waited. Pete went on slowly; “I am going. . . I want set things right before I go: . . . Davfi Travil did not kill Martin, the keeper. . . . . . He said it to get me off for Kitty’s sake. ... I killed him with my own hand with hls own gun. . . .He said things about my wife. . . . The others tried to keep us apart. ... I struck him on head. ... I was mad and ready to kill him, too. . . . Then I got hold Martin’s gun . . . hit him on bead. The others were there . . . did best stop me . . . They tried take it on selves for Kitty and children. . . . . I swear it by Almighty God. Let me sign. . . .You all sign. . . .*’ Mackey read over what he had writ said FOLLOW THE FLAG. CHEAP COLONIST RATES To OREGON. WASHINGTON. MONTANA. BRITISH COLUMBIA. NEVADA. UTAH, WYOMING. NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA. COLORADO And CALIFORNIA POINTS. Round THp HOME-SEE KER3 EXCUR SION to many points West. Drop postal card for particulars. , F. W. GREEN. D. P. A.. Wabash R. R. Louisville. Kjr. ten, slowly and distinctly, and In a voice that I had never heard him use before. “Right!” said Pete, and clawed feebly for the pen. He scrawled his name, and watched Mackay write in the usual at testation clause, and us all sign our names. Then lie lay back satisfied. He looked at me, and I bent over him. “Sorry!” he whispered. “Dave thought make her happy. . . . Hasn’t. . . . Better dead. . . . P'r’aps, Dave—” and then he lapsed into silence and never opened his lips again. "Is that all true,” said Jim. "We did our best to stop him, tout he'd gone mad for the moment. When we were let out. and heard that Dave had taken it on himself, we were too amazed to know what to do, and we were here before we caine rightly to ourselves. . . . And then you see there were Kitty and the children.” "And that time you and John took it on yourselves?” I asked, for I was keen to understand the whole, strange matter now. "Well—” began Jim, and stopped, and John took up the word. “It was just that same thing.” We said. “It didn't matter much about us, but Pete and Kitty and the children, and if some one had to pay it was no use their paying.” “You might have been hanged.”1 said. "I suppose so,” he said quietly, “but it were better for us to be hanged than Pete—with Kitty and the children.” “And did his wife know?’’ I asked. "Yes,” said Jim, quietly, "she knew, poor tiling—but not at first!” •■Ay!” said John; “and she’s never stopped thinking of it." “What an extraordinary story!” said Mackay, as we three drove home in the evening. "I'm Inclined to think it's best for him to have gone. You'll get the other man out, of course. “Yes,” I said. “This explains a great deal that I never could understand. A\ :at a time those two poor things have had. Pete ami Kitty: Never a moment's peace of mind since they came. I'd come to think Pete was jealous of David Travil. lie is Mrs. Kitty’s cousin, you know They were brought up together arv everybody supposed they would marry. "And I bet you they will yet, ** Hector Macka. Within a month David ‘lravll was on the water 'bound for Alberta. He said very little, tout the depth of his gratitude for his recovered life was apparent in his verv silence. His sole thought had been for Kitty, and the belief that he had made an end of all her troubles by the simple sacrifice of himself had made evervthing else easy to bear. I would dearly have lik«>d to be present at thal meeting between Dave Travil and John and James and Kitty Treskar. But that could not be. I was there, however, a month ago. and finer specimens of prize Canadian farmers Lhan those three men it would be difficult to find. The Treskars 'had, of course, taken Dave into partner ship on the farm. Kitty was almost like her own old self, and yet somehow she was different Her dark beauty seemed to shine the brighter for the veil through which It glowed. I saw new hopes growing in her. Her great content and happtnes were visible. I saw that in due time Hector Mackay's wish for the proper rounding off of tfie story would be realized. tsV