Show ARBUTUS BERRIES J. J 5 i berries when I they are ripening from I 1 orange to flame color ande and I e 0 anon from fran flame color to tc toa Ll f 3 a n. glorious crimson aref are S i f 5 II 1 pretty to look upon anda and l I tI II a clustering spray of blossom blossom blos bIos som soul leaf and fruit forms a a. charming ornament for a it ladys lady's hair So at least thought Captain Mark MarIe Brett thought he was a man not given to thinking about such things Mark had been spending a good deal S Sot ot time in iii this garden of late His flit I quarters were hard bard by bv that is to say within ride ride and and a n. Mrs Carrington's S S lodge gates gatts had bad opened to him an and S closed behind him oftener than any anyone anyone one cared to count since his battery had been sent to the fort on the hill hillI v I year before Now he be stood still and looked around Every Everyone one else had gone within doors and he bl too was WItS going directly He lIe was engaged to dine L with the mother and daughter and there was going to be something of a n. party dinner but his bis dress clothes were being already laid out in the little room o over the porch S Which had become in a tit manner his bis own on these occasions and he be was wasS S never ne long over his toilet He lIe could S afford a few minutes to stand still stillS S and think S There was the house house- house ample S comfortable house With ith his bis eyes he heI I took in the thatched deep roof and the stacks of which had an air of joyous preparation in inthe inthe in inthe the cold departing artin light There were the stables With his car ear he be noted the cherry sound of ringing hoofs and busy voices giving token of brisk prosperity and abundance On every sue side were hed hedge e and shaven turf while flower gardens gleaming gleam gleam- ing log panes showed panes sho shoed ed where the rows s of greenhouses and vineries had caught the of the sinking sun un n. n How jolly how awfully i it all aU allS S inured red Mark fark to him himself In point of fact Captain Bretts Brett's all alP was wal at nt the identical moment peeping from flom behind the tile abovementioned abovementioned abovementioned men above lattice watching his antics as clo closely ely as the waning light permitted her to do She had bad thought thought yio po matter matter matter mat mat- ter what she thought had just just before dressing time What if she had been out with Mark Murk strolling hither and thither in inthe inthe inthe the dark Nobody had objected Her mother was Marks Mark's best friend And the poor old lady wants somebody somebody somebody some some- body here to look after things most awfully Mark now proceeded to ponder She is too rich to be easy In her mind in this bi big f hou houie at nights with nobody but servants I would be the tile very one for her lice I would look after everything And I would be as asgood asgood good to her as possible possible for for she is is uncommonly uncommonly un un- un commonly kind to me and I am ant as fond ond of her as I r can be w We it ii off of together first As for 1 Edith he paused As for Edith another pause paUSA If only people would not think I 1 am after Edith's money lie he said slowly He lIe was well aware that this was just lust what people would think what think what many people were indeed already thinking He was was wasa a poor man and Edith Carrington was an only child Edith was a n. cherry girl with pleasant ways and an active energetic mind For some sometime time after she and Mark had become acquainted no 30 thought ot the tue heiress as a possible ble sweetheart or wife had ever aver entered enter enter- ed ad the old soldiers soldier's mind Ho lie had be begun un b by trotting over over to The Hatch once a week or area so so because country neighbors were rare in the part patt where she was quartered and because he lie was a s sOciable man and liked a a. welcome chat and change change- from the tIle monotony of barrack lite This was in the springtime of the tho year Then rhen came autumn and the shortening shortening short short- ening ersing of the daylight By Dy that time timeMark Mark Hark had begun to look jealously at I any third thir person who might be a guest beneath the thatched roof which had become to him a loadstar and ond toward which his thoughts were continually straying in whatsoever direction his feet might be turned If the he guest chanced to be a young man and and relatives es of this kind were forever bi ever turning up at The Hatch Hatch- Captain Brett would woul 1 retire within himself be taciturn and watchful and uncommunicative To-night To however as he mused all alone in the dusk outside of the swift swift- t iy y 1 lighting rows of windows he felt that his time had come he lie must do Something make mako some effort to find i out how bow the land lay Jay at once within few hours He lie could go goon on onno 10 no longer as lIe ho was living A Ayoung young fellow ellow one of Edith's innumerable cousins cousins confound confound these cousins was cousins was o o arrive the very next day and a- a dozen others were to follow for fOl the tho Christmas week weck He lIe must be beforehand before before- land hand with th them m. m Yet how to go straight a at the terrible question yea or nay Then ho lie le looked up and amI looked a again anin at the arbutus tree and a ft b happy lappy thought inspired his liu breast E t. t What in the world is he be doing wondered Edith frojm her window She Silo herself witS was all in m a n. bustle to be dressed and down before the tho other l people arrived arrived were wert o 0 a- a unpunctual especially if t they tey had md far fol to drive on a n. dark night a d dit it t seemed to her that if tf Mark l d. rJ he o equally sharp they might hanco hay ha nice little quarter of an hour or so soy U II Uby by y themselves in tho tle lamp lamp room presently tI S 'S j c l. l |