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Show SHE HAD HIM ON THE HOOK. . Maiden Well Knew Lover Could Not Resist Culinary Bait She Had So Cleverly Cast. Janet had molded the domestic affairs af-fairs of the family with whom she-lived she-lived for so many years that the news of her Intended marriage had much the effect of an earthquake. "Have you and David been engaged long?'" ventured the mistress of the house- "One week when next Sabbath-comes," Sabbath-comes," stated Janet briefly. "And and had you any thought of marrying before that?" asked her mls- "Times 1 had and times I had not," said the imperturbable Janet, "as any person will. But a month ago when I gave David a wee bit of the cake I'd been making and he said to me: 'Janet, have you the recipe firm in your mind, lass, so you could make It If Mrs. Mann's book would be far from your reach?' I knew well the- , I time was drawing short. "And when," said Janet, closing her eyes at the recollection, "I said to-him, to-him, 'David, lad, the recipe is copied in a little book of my own,' and I saw the glint in his eye I reckoned 'twould be within the month he'd ask |