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" Cui bono ? " A few years later she discovered 

 from the applause of the people, but she might have 

 learned in the whisper of a god, that she was a chosen 

 channel of dehght. " The principles of art are 

 eternal," but the story seems to make the distinction 

 between the European and the American artist. 



The simple bungalow in which this delightful 

 family lived at Fort Qu'Appelle deserves quotation. 

 It was a square lumber and plaster building divided 

 into three sections. The south division was a big, 

 two-windowed lounge drawing-room ; at the far 

 end were a dining table and sideboard, and during 

 the winter that end served as a dining-room. The 

 floor was restained once a year and highly polished 

 all the time, but rugs were here and there to save 

 the situation. Quite a delightful instrument in 

 the way of a piano, some books, many interesting 

 photographs, and even when the temperature fell 

 to sixty below, always ivy trailing round these 

 windows which looked out on the lake from the one 

 side and the hills on the other, contributed to the 

 impression of restfulness and charm. The north 

 division of the bungalow was subdivided into three 

 small bedrooms, and the central aisle into two rooms, 

 the outer was the winter kitchen and summer 

 dining-room, and the inner the pleasant lounge 

 hall, familiar as home itself to many English people 

 who have passed through or sojourned in Fort 

 Qu'Appelle. A lean-to kitchen was at the back for 

 summer use, and a hop-curtained veranda spanned 

 the north-east walls. The bungalow was heated 

 entirely by a huge box-stove and drum which could 

 swallow on demand six Yule logs nearly two feet in 

 length ; but two were usually sufficient to keep the 



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