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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1909-09-16, Page 7Septembet 16th, 1909 Clinton News -Record 7 D. D. MCTAGGART . M. D. MoTAGGART NicTaggart ,Bros. —BANKERS--• 9;ENERAL 83ANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED INTELEST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES PURCII- ABED. •••• mm• •••• •••• 'It - - H. T. RANCE. - NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPR,ESEN- TING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. W. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLierrom NOTARY, PUBLIg. ETc. OFFICE -Sloane Blecit-C1 INTON. •••••••••••".••••• CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancers, Commissioners, Real Estate and Insurance Agency. Money to loan. ........... OFFICE - - HTJRON ST. .1011 MED DRS. GUNN & MeRAE. Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Edin. Office-Ontatio street,. Clinton. Night calls at front door of -office or resi- deuce, Rattonbury street. Di. T. T. McRae,, University of Toronto. 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GO rig Nest -41 4, 11 44 41 It at dusk on tbe second evening the eV flee of the Mountain Valley House was emptied and the barrooms and gaming tables well nigh deserted of their pa- trons. Jessica had seen the mustering ercisrd from tee hotel entrance. MM. Halloran bad welcomed her errand that day and given her her best room. a chamber overlooking the street She had persuaded her visitor to spend the afternoon and insisted that she stay to supper, "just to see how 'she would like it for a steady diet." Now, as Jessica passed along toward the moun- tain road the spectacle chained her feet on the outskirts of the gathering. She watched and listened with a pre - ewe; on her way to the shesarataxtntng that Hallelujah Jones was in his element.- occupied mind. She was thin t Would cross to the cabin for a good uight werd with the man upon whom her every thought ceetered. . As it happened, however; Harry was at that moment very near her. Alone •on the mohntain, the perplexing con, filet of feeling had again descended upon hies. He had fought it, but it had- prevailed and at nightfall had driven him down. to the. town, wbere tbe street preaCher now held. forth. He stood; alone, unnoted, a little. dis- tance away near the courthouse steps, 'where by reason -of the crowd Jessidit Could .seer neither him• nor the .dog. • whieb sniffed at the heels of the circle of bystanders as it to inquire casual- ly of salvation. Numbers- were swelling. now, and the. Street preacher, shaking back • big long hair, drew a premonitory, waver- ifig. chord from his melodeon and struck' op *a gospel song. The song ended, he mounted .his 'camp stool to. propound his usual fiery text. • •• : The watcher by the steps was 'gazing with a strange, alert intentness. Some- thing in tlie scene held him enthralled. Hallelujah Jones kneW the melodra- matic value of' conteast As his mood =lied. he passed .abruPtly from exhor- tation to song, from prayer to fulmina- tion, and b en3beilished his barangne with anecdotes drawn from les lifelong canipaign etgainst the areh enemy of -souls. Of. what -he had- said the soli- tary observer had been (mite uncon: scions. It was the..ensemble-rthe, rep.) titian of 'something experienced some where. before -that appealed ,to .hltne Suddenly, however; a etenice phrase pierced to. his uederstapding, - Another moment :ariti be was„leeping forward, his eyes fixed,. his breath . straining at his breast.- For each Word of.' the speaker now • was knocking ,e. sledge.•hammer blow epee the -blank -trail :in his hreln. . Helielujah Jones had launched litto the recital of a story • though the stern .charge of biehop.had kept him silent ae to' name ;and locality, yet, possessing the tivid- ewes et' an acteal experience, bad lost little in the telling.: . It Was the tale of an evening when he heti 'peered through the tiltedeviedow �f 4 chapel.and seen its dissolute rector. gambling on the ta- ble„of the Lord:. • . . The words shrieked themselves through Harry's -brain. • Barry Sander- son. not Hugh. I • Stires! Not an couteastl• Not c r tree n a I, thief and forger!' The curtain was tent. The cited wall in Lite brein was down. and • the real pest swept over hlmth • an ungovernable flood. Hallelujah Jones had fur-, niellee the Clew tathe maze. s His . story was the . last greet wave, ' 'chine; bled- all at once . Berry Sanderson, , -the cliff of -.aline- not no), sons, :jou nint tee.. nor- mal proeess of the reeovered mind had, been stealthily underin tiling.. Harry Sandet•son at last tweet- ulspast and all of puzelement aed distress that it hed held. Simkins In every limb and feeling all along the emirthotise wall like a drunk: en man. he allele his way to the fur- ther deserted Street. A passerby would have shrunk nt sight of. his tae and his burning eyes. . For these Months he, the Rev. Henry Sanderson, ilisgraeed, had suffered eclipse, Lind been seek out of sight and touch and beating like ni stone In a pool. For t11080 inonths-ethrough an nedidental facial resemblence and ti fortuitous eoneureence of eirente- strineesebe had owned the- name and ignominy of Buell Stires, And Jes- sica? Deceived no less than he. dtte• ing her piteous error 'from that • mis- taken moment when she had torn the, batidage from her eyes on her wedding day, she had never seen the real thigh In Smoky Mountain. She must :learn the truth. Yet how to tell her? liow could he tell her ell? At any hour yesterday. hard as the telling Mint have been, he could have told her. Last night the hour missed. II0W eOuld he- tell her now? Yet She Was the real Hugh's Wife by law and right. Ile himself eould not nuirry•her. If God would but turn back the uni- Verse and glee him yesterday: Ws feet dragging as though from Celd, he chnibed the mountain read. As he walked be took trete bis pocket the little gold eross and his augers. numb with misery, tied it to his thong watch guard. It had been only a bate hie, a pqcket piece acquired he knew not when or how. Now he knew it for the badge of his calling. tie remem- bered now that, pressed a certain wee. It would open, and engraved inside were his name and the date of his or- dination. He might shut the cabin door, but be could not forbid tbe torturer that catne with him across the He might throw himself knees and bury his face in skin of the couch, but be shut out words that Went lettered flashes across his eyeballs. "Thou shalt uot neigbbor's wife." So he crouched, a man under whose feet life had crashed, leaviug him pin- ned beneath tbe wreck to watch the fire that must creep nearer and nearer. * * * s * * * Curiosity held Jessica until the evan- gelist (dosed his melodeon preparatory to a descent upon the dance hall. Then, thinking of the growing dark with some trepidation, she started toward the mountain. Ahead of her a muffled puff -puff sounded, and the dark bulk of an auto- mobtle was moving slowly in the same direction, and she quickened her pace, glad of this quasi company. A little way up the ascent a cum- brous shadow startled her. She saw in a moment that it was the abfomobile, halted at the side of the road. Her footsteps made no sound,' and she was close upon It When she saw the three men it had carried standing near by. She made to pass them and had cross- ed half the intervening space, whea souse instinct sent her to the shade or threshold. upon his the rough could uot in golden throbbing covet -thy the irees, They had stopped opposite the hydraulic concession, where a side path left the main road, It was the same path by which she and August Prendergast had taken their uncon- scious burden on a night long' ago, • leading along the hillside, overlooking the snakelike flume and forming a steeper short cut to the cabin above. They were conversing in low tones, ami- ne they talked they pointed, she thought. toward it. •Jessietehad never in her life been an eavesdropper, but her excited senses • emes• ruse_ f JONI • edereees.-st.e• .7‘• 'Nee v441 , --esse2 ' eset u.sas Slims killed him." made tier anxious. Moreover, be watt in a way committed, for she couid not now emerge withont beteg seen. As she waited a Man catue.from the path andjoined the others. The sky had been overcast and 'gloomy, . but the moon- drew out Just then. and she.saw that the 'newcomer. evidently n•patrol, carried a rifle in the hollow of lie arm. She els� saw that one of the first three Was -the auto.mobikes. owner. ... , pon'some minutes they conversed in undertones; whose. very secrecy.• itt- tlamed her finagle:teens It seemed to her that they Made some' reference to the flume.- Had there been tinother rob- bery of the - shift* bees and :could they still. suspect Hugh? ' Dread • and inSignatiore made her bold. When they turned into. the path she followed. treading noiselessly, till She was dose bellied them. They had seemed eaten and were looking intent- ly at 'a shadowy gray .semething- that' tnov.ed In the bottom below. She heard the men Who earried the rifle say, with a smethered-latight "It's only Barney Meelinn's old•white horse taking a drink out -o1' the stelae box. Ile often does that." Then the sheriff's voice seta: "Me- Oinn's horse is in town tonight, with Barney on her back.. lImee or no horse, i'm going to"- The rest was lost h" -the swift nekton with whieh he snatched the firearm from the first speaker.. sigbfed and fired. In the still night the coneussiOn teemed to rock the ground and roused a hundred eehoes. It startled and shociced the listening girl.• bet not so meth as the sound. that followed it -- a cry that had nothing anintitelike and that sent the men Yenning down the slope townrd an object thtit lay hud- dled by the sluice box. 'In bOrrided euriosity Jesalca folleiv- ed, sliAiing from shndow , to shadow. She se** the sheriff kneel down and draw a collapsed and- empty horse akin from a- figure whose thieving tun - nine it would never cloak again. "So If was you. after nil, Prentlete gest!" the sheriff snid contemptuously. The white fare stared up at them venoesous and writhing, tenting silent the circle as though sesarehine for some one who MS Dot there "rloW did -you guess?" The theriff, who bad been making a swift extertinatiOn, answeeed the pant- ed eUestiOn. "You have to time to think of that now," he said. A sinister look darted Into the fllm ing yellow eves, and luitted end or - .1.4 444,01 .•••• hls-41.eva • la talaty" iilandert ttiein. I'reetterge s struggled to a letting posttue t fell back, convolve,' "Hugh Stites Be was the ouly-one who knew -bow It was tIone. Iltes ,elever.,but he fltn't get the best of Premiere:let!" A spasm distorted his foetuses eWitite wn It!" He fumbled in his bream end his - flugers brought Sortie it crumpled 'neve of paper. He thrust it luto the slierIff's hands. "Look! Lookl- gtsped. "The man they found murdered on the elalai there" -lie pointed vthfly up the hill- sicle-"Dr, eMoreau. tonna Win -dy- ing! Beres" - Strength was fast failing him. Ile tried again to speak, but only inarticu- late soundscanie from his throat A blind terror had elutehed the ileart 9f the girl leaning froei the ShadIEW. "Dr. Moreau"-"Inurdered." Why, he had been one of Hugh's friends! Why did this man couple Ilugles name with that work of crimes? What dreadfui - thing was he trying to tellShe hard ly repressed a desire to sere= aloud. "Be careful what yeti say, Prendef- gust," said the sheriff sternly. • The wretched man gathered force for a last effort. His vole* came lu croaking whisper: "It was Stires killed Ulm. 'Moreau wrote It down -and I -kept the paper. -Tell Hugb-we break-even!" °Irf)51 Chapter 20 IX • • -.1 IIILE the man whom . the town knew as Hugh Stires listened. to ..the tale of tbe street preacher, another. un- like yet curiously • like him in feature,. had slowly climbed the hilly slope frotn the north by the•san- Rare= road. He, walkedwith a Puns ty swagger bred of too frequent appli- cations to a flask in his pocket. As be walked unsteadily:alongIltigh drankmore than once from the flask to deaden tbe superstitious dread of the place Whkh was stealingeov.er him.. On the crest of the ridge he skirted,the sanitarium grounds and at length gained the road that twisted 'clews' to-. ward the lights of the town.. 'In the dubious moonlight he mistook the nar- row tritie to. the Since' for the lower 'Path to the etilen. As he turned into . it the 'report of a rifle came faintly. from the gulch below, • He quickened his steps and 'stumbled all at once into the little clearing that held the new made grave and Jessica's Statue. The -sight .terelfled .his intoxi- cated imagination. ells hair rose. The 'name en the headstone was-Stires, and there Was hitaself-ne, a' ghostof' him- self -sitting' near! , He turned. and -broke into a run down the steep.slope. In his -fear -for be imagined the white figure was pureeing- hiin-he eripped and fell, regained his feet, rushed across the level space. threw bis weight against the cabin door •and beret into .the root). • .• ' • A.dog sprang tip with it groWi. and In the light OP the fire that burned on. the hearth a man sitting tit the rough. hewn. table lifted a haggard face from. his• arms,. and each • recognized the other. • . The ghost was gone now before fire- light and human presence, and Hugh. :with a loud •Ittugh of tipsy -incredulity. stood -staring tit the man before him. "Harry •Sanderson!" he cried. Hie shifty eyes surveyed the other's figure -the corduroys, the highlaved boots, the soft blue flannel shirt.- "Not t...5itct-. ly in purple and :tine. he said. The, impudent .swagger of intoxicatien had Slipped over him again, and his boisterotis .1augh broke •with .a .,hic- cough. "1 thought- the .gospel game Was about played otit that . night le IOW) "You were sorocthlog of a hounitly swell as a parson." , the ehapet And now you nre williug to take a tete front the prodigal' 110W. did you find my nest? Mel peritape you can tell me who IlIft14 been making hinseelf so at home here irttely?" "I have," Mid Harry evenly, Hugh's glance, thet hed been sviiver- ihg about the neat interior, returned to Harry, end knowledge and anger loop- ed into it. "So it was you. was it? You are the one who hue been trying his heed as n cleitn jumper!" He hitched toward the table and leaned upon it "I've always beard that the devil took eare of his own. The run- away rectoe stutriblee on my manoi. and, with his usual Ittek-Satan's luck we called it at college -steps. In just in time to strike it ride" Ile -stretched his hand suddenly and taught a tiny object that glittered against tinny's eoat-the little gold cross which the other had tied to his Watch guard. The thong snapped. and Ilugh gent the pendant rattling across the deerotty. "Vett were something �f a &Wilt* es a parson," he sidd '118(4010Y. "brit Yoh don't need the Jewelry note' Harry Sandersou's eyes had not lett fiugh's face. He was thinking swift- ly. The belt from the blue had been so recent that this sudden apparition seemed a natural concomitant of the situation, Ouly the problem was iso logger Immlneet. It was upon him Jessica was Pot for him -he bud ac- cepted that. Though the clock might not- turn backward. this, man must stand between theta. Yet his presence now In the' predicament was lutolera- ble. "Well," said Hugh, with a sneer. "what have, you got to say?" "O'rIIeetwom„.uch will you lake for the pp "That's your grene, is it? But len not such a numskull! Whatever you could offer, It's worth more to inc. I know you, Satan Sanderson," be eueered. "You were always the same Precious hypocrite iu the old 'days, pre- tending to be so almighty virtuous, while you looked out for No. 1. I saw terough you then, too, when you were posing as my friend and try- ing your best all along to queer me with the cold Mau! 1 knew it well enough. I knew what the reason. was toe! You wanted Jessica! -You"- Pelf control' left iltu•ry suddenly, ns a ship's sull is, whipped front Its gaskets -Iu a -White squall. Before the words could be uttered his flug,ers were at Flugles throat, At elest instant there was the sound of miming feet- outside, a hurried' knock at the door and an agitated vole° eliat chuileti Harry's blood to lee. • Ills hands relaxed their hold. He dragged Hugh to thesdoor of the :atter - room, thrust him inside, shut and bolt- ed it.upon him •. Then he went and opened .the outer door. - • .' * * • . * * .* •* .* The accusation of Prendergast hate stuuued Jessica's faculties. As in an evil dream she had seen the sheriff rise to his feet and methodically put the fragment of paper into his pocketbook A moment- later- she was running up the darkpath, her thoughts a weft. sion ,in WhiCh only. •one- coherent .pur-' Pose steed distinct -to warn hies. They would knew no heed to hasten. lt the man she .loved had reached the eabia. she would be before them. . • Sca..... She stood before tfte door, h,er hands clasped tightly, her, eyes on Harry's fa "What has happened?" be asked: "Men Will be here soon -men from the town. I overheard them. 1 want- ed to let you know!" she hesitated. It had grown all at once difficult to, put into words, - 'Tenting here? Why?". • "MS arrest' a man who Is adgesed Of murder.free • • . • If .her eyeS.could hare pierced the teated door a few feet away! If she could have. seen that listening face .behind It as her clear tones fell. grow insfiect with recoguition, atuazement and evil suspicione•a look that her 'dee'. wordsswept Into a sickly gray terror!' .• If .she could have heard the grotin from thewretched men beyond' • • ::•DWrhoAsie9ea-rninus, rde.r.?". . . Jessica Waited with caught breath, searching his countenance. It was. told now, but he must kuow tbet, she had not credited . it, that "for better, fot worse," she. unist bellere In him now. "I knew, ob..1 knew!" she cried. "You need tot tell • Ine!" "NO." hessairl gravely, "lam not the. man they want It has ,all come back to me -the east that k hnd lost. Such a -crimo bas no part' In it. Jessica." he said; -you have tried to save Inc front danger tonight. , I need u greater serv- ice of- yop now. ,It is to ask no ques- tion, but tag° atonce. 1, cannot- ex - Plain why, but you must not stay here a Moment.", • • . • "Oh." she 'cried bitterly, "you don't intend to leave! You choose to face it, and you want to spare me. ef you want to spare -me; you -.will go! Why, you would .have no chance where they have hated you so. Prendergast was killed • robbing the sluketonight, and he lied-lieds-lied! Ile swore eeu did. it, -and they will believe kr • • Ile put beck her beseeching hands. Iloiv could he explain? Ouly to get her away -to 'gain time -to think': , "Listen!" she weetsra wildly. "They will wait to caret' him to the town.. I can go, and bring iny horse . here for /cwt. There is time! You have only to sendd-Me word eed I wlfl &IOW you to the end of the world! Only -say you will go!" Ile caught et the straw. The eipecli• ant -might serve. "'Very well," he snid; "bring him to the upper trail and wait there for me.". She gave •a sob of rellof nt his ne. quiescence. "I will hurry, hurry!" she cried and was gone, swift as a su•al low flight, into the darkness. As he re-entered the cabin the calm- ness fell from Harry Sanderson as it mask drops, end the latent passion sprang in Its pinee. Ile erossea the room tfrid drew the'bott Thr the wretch- ed man who, after one swift gittnee et his face, groveled -on his knees, before hint sobered and shivering. 'Ter God's stike, Barry, you won't give me up?" Hugh cried. "Inut can't memo- to do that! Why, we were in - renege together! l'n been drinking- to- nilightd fed!: . wouldn't hare tensed to eon aI Harry drew Ms feet front the frantic, hands that clasped them. "phi you kill Moreau?" he naked ghostly, "It was an necklent," mewled fingh "I never intended to. I swear to hone - en I didn't: lie tunneled me, and he tried to bleed me. 1 only wale to frighten him off! Then -then -I was afraid, arid 1 ran for It. '11.1ilt wtts WIWI 1 etMe to yett itt Allston we played." tIngli's breath came in gasps, and drops of sweat stood on his forehead. "When we played -Is' be echoed. "Dow have you settled yonr debt, the 'debt Of honer" you once counted so highly? Ilow have you lived Since then? Have • )011 pato Uw thJse days of decent lie. lug you staked. mai lost?" -But 1 will!" be exclaimed desper- ately. "If you'll only help me out of tbi i1 lire straight to wy dylug day! You don't know. how, I've suffered. Harry, or you'd have some mercy ou ole noW! Let me go, Hurry, for my fat her'S 'sake!" -Your father.is dead." said Harry. "Then for old tine's sake!" Be tried to clasp Ilarry's keeps. '"rhey may be her nt any minute: 1 must have been seen as I crossed the wountalu: I thought •It would never corne out or I wouldn't hew 'come! I'll go far enough new. I'll go to South America, and you Will never see me alive again, neither you nor Jesslea! For God's sake, Harry, listen! Jessiea wouldn't want to see inc hung! Per her sake!" It was the Marry Sanderson of St. James' parish, of the ssrupulons con- science -whose college career as Satan Sanderson had come to be a tiery sore In his breast -who now epoke. "o'nGeeyt p!" he .said. "Have Pau any Lu Hugh rose.trembling and !rebel'. "Hardly $10," he answered. Harry considered hastily. Ile • was almost penulless. Nearly all his share of the strike bad gone to repay the forged draft. "1 have no ready 'cash," be said. "but the night we played la the chapel I left it thousand dollars la my study safe. I have not been there since." He took peeell and paper from les pocket nod wrete• down sonie fig- ures hastily. "Here is the combina- tion. You must try to get that u3oney." "Wait," he added as -Hugh's -hand Was on the latch. He must risk noth- ing. He could make assurance doubly sure, ,"A -half mile' from the foot of . the mountain, where the read ceines In *from Funeral Hollow, wait for me. I will bring a horse there for you." Hugh crushed- the 'paper into his pocket and opened . the • door. . wait," he said. He darted' out, slipped around the .corner of the cabin and stealthily disappeared. Harry sat down upon the doorstep.. .The strain had been great. In the re- . 1 'I e ..10 e, • acalte, Ye/ '- He wt.:zing Harry's hand. action he was °faint, -and a mist wait • before his •eies.... The die whs. cast. ' ,Hugh could easily escape. 'Until he himself spoke he would not 'even. be. hunted, Ila, • Harry' Sanderson, Was - the scapegoat, left to play his part. How long he sat; there he • did not know. He sprang up at a •retelled soiled.. He had still -a mirk teedo be- fore, they came -for. Ilug b He saw irt an Instant, however,. that it was. Jesse ca,•leading her' horse by the bridle, , el eouid not wait," she breathed.. "You did not come, and I Was afraid!" Mounting, he leaned from the saddle and took both her inLndsinhis. Still he- did not kiss her. • .'"Jessica, you believe 1.am tnnocent?" he asked anxiously. "Yes -yes!" • you belleve• what I nm doing - is for. tbe best?" . • . "Always, ' I wn ys I" she whispered. her voice, Nibrilling. "Only go!" . • He released . her hands and rode quickly up the grassy path. As, she stood looking after him it dog's whine.carne. feorn't he cabin.' She 'ren and released the spaniel and took him up in her arms. As she did so it speedo caught hot eye. It came from the tiny gold eross lying where Hugh- had fill'14; it neer tile lighted doorway, She pielted it tee looked et it it moment abstroetedly end thrtist it Into her packet 444•1111'0 ssee seionsly, for her heart was keeping time to the eileneed -hoer beat that wns bearing the man she loved front dan- ger. * * • * Where. the way openNI into ths gloomy vitt of isuperel Ilonow, Barry dismounted and Went fere...set slowly ratter, leading the horse, tee a figure etepped from a tenser of bushes to ineet him with en eNvInttIlltIOU of relief. 11 ugt hi had waited at the re:eke/stele to shlverieg apprellenelan,ntel ettA• pidon of Harry's intentione ned heti not eppronehed till he had con vetoed himself that the other Nano alone. Ile wrung liarry's hand as he said: • "if 1. get mit of this., I'll do better the rest of my life, 1 will, upon my soul. Darryl" • "You hely not be nbie to get lett) the •-• chapel.", said Bette: "me rooms"- he felt bie eheelt Imre es he spolte-••"nety be oeetipied. On the chnnee that you fell. Mkt* Ole." Ile tem; err the ruby ring. whose Interlaced initials had onee fortified him in his error of identity. "The stout Is wot•th n good devil it thoted be 011011g11 to hike you any- where." 'limit nodded, slipped the ring on his (Inger tind Tale weekly off Thes Harry turned and walked rapidly Welt toward the town. (TO BE CONTIll'OED.)'