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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1893-09-29, Page 6= THE WINGHAM TIMES, SEPTEMBER 30,169, , 1-\ gc&N. -N.., tale Aoksf ,,o1 `31,1Buil • cepit-troa.,i3 sr Avows Ionics sicioLsjit.slr_w_31vw You, it 11017 g004 morning." He Your "Oh, iudeedr' the doctor laughed ear* raiaea his broad. etriviv hat and strode "I‘Mt the alighted." casticelly. "You thinle it right, then, to away up the gravel pathavlesthe widow I "How molly oystets sloes a man eat?" entertain young baelielore late ist night, looked after Wm with twinkliteg, oyes, "1 cal -A imagine." to emoke and drink with them, to—oh, She was eurprised herself to flud that "I'll write and ask Charles. No, I tlutt 1 shoed& ever have lived to blush SO liked the (looter better the more meet. I'll ask Jane. Ring for hor, for my own daughters! I thank God maeculine mat ag,greesive lie became. It Olara. She hae been a cook and is sure that your. dear mother never saw the wag unreasonable nad agaiust all prin.. to know." ciple, min yet so it wee, endue argument ' :faneam being cross griestiouea, refused "Dearest papa," cried Clara, throwing coati mend the matter. to commit herself beyond the statement her arms about him. "Do not be angry Very hot and angry the doctor retired that it depended Won the gentleman with us, If you understood all, you into his room and eat down to read WS and also upon the (miters. The nutted would. see there is noise= in it." paper. Ida had retired, and the distant experience of the kitchou, however, tea, "No harm, miss! • Who is the best wails of her bugle showed that she was tified that three dozen was a fair pro- judge of that?" up stairs in her boudoir. Clara sat oppoe vision. 'i111. Westmacott," suggested, Ida site to him with her exasperating charts ..Then we shall have eight deem alto. slyly, and her blue book. The doctor glancea. gctlier," said Ida, jotting dowse all her The doctor sprang from his chair, at her, and his eyesremained fixed in as- regairements upon a sheet or pavan "Confound Mrs. Westmacott!" he cried, touishmeut upon the front of her skirt. nand two pints of champagne, AA. striking frenziedly into the air with his "My dear Clara," he cried, "you have some brown bread and vinegar and pep', hands. "Am 1 to hear of nothing but tom your shirt!" per. That's all, I think, Ituot so very. this woman? Is she to confront me at Hie daughter laughed arid. smoothed clifficalt to give a supper rite): all, is it, every turn? 1 will -endure it no longer." out her frank, To his horror he saw the Clara?" "But it was your wish, papa." red plush of the chair where the dress "I don't like ito Ida. It seems to me to "Then I will tell you now what my ought to have been. bo fk) very indelicate," - second and wiser wish is, and we shall y "It is all torn," ho criea. "What have "Dat it is needed to clinch the matter. See if you will obey it as you have the you doe?" • No, ins, there is no drawinas back now, firot." "My dear papa," said she,"what ao you Clara, or wo shallruiu everything.. Papa "Of course we will, papa," know about the mysteries of ladies' dress? iu sure to como beak with the 9:45. He "Then iny wish is that you should for - This is v4 divided skirt." will reach the door at 10, wo must have get these odious notions which you have Then ho saw that it was indeed so ar- everything ready for him. Now, just sit d imbibed, that you should dress and act ranged, and that his daughter was clad down at biceand aelz Harold to come as you useto do before ever you saw this in a sort of loose, extremely long leniela at 9 o'clock, and I shall do the same to woman, and that in future you confine erbockers. Charles." your intercourse with her to such civili- "It will be eo convenient for iny sea The tWo. invitations were dispatched, ties as are necessary between neighbors," boots," she explained. received and. accepted. Harold was "We are to give up Mrs. Westmacott?" Her father shook his head sadly. "Your already a confidant, and ho understood. "Or give up me." dear mother would not have liked it, that this *as some further development "Oh, dear dad, how can you say any - Clara," said ho. of tho plot. As to Charles, he was so thing so cruel," cried Ida, burrowing hex For a moment the conspiracy was accustomed to feminine eccentricity in . towsy, golden hair into her father's shirt upon the point of collapsing. There was the person of his• aunt that the only front, while Clara pressed her cheek something in the gentleness of his re- thing 'which could surprise him would against his whiskey.. "Of course we. buke and in his appeal to her mother be a rigid observance of etiquette. At shall give her up if you prefer it." which brought the tears to her oyes, and 9 o'clock they entered tho dining room of "Of course we shall, papa." in another lustant she would have been To; 2,to find the master of the house The doctor patted the two caressing kneeling beside him with everything absent, a rod shaded lamp, a many cloth, heads. "These are my own two girls confessed, when the door flow open and a pleasant little feast and the two whom again," he cried. "It has been My fault as much as yours. I have beau astray, her sister Ida came bounding into the they would have chosen as their nom - room. She wore a short gray skirt, like paniortsa A merrier party never mot, and you have followed me in my error., that of Mrs. Westmacott, and She held and the house rang with their laughter It was only by seeing your mistake that it up in each hand and danced about and their chatter. Let us set it aside and neither say not: I Imv.e become conscious of my own. among the furniture. "It is 3 minutes no 10," cried Clara "I feel quite the Gaiety girl!" she suddenly, glancing at the clock. think anything more about it." cried. "How delicious . it must be to be "Good gracious! So it is! Now for upon the stage! You can't think how our little tableau!" Ida the pushed _. CHAPTER XI. nice this dress is, papa. Ono feels so free champagne bottles obtrusively forward A noLT PkOliTnE mon. in the direction of thedoor and scattered So by the cleverness of two girls a ..oyster shells over the cloth. • "Have you your pipe, Charles?" "My pipe! Yes." "Then please smoke it. Now, don't argue about it, but do it, for you will ruin the effect otherwise." ' The large man drew out a red 'case and extracted a great yellow meer- schaum, out of which a moment later he was puffing thick wreaths of smoke. .Harold had lit a cigar, and both the girls had cigarettes.. "That looks very nice and emanci- pated," said Ida, glancing round. "Now I shall lie on this sofa. So! Now, Charles, 'just sit, here and throw your arni carelessly over the back of the sofa: No, don't stop smoking. I like it. Clara, dear, put your feet upon the coal scuttle and do try to look a little dissipated. I wish we .could crown ourselves with. flowers. Thore are some lettuces on the sideboard. Oh, dear ' • hero he is! 'I hear his key." She began to sing in her nigh, fresh voice a little snatch from a French song, with a swinging tra-la-la chorus. The doctor had walked home from the station in a peaceable and relenting frame of mind, feeling that perhaps he had said too much in the morning, that his daughters had for years been models in every way, and that if there hacl been any change of late &Was., as they said themselves, on account. of their anxiety to follow his advice and to imitate Mrs. Westinacote. He could see clearly enough now that that advice was un- wise and that a world peopled with Mrs. .Westmacotts would not be a happy or a soothing one. It eels ho who was him- self to blame, and he was grieved by the thought that perhaps his hot words had troubled and saddened his two girls. This fear, however, was soon dissi- te eane see.) . '-oe.rau, papa." ' 'Rune? In the morning?" He sat down I meat in the intervals of her chemistry. 1 rubbed his eyes as one who tries to , And Clara is quite as bad. I declare it is nee of some evil dream. "Did you ; getting quite unendurable." f mane" ! "Ah, doctor, doctor!" she cried, sluek- eYes, pe. They all drink it in the pro- i in.g her forefinger with a gleam. of her eon winch I am .gbing to take up." ; white teeth. "You must live up to your Profession, Clara?" ; principles—you must give your (laugh- 'Mre. Westmacott says that every : tors the same liberty as yon advocate for nnau should follow a calling, and that • other women," waght to choose those which women , "Liberty, madam, certataly1But this five always avoided."t approaches to license." "Quito." -The same law for all, my friend." 'N'irell, I am going to act upon her ad- 1 Sho tapped him reprovingly on the arm ' e, I am going to be a pilot." 1 with her sunshade. "When youwere 20, 'My dear Clara! A pilot? This is too I your father did not,.I presume, object to felt, ' your learning chemistry or playing a "This is a beautiful book, papa. 'The musical instrument, You would have ghts, Beacons, Buoys, Channels and thought it tyranny if he had." "But thereis such a stulelen change in au:lumens of Great Britain.' Here is • other, 'The Master Mariner's Hand- thein both." oh.' You can't imagine how interest- "Yes, I have noticed that they have g it is:" , been very enthusiastic lately in the cause "Yon are lokiag, Clara. You must of liberty. Of all my disciples I think jokhr." that they promise to bo the most devoted "Not at all,. p. You can't think what and consistent, Which is the more natu- lot I have learued already. I'm to ral since their father is one of our most rry a green light to starboard and a trusted champions." d to port, with a white light at the The doctor gave a twitch of impatience. ' . sthead, and flare up every 15 minutes," "I seem to have lost all authority," he "QlteWell't...it look pretty at night" ' cried - led her sister. "No, no, my dear friend. They are a "And I know the fog signals. One little exuberant at having broken the last means that a ship steers to star- trammels of custom. That is all." oard., two to port, three astern, four "You cannot think what I have had to at it is =manageable. But this xnan pat up with, madam. It has been a 1 aclful experience. Last night, after I pointini at cie.i lest coil., mission. for Harold, "I'll toll, you what, admiral," she eX.- claimed soddenly, "if I were yon 1 should got year boy out of this partner- l'ull'13B,lict ale'? shey 1%, ellas.aatiedn; o one of the deep'. est, sliest foxes in the whole city of Lon= "Jeremiah Pearson, ena'am? What can you know of him? He bears a good name." "No one in this world knows Jeremiah. Pearson as I know Min, admiral. I warn you because I have a friendly feel- ing both for you and, for your son. The man is a rogue, and you had best avoid him," "But these ar'e only words, Do you tell me that you know him better than the brokers and jobbers in the city?" "Man," cried Mrs. Westmacott, "will you allow that I (know him 'when I tell you that my maiden name was Ada Pearsou, and that Jeremiah is my only brother?" Tho admiral whistled. "Whew!" cried ihiek.ene"sNs7 that I think of it there is a "He is a man of iron, admiral—a man without a heart. I should shook you if I were to tell you what I have endured from my brother. My father's wealth was divided ,equally between us. His own share he ran through in five years, and he has tried since then by every trick of a cunning, low minded maxi, by base cajolery, by legal quibbles, by bru- tal intimidation, to juggle mo out of my share as well. There is no villainy of which the man is not capable. Oh, 3 know my brother joremialo I know him, and I ani prepared for him." "This is all new to me, ma'am. 'Pon my word, hardly know what to say tc it. I thank you for having spoken se plainly. From what you say this is 8 poor sort of consort for a ina,n to sail evtoi,tc,IwuotitliPilmoeiTaps Harold would do well • Geiflosaidlargifat." day." "Well, we shall talk it over. You may bo sure of that. But hero we are at the station, so 1 will just see you into your carriage and then home to see what my wife says to the xnatter." As ho trudged hozneward, thoughtful] dark cloud was thinned away and turned and perplexed, ho was surprised to hear into sunshine. Over one of them, alas, a shout behind him and to see Harold • • , had e‘tinnuished the candle in my bed- in it. And isn't Clara charming?" sks such dreadful questions at the en d "Go to your room thiS instant and take it off!" thundered the doctor "I call it highly improper, and no daughter of f each chapter. Listen to is. on ee a red light. The ship is on the port room, I placed my foot upon something ack and. the wind at north. What smooth and hard, which scuttled from der me Imaaine my horror! I lit The doctor rose with a gesture of de- the gas and came upon swell known tor- mine shall wear ite" °terse is that ship steering to a point?" pair. "I can't imagine what has come toise which Clara has thought fit to in- 1 "Papal Improper! Why it is the ex - ver you both," said he. troduco into the house. I call it afilthy ' act model of Mrs. Westmacotts." "My dear papa, wo are trying hard to custom to have such pets." ! "I say it is 114z:open And e-ouraalso, mo up to Mrs. Westmacott's standard." Mrs. Westmacott dropped him a little , Clara,. Your conduct is really outrae "Well, I must say that 1 do not ad_ courtesy. "Thank you, sir," said she. geous. You drive me out of the house. •*re the result. Your chemistry, Ida, "That is a nice little side hit at my poor I am goifitio my club in town. I have • ay perhaps do no harm, but your Eliza." : no comfort or peace of mind in my own cheme, Clara, is out of the question. ' "I give you my word that I had for- house. 'I will stand it no longer. I may ow a•girl of your sense could ever en- gotten about her," cried the doctor, flush- be late tOnight. labial go to the British ertain such a notion is more than I can lug. "One such pet may no doubt be medical meeting. But when I return I nagine. But 1 must absolutely forbid endured, but two aro more than I can shall hope to find that you have recon- ou to go further with it." , bear. Ida has a, monkey which lives on sidered your conduct, and that you have "But, pa," asked Ida, with an air of ea. the curtain rod. It is a most dreadful shaken yourself clear of the pernicious nocent inquiry in her big blue eyes, . creature. It will remain absolutely me- • influences which have recently made "what aro we to do when your coin- tionless until it sees that you have for- i such an alteration in your conduct." He •gotten its sresence and then it will sud- I seized his hat, ,slammedthe dining room door, and a feveminutes later they heard the crash of the.big front gate. "Victory, Clara; victory!" cried Ida, still. pirouetting, around the furniture. "Did you. hear what ho said? Pernicious influences! Don't you understand, Clara? Why do you sit there so pale and glum? Why don't you get up and dance?" "Oh, I shall bo so glad when itis over, Ida. I do hate to give him pain. Surely - . he haslearned now that it is very, un• pleasant to spend one's life with reform- ers." i• 1• "He has almost learned it, Clara. rust one more little lesson. We must not risk all'at this last moment." "What would you do, Ida? Oh, don't do anything too dreadful. I feel that we have gone,too far aheady." , "Oh, we can do it very nicely. You . 'see wo aro both engaged, and that makes it very easy. Harold will do what.you • . ask him, especially as you have told him the reason why, and my Charles will do it without, even wanting to know the A- reason. Now you know' what Mrs. ae,.:30:"511 Westmacott thinks about the reserve of eie - young ladies. Mere prudery, affecta- tion and a relic of the dark ages of the _. zenana, Those were her words, wore they t?" doing, we shall be able to say all our 1 "Swinging &Ara, on the beitrope and "What, then?" lives that we have saved him. And if jumping onto the top of voter head." We are reducing all her other views to "Well, now we Must put it inexactice. practice, and we must not shirk this one." "But what would you do? Oh, don't look so wicked, Ida! You look like errands and:Mrs. Westmacott stance are opposed? You told as to obey her. She denly bound from picture to picture all says that when women try to throw off round the walls and end by swinging their shackles their fathers, brothers and down on the bellropo and jumping onto husbands are the very first to try to the top of your head. At breakfast it rivet them on again, and that in such a stole a poached egg and daubed it all 'matter no man has any authority." , over the door handle. Ida calls these "Does Mrs. Westmacott teach you that outrages amusing tricks." I am, not. the head of ray own house?" ! eeloctor flushed, and his grizzledhair "Certainly. She says that all heads of 6.. rlstled in his anger. - houses are relics of the dark ages." 1 The doctor muttered soniethiug and 1 'NW:Aped his foot upon the carpet. Then i 'without a word he passed out into the '. garden, and -his daughters could see him . striding furiously up and clown, cutting off the heads of the flowers with a 1 switch. "Oh, you darling! You played your I part so splendidly!" cried Ida. . "Bat how cruel it is! When I saw the 1 sorrow and surprise in his eyes, I very nearly put ray arms about him and. told ' him all. Don't you think we have done ellen:eh?" . "No. mom. Net rosily enough. Yon , , Must not turn weak now, Clara. It la so 1 VP fanny that I should bo leading you. It 1 .4 is quite a new experience. But I know 1 that I ant right. If we go on as we are 1 • • we doll% oh, Clara, we should never for - :give ourselves." CHAPTER, /C. WOMW or THE ratan. Front that day the doctor's peace was gone. Never was es quiet and orderly household transformed so suddenly into a beer garden or a happy man turned into such a completely miserable one. Be had. never realized before how entire- ly his daughters. had shielded him from all the friction of life. Now that they had not only ceased to protect him, but bad theraselvea become a sonrce of trou- ble to leim, lie began to understand how "Oh, all will come right,"said the widow reasstuingly. "And Clara is as bad—Clara, who used to be so good and sweet, the very image this preposterous scheme of being a some evil little fairy, with your golden Westmacott sat beside her, with Inc arm of her poor mother. She insists upon pilot and will talk: of nothing but re- hair and mischievous eyes. I know that thrown over the head of the sofa with you are going to propose something the suggestion of a caress. On the other another cloudwas gathering which could not be so easily dispersed. Of these three households which fate had thrown to- gether two had already been united by ties of love. It was destined, however, that a bond of another sort should con- nect the Westmacotts with the Hay Den - vers. Between the admiral and the widow a very cordial feeling had existed since the day when the old seaman had hauled down his flag and changed his opinions, granting to the yachtswoman all that he bad refused to the reformer. His own frank and downright nature respected the same qualities in his neighbor, and a friendship sprang up between them which was more like that which exists between two men, founded upon esteem and a community of tastes. "By the way, admiral," said Mrs. Westmacott one morning as they walked together down to the station, "I under- stand that this boy of yours in tho inter- vals of 'paying his devotions. to Miss Walker is doing something upon 'change." "Yes, ma'am, and there is no man of his age who is doing so well. He's draw- inr, ahead, can tell yOu, ma'am. Some oethoso that started with him are hull down astern now. He touched his £1s00 last year, and before he's 30 he'll be mak- ing the four figures." "The reason • asked is that I have small investments to make myself. from time to time, and my present broker is a rascal. I should bo very glad to do it through your son." "It is very kind of you, ma'am. His partner is away on'a holiday, and Har- old would like to push on a bit and show what he can de. Yon know the poop pated. As he entered his hall ho heard the voice of Ida uplifted in a rollicking isn't big enough to hold the lieutenant dittY, and a very strong salon of tobacco when the skipper's on shore." was borne to his nostrils. He threw open "1 suppose he chargeS the usual half the dining room door and stood aghast Per cent?" at the scene which met his eyes. "Don't know, I'm stire, ma'am. rn Tlei room was full of the blue wreaths swear that ho does what is right and of smoke, and the lamplight shone proper.", through the thin haze upon gold topped "That is what I usually pay -10 shil- bttles, plates, napkins and a litter of tinge in £100. If you see him before I oyster shells and cigarettes. Ida, flushed. do, just, ask him to get lne £5,000 in Now Zealand. It is at 4 just now, and I fancy and excited, was reclining upon the set- tee, a wineglass at her elbow and a ciga- it may rise:" Five thousand!" exclaimed the ad- ette between her fingers, while Charles " miral, reckoning it in his own mind. "Lemme seel That's £25 commission. A nice day's work, upon my word. It is a very handsome) order, ma'ain." "Woll, 1 must pay some one, and why not him?" "I'll tell hint, and I'm sure he'll lose no time," "011, there is no great hurry. By the way, I understand from what you said just now that he has a partner." "Yes, my boy is the junior partner. Pearson is the senior. I was introduced to hint years ago, and he offered Harold the opening. Of cane we had a pretty stiff premitire to pay." Mrs. Westmacott had stopped and was standing very stifaly, *with her red, Indian face even griminer than, usual. "Petersen?" said she. "Jeremiah Pear - running down the road after him. ".Why, dad," he cried, "I have just come from town, and the first thing I saw was your back as you marched away. But you aro such a quick walker 'that I had to run to catch you." The admiral's Braille of pleasure had ' 'broken his stern face into a thousand wrinkles. "You are early today," said he. "Yes, I wanted to consult you." "Nothing wrong?" • "Oh, no; only an inconvenience." "What is it, then?" "How much have we in our private' account?" "Pretty fair. nom° £800. I think." "Oh, half that will be ample. It was rather thoughtless of Pearson." "What, then?" "Well, you see, dad, When he went away upon this little holiday to Havre he left eno to pay accounts and so on. He told me that there was enough at the bank for all claims. I had occasion on Tuesday to pay away two checks, one for £S0 and the other for £120, and hero • they are returned with a bank notice that we have. already overdrawn to the extent of some hundreds." The admiral looked very grave. , "What's the meaning of that, then?" he TO BE CONTINUED. M.....211MV/1.11•104IMMOMIAIII volving lights, and hidden rocks, an codes of signals, and nonsense of the dreadful!" kind." "Wo must give a little stepper tonight.' "But why prepoStorousr asked his "We? .A. suppetr' companion. "What nobler occupation "Why not? Young gentlemen give can there be than that of stimulating sappers. Why tot young ladiee?" commerce and aiding the retainer to "But whom shall wo invite?" steet safely into port? I should. think "Nsthy, Harold and Charles, of course.' your daughter admirably adapted for "And, tho admiral and Mrs. }lay Den Vex'?" "Oh no. That would be very. old great the blessing was winch he hoc en- such tidies," joyed eta to sigh for the happy days be- "Then I must beg to differ from you, fore his girls had come mulct the intim- madam." ence of hill neighbor, "Still, you are inconsistent." "Yon don't look happy," Mrs. West- "Excuse me, madam, I do not see the mitcott had remarked to him ane Morn- tnatter In the same light. Arid. I should ing, "You arepale and a little off color, be obliged to you if you would tiee year Yoshould come with me for a 10 -mile influence with ney daughter to dissnada e her " . Let me see! .Clianspagne, of couree—and 1 to Ins room, A quarter of an mut a e ------------------.iii do It the novels ' orWard los heard the door slam, and his . son?" "The game," side of the room Clara was lounging in an armchair, with Harold beside her, both smoking and both with wineglasses beside them. The doctor stood speech- less in. the doorway, staring at the bac- clianalian scene. ' "Come in, papa, do!" et fed Ma. "Won't you have a glen; of champagete?" "Pray excuse me," said her father coldly. "I feel that 1 am intruding. I 44 fashioned, We Mast keep up with the I did not know that yott ever° entertaining. times, Clara." j Perhaps you will kindly let mo know "13tit what can. we give them for seep- 1 when you have finished. You will find per?" ine in my study," Ho ignored. the two "Oh, something with a nice, fast, red- 1 young men completely, and closing the l' 1 nve late at night kind of flinfor to it. . door retired, deeply hurt and mortified, spin upon th"I ant troubled about y gi" They were walking up awl down in the gar- den. Proni time to time there sounded front the house behind them the long sad Wail of a French hoes, "That is Ida" saki he. "She has taken $to retactining on tiiat dretolfgl instru= — "You wishe nie inconsistent too." all the llaughtY people take champagne two dattghters canto to announce that you refuse?" and oysters. Desides, they won't need the guests wore gone. "Then Ws all off? she cried. "You am afraid that 1dalinet interfere." any cooking. now is your pocket thou- ,eGtestst vhose guests?, ho cried on, need not carry Out that invetment." The doctor was very angry. "Vel 7 ey, Clara? grily. "Whab is the meaning of this ex.. 1 "Very well,ratthall'n well, madam," said he, "In that case 1 1 "I have three pounds,if Inbition?"I They walked on together side by side, can only say that 1 have the honor to "I have one, Voir potuuls. /haven° "We have bean giving a little nipper,. the brooding Over genie *eaglet of lier iaealtew much champagne coste. papa.. They were ourguests." towel and he a little ertaSed and disaps Hr. Geo. W. Turner Simply Awful Worst Case of Scrofula the Doctors Ever Saw Completely Cured by HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. "When 1 was 4 or 5 years old. 1 had a sera' mous sore °tithe middle finger of my left hand, which got so bad that the doctors cut the anger off, and later took oft more than half my hand. Then the sore broke out on ray arm, came out on my neck and face on both sides, nearly destroying the sight of ono eye, also on my right arm. Doctors saki it was the Worst Case of Scrofula they ever saw. It was simply awful: Five years ago I began to take Rooda Sarsaparilla. Gradually 1 found that the sores wete begin Meg to heal. 2 kept on till / had taken ten botues, ten dollar.: Just think of What a return 2 got for that ifiVeStnient: A thou. toned per Cent? Yes, many thonsaad. For the past 4 years 2 have had no sores, I Work ail theTime. 2 could do no work.. I know not What to say strong enough to express my grata nude to Hood's Sarsaparilla for my perfect euro." _ Siouan W. Zumotit, teenier, Gal - wan. neratoga county, N. Y. „ HOOD'S PILO tle dot *Wm, but Ma And tone the stonifich. Try them M. sc. 4