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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-03-10, Page 6v. A Trial Will Convince! "SAwDA" * JGi&n Is not equalled by any otHer tea. T creep upon Mm; and with it camo the same quality roused a wift madness wrath that flourishes in darkness, of desire to crush. This much lie Wrath against the old crow, Hardy, recognized; and, he resolved to beat it who was casting hjs shadow ovex* put of the way in the old man just as them. he expected to take it to himsexf in “Does that mean that you won’t the girl ff $100.00 in Cash Prizes To Boys and Girls for Essays on Canada (marry me, Edith? Are you holding off, like him, to see—” He stopped. That was an un­ worthy thought with respect to her, for he knew that the giving of her love was not conditioned upon any­ thing—that it was his own, now, and that it was only herself which she withheld. “It’s hard,” she said softly. “All I know is that he has been right in the past. If he said ‘you can’t marry Mark Rowland!’ I’d go over to the parsonage with you right ’now. It’s just because I think he must have a good reason for being against it, Mark!” “You won’t marry me?” lie asked. “Is that it?” “I won’t say that, Mark!” There was a film of tears in her eyes now, although she still smiled. “I want him to feel differently about it.” He swept her into his arms and kissed her half a dozen times. She did not resist, but there was the feel­ ing that he held only the body of Edith Hardy. He let hex’ go so sud­ denly that she staggered. “I’ll make him change his mind!” he cried; and he went out of the gar­ den, leaving her there with the un­ easy spaniel whining at'hex* feet. He had the key, he felt. She would '"it was the answer that Rowland not marry him without her father’s had not expected. [approval, but when the piles of sawn “That means you’re against me I”; lumber rose in his mill-yard the ob- said Rowland, in a low voice. “And ’ jection of old Aaron Hardy would be I don’t think she’ll marry me unless, gone. That was it. you say you’re friendly.” j “I’ll make him coine to time in less “Neither do I!” Aaron Hardy look- than a year,” muttered Rowland, as ed him squarely in the face. “Not he'went back to the head of the gorge that she ain’t welcome to if she wants ’ where his xnen were at work, “Or, by to. I wouldn’t ever treat eithei’ one; the rusty hinges of hell, I’ll break ............., I myself!” That's why’ Wtih that resolution dxiven into his .’’■mind as the spike of a peevy drives i into a log, Mark Rowland set out to __________.. - ; ____' ____I C-t .2 I make money out of my mill or not!”;plaid-shirted huskies than any man “Tl- ,vncrhf In ho liplaw fllA P'OTire.” li.jrl war o'nh Vinfm'D, Of course there were difficulties. T34 His Terrible Dawn BY WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE. PART I. j with a touch of impatience and ap- The wide, low doorway of the}P^ien3^- t wn«q <tav anvthimr blacksmiih shop gaped red and black' J, ,ffue'-3 v y to Mark Rowland, as though it were -viaiK' the grinning mouth of a small hell. The tinkle -and clang of iron on anvil met him; and the hiss and spat of hot iron in water. He could see the skinny-armed master of the place out­ lined against the glare of the forge. More like a crow than a blacksmith. Rowland wanted to talk to old Aaron Hardy, and he walked straight into the place with his chin drawn in and his knotty fists swinging. He went; in expecting trouble because of j Hdrdy’s attitude toward him these six months past. “Aaron,” he began, balancing upon the balls of his feet, “I’ve come to see you about Edith.” The eyebrows drew a little nearer j to each other and came to rest. Hardy waited a matter of half a minute be­ fore he spoke, and then his words were slow. “I thought you’d come about Mark, as soon as I heard you going to build a dam above gorge”. “Yes,” said Rowland, “the dam’ll be finished this fall. In the spring I’ll bring a big drive of logs down the Dunder and I’ll have a mill ready to saw them by the time they’re out of the rivei* and piled. I’ll be able to give Edith as good as anybody’s -got Tn Dunder Gorge.” Upon that he rested his case. Hardy knew as well as he himself did that he was thirty years old, a wildcat in a fight, and considered one of the most promising young men in the county. “You said anything to Edith?” asked the blacksmith. “Yes.” “What did she say?” “It’s all right with her. She said to come to you.” “Huh!” It was impossible to guess what the grunt expressed. “You ought to build the dam below the gorge, Mark, and put in a gristmill instead of a sawmill.” “The place for a mill pond is above the gorge,’1 answered Rowland sharp­ ly. lie had not come there to talk about his business affairs. “My idea about that ain’t the same as yours, Mark.” “Well?” “You mean you want I should say something about Edith?” One of the shaggy eyebrows raised and.lowered. “Yes!” Rowland laughed, although 1 of you any different.” “That’s the devil of it! she doesn’t want to go against you. ! “Yes.” i into a log, Marx wowiana set out to ! “You’re holding off to see whether; get more work out of’ the gang of her, was the ‘It ought to be below' the gorge,” ■ had evex* got before. replied Hardy, without raising his | Of ___ ________ voice. “Suppose you get a freshet, or As on the frosty October morning anything else goes wrong, and. your' when Mike Powers, logs go down through the gorge? It Snan balked nt an would cost more’n they’d bejA'orth to1 men'waist deep into the river to stop scattered all the way from here to the; Upon that occasion Rowland climbed A'.„. And you can’t have a sawmill {up the front of Mike Powers, and for below the gorge on account of the (thirty minutes the men, who were i lumberjacks in winter, river drivers jin spring, and jacks of all trades in (To be concluded.) — —- .tL. - _ . - ‘ . .......... IT —‘ ' !U 17 :■ OPEN TO SCHOLARS IN PUBLIC AND SEPARATE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATES — NO EN­ TRANCE FEE—NOTHING TO SELU-RULES OF CONTEST SIMPLE. The publisher of this paper, in co-operation with a number of other publishers of weekly newspapers, will distribute thirty-six (36) cash prizes to boys and girls for the best essays on Canada. 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PRINCESS ELIZABETH CUTS FIRST TOOTH. i ____ SAW it witH a SAW longes* Cuts easier. Saws faster SIMONDS CANADA SAW CO. LTD. MONTREAL VANCOUVER, ST. JOHN, N.B., TORONTO I ■ King and Queen Dispatch | News by Radio to Duke and i Duchess of York. The King was In the parlor when ho heard that his tiny guest—the Prin­ cess Elizabeth, whose parents-, the- Duke and Duchess of York, arc now on a voyage to the antipode®—had cut her first tooth. The King, as even kings will over so important a family event, forgot affairs of state momentarily and be­ came nearly as excited as lie did on the night of last April 21 when he waB aroused from his Slumber at 3 a.m, at Windsor Castle to learn that his first granddaughter had been born. King George, so the story goes, im­ mediately sent attendants scurrying about Buckingham Palaeo to Inform the Queen of tho tooth’s arrival. The Queen pretended surprise so that the- King would think he had learned the news first, but her ladies in waiting say that slxe knew all about the tooth days ago. The King and Queen then sat down together and framed a wire­ less message to the Duke and Duchess of York, aboard tho Renown, to tell of the great event. Queen Mary sees Princess Elizabeth two or three times daily now that the princess is in her care during her parents’ absence? King George also- usually has a little visit immediately after breakfast when she is- brought to him. If he is in the humor, as b® usu­ ally is, ho permits the baby to pull the royal beard, and If the little princess is in good humor—as is not always the case— the King leans back in his chair and radiates in the baby’s smiles-. The princess has been the guest of her grandparents- since February 5. She has a six-acre palace garden, all to herself and hei’ nurse for her air­ ings. The princess is a most import­ ant personage in every sense of the word, because, as matters stand, she is in a direct line of succession to the throne. That succession primarily is in the male lino, but so long as the Prince of Wales is unmarried and the Duke of York has no son great possl- , bilities may be in store for her. anything else goes wrong, and youi- when Mike Powers, Rowland’s fore­ logs go down through the goi’ge? Itjnxan, balked at an ox’dex- to lead his 1___i.’_ 1 " J ..............LA A.A A___A -A^. haul ’em back with' teams. They’d be;a newly developed leak in the dam. scattered all the way from here to the'Upon that occasion Rowland climbed lake. And you can’t have a sawmill;up the front of Mike Powers, and for trouble of running logs through it- not with profit.” . ,... ___ „...... __ ___ _______ “Nothing will go wrong.” said Row'-'summer and fall, saw as good a fight land. “I’ll see to that!” A„ A2A„..2„A.„ '...A 2.....A'..A “A gristmill below the gorge would, them in half a dozen years. grind grist and make flour for you j Powers lay on the floor of Di*. Shat- fine and easy with that fall of water.” t tuck’s office until the doctor came Now Rowland became confirmed in J driving in from his long round of belief that the whole matter was a. calls, and it was ten days before he question of his prosperity. That’was able to go to work again. Bow- Aaron Hardy’s opinion of his abil- ’ - - - - • - •- - - - ities was far from his own enraged him, “I'll build a dam and sawmill above the gorge in spite of you or anybody else’’’ he growled, with outhrust head. “And I'll marry Edith! You don’t know me, Andy Hai'dy!” “I know they call you the Iron Man, Mark,” s..............................................' a change in voice or manner, worked with iron all my life.” '• “See what you can do with me,; then!” Rowland turned with this and! walked toward the doorway. !_o_ build the dam and make the money jing the winter, for the drive, he xieed- and marry the girl! ’ jcd some ironwork and many feet of He passed out into the sunlight,; chain for the boom which, come and he had not gone a dozen steps, spring, would be stretched from shore before the renewed sound of hammer;to shore above the pond to hold back and anvil came to him, just as though’the mig'hty flood of logs he expected his visit had been of no importance.; to bring down from the woods on high Clang! That would be cold iron that(water. It was right and natural that old Aaron struck. Clang-clang-clang!.he should order his- chains and iron- Let him pound! He would have more‘work there in Dunder Gorge, luck with his iron than with the Iron; The fierce eyebrows of Aaron Man. Mark Rowland had made up • Hardy waggled a question when Row- his mind to follow his nose in a direct;land entered the shop, but as he began line into the future and toward Edith, to state his errand they settled to Let who would stand in the way and l’est, and by the time the specifications get bumped. for the chains were fully made, the He went straight to the brown, low- old man was as kindly as though eaved house where Aaron Hardy and; there had never been a word of quar- his daughter had always lived. At Mel between them. He promised the this time in the afternoon she would ‘ chains at a just price, and that such be in hex’ garden; he walked around of the ironwork as was to be hand- the house and found hex there, as {forged should -be ready well before softly brown of hair and eyes as the there was need for it. Mark Rowland soft dress that she wore. She Was the knew that Hardy had always kept his glow in which his iron softened. Just word both in lettei- and in spirit with at that moment he glimpsed a kinship the men of Dunder Gorge, and he between the look in her eyes for him [should have gone away from the black and the look in her spaniel’s eyes for;cavern of the shop with his mind at her—between her and the September — brown and gold of the world. She made him feel like that, in flashes. “Your fathei' won’t give his con­ sent,” he said. The dog strelxihed up against his leg, but he brushed it ■away, absently. “It amounts to that —he seemed to be against me.” “And you quarreled?” She smiled as she asked the question, and Row­ land marveled. “Yes, in a way. I’m sorry.” He --was sincere enough, although the of Jun® to hlnG m her father the firmness of his purpose was not light-1 ened by so much as the weight of hex’! little finger. “I thought you would.” She looked away, toward the forest back of the village. Rowland stepped nearer to her and tried to take her in his arms. She lifted her hand, a slender white barrier between them, and his arms; fell to his sides. i “You—■” He found his tongue thick; ana unwieldy, “You weren’t—-like! this-—last night!” I “No, Mark, I wasn’t!” i ‘But I think you knew he’d be- against me—-I think so now!” i // did!” She smiled into his eyes.) That’s why I kissed you!” I Rowland felt himself tinged with a red blush. One of the things he loved most about her was what he called her iron frankness. Nevertheless, it! often startled him. { ! “Maybe you know what made him! <h> it?” ho asked, being certain that! jhe himself understood the motive. . I “No, I don’t. I just felt that he! ’was going to.” I! “And what shall we do?” He asked' the question hesitatingly, for it touch­ ed the crux of the matter, his happi-i ness. “Wait!” The word etched itself miserably upon his consciousness. 1 Even until then he had cherished a! little hope that she would stand with! him and defy Aaron Hai'dy. “You go1 ahead with your plans?, Mark.” I Black disappointment hogan to i as the Adirondacks had furnished Bow­ land worked the day of the fight. During the time Rowland kept away from the quiet brown house of j the Hardys, and he found no occasion to go to the blacksmith shop. With­ out a legitimate reason he did not i intend to seek out Aaron I-Iardy again ! until he could lead the old man out , - - . . , . ‘of his shop and point to a wheel turn- said the blacksmith, without jng above the gorge—bid him listen Ive to the sound of a whirring saw, mak­ ing good logs into lumber. ! 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As to the delivery of the work and the time of payment he was satisfied; his feel­ ing of unrest was due to something ■deeper and more vague than the mat­ ter of a log-chain or a ring-bolt. In I the presence of Hardy he felt that ;he stood before something which iron could not pierce, or, piercing, could not conquer. The same quality was in i Edith. In her it was like the breath' , . ,, ,, , , , ,,* about the Great War;-but the man who will do for it what Carlyle did for the French Revolution, or Motley! for the Dutch revolt against Spain1 has yet to appear. { When he comes ho will make ex­ tensive use of the Imperial War lib­ rary, which has just found a perm­ anent home at Queen’s Gate, London, in a building communicating at the! rear with the famous South Kensing-j ton War Museum. And the job of. this future historian will be no light! one, for the library contains nearly! 40,000 volumes, dealing with various' aspects of the War. 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