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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-05-05, Page 6c by Rafael ^Sabatini.’*HE IS COMING! WE ARE LOST!” 4 is that it ensures a suitor’s complete obedience,” “So, so. I see the crooked logic of our mind. You might go so far as to say to him: 'Refuse me this, and I shall refuse to be your marquise.’ You would go so far as that?” “At need, I might.” “And do you not see the converse implication? Do you not see that your hands would then be tied, that you would be wanting in honor if afterwards you refused him? And do you think that I would consent to so 'tie your I’want to see BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. 'I he oath, taken as he held in his • e body of his dearest friend, Philippe De Vilmorin, sent Andre-Louis Moreau, young lawyer xt ^avr^hac, to Rennes and thence to Nantes where his fervish speeches roused to action the citizens who were chafing under the oppression of the nobility. Phillipe has been trick ed into a duel and brutally murdered because the great Marquis de La Tour D’Azyr fe a red the ‘dangerous. gift of eloquence” which the idealistic divinity student possessed. Andre-Louis swore to carry on the cause of his friend and revenge himself on the Marquis for Philippe’s death and because the profligate noble had sued for the hand of the beautiful , , . . . Aline De Kercadiou, niece of the quite out of patience. £ruff . | “Possibly. But I like my madness. ’ it P G WJ10 ' There is a thrill in it unknown to anything that could hands? Do you think you damned, Aline?” Her hand fell away | “Oh, you are mad!” from his arm. she exclaimed, v t j /—A xjLrcxv is u burin in iL unknown tvAndre-Loffis!^ t0 father of such sanity as yours. By your leave, Returning from Nantes, Andre- Louis is met on the outskirts of Gav- rillac by Aline, who warns him that soldiers are waiting in the town to arrest him for sedition. GO ON WITH THE STORY. “My dear Aline! That I should have been the cause of so much con cern and trouble!” exclaimed Andre with mocking nonchalance. I “Do you realize that they have ‘ Aline, I think I will ride on to Gav- rillac.” “Andre, you must not! It is death to you!” In her alarm she backed her horse, and pulled it across the road to bar his way. “Aline, on one condition only.” “And that?” “That you swear to me you will never seek the aid of M. de La d’Azyr on my behalf.” “Since you insist, and as Tqut timecome to arrest you?’’ she asked him,! presses, I consent.” with increasing imatience. “You; ’ Obediently he swung down are wanted for sedition, and upon a his horse, and surrendered the wa.rrji’nlt ttayh IVT /Ta T /ic/lin'niAmn h&r ' She was gone, and he stood listen ing to the receding clopper-clop of hoofs until it grew faint in the dis tance. frdm reins Story-Telling Names. It sometimes gives an added terest to a favorite fruit to know what Its nanje means. Take the apri cot, for instance. The word has the same derivation as pu,r familiar word precocious, and for an excellent rea-‘ In its native climate the apricot buds very early in ?the spring has flowers before it nas leaves, fruit follows rapidly, and, in early and rapid development, it carries out the frill force of its name: “early ripe.” The familiar green plum, so well liked for preserving purposes, has a practical reason for being called “greengage,” It could not very well be named a green plum, as that would Imply an unripe fruit, so, as an Eng lishman by the name of Gage first brought this variety of plum into England, it was very appropriately named for him, the descriptive color being used as the first syllable of this specially coined word, The coconut (often spelled cocoa- nut) is a confusing name for many persons who think it must have some connection with the cocoa bean, be cause of the similarity in spelling. It is claimed that the fruit of the’ coco palm was always spelled coco! nut until the time of Dr. Johnson’s | i ................ ....... famous flictionarry, when, probably 1 '■ y.^down over his nose so as to shade through mistake, the confusing let- Cremona violin were Nicholas Amatl, 1‘: , ter “a” was introduced into the J’Oseph Guarneri del Gesu and Aton j “Monsieur,” said he, with the air of the word. This has been nlu® Stradivarious. They were simple, j of a conspirator, “the time for action' retained to a great extent ever since. • hard-working artisans who .sold their that reached him was cultured in tone'cloak and a three-cornered hat worn and word. He strained to listen. well down over his nose so as tn shndn “That is what my heart desires,' his face. Leandre, but I am beset by fears lest' your stratagem should be too late. I am to marry this horrible Marquis of Sbrufadelli this very day. He arrives by noon. He comes to sign the con tract—to make me the Marchioness of Sbrufadelli. Oh!” It was a cry of pain from that tender young heart. “Save me, Leandre. Save me! You are my only hope.” So her father was marrying her to a marquis! That implied birth on her side. And yet she was content to pair oil with this dull young adven turer in the tarnished lace! “It shall never be!” M. Leandre was storming passionately. “Never! I swear it!” And he shook his puny flst at the blue vault of heaven— Ajax defying Jupiter, “Ah, but here comes our subtle friend. He will bring us news, I know.” Andre-Louis looked also in the di rection of the gap. Through it em erged a lean, slight man in a rusty warrant from M. de Lesdiguieres.” “Sedition?” quoth he, and his thoughts flew to that business at Nantes. It was impossible they could have had news of it in Rennes and acted upon it in so short a time.” “Yes, sedition. The sedition of that wicked speech of yours at Rennes on Wednesday.” “You must not go into Gavrillac”! , . T . - - . . she told him, “and you must get down ro^d’ Andre-Louis, obeying instinct from your horse, and let me take it. fat?ler tha? reason, turned his face I shall return it to the Breton Arme.” to s.ou^’ a?d Plodded wearily and “You haven’t considered what will mechanically forward. He had no happen to you if you do such a thing.” i c*€arJdea °,f whither he was going, or “What do I care for law? Do you imagine that the law will presume to touch me?” “Of course there is that. «heltered by one of the plained of at Rennes, ting.” “Complain of it as please, but meanwhile Come, Andre, do as I tell you. Get down from your horse.” And then, as he still hesitated, she stretched out and caught him by the arm. Her voice was vibrant with earnestness. “Andre, you don’t realize how serious Is your position. You must go away at once, and lie completely lost until my uncle can bring influence to bear to obtain your pardon.” “That will be a long time, then,” said Andre-Louis. “M. de Kercadiou' BOOK II: THE BUSKIN. CHAPTER L Coming presently upon the Redon of whither he should go. All that im ported at the moment was to put as j great a distance as possible between You are • ^avr^ac and himself. abuses I com-! Midway across the vast common to I was fore-et- ‘ north of Guigen he came to a halt. & ’ I Beyond loomed a tall building which he knew to be an open barn, standing on the edge of a long stretch of( meadowland. It was., as big as aI house, yet consisted of no more than a roof carried upon half a dozen tall, brick pillars. But densely packed under that roof was a great stack.of hay that promised a warm couch on so cold a night. He cleared a trough for his body, and lying down in it, covered himself to the neck with hay he had removed. Within minutes he was soundly asleep. _________ _ When next he awakened, the sun has never cultivated friends at court.” was a^ready high in the he'avens. Then “There is M. de La Tour d’Azyr,” to his^ awakening senses came a drone she reminded him, to his astonish- 2^_7°/CeS_ CJ?s,e.,at hand, to which at ment. j “That man!” he cried, and then he laughed “Why, yes. You see, I have not yet said that I will be Marquise de La Tour d’Azyr. It is a position that has its advantages. One of them much as you profit by it. the five A Pebble was the Cave Marts Candy! It kept his mouth moist and fresh on his hot, rocky road. Calling on his sweetie, lie took hor a smooth, white stone! Today, to make a lasting, satisfying impression, take her Wrltflay’e, . -qi /if",* R lIVsmryttfSrJvjNG GUfrV After Every Meat 1 —‘After Smohina Tob/\ emo - No. 18—'26. : first he paid little heed. “Oh, mon Dieu, Leandre, let us sep arate at once. If it should be my father ...” “No, no, Climene; you are mistaken. There is no one coming. We are quite safe. Why do you start at shadows?” More was not needed to reassure Andre-Louis. He had overheard enough to know that this was but the case of a pair of lovers who, with less to fear of life, were yet—after the manner of their kind—more timid of heart than he. In the space of cropped meadow between the barn and the hedge stood a man and a woman, both young. The man was a well-set-up, comely fellow, with a fine head of chestnut hair tied in a queue by a broad bow of black satin. He was dressed with certain tawdry attempts at ostentatious em bellishments, which did not prepossess one at first blance in his favor. The child—she was not more than that, perhaps twenty at the most— possessed, in addition to the allure ments of face and shape that went very near perfection, a sparkling vi vacity and a grace of movement the like of which Andre-Louis did not re member ever before to have beheld assembled in one person. I He ceuld not have told you why, but he was conscious that it aggriev ed him to find het so intimate with- this pretty young fellow, who was ! partly clad, as it appeared, in the cast-offs of a nobleman. He could: I not guess her station, but the speech ’ j h. rd’s Liniment soothes tired feet.*| Rapid Advances Made in Clfrv* ada in Development of This Important Work. METHODS FOLLOWED AT PRESENT TIME. The Cremona Viollq. The three greatest makers of the ~ vim xur auuoir ^llvu cAi'ciiv vvtjx Hxxiyt?. •--------v has arrived, and so has the Marquis.1 “Coco” is the Portuguese word for, works of genius for a few florins. That is why,” “Tell me, tell me! Speak!” Climene implored him, holding out her hands ’n a supplication no man of sensibil ity could have resisted. And then on the instant ^he caught her breath on a faint scream. “My father!” she exclaimed, turning distractedly from one to the ” ’ ‘ ““ coming! mask, and there is also a species of monkey known as the “Macoco” from' its mask-like face. At the end of each coconut, on its brown fibrous coating, are three marks bearing a grotesque resemblance to a face. Hence the name coconut,' mask-nut. -------<.-------- The spider crab of Japan has such long claws that it measures thirty feet from tip to tip. 1 other of those two. “He is We are lost!” (To be continued.) of* Light for Motorist, the most recent aids to the Cap One of motorist is a cap of specially tinted rubber to be slipped over the head lights when driving through fog. The covering has the effect of diffusing the beam and the orange glow through the shield helps the vision. 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True, the cities hava their electric alarms, motor equip* ‘ment and aerial ladders, but the dif? ‘ ferent forest services and protective associations, which ten years ago were largely restricted to foot and canoe patrols and a 'few hundred miles of telephone line, now have scores of lookout stations, thousands of miles of telephone wire, and make use of the radio and the aeroplane. The great advance that has been made in forest fire . fighting in the past few years has been the separa tion of fire-detection from fire-sup pression. Formerly there could be scarcely any division of labor. Ran gers were assigned to long beats, which might take a fortnight to cover, and patrolled these singly or by twos, as circumstances dictated. It will thus be seen how Hmjited would be the protection so afforded. 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For complete information and booklet, phone, write or call persona lily at our nearest office. “There be mo-st er res in the skie than a pair,” remains to be proved; “And certaine he is well begone Among a thousand that findeth one.* 55 King St. E., Toronto McGill Building, Montreal We shall not surrender ourselves heartily to any while we are con scious that another is more deserv ing of our love. 'Yet Frinedship does not stand for numbr""T; the Friend does not count his z’riends on his fingers; they are not numerable. The more there are included by this bond, if they are indeed included, the rarer and divinAr the quality of tho love that binds them- I am ready to believe that as pri»>*L?. and intimate a relation may exist by which three are embraced, as btMeen two. In deed, we canvo* tou many ' friends.—ThoreM* 1