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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-06-27, Page 5THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE CHAPTER IV ;1 •4 r-usm, last laird was He married a very extrava- so hard up I’ve heard biggest and in. price, go wrong Stand at been cut confidential advisor merely laughed in his face. , was in this world.” makes it all the harder. But I will have no favors from Carrington, that man annoys much. zIf it comes to the I thought he look- o.nce or twice.” , imagination# He _ See yqur nearest Fij.‘estoj're'rT)ealer &,RUBBER CO. OF CANADA/LTD. ' Hamilton - Ontario , CHAPTER III (Continued) “The only thing to be done is to let the place, Laird. It would bring three hundred pound's a year. Kil- jgour has some Americas folk that would take ’it, or Mr. ’ Carrington would easily find you a good tenant amon^his friends.” “Weaver, don’t mention that mans aiame to .me? I’Ve had just about enough of him ‘this one day. Don’t make the’ matter worse than it is) Let Essendon! My God, it will kill my .wife!” ” ' “No, .it will not. Mrs. Kerr is. made of stouter stuff, Laird, than any of us dream. I could not help observing her and listening to her the last time I came here to dine and sleep. There are reserves behind all * her angelic sweetness -— and she is as nearly an angel as ever woman ■That listen. Bentley me .too worst, an,d we ..have to leave Essen-. <lon, let Kilgour- fiiid’ the tenant. But- see, Laidlawwhat better would we be though we turned out? We must live somewhere.” “Tlii-ee hundred pounds better, and. the shooting forby; Laird.” ' “And where could we live—at .the little house on the Dirdum water, eh?” ‘ “No. They would not consent to -that, nor Would it he advisable. You must go clean away—to Edinburgh, ^perhaps, or to, London, or eyen abroad. Major* Lbckhart and his wife have been at Dieppe all.the winter, and he writes me that they like it well.”■ I ■c. A “A cheap French watering-place! Cad, is that- what the -Riddhll-Kerrs must come to at the last?” said tile old: man, in the very throes of bit terness.,. “Well, speak out with your usual bluntness and tell.. me what you advise.” * A- *» ■ . „* • j>•' “I want another day to think it over, Laird. There is no irifmediate haste. Kilgour need not be .written, to till next week. It is plain, how ever, that Harry Will have , to set about earfiiilg. something—and that speedily. Carrington-------— “Not that man’s name, Laidlaw! I vvafil you I.willjiot hear it,1 ■TrtASit fipvpaniftrlf/hn T.nivrl fl tlidt he has come- here to inherit the earth, but. he shall not inherit noth ing from me. I will not countenance Jiiiii a,nd his family, nor will I permit any belonging to me to countenance them. I have sworn it.” •'You are making a mistake.” said the - lawyer, shaking his hfead. “Bentley Carrington is a very ..gaodt man, and. I for one am-glad he has •coine to the parish of Kirk-Yetton. Ton can’t keep back-the. clock,-Laird anti it is needless to try.” , “ “You are a heathen and a traitor, tod, then, Laidlaw, and they’ve ■bought''you among the rest," fuiiied the. old mail.* But his friend and ~ - "F’-r" ----- aA">the horse.” . most screamed the Laird. “He thinks | ' ' - • surely?” he in- “Indeed he or lid" would good to me about Snell Br /V A "No, but yours. ed daggers at me ‘‘Oh. that' was was put out because his horse, like mine, was 4a failure. He feels such things all the. more, you see, because once it was different. When he came to 'Essendon the stable was full. His uiicle Anthony was Master then.” , t ' “And why is it not full now?” she ..asked perplexedly. ‘“.Doesn’t he care Tor hunting any more, then?” “Care for hunting. The love of it is'in his blood and in mine, but un fortunately, the Kerrs have fallen ,on evil times, Miss ‘ Carrington—we’re bcastly&hard up, I mean,” he said i with a 'sudden, boyishness which ap- :s it pay to wear tires OUT? It does not pay to run cites till they go to pieces—because— —It’s dangerous. A blowout may easily lead to a crash'. —It’s false ecoh'Omy. You can’t afford the titrie, the trouble and the incpnveq.ience that blowouts bring. “-It’s not wotth the worry. * You can’t ride in comfort * if you know a blowout is. due any minute. * It will pay you to let us pull off thosd old tires and put on a set of brand new Dominion Royal Cords or< Royal Masters. They will free you from worry. Royal Cords Will cost you less in the lpng run than any other tire in their class—Royal Masses ate in a class by them selves. 2 . DOMINION TIRE DEPOT t’ EXETER V ANNA S. SWAN llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll The New Order “We’ve had a glorious day,” said Harry Herr, bending a. little from his saddle to get a better glimpse of the sweet’ face of his companion rider, “a glorious day. I’ll never for get it as long as I live.”s Blanche Carringtoq felt thankful to the gatliejiiTg dusk tliat hid the flame of her cheek. Sih© had no ans wer ready, *but If she bad had one it could only haye been a re-echo of these words which were like new, sweet music’ to her ears. “I never thought life,ii^tlie count ry could be so delightful,” she said at laist, with an* enchanting mixture of shyness and dignity. “Have you never .lived in the country before, then?” • "Not like this, We were only sub urban'* people. ‘ We had a house at Norbury, and’ in, the, summer we of ten went abroad. Sometimes, too, we went to Scarborough or- Felixtowe, but of toner to 'Scarborough, where mother’s .people, live."/' , Z“Well, it wa.s„a «ha$>py clay, for 'in? when you*came' to .Bfellericlale’,” said Harry impressively','“YQur'’father has been awfully go.oLto, me today. I feel as if I hadn’t thanked-, him half 'enough. That’s partly the reason why I’rii riding all the way td the Priory now.” "And the otnOr part of the rea son?” she asked witji a sudden sweet touch of coquetry which sent" the blood coursing more.-quickly through I-Iarry’s veins.; "You know it,” lie said earnestly, bending toward- her again. “It is because I can see you for a little longer.” She laughed merrily. .. “You are not angryy Miss Carring ton, because I have been bold enough to ride near you most. oP the day?” “Oh, .no; I am not, angry, but—” “But what?” he asked anxiously. ‘■‘Somebody else was.“ • “Not your father, quired with concern, could not have 'been, not have been so pealed to her.far more than the set phrase did, “But how tcau you be with all this "big estate, father say that it is The finest in the country.” “Well, you see, the a bit of a high-flier, foreign wite who was gapt, and who brought a horde of greedy relations with her. Practically they parted 'Essendon among them. Every bit of unentailed land was sold, and m°st of the timber that was worth anything was cut down. Some of the things were taken from the house, too—pictures and' books that were worth a king’s ransom,” “But why did he allow such— such wickedness?” ■ “He was very easy-going, and my grand-afint Hortense lm-i com pletely under her control. But it is jolly hard on liis successor, of course When my poor old dad came to his own he found it mortgaged to the uttermost farthing. He set himself the almost impossible task of freeing the Essendon estate from the incubus Then the hard times in agriculture came—farms went down and everything seemed to at once. That’s how we present. The stable has down till there are only two fat, wheezy old cobs for my mother’s use. We have hardly enough of servants left to do tlie work of the house, and all that my father talks about from morning till night is money. Some times it has made me feel' as if I could almost sell my soul for it,” "No, no, you would never do that” she said in a voice so sweetly sym pathetic and so full of conviction that'it oddly comforted him. "Well, I shall have to do some thing. I’ve just been out to British Columbia, on a visit to a relative of my ipother, who i§ ranching there, and I want to join him. But my fatn- er says that-I can’t because I’m the heir, and I owe a duty to “the place. He knows, of course, that very few of 'those-who go to the colonies ever come back to settle. But what is a chap to do? I tell you. Miss Carring ton, the very worst kind of poverty is to live in a great house like ours and ape independence wlien there is none. I am not really so well off as a stable-boy. I haven’t a penny in the world to call my own, and I have no prospect of ever making any. It’s not a very enviable position for a chap of four-and-twenty, is it?” "No. Oh, I am so sorry I had,no idea things- could ever be like that with people in1 your position.” Harry laughed hardly.- , “Most of us are hard-up.. Did you see Lord HatherleyUoday—the M.F-. H.?” ‘Yes., but I don’t like him. I should be afraid of.him, and he does riot approve of us. I can see that by the way no rooks at ns.” "" ■ * ■ “They are- hard-up too. His heir’s in the cavalry regiment stationed at India, and he has to live on his pay. So you see we’re al] in a pretty bad way up here. You know, of course, how poor playfair had to go out of the Priory.” “But Ire squandered his money,” said Blanche quickly. "After all, one has to take some care of if. or it is bound to fly away.” "There spoke the financier’s dau ghter,” said Harry, with a little laugh. "But among all the lessons they teach’ us in schools that seems to be forgotten.” "My father made all his money himself,” she said frankly. "No doubt that'makes a difference. What are you going to do, then. You can’t live on at Essendon like this.” “That’s what I think and say. Our family lawyer, old Weaver Laidlaw "I know, him—a delightful man.' He dined with us one night last week and I like him so much.” "Yes, he’s a good sort. Well, lie's trying what he can do to find all ’opening for .me,” “>Vliat kind of an opening?” What would or could yon do?” "Anything, bless you. I Have no pride. I haven’t anything to be proud about. Anything -to turn an honest penny—that’s where I .stand at pres ent.” “But I thought that people like you, belonging to old families, could only do' certain tilings.” "It used tp be like that, but old traditions are dying fast and the old order is changing, Miss Carrington, you must see that.” “Yes, or we should not be in the Bellenden Priory,” she answered with a little, shrewd, slight, bitter smile. “Well, in .the ordinary coures of things you wouldn’t, you see, be muse Playfair would never have let it. Why, here we are at the. Priory gates. I have to ask you to forgive me for inflicting all this on you, Miss Carrington. I had no right to do so.” "Oh, bitt I asked you, and I like to hear, and I am very, very sorry.” She drew up lien mare sharply and ‘held out her* hand, It was so sweetly done that the color rose to Harry's cheek and his blue eyos became dangerously elo“ qiient. - . ‘T thank you very much, you have been awfully sweet. I should like to. say a great deal more, only you sde. I daren’t, .fill too iiek( anif besides,! I haven't the right.” .She gave tiio mare a little flick with her switch and, sWopt through' the 'Open gateway, glad-to hide lier- conscious face, if ever there had been ft case of love at first sight it' was that of these two, and, although jt was a grey November night, and the clouds were thick about Harry Kerr’s life, summer was in his heart. He came up with her presently, and put his hand with a gently com pelling touch on her rein. “Don't hurry. It’s hall a mile yet to the house. I’ve often timed it,. Let us go slowly; perhaps we shan’t have a chasce like this long.” "But we’re behind all she said timidly, “And father won’t like it.” “He knows that you're perfectly safe with me. He trusted me I could see, or Ire would pot have been so awfully good about the horse, Say Miss Carrington, may I ask you a question?” (To be continued) for ever so the others” perhaps my Restemeyer - Neeb A pretty wedding took place Grace Lutheran church, M’itchell, Wednesday, June 12th, at 2:30 o’clock when Miss Cecelia, only dau ghter of Mr,’ and Mrs. Ed. Neeb, of Logan, was united in marriage to Mr. Elmer Restemeyer, son. of Mrs. Ed. Restemeyer, of Dashwood, Rev. H. J. Storm, performed the • cere mony. The wedding march was play ed by Miss Wurdell, organist of the church. The bride, who was led to the altar by her father, , looked charming dressed in white chiffon georgette over satin, trimmed with silver and wearing nil embroideried veil caught with orange blossoriis, and carrying a bouquet Of pink roses •and maiden ^.air fern-, Miss‘Marg aret Restemeyer’’’and Miss Margaret Koch made charming flower 'girls, dressed in pink Georgette and carry ing a basket of pink and white cam nations and fern. The ushers .were Alvin Neeb, Mr. Miller, Edgar Res’e- meyer. After the ceremony Ahe guests repaired to the* home of the bride’s parents where a recep'.ion was held, about 150 gueMS si’.ting down to a sumptuous wdding Ai'iner. The tables were partly decorated in pink and white, . The ■bridegroom’s gift to the bride was. a. set of com munity plate;..to the flower girls’, a string of pearl beads. The’Mfts which were given to the .bride x groom were ‘nurilerous ’and. costly? showing the esteem in which Lie young couple'are held. 'Guests from a^listaaice *_wer.e present from De- trpit, Stratford, Windsor, Hamburg, Dashwood, I^itcliener. Mr. and Mrs. Restemeyer l*eft on a honeymoon trip to.Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Toron to. The bride travelled in blue Can ton cr’epe ensemble' with coat and hat, shoes and hoes to match. On their return they will reside on the bridegroorii’s fine fafm'in Dashwood. 2nd Con. of Usborne. Picnic at Springbank Residents of the second conces sion of Usborne held a community picnic at Springbank on Saturday last. Over 100 persons were present and enjoyed .the day at London’s popular summer park. .Sports and amusements were enjoyed and an elaborate supper was served. ,Tlie( following were the results of the races: - Boy’s and girl’s 5 and under, Ray mond 'Heywood, Jack Westcott and Pauline Godbolt. Boy’s and 'girl’s 8 and under, La Verne Heywood, Fer rol Fisher, Iva Fisher. Girl’s race twelve and* un'der, Belva Fisher/ B. Coates, Jrene. Sweet. 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