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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-01-16, Page 3Z>y i- , v •. ■ ANNA S. SWAN8 llllll to gaze upon incomporahle beauty often filled her soul to the God of all was Ij.e, she asked passionately,, that He by inert while the peaceable folks wore rent lives Avasted with h'ed ruin Tlio frightful injustice things, the futility of hu- Where almost stand of *^li She could not rest. She paced the boudoir to and fro, pausing once - <mee at tlm window the secene of . Kvhieh hud so :and uplifted it good. IierSelf •should hearts nnd their like this? of .human mmn effort, swept across her gentle ^^oul like a mighty flood.IJ^vail were duty, ''seeking after good vow as this? And yet <ed was her nature the> will sshe had .ready to only na answer to the spur hearted race, but it was Of avhat honour, earnest against such sor- THE EXETER TIMES-ADV0CA7E «Z’;«C fine lace-edged -damask toAvel. “It is a large old .house, and it has been full enough’ in the past. But we had only two children, and sqme of -the rooms liave not been us­ ed for a long time.” ' "Where is the other child? didn’t him? son.” “So that I here abroad. “I twig—I mean,' I ready, thank you,” together down the to the door of the Avherc Leadbetter tell me about him-—-is I thought Hal was an he is, It is his am thinking of. at present, but Ji . Hal it a only sister Lilias She is not at school understand. thtiwax mnvaw iia mos 1 i 4f»lx me what he says, Alice/ ‘It is too. long, and you will grasp what he says better f yourself/’ ; ‘ '‘Well, what's he ; ou better? Does he thing about himself? rington today, and he told, me, that when ho left London Harry was sticking to, business with exampled industry, and that he li'ad the great­ est hopes of him in that way, but when J came, to close quarters, ask­ ing what sort ’of a life he was lead­ ing, he had much less to say/’ "I don’t think the Carringtons know anything about him, Mark," she. answered with a sigh, "Nothing has been more strange and perplex­ ing than the gulf which seem have been between them ever Harry went to London/’ “You may depend it’s hi« then, Alice. Nobody could be er—no, or more generous- Carrington has been all through,” She made no reply, and they crossed the short, springy turf to the pile of felled trees on which it was seat, and som tala, care of you Hll hT egmes Wk/ "Take care of me till he comes back! That will be something new for Dolly. Think he'll ever come hack?” “Surely. It is the only hope that must sustain us, and I will never cease to pray that out there in the quiet and the stillness he may come to himself and realize what he has done, like this, 1 him dearly, erred,” Dolly sat of her. "I a halo,” she ‘A what?’ 'A halo, Never mind—-it doesn’t matter; it was only a bit of silly nonsense of mine. But it has come true. Do you know what I would have done had I been in your place, and my son had served me like Har­ ry has served you? I would have shot both him and the girl, and they would have deserved it too. There wasn’t a particle of blind .sense in it. The thing didn’t fit in nowhere.” Airs. Kerr rose, smiling a little unsteadily, The hands of the time­ piece wore moving towards two o’clock, and as the Laird might come home at any momemt now, it was essential that lie should not find .them there. The dreaded explanation must be made elsewhere—away from every eye but God’s. “If I may advise, I thinld you should go and lie down for a couple of hours and rest after your journey When you get up I will send Meth­ ven or one of the maids to help you ; uhpack. But the chief thing is for you to rest now. Your face is quite pale and. there are dark shadows un­ der your eyes.’ ‘I am tired,'Dolly admitted frank­ ly. ‘I haven’t had any sleep to speak of since Harry went Yes, I’ll go up. When shall th© old gentleman?’ “Probably at tea-time. He Bordwick to-day, where there is hiring and a cattle-market/ ‘What’s that? I saw heaps wild-looking men in leggings in the queer little streets, and cows galore for It was a shame'to leave you He is my son and I love but I see where he has sllont, staring in front see now why yon wear said under her breath. if you read it about—getting toll you auy- ’ I saw Car­ to since fault kind- -'than Kidney and Bladder Trouble Here and Tlww * (450) ......~...."............... . The pew north wihg of the Mt press Hotel, Victoria, western out­ post of the Canadian Pacific Raili way chain of hotels across Canada, was opened recently at a function presided over by Hon, s. R, Tolmie, Premier of British Columbia,, and attended by over 1,000 visitors ini eluding eivip officials, it repre­ sents more than 260 additional rooms and a number of beautifully decorated suites including vice-r regal, Jacobean, It;ri*.n, Spanish and Blower, and was huiltat a cost of approximately $3,000,‘00v. Mr. J. Comstock, Pincher Creek, Alta., writes:-—“X had been troubled with my kidneys And bladder for some time, and had to get up four or five times during the night, gj tried several kinds of kidney and liver pills, but none of them seemed to do me any good, X<J thought I would try Doan's Kidney Rills and after taking one box J have been able to sleep all night long, and I now feel that they are the only thing to take for the kidneys and bladder, as J have net since taking this one box." Rrice, at all dealers, direct on receipt of price by" The T. Milbum Co.-j, Limited, Toronto, Ont. 50 cents a box druggists and or mailed Progress on the Princess Joan and Princess Elisabeth, Victoria- Vancouver night service boats of the Canadian Pacific Raihvay, bas. l‘l .................. IX C.. an- tlie be Each ship has'five decks' and berthing capacity for 431 per­ sons. been troubled been bo rapid that Captain c Neroutsos, manager of the B. Coastal Steamship service, han nounced that the trial trip at first vessel to be ready will March 25 ~........................ Well, I’m quite They went wide staircase dining-room, awaited them with decorous air and inscrutable face. A Study in immo­ bility |io might have made, so ab­ solutely devoid of expression was his face. Nevertheless there was no detail of the newcomer’s appearance which escaped him, and. later, at his tea in the housekeeper’s room, he confided to Mrs. Methven that "she lookit a glnikit hizzy that wad gang ony lengths.” ’They sat doavn together at small octagon table spread in far window, the long table never ing used in Essendon noy/ that tertaining had been almost given The whiteness and fineness of linen, the dazzling sheen of the Silver, the few flowers sparsely scat­ tered with exquisite effect on the table, filled Dolly with surprise. Only ' at the Savoy and other hostels of a high order, where she had been ask­ ed to dine or sup, had she seen such refinement and beauty. A sudden silence seemed to fall upon her. Alice! Kerr had uo idea that tpe girl’s1 quick thought had gone back to the sloppy meals served in the Kenning­ ton Hoad, and that she was thinking how Harry must have loathed them. How could he have suffered the sor­ did degradation of his London life after this! The meal began, Leadbetter Avail­ ing on them with dignity, but con­ versation did not flourish. Dolly" ate sparingly, as if some depression ■ hiid fallen on her spirit. "I am afraid that you are tired,” said Mrs. Kerr kindly. “Do eat a 'little of this chicken-. - It is very tender, raised on Essendon, as are most of the-things, we eat.” ■ "IC's lovely, but I'm not hungry,”' replied Dolly. "Could I have just a mouthful of that red Avine, if you don’t mind?” "Certainly. The Avine for Mrs. Harry, Leadbetter. I never touch it myself, and he has got out of the way of serving it.” He filled up a glass, which Dolly drained. “I don’t often do this. In fact, 1 I don’t touch it once in a blue moon, We daren’t, yon see. It makes lose your figure, and it plays very—I mean, it’s fessional life. It way.” Leadbetter, with ing in his ears, decorously retired. Then Dolly leaned her arms, on the table and looked straight .across the table at that sweet face. “He won’t come back any more, that starched old Johnny, Avill he?” "Not now. If I had known that his presence Avould Avorry you Ave could have Availed on ourselves.” "Oh, he don’t worry me. I don’t let trifles, upset my apple-cart. But does he ever speak or laugh or do anything like other folk?” "Leadbetter is an admirable ser­ vant. He has been with us for the last lAventy-three* years.” . "Then he came the year I Avas born,” said Dolly with a strange little smile. ."Say, Mrs. Kerr, do you IcnoAV that you’re not a bit like' :o trained and disciplin- ■so submissive to’ of God, t^at in Wn minutes conquered herself and Avas face the worst. It was not ural that sJxq should thus of her ' high* necessary too. .Very Avell did she knpw tliat she would need all her self-control, all her powers of endurance, and of persuasion Mor what Avas yet to- come, J-Ier other child—how often Alice Kerr had tenderly thought of her husband as her o’thgr child!—had to lie ■Inspired, with stich high courage as would enable him to boar this ii-esh burden which threatened to , =crush "his manhood. To get -.lhrough that day of dool and Avoe without catastrophe swift- ay became the. dominating thought in Alice Kerr’s ^mind. A tremen­ dous courage came from without the void and brought a ‘strength to her which amazed herself, '‘-jgpme colour­ stole back fitfully to her wan cheeks her' eyes grew calm and steadfast, she left the room with a step AVhich did'not falter. X lt would not' be polite, she urged, to "Shmnion this strange nerv guest to 'Essendon Avith the beat of the luncheon’/gong, so; she herself went -—SAviftly towards tpe room Avhei-e Dolly awaitedAher coming. The box­ es had been thlten. up and Avere stahding yungtrapped' ■ in the middle •of the floor/ Dolly herself Avas at -th’e\c>pen AA'indOAv, hanging over it audded, drinking in the wine of the Essendon air, listening to the ■drowsy voice o.f 'the Dirdum Water as it crooped; upon-, its stones. She was. hXi'iT&^tea*.haunting air Tro in tlie opera HiW^elng played at the Frivolity Theatf^'and ■ the soft ‘‘humming- sound - helped to relieve . the tension of Alice Kerr’s mind. •iThe thought flashed upon her that Ihiif'-might be a pleasant creature rafter“a’ll, and indeed Harry had not tailed to 'mention.some of her good ^qualities. He had summed them sup,, she remembered, in the sentence "‘She’s not like 'you,-- mother, or like '.any of the womexi’^vhom you have .-ever knoAvn, but she's a good sort.” To make the best pf .“the good .sort”—that Avas now the goal in front of the mistress of Essendon. “’Will you come doAvn hoav if you .. are .readj;?” she said, trying hard to ..speak Avith, a gentle cheerfulness. '"Come, tafe off ypur cloak and •make yourself ktAhome.” Dolly swung round, and her lips parted in a smile of. ruefulness. "Do people ever fe.el. at home in a place like this? Its lonesomeness Avould just about finish me, I’m afraid. What am I to come for?” ‘^Luncheon is ready. They are waiting for us.” "Who are they?” asked promptly. " sides you and- "Oh, only take off yonr like to wash help you/’ She moved Itftpd the toAvel from the hot-water j «an.of shluging brass, and she would what I thought you Avould be, and have poured out the water had not you have been awfully good to me. You needn’t have, .you know. I Avas I Dolly Who is in the house be- —bajid‘M'1’. Kerr?’’ the .Servants. 'Come, cloak. Would you not your hands? Let me to the washstand and RETIRES AT HA-MIOTA no good in only ends the the be­ en- up. the old away. I see is at a ot: i likewise pigs. Were they all sale?’ ‘Most of them. I will call Avhen tea is ready, and be sure ring for .anything you Avant.' Dolly ran to the door, passed and then after a moment ran back. Her ‘I’m in her could, going to be like this. CHAPTER XXXII BREAKING HIM IN All unsuspecting, Riddell-Kerr did his business in the market place of Bordwick. and afters a- comfortable luncheon at the George Hotel Avith old, friends, he set out for home. It you you out, eyes were full of tears, sorry,’ she said with a catch voice. ‘I would undo it I didn’t know that it if I was possible to find an excellent Then^she made him sit down, drew tlw letter from her bo- and gave it Into his hands. "Read it right through, Mark, to the very end, without saying a word, and when you want me I'll come back." She walked away, carrying her little old-fashioned parasol of blue silk, which she used as a precarious support to her steps. She did not once look back, but her delicate fea­ tures were working strangely, while ip her heart she prayed for the hus­ band might need. quick, arrogant spirit, his fierce and unreasonable temper when he was roused, and she feared the worst. There she was not at all surprised' when presently there fell upon her strained ear a sound resembling nothing in the world so much .as the roar of a maddened bull. She turned and fled back to him. "Mark, Mark, don't look like that! You’ll have a fit, my dear! There isn’t anything on earth worth work­ ing yourself up into such a state about. We can’t help it, but it might have been worse, for Harry has only made a fool of himself, and not a blackguard. I can thank God for that, at least.’’ His face.was purple, his eyes star­ ing out of his head. He threw the paper on the ground and stamped, on it in the fury of his rage, but when lie essayed speech words would not come. When at last he was able to speak it was in harsh, profane words, in which he sought to, curse the boy who had so wrung their hearts. of her youth that strength come to him in his hour of ’She knew his high pride, his AFTER 40 YEARS The following was taken from the Winnipeg Free Press: “Hamiota,t Man,,. Nov. 27./—Jo­ seph Andrew, whose retirement from the offices of secretary-treasurer .of Hamiota village and rural municip­ alities, was announced November the 19th, has served his community for 46 years. He was born in Usborne ToAvnship, Huron county, near the town- of Exeter, Ontario, December 13, 1855, his parents being Samuel Andrew and Eliza Lamport, the former born in Devonshire, and the latter in Somersetshire, England. Mr. Andrew learned his trade as a mason in Ontario, and came to Ham­ iota in 1881, taking up land near Hamiota, where lie has since resid­ ed. In January 1884, he Avas ap­ pointed to the office of secretary- treasuYer for the new municipality of Hamiota, AVhich office he has held since. In the great Chinese province of Manchuria, equal in area to Ger­ many, Marshal Liang Chang,, 29- year-old war lord, is experiment­ ing with education on a colossal scale to bring his war-ridden peo-; pie to peace and progress, is the' statement of John Nelson, former’ publisher of the Vancouver World, who recently landed from the Em­ press of Russia at Vancouver op. his return from the Orient. Great industrial development throughout western Canada which in the last two decades has brought the annual gross- value of manufac­ tured .articles produced, in the west­ ern provinces to $600,000,000 was described recently, by John F. Sweeting, industrial ’commissioner, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, ixr an address to officers of the com­ pany at Winnipeg. “Those of us who have lived through and watch­ ed western Canada developments during the last 20 years are. as­ sured as to the future of that parti of the Dominion,” he said.. (To be Continued) Wellington Whiteford "Railway conditions as they exist in Canada to-day are readily com­ prehensible and we are in the for­ tunate position of being able to as­ sure our shareholders that the de­ creases represent the result of an. extraordinary combination of con­ ditions and that the railways have; not failed in efficiency or other-- wise/’ stated E. W. Beatty, chair­ man and president of the Cana­ dian Pacific Railway, in an address; recently at the Royal York Hotel), at the annual meeting of the Com-? ■ mertial Travellers' Association off Canada. Mr. Beatty added that the: situation in 1929 was exceptional and not likely to be repeated in. subsequent years. The North German Lloyd ”■ Raiiy of Montreal'is,’'ahraAgin^.for^-r a trip of German farmers to Canada/* • next summer Avith a view to inves/ ligating Canadian conditions and agrieultural opportunities. The trip will commence with a visit to? the Annapolis Valley, stopping at Kentville to view the Experimental Farm and the orchard country o£ Nova Scotia. The Department of Lands andix/^ Forests reports that 1,Q76 moos^' and 1,335 deer were killed in Novd,^^' He has also held the office of se­ cretary-treasurer for the village of Hamiota since its incorporation in 1906, In October, 1891, he mar­ ried Estelle Taylor, daughter of ^Villiam Taylor, of Miniota municip­ ality, five children blessing' their union: Annie E. M,, wife of E/ A. Dixon, Lavinia; Edith, at home; Florence E., teaching near Winni­ peg; William T.. who is acting se­ cretary-treasurer, of 'Hamiota •muni­ cipality and village and George with the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, at Edmonton, Alta. -Mr. Andrew is a staunch Orange­ man, having joined the order ju 1874, and the Royal Black Chapter in 1878, and he lids served as a administrative officer in the lodges practically since coming to Manitoba • and has several times been on the official list of the grand lodge of' Manitoba. He is a former Methodist, now a faithful and efficient member of the United' Church, and has been on the official board here since a mission was started in Hamiota, and held the the the liasMr. sold his farm in McGillivray Town-Avas a good hour’s drive, and three j ship to his son, M’r. Jay Whiteford, o’clock rang from the church toAVerjof Denfield. Mr. Whiteford Sr., ex- ps he passed through Essendon vil- pects to move to Lucan in the spring- lage and breasted the slightly rising .............. ................. ............................ ■ground to the Essendon gates. ’ _ Before he reached them he had kto pass a wooden gateway from ILF yr fl W which a cart track, used by the for- w ■ ■ esters,, led, through the plantation Tk^ of to the other side of the park. What ■ VI was his surprise Avhen he reached it M A *11 Al Lto see the figure of his wife in her jfl RllSltV ST pro-] morning dress, Avith a shady hat on “ waMSiwj v»w^i<kvii one you the I these words ring- I the same .a care in. called out ‘I office of secretary-treasurer ol' church and recording steward of circuit for many years.’1 Dolly held ber fast. - ‘‘Don't ydlifdare to Avail on me,” quite prepared to have the door she said quickly, and ’ with breast 1 slummed in my face.” slightly heaving. ‘-‘I told you I ain’t! "My dear, one Avould never forget been used to Availing -on. I can do! AVhat is due—” !for myself. I don’t hRuoav why I| "But what is due. anyway?” said fCame here, I’m sure, but I promise j Dolly swiftly. "I’m Hal’s Avife right yo.u that I shan’t give trouble in the! enough, ami jolly sorry I am for it I only Avant to straighten j too. The best that I can do, I think | is-to go . I’ve i ft |n d ipiuse. tlif^g'S out a bit, that’s all.’’Alice. Kerr smiled, a little touch­ ed by thp rudely expressed desire on .Dolly’s pant to ife amiable. Dolly threw her fBitastid cloak across the bed, and thus teye&led the slimness of her figure, ftk>lfsson grace. No SC- he to I ar Ha iik> to London after man and never let again can't here, It wasn't think really, how he ir •w d it/ Mi’S. •detail of the girl's* Appearance was I wished lost on Alice Kerr, and though there,1 were some items of which she disap­ proved-—the high heels, the coloured { stockings, the wasp-like waist—she { was* disposed to- make the best of j^O'lmlly. |av#. “Yon can unpack after luncheon is plenty of, room in these 'Hod huhgjhg cupboards, qnd I mtts.t. show! cleared up, I should think.” you '&f? little sittiitg-rOdm next to I "Yes, I think he has explained ■Uris, it^vfil be youf-s while you are everything, Ahd he has told me here/’ I how hard-working and honest and “I suppose' you haVqvail a sitting-1 truly kind you are, and ho ha» begg- room to yourfeblyds heite—maybe a J cd us to remember that when we see whole floor. Space ckm’t seem to‘you. He takes all the .Ina no dbject,” saftif'XldnyW she v.ig-! cebusly rubbed her ,!<aoeT with the we will not shirk our duty. reply. over Kerr did not to talk the thing over. that the tor was absolutely necessary should be talked over, but lure was very exquisite. "Tell me, said Dolly, with her hands, "what did he say about it all iii liis letter? Did he explain just how it was that we did get mar- That's the point you . want A-.;.- her head and a light scarf of lace about her shoulders. ;She Avaved to him to stop, smiling at time as if .she had'not the world. ‘Come doAvn, -Mark’ she the moment" the cart stopped. Avant you to walk through 'the Avoods with me.’ It Avas so unusual a request that the Laird lobked perplexed. ‘I fancied you at your afternoon nap, Alice. What new prank is this? Very Avell, I’m not minding, Just drive on, Tom, and see that he has a good rub doAvn and not too much water. He’s very Avarm.' The groom touched Ills Laird undid the gate and Avife on the other side. ‘Surely you are feeling Alice, to be daundering in of an afternoon. But it’s day, and we had a full market—the fullest I have -seen in the last five years/ ‘Did you' get all your business done, dear?’ ‘Yes, and satisfactorily too. I toll you what it is, Alice, a man is never better' engaged titan Avhen ho is handling his own affairs dotvii to the smallest detail. If I had knoAvn the price of a ago Ave maybe Avhere we are She did not eyes, furtively some,, clear-cut outline of his face so like Harry's—only stronger ; fuller—were filled with a va AVIiere Avould A dyspeptic must be very careful of what he eats, but how often sometliing tempting is placed before him that hp should not eat, well knowing that if he does he will suffer for it after, yet4 he does not hesitate to partake freely' of it and tortures himself. 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I had this morning/ ’What does he say ’A very great deal with me here, I thought that we would just walk as far as the tolled trees yohder, and that wonltl Mt down and yon it? through/ ./.’Ihh not that keen on it her chin prepare ■ who at the house? speak to you, Mark, here, where nobody see us, a letter she began from Harry I lmvo it blame, and though it will bo hard at first, We will then would we read re a H* urcr Ontario O'NWiiX ; Exeter ,K