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altogether heyo-id
who can minister 6-itlier
diseased or to a maiden's
has lost its hope?
by
ANNA S. SWAN
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with a rueful oxpress-
- corners of his mouth,
however, undoubtedly
line, went to his own
The Laird,
ion about the
which had,
lost its stern
sanctum to make, ready his neglect-
ied letters for the post, and to ratify
on paper some of the bargains that
-lie had struck at Bordwick Fair.
Dolly was admitted without de
mur to Mrs. Kerr’s roohi, where she
found her sitting up-in bed, looking
very white and. frail, her scarcely
iou’ched breakfast tray on. the table
by Gier bed. Dolly’s by no means
•hard heart melted at the sweetness
•ond fraility of her looks,
welcoming hand- made her
Cry. She took it, and, after
•ent, raised it to her lips.
“How*awfully seedy you look! I’m
very sorry. Is there anything I can
rlo to help? I feel horribly guilty.
It is I whoTia’ve made you'look like
this/’
“No, no; I am -only tired, and my
husband would not lei me get up.
Have you seen him?
“Oh yes; we huvQj just had a .tete-
a-tete meal, and he’s
■me out driving.”
Alice Kerr looked
seven pleased.
“I am glad mf -that,
and the
want to
a niom-
going to take
relieved and
•
because T*am
.afraid that 1 shall not be able to
get, up to-day at all.”
“I’ll come apd sit with you after
thp drive, and I shall read to you.
I can read well, Mrs. Kerr—and sing
tod, if you” care for that,”
“When Bam stronger I shall like
like to hear you. Tell me, have you
si wrap to put over'that, pretty frock?
“Oh yes; a tweed coat and a cap.
Will that do?” :
Alice Kerr podded.
“.Sit down,, if you are not going
gust yet.” • - j
“I want to write a letter to my •
mother. I did not tell her that I
was coming, and she’ll certainly have
been round at my place by now, and
she will imagine all sorts of things.”
“Your mother is alive, then?”
“Oh yes, and a. ripping good sort
.’nhe is. She has kept us together.” .• “How many of you?” |
“Only Baby and me. Father died’
when we were quite tinies, and j
;aily waved her hand and stopp-
The Laird,
ed to, and
awkward
recovered
She gi
-ed..
stoppe
ent’s
-Lui )'d
spoke.
“I. have to introduce
now member of our fqqnil,
1m said
admission cost him,
guessed.
“Mrs. Harry, the
Hume of Heatherley.
Dolly gave a little
hand trembled on the vein's,
“No—can it be? Oil, how,strange?
Mrs. Harry! I beg ,your pardon.
How do you dq? Pleased to meet
you. Can I ride on to Essendon,
Mr. Kerr, or would Mrs. Kerr rather
not see mo today?”
“She will always see you, Grisel
da. /Ln d after your visit, if you like,
you may spread the news that our
son’s wife is at Essendon.”
He drove on, and Dolly sat, biting
her lip.
“I have
race,
as a mom-
Then the
and grimly
with reddening
there m
silence,
himself
you to the
y, Griselda,'
nd nobody knew what the
though Griselda
Honorable Mi;
jerk. Griseld;
seen her before,”
snapped at last. “On the
front, I-s that the woman
wanted to. marry?”
The Laird looked down
wonderingly. How .gauche she was,
how unexpected, rushing in where
angels feared to tread!
“No, that is the Honourable Miss
Hume of Hatlierley—one of our best
neiglrbcpirs. and most intimate of
friends. She and Harry are like
brother and .sister.”
“Thon it’s the other one,” sa'ld
Dolly under her breath. “Now I
know.”
There spoke the woman’s heart,
betraying the fact that the whole ob
ject of her coming to Essendon was
to discover the secret of her hun-
. I band’s soul at its very source. So
it was Carrington’s daughter—Lion
cousin—whom .Harry
upon her
Mr. Kerr, do the
far from here?”
mile. We shall
Do
el Maurice’s
loved!
Tell me,
rington’s live
“Under a
the Priory gates presently.
I know the Carringtons?”
I “Only by name. I haye seen their
' cousin, Lionel Maurice.”
.. t j “Ah”! said the Laird, and’ from
mother has struggled right through - uie [One 0[- pjS voiced Dollv under-
to keep, the home together, and she stood that she ’ I’m always hoping gr0Und. '■has done, it too;- i..............
‘that I mli.y -able to give her a good
time; but luow^iti.’.§. further off than
" -ever.” .
-VShe knows^about your marriage,
of course?”
“Oh yes; but she didn’t know un
til. it was over, and then she didn’t
approve,” said Dolly enigmatically,
and she adroitly changed the sub
ject.
In about an 'hour's, time the dog
cart was brought-M’ound to the door,
and the Laird handed his daughter-
in-law to her seat. Then he sprang
up beside her, took the reins, told
Tom he would not require him, and
they went off down the chestnut av
enue. ‘ *,-, * ■ .
Dolly talked -slid the Laird listen
ed. She had lost her fear of him,
aAd more than once She beguiled him
Into a smile. She was- immensely
interested in Essendon village, and
-she asked innumerable questions, all
tof them intelligent.
Just beyond 'the old church they
met a. figure on horseback. It was
Griselda on her way to Essendon.
■was on debatable
“He's a little
, Headaches
Were So Bad
They Kept Her Awake
Headaches seem to be habitual with
<omo people; some are seldom, if ever,
free from them, suffering* continually
•from the 'dull throbbings, the intense
.pains; sometimes in. one part, sometimes
in’ anothor, and again over the whole
Lead.
There is only one way to get relief
from these persistent headaches, and
that is by going* direct to the seat of
the trouble, for unless the cause is
■removed the headaches will still
tinuo to exist, and the fact, that
; deed, was
• skill. For
■ to a mind
■ heart that
i i She had come out now without the
i knowledge of those who loved and
; tended her. stealing the opportunity
; while her mother took her after-
: noon repose. She leaped upon the
! jnoss-giowp parapet, thinking of
that long gope tryst upon which she
had built such frail but.lovely hopes.
An.l her wonder was still how she
was to gel through the remainder of
‘ her days, it is so with the young.
• When they give up hope they resign
(it wholly with that abandon which
marks all the eager haste of youth.
Either the sun is high or they sit in
black darkness.j Blanche was. ip the black dark
nose,
face.
eyes,
much
most unnaturally large and bright. A
big cloak of Inverness tweed and a
little cap. seemed to renwrap her from
head to fooL, hiding the too-slender
outline of her figure. *
The air was quiet save for the
roar of the Dirdum in its flood. And
because it was so deep and swift,
and because the stones, were so em
bedded in the silt, its voice was
rather a deep boom than the famil
iar gurgle note.
All was changed—even the maiden
watching with dieamy eyes the on
ward sweep of waters. She had
reached the autumn of her discon
tent. !
Down tlie opposite slope from the
open field, across which the narrow
path led to the lands of Essendon,
came another figure, bare-headed in
the grey afternoon light.
A long, loose wrap of Bordwick
tweed, one of the Laird’s gifts to the
now daughter, of whom -lie had
grown strangely fond, swung open to
reveal the .slender outline of a girl
ish figure; and the arms were bare
to the elbow, being apparently im
mune from contact with the cold.
The wild south wind tossed her hair,
and the color- was high on her cheeks
and, when she saw who stood by the
tysting place brig it grew higher
still.
They met in silence, hiding a little
defiance perhaps on both sides,, and
between them stood tragedy, i-nvis-
It is a tragedy when a man
She wore its seal upon her
She was waxen-pale, and her
set in the frame that had lost
of «its sweet contour, looked
keeps the Stomach, liver and bowels
toned up is proof enough to show that ' 'it. Will eliminatc'thft cause of- the heatf-
. $$heg.’ . - I
(Mrs. A. M. Arsenault, New Aberdeen,
• N.S.,' writes:-—r,f Bor\a period I had,
been troubled with, headaches and they
Were, so' bad tho^ kept mo awake at
jai'gM i was advised by a friend, after
Slaving used many different kificK of
medicine, tatty Burdock Blood Bitters.
After taking threo.^ottlOs I waS cont-*
jdetoly relieved, and* can recommend it
tot bo a perfect medicine. f t
•But up only'by Tiw T. Milburii Co.,
LtAy Toronto, Ontf .
cad,” she informed
him calmly. “No, he is worse—he
,is a liar as well. He was at the
bottom of all this trouble, of my
marrying Hal, I mean. Some day,
, if yon will let me,- I’ll tell you the
story.”
| “Wouldn’t it be better to sink
all the preliminaries into oblivion?”
asked the Laird rather painfully.
“What we have to concern ourselves
with is the fact itself.”
“Me—the .solid, indisputable fact
Oh, what a lovely river. It’ I were
contemplating kicking the bucket—
don’t you know?—that’s where I
should do it, just from that bridge.
It’s lovely. How clear and cold it
would be,' and it, at least, would tell
no tales.” "
“Don’t talk like that, child,” said
the Laird in cold disapproval. “Well-
balanced minds don’t go off at .such
tangents.” *
“But Dolly Vandom is not well
balanced—she’s ill balanced—off at
a hundred tangents in the day. Ah.
you don’t know her yet.”
CHAPTER XXXIV
Two Women and One Woman
Blauch'e Carrington stood on the
little trysting bridge across the Dir
dum Water, where it ran through
the Priory woods.
The Lammas spates had been long
and sore in the Dale, and tales of
disaster were rife from end to end.
In the low-lying parts the fields were
deep in still water, while in the -
latitudes, whei'e harvest was late and
poor, the stoo'ks had simply been
swept like frail crafts from their
moorings, add sent like foam-drift
on the bosom of an angry flood.
Many sheep had been drowned and
great trees torn from their roots,
an,d general havoc had been wrought.
It was the late September now,
hut such a- disastrous autumn had
not been known in-tho Dale for many
a year. Nothing else was talked o.f
at'-Kirk and market, which were, in
deed, mainly meeting-places for the
recital of tho general woe. Dirdum
was high in flood yet, and the low
buttresses of the trysting brig were
deep in tho tumbling bvown water
sWopt everything before it. Tho
i were already sadly thinned by
high winds of the equinox, and
whole peaceable Dale presented,
early, a wintry aspect. Autumn
shorn of its glory too.. A sad
sodden green that had lost, it's
was everywhere' the prevailing
and there was no flame on
hedge or tree waxing i’uddy. Blanche,
from ,the sick clmmber to which she
had been rclegAted-foi* sevoval
had heard of all tho desolation,
knew what ailed heL Ar, it
knew, they held their peace,
had dwi-ned like a lily on the
from tho she heard of the new
arrival .ftt Essondoiu The dodtoT I
eoitid find no disease; Her ctWi/in-l,
THVILSDAY, JANVAHT 30, 103^
- - 'i,r> i,wy?iy
pmd been slrucfe.
“Don’t, don't!”
wildly. ”J tell y
such a thing-with
and untrue.”
“It is neither wicked nor untrue
replied Dolly equably. “it'a wu
they call in that funny
don kirk the Gospel truth. I Wut
to tell you things, heaps of things,
but yd’u have beep ill, and perhaps
it would not bo good for you to stand
here on this damp, mossy path. Will
you come back with me? ?
come to your house? It is a
house. Surely there will bt
little corner in it where you
can talk l’or half an hour or so
opt being disturbed by anybody?”
Blanche shook her head, longing 'to turn and flee, yet fascinated and
held spellbound to the spot. Jlie
witchery of Dolly’s .eyes was upon,
her. Dolly’s compelling power,
which was a species of witchery too,
held her to the spot.
“If you have anything to say, I
can- hear it now,” she said in a low
voice, “But it is never goad to rake
up dead^ashes.”
• Dolly laughed,
“But, bless you, these ashes aren’t
dead. They are live coal, every
bit of them. You have been ill be
cause of me, and I have been ill lots
of times in my mind because of you,
and now you have got to listen to
me while I tell you how it came
about that Harry Kerr made such a
fool ’of himself in London, and there-
his j who is uuwciithy the love of
- aim woman, but it is a deeper tragedy j when he wins the love of two. iloth
these women loved, Harry Kerr, and
i because of him they were 'desolate
. In the springtime of their lives.
■ Blanche drew herself up a trifle
haughtily, and she would quickly
have turned away, but Dolly came
to her eagerly. They met now for
tho first time face to face, with pos
sible speech lying to their hand. It
was the opportunity for which Dolly
had sought.
“Don’t run away
curious
eat you, ............
tliis very day to
have got
bandy in my big pocket
ently, when I had
house, 1 should have put them on.”
Blanche could not speak. With a
strange yearning she looked up into
the radiant face—the face that had
been preferred before hers, Blanche
was still in total ignorance regarding
the particulars of the marriage of
Harry Kerr and the strange London
girl of whose doings, the Dale was
full. The only two persons who
could have told her the whole truth
had shrunk from the task. Dolly'
was one, but* all the time since she
had hoard of Blanche lying, as they
said, -near to the-gates of death, she
had pondered, and then she had
taken her resolve. And to-day saw
its fulfillment,
“Don't run away,” she said, with
strange frankness which'was for ever; by made us two, who never harmed
taking the Laird of Essendon by sur-
prise, and alluring him against his
better judgment or his will,.
“You and I must have it out. The
Elites have-decreed it. Do you know
what has kept me here all this time,
when I ought to -have gone back to
my London life? Why, nothing but
this, that you and I had to have it
out.”
*“I don't understand you,”
Blanche feebly,
colour flecked her cheek. '
want to have it out—as you
it. I don’t want to talk to
•all.”
“Oh, that is unkind, for
.said sh6
blithesomeitess. “1
and. anyway, I was
> see you.
my cap and my
with a
won’t
coming
See, I
gloves
and pres-
got near the
sne
DU I
you.
cried
wont
It h
a little
discuss
wicked
-•It’s what
little Essen-
May I
great
e * one
and I
I Wltlj-
| “you know what a
j you have li-r a roasin!
i villiany as plain as a
. Don’t you see it all?
■ love with you-
' Anyway, he wanted to marry you,
. and Harry was in the way. As ho
could not shoot him down, as they
used to do in these parts, or show-
him into the Dirdum with a stone
round his neck, he set about finish
ing him in another way. Manrice
knows the respectable folks as well
as the -other sorts, and he know right
well that surest way to part you and.
Harry was to put him on to me,
you twig?”
Blanche gave a weary nod.
“You have (beep blaming him
along-—Hal, I mean; but. he isn’t
bad. He’s one of the best sort that
ever was born, and he wouldn’t hurt
a woman, if he knew it, to save his
life. He was kind to me, even when
his hair rose up stiff at some of my
doings, and he never spoke an -angry
I word. I hadn't met any of that kind
before, you see, and that’s what
bowled me over so quickly. There
was nobody in the wide -world to
bjame except me.”
<(Don’t say that,” said Blanche,
faintly protesting, “I see it all
quite well now, and I -am very sorry
for you,”
“You will be sorrier yet, for be
fore Hal went off we had some
words, and I aggravated him beyond
endurance. I found this, and then
I knew exactly what had happened
and how hopeless the whole affair
was.”
■She undid the fastenings of her
white blouse -and drew from her
bosom the letter that Blanche had
written after much travail of spirit.
“Take it, it is yours, That was
what -brought me to Scotland—that
and' nothing else. I wanted to see.
you for myself, and get -a grip of the
whole situation, and then to make
up'my mind what was to be done. I
thought two days would do the trick,
and here I have been for nearly
three months, and I have only had
my chance- to-day.”
Blanche tore the letter into frag
ments and cast them on Dirdum’s
angry bosom, and they both watch
ed them dancing down and disap
pearing from sight.
(Continued next week.)
luscal
isn’t hh
pikestaff ‘i
He was in
■or imagined he was.
do
all
all
' him, as miserable as we are.
that is the way of men all the
through. They have what
want, and the woman pays.”
She stood with her back against
mossy prapot 'and folded her arms
above her head—an attitude which
gave some -*ficticious inches to her
height. She was actually, however,
taller than Blanche, who looked very
slight and fragile beside her.
She began to talk in her usual
fluent tongue, telling the tale of
Harry Kerr’s short London career
and all that had .befallen him there.
Her terse, graphic style, her use of
words which are not usually heard
in polite society, but which undoubt
edly often fitted the case, held
Blanche -absolutely spellbound, and
Dolly knew it. -She was not an ac
tress for nothing.
“So now,” she said in conclusion,
she
Brighton
that Hal
said
while the painful
“I don’t
i express
youtjat
But
way
they
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