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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-02-06, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE by $1 ANNA S, SWAN Xove’s miracle tup her hands. [ “Hueh a place for gossip I said, to pose they did not forgot to at lunch that I thought ivo drive oyer news, We Harry? THCBSDAY, W,,,,>31 Thank you have about for giving me that often felt humiliated it. Thank you very DU lU rtn’t have felt humil- a small shrine where with halos on. You I a halo—Dolly Vanhorn's never shaped tor smiled faintly, of her words, the there I don’t know since I have said Dolly as “Everythin’g That was the de what has come been here, I’m she wiped her changed, I’m that The half pray much some They will never, let I have heard from Grisel- offen- would a wo- He doesn’t say ■frack. I •thiukiug aijucli.” “Oh, y sated. Hal him two people sit needn't tell me who they are. -don’t weai’ Mead was pame,” Blanche ’ «iiiaintness rueful, yet wholly winning expres sion. on Dolly's face drew her more iand more. “Now that we have had this talk '■’H.'Will be ‘-hotterWe can be friends can'wa not? You will pot—j;ou will wt,‘be jealous ■■ of me, at least,” she said timidly. “Believe me, I would not do a*, thing that would hurt nu- otliei* woman, and the moment I Meard whad had actually happened 1 jmt him out of’my heart?’ Dolly laughed,i a clear, spontan eous laugh that had nothing ssive about it. “Toll me how you do it! I believe it if I could, but when mam loves a man she can’t do just •as pleases. He will stop where she doesn’t ^vant him to stop, in‘‘spite nf her. Do you know why I have «ome to-day? They'have had a let ter from Hal—the first that has .come since th“e. one he wrote from Liverpool, tolling her abbut me.” “J.s he well, and what is lie doing? asked Blanche with an eagerness which she could not hide and which -''Dolly did -not fail to note. ’’“He’s quite well. Ho has gone saw-ay up to tho Klondike—-him and his pal;.This letter came from there. Jt was written very nearly a month .ago, and they have had an extraor dinary bit of luck/ what, -but ho talks, of coming back soon. It's proof that t'hoy have fou’nd somewhere and somehow. The Laird was' trying’ to explain to me at Junch-timo that there still places In. the world where it i« possible to 3‘.ise one morning a-nd to pick up, a fortune before breakfast. That’s where I should be if.T were a man. I’m seriously thinking of changing my sex and starling Off now.” “And he is actually talking of .■coming home?” ’’’*,’7' /‘Yes—but not just’-yet, you know; hut he will come, and they’re simp ly bursting with the good news at Essendojr. f I was glad to creep .a,way.” ? “But isn't it good news for you’too? the and asked Blanche, impelled to, ••words by something haunting pathetic in Dolly’s eyes; ■TNo, I don’t think- so. You lie has re-ally no use for me. doesn’t care, and, though I do, it’s a one horse show where only the wo man cares?.’ “But he Would lear.n to care—he must,” cried Blanche- desperately. “And you are sb different from Jjody that I have ever met ■people must lovo you; Why, I—?’ A lovely smile leaped like a -dep flash of sunshine upon Dolly's face. “Say it again, say it again,”' said Dolly, and sobbing, she laid her hands on Blanche’s shoulders, and ■they kissed one another, and all the bitterness between 'them was wip- see, He any- that even slid- Eczema or Salt Rheum A Blood Disease This disease manifests itself in little around blisters which contain an ex tremely irritating fluid, These break ■and subsequently a crust .is formed, and the intense burning, itching 'and smart ing, especially at night of when the ._ . -----,-------------1---X i33>art is exposed to any strong heat, almost unbearable. The success which ed away, “There 111 gel to mo sure,” eyes, not the same woman, I'll never be the same woman again.” “But you will be a far better and sweeter one, I’m sure,” said Blanche bravely,- “and I hope that you will be very happy yet. I’ll—I'll that you may be,” Dolly shook her head. “I don’t think there’s chance, Poor Hal’s weak in ways', and he can never make up his mind. He will come back right enough, my dear, but he will not find me here.” “Why not? you go. da who they have learned to love you, how you have got round the heart of the Laird, and that you do what you will with- him?' “He is like Hal dreaming They are and neither of them would be of the slightest use in the world without some woman to guide and look after him.” “Well, husband, Dolly’s dor as a “He’s only a baby, and she makes of him what she will.. She's ‘the sweetest thing that God ever made, and I love her better on earth.” 1 “Then how can you of leaving her? You Harry will come home, you will all be happy together. He, . too, needs somebody to look after him, and -now I have seen you I am sure that you are the woman.” “Dolly Vandom of the Friv. ?” said Dolly with a rueful shake of her head. “No, my dear, Harry Kerr will be led only by the woman he loves, and who will make him, -as his father is in his mother’s hands, like clay in the hands of the potter. I am not that woman. He will never, never come back to me.” ‘You must not say ’that, nor let your mind dwell, on it? cried Blanche forgetful of herself in her new-found anxiety for the happiness of the other woman. Wonder of wonders that this thing should have happened —that these two should vie with one another in unselfishness! ‘I’m going away now back to the house, so good-bye? said Dolly sud denly. ‘You will think over what I have said, and if ever—if ever the time comes when you can take, Harry Kerr’s life... into your hands You’ll remember that I said you were the woman for him, athe woman whom lie loved. I think I could give him up to you? ’You will never bo asked? said Blanche quickly. ‘When he comes back we shall be friends and nothing more. And you and I must never talk like this again, or harbour such thoughts in our minds. They are1 not right, and, besides they are quite- useless now. Must you go, then? Goodbye? ‘And now you understand? said. Dolly wistfully. ‘You know just | how it happened. Ho was not really, false to you. Circumstances were! too strong for him. He can’t say; “No” ‘I quite understand. Fray, don’t- say any more; it is too ful’ ‘And you don’t bear mo grudge?’ ‘Oh no! Oh no!—never, never, now That would be impossible? 1 Dolly lifted up her face to be kissed, and then she sped away. ! At the top of the little brae which led to the open field she turned and looked back. Her head, still bare, was touched by the sunlight, and she was smiling still, though her eyes were wet. Blanche carried that an old dear, and he is so that halt the time I’m that it is Hal himself, like-two peas in a pod, Mrs. ’Kerr looks after her doesn’t she?” face became soft and ten- little child’s. than anything dare to speak will stay, and and then Mim 1®IW Jins met with in skin diseases of such ^severity is duo to its Wonderful blood ■cleansing and purifying properties and we know of no’,other remedy that has ■done, or can do, SO. much for those who arc almost driven ' to, distraction with the tertiblo torture of eczema. Mrs. Martin It, Gb/brccht, WinVler, Man,, ■writes:—have used B.xS.iS. 'with good results for vczeina. My face Mnd shoulders were simply. cjw*r$l with iiJotclios of this terrible disease*?' Koth- ang did .me any good nntif'.I took your SttcXicino and it lias relieved’mo of the •i^rriblo suffering X had to go* through -flay and night., f * Put tip only by The *X. Mdbura Co., Toronto, Ont, iw to that house. ! My dear, my 4w, the very wo-1 man I wanted to seel I Dolly must good from ‘And where is who rends so many hearts as if they were old gloves as she drew off hers them on tlw table. ‘He is at some place possible name, but he his cousin and toll you the have had a letter that bad. wild boy asked Griselda, threwand with has an nn- l’oundname, i, and they are together and doing all sorts of has somo wonderful astonishing . gold—-lots i is true, it men for the things, He luck, and he has found of gold. If what he says will make them both rich j rest of their lives.’ “Fairy tales, dearest, that happen in so short ‘It either happens like at all, and he tells how other men who have been there a long time have laboured hard for months for nothing. He and his cousin happen ed on the right bit of ground. But there, sit down, and you can read the letter for yourself? Griselda sat down by the cheerful fire of logs and she took the letter, looking at with interested, even de vouring eyes. Griselda had a private and most engrossing affair of her own at that moment, but she had a very large and very expansive heart, in which there was always room for matters pertaining to those whom she loved. . She leaned her cheek on one hand as she read,, and Alice Kerr, watch ing her expressive features, decided that of all the women she knew Griselda was the most beautiful. She was,a regal creature, having a sound mind in a sound body, and a judgment which seldom erred. And as a friend there was not such an other in the whole of Bellendale. She was true as steel, and, though at times sharp of tongue, so loyally, tender at heart that her Words could never rankle. .“It’s a good letter. He has come to himself, Mrs. Kerr? was Griselda’s comment as she laid it down. ‘There is only one thing about it that I don’t like—the very, very slight mention of his wife’s name? ‘I noticed that? said Alice. Kerr eagerly, “and so, too did my husband Indeed, he was not for letting her see it? ‘But did she see it?’ ‘We had no choice, for, if we had kept it back have imagined ‘I understand. she say?’ 'Nothing, letter back, because of turned her head away, said a word about it indifferent.” Griselda swallowed something in her tlirodt. ‘I’m sorry for that little girl, Mrs, Kerr. ■ She deserved a better fate? ‘A better fate than what? Harry , will come back, and when he finds that she is here and that we‘ have grown so fond of her, why, ..then they will settle down somewhere near and he quite happy? ‘You really think that will happen ‘Y es, I there, any Griselda? mind?’ *1 hope have no reason for ing that it won’t, sorry for her. How could a time?’ that or not t all sorts that.x She simply but I think the way in •, you see, she would of things.’ What did handed the she felt it which she and she never good bad or hope and think so. Is reason why it should not Tell me what is in your it will not happen. I saying or think- but I’m always .There’s something 1 about her which makes one forget I everything but her winsomeness, and she’s so clever—she has far more brains than Blanche. If only —if only things had been different? j ‘But she is improving, doon’f you .think?’ asked Alice Kerr anxiously ! Tt. is quite touching to see how anx- • ions she is not' to vex or shock us. I’Sho has given up nearly all the pray -strange, expressions that she used pain- when she first came, and she seems to be quite happy with us. If she were not she would certainly have left us long ago“. Of course, if had really been set on going would simply have1 walked out, know that Griselda? ‘Yes J know that quite well, the prettiest thing that I have over seen, and I- should be sorry ’to see tho little comedy played out to q dull conclusion. I’ve anything so exquisite as ! with the Lah'd. She has Vision of wholly, leaving the rest of Dopy on the brae with her for many in sack-cloth and ashes?’ “That she has, and when Lilias sweetness of her comes home the poor child will be ; jealous. The Laird is really very fond of Dolly, and he is never hap pier than when she is by his side. They start out every morning to tho Home Farm at nine o'clock punctual ly at the clock strikes, and Mark says that her intelligence, her grip any never seen her way captured us to sit ! I sup toll you, and 1 are and that > place to i svav I to u1 seen . had the how Dolly just above the frysting brig at jDirdum Water. Thither they flock ed in hot haste, and when they found her cap and cloak laid under a • it > w; Im Turn/ u;*,; io ihe Priory whether anything had been heard of Dolly. Then Blanche confess to the interview of ernoon, and she told them pR or to aft and when she had parted from i when there at it, that Jack t ; goiiig to live at Eildonshle, {Mr. Carrington will gwe the Jack for a wedding present. “That’s as it should be, Griscddu, for once Eildonside not only march ed with Hatherley hut was part of its demesne, Mr. Carrington is cer tainly n most generous man. But it is your father that I am concerned about, dear—-he has behaved splendidly throughout, think of a certain hunting so long ago but that you and I r member every incident of amazed at tho changes that been wrought.” “The old order changeth,” Griselda, as she rose to her “No, I will not stop. I am promis ed to tea at Bellenden, but I fell '.that I must come to you for a kiss ■to-day,” “You arq happy, darling! Indeed, happiness js written on your face.” Griselda brushed away the un bidden tear. “Yes, I’m happy,” she answered simply, “Jack is a good man, Mrs. Kerr, and he loves me dearly. And' ho will control my ' unruly spirit, 1 and I will give some zest to his, so! both of us will benefit.” ‘ ! “We don’t want you controlled. * Griselda. Tho Dale would would bo a darksome place without that bright spirit which so often has put heart into us all?’ “Oh, you dear! Don’t think that you will got rid of me at Essendon even when I am married. I should like to have seen Mrs. Hal to-day to have told her my news myself. ‘There is something magnetic about that creature. She draws us ail into her net. The old order changes indeed, but how human we all are, and how little difference there is in the com position of any of us! Good-bye. Give Dolly my love, and tell her to come to-morrow and see mo if she has nothing to do.” “I’ll toil tier, i can’t think where she is now. Yon may meet lier in the, park. She wanders a lot there, and she has tamed the most uncanny of tho deer.. Her delight in the live creatures is a child's delight. This has been her first opportunity of making acquaintance with them, and she says that she did not know that there could be so many different creatures in tho world. Oh, she keeps ns lively, I pronyse you, with hex* quaint conceits. It is a child’s heart, Griselda, unsmirched by the mud of that strange underworld of which she knows so much. My pray- . er is that my son may wear keep the, jewel of her lovo as a. red thing.” ’ Griselda pondered these words as’him and their fondest greetings. He she drove in hot haste to the Priory had known nothing until the mom- io be made of by her new people,! ent of his coming, and ho had even they came back to her memory when I prepared himself during the long .the gloom has descended without and trying journey to defend his ac- one ray of hope upon Essendon. Mrs. Kerr had taken tea alone,1 order out of the choas of his life, and though not alarmed, she was The brief affection that he had cher- considerably puzzled over Dolly’s ished for his girl-wife was dead, but prolonged absence. The girl wand- _ lie had honestly vowed in his heart ered so much in the open, and took' so little account of passing time, that often she was absent from the house Cor hours. But when six o’clock came, and when the swift dusk of the autumn evening began to close in and the rain to fall from lowering skies, she began to be anx ious, When the Laird came in ho, too, became anxious, and he immed iately set out for her. . It was a long search, and during''sorrow, the late evening messengers were had wrought. tree by the side of the Dirdum swept into a fathomless pool, then, as the Laird like a man distraught. All night long they worked and iearched, and in the grey chill of the so When I ■ day inn ■ morning they found hex* far down her fork bold In her passing sb; Im/* ad'Td # thousandfold -to the difficulties of hfe position. He had to begin again* to win by slow degrees the confid ence aaid love of hi* 'own people. And here she slept among Essen* don’s honoured dead. Be swept the ivy from the stone upon which the fresh lettering had been carved— the lettering which hud been ordered, by the Laird, and which was often whimpered by cottage firesides as the tale was toid ef hew he could not bear name even yet the mention -of hey the stream, in a bend where dress had been caught by the which had it I’m have °f u» uprooted tre said feet. She was quite dead. When those who comprised sad search-party saw and hear a day. She never forgot, the haunt ing indescribable look. 4 Il hhd been their first meeting. It was their last good-bye. CHAPTER CHAPTER - XXXV That Fadct-b Not Away As Dolly sped out by the way to find the path to the Priory woods Griselda Hume drove up lo the front door at..Essendom She was a radiant- vision, and there was something infectious in the compell ing brightness of her eyfes. She threw the reins to the groom and batle him go round to the stables, as would, spend nt least Essendon. -She was shown at morning-room, 'Whore happy with the .letter from the Far West, was wondering where Dolly had fled, ' -She sprang up, Well pleased to give warmth of welcome to Griselda" wlio-was of all visitors tho most wel-j back of everything, is amazing;” ' ‘ ' is amazing, and pf a the that hor- hit hour she at theonee to Alice Kerr “The whole thing it could hardly bo believed out book,” said Griselda. “But most amazing thing of all is she should be able to content self in quiet Essendqn?’ “I believe that she is perfectly happy, dear, and I never cease think ing God that He showed us just the right, tiling rlble day when bomb into our ever the future shall always bo But come, now A little’ bird has bOeu before yon, Griselda, Bm afraid.” Griselda flushed royally and flung to do bn that ter- she was shot like a quiet house. Whal- inay hold for us. I thankful for that, for your own* fwwsh Here also lies DOLLY VANDOM. of Henry Riddell-Kerr, yoruigec of Essendon and -Fallowfieid . . who died on the 7th day of October 190™, in the flower of her youth, leaving a blank that will never he filled. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends?’, Such was Dolly's shrine and epi taph. She who hud once filled .emp ty hearts with laughter in »a London playhouse had filled a great army of hearts in a quiet country place with intolerable sadness. Such was Dolly’s crown; such -was her fragrant memory. And the man who knelt so humbly there, asking foregiyeness from her who answered not, had despised and flouted that sincere and loyal heart, had, even in the silent watches of the sea, framed specious excuses which should justify his folly to were to sit in judgment He was levelled to the young manhood made a naught beside the 'all-conquering; splendour of a woman’s heart. He was only six-and-twenty, and life was all before him. It might even yet blossom with a thousand hopes. But Dolly had come to her own. -She would grudge him noth ing; she had no need of him. Vp there beyond the sunset glory Dolly, by reason of the ‘greater love? that Rid dell-Kerr of Essendon, the wonder of the thing filled all their souls and for ever stilled the lying, gossip of the Dale, No hands but ’ his were suffered to touch tho waif of Lon don life who had nestled herself warm and called hei* and, when him down wept—not man who prizes beyond all telling. Essendon’s tears w&ro the crown of Dolly’s short and chequered life. They wiped away the guilt of her mistakn -sac rifice, and they were treasured in heaven against the day when things shall be laid open before eyes of Him who searcheth hearts and trieth the reins of children of men. s,’s i;> « >> In a close and sheltered nook of tho great park, enshrined among the bowering trees which almost hid the tower of the Ladye Chapel from view was the last resting-place of the Korrs of Essendon. Thither, on a spring evening, when all the world was gay and sweet with the -promise that was to be fulfilled, there came towards that gloaming had entered upon the inheritance, in- the bowed figure of a man, on whose, corruptible, undefiled and that fad face was set the seal of a great sad- eth not away. ness. elose about his heart, tie by every endearing name, she answered not, ho sat on the green bank and like a child—hut like a has lost that which he all the the the Ho was young, but he walked with tliS slow and heavy step of one who had eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and had found it bitter to the taste. What experience had been Harry Kerr’s since that day when, a raw lad with the blood of youth bloom ing in his veins, he had left his father’s house to embark upon the treacherous sea of life! And now he had come back to find himself strangely alien in the place and | of his fathers, to find—oh, wonder, sac-j of wonders!-—that tne undying mem- | ory of his dead wife stood between i lion and to endeavour to bring .somo * ordfir out. nf the chons nF his life. that he would try to make the best of his life and of hers. And lo! while ho Sought with puny hands to order destiny, the mills of God, grinding slowly,.had ground him ex ceeding small. Dolly had come to the kingdom that had been his. It was of her that they spoke, for her memory is father’s -stern eyes filled, for her memory the voice was hush ed, the air filled with an undying It was a miracle that Dolly * i *■- those who - upon him. dust— his thing of Weak and Nervous Tired and Worn Out Couldn’t Do Housework Mrs. James Hutchinson, Gooderham, Ont., writes:—”1 had been a great sufferer, for two years', with my Jiearb and nerves, “I could not do any work, and was- so weak I could not stand on my feet long before I would have to lie down. f<I started in taking and 1‘ will never be without thorn t as I find them the best nie&cfne X have ever taken, and I can safely say they saved my life. /<To all weak, and nervous women, who aro tired and done out I would say: ‘Get a box of Milburn’s Heart and NerVe Bills at onee,| and they will be surprised at tho difference in their health in a very short time.”' Price, 50 cents a box at all druggists and dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by Tho T. Milburn Co., Ltd.,. Toronto, Ont. Patron—“Have you frog legs.” Waitress—“Stop your fooling and give your order.” The Great West Festival at Calgary picturt^qwe. costumes, pretty girls; | ^clever dancers, .marvelous ek-- Inbjtiori.s of native'1 handicraft will 1$among the offerings given to the public at the big foikdance, folksong and handicrafts festival scheduled to be held at the Palliscr Hotels Calgary, March 19-22 next. . A score of nations whose people have come over to the Dominion : to swell the number of Hew Can- ’ adians in the- West will show the 1 treasures of art accumulated dur- ; ing the centuries of their national ' history and Canadian culture will ; he given an impetus from .the ’ .source which has always been the aliment pf great art. This Calgary festival is the third of similar ones held at Wihnipdg and. Regina, and thdtfirst two pfbvcd So successful and awake,bed such Interest that Premier t Bro white of Alberta asked for their repetition this spring* They are organized by the Can- adihn Pacnid Railway and the com ing one is also in co-operation with the Canadian Handicrafts Guild; Alberta Branch - Lay-out shows: top picture, group of Polish, dan cers;/ lower right, Irish, Colleen. in costumaj lower left, Hungarian girl posed against platter of. Hun garian make*