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«7/ie Jfouse of breams I
her..'.
"Quite sure?” she demanded
saucily. {Then, without waiting for
his answer: “Blaise. I do l^ve your
chin—it’s suck a nice,, square, your
money or your life, sort4 of chin,” r
Something light as a butterfly
warm as a woman’s lips, just .brush
ed the feature in question.
He drew her into his arms, fold
ing them closely about her.
“And T—I love every bit of you,”
he said hoarsely, “Body and soul
I love you! Oh! Heart’s beloved!
Nothing—np one in the whole world
shall come between us two
again!”
CHAPTER XXX
ever
CHAPTER XXIX
The raw spirit sent the chilled
blood racing through hey veins, put
ting new life into her. A faint
tinge of colour crept into her face.
“Oh, Blaise! I’m so glad you’ve
come-—so glad!” she said shakily.
“So am I,” he returned grimly.
“See, drink a little more brandy.
Then you shall tell me all about it.”
At last, bit by bit, she managed to
give him a somewhat disjointed ac
count of what had occurred.
“I think I must have been stun
ned for a little when I fell,” she
"said. “I don't remember anything
alter stepping right off into space,
it seemed, till -oh—ages afterwards
----1 found myself lying here. And
when I tried to stand, I found I’d
hurt my ankle and that I couldn’t
put my foot to the ground. So”—
with a weak little attempt at laugh
ter—"i just sat down again.”
Blaise gave vent to a quick ex
clamation of concern.”
“Oh, it’s nothing, really,” she
reassured him hastily. “Only a
strain. But I can’t walk on it.”
Then, suddenly clinging to him with
a nervous dread: “Oh, take me away
Blaise—take me home!"'
“I will.
there’s no
more, my
‘•‘No, I
now.”
But he _
ter erve stress and exhaustion back
of the brave words.
“Well, I’ll take you home, at once”
he said cheerfully. “But, look here
you’ve no coat on ,anc you’re wet
with mist.”
“I know,
alow. I left
whimsically,
terson element, game to the core,
was reasserting itself.
“Well, we must fetch it------”
“No! No!” Her voice rose
hasty protest. “I won’t-—I can’t
back!”
“Then I’ll go.”
“No—don’t!
there—♦—■”
“So much
“I’d like five
He laughed.
“I am afraid you won’t say that
by the end of the journey.” he com
mented ruefully,
/But by the end of the journey
Jean was fast asleep, • She had
been told about Nesta
“Ah,
please,”
ing his
topic.
“I think we must a little, dear,”
“leaned well back” as directed, con- <he responded gravely, “You see
scious, as she felt the firm clasp of Nest, was not all to blamei—nor even
Blaise’s arm, of a supreme sense of yery much, as I’m sure”—with
little smile—"my luumci [
I
The Gateway
August seemed determined to jus
tify her .claim to be numbered among
the summer months before making
her exist. Apparently she had re
pented her having recently veiled the
county in a mist that might /have
been regarded as a very creditable
security and well-being. The reaction tender little smile—^“my mother - effort even on the part of November,
from the strain of the afternoon,'the tried hard to mrike you believe.”
exhaustion consequent upon her
flight through the mist and the fall(
which had so suddenly ended it, and, perfectly right."
yes! Don’t talk abou,t it,
she broke in hastily, sens-
distastefui recoil from the
for today th’e sun was blazing down
out of a cloudless sky and scarcely a
And I expect she was‘breath of wind swayed the nodding,
Jean nodded vig&Tousiy.
"She did.
the rhythmic beat of Orion’s, hoofs He shook his head,
all combined to lull her into a state “No," lie answerer,
of delicious drowiness. It was so,was really mine. My initial mistake
good to feel that she need not fight |was in confusing the false' fire with
and scheme and plan further, to feeP the true> jtj—was not love I had for
utterly safe ... to know
Blaise was holding her . . .
Her head fell back against
shoulder, her eyes .closed,, and the J to make it easier for ner, trying to
"The fault
that Nesta, And I found it out when it
| was too late. We were poles apart
llis; in everything, and insteaa of trying
Don’t be frightened—
need to be frightened any
Jean.”
know. I'm not afraid—
could hear the sob of ut-
My coat's at the bung
in a hurry, you see”—
The irrepressible Pe-
Geoffery might
SMALL SALARY
(hinder o( si. Paul’s Oii'fiiHrM
Received $20 Per Wcek^—
Work Took 35 Years.
More than 250 years ago a young
architect walked among the ruins of
a London churchy burneu down in th#
great fire of 16 §6, and a.s he looked,
skyward he visioned a great and
hehutlful dome that should' tib#
above a new St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Then, as he glanced downward he
saw a blackened stone on which a
word in Latin meaning “I shall rise
again.” With this stone he started
building th<= new Cathedral,
The man was Christopher Wren,
whose- majestic conception of St.
Paul’s, one of the finest examples of
Renaissance architecture in England,
placed him ip the front rank of archi
tects of all time.
,The cathedral’s grout dome is the
crown of London. It is really three
domes, one within the other—one of
vaulted stone, one of brick and one
of lead and timber, On top is a
stone lantern and the cross above
reaches up 365 feet. The vast weight
of 60,000 tons rests upon eight mas
sive piers.
It' took Wren 35 years to build St.
Paul’s—from 1675 to 1710, He re
ceived but little pay.—$20- a Week—
less than even unskilled workmen
now receive. Sometimes he couldn’t
collect his wages. And his work was
difficult and dangerous. Several times
weekly he stepped into a basket and
was dragged up -to the top of the
building to see that all was going as
he wished.
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; cornstalks, heavy with golden grain
j Jean, her strained ankle now prac
tically recovered, was tramping along
the narrow footpath through the
cornfield, following in -Blaise’s foot
steps, while Nick brought up the
rear of the procession. She had not
seen Claire since her engagement-
had become ap actual fact, though a
characteristically warm-hearted little
note from the latter had found its
way to Staple, and this i morning.
Jean had declared 'her' inability to
exist another day “without a. “Iheart-
to-heart” talk with Claire.
Hence the afternoon’s pilgrimage
across the cornfield
part of a short cut
and Charnwood.
At first Jean had
new-found happiness
barrier-o-f sorts-betwixt herself and
Claire. The contrast between the
respective hands that Fate had dealt
them was so glaring,, arid the rose
and gold with which love had sud
denly decked Jean’s own life seemed
to make the bleak tragedy Which en
veloped Claire’s appear ever darker
than before.
But Claire’s letter, full of a quiet
unselfish rejoicing in the happiness
which had fallen to the lot of her
friend, had somehow .smoothed away
the little uncomfortable feeling of
■comparison which, to anyone , as
sensitive as Jean, had een a very
real embarrassment. Nick’s felicita
tions, too, had een tendered with
frank cordiality’ and affection, and
With a delicate perception that had
next thing‘of which she was ebn-1 understand her and to lead into our
sdious- was of being lifted down by a'
pair of strong arms and of a confusU
ed murmur of voices from amongst,
which she hazily distinguished Lady
Anne’s heartfelt: “Thank God you’ve
fpund her!” And then, cliaracteris-
tical’.y practical, “I’ll have her in
bed in five minutes. Blankets and
hot-water bottles are all ready.”
It was evening of the following And when the crash came—'When I 1
day. Jean, tucked up on a couch; found her deliberately entertaining 1
and with her sprained ankle^com-’ in niy house, against my exress or- ’
fortably bandaged, had ween reluc- ders, a man who ought to have been 1
tant’y furnishing Blaise with the kicked- out of any decent society ’
particulars of her experience at the ( why, I let go. The Tormarin. temper 1
bungalow. She had been very un-.had its way with’me. I shall never '
willing to confide the whole story to'forgive myself for tnai. I frighten- ’
him, fearing the consequences of the! ed her, terrified her. I think I must
Tormarin temper as applied to1 have been half mad. An then—well.
Burke. A violent quarrel between yOU know what followed. She rush-
the two men could do no good, she.ed away and, before, anyone could
reflected, and would only be fraught, find her, she had. killed herself—
with unpleasant results to all con
cerned—probably, in the end, secur
ing a painful publicity for
affair.
Fortunately Blaise had
when Judith had rung up
the day to enquire if Jean had re
turned to Staple, or he might have
fired off a few candid expressions ofj
opinion through the telephone. But. Italy to Paris,
now there was no evading his search- • there. At A;
ing questions, and he had quietly ’ gherita Valdi told me in the letter
determinedly insisted upon hearing announcing Nesta’s death.
Once or twice an she must have lost heart. ■>
ways of looking at things, I only
stormed at her. It roused the bad
in me to see her trailing our name
in the dust, throwing her dignity to
the winds, craving for nothing other
than amusement and excitement. I’m
not trying to excuse myself. 'There
, was no excuse for me. In may way, I
I was as culpable and foolish as she.
NBW FORESTS FOR COAST
Huge Program of Artificial Planting
for Western Province.
which formed
between Staple
feared lest he?
might raise a
Reforestation on a large scale Js
contemplated in British Columbia,
The province has 8,500,000 acres in
timber reserves, but, in addition, is
now investigating areas along the
coast especially suitable to the repro
duction of Douglas fir, ’While natural
reforestation must be depended upon
for the re-stocking of most" logged-
Over lands, "next year, for the first
time in the history of the province,
artificial planting will be resorted to.
Two of the areas likely to be se
lected lie about Harrison Lake arid
Powell Lake. The., first embraces an
area of some 500,000 acres between
Harrison and Alouette lakes and the
latter, which already contains some
300,000,000 feet of mature timber
and second growth, lies at the head
of Powell Lake and embraces the up
per watershed of Powell River and
Lois River? The first planting will be
of 800,000 seedling Douglas firs.
find her, she had. killed herselfi—
thrown 'herself into the Seine. Quite
what happened between leaving here
and her death we were never
to find out. Apparently since
marriage with me, her sister
gone to Paris, unknown to her, and
had taken a situation as dame de
i compagnie to some Frenchwoman,
i and Nesta, though she followed from' suecessful’y concealed the sting of
Ptuls, failed to find■ „ her, individual pain which the contrast
At least that is what Mar- could hardly fail to have induced.
Bo that it was with a considerably
Then 'lightenef1 heart that jean, with her
the entire story. Once or twice an she must have lost heart. .So you escort of two, passed between the
tierce y < ej,acil]atj01x Of intense anger broke see, morally I am responsible for that great gates of Chapnwood and, avo,id-
£ariie “ifrnm nim ac lie* licsfanori 'hi'if i-iavnnri nnnT. Tftc.kless child’s death.’" ing the lengthy walk entailed by fol-
his way
up far
the whole
in
go
be
the better”*—igrimly.
minutes with him.”
Tormarin’s hand tightened
on the hunting-crop he
“But he’s more, likely lost
in the mist
eough away,
laugh,—'“he’s
You’d
know!
I ride 1
But
“No,
be left alone-
The fear was coming
voice and Blaise, detecting it, aban
doned the idea at once.
“All right, little Jean,” he said
reassuringly. “I won’-t leave you.
Put my coat round you”:—stripping
it off. “There—’like that.” He
helped her into it and fastened it
with deft fingers. "And now
going to get you up on Orion and
we’ll go home.”
“I shall never get up there,” she
with a glance at the roan’s
shoulders looming through the
“I shan’t be able to spring—
only stand on one foot remem-
and retched
Probably” with a short
still searching for you.
his mind a bit yoube on
Wait here a minute while
up to the bungalow!—>—”
she clung to his
, no! Don’t go!
-again.”
arm.
I—I can’t
back in her
I’m
been out
earlier in
able
her
had
from him as he listened, but, beyond poor, reckless child’s deat'h.”
that, he made little comment. j uoh, no, no, Blaise! I don’t see
“And'—and that was all,” wound j that”—pitifully.
up Jean. “And,, anyway, Blaise"—j “Don’t you?
a little anxiously—‘it’s all over now, And that was why, when I
and I’m none the worse except for
the acquisition of little more world
ly wisdom and a strained ankile.”
“Yes, it’s over now," he said,
I do——very clearly,
found
myself growing to care for you, I
tried to keep away.”
He felt in his pocket and produced
a plain gold wedding-ring. On the
‘ “ initial's
said,
great
mist.
I can
her.”
Blaise laughed cheerily.
“Don’t worry. Just remain
is'tillf—.standing .on your one
you poor little lame suck!—and I’ll
do the rest.”
She felt his arm release its clasp
of her, and a moment later he swung
his leg across the horse and' was
back in the saddle again. With a
word to the big beast he dropped
the reins on to his neck and, turning
towards Jean, where she stood likp
a slim, pale ghost in the moonlight,
he leaned down to her from
saddle,
“'Can you manage to come a
nearer?” he asked. .She hobbled
ward painfully.
"Now!” he said.
Lower, lower still he stooped,
arms outheld, and at last she
them close around her, lifting
with that same strength of steel (ter use
which she remembered on the moun
tain-side at Montavan. C ' '
like a statute—motionless—< as if
he knew and understood all about
ft, his head slewed around a bit as
though watching until the
business should be satisfactorily ac
complished, and blowing gently thro’
his velvety nostrils meanWhi'e.
And then Jean was resting
against the curve of Blaise’s arm,
with the roan’s powerful shoulders,
firm and solid as- a rock, beneath
her.
“All right?” queried Blaise, gath
ering up the reins in nis left hand,
“Lean well against my shoulder.
There, how’s that?”
“It’s like an arm-chair.**
quite
foot,
the
step
for-
his
felt
her
standing looking down at her with a jinside were engraved the
curious gleam in his eyes. “But thatj“B. T. to. N.F.,” and a date,
sort of thing shan’t happen twice-. | "That Was my-talisman. Margher-
You’ll have to marry met—do you (jta sent it back to me when she wrote
hear?”—imperiously. “You shall .telling me of Nesta’s- death.
never run such a risk again. W.e’U ever I felt my resolution weaken-
get married -at once!” x
And Jean, with a quiver'of amuse- at it.
ment at the corners' of her mouth, fective in thrusting me back into my
responded meekly
“ Yes, Blaise.”
The next minute his arms were There was an inexpressible bitterness
round her -and their lips met in the in his tones, and Jean drew a little
first supreme kiss of love at last-closer to him, her heart overflowing
acknowledged-
turned.
'There is no gauge by which those. ally,
first moments when two who love I His lips brushed her hair,
confess that they are lovers may be1 glad to be beaten, belovedest . .
ing the lengthy walk entailed by fol
lowing the windings of the drive
struck off across, the velvety ,lawns
—smooth stretches of close-cropped
sward which, >roken only by blanch
ing trees Efild shrubbery, and unde
feated by the dreadful ■'formality of
symmetrical flower-beds, swept right
up to the gravelled terrace fronting
the .windows of the h-ouse itself.
(To be Continued)
When-
JUST 50 YEARS AGO
ing, I used to take -it out and have a
. It was always quite ef-
place in the scheme of things—ithat
is, outside any other 'woman’s life."
•of love given and re- ! with Compassion. He icoxed down
| at lher, and smiled a thought ironic-
“But now— you’ve beaten me
her hair. “I’m
measured. It is the golden, timeless 11 knew, that day at Montavan, what
span when “unborn to-morrow and you might come to mean to me. And
dead yesterday” cease to hem us I intended never to see you again,
Fifty years on December 7 th
1882, definite plans were formulat
ed for the ^establishment of St. Marys
first telehone exchange. < H. .Fred
Sharp was St. Marys first agent for
the Bell Company. In 18 8i5< the small
pocket size telephone directory of
that year listed eight telephones,
ohe residence and seven business
instruments then in use.
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rind his party left civllf2atioii,by way
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The home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Thede, of Port Elgin, was the scene
of a pretty double wedding when
their daughter .Ida May, became the
bride of Mr. Geo. A. Kemp, of Kirk
ton and Miss Antia Wegner, of Kit
chener, became the bride of Mir. Jo
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for Hamilton, South Cayuga, Nia
gara Falls and Toronto.
round about and only love, and love’s but ju'st to take that one day for
staay, I'uiiiuiu. remembrance. I felt that, having
To Blaise and Jean it might have made such a utter hash 'of things
been an-hour—a commonplace per- having spoiled one woman’s life and
iod ticked off by the little silver been, indirectly, the cause of her
clock upon the chimneypiece—or death, I was not fit to hold another
half eternity before they came back [-woman’s happiness- ill my hands.”
to the recollection of things mun-j Jean rubbed her cheek against his
dane. When they did, itowas across shoulder,
“I’m glad you thought better of
it,” she observed*
“J don’t knowpeven now, that I’m
right in letting you love me—•—
“You can’t stop me,” she objected
He smiled,
"I don’t think I would if I coiil'd
—“now.”
Jean leaned up and, With a slen
der, dictatorial finger on the side of
his face, turned his head towards
ecstasy, remain.
dane. When they did, itowas across
the kindly bridge of humour.
Blaise -laughed out suddenly and
boyishly.
"It’s preosterous!” he exclaimed.
"I quite forgot to propose."
“So you did! Suppose you do it
now?”
“Not
when I
Jean
Orion stoot^j wered him.
little
remembrance. I felt that, having
I? I won’t watse
might put it to so
in calling you belovedest."
was silent, but her eyes ans-
L She had made room for
him beside her, and now he was seat
ed upon the edge of the Chesterfield,
holding her in his arms,
not want to talk
serene happiness
within the heart
of garrulity.
At last a question—the question
that had tormented her through all
the long months since she had first
' realised whither love was leading
j her, found its was to her lips.
“Why didn’t you tell me before.
Blaise?”
His face clouded,
| “Because of all that had happen-
ted in the past. You kno.wt—you have*
my breath
much bet-
She did
much. That still,
which lies deep
is not provocative
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