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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932
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terau.ee of the brief question brought
her glance swiftly, curiously, back
to his face. It was as though, be
hind those four short words, she
could feel the intolerable pressure
of years pt endurance. ~
ent she seemed
thpugh she had
the impression
disagreeably,
“Too light to satisfy her sister,
at any rate,"
Tormarin froze,
“It is,fortunate, then, that my ul-
tiftiato fate does not lie in your
hands,” he observed.
“But that is just where it does lie
—in the palm of'my hand—-there!”
She flung out one shapely hand,
palm upward, and pointed to it with
the other.
“And now—see—I close my hand
—so! . . . And this beautiful mar
riage of which you have dreamed,
your marriage with Mees Peterson—
it does not take place!”
I “Are you mad?" asked Blaise con
temptuously, experiencing all
Englishman’s distaste tor this
play of unforced drama.
She shook her head,
“No.” she said quietly, , “I
not mad.”
The air of theatricality seemed to
fall suddenly away from her, leav
ing her a stern and sombre fgiure
invested with an intrinsic atmos
phere of tragedy, filled with one
sentiment only—the thirst for re
venge.
“No, I am not mad. I am telling
you the truth, You can never
marry Jean Peterson, because Nes
ta.—your wife—still lives.”
Tormarin fell back a pace. For
one moment he believed the woman
had gone g£nuinely mad—'that by
dint' of long brooding upon how she
might most hurt and punish the
Englishman whom she had never
forgiven for marrying her sister, she
had evolved from a half-crazed mind
the belief that Nesta still lived and
that thus she would be able to pre
vent his marriage with any other
woman. *
And then, looking into those
seeming soft brown eyes with the
granite hardness in their depths, he
could see the light of reason burn
ing steadily in them.
Madame de Varigny was quite
sane, as sane as he was himself.
And if so . . .
, A great fear came upon him—the
fear of a man who dimly senses the
approach of some appalling danger
and knows that it will find him ut
terly defenceless.
“Do "you know what you are say
ing?” he demanded, his voice rough
ened and uneven.
“Yes, I know. Nesta is alive,”
she repeated simply.
“Alive?”
The word was wrung from him,
hardy more than a hoarse whisper of
sound. He swung round upon her
violently.
(To be continued)
For a ntom-
to waver, then, as
deliberately pushed
aside, she laughed
EIGllT TONS OF FOWL
More thap eight tons, of fowl—-
chiefly turkeys-—were purchased by
the Department of Health,. Queen’s
Park, Toronto,, to provide* Christmas
dinner for the 10,500 inmates, of
the province’s eleven institutional
hospitals.
CHAPTER XXX I Although the mellow sunlight of
.September flooded the lawns and So Nick had perforce to bow to terraces, that inescribable changie
Claire’s decision, and it was settled Wnich heralds autumn had already
that for the first month or two, at begun to manifest itself. Not that
least, of her widowhood Jean would {any hint of chiJJ as yet edged the
remove herself and her belongings balmy atmosphere or tint of russet
from Staple and bear her company j reddened the gently waving foliage
at Charnwood. And meanwhile joj tj1G trees. It was something less
Nick and Claire would spend 3»any j definite-—a suggestion of maturity,
* > of completed ripening, conveyed by
the deep, rich green of the grass,
the strong, woody growth of the. Then, as Tormarin made no answer,
trees, the full-grown glory of the
roses nodding on their stems.
To the left, in the shade of a state
ly cedar, Lady Ann and Jean were
encamped with their sewing and
writing materials at hand, and the
rays of sunshine, filtering between
the widespread branches above them
woke fugtive gold ana silver lights
in the downbent auburn and white-
crowned heads, Further away, in
the valley below, the brown smudge
of a wide-bottomed boat broke the
smooth expanse of the lake whence
the mingled laughter of Nick and
Claire came floating up on the
breeze.
It was a peaceful ^cene, full of in
timate happiness and tender prom
ises, and Blaise watched it with con
tented eyes. The voice of Baines
formal and urbane, roused him from
a pleasant reverie.
“Madame de Varigny,' announced
peaceful hours together of quiet,
happiness and companionship, while-
Claire, as she herself expressed it,
u “rebuilt her soul."
• To Jean the issue of events had
brought nothing but pure joy, HeT
belief had been justified, and the
grim gateway of death had become
' for these two friends of hers the
. gateway of happiness.
She had neither seen nor heard
, anything from Burke since the day
she had fled from him on the Moor,
although indirectly she had discov
ered that he had quitted the bunga
low the day following that of her
flight from it and had gone to Lon
don. i
Judith sent her a brief, rather
formal letter of congratulation upon
her engagement, but in it she made
no reference to him nor did she en
deavor to explain away or palliate
her own share in his scheme to force
Jean’s hand. Probably an odd kind
of loyalty to her brother prevented
her fiom clearing herself at his ex-r pense, added to a certain dogged | that functionary, throwing opon the
pride which refused to let her exten- door and standing aside for the vis-
uate any action of hers to the daugh- jtor to enter..
ter of Glyn Peterson. j Blaise rose courteously to greet
But none of these things had any her, holding out his hand. But the
power to hurt Jean now. In her the Countess shook Her head,
new-born happiness she felt that she* “No, I will not shake hands,” she
could find it in her heart to forgive'said abruptly. “When _ you know
anybody anything! She was even* why I am come, you will hot want
conscious of a certain tentative un-’to shake hands with me.”
derstanding an indulgence for Burke j
himself. He had umy used the
“primitive man” methods his tem
perament dictated in his effort to
Win the woman he wanted for a wife
And he had failed. Just now, Jean
could not help sympathising with
anybody who had failed to find the
happiness that love bestows. I
She reflected that the old gypsy)
on the Moor had been wonderfully;
correct in her prophecy concerning I conscious *
Nick and Claire. The sun was ’
“shin’ butivul” for them at last,'
just as she assured them that it
would. X j
And, with the same, |ame a sud- '
den little clutch of fear at Jean’s L ,heart, like the touch of a strange Won t you, at least, . sit
Sand. The gypsy had had other Pftihng forward a chair,
words for her—harsher, less sweet-,
sounding.
“For there’s darkness cornin’ ,
black darkness.”
■She shivered <a little. She felt as.
though a breath of cold air had pass
ed over her, chilling the warm blood
than ran so joyously in her veins.
CHAPTER XXXI
An Unwelcome Visitor
replied
his chair
'It's the in-
she returned carelessly,
have lived much in Paris.”
“Ah! that explains it,’
Tormarin, leaning back in
as though satisfied
fuence of environment .and heredity,
I expect." ,
He was fencing carefully, wait
ing for the woman to show her
hand,
. “I have also Corsican blood ip my
veins," pursued Madame de Varigny
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Hall, Seatorth, in. connection with
the death on November 28 of Mrs.
Thomas Fields, a life-long and prom
inent resident of Wingnam, who died
in the Scott Memorial. Hospital, Sea
forth, as a result
ceived when the
was a passenger
husband, skidded
London road near Hensall,
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Here and There
she leaned .forward and said intent
ly: “Do you know the characteris
tic of the Corsicians, Monsieur Tor-
ma-rin? They neVer • forget—nev-
aire”— her foreign accent increas
ing, as usual, with emotion of’* any
kind. “The Corsicians always re
pays.”
* “Yes? And you have something
to repay? Is that it?”
“Yes. I have somethng to repay.’
“A revenge, in fact?”
She shook her head,,
“No. I do not call it revenge. It
punishment—the just punishment
who married
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is
earned by the man
Nesta Freyne and brought her in re
turn’nothing but misery,”
Tormarin 'rose abruptly.
“What have the
Freyne to do with
sternly, “As you
aware she was my
not propose to discuss private per
sonal matters wth an entrie strang
er.” He moved towards the door.
“I think our interview can very well
terminate at that. I co not wish to
forget that I am your host.”
“You are more than that,”
Madame de Varigny suavely,
are my -brother-in-law.”
“What?” Tormarin swung around
and faced her.
“Yes.” The suavity was gone
no>w replaced by a curious deadly
precision of utterance, enhanced by
the foreign rendering
values. “I am—or i
marriage—Margherita
Nesta’s sister.”
TOrmarin - regarded
“In that case,” he
affairs of Nesta
you?” he tasked
are obviously
wife. And I do
said
‘You
of syllabic
was, until my
i Valdi. I am
her steadily,
said, “j Will
Though
Registering an ^impressive ad
vance in prices over recent years
the first batch of Nova Scotia
apples in the Liverpool market brought 23s to 25s per barrel aS
compared with 9s to 15s in 1931.
Great improvement and develop
ment over a period of 30 years
has been noted in the Canadian seed industry. Last year 3710
seed farms with 12 0Q0 persons
occupied in the production and
marketing of improved seed were
estimated engaged in the industry.—— ,
Preliminary returns of maple
sugar production in Canada just
completed for 1932 show a total
yield of 1,744,479 gallons of maple
syrup valued at $2,054,277 and
7,217,300 pounds of sugar valued
at $69'2,480. This production com
pares favorably with that of for
mer years.
Cutting of wheat is nearing
completion and threshing is well
advanced in all the Prairie Pro
vinces, with Manitoba leading, ac
cording to a report from the agri
cultural department of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, western
lines, dated September 10. Oats
and barley at that date were 76
per cent. cut.
Dr. G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.,D.D.S,
DENTAL SURGEON
opposite the 'New Post Office
Main St., Exeter
Telephones
34w House 84J
every Wednesday (all day)
, until further notice.
Dr. G. F, Roulston, L.D.S..D.D.S,
DENTIST
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DAY AND NIGHT
CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
Office in the old McDonell Barn
Behind Jones & May’s Store
EXETER, ONT.
Liza Commanda, Chippeawa In
dian girl golf caddy at the Cana
dian Pacific French River Bun
galow, who came eighth in the
women’s marathon swim at Tor
onto, recently, has been present-*
ed with a purse of $150. J. G.
Strathdee, manager of the Camp,
stated that she would be thor
oughly trained and would enter
the contest annually until she
won.
There was something not unat
tractive about the outspoken refusal
to sail under false colors, more es
pecially softened, as it was, by the
charm of the faintly foreign accent
and intonation.
Madame de Varigny nad paused a!
moment in' the middle of the room I
and was regarding her host with |
curious'-y appraising ej^es, and as hear what you have to say.
Blaise returned her gaze .he was i don’t think,” lie added, “that any
___ as once before at the good can come of raking up the
fancy-dress ball at Montavan, of the past, it is better—forgotten.”
strange sense of familiarity this wo-. “Forgotten?” Madame de Varigny
man had for him-. seized upon the unlucky word. “Yes
“I am sorry tor that,” he said ans- —it may be easy enough for you to
wering her refusal to shake hands, forget—you who took Nesta’s young
and beautiful life and crushed' it;
you who came like, a thief in the
night and stole from me the one
creature' in the whole world whom I
loved—my bambino, my little sister.
Oh yes”—her voice rose passionately
—'“easy enough when there is an
other woman—a new love—(with
whom you think to start your life
But I tell you, you
- ” ‘ L There shall be no new
beginning for you—no' marriage
with this Jean Peterson to whom
you are now fiance, I forbid it—I
_______- •“
Blaise stemmed the torrent of her
speech with an authoritative gesture.
“May I ask how the news of;my
engagement reached you? he asked
his cool, dispassionate question fall
ing like a hailstone dropped into
some molten stream of lava,
“Oh, I have kept watch. I have
■the means of knowing. There is
very little that has happened to you
since—since I wrote to you of Nes-
ta’sX death”—she. stumbled a little
over the words, and Blaise, depsite
his anger, was conscious of a sudden
flash of sympathy for her—“very
little that I have not known. And
this—your engagement, I knew of
that when it was barely a week old.’
“I’m really curious to know why
my affairs should be Of such sur
passing interest to you. My engage
ment, for instance—how did you
hear of it?”
“■Oh, that was easy”-—contemptu
ously, “There was another man
Who loved your Mees Peterson—this
Monsieur Burke. I used him. I knew
he was afraid that you might win
her, aftd I told him that if ever you
became engaged he must coble and
tell me, and I would shd'w him how
to htake Sure that you should
marry her. Oh! That was
simple!”
. “I’m afraid . you promised
more than you can hope to perform.
I grant that you have every reason,
to, dislike me—hate me, if you will.
I acknowledge, too, that I was to
blame, miserably to blame, for Nes-
ta's unhappiness—as much in fault
aS she herself. But there is nothliig
gained as this Ute hour by appor
tioning the' blame. We each made
bad mistakes-—and we have each
had to pay the price,” -
“Yours has beep a very light price
—-i&omparatively,*'’ she commented
With intense bitterness,
“Do you think So?”
Something in the quiet, still ut-
down?”
“Yes, I will sit.”
She sank into the chair with the
quick, graceful motion of the South,
and rontinued to regard Blaise
watchfully between the thick fringes
of her lashes. Had Jean been pres
ent, she would have been struck,
new by the expression ou implacabil- all over again!
ity which hardened the dark brown shall not!,
eyes,
else as well—-a Iook
able triumph.
“I have much—much
Monsieur Tor-jna-rin,”
last,
you a little about myself. I am”-—
here she looked Away for an instant,
then shot • a swift, penetrating
glance at liim-—“an Italian by birth.’
A brief silence followed this an
nouncement. ' Blaise was ■ thinking
concentradely. So Madame, de Var
igny, despite her Frencn name and
her French mannerisms, was an Ital
ian! He might have guessed it had
the possibility ever definitely pre
sented itself to him—guessed it from
those broad, high cheek bones, those
liquid, southern-dark eyes, and the
coarse, bUde-black hair. Yet,
cept for one fleeting moment
Montavan, the idea had never oc
curred to him, and it had then been
swiftly dissipated by Jean’S explam
; ation that the impressive-lqoking
de Vari- Cleopatra was the ComtesSe de Var-
j igny and Iler chaperon for the time
thought- being. * *
before,) Italian! Blaise felt more conviilc-
By that, and by
or
something
unmistak-
study say to youto
she began at
"I will commence by telling
Blaise was. seated at his
table, regarding somewhat dubious
ly a letter which lay open in front
of him.
It was written in a flowing, for
eign hand and expressed with a
quaintly stilted. un-English turn of
phrase. The heading of the note
paper upon which it was inscribed
was that of a hotel in Exeter.
“Dear Mr. Tormarin,” it ran. “You
will, without doubt, be surprised to
receive a letter from me, since we
have met only once. But I have
something of the most great impor
tance to confide in you, and I there
fore beg that you will accord me an
interview, When I add to this that
the matter approaches very closely
the future of your finance, Miss Pe
terson, I do not doubt to myself
that you will appoint a time when
I may call to see you,”
The letter was signed M.
gny.
Blaise had received this
provoking letter two days
and had been impressed by an un- ed than ever now that Madame de
,Varigny’s Visit portended unpleasant;
evedopments. Something, a voice
. from the past, was about to break
stridently pn the peaceful present,
He braced himself to meet and coun
ter whatever might be coming. Va
guely he foresaw some kind of
blackmail, and he thanked Heaven
’• for Jean’s absolute understanding
and complete knowledge of the past*
and of all that appertained to his
' first unhappy marriage. There would
be little foothold here for aft at
tempt of blackmail, however skill-
j fully worked, he reflected grimly,
' He therefore responded civilly to
| Madame de Varigny’s statement, ap-
parenty accepting it at its mere face
value.
“I am surprised,” he told
“You have altogether the air
Parisian.”
The Counters smiled.
J ”Ok, t had a French grandmother,”
comfortable consciousness that if
foreboded something unpleasant. He
could not imagine in what manner
the affairs of Madame de Varigny
impinged upon his own, or rather,
as she seemed to imply, upon those
of his future wife, and this very un
certainty had impelled him to fix
the interview the Countess had de
manded at as early a moment as
possible. Disagreeables- were best
met and faced without delay. So
now he was momentarily awaiting
her arrival, still unable
self of the impression
thing of an unpleasant
pended.
He glanced through
window facing him. Afterwards, he
was always able to recall every little
detail of the picture upon which
eyes rested; it was etched upon
mind as ineffaceably as though
upon steel with a graver’s tool,
to rid him-
that some-
nature ini'
the open
his
his
cut
he
at
her.
of a
never
vairy
him
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Rev. Dr. Beattie, for the past, 11
years minister of the First United
church, London, is retiring from the
active pastorate owing to ill health.
Rev. M. A. J. Waters, of Toronto,
Director of Religious Education at
Ealbn Memorial church will supply
until June 1933i.
HURON OLD BOYS’
ASSOCIATION OF TORONTO
'The 33rd'Annual At4Home of the
Huron Old Boys' Association of Tor
onto will be held at Simpson’s Ar
cadian Court, Toronto, on Friday ev
ening, February 3rd, 1933, with a
well arranged program of Progres
sive Euchre, Bridge, old time and
new time Dancing, to suit old and
.young and With a high class orches
tra.
A cordial invitation to be present
is.extended to Huronites everywhere
INJURIES FATAL
TO MITCHELL MAN
John E. Williams, well-known
Mitchell resident, died on Sunday in
San Francisco from injuries receiv
ed last Wednesday, when he fell
from a train while en route to Long
Beach to visit his daugnter. Word of
Mr. Williams’ death was received
by George Ross. Mrs. Ross accom
panied Mr. and Mrs. Williams on
the fatal trip. They left here on No
vember 24.
Wheeling airplanes added a
. roaring farewell to the cheers
with which passengers and well-
wishers speeded Captain J. A.
Mollison on his return -to Eng
land aboard the Empress of Brit
ain as she sailed on her seventh
departure of the 1932 Season from
Wolfe's Cove, Quebec. The in-,
trepid solo trans-Atlantic flyer
was promised a quiet time on his
trip by Captain Latta, commander
of the Empress.,
“I am not running away from
the election. ’ I am out of poli
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Woodrow Wilson, widow of the
famous . United States war-time
Hotel recently,
where she stopped en route to
Tokio Where she is attending the
marriage of a family connection.
Mrs. Wilson motored on to Cha
teau Lake Louise as part of her
tour of. the Canadian Rockies.
“I have never seen a more beau
tiful country or enjoyed a visit
more,” said Sir Philip Cunliffe-
Lister, British Secretary-of-State
for the Colonies, as he said fare
well to British Columbia when
boarding the Canadian Pacific
imperial Limited on his way to
Calgary. HP enjoyed his favor
ite sport, fishing, in that province,
where he and his party took four
fine fish, including a 17-pound
salmon. (869)
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