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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1891-10-30, Page 29 THE BATTLE OF THE FLOWERS. MT •aaYHA KAU whom. " A►• ! 'flats ! t have 'reeked you to your lair "' ..std Jack Heath, is tragic tones, untag wp auddeoly behind his frsesd, WtU S•..tr, and, with • ems - polling nip on his sho.lder, wheelie. that 1 geatle.an shoot, just as he was tarung into the Unite League Club. •v:ld to sus you, old man,.' sad Mr. Sempese, declining, se usual, to be startled, .ad .peaking in the leisurely arae It was hie habit to employ. les would Pave supposed he had se. Mr. Heath • half hoer before. "Wises did you arrive ' •• Wt Thursday. Cane oo the Germani- se. Very pleasant passage. Quito a de'wt lot of people *Mar.l. Hut never mid tic. %V hat's all this about ••.lack," interrupted Mr :i•ugster gravely, "you're looking sweet. That nest thing in checks Uurreytng with an an of extravarsut duarsttwt Heath's freak and very correct morning costume) brings teas to my .yes. Dear obi Loomis ' Conte I. and have . drank. And, Jack sooepting without demur both the compliment moi the invitation, they proceeded w perform the rites appropriate to the uoomtou. Thea Mr. Sangster cooducted his com- panion to the reading room of the club, and earnestly requested bon to seat himself at one ofsedum' comm audiug • view of :ys Fifth Mtur gay with people in carriages and people dei foot, enjoying the early spring sum.luue), in order that he might take tt all in and "got in touch with civth- ation tofu" after his loop hant•hment to the wilds of Londun and aria ••.aodster,' mud Mr. Heath, settling himself comfortably in his dour, "that M•aLatten cocktail i which wasn't at all bad) diverted my mid fora moment, but I'm too vour track again. What's .11 thus 1 her about merrying attd giving u marriage ! It ,am't be true,uld man, that you are guutg to take the fatal leap.' Mr. Sangster removed his outer from his lips, and mildly inquired •• Why the emphasis upon the pruoouu 1 "Oh ! mote sow, old telluw, you're the last j tt teokl have dreamed of hearing such nsOs about. 1 don't know why, ex &Lily—p.hiap it's that confotmd.dly un, perturbable trtauarr of yours, or that single eyeglass you were but, whatever it tit, I had a distinct impression that you wear • good deal of • cynic, don't you know, whore wo- men are concerned.- "Possibly,'' oncerned.-"I'oesiWy," said Mr. Seagate—or, tranquilly, as with great delMenttoo be removed the mhos from his Lager, " the tact that 1 have allowed myself to retool • nps old age bo fore essaying the gymiwtte feat to which you allude bus .entad you m formai ai that imprc.wm.." (Sangster was 35-1 " 1 am sorry, Hestia, very marry," he ootttuued, ,. to be compelled to shake your cootldeuo in your own perspicacity, but you'll have to transfer use to another page of your mental catalogue. Notwithstanding the damning fact that 1 wear • single glass, mod though my speech runs not trippltug, 1 do not belong under the heading 'c) Luc. ' Amore trusting aged confiding soul, when warren are au .psestiou, doesn't breathe ••All right' Seugster," laughed .lack, "1'11 take your word fur it." Then •ttd- dealy growing serious, he added "• At any rate, if you've made up your mind to do it, l nn gad *Cs Beam Van Houten. She'syust the nicest little girl 1 know, and you dare my very sincere 4••061 w ashes. " Thanks, Heath, 1'111 glad you and Bessie hit it cad," and the two men, who had Leen college chums, .ad really liked each other exceedingly, shook hands in the solemn towner cu.toaary among .Anglo-Saxon males on such mwouoa. Then Ford and Matunn sail some other men came in, and becoming aware of Jack (who was. Ly the way, a tremendous arorite with the boys) rushed forward to greet hum ..n lisll return to ha uau%e .Mores. And the soaves -moon thea becos ne general. Although he tarried it off w bravely, it may be mud in passing that no one was quite so much surprised at Will Sangster's en gngentent as was that gentleman himself c'ortatniy, he had never told himself deliber- ately that he did not mean to inarry, but, just W certainly, no wom.a had ever yet suck seeded to quickening the extremely even movement of his heart, end he hal been drifting placidly and pleasantly toward the port of couhntted celibacy, when the direction of his voyage nem changed in this wise. one day lie received an incitation to din- ner imner front Mn. 1:1lbert-a-Becket, famous alike for the number end quality of the bores she bad a genius for collecting around her, and for the extremely meager banquets to which these unhappy people were condemn•ni to sit down. Nevertheless. Mrs. ■ Becket, through force of cirvon...taocoo, was a power in the social world, -• women whom one did not nnne•warily offend. So Mr. Sangster I the while .let oting the lady and all her tribe to the uttermost depths of Hadco. sent • polite acceptance of the is vitiation, and on the appointed evening ar- rived at the •-Becket mansion, s smile n his hp*. and despair in his heart. In the interval before dinner, he indulged in the 01.1.1 gloomy . ions as to his individual fats,aod hal just settled It am his own mind that he should be told off to the majestic Mrs. Vo d rbeek, and be com- pelled to lutes for titre iftteth 'tine w the wearisome genealogical detail' in which that matron tout delight, when his hostess gave him a pleasant surprise. Instead of leading him toward Mrs. Van- derbe•ek, is whose direction he had already begun automatically to tend, so sure was he of his doom, Mrs. • Becket took him up to a very pretty, fair hewed young woman, whom be had not failed to notice immed utterly upon entering the rows, so marked MO the contrast presented between her •p - penance and that of the other ladies �prey sot, all of then[, he doubted not, prodigies of learning and virtue (Mrs. • Becket's finds were nearly JI given to serious pur suits), hat none of whom were for pmrenel attract tong When . mon a not yet 40, somstinten, un fortumtely, long after he has passed Ohm judicial age, the rates d'stre of • pain neo w it a almost impossible to make clear to hint '• The little girl with pretty, light heir,'. Mr. Sam pier load mentally deotded, with some bitterness, Mrs. a Becket, with hr vestries amara et the Buser of thtugs,wo.ld inevitably a.ip to I'ref. Brainerd, an aged mad e.irent wrest, whose Mere* to fife had narrowed down .attl it was now me- tered abase( eselaively is the study of the spines of Baha. This readwed ►ln rather as awkward companion bit • pram olio had get neared his degree el eseemus- MOIL 0. the whole, she him the worst of it," manned Will, W pity fr himself emerged THE SIGNAL': GODERICH, ONT. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30;• 1991. in a pelmander oempsomen ler the premise- eafieriags el the Meade young we - nn & le- Wh , ta..Ise., Mrs. a-Be.b a b to pease'' Mr. &.jive to Mi. Von Ms, eel. &rammer,. mooned them topre- med in ee.paay to M teal bail, surmise el relief are Mr. Mims Ven Hs.s.n. ata alien was teeM resp. .•.athiag et the relief was redeeted epee her ewe evening fisaserea. Ms had est- MeaImes eyeing ly the testi .f .misses s.as- what Seated at table, the young star glassed as Mrs- Voadrbeek. opposite, sedts.snnl with owl We dignity to mooed Prof. Brainerd'. gallas' 1 artt�giss, and was smitten afresh with • reeliaatwo the calamity he bed escaped, and a ems. d the gratitude due hi. reamer. Rxcelleat Mrs V•ad rbeek ' It was not her fault, indeed. that she was 50, stout, and the des pottery of the asldumn et upidtty of • Its. of !hatch aaossars. But the fact her entire itreapesetbility for this state of tbtnge did out render Ms to the Int lees terrible in • tete-0 tau. "She may not be Militant," thought Mr. Sangster, the "she" refarrta, to Mi. Vas Houten, •• but,' and b unfolded his napkin with au air of seen- "at least, she's young, sad sot bed -looking, and that's warmtbleg Aka! to a mere nen, much, bow much ! •• You have forgotten m., 1 think, Mn. Sangster," reatarked Mira %'es Houten, de• merely, with a little laugh. •• Forgotten you," said Will, with • politely mterrogetive elevate's' of the eye- brow., der he hadn't the faintest reculleottoa of barmy .t any previous came had the pleasure of gating upon the spirited, ung none face uplifted to his •• Impo.sible, have we ever- '• Yes, we hove ever at fir Herbur, five yea. ago -at the Lcey's. Dick end Laura Lees are my cousins. 1Mn't you remain n ber the gang of schoolgirls vatting Lura that Summer. 'that's what Dick used to tall us. I was one of that • gang." „ Be merciful, Mi.. Van Houten," Will, u i . , l for the ortneof v- rmg forgotteu you. You have made me feel like • patriarch. But when have you been all them years since those Har Harbor day.! We oertaanly have nut met to the intent (This with , but quite at • ven- ture : he wasn't at .11 aura) And Bessie knew that he wasn't and taxed him with the fact upon the spot Whereupon he .w that this was . young persue not wooly to be imposed upon, and he laid down his arms end 1 squarely that he had totally and euttrely forgotten that the world cootained such an individual as Ma. Van Houten. Theothe young lady, an reward for his candor, forgave bun for his enormity, and there was pence between them, and she pro cee,le,i graciously to impart te hini many in• terestang details coacerntng her sojourn m Europe, when she hd been for the past three teen undergoing what she termed "the finishing piocvse. Now, although she laughed it off m the urioet manner possible, as • matter ,f feet, Miss Van Houten was by no means pleased to discover that she had left absolutely no trace upon Mr. Sangster's serene come -sous, Hess. She recollected hint very well ; m feet, if we must be quite candid, she bad wcepted " that tiresome Mrs. itecket's.' tm- vitatiou to dinner solely for the purpose of meeting him .gain. 4N course, she had been only • school -girl, and consequently, she 'apposed, a very 'magnificent and unin- teresting bung w • non of the world like Mr. Sangster. Still, even -school girls have their feehnes, in fact, generally an over - plus of theme. He had shown her (main careless tittle kindness. that summer .t Har Harbor, bending from what hod then seemed awful height., and they had made an indelible unpressiou. .All the time she had been abroad she lad, by means of elaborately -indifferent inquiries in her letters to Laura Lacey, namaged to keep herself pretty well informed es to Mr. Saagater's movements, To be sure, Lor•'• reports were ape to be rather meager and un.tubactory, as they were mealy all at sec- ondhand. Mhe tube t see much of Mr. Sangster, she wrote ; he wasn't a dancing men,.nd,therefore,.he didn't ena,unter him very often m her set. But she heart of him, through pick, occasionally. Ilei Mr. Sang- ster) was just the wile provokingly -imper- turbable being as ever. Profound peace seemed to wrap hint, as m • garment. Faulently he didn't mean to marry. thick mid there was no manner of use in any gir: thinking .lout Sangster from • matrtmootel plant of view. •• Ihek is w blunt, dear, you remember," milled Lura C the receipt of which startling re- mark from Itick's oracular lips, there was for • long time a market( avotdwn upon Mw Bessie's side of all allusions, however remote, to Mr. Sangster. After all this interest on her ode, to think that be didn't recall her name even ' What does a girl usually do uuder circunustauces such as these : 'fhe intelligent reader dam not need to be told. She proceeds,' as • rule, to take measures which shall, if poe- id,) , prevent the offender front forgetting her a stc,o,l time That is just what \I- T Van Houten .lid. As she at that night before her dressing - table, while her maid Irushe.l the fair, shim Ing hair, which, in Mrs. a B«ket's dull drawing -room, had seemed to Mr. Sanger, r like • ray of light In • dark place, the smile that now and &gam curved t4sesie. lips be- tokened ill for Mr. Santer's peaceful bachelor estate, hal be bit known it. Which he didn't, fortunately, r it might have destroyed his nerve and interfered with his success in the pleasant little game of poker in which he was at that moment "faded. IViII Sangster couldn't have told you how it came about, nobody could (except Bessie, if she bad chosen n, bu t Im • marvellous by short space of tante be found himself estaWi.he.e in the Van Houten household on • meat in timate and friendly basis. First, he fell into the babas of dropping in fora halt hour in the afternoon, on his waste the club Sometimes he stayed to dine with them informally, " jast ourselves, you know." Then Hese asked him if he wouldn't ride with her occasionally. She was teach log Kit, her little sister, w ride, and Mr. Songster could help her so very greatly if he would. To this Mr. !gangster had no ob potion in the world. He was exceedingly natured, link rode superbly, and Kite was • charming child. So it went on for several weeks, bet res than, Mr. Sumpter would, Iib Lord Ronald in the poem, have laughed " a laugh or merry scorn" if anybody had suggested to him that he was is danger. But one day, • fettle later, h. .ogidest ally overheard at the club . take -it -tar - grained .ort d remark ooaplinp his name with that d Mi. Van Houten, and this made him • little tltaisht/el. As he mmtokd • aneditntive cigar that bt he made ap his iniad that he mast {oyer intervals to elapse between his • t. to ibm Yee Hootes. His eonsciewee acquitted him 1. the aria, yet, now that he encn to thisk of it. he had been there • good deal of este, sad, well he wouldn't go q.r..o mach in the futon Of roan., t -knee ems so ae..aty te he abrupt. Wm. fere hadn't gone far ..magi for that -just • little earths was require&r that was ea rot 'noisome, I..ausrow be had anss'�Ig� taest te ride with Demist ales. the w(sb d. lar seam ia.sr.t.we roan., that NM MO SO be a the party ea Obis .swots., bel Rita wee ill). Thi. ongpoomsat he .real, el Obs—..sena, k L fact, it nous . pleasess he fie) nabs •nethe diisiteD"'r' Bel is a 't gisment to ride, ma jest at diose', as bah Perhaps this wee . good WOO 55 .bake Leighton ap sheet that long projected Waters trip awl ...at to tot. to/mhos. He would see &boat it. rhos, kis etas having gees est, be duarse4 the .Otto from his Hied, and west to bed. Aad they tuck their ride the .sat Adam/ as arranged, outdoes the fate se willed, Smite had rover looked prettier, a been iu a giver or more obaresisg .sod. That AA osteon trip with Leiglit.s seamed lege at tractive. Mr. Sangster bad meat to yeah of it is • cannon manner this very slier w oe, but, 1st, •eglected N• do w. When they returned, a was nearly dusk, but Beene laageted that Mr.er should tome in, " just foe • nmtor w+mot, • cup of tic, and woes stemma." Ih11, as the fates agars willed, " mamma" was out in the ; est was up- stairs with a. The w '•pore was duly set forth, how ever, undo he tell, rose -shaded lamp at one end of room, aged Bessie proosede d seriously to the work of making tea her her guest, having first dismissed Hoboes, the attentive Ceclor, telling bre they had evey- tbtug they needed and would take caro of themselves. The luxurious quiet, the odor of the robes m • great Man lar beside him, the cheerful sound of the caster hissing iu the elver kettle, the delightful meet of duine.ticity that ,esmed suddenly to pervade the air, above all, •,•erten primate gentleness w Mi. Vau Houten. nt.nnr, watch be had never remarked befot-e, her mood being umu ally • rlvam ml one &11 these things tomo ad • combanativa tuo strung even tic Mr. Songster's carefully -guarded heart. lie succumbed ; as in•oy a better man, under similar iudueoces, had succumbed before hint. Rather, perhaps, let ue .y his hour had struck. For a surety, he had before ruled triumphantly over any • seemingly more dangerous reef. As Belem handed him his :up of tea, her tinge( tip. touched ha for • mum.ut, and be murmured something to the effect that he wished they might he always thus, .lour, together, anti the replied that there wasn't any Seamon trby they shouldn't- or,at least, that IS what he thinks she said, when he tries to mall it. And then, in brief, Mr Sangster emerged from the Van Houten residence an hour or so later duly caul formally the betrothed of Maes Van Houten. The remainder of the evening us devoted by hint to an earnest attempt to find uut bow he liked it. One of the two men that exist in him, as in every son of Ete (why is it always "rn, of Adam •" i, is unaffectedly charmed at flit. ProlP ' Sohe i the jolliest little girl in the will .yet this nan,with enthueasm,"and I'm tb luckteet fellow alive." That's all right about her best); tie jolliest girl in the world, and all that, sats the other Han, an emb rraeingly .andel being, •' but you're not the heart in lose with her, William Sangster, my friend, distinctly not, any more than you are w,tl, any other of the jolly gals you knot. You've never been in love, you're not it, love now. f:o on and marry Miss Vin ' Houten, of course ; there's nothing else u. be done, but don't, I beg of you, penult in this idiotic attempt to delude me. ' But this individual Mr. Sangster rinds it convenient to silence peremptorily, and banish to the subterranean depths ..1 his t being; the other he cherishes and esu a,urr•agges, and falls asleep soothed M• re piaated a•murances that he is • happy. ••n, au ecctediugly happy mart, or ought to 1*. which, of course, is the sante thing Atter this, there is nothing to .1o, natio ally, but to go to Tiffany's about the ring, and receive the congratulations of his num- mous friends with becoming joy. Ail SO they wore earned. Osamu Mel se the Thieve alit. The street car had paved• but tat catch it he reekonett. So he ran like • deer, and shouted and beck- oned. Till he planted his heel On • on oath bit of peel— Then be .w half a million of worsts • •conn,, He wall in too great • hurry ; bettor have waited for another tar. There are case, however, where haste a necessary. 1f you have night•swest., f . , week. sore lungs and a hoicking cough, .1. not lose an hour in obtaining • supply of 1Ir. Pierre's ':olden Medical Discovery. Dela in such Lases ie dangerous : it may he fau►l. Before the disease has made too great progress, the '• 4:olden Medical Discovery -- is • cartoon, cure. In fact, it's guaranteed to benefit or euro, or money paid for it promptly re funded. " Should parsons smoke v' is • question ' which is being widely discussed) in England. 1• spite', to the reverend gentlemen only w oak they are nn the earth, of coin -- Buffalo Express. Tura tae gta.r.l. .i We refer to inch meads se dyspepsia, bad Morel, biliouinesa, constipation, sick le d ache, etc , infesting the human system. Turn them out and keep them nut by using Burdock Blood Bitters, the natural foe to disease, which invigorates, tones and the entire system. 1t Lent I should like to have my photo taken, but I want it to be nice looking. 1'I Never fear, sir ; it shall M in handsome that you won't know it your- ' self ler Schalk Wave f'wlowee this description of rheumatism Orad neural - pa! 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