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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-3-31, Page 6444f IK4444144•4*144lqe14•14elliefAeasttftE4A4K4,P s LOVE tX kte OR, A BROTHER'S PRQ1 !$E 1 A Gli�rs` l ma"ae.eaastaaa3kal r, +1 WD a."WdeWhttnAttItOliztlt ltPlet'Ws*,110V tr • CHAPTER YID•.. The Windows of the :conte sent lcnig l.iees across the valley, weaving with their snarl brethren of the palms a mesh -work that caught » d seemed to bind the feet of the my- ried searchers for dead and wounded who went slowly up and down the hollows, emerging here from the green of len orange -_ grove with a dt'L'tar• burden for burial, disappear- ing there into a, farmhouse with a saggiug stretcher, Beyond the vel- ley, the .eastern end of Palm City sloped to the shore, darkening with a rhouRand x3 te rres of tender dn coloring. And then again, beyond the City, lay the broad carpet of the ocean, rich with ieefahle. depths of ell tints from gold and glorious blue to mauve and royal.lest. purple. High above the water hum; the sky, nntgnificent in its untleekod purity. wonderful as the blue of the Virgin's kirt1e--nay, it was the very raiment of the divine I11:ary. This was the background that filled the frame of Rector's tent door. To. coMplote the picture, makingit in- evitable, her head clear against the serene nears, Maddalena, stood, a figure at once splendid and pathetic. The mad fierce words lrad been a blow in the Wee : all expected, they had smitten brutally. And then as responsive blood hurries in ,surprise to every pinpoint of the stricken xheek, their full mewling hastened aggressively into every eranxay of flea being. The pain of the strange intelligence stung, and summoned tears to tremble. Hector saw them end bad the momentary fear flint she was about to break down. lint dignity, pride. love, and that pug- nacity which harbors in even the most peaceful nature, joined hands and set a girdle of strerrgeh about her. With an unconscious toss of tho head, the shook the drops from her lashes, and looked on Asunta with undimmed gaze. The hien were dumb at the mali- elous vulgarity of the attack. Sud- den. gross, offensive. it stunned them, too, into blank amazement. Their eyes turned first to the victim, and in suspense they waited far Maddalena to prove, They hid been powerless to prevent the attack ' while the Queen was there they were equally powerless to retaliate. ()My ;Alasdair, who knew no word of what was passing, understood from attitude and gesture that ill events were tortard : be moved from his sentinel post by the doorway, so that at hint of eye 'he might come between the Queen and the enraged' Asunta, It was Hector, then. What did Asunta know ?' What part had Aetna ta et - ta in his life ? Why dict Asunta: cry out against her thus ? For love of Palmetto, for love of him ? From question and doubt to doubt and question she swung for an eternity.. And how to deal with this mad wo- man who, having spoken a thousand daggers, looked a deadlier thou- sand ? What to say --she could meet her gaze calmly -but 0 1 what to say ? Her eyes took an impulse. She looker! to Hector, It vats the un- spoken appeal for help, for protec- tion. She read both in bis eyes -in the Iove he put in her hands was a shield invulnerable. Now she was strong. she was armed at all points. "Doan Asunta. I am unused to ,roues of violence:. You forget what is due to ane, you forget what is duo io yourself. I am at a loss to un- aerst.and this extremity of passion. lint at least I understand that y oe Urease me---" "Of being his lover yes !" And a quivering hand marked Hector, "If by that you mean that I that T love Senor Grant -it is my happi- ness to love him, as it is any un- happiness. And if so I choose to a lo, how have you gained the right to ask why, how ?" "Because I love Palmetto." "Better than ;You love me ?" "Perhaps— yes, better than I love you." "Is that the only reason ?" "No. He insulted ane with his love -his love -the adventurer who conies whence no one knows. Yon must not be deceived," "Strange. l was his guarantee, He bore my commission. You re- ceived him as my representative." "Until lux showed his true charac- ter." • "How did he show it ?" "By besiegieg me, pestering me - with his professions of love; and now he has got you in his toils." Maddalena smiled. on Hector. "You hear Diana Asunta, ., senor. I shall not ask you to -reply, to her,,' -.He thanked her with a look that drew the bands of trust and canti- cle:nee the closer. Ala a but let are reply,, cried Brava, "i .have no mercy for this lady wha conspires to draw your Majesty into her net of revenge.," "Don Augustin ! Don Augustin 1" pleaded Hector. , "Give me leave, your Majesty," went on Bravo, unheeding, "to tell the troth of this sordid affair." -For p, moment Maddalena hesitated but little by little her resentment against .Asunta had been swelling. resentment a.galnst the woman who had compelled her to tear aside the veil that his her darling young sec- ret, her darling young jay, her rare sweet sorrow. Why should she spare her who did not spare ? And if Bravo knew the truth --- She nodded; and in' swift phrases. Don Augustin recounted all that Hector bad told him of his stay at Friganeta, omitting nothing, eaten - tutting nothing. Maddalena kept her eyes fixed on Asunta, and strove to read confirmation or denial in. the waves of emotion that chased each other over her countenance. "It's all a lie ! it's all a lie 1" "Her position near your Majesty's person gave her opportunities for spying which she did :not neglect. She watched you, she watched Senor Grant. Revenge on him' she would have, revehge on you also, if it were possible. There was no need to seek revenge : Fate had anticipated her alas !" -Its all a lie!" came again hoar- sely frarn' Asunta. Maddalena heaved a sigh of oppres- sion. Her endurance we's nearly exhausted. She felt her heart sink- ing inking within her, the blood flowing feebly along'' herr ..veins, her eyes growing blind. This -unseemly brawl, lar which she felt her inmost soul laid bare and torn by coarse augers, was degrading to her and her love, and she rebelled bitterly against the weakness it bred in her. It must end, it must end. "Let Don Miguel be summoned," sire said. "Don Augustin, see to it !" Your Majesty does riot know yet that. Don Miguel is a prisoner," said Bravo, "A prisoner ? ' Heaven save him! To Stampa ?" . "No your. Majesty. He is a prison- er in his own tent --a prisoner of Palmetto. What the daughter said; the -.father has repeated." And briefly he recounted events, "0 ! this is monstrous 1 Let him be brought forthwith 1" She stood still for. a• moment or two after Bravo left the tent, and then her strength and valorous will- power seemed to leave her.. She looked on the scowling Asunta, who cast furtive glances at the open door as if to make a dash for her liberty, but Alasdair barred the way. She looked at the great Highlandman. but he had all his wits in the one eye that fixed •Asunta, Then, as 1f she had delayed too long, yet feared her own eagerness, she turned to Hector, and with a little cry that held all love, all pity, all sorrow, she ran to where ho lay, and taking his hand pressed it to tlie warm sol- icitude of her breast. His eyes an- swered to the full the unpremediated caress. ' Neither had thought for Asunta; to whose raging soul every movement, every whi:aper, was worm- wood and gall, "Fate takes even our ono hour fr"om us." she whispered. "Fate cannot," he answered. 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"Ah 1" The, sigh was not now of oppression; it was charged with ex- cess of . delight. "If I were,not wounded, would you be here 7" "You might have been killed." "X had your . crucifix "I prayed for you." 'And your rose,." "My heart went with both." "So I was safe," "O ! Hector, hector, I love you!" "Maddalena 1" "Better to -night than last night better far." "Is that possible 9" "Everything is possible to the wo- man who loves." For a little space eyes made close speech, lest even the faintest echo might reach thieving ears. And then each longed forsound of the ether's voice, "Hector, I am, sorry for her." "Tor Asunta ?" "She loves you." "She hates us both." "She may well hate me who stole you." "Stole me? I gave myself to . you long ago." "I think I, too, must have loved, you from long ago, I seem to have loved you always." "You were my, dream when i was. a boy." "And then not to know until yes- terday " es-terday." "I have acquainted Don Miguel with your commands, madame, and 3: have, perhaps injudiciously, further acquainted him with what has pass- ed to -night between your Majesty and Dona. Amite." I have sent for you, sir, that you may hear my will --- .I do not wish to listen to any explanations, any excuses. If you see aught in my conduct to sensure or to grieve over, aught of prejudice to Palmetto, aught unworthy of your Queen -come to me and come at once. Do not speak behindany back, sir; and do not• believe without proof. Though I am a woman I am strong enough not to flinch from the criticism or the censure of a friend; but.I resent thoughtless interference, and I will not brook secret discussion of my acts. - "I - trust I am wise in believing that when you repeated your daugh- ter's insinuations you were actuated by the best motives : I am at least content to believe that. I demand now an apology, not only for the utterance of the calumny, but for the suspicion itself. . You will , also apologize to Senor Grant." Don Miguel,., still kneeling, looked up, The 'sight of his Queen, achild almost in years yet full of true dig- nity; the vision of her unprotected youth and beauty; the words she had spoken, so just, so direct, so sim- ple; all these moved him as no royal anger could -all doubt of her and all petty annoyance fell from him, and hesaw that she was indeed, even in her' outward seeming, above re- proach. She looked truth and in- nocence, as she was truth and inno- cence.' There was no stop for thought: he seized her hand and kissed it, while his ey,es brimmed with tears of contrition that would not be stayed. . "Madame -madame --I am the .bas- est - O ! madame; do you forgit:e, do you forgive?" The words were choked in him. Glad to end a scene so painful to her,. to Don Miguel, to Hector, Mad- dalena bowed her head. "7: forgive you !" Again and again the old man kiss- ed her bands, "Rise, sir." IIe•obeyed. "it is impossible for me to retain Dona Asunta near my person, 3: can- not have about me one who neither., loves me nor serves -ane faithfully. I desire you' to receive her at my hands. Let aro never see her a;gain." "Madame ! madame !" was all the weeping man could stammer. "Don Augustin, you will inform General I•lanriros of my will that Don idiguel's sword be returned to him. It is also my will that those who know of this incident shall not speak of it, now or ever," Bravo bowed. "Don ' Miguel, ;you are suffering keenly, At another time you will make amends to Senor 'Grant. Dona Asunta awaits you. Adios ! ' .All hut Alasdair averted their eyeS as humbled father and still haughty daughter .paaesed from the tent, As Aeuadta, •silent, and scornful, swept under the great Highlander's keen eye, his hand closed involuntarily on the haft of his dirk. Tho impulse was on him fo strike to het; • black. heart, but the steel was for another breast; Itis fingers unclosed reit-te- te/Win, (rro be Corrtinuecl,) ■I 1 To proverto yea turd* !!r: es Chase rt Olntinent is a certain n er ed'e " X . ae ruts 4111 rd f k an b V e n anrx Cvtsry ibrm a! # } R blooding feel rn rttdit plea to .d It. see tem, the ,rest irta ' hs 1lA have »z' Ks Sada, e bleak). to in do firmly press and oak your ncr;th• itlawhtt.tiioythin.etit. toe tela We it and Ieat your mower teem if not eared, IOC abox, At 11 dealer`s or T> nnYarisorr,I#xt rs 7 G Co.r a brontr3, Orn Chaste & orntmaeilt "Your eyes used to Come between me and my books when I was at school," "O ! but I was a little girl ! How could they, then ?" "No, I cannot think of you as a little girl you were always the Queen. " Just as you will never grow old : you will be the Queen always- tho same, as you are now i" "Always the sante to ,you, my heart." "Maddalena ! you love me too well: I am not worthy." "You are worthy. You who have bled for ma, who have risked life for me !" "ITot worthy though I risk life again to -morrow, and every morrow mail the end 1" "It is I that am not worthy, for I can give nothing but pay love." "And that -that makes me a king who am content to he your meanest slave 1" IIector ! My ring 1" "My Queen ! Maddalena 1" "I love my own, name now, since I have heard it from your lips 1" ",A Queen's, and you the only Queen worthy of it, Maddalena !" His eyes closed as if he. were drun- kenwith the very melody of her name. His hand was still '.. pressed hard to her breast,- and through the frail texture of her robe he could feel .the happy pulsations of her heart -her heart that could thus for- got in its moment of joy the sharp. sword -points that sought to pierce it. Her hands covered his in, and held it ,.with tenderness . of comfort that only swimming warmth of her cyos couilri equal. From the ineffable lambent depths the peace of , love gleamed tip, is a pearl might gleam through shining waters the winds never stir nor the Odes trouble. The tooth of her cased every ache, and feeling her look upon hint was ell Cordials and elixirs; and when he ex c:h:•tnged titee happiness of shut oyes for that el' open, his gaze came to rest. on the del ghsouneness of her mouth, where little quivering ripples about; the curves 011(1: spread and spread urnt,il the ever-liesv •weeder of her srxaile, broke inion intra, "Vetta y. Maje'st: f" e .v;•v }i, turned and r o, tli, fir ai �!` .. she e f l At }r�, s a. t. found !lora Miguel o:t, her feet, his head leby eti` eincc.tly, °tire: so r'emairi-. ARNIQM1i) liNb MUM - METI-IODS OF DRAINAGE. While open ditches for land drain- age may bo necessary and under cer- tain conditions "the only way;" they must be considered as decidedly ob- jectionable where tiles can be used. The open ditch. obstructs the various', forms of tillage and alI farm opera- tions. Its first cost is expensive as compared with the tile because much. more labor must be expended in the digging of an open ditch. It is lia- ble to be partially filled in by the tramping of stock, if the land is pastured, by the action of 'frost and the growth of weeds, so that its use- fulness will be impaired. An ob- structed channel for the free pas- sage of water is a first essential in farm drainage and this can only be secured as a permanent improvement in the covered tile drain. So while other materials may serve a temporary purpose in drainage, tiles are so muchsuperior in point of cost when durability and results are measured; as to hardly admit of de- voting any space to the discussion of other methods. The problem of farm drainage is to lower the water table (by which we mean the body of stagnant water found . in all soils at a greater or less distance from the surface), so that it will not interfere with the growth of crops. Proper drainage leaves the particles of soil full of moisture but the spaces between the particles are free and open for the admission of air. • The earlier advocates of -tile . drain- age favored drains four or five feet deep. It is a well established fact that the deeper the drain the farther it will drain he water, so at first sight it would seem economical to, DRAIN DEEP. When, however, we stop to coesid- er the extra cost of digging the deep ditch we shall see that it is the most costly. It often costs as much to ..dig the last foot in a ditelr, four feet deep as' it did to frig the first three. Of course in any system of drainage there will be likely to be places where the ditch must be deep in order to get the proper fall; but we think the best authorities do not advocate pia.o- ing the average tile drain more than two and a half to three feet deep. Muck lands that would be likely to settle a good deal after draining could be an exception, The size of tiles so: t}iat they may have sufficient catiaeity to early off the water quickly should be carefully considered. . The rule is that the ca.- pacify of tiles Is to each other es ,the squares of their diameters, That 'is a, tile two inches in diameter will � carry four times as enrich water as a one -inch pipe; one three .,;inches nine times as much: In the earlier days of tile drainage many small tiles were used whish worked very well with the average rain,fall; but were not able to carry off an extra ordinarre rainfall (pick enough to pre- vent injury to the growing crops. The' thing -to provide for is the extraor- dinary arnountt of water that must be removed if ereps are riot to •suuffer. Larger tile is fore, the rule. I think most of 'the tiles laid now are not less than three inches, Ire locating ,Y a. eestem of crit as the outlet demands most careful atten- tion, It should he ample for the' die - cheese of a full volume of water from the drains and well protected so that it will not be obstructed in Aar way, If conditions permit: a mei staantial wall of stone through whiru'd the discharging tile passes, with ilk opening covered with wire to pre vent the ingress of 'small animals will be found satisfactory. The fall required to secure efleetiv'';\ drainage will depend largely on rix skill employed in surveying the Tian and laying the tiles. A very model' ate fall will answer when the details. are attended to ' IN THE BEST WAY. Waring says one foot to the hundred feet is desirable, while one half thaf' M1 amount of fall, or six inches in one hundred feet, is quite sufficient: if the execution of the work is carefully at- tended to. The distance apart of the tile skeins will depend on the kind of soul and • the depth of the drains.' On loony y clays the distance must be loss to se- cure good' drainage than on sow of loamy or gravelly character. No fixed rules can be given as to distance, that will always be safe to follow, as soils vary' greatly in texture acid capacity to retain moisture. • As a rule, it is wise to employ a. skilled man to lay out and level the. drains. This work must be done well or the drains will prove a failure. The grading well done, the tiles can be laid by anyone careful and parities• taking. If mistakes are made, grades wreng, '. a poor tile, or carelessly laid, we must remember treat if it is burled out of sight the mistake will. be ap- parent in the condition of the land about the obstructed tile. Our sant, lay will be without benefit. Bedew ,4'' good tile are well laid in. a properly.. graded ditch, it Is a waste of money and . labor. It is very difficult to locate an abstracted tile, and expeti• sive to repair a poorly laid drain, Tiles should be hard and well burned. Sonia if exposedto the kosi are soft and crumble and are not worth laying. The water rides not enter the tile through the pores to any great extent, as many suppose, but through . the spaces between the tiles: Laid as carefully and closely as may be the water will end its Way through the joints or ends., If one is thinking of expending money and labor in drainage it.:tvill pay to look into and master all de tails as far as practicable. Too often such work is begun in haste, carried on in a haphazard way, and the re- sults esults are not satisfactory. I'OW TO MIX .CEMIIN'l.'. Cement is coming generally sere use as a substitute for, ]umber 11 the blinding of• floors' and the ere() tion: of silos and. other 1artai T5tr3ld ings. The value of the Cement strue ture will depend to a large extent rep - on the proportions in which to natria eon -Lent, sand and gravel. 'arils amount of cement to use will depend upon the character of the grarrel and satnd, ; and therefore, it is cairn:wit ie lay delve atny hard and last rule that will exactly serve in all cases, %Ile following is a test or method regain. mended by the United States elovcrn' Meat for ascertaining 'tire right 'pro portions to .uso. aand"rnay lie 1dttnl' helpful to those toeeta g c nieei struetures: Take of gravel e certain meahtitrr and shake it dowel to compact, itr strike 'off the top with a straitilti edge;,then measure water enol i)eur into "grata, until all voids are :filled ,i, lasEta iuYai;or . us'ttd 'will. shtitV :t amount of the mixture or cementitarif sand that Will be retttireti to rimes t proper: concrete,