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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-8-14, Page 2A Dark Shadow; 0r, A Coming Vengeance CHAPTER XV,-(Cont'd). He sat on his Committee -a dreary busi- ness, which any manwith the intelligence of a lop-eared rabbit could have settled by himself in ten minutes• -then, with a sigh of relief. made his was out of the stifling room into the fresh air. "Le he did so Big Ben chimed the half-hour after twelve; it was too soon for lunch. and he turued towards St. Jame's Park for a 'stroll during which he could think over some points on the subject of the Blue Book be had been studying last night; then suddenly he thought of the little Street singer, and resolved to face the Probability of another rebuff; and inquire after her. Re made his way to Benson's Rents, and found the door. which bad been shut so unceremoniously its his face laet night, now open. He knocked two or three times without getting any response; but sad- dently he heard a voice inquire impatient - ]y: "Well, wot is it?" Looking down in the direction of the voice, he saw a• youngwomates smutty face peering at lam indignantly from be- tween the banisters of the basement stairs, "I am inquiring for a person -a fiddler —" he began, "Second floor back," said the slaver, and the face instantly disappeared,, though ''live could hear murmurs of reproach and complaint until they were drowned by the slamming of a door in the basement. After a moment or two of hesitation, he went up the rickety stairs. and knocked at a door on the second floor. It was a moment or two before he received any • answer; then a low voice said, "Come in," and he entered. In a low chair beside a handful of fire sat the girl he had rescued from the hooli- gans. She was leaning back with her shawl wrapped round her as if she were cold; her face was very pale, and her large; dark eyesmet his with a startled Questioning; she rose, gripping the arm of the chair. and continued to gaze at him with surprise and an expression that would have been one of fear but for a touch of something that looked like a shy pleasure. The color rose to the clear olive of her face, and accentuated its girlish beauty; her lips opened, as if she would speak; but she said nothing, and only continued to gaze at him. "I hope I have not startled you?" said Clive. I came to ask after you. and was told to walk up. I hope you are not ill from last night's adventure, that you 'we're not seriously hurt by that young ruffian," The tone, the manner in which he ad- dressed her, were just those in which he ' would have spoken to a girl of his own class; they had none of that fatal and foaliah condescension 'which some persons consider it proper to assume when they are speaking to their inferiors. And the girl seemed to respond to his inborn court- esv. to .rise to the occasion, as it were; the color still struggled in her cheeks, and her bosom still fluttered; but she said quite calmly, and with a self-possession and grace that were not lost upon Clive: "Thank you, it is very kind of you, sir. Won't you sit down?" Clive drew forward a chair and waited for her to resume her seat; again just as he would have done if she had been a girl of his own class. "You haven't answered my question," he said with a smile. She smiled in response. "Oh, no. I am not ill; it was rather a nasty cut, but Tibby saw to it--itwas not bad enough for a doctor." She paused, then rent on. "I am Quite ashamed when I think of - of last night. It was foolish of ante to be so frightened and to faint; but Iam al- ways nervous when I am singing in the streets." Her eyes were cast down, and her clasped hands closed over each other tightly; then she looked up at him with a Quick glance.. 'I am not obliged to go; don't think that; it is my own free will. Elisha would rather I didn't; indeed, he has been 'ill against it from the first; but—" she looked at him again, almost appealingly, as if she were eager that he should understand -"but I felt that I ought to do something, that I ought to help to earn some money. Elisha is not - not strong. You saw. And sometimes he is not able to play. And I do bele them, him and Tubby. People give me money; more money than they give him, Elisha says, when he's alone. But not often as much as you gave me last night. Itwas-too much. I wanted to thank you for it, and all your kindness to us; but" - again she looked at him appealingly, with a faint apologetic smile -"there was not time." No," said Clive,with an answering smile. "Bat it wasn't necessary to thank Inc. Your song was worth more than that trifling sum. Is Elisha your father - brother?" No," she replied; "he'sno relation." Clive was not surprised at the informa- tion. .Accustomed as he was to the ap- parent inconsistencies which were always presenting themselves to him in the lives of the poor people with whom he came in contact, he was struck by the girl's manner, her mode of speech, and ber voice; they were distinctly euperior to those of the class to which she belonged; they were as free from vulgarity and as strangely inconsistent with her surround- ings as her graceful figure and the refined beauty of her face. "And Tibby?" he asked. "Tibby is Elisha'e daughter," site said, her dark grey eyes growing soft with sym- pathy and affection. 'She calls me her sister, but I am not. I wish I was, for we love each other like sisters; and she is Rood, oh, very good. to me! So is 'Lisha," she dropped the "B" in her earn- ' estness, and Clive Liked her all the better for doing so. 'I aun an orphan. 'Lisha found me under the archway one night when I was a baby; and he has taken care of me ever since; adopted me, don't you call it? Re taught me to sing. He is a. ereat musician; you heard him play? But he doesn't play so well in the streets as he does at home here. Ab, then it ie beautiful -when we are alone, and it is quite quiet. He is nervous in the streets, too; though you wouldn't think it." Clive s. "I knew that very le I was listen ng to him last night." Her eyes glowed with pleasure, and she leaned forward slightly, and nodded eagerly. 'Are you fond of singing?" Oh yes." she replied, with a long -breath. "It is" -she looked round as if for a word -"beautiful, especially when I an: by myself, and there is no one listen- ing; loolring on. I forget everything then, and nothing -nothing seems to matter." I can see that you. too, are a musician," said Olive. Oh, no," she hastened to say simply, "I can't play anything. Blisba tried to save money enough to buy e, plano--he said that it would be so much Netter for ma, that presently I might stet some engage - meats, if I could play my own accent- paniments; but he got ill. He is very delicate -arid we had to bye a doctor, and so the money went; the savings, I mean; and wo didn't have the piano. Elisha Outing Shoes TX -IE PERFECT' SHOE FOR SUMMER SPORTS AM YOUR DEALER. fretted about it; and he's trying to save again. I wish he wouldn't," Olive was touched but not surprised by her naive recital. Ile had long since dis- covered that self-denial is more ant to flourish in the slums than in Mayfair. "A.nd' what does Tibby do?" ho asked. "Xs she aleo sti xapteiciauP' The girl laughed.; and Clive thought it a good laugh to,hear-it was so soft, so innocent, so girlish. "Oh no; Tibby does not k+low one,note from another, and always mixes up l il- larney with 'The Minstrel Boy' if she doesn't .hear the words, But she is 'very clever,' she added, as if she were afraid he should think she was disparaging Tib - by. "She makes fiowers. She works at a factory where they make the artificial ones --for hats and bonnets, you know, She is so quick with her fingers, oh, won- derfulIy; and has such taste. You should see some of the beautiful things she makes, wreaths and sprays; they look so uataral that you feel inclined to smell them -to see if there is any scent," she explained, "But they do not pay her much," she sighed. "not nearly so much as they ought to do. Sometimes we see the Rowers that Tibby has made in the shops. and they are usarked up ever so much; and poor Tibby only gots eighteen, Pence a. day. Don't you think it is winked to. pay people such a little and get so much for their work?" "It is very wicked," said Clive, wishing that some of his political friends who called hies a visionary, an agitator, and a Don Quixote could see, and listen to, this girl. "It is one of the things some of us are trying to reform." "Oh, I am glad some one is trying," she said simply. "Tibby will be glad to hear that too. She will be home presently; it is past one, isn't it?" As Clive was looking at his watch, a voice -he recognized. Tibby's-was heard on the staircase, shrilly exclaiming: "You jest take your hoop off the stairs, Jimmy Ryan. You left it there last night, and I fell over it, and landed on my 'ead on the mat. You be orf home with it: these stairs ain't the proper place for you to ply hoop on. And while you're about it, you might ask your mother if she could spare a few minutes from the 'Goat and Compasses' to wash yer face. You'd better tell her from me that soap's cheap, almost as cheap as dirt; it'll be a bit of information for her. I s'pose she doesn't wash yer because she might lose yer, and she wouldn't know yer again with a clean face," There was a boy's shrill retort, a sound of scuffling on the stairs, the patter of flying bare feet, and a moment after- wards the door was flung open, and Tibby bounced in, Rushed but triumphant. I don't know wot boys are coming to—" she began as she opened the door; then she stopped suddenly at the sight of Clive, and, with her arms akimbo and her whole attitude and expression an epitome of resentment and indignation, she demanded: Well, who are you, and wot do you want?" Mina went to her, and laid a soothing hand on her arm. It is the gentleman 't -ho -who was 'so kind to lie last night, Tibby," she said in a low voice. "Oh, is it?" retorted Tibby. "And wot does he want? Wotever he wants, we don't want no gentlemen here; and so I tell lffm-strite." • Mina's face flushed; and she looked from one to the other appealingly. I am sorry you regard my visit as an intrusion, Miss Tibby, said Clive; "but don't you think you would have consid- ered me rather impolite, not to say hard hearted and unfeeling, if I had not comp to inquire after your -sister, who-ims very cruelly hurt last night?" bThe word sister somewhat mollified Tib- l'Oh, that's why you've come, is it?" she said, still irately and resentfully, "An' now, as I suppose she's told you, you'd better go. We're very much obliged to sou; but we don't want no swells here. Swellsis all very well in the'r way, I dare say, though I never could see wot God made 'em for -any rate, we ve got no use for em. We're aid -working people, and wot you'd call poor; but we're 'onest, an' we've got our proper pride -some of us. 'Ow would you like Mina or me or Lfsha to bounce into your swagger room jest became we'd been mixed up in a row with you the uight 'before?" As she spoke she dashed at the cupboard, and produced a cloth, which she proceed- ed to lay on the table with an emphasis which was significant of her desire for his departure. 1 assure you that I should be very grateful, Miss Tibby;' said Clive, ''Wand I: should think it very bad manners of you if you did not call." "Ah, we don't eel.l manners" at this shop:" remarked Tibby; ,"'they're too- ex- pensive, and take up too much time. And, speaking of time, we're goin' to hey cur dinner; cold 'addock and bread and cheese. I s'pose you aven't had yours?" as9::. said Olive, wondering whether it would be -well for him to accept the com- ing invita`non. Then I should advise you to go and get it," said Tibby emphatically, Clive could not refrain from laughing at this unexpected rebuff. "I thought you were going to ask me to. stay," he said good-temperedly. • Ah, that's about the most foolish thought you've ever had," she retorted. "I'm not naturally a ill-mannered girl, but you'll excuse me saying that there's some people whose room is more welkim than their company! "I certainly must not etay.any, longer after that broad hint," said Clive. "Good- bye, Miss Mina; good-bye, Miss Tibbs." Drina took his band, and held it in her warm little one for second or two, but Tibby; scorning to affect ignorance of his extended hand, nodded abruptly to him over her shoulder as she went to the cup- board for the cheese. With a smile and a nod to Mina, as if to assure her that he was not wounded by Tibby's cavalier treatment, Clive left them. On his way down the stairs he met the little hunchback, who was just entering the house, with his violin in its cover under his arm. He started and peered up at Clive, and greeted him with nervone shyness.. I have just been to inquire after your daughter," said Clive. I am glad to find that she is not so badly hurt as 1 feared," Thank you• sir.; it is,very kind of you,'' said Blfsha. f'It was a cruel bloww. Mina's not like some girls; she's delicate -like and timid; not delicate in the way of health, I don't mean; she hasn't had a day's illness since she was born --»I mean," ho corrected himself hastily, "since she was a baby." Clive nodded. "She has been telling me how good you have been to her.,' be said gravely. The dwarf reddened. "Not more than she deserves. sir," he said. "'Mina's the best and lovingest girl: that ever breathed; Not more than she deserves. No; she ain't my child, snore's the pity; but I're as fondof her ae if efhe was; and I'm 1 rateflli frgm m ' 'cart ?or the kindness yuii showed us last night, iii'. It isn't every gentleman that would have stepped to mix himself ftp in a street row, and stand up for poor common people like us, in the way you did; and I'm sure it's very kind of you tocalf to ask after her." "That's a mietakeu idea of yours, I as- sure you,' said Chive, Every gentle man," he laid a slight stress on the weed, "would have acted last night as X did, and yvtiuld Inefo done so murk less elumatly, 71 hobo. I was very glad T hap- pened to bo on the spot to be of sonic use. Miss Mina : tells nit you are train- ing her for the musical profession, She has a •beautiful volae, a sweet and natural one., and I'm sure she is an apt pupil. You're right, sir, you're right,' assent• ed the dwarf with tremulous eagerness and enthusiasm. "we it wonderful voice, or ratherwill be when it's properly it, trained, I do my beet; bat Dwell 1'tn only what, you see, sir; grid she ongjit to Mrs. George Cornwallis West. Latest, icture'of Winston Church- ill's mothen, formerly LadyRan- dolph Churchill, and .recently di- vorced, have a good master, one of the big men I've heard of." "I don't agree with yon," said Clive. "I've known many a sweet and promising voice ruined by some of the big men you speak of.' ' "That's true enough, sir," said Bhehe, "at leaat, it's often the case; but whether t is or net, any other master is out of the question; we must go on •as wo are. I'm 'opiug some, day to giveher a show, as we call it, at some concert or other. I'm sure she would be a success, because ahs can sing; yes, she can sing even now; and in a hall, one as was not too large for her young voice, she'd make her mark." Yes; I think she would," said Clive; "but, if I may venture tooffer any ad- vice to se good amusician—". "Meaning me, sir?" said the dwarf. with a meek surprise that touched Clive. "]es," he said. "I meant you. I should say, don't hurry her; wait until she has grown stronger, less timid—" "Mina's stronger than she looks, sir; and she'e not nervous; that is, she's not when she's singing; she forgets everything, then but the music. She's a born musician. But your advice isgood and kindly meant, sir; and I'll think on. it." "Do," said Clive. Ile held out his hand, and the dwarf took it, shyly and gratefully. "Oh, by the way," said Olive, over his shoulder, and as he was leaving the house, "I should like to send you a litle souvenir, a little remainder of our.unpleasant ex- perience last night, or, shall I say, a little thanksgiving for our esoepe from more serious consequences? You won't be offended?" The hunchback, with hie hand griping the stair -rail, colored and shuffled his feet nervously. "We're poor enough. sir," he said, "but we've never -I mean to say, we've never took money from any one, excepting what we've earned." Clive went back and laid his hand on thase Blisdwha'arf's shoulder, his own :face as red e, "My dear fellow, I should no more think of offering you money than I should think of -offering you a blow. My little tribute will be laid at the shrine of Music -you understand? which both you ;stn = I revere ence and love; and I 'shall eacp, t you.to accept it in that -e p sense. Goob e and d good luck to you!" On his way to his rooms he called at the warehouse,of a famous pianoforte maker, and spent nearly an hour selecting an instrument. The man who waited on him found Mr. Olive Harvey rather hard to please; for it 'appeared that he wanteda first-class, piano ina cheap and simple case; in fact, he wanted a "sixty -guinea instrument that should look like one cost- ing five -and -twenty. Re tried a great many -Clive had a good touch and 'a keen ear -and' at last he selectedone, gave his cheque for it; and ordered it to be sent to Miss Mina, No. 19, Benson's Rents." "Oh, and by the way," he said, "I want it delivered quietly, you know. If you can deliver it' without my friends knowing the firm from whence it comes, I should be glad." • The man began to smile knowingly, but. his smile dried up under Olive's direct and rather stern gaze, and he promised that Clive's instructions should be .carried out. 'Wait," said Clive, "address it to Bliehaa please:" (To be continued.). IB DISTRESS IN JERUSALEM'. Great Suffering Prevails as Result of the War. , Jerusalem, with a population of from 50,000 to 60,000 Jews, 13,000. Christians and 12,000 Moslems, is in sore straits, according to Consul P. J. McGregor in a report to the British Foreign Office. As a result of the war and the consequent fall- ing off in the pilgrim and tourist traffic, on which Jerusalem mainly subsists, business has been unus- ually slack and great distress pre - wails. The enormous increase in the cost of living remains unchanged and there are no signs of improvement in that respect. The main industry of Jerusalem is the production of souvenirs and articles de plete in olive wood and mother-of-pearl. The last named industry has hitherto been a specialty of the inhabitants of Bethlehem; but it is now carried on to some extent by Bethlehem ites established in Paris, who send their goods to Jerusalem for sale, Number One. Young Doctor's Wife—"Oh, Jack, just fancy :i there's a patient, in the sitting room. "All right, dear; I won't be a moment, Just run and lock him Courteous Rejoinder. '•`.t wonder why Solomonwas con:. sidered the wisest man in the, world V' asked Mr, Dare's wife. "Probably,my dear, because he had, so many wives to give him good adviee.'> Strong :Evidence. "My wife will know I drank too zntuch at the banquet." "Why, you're tvtr<lking straight enoLuglh,'" "But look at the umbrella I pick- ed out," f On the Farm ►'► 4.et► �rfivi� Silos and Silage. On a"dairy :farm the silo is almost a prime necessity. Silage is succu- lent, adds variety to the ration, is -relished by the animals, and. pro- motes a more healthful condition: of the digestive system than when dry feed only is supplied. For a silo to be satisfactory the 'walls ]oust be •air -tight and sufficiently rigid to withstand the pressure to which they are 'subjected when the silo is filled with heavy'.green; ma- terial. For ordinary silos filled With corn silage this pressure increase$ eleven pounds per square foot for each foot in depth of the silo, writes Mr. IL Atwood. Corn for the silo should be cut just before it becomes . fully ala. tura. At that time there is still enough juice in the stalks so that the cut or shredded material packs into the silo firmly and yet there is not that earlier superabundance of juice whose presence tends to pro- duce a very sour or acid silage. In building a reinforced, brick silo at the experimental station of West Virginia, an excavation was made about four feet deep to the under - 'yin.. rock in order to secure a solid foundation. Then a cylindrical brick wall was/laid up four inches thick, cement mortar being used. As the wall was laid twenty -penny wire nails, which previously had been imbedded in the mortar with the ends projecting from the wall. Two nails were used for each square foot of surface. After the wall had stood a few days, woven wire fencing was cut into pieces of the proper length to .go around the silo, and the project- ing ends of the mails were clinched over the wires so as to hold the fencing close to the brick wall. Only fencing with straight horizontal wires should be used for this pur- pose, for if it is not drawn close to the wall in all places an unneces- sary amount of cement is required for the plastering. Two thicknesses of wire fencing were put on for one half the depth of the silo: and only one thickness on the remainder. Each strip was lap- ped about two inches over the low- er one. The top course projected four inches above the top of the wall, and thus was stapled' to the plate, fastening the roof securely to the structure. After the wire woos in place the - inside of"the silo was plastered with. cement mortar, thus covering the wire. The mortar.consisted of one part oelhent and three parts sand. Four 'openings were provided for' removing ,the silage. The door frames are ;of,cast iron, one 'inch in thickness, with a projection which laps a couple of inches- over the brick work on the inside of the silo.. The doors are made of two :thick- nesses of; seven-inch flooring with roofing paper. between, and they are held in place by being ' bolted to four by' four -inch pieces or timber which extend across the door. frames on the outside. It is believed that this method'of construction possesses many advant- ages where a permanent :structure is desired.' The: wire fencing, being protected by the .coating of cement, has no tendency to rust, and the life of the silo should be almost indefin- You oannot afford bratn,-befogging headsot+es.. Pmi.I-DRV,,CO ''Ileadakche'� a1 rs stop them to qutok time and clear your head, They de not contain either phenacetin, acetanalid, nnorpittne, opium or any other dangerous drug, 25o. a box at your Drugetst's. 121 NAriottAt. O13U AND celorteet, OO,. oe QANADA, LIMITED. ite. In every agricultural commun- ity the services of a briek-mason can be secured easily, the job of laying up the four -inch walls is a Short one, and the fartncr himself can put on the wire and do the plastering. Dairy Hints. A, profitable flow of milk 'once al- 1Gwed to go down by default cannot be regained until the cow again freshens. One mistake many dairymen make is that of allowing their cows to get started down grade before they be- gin feeding supplemental feeds. There are few conditions under which dairymen will find profit in the long run, at least, by supple menting drought stricken pastures, either with soiling crops or grain foods. It is far easier to let a. cow down in her flow of milk than it is to get her back. No complicated system of forage crops is needed to supply the dairy herd with succulent feeds on the modern stack farin where corn, Clover and alfalfa thrive. +F LEATIIEII.I FROM TILE OCEAN. The Skill of. the Shark is Used For Many Purposes, A good many kinds of leather are got from sea creatures, some of which are very curious and beauti- ful. The skin of sharks is a beauti- ful .burnished gray, or bluish color. Thesurface resembles finely grained leather, inasmuch as it shows many tiny prickles set all one way. They are quite invisible to the naked eye, but there are so many and they fare so finely set that you distinctly feel the roughness of the surface if you rub your hand over the skin in the direction opposite to that in which the prickles point. This property of shark skin ren- ders it especially valuable to the manufacturer of ''shagreen." Since the skin is at once tough and easy to work, it can be used for many purposes where decorative effects are desired. In spite of its lumpy armor, the sturgeon furnishes a valuable and attractive Ieather. It has been found that when the bony plates are removed, the patterns remain on the skin, just as the patterns of alit - ,gator scales remain on alligator leather, a circumstance that adds greatly to the value of the product. From the sturgeons that abound on our Pacific coast arid: in the Great Lakes, we get a tough leather that is used for the making of laces to join leather belting for machinery. It is said that the lacing frequently outwears the belting itself. There is found in Turkish -waters a strikingly unattractive fish called the angel -fish, classed among the littoral sharks. This fish yields an extremely high quality of green leather, much esteemed in the Otto- man dominions. In Russia certain peasant cos- tumes are trimmed with the skins of a food fish, the turbot, and in Egypt men wear sandals made from the skins of fish caught in the Red Sea. In our own country, too, the cod has been used in a similar man- ner, for in bygone days a good many shoes and' gloves have been made in Gloucester from the skin of the humble cod, says a New York...pre. per. ielskin is useful; for many pur- poses, among them the manufacture of leather binding for books and for braiding into whips. The garfish, a fish found alongour coasts, has a skin that can bpol- ished till it resembles ivory,' It is used in making picture -frames and jewel -caskets. The skin of this fish was used by certain of otic Indian tribes to make a sort of armor. It is so tough and hard that, accord- ing to some accounts, a breast -plate made of it will turn a knife or a spear. Queer uses are made of the intes., tines of the walrus and the sea -lion; The Eskimos make the former into sails for their boats,, and the latter they slit and stitch together, to form hooded coats that are far superior to rubber as water -proof garments.. 14 Gen. Gordon's Prayer Mat.. The Prayer mat used by Gen. Gordon when Governor of . th4 Sudan, from 1875 to. 1879, was pre- sented to Bishop Gwynne by one of the Gordon family. The mat will be carefully framed se as to exclude dust and hung on the wail at the Gordon memorial chapel of the cath- edral at Khartum.. It was first hoped that the gnat might be kept in the sanctuary of the chapel and used as a kneeling mat. 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