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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-11-6, Page 6OF ALL TEAS IS IMO CEYLON 'TEA -BECAUSE OF ITS UNVARYING GOOD QUALITY 014 gld.0u1i' 4a goo t leaeclressa B all Craters. ASV 1tB--1S. 7,OflS, ,lel. A Dark 5radow; Or, A Coming Vengeance CHAPTER XVL—(,Continued]. Minae hands grasped each other so tightly that the nails threatened to eat into the flesh; but still she said nti thing; elm waited, and after a Hausa Sara, bend- ing e 1 ing still further forward, continued, per- suasively, insinuatingly: "You understand? I. have made you understand? And you are a good girl. You will not come between my mistress and the man she levee? I do not ask you for her sake, Yon do not know her. love her, as I de; it is not to be supposed: but I ask it .for his. You care for him --a, leetle? :111.. yes.! I thought so. I see it in your,face, in your, eyes. If ,you do, You will not ruin him, will not stand between him and his fortune, between him and my mistress, whose father will make him great, will help him to rise to loft. heights, to power, in your State. Yea will break with him, will east him off—before it is too late?". ., Her piercing, eyes, her intense ,scrutiny could glean nothing from the white face before her. Mina sat motionless, almost expressionless,. - Saralooked round the room. "You are poor. Is it, not so?" she said in a friendly, eonndential way. `Yon earn your living likethe rest of the poor pea pie. If you decide to go away from him, out of his eight, it will be difficult for you without money. I do not offer you money to buy him cf von. No. no! But you will not refuse to accept a emaU lite for --far the expenses of the removal, your jour- ney?" ehe took a gold -netted nurse from the reeteses of her . voluminous skirt. and pushed it slowly and gently across the table. Mina looked at it, her eyee fell on it, mechanically; the did not touch it. 'If you will take the advice of a friend --ter I am now your friend, Mees Mina., now that I know you are good—you will aro away, to a great distance, where he cannot find you; and yon will stay hidden till he is married. After that, if you come to m"e, write to me, I will help you all I ran, She paused and scanned Mina's face; but there was no response an. it. She stretch- ed out her hand to pat M'ina's arm; but Mina shrank back out of her reach. "You are sorry, unhappy? Ah, yes, it is natural. It is the seep with us women! These men, these sahibs, they make love to we, they swear to be true to us. but they trample on our hearts while they cares.s•ns with their kisses. It is the lot cif ue women. here in England, India, everywhere; man is all alike in every country! We love, we suffer. But we mast wise. Be you wise, my pretty child. Caet him away; do not be misled, deceiv- ed. He means you no good. Why should he? He will marry my mistress, my dear mistress, the Lady Edith.' Mina rose, her hands gripping the table, her head thrown up, her eye flashing. ' It is a lie!" he said. He will not marry her—he will marry me, I .know it!" The words sprang from her I-ne. from her heart. Behind her natural gentleness, humility, and modesty there Lurnt in Mina a spirit which now sprang ' into a fieree flame, Mingling with this woman's persuasive tones, Clivee voice murmuring, •I love you, I love you!" had been ring- ing with convincing force. It was not the THIS is d HOME DYE that ANYONE can use The Guaranteed "ONE DYE for All Kinds of Cloth. Clean, Simple, No Chance of Mistakes, TRY IT! Send for Free Color Card and Booklet. The Johnson -Richardson Co. 1.Umhed, Montreal timid girl who had zhrunk in terror from the gang of hooligans but the girl who had stood between dive and :certain death, that confronted Sara at this mo- ment. Love is the strongestpassion that man knows: it is far stronger itr wctnan than in man; and at this moment it ab- sorbed, engrossed the whole of Mina's be- ing. As she stood there with white face and parted lips and #lashing eyes, she was an inexperienced, unsophisticated girl no longer; but :a woman fighting for that which women hold dearer than all else in the wide world—the possession of tile man he loves. Clive she knew, trusted, and believed in. This woman, with the strange laceand dress, ache did not know, did not believe; she eared nothing for her or for her vaunted mistress. It wee just possible that, .Clive might have in- tended to marry this Lady Edith; Scut that he intended to do so now was simply in- credible; for only a few ohort hours ago he had told her. Mina, that he loved her. had asked her to be els- wife; had toil her that he would tome in two day:; time to repeat his avowal of love, to ask her for her betrothal pledge. It was Clive against this strange wo- man; and her heart did not hesitate in its arbitrament, its decision. She might be standing between Clive .and his am- bition, his worldly welfare; but the wo- man's heart, in her knew that the fullness of her love for him, the wealth of her p06. cion, would more than oonsole, compee sate him for anything he might lose by marrying her. She 'belonged to the common people; she was, ass this woman had said, of lower class and caste; but her schooling had taught her much; unoonsciowdy, in- tuitively, if you like, she felt at that su- preme moment that she could ]Hake her lover Lenny. and that happiness, . est tic. ally such happiness as she could give him. would far outweigh any 'world'y ouocess which he might obtain by marrying Lady Edith, So she stood erect, almost defiant, and spurned the suge'est'on so insinuat- ingly made by this strange woman. Sara leant forward, and stared at the slight figure, straight as an arrow, the beautiful face, white as death. but elo- quent of an immovable determination. Soh!" she hissed rather than spoke. "You refuse my offer! You will not re- lease the sahib, will not go?-' I will not,' responded abna, her bosom heaving. her hands c.enched. Sara leant back, and laughed contempt- uously. You are it fool!" she said, with a shrug of her shoulders, her brown fingers turn- ing the bangles on her wrist "You have listened to what I nay—and you refuse? You are a little English fool: • And you will be sorry—when it is too late. When he has east you off and you are deserted —and he will cast yon off and desert you, oh, yell—you will think of what I have warned you. and you will be sorry. Yen are pretty; ah, yes!" She nodded and smiled, a forced smile which the fury in her dark eyes belied. 'But the sahib will tire of your prettiness. They always do. Because, you see, you are not of his caste. If he marry you, he will sink to your level; he will rain himself; will be no longer one of your Parliament, and great in pnblio life. You will have drag- ged him down to your level, your low caste, and he will be sorry for what he has done. He will be like a man who has tied a stone round his 'neck, and cast hint eelf into the Ganges. He wilLbe a nobody, a mere nobody. .Then he will think, 'Why did I marry this foolish, common girl; I, a noble of the higher caste?' He will cast Youaway, desert son. Do I not know?" ehe demanded vehemently. `I have lived with these people, these great people; I know ther ways, the thoughts they think; they are all alike. They Cannot herd, cannot wed. with the lower caste." Her mood changed, and she =went round the table, and put her Band on Mina's shoul- der. "Come no -w, be a sensible girl," she said persuasively- with a. friendly, con- fidential smile. Do not be misled by him. Give the sahib up while there is time. while there is time!—You will, will you not? Yon will take the money and fly be- fore it is too Iate?", Mina sbook off the thin, claw-like hand. "I will not!" she panted. 'I do not be- lieve what you say, 'What yon tell mel Ile levee me; and I will marry him." Sara recoiled, and, clasping her arms across her bosons, looked ina up and down from head to foot. "You will not?" she hissed, her. eyes flashing balefully, her Has stretched, show- ing the white, even teeth. "You will not give him up? You will come between him and my mietrj ete • my beloved mistress? You shall not! Nothing shall come be - Makes The Big Money For Hog Breeders "I shipped a car of Hogs to South Omaha about xo days ago. There were 7,50o hogs on the market that day. X had given mine International Stock Food. Icor nay 64 heads, I received 25c, per hundred pounds morethan any of the othersellers. 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You area common girl, of a low class, You dare to lift Your eyes iso high) .I1e Marry yon Bahl You mock yourself! tell you, you shall net." In her Nee elle broke auto liindnataueo. and poured it like lava over: Mina, " Idiot] Slave! You to conte between my nxlatreee and the Man she loves!'" kihe laughed i;cornfully, "We shall seal Sara will see!" She snatched up the puree, drew her shawl round her with an angry, paeelon- ateesture, and strode to the doer. There she turned, and oast a ;malignant eye over the girl's slight but still ereet form, "Beware!' she panted almost inaudibly. "Bather than bee you come between thein, world lay you and him—and him! -- mark mete -dead at my feet!" The door slammed on her, the room seemed to sway with the fury of her pas- s1on;. but for some moments Mina stood still, Iter hands clenched, her bosom heaving, her oyes flashing with indigrta• tion, with all: it 'woman's anger; and it was, not until Sara's footsteps had died away that the girl she had tortured eauk into the chair,asping for the. breath that seemed to choke her in its coming. CIt AI'TBH XVII, Perfect love castetlt out fear, Mina's leve for Olive was as perfect a one as we imperfect mortals are Capable of; and. notwithstanding the impressiveness of the Halidoo woman's appearance, and the well- nigh tragic force with which she had oar- ried through her part of the interview, and the Fact that Mine had herself heard the name of "Lady Edith'` on Clive s lire when he was unconeelous, aline would not permit herself to yield to the doubt and, fear which insidiously attacked her, She believed in lice truth as she be. ieved in her own. As she had said to Sara, what- ever feeling he shay have had for this herLady: EdithMina., this beautiful daughter of a great nobleman, he now assuredly loved She would not doubt him, she would not be depressed. She` trouts nay nothing t• Ellehe or Tibby; but would go on just as usual; indeed, she would practiee longer than she ordinarily did, would 'work harder at her lessons, tto as to fitherr,e.f to be the wife of the great man the etrange woman had declared Mr. Clive to. be. Siugulariy enough, Mina was not fright- ened or awed by the discovery of the vest difference between their :smell tiouitioi,s.. All along she had known that, his station was above that of hers, eo very far above, indeed, that the knowledge of his high birth did not affect her as it. might have done, She had beau unworthy of him when be was to her an ordinary gentleman, "Mr. Clive"; she was little more unseorthy of hint now that he proved to be the son of an earl, He could not stoop any lower than he had etooped in asking her to bo his wife; and the gir, suddenly trans- formed into a woman by her ,love and the terrible ordeal to which she had been sub- jected by Sara, felt, how she knew not. hut instinctively, as all such feelings come, that her' great love levelled all dis- tinction. When hecame the day aftee. to -morrow to tell her again that he loved her, end again to ask her to be his wife, she wou'd show him her heart plainly, tell him all that was on her mind, all that the B:in- deo woman had said, and leave the deci- sion to him. And even at that moment, when overy nerve was rocked by the woman's vie"t and tragic threat, rbe had no fear of the re. suit. True love is gulch to recognize ite kin: she knew in her innermost heart that he loved her, and with a strength remark- able an a girl so'Young, Go unsophisticat- ed, she posseesed her soul in patience. She practised for a• greet many hours that day, and begged permission, which. was readily granted, to remain at the school a longer time than penal, so that she might pick up her lost lessonee. But though she strove, .by incessant oc- cupation, to drive away the remembrance, of the Hindoe woman, it obtruded itself at odd momentr, and harassed her; and she wee looking pale and tired when rho came in to supper. • Tibias looked up sharply from, the fried sausages and potatoes which tale was eat - hie and said, as she set a portion of that' savory dish before Mina: "You're lookin' orf color to -night, Mina. Too much practlein', ton many lesson, - and too much nursin' : I'n -precious glad that's over, sat any rate. The Ilex' time see a man downed in a row and I've any- thing to do with the business, he goes to the'crspital, if I 'ave to, drag. 'im there by the air of is 'end eriv my own 'ands. You don"t -want any corsages?' What are you goin' to 'ave, then? Would ,you like.. a little acted peasant or a bit o' :salmon or a sL•ce of haspic. jelly?" she inquired, way- ing her hand over the table as if it were spread with the delicacies she had nannies. I've a• headaclie," said Mina; a I think I will have a cup of tea. .We; 1''11 get it, Tabby, dear." Elisba, looked round rather sadly and regretfully. "Seems very dull to -night, he said. `I suppose we miss Mr. Clive- and so do you in your heart, Tibby, for all you're so rough on him, and your talk of 'orspitals," , "Oh, do I?" snorted Tibby, cm she push- ed Mina away from the loaf and cut some thin bread and butter for her. 'Yon, re- mind me of the gent at the music 'all who sang `will They Miss Me?' and a man at the back called out, 'Give me a gun, and see if I miss yer!' I. think his room' is better than ie company,. and I think I told int . so more than once, and pretty plainly." He's been a good friend to us, Tibby," said Blisha. And we've been a good friend to 'im," she retorted. Mina here saved his life at that silly 'all, and nursed 'im, too.' "You forget that you helped me, Tibby," said Mina. in a lots voice, and with a faint color. Yes, that's because .I'm juggins enough. to let yer 'ave yer own way, an' to stand by you instead o' puttin' me foot down and slappin' the silly notions out o' yer eed. But there, thank goodness, it's all done with now,—Father, if you wanted sorsages cold instead" of of why didn't yer say so, instead of Iettin' 'em freeze into ice on yer plate? You're as bad ae Mina.—what's the matter with the breed and butte', that you can't eat it? Its the. best fresh, let me tell von, not .marga- rine. fears to me this family'ta got da sty. since its rise in the world.—You don't. mean to say you're goin' practisin' with a headache?" she demanded indignantly, as Mina went towards' the piano. "Only for a little while, Tibby, dear," said Mina, pleadingly. "Let 'er alone, Tabby," growled E1'eha. "Oh, I'Il let ertione," 'retorted Tiaby. "An' I 'ope to go'6dneas other people 'all do the same!" ` Mina lay awake all that night; but he was neitheranxious nor fearful. There was another day to live through ars pa- tiently' as she could; and then— It was a long clay he all conscience, though raise worked hard and left herself but little time for thought. ;3he slept that night soundly:' and woke with a swift eager reflection: It is the day. Be will be hero.. 1 shall see him, hear his voice; all will be well," • She would remain at llama• all .day; be might come at any moment, She was practising hard in the morning, when she heard a step on the stairs, and her heart leapts but the step war; Eiisha's. Why. back already!' she said.. "Is anY- thing the matter?" Mishit shook his head, and did not look alarmed. "Ns," he said with a laugh; "but my pupils aro going away. it seems that those sort of people, the haristocracy, leave London, a•t!d go late the country at this time of the year. It's a kind o' fashion. Funny, isn't it? You'd think they'd go directly the weather got 'ot, and the et-metry was nice and "fresh; hut they wait all 'through the 'ot weather and' tin - til gets quite smelly; then they go • endI suppose stop away while it's (feel and pleasant." Then you've lost your pupils?",, said Mint with dismay, Nat a bit of it; at least, only for a time," he said cheerfully and proudly. it's only a 'o!iday; and the best of it IS I'm to take one too, I &mow the swells as their faults, like other' peopled but r n blessed if they can be as bad as some neo- ple try to make "em but. Wonldr you be- lieve it, Mina, that nearly every one • of 'em 'as elven me five -pound note so that T' gran take a 'oliday like the ('est of 'em! And I'm to carr, on the lessons When the ,oine beak,".• Mina's face lashed and -her React swel- ed, ehe knew who had prompted this pleite of genet -osier: perhaps the •money had come out 01 We tea Pocket? atIecoteua l."thwe might thinking.. ' iday what should Yon Say to Margit, er Sotitri, end-oli-Sea, er sone sick; swell places" 11.' 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I thxistk," with, an air of aisii- ele cunning that you might int it to 'er, Mina, She'd take it better from you; and, besides, she said herself that Yolt're ell color. We needn't spend much.' ° no Went on renectively, "We shouldn't want to put up at the Grand Otel--though, mind you, I believe the money won d run to it; I do, indeed! We could tike some cheap lodgings, and perhaps I could get an engagement at one of the 'Ails-by--the- sea or in one of the bande." Mina looked' alarmed, and her heart beat fast. Go away, away from London, away from hire! But she forced a laugh. It seemed so unlikely that Tabby wouldagree to the extraveganoe Elishe meditat. ed. She would want to put the money bY, or to purchase some clothes for her, Mina, We 11 talk it over,' said. Elisha, "an', so as we can 'ave all the argymente at our, finger -ends. I'll stop down to the rail. way : office and inquire ° about the excur- sion fares, ' Milia put her arm round 'bine keeping her fate from his Eight. "You won't want -want to go for a day or two; dear?" she asked in a low voice. (To Ibe continued.) Tut 1SiO U ON MEI BEI,. Martin Woolf, the member of the Alberta Legislature for Cardston, ismaking his influence felt in the Provincial Parliament. Last year Mr, Woolf was honored with the Premier's request that he second the speech at the opening of the session, This year the Cardston member made grave charges Mr. Martin Woolf. against an employe of the Dominion Government in one of the Western Provinces, and Western papers are reporting that his speeches are the most brilliant that have been heard in the house. , • At home Mr. Woolf is a farmer, having a large tract of land south of Cardston, the Temple City of Canada. In religion he is a Mor- mon, and because of his 'religions belief, grave fears for the future of the Province have been ex- pressed. Contrary to general be- lief, Mr, Woolf isnot a polygamist, although he believes in the princi- ple rinciple of polygamy. He is the only Mormon in the Alberta Legislature, but the time cannot be far distant when a redistribution must be made to take in another large tract set- tled by MOrraolis, and in all preba- bility another Mormon will have a House. seat in the . o e t,IN 1N14.4.01111ABltB (ARCO. Mineral Water and Sodium Hake t1 Batt Combination, In nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, water, if applied in sufficient quantity, will eventually quench any fire. But the thousandth ease, when water not only proves ineffectual, but ac- tually kindles and nourishes the fire, is a perfectly . possible occur- rence. The Boston Herald prints an account of an extraordinary fire at sea that shows how helpless man in fighting the flames. when de- serted by .his ally, water. When the freighter Hardy steam- ed out of Le Treport, Prance, she. carried, besides the mineral' water in her hold, a number of small wooden cases marked "metallic sodiums' The Channel was rough. The vessel rolled and pitched violently. The captain saw that the ship was listing to port, and suspecting that the cargo was shifting, sent a boat- swain below to investigate. As the boatswain entered the hold, he saw that, several cases of mineral water had broken and that the water was. swishing about in the hold, Then suddenly he saw one of the wooden cases marked "sodium" burst into flame. Immediately he gave the alarm, and the crew rushed to their fire stations: The captain directed' the men to play the hose into the hold. As the first stream of water struck the. burning case,there were several explosio3is,• as package after pack- age within the case caught fire. By this time:two other cases of sodium bad broken open, and their con- tents, as they carne in contact, with the water from the hose, burst into flames. The crew could not believe their eyes. The more water they poured on the fire, the more intense grew the conflagration. • Then ' suddenly two cases flew into the air, crashed against the overhead beams, and spread out in sheetsof fire, the. smaller pieces dropping back only to bounce and dace about, hot balls of flame, in the half -swamped hold. Panic-stricken, the crew dropped the hose lines and fled'.above decks. But the "captain ordered the cargo flung into the sea, and led his men 'back into the liold. Theysucceed- ed in throwing several of the cases overboard. • But as each case hit" the waves, it rebounded into the air, a flaming ball. The 'iperstitious crew was fast becoming uninanageable, and' the captain saw that, • in any case, he must abandon the ship. 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