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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-1-22, Page 65adov Or, A Coin rig. Ven,geanc0 There's notbl, g Me a. ddUUele s put of Tea as a delightfully refreshing stimulant and `!rain soothore 0l1-1.1e1TR EXVIII.-•-(Coutinutied), As she turned to go Clive laid his hand in the went. down to Bafborough, and, as on her shoulder,'. i case of his fathers heath, had to Are you. treating me fair1y, Tibby, ?"" 1 e Make all . the necessary arrangements-- said, "Have yeti treated me fairly iu tnc+ ho could not even communicate with Bele past?" tie. the present Lord Tiafborough—and She looked up at hint sideatayd: Per - he was not able to return to town uutil haps his haggard tank, his mourning suit ten dare land elapsed. He lead wired to of Macri serge, appealed to her; 'for her Edith to stay that he was coming, and site eyes eortened• brut she said nothing. Tinley was waiting for him, looking very tali walked side by side towards the petits, and Queenly in her blank fror'k; Red "You suppressed my telegram. you sent Olive noticed a certain clangs in hes hies, truck my letter' said Clive, "That was She was pale. and there were dark said - owe under her eyes, which were unnatur- ally brilliant, as if she were feverish; and there was a certain restieeene ra about her movemeute which was unusual with her; at ,times, as they talked, a heotio Rush rose to her face and her voieo Found- ed hard and strained. Clive asked if she were unwell; but she anewore"d in the ne- gative, and with a laugh as strained and hard asher voice. Of course, they spoke of the 'wedding; and Clive wee anxious to fix an early date; but they knew •that it would be im- possible for hitt to leave London until some of the affairs of the Balboa -oust 08 - tato were settled; and he left her without CEYLON TEA Leads e World. Sealed Lead rackets Only. Deward of eabetitutea. very wrong. Libby; and it worked a forno to come bank here. We had to wrong, a very great one. But for you. come weeks until the rooms were vasa Mina" --his voieo shook -"and T should ---' She stopped. have been married long ago " Itall seemed eso oommouplace, so be She stopped short, and looked at him. but tragedy ie .always; hedged round Married! she echoed. 3? you 'tnean ? the cozumonplaoep the banal. ,item Clive stared ab her in amazement; and these two with their love for' each o there was something in the expression of burning like a devouring flame in his face wbioh otruck her with 'oonvie; hearts; and they could say nq;hfxatt,.sll tion and something like' remorse. of nothing relating to the tragedy T T didn't know that," sire faltered, their lives, though one of them knew "I thought you was, .only fooling with he had but a few minutes for title Mina., 'epeolally -when I. foetid out what a: farewell, swell you were. Married! --But yours g0- And tierces Clive'e mind at ,that mom ing to marry ,somebody e.ee?"" she said there flashed the remembrance 'of. with sharp suspicion, feet that the girl who sat'before.him thio poor little lodging: room was not a London waif and stray, but the daughter of one of the wealthiest of .our peers. Wait and spirit. Lady Editlt met the gaze and ant shuddered. nal; ,. "Ie it trueP" she demanded inaudibly. Speak earn i Tell me the truth,' the N by truth!" "It is Edith said Sara. their Lady Edith sprang to her feet, as if she •.air. had been struck and every fibre :of her of being were in fierce revolt and resent, that" meat againet the blow. Sara flung her - last self on her knees, and wound her thin arms round her mietress's waist. ent 'It le true, it is true, debate!" she cried ent in a kind of wail. :'Light of my life, be oalmt Re is not worth a thought, a pang, in of yours. Ile is a liar, a hypocrite, and a "That is trite," he replied; "bub—it is any date having been deofded on. Mecham.. too long a .story to tell you Tibby. My sally Clive walked towards the Hous;. but he pto.lpeed ehort at the gatee; for he felt that he could not bear the condol- ences which would be poured upon him; and he went to his rooms; but he did not feel equal to tackling the pile of letters that stood on his table, and, weary as he was; he could not rest; so he went out again, and wandered about, Iiie brother's death, hia own approach. ing mariage, the arrears of business, should have fully occupied his mind to the exclusion of any other subject; but be knew that he was trying to thrust Irina from his mind and heart, In this condition he wandered through the streets, and presently came to the large and busy one from which Ied Benson's Rents, As usual, the kerbs were lined with (aster- • mongers' barrows, at which the people ere for; an' wet business of yours ie were bargaining and haggling; and the Mina's affairs?" noise and the bustle deg -ratted and Booth- "Tf you could read my heart, Tibby," Buten` said ,Clive, "you would have no need to presently, as he was making his ask. I have lost her for ever—bh tnles to way through the crowd, he stopped dead you and. Fater But do you think I•don't short, and the blood rushed to his face. care what becomes. of her? I have heard At a fruit stall stood Tibby. Tibbs, not that she has been i11. I want to see her. dressed in fine apparel, accentuated by an —if for the last tune." ostrich feather, as he had seen her at the "For the ]act tine, " she caught him up' door of the concert hall, but Tibby with sharply, "D'ye mean that? If I•ve been' a basket on her arm, and with a peculiar hard on yon, as you say—and perhaps I headgear surmounting her elfish face as !rave—I'll let you see her just once, for in the days before Mina's success. the lag time, mind! Then we are quits. C-onetuned by surpriee and anxiety, Clive I don't mind owning that I've always 1_k - made hia way to her gide, and spoke her ed you; and' if I'd thought you meant name, • She turned sharply. and, with houest and strite by Alin.— You will reddened face, regarded him with a half- find her at home. I'll give you. a quarter guilty half -defiant air. of an hour." She caught his arm a.s he "Oh, it's you, is it?" she said Then she turned without a. word.'You'll bo gentle, turned to the man at the barrow, and with her? Shea been ill?"' • went on with her haggling. ""Threepence Clive waited for no more, but walked a pound is too much," she said In a de- quickly to the Rents. As lie turned un• trrmined voice. "It would be too much der the archway he almost ran againet if they was quite fresh; and they ain't. a man; and, as he murmured an apology Them plums look to me as it you'd had something about the man struck.him as em under the bed for a week; and I. familler; but he was too agitated, ab ehouldn't he surprised if you 'ad. T sup- sorbed,` to pause; and, finding the door pose you take me for a lady of title or a open, he went tip the rickety stairs; and softy. " kuocked at the rsitting-room door, His leo, I'm blessed If T do 1" retorted the heart beat so Painfully at the sound of man. "The chap as took you for a softy Mina's "Come in" that he had to pause would find he ad a 'ardor nut to crack a momenta UPS are sealed. Never mind me or my of - faire. I want to know why you. are back hero in London, as if no good fortune led come to you. I want to know how Mina. is -what has happened to send You back here. And you will tell me, Tibby1' Come, you owe me something, you know.—Let me carry your basket." She resigned it mechanically, and he took it. She was evidently much distress. ed and embarrassed; but the old spirit, showed itself, Wot"ever I did,: I did for the. beet," she said. `Mina's everything to me, and. avr e I to stand by, an' gee lies made a fool of.. an' do nothin'? Wouldn't you have d'ne the same if you had been in . my place? But woes it matter! You're going to be married. An' that being' ea"—she broke off sharply—"'•toot are you mooching about than bis grinders could manage. Thru- penee ie zey price. take 'em or leave 'em," -Well, throw in a cabba •e," said Tib - by. "an' I'll take a pound.' "Wot•, the whole of a pound!" he ex- elaimed satirically. "Sure you don't mean the barxow load?" um not buyine sauce. wholesale or ra- melancholy ea her eyes. Then he went to 'tail," retorted Tibby. "If you eon't care her, and took her hand. toserve me, I'll go to the next barren "Mina!" he said. 'Tee have been ill, which is kept by a masa who knows how you are here, back here: I have just seen to be civil, at any rate!" Tibby; she has told me nothing; but she "Ere's the pound, and 'ere's the crab- has let me come to you—for the last time:" bilge," said the man, 'jabbing them into "I --I am glad it is the haat time," , she a basket; "an' my gratitude to a muesli- said. fur Erovxdease that I don't orften 'ave She sank into the chair, and he leant You said. when you eame in that we were such customers as you." against the manteiehelf, looking down at meeting for the last time; and. it must be heithreepence. n and then turned togCli e. aid inrhiswith es sl his I hareall be u ill," she hati t would ab impose imou to possible foret me—I know e to for - "Oh, you're 'ere still," she said "Wot eaid in a low yoke. ""I lost my voice. The get you; but I will try to remember you do YOU want?" doctor said I must rest—sometimes x as a very good, very great friend. Don't "To carry your basket, Tibby," eaid think it will never come back. Thera was I be anxious about me My voice will come Clive. "'Not far me," said Tibby, ""I am quite equal to carrying it. I'm not used to 'av- ing gen�tlemen,.specially high Parliament- ary .swell, waitin' on me. Good night, rat Harvey.' e She must have recognized his step; for she had started from her chair, and: was standing, looking toward the door, one hand gripping the chair, bhe other preseed against her bosom. For a moment there was silence, as he gazed at her, and not- ed the pallor of .her face, the profound • CHAPTER XXIX, ""Mina," .said Clive, moved b . a sudden impulse, ;'there is eomothlug I must tell you, something you ought, to know. It ie not right that you .should be living here, in something like poverty, while----' She raised her eyes to hie, and he saw that she knew.. '"Mr. Quilton has told me," she said. Se has been very kind, kinder than any one would think it possible for�him to be, Yes; he has told me. lit is a secret be- tween us, and I should not have told you of my knowledge if you had not spoken. It must be a secret still.' "Then you have decided, Mina?" said Clive gravely.. "Oh, yes, yes, indeed!" she responded earnestly, the color rising to her faoe,,her eyes dewy with. tears. 'Why should. I ,rob that poor girl of her father; why should T wound him? They have learnt to love each other as father and daugh- ter. To me he would be a stranger, I should be a stranger to him. "You are a peer's daughter all the' same," said Clive. "You are thinking. of the title, the - money?" she said. She shook her head, "They are nothing to xne. I shoulo. not know -what to do with them. No; if God will only give me back my voice—" Her words failed her. and she turned. her head away. Clive did not speak for a minute or two. "Fate bas been very hard on us, Mina," he said hoarsely, "It has sentenced one of us at least to a living death; there is no appeal, no escape. When I parted from you that morning at Brimfield I saw the folly, the wickedness of this loveless marriage of mine—yes; • I must speak plainly: it Is due to you. You know that I love you, Mina, and shall love you while life lasts.' I had resolved to go to Lady Edith, and tell her the whole truth; but almost on my way I discovered that she held the place in the world which belongs to you. She looked up at him with the tears al- most blinding her, and held out her hand. "I know, I know!" she broke In, "You could not -,desert her. You would not have deserted me in such a case. Do'you think I don't understand? It is hard fox me.—Ala, no, no!" for naturally enough he made to draw her to him. 'You must not, Clive, I should never forgive myself if L were to lead you to forget your duty to her. It is only the thought that you must do the right thing that helps me to bear my trouble.. And I could not bear it if I saw you even only now and again. a clause in my agreement which protect- book again; and if it should not, there ed the Chevalier against the tisk of mx are other ways of earning a living, and illness or the lass of my voice. We :had' I shall learn to be content, if not happy." saved a little money, not much; and; Ciivo turned away, for he could not Tibby—sou know bow careful she is?"—' look on her face and xotain command of she smiled—"thought it would be batter hpmself. it as good-bye? he said hoarsely at iaet. "It is good-bye," she echoed, holding out both her hands, and trying to smile. it took the trembling hands, and bent over her; but he felt that to kiss her would be to outrage her sense of purity, to, insult her grief. lie bolted long into her eyes, then lingeringly dropped her hand, and quickly went out. Tibby was waiting for him in the street. She opened her lips to speak to him; but the agony in his face struck her dumb; 'and with scarcely a glanoe at her he 1)ase- ed on. As he emerged from the Rents, a man stepped from an open doorway, and looked after him with an evil glitter in his eyes. It was Beelike That same nights Sara'stole . into the Chesterleighe' house' by the side entrance. Her dark face was hard and set, and her lips writhed as if she were muttering to herself. As ehe put aside the dark cloak which almost concealed her Oriental' dress, her Reshlees hands opened and shut spasmodically, as if she were in a etate of suppreesed fury and excitement and for some minutes she paced up and down her room with the gait and manner of a tig- ress. Then, as if with an effort, she re- gained her usual composure, and smooth- ing her white hair she went to her mis- tress's room, and . knocked softly at the door. There was no answer, and she open - en the door as softly; but at the thresh o1d she tastopped with a startled exclama- tion; for Lady Edith was lying face downwards on the couch, one arm pressed across her eyes, the other hanging limply. down with a letter crushed In her hand... Sara, locked the door swiftly, and ran to her mistress, Dearie dearie!" she cried, "What is it, mu of my soul, what has happened? Speak to me, speak to your own Sara!" Lady Edith. raised her head; her face was white,. gave for patches of crimson; her eyes were glowing, burning, as if 'Wirth fever. "Where have you been P" she demanded hoarsely, her hand going to her throat as if he were clicking, "T want you, I want you to la=ugh with me," she laughed hysterically. This wetter—look at it read' it! The vile .thing! It is the second I have received. It Is some enemy of hie. I know that, and yet I am fool enough to be distressed, upset. Read it, Sara, and tell me that T am a fool to take any. no- tice of en anonymous letter!" She still held the letter erushed in her hand; and Sara drew' it away with tonne force, and read 11., Lads Edith was wetclang her with a greedy devouring glance, expecting. hoping. ten tear Sante detersive ia.ugh;; but as she saw the wo- man's face grow white, her eves flash, and. Iter lips twiot.'with r tette that could not tanoeal itself, Lady 'Edith tittered a faint ore. and shrank back, "Bend it out aloud," she eonlnia.nded, al - meg inaudibly, • Kara mni3te„Fd her ezrebed lips, and In i etr.ained voice read; "able 10 from 011e W)r6 knows iltr, Olive freeway to he a Iiy'noorite and a tr;.itnr, end wire thinks it right that the Indy he hrn deceived. should know it Mao. Let h.er ttk lrt)11 wh°,t' 110 e1004 to a. niece 001134 7iin ion's t unite, 8)71 went, business lie hit with a ye a/1g girl there. Ile has been pert»luted with her. ter tame time, in, tiro ably and eleaxlelttnel:v aeel”; int.r�1, end viait.t her frreuetitly, bee ca•ntihn413 lTe erne there to, -clay, Tot Lady Edith (theseFxle!e•1) Ise inqu rite, secret fn.> ;oxides. etw1. 'nen vasty ee' tips ilii toils of this+ ,,ate3; treiler " Flare reed. to ibt ire: tirhtt reieel her eyen, tine! leo146d with en eRhrl�r nt tstrytnil- cn,t100 tit tlto u•bite, 'h1olcrh0rl'.f t•e, na If ehu ,veto alpisCaifitg to her nilsttese's prate Zee a cake—QI'kree for 25c For rale everywhere. Look for Me name "Jer. ,genu" Any water, any- where, releases its violet fragrance Hard water or soft—f ergens Violet Glycerine Soap lathers as freely in one as the other, and, brings to' your toilet that most appealing of perfumes—the delicate fragrance of fresh, sweet` violets. We have caught this real violet odor in the daintiest and clearest of soaps— the color of fresh violet leaves, a beauti- ful, translucent green. VI LST w ` Its sweet elusive per- fume i • t,, �w a left your face, your hands and. hair and the glycerine in . it snakes your skin soft, OIyceriieoat, smooth and white, Send2 for sample cake Ask your druggist for r1�RGENS Violet Glycerine Soap first. if he. hasn't it,' send us a 2c stamp for a generous sample 'cake. Address the Andrew reagens Co., Ltd., 6 Sherbrooke Street, Perth, Ontario, traitor, as the wreteh who wrote this aays. It is the man leoshki. Ee and I have been watching, dogging Harvey . Sa- hib,. There is a girl. I have seen . her. I went to her months ago, and warned_ her, bade her cast him off." Lady Edith writhed with humiliation; then grew rigid with impotent rage. '"You went. to her—hoe' dared yowl" "Dared!" Sara laughed, ""Is. there any- thing I wouldn't dare to win happiness for my souls love. my eh11d? I thought it was all over betweeee. them. But, not he still cares for her; he meets her,goes to herb Edith, is she?" demanded. Lady her bosom heaving.. "She is called Mina," said Sara. "She is the singer girl—the girl at the concert who was •struck dumb when she saw him amongst the popple. As this man says, the sahib—the fool-beset—was with her to -day; I saw him." Her voioe broke, and she clung more tightly to the 'tense. fig- ure, "Dearie, you will east him off, you will- have dine with him! He is not worthy that you should touch him with your. ,finger tips, not worthy that the glory of your eyes should rest upon him. Think no more of him, light of my soul, but spurn him from you. Let him go, let him go. lie shall not go unpunished: Unpuniehed!"" broke from Lady Edith's white lige, and elle laughed discordantly, "Who shall punish him? So -will not:suf- fer. It is I, I only, who will suffer. He will marry this girl, this girl of the 'gut- ter, in which he is so fond of dabbling.. She is one of his.'People.' Pretty, I sup- pose?" Sara's eyes fell. and _she ground her teeth. Lady Edith, laughed again. "Yes; I know. the type! And he can leave me for her! Leave me who loves him! Punished! Ls there any punishment too bitter, too creel for so vile a traitor? Yes; the word fits him. Oh. if I could only think of some way to strike him, to make him suffer a hundredth part of the agony he ie pausing mel" •• Her voice choked, and she became in- articulate; and ehe tore et the laee at her bosom as if ehe were stifling, as if her heart were bursting. Sara glided to her feet, and drew the quivering form to the couch; her eyee were glittering, her thin, lips twisting, her teeth clenched. 'Hush, dearie, hush!" aho whispered,; hissed rather. 'Be at rest, my angel! ]<ee),) ;shin soul caltte lice eltall net ;go Tull. puttylike. I, Sara,.eweal" it." Lady liklitb tried rto throw her oil`, 'What satin you o?" she demanded see/retinae "We ere Datlt helpless 'Women, and eau do nothing but look on and, smile. at their happiness." No, iiol" crooned Sara, "Sara is not bolpless. She eotnes of a different race trout the mem sahib's, They endure and bear and do nothing; but Sara's; people take not a- blew in each fuehion, Wo strike back, and strike quickly, if the blow ie for outeolves; how in=oh more surely and quiokly if it is given to the child of our bosom, D'npunisbecl! We shall Goof You shall see,. deariel And when •t11e hour oomee, you shall say that the puniehment is 'Worthy of the evil he wrought. What! Sara stand with folded Bands .and meekly bent Bead while her child, the life of her soul, is torn and l;i;- cereted!' . lrer eyes dilated, her whits teeth gleaned, her 'whole aspect was that of a, tiger thirsting for blood and already scenting IL (To bo contented.) PLEADS FOR BLA.CH BREAD.' Prof. Letiille Says, France Is Los, ing by Adopting White Flour. 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