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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-6-29, Page 241110. THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWO TI By IS.ABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvert.ons" CHAPTER VL--(Cont":l.)• "Now, old man;" Andrew jumped to his feet and began to pace the room impatiently, "I wan, to rush it en the stage ---quick! Quick, I say. Hecht will take it, I know," "I suppc ae you'll play the convict?" "Good God, what else could I play?" Andrew stopped suddenly and looked down at Wentworth. :Yeu'l1 kill your reputation as a comedian," "Perhaps you'll be interested in knowing that I've thrown up my part in•The Left -over Bachelor: No more doddering i,"iots for me Why, it will be easy sledding to get this un." Audre: you're a steam engine." "Did you think I was a steam rol- ti J several pens before he found one that suited him. Then, switching on the. electricity udder a green -shaded bulb, he began wih steady laboriousness to copy Merry's play. Tht clock struck three bfore.his task was ended. Iie, , gathered the manuscript into two neat piles. One he placed in his safe, the ether he locket in the drawer which held the bit of paper he had studied so `intently. He returned to his chair beside the ghost of a fire. laid his face between his palms, and fought a battle between two antagonists, his conscience and 'temptation. He felt as if his soul was i in shackles. CHAPTER V. The telephone in Enoch Went - "You never guessed, Andrew, that your ambition was miner Enaeh did not lift his eyes or pause for a reply, "For years and years and years I have dreamed just one dream only one— that some day 1 might produce a great play. See how I worked!" He swept the manuscript into a untidy heap. There were thousands..o€ .sheets He had written on paper like amen skin. It looked like toil--one.had a feeling • of years of toil—after a •glance a; the laboriously interlined and reconstructed sentences. Went- worth crushed it mercilessly into loose bunches and began to lay the pages by handfuls upon_ the reviving fire. A little flame climbed up and kindled them into a wavering blaze. "Here, here, Enoch, old fellow," cried Merry, "don't!" There was a thrill of compassion in his voice. "say, don't --this is a Wicked thing to do." Wentworth paid no heed to him. He gathered the sheets together with quiet deliberation, crushing them as one would crush some hated, despised living thing, and burned them With stond satisfaction. "That funeral's over," he said ab- ruptly, "Now I'm in a mead for— business. " He turned to his desk. Merry's eyes followed hien. They were dim with unspoken sympathy, "Well, it's wakedyou up, That's ' worth's room rang insistently. He but he Ione:: the man well enough not dead Certain. Who diel 1t ?" .hal gone t.) bed three flours bt '.r•e, to put it into words. "The womeet---1 told- you." 1lersry and he struggled to Attila! „ ff .hoer, ' Wentworth pulled out his key -ring, turned inside and "too:1 with his back stupid drove ineo,s. He '.0 ne.l to oPetied a drawer, and took the slip of to En'ill ,rsuenin"• his eyes .over a vel-': the telephone. Its ring bee bi come paps from the yellow envelope. He tune he had lifter from a bookshelf. peremptory. rood staring at it for a momnt, A Say cold mere" sugge.1:r. i Went- "Hullo," he called hl i,l;iy. ` wave of crimson swept across his worth, "leave :hat with mc' over night.1 "Hullo:. old chap," Merry answered face, then his mouth straightened into You've glean me a lot to think about. him gaily. "The top o' the morning a cruel, inexorable line. Merry's I want to read it lige in—when I'm to you."eyes were still fixed an him, Enoch 1 ale.""Good morning," Wentworth's alert- Thedid not speak, but crossed the room elo e!y written -heats fell re- flees (lied in a second. Something with the paper in his hand `and laid it leetently from the comediaree hand• flashed back to his mind, soinsehinea on the table besi,:e Merry. Andrew's Ile C%aelle4 the paper as if it were a ',unpleasant, and an ugly frown corm- eyes took it in with one sweeping bile>•Nil child. gated his brow.glance; it was the bond he had signed "You'll be careful of it, won't you, "Grouchy this morning?" crial when the; played that last hand of Enoeh?" he said anxiously. "It's all Merry with a laugh. "Or say, did I poker. "Do you remember this;?" asked 1 have. by firet draft was a garbled, i;•„ke you from your beauty sleep?"' dirty missy; I threw it away." f "You certainly did.” Wentworth abruptly. -rile ':• your sego'., I'll be careful.; "Old man, I'm sorry, blamed sorry. "Of course. Say old chap, what ''t'he'n I've tini4hed I'll put i; in my Some day I'll phew you I'm grateful. I has that to -do with our business? Oh, safe. I'll have it typewritten tomer- couldn't sleep las`. night, I lay think- I know." He lifted his eyes with a row." ing of something I can do for you relieved glance. "Of- course it's an 'Morey laugher. eGeoei night. told when my production begins to pay. , understood thing you're to run things I +', Fin a ateful fey your faith in I'm going to drag you away from the . and as for money, Lord; I don't care mom" - everlasting grind. We'll go to Switz- for money. Take all you want of it. "(iced night, boy." Enoch gripped 'eriand next summer and carry out X`•'s fame my heart's sit an; I've a' his hag: i. "I'm terribly glad to have your dream. We'll sit on mountain grand ambition and a thirst for great - yea u make gond. Year play ie. won- , tops crane our necks over the edge of ness--as I told you—but it runs in derfu1." a crevasse, and skii down a glacier." • only one iiirection; to win a name as Merry went di?:yn stairs whistling. "I'd rather go back to bed," growled a dramatist, a name that will live A few seconds later he turned back.: Wentworth. when my capering days are over. I He put his head in at the door and "Your lazy old duffer. you may go in want a halo; not such an aureole as said in a melodramatic whisper: a second, only I want to talk to you Shakespeare's," his eyes sparkled and "Rush the business, my lord, I'm oev- ` about the luckiest sort of accident. —I demand a halo. III be satisfied ing thee a hundred and much else. It • L net: night I ran across a fellow who's with nothing smaller that a cart - shall be paid with compound interest rolling in money. He's crazy to get in wheel." from the first night's returns:' Then on a theatrical venture. We can catch He rose and went prancing buoy - he laughed and shut the door. him, I know. I want you to have a antly about the room on his toe tips, "A hundred!" whispered Wentworth. big share, to manage the thing and humming a fantastic waltz from "The He dropped into the chair beside the make all you can out of it" Icing at Large," Wentworth sat with fire and covered his face wtih his "Did you tell him it was—your a grim, brooding look in his eyes. An - hands. The room had grown dark and play?" Enach's tone was brusque. drew stopped to stare at him. it was so silent that when a cinder fell g "No, I thought I'd break that gent- ' "Why so mum, sweet Sirrah?" be from the grate it made him start to . ly I•Ie thinks now. I'm a devil of an asked blithely. his fee`. He searched far a small } actor; he might imagine I couldn't "Merry," Wentworth spoke in an brass key on his ring. hurried into the have so much versatility; that my play through—carefully. Read it alour." library, and unlocked a drawer in the t might he of the brand some actors The actor picked up the sheet of desk. He took a slip of paper from out." paper and read it with dramatic ges- a yellow envelope and stood staring at t "Good," cried Enoch, warmly. "You tures, bowing almost prostrate at it for several minutes, His brows i haves more cense than I gave you each pause. whinkleil and a curiously startled ex- credit for." To Enoch Wentworth. pression came into his eyes. He drew' "Really? Now, old pal, go back to I hereby pledge myself to you until a long breath, put the paper back in bed. But tell me first when I can see death—to do your every bidding—to the envelope laid it in the drawer, and you. I wane a long talk with you." obey your every demand to the ex - turned the key in the lock, He walked i "Make it four. I've a pile of work tent of my physical and mental ability to a window, which looked down on to do before that time." —you to furnish me with suppr'rt. the square, and stared at the life of j "All right, four o'clock. Good-bye." the city. It was a habit of his. Hal Wentworth hung up the receiver and has solved many a knotty problem 'passed a hand across his forehead; it with his eyes fixed unconsciously upon was cold and damp. He did not re - the busy street. turn to bed, but dressed hurriedly, A little girl, being lost, was taken The thought -spell lengthened out pausing once or twice to stare at him- to the police -station, and the officers indefinitely, then ended abruptly. He self in the mirror. His face looked in charge tried unsuccessfully to find hurried to his den, lifted Andrew's unfamiliar. It .seemed to have aged out her name. "What name does manuscript, and seated himself before There were lines about the clean-shav- your mother call your father?" said the desk. From a lowr drawer he en mouth he had never noticed before. one. "Why," replied the child in - took a heap of paper filled the ink- At four o'clock Enoch sat in his nocently, "she don't call him any well almost to overflowing, and tried library. He was so absorbed that he names; she likes him!" did not hear a step in the hall. When aattleteetetleage he lifted his eyes Merry stood before him. Wntworth stared for a second before he took the outstretched hand. Merry had changed. He looked young, • hancL ome and vivacious—he was better groomed. A few stems of Roman hyaeinths sat jauntily in his buttonhole. His trimness seemel odd in contras; to the old whimsical care- lessness, as if he had alrtady achiev- ed fame and was living up to it, dress- ing up to it. These were the thoughts that flashed through Wentworth's mind. while Merry took his hands af- fectionately between his own. An- drew was only a few years younger than Enoch, but occasionally he fell into fond, demonstrative ways which were boyish.. Wentworth drew hes hand away suddenly and pointed to the low chair opposite. His friend sat down half perplexed, half anxious. "Say, old man, aren't you well? You look groggy." "I'm well enough." . "You're working too hard, you al- ways did!" Wentworth did not answer. His eyes were studying a pattern in the rug beneath his feet. "Say, Enoch, you're goieg to tend to the whole business, aren't you?" The newspaper man lifted his eyes. "Yes, I'm going to tend to the whole business. I'll make it the finest pro- duction that New York has seen in Years. `The House of Esterbrook'is going to win money and fame." "Good!" Merry jumped up • and flung his arms around the shoulders of the older man. "Sit down," said Enoch. "We're go- ing to talk business." He rose, walked to his desk, and emptied a clrawful of papers on the table. 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National Trust Building ,Montreal. G2.336 11 Feeding the Hog. While almost any man can make substantial profits -in feeding hogs at present prices, an intelligent consid- i eration of cost and management will tend to greatly increase them. Every stage in the hog's development should be carefully studied, the object being to get maximum results at min- , forum cost. Great care is particularly necessary at weaning time to get the pigs 'safe• Iy over this crisis of their lives ane' i well started without any serious set- ' back. Very often the profits are I sacrificed from a batch of pigs be- cause of lack of skill at this time. A stunted animal of any kind is always unprofitable and this is deehle true of a pig. The feeding period in his life is too short to recover the loss due to a setback at weaning. A common error which must be avoided is that of feeding a strong grain ration to compensate for the loss of the mother's milk. If pro- perly managed the pigs will be eat ing .so freely at the trough as nearly to vean themselves. About the only change to be made in the ration is to give them a sufficient quantity of skim milk and it is better to do this be- fore the removal of the sow, as the loss of the dam's milk, small though it may have become in quantity, is change enough at one time. A good many farmers make a small trough in the pen, protected from the mother, in which the young pigs are fed. If this is done there should be no set- back at all when the pigs al a weaned. Build Frame, Not Fat. The very young pigs require a ra- tion that is' easily digested and that is rich in protein, that is to say in flesh and blood forming material. The mis- take must not be made, however, of over -feeding, Before the removal of the sow just as much feed should be given as she and the litter will clean up at each feeding; when the sow is taken away the pigs should receive just what they will eat with relish. If food lies in the trough the weanlings, missing their dam, are tempted to overtax .their digestive system and the portion remaining in the trough is apt to ferment and become foul. In either case digestive troubles will in- evitably follow and these, if not fatal to the pig, are disastrous to the own- er's chance of profit. The ideal method of feeding would be to feed at regular intervals as much as the pigs will clean up in a few minutes after feeding: While it is not often pos- sible to make our practice conform fully to this ideal; it should be kept in mind that the nearer we can ap- preach to it the greater will be our success. A mixture of middlings and chop- ped oats has given very good regales. This is rich in ash and protein for the nourishment ofthe growing bone and turgid,and refilled, and very popular muscles thus enabling the pig to build throughout Ireland, a strong frome rather than to lay on Count Plunkett, Head of. Ill-fated Irish Famiiy. Count Plunkett is a well-known Irishman, he and his family having figured prominently in the late Irish Rebellion. Joseph Plunkett, son of the Count, was executed in Dublin re - gently for his share in -the proclama- tion of Irish independence. The Count's two other sons, George and oFin, were sentepced to ten and Ave year's, respectively, in prison, for their part in the plot, and it is re- ported that the Counts himself is now in prison. The Count's title is a Papal one, having been conferred on him -as an appreciation by the Church. He and his family are well educated, cul - fat. It is also palatable and easily di- gested. Skim milk should always be provided where possible. If it can't be secured, some product such as tankage, which can be obtained from the large packing houses in Toronto. should be given in the proportion of one part of tankage to eight or nine parts of meal. For pigs under twelve weeks, the oat chop should be passed over a coarse screen to remove the belle. The very best rsults will be obtained if a quantity of bran is ad - deal, equal to that of the oat hulls re- moved. The bran is more palatable and more easily digested than the oat hulls and it lightens up the ration, preventing the meal from lying in too close and solid a mass in the stom- ach. Green Feed Half the Ration. As the pig grows older, roots, clov- er, rape or some other kind of green food, either in the form of pasture or soilage crop should be gradually in- troduced, until they constitute about half of the ration by the time the pig is three months old. In whatever form the green food is given it has been proven that it enables gains to be made much more cheaply. In On- tario the practice has been to pasture the hogs. Owing to present labor conditions this practice no doubt will be rather extensively followed this year. Experiments conducted at the Ontario Agricultural College have proven, however, that much cheaper gains can be made when the green crop is fed as soilage, cut and fed in the pen. In every case the hogs should have access to earth, where they may take plenty of exercise. This will bring them through in a vigorous and healthy condition and there will be no trouble with paralysis or with pigs going "off their feed." In the experiments with soilage, aforementioned, it was found that while green food was fed in the lien it !only took 895 pounds of meal to pro- duce 100 pounds of gain, • whereas when hogs were turned on pasiture it took 525 pounds. The meal ration in each case consisted .qe two parts Iground barley to one part middlings, by weight. The inside pigs were fed all the green food they would eat, re- ceiving tares until August 6th, • and rape after that data The outside hogs were pastured on these rem crops. After the hogs were killed it was found that there was no difference in the quality of bacon produced. HAS BUILT SEA TERROR. Startling Innovations on New British War Craft. While some the newspapers he England are making a great display over the New York reports of a Ger- man submarine service between Ham- burg and New York, the general atti- tude is one of skepticism ,on the as- sumption that Germany's shipbuilding yards are more likely to be employed in the construction of vessels of an offensive type instead of "mail. car- riers." Naturally whet is being done is kept a profound secret. Strict pre- cautions are also taken in Great Brit- ain to prevent news of British meal developments from reaching enemy ears. That these developments particu- larly in the matter of construction, have been extraordinary is the gen- eral belief. The following story will indicate surprise by some of the things accomplished. In British waters there now floats a certain ship which embodies many novel features of extreme import- ance. So cartfully were these sec- rets guarded while she was being built that the vessel, while on the stocks and during the period of her equippment, was known by all work- ing upon her as H.M.S. Hush. Then came her launching, when she was christened H.M.S. Rampageous, (This, by the way, is not her real name in the navy list—the censor might ob- ject to the publication of her real name.) Now, after she has been the cynosure of all British naval eyes for some time, her -hovel characteristics are found so startling that she is commonly referred to by the navy men as H.M.S. Outrageous. Live and Learn. The aesthetic householder, whose nostrils had been offended by the odors arising from_ a torn -up street went out to remonstrate with the workmen who were digging under his dining room window. "I shall complain to the uthori- ties," he said. "I havt never been used to such smells." 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