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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1916-9-14, Page 2ii THE LAPSE OP ENOCH WEN T WORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, LAuthor of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER XIV--tCont'dL. "Enoch must not go out there alone.", she protested in a low voice. "He' must not do it. You should be with: him. It is the last chance lie has to Make restitution. Ile will never, never• do such a thing as this r" ° ".Listen," she heard Berry's whisper clearly through the din. "Dear, it does not matter. What does anything mat- ter ? The play is a success. You be - neve in ft. I did it—for you. What' do I care about the people out there ? They are nothing to us." "Oh ! " cried Dorcas, "oh, I will go and tell them myself. They must knew !" She darted toward the edge of the drop eurtain, then she stopped. A silence had fallen, not only upon the houee, but behind the scenes. Stage hanis who had been dragging proper- ties atcut stood motionless. A shiver • er pt over the girl. She felt Merry lay; his Inns! on hers with a stuadving clasp ilia, se'e'med to quiet her. She, coupd hear 1.mich cpetiking. He bad a strong. vibrant voice. Every one be- hind the ecelies wile listening and un- • dei'statncling except herself. His voice brew blurred as faces in the audience N had been. She turned to glance at Merry. Once at Welt of coin=wiling hat- red fills d acmes his face, and his lips clasp - grew pallid as gray ashes. fereas pilled away from his claisp- ing hand and ran to her dressing -room. She was choking with cobs. She felt' her tingle where Andrew had touched diem, and there was a look of , terror in her eyes. Alice Volt t sat waiting fon' ber ire the l. dres ing re. n. Little Julie jumped to her feet when Dorcas entered. The girl did not speak, but clasped the child to lir bosom, "Alice," she whispered, "help nes to direst; his soon as you can. And Julie,' ail: Dugald to get a carriage. I want to go lime." The woman i:fused the girl's neck as she unbuttoned her gown. It has been an awful strain. I know all about it --•but Miss Dorcas, your future is Heade." The child returned in a minute. "Mr. Wentworth has a carriage ordered. Dugald says will you go with him ?" "No," cried Dorcas ; "tell Dugald I'll be ready in ten minutes. I am going home alone." Merry stood waiting at the stage en- trance when she went out. He had beard Julie deliver the message. "Geed night, Miss Dorcas," he said. "Sleep well. Remember, everything is all right. 1 owe it to you,. I owe you more than you understand. You made good to -night ; the papers will tell you so in the morning. Good night. God leb;e-'eon !" "Good night." The girl shivered for a moment. It was intensely cold, and she drew a fur ccat close to her chin. The cabman drove quickly, for the streets were emptied of vehicles. Along Broadway the theatres were dark. Jason stood waiting to open the -door when the girl ran up the steps. leis dusky old face was one grin of d- • light. • He had just returned from the theatre and was growing impatient for the triumph of a homecoming. •"Missy," he cried, "yo' cert'ly done us proud. My soul ! I couldn't er b'lieved de baby I toted yeahs en yeahs oga ud ebber a' lived to act ez fine ez yo' done. I used to play I was yo' black mule. I • reckon yi' don' 'mem- ber, honey, ridin' mule on of Uncle Jason's back, do yo ?' En dar yo' was, honey, a-workin' me. up till I 'clar to goodness I mos' cried my oi' eyes out. When Marse Enoch come out en made 1 1 over for the night ; she was dead to people in front. They had forgotten her, in spite of the applause she had won a half hour before. It hurt her vanity. Dorcas came out of her reverie with a start. The door behind her closed, and Enoch walked in. His face was glowing with eager, impetuous tri- umph, his cheeks were flushed, and his eyes shone, Ile stooped suddenly to kisshis sister, She did not speak, It seemed years since she had seen him in such a mood. "Derry," be cried, "why did you rusk. dat speech folkses hollered en got to home ? Everybiidy was waiting to con- der onder feet elappin' en bangin' sticks on gratulate you. You lifted people off the floor, I 'Oar to de Lewd, dar wa'n't their feet ; I swear, you took me off a prouder or darky in New York den mine ! The critics went wild over you Uncle Jason." and wanted to interview you. To -mor - Dorcas began to laugh and cry at row you'll be the talk of the town." once. Everything that had blurred life "I don' wonder yo's all done up. seemed to vanish. It was wonderful Missy. I's got de fines' supper ready that in a. few hours" the dreams of a fo' yo' yo' ebber see." lifetime should have come true. The Dorcas was too unnerved to eat. She girl laughed. Her heart bad suddenly swallowed a cup of coffee and nibbled grown light. at the good things Jason had prepared. "Enoch, I cannot make myself be- Then she went upstairs and began to Neve it." undress. She brushed her hair, plait- He stood beside her with a proud ed it in two long braids, and slipped senile upon his lips. "Donny, you're a into a gray kimono, which folded it- queer proposition. Any ether girl self about her in sheeny waves. The would have had her head turned by coffee had driven sleey away. She the triumph. to -night. Why, child, in tossed a slzasvl about her shoulders and three hours yen climbed straight onto• ran down through the silent house to a pedestal that many women work half the library. Wentworth often read a lifetime to reach. Even then they there until long atter midnight, and a often miss it." coal fire was burning brightly. Enoch bent and lifted her face tilt She pushed an armchair close to the her eyes looked into his. "Thero were hearth and dropped into it wearily minutes,'" be said fondly, "when I She realized that she was very tired. actually questioned whether it was the She had not thought of nerves or body. little sister herself or not." during the long weeks of rehearsal. Dorcas had never seen Der brother with the incessant study. the multi so strangely excited. She wondered, tulle of detail, and the strange irregu- for a moment if he bad been drinking, larity of life, but she saw it was the intoxication of She began to live over again the last sudden success, not of wine. He paced few hours and drew a long breath as about the library, talking. laughing, she remembered the strangling terror .building a thousand plans for the which laid hold of fixer before she made future. The girl watched him ea - her first entrance. When she heard riously. It was a strange transition'. her cue she felt dumb. crippled, almost' from the sullen 'silence of mouths. blinded for one moment. The smile on The Enoch of light-hearted boyhood 'Lilly Paget's face, as she stepped days had returned. from the wings, stung her Into action. "You have a great future, Derry." There was ;corn: in it. and cruelty Ile stopped abruptly and hie voice smoothed over by a sweet, beguiling' grew grave. "There is one thing 1 perfidy, which aroused in the girl a want to say. Don't," he hesitated and sudden hate that site bad never felt began to pace the room again, as if In her life before. The hatred mode' chewing Itis words carefully, "don't her forget everything except her part." malto a hero of Merry. He did well The recollection of a bit of gossip to -night. I have seen him set the whole had flashed to her memory : Mlle' town talking as he did in 'Esterbroolt' Paget had prophesied that her "Coe, then topple back and go down, away della" would be a dead failure. De-' down." fore the end of that second act the in-; Dorcas rose from her chair and tense loathing and scorn which Merry :, tossed the long,braids of hair over her bad put into her lines became real.1 shoulders. Her eyes and cheeks were The woman understood. She sltrauk blazing. leTentworth's faco grew in- with a terror which was sesrcely simu-', exorable. "Enoch," she cried, "how lated during the girl's denunciation of Clare you say suck a thing ---to me ?" a mother who had lost all claim upou' "What do you mean ?" a child for love or respect. Seven! "You know what mean I" Her saw times tate curtain rose and fell upon; her chin tremble. In spite of her 1 the two women. Once a volley of , anger she was on the verge of tears. hisses was hurled at Zilla Paget, and' "When people were calling for the au - she smiled in happy triumph. Oseale thor, how did you dare to go out and and Merry stood in the wings watching take the applause ? Have you no con - . on. the act. The intensity which Dorcas' science, no honor left ?" threw into her part stirred beth men "Merry got as much applause as one strongly, as it did the audience. They; man. could stand." He looked at her had anticipated womanly sweetness y with dogged deflianee. and tenderness, but they had not; "That makes you none the less --a gauged her emotion to the depths. ' thief." "I never dreamed she could do any-� Enoch did not answer. He pulled a thing like this," said Oswald slowly. ; cigar from his vest pocket; lit it, and 1 Merry did not speak. Ile had caught; began to smoke. He did not flinch be- Zilla Paget's subtle smile. He knew t fore his sister's gaze. there was more than acting in the } "I should have been the happiest scene. y girl in the. world to -night, almost fool - While Dorcas sat gazing into the ishly happy." There was a pitiful red caves of the coal fire she went over; quaver in her voice. "I feel now as if each situation in the play, step by ; I were disgraced. Men have gone to step. Once she buried her face in the i the penitentiary for stealing—less than you did." Wentworth laughed scornfully. He ' tossed his cigar into the heart of the 1 fire and turned upon Dorcas in sud- j den rage. "Stealing is not a nice word." "It is nice enough for what has hap- pen"•d." "Do you know," asked Wentworth, with grave deliberation, "what did hap- pen ? Has Merry ever taken you into his confidence about this transaction ?" "Merry has never said one word against you—to me." "Then reserve your judgment until he does. If you were to ask him, and if he played fair, he would tell you that it was a straight, honest bargain, a bargain bought and paid and signed for. Merry, with all his failings, is no welcher." "Bought and paid and signed for ?" repeated the girl in slow bewilder- ment. "How could you buy and pay for something conceived by another man's brain and written by another man's hand ?" "That is my business, wholly," an- swered Enoch coldly. "It. is an affair no woman would understand." He paused to light another cigar ; then he turned to Dorcas with such authority as he had never used to her before. "I want to say one thing before you leave the room. It is about the ques- tion of the authorshipp of this play. It is not to be brought up again at any time between us. Do you under- stand ?" - "I understand," Dorcas answered quietly. "I understand it is perfectly useless to appeal to a conscience which is dead," (To be continued), LESS INSANITY DURING THE WAR WHAT AN IRISH ALIENIST HAS To SAY, Presents Remarkable I.'ieture of the Tonic Value of Great Conflict. An interesting sidelight on Presi- dent Wilson's remark about the world going mad is given in the an- nual report of Dr. William Graham, of Belfast, one of the most highly re- puted Irish alienists, Dr. Graham presents a remarkable picture of the tonic value of war. He says: "It has become common practice since August, 1914, to say the world is growing mad, and there is a wide- Can Rust Be l?reveutcdi spread popular notion that the dis- tress and agony of a conflict so ter- There is no way of treating the rible as the present one must end seed. or Spraying the crop so as to pre - in a profound disturbance and alien- vent: rust. It is impossible to con- ation. Yet the fact is indisputable trot rust entirely, but loss from rust that insanity, like corns, has lessen- may be reduced considerably by acting ed during the period of the war." upon the following suggestions; Improve Health of Men. 1. Destroy as far as possible the So far as the future is concerned, CoMM= Barberry (Berber's vulgarisd Dr. Graham is equally encouraging., and the Buckthorn (Rhamnus cath. - Ile says: "There are solid grounds arties) growing in Ontario. Rist for the hope that, especially al- may cause serious loss in districts though exclusively among women, 'where these shrubs are not found, but, we shall find a great diminution in when they are . present, they do un - those neurotic disorders that form' daubtediy tend to increase the amount. a part of the mental abnormality 2. See that fields on which grain is of thousands of men who have gone, to be grown are well drained. Rube or are preyaring,to go, to the front, is nearly always worse on poorly - who have all their life been sub- drained land. Such land remains ! jest to the bondage of neurasthenic colder longer in the spring, and hence weakness and incapacity of psy- the germination and early growth of chastbenic fears or hypochon- the grain are retarded. In wet sea- driae fancies. They have never sons also grain ripens more slowly on known what it is to live, but at the poorly -drained land. This slow de - country's call they have flung from velopment of the crop and the exces- oil them the spell of ancient inhabit- sive moisture provide the conditions ations and long established imprac- most favorable for the development ticalities and have gone forth to of rust. face wounds and death. Only when 3. Endeavor to have the crop mature summoned to possible surrender of as early as possible. This can be life have they learned hove wonder- done to some extent by early seeding ful life really is. The physical re- in a well-prepared seed bed. gime under which these men aro 4. Avoid those varieties of grain compelled to live can have nothing which give poor returns andare also but the best effect on those subject badly injured by rust. See table at to its discipline. end of this article provided by Prof. Women Learn of Life. Zavitz, of Guelph, showing the ex "Especially significant is the tent to which different varieties are change coming over the lives of wo- attacked by rust. men of the middle classes, Theseb. Do not mix varieties of seed sheltered daughters of the merchant, I grains, the following is th eresult of of the professional man, victim of ; varieties of oats, but use only pure mid-Victorian traditions of gentility, ' seal of one variety to secure uniform are now falling into line with their ripening. sisters of the higher and the hum -1 6. Treat all seed grain to prevent bier social ranks, and are discovering ' smut, as plants infected with smut that life is something greater than' are very subject to rust, which may the latest novel or a game of tennis,! get started on them and then spread or even the tepid gossip of the church to healthy plants. sewing meeting. Idleness and ennui 7. Sow only sound, plump grain. have lost their hold. 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Makers of""Lily While" Corn Strut, Benson's Corn Stara, and "Silver Gloss" Laundry Starch. folds of her shawl ; her cheeks were throbbing hotly. She felt Merry's kiss burn upon her lips. There had been no real kisses at rehearsal. The trust and love and gratitude with which the broken old convict turned to his child seemed real for a moment ; she felt it when the actor touched her lips. Then she had fallen sobbing into his arms. She heard the audience sob with her. When she turned to glance aside through half -blinded eyes, she met the derisive smile of Zilla Paget, who stood in the wings. There was jealousy in her scorn. Her part was STYLES IN these days of short skirts hosiery is a most important part of one's costume. It is be- cause they are so very im- portant that most people buy Penmans, for in so doing they know they are receiving maximum value in every way. There is a line made by Penmans specially for you. Penmans Limited Paris the benumbing conventionalities that P 8. On rich soils be careful in the threatened to stifle their psychic , use of , manures containing large energy, and so far it has contributed ' amounts of nitrogen, such as barn - to the soundness of mind and nerve ; yard manure and nitrates. Such among the mighty sociological forces,manures on rich soil produce an xces- which the present world conflict set in motion." sively rank growth, which. invites rust. 9. Rotation of crops, proper man- uring, thorough cultivation, freeing LOSES EVE ON FIRST AIR TRIP.; the fields from weeds, and all such 1 farm practices which tend to promote British Flier, Maimed, Shoots Foe, healthy growth and the proper ma - Lands, Cables Mother. turing of the grain lessen the chances An army medical officer back in Lon- of rust causing serious loss. don from the front reported the case In connection with the rests of of a Royal Flying Corps observer (rains,, the following is the result of whose eye was shot out. A German .experiments conducted by Prof. Zav- airman got a shot at him on his first itz at the Ontario Agricultural Col - trip into the air over the German lines, lege in carefully testing different var- "It g a nid os iE then one were iebies of farm crops. The following plying h mandolin when she bulletr table. gives the average of five years came through the wires of our ' machine," he said. results (19104914 inclusive) in num- One missile gouged out his eye and ber of days in reaching maturity, in embedded itself in the frontal bone. yield of grain per acre, and in per Despite the injury the observer let go cent, of rust on the straw of each of with his machine gun and drove off eight varieties of oats, three varieties the enemy. of six -rowed barley, and ten varieties The British h lines the machine back of winter wheat: use of a quick -act - to the British lines and helped the ob- in fertilizer on the fields in the server to walls to the causuality g fall, station, where he cheerfully asked that just as soon as general infesbation be- comes apparent, with the idea that the fertilizer will so quicken the growth of bhe wheat plant that is shall ac- quire powers of resistance and recup- eration which willenable it to with- stand the attacks of the fly, and which alsowill send it into . the winter sea- son well prepared to withstand the cold w. The fertilizeatherer. which should be used for this purpose is one which shall have from 2 to 3 per, cent, of am- monia; in order thab a quick and vigorous growth of the plant may be assured. . The result is that the plant tillers more freely, and even after suffering some damage from the fly, it will send up head -producing stems, in the spring. There is nothing wonderful or mysterious behind this method; merely the baking advantage of the productive capacity of a fertile and enriched soil; In fact, it is so eminently commonsense thab it ought to make an appeal to every farmer. The plan especially commends itself, for it promises not alone compara- tive.immunity from Hessian Fly dam- age, but as well ib holds out the very his •mother be informed that he was "slightly injured." Huns Across the Sen. The o stributor of bread and meat cards ---his wife and clog. best assurance of an increased yield of wheat, and that, after all, is what every farmer is working for.—Can. adieu Farm. Feeding Fat into Mills. It is popularly supposed that the quality of milk depends on the feed. ing of the eows. This is not the case. So long as a cow is not fed in sash a way as to derange her general health, change of food has very little - permanent effect on the quality of her milk. A sudden change may impair her milk slightly for afew days, but as soon as she is accustomed to her new diet her milk returns to the nor- mal. Very succulent grass does not produee inferior milk unless it de- ranges the health of the cow by caus- ing her to scour, and this is commonly avoided by giving the cow two pounds or three pounds per day of cotton seed meaI.. Professor Wood of Cambridge Uni- versity, England,writing in the Cam- bridge Chronicle says: "The following observations show that a boo watery diet is more likely to reduce the quantity of milk than to impair its quality. Aherd of cows feeding on watery grass in August were given two pounds of cotton seed meal per heard per day, and their milk weighed and analyed. Some of the cows then had their cotton cake re- placed by 28 pounds of wet brewer's grains, a watery food reputed to pro- duce a pious flow of milk of infer- ior quality. As a matter of fact, the change was found to have decreased the flovr of milk and to have increased the percentage of butter fat from 3.38 per cent, to 3.46 per cent." The idea that water may be put into the milk by giving the cow a watery diet assumes that the cow is a mere machine, an assumption which is en- tirely at Variance with all our know- ledge of the physiology of the secre- tion of milk, and with all the results of carefully recorded experience. A cow is very much a live animal; she makes or intends to make her milk for her calf and as a matber of fact she can be actually starved of food fox some time before the quality of her milk is seriously affected. The Fall Hogs. It pays to keep a sharp lookout for the fall litters. There is profit in the fall litters if they are properly cared for; if neg- lected, they can be worse than a dead loss. Get the early pigs ready for the ear- ly market. Utilize the fallen fruit with the grain ration to help make rapt i growth. Every pound gained now, costs less than when colder weather. comes. The price of bacon and all pork pro- „lucts should convince any one that it does not pay to neglect bhe pigs. Separate the pigs and put the larg- er, stronger ones together. Give the smaller ones extra care and watch them catch up. The big ones rob the smaller ones and keep them back. Be sure the hogs have no Lee on them. Pigs that have lice will not grow. use some good spray, regularly, until` lice are all gone: A good scrubbing with soap and wa- ter will often start growth in a thrift- less pig. Whole oats scattered on.'a clean platform will help to grow.- strong bone. Sweep bhe hulls off the . plat- form every day. • Called "My country calls me!" exclaimed the emotional patriot. "It shouldn't have been necessary to call if you have any useful ser- vice to perform. You ought to have been on the job." The Lesser Evil. Old Grump -Why doesn't Ethel tnarry that young idiob? I am getting blame tired of his coming here so much. His Wife—I believe I'd prefer to have him' come here -if she marries him he will stay here.