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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-4-9, Page 2lis luscious i'reshness &a, rich .strength melte it finer than a u Gunpowders japan or Young lirson. Sold every- where. verywhere. Aoki, for SALADA to dor. wwa LovcGiveS Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD Blt ANNIkE S. SWAN. "Love gives itself and is not boaght"--Longfellow. CHAPTER IX.--(Cont'd.) For the moment Alan Rankine, look- ing into the depths of his sister's troubled heart, forgot Carlotta. He came to her side and looked down at her with deep tenderness mingled with a sort of wistful appeal. "Father never spoke a truer word than when he said a woman would save Stair, and 1 beg you to help me; if you go back on me I'm done!" Instantly Judy's brief and righteous dear—let it for a terin of years to anger melted as mist before the sun. the highest. bidder. For myself, I1 little forlorn smile. A very woman , the appeal was one would not care—wiry should I? buts "I *have the confidence of a despe r - she could not possibly resist. Nay, it for you, Judy! Believe rue, 1 could go ate man, Judy. Iva never lived t211 stirred in her all the qualities of the down en my knees to you." now! I shall make good—there is no- m. then -hear never happier' than "There is no need to do irhat," said tiring surer—or will perish in the at - o t,tempt." when ministering to the need of Judy, quite quietly, for when the worst, ,� p v„ is known, strength invariably conies And Car ott said Judy with a little wistf al note in her voice. "Carlotta understands. But go and see her, Judy." "I will. Perhaps 1 shall go to- morrow:" Very late that night, after she had gone upstairs to her room, but not to sleep, Judy was disturbed by,the sound of %otsteps: on the gravel beneath her window. Looking down, she discerned kind to .her among ail these carping' women at the i•4he$rsza:s" Promise me Nit you will go?" ..:.� "I will go. I must, Alert, if you be- long . to one, anotlice, for I will never lose you my deal', nor tairyt1wig you*" love." She spoke the words almost as a l VOW relight have been spoken; and Ran- kine, mighti y proved; stuolied to hiss her. "Now we must get to the sordid side of things;" "Don't tail it sordid, Alan!" pleaded. Judy. "It is going to be a big thing for us all, please God; the biggest in the world!" "VTell, the details,. then. Richard- son suggested that, while Claud has to be still at Cambridge, you should go there and take a little house into which you could. put a few personal things you could take out of the house here.. Qlaud would: like to have you there, and, though X. don't suppose..he will care to live out of his college, he will spen& most of his spare time with you."' , "1 'should like that," said Judy, doubtfully. ;Bt}t will there be money enough'{" "There ,:will be money for. that, Judy; for we shall not let the place unless they, are prepared to pay :Cor it. And it will have to be soon, for Rich- ardson says this .is the time people "He has suggested a plata., and Pres- make inquiries about country places, sure must be }nought to heaven ever) i and take them so 'thatthey may have quarter. He suggests the sale of aon1e• the best of the summer and the shoot - of the outlying farms; find he thinks' ing later." he can raise the rest of the money "But it . would not be merely a elsewhere.", The tension of .Judy's face relaxed; but, seeing no lightening of the gloom on Alan's, she waited for• what was. undoubtedly coming. "We shall have to leave Stair, my shooting tenancy, Alan?" "No. It must be fora term of five years, at least. I reckon it will take that time for me to make good." "You are very confident, my dear, though not even sure of what port you • will make!" said Judy, with a others. She reached up her arms, took his face in her hands, and drew it down to hers. "Oh, Alan, boy, Ws been so miser- able! You can't shut Judy out, you musn't! Don't you remember you said that day you casae hone we should have to sink or swim together. Don't let her put me out altogether, though I am not going to be horrid to her. I'll do my best. Now sit down and let us talk it all over again from the very beginning!" Alandrew in his chair, conscious of his own mighty relief. And yet, how could he tell her that which lay on him like a burden too great to be borne? ---the coming parti- tion of Stair. "Judy,in life it looks as if some- times ometimes human beings were swept on the bosom of a resistless flood. I can't believe that this one thing that has happened to me—the meeting with Carlotta—should have been able to work such a havoc! Peter will never forgive me—I know that! But I did not think, even when I' saw his blaz- ing eyes last Sunday at the march.. dyke, that he would set himself out deliberately to destroy Stair!" "Has he done that?" asked Judy, in a voice of curious quiet. "He has. I've been to Richardson to -day, and I saw the letter from his lawyers, setting forth his instructions• : nothing to offer Miss Canyon. She They are implacable."would have been better to stick to "What are they?," _ peter." "II had better tell you in blacl� an- She laughed as she said that—the white, Judy, for apparently you cant hollow, mirthless laughter which can have known. Peter practically holds fall from lips the most distraught. "Looked at from that standpoint, she would. I' shall simply wait to see that you and Claud are settled some- where --Cambridge, be eperhaps,w tivhere—Ca mbrid g , best," he added, watching his sister narrowly to see the effect of ,.his words, "then I shall go abroad." with that knowledge. "I should have had to leave Stair, anyhow, before you brought a wife to it. But what Hap- pens to her, and to you? You have no home to offer her, and where are you going to live? What are you going to do?" A profound sense of the disaster which had descended on her brother's life swept everything else ' out of Judy's practical mind. Thirty-two. years of age,, without occupation, or visible means of subsistence, having just taken new vows upon ,himself, yet without resources to meet them. Could there be a sorrier spectacle, a tragedy more acute? "I must find a way out, July. There isno occasion to trouble about erre." But Judy was troubling.. Her mind, alert and quick where practical details were :concerned, imniiediately busied itseif with the fresh problem:' What could Alan do? She ran over in her mind the ,possible .occupations open to one who had ' had no training, who possessed no technical knowledge which would command'''s price in the market -place of the world. Secretary- ships—a factor's place—a subordinate post in some commercial house which the influence of his name might pro- cure him—such was the meagre list. "Alan, this is quite awful!" she said, wringing her bands. "You have Stair in the hollow of his hand. He can take it from us at any moment, because we owe him so much money that we shall never be able to pay it." "How much?" "We didn't go into the absolute fig- ures, though Richardson is to make out the -full and exact statement and "But not back to Bombay, surely?" post it to -night. It may be anything she said helplessly. between twenty and thirty thousand "God forbid. It will have to be. pounds." somewhere where a man's strong arm Judy, like one stricken, looked him is needed. The Far West, Judy. If other men have made good there, why not I?" "You will leave us all, Alan? - You would take her with you, and cut Boys' Suit, Showing an Attractive Combination of Materials. Careful thought must be given to outfitting the sturdy small boy, w le requires garments suitable for general utility wear. The suit No. 1021 con- sists of , blouse with long or short sleeves, and straight side -closing trousers whichbutton to the blouse. It or may be made--0material, f all ane of ,a combination of contrasting ma- terials as shown in the sketch. The pattern is cut for sizes 2, 4 and 6. years, the four-year size requiring 13 yards of 36 -inch material for the blouse, and 1i/'4 yards for the trousera and blouse trimmings. Pattern mailed to a any address on receipt of 20e in silver, by the Wilson •4S Fbr econorny9s sake I buy supply and let it aqe9' —says Mrs e Experience, speaking of the- economical use of soap. "I' always keep aood'stipply.of Sunlight-Soap.on es.. 241p TOV g . T .find that Sunlight actually • file shelf because g with age. It becomes harder and so goes much further. "With this addedeconomy of lasting longer, I've learned that Sunlight is by far•the most economical. soap I can buy The reason is that every particle of Sunlight is pure, cleansing soap—a little of it does a lot of work. Sunlight,you know, is guaranteed to contain no injurious chemicals or• harsh filling. materials to make the bar large and hard: These filling mater- ials, of course, are just so much waste as far as cleaning goes• "To anywoman who wants toget real cleaning value out and of a soap for her money, I` decidedly °,say,'Use Sunlight,' good supply on the shelf-" Sunlight is made_ y Lever keepap y a Brothers Limited, largest soap -makers in the world. unlight Soap The .Highwayman. He hasallthe 'rest of us guessing, easily in the clear moonlight the figure And won the r 'rest 0! he'll es next; of her brother poking to and fro -bare- Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., He, acts in a manner distressing, headed At the end of the terrace he . T t Orders for patterns filed oron o. r �, And keeps all his fellowsperplexed;' made pause, and stood looking towards, same day as received. the spur.. of Barassie Hill. - Then quite slowly ,h'e raised his arm, as a man might do 'to .emphasize a vow. As he- turned, and the moon- light fell full upon his faee,••Jiidy's- momentary horror was stilled; for it was no vow . of vengeance he had taken, vengeance to be- wreaked upon The Lees,'but merely thevow a man takes upon himself -. when . all the pulses of his- being are stirred, and he -mows that his manhood is a Leaven -sent , heritage given for the highest and the holiest use. - CHAPTER X. THE MELTING POT. Next morning, at the breakfast- table at the Clock ,Rouse, Carlotta opened a letter addressed to her in a handwriting she did not know. It was enclosed in - a large square en- velope, with a narrow black edge, but had no crest or lettering on the flap. When, however, she . saw the words "Stair Castle, Ayrshire," her color swiftly rose. "Who's your letter from, Carlotta?" her mother asked, watching her nar- rowly. Carlotta was quite - conscious .dur- ing theedays da s of much "close scrutiny on her mothers part, and, though she in - the face. "Twenty or thirty thousand pounds!" she repeated in a low, hol- low voice. "And he—and he—" "He means i hts, tclose o pute passout of Yourself off from Stair for ever!" serf his r to as , „ ' gRankine sprang up as if he had the plane' been stun Judysat forward half "Oh, Alan, is there no way out? g'. which Can't Mr. Richardson suggest any in affright, half in admiration, thin thrilled at the sight of the mighty de g - termination on his face. i e. "No. And that will never happen, Judy, that a Rankine would turn his ' ' back on Stair! I will o so that I �'��� �„�"'���8�` iia g , ester - may save Stair, and come back to �� ' `•- atone for the desolation I have slip a praehme lit wrought. "You' speak as if I was in as your poet wen much haste as Peter to be wed, but the you o honkie to,* thing that has happened to Carlotta niq,Ine and to me is as different from the t Civcthe ya>Arr siei ordinary love affair's as cou'd well he g,' imagined. It is so different that 1 .oestrus sweet- for could never hope to explain it to you.1 pleasure iid•bene#• , We may never be able to. marry. She; knows that we shalt have to wait for 4 years" But we seem to be lifted clean • above all that• It is enough that wed have met, and that we shall belong to one another forever, even if wecan never be rlan and wife." Judy perceived that something had happened which was not only rare, hut which had lifted all this sordid. tragedy clean out of the common run oi' such tragedies' which work have,, in the Bete of men and women. "She knows, and she is willing to wait! But isn't she most !rightfully sad about it all? She must be,if it is kis you say." "Judy, you will go back to the Clock House;' There is nothing hi the world Carlotta wants so nitlek tis to see you and talk with you. '•:She has put you in a sort of shrine :ever situ you were r' Ilse ti 'yourself after ,moping or when Work dr ate. lis a ureal;ifiile freshener) ISSUE NO, ',14,--115. MEW Pang, Sanitary 0O O. A New Dairy ail .at a Popular Prim See the new SNIP Dairy Pail next . time you are in town. They are made of special qual- ity. high finished tin,, have large dairy pail ears; riveted with: large rivets, soldered gush. 1001 sanitary. Cut out tliis advertisement. Show it to your regular dealer. ile leas our authority to give you a special low price on a pair of these fine pails,' DAIRY AILS 171 did not altogether resent it, -yet it troubled her. It was not so much that she had something to hide, as that she had many things • to think of, of which it• was,impossib seaspeak: }Ion often she blessed the coniplete.absorption of her father in his own concerns, though his sympathy would have -•flown to her quickly.had. any appeal been :made to it. Carlotta turned the page. - "My letter appears to be from Miss Rankine at Stair, Is your coffee right,• papa, or would yofi like some more sugar?" "It - is certainly right, my dear, though t haven't tasted it yet: Stair, did you say? Most interesting old fancily history that, and it seems there is a perfect labyrinth of underground passages,. - one of them leading right through. Barassie Hill to The Lees. I have every intention of asking Mr. Rankine to let me make -some explora- tion there. It must be very.in.terest- ing to live in a horse so reminiscent of the past." "What does Miss Rankine want? She made herself -mostagreeable yes- terday. ;Didn't I tell you that, Car- lotta.?" ar- _ lotoa .,r her mother asked. "You did, mamma," said Carlotta, an Ravin by this time run her eyes He's turning and twisting and curving, And weaving his way in and out; I3is stunts , are breathtaking, unnerv- ing,, - And no one knows what lie's about! Oneyou; minute he's trailing behind ag • The, next, he is darting ahead, And kicking up dust clouds that blind you, - And knocking the speed limit dead! He -toots and he • squawks and he screeches, - - To make others let him get by; He cares not a hoot, so he reaches The place he is bound for, on high. a g rapidly .over.. Judys note, she added, "She wants me' -to go up to lunch to- day at o'clock.'". - "And will you -go?" asked Mrs" Car- Lyon eagerly. "I suppose you had better. It is very civil of her. She easily have been nasty! I must hot temper. Some day he'll be heading for heaven, And then -he will step on the gas, Intent cu -his share of the leaven And all of his brothers he'll pass; , And when he arrives • there. St. Peter Will point to the regions below, And he will reverse his speed-eater— And head for Gehenna on low! James Edward Ilungerford. Minard's Liniment Fine foi' the Hair: • An Ironical - Lady. Polite .Judos—"'With what instru: meat cr article did' 1 our .wife inflict ,- these wounds on your face and head?" 'Michael Aooney �i a atter. yer anner. Polite Judge—"A what?" -•- 15ldclhael Mooney— A motfern .o e o' these frames wid: `God Bless Our Horne' in ut." I Nothing cools love so rapidly as a THE HAI IMOCK, FALLACY . •'It le in' the sumnier'rihoriths, says a writer in. Punch, .that the cult of the himmieck fIourislies, Hanhrnacke .lhi- •berii,ato; it is one of their few 'really attractive attributes. the' popu- larity of the hammock in summer is largely the fault c the beo-haunted gamier% school ,of story writers,. No bee -haunted garden 1e.complete withe put one.' In the cool shade oY the syca- more the heroine reclines. gr,icefully ie her biammock, keeping that school- girl courplexion and waiting . for Sir Reginald. At the cottage we barrel a;bee.Iraunt- ed garden, and at the first hint of sum- mer Angela insisted upon completing the picture. "We, must get a .ram nock," she said. • I looked up with my kind, tired smile and gave her a tolerant ear. "Why?" I asked. "Gh, bocause it's summer and every- body has one; and it's just the 'thing for the garden; and they look so jolly in tee pictures, and the Horrockshes have got one;,, "Then I suppose I must take tee risk, I said, sighing. The-aHorrockses are*Angela's dearest . friends, but it is • unthinkable that they -should be a'1-• lowed to remain a hammock ahead of her. "That's just the place for it, An - gala„" I said more entbuwsdasticaliy when we had "adjourned' to the garden. "Between, the raspberry canes'and the rhubarb. Or we might hitch one end of it to that flowering lettuce and—" "We really. -need some trees," said.; Angela. "Ah, yes' r Let usgiveour minds to the' problem. I thunk sycamores are the- beet for slinging hammocks," Angela looked a little dazed. But we haven't any sycamores," sne sold. "Not yet. But if we were to get a hammock and lay it out fiat on the ground and plant a sycamore seed at each end and then wait a bit we should one day have a beautiful pair of syca-' more trees, just•the right distance apart" You , see, Angela,—" But Angela .had gone. The hammock' arrived three days later: Even as we went about the task of assembling it there was .a sort of ominous foreboding at the back of my mind. aThe things fromwhich it was to hang in default of trees remind- - ed 'me too vividly of the tripod affair over the witches' cauldron in .Macbeth. Angela liaci no intention of allowing . grass to grew : under her hammock onto it was. in .position.. She arranged a pile, of cheerful -looking cushions in the bows, picked up the Japanese para- sol and climbed. .enthusiastically on board: I stood by ready to save the women and children first. -Perhaps she overdid the enthusiasm. Whatever the reason, there was avio- lent roll •to s'tarboard,. a convulsive jerk, a faint scream, and the hammock turned itself inside out and swung idle and empty under,a pitiless sky: "Was - anybody looking?" inquired Angela. •- "Fortunately only your husband," I said. "How did it happen?" - "I suppose you tried_to mount from the wrong side. A. hammock is prob- ably.Iike a horse; it gets restive if you try to get up on the - starboard side. Try the part side whilst. I hold its head." • Angela advanced 'gamely to the at- tack and repeated the performance the other way round. The s'clfool•girl com- plexion suffered most owing to the loamy nature of the soil. Bathing in Their .Clothes. information The interesting item of i that thie Tibetan. Lamas now visiting England indulge in but one wash a year suggests a state of primeval sav- agery to our Western ideas of what is right and proper. ,Bat in various parts of the world strange customs prevail which, to the practical British mind would be classed as sheer madness. It Is probably news to many that high -caste Hindus take their daily hath with their clothes on! And yet it Is a fact. Their rel i ion compels them to liave"a bath .daily.—They will neither touch nor eat anything before heaving their bath. It is consdclered indecent to bath'e.nakee, even within their' own houses, enad, a rich zeminnar er a pdor Burman obeys the exams rule. Men, women and -children are geein- ally seen bathing in omen wells,tanks, on sea,.Trores with dhoties on. A iheoty is a piece' of white cloth a,bcut six to. eight yards long, Wrapped round the bode. After the •bath they ileet.wrap a dry dlioty round them and let the wet one slip from ,underneath, ,•:0: that " they neither expose their body not let tlio dry cloth let wet. rere,e when tra- veling they, nanage;te have their. dai%Y. hath at stet lone w'her'e. Inc' trains halt tor about twenty minutes Most of. the railway comean,.es have wells near such stations • speci•aliiy for th.!,e purpose, and'tbo spectr c1e of thin strange religious lite being carried tett' whir unfaiihng regularity le one. which causes torn t5 to marvelat 5ue17, real. Dominance Artiong Animals. Ths irYeighb r--"W1iy don't you gc't rid of drat •meanly" hou-n-d of yours.? Ito's' Drily tt mongrel aiid nothing but a Yittiiitli'0'e,1' - Mr, Meekanmilee e"I wouldn't part with him for any ,rid nay, Nuisance he may be, Mongrel he is, But WS -the carry haom.ber of riiv itoi,Rs,'ihol.d tl�lct re ejieet�s aiid obCys "lick.'" ` Pio Shpglcin That.... ,. Miss Young --"And you are not smocked to - hear the Eskimos often trade wives?" - - Mrs. Gotleft—"Why should .I be, when 'American wives are so often sold?" About the best cure for a swelled head is a dose of common-sense. • say I think you have got off very easi?y, every time. .Mrs:.Garvock and -1 her daughter behaved quite well too." It was a tactless speech, but Car- lotta , lotta was used to her mother's habits, and did not permit it to disturb 1:er. "A long walk,; isn't it? How wi1T.j ' you get there? -, She ;doesn't offer to; send a -carriage for you." - "No! Possibly they don't possess' ode," answered Car otta, and her eyes. were abstracted- as she folded the. note and thrust it in her be"1; (To be continued.) Ideas Can Reveal Person's Real Age. The average man eanlr,ot grasp a • new -idea after the thirtieth. birthday ' accorditrg to the siirpriyrn•g eleleteset made in an address liere hm Alexan• flet Wil an' head of the Choniical Society, . lte O4tr principal aiai is to get ieo r 1 to think and to appreciate the work constantly being done by' chem!ste and scientists toward the advan cement of civil teatime' eaid .Willi ani,s. "Butt we are forced to go back 1.0 tits childrenin the schools to ancouiplinlr this burro e, for we brave found that it le practically intpcssible to get .a new"idea,into a mans head after he is 0," " A new a,Litude record :tor aviation 1----29.580 feet --was set up recently by the French For Sore Fest---Minard's enit. IN O RAPID The w�orld''s best Bair tint. Will 'ra; store gray hair to its natural color in 15 minutes: Smail size, $3,30 by mail Double' size, $5.50 by mail The W. T. Perber Stores Limited - 120 Paned St. Toronto 'The Standard by which other Irons are Judged." 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