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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-11-13, Page 2moons • GREEN TEA H491 is used more than any other brand is because the delicious flavor never varies. '—Try it. FREE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA UPON REQUEST. FUt °"SALAOA." TORONTO ane BY S. R. CROCKETT, ess CITA.i'TER I. (Cont'd.) "Why, a man must live," Christo- pher said at last, with a short laugh; "1 have been used to company, and if I did not sometimes go among men who are not afraid to be men, I should mould and dry -rot both at once in this place. It is all that keeps one alive in such a dull dog's hole as Cairn Edward." The blue eyes were still upon him with a yearning in them that made even the selfishness of Christopher Kennedy wince. ""Ana what of me?" she said, soft as a breathing, yet with an accent that pierced to the dividing asunder of soul and marrow. "Lilies, Lilies," he cried, in genuine pain, "I love you, I tell you so. That rights all. What difference does it make what people may say? What do a parcel of farmer folk and villagers matter to us? You know what your Bible says, something about `for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave unto his" wife " She kept her eyes fixedly upon him, and their regard was deep and steady as the sea when it is stillest. "His wife!" She breathed the two words again, and the wind among the waterside willow trees was not softer, nor the dying soul's parting cry more tragic. "His wife!" The young man nerved himself, and dashed in the rapid voice of one who fears interruption, into an obviously premeditated speech. "Listen, Lilies," he said, "I have told you why I cannot marry you openly, though God knows I would be glad and proud to do it to -morrow. My father put me through college, and I promised to repay him before I married. He is poor and needs the money. Besides, st would ruin me in Cairn Edward if such a thing were known. and I have good hopes of the headmastership. Then again your father thinks me godless and debauch- ed. He told me so openly, upon the Plainstones of Dumfries when I met him there three months ago. He for- bade me ever again to enter his door. He forbade me to meet you. He would never consent. But happily we live in a land where marriage is easy. Lilies, l l "she is clever and secret. Besides, be -1 ing with you in the house she could1 help:: us more than any one else 1" ` "'I do not Iike her 1" persisted the girl. "Well, think it over: Imust" go at; once or I shall -be late; I am late as it is. Think it well over. I will see you again on Saturday. Be ready to %�. will you marry me privately? I know it is against your kirk rules, but it is according to the law of the land, and to the full as binding as if twenty ministers were present." He paused a little breathlessly him- self im self and looked down upon her, smil- ing an anxious, forced smile. The girl drew herself back a little way from him, and reaching up her hands she kept his handsome head, with its high forehead and weak ir- resolute mouth, at a distance, so that she might look into his eyes. "You have left me no choice, Chris," she said, still looking steadily into his soul; "you have made me love you so terribly. I must marry you when you bid me." "Ah, that is right," the young man cried, cheerfully, stooping to kiss her, "that is all right. Now smile and pmt your sadness away! A bride does not look like that." But she held him still at a distance, and her gaze did not falter. She was a child even at two -and -twenty, this Lilies, though she had long been climbing on the perilous ridges which `to such. a temperament as hers form the watershed of life and death. "Tell me what it is that you pro- , pose I" she said. "No—do not touch me—yet! I want to understand." "I have but short time, little one," he made answer, "and I have not yet thought it fully out, But if you bring a friend with you I will bring another —friends whom we can trust, I mean, and we will make the declaration that we are man and wife before witnesses. I, on my part, will bring Alister French the lawyer with me, and he will see that all is right and draw up the papers. Whom will you bring?" i ` 1 do not know; I have had no one to trust, to speak to, except you! I do not want any other," she answered him, the firmness of her gaze waver- ing under his burning glances. She felt the weakness inherent to all lov- ing women coming over her. "Another we must have. Would not Bell Kirkpatrick serve?" he suggested with a quick downward glance at her face, to see how she took the sugges- tion. "I do not like Bell. I could not trust her!" said Lilies Armour uncertainly. "And pray why not?" he urged; NBETSOM weessal 111111111I11N71n„„Lp 111111111W � Soaking takes the place n :4 ru hi JUST by soaking the clothes in the suds of this new soapi;dirt is gently loosened and dissolved. Even the dist that is ground in at neck- bands and cuff -edges yields to a light rubbing with dry Rinso. blot a thread is weakened. The mild Ri_nso suds work thoroughly through and through the clothes without injury to a single fabric. Ringo is made by the makers of Lux. For the family wash it is as wonderful as Lux is for fine- things. All grocers and department stores sell Rinso.ai LEVEL BROTHERS LTED, TORONTO tell me then what you will do. And ohl Look here, Bell is willing to help. In fact, I have spoken to her my- self—" There cense a quick, leaping terror into the girl's face. She' caught the classical master by the arm. "Chris," she whispered, "what have you told her—what does she know?" He smiled and patted her fondly on the shoulder. "Silly one, only what I would that all the world knew," he said, "that T love you and would like to marry you!" She was silent, but she sighed the long, weariful sigh of hope deferred. "Good-bye," he said, and bending a long moment to her, he was gone. At the top of the moor, before he. plunged down the long, rough, heath- ery steep, he turned and waved a white handkerchief. Lilies Armour stood where he had left her. She did not wave a response, but kept her hands clasped before her, looking steadfastly after her' lover. As he ran down the slope he pulled out his watch. "An hour and ten minutes," he said; "I can do it; I shall have time to see French and look in at the Gross Keys as well. This sort of thing takes it deucedly out of" a fellow -whose busi- ness it is to explain the accusative and infinitive all day long." An hour later Lilies. Armour sat in her appointed place. at the douce and sober morning worship of a Cameron ian' home. As was the daughter's duty, she had brought down thegreat' Bible, covered with worn calf skin with the hair outside, and laid it be- fore her father at the head of the table. Before doing so, she had taken away the breakfast dishes and re - spread the board with a white cloth like that which is laid upon a com- munion table, for the more fit offering up of the morning sacrifice: Her mother, bustling, masterful, loquacious housewife that she was, had been so long among the poultry in the yard that the Elder was com- pelled to sit full five minutes silent among the family, with the Bible open before him, ere he could give out the psalm to be sung. Then his wife, flustered to find them all silent and waiting, sat down and endeavored to smooth her hair with one hand, while she found the place with the other, naturally enough failing in both. But there were tears in the eyes of one within the wide sunny house -place of Dornal as they sang to the wistful rise and fall of the Elder's favorite Coleshill the final verse of the open- ing song of praise: I, like a lost sheep, went astray: Thy servants seek and find: For thy commands I suffered not To. slip out of my mind. CHAPTER U. TEE MARRIAGE LINES. "Bitter are the rigors of righteous- ness, and by them the merciful are shamed and sinners confirmed in their evil way." This may not be a textout of the written Word, nevertheless it em- balms somewhat of the spirit of the Great Forgiver of sins. It was the morn of the Sabbath some months after the early meeting between the classical master and Lilies Armour. The solemn Taking of the Book was over in the farmhouse of Dornal, but Matthew Armour, Rul- ing Elder in the Cameronian Kirk, still, sat with the Bible open before him. His face, with its shock of sil- vering hair sweeping back from the noble cliff -like brow, was sober with more than Roman gravity. His wife gathered together the folded white handkerchief, the spectaeles and' the psalm -book which were her indispen- sables at any function of a religious character. She had learned by the experience of half a lifetime, added to her original store of woman's instinct, when it "wasna chancy" at such times to stand long in the way of her hus- band. %TowW:'in that hush of Sabbath silence vOhich she knew so well, she was especially eager to be gone. But even in the doorway the voice of the Elder arrested her. "Margaret Armour, bid our daugh- ter Lilies come hither to mel" he said. "Hoot, Matthew," urged his wife, "be canny. I ken the young man is no great professor, and his ways are no oar ain homely ways—but dinna fret the young lass. The lad is weal - to -do, and of a decent fancily enough, though they say an Episcopalian." "Silence, woman, do as 1: bid you instantly," commanded the Ruling E1= der; "It is with my daughter and yours that I desire to speak!" "Mathy—Mathy, mind that we are a' sinners," the mother pleaded, "mind that ye were yince youngyoursel'." "And if so, think you not that 1 have suffered in the flesh for the deeds' of the flesh. Think you that .I do not wet my pillow many a night for the sins of my youth.' And if my children must suffer,, it shall not be because no warning word has been spoken, or no strong hand outstretched to de- liver. Send in the lass!" With a little helpless appeal of the hands and a sidelong sway of the head. in acknowledgment of the fact that of course her word went for nothing, Margaret Armour took herself off to do as she was bid She found Lilies standingwith a book in her hand under the great, beech tree by the house gable. But she was not reading: iHer eyes, large and vague, their some- time bright bluedimmed with sadness and tears unshed, were fried an the distant hills at the foot of which lay; Cairn Edward., (To be continued.) Perfumed. Lettuce. Mr; Newlywed—"This lettuce tastes awful. 'Dil you wash it?' Mrs. Newlywed -"Of course I did, and used perfumed soap, too." Minard's Liniment Heals Cuts. A POPULAR AND COMFORT - ABLE NIGHT GOWN. 4884. This style is good for cam- bric, ambric, longeloth, crepe, or outing flan- nel, also for crepe de chine, and silk. The sleeve may be short, or in wrist length. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 84-86; Medium, 88-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust meas- ure. A Medium size requires 4% yards of 86 or 40 inch material, if made with long sleeves. If with short sleeves 43/4, yards will be required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., '78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. 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