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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1907-05-16, Page 7♦o♦o♦o♦o♦o♦O♦O-4oM♦ 0 DARE HE? OR, A SAD LIFE STORY i1•04-04-04 4-0-+0-4-0+.0-4-404• 111 •t1'11:I t X \ I X. I :otilintw.1). But at this \Ir. Ilurgoynes auditor looks NO hopcl.sly bewildered that he thinks it the .simplest plan at once, in the fewest possible words, to put her in possession of the tale of her son's achievements and disasters. Ile does this, partly to stent the torrent of her questions, the form ilial they have hither- ! taken producing in hire a feeling of frenzied indignation, which ho doubts hes totes power much longer to conceal— pertly in u111.'r to set Elizabeth's conduct with the least passible delay in its true light before her. Surely, when she has been told of her nutgnaninems renuncia- tion. she will do her justice, will cease to local her with hoose hard names and insulting assertions lhnt have made hint grind his own teeth to listen to. But in this expectation he soon finds that he is mistaken. The wrath nt Jars. Ityng against Elizabeth for having "drawn in" het son, as she persists in stating the case, is surpassed only by indignation at her insolence 111 having "thrown him over." As to the genuineness of This last action she expresses, it is true, the most .complete incredulity. "IL was only to enhance hor own value. 1) ; you suppose that she expected hint to lake her at her word? She thought, of course, that he woo... fellow her --that he would employ detectives ;—it is a prof" —with an angry lough—"that he cannot b, quite so bad as you make hint out, that he has not done so." "1 would not put it into his head if 1 were you," replies Jiin, with an anger no less real. and a merriment no less spuri- ous than her own. Ily this limo Uiey have reached the ho- t.'! ; and Jim, having helped his com- panion out of the finer°, shows symp- toms of leaving her. "Will not you slay to breakfast with rte?" she asks. a little aghast atthis un- expected manoeuvre; 1 cannot make any toilette till the luggage arrives; and 1 suppxhse that Ie' --her eyes wandering wistfully over the hotel front till they rest on her son's closed persiennes-- "that he is sol up yet ; 1t would be a sin to wake him ; do stay with me." "I am afraid 1 cannot." "\Vhy cannot you 1"—with en impa- tient but friendly little mocking imita- tion 1.1 his tone. "You are nor—with a cruciiiatory smile—"angry with an old hon for standing up fur her one chick?" Jinn smiles too. "1 do not think that the old hen need ieo e clucked quite so loudly ; but that is not why 1 ant leaving her; 1 must go?" "\\'here must you go Te "1'o 1110 Anglo-Arnerieain." She lifts her eyebrows. "At this hour?—you forget how early it is. Well, Amelia has got you into gaol training; but 1 can assure you that roti will still find her in bed." 11.' sighs. "1 not afraid that there is not much ek)u1,1 of that." "\\'hat do you mean ?—she Le not ill surely :'"—in a tone of lively surprise— ".►media 111 ?—impo.ssihle ! ' Ile looks at her with an irrational stupefaction. It appears to him now. In the dislnrtion of till i'bjccts that the last iortnight has brought, as if Amelia's 111- tiese had spread over the whole of his life, as if there had never been a time when she had not been ill, and yet of anis event, immense as it semis to hint in its duration. the woman before hln 1115 obviously never heard. \Vhen ho conies to Think of il. bow should she? In point of feet it is not a fortnight since Nis, Wilson fill sick. and .luring that furtnighl he himself has not v. ripen her a line', neither. he's ei$iially sure, has her esti. "1 ant evidently very much behind the time,' she snys, noting the, bo her. unin- telligible astonishment in ids hese; "hut yon mast remember Ilial I hate hent kept centplelely in the dark --has she been ill?" In answer he tells her. with as much brevity and compression 11.4 110 11811 e111 - p1 .t.vt in the tale 4,1 Elizabeth's disap- pearance. That of , rnelias illness. often Interrupted by her expressions of spit - Al the end she snys : "I tun so thankful I did net hear till 811e was gelling hx'Iler ! 11 would have made n1e so wretch's' 10 he such a long a.•t off 1" 11• r adoption of his trouble as her own, ne .1101011 whose sincerity Ls confirmed 1., tee, impulsive seizure of his hand. real ate feeling look in her li,11116mile eyes make hits forgive the exaggeration of lyre statement, and go some wny ea l'•1.3 replacing her in that position In his esteem which her diatribes against 1:lizalxth had gone neer Io making her f .rfetl, "thio 11 will Iw' all right now," conlin- 1. -he 'e nguinely ; "there will he n)- Iluug to lin but to build up her strength snit), and site is syoung nt least" --ns he reminiscence of Amelia's unyoulliful appearance evidently flashes acres; her mind ; of that prematurely middle-aged look which an unequal fortune gee- to some plain women—"tit least young enough for all practical purposes." Whether it be duo to the poseession of This modified form of juvenility. to an excellent constitution, or to what other reason, certain it is that the next two days go by without any diminution, rather, with a sensible anti steady in- crease in \lis, WiLson's favorable symp- toms. and. on the afternoon of the latter of these days, Cecilia, in rather impa- tient answer to Jim's long daily string of questions about her. says : "Yeti could judge i nuch better if you saw her yourself. l .lo not 800 why you should not see her to -morrow for a min- ute, that is to say if you would promise tet to talk or ask her any questions." "Rut would it bo safe?" inquire; he, with a tremble in his voice. Ile desires passionately to neo her; until he does h will never believe that she is really - going 14) live; he has a hunger to as- sure himself That 110 terrible metamor- phosis has passed over her in these nightmare days; and yet. coupled with that hunger, is a deep dhea.l, which Translates itself into his next halting words. "Shall 1 be—shall 1 be very much shocked ? is she—Ls she very touch changed T' ".She does look pretty had," replies Cecilia half sadly, yet with the sublying cheerfulness of assured hope; "for one thing she is so wasted. i suppoee that that is what stakes her look so much older ; but then you know Amelia never did look young." It Ls the second time within two days that the fact of his betrothed's maturity has been impressed upon him, and for- merly it would have caused hint a pang: hue now, of whltt moment is it to him that she looks a hundred, If only she is living, and going to live? "Iles she—has she asked after me?" "\Ve do not allow her to speak, but if any one mentions your name there conies a sort of smile over her face. such a ridiculous -sized face as it is now 1" The tears hove come into Cecilia's large stupid eyes, and Jim himself is, with re- gard to her, In the position of the great Plantagenet, when he heard the lovely tale ot York and Suffolk's high death. "1 blame you tail; For hearing this. 1 must perforce compound Willi tnistful eyes; or they will issue too 1" As he .walks nwny lie Ls filled with a solemn joy, ono of diose deep serious gbidnevsses with which not Inc stranger, u.s not even the close fiend or loving i.:o,mtan inlermeddlelh. Ile is under an et:gagement to meet ales. ilyng at a cer- tain lour, but although that hour has already come and, passed, he feels that ho cannot face all her sincere congratu- lations without some preparatory toning down of his mood. The streets, with their gay va-el-vtent, their cracking whips and shouting drivers, seem all too secular and every- day to match the profundity of his rev- erent thankfulness. Ile takes it with hint into the great cool church that slant's so nigh at hand to Itis hotel, earta Maria Novella. The doors tall be- hind hint noiselessly as he enters, shut- ting out the fiery hot piazza, and the gar- ish noises of the world. In the great dim interior, cold and tranquil, there is the usual sprinkling of tourists peering up al its soaring columns, trying to read themselves, nut of their guide -books, into n proper adntira1k►n for Cimahue's large - faced Virgin and ugly Bambino, folded, with all Its gold and sombre colors, In the dignity of els twice two centuries of gloom. 'There are the usual three or four blue-trnttsered soldiers strolling leisure- ly al nit. there is a curly -tailed little dog trolling hither and thither unfoibidden, ringing his bell, and there are the invari- able termed peusanl women kneeling al the side altars. Ile ileus not behing to the ancient ,'hutch, but to -day he kneels beside them, and the tears he had has- tened away 10 (tide from Cecilia, come back to make yet dimmer to his view the details of the duff ulI'1r-pieces behind the tat' candles. Its eye, ns he rise. to his feet again, falls on the autladiun nearest hint. \\'hat is she praying 101'1 In the esean5i.on of his awn deep jay', he longs I.) tell her how much he hopes that, whatever 11 Ls. glee 1%i11 obtain it. I1 Is net the eontadina who, standing a little behind. joins hien es he turas nway from the altar. ( wow yea go Into the church," says Jars. Ityng. her senile growing sonnewhnt dillitlenl as she sees the solemnity of his face, "sn 1 thought I w•oukl follow you; do you mind? Shall I go away 1' Ile would, of the Iwo, have preferred that she hnd not folkeve,l hint, that he hnd been given five more minutes to hlrnsc•lf ; but he naturally does not say so. "Since we are herr. shall we go into the eloisl.'rs?" and he ass'nte. ,\ small Dominican monk, %illh a smile and n hunch of keys, i3 opening n door 4400000040010400160.00404.0 A New Orleans woman was thin. Because she did not extract sufficient nourishment from her food. She took Scollt'.r Emulsion. Result: She gained a pound a day in weight. ALL DRUGGISTS, See. AND 51.00 to some strangers, prowling like our careful, soft -footed my to-uonvw. Ile /riend; about the church. The latter fol- has pushed through the people ---why low, the little monk enveloping therm too in his civil snide. Down some ,tela into the great cloister, under tvho.e arches pale frescoes cover the ancient walls— where in Florence are there not fres- coes Y—.and the hands that painted them seem all to have wielded their brushes 1.1 that astounding fifteenth century, which was 14) Florence's life what May is t; Italy :s year. For some moments they stared silent, side by side, perhaps pick- ing out familiar scenes front among the sweet, faded groups - a slim Rebecca listening to Eleazar's talo, and leaking maiden pleasure at his gifts ; a shivering Adam and Eve chased out of Paradise; ae Adam and Eve dismally digging and stitching respectively ; Old 'festuntent stories that time has blurred, that wea- ther—even in this dry air—has rubbed out and bedinuned, and that yet. in many - cases, still tell their curious faint tale decipherably. "Good news this evening, I hope?" says Sots. Byng presently, growing a little tired of her companion's taciturnity ; be- im: indeed always one of those persons who aro of opinion that the gold of which silence is said to be made has a good deal of alloy in it. "I tom to see her to -morrow." Ile speaks almost under his breath, either because he has no great confidence in his voice, if he employs a higher key, u.' because there seems to him a certain sanctity in this promised meeting on the kindly hither stile of the grave which has so lately yawned. Mts. Byng is much too old and inti- mate a friend of Jim's not to have been pretty well aware of the state of his feelings during the past eight years, though certainly not through any com- munication from hint. So it is, perhaps, scarcely to be wondered nt that she pre- sently says, in a tone hinged wilt ad- miring surprise— "How font you are of her !" Ile receives the remark in a jarred silence, Itis eye resting on the square of neglected graves in the middle of the cloister, how unlike our turfy squads and lawns. A common -place nineteenth century photographer, with his vulgar camera planted on the time -worn stones, is evidently trying to persuade the little monk to pose for his picture. The gen- tle -looking Fra laughs, and draws up tits cowl, then lowers it again, folding his amts, and trying various postures. "You are so much fonder of her than you were !" This speech—though such is certainly far from the good-natured speakers in- tention—stings Burgoyne like a whip- lash. "I was niways fond of her -1 a'.way's thought her the very best woman in the world ; you know !"—wilt an accent of almost anguished appeal—"that 1 al- ways thought her the very best woman in the world." "Oh, y;. s ; ot course, 1 know you slid," replies she, astonished and concerned at the evident and extreme distress of his lone. "That is not quite the same thing as being fond of her, Ls it? But"—with it laugh that is et once uneasy and re- assuring—"what does that matter now ? Now your fondness for her is as Indis- putable as 'filburina's madness; and, for my part, I always think people get on quite as web, if not better, nfter- wards, if they do not begin quite so volcanically." But her light and well -meant words fall 10 remove the painful impression from her hearer's mind. Iles she, dur- ing all these years, been crediting hits with a wish for Amelia's death, that she should be so much astonished at his thankfulness kr her being given back to hint 7 "1 believe that this illness is the best thing That could have happened to you Ixilh." continuos Mos. Byng, feeling un- comfortably that she has not been happy in her choice of a topic, and yet unable to leave it nlone. "It will have drown you so much together ; to fact"—again laughing nervously --"I think we nre all looking up. As i told you, after the first shock, Willy really- was rather glad to see Inc ; and you would not believe how discreetly i handle the burning subject -- yes, everything is on the mend. and wo are all going to have a jolly time, as the Ynnke s say 1'' l:II.\li I:lt X\X. The words are scarcely out of Mrs. ilyng s mouth bettor she acids, in n clanged key. and with an altered direc- tion to the ep,•es-- "is this person looking fur y4111? Ile scents 10 be erring straight towards 11s." Jim turns his head at her speech, and al one., recognizes. in the figure hasten- ing towards Them. oho porter of the Anglo-;\mericain hotel. 'rho man looks strangely. and enrries n slip of paper. ur,fnitcrl and open. in his hand. In a second Jim has sprung to hi, side. has enntch(d the paper. and is staring at i1. contents. They are hnrlly iegihle, serawled tremblingly with a pw'tieil, and for n moment he cannot make them out. Then, as he looks, in ane horril.l.' flnsh their import has sprung into his (yrs and brain. Che 1., gone; Conte Io 04 1' Mr,. I'yng is reading Ino. over shoulder. In going over the scene in memory nflereails. he believes Ihnt she gives 11 sort of scream. and says, "Ole what does it rnetut ? 1t is nit true!" . But al the line Ire herr';. lie knows nothing. 11e is out of the church ; he 1* In the nacre wailing al the door: he is tearing through the :streets, with the hot summer air flowing in a quick current against itis puce. Ile thinks afterwards at what a pare the here.' must have been going. and how the !seer inde towel have Ireet1 lashed to keep it up to That u.el'ss speed. \1 the tine he thinke nothing. 11e feels nettling. Ile rushes Ihrough the court e1 Ih^ hotel. rushers Ihre.ugh what tweets to b.' people; he thinks alt',wnrla that they m:nsl Trete been water., and chnmlw'r• staid+, and that there .gases n snrl of cempaseinnale murmur from Them ne he passed. Ile is up the stains, the Ihre( flights; as lie tears up. three steps nt 1t time, Bees, come, ocroes his numbed in- telligence why they always give .‘matin the w.olsl room. Ile is at the door. eat• dile whtch he lin.. spied 'n many hours of hnalItle a listening: he need re) longer •fay eut.ide 11 it 11 is open. inviting him in. I1. .- :11.••. that. ns yet. unpase..s1 tllr•slsoll. 11131 thresh 0.1 ober which he wets to have 'l'ppal to his mast there be people everywhere? -of whorl the room seems full, unnecessarily full ; he is at the lad.ide. Across the foot a figure seems thrown --ho learnt afterward that that is Sybilla. Another figure is prostrate on the floor, heuving, in dreadful dry sols ; that is Cecilia. A third is standing upright and tearless, looking down upon what, an hour ago, was his insist patient daughter. They have let her alone now --have ceased lo lease her. They no longer (told a look- ing -glass to her pale mouth, or beat her tired feet, or pour useless cordials be• twc'en her lips. They have ceased to cry out upon her name, having realized that she is much too far away 10 hear them. Neither does he cry out. Ile just goes and stands by the father, and lakes his thin old band in his; and together They gaze on that poor temple, out of whist the spirit that was so much too lovely for it has fleeted. Later on, they tell him how it caste about ; later on, when they aro all sitting huddled in the little dark salon. Cecilia Le the spokes:v.:man, and Sybilla puts in subbing corrections now and again. (To be continued ) I+++++++,+++++++♦•-++ +&+ + + About the Farm I i!+4♦+++4++++444+44444:4 SHEAR SiIEEP EARLY. The season for shearing sheep is much affected by locality. There are climates in which two shearing, would doubtless be better. The time for shearing in the northern stales, say north of parallel 40 degrees, is April, as practiced now by the best shearers, fear; ago, when washing preceded slhearing, it was com- mon to defer shearing to a later period. Sheep now urn usually shorn without be- ing asked. When the flock is much in- fested with licks Into time of shearing should be advanced. But it may be necessary to confine shorn sheep when the shearing is done very early. The sheep shearing machine is fast superseding the shears. So much more quickly and neatly does it do the work, that it will pay to. incest in one of (hose machines, even for a small flock of sheep. 11 is usually practicable to har- ness various kinds of power so as to tun these machines, but when this may not bo practicable they may be run by hand, one pearson shearing the sheep and the other furnishing the power. The machines do excellent work. If any Briticism is to bo made of them on this score it is to the effect that they leave the sheep, as it were, too bare. The danger of maiming the sheep by way Of cutting the skin is less also than with the bond .shears. Of course shearing will still be done to some extent with the shears. When so done 11 is important That the shears S111111 be kept sharp. It is also important that they shall have a spring that works easily. Shears with a stiff spring work hard. Wherever done the floor should be clean, that the wool may be kept as free as possible from all admixture with dirt and filth. When sheep and lambs are Leing fat- tened it is important that the shearing shall be done early. The stimulating food that is being given to them causes moro hent in the system than would otherwise bo present. This becomes so serious as soon as the days become warm as to interfere with the gains of the sheep. The importance of promptness, therefore, in attending to this matter, is very considerable. Years ago, shearing was often deferred until some time in June. The suffering thus entailed trust have been considerable. 'I'1►o sheep also frequently Inst considerable quantities of wool Through rubbing and in other ways. This. in a large (lock, was a considerable itetui. 'There was alert usually some loss horn the .soiling of the wool areend Ih.' The Right Paint Whether you are going to paint the whole house, or only the porch—the interior woodwork, or a floor—there's the right paint in Reroaar'a Points. Just the shade, tint or color you want— mixed just right—in the right proportions. And it paints right—looks right—wears right. Try than this spring. Then you'll say --as folk have said for more than G5 years — k..maay's Paints are the right paints to paint right. Write for Post Cud Series "C," ahowiug how some houses are painted. A.1ANSAY & SON CO. • 110109SAL as Paint Mahon Woos 1342. buttocks of the sheep when the pastures became succulent and abundant. TREATMENT FOR PLANT LICE. Effective work in controlling plant lice o.• aphides on apple trues may be done in the spring, Just after they have hatched froth eggs and have collected on the expanding foliage. Trees seen to be badly infested at dols time should be thoroughly sprayed, taking pains to wet as completely as possible all parts of the leaves, twigs and branches. Ilowever thoroughly the work may be done some of tho lice are almost sure to escape de- struction, owing to the difficulty of forc- ing the spray between the unfolding leaves, more or less covered with hairs, where some of the insects will have penetrated. A subsequent treatment in the course of a week should usually he made, especially if the first application 18 seen to have been unsatisfactory. Alter the foliage is well out and more or less distorted from the presence of the aphides, effective spraying is quite diffi- cult, since many of the insects on the lower surface of the curled leaves will not be hit by the spray. Repeated appli- cations must be made, therefore, as necessary to keep the insects under con- trol. It will often be found practicable to bend over and immerse the terminal shoots of badly infested young trees I, a bucket of the spray solution, and this treatment will bo very effective. The lime -sulphur %%east► for the de- struction of winter eggs is made as fol- lows : Lime 20 pounds, sulphur 15 pounds; water to slake 50 gallons and boiled for one hour. After the trees aro in foliage, a more dilute contact insecticide trust be em- ployed, as strong tobacco decoction, 15 or 20 per cent. kerosene emulsion, 15 per cent. crude petroleum emulsion, or whale -oil soap at the rale of one pound for each four gallons water. Since aphldcs secure their food by sucking up sap from within the plant, none of the arsenical poisons such as pares green and the like would be effective. Tobacco decoction may be shade from tobacco stents and other refuse by boil- ing at tate rale of one pound for each one or two gallons water, sufficient water being added to make up for That lost in boiling. A 20 per merit. kerosene or enudo petro- leum emulsion is 'made ns follows : Whale -oil or other soap, 2% pounds, kerosene or crude petroleum. 10 pounds. water to make 50 gallons. The soap is dissolved in 5 gallons hot water, which L: at once poured into the spray -pump barrel. The 10 gallons kerosene or crude pelroleurn is next added and the whole thoroughly emulsified by pumping it back through Iho hose into the barrel for xis or eight minutes. After the oil has become thoroughly emulsified, the barrel is tilled with water, and the preparation is ready for use. FACTO ABOUT YounSELt'. Some of the Possessions of the Ilutuan Animal. The average number of teeth is thirty -(wt). The average weight of Wren is 1508 a. G0 ozs. Tho weight of the circulating blood is tw.-sly-nine pounds. An average healthy tnan breathes about twenty limes a minute, or 1,200 times every hour. In the lungs there are 175,000,000 cella which would cover a surface thirty times greater than tate human body. If you were asked how many bones you had in your body, you would think nt your arras. legs, feet, jaw, etc., and answer offhand about two or three doz- en; but you would be very wrong. The total number of your bones Ls well over two hundred. LIKED HIS STYLE. "Mr. Spudlong," began oho youth, hanging hie hat on he back of the dater, "I will occupy only a few moments .:1 your lime. I have come to ask you for your daughter. 1—" "Young Winn," said the elderly bunk- er, "do you----" "Wes, sir; 1 realize fully that she has fees tenderly twhlreil, and that she is very dear tae y )u: also that her home is one in which she has been surround - e.! by every luxury. But she is willing to leave it." 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