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Exeter Advocate, 1909-07-29, Page 6THE MYSTERIOIIS KEY OR, PLANNING FOR TIIE FU 1'i'ltE. CHAPTER XI11.---(Cleot'd) "Have you children of your own, Mr. Lyman questioned Lady Bromley. ''None at fame, I am sorry to say, madam, though 1 have two married sons living in the far West, and 1 confess 1 ehall sadly miss my present gentle little companion when she is taken from me, said the gentleman, with a suspicious huskiness ill his tones. "l•:%cry lino day,- he continued, quickly recov- ering himself, "since she became ►'ell enough, 1 hate %%heeled her out au the open air. and we often spend ho. i s together in this way. I un- do ►stood you to say that her name is Allison Brewster '•' he conclud- es! inquiringly. •' Wes.,, 'filen I think it will bo well to address her so hereafter," Mr. Ly - mal remarked. "We will do every- thing in our power to arouse the memory which has so long lain dor- mant." • • 1'es, yes ; that will be well," said Lady Bromley eagerly, and just then her companion paused be- fore the imposing entrance to ex- tensive grounds. "This is our home. Mrs. Brom- ley," he quietly observed. "Will you come in with Its t I shall be happy to introduce you to Mrs. Ly- man, and then we will all talk fur- ther about our plans for uur pro - 1, gee." Lady Bromley glanced up as he spoke, to find herself standing be- fore an elegant residence. The house was built of brownstone, and was surrounded by beautiful grounds, laid out and ornamented in the most tasteful manner, the whole estate indicating unlimited means. "Thank you. sir, but I think not now. I au, toe agitated over this unexpected denouement, to converse cl.nnectedly with any one," her ladyship replied. with n tremulous senile. "I will however, if agree - gide to you, call later in the day, for there aro still many questions which I would like to ask about this dear girl." She bent down as the ceased rpeaking, and earnestly studied the invalid's face. Again the maiden looked up and smiled confidingly at her. and it was all she could do to refrain from sobbing aloud. "Allison," she said, when she could control her voice, "w here is room, where sho wrote a long let - Gerald 1" ter to her brother, confiding to him The fair face clouded at the qucs- all that had occurred. and asking lien; a perplexed. wondering ex- hien if she had done right in allow - pression crept into the innocent ing the operation upon Allison to !blue eyes. but no intelligence. 'Chen t,Iie put ont one shall hand and laid it caressingly upon the jeweled one resting on the arm of her chair. "Good-bye," site said sweetly. "Fin tired now, and I'm going home... Lady Bromley hent lower still, and pressed her lips almost pas- sionately .to the white, upturned brow. "God grant that you !lay soon go !nope, and in your right mind," she murmured hrokenly ; then, turning abruptly away, she walked swiftly back to the house of her friend. She went directly to M s. Bry- ant's boudoir, where that lady was impatiently awaiting her return, and throwing herself into a chair. Lotted her face upon her (lands and %rept as she had not since those first hopeless day s after her hus- hand's death. Mrs. Bryant regarded her won- eleringly, but seeing tient she was too much agitated to con%erse up- ( it any topic, considerately left her to herself for a while. and went be - Jew to site some orders regarding household platters. Upolt her ret urn she found her nest more composed, whereupon guest Ilremley related all that had occurred in connection ttith the dis• cut cis of .Allam. "\Chat a wonderful story !" .nid bf rs 1!r'.ant, a, she conclud 'd, 1.1(1 1 think, ,Mabel. you have shown rare ItiMlenl in ad'ising Mr. Ls- :eau y1.tn to allow the surgeons to carry out their plains. rather titan arouse the anxiety and fears of \Winches- tt r. and thus, perhaps, delay the l oration indefinitely. Of course, if the result should nut prole to be all they hope, you could telegraph loan, and he could come on immedi- ately. But if. on the other hand, she docs 'reenter her reason, he a ill never fully realize what her *septillion has Leen, and that. ac- cording to my way of thinking. will Le a practical illustration of the ( 111 adage regarding the 'bliss' of ignorance." "~till, it almost seemed like pre. Ettlllpti1.11 1.11 ley" part te assume ails. aaltlea is in the !natter." Lady lireetle\ rep•l'(•d, and flu.hiag fcn- Piti•01y: and yet 1 am sure that know until crisis is pa'seti. pi L. ' "Ile gets a lot of satisfaction (ierald, of wheel 1 art ery fond. of his gnrden." Mill Teel that 1 was acteate(t only -';,. a !ittle before mew. wall a "i know he drlra. but the. trick I.y the best 1•f motives." sense Of ieatfulness and :e c:11111 is to get edible radisaee and lettuce "Certainly he will realize that, though grave face, Lady Bromley .sut of it, and that he can't do." r hate%er the outcome is," said her friend. "Besides, your discovery of her to -day was the merest accident. But fur Ellen, you would have known nothing about her, and thea the operation would have beet, per- forated and the die cast. The Ly - mans are fine people, and very wealthy. 1 have never happened to Meet them. I do not believe they go out much. But I have friends who know them, and they speak very highly of them. I have often seen Ms. Lyman wheeling that pret- ty girl by the house, but, of course, I never dreamed but that she was his own daughter, or that such a ro- mance was associated with Icer." "It is a very sad romance, in some respects," said her ladyship, with a sigh. ''By the way, Helen, where is our little maid?" "I don't know. I haven't seen her since you went out. Sho was terribly excited over the discovery if Miss Brewster. How did she happen to know anything about her 1" Lady Bromley related the story of Allison's kindness to the poor, Iproceeded to the residence of thellf/••••••••••••••••••••• Lyllans. • • Mrs. Lyman received her very • 4 graciously, and with apparc:,tly the • A L • • utmost composure, althuugii an un- • natural paleness betrayed thatshe • out the Farm was by no means free fromauxiety. A few moments beture the clock struck the fateful hour, sho con ducted her guest to a conservatory at the rear of the house, where, sur- rounded by rare and beautiful plants, with birds singing joyously •M their gilded cages, and the musi- cal splashing uf a fountain as au arcolnpaniutcnt, she kept her talk- ing busily upon various subjects. She was charming in her delicate tactfulness, and did not allow the conversation to flag for a moment. There was always some rare exo- tic or a profusion of bloom to call her attention to if there was the slightest pause, while she occupied herself by culling here and there a bud and blossom, which she ar- ranged into a tasteful bouquet for Lady Bromley to take to firs. Bry- ant when she returned. Thus more than an hour passed, and then a step sounded upon the marble floor at the entrance to the conservatory, when Mrs. Lyman, with a start, turned abruptly and went to meet her husband. He was very pale, but a look of indescribable jos- and triumph il- lumined his face. "Mother," he said, laying a fond hand upon the shoulder of his wife, "all is well over, and the very best results are looked for." Then it became apparent what a strain the woman had been labor- ing under—what a curb she had put upon herself. She sank weakly up- on a chair which stood near. She downtrodden girl, after which she spoke no word, but her lips tremb- led, in search of her. She found led, while her eyes still eagerly ler in her own room lying upon her searched her husband's face, as he continued : bed, her face .swollen and discolor- ed, her eyes LI(<d.hot from long- continued on -continued weeping. Sho had been smitten to the soul upuu realizing that the beautiful girl whose image she had so en- shrined in her heart was a sense- less creature, albeit so gentle and sweet a one. Her first emotion up- on beholding her in the wheel -chair had been one of wildest joy ; but when she fully comprehended the meaning of that vacant stare which greeted her expressions of (lclight— wlien she heard the childish bab- bling which flowed from her smiling lips, the shock of horror and re- pulsion which went through her was one which she never forgot, and which almost broke her heart then and there. Lady Bromley, pitying her grief, sat down beside her and tried to comfort her. She talked long and kindly to her, and encouraged her to hope that all might yet be well with the fair girl whom sho so loved. When she had succeeded in cairn- ing her somewhat, she told her to go to sleep and have a long rest, for she saw that she was almost prostrated by excessive grief. Then she went away to her own "It was exactly as Doctor Lati- men thought—there was a fragment (f bone pressing upon the brain, and the moment it was removed, Allison cried out, as if from sudden fear : 'Gerald, save me!' " ('I1.\PTER -XIV. There was a profound silence for a Moment. Then Lady Bromley eagerly exclaimed : "Ah! that shows that the portion of her brain which has so long re- mained inactive has resumed its normal condition." "Yes, or, as the surgeors explain it, those words formed part uf a sentence which was probably in her mind at the time of that terrible railroad crash," Mr. Lyman return- ed. "They think that she may, per- haps, have had a momentary rea- lization of her clanger, and her first thought was naturally of her lover and a desire for his presence to protect her." "That certainly seems a reason- able conclusion," said her ladyship. "But how did she appear when she recntered from the influence of the ether 1late corn. The crops which preced- "Sho was very quiet. She (lid (u these plots of grass were in two not speak, but looked curiously and cases ace, grown the preceding win - inquiringly into the faces about tor ; when this was cot for wailing her. A sleeping -potion was admin cr for hay the ground was plowed istered to her, and they are now proceed without first consulting putting )ter to bed." and aa f into tine fif On Gerald. She cautioned hint not t(, "Arid Doctor Latimer is reallo y and one -hhalf bushels perrth. acre of of betray anythingto Gerald until hopeful that all will be well 1" ThisGerwasn millet were then sown. p . This cut for hay bef ,re it had after he should hear from here queried Lady Bromley anxiously. made seed. The land was plowed again. If he thought well of what "Very hopeful. There is a tiny again and harrowed into fine tilth. was being done, or otherwise, she spot that has to be trepanned, but Grass seed was then sown broad- '.cishcd him to telegraph her inn- it will in no way disfigure our dear cast, late in :August. In this man- !'iediately upon receiting her let- girl, for the hair can easily be ar- ner a full. crop was obtained the ter. She would receive the tiles- ranged over it," said the gentle- next year. Two cuttings were made sage in season to communicate c%itll man, smiling cheerfully into the the second year. It, the spring of Mr. Lyman and stop the work of white faces hooking uP at 111111. the third season providing the crop the surgeons if he thought it best Mother," he added, with visible promised to be abundant. a crop of emotion, "we have lost 'our baby'— hay was taken before breaking up the sod for late corn. If the grass Mas scanty, the sod, which was al- ways heavily top dressed (haring winter, was broken earlier for any crop for which it was needed. Three of the twelve sub-ditisions pi tho farm were devoted regular- ly to rye in *tinter and late corn ia► summer. (;ra .s was occasional- ly sown on land from which the stilling corn had been cut. One small field was devoted to oats and • • • • • • • • 44 I.4.•••••••••••••+++! PROFITABLE F.1RMING. The growth tied development of a 15 -acre farm, only 13 acres of which were in cultivation, from 1b81, when owing to its run -dote u condition it, did not support the two crows and one horse kept upuu and being thoroughly cleansedit, and at which time it was bur defied with u mortgage uf 87,200 daily. When cleansed the gutters for a short period of six years, to a were sprinkled with ashes or dirt farm that raised all the roughage to absorb any moisture. The gut - fur 30 head of stock, 17 of which ters w. re 1111111'0(1 t.nvards the door, were cows in nliik, cannot fail to where they terinetated, so that tho be of interest to farmers in all manure would have a tendency to parts of the country. accumulate at this point and thus This advancement wag due to facilitate transferring it to ar cart. the manner of feeding tlo cows, 111 summer it. was spread on the the systematic management of the land from which t he soiling crops crops, and the method of handling were remove 1, and in winter on the manure; and first of the cows the rye and grass fields. "Wo el- and their feed. ways have a place to put manure," The cows were fed balanced ra- said the owner, and this is the sec - portion of it was some succulent met of his big crops. This farm was located at Flour - tions every day in the year. A material—silage in winter; and town, Pa.. and was owned and con - rye, timothy and clover, corn, peas ducted by Rev. J. 1). Detrich. Mr. and oats or some other gree:, crop Detrich has assumed the manage - in summer. A second portion tun- ment of a large farm in another lo- sisted of dry hay or fodder, *thief cat lit)' and is davelopulg it along was lased to give the manure the the same lines. proper consistency. A third con- -- sisted of milk products, bran, oil A N Ol,ll 1(II,L. meal and gluten. Tho proportion -- of concentrates fed depended on the Was Seven Centuries Beneath the condition of the cow and was regu- lated Sea', by the flow of milk and the A great Corean bell which for 700 consistency of the manure. years had been lying 20 fathoms he - The soiling crops used were as low the waves off the shore of Chi - about: Green rye, beginning 1(117011 province, Japan, has just about May 1, and continuing about been raised through the efforts of four weeks, or until the rye was a Japanese antiquarian and now, to cut for hay. The timothy crst(•d as it is with the sea waste and clover were feel until peas and c,f ucenturies, iti stands on exhibition oats were ready, When the latter at Kanegaski. cut for hay, the silo was Open According to tradition, which is ed (about July 4), and silage was only partially borne out by ancient fed till early corn (planted May b) e�ocunients, the King of Corea de - planted ready. Enough early corn waseided seven centuries ago that ho planted (about one-fourth acre) to would send a fitting token of his last till spring corn (planted about respect to KI fitting tori the June 22) was ready. Late corn was res leader of theyomori, Heike he powerful the then fed ur til it was time to put west coast of the southern island 4t, into the silo. From this time c f Kiushiu, He ordered the royal forward silage was fed daily until bell founders, many and expert in green rye was available in the those days, to cast a bell. spring. No abrupt change was ever The dimensions were to he these: made in the system of feeding. I-- height, 1 to 6 shaku ; in diameter, The cows were fed three tinges a 8 jo 8 shaku 9 min; and ncircum- day, and four ounces of salt livid- fcrenco of 2 jt, 8 shako 7 sun. Tho cd between the three feeds. Table bell w•ns m successfully east and was salt was invariably used in prefer- ioadcd on a ammoth junk at the peas for several years and then put down in grass to be followed by corn. Nut only did this farm produce all the roughage fur 30 head of stock, but an atcrage surplus of 3,000 pounds of I►a1' was sold yearly. I Tito remarkable yields on this; farm were clue to the intelligent use of stable !Manure. Most farm- I ers waste more than half of the� value of the manure produced on their farms. The stock was kept in stalls. Be- hind each rc w of cows was a gut- ter 18 inches wide and 17 inches deep, the gutters having no outlets cute to coarse salt. Corean town of Masamo. The junk The farm was divided into twelve and a fleet of convoys sailed for the coast of Chikuzen in Japan, when all of the royal augurs had agreed Capon an auspicious day. The au- gurs were not up in their business, for about half at mile off the Jap- anese haven the gift of the Lorean King plunged into the sea. No attempt was made either by the emissaries of the King or the retainers of the Prince of Heike to fish for the bell. Last year it was that Yamamoto Kikutaro, a man of wealth of the province and devot- ed to the collection of ancient art objects, began to search for the ancient bell. Through tit' fisher- men he succeeded in locating it af- ter long effort and divers raised it to the surface. The hell has been cleaned of its corroding mass of barnacles and t1 nn(I to be still whole. It will be taken to Kyote, there to bo hung in the Hongwanji temple. SULTAN KEPT HIS 11'(11(1). Sell( a Promisee! gift 10 the French .t 111 ba ssador. parcels, varying in size from one- fourth to two and one-fourth acres. In April six of these (5 or 6 acres i.1 all) were in grass. About of this was sown the last week in August, three years previous, one- fourth two years precious, and one- fourth one year previous was cut for hay in the spring three years subsequent, and then plowed for to delay their experiment. Her letter written and posted, she rested a while, then repaired to the home of the Lytnans, as sho had promised. She spent an hour or more with the gentleman and his stately but charming wife, between herself and she has seemed such to us," he ex- plained to their guest, '•but I am *cry sure that we have helped to give back a beautiful and lov- able little woman to her friends and to the world." "For which i give most hearty whom there immediately sprang up thanks," said Mrs. Lyman rever- at strong feeling o1 friendship, r, til eptly. Then, rising. she put the t'hich later on tip'ne(1 i.ite an e„ flowers which she had gathered into during affection. .\s she was on Lady Bromley's hand. the point of leaving she turned ap. "Let every blossom bear a sweet pealingly to Mrs. Lyman arid, with message of hope to your heart," • starting tears, trennrleusly inquir- ed "May 1 conte to stay with you to- morrow while the surgeons are hero 1" "Certainly you may. Mrs. llrom- ley"—they had not learned of her title yet. "1 shall be very glad to have you with me: it will he a great co!►fert,•' Urs. Lyman heartily re- si,onded. "01 course, 1 know," she added. "how anxious you must feel nu Mr. Winchester's account ; but something seems to whisper to my heart that great things will result from to -morrow's experiment." And with her own heart feeding upon those comforting words, Lady Bromley went buck to her friend end tried to possess her soul in pati- ence until the following day at twelve, which was the hour set for she said, with a senile; "and just as soon as Allison is able to see you, you must corue to tell her of the ono whom you both love so well." Feeling weak and almost exhaust- ed from the reaction of suspense to hope, her ladyship bade her new friends adieu, and returned to Mrs. Bryant's. when she despatched a telegram to her brother. reading thus: ►'Everything is well ever. Case pronounced %cry pr.•n,i iMcr." Sho then wrote him a letter. to follow the telegram, giving details regarding the operation, and prom- ising to %%rite every day, that ho might know exactly Allison's coup (litien, and he could use his own the momentous test of surgical -hill, judgment about revealing the truth Ten o'clock the next morning 1 ruught her the anxiously loeked- fot message (room her brother. and lois hearty approval of the course which she had pursued did much toward bracing her nertes for the coming ordeal. It read thus : • • \C..r'lerful news! Let dural itu ahead. by all means Telt eraph result immediately G. inn •,8 nut to (Gerald. (To be continued.) COME AGAIN ! --"11 1 should promise to you, whet world be the outcome 1" She --"That would depend largely upon the income." Till. 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'1'110 general, a thorough Frenchman, asked permission to visit his Ma- jesty's harem. Selim, bound by his word, grant-, ed this unprecedented favor, and' incited hila to witness the review of the sultanas. As the latter, the most beautiful women of the East,• with blushing cheeks and wittiest eyes, passed one by one before them, the Sultan said, "Who ever of therm all you find fairest is' yours." Sebastiana, delighted, in- dicated one of the Imperial oda- lisques, a Georgian of divine beauty' with deep black ev es. The next morning a procession of black slaves appeared at the em- bassy, bringing with them a nmgui fucnt casket. liaising the 1.(I thereof, Sebastiani bellel(1, It ing upon the purple cushion, the heed of the beautifi) girl he had chosen. 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