Exeter Times, 1909-12-23, Page 2111 Unexpected Confession;
Or, The Story of hiss Percival's Early Life.
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CH:1PTER XXXIII.- (Cont'd) and Esther, being in his confidence,
felt perfectly free and uucoustrarn-
ed in his presence, and often ac-
cepted his friendly escort upon her
drives. Hence her animation open
the occasion which led her old-time
lover to infer that the young man
was her husband.
Several weeks elapsed
D nald feet her again.
Meanwhile Harold Irvington wn'
doing his ►itinost to establish friend -
Is relations between himself and
his brother's beautiful widow.
By sonic means, best known to
himself, he managed to meet- the
Kings and Esther at numerous re-
ceptions, balls and parties. He
never forced himself upon her, but
contrived to show her many deli-
cate attentions; soliciting a dance
now and then; getting her ices and
cooling drinks, when she appeared
heated, and watching to see that
site did not got into a draught, or
lack for a wrap when she needed
one.
And all this time he played the
repentant prodigal to such purpose
that the innocent girl, ere long, be-
gan to believe that he really had
turned over a now leaf, and was
trying to live nobly and honorably.
"Why, then, should she not en-
courage him with her sympathy, be
kind to him, and thus perhaps help
him upward and onward V' she
mentally questioned, with her in-
nocent faith in human nature.
Mr. King, however, had no con-
fidence in the man. He had long
known him as an arrant knave,
and he could never forgive him for
his vile plotting and treachery
against his own brother. At the
same time ho did not deem it wise
to openly oppose Esther, in her
charitable efforts to do what good
she could, lest he thus aroused an
undercurrent of antagonism that
would drive her to greater lengths;
but he secretly resolved to keep a
sharp eye upon the schemer.
It was almost more than he could
bear, however, when Harold Irv-
ington began to call upon hor, and
to assume certain brotherly airs of
proprietorship—calling her "little
sister," in a playfully tender tone.
and bringing her flowers, bonbons
and other trifles of that nature.
Esther herself did not quite relish
this state of things, but not desir-
nus of seeing captious and ungraci-
ous by resenting them, she continu-
ed to let matters drift H they
would, and thus the net, which the
wily plotter had spread for her,
gradually began to tighten about
her. His attentions became more
and more marked; he followed her
everywhere, hovering about her
continually, until Madam Rumor
began to prophesy that Harold Ir-
vington would eventually marry his
brother's beautiful widow, and
thus Irvington Manor would lapse
back to the direct descendants of
the fancily. which, according to
English conservatism, would he the
proper thirg.
Meanwhile Donald, mounted on a
nootleennie stead, was far on his
wa,v out of town, riding aimlessly
avid in sullen loneliness. lie did
not dismount until ho reached
Hampden Court, when, having par-
taken of no breakfast, the demands
of hunger began to assert them-
selves, and he was forced to put up
at a public house to replenish the
Inner man.
After having rested and enjoyed
a gond cigar, he proceeded, in a
languid, half-hearted way, to "do
the town."
Ho spent the best part of the day
in and about it; then toward the
latter part of the afternoon, re-
mounted and turned his face again
in the direction of London.
His route led him to Hyde Park,
and some caprice prompted him to
take in Rotten Row before return-
ing to his hotel.
It was rather late in the day for
much display in the way of eques-
trians, hut there were still to he
seen many fine equipages with their
brilliant accompaniment of stately
matrons and gayly dressed maidens
and their escorts.
Donald spent half an hour or
more slowly pacing the avenues,
until weary of this pastime he
again turned his horse. eityward.
As he drew near an entrance to the
park his attention was attracted to
an elegant landau that was just en-
teriug the grounds.
It was occupied by a gentleman
and a lady, and a great shock went
through Donald, as in the latter he
recognized Esther, who was vivaci-
ously chatting with her compan-
ion.
She was clad in a unique costume
of black -arid -white striped silk,
handsomely ornamented with the
finest of cut jet. Upon her head
she wore a very becoming hat of
black lace, surmounted by heavy
white ostrich plumes that nodded
and swayed gracefully with her
every movement, while over ono
shoulder she carried an elegant
parasol of crimson silk, with a white
lace covering, which made a lovely
setting for the bright face that
looked out from beneath it.
Dt nald had thought her wonder-
fully heautiiful at the ball the night
below ; bat she seemed a hundred-
fold more so to-day—the black and
white of her costume bringing out
the purity of her complexion with
almiet dazzling effect.
Ac was almost up with the car-
riage before Esther paw him, and
a forint color leaped into her face as
he doffed his hat and bowed low to
her.
She smiled as she returned the
salutation, and the next moment
bad passed en, but not before
Donald's keen glance had taken
the measure of her companion, who
was a handsome young fallow, about
his own age, with a stalwart, up-
right form, a well -shaped head, and
a frank, genial face that could not
fail to win him friends wherever ho
Rent.
"Iler husband," groaned Donnld,
rashly jumping at a conclusion in
his wretchedness.
"Oh, Esther, my love! lost:
lost:"
And putting spurs to his horse,
be dashed from the park and rode
furiously back to his hotel.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
:1s a matter of fact the young
pian with whom Donald Lancaster
had seen father driving was n ne-
phew of Mr. King—the son of his
only sister—Godfrey Appleton by
naive.
He was a promising fellow, who,
for several years, had been study-
ing law with his uncle, and had re-
cently been admitted to the bar.
From the hour of his meeting
witn Esther, three years previous,
he had been devoted to her, though
only in a friendly way.
His admiration for his ward had
greatly plen-ed Mr. King, who sec-
retly hoped that his favorite ne-
phew might eventually win the
charming widow of his denrest
friend. The match would be most
desirable, in every- ny, he told
himself. for Godfrey was a capable
and enterprising young pian, and
would mnnage Esther's property
roost judiciously, while such a union
would establish hint upon a mast
enviable footing. Both were heed -
Fettle. intelligent and, in most re-
spects, congenial ; besides. suzh an
arrangement would serve to bind
the fnir girl, to whom they had
her. ,,e so strongly attached, more
closely to his own family.
But these matrimonial desires
were destined to be diesi'pointed,
ter young Appleton had recently
Allen a victim to e pair of "heav-
en1yblue eye:." anti "the dent-
ist, retest girl in the world,"
before
The man himself helped to keep
these reports circuling by occasion-
ally dropping an artful word of con-
firmation.
One day he called earlier than
usual upon Esther, and taking with
him a groat bunch of elegant Jock
roses.
She was in her own room busily
engaged in writing to her old
friend, Jennie Burt, who, she had
recently learned, had been very ill,
and obliged to give up her business
entirely, while her sickness had
consumed almost nll her savings
and she did not know what she was
going to do in the future.
Esther had resolved to send for
the girl to come to her as a com-
panion ; she did not like her pre-
sent maid, and she longed for some
one whom she could trust. and who
would be a friend to her as well.
Besides, she knew that she would
be very lonely at times, after going
t•i Irvington Manor to live, and she
felt that Jennie would be a great
help and comfort to her in many
ways. Hence the letter she was
writing when Harold Iry ington
called.
She frowned slightly when her
maid hneded his card to her, fur she
wanted her letter to go by the next
post.
She had felt half tempted to ex-
cuse herself, but, niter n mo-
ment's thought, she laid aside her
pen and went down to receive hire.
"Ah, little sister. what makes
you look so serious this morning I"
her visitor smilingly inquired, as
she entered his presence, and he
observed her grate face and pre-
occupied air, while he held her
hand in n lingering clasp, touch
longer than usual.
"I was thinking of a friend who
has been very i11," rather replied,
releasing her hand, and seating
hetet' at a little distance from
biro.
"Then pray do not think of her
any more, for 1 cannot endure to
see even the lightest cloud upon
your face. Here, perhaps these will
chase the gloom away," her curn-
eanion observed, as he lifted Itis
flowers from a table and laid them
upon her lap.
"Oh, low lovely they are !" Es-
ther exclaimed, clasping them eag-
erly with her white hands and bury-
ing her face in the center of the
glowing rears of uloom.
"You should always have Jacks
about you," said the man, as ho
hatched her with yearning oyes,
for she was very lovely in her white
inur•ning robe, with the rich roses
and green leaves gleaining vividly
against it; "they are just suited
to you. 1 wonder, Esther, if you
realize how exceedingly beautiful
you are'"
She lifted a look of surprise to
hire, for he had never addressed
her by her Christian name before,
or paid her so direct a corupliment.
He laughed softly at her expres-
sion.
"Do you think ine very bold, ma
hello, for speaking my thoughts so
plainly V' he questioned, "and
would it shock you still more if I
should venture even further and
tell you that, in my eyes, you are
the loveliest woman in all Lon
don 1"
"Oh, pray, Mr. Irvington, let us
change the subject," Esther ex-
claimed, and flushing beneath the
impassioned look in his eyes, while
she began to feel very uncomfor-
table in view of such barefaced
comments, and a nameless some-
thing in both his tone and manner.
"But it is a subject that is always
present with mo," he returned,
with a tender inflection; "you have
thoroughly botwitched me, Esther,
for every hour of the day your face
is before me, and at Right I in-
variably droam of you."
"I shall certainly run away and
leave you if you persist in such
laudatory effusions!" cried the
fair girl, with a nervous laugh, but
with averted eyes, for she could not
meet the adoring expression in his,
and now she most heartily wished
that she had yielded to her first
iinpulso and excused herself to
him.
An artist would have loved to
paint her as she sat there in such
charming confusion, her soft, white
robo falling in graceful folds around
her. her perfect form outlined
against the crimson- velvet of the
high-backed chair, that great bunch
of exquisite Jacks lying upon her
lap.
Harold Irvington, blase man of
the world though he was, felt his
pulses leap with a warmer senti-
ment than he had ever yet experi-
enced, as he looked upon her, and
he mentally vowed that he would
win hor at any cost.
He arose, went to her side, and,
laying his hand upon the back of
her chair, hent tenderly over her.
"Esther," he said, itt a voice of
thrilling intensity, "if you should
go away out of my life now it would
leave it an utter blank. You, with
your loveliness, your innocence,
your exalted character, have woven
a spell around me that can never
be broken. I love you, dear, and
it is not the love of a young man
who has seen nothing of the world,
but of one of wide experience, who
now seeks the best ho has ever
known. Esther, I know that, to
tho world, this confession would
seem to be prompted by selfish and
grasping motives—that I should bo
misjudged and charged with seek-
ing to win not only you but the
property of my ancestor, also.
Possibly you, ton, may judge me in
the sante way, but let hie assure
you that I never should have made
it had I not been able to tell you
that recent successful speculations
allow me to offer you a fortune of
no less magnitude than that which
my brother bequeathed to you.
Now, darling, will you be my wife?"
Esther was almost paralyzed by
this unlooked-for deelaration. She
had not dreamed that the man
cared for her in any such why. She
had been friendly and shown him
kindness simply because her tender
heart was aroused to sympathy on
account of his apparent regret and
remorse for his misspent past.
She was filled with dismay, and
involuntarily she instantly began
to rshrink from him with an inex-
plicable feeling of distrust and re-
pugnance.
"Esther!" he
ingly.
At this Rhe ranee, retreating a
few steps from him. ns she faced
him, her habitual calmness now re-
asserting iteelf.
(To be continued.)
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Blood may escape with the milk
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inflamed, when the circulation
through it has been suddenly in-
creased by richer and more abund-
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is often the first sign of red -water,
and it may result from the eating
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of tubercle or tumors in the udder
or induration (hardness) of the
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irritation caused by milking con-
tributing to draw the blood. Final-
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r
sediment when madder or dogwood
has been eaten.
In milk which becomes red after
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supposed miracle of the 'bleeding
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therea,ter one-half ounce salt-
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duration of the udder piny he met
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iodine ointment one part, soft soap
two parts, or mercurial ointment
and soap may be used. Careful
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give one tablespoon of the mixture
once a day. If the udder seems to
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warm water for a few minute; at
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CHARCOAL FOR POULTRY.
charcoal, or the charred
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have not bad variety, parched
grain partly burnt affords an agree-
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meanie purpose as charcoal. Oats.
cern. wheat or even bran, will be
readily eaten by hens when they
have been regularly icd en a same-
ness of diet and such food will
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oi' other bowel disorders. i» ex-
periments runde to determine the
benefits of charcoal feeding, if any,
four turkeys were confined in a pen
and fed on meal, boiled potatoes
and oats, and four others of the
ice the less ,came breed, were at the same time
ate the kind confined in another pen and fed
daily on the mine articles. but with
one pint of finely pulverized char -
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nothing had niso a plentiful supply of bro.
Ikea charcoal in their pen. The
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difference of one and one-half
pounds each in favor of those sup-
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SOIL FOR POULTRY YARD.
Many attempts to raise poultry
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Lt towns and cities it is not always
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One small poultry farm was suc-
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three poultry raisers, who made a
failure of it because there was too
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a green crop of driver on randy
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when 10 tons of manure Was ap-
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of commercial fertilizer was used,
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fil-
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Curious Spot on Mars as Large as
France.
M. Camille Flammarion, the
eminent scientist, contradicts the
allegiation that life ou Mars has
been ended by a terrible cata
clysni.
"During tho last t -co months,"
writ s M. 1•'lutnul : he planet
has been within gr. a i oxitnity of
the earth, and has afforded an ex-
cellent opportunity for obsera-
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"What has principally struck us
is the constant and swift variation
of the surface aspect. These chang-
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but they are not of tho nature of
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brusque nor sudden.
"The dislocation of the poles,
which appears to cause so innele
anxiety, is an anneal occurrence.
"Certain features of Mare aro
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changes in the Martian country
known by aerographs under the
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is a spot, round or oval, and about
the size of France.
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113. Is it water or vegetation, more
or less abundant ?
"Out of all this we way infer, not
the end of Mars, but, on the con-
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Mars is a living world, but urrfor-
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serve it sufficiently closely.
"There is no doubt, however,
that we shall one day have tee
moans of doingso, and of satisfying
In going over one of the moon -
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tain roads, on the way to the crest
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of steady nerves. A passage in CAST OF A DEATHSTRU( ;LE.
Obtained by Placing a Martyr in a
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In the museum of Algiers there
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AN EXCITING RIDE.
Experience of a Traveller on the
"Tho Andean Land," by Mr. C. S.
Osborn, describes the journey.
Tho road is narrow and rocky and
rutty and steep, with no walls to
speak of except tumble-down ones
that increase the danger by their
false suggestion of safety, and in plaster cast of the martyr Geron-
nne place the wagon would fall two imo in the agony of death. 'l'li
thousand feet if it should roll off Algerians put Geronima alive
the edge of the mountain. 1 a soft mass of concrete which
The road has no graceful sweeps sently hardened into a block at;
or round, easy curves as it takes'
was built into n fort.
Re way up the Titanic heights, but; This was in 1500 and abnt
rather it zigzags like the teeth of a years later a Spanish writer de -
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and doubling back at sharply acute how that particular block could b
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driven slowly and carefully and it was torn down, the block wa
two abreast. identified and broken open and a
Now imagine, if you can, the ahnost perfect mould of the dea
I in a
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no trot ; that would be slow ; but They filled .the mould with pla
in quick, short, jerky jumps, such ter and the result, a tv-ondortul cas
as the mustang -like animals would lies there in the museum to -day,
make under tho saddle when face down as he died, hands and
pressed.
The short, high coach follows the
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sailing into a wildly chopped sea.
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strong, and the springs, too, and
the whole rig evidently intended for
chariot -racing.
The driver groans, yells, whistles
shrilly, cracks his thick rawhide
whip, lashes his horses, and does
everything he knees that will in-
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feet bound and straining, head
twisted to one side in the supremo
torture of that terrible martyrdom.
"It is a grewsonce, fascinating
thing," writes Albert Bigelow Paine
in Outing, "and you go back to look
at it more than once and you slip out
between times for a breath of fresh
air. If I lived in Algiers and at
any time should sprout a little bud
of discontent with the present state
of affairs—a little sympathy with
the subjngated population --I would
go and take a look at Gernninu and
furtltwith all the discontent and the
sympathy would pass away and I
would conte out gloating in the
fact. that Franee can crack the whip
and that we t,f the West can ride
them down."
FIi1Si 11.1'I' %vi:illE tS.
--
Beginning of the. ('nstnrn Ira s
the Year 1$49.
Charles VII. on his triumi.innt
entry into Rouen in the year 149,
we are told, astcnirhed thew tole
city by appearing in it bat •
with red silk, and surniountt•d by
a plume of feathers. ft was the
first time the citizens had ever seen
a hat, says the London f.'hroni. le.
hrom this entry of Charles' into
Rouen the h-ginuing of the custom
of nearing hats in Europe is dated.
I; was all very well for the rich
citit.en to fellow the ',a
royaity, but when the
to sigh for similar Rile
regraded as a falling ay from
Grace. Priests or religious persons
were at last, forbidden to appear
abroad in : iirthing except "Chap -
tome( made of black cloth with de -
e( nt coronet,;."
:1 still more striking development
took place in the sixteenth e'en
tury. By the statute of 13 lit
hath every pert.ru shove the ,.
7 years, and ender a ceiti' n el
gree, was obliged on Surde:se an
holidays to "wear a woollen cap
lnade in England --amt fiutished
me a the fraternity cappers,
ender the penalty of three stii'lings
feurpet;.`e for c very day's neelcct
They under rtoorl her to a.: ftp• it n
live industry in those dey1'.
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