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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-11-09, Page 61 o+a+o+o+la+0+o+o+o+ta+O+la+o+o+ICE+o+ta+*+o+ia+ia+0 ♦ +1 0 0 t:E 0 0 0 THE STEWARD'S SON O ♦t)+fi+t f♦t f+0+0+O10+0+fa♦t f+O+o+ci+o+O+ti+%i+tJi+ti+o+t 1 CHAPTER X\ 1 1. Dead! In tho first moment of the disco" - cry the sensation of horror seemed to turn Guildford Berton to stone, and as he knelt, leaning, shrinking us fur buck as lio could from tho still body, it almost looked as if the hand of death had touched him too. Tho silunco was terrible; tho very dimness of tho room, in which the only light was that of the murky lantern, lent an additional terror to tho moment. Ile had not intet:ded to murder her; he told himself so over and over again in those first dreadful minutes. Ile had intended stupefying her only. and so preventing her leaving tho house until he had hit upon sotto Plan for stopping her from carrying out her threat of denouncing hint. At college he had dabbled in chemis- try. and the science, especially in its relations to subtle poisons, had a strange fascination for hint. tie loved power, and to possess a drug tho very effluvia of which should bo sufficient to overpower an adversary had a strange, weird charm for him. IIo was proud of the discovery of the drug which could do its horrible work so swiftly, silently, and aurely. Ile had not meant to kill her, and now sho lay dead at his feet! Gradually tho benumbed feeling passed away. and ho began to shake in every limb, and a terrible craving to look at her face possessed hitt. Crawling on his hands and knees, he lifted her head—shuddering as his hands touched her -and looked at her. Iter face—the (ace which he had once thought so pretty, which ho had once, and so short a time ago, al- most persuaded himself that he loved —seemed to look up at him reproach- fully. It was white 'with the white- ness of death, but so placid, so peace- ful that It might have been the facto of a person asleep. 1Vith a cry that was scarcely a cry so much as a wail, he put the head down and staggered to his feet. No roan is born bad, no man is wholly wicked. At that awful ma - :tient Guildford Iterton would have relinquished all his ambitions, it by doing so ho could bring Rocca to life again. Ho threw himself into a chair and, flinging his arms out upon the table, let his head fall upon then!, and surrendered himself to the deznon of remorse, not penitence, which is a very different thing. Presently tho dead, heavy silence began to weigh upon hit) liko a heavy weight; n ghastly desire to leap to his feet and break tho still - netts with a yoll assailed hits; and, feeling that his reason was going, he staggered clumsily to the decanter, and. lifting It to his lips with his shaking hands. drained it to the last drop. '. he wine steadied hint a little, anal he tried to think. For some tune his bruin spun round to the dull. sicken- ing tuno of "She's dead, she's dead!" but presently his mind grew clearer. How long she had been lying thero had looked up and down the Irma, be dict not know—it seemed hours to and had seen no one. The lane led him; but he know that the daylight directly to no other house than tho would bo peering through the holes in the window shutters directly, and that tiro old woman who waited up- on him would be coming down. Tho decd was dono beyond all un- doing. and it ho did not want to bo caught. like n rat in a trap, he must get rid of the body. He got to the further end of tho r , as fur away from it nr pcs>,i- ble, and, clasping his forehead. which was cold as ice, with his hands thut burned with fever heat, ho Died to think. What should he do? For one mo- ment a wild idea occurred to hint of sounding nn alarm, and accoIHnting for tho presence of the dead girl I relying that sho had intim down in a I:t. Rut the strange odor still clung about the roost, and oven the village doctor would bo possessed of suill- cient knowledge to contradict such an assertion. Ito tried to recall all the stories ho had rend of men who had been placed in a sittlarly dreadful post • - tion. but ho could think of no oast) parallel with his own. At last ho seized tho lantern and, carefully avoiding the still form, he wont out of the house by the back way and crossed tho garden. Ho felt butter, retire composed, in tho open air and away from the silent re- proach of his dread handiwork, and he could think. At tho end ut rho garden wan a heap of leaves which had boon swept up in tho preceding autumn and al- lowed to remain. Ho got a spa=te from the toolhouse anti, screening the lantern behind some bushes, ho care- fully artefully scraped tho leaves aside and Lo- gan to dig. And all the while he was at work— and he worked with the furious frenzy of a man digging for gold—he planned out his precautions a:;ainst detection. All sorts of possibilities tortured hint and turne:i the sweat that rolled down his faro into drops of ico. Sotno one might have seen her standing outside tho gate, and when sho was missed that sono one would costo forward with tho clew. Sho Wright have told some one whore she was going; she had been talking evidently confidentially, with Cyril Hurne, and might have told hien. !ler footsteps might bo tracked in tho dusty road. These and a hundred other suggestions tortured him, and drove hint almost mad, so that when his task was done ha staggered out onto the brink of the gravo and shook like a than in palsy. '!.'hen ho went back to the house— slowly, ns if every step worn loading him to his own grave. In an incredibly short time he had accomplished his dread task, and ho stood once again in the silent roost. with something clinched in the palm of his hand. It was Cyril's ring. which he had taken from Ilecca's finger. HIo held it so tightly that its pres- sure hurt him and reminded hitt that ho was holding it. Ito opened h::1 hand as if the ring bad turned to an asp and stung him, and let it fall upon the table. And- Litero he stood and stared at It, at first dully and vacantly. but presently with a more conscious gaze, Hu had hidden his victim frotn mortal eyes, but, more, much more, was required of 111111. In a few hours Recce would bo missed and inquiries would be made. Tho first question that would bo ask- ed would be: With whom was she seen last? Iio coVored his eyes with his hands. and thought keenly, acutely. Could he not invent some story based upon facts w•hich•would account for her ab- Fence? If any one had seen her standing at the gate, ho was lost. !tut ho re- membered o-membered that as be stood talking to her with the key in his hand, ho Cet SCOTT'S EimIsion V1then you go to a drug store and ask for Scott's Emulsion fou !•now what you vvstnt; the mast knows you ought to have It. Don't be surprised, though, If you are offered something else. Wines, cordials, extracts, etc., of cod liver ell are plentl• fl:l but don't Imagine you are getting cod liver oil when you take them. Every year for thirty years we've been Increasing the sales of Scott's Emulsion. Why? Because It has always been bettor than any substitute for It. Send tot free sample SCOTT • OOWNE. Chemists Toronto, Ont. Mae and $1.00. All druggists cottage;; it was unlikely that any one should have been passing. 'I'ho per- sons who were making rho hest of their way to the village. It was un- likely, too, that sho should have told any ono of her intended visit to him and its purport. if sho had told Cyril Hurtle, for instance. she would have been almost sure to tell hitt, Guildford Berton. that she had done s0 Probably no ono had seen Iter after she left the perk. In that care u& - most the last person with whom tete Weald have been seen was Cyril Burne himself. If ho could—his dark eyes began to flash—if ho could only contrive to saddle Cyril hurne with the murder! But an instant's reelection showed hits the futility of t ho idea. Cyril Hume would bo traced. and ho abto to clear himself, and— :iuddenty tho idea he bad bean searching for (lashed upon him. Why should the murder be discover- ed? Why should she not have di{aP- peered! Why sh•,uld she not have gone ofT w ith Cyril Durum himself? The blood roso to his fate, and he raised his head and drew a long breath. As a child puts into its place a vie - titre puzzle. his acute I;r.tin set to !cork at once at fitting tho incidents et the night into a consecutive sheet, to correspond with his hypothesis IIo took Cyril's letter from his pocket, and, spreading it out on the tattle, pored over it weed for word. Ile would le abeent for months: he had gone without a word—other then t hie letter—of explannt 1 en t 0 Norah. They were virtually separated, with this letter—while he-hld it'—us the dale's place to see if thero were any only link between them. letter beside his plate, thinking, hop - Let Norah be convinced that llecea ing that Cyril might have sent nor bed flown with Cyril Borne, and Out a line; but Lord 1•'crndale did net scpnratiOn would he complete. hated her a letter. and her spirits 1...- File :fine would bo too proud to write gen to droop, notwithstan•lhig taut to ('yril for nn ex(J.unation, and he. site assured herself that Cyril wou11 Guildford Berton, must by hook her he certain to call e'trly in (ho more - by crook inter( opt any letter from leg. Cyril to her. tint t ho morning par•se'I, and no Thu mental exertion served to des- letter and no Cyril apre,u•e 1, atul pet something of tho horror that pus- long before noon the roses had dint eeSsed him. He was fighting now. out of her face and she l:ccatno do - not only for Norah apd the Arro.v-o vourod be' an anxious longing to dale wealth, but for his own life. ire reach home. It was just possible trust guard every look, et ery wort that Ire had written to the Court, of his nen, must watch and w. igh see thought. every look. every word of others. The vnung people had broken u) 11 'ns he equal to t ho tusk, or should he seek snft•t y in flight? As he asked himself the twists el. the next one. •'Where should he fly?" arose to nmswer the first. There was no place now where n murderer could he 1.yertsl the reach of the dread arm of the law. DON'T KEEP HENS Make hens keep you. An increase of only two egi:t a month for each hen will mote than pay for the feeding of Hercules Poultry Food It w•iil give this increase, and more, besides giving the plumage a better gloss, and in every way keep- ing them in tip-top health. also making the chicks hardier. For the winter laying cf eggs there is nothing as good on thii or any other market. Keep your hens from fretting by using HERCULES LOUSE KIL- LER. Try it and see the difference in the weight and egg production. Nothing better for keeping the henhouse cic:n than CLYDES- DALE CARBOLIUE ANTISEP- TIC. All Clydesdale Preparations are sold tinier a POSITIVE GUAR- ANTEE OF SATISFACTION or money cheerfully refunded by the dealer. Ceenseneer. ;,rote roots Coe I.imited, 'reroute. No, Ito must remain and fight tho battle to the end. If ho could divert suspicion for two months, much might happen to render discovery im- possible. in two months he might oven succeed in whining Norah. in two months Cyril himself might be dead. Ho shuddered as he remember- ed how tho longing to kill Cyril hue come over hits the last timo Cyril was in the cottage. Was he a homi- cide by instinct? The hours crept by as he sat in the silent roost in the tomb-liko ltous?, scheming and plotting, and at last, unable to think any longer, ho took the lantern and went upstairs to his bedroom. with us for a day or two; I'm surd l.ord Arrowdulu 1+111 not mind." Norah declined; and Lady Ferndale, seeing that there was some reason for her persistence, at lust yie'dod and ordered tho carriage, arid Nurah started. "(food -by, dear," said Lady Fere- ditto. "1 don't know what your host of admirers will say when they cull this afternoon and turd you ha • o flown. What shall I say to th t►? Oh. by the tray, Norah, %so have de- cided to ask Mr. Cyril Rurno to paint it picture fur us. 1 Wunder whether 1 ho will cull to -day.", It was nil innocent remark. but r��3Z/c1L4E,»'1S4 re's©�© �t,ll *.tESCIL -- -1:a01:31 Norah had hard Bork to leo;, the, QE3,11-11:-4..8 i' ing all lit'#.r-Z- color lrotn corning into her face, and it was lucky for her Out }ho car- Sold only in Lend pa.kets. Wettest Award riago started as sho murmured a eoc- enc_ and hoc. per lb. By all grectrs. St. Louts 1904 half -audible r0:ponso' and all tho �""-- way home she tormented herself with the thought that after all, perhaps, tiro had butter have roma nest a'. Ferndale. as Cyril might cull in tho afternoon. When sho had reached home, her I first question was whether any let - I tern had conte for her. There were no totters for her lady- ship, the butler replied, and Norah was going up to her room with a deeper sinking of the heart, when tho earl canto out of tho library. "Well, Norah," he said, making het. flog cholera and swine too plague are ' have access, or in which the dead a little bow, "you halo got back. I the chief germ diseases that afflict carcasses have been thrown. They um afraid you have tired yourself striae, writes I'rof. 'Phomas Shaw. 11 i may be carried on the fret of dolly with your exertions." he added, ns would be correct to say of the lirat for pigeons or other birds that may ho noted her paleness and lassitude.that it causes greater lois to swine. have conte in contort with thou. "It must havo been a terribly trying lgrowers than all other swine ells - They aro carried on the boots or shoes of men. They are brought by swine which have comp in contact with then! in {(ars. In fact, they corn Stales tho losses run into would seem to bo liko the pestilence the millions, although the germ is ifo looked at lwr with son:e'.Icing I that walks in lionclarknees. They conte known and although it is known almost like pride in his Oyes, fur }ria. i as it were without anyone knowing popularity, trod tl:o ndnniratiou ‘se„ now it docs its work. It has boon bury, but without anyone knowing, had received, had flattered his 'found impossible to eradicate it en- how, but without arty quest tun, vanity.I tirely owing to a lack of Tea Delight 4Cf c-Dzr] a zi. FZL�} Y • ei� ® '`X era f3, 1.r a I. € €L t�1 EAMILici 'r♦ .-yvT, N , , , f1'YYYT'r44. 4. 1. .4. 4 - ♦ About the farm tho opposite and also certain kinds of feeding and virulence in tho die case. Ilut there is probably eves a greeter difference in results arising from a difference in the character of the germ. According to Reynolds there aro no fewer than six varieties of the hog cholera bacillus and those ♦ ♦ dilTor in tho degrees of their vino +++♦♦♦♦+♦♦t♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦++ Ience. Tho germs come through various GERM DISEASES AND SWINE. sources. They they be carrier by streams to which the intccted swine day. The few hours I was there ex- hausted enc." "I think I am a little tired, papa." she said. eases put together. It is a veri- table scourge to tho swine industry. In a single season in surto of the t 1 fari t guunco however. they come, they costo as c• "You had bet' .r go and Ito down :and unity of action on the part of for a few hours,"• ho said, in a muco f swine growers. It has been made a kindly tont than usual. "I will send1sourco of constant study by the best you a glusa of wino." I veterinary talent in 1Ite land during Norah was in tho condition to he recent yearn, and yet no entirely should have the run of a large field moved by any show of tenderness, es- l practicable method has been found to lesson the chances of infection. ci II from hits and her esew by which the animal may bo made 'They should bo kept on a moderate germ. When the disease appears the well animals should at once be separated from tho sick. If possible they po a y tilled with tears as she vent up tho' proof against the disease. The man stairs. who discovers this will be deserving While she was taking off her out- of the best honor that his country 1 door things Harman entered, and in can bestow. her quiet way came to her assistance. Ilog cholera is in a marked degree Norah did not notice that Harman a disease that affects rho bowels. bait had not spoken to her as sho entered of course other organs nro also at - or that sho was more silent ov 'n fected. Tho bowels become ulcerated than usual, ami, happening to glance to a considerable extent. In some at her, she was startled by tho ex- cases, dark blood-stained spots ap- pression of the woman's face. who I pear in tho large intestine and in looked as if sho wore in some trou- ble, and had been crying, and Nora,' turned to her with ready sympathy. "What is the matter, Harman?" sho asked. Tho woman's face quivered, and she dropped her eyes, but sho replied In a low voice: "Nothing, my lady." Norah did not liko to seem obtrtt• side of tho forelegs. TIte animals sive, and sho waited until Harman become very stupid and refuse food. was on the point of leaving the room In some instances the disease works before she spoke again. very rapidly. In less than 21 hours "I'm afraid you have one of your from •rho manifestation of the first bad headaches," she said. "No Harman symptoms, the animal attacked will mind about my things," for Harman be dead. Lt other hn ;tams s the dis- hed sono dresses on her arra. "(to and lie down in your own room, and ease works so slowly that Lh•t rod- ent' 1 want any olio I will send fur mal will linger for months before Ilecca." the indications of stere recovery bee '1'h amu left her lips rcluctanlly, comes apparent. Su•eh animals, some instances clots of blood. 'rho ulcers in the living rnernbrune of the large intestine aro very numerous and tho lungs frequently show evi- dences of pneumonia. Among rho external indications are a deep red or purple tint of the skin on those parts of the body where the hair is thin. as on the flanks or in - e n Tho room was at the back of the and her color rose as she pronounced however, should bo slaughtered ns house and instinctively he walked to it, for ever since Iast night she had they aro not worth very touch si:b- the window and peered down into the been regretting the impulse whi.h.sequently, as a rule, and during the ic41 her to baro anything to do with whole time that they are aGcrtcd garden. How long he looked at the heap of leaves which hid its awful secret ho did not know, but presently ho foe. tho roost spin round, and, stagger- ing, he fell full length across the be 1. CIIAPTER XXIIi. Norah woke with a bad headache and a worse heartache; and, as is tho may with women, she began to make excuses for the lover whom she hid treated so coldly tho night L•ofore. There, may have been some reason for his long absence and silence. Sh.r had treated hits so coldly that it tins little wonder he had avoided her; ata as to tho scene hetecen hint and Itcccu—well, Norah found itin►purei- ble to explain that away, but as Lady Ferndale's maid brushed the long red -gold tresses, Norah tried t Iind sortie excuse oven for what she had seen pass between Recce and Cyril. Recce sho knew was a flirt, and the love -making. if love making it vats, must baro been altogether on her side. L1 short, her love, strong and pas- sionate, overcame her jealousy an 1 resentment as all true love must, and by rho time tho breakfast bell rang sho had gone a long way to forgiv- ing Cyril. and was simply lunging to se+ or hear from hien. 1110 house was full of visitors, an 1 their talking and laughing scented to till the place. 'My clear,' said I.:tdy Ferndale, :a she put her arm round Norah and kissed her affectionately, "no Hera to ask how yon aro. Von look ns bri•,ht too gtrc. "Recce, my lady—" began Har- man, and Norah saw that she turned even paler than l:efore, and had sane diflculty in retires-ing L•er tears. "Recce is not hero this horning, my laity." "Not here?" said Norah, coldly; same Is true of the diherence in nc- "I suppose sho is tired after last tion in different herds. Sometimes night's gayety. It docs not matter, only a part of the animals aro af- 1 shall not want her; and please do fected, in other instances scarcely an not send for her." animal escapes attack or lives. "No. my lady," raid Harman, al- Sometimes the losses aro not nearly most inaudibly; then shu seemed to so -serious. Generally, however, they linger and hesitate, and nt last sho aro serious. '!'hero differences arise they are a source from which ais- ease germs may bo scattered. DEGREES OF V1itUI4I' NCt:. The disease differs greatly in its virulence. Some seasons it is much more severe than others, and the said, tremulously, "your ludehip hasn't. heard, then?" "Heard what?" eeked Norah. from two Causes. The first is the difference in condition in the animals at the time of the attack. The sec- "i—I beg your heel}ship's pardon; old is the difference in the nature I thought you had heard." of the germ. It has been noticed, "1 have heard nothing," slid Norah first, that swine fed largely on pas - the indefinable dread growing more lure. field roots and nitrogeneous distinct. "Is it anything about foods arc much less subject to the Decca. Iinrnuut?" disease than those feel almost en - "Yes, my lady; Berea is lost." tircly on corn and that with the Norah stared nt her in silent ns- latter the disease is much more t•ie- tcnishtnent for it second or two; then ,lent. she echoed the words in amazement.I It has been noticed that in sea - Herman?". lust! What du you )Wean. sons where (rash corn Is ted with. "1-1 beg ourr ladyship's pardon touch freedom the disease is usually for troubling you," laid poor Iiar- more virulent than at other times. noun, humbly. " 1 shouldn't have it is thus very evident that there mentioned it just ret a white if—if is some relation het ween stamina cr your IaiIv ldii hadn't spot en about her; but Recce has disappeared, my lathy." "Do you mean to say that fleece is not to be found?" "Vee, toy lady." "She is not in the Court, and sho is not at home with h •r grandfather, and I have sent to loo!: for her all over tl•e village; but sho rennet ho and fresh as ono of he roses. Aro found." you quite rested? Conte and sit near "Oh. but you should not worry m0." yourself needlessly, Harman. i'erhnns Exchanging salutations, Norah sho stayed with some friends at Fern - went to her place, and. amid the dale." chiller and laughter e f the young "'('hero isn't any ono in Ferndale people, breakfast commenced. she knows well enough to stny loth, Norah looked toward lord Fern- my lady, and if she had sle; t the night nt Ferndale, she would hn•.e been sure to come home early this morning." "'Then what has become of her?" said Norah. ..t can't think. my lady. Berea is Giddy nr.d Olcht%, but 1 don't thin'c she'd stay out all night away from her grandfather unless--" "Unless what, lharrnnn?" asked Norah. as the woman hecsitated. '•1 nle:•s she'd keen forced) to, thy Indy. Norah sat and thought with knit brows. All night. Bocce had haunted her, and she had drended to steel her and to speak 1 0 her. and now the girl Iind disnppenre'l! (To be Continued.) into groups, some to play tennis and others to ride or drive, owl Lady Ferndale pressed `orate to join one of thein. and was tilled with dlsmny when she declared that she roust •;o bock to the•'Ceurt before Itincheon. "ilut why should you go so soon. tear?" sho remonstrated. "Stay Lurking for opportunit left hun- dreds of thousands of miles away, instead of right where you are.-- Mtlece'Ss. dict of food reasonably succulent. Those that die should bo promptly burned or buried, not less than 3 or 4 feet, so that no animal can un- cover them. Those badly affected should be slaughtered unless they re• cover speedily. it is apparently use. less to give treatment, although some think differently. It is a sin- gularly fatal disease under some conditions and a troublesome ono is any case, hence no pains should tie spared in guarding against the la• feet ion. SWINE PLAGUE. Swine plague is much like hog cholera in its symptoms, and though less common is about equally fatal._ when it appears. Among the early symptoms of both diseases are thus high color of skin already referred to. The hair becomes harsh, the eyes sunken and frequently watery, and the locomotion of the hind legs weak and irregular. After a tins the skin of the ears becomes much Inflamed and sometimes sloughs off. In swine plague. however, coughing and heavy breathing aro touch moro marked than in hog cholera. The centro of the disease in swine plague is rather in the lungs, while in hog cholera it is in the bowels. 'rho treatment for both is much the sane. There is another kind of cholera. according to Reynolds, which can hardly be called a germ disease, in the sense in which the two diseases discussed above are germ diseases. It arises from an uncleaned and 111 - cared for swill barrel. Germs do• velop, it may be, under certain con- ditions of weather which cause s disturbance of the digestion in some or in all the hogs to which it it fed. iiog cholera germs may live tot three and oven four months, hence i1 swine nro to ho brought into the rho old quarters within a shorter period. thorough disinfection st be given. Corrosive sublimate dis- solved in mater in the proportion of 15 grains to each quart of water will answer well. Whitewash will also answer, made by using water that contains 4 per cent. pure car- bolic acid. A.—I visited my native place last week. 'Thought I tvhntld show my old schoolfellows haw pio.perous I had been since I left home." 11.— "i)id they scent Io appreciate your rise in the world?" A —"Well, 1 should say s0. Almost every man 1 !net wanted to borrow a dollar. 111r. 1111::- in n.: t 00 ear :n a n e of a :,igo ; t li'..c (bis?"