HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1884-3-27, Page 2LOSTFOR A "OMAN all stolen from ltta'axii Wsiesy, Rene + now ?"' demands Snowball, u a resentful
-Zaouits, and a blacltberry tart 1 The tone. "I do think, Rene, you aro the
-- - stupidest
ttoeaeteedbasket isfull-#fill I packed it myself.stupidest olhatevrWere
BY MAY All' j' I?I.1r;,fll\U, Its for our lunch. And the raspberries rioted:
AV MOE: or
"• Silent and True"," " A .31ad- J. ar-
live," One Night's Mystery,"
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PART I.
axe thick -thick, Reno, over on the ' p ", Thanks' I mean for self and books,"
Banns, Johnny was them yesterday, retorts 'Moue, "you, who never open a {
and says so. And Weesy is going to . book, are a judge, of course."
make jam, and says we can have rasp- ' ", what is that
berry shortcake every evening for a ", Shal•espeare's tragedies, madena.
week. For a week --think of that oiselie."
She is fairly dancing with "germ's' : R, The will be another oth tragedy in
as she speaks, her great bine eyes :Hash .this boat infive minue tes # youe den
y v like stars, her whole piquant, spirited ; pita it in our pocket. book at that sb
• In'ninee►,rt,ke #s the „mated lad faoeaglnzv anti flushed. Fare^ple.0--pp y p y'
Rene -
01(4 I tees looked 4;y' look at this sea feel this velvety wind
Siren ADO ABorT :iliriiu o.
Where is Johnny?" repeats . im-
patiently the vision in flaxen curls and
sailor suit ; '" is he upstairs ? I - can't
Rene, the phlegrnatic--eateh a lt�'e3 freshening, and see yourself,ar great
of her enthusiasm. Raspberry sl*„..' . ; hobbledehoy, who can sit anread dull
cake every day for a , ce l;. a m •r • old English murders in the face of it all!
berry jam for ever after' 1'. e a -,. • • •
staggers -he hesitate, . i5 !o ; ; I suppose, you are at Macbeth ; I think
Lady Macbeth would have been a splen-
find bun, He isn't anywhere, and he "bo cone !” reiterates Snowball, and . did wife for you, Rene,"
said -yon heard him, yourself last night, eyes and lips, and clasped hands repeat Rene grunts, assent or dissent, as she
Ma'am 'ii eesv'''--'.in; shrill indignation- likes to take it, and reads on.
'• you Mina, say lie would take nae the prayer. She looks lovely as, she „Stern, and sulky, and horrid, Oh,
y . y stanels in that beseeelung attitude, but Rena --be good-natured for once -only
oat in the l;oixle-de;-neige this forenoon, it is not her beauty, nor her entreating r'
And now it is past eleven o'clock and I tone thin, inoses tits obdurate Rene -it for once -by way of a change, auci shoe
can't find Irina. Johnny, John•ne-ee," is the sweet prospect of shortcake and , up„iliat book, and talk like a Christian,
the shrill tones rise to an ear-splitting ant. ; do,
7" " \Well. • lie se •s, condescendingly,�, `" Like a noodle, if I talk to you. It k
don't a;ire if I do. It's always esier 4 is polite to adapt one's conversation tc+
a c era her ears with her ane. v fel+lir t: than rowing with your and p•ipa, ' ago•s company.
shriek,
"" Alt, ;Woe Dieu," cries out old Weesy,
doY thhurtle.
" Mademoiselle leave the kitehon-- told mkt: to Levy you anal Jasas out of i riot. Itis Crista to tall, rubbish. Speech
leave directly, I $ay. I will not be deaf. miselli!'I whenever I Rot a cbauri :" s is silver, silence is gold."•
erred like ti}i;. You mut not come lie a, elcuiler. c#ark•siannod, dark- ' „ ,
screaming at e like a seagull, it is not eyed, l re irch Eookiug boy, very like his joyfully dere -- Johnny, cries Snowball,
to eaam
borne; your • vol •o w s ; now we will haw,. a tittle
eis ore titan dead C.ut,t.h.eu mother-e.ut exseri; + rationalo
t' -f which.
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the steam whistle down at the Point in hantKonte, aud yet sufficiently attrac- 3 niem''I sometimes '.Qon ler what I ` "� �'��t•
hero. i Jean
to St. Gildas tis'. with that broad, pale forehead, and { should do without Johnny. If I bad to ..lam' ►Y��Sa fog. p Satins, oilA' ��,1ral�r�jr'�+
y' thane (lark, !e#ntitz",us eves. All cert of live l � • " -f i 1 this - ' •!
right after breakast, and has notyet re• ta, t,. -i had to life on t is w and .
misty, dream?' ideas float behind that i alone with von. Ilene, do you know what
thoughtful -looking brow; he is quite a
"" To St. Gildas�?"" .repeats the sruag /mollies. ane i , rt' and talent, teat boy •,•i hat volt would drive we to jump over
turned." ., • would ha"p,au? ,
of ' l t tel t head
t
Person in blue. and an expreseton of of St. I•'auci~ College, over at St. Glides,
Dry ssa c 'oo4s, Flannels,
blank despair crosses the sunlit' thee: where be and his brother tiro students Headland Point to escape your overlent. t Hosier3 ' and Gloves
leg chatter, I dare say; ' says Reno,
Themshe
books at Ma'aui Weesy and There's Johnny, now !" cries Snow- „ That you would drive me into xael- ;
*• 1 don't believe it,$' she says.
promtly.
" It is true, nevertheless, xua'azuselle,
I wanted coffee and sugar andlte offered
to go. Rut he must be back by now it
is hour:, siul'C Ito went. Go down to the to ;;o to :+t. Gilds:+, and never tell me."
Point and call. M'sieur Rene, at least, ',Hadn't time:,"' responds �I;i�tcr } of son my hair,
outtrailing
tuaafter, siugiug Wheals .1
i, sura to be there."Jboohuuy. resting to d the ,;sutra -ale f his ; Souuthiug in tide picture tickles
't , .� wanted her groeertes in no end a a humor latent iu Dr.;facdonald's eldest'
I want Johnny. I t.tutl. it is horrid hurry. Pan here xxow, though; what do w
brightens bIl t f
tt . nt aeecu s n exquisite delight. Slto 1 socio#,Pathless with s'1 i
bounds re miniut.ry, Mantles, Wool Goods, Furs, and a lot of bailey
our dismal books. Fane •aurzelf ' ' � z .
drops the basket :and bouTdl fleet t y vour y J ee .cue
r „
calls, Pre e 1 e e tt looting for you every- in a black velvet dressuig gown. and
where. and cattiest until I ant hoarse. me, like 3 gloomy Ophelia, with a
How could you be so awfully horrid as wreath of sua•ilowers and sea -weed in '
as a raw"' ", n +nut'.. o bony , °11° Stalking about like your favorite Hamlet, Goods suitable for the season.
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•" I don't want M'sieur Rene," ilaya at, the leu c- e•neige. "woes)"d the not too easily aroused souse of ;
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mademoiselle, ill utt a� •ressive tone. • ,
SS SI6gS •• .
N1�,N LINES (I�
of you, Ma'am Weetea to go bonding hire • you want?"
John �1acdouald is fourteen years okl,
and is at this moment, pierliape, the
haudsoinctit boy in Canada. Ilis face is
simply beautiful, He is handsomer
even, in his boyish fashion, than the
for auger and things, when you might
know 1'd want Itnu. You might have
sent old Tom. Aud uow it is fourteen
minute, past eleven, and the beat of the
*lay gone. Yon wait until you want me
to shell peas for you, or rake clams, and pretty girl who stands beside him. He
you'll see." is not ut the least like hist brother; he
With which dark threat this young is taller at fourteen thau Bene at six -
person crushes her sailor bat with some teen -he is fair, like his Scottish fore -
asperity down on her pale gold curls, fathers, with sea•gray eyes, and a face
and turus despondently to go. perfect euou;;h, in form aud color, for
Ma'am Weesy looks after her with a au ideal god. Isis hair light brown, iro-
chuckle; it is not always she can got fuse aud curling. his skin is tanned b
rid of her thus easily, and a gad -fly
about the kitchen would be less of a
torment over her work thau anademoi-
sello.
Mademoiselle, meautime, recovers her
spirits with great rapidity, the moment
raho is out of the house, and starts off at
racing speed, despite the blazing sun, to
the Point. It is a hirty peak, at the ex.
tremo outer edge of a projecting tongue
of land, ovorlooldug the bay and the
sou.
Rather to the surprise of Snowball,
i who does not mean to be funny, he
throws back his dark head, and lau ;Its
outright. Aud Ilene Macdonald has a •
woutk'rfully pleasaut and mellow laugh.
•
What's the joke ?" asks Johnny, '
bearing down upon them rapidly. "" Got
the basket. Snowball? Yes, I sea. ,
Bear a hand, Reno, old boy. Hooray,
off she goes !"
The boat slips easily off the shelving
beach, and out into the shining waters ;
of .Say C'halotte. A fresh breeze hag
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and a certain simplicity and amen -
and l 1 flies r
in the teeth of the brisk breeze.
.Johnny is past.iusster in the art of
handling a heat; he and his batteau aro
known everywhere, for 'miles along the
coast. He has been a toiler of the sea
ever since he was seven }'Cars old.
"You didn't tell Weosy, did you?"
asks Snowball, as they fly along at a
spanking rate.
""She didn't ask me," answers Johnny.
I told her we were all going out for a
sail, and wouldn't bo back until dark.
She east a. grateful look at St. Aloysius,
over the chimney, and murmured a
prayer of tbanicsgtvieg. Have you
brought tin pails for the berries ?-yes,
I see ---all right."
They .fly along. And presently Snow-
ball, lying idly over the side, her sailor
hat well back on her head, defiant alike
of sun and wind, breaks into a song, and
presently Johnny joins in the chorus.
It is a sailor's song -a monotonouschant
the French sailor's sing along the
wharves of St. Gildes, as bey coildown
ropes, and the two fresh young voices
blend sweetly, and float over the sum-
mer waters. And still a little later
Rene pockets his book, and his clear
tenor adds force to the refrain as they
rapidly increase the distance between
sciousness of his own good looks lends a
last
Omen to a face that veins all hearts
at sight.
"" What do I wa.ut ?" repeats Snowball,
fixing two reproachful eyes on the placid
countenance before her ; " that's a ques-
tion for you to sit there and ask without
e blush, isn't it ?"
town, across the river, and all boat,, "" Don't see anything to blush about,"
o
passing up or down. If the missing hot orto gots t to y�Chapeau D eu, if that's
Johnny ix on sea or shore, mademoiselle what's the matter. The sun is a blazer
is determined he shall know she awaits on the water, lot mo toll you."
him and hasten his lagging steps. So ""Oh, Johnny," in blankest disappoint.
h racist, *"dearest Johnny, don't say so.
standing erect on liar lofty pert , over-
looking the vasty deep, she uplifts her And after all the trouble I've had, too -
strong young voice, and fixing the loveliest lunch -chicken -pie,
" Johnny 1 Johnny -y! Johnny -371' I" tarts and everything ! Oh, Johnny,
pierces the circumambient air. Even don't back out at the last minute."
the sea -gulls pause in consternation as Tears spring into the bluo, beseeching
they listen. oyes, the handshasp again, she stands
„ " Good heaven 1" cries a voice, at last. a picture of heRtt-broken supplication
Stop that awful row, Snowball. Your before him.
shrieks are enough to wake the dead." « Oh, all right," says Johnny, who
The speaker is a youth of sixteen or bates tears. "' wouldn't cry about it
so, stretched in the shadow of the great if I were you. Where's Ilene ? Shinning
rock on which the girl stands, his hat up the' tree of knowledge, as usual, I
called over his eyes, trying to read. su ose."
Vain effort, with those maddening cries "' He's coming, too. Johnny, you're a
for Johnny rending the summer silence. darling 1" cries Snowball, iu a rapture;
Snowball glances down at him, and " don't let us loso a minute ; the lunch
her only answer is a still more ear-
splitting and distracted appeal for the
lest and longed -for " Johnny."
" They may wake the dead if they
like," she says, disdainfully, " but they
needn't wake you. I don't want you. I
want Johnny."
" Yes, 'I hear you do," retorts the
reader. " You always do want Johnny,
don't you ? You want Johnny a good
deal more than Johnny ever wants you.'
It is an uncivil speech, and, it may be
remarked here, that the amenities of
life, as passing between M. Rene Mac-
donald and Mlle. Snowball Trillon, aro
taestiy of an acid and acrid character.
• Open.rnpture, indeed, is often imminent,
and is only avoided by the fact that the
young lady is constitutionally unable to
retain indignation for over five minutes
at any one time. Her reply to this par-
ticularly ungallant speech xs one of her
very sweetest smiles - a smile that
dances in the blue eyes, and flashes out
two rows of small pearl -white teeth.
" Look here, Rene," she says, "I wish
you would come, too. You'll make your-
self as blind as a bat, if you keep on over
books forever and ever. I think I see
-Johnny and the batteau coming across,
and we're going to Chapeau Dieu for
raspberries. Do -do put that stupid
book in your pocket," impatiently, and
come."
" It isn't a stupid book," says Rene
Macdonald, " and berrying is niuoh too
hard work this scorcher of a day. You'll
inveigle Johnny into a sunstroke if you
don't take care."
" Look here I" repeats Snowball, and
comesdashing down the steep side of
the cliff like a young chamois: The last
live feet She Makes with a flying leap,
and lands like a tornado at the, lad's
side. " Just look here ! '
She produces from a hiding -place a
basket -a market -basket of noble pro-
portions, whips off the cover, and die.
plays the contents.:.
"Sandwiches," she says, with unction,
", made of minced veal and ham, lovely
and thin -cold chicken pie, pound cake
basket is here. It is half -past eleven -
we ought to have been off two hours
ago."
"I must go up to the house with the
bump, says Johnny, unmoved by all
this adulation. '" You and Rene can
pile in and wait. I won't be a minute."
Don't tell Weesy where we're going,"
calls Snowball after him; " she hates
me to go berrying, because I tear my
clothes ILA stain my stockings. Aud,
for goodness sake, hurry up. It will bo
two o'clock now before we get there, do
your best."
" Which I'm not going to do it, in the
present state of the thermometer," re-
sponds Johnny, leisurely taking up his
parcels, and leisurely departing. Ho is
never in a hurry, this boy, and is thbre-
by a striking contrast to Snowball, who
always is. Extremes meet indeed, in
their case, for they are as utterlyeanlike
in most ways, as boy and girl can well
be. In all conflict of opinion between
them, it may be added, mademoiselle
invariably comes off victorious'. It is
always easier, as Reno has said, and as
Johnny knows, where shc;is concerned,
to yield than to battle. Not that Reno
ever yields -he and Snowball fight it
out to the bitter end, and Rene will be
minded, or know the reason why.
The batteau is large for that sort of
boat, carries a smallsail,, is a beauty in
her way. and the idol of : young John
Macdonaid's heart.
" She walks the water like a thing of
life," he is fond of quoting, azing at
her 'with glistening eyes, aid it is the
only:poetry he is ever guilty of quoting.
She iapainted virgin, white, is as Olean
and dry as old Weesy's kitchen, and
carries her name in . gilt letters on her
stern, "Boule.dc-neige." The original
Boole -de -neige, with Rene," piles in "
according to the skill/tees orders, and
with the precious basket stowed away,
sit and wait his toturn.is Snowball taps
impatiently with one.alim,sandaled foot.
Rene impassively reads.
"' Wbat tiresome book have yon got
and away the pretty ou e-ue•nergo
themselves and Isle Perdrix.
"Where areyou going toland,Johnny?"
he asks, at length. "At Sugar Scoop
beach, I auppese ?"
" No, dont, Johnny," cuts in Snowball,
who is nothing if not contradictory,
"land at Needle's Point, like a good
fellow."
" Sha'nt," returns Johnny. " don't
want to stove a hole in the bottom of
,the batteau. Needle's Point, indeed !
the worst bit of beach all along Chapeau
Dieu. Catch me!"
"But I say you shale'!" cries Snow-
ball, sitting up, and violently excited
all in a moment. "You must. Never
mind the batteau-at least she won't
get a hole in her. If you land at Sugar
Scoop we will have two full miles to
walk to Raspberry Plains -two -full -
miles," says mademoiselle, gesticulating
wildly, "in this blazing hot sun. Where-
as, if you land at Needle's Point—"
' " Thee Boule-de-neige is ruined for,
life," interposes Rene. "Don't you
mind bor, Johnny; she's always a little
cracked."
" You must mind me, Johnny 1 If yen
land at Sugar Scoop T -I'll sit right
here !" cries Snowball, 'vindictively.
"1'11 never stir. And I'll keep the
lunch basket -it's mine, anyhow -I put.
it up. • ' And I'll eat everything ! I
won't walk two miles. It's nearly two
o'clock now; it would be four when we
got there. We would just have time for
one look et the berries, and then march
back again l You shall land at Needle's
Point, or you needn't land at all.
There!" •
Johnny shrugs his shoulders resign-
edly. When
esignedly..;When the torrent of Snowball's
angry eloquence floods hinn after this
fashion, Johnny always gives up. Any-
thing for a quiet • life, is his peaceful
motto. But the belligerent fire awakes•
within the less-yielding.Rene. • .
"Johnny," he .says,•in an ominously
quiet Mono, " let' us pat her ashore," in.
Continued on 3rd pag
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