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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1915-3-25, Page 6The Government Slogan: "PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM PR DU TIO ." , tx Plant REN D Sena, a osta.l for cat ". RENNIE CO. LIMITED. ADELAIDE and. JARVIS. STREETS, TORONTO, ONT. Also. at Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver. . 1 li. The Laity o > . master Ors Leonora West's Love. CHAPTER I. Old Lady Lancaster had twenty theme and pounds a year of her own. She had broiigh14 that nib dower when she came ,* `te'°lter neatand, the late Lord Lancaster, and now, when he was dead, and she a ehlldless widow, she was like the Martha .•Role s :rit-este was troubled over many dings: The possession of great wealth usually entails trouble, it is said, and Lady Lan- caster's ease was no exception to the rule. The grea.teet anxiety she had was that she could not decide what the would do with her fortune when she died. She was eighty years old, and although she dict not want to die, she knew that she would have to do so some day, and she wanted to make her will before that gruesome event. The title and estates of Lancaster had descended to the late lord's nephew. young Clive Lancaster. It .Was but a her - ren honor, after all, for there was no money to support the dignity of the posi- tion. The deceased incumbent had been a spendthrift, and so had hie father be- fore him. Tbey had dissipated all the property that was not strictly entailed with the title, and the present heir had little to live on except his pay as a cap - lath in the army, where he etiil remained after his accession to the title, while at bis express wieh and desire Lady Lancas- ter still reigned lady paramount at has ancestral home, and kept up its wonted dignity and state. She said the should leave all her money to Captain Lancaster it he married to please her. If not—and the shook her gray head ominously, not to say viciously, et this point, and re- mained silent. Lancaster Park was one of the liveliest ',hese in Devonshire, tie Devonshire ie one of the loveliest counties in England. It seemed almost a pity that the young Lord could not afford to marry and bring home it beautiful bride to grace his state- ly !tome. No one doubted but that when the time came he would espouse the bade lits aunt selected for him. It would be Molly. it would be madness. if he refueed. Pio cane supposed that the handsome young soldier could be capable of such rash - nese. He did not dream of anything but obedience himself. He only hoped that it would be a very pretty girl whom his aunt chase for him, and ale° that the matrimonial hour was yet in the dim dis- tance. He was only five -and -twenty, and he did not care to surrender his bachelor freedom yet. He wee amazed and con- founded, therefore, when in a year after his uncle's death Lady Lancaster eent him one of ber ehareeteristio letters -- Ishort and to the point: "My Dear Clive" -she wrote—"try and 'get leave to come down to Lancaster Park for a month or so this fall. 1 bc,ve in- 'rited a lot of people for that time, among them the girl I have chosen for you. Do not fail me. Delays are dengeroue." It was rather a command than a re- quest, and the last •words•sounded• like a threat. The young lord-oaptaln was tak- en by storm. Ills heart sunk to the bot- tom of his tall cavalry boots. He did not want to'be niftreied off•hAnd like that. He secretly rebelled against it forced surren- der of bis soldierly freedom, even though he gained twenty thousand pounds it. year in exebange for it. He took counsel with his chum, young Harry De Vere, who was a soldier, too, "I'm ower young to marry yet," he said, "How shall I outwit the old lady's deeigns upon me?" "Come over to America with me," said Lieutenant De Vere. "I have leave of ab- sence for six months. You can get it, too, by the asking. 1 am going over to the States to spend my holiday. I should be delighted to have you for it com- panion.•' The idea took hold of Captain Lancas- ter's imagination immediately. "I will go with you," he said. "I have always intended to make the 'tour of the United States, and if I do not go before I ani married, it le not likely I shall do so afterward: I will write to my aunt to Postpone her matrimonial designs a lit- tle while longer." He wrote to Lady Lancaster that he was very sorry indeed to disappoint her, but that he had made a meet positive engage- ment to go over to the Suttee neat month with his friend Harry De Vere, and now the young fellow would not let him off, but as soon as they returned he should be at her ladyship's command, etc., ete. Lady Lancaster was profoundly annoy- ed and chagrined at her nephew's letter. She did not want to postpone the consum- mation of her favorite scheme. But she wisely concluded to bear with the inevit- able this time. She wrote to the truant lord that she would excuee him this once, but that he must be ready to fall in with her plans next time, or it might be worse for him. Her fortune was not likely to go a-begg%ng for an owner. CHAPTER II. Captain Lancaster got leave end went off in triumph with Lieutenant De Vere to the United States. When he had put the ocean between himself and bis match- making relative, be breathed more freely. "I can count on one year more of single blessedness now, I hope," he said. "I do not suppose my aunt will try to have me married off by cablegram or a telephone while I ant absent." Dgg'y ere laughed at hie friend's self -core gr"atttlateaes. "I never saw any one so unwilling to accept a fortune before," he saide rt ie not the fortune I object to—it is the encumbrance I must take with it,' replied Captain Lancaster. "':►olild a• wife be regArded tie en in- c+nm?zlance?" inquit'ed the other, with a .remits. ,"That would depeuxl upon whether she were one one ehoice or e'oleebotly elsa to I can not imagine old Lady L u:castec' se heating en ideal vette for me.,, "All the awns yen 15111 :WOO the one she i rovidee for you. It Would be mad- nees indeed to I-rile:w ; eAtci hie friend, "Weil, well, we will••not diet ues it, May the evil day be yet far off," responded Lanceeter, fervently, Woe unto him if her ladyship, far way under English skies, could have heard hie regrets, or htwo known that he had tak- en hie trip solely to stave off the evil day of his lnerriage, as he considered it. She was vexed over it. While 8110 doomed it an accident, she would have been furious- ly angry, could she have known it to Have been deergn: At home elle was eating her heart out .with impatience and wexatiou, end eagerly counting the weeks and months es they rolled anvay, thinking that each one brought her nearer to hie return and to the accomplishment of her cherished scheme;• The months elided by, and at length the winter war past and spring was at hand. It was April—that tender, timid month, with its violets and deletes- Lady Lancaster's heart beat more lightly. She had had a recent letter from the travel- er, He wrote that he woeld, 'b'e at home by the first of June. She began to lay her plane accordingly. She would have 'a merry party at the Park to welcome him home, and he should make up hie mind then. There was no time for delay. She sent for tho housekeeper to come to her immediately. She wanted to make all her arrangements at once, and she could do nothing without consulting Mrs. West, the model housekeeper who had ruled at Lanoaster Park for sixteen years My lady grew impatient while she sat in her great velvet arm -chair and waited,for the woman's coming, Bier email black eyes snapped crossly, she wriggled her lean, bent body in its stiff brocade, and her bony little hands, with the gear jeweled 0 soon to, No one lane* ley ways to ny wishes lake you who have been at 1441, en Park sa molly years, IVO what: I to da:?" Sar lifted her wrinkled bands helpleesly, "There will bitve to be e new houso• peeper found, of eoui'1se,' hazarded Mee West ttuuiely • Oh yes;an ignoranter'eature Nato knows nothing, and who will have overe- tlring wrong, of couree, jolt when 1 want all to be at its best," groaned the wizen - eta old arietoerat, "I pall this downright ungrateful in you, West, this 'Vilna oaf just as we had got used to ascii otter's ways,' etre. Weet surppreesed a struggling smile around tate corners of her lips, and, rifling up, ,stool respectfully before her Bard wistress. My lady, I'm terry you think eo hard of me, Indeed,, I would not leave you but for good cause," she said. "I had hoped and expected to spend all my days at Lancaster Park, but my duty palls 3210 e, elsewhere, 1 asaurc you it is as hard for me as for you. Think hew hard it is for tie, a poor lone woman, to have to cross theo ea —a life,And e a time of too! tm theu to have to take a child to raise and upend all any earnings on—a child that's no kin to me,"either,, you understand, my lady!'. CHAPTER III. Lady Lancaster settled her gold -bowed spectacles on her long Roman twee, end fixed it keen, penetrating etare on the troubled face of her housekeeper. "Whose child is it, and wlr'at is it all about anyhow?" she sputtered, vaguely. "It's•,niy brother-in-law'a child, and he's read away off in New York somewhere, and the child's left to me—his penniless, friendieee orphan child, left to me by the dead; and how could 1: refuse the charge, my lady?" inquired Mre. West, reproach- fully. "I should think the dead would Dome from hie grave, away off yonder in America, to haunt me if I didn't do his bidding,' criedshe. glancing behind her with epipt thrng like a shudder of supersti rings hanging loosely upon t em, . Vase -twee ed the jeweled serpent-heati that topped fear. didn't know you were simpleton her walking -cane with nervous allergy ae _enough to believe ie ghosts, West," sniffed she gasped out, angrily: Why don't the ,ny lady, contemptuously. "And I didn't woman Baine? How dare she keep me know' yon ever had a brother-in-law, waiting? The door opened softly and Mrs. West entered just in time to catch the impa- tient exclamation—a very lady -like per. eon indeed, in noiseless black silk, and a neat lace cap that surrounded a face only half as old as that of the lady of Lancas- ter Park. "I am very sorry that I kept you wait- ing, my lady,' she said, quietly. Then Lady Lancaster looked up and saw an open letter in the honsekeeper`e hand, and the signs of inward disturbance on her venally unruffled countenance. "Yon know that I hate to be kept wait- ing, West," ehe said, "and you are us- ually very prompt- But 1 see that some- thing has bappened this time,tun so 1 n ready to excuee your tardiness. What ie it?" "You are right, Lady Lancaster. Some- thing has happened," said Mrs. 'West. She sunk down quietly, as she spoke, into the chair that her mistress indicated by a nod of her grim, unlovely head, ' "I have had a. letter with bad news in. I shall be obliged to quit your serviee." "Quit my service!" echoed Lady Lan- caster wildly.' Her voice rose almost to a shriek, it was so full of dismay and anger. "That was what I said, my lady," re- iterated the housekeeper, deprecatingly. Lady Lancaster regarded her in incre- dulous dismay a moment, then the burst out, sharply: "But I say you than do no such thing; I can not spare you, I can not get cm years? either," Where bas he been all these "If yon will read this letter, Lady Lan caster, you will find out in fewer words than I can tell you," said Mre. West, re- spectfully present"ng her letter, which ala this time she' had peen holding open 10 her hand, .. My lady took the black -edged sheet into the grasp of her thin, bony hand, and ran her keen eyee down the written page. "Dear Sister-in-Law"—it ran—"I know you've wondered many a time since I caught the gold fever and ran away' to • California, twenty years ago, what's be- come of the willful lad that you and John couldn't manage; although yeti tried go hard and so faithfully, I always meant to write to you some day, but I put it off from time to .time in -my hard, busy life, until now it's almost too late, and I seem to be writing to you from the borders of that other world where I've somehow heard my brother John went before me, and where I'm hastening now. For I'm dying; sister-in-law; and Ten quite sure that I shall he dead before this comes to your hand. • Well, I've had ups and downs in this life, sister Lucy—good luck and ill luck—and now I'm dying I -have. one great care upon my mind. I'm leaving my.', little girl, my pretty Leonora—named so for her mother, who died when her baby was bora—all alone in the cold, hard world. She to friendless, for we've led' each a roving life since she was born that we have made no friends to aid us now in without you at all—that is, not without, our extremity. Dear sister-in-law, you six months"' warning to supply your were always a good woman."You tried :o plate.do your duty by the wayward orphan boy "A month is the usual time, Lady Lan- who has so poorly repaid your care. Will easter," said the housekeeper, mildly; and you be kinder stall Will you come to then, as the old lady regarded her itt America and take my child for your own? speechless dismay, the added, quickly Will you give her a mother's love and "But I am sorry that, I can not even give care? Remember, she is 'friendless and you a month'e warning to supply my forsaken in the world, without a living place, for I oan obliged to leave you right relative. What would become of her if you refused my dying prayer? I inclose a Bard with our New York address upon it. She will wait there after 1 am dead until you come for her. I feel sure that you will come; you will not disregard my dying wish anis request. Forgive me all. my ingratitude and thoughtlessness, eis- ter Lucy, aitd be a mother to my darling little Leo when I am no more. "Your dying brother, away. I have a long journey to take. I must cross the ocean." "Croee the ocean! Now, did I ever! Are you crazy, West?"' demanded the old lady, wrathfully. "I knew you would think so," said Mrs. West. "But if you will be kind enough • to let me explain the circumstances, you mightn't tlink so hardly of me, Lady Lan •aster-" "No circumstances could excuse your going off in this way," flashed -Lady Lan. caster. "There is Lord: Lancaster coming home be the first of June, and of course I must invite a party to meet him; and there are the rooms, and—and—everything 14•1. 'v,- wry' r• - ' "l - a J, �,.,+t < e - - - -- „}^ a}r +r,. wtlu , t ii + I. 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It spreads easily, covers c ftijtpletely And is the cheapest in the end because it covers mor0 Space Per gallon, In all colors for spring painting. a „ta Writ for ,tl co v of our gnrgsiad book, °The House That �••., Jack Bulk' ., Its full of pictures, rhymes end reason, that ' you }viii enjoy as well as the children. We'll oleo give You the name of our ;unrest dealer -agent. • ADDRESS ALL ENQUIRIES .TO NAPTINOUR yostrrialL B o Tal A. . 5� DM= �x� isxt.l'�[ lv , r PAINT ' 5.,'-%/r���// �i�Z Z /7/ �, VBeNI'Ilfi r r "Richard' West.' 'The letter rustled in Lady Lanctster.'s. nervous grasp. She looked up, thought- fully -alt the patfent,waiting woman. "I could ,not refuse such a prayer as that, could r, my lady?" she asked, vi$t- fully. "You see, he was any husband's only brother poor, handsome, wilhiul Dick. His parents were both dead, and be had only me and John, my husband. He was restless and ambitious. He ran away and left a :letter that he should go to California and seek his fortune. From that day to this never a word has been heard of Dick-- And now he's dead—not so old, either; only in the prime of life-- and ife—and lie's left me .lila little girl. She will be a trouble, I know. I must give up any quiet, peaceful home and make a new home for tine and, . somewhere. But I cannot refuse. I dare'not, for Johne and Dick's sake. I meet go to America, and get the child. Ican not do less than hy. asked me. He was always restlees, poor Dick. He could not stay in his grave if I refused his dying prayer." CHAPTi;R IV. Lady Lancaster, filled with chagrin and despair, sat gazing on the freer in silence. The thought of losing this trusty, cep - able woman, 'who bad belonged to the staff of Lancaster. Park so long,was comet annoying to her. I had come upon ber with all the suddenness of a calamity, She viewed it as nothing else. She was an old woman, and she dislik- ed. exceedingly to. have new faces around her. Under Mrs. West's efficient regime the affairs of the house had gone on with the precision and regularity of clock - 'work, •It would take a new -woman years to attain to her •proficiency. Sbe had grown to regardthe goodhousekeeper al - meet as her own property—a piece of her personal goods and chattels. She could not beep being angry at the thought of losing her. It is too bad." she blurted out, indig- nantly, "Why. do folks go and die like that, and'leave their wretched brats on other people's hands," A faint color crept into Mrs. West's comely face at the scornlful words. "My lady, it's the will of God," she said in her quiet, ,deprecating way. "I ,don't believe Godhas anything to do with. it," cried the oldlady, violently, "11 Ile did. Ile 'would prevent poor folks from anae yin•g, in the first place. • And then as she sew how patiently the woman endured these + taunts, she had the grace to be ashamed of herself. "Weil, there, there; I dare say you don't care to hear your folks spoken of in drat way," she said, in a milder tone, "But then Richard West was no kin to you, anyway --only your husband's bee - Mrs. Mrs. Weet could not forbear a pertinent litth�tlo retort. • "And Captain Lancaster is only your husband's nephew, any lady, yet you take a. great interest inhim," she said. Lady Lancaster gave her •a keen little glance. "Humph! West bee some spirit In .hrer,"ep!shlied: e said to bersellf; then, aloud,. • "I eon assure you the only interest 'I take in him is Because he is my Lord Lancaster; and as ho holds the 'title my' late huslband held, 1 should like for him to have money enough to support it, pro- perly, But id he does not loamy to please rnie, you shall see how little. l care for the young popinjay," bll're,; West tnla.tbe no reply, and her mit' ttrese continued, after a moment's thought: "Must you really 'take the child, ; do you. think, Wert?" "1 couldn't think Of . refusing peer Dicks dyi:hg •request," heals the answer. ca"?' Sabaeoh titing,ouect the ti rynakc lyour'etly.home. in Ameri- "Oh, no, 730; 1 should one back to dear all England. couldn't consent to ,Pass env last days in a streams country. 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The Canada Starch Co., Limited, Montreal her ouch strange. unwelcome news. "Where are you going to live when the child comes?" Lady Lanoaster snapped, almost rudely: 'I don't know yet, any lady. I have made no leans. I only received my letter a little while ago. "You don't want my advice, I presume?" • more snappishly than, ever. "1 should be very glad of int," Mrs. West replied, respectfully. "Why didn't you ask for it, then?" "I didn't dare." "Didn't dare, eh? Am I an. ogress? Should. I have eaten you if you had asked any advise?" demanded the irascible old lady, shortly. "0h, no, Lady Laneaater; but I shouldn.'t have presumed to trouble you so far,' Mrs. West, replied, in her quiet way that '15118 60 strange a contrast to the other's irritability. "Very •vele. I've presumed to lay a plan for you,' replied the grim old lady. ('lo be continued,) I1EL.I('.S OF, OUR. BRl?1'E PAST. \Then Man. Lived Hnlidre(ls Centuries Ago. 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A few—a very few—people can twitch their ears like a dog, and do s:r instinctively when' startled, , and cases do occasionally occur in which the scalp can be mowed at will, . But, generally speaking, our skin muscles .are even more dead nowadays than our ear muscles. We've neglected them. The only set still in use are those we em- ploy -when we want to raise our eyebrows. The .appendix is another thing we could do quite well without, 11 is a relic from old Vegetarian days. It has been workless ever since mankind started eating :meat eat- ing and is apt to get in the way. The large intestine; • too, is a thing we don't need nowadays. The many coils of this long tube are kind to the doctors, quite unneces- sary, now mankind has ;become a flesh -eating animal, and merely provide a resting place for germs. Surgeons have often cut out a few oke ,coils and stitched the -ends to- gether. We don't really need to carry a great intestine about with us. 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