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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-3-7, Page 26. -- etween Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. CHAPTER YYII.--(Cont'd.) Surely it could not be --yes, it was, thoeghl Every instant and every oar -stroke made it more impossible to mistake the cast of those shoulders and the sit of that dart: head, To see here, in the flesh, the man who for weeks past had filled all- his thoughts, whose image since yesterday had be- come an unbearable obeee,sion, was al- most litre seeing a ghost. Whatever had possessed him? Fenella's doing, perhaps? The broken questions shot through his head. lie was so complete- ly astonished that he remained im- movable at the water's edge, with no thought of avoiding the meeting. Nor did he move yet when Duncan, having with some difficulty made the landing -stage, fastened the boat and then stood up, touching his cap as he did so. The wet dripped from him, and there was a pool of water at the bottom of the boat. Taking from the stern a small parcel wrapped in oil -cloth, he stepped ashore, shaking himself the while, in the fushion of a Newfoundland dog fresh from his bath. "Your sisters were anxious for you to have this to -day," he said, with a$ perfect an equanimity as though they had parted last on the most friendly of •terms; "and so I made a shift to conte. ever'." Thank you. You must have had A bad tossing. I am obliged to you. Had you to leave your work for this?" "The quarry is shut to -day. Ill this wet--" ` To be sure. Of course. work -would be impossible. Well, I am glad you have not lost anything by your errand." "I came because your sisters wish- ed it," said Duncan again, with a slight emphasis which reminded Al- bert only too plainly of whose wish he meant to speak. He stood silent again, asking him- self desperately how to close the interview, and aware that Duncan was watching him closely and rather expectantly. It was during that brief pause that the significant whietle of the wind be- gan to rise again in their eats. Another squall coming. I'm afraid," said Albert, snatching; at. the obvious remark. "I'm afraid so too, Mr. Albert, and I am sorry for it, for it makes it im- possible for me to free you of my company as soon as I should have wished. Whether I will or no. I'll have to bide out what's coming." He spoke differently now, with a flavor of bitterness in both voice and mien. Whatever his expectations had been, it was clear that they were de- ceived. "Of course," said Albert, making the one more effort which appeared necessary. "You can't start in this weather, and no doubt you'll be hungry too, The men have only just had dinner—they will be able to give you something. That's their quarters over there." With a would-be careless nod he turned towards his own cabin. Duncan sent one look after him,, gave one more shake to his wet shoul- ders, then slowly moved in the given direction. It was time to do so; for already, beyond the two nearest -shoulders of hill, seen like things in a dream, all had grown void. The distance of the' loch was one sheet of driving cloud. Alone in one of the cabins ---for the men had returned to the smithy—; Duncan sat before the fire, reflective- ly smoking his pipe, while the steam' rose. from hie wet clothes. It would seem that he had come for nothing. For it was not the dell( ery of the spirit level alone w•hi:h had decided him to risk the stormy transit. 'V'i'hen le -t night Perella herd tell him of ehe diffieulty of finding a boatmen for the loch -end In this weather, the idea of offering himself for the errand had structs hum like en inepir•ation. If it did nothing else it w-OUI(1 shW,V Al- bert that he bore nD gradge for the encounter m the bine., . d might prove the firet etime, ,': t Flet standieg being;' con to. 1": , ll , had first caught at the idea, and then de- misted, became, t:f the, pn, ill • den ger, at v'h.elt ehie.twn Dunces. se able an mermen a.. any that Arel1 :ch u Perhaps the field neral laughed, 1 £ s V p c b x weather wool l have un r v d y next p day, she had -hopefully surmised and then ---whether ns} could et moth- er boatman or no, Duncan would take the parcel. It was net improved, as so happen- ed --quite the reverse; but for Dun - can's purpose almost. preferable. By raising the value of the service rend-' Bred, it would be more likely to matte on Albert the favorable impression he hoped for. He made haste to be ofr, without again enrornt ring Fenella. Iiut now it wnuld Seem thea h± might as well have stayed at l +tie—' so far as any advance in their inter- ests was concerned. Albert's cole1 politeness told hint more than any re- petitien of his lute. excitement could have clone He could read that fi_:ed eye and tightened lip. It came to this, then, that lee had been a feel for his pains—•and as likely as not would not be able to `het back before night-' fall, certainly not if this wind held on must longer, which would mean a world of weary for his father, and perhaps of anxiety for her. And while he sat musing,.;, solitary, another solitary men hh .teee rrn.;ed. In the very fret moment Albert had been too much taken by surprise to do more than decently get .hrmewh the unlooked-for meeting, Now, in the enforced interval of leisure, ;.ane 'order began to get back into lis thoughts. He would speak to bim, not as the cultured man to the work-, ' man. but as one man to another. Neither would be be eo extreme in his demands. The word "rapture" should not he pronounced, but only that of "postponement." Supposing, now, Duncan would consent to put off the marriage --not without a shudder could he pronounce the word even in thought—until Fenella nus of age. No --he could not let Duncan go with- out.trying Dile one more chance, And as lie thought so, he became aware that the room, lately so dark, was perceptibly lightening, 1 He stepped to the window. One after the other—as each veil in turn was lifted—the ghostly forms of the hills were etnerging from the cloud - curtains, until, as though by magic, the void is filled, the circle completed. Mountain and mist begin to draw apart, From moment to moment it • becomes more triumphantly clear that the world, after all, is not all grey. • As the cloud -veils drift away the browns and purples of the foreground, , the azures and amethysts of the dis tanee creep hack into the picture. And now a watery sunbeam—the last of the day --falls into a hollow. black but a moment since. and fills it to over- flowing with a luminous vaporer, as a cap is filled with wine. He will he off now!" was Albert's thought, as, snatching up his cap, he stepped forth. At the doer one of his men met Trim with the news that two of the boats had been torn from their moorings during the squall, one of these being Duncan's "He'll just take one of ours," said ' Albert impatiently. "Where is he? 'I want to speak to him." "We've only two sound ones re-, maining, sir. Niel 'Moffat's boat got ` a leak on friday, if you remember." • "Well, one is enough to eateh the others with. Never mind about that' now. Ah, there he comes! Back to your work, Donald!" As Duncan stepped out of the next cabin, Albert went forward to meet "You will not mind my harrowing a boat, Mr. Albert, I trust," said Dun-, can edify. "Mine has got louse, and I've no time to go hunting it. I£ I don't get home before night father will be fretting" "All right, all richt. One moment, Duncan-- I've a word to say to you." "Mind you don't take Niel Moffat's • boat," Donald called after them. "It's no just sound.•, • With a fairly successful display of a calm which he. did not feel, Albert, while the two men walked towards the landing -stage, brought forward his suggestion. It had been planned as an appeal; but the bodily presence of the hated man turned it almost into a demand. away from his enemy it his actual vicinity the conciliating tone nimed at refused to be struck— the words of peace stuck in his throat. The coldness of his tone was reflected in Duncan's answer. • "Your demand would be just, Mr. Albert, if your sister was of that mind. It is her wishes I go by, not my own; and I happen to know that she does not wish to delay beyond the spring." • "She might consent to a delay, if. the reasons were good." "And, if she consented, would you pain your word to give up your op- position to the marriage?" asked Duncan, with a piercing side -long' glance. Then, in face of the other's visible hesitation, he smied grimly. r "Don't trouble to speak, Mr. Albert.! Your face says that you wouldn't—: Whatever your -tongue might say, Whet, then, would be the gain for us? If I than„ht: it eves for her peace of mired I would wait, light-heartedly; but I see that it would only be a draw- ing out of the pain. It's a kind of torture h s living, in, ae. it le, and the sooner ht's pet an end to the bet- ter.” • Then ; eu will not fall in with my. c I eitnnot fat in with it," "Anil you imagine that you will • Itlarr'y Ige. to teeing?" "I more than im r: Ine. it. Mr. Albert. Sheri of to act of Goa, I do not see wird is tm prevent me," They wn•e at the landing -stage aI- speak- in ta- ready, and before he had dune ..1c k ing, Duncan had clembe re•d int(' the nearest of the three boats, and was busy fitting the oars into the row- locks. All three had rain -pools at the bottom, but the fading daylight warned too loudly to let him consider the adviseibility of baling out the veal er. Duncan teas ,ju.-it Ionsenhng the, chain when when he appeared tore -i re- member something. "I'm ell right in this boat, am I not? Didn't Donald say something' about a leak ?" "Yes, you're all right" said Albert; mechenietlly, seeing neither the boat, nor Duncan, But, even w all his words, the blood - ted churl 1 steed away, and he saw both bet :m boatman clearly, "Sure?" Thorn to .t t•t reely perceptible Neese before Albert said: "Sure.." "Coed evening. then, Mr. Albert, It will be night before I matte Ardloch, but I 'rust to get in before the next, storm." i The heat had get some twenty porde wltt 11 he tool: hie hands from hie pod! t .end pet thorn to his mount, a thn:egh h were about to; .bent; belt nr. : ,tut eat..•:, Plunging' them back :twilit, he turned upon his' heel, and, without one glenee back- wnr•rle, reemined his eabin, (To be continued.) The lyreddrd of Australia, tchieh is about the size rif a pheasant, is the large:, songbird in the world. Free Industrial Agent to Hight Corer ander Intere then deep.tchee of incident; in the Ines of flying men in England etre given In lettere to fr,chl' written by Acting Flight t ;_mmand r Orahem Waters Curtis, fnrmerl;, Industrial • Agent of the Cantuii:uh Parity, Rafl- ny• in Montreal, ht is now a !lying y , lw instructor in England, The school in w'hieh he teaches i, n vast expanse of country close to a beautiful seaside; then they are rent to loramee, We do all elude of f:mry performanees—..long the mote roll, make spinning nose dives, silt, slip;, ami vertical turns." II„ deecribes how "little excite - mete" hap; en when one neronaut nets into the "weigh, oe slip -stream of :sir" nuele by a preceding navigator. The letters indicate that Acting Flight Commander Curtis is a lucky master Acting Flight Commander G. W. • "crash" at a trait resort. He writes: "The view from the air is superb, and we often fly out over the sea, and dive down near the British warships and wave to the sail- ors. When diving we only travel at the rate of about 1;5 miles an hour! I am kept' very busy instructing and am turning out a lot of expert pilots. The school I am connected with is one in which flyers finish their course of training. A lot of chaps from Borden come to us to get final lessons, and Curtis and his machine Pest after a ing camp in England. :of the high school in which he soars, He says: "Ree have a lot of smashes, but very few deaths, considering everything. None of my pupils has been killed yet" Acting Flight Commander Curti; has lately been recommended by his , commanding officer for a first lieu - :tenancy, and expects to be sent to France at any time. He joined the . 'Royal Flying Corps on November' 15th, 191e. in ourultimate success or fallen,' An eight-year-old boy in our block developed tubereuloels of the hip bone, Ile hen prectierlly nothing lu oat until he vt.. Inc yours Old, ON. eept condensed milk in a- bottle, His' • mother would not coeds him cereals, it tools mo much time to tit down and feed him. Fresh 'eggs were: too c:e- peu Cve, Ile trscd Lo throw the mottle away and lie on the floor and cry with hunger, but the mother de- clared he could take the mills or go hungry. She had too much -to du to bother with "a kid." When tuberculosis developed the mother blamed a fall at school. Other mothers, whose boys had worse falls w with no ill effects, blamed wrong fee& ing. And they were right, What Waste Costs. The waste of 500,000 pounds of paper a week, Canadian authorities estimated, entailed the cutting of at least 2,000 trees a weelc. 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We are told that food will play a big' part in winning the war, yet we go about conserving with only a hazy idea of what we can hest use as foods if we wish to conserve our strength and development, as well as conserve wheat for the allies. Yet the whole thing is so simple that "even the way -faring man, though a fool, need not err therein." We eat to promote growth and to give us srtength, or, as the experts say, to give us heat or energy. There are three classes of food and every- thing we eat may be placed in one of these three. They are the proteins, or the foods which promote growth, and the carbohydrates and fats, which give us heat and energy. The pro- teids consist of learn meat, eggs, mills, and the legumes: At least these are the important proteids, though many cereals contains proteins, and the proteins contain others of the food elements. For instance, milk con- tains fat in the shape of cream, and wheat contains proteid --the gluten which makes wheat bread elastic. The carbohydrates are the starches and sugars, and the fats we all know, It will be seen at once that children must have plenty or proteids.if they are to Iceep up a normal growth, while adults who have attained their full development may get along; with just the amount of proteids necessary to replace wornout cells, drat is, to build the body up daily ars it is burned out with work. Here is where our danger will -come in during these clays when we are asked to save food. We will be tempted to economize of the mills and eggs given. our children, a thing we have no right to T c do, h, children 1, must be properly nourished or their r health will be impaired for life. Those of mature growth may get along on skimped rations with only tempo,•ary inconvenience, provided the food shortage docs not last too long. But children must be fed. Up until seven menthe the hiby should be fed nothing but milli. Moth- ers' milk preferably, hailing that, consult the best doctor you can secure as to tie! t ight way to modify cow's milli. Don't give your baby a pre- pared baby food became some .one else gave it to her child nig! it "get along." And don't give mndeuaed mint except me a last re ert and on n phYehl e's owlet•. It ie too sweet for a pe r'feet .ford. At seven months the salivary glands are able to do their pare in digesting stareh. Begin with a wheat break- fast food, or rice. Either is more apt to be digested by the average child than is oat -Heal, leveed only a teaspoonful the first dry, tend note the effect If the cereal you ehoose is but diMest. 1 came e diet twee ehon ri another. Item ml, er each child ie a hew unto itself and you main decide what emirs vita beet digest. If thein is a tendency to constipation coat meal is gaud as ter corree;tive. If the tendency ie.. the other way, rice is a good food . 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