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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-6-16, Page 7THE BRUSSELS ROST ve, The Tyrant Jack quite understood .the man's feelings: it is not pleasant to be sav- ed by the person you distrust and dislike. "Good-bye, Reeve," he said, tak- ing the hot hand, "I'm afraid I must leave you now; but I'm leaving you in good hands; and they'll let me know how you get on. Don't you Worry about Kate," he added, signi- ficantly. "I'm going to take her back to her father. Alt you've got to do is to get well as 50011 1114poesible." When ho and hate had got out- side—she walked beside him almost as a clog follows his master—Jack said: "We'll wait until we get home, Kate, and then you shah tell me what all this means; if 11 111(10118 any- thing at -811! W11 take a cab for we shall only just hal e thne to catch the train." "You—you are going to Van- eourt1" the breathed, with a look of fear and amazement on her white face, "I am going to Vancourt, Kate," he said, grimly. Nothing more was said until they rinched home and Jack, having changed, joined her in the sitting - room. "Now Kate," he said, gently enough, but firmly, "was Dick Reeve raving mad on the quay, or was there any meaning in his words?" She seemed scarcely capable of speech, and sat with her face hidden in her hands for a moment; then she looked up at him piteously. • "Don't you know?" she whisper- ed. "Did nothing happen the night you left—the night you were in the woods—when I saw you with your handsall over blood—the night you eft your gun— Jack stared at her in dumb bewil- derment. "Why, what should happen?" he asked, after a time. "I haven't the least notion what you're driving at. Poor Dick Reeve said something, about murder. What murder? If any had been committed, I should have heard of it." She rose with her hands clasped against her heart,,her breath coming painfully. "You don't know. Nothing hap- pened that night? Oh, thank God, thank God! No, I won't say another word! Yes, I will go wherever you like to take me. I will go back to Vancourt now." Sack was still puzzled; but he nod- ded cheerfully and looked at his watch. "We've just got time to catch the train. I'm going to take Miss Woods with us," he said; and he reddened a little, for he saw by Kate's face that , she understood he was taking Miss Woods because the presence of an- other woman would dispel any sus- ' picion respecting Kate and himself. Presently Miss Woods came down ; with the canary -colored wig brushed very smoothly and quietly, and with- , out her rouge; and the three started for Vancourt. CHAPTER XL. f I Esther had her "good cry" then faced the situation as calmly and composedly as she could. All night long she lay awake realising that she had lost the Vancourt property, that Jack Gordon was Sir John Vaneourt, the rightful owner, and that she was going back to music teaching in Is- lington. That was bad enough, of course; but the remembrance of her parting with Jack added to her unhappiness. If he had offered' excuses and pro- fessed petitence she fancied that she could have borne the thought of the parting better; but Jack, all unwill- ingly, had, behaved in the way which women, willy-nelly, always admire; that is, he had flown into a pa,ssion and roared at her; and though she felt that it was absurd, she had an Mee that she had been unjust to him. ws absurd, because he had not ventured to deny that he had taken MraplemontalrallaMallindin 411•••••••••••••• Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We veill do a job that will do eredit to yout businest, Look over yoUr stock of Office Stationery and if it requirereplenishing call us by telephone 81. The Post Pol.illshlog House Kate from her home, ainl that he ought to marry her. Poor Mies Worcester felt rather ilureied when the was told that they were to return to Vancourt lac the ten o'clock train, and begged hard for a few home of shopping; but Es- ther, with a strange smile on her pitle face, shook Iltir bend; and Mies Wor- cester, still murmuring pathetically at being "hustled" for "no ear.hly enson" found hereelf let Waterloo in hod time ror the express. Esther had wired to Mr, Floes to at the Towers the next morning, tnd had also telegraphed to SI by Layton and Mr, Cloverdale to come at ,he same hour. All the wny down in the tinin the tried to plan out her future-efor the had a shrewd sus. picion that Selby Layton would, after he had heard of the loss of her fen. - tune, want to withdraw from his en- gagement; a -suspicion which caueed her no pain; but in spite of all her fforts she could not drive Jack Gor- don from her mind, "Yon seem very quiet and depress- ed, my dear Esther," remarked Miss Worcester, "But there, I'm not sur. prised! Such a helter-skelter jour- ney as we have made is enough to tire the most robust; and, as no one in their senses could call me that, I am free to confess that I am physic- ally and mentally exhausted. Whe on earth you wanted to tear to Lea- den and back in this abatird faeloon as if—as if you were travelling with a single -day's excursion ticket, I can't imaginer Esther siniled rather sadly. "Pethays some day we shall be glad of a singhi-day's excursion tick- et, auntie," she eaid, wendering how she should ever succeed in "break- ing" the bad news to the eld lady. "Who knows, Riches take to them- selves wings, we are tolc12-" "How absurd you are, Esther! Fancy Viincourt Towers flying away. It is a little too solid, I think!" she retorted, with a dignified jerk of her head. "I don't know, auntie; nothing onght to surprise one in this most changeable and transitory of ev Wide, you know. And if—if say, for in- stance it turned out that Sir Rich- ard's nephew were alive and—and— claimed the property—" ;Miss ;Worcester rpgardtid her more in sorrow than in anger. "I really think you ought to see a doctor, my clear Esther," she said. "T mean a really good and reliable physician. You have not been at. all the thing lately, and now you are talking so wildly that you make -me (Mite uncomfortable and anxious a- bout you." Esther, with a sigh, rglitiquished her well meant attempt to break the bad nONVS, and for the rest of the journey talked of the small things that -made up Miss Worcester's life. As they drove up t.he avenue she looked at the great building with, it must be confessed, a sense of loss. It had been very good to be the mis- tress of the vat place, of all the land and the people, to have the con- trol and spending of so many thous- ands; and she knew that when she was giving music lessons in grim and dreary Islington she would look back with keen regret for all her vanished greatness. She W08 no longer mis- teess of Vancourt Towers; and—and — Would Kate Transom reign in her stead? She was received in due state by Palmer and his attendent satellites, and Pahner handed her a note from Mr. Floss. It was only a line or two ipying that the Parish Council had asked permission to drain the Hawk's Pool, and he had granted it. Esther put; it aside With the reflection that it was no concern of hers what they did with the Hawk's Pool or any oili- er portion a the estate. After dinner she went up th her room end, with her own hands, pack- ed a small box with the plainest of her dresses, including those in which she had come to the Towers, which she had kept, from an easily, undere stood -sentiment; little dreereng that she would need thent again l then she Went downstairs again, and slowly and eather sadly made 8 tour of the Principal rooms. It was in reality a farewell, for amongst other things she had resolved during her sleepless night was hor prompt surrender of and departure from the Towers: thci • sootier She got back to !Islington and the old life of toil and selt-denial the better. She was very gentle and lov- ing—in a remorseful kind of wny-- t� Worcester all the evening, and drew the old lady to her bosom with an unusual expression of airing tion when they said good -Med. Strange to say, the -slept well; hut .she dreamt, and linet, dreams Were of Jack Gordon. One was all unnloas- eant ene enough; no lose than a Vise 1011 ot hitt and Kate Trellsoni athndS ihg before the fdtrat atid !tate -Wore a bridal dress! -She elept until Marie called her in the morning, and it ives Mips than usual when she went down to breakfast. They were scar- eely seated when Mr.- Mose' deg -cart drove up. "I will tell him you are at break- elet, miss," :said Palmer, who clic' net like his beleved mistress to - be dis- turbed at her meale; but, eh ther said •Iie would see him at once, mat, only -valtieg to drink a little tea, went to lilwary. Mr, Floes wail pacin6 up and down and when he turned to her Esther eaw that hie face looked grimly dis- turbed, and that his thick brows were moving up ;Ind down as if he were agitated or upset about something. le., said. "I've come earlier than you gad, but—are you ilie!" he broke off to inquire. "Net in the very least," she said; "but I am, naturalle, as you will un- derstand presently, rather upset. I may as well tell you at once, Mr. Floss, that—that I have discovered that Sir Richard's nephew is alive, that the story of his death was incor- rect, and that I am no longer the mistress of Vancourt." He stared at her, but did not seem so much impressed, so much startled as Estehr felt he ought to have hem "You don't appear very greatly surprised," she said; a little nettled, woman-like, by his seeming indiffer- ence, "1—I beg your pardon!" he said. "What did you say? Excuse me, I din rather flurried this morning— for the first time in my life, I think I might say! The fact is, there has been a very dreadful discovery— What did you say? Sir John Van- . court not dead!" He broke off and stared at her, his brows working up and down as Iwo things were fighting for predom- inance in his inind. "Yes; but tell me what is the mat- ter, what has been discovered?" said Esther, with 0 madden presentiment of Mr. Floss advanced to a chair. "Better sit down, Miss Vancourt," he thid. "I'm sorry to have to tell you; but yen must heal. it, and it is better that it should come from me.. You got nly note aboue ehe Parish Council?" Esther nodded genvely and impat- iently. "Well, they eked pretty promptly on my permisioa and sent SOME 111,.11 to 3011(141 the poet early this 11101.17!V.1:; and—and while they were doing so they Entile upon ----they made a very dreadful dievre;ery; in ehort, they -- they found a body." 'Other felt for the cliair and sank into it, and Mr. Floss putteed mid re- garded her anxiously. 'ilia, tut! I ne,ant to break it, gently, and I've blurted it out like -- like an elephant!" "No, no!" said Eether. "A body: —Please tell me quickly," "The bode4 of a man, It was found chained to an anchor—an achor that used to be attached to the old boat. —Shall I get you (1 little brandy? -- shall I call Miss Worcester," "No, no!" said Esther. "I am not faint; but—but it is so sudden." "The poor fellow has been mur- dered—there can be no doubt of it. There is the mark of a blow on the temple, just in the place where a blow is often fatal. The murderer must have towed the body of hi -s vic- tim out to the centre of -the lake—". "Wait—a moment! There is some water in that carafe! Thank you!" breathed Esther, as she took the glass in her shelving hand. I—"And sank it with the anchor." AS he was speaking, the murmur of voices rose from the vardcn, and Es- ther saw a small crowd of servants collected outside. As she looked, Selby Layton anti Mr. Co-eerdale drove up in the Fanworth dog -cart. "Whom—?" she faltered, 'whom do they suspect? The poacher? Who is the man, the murdered man?" She shuddered as she asked the question. "A stranger; that is, to all Van, court but one person," replied Mr. Floss. "He C111110 1101'i. on a vkit and stayed at the 'Black- Crow'—the land- lord has identified him—and he has been identified by one other person .if "Transom!" (To Be Continued). Sunday School Lesson BY CHARLES G. TRUMBULL (Editor of Tho Sunday School Tinos) Then the entire company was over- taken, placed under arrest, and. brought into Joseph's presence once JUDAH'S PLEA. Sunday, June 20—Genesis 414:18 to 45:15. Golden Text. A broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, Thou wilt not despise (Psa. 51: 17). Twenty years have passed since thc, experiences of Joseph's lite stud - led in last week's lesson. We left Joseph in prison, but—as Graham Scroggie has said about Christ in the tomb—God did not leave him there. lier a God-gbien supernatural power to interpret the meaning of strange dreams he was brought out of prison into the presence of Pharaoh,. King of Egypt, and then, having interpret- ed Pharoah's dream that foretold sev- en years of plenty and seven years of famine, lie was made second only to the Ring in authority over the whole great kingdom, becoming Food Dic- tator of the land. As Joseph's old father, Jacob, and his eleven brothers were finally in (tango.- of starving in the famine - swept land of Canaan, Jacob sent ten of his sons down into Egypt to buy corn, Joseph, unrecognized liy them, received them in state, and ac- cused them of being spies. Then he releaeed them after taking one of their number as a hostage, ltad them supplied plentifully with corn, had their money returned to them in their sacks of grain, and sent them EVW 11 y. But not before he lied inquired close- ly about their youngest brother, Ben- jamin, and assured them that he would not release the brother he was retaining unless they brought tilde youngest brother to him. What followed must be read to got .the thematic detail§ of one tif the mose sensational and teaching pi- sodes in all history; it will be found in the 42nd, 421d and 441h chapters of Genesis. In 4 word, Joseph did all that he could to distress these brothers of his. it resulted in them hearts being convicted of their sin of many years before, against; their younger brother (Joseph himself), W110)11 they supposed to have been long since dead. When, after the lapse of time they Were starving again in Canaan, they overruled their aged father's pro- tests and took Betjamin with there back into Egypt, in the hope of buy- ing more corn. Joseph treated them as only ft member of the Royal fain- ily goad, Mit this tine when sending them away, he .inteltitatati Ilttajaatta by having his (losopit's) setatly pat ft tho las sack at derte more. And the silver cup was found in Benjamin's possession. Then it was that one of the older brothers, Judah, makes the unselfish I plea that is the topic of this lesson. He told the story of their old father, Jacob, and his love for Benjamin, the "child of his old age," and the father's heartbreak when another son Joseph, had been taken from hirn; and the climax of judah's plea was: "Now, therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide, instead of the lad, a bondsman to my lord." Joseph's seeming harshness and eruelty to his brothers had accom- plished its loving purpose. They did not yet know who he was; but they knew what their own sin was, and one of them, Judah, was willing to offer his own life in slavery if the youngest brother might go free. It was a historical parable of what the Lord Jesus Christ does, and must do, in His treatment of sinners who have turned against Him, until He brings them to the point of conscious heartbroken conviction of their own sin; and then He can save them. Fox only then can Christ make Himself known to the sinner as He really is. So the time has•come for Joseph to make himself known to his brethren, and to lavish upon them the full sal - 580100 that he had planned all the time mid was longing to give. He told them who he was. He forgave them all the past, before they even had all opportunity to ask his for- giveness. He personified the grace of God. And he placed at their dis- posal, and their father's, the best that the kingdom could provide. What Judah had offered to do to save Benjamin was noble in its place, but it is net to be compared with what Joseph was doing for them all. His action is one if the most perfect; typos 111 all Scripture history, of the grace of God through jesus Christ towards sinners, Joseph's brothers had been his worst enemies, ready to take his life. He forgirge them and sayed them. We are all of us, by nature, the mimes of God through our sins; anti God, the 5011, 1100 made possible God's forgiveness and sal- ; vation by giving His life for us. ; "And after that his brethren talk- ed with hint." After Christ has made Himself known to us, and has saved ns, "we have fellewehip One WW1 mother" (1 ZiAin 1i1 entiet rain the rdenid4 AM eternity WeegsGt tall] Memorable EY nits in the historti of fire Empire- Charies Corm The Greeting of Magna Charta , -to eorne to feline. June 15 On the 15th done the two parties I met on the little ieland of IthenY- Seven hundred and eleven years ! mode in the river Thames, and the ego, on the 15111 June 1215, King ' harem: preeented the king with a John wait foreed by the Barons of I document known as "rim Articles of England to grant the famoue eharter the Barone", in which their demands liberties, known as Magna Charta, 1 Were eet out in detail. The king re - which is generally regaftkli as the, ! luctantly assented to every one of basis of British freedom and justice. the forty eight id:MSc:el in the Articles When !diehard I was on his death- and duly signed the doeument, here In passed over the riehtful which Magna Meta with its Sirly. claims of the youthful Prince Arthur three .elauses was prepared. Although to the English throne and de eignated the charter WilS not actually signed by the king until the MI June it wag (kited the 151h., the day upon wheh he had assented to the Articles. Magna Charta was no novelty and retablished no new constitutional pri- vileges, but in it the vague expression of older charters were exchanged for prods° and elaborate provisonce The outstanding provisions of Magna Charth were that no man should be imprienned, punished or exiled except by judgment of his ;peers or by the law of the land, and that no taxation should be levied without the consent of the community, whilst :the final clause ensured that the benefits of the charter should be shared by every subject down to the very lowest. John never had the slightest in- tention of abidng by the- terms of the charter, and immediately the John as his suceessor. '111, dying king was even aware of John's vied. nue nature, .but he justitied his choice on the ground that 1 bad ruler who was at least a grown man was pre- ferable to an inexperienced child. Prior to the accession of John in 1190 the English barons had proved O 80111TC of danger to the freedom or the people, but their repeated at- tempts to make themselves the arbi- trary ruling claes had been Icept i8. eopck by thee combined action of the Crown and the middle and lower classes. In the course of the struggle to repress the barons the Crown hoct gained a power which Wan flIMOSt (lb- sOlutE, and of this powet John took full advantage. He was a supremely wicked aml 0(1 scrupulous man, and for over four- teen years the country groaned un- der his tyrannical rule. At the end of 1214 the barons met together un- der the, leadership of Stephen Lang- ton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was then decided that drastic steps must be taken to put an end to the king's despotic government. Soon eft -r the meetine the berone + mantled that the king should confirm • an old charter which had been grant- t ed by Henry I., but for some months John avoided giving a direct answer, and finally at Easter -tide 1215 be declared that nothing would induce him to accede to their request. The barons at dild0 declared war on the king, and as they had the support of the whole nation John was compelled eteceecteogeeeceeet-o-ceteeteeeteee+etetge+ • • • • • WANTED Highest market prices• paid, • • 4' See me or Phone No, 2x, Brae. ± e sets, and I will call and get 4: w you oo WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 11)2G, famous conference was over be took prompt steps to destroy it. He call. 4(1 te his aid a large army of foreign mercenaries and again set the barons at delianre, so that in a short time the country was 'plunged into a war ;Odell heeled until the reign of tile iniserinenlous tyrant was ended by hiS death in October 1216. 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