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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1928-2-29, Page 7T1- 4 ,,sz:aw •:.-m ,•.nusa .arnc. X140,4111A,63,44 1(w.nahorpteivemgmuzyum ulu.Nausa,nLWi4>.s.V.k1a',.... .,' VtlP.AW+1 "1 /s„ea, 4s..AA.a Y.01r.7R,C4.1.1.01g..S 114'Q�Rf y6 Jif Zan l'N 1:1' 1'1t( ($ R E <1 lire ,i 151s FL 1'i 11.1•,1 1:R . s, �: �y�� 1 1' 1' 1,,PRICES wIW Wo at‘r now fit -pared to Grade your ( tel hone;>t1Y, gatls r it tt.lco :, t 5 { erne cb livor sue Creamery each "ay WO lift it. We gather with covered truck to keep p run . LI 1t. Wt pay 11 11cnr!um of 1 cent per 1b. butter fat for Seeders user that of No, 1 ;;rade, end 3 cent;; per lb, ',att- ter-f:5' for No 1 glade over that of No. 3 grade. The 1:tri(' principle of the improvement in the gt1.111ty of Ontario baiter is the elimination of second and off grade, cream. This met. h, accomplished by paying lac pr.lduser of good cream a at !ter price per poem' of butter-r:et tam is paid to the product rs of !poor cream. We solu'tt your patronage and co-001.1tion fbr better ute,.rket. isfesAre We will loan you a ran. See our Agent, T, C. MOCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. The Seaforth Cres: ,fiery 1�✓ The OUR SERIAL STORY ISI, pp arance f Paulina Ifs ;Le The appeal is quite unheeded; the two men have forgotten her. They do not indeed, as she thought they would, come to blows, for even in his blind rage Stephen Trevor cannotig- nore the enormous dispnrportion be- tween his own trained and disciplin- ed strength and that of the eflicm- inate stripling who flaunts him with dogged defiance and a trace of- im- pish mockery in his eyes. There is no need to spare harsn words how- ever. "You miserable little cur!” he cries in a furious tone. "Too poor and puny for the, punishment you so richly deserve, I scarcely know how to deal with you and your venomous suggestion!" Pablo Valdez breaks into a low laugh of triumph. "I am perfectly aware of that, my dear Sir Stephen! It is precisely in that difficulty that the strength of my case aril the weakness of yours are to be found. If you could clear me from your path you might per- suade tete rest of the world to believe that Miss Blake merely 'disappeared' and that Miss Slade is in no way con- cerned in her banishment. Can you do either while I bar the way and clamour for the truth?" A sudden feeling of alarm seizes Stephen and for a moment masters even his indignation. It is not the first hint of danger to the girl he loves so dearly that has reached his ears today. The suggestions of the detectives that certain imprudences on Elinor Slade's part had at least laid 'her open -to suspicion, and that she would do well to submit to the fullest possible investigation of her conduct as soon as possible, is still rankling in his proud heart. The memory of Miss Green's malignant story still haunts him, and now he has to face this new and yet more dangerous attack. That there are other assailants with even greater Power to distract and agonise frim, • foes wield i the citadel, traitorous torturing doubts are fears, he will not admit even to himself. These ha can. deal with freely, can thrust in secret chambers under triple locks and bars, can gag, stifle, and control with all the force of his strong will. •hies. Ruthven, watching and wait- ing breathlessly for she scarcely knows what, breaks the tense sil- (111c0. "I think you are very selfish and cruel, both of you, quarrelling like that and dragging in people's names before there is any necessity to do Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing house. We will do a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and if it requires replenishing call us by telephone 91. The Post Publishing (louse so, 1 shall not ,stand it much long- er! Why should I? To live in the Abbey just now is to suffer martyr - (10111 111 every way, and I was not horn to be a martyr." Stephan, looking at her, is vague- ly aware of a new danger; but, ab- sorbed as 11e is in Mepresent '�si• lttg - pli!, he sets that aside for the time to .1y with a tied sigh— "I din sorry, dear. Of course you are tired here for the present." [ "I don't see that at all!" Sylvia replies rebelliously. " I have my husband and my children far away, jtoo long neglected, and I really cannot see that I am wanted here." "Not wanted?" Stephen turns ! from Valdez and comes quickly to his sitter's side. "Oh, Sylvia, you never were so much wanted, so 111.". dispensable in your life! Dick and the children can do without you for a little longer—you must not think of leaving us just yot!" The appeal does not in any way flatter Sylvia's variety, and only in- creases her spirit of mutiny. If he wished to keep her for her own sake, or if she could do hint any personal good, she would make the sacrifice gladly, for she is really very fond of lir brother—she tells herself this with a glow of generous feeling — but site has no mind to be looked upon as a mere shield and buckler for another and much less important person. ,Why not?" ;he asks. "You have [ done very well without my society for a long time now." "I— Good heavens, yes!" he agrees,. with imprudent haste. "'But this is so horribly dit'1'erentl Sylvia have you forgotten Nell?" The arrogant little lady flushes angrily and snatches away her hand. "Do you ever think of any one else?" she asks. "You are of course free; you have every right to sec- retion yourself, your future, and your selfrespect to the girl who seems to have bewitched you, the ,girl about whom the rest of. the world is say- ing very ugly things, but for myself 1 decline to be made a victim any longer!" "Sylvia!" "Oh, [tis no good crying 'Sylvia' and looking at me as though I were talking high treason instead of the barest common sense! Finish your quarrel with Pablo Valdez—he will tell you better than I can what all Ceanstotte says and 'thinks of Paul- ine. Blake and the girl who owed her everything! Ah, I see he has wisely disappeared, but you need only walk: into the street to find another in - Ailment! Your house of cards is falling about you, Stephen, and I fear it will bring down your idol in its fall!" The last words a1'0 smothered in a burst of hysterical sobs and laughs ter as, not staying •to see their effect, Mrs. Ruthven runs out of '3110 room. CHAPTER XII It is nothing of a surprise and very much of a relief to Stephen Trevor to find two excuses instead of his usual companions at the dinner - table that night after his distracting scene with Sylvia and Pablo. Mrs. ! 1%uthvert is prostrate with nervous headache and equal only to strong tea and salvolatile, the housekeeper 11forins him; while Senor Valdez simply desires to be excused, with - Out any assigned reason. E BRUSSELS POST The whole wattled (en meh. ri^et1Jt'-n - t!7ilrks, with a batt r•., ',‘.,1r!‘41 7. ;11(.."111P:1111Y )114.1 '1111 1114P111141,4111,:',1. Pot: -o r 1 111.1'41W,•: h , .,. 11111 11 i0111111'11 they 1. f..:ter andi rankle t:rn•,. , 1 own- 'pt11!01,:• that; '' safer to 11vo1,a )1147. 117 dm little 01 11 ,117 t ; to 11(4,. ill 1! 0m,' he g;-,eles, while b through the prelend or ,;tin„ 11(111," t , • t•!u, l:atciliul sortutiny - - ;or ,fu -t '11: i,Te:ar111 the world Sem?I: I :;71 HHoits eyes, and h 1.(11 ! iliva1 cdfort. to avold any :elf. ! e ,yol is working havoc with l,!; !., odly ..e,uly nerves, "My hands. are so cruelly tied that 'i may not gn'iu•oi ,•s011 w143 that cowardly lit tie viper who has dared to hint — to suggest — 03, heavens! I must Bo!. 1111 Ilk of that!" He makes a resolute effort to tome his thoughts into some safer track. k. As he glances across at the empty , hair .from which Sylvia Itnthven's bright face its wont to lace him, frtec'"ly enough, the thought of his lighthearted sister, though, he is ;t:111 very angry with her, htings with it .a certain relief. "She was wickedly cruel tonight, but, if I know her at all, she will be till penitence tomorrow,'• he re- cta, "Even If there serge no need to temporise for Nellie's sake, It would be absur.t to resent any speech or Sylvia's. She is like a feather blown by the wind, her op- inions are at the mercy of the last plausible person who has spoken to iter.', and that young Valdez has been beeaihing his poison in her ears; To- morrow, when she is more herself, she will listen to and believe lire, for she loves 111e in 11e1' way" When his wretched meal is over he goes to the library and, shunning the intolerable company of his 0)011 thoughts, sends for Mrs. Clarke, the housckee• er, who can at least give hint the latest news of Nell. Th:•1 proves to be of a reassuring character, and the good woman, who is obviously uneasy at the summons and unusnnlly awkward in Sir Stephen's presence, brightens and looks mare like her own good-natur- ed harpy self as she assures him that the doctor was really pleased with his patient's progress, and had pro- mised to let her leave her room in a clay or two. "And I think that lifted a sort of load from her mind, poor dear! For she had been l'1•etting dreadful at being shut up away from all that was going on," 1111•x. Clarke says, glanc- ing around. "I seem iso fancy, sir, that once she is out and about things will be sure to get straight again; she is such a clever clear -]leaded lady and was as you say, Miss Blake's right hand." Stephen, who is seated at a small side -table on which stands a green silk -shaded electric rending -lamp, in- voluntarily draws back into the ihadow as he says in a tired tone— "I •trust you are right, -Mrs. Clarke, but I mei afraid bliss Slade can' scarcely help us here, though she was almost the last person to see your mistress before her disappearance." - "Quite the last, sir!" the house- keeper says. "They dined and spent the evening together and sat up quite late, tailking."' A temptation he%had long resisted as a wrong to Nellie and as some- thing unworthy of himself suddenly conquers Stephen Trevor. His cur- iosity on the subject of the last night Pauling Blake ;.pent in het' old house and in Elinor Slade's society must be satisfied at any cost, even at that of questioning a servant. "Surely there was nothing to ex- cite comment in tenet?" be says bru- squely. "Miss Blake and Miss Slade were friendly, 100111 they not?' - "0h ye,', sir!' is the half -frighten- ed answer. "At least, 1 should have said they were more affectionate than usual, for Miss Blake sent her maid for all the jewels she had brought from the bank that day and made Miss Nellie try them all on one after ,the other. She looped lonely, and, when Miss Blake said, as she fastened a big pearl collar a- bout her deck, "Don't shrink from ' your honors, child; all these will come to Lady Trevor some day,' she looked very frightened." Stephen winces a little, but his brow clears. He scarcely knows what he has feared to hear, but there is, so far, only- reassurance in Mrs. Clarke's story. When with a start he realises that the has qualified it, he looks up to find her regarding hint with evi- dent uneasiness. "Well, what is it?" he asks sharply. "Nothing much; sir," Mrs. Clarke goes on in haste, "only that the ser- vants do say that the ladies had fal- ls pout a bit, that seine high words passed bcitween thloin before they parted that night, also that Miss Nel- Every Woe it ani Needs "FriiiQt.a4ives" the sore way fm regular health MSS. A. PARENT. Daily tasks rob many women of the priceless boon of good health, because constipation, biliousness, headaches, in- digestion, backaches and kindred ail- ments, undermine their constitutions. Read this sincere letter: Driscol Lake, Sask.—"I have taken many kinds of medicine, but none proved as good as `Fruit -a -rives' for me. It is the only medicine I take I use it regu- larly and do not feel right if I do not" —Mrs. A, Parent. "Fruit -a -rives" is universally successful because it is a natural medicine—made from the intensified juices of fresh fruits, combined with tonics. It will help you, too. 25c and 50c at all druggists. Buy a box to -day. r lie was crying bitterly as she went upstairs and knocked twice at Miss Blake's door without being let in. 0£ course this is just kitchen gossip, and you may be sure I stop it pretty smartly whenever it Comes to my ears but 1 can't be always on the spot, and girls will talk. And I must tell you, sir, that when the poor girl was at her very worst she kept raving to Miss Blake to forigve her and not believe she was the wretch she seem- ed. It was heart -breaking to hear the poor young lady, though I felt sure it 10118 only her brain burned up with the fever that made her say ' and think such dreadful things." Of course Stephen agrees. "Was it you alone who heard her ravings?" he adds with affected care- lessness. "Well, I cannot quite say that, 'though I was mostly there, and after the first tried to keep people out of the room. I soulb not say, but it seemed the best thing to do." "It was," Stephen says tersely, and his heart swells with gratitude to the woman who has acted with such simple: li7yalty to her unhappy charge. "Did she say anything more?" "Lots more, Sir Stephen—lots that was just sheer nonsense, and one thing that came oftenest of all after she was tired' of asking Miss Blake to forgive her and trust her—it was always the same. "Stephen shall know all—I swear that, but he must know first, and I must tell him my- self!" Stephen turns away abruptly, fear ing a dangerous self-betrayal. The words strike him with the force of a blow, though their first effect is that of inlinense relief. Nell has a sec- ret, then—a secret that has already made trouble between her and her kindest friend! But it was a secret that ,he could confide to him—her lover and husband to be! Surely she had the right to refuse an ex- planation to all others and guard it for Ms ears alone? He does not know now he has wrestled with his thoughts in silence till Mrs. ,Clarke rouses him with a respectful cough. "Oh, good night Mi,. Clarke!" he says, with a desperate attempt to speak naturally. "I had folgetten you were there. Therb's notllinb.;' more, thank you!" The housekeeper accepts this as t '15.11 is.al, but seems very reluctant to go. At length, alter fidgeting a- bout a little, she says in answer to his impatient glance— "If you don't mind, blaster Steve --beg pardon, Sir Stephen --I often wanted to ask you about those. jewels." "The box Miss Blake broughtlfrom the bank?" eyes." "Well, what about it?" "Are you quite sure it is safe, .sir? It is full of the most valuable things ---brooches, brancelets, necklaces, and necklaces, and goodness knows what! If a thief had got hold of that it relight accotult for a good Beal." "It might indeed," Stephen says, with a bitter smile, "but it is safe enough, Mrs. Clarke, Not only is it under lock and key in the wardrobe where Miss Blake placed it, but it is under the lawyer's seal." The 'housekeeper draws a deep breath Of relief. "That means you save it yourself, sir? Well, I am glad! Though I slid not like to speak of it before ,t11e thought of the box has lain Heavily on my mind. Good night, sir, and I hope you will have a good one, for, .'.♦4.4'i'4'I'4444,04+4-0444.44.0.;.4,4, to rou:,,, 17im. 11.' 1111;0711 to WANT ED heg l 11, ;1114/ 1;7, 1 ;toil 1, • lrcettte 11:111 hoveringstets! 1,1:11 " Il 111.1. his master ' :ss1:r •Q,ij• axe l no. st eses" 1 V1,1' but. • run,. heel ,-a 3 o,•1i, 11'!ei .i. r+.,. , tle,l; ,nha,r1.1 :1 iori 1 t;, a ! 'E oorr ;AM .:,•d and r3 1test ri1ar14et eerier., 30*i 1 14 r your 11 ides; • lllk 4.441.6Jd'.1-4,,,,;h,1:.y..wcn5 •:btG'P=c•d>•..rJ',.V•v+y.: if you will excuse mc, Master Steve, t., '1(,u look jut about worn 11111, and no The kindly wish is not fulfilled. Vole:' after the good woman has left the roma, finished her roulr1 of daily luti,r lost her own uneasy -141.54 of something, dreadfully wrong and oi' acute syrefr:atlty with her clear un- happy Master Steve, in blameless and healthy slumber, Stephen sits on in solitude, absorbed in hopes and fears. He forms plant that are at once contemptuously dismissed as dangeroue or futile, and explana- tions which steadily refuse to fit in with undeniable fact,. .At length utterly worn out he goes up to his own room and throws him- self on the bed with the determina- tion to force the sleep of which he stand, in such sore need to come and help him to escape for a while from all his troubles. It is but waisted effort; the heavy lids may hide the tired eyes, the harassed brain may striv,l io busy itself with .tome dif- ferent idea or mechanical occupa- tion, but sleep refuses to come. A thousand phantom fears and horrible suggestions invade his mind, and, do what he will to ignore them, they v,'hisner to him of horror in the and peril in the future. Hour after hour he lies tossing on a comfortless pillow, planning, fear- ing, and praying for help in his bit- ter need, but never losing th con- sciousness of despair till the sun is , high in the wintry "heaven. Then 1 quite suddenly he falls into a slum- ber so profound that the man who brings his hot water, tea, and letters fails to break it by his quiet en- trance and discreet announcement of his presence. He mercifully re- frains from any definite attempt to wake the worn-out sleeper. "1 was not ging to disturb him --- not for Mos. Ruthven nor no one!" the man explains later in the ser- vants' hall. "For he looked that tir- ed and haggard it quite made my heart ache, knowing all he has had to go through lately and all that lies before him, most like. However, I think by now he will be pretty well rested, so, as it is getting on for Mulch -time, I shall have another try with 1r -rl n "r '.,•c vr,r ,1117+e 1!5.1 1 not 10 \Yalu. '.. t lord," hr. s4s. "I 11101 n hod .1<., v711r, 11. r! f h • eta ;see) vennt. di 1 suppose. • "Ne, il'," 1,'c1511J answer: Patterer' hal is, the man who 3.n'e v 'u•rday 11<) asic ,,i for '.,11 "1)h, he can wait!" .111 51.'Phon's f•. ass 001115 hack with a slab. Itis Coli' 1s Intr.-411y inpatient, lds 1a•'e glows .suddenly stern, and thus last cloud of slumber dins out o1' his (Was aS lw adds, "That is all, Arnold! No stay! Have you heard how Miss Slade le this, morning?" -`She is very much better, sit'! She was up and dressed quits. early, Mrs. Clarke told us, and as Soon; as the doctor has Leen we shall know whether she may route out of her room." Tho 111(111 retire:, and Stephen is thankful for at least one piece of geed news. Turning to his letters and seannint; their addre-res, he sees without surprise that one is in his sister's handwriting. "Silly little Sylvia! She need not have written her excuses. I know her too well to attach any real im- portance to her angry words, though they have power to wound me when they strike through Neil as they did last night. But ilir. Pablo was responsible for that, and I will take care she does not come under his in- fluence again. I will find some way of dealing with that young Dago pre- sently, •r butre 1(ain e meantime t1 s y, th m a time I are more important things waits t„!" He opens Sylvia's letter and reads it through—first with blank bewild- erment, then in growing anger for [the content, are by no moans what he expected them to he. 1'Irs. Ruth - Yen makes no apologies, but curtly and coldly annotutces her intention to quit the Abbey at once, (Continued Next Week) W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM -CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. T. T. M'RAE M. .9., M. C. P., .tr b. O. M. O. 13., Village of Et usaeh. Phrsioian, Surgeon, Aecoueheer 011icent residence, 050021te 1,lelville 011nreh. William street. Vf11tiESDAY, FEB. 211th,, 1027. AUCTiONEEitb THIOMAI3 eat)wN Sesiorth, t)1(1,"io 1 ia,'n: 011 11111.4nn.. 1' iter , `unties of Huron 111,1 1'e•<13. lnl,u, it „d ar- 1x171. 7111 1 l 1 111 be ntad,' by , ,l i''' '1':, I ,v i 7 u ;cels, Charges t7; es 1 1..:LcollabIrr, Sal 1 1 trt!on Guaranteed or no charge. 10-9. JAMES TAYLOR I it 'nsed Al i1 n7f., , I n 111 county of Huron t , , -.! in all parts oJ' tut county. Soll.sfaetion Guaranteed, or 0,pay. Orders left at The Plat i;ame:lty attended to. 131igxave• Post 4)fl'iee. 1'I1 ON1v$: Brussels, 15-13. North Huron, 15.623 KEMP BROS. Auctioneers Auction Sales of all kinds. accepted and conducted. S let 'itctiori Guar- anteed and terms rc 10unal.le. Phone Listowel at 121, 38 01' 18 at our ex- pellee. W. J. DOWD Auctioneer Orders lift at this office or with Thos. bIillar, Brusaels, 11(-,n.' 10-13 will eusurd: you .best of «"roicrs alt right prices. Box 484 LISTOWI:L Phone 246 • D. M. SCOTT Licensed Auctioneer PRICES MODERATE For reference consult any person whose sale I have offiriatd at, 61 Craig Street, LONDON C. C. RAMAGE, D.D.S., L.D.S. BRUSSELS, ONT. Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons and Honor Graduate Uni- versity of Toronto. Dentistry in all its branches. Office Over Standard andard Bank Phones—Office 200. Residence 65-14 WM. SPENCE Ethel, Ont. Conveyance, Commissioner and C. J. Agent for The Imperial Life Assurance Co. a Canales and Ocean Accident Guarantee Corpora- tion, Limited Accident Insurance, Au`oniabile In- surance, Plate Glass Insurance, etc, Phone 2225 r:.thel, Out. JAMES NM'FADZs.AN Agent Hulick Mutual Fire Insurance Companv Ate. Hartford Windstorm and Tornado Insurance Phone 92. )Sox 1 Turuberry street. 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The rou 111 are largely maintained by the surrounding. districts. itut the. organisation, the direction, and to a great measure the upkeep. of the institutions in such towns are in the halide of the businees iiiteie-ts, together with those directly and in- directly connected thee, with, Without the active business and professional men to supervise and govern these public Institu- tions and undertakings no town could thrive. ho is iyAffected? Every citizen either in or about a town should be concerned en seeing to it that they do their part ill carrying on any good cause which may be promoted, either by financial or active support. Only in this way will any town prosper and develop as it slto'lld. Publicity is Re', ; odes 11: promotion work your local paper takes •the leading part. Tt is ever 111e champion of worthy causes and philanthrspic and patriotic !undertakings. 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