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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1928-3-28, Page 74 ......,auswa•Mturvatulawuwamlow THE BRUSSELS POST .113,SYMNIMIRI.Vq.waralAre...I.,44.0+1(14.4.707.1 /t/M1.11414,11i1M"...11.111“1.1.241.r.4141. C.111511141.4.11.1.11111.11616.11.011.C{Va.......teiCalp.111..SU.N.14:11.101"1.24141.41.114....416.-.F.V. re M ea tes rain Ell' ER CR EA NI Ei'1'ER U "1"1' R ETT ER PRICES We tee erepered to Grade your Cream honeeely, male r it, twee a te ee end deliver al. our Creamery team tale - we lift it. W.. ;tate.t.... s eth covered truck to keel) sun off it. pay n 1)1'. Mien.' or 1 cent per lb. butter fat for fit .teiere teer I ;pat et eo. 1 gra.), and 3 cents per lb. far No 1 eitede ever that of No, e grade. III ) Pr:'11.thi Of rim improvement in rho cm nay Of Ontario elimination of sever ti 0.11.1 or cream. 0.1.0111M711,11 bY Peeve': the fir"'"I•te' of good. Lt tti 1 ['Pico poi, poll Ill( O ititter,tat t paid to the pewee.. et, or pool. err We solicit pr.f patrono;4,2.. nr.i 1 o•e Jetion for heft.... market. Fevre We wilt lean you a can. See cur Agerii, T. C. IVIcCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels, Th ;f:11; Seafcrth Crea rra e I..a........rssnnllaan.nuectktxr.ueoe,rrrrureXaMrcmatimdrMonruaoceevZt.eotat.rvrMrAmsanes.a.rna.rrkawzr.rwn. , dr! OUR SERIAL STORY The lsappe' of ranee a lina 4lake Stephen can find no better way out of the dilemma in which Nellie's in- explicable folly and Pablo Valdez's malicious Interference have placed her. She must be saved at any cost from him and from herself, and the rough step of detaining her at the London terminus seems the only one to take. He says so briefly and savagely, and the detective goes on his errand with a smug satisfaction that he takes no pains to hide. "He suspects that young woman of being up to mischief quite as much as I do," he thinks, with a low chuckle, "but he is ready to stand up for her through thick and thin all the same. Well, that is a good sort or lover for a girl to have, and it is beastly bad luck for him that he did not make a better choice! quite felt for him till he turned on the haughty tap and treated me like the dirt beneath his feet. I guess it will be his turn now, for, if we are not well on the scent of a crime this time, and if Miss Elinor Slade is net mixed up in it, I'm a fat -headed Dutchman and not one of the prides of Scotland Yard!" "What shall you do neer?" Miss Clemency asks timidly, as soon as the man had'igone; and Stephen, who has been staring blankly after him, rous- es himself and says— "Send a wire to the station for Nellie, telliteg, her to fear nothing and to await my coming and then to follow by the next train," Miss Clemency looks at the strong set face with teas -filled eyes, "You gond man 1 You true knight!" she says softly. "You only think of sheltering, the girl who has wounded you eo sorely, end have not even reed aim' letter yet." With these words she halide it to him, and he. takes it with white cheeks, !reeling that here nethanA le the rine cruseie blow that Fete ime it in her power to de.),I. Within no hour, in the face of all accuminelated proore, he has renewed hie solemn. vow that nothing but her mem plicit confes1io4 'of incredible silt shall make hint believe in Nellie's possible guilt. Is it a confession that kind Miss Clemency in now forcing on him? He tures his back on her abruptly crushing the paper in his clenched hand fted holding it so for a second, as though it were a Viper then he breaks the seal and Made,' There um only a few lines, scrib- bled in pencle and so blotted here and Pee—egetetteeeeetageetteeetteegewitelette batuveeneakileamswale.MOVanteeemeaftp*Warrtur Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post, Publishing Rouse. Wo 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 81. The root Publiehing Home mortbararr.,..tretat<vme.onrormweramreArseenemergeselatitmellneentara 'there with tears that he has some vain, to decipher them. Evidently elle has cried to him, out of misery and deepair, and this is what she says— "Stephen, my own darling, I dare not ask you to forgive me, but cannot leave you without a farewell word. You and I may—no, that word is nob strong enough—must never meet again in this world! The bonier between us is too horrible— not even your generous love could ignore or do away with it. Before I go however I must thank you from my breaking heart for all you have been to and done for iia. I go today • because I must You will know why only too soon. But I 'think I should leave you of my own Wi.11 even if them were no danger of discovery, because I love you so well and know that I am not fit to be your wife. And so, my true love, almost my bus- bmid, good bye, and Heaven for ever bless you and prosper you. Do not try to trace Inc. You will only bring me danger and intolerable pain. — NELL," He is still staring at the paper, find Miss Clemency is summoning up courage to ask him its contents, when Mrs. Clarke appears, her face drawn in horror and dlemay. "Oh, Sir Stephen 1" she cries from the doorway. "The boy has just been at the station and has brought hack such awful news! There has- been a shocking accident on the line. The express has run into a slow train iti,d e • of pow things sent to their account, and more smashed and knocked abut most dreadful!" "That is enough!" Miss Clemency ietervenes sharply. She has a eud- den glimpse of Stephen's face, and the sight makes her feet faint. "These things are always exaggerat- ed! we shall hear the truth soon." It is all over the place already,' the housekeeper repliee. "And when then!: of Our Miss Nellie and that Mr. \71,1i -.-not that, 1 plied muell 111)00; shim; he had no business to lead her into such danger----aia. in the middle of it, perhaps killed nut- eiset. I earnest, begeing your pardon ma'am, and Sir elteelteuiti into the betegain, I cannot stop to chime! my At that moment a footman enters with a telegram, which Stephen, tekes and stares at, but does not seem inclined to open till Miss Clem- ency jogs his elbow and says in an imperative tone— "Open it and let us know the best or worst at once! Heaven grant that it come.. from Nell herself 1" Mechanically Stephen obeys and forces his eyes to travel along the apparently dancing line of words. that at first convey no message to his dazed brain. • Then, as by magic, everything becomes startlingly clear, and he hears himself read aloud with a lirni voice—. "Railway Hotel, Sparling—There has been a terrible accident on the. line. Come on hero as soon as .poss- ible.—Pable Valdez." Mils Clemency, •who has listened' with strained attention, cannot' to - Strain a cry of the bitterest disap- pointment. "Pablo Valdez!" she Cries, "Then that mettels—" "Probably that Nell is dead!" Stephen says harshly, and Mee a- gain Miss 'Clemency feels that the egony in that drawn haggard face is something on which she cannot bear to look. CHAPTER XVI. It is almost night when Stellate Trevor .and Miss Clemency Grave, fele., in this hour of emeremety, hae einem off the indolent habit oy wire on accompanying him upon his and errand, arrive at Sperl- ing and go to the Reilway- Hotcl. The. plarie 14 in the wildest eon -Melon. 1. e te;rmi.L.110 liet of "badly ',ea" etews tt re.elt of the aeci •et., et 1, :1st time' of which the doe - :ea', ere beytted bop, seethe?, bas ,,C..0f,ly (hired to eel: 'he amehtee, syn 1.41 OVOrWOrli,d !DA., tis woe..., of the dead. 'oft ii 1 Clomeney with more ewer - :feet hes eleeady towel:awed an tied:te- em ehi the three t: -:it covered feewe etc, teeed on the welting -room ealt', end fens helmet with 'a thrill -'!1•.1- the v are id/ ti' It 1S then err that Nellie, t•von if she 'Iliad I"' among the hopeless cases, live,, Sho Iris the news to Steuhen with a haply break in her voice end her eyes full of tears. "We ehail find her at the hotel; is only jut across the way. Courage Sir Stephen! We must not frights her with our gloomy faces, even i she should be among the hurt." Stephen nods. He is past speech and a few moments afterwards they find themselves standing in the brightly -lit square hall of the hotel the centre, as it seems to them, of a not too well-mannered crowd. In all the flurry of conflicting hopes and fears that fills her sym- pathetic heart Miss Clemency finds herself vaguely wondering why these people should stare at them as though they -were curious creatures. Surely, she thinks, there must be others here seeking dead or dying friends. She wonders if Stephen has noticed the sensation around him, and concludes that he has, for he de- mands abruptly to be shown to a private room before the landlord, who has the same oddly exiited look as the others, has time to answer hie question about Pablo Valdez. "Yes, sir, Mr. Valdez is here," the man says as soon as they are in the big bow -windowed room that looks out on the noisy courtyard. "He engaged this room at once, and ask- ed that you should be shown to it lie seemed very delicate and dread- fully upset, poor young gentleman, and I thnk has gone to lie down! will let him know that you are here." "Very well; but first wait an in. , steel..." Stephen pauses a moment and moistens his dry Bps, for life itself seems to hang the answer to the question he can barely force himself to put "We have not asked yet about the lady. Is she very bad- ly hint ?" The landlord turns slowly from Sir Stephen to Miss Clemency and then back before he answers with decor - OW gravity— The doctor don't give much hope in her cam, but he will 1.11 you him- self. It ie all so strange. We have our fanciee, sir, but nobody don't teem for certain yet. Of course you , will he Ale to eet us right when you twee seen the poor lady." Tees.. Inef words are really a ques- tion, but Stephen does not. heed them though Mies Chm:hey rack,: her gut their meaning. The nem Iooke disapeeerted, and, mutter- ing; :omething about meing 'Mt Val- dez, edges - .to the door, but Miss ceeeetwe. :wells him. as Stephen. .;nite incaprble of speech. heet is the lady?" roc asks in a low tene. She 100 Ariake, with of eneeeste and public. inquire Ws to follow, Ir mentioning Nellie Slade be name, teed edde, "Is .she conecione? Could we see her?" "Quite conscious and 'eery anxious to see the gentleman, if he is Sir Stephen Trevor. She has been us.k- y for him all the time, shier Mr. Vehicle told her the wire had been She is here in the next room. Will you go in now or wait for Mr. Valciez?" Stephen's answer is to walk straight to the folding door the man indicates, turn the handle, and dis- eppear into the dim room withie. Trembling, Mies Clemency follows him after a second's .pause, .shrink lug from what must be a painful econe, but bravely determined. not to deserir the man whose golly will bo so much greater than her own. For the first moment or so they .iee nothing but the dim outline of a big four -post bed. The lamps are turned down to the lowest peed, and the finglow scarcely extends beyond the hearthrug. There is in the room . a strong smell of ether that seems in some way to intensify the dim- eteee and the mystery of the seethe, The 1meg-comets do not know wheth- er to .advance or retire to await in- etructions from the doctor, but the Finds Road to Health at Sixty " Fruit-a-tives " corrects Bladdor andKidneyTroubIe i,eefektf. eetieete • MR, 't • ICM/0 f.112A11IAM. am y., irt eki and tri' -1 kir(i A muli.10,-, tur 1 br rind kidney trouble, wiiirit used 1, 1;e:p inc irure work a natedi at 0 time, mail 1 stlrtol taking '1r11..a1ive•'. Th-mksto 'Fruit- a-tivee' 1 ha.-; werked qeittily. for fuer years wilkont 11 sick osy. 1 have ;Diver felt better Ill in I du uov.," v.itites M. Thomas Graham of Ohawa, Oat. Because it is made from the juices oe fresh, ripe fruits intensified and com- bined with strengthening tonics, "Fruit- a-tives" eeon brings radiant health to those who suffer from constipation, bladder and kidney troubles It works 10 natures own way. You will find ' "Fruit-a-tives" the very thing your sys- tem needs. ?Sc and seic a box at all f druggists. Start right awaY—to..day. 71 61110Mais.....111263.1604021.10=40i2COMON661111.1111 emeetion is settled for them. There is a rustling movement on the bed, and, to the tunatement of the hearers a sound like a weak broken laugh comes from it Stephen hurries to the bedside and bends with a passion of pain and love over the prostrate figure in the shadow of the tent -like curtains. "At length!" he cries in a hoarse ; voice. "Nellie, my own darling, I ' have found you!" Again that strange uncanny laugh iam on their ears, and Stephen drawback as though from a sad- den blow, while a voice in broken accents says slowly— "Yes, I am found at length! You have every right to be thankful. Tern up the lamp, Stephen. We want all the limelight on the stage now, for this is the great sensational scene and the curtain is going to ring down soo." Miss Clemency utters a frighten - cd cry, but.Stophen, with a face Of stone, obeys the incomprehensible order. The light falls on the big bed, with the scarlet -striped Cover- let shrouding a stiffly outstretched form. There, on the white -frilled pillows and in strong contrast with their whiteness, nestles the familiar head, with the more than dusky skin, with the close -cropped curls and restless =eking eyes, of Pablo Valdez. For a second .his eyes stare up into Stephen's with a curious scrutiny; them 115 n peculiar impish voice, but with perfect self-control, the invalid eays— te the ii,inek over, and the long blindness !deo? Do you recog- 1050 me'?" "Of course I do! You Inc Pablo Val.lee." • Again tis jarring laugh anewert: him. The invalid thieft to rim. but Mile, and, sinking beck among the pillow, says— "Well, is the shock over? And the long blintlreste tool Do you reedly Iwo:teazel me?" 'there le bitter mockery in the dark face, but there is death oleo, 41 110 tem (tele answer in a ''nil,' ton'- - "Of ()nurse I recognize in Valdez!" Once more the etrauge voice ring.. o 11 le "No. no; you ere still deceived -- not Pablo Whin, but Pauline Blake 1" - Then, imbue overtaxed her fast' Ming strenteth, she suddenly sinks into stupor and grows so gray un- der the disguising stain that Miss. Clemency hurries in alerin to the bedside. Some one however is there before her—some one, who, coming out from the shadow of the eurtaine, mai in a familiar voice— "Let Inc vome; Mies Clemeney; the doctor told me just what to do." For one breathless moment Miss Clemency gazes into the pale face of the speeker; then forgetting the In- valid, forgetting everything in her relief, AO throws both arms; round the girl's neck and kisses hoe with motherly affection and delight. "Nellie! 11 10 Nellie berselfi" she cries. "Alive and well, and given beck to ue when we thought her lost for evert Oh, Stephen! Do you hear? Nellie is hem all safe!" But there 'is no answer. In a tumult of joy and gratitude too great for words Stephen has slipped from the room, and Nellie, quietly disen- gaging /itself from the mins of her excited friend, busies herself with the care of the unconscious woman On the bed, While Mise Clemency, WEDNkSDAY, MA Ralf 28; 11)264 .5 5 ...t.A.54440•14•54.+40,5 4541.+4A+44. *A 04 • 0.1 have never been nearer Oran- 1stone than I am today," he says, . ,e- ..,. ...4 F'J4',.NI . "Aunt Pauline must bee even a better 4Z: +A netress than she thought hereelf to : 4 , , . e. !awe kept up her masquerade and ee W A /V TE o taken you all in for more than three weeks with the entire country talk - f. . + leg about her disappearance," te..--....... "What was the meaning of the , l 1 1.4hget 111 1 .ii,,?" Stephasks A en aeerie- et, '• ..prit!e 0 14::1 0.1 • i..• ' .rk et + 1. .'And why ilhi you lend yourself 4 ,fr paid 1.. ''m' ;.",..Ar I !ens : lo ,.,.,11:,11 :11.). in, and i)riel .e)13......e?" 1' 1., , , :hraas hi; sia, aia,n, and alt" IP', ,,,‘ .,,,.: it an inittaidetice that is leiti •b . .4, AL •,. ,,-.• e.,1..,1,4, than it :,(m.....7.. 0,44..2.„.., ,,,,,, .1. 1.....,,,,,v, !.0.,„,,,,,,,,,,,,o,.., ''.!.',•.,..1.,, -h sot W11.-11 :A .(!(.1taiU VW' .•;„;;_,..„:. „„,.,..,, .:onre. t, iv,, my e'oar sir, and .lot .-, .4!nt) lier ovt.ey }).,,,,,,i,,,,,t, sny, i', • U 1 i ::3 tan lee :etch a et:Teem:et, in 01, ,,wegg,.;;,;‘,,,,, v„;,..,, . ellen she likm., 0:o...tilt si.) was "1-, .:lio very ill, Nellie?" .•.,: II; v...11 '.13 II, ./' power tee when I. *. fi7,',1 i.!,f1 ,.!1,110 to 111(?. 1 ...1%M ,,,,, I.,,,,,,,„1 1,-, !'. '4,1, f,,P 0,, PIVSI(In Inc gambling. jury. The det,tet Irv; ne 10,0,.. 011 -- e ere -b- pee' en. Wad te,irl!: all i Ilat. 1 .i, !.,±1,,, 1,4„11iim "Loll:, to; bite 1,1111 had to leave, to his ,,,.!,,, will b„ kg,,,, i;,., ,(nin 2(,1 a Train children—heel so completely mestere teet bring hint." . eel me on board ehip that I had :tot a There le ;mother silence, and then eienny left of the handsome Che'lllP Miss Clemency aAts--- ..ho !tent me, I had to seek her fur- "Whett deet it all mean, Nellie? thee assistance and was forced to Did you know fleet she was Pablo? submit to her conditions of relief, 7 mean— 0h, I don't know what I though I did not like one bit what mean, for It is almost a hopeless ehe proposed." mysteryto inel" "Which was—" "lnel to me," says the girl, with a "Oh, you know well enough what sob. "Dear Miss Clemency, don't it was!" Valdez replies, with ner- ask me anything now, for indeed 'I vous Irritation. "It was that she can explain nothing!" .thould pretend to disappear, but With a sigh Miss Clemency gets really take my' place and masquer- up and goes into the next room, hop- ade as myself down at Cranstone ing to find Stephen Trevor there and while the whole detective force of to evente of the last hour. England hunted for her over the discuss with him the amazing She finds Min and with him an- met of the world. Meanwhile I was other mate at the sight of whom she to live in London and have a good time at her expense holding myself ready to execute arty small commis- sion she might send me. I thought she was downright eracy, and re- fused point-blank to mix myself up in such folly, but she put the whole thing so clearly and convincingly that I soon saw she was sane enough whatever else she might be. (Continued Next Week) a. In the eastern countries—Armen- ; ia, Syria and Greece—lamb is the 1 Although little worn in France 1 thief article of diet on Christmas. outeittq„ the Basque region, tens of 11 thousands of berets are being made in Paris to be sent to America. almost shrieks. For the real Pablo Valdez is so exactly a replica of the false, so like and yet m unlike Pauline Blake as she lies on her death bed that she can only stare at him !n amazement as at some un- canny being from another world, He frowns—the frown that Paul- ine has copied with grotesque fidel- ity—and says in exactly the false Pabli's lisping voice— "I am Pablo Valdez. My aunt sent for me after the accident. I suppose she has told you everything now?" He speaks in a sulky grudging manner, evidently feeling himself on his defence; but Miss Clemency does not heed his words. She stares at the dark face, the muffled -up shiver- ing figure she had' so often seen crouching over the fire in the big Abbey room, and she sighs wearily. "She has told me nothing," says Sir Stephen. "I wish she had! Who was it I saw at Cranstone yesterday? You—oh, surely it was !'—it must have been you?" Pablo laughs, the nervous Price' lough which has so often grated on Sir Stephen's ears and which now even brings i scrowl to his face. 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. S., M. 0, F';, 44 S. 0. ei„ 0 12. Village of iiruesels Physician, Surgeon, Actoucheue ufac, at residence, opposite Illeh lila Churoh, William Weer. OR. WAR .7.7,LA Ebner prsecate or the Ontarie Vetorsese, 'I'ollege. Day and night mile 0.Mca• one-sior "ins' )‚the!. AUCTIONE)IRS THOMAS BROWN fieaf oral, Ontario Licensed auetioneer for cow -aloe of Huron and Perth. Immediate ar- rangements for nab.. dates can be made by calling 'fbo letne, Brussels, charges It, ;I n al, je, Satisf action Guaranteed or nu cheep.. 16-9. JA ht..:S TAYLOR 1:o.. A pet 1,. I' t. County of Boron. 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