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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1928-5-30, Page 7THE BRUSSELS POST UMW MAILLIAM.111,111111101/1A.1.1.11.1.11.016,11. Cream ra Means ETTERCREAM ETTER BUTTER ETTER PRICES We are now prepared) to Grade your Cream honestly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each day we lift it, We gather with covered truck to keep sun off it. We pay a premiums of 1 cent per lb. butter fat for Specials over that of No. 1 grade, and 3 cents per lb, but- ter -fel for No 1 grade over that of No. z grace. The basic principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontarin batter Is the elimination of second and off grade cream. This may be accomplished by paying the producer of good (roam a better price per pound of butter -fat Wan is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market. faxgr-We will loan you a can. See our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. he Seaforth Creamery awaraiesx i 5">k r_d `ul t` +� �y 4 Avig.Y1 zattgm ,"1•! , 1','+.' .•,yS,y NEW SERIAL STORY. (All r'ghts Reserved) don't know about than,!" she sc,id. She paused a moment, and then went on— "1 hoped that as Lilith Wme doing so well I might have taken ter away tomorrow in an invalid -carriage—" "Tomorrow!" interrupted 'Lord Lochfinnan. "My dear lady, you must not think of such a thing!" "No," she said; "so Doctor Meade tells me. He threatens me, in fact. was keeping me here for a fort- night." "The longer he keeps you the be`. - ter pleased I shall be!. But I am sorry you should look forward to ll.e prospect with such dismay. "I belong to a free and independ- ent nation," Mrs: Mansfield replied, smiling, but with a note of seriou,- ness in her voice, "and you must ad- mit it is an unpleasant position for us to be thrust thus as guests on peo- ple who did not know of our existen- ce yesterday merging," "But who are only too grateful for the chance which has made there now acquainted with it!" interposed Lord Lochfinnan gallantly. "It is only your kindnee, that makes the situation bearable," she went on, acknowledging his little speech with a smile. "But I tall you frankly I cannot consent to remain here as a burden on your hospitality. If you will not permit my stay here to be a purely business arrangement I shall go, risk or no risk!" "But I don't quite understand. What do you mean by a business ar- s angement?" "I mean that you must let me pay for our board and lodgings, as 1 • would at an hotel." "My dear lady, I am not an hotel - keeper!" "But, as you chose ao take me in, and insist on keeping me, you must for the time become one," Mrs. Mansfield replied firmly; and at length she made him feel that it was the truest coutesy to ]et he: do as she wished in the matter. This settled, she turned to leave him, smiling back at hire and ex- changing repartees with him over her shoulder, until she nearly ran in- to Mr. Scott. "Ah!" she cried to the agent. "Have you come to rescue him? He is safe so fru'! I haven't proposed to him yet!" 'CHAPTER VIII In a pretty little room that open- ed by French windows on to a small garden 'bright with flowers lay Mr. Scott's invalid wife. She had met 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 31. The Post Publishing Nouse with an accident soon after her mar, riage, in- riage, and had so injured her spine that she would never walk again. In spite of this great misfortune, she was a happy woman. Her hus- band was devoted to her, and she was blessed with a sweet sunny tem- perment which makes mends for its owner in the most adverse circum- stances. She was the confidante of the whole parish. Young girls talk- ed to her of their love -stories, and young men confided in her when they had got into debt and bad not courage to confess to their fathers. She always gave good advice in such a kind sympathetic manner that, even when the recipient did not take it, he did not take offence; and, when ever it was possible, she gave help. She had broken the ice for confes- sion to parental ears many a time, and many a time brought about peace between a quarrelling couple. ' Perhaps her favourite of all her young friends was Lady Cecily. The girl had been born and the mother had died not long after her own mis- fortune. Lady Lochfinnan had been very kind to her during the great trouble, and so, for her sake, Mrs. Scott took a lively interest in the motherless child, and it was ono of the greatest pleasures of her life to have the baby brought to see her. As Cecily grew older the affection between the woman and the child ripened, and, now that Cecily was no longer a ,child, the two despite Inc difference in their ages, were friends in the truest sense of the word. But Mrs. Scott had not seen Cecily since the events that had turned the Castle upside down, These had hap- pened three days ago, and she was beginning to wonder what 'had be- come of her young friend when sud- denly Cecily stepped in, according to her almost daily oustom, through tate French windows. "I ala glad to see you, my child!" said Mrs. Scott, as the girl bent over the sofa and kissed her warmly. "I began to think I must have done something to offend you. I never re- member you staying away so long." "I am sure you did not think any- thing of the kind!" said Cecily, sitt- ing down in a cosy little chair close to the sofa, "We know each other better than that!" - "No, dearest, I did not really think that, but I have felt anxious about you." "Mr. Scott has told you everything that has happened?" asked Cecily. "Yes, I think Mr. Scott has told Inc pretty nearly all that has happen- ed," replied Mrs. Scott, "but there are some things only you can tell nee." "You know about Jack?" asked Cecily, smell ng, sighing, blushing all at once. "Yes, I know all about Jack," an- swered Mrs, Scott. "Why did you never tell me about dank before?" "How could I tell you about him till—till there was something to tell? And you might have thought it your duty to tell my father that Jack was in love with rim!" Mrs. Scott sighed. She certainly would have thought it her duty to try to save the motherless girl the miseries of a hopeless love -affair; but, strangely enough, she had never received a hint of what was going on. 'Veil. now that all the world knows about it, you may as well tell me," she said affectionately, Cecily, nothing loath, told hor story, "And I have been so miserable!' ,ho concluded., "1 could not leave the house for fear he should die mills I was out of it. But now there is hope!" Her voice trembled. "Doctor Meader believes he will re- eovor. And they won't lot mo see him!" she added, breaking into tears. "Poor child!" said Mrs. Scott gent- ly. "It is all very unfortunate." "I suppose you are against me too!" cried Cecily. "Even you think I ought not t obe allowed to marry him because he has got no money!" Mrs. Scott was silent for a mom- ent. It was not easy work to steer straight here. She had no right to take the father's part against his child; and, not knowing the young man, she found it difficult to judge how far Lord Loehfinnan was right. After a moment's pause she said as much. "I can older than you," she added "and I know how much happiness de pends on a sufficiency of money." "But don't you call five hundred a year a sufficiency?" cried Cecily. Mrs, Scott shook her head. "It would be for me, my dear, but for a girl brought up as you have been it would moan a life full of hardships." "I don't mind hardships!" ex- claimed Cecily. 1'My child, you don't know! You have never tried them." At this moment a shadow fell a- crose the window, and, looking up, they saw Haddis standing outside. "May I come in, Mrs. Scott?" ne said, and then, as his geance fell on his sister, he added. "I •zeid not know you were hero, Cecily" Ilis tone said pretty plainly that if he had known he would not have chosen this partioular time to come. Cecily understood the tone very well, so did Mrs. Scott. Both knew that, besides his intention of paying the call that duty demanded of him on his arrival at the Castle, Haddis also wanted to confide in Mrs. Scott on the subject of his sister. "I did not know you were com- ing!" replied Cecily, with a touch of petulance in her tone. However, af- ter her brother and Mrs. Scott had exchanged some inanities on the weather, she bad her friend good- bye and went home. When she was gone Haddis in- stantly plunged into the subject that occupied his" thoughts. "You are such a friend of Cecily," he ended, when he had laid his view of the case before her, "that I am sure you could do a great deal to bring her to a reasonable frame of mind. This marriage is impossible!" "It is very unfortunate—" began Mrs. Scott, and paused. During those three days she had heard an immense amount of gossip concerning the events at the Castle, the least startling of the stories be- ing that Lord Haddis had found Jack Grandison and his sister on the point of eloping and that he had half murdered Jack on the spot. "I am a friend of Ceeilv," .she went on again after that pause. "If I hadknown of this affair long ago I night have done something., Lord Haddis, Cecily has the same tenacity' of purpose ,which distinguishes you and Lord Lochfinnan. She will not readily give up this young man." "Site must give him up!" cried Haddis. ;i The conversation was here inter. ranted by the sound of the hall -door bell. "Oh," he cried, "there are visitors! There is 110 use my staying any long- er." He , rose to go, but in his haste knocked over a little table; and while he was picking up. the knick-knacks that had stood on it the visitors were announced. They proved to be none other than Lord Lochfinnan and Mrs. Mansfield. "I have ventured to bring Mrs. Mansfield' to make your acquaint- ance," said Lord Loehfinnan. Mrs. Scott welcomed her new visit- ors with the graciousness which was peculiarly her own. Haddis, shortly after their en- trance, took his departure; but Lord Lochfinnan arid Mrs, Mansfield stay- ed to tea, and he asked Mrs. Scott's permission to take his American guest round her garden, "Mr. Scott is a great gardener," he explained 'He etas lots of things in bus garden that my gardeners won't, or can't, grow in mine," Mrs. Scott, as site bay on her sofa, could watch them as they walked round the garden, and as she noticed the zest with which Lorre Lochfinnan talked to this companion she said to herself-- "ri'his is going to create another conplieation, .I wonder how Haddis and Coolly Would like to have a step - Mother?" WHDNBSnAY, MAY got i 928. "I am Freee99 she says: Kidney Trouble Ended by "Fruit -a -tines" 'Et VERETT, Ont,—"I was .1U/troubled for some years with dyspepsia, and kidney trouble, from which it was impossible to get relief until I started taking hrult-a-uvea' Now, thanks to 'Fruit -a- Oyes', I am free from those ailmen to and able to do my work without pain or fatigue.. Mrs. Thos. Evans. "Fruit -a -tines," by the gentle natural action of Intensified fruit juices and tonics, restores normal action of kidneys, stom- ach and bowels, and gives relief from backache, rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia and head- aches. 25c and S0c a box. "She seems nice," commented Mrs Scott to herself, "And if she is as rich as her clothes and general ap- pearance indicate it might really be no bad thing. The estate would he much the better for a few American dollars." In the meantime Lilith was progress ung towards recovery. The day fal- lowing Ceeily's visit to Mrs. Scott Doctor Meade said that she could lie on the sofa. The day following that, be said, she might be taken for a few hours into another room. When Haddis heard this he begged that he might be allowed to see her, but Mrs. Mansfield demurred, "She must not see too many peo- ple.," she said. "I should like Lord Lochfinnan to be the first to mak3 her acquaintance, and one at a time is enough." Accordingly, when Lilith, arrayed in a lovely blue silk wrapper, had been taken into Cecily's sitting -room and made comfortable on the sofa, Lord Lochfinnan was brought up by Mrs. Mansfield to see her. He sat down beside her and told her, with his old-fashioned courtesy, how glad he was to see her better, and talked to her on every snbject he thought might interest her, but he did not find her very responsive, Unlike most American girls, Lilith was a little shy, and she was more- over conscious that her stepmother, who was sitting a little apart, with an elaborate piece of work in her hand, was watching her with great attention. Lord Lochfinnan made several efforts to draw Mrs. Mans- field into the conversation, but ap- parently she was not in a conversa- tional mood. When at length he rose to go, he said— "My son must come up to see you tomorrow. You will find hint more amusing than an old fogy like me!" "Ah, well, I don't know about to- morrow!" said Mrs. Mansfield. "We mustn't go too fast! I don't want anything to throw Lilith back and prevent us from leaving this day week." "I really do not know why yone should be in such a desperate hurry to go," said Lord Lochfinnan. "But I do!" she replied, laughing. The following day, when Lord Haddis asked if he might come to see Miss Mansfield, her stepmother re- turned a decided negative. Lilith, 'site declared, was very tired after yesterday's venture, and, though .3110 was to go in the sitting -room again, site must be kept perfectly quiet. The third day however Mrs. Mans- field could find no excuse for refus- ing 'the very natural desire of her host's son to pay his respects to her daughter. So Haddis was ushered into the sitting -room in the course of the afternoon. Lilith was secretly very anxious to see hint. Her mother had talked a great deal to her of many things and. and people, but she had rarely men- tioned Lord Haddis. This piqued the girl's curiosity. She had but a very dim recollection of trim, for on that afternoon when she had met with her accident she had been too be- wildered by pain to notice anything much. Mrs. Mansfield, on this occasion, did not sit apart with her work, but remained close to the sofa and mon- opolised most of the conversation. "You do not look very strong yet," Haddis, said to the young girl. And ..................4.•...+ i :• • • WANTED Highest market price paid for your Hens Yollick .44-444.14,4414+414.94.. 41+4,441 as he spoke hls glance rested admir- :iigly on her delicate face, which was now rose -tinted with the excitment of this new visitor. But you look better than when I last saw you." "I am afraid Lilith does not re- member much about when you last saw her," interposed Mrs. Mansfield. "Do you Lilith?" Lilith was obliged to confess that she did not, The only result of this little snub from the widow was to make Haddis resolve that in future Mies Mansfield should remember when she saw hint. He glanced round the room. "Ilave you plenty of books? I don't know if your tastes are the same as Cecily's. She reads Brown- ing and George Meredith, and Wal- ter Pater and Emerson." Lilith smiled. "I ani afraid," she said, "I don't read much of anything. I like to live out of doors, gardening, cycling playing tennis and croquet." "When you are fit for it we must try croquet." "My dear Lord Haddis," said Mrs. Mansfield repressively, "we shall have left this house long before Lilith's arm or ankle is fit for cro- quet!" 'Well, even so, I hope that when you leave it will not be for ever. We shall not allow such pleasant ac- quaintances to slip altogether out of our lives ---unless you insist on drop- ping us. I hope you won't dd that." He spoke to Mrs. Mansfield, but his eyes were seeking Lilith's. The girl smiled involuntarily and blushed a little. Mrs. Mansfield said coolly— "I could scarcely be rude enough to express my intention of dropping acquaintances to whom we owe so much, but I think, Lord Haddis, that a week after we are gone you will have forgotten we have been here. Our paths in life lies far apart and' we are not likely to meet again." "I am not so sure about that," I said Haddis. "A ood zeal mgay be done in the most adverse circum- stances if two people are bent on meeting." "Possibly," said Mrs. Mansfield coldly, "but, if only one of them is bent on it, it depends, doesn't it, on which has the stronger will?" Lord Haddis looked at Mrs. Mans- field and met the challenge in her eyes with definance in his own. "Yes," he replied, "it does depend on which has the stronger will," She smiled. "I think I must ask you to go now," she said courteously. "Lilith gets tired so very soon." "Oh, Mrs. Maisie, I am not a bit i tired 1" said Lilith. Mrs. Mansfield paid no attention to the protest. She stood up as if she meant the visitor to go, and he had no choice. As soon as he was gone Lilith said, rather timidly- - "You were not nice to Lori Had- dis, and you are generally $o nice to everybody." "My darling," replied Mrs, Mans- field, "I don't desire to encourage Lord Haddis to begin to flirt with you, These English aristocrats think every girl. in America has no higher ambition than to marry one of them, and they think it fine fun to amuse themselves with an American girl, while all the time they mean noth- ing at all." Lilith flushed scarlet. "Oh, Mrs. Masie 1" she cried. "You are rather horrid. I do not think that Lord Haddis it at all like that!" "My little Lilith, as you never saw Lord Haddis till half an hour ago, what can you know about him?" No darling, I shall never force you to marry any man you don't wish to marry, but I shall do my best to pre- vent your heart from being broken by letting you give it to a man who only wants to play with it." Lilith was silent. She turned her face to the cushions of the sofa and Mrs. Mansfield though she was as- leep, but in reality she was crying. Haddis, in the meantime, as he made his way to the room of the other invalid, was wondering what Mrs. Mansfield's unconcealed hostili- ty might mean. He had undertaken the duties of day nurse to Jack. The nurse went to bed in the daytime, and with the valet's help he took her place. He had left the valet in attendance now. "You can go," he said to the man. "I shall remain here till dinner- time." (Continued Next Week) The United States postal depart- ment was founded in 1790. Pointing to Z6 residents living within 100 yards of one another, who have a combined age of 1,300 years, Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight, is claiming the longevity record of the world. W. D. S. JAMIES0N, MD; CM; LM.CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. T. T. PA' RAE M, B.. M.O. P., 4S. O. Ai. 0. H„ Village of Brussels. Physician, Surgeon, Aaeonaheal* Office at residence, opposite McIv rile Church. William street. 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