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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-12-2, Page 730 t o L A Lowe The` Tyrant Y and stirred Eather'a pride. "Of aoursa You silo?? sec their?, " 1, (} t0 Ne t e she sa .. Ain hor into t•1 i, r , g the hall, please, Mr. Gordon." 1 With an imperceptible shrug of eai'1 f Ills shoulders, Jack followed the ladies Into the hall, and Nattiq gazed round iter with a mixture of ahlldlsh aVie theist all, Nettie, I'll drive Toby over , reer Gordon?'" said Father. , ore a dr FIe wo d r I sw t In a dfu 1(l.. l a a 1 v. 'r • � Its cry inti eeting, wad Jack, nblushtng� he bad Ravel• set oyes) not }cave his name, but said he would' on it. rail in a couple of days' (fine, and I "'Thera axe a great many More i evae to write to you. He was a tall pictures upstairs In the corridor,"" I Hl.an, very dark, with a black mous- J Y t l see eteche and an insolent way.. He asked I cd, and did not seen/ a gentleman, u1 CHAPTER ]+.l (Geeta), came out from it room in the wen sold Bethel'. o1( mus costae and tete. e I know the difference, mind you! wing. 1 and delight, w d a ' ' soon, ;looked eye—Year obedient evettnt; J " h n t„ far you s no ay, 1)d t by "William I evettl, Some of you chaps eau stick on right My dear Esther, have you been ! What a boatel piece. she ear- Would you like to take a ?Mete, o. riding?" she exclaimed. "And who I claimed, "1 didn't think there was v„ I park 'cake home with you, i As his eyes rester! on the nate, IS that jumping the pa k so ninny pickshers in the whole world. Nettie held out her ?rand; but it , which canny from his rooms in ('lar,,.. The .horse seems dreadfully wild, and And look at those funny melt in was int ossible for her to hold the meati Street and was written .0 his 1 shouldn't be surprised if there W45 iron?„ She meant the figures in unit' cake and ?:cep her shawl closed. valet, Selby h,a ton's fico grew dark - "I'll accident. Who is this little girl?" our. "And whet a lot of books! ., , Lay ton's put it in my pocket, said or mid the twist to Isis lips postively. ugly; and when having dressed, he enough; but you've none of you got that style. Wherever he learnt rid.. ing it was a jolly good school, and he Was a jolly good scholar.—Not a bad horse, Mr, Gordon?" he said, as Jack rode up. "He'd suit you .down to the ground." ,lack nodded and suppressed a sigh; and it flashed across his mind, with a strange sense of unreality, that not only the chestnut, but every horse in the stable belonged to him. "He's quiet enough, and won't give you any trouble now," 'he said. "I should give him a basin of gruel to- night fol • think but I s(i{d "Nettle Martin," replied elether. She got up and went to the end of the terrace from whence Miss Wor- cester had come, and from that point saw Jack, deeming himself quite un- seen, riding the chestnut, She least against the 'balustrade and watched What's that big ?ting up there .with Inde, and he did so, as if it were the the pipes?" meet statural thing in' the world. "That's an organ, Nettie," said Es- "Thank Miss Vana•outl, Nettie, for rWanilIMISNY don.. -•-of: nil persona in the world! She paid and rocetved viglta among((( tar' •wa a} • thewhich he neighbors, ea h way in l ?thee buthedid s r ng hs not g ,kP Ni yo had'rlddani up tg her and so skilfully enough of them yet to be friendly, 'saved her from what might have been and the time hung heavily on her ft soribue accident; of hia gentleness hands, She did net go near the home with the child whose love he had so farm for a couple of days; but that evidently won;: of his wonderful self- dfd not prevent her thinking of iter; poesessioi2a�;, and, more than all else, Gordon, and the more she thought of the strange fact, which Nettie had the more annoyed with herself she ihnoeently disclosed, that he carried became. On the third day she met her blood-stained handkerchief about him quite by accident as she was him, Why df:l ho do it? It was very walking across the end of the home disrespectful of hint. Be had: no faa'm. He was. on the colt, but the right to keep her handkerchief• horse was at a standstill, and its rider Should' she ask him for it? No; she could scarcely .do that, and after all, (Continued Next Week,) it (I;,ln t matter. Martin would get lore the note into fragments h nt'it. „ids presently., and this strange Me. DARDS t red "(, r. e h r1)! with (?+baht t.•vr- BUSINESS DARDS they, "Conte and see these still -full- Inc great kindness." nese or which few of. his numerous Gordon would leave the place. She Moe, men !-a One cabinet,"' „• sighed and murmured: 1 (rule you, ]]miss `Vancourt,. for frivede would have deemed Mr. Inv She opened the door and took out vote gate tininess," said the child. ion capable. "Thank you! Very beautiful!" tie some carved Indian figures and show-lcie:ed g tooter clime forward and a Hie smile wee as sweet as'cver as him. Quito ignorant of any obser- ed them to her; but Nettie found thedoing,the soft tell- ravishing song; ,and Miss Worcester her, and in 80 he went down to'the ladies, but }t wars gathered up her knitting as a sigh . want eye, Jack waa,taltllg thetiles? pictures more attractive, and ordered dolls of her dark hair ainio t tonch<:d c nut over the railings again and again Jack to take her nearer to them, to ,rc then a little Sad. lint it was time for bed. She left Jades 'cheek. bucketing." and the sight was a pretty one, to "Who is that big man with the r i it free fur a, "1 .Iii sorry to say that I shall have (,ether and Selby Layton alone for "I after this ck Giles The blood flamed n h and 9 1 c non "I will sl " said Giles and in , ..Tr. Selby Layton finished his last `�'''THE Industrial Mortgage and a Say/riga Com anY of Sarnia P . Ontario, ,ire pl'ep0r0I to 0 0008p money 00 Moftgag0s 00 fioa.a 10)100. Farrier dBaoIo .Taoeey xis farm nmrtawos-whi please xpaly to x mos t'o,vxn„ Sealbnh, Oat., who will tar-. 1(t+li rxtos tn,d otatra- pay Realises, The industrial .Moreferif an I. Rv pigs om Y stinetively again, he touched his cap. A couple of footmen brought out the mills and cakti for Nettie. II. would not have been a very hard task for one; but everything was done in •11 stately fashion at the 'Towers; and Esther had at first been somewhat n' a moment o • t,vo and his dxety erne say the least of it, and Esther looked great boots and a sword'"' she ask t omen( only; but he kept to .,,, nil to town tomorrow, hemid, nnrimen , a m on with a sense of admiration. horse ed in front of him, .". "slut, indeed I have imide a very long .0 the: girl, and looked down at he. h ' t d•] 1(a eyes s ca r y e ,' and rider seemed one, and the Man ,Esther had turned aside to speak ,,e voice was quite calm ns he said, iv; ani? 1 ani sure ,nu wi•11 bt'glad pensively and sighed. was the epitome of grace lige he sat I.0 a servant; lied it was Jack. who• „Coed antirning, ladica," and strode to get rid of me." It was too soon for him to speak thefir horse. The child's words, ransacking his memory, supplied flied the Esther was not heart -broken at Inc yet; something about Esther warned fiery g y, 11out, innocently spoken, recurred to her. information. "A very singular young m in," re- I. prospect of his . departure, but. she him to be careful; but there was so According to her own formula, the"That's Sir Randolph Vancourt," marked Miss Worcester. "A little' i•xprvesed her regret very prettily,, tmleh at stake that he thought he man was a gentleman, But he was he said, "He fought, ,with that sword ton !n•.. tie - and self confident: to tt for the king, and lost his life doing a doesn',t tt ear to it, that pretty lady next hair wage genre- er realise ha piisititin; 'hist his wife. i think her 11"1"was 11'3 -there muse be a great deal of good bel, While lien husband was at. the in him, or that sweet ?stile thing ,vrirs she stayed at home,. here cit the wouldn't be so fond of him.g "We shall he dreadfully dull after must venture upon at least a Hint, you have .one!" she said, "We shall "I cannot tell you how happy I iss the •music so much: I hone it have been at the Towers, Miss an- • 4-1,• ,1,AGENT. FQR +:.} fire; Itutomohilo l.[iltd ,raid lins•. COMPANIES .. For Brussels and vicinity Phone 647 bothered by the number of servants • ph ager. ml . H PP 1 t' VI V which surrounded her and their de- • but voted though silent atteirtion, she was getting used to it by this time, and it did not surprise her or ' make her uncomfortable when two :summoned allher pride to her aid. Towers, and did a little fighting on F,!:ther laughed as she looked after mon in the rich but chaste Vancourt The man must be checked, snubbed• her own account. The moat was full need's my personal'attention; and I the Pall rather absently. am partly" consoled for leavin • the ]!very appeared when one would have She' went been to Nettie .and Miss or water• -.then, and she shut the doors „1 Unli, •ve that idea is an ixtlrr g been sufficient, They . brought the Worcester, who had already etrurk and kept the people, who were fight- fallacy, sunt. Dogs and children often Towers by the thought that I may cake and milk on heavy salvers of up a friendship; for bliss Worcester, ins; against the king, outside. She toter to the most worthless of human login the execution of the commission only her foreman of the home farm, and he had no' right to conceal the fact that she had ' struck him with the axe, no right to carry her blood - .stained handkerchief about. She 111 is not unpleasant business which has rnurt," he said, his voice like a flute; enll.•rl you away," "or with what sorrow I leave it. This "Oh, no," said Mr. Selby Layton. has boon the happiest time of my "It is only a shall natter,. hut it ll•ae; and 1 shall think of it as I sit in my lonely chambers recalling the delightful hours I have spent here." "It's very kind of you to say so," mid Esther. "1 111)1 sure we. shall mics you very much, and I am very !rind that you've not found it very dull. We hope that you will come down solidsilver, and placed them on a with all her dignity and sense of pool- wore that helmetand breastplate you le Inge; look at Bill Sikes' dog, for you have honored me with." rustic table which they dragged for- tion, had taken to the candid 1111(1 see up there. That gentleman in the in t'ncet" 11' added this r1) a lower toms in- ward for the purpose, then retired confiding mite v•iq was—i forget his name—but be ph I shouldn't say BIr Gordoxt fended for . Esther's eau's; and she with the impassive countenancer was at all like vhieh "It is Mr, Gordon;" said Esther, fone,ht for King George with hie c Bill S{kas" said ]]lass smiled gratefully at him, • again." JAMES M'FADZEAN Agent Dolce Mutual fire Insurance Company .4100 Ilartford Vindstorm end iornado Insurance. Phone d8 Box 1 Turnberry Street, Brussels JNO. SUTHERLAND & SONS LIMITED theyANSE Id h 'f M- Van "Dear mel" said Miss Woree ter tongue They callers hire the eloquent W t 1 1 took things Mr. Selby Layton made himself I may have something to te11 yam ,von have worn 1 Miss orcr,s er, who a ways court . had ordered them to dance a disapprovingly, "1 thought 1t 1800 Vancourt; which means that he coul(? literally."Where l.. Mr Selby Lay very pleasant these last hours of his ll the Vancourt people," 1 i•i h about , re ancour prop r 1 via. D. M. SOOTT "Perhnls 'o1( will let me bring my jig, a gentleman—some visitor." jaw the hindleg off a donkey, Anil •tat? The Uell rang seethe time ago." first visit to this Towers, and not only i 5 Esther held theglass and broke They sat with the chid' between than. little boy with the coat ever soto Esther brat to both ladies. He report. At ,that moment, Mr. Selby Laytontook held nut )11 • rl presently Jack eiunP Iaadf. nlueil too long •far him was hie sot I I n 1 1(t fro u^ is+lkr•d wit II ?lies !'rnrt:e.;±^r of r IIc .o. k rho hand she tbei, d Nettie air and them 11) p h met ni,1�i 1 up cake, 811 as a ,, Ye; In 11 i1)•, looking quite cool, as if h,• bud only 1(v woo famous ftunous, to<,;1to ,vrotc a let the operation in a ver tat exile topics, and wh1 ha was !i- hien, Half raised it to his lips; buten() dram,, she talked as children will, 1 ielfotmtng 1 " verytind man" she re- been strolling about the stable-yeecl•' of books; they are all iii the libru•y, 1r> orrain d fashion and every now Ione with Esther discussed her secret man had ever toucher? Esthei's uherk • "'leek's preoccupied , marl al. He'raised his hat to bliss Worcester. ,and nobody reads them now." acid then lit. �l;inced di:aastefully, plan for benefiting the Vancourt fain- - or hand. and, with a' •Uttle touch of \ •r I should say,"'assented. Is- "I'll take Nettie now; bliss Van- 'jack en "How clever you are, what a lot and with a mooch• brow, at the sly, its if the project were as close to' color in her ivory face, sh.' drew. la 1 Y, ther. 'Bao ought you to call him court," he said. 1 you know, Jack!" remarked Nettie, crumpled letter which Palmer had his tenet as to hers. He hung ebout hand away. Mr. Selby Laylon's smile r no-' Nettie? Nianame is Gordon." Esther' incliner? her head enitlly, luhniriinglY• brought tu,0 on the terrace and which Esther all the evening, and he sang remained sweet until he had reached some of his prettiest songs in a ,mice his room, then it -fled and his lips of melting tenderness; and every now took on their nasty twist. and then he glanced towards her with "Pround as the very devil, and cold a wistful, cacvoted expression in hie as stone!" he muttered. "I'll pay Mae eyes' which meant unutterable her back in her own coin some day!" things. Taut, as'it happened, Esther , CHAPTER SII. did not catch one of these gianres; The Towers . seemed• rather dull for as site listened to the flood of after Mr. Selby Layton had gone. 'Guide: to Vancourt Towers,' price 1 London, and asked for your address; melody which would have made Selby 'Miss Worcester openly deplored Itis ixpence." t but 1 did not give it to him beetles( Inyton•s fortune on the operatk ' absence, and Esther missed Itis WO11- "Yes, I know," said Nettie; "but and drew the shawl about Nettie, Jack's river of information (hied now lay open on the dressing -table. he told nae to call him Jack; and 1 and Jack picked her up in his arms. up suddenly, and he glanced over It was a very shortone, and ran thus: like it better than Mister Gordon, As be did so, she was attracted by his shoulder, apprehensively. Esther• Mother said I wasn't to call hint Jack, the pictures in the hall which she wee standing staring at him with 1 "Dear Sir,—There are no letters becos, though he's daddies foreman. could see through the open door. nurprise and curiosity; but he only to -day; but last evening a gentleman, he's a gentleman. What is a gentle- t "What pretty pickshers! elle said, lost his head for a moment. 1 if I may call him so, called and asked - .man?" i "I want to see them!" "Oh. you'll be able to read all a-; for you. He was very much put out At thisq uestion which has pus- "Not now; another time," said bout it, when you're older, in tile. t whe0 he heard that you weren't in -Sled the world ever Since the word Jack. "I must get back; I'm late •" was invented, Esther was really already." 'flummuxed,' as Jack himself would His tone surprised Miss Worcester have said: for who shall say what a aa gentleman is? But she knew that she would have to answer' the quer tion, and she did her level best. 1_F7 "A gentleman, Nettie," she said, "is one who is very brave and very . true and very gentle; who will never do anything he is ashamed of." Nettie thought this over for a min- ute or two as site munched her cake. "Then I'm sure Jack's a gentle- man," she said, "because hp's vewy brave: He stopped father's horse, and father saki he might have been tilled; then he 'art himself with ,a axe, that day he went with you to , see the trees; his shirt was all over blood—" Esther started, and the color rush- ed to her face. .Itt an instant she remembered how her axe had met something in its backward stroke: she had thought it was the branch of a tree: had she struck him? Site said nothing, and Nettie ,tient on: "And one day T saw a handker- chief sticking out of his waistcoat -- a tiny ickle handkerchief 1 and that was all over blood so he must have "urt hissel'f again and said nothing 1 about it." Tho color deepened on Esther's face. She remembered that she Nati thrown her blood-stained 'handker- chief away. Was it possible that Mr. Jack Gordon had gone back and picked it up, and was carrying it about him? For a moment the thought was strangely sweet to her; then she remembered the difference between them --between the man who was foreman of her home farm and had been little better than a tramp, and herself, the mistress of Vancourt. She tried. to feel proud and :full of resentment at his strange readmit; but, somehow there was a warm feel- ing at her heart which puzzled and worried her. "Then he is very gentle" said Net- tie. "Ile tarries the for ever so long, and its as comfy as if I was in bed --- more comfy; and when he speaks to me his voice is nice and soft, like inothcii''s when she talks to the chk'k- ens. And what was (Inc other? He t'iriks of others? Well, so does Jack. The other day' Georgie-•--t1at fat:laces. man -•-'tet his 'and, and jackwent and did his worst for 'inn. And Jacit won't tell n lie. I 'card hint tell fath- er that all the things about the farm were old-fashioned 1(11d no use,and that if he was father he'd ask Miss Vaneotlrtw-that's you to buy is lot of new things, and that, he -that's father—stad always said they was all 'right. And Jack said that if he was the Tarnier he wouldn't tell a darned lie like that." "You shouldn't say 'darned' Nettle, cleat," said. Esther. • • "Is it a wicked word?" asked Neb. tie, open-eyed. "I don't t'ink it can be, 'cos I astinotly heard Jack say it.. But 'T n't you 'tisk Jack's a gentle- man, Miss Vaneourt?" rhea, I think he la," said Esther, in a low voice, At this mon eat Mies Worcester ,Etr 'IgM,g$., averioxs,:. IRIDES MODERATE ?or"0000en'.'s nonsuit any person whose sales I hnveoffielattd at. Phone 8525 T, T. M' RAE M. 8.. M. C,P.. i S. O. M. 0. H„ Village of Ba nasals, Physioiaa, Surgeon, Accouohe'ar Oaks at residence, opposite. Melville Church; William street. DR. WARDLAW-., Honor graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Dar sad sight palls, Moe opposite Flour Mill, Ethel. Fr. X. &whore BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, NOTARY PUBLIC "You .appear to have read it," 111•. 1 he u.•21 intoxicated, leastways screw stage, she was thinking of Mr. Gob- deiful voice in the evenings. She LECKIE BLOCK - BRUSSELS Dashing down io the Oaf feria Terrace. Winter sports at Quebec neo this season being organised by the Prontenac Winter Sports Club. A ski -jump, rivalling those of Montreal and Ottawa, has been constructed and a very comprehensive program is now well under way. 3, 06 d ..3«vroa $w u e Everybody's do- ing it. The croea- word puzzle 1,a1 in while and green fell. a Ii "Red Shadows" 14,1 prize winner at the cel show of the. Empire Club, New fork. Grand Du- chess Cyril (centre), wife of the pre- tender to the Russian na throat e, r. rives at Now York with her Iadles.in-wa It. Mg, Mme. Ma. karoff, widow o f Admiral h(akarof5, and Mme. Orloff, widow of Gen. Orloff, w h o w a e aeaaest. noted when the Czar .was Main. •Nelelis „ea, Captain Turnbull 1111.11.. Commander of the Canadian Pa- cific 0.9. Muntlaa- rier gives n young settler bound for Canada, his first Ica• son in nnvlgation, The Hon. Marguerite' Shaughnessy, daughter of the late Chairman of .the Canadian Pacific Railway, who recently acted as 0500. oar at the launching an the Clyde of the Princess Mar- Enerite," one of the two new and palatial atenmers which will ply between Vaucouvor, Victoria and Seattle with the Canadine Pacific house (lag. ¢oaf .. elin,.2M:a;x to ],Ages:, s r:.s: Here f0 the Greenwich Village Pol. Iles Christmas Club, composed of Greenwich Village Trollies Girls, who v. provide n real 08,01mns dinner for 18, poor children of New York overk,i,ed by the larger chorines. Illuminated et night, the Parliament Build. Ings ai - Victoria, 0.0., Canada's *Inter . play. ground, prassnt a most apaataeular view.. wisigrarommuimem