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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-9-24, Page 611 �VS1EflY GE OR, THE HERITAGE OE MADAME YALTA. CHAPTER VIII.—(Cont'd) "Perhaps. But I doubt whether my uncle will let us see, her." "1 have foreseen that, and made. arrangernpits for an interview with year cousin. I have written her that I was in possession of the en- tire proof of M. de Carnoel's in- nocence, and begged her to come immediate) bythe littledoor on the Avenue dFriedland. After a brief interview, I will return with her myself to her father, and he rust receive us." Maximo would have had more than one objection to urge, but it was now too late; He knew Alice ; he knew that she would catch et this last would find means of escape and hasten to the stranger who promised to restore to her the betrothed of her heart. He was roused from these reflections by the sound of a light step approaching through the shrubbery. Madame Yalta, absorbed in her reflections, seemed to hear nothing. Soon a white hand put aside the leaves, s head appeared between two ca- welia bushes, and Maxima rose, uttering a cry of surpiise. He had recognized a face which shone an instant like a ray of sunlight, to be eclipsed almost immediately. "She!" he exclaimed. "What do you mean?" asked the -countess, raising her head. "The woman of the Rink — the woman who delivered Carnoel 1" Madame Yalta started. Evi- dently she . was not expecting this visit, and found it inopportune. But she soon recovered herself, and called: "Justine 1" The branches were put aside again, and the brunette with the golden complexion reappeared. She was beautiful as ever but had °banged her toilette. The skater of the Rink, the elegant lady of the opera was modestly clad as became a lady-in-waiting. The butterfly had returned to a chrysalis. This enigmatical creature came forward deliberately and appeared isnot at all surprised at seeing Max- ime, who, on his part, .166ked at Yi^P^insttrp2€action "What is the matter?" inquired Madame Yalta. "The person whom Madame the Countess was expecting has just arrived!' "Where have you taken her " "Into Madame the Countess' boudoir." "Villages has cot yet arrived?" "Not yet; but a box has,begn brought from him. Madame the Countess will filed it on the lacquer table in her sleeping chamber." "Very well. Leave us." . Justine bowed and went out qui.r khr. "This girl has just informed me that Mlle. Dorgeres is here," said the countess. "Do you wish to see her?" "But -I do not know whether I aught," stammered the cousin. "Yes. Better that you should be present at our interview. Come." "But—" "What?" "The brunette—the accomplice of the thieves—she whom you call. Justine—" "Is my femme de chauibre," re- plied the countess, quietly. "Come, the moments are precious." A.ad cutting short any further explanations, she nese to leave the conservatory. Maxima followed without a word. He was in a state of extreme agitation. ' "Her femme cle °hombre," he thought. 'The creature who pilfer- ed me of the bracelet is in her ser- vice—like the gardener—like the fencing -master --and she has given "rue to understand that all this pret- ty set of people took part in the theft of the safe. Am I to ;suppose that the orders came from her?" They crossed, without exchang- ing a word, a corner of the park, meeting with no one, and arrived before a door of the cottage that was unfamiliar to Maxime, The Countess conducted him through corridors and stairways to the lurge apartments on the first,. flews, Neither Justine nor the damns who had twice introduced Maxime, were there to receive them; Preceded by Madame Yalta, he i reached the room in which he had seen her the day before in the great bedstead with ',Ware and caneqpies. "M11e. Dorgeres is there," she said, pointing to the doorway of Gobelin tapestry, which concealed the entrance to the boudoir. "Do you not think you would do well to speak to her first, and prepare her for what. I have to say?" "No," replied Maximo. "She *snip! I have taken sides against Robert de 1areoeI, and 'would net listen to mo. She now believes only in .you, and is distrustful of inc." He was still speaking when his eyes fell upon an object upon a Chinese lacquer sable. It was a box of peculiar shape, widened at the top and closed with a lid. "There, no doubt, is what Dr. Villages has sent you," he said. Madame Yalta opened the strange (oiler which was of fir wood, quite rough, and drew from it a bouquet of immortelles. "A singular gallantry," said Maxima. Tho countess did not reply, She let fall the mournful flowers, and he saw that she turned pale. "T expected it," she. said. "What does M. Villages mean by thin ridiculous present?" - "It signifies. my sentence of death:" "Your sentence of death 1" ex- claimed Maxime. "Yes; I am condemned." "Condemned by this miserable Villages!" "By the Nihilists, of whom he is the chief. They accuse me of hav- ing betrayed them." • "You 1" "I have been allied to them. I deserve my fate." Maxime was about to cry out, but the duenna whom he had seen before, entered suddenly, went straight to her mistress, and spoke to her in a language he did not un- derstand. The conversation was very -short. and the duenna went out on a motion from the countess. Turning toward Maximo, she said shortly: "Do not ask for explanations. The conversation you are about to hear will tell you all. Go into. the boudoir where Mlle 'Dorgeres is awaiting me, and beg her to listen with you. .In a few moments she. will have the proof thatM,.d'e'•Car- noel is innocent." -- • "Who is it, you are about to re- ceive?" "Yeti" will see—not a word more. GO in; it is better we should not he surprised together." "Swear to me that you are ex- posing yourself to no danger." "None at this moment. You need rot close the door, and by hiding behind the tapestry, may hear all that is said." "And if you should have need of assistance, T would be there," mur- mured Maxime. He felt that he loved, in spite. of ail, this strange woman who now rose against the Nihilists after hav- ing co-operated with their dark dealings. It was time for him to disappear. The tapestry had no socner closed on him that M. Vil- HOW THIN FOLKS CAN GET FLESHY New Accidental Discovery Gives Startling Results—Puts Flesh on Thin People and Rounds Cut Im- perfect Figures. Simple Prescription Given. 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To all sufferers from Indi- gestion, Billonsness and Constipation, I strongly advise thetas to try this fruit medicine", Charles Barrett, 5oc a box, 6 for $2.5o—or trial box, 25c. At all dealers or from Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. lagos entered. The doctor of medicine and con- sniracies was grave as a justice, and his oyes shone with a deadly light. The countess was calm, and she advanced deliberately toward him. "What do you want with me?" she asked. "You have announced the sentence of death that has been passed upon me." "I wish to question you." "To what purpose, since I am al- ready contemned?" "You have accomplices. I wish to know them. Traitors must be punished." - "When I know of. what I am ac- cused, I will see whether it suits me to reply to you." "You are accused of having com- promised the suocess of our plans." "This vague reply will not an- swer. Be precise." "So be it. In the name of the Central Committee, I have forbid- den you to interest yourself in a Frenchman suspected of a theft -6n the banker Dorgeres, . You paid no heed to this order. Not only have you changed another Frenchman with the recovery of M. de Carnoel, but have enlisted persons engaged in your service in this work,—sub- alterns whom we had initiated in- to all our secrets and who have long worked for us. Your fencing -mas- ter, lCardiki, and your femme de Chambre, Justine, hale taken part in an intrigue, the object of which was to deliver a stranger who, to prove his own innocence, would not fail to designate the guilty party." "He does not know them." "But he would know them if 1 let you live. You have sworn to restore him what he has lost, and you cannot reinstate him without denouncing us." "Without denouncing myself you mean. You have rightly guessed. I propose to recount to M. Dorger- es, to his slaughter, the true his- tory of the theft. I shall tell then by whom it was committed and with what object. He will believe me, far T shall bring him an unanswer- able proof. I think fit to add that I shall not mention the names of any of those who urged me to it." "I have no longer faith in your discretion ; but I may ask why it is that you turn against us after hav- ing so well served us." "Because I choose to have no dealings with the murderers who have just blown up the Winter Pa- lace," replied the countess, look- ing fixedly at Villages. "Your scruples come rather.late. When you took the vow to contend with us against tyranny, you were not ignorant that fire and sword wculd be employed to destroy it." "I pictured to myself an insur- rection against the Ressler: govern- ment," replied the countess, proud - lq "I knew there had been mur- derers among you, but I believed these to be isolated'aots to .which those who committed them bad been driven by despair, The news from St. Petersburg has opened my" eyes. You may kill me; you will not force me' to remain one of you, 1 am the daughter of a man who died in Siberia, whither he had been exiled for tatting up arms for tiie independence of Poland. It was to free my country that I con- sented to bosoms your ally, and the bravo men and women whom T have led into a complicity with you have had no other aim. Kardiki has served his country, and he believed he was.serving her still in exeeut- nig my orders. Justine is Parisian,, but her father and her husband are Polish. Gorget, the brave cloy who has risked his liberty and his life for me, is the grandson of a Frenchman who died fighting in the ranks of the Polish army, and she who shared his dangers and who mgreat him during the at in- surrection of 1831was born the Countess Wielenska. She has sac- rificed everything for her country rank, name and fortune, and dur- ing the forty years in which she has been consigned to the humble posi- tlru to which our misfortunes have hi might her, she has not ceased to work dayand night for the deliv- erance ofher country. Do you think this noble woman would consent to serve longer the cowardly partisans who murder?" "She has permitted her grandson to aid them to steal," said the dos - tor, with a sarcastic smile. "The " permission was granted with the sole purpose of destroying papers which compromised hun- dreds of her compatriots. But it was I whom he obeyed; I who dedi- cated myself to the accomplishment of this act, which I regarded as a sacred duty, and 1 do not need to remind you what it cost me." 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"The cause f There was no other than the desire to save the inno- eent;'it was that I swore to repair the wrong unintentionally done to M. de Cara•oel and to his betroth- ed " "Very well. You confess that you have compromised us by your sentimental follies. It is an un- pardonable crime. I may, howev- er. take on me to pardon you on two conditions." "Spare yourself the trouble of naming thein. I shall not submit to them." "The first," resumed the imper- turable doctor, "is that you leave France never to return. The sec- ond—your protege, Carnoel is here, I am curtain. It was to .your house that Justine and Ifardiki brought him last night. If you wish the Committee to overlook your faults, —if you desire to live, it is neces- sary to deliver up this man—to de- liver him to me this clay—instant- ly "To deliver M. de Carnoel to you!" sold tie countess, with a contemptuous. smile, "to be mur- dered, no doubt. And it is to me you dare to propose a cowardice." (To be continued.) ) MeKellzie Mine at Elly I,ake has Started Bagging Ore Successful Operations at the Mine Which Make the Property a Coming Shipper. SLK CITY, May 4.—with the open- ing of navigation, which is now in full awing, the greatest of activity prevails at the various minas and prospects in this vicinity and the city is rapidly recovering from the recent fires. The district is likely to become an- other Cobalt and the veins run to depth with values. Amoug the ship- pers and properties bagging ore are the Lucky Godfrey, the Borland- Thompeon, the Devllu and the Moose !lora mines. The Moose Horn mine put in a new plant this spring and are now sinking a wince at the 125 -foot level on a vein which has shown values from the surface. In the midst of tbe,_all.nes- de -the McKenzie, a group' of five properties on•whbeh work was begun- last Jan- uary. They have been fortunate from the start and soon hope to rank with the chippers. Tho engineer in charge, Mr. Harry McMaster, reports that the -vein on location 846 of the company's group at a depth of 60 feet continued stead- ily the whole distance and showed free elver all the way with the exception of four feet. Several hundred feet of stripping has already been done, re- sulting in the discovery of two ad- ditional veins, one of which ie 7 in - thee wide, gutting at an angle of six degrees. - It ie the Intention to con- tinue this shaft to tate 75 or 100 foot level, then drift to the McKenzie vein, where the new 7 inch voln crosses. Mr. McMaster states that in his opinion this weak will result in the placing of the value of the mine beyond question.. The necessary buildings have now all been erected, including bunk ,house, cooking camp, manager's dwellipg, blacksmith shop, powder house, and the necessary machinery is being in- stalled. A good wagop road has been built from the main road which par- allels the road from Elk Lake. The McKenzie company aro in a very fortunate position, owning a group of five properties whichhave been thor- oughly tested. Six assays made from the veins on uticlr the company aro now working hte ,shown. -results., of.. from, 406 camas of silver up ,as high 'al 16,000 ounces to the ton. This company is under good manage- ment, and it is the opinion of the en- gineer .to charge and those who have seen the property gnat it should be brought to the shipping stage in a very short time, 60� pounds of good ore. having been bagged by May 1, and the work in this regard being pushed ra- pidly from day to day. Applloation is being made to list this Stook on the New S'prk Curb. The Transfer Agents are The Trusts and Guarantee Company of Toronto and the Guarantee Security and Trans- fer Company of Now Yorle. I am offering 60,000 Sharon of this Stook at 26e. per share, subieot to prior Bale. Write or wire mo your subscription at once. P. S. H A I RST N Manning Arcade 9 Toronto, Ont. 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Iiaoh outfit is complete with necessary %moessories ready to run, The Canadian Fa!rballks II Limitcd�o M 0NTI N A Branches Toronto, St, John, N.B., Winnipeg,° Calgary, Vancouver. • • SiMMINIIIIIMinelitanlieniTirealitiMeatterte I IFo+04 +4;•ao+*+-of•rr4o+or On the Farm WHAT MAKES GOOD OATS. A grain of oats is made up of two main parts; the outside or hull, and the inside or kernel. Another name commonly applied to the kernel is the mesh. It is the kernel that wo. are mainly interested in, because this is the nourishing part of the grain. Tlie chief use of the hull is' to protect the tiny oat plant with.: in, and to preserve the stored -up food material for its future use. As a food for ,stock, and as an article of human diet, oats take a high rank, Since the value of the grain depends so much upon the part which is of little use for food consumers' oats inanyform onsiim sof- whatever should be interested in il,e relationship existing ,between the hull and the meat. The oats i( always grown- from for its matt f:le hull is generally regarded as a nceessary evil by the stockman and the miller. The 'range of hull in oets'is from 20 to 48•por cent., 30 per cont. is theaverage. Oats have the largest percentage of hull to kernel of any of our grains. Barley conies next with an average of 16 percent. The percentage of hull to meat depends largely upon the variety. For example the Jeanette oat generally 'averages 23 pounds of hull from every hundred pounds of grain, while the Banner gives thirty pounds of hull, and the Fifty Pound Black 40 pounds. This simply means that by purchasing ere hundred pounds of Jeanette cats the buyer gets seventeen pounds more of the most valuable part of the oat grain than he would get were he to purchase the same weight of Fifty Pound. Black' •--ation- gain surely worth considera- 'The -difference: in- the_,pxspoltien. of the two main parts of the oat grain accoents for the fact, ob- served by all feeders, that,horses will often do as well on three pecks of one variety as on four pecks of another. As a rule, grains high in hull are such that the nutriment they do possess is not so fully ex- tracted by the animals. The rela- tive proportion of hull and meat ;n' any oats can be determined rough-, lyby removing the hull from fifteen, cr twenty representative grains• and then comparing the amount of hull with the meat. Varieties also' may be compared in this way:. Aside from the question of variety the two principal factors which in- fluence the proportion of the parts. under consideration are: The time. at which the oats were sown, and: ibe time they are harvested. Late - sown oats are usually high in hull,. and the same holds true of oats cut - before maturity. Last year a plot. '11 oats cut in the milk stage ran 84 per cent. hull, while an ,adjoining: Plot of the same variety which has- been handled in exactly the same• way, excepting that it had been al- lowed to ripen perfectly before cut- ting, ran only 28 per cent. Any unfavorable condition of rail or season which tends to stunt, the plant or retard the proper fill- i -g of the grain will also cause is higher per cent of hull. From the force going it may appear that the ideal oat would be the hull -less one. But you have noted that the hull serves to protect the future plant and its supply of food material. Itis claimed also that there is a re letionship between pereentage of hull and strength of straw=a long percentage of hull generally going with a fine, weak straw. This con- tention seems to be borne out in the ease of the Jeanette, but the heavy -hulled Fifty Pound Black ,is fc end •to have straw which is soft and brittle. We may conclude that the most desirable oat, other things being equal, is the one with the lowest percentage of ]lull.—L, S. I{lincht McDonald College, St. Anne Da' Bellevue.' QUALITY AND COST. There is this one striking differ- ence 'between iffer-ence'between the products of the farm and those of the mannfaeter- ' ing establishments. The manufac- turer governs the price of the goods hehas to sell by the cost of brodue- tion. A cloth manufacturer, for example,, will turn- out -several classes of goods which he will sell 0± several different prices .and will snake the same profit from eachof them. Why? Because there is a difference in the cost of production: For instance, -he can afford to, sell shoddy goods, for a great deal loss than, the genuine articles simply because the raw intiterial in the cite case costs- a groat deal less the it oes in' the other, and he snakes as much money in producing. the one as the other, It is quite different with the farmer. Go through the various prodtiets of the farm—live stock, grain crops,. dairy or fruit products. They toll the steno story. Tho cost of pro, dosing the intoner article will lee es groat 11..„the coot of prodecint primee' . quality, nut the onwill sell for :verymuisb more teen the. otter. It is gnn2ity ,anti not cost' of production dhoti on that governs the 01 S.r'.t.i, i.,1 fans penia,°ta i