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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-02-10, Page 14PAGE SIX. THE SEAFORTH NEWS TIMIZSDA,Y, FEBRUARY 10 1938 Rose Meenie "Oh, leen they think that?" ehe the Rev. Mr. Mannering's, as he spoke said, cptickly. Tel—P11 go now of the .Obligations incurred by two Ronald; but please make my hair young folk separating themselves from all others and resolved upon go- ing through the world's goys and sor- rows always side by side; and the old dames were much affected; and when he went on to quote the verses, smooth behind—and is my collar right?" „ And yet it was slot ends a very dreadful interview, alter all; far the two old' dames made a mighty fuss over this pretty young creature; and vied with each other in petting 'her, and cheering her, and counselling her; and When the great event was spoken of in which they also were to play a part, they affected to talk in a lower tone of voice, as if it were something mysterious and tragic, end demand- ing the greatest caution and .circurn- speedo's. As far the young minister, he sat rather apart, and allowed this large, soft eyes to dwell upon Meenie, with something of wistfulness in his look. He could elo so with impunity, in truth, for the old ladies entirely monopolized her. They patted her on the shoulder, to give her courage; they spoke as if they themselves had gone through the wedding ceremony a hundred times. Was she gore she would rather have no other witnesses? Would she stand up at the head of the room now, and they would show her all :she would have to .clo? And' they stroked her hand; and spurred alsont her; and were mysteriously elated Ov- er their share this romantic busi- ness; insomuch thet they ,altogether forgot Ronald, svlso vvas left to telk Politic, with the absent -eyed young pareon. Between flee interview and the formal wedtline a Wiltrie week hail to elapee: and (Meese that time Agatha Gemmill eaw tit to deal in quite a dif- ferent way with her sister. She wile trying reason now, and perstmeion, and entreaty; ami that. at least, was more agreeable to Meenie than being driven into a position of angry algae- onism. Moreover. Meenie did not seek to vaunt her self-will aud independ- ence too opeuly. Her meetings with Ronald were few; and she made no ostentatious parade of them. She was civil to ele. Frank Lauder when he came to the .horge, Indeed, Mr. Gem - mile who arrogated to lihneelf the success of this ;milder method of treat- ing the girl, who bold enough to de- clare thee everything was going on well; Meenie had as much common- sense as most 'folk; she ASS not likely to throw herself away; an.d 'When once she had seen old Me. Lauder's speci- ous mansion, and picture -galleries, and what no, and observed the Style its which the 'family lived, Ise made no doubt but that they would soon have to welcome Frank Lauder as a broth- er-inelaw. Trembling, .fiushed at times, and pale at others, and clinging nervously to .Ronald's arm, ,Meenie made her way up this cold stone staircase in Garnet Hill, an,d 'breathless and agita- ted she stood on the landing, while he rang the bell. '"Oh, Ronald, I hope 1 am doing right," she murmured. "We will let the future be the judge of that, my good girl," he said, with modest con;fidence. The old ("eines almost' smothered her with Beth; attentions • and kind- ness; and they had a 'bouquet for her —all in white; as became a bride; and they had prepared other little knick- knacks for her adornment, sa that they had to carry her off to their own room tor the !donning scif these. And when they brought her !baelc—roses red she was, and timid, and 'trembling —each of them had one of her hands, as if she was to be their 'gift to give away; thisd very important and Mys- terious were they ,about the sbuttinig of the doors, and -the coadecting of the •conversation in ;whispers. Then the .neinieter :came forecard, and thaw- ed them with a little gesture of his hand where they slimed stand before The ceremonial of a sSeateh wed- ding is of the simplest; blut the ad- dress eo the Young people thus enter- ing Pie together may be just anything you please. And in teeth there was a eNat that he cared," she said, rath- er proudly aced .contempteously, 'one hushed eeening that the eloctor was trying to soothe her into .geiettede. 'No, no. Ronald 'care What a 'con- ceited 'acribleling school -boy said about him? Nol II should think not 'Perheps he never knew—indeed, I think he never knew. He never knew that all our friends in 'Chicago were asked 'to look on and see him tee - 'lured and patronized and examined. Oh, so clever the newspaper writer was—with 'Isis airs of :criticism and patronage! ,Bat the coward that he was ---the ,coward—to strike in the d,ark—to sit in his little den and strike in the .diarkl Why, didn't Jack Huysen dreg him out? Why didn't he -.make 'bins sign his name, that we .could tell who this was with his 'braggart air? The coward!Why. !Ronald would have 'felled him! No! nol He veuld not have •looked the way the poor pretentious fool was going. He would have laughed. Doctor, do yoe know who he was? Did you ever meet him? "But who, Miss Carry?" he said, as he patted her hot hand, She loofked at him wonderingly. "And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And fir aertess the hills they went ILI that %sew world whith is the old," they never thought of asking whether the lines were 'quite apposite; they were sobbing unaffectedly .and pro- fusely; and Meenie's eyes 'were -rather wet too. Andthen, when it was all over, they naught her to their arms as if she had been Omit= own; and would lead her to the sofa, and overwhelm her with all kinds of little attention's and caresses, Cake and wine, too—of course .'lie must hare 'some rake and wine! "Should 1, Ronald?" she said, look - Mg up, with her eyes all wet anti shining :tiscl laughing: it was her first -appeal to the authority of her hus- band. egs yon like—as you like, surely.' But ellen they cense to him, he gently refused. "Not on your weilding-dwyl" the old ladies exclaimed -and then Ise raised the etas, to his lipe; and they did not niece that he had not touched it ellen 'he put it (been again. „end so these two were married now whatever the future might have in store for them; and in a brief emcee ist tene -as soon, indeed, as she teethd Inc herself away from these kind friends, she dispeeseged her:elf of her little bits of 'bridal 'finery: and had bade a long and teetering good -by to Ronald: end ens stealing back to Iser sister's holier, CHIAIPTER X 1.diee It was with feelinee not to be en- vied that !Jack linegen stalked up and down the veranda he front of this Fort George hotel, or haunted the long, echoing corridore, eager to question any who had acres, to the sick -room, 111 the misthief seemed to be of his doing; and the heligand coeneel and direction in this time of distress seem- ed to be afforded by Isis friend Tilley, It was he—that is, Huysen—whose carelessness had led to the boating ca., tastrophe; it was the young doctor who had plunged into the leke and saved Carry's life, Not only that, eet it was on hie shoulders that there now seemed to rest the burden of saving her a second time: for she had gone from had to worse; the fever had in- creased rapidly; and while Dr. Tilley was here, there, and everywhere in his quiet but persistent activity, taking el- aborate precautiens about the temper- ature of the room, illstructing the two trained nurses lehme he had tele- graphed for 'from Xew eiork, and pa- cifying the mental vagaries of the pa- tient as best he might, what could Jack lluysen do 'hut wander about 'like an uneasy spirit, accusing himself of having wrought all this evil, and des- perately conscious thet he .coulti be of no use whatever in mitigating its re- sults? She was not always deliriees. For the most part she lay moaning slight- ly, breathing with the greatest diffi- culty, and complaining of that con- stant pain in her 'chest; while ler high mese and temperature told liow the fever was rather 'gaining upon her than abating, But then again, at times her eace would grow 'flushed, and she would talk in panting whispers, in an eager kind of way, and as if ehe dad some secret to tell. And always the same ,delusion .occupied her mind— that this was Loch Naver; that they had gat into troable, somehow,' be- eause 'Ronald was not in the boat: that they had sent for Ronald, hut he , was .gone aveay somewhere; and., so forth. And 'sometimes she uttered bite ter reproaches; 'Ronald }lad Ibsen treated by eome one; nay, he herself had them) to blame; and who was to .good eleel •mare,.M poetry than of the-' make up 10 Ilhu, eor what he had sal, (elegy in these •mellifluent sentences of fermi at her hands? "Verhy, don't you know? Did you never hear? The miserable creature that was allowed to speak ill .of .aur Ronald. Ale •do you thinkel have for- gotten? Does eack 'Heysen think 11 hare foogatten? No, I will not forget —you tan tell him I will not forget - 3 will not forgetT will not forget-,-' She was growing more and more vehement; and to pacify her he had to assure her that he himself would see this matter put straight; and -that, it was all 'nigh t, and that ample amends would be made. Oe coerse he .pakl ne great attention to these .delirious wanderings; hut that same evening, when he had gone into the smoking -room to report to Jack Huyeen how things were :geing, this complaint of 'Miss Carry's hap- pened to recur to his mind. "Look here, Jack, what's this that the'e always talking abaut-eseeme to worry her a good deal—some news paper article—and you're mixed up is; it, too—something you appear to bare said or done about that fellow her father took such a fancy for—I mean, when they were itt Scotlend—" "Oh, T know," said the ethics'', and he blushed to the very roots of his long, flowing hair. "3 know, lent an old :story, It's all forgotten now." "Well, it is not," the young doctor "and that's the fact. She worries about it continually. 'Very strange, now, bow eer meld jog Imispened to take that bent, I don't remember that we were talking much about the Scotels highlands. Bet they muse have been in her head when she fell ill; and now it's nothing else. Well, what is it about the newspaper article, anyway?" "Why, nothing to meke a fuse a.bout," Jack fienysen said, Init rather eneasily. thought it was all forgot- ten. She said as mech. Wonder you don't remember the article—suppose you missed it—lbut it was abont thie earn e fflighlaad fellow, and eoine verses of his—it waS young Regan Wrote itg-tonfound hini, O'd have kieleed him into Lake Michigan be- fore Tel let him write a line in the pap- er, if T'd 'have 'known there was going to be this trouble about it. And I don't think now there was much to find fault with -4 only 'glanced over it be- fore 'sending it to her, and it seemed favorable enough—of 'course there was a little el' the de haut en bae businese—you know lusw petite fel- lows like to write-gbut it was favor- able—very favorable, 1 should say; l'inweeer she clusee to -work tip a pret- ty. high old row on the strength of it when she came home, anti 1 had rny work cut out for me before J could pacify her. Why, you don't say sbe's at that again? Women are such curi- ous createree; they hold on to things eo; T wonder, now, why it is she takes such an interest in that fellow after all this time?" "JuSt as likely es not the merest coincidence—some trifle that got hold of her brain when she ,first 'became deliriatiA," the young doctor said.' "1 suppose the boating and the leke hint all that ibroirght hack recollections: of the Highlands; and she seems to isfeve been -fascinated 'by the life over there —the wildnees of it Taught her .inehg- illation, I suppose. She must hove been in considerable .danger once ...or twiee, 1 should .guese; ar perhaps else i5 mixing that up with the mishap of the other day. Well, I 'know I Wish her father wire here. We can't edn more than what is being done; Still, I wish he were Isere, IF he. can get through to 'Glens 'Falls to -night, you may depend on it heel come along somehow." By the thee Jack sceas nervensly pacing .up and down—there was no one but themselves in the room. "No ev look here, Tom," be Said pre, gently, NI iwiSh you would tell e, mnor bright: was it a squall 'that caught the boat, or was it downright cerelesentss on My part? I may as well lknow. 1 ca'n't take more shame o myself, anyhow—and to let vent ump in after her, too, when. Pm e •better swimmer than yoU are -4 muse ITRAre ;Met 'asy head altogether—" eAncl .inerch good you'd have done if you, had ejlumped in," the doctor said, "and left ;the two women to Menage the haat! How should we have got picked up, then?" "But ebout that jebbing, nowveas it my belt?" '''`No; it was mine," the doctor said, curtly. "I shouildn'.t have given ep the tiler. !Feet is, the Igirls were just emd about that Dancing in the Berne and was fool enough to yieldto them. I tell you, Pack, it isn't haff as easy as it looks steering a 'boat that's running fair before the wind; 1 don't blame you at all; I dare say there was a nasty ,puff that caught you when yoe weren't looking; anyhow, it's a bless- ing no ene was ,hit 'by the 'boom— that was what ff 'feared for .111iss. Hod-. gots When I found 'her insensible—I was afraid she had 'been hit about the head—", 'And you don't think it was abso- lute carelessnese?" the •other said, quickly. 'Mind, e was steering straight for the pier, as you 'said," "Oh. well," said the youeg .doctor, evasively, "if you bed noticed in time. you know—or when I called to. you _get perhaps it was too late then. It's ao ;use going back -on that now; what we 'have to .do now is to ;fight this. 'fever as well as we cam" strong; for when 'George and you and II go tO Scotland, therm will be a great deal of travelling to .do. ',You know we've got to fix on that piece oi land, and eee. how it is all to be arranged and eneesaged, so that 'George will have a ,comfortabeeelittle estate .M.his own whets he Comes! af age; Or'irraybe, if it is a pretty -place, we may 'be med keep it le our own hands—eh; Carry?—ane then, you see, we shell have to have Ronald travel .thout with es, to .give as Isis advice; and the' wee - eller may be bed, you losow; have to brace yourself up. There, now, I'm not going to eo talk to you any more jost now. Lie still and quiet; and mind you everything the doctor bids You—why, yon to talk like that! —you! . I never tholight you wailed give in, Carry: why, even as a echcrol- girl. you had the pluck of a dozen! Don't you give in; and elou'll see if we haven't those .two 'cables out on Look Never before many months are over." She shook her head languidly; her eyes wane dosed now. And he wee for slipping out of the room btft that • she clung to his lia.nd eor moment. ton id take 'it 'over Irons her if I could," Jack ilicySen said, "and will- hegiy enough." at vas not legit early the next morning that Mr. Hodson arrived. He looked dreadfulily .p.ale and hareesed and 'fatigued; for 'the 'fa'ct was he was not in Chicago when they telegraph- ed 'for 'him; same business affairs had called him away to the 'South; and the news of Isis daughter's illnese follow- ed him from place to place until it eound him in a remote 'corner af Louisiana, whence .he had travelled night and day without giving himself an 'hour's rest, And snow he would not stay to dip his hands and face in cold water after his long and anxious jotir- ney; be merely asked a few hurried questions of the doctor; aced then, stealthily and on tiptoe, and determin- ed to show no sign of alarm or per- turbation, he went into :Carry's room. She had been very .delirious ;during the nighttalleing wildly and frantic- ally in spite of all their efforts to soothe her; ;but now she lay 'exhaust- ed, with the 'Rushed face ead 'lips and sager restless eyes .so strangely unlike the Carry of other days, She ree'ognized him at ;once— het not as a new -comer; she ;appeared to think he had been there all the time. "'Have you seen him, pappa?" she said, in that eager way, "Did you see him when you were out?" "Who, darling?" he said, as Ile sat clown beside her and took her wasted band in hie. Ronald to be sure! Oh some- thing dreadful was about to happen to him -I don't kitoss. what it Was— sornethim .dreadful and dreadful—and I called out—at the window—at the windose there—and nuree Says it is all right now—all right noiv—" • "Oh fee, indeed," 'her father said, gently; "you may depend it is all right with 'Ronald 110W. 'Don't yon fret abent that. "Ab, but we neglected him, pappa. we neglected him; and 1 work of any," she went on, in that panting, breathless way. "le wee OlweYs, the same—el ways thinkiag of doing some- thing ,for him and never doing it. I meant to have written to the innkeep- er for Isis address in Glasgow; hut, no—that was 'forgotte'n too. And then the spliced rod, that 'George was td! have got...for ine-1I %vented 'Ronald- to have the hest sabnon-rod that Amer- ica could make—but it was talking -- all talking. Ale it Was neeer talking with hini when he could do us a Per- vice—and' else other 'boaemen getting money, of course—and he scarcely a 'thank you' when we came away. Why delne' 'George get the 'fishing -rod?" "It's all right, Carry, darling," her father .said, 'whispering to her. "you lie quiet mow, and get well, andyou'll see whet a splendid salmon -rod well get 'Ronald. Not that it would be o'f much nee eo him, you ,see, when he's in ,Glasgow with his books and studies; but it wileshow him we have not for- gotten him, Don't 'yOti trouble about it, now.; I will see it is all right; •and you will give it to him youeself, if we go over there next spring, eo- try. the ,salmonefishing again." "Then you will take George with you, pappa," she said, regarding him with her...burning eyes. • "Oh yes; .and you—" 'INrot me, not me," she said, shek- ing her head, going away. The doctor :doesn't 'know; I 'know. They have ibeefe very kind; bet—letrt—aelle them, pa,ppa, not tb 'bother me to take things now—II want to be eet alone, now .yoti are hereit ;will only be for a little "Why, what nonsense you talk!" he said—bid' his beak Wasestrack' with a sudden fear,, for these .few straggling s'enten'ce' she had utteeedeWithout any appearance of deliritiris. :`/I tell you; you' fnust haeten to get well' aid PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DR, E. A, MeMASTER—Gractuate of the .Facolty of Medicine, 'Univers-. ity of 'Toronto, and of the New York Post 'Graduate School end Hoepital. Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeon§ of Ontario. Office Da High street'. P.hone 21. Office fuBy eq.uipped for x-ray diagnosis and for ultra Short wave eleetric treatment, ultra violet sun lamp .treatment and infre red electric treatment. Nurse in attendaime, DR. GILBlERT C. JARROTT -- Graduate of 'Faculty of Medicine, Un- iversity of Westeen Ontario. Member of College of Physicians andSurgeons of Ontario. Office 43 Goderich street west. Phone 31. Hours 2-4.30 p.m., 7,3041 p.m, Other 'hours by appoint- ment, Siueeessor to Dr. Chas. Mackay. "ffeappa," she said, in a low voice, and she aliened her dyes and regaesi- esi ,sterely at this moment, as he said to himself, she seemed per- fectly sane and. reasonaible, "I want you to promise me something." "Yes, yes," he seid, ,gaickly: what WaS it he would not have promised :in order to soothe aced quiet her raised at such a time? OJ eion't know ,alleout going with you and George," she . said, slowly, and 'apparently with much .difficulty. "Pt seems a long' way off—atong teme---tand—and .II 'hardly care now what 'happens. Bat you will loblc after Ronald; yew muse promise me that, expire; and tell him I 'was sorry; I suppose he heard the 'shooting was taken, and would 'know why we did not go over In the autumn; but you will .finel him out, eatme, end see what he is eloin.g; and don't let hins think we forgot him altogether," "Carry, 'darling you leave that to me; it wilt be all i•ighle with Ronaed, 11: peomise .you," he father said, 'eagerly 'Why, to 'think you should heel 'been worrying about that! Oil! you'l see it will he all right about'Ronald: nevegfearl 'What \voted you say, now if 1 were to telegraph dem to COMC over and see you, if only you make haste aad get well?" Theae al4.411ralleeS, at all events, seemed to 'racily her somewhat; and . she now lay still and quiet, her fattier stole out of the room, hoping that perhape the long-pray.ed-for sleep might conic to calm the fevered 'brain. Rut the slow hours passed, and, so far from any improvement 'becoming visible, 11 en 'condition grew more anti mare serinuce The two doctors—for Dr, Tilley had summoned in addition- al aid—were assiduous enough; 'but wheel questioned, they gave evasive enewers; and when Mr, Hodson 'beg- ged to be allowed to telegraph to a celebrated Boston • physician, who was also a particular 'friend of' his own. asking, hies, to, Come Moine ,at once. they acquiesced, it is erne, lint it wte deadly with the' view of .satisfying Me. 'Flodsores mind, rather than evitli any hope Of advantage to the patient. From hjm, indeed, they scarcely tried to 'conceal the extreme gravity of the cese. jeliene Kerfoot and Mrs. lalor were, quieted with vague assurances: but efr. Hodson lenew of the peril in which 'his .daughter lay; .and, as was it impossible ,for him to, go to sleep, and as .his terrible anxiety put talk- ing •to these .friends oet of the riliCS- tion, Ise kept ;nosey to his own room, walking up and down, and fearing every moment lest direr neWS shoult arrive. IFor they had been muds n companions, tlsese two; and else was an only daughter; and 'her bright. frank, lovable chara•cter—that he had watched from chilelleoad growing more and more beatitifull and coining into closer lcommurtion with himself as year after year went by—Itad wound its tendrils round his heart. That Carry, of all people in the world, should he taken away from them so, seemed so strange and enaccountable: she that WaS ever so .441 of life and gayety and 'confidence. The mother lied:Amen an invalid during most of her married life; the hoy Georige had nee ehe 'strongest of constitutions; bat Carry was :always to the 'fore with her audacious spirits 'and light-heart- edness, 'ready for anything, and the best of travelling companions. And if she were to go, what 'his life ''be to him?—the 'light of it gone, the glad - nese of it vanished ;forever, That afternoon t.1-ce delirium returnj ed, and she 'became, more anti more wildly excitetle iintil The paroxysm passed 'beyond all bounds, ,(To .b:e coneinued) DR. H. HUIGIH ROSS, Physician 'and Surgeon Late of London Hos- pital, London., 'England. Special at- tention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose ard. throat. Office and residence behind Dominion Bank, Office Phone No. '5; Residence Phone 104. DR. F. J. BURROWS, ,Seaforth. Office and residence, sGoderieh street, east of the United, Church. Coroner for the County of Hueen. Telephone No. 45. DR. F. J. R. 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Parties desirous to, effect insurance or transact 'other business, will be promptly attended to by applications to any of the above named officers addressed to their respective post - offices. 1 A gtou clf professional' men had gathered; in the lobby of a 'hotel and proceeded to in.ake themselves known to one another. ' "My 'name is Teorteseue;" salt one, 'extending his hand. "'I'm. a painter— work in .water tolors chiefly.'' "In.deed," 'remarked another. "Ten an artist too. I work in. bronze." '"Well, this is'fine," .thimed in a third. "I'm a Sculptor. I. • wonk in stone." Then the 'quiet little 'fellow who had !been inclined to keen apart step- ped sup; a idry smile an his .face. "Glad, to make the acquaintance of you Igentlernen," he remarked, lor have a common interest with you. 'T work in' ivory. I'm a callege pro- fessor," '