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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-02-17, Page 6Rose Meenie She imagined that .Korrald was M some deadly peril; he was alone, with rrio one to help; his enemies had hold •of him; they ;were carrying him off to thrust .hin into some black lake; she could hear the Waters roaring in the lark. It was in vain that the nurse tried to reason with her; the mild, frightened eyes were fixed on vac- ancy; and again and again she made as if she would rush to his help, and would then sink ;back exhausted and moaning, and :heaping reproaches on those who were allowing 'Ronald to be stricken down unaided. Then the clim- ax came •quite unexpectedly. The nurse, who happened at the moment to be alone with her in the room, went to the side table for some more ice; and she was talking as 'she went, and trying to make her dharge believe that everything was going on well enough with this friend of hers in Scotland. Bat all of a sudden, 'when the nurse's hack was thus turned, the !girl sprang from the bed and rushed to the win- dow. She tore aside the curtains that had been tied together to deaden the light; she tugged and strained at the under sash; she ;was for throwing her- self out -to tly to Ronald's succor. "See, see, sed" she cried, and she wrenched herself away from the nurse's ;grasp. "Oh, ,don't yoe see that they are killing, him -they are killing him -and none to hclp 1Ronald-Ron- alit! oh, what shall I do? Nerse, nurse, help me with the window- smick-quick-ohl don't you hear hien ealling?-and they are driving him down to the lake -he will be in the water scum -and los1--40st-slost- Rona1d1, -Rouald1-" 'Nay. by this time she had actually succeeded in raising the under sash .of the window a few inches -notwith- standing that the nurse cluing round her, and tried to holcl her arms. while she uttered a shriek to call attention; and .there is no doubt that the girl, grown tonne frantic. wonld have see- ceeded in :opening the window and throwing her self out, had not .11rs. Lalor, alarmed by the shrieking di the nurse, rushed in. Between them, they got her back into bed; and event- ually she calmed down somewhat; for, indeed, this paroxysm had robbed her of all her remaining strength. She lay in a kind of stupor now; she paid no heed to anything that was said to her; only her eyes were restless when any one entered the roorn. Dr. Tilley was 'with her father; the younger man was apparently calm, though rather pale; Mr. Hodson made no effort to conceal his agons of anxiety. "I can only tell you What is am op- inion," the young {looter said, speak- ing' for himself and •his ;brother prac- titioner. "We should he as pleased as you could be to have Dr. Macarty here; but the the delay might prove dangerous. 4 -ler tenspe,ra- ture is 1.07 -you know what that means?" "But this rollingup in a 'wet sheet - there is a risk isn't there?" the elder man said; ;and how 'keenly Ise was watching the expression of the young doctor's lace] "I have only seen it used; in extreme cases," was the answer. "If she were my own .dmighter, or sister, that is what I svould do." "You have.a right to speak --you have already saved her life once:- her father said. ."111 we could only bring about a pro- fuse perspiration," the young .doctor Said, a little' more eagerly -for he ;had been maintaining a professionally ;dis- passionate manner; "and then if ;that should .end in a long, deep Sleep -ev- erything 'would go ;well. them Bet at present •eiery hour that ;passes is against es' 7 'and her temperature showing no .sign of abating," "Very 'welt", her fath.er said, after a • artpmeot's involtintary hesitation. ' "Lf • you say, the 'decision rests with me, I will decide. .We ;will not swait 'fors'Mac- arty.: Do what you propose to 10-3 4now you think it is for th.e•best.I' And SO it PrOVO4. Nat once, but twice,. within a ,space of seven days, had this young doctor saved •Carry Hodson's life. That eveniog they were seated ;at .clinner in the big .clining=hall Lalor and her sister, Jack Heynsen and Carry's father -though the ,food lbefore them idid not seem to concern them mucht They were .talk - Mg amongst themselves, but 'rather absently and :disconnectedly; and, what ;was strange enough, they spoke in rather low tones, as if they were of any ;avail. Dr. Tilley came in, and ;walked to the table; and quite unwits tingly ;he put his hand on El11,111R Ker - foot's shoulder. "I have good newt," said he, and there was a, kind 'of s•dbduecl triumph in his eyes. "She is sleeping as sound- ly -as soundly as any human being ever slept; everything has come off well; why I am as lhap.py as if I had been ;declared. ;President!" Pot instant- ly tie perceived that this exuberance of triunsph .was not in accordance professional gravity. 'I .thinie there is every reason to be satisfied ;with the prospect," he continued, in more mea- sured tones; "and now that Dr, Sar- gent is with her, add the eight nesse just come down, I think I will t-ake the opportunity to get something to eats -for 1 have fongotten .about that breakfast." "Oh, T01131" cried Miss 'Kerfoot, re- proachfully; and presently everybody at Inc table was showering attentions 011 thiS young 01515. "'And ,may I' go in and see her now?" said Miss Kerfoot, preparing to steal away- VOSS the peremptory answer, "INo oTIC, 1:VCry :half-hour of a sleet) like that is -worth its ;weight in gold - well, that's a muddle, but you .know what mean. lt's worth a cart -load Of gold, any •way, I hope she'll go en for twenty-four hours, or shirty -six, for the matter of that 0 li, I can tell you it is quite refreshing to look at her. Talk about the sleep of an in fent --you never saw an infant sleeping as deep and sound as that. And I shouldn't wonder now if her temperature Wa8 down another degree by midnight," 'But he saw that Mr, T-Iorlson was still terribly agitated. "Well, Sir, would yosi like to go in and see for a moment? I have told the nurse to leave the door half an inch opens, anti there's a screens to keep off the draught; I dare say we can slip in without disturbing her." And so it was that lir. 'Hodson saw his daughter again --not with flushed cheeks and dilated eye-lbut lying still and calm, a very weight of sleep ap- pearing .to rest on her eyelids, Ancl When he came nut cif the room again, he pressed the young mans hand -it vas a message of thanks Mo deep for words. All that night she slept; and all the next day She slept, without a mom- ent's intermission. When. at ;length, she opened her eyes, ,and stirred a lit- tle, Emma Kerloot was by the bed- side in an instant. "Dear Carry," she said. "Do you want anything?" She shook her head slightly; she ;was ,excessively weak; hut the look in her eyes MIS one of .calm intelligence; it was clear that the delirium had left her. "Do you 'know that your father is here?" "Why?" she managed to say. • "Because you have 'been so HI. Don't you know? IDIon't you recollect?" "Yes; I know a little," slie. said. "Where is Jack Huysen?" • "He is here in the hotel, too. 0111, how glad they .will all he to hear that you are 'quite yourself again. And I must go and :tell them, as soon as nurse conies; for, you nkrnow, you'll have a long pull ibefore you. Carry; and if you dort't get ignite well again, not one of .us will ever forgive ourselves for :bringing you to Lake ;George. And there's jack 'Huysen, poor 'fellow, he has just been distract- ed; and all the tinie you were ill you never had a word for him, thougis, he used to haunt the. passage .antside just like a ghost; .well, yolu'll have. to make it tip to him. • At this .mornent the nurse appeated, THE SEAFORTK NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY .1.7, 1938 and Miss IK'erfoot •WAS iree.. to depart On her joyful 'erraod. Of ncourse she was for summating everybody -and jack Huysen among the rest; hut the dootors interpnoset; their ,natient must be kept perfectly quiet; in the .meass- tirrie no one hut her lather was to have access to her room , Now .M.r. Hodson, Wilerr he was seated 'by her side, ,and ehattilig light- ly an.d .carelessly absent a 'variety of in- different •Matteis '(she ;herself being forbidden to"speak), 'considered that Ire could ,ritst.do better than ,relieve her mind of 'any anxiety she may have en- tertained .on Ronalld's account. All through her delirium that was the one thing that seetned 10 troulble hem,and, 'lest s'lih .should ;revert to it, he•thOught he might as well give her envie, as - %trance that Ronald should 'be looked .after. However, to his great .surprise, he •found that she was quite ignorant of her having made these appeals on behalf of Ronald. She did mit seem to know that she had been in dire ;dis- tress about him, reproaching herself for their treatment ,Of him, and heg- .n,ing her father 'to make such atone- ment as .was yet possible. No; when she Was atIOWed to 'speak a little, she said quite calmly that it svas' a pity they had not been able to .go to Scot- land that 'autumn; that they .should have written to 'Ronald, to see hbw le was getting or; and that her father, if be visited the old country in the coming spring, ought surely .to seek hini atn, and temind him that he had some friends in !America who ;would be glad to. hear of his welfare. Bet Mr, .Hodson said to himseff that be would do a little more than that. He was not going to recall the, promise that he had made to his daughter when, as he thought, She lay n.ear 10 the gates of death. What had put that pathetic .solicitude into her mind he knew .not; ;but she had made her ap- peal, with 'dumb fever -stricken , eyes arid trembling voice; and, he had an- swered her and pledged his mord. Ronald should he ;none the loser that this sick girl had thought of him when that she •seemed to be vanishing away from ;them forever; surely in that .dir- inction, as well as any other, the fath- er might ,fitly give ;his thank-effeting -for the restitution to life of the sole. danghter of his house, CHAPTER XLV, Lock* Naves lay calm and still un- der the slow awakening of the dawn. All along the eastern horizon the low- lying hills were of a velvet -textured. olive green -a mysterious shadow - land where no detail ;was .v4ib1e; but overhead the s'kies were turning to a clear and luminous. gray, the roseate tinge WaS leaving the upper slopes of Ben Loyal and Ben Olehrig, and the glassy surface of the lake was gradu- ally 'whitening as the red -golden fight ehaoged to silver and 'broadened. up and through the wide sleeping world, An intense silence lay over the little handet among the trees; not even a clog was stirring; bet a tiny column of pale blue smoke issuing from one of the chimneys told that some one was awake within -probably the yel- low -haired Nelly. whose duties began at an early hour. 'And what AVt1S Meenie-or Rose •Meenie, as she might be called now, after having all those things 'written bent her -what was she ;doing awake and up at such a time? At all events, her morning greeting was •there con- fronting her, She had brought it , and put it on the little dressing -table; and as she 'brushed out her beautiful abundant brown tresses, her eyes went back 411:11i11 ancl again to the pen- cilled lines, .and she seemed not ill - pleased. For 'this was ;what she read: "The hinds are 'feeding upon the hill And the hares on the fallow lea, L'sweke, awake, Meeniel Birds are singing in every tree; ."1And roses you'll find on your To scent the morning air; Awake. awake, Love Meenie, For the world is shilling fair! Oh, who is the snistress of hirci and flower? lien Clebnig knows, 'I ween! Awake, awake, Love Merck, To show them their mistress and ,que.ent", 'Ansi it could hardly lbe expected that she should 'bring any very keen criti- cal scrutiny to hear on these idle verses .of IRonald's (of which she had now obtained a goodly numlber, by dint of wheedling and entreaty, and even .doworight insistence), seeing that nearly all of them were written in her praise and honor; hut even apart from that shehad convinced herself that ;they were very ;line in- deed, and that rine or two of them were really pathetic; and she was not without the .holie that, whets the seri- ous .affairs of life had been atterided to, and a little leistire 'and 'contempla- tion 'become possible, Ronald might turta to his poetical labors again and win some little 'hit ora name for ;him- self currang a few SYinpathetic souls here and there. ,Tilat he could do, so, if Inc chose, she was sure enough, It was all, ve,ry well ,for him to snake - light of these scraps' and fragments, and to threaten to .destnoy theist If Ole 1'01'040 She, fact Of their exist- ence to anybody; hut She know their Worth, Si he ,did not, and .when, in this or that ma,gagine or review, she saw a a piece of poetry mentioned with 9Paise,, her ;first 'impulse was to cadeic- ly read it in ;order to ask herself wise,. ther, 'Rosairict pisnec ti.111C and oppor- tunity, .could not have done as well ;Moreover, the answer tsa that question was invariably the same; and it did not leave ;her .surlsappy. It 'is itspe .(for ,she would he entirely dispassionate) he had not :written 'anything quite so 'fine .ins "Christabel"-as yet; 'but the years were before him; she had carth,d- ence; the world shOuld. see, and give 'him a 'fitting welcome all in .good, time. When, ;on this dear morning, she was htlly equipped for her tvalk, she stole silently dawn the stair, and made h.er way out into the now atvale- eoing day, The little hamlet was showing signs of life. A was trying to get hold Of a horse that had strayed into the meadow; a Collie was barking its excitennent over this .performance; the ;pretty 'Nelly ,appear- ed carrying an armful of clothes to be hong out to shy. And then, as Meenie passed the inn, she was joined by II-Iirrry the terrier, sylio, .after the ;first grovelling demonstrations of joy, ;seemed to take it for 'granted 'that he was to be allowed to accompany .her. And she VMS nothing ;loath. The fact was, she was settitag opt in quest of that ,dialiant eyrie Of Ronald's of .which he had often told' her; and she doubt- ed very mtich whether sihe would be able to And it, and she considered that perhaps the little terrier might help her. .Wohld he not naturally make for his master's accustomed mestipg-place,: when they were 'sufficiently high up on the far •Clebnig slopes? So they n:srent away alqng the road together; and she was talking to her companion, and telling him a ,good deal more about Glasgow, and abate Isia master, than probably he could understand. Considering, indeed, that this young lady had lust been sent home in deep ;disgrace, she seemed in excellent spirits 'She had borne the parting admonitions arid Imbraidings of • her sister Agatha with a least as- tonishing indifference; she had receiv- ed her Blather's teproaches with a placid .ectuanimity that the little 'wo- man could not understand at all tonly that Afeetlie's fate once or twice grew fixed and proud when there was some scornful reference to !Ronald); and she had forthwith set about uursing her father, who lord caught a severe chill and was in bed, with .an amiable assiduity, just as if nothing .had hap- pened. As regards her father, lie eith- er did not ;know .or had ref,used to know animist Meenie's ;lamentable eon- dtiot. •On this one point he was hope- lessly perverse; he never nwoulchisten to anything said against this daughter of his; ISleenie %Vat; always in the right -no matter what it was. Anti so. notwithstanding that she had been sent home as one in disgrace, ,anct had 'been received as one ins disgriiec, she installed herself as her father's ritirse with an ainaZillg SPI,f-content; and she brought him his -tiseef-tea and port svine at lite stated Intervals (for the good doctor did not seem to have as much faith iin drif.es as might have been anticipated); and .she kept the peat • fire piled nup mid blazing; and she methodically read to him the "In- verness Courier" the "Cinla,sgow Week- ly Citizen", and the "Edinber,gh Scotsman"; end when these were done she would get out a volume of old ballads, or perhaps "Thent•;•ve of St. Agnes," or "Esmond," or "As You Like It," or the "Winter's "Tale." It did not matter .1111101 to .what she read; lie liked tia :hear the sound of Meentie's voice -in Allis hushed, half - slumberous, warm ,little roont While the chill north winds howled without chasing each other across the ch•iven loch, and sighing and sobbing away along the lonely Strath Terry. But iv this .fair morniog there was not a 'breath stirrings ;and the curving bays and promontories arid hirch- iv.00ds and the 'far hills 'beyond weM all refieeted in the magic mireor of the lake, AS she sped along the .Highway, malcing for the ,Clehrig 'slopes, And soon she was mouth:Mg 'these' Witis the light step of .one trained'to:the 'heath- er; and even' as she got higher and higher the vast panorama around her grew wider and .ntore wide, until she couldsee hills, and 'lochs and wooded islands that never were visible front Inver-Muclat In the perfect silence the 'Sudden whir of a startled 'grouse made ,her :heart jump. IA hare -that looked remarkably like a cat, for there was as muels white as bluish - 'brown 'about it -got op aliepst ,at her feat arid sped swiftiy away over heath and rook; until it disappeared in one, ,f tile iinnierons peatshogs., ,There was a solitary eagle slowly circling' in the 'blue, 'but at so great a height thait. it was het a speck.' At one .moment. she thought she' bact caught sight Of the 'antlers of a stag, an.d Inc a second She .stooped shoet, rather frightened: but .presently she had convinced tiers self that these. were ;but two bits of withered Ibirch, appearing over ; the edge of aro* ,far above her. It was.a lilftIe.chillier here, bent the 'brisk exer- 65t kept ;her ;Warns And still she toil- ed on, andon, until she knew ,or gueSsed that she • Was. high enough;' and 110'W 'the question Was to discovrer the ' isvhereabouts ,of the clump of rocks tinder shelter of which Ronald was 'acenustoined ta sit •when he bad been up item alope, dreaming 'day- dreams • and, sc.eibbilingi sthe rhymes.:that had won her ...favor, what- ever he might thitik of therm At first this seemed a hopelessstask, Inc the whole place was a, wilderness of moss and heather, and peat -bogs, witli s.careely a distinctive feature anywhere. But she ;wandered about, watching file little 'terrier ociverely; and at 'last she saw him ;out his .tiose in an inquiring Way into a hole eso • .deriseatit ;some tumbled ibowl.clers. tHe 'turned and looked at nher; she .follow- ed. 'And .n.asy there could he no disubt 014 111135 we's 'Ronald's haltin.gsplace and pulpit of meditation; for, • she forthwith discovered the hidden case at the baok ;of ;the ldtt01 cave- Ithotighthe key of that now belon.ged to his successor. And so, in much con- tent, she sat herself diswn on the hea- ther, with all the wide, sunlit, still world mapped out before therthe sil- ver thread of 'Medal Water visible Isere and there' among the moors, and Loch 'Afeanclie with its islands, 'and Ben 'hope and Ben ILoyal, .and bonnie Strath 1Naver, :and the Kyle of Ton - gee 'close Inc the 'North Sea. Now, what had Love Meenie .climb- ed ai,i this height for? what but to read herself hack into the t irne when Ronald used to come here 'alone, and to think of what he had linen thinking, and to pietism 'herself as still an nn - conscious maiden 'wandering alseut that .distanit little hamlet that seemed hut two or three dots down there among the trees. This, or something like it, hos always been 'a favorite pas- tinie with lovers.; het .M.eenie had an additional source .of interest in the posses;sion of a packet of those idle rhymes, and thee .were a 'kind .of lcey to by -gone snoods arid days. And so it was 'here -lin this strange stillness - that 1Ronald had written these verses albout her, and perhaps °aught glimpse of her ;with isis telescope as she came out front the enttage to in- tercept the mail, when little indeed was she dreaming that lie had any such fancie's in his head. 'And now, as she ;turned over page after page, some- times she laughed a little when she came to somethirre; that seemed it tri- fle audacious -and she 'scarcely , won- dered; that he had been afraid of her seeing' • latch. bold .cleciarations; and then again a kind of comp:unctions till- ed her heart, and she wished that Ronald had not Praised her so Inc what had she done to deserve it, and Innis' wonild her coming life be made to correspond with these all too gen- erous and exalted estimates of ;her character? Of comse .she ;liked well enough le come upon praises of her ablintlannt brown 'hair, and her dligh- land eyes, and the rose -leaf tint el her elicelcs, and the lightness of tier step; for ,'he asic awarts of these things as well as he, and glad enough that slit possessed them, forbad they not eons - ns ended to 'is ise •13tit. ant' for tis ese other 'graces 'of mind and disposition with ssidels Ile hadadorned her -she she was sadly afraid that he Would find her stupid, ill -instructed, unread, fractious, 'unreasonable, incap.able or undetstandieg him • 'Look, Inc ex- ample, lthiv he .could hisbne these hills and moors anti vales ,with a kind of magic, so that they seemed to 'become 1s01.personal friends. To her they were all dead things ,(except Modal Water, at tunes, cm • the summer evenings), but 16 him they seemed .instimet with life. They spoke to hint and he to them; he 1:IMO-smart them; they Mere his companions and friends; \rho •but hisnself could tell of What this very hill of Clehrig was thinking? "lien Clebrig's blaze of splendor fn the firat set! 'Hush di ..,the morn, Aasi his rg a z i2 is fixed on the eastmon-d To greet the day newsborn; And he listens astilj for the 'bellow" Of the antlered; stag afar, And he laughs at the royal .challenge, The hoarse, harsh .challenge of war, "But Ben Clebrig is gentle and ,placid When the sun 'sidles into the west. And a mild. and 'mellow radiance Shiites on his giant Crest; For 'lie's looking clown upon Meenie' As She "wanders along the road, And the m011retain bestowshis ;blessing lOn the fairest child of Cod." There again: what could he see ins her (she 'asked herself) that he sheirld write of •her so? He hand declared to her that the' Magic With which all this neighborhood voas imbued was due to her 'presence .tli ere ; hut 'II ow could 'she, knowing herself sS she did, :believe that? Arid how to show her gratitude to him, and Iter faith in hint, and her confidence as to the future? Wall, sfie could but give to him her life, and the love :that was the life of her these . were worth ;the takin,g. (To he .continued) PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DR. E. A. Mc.MASTER-Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, Univers- ity of Toronto, and of the New York Post ;Graduate School and Hospital. Member of the College, of Physicians and Surgeons• of 'Ontario. Office on High street, Phone X. Office fully equipped for .x-ray diagnosis and ;for ultra ;short wave electric treatrnent, unttra violet sun lamp treatment • and infra red electric treatment. Nurse in attendance, DR. GILI3ERT C. jARROTT -• Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Un- iversity of 'Westeen Ontario. 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