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The Seaforth News, 1934-10-18, Page 6PAGE SIX. THE SEAFORTH NEWS TiHURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1934 "Is this true, girl?" asked the 'Brah- when his .sister had conte to hint, the T-1111 s paroxysm of passion had been like "Quite true, Maharaj," answered ,Tara ;c:hbing hysterically, and hard- knowing what she said: -"only take me hence; and 1 will tell thee all; but I am- not impure,—'l am not defiled, —1 have nothing to he ashamed of. t,., put your hand on my head, and t.:ke ane to hit• • people in Wye. Save :r, ri-e I ;hail ,lie:. r ki!i me. rather than le: hitt or the woman conte near me. When 1 an alone with your fam- I ail te" them e." s.d l the elan, 11:11,;, • 'vas l \ar.,,yc:L ,he pr"uioal en- , the Rejae Siveii. ;nal e Breit - ac::,'' eel high -t.ciotl in CHAPTER LXVIIi'I But at the last her brother rebuked' her. lit was a house something like their "`1 rescued her Myself from viol own at Tooljapoor. (There was the enee," he said, 'and what she tells master's seat, with its dlo'wers and nie conllirms her whole story, Peace, holy text painted on it; the verandah il?udmal one .So helpless and so hen - open to the court; the thick curtains tiful should have thy pity, not thy 'between the pillars lett down to ex- scorn.'^ chide the night air, which was 'chill, "Let lier have her head shaved, IThe room was neat and acru'pulonsly and' be such. as I am; le't her Jive with clean, 'She was once more id a 'Bnah- me, and 'bat'he in cold water .before exile's house, dawn; and I say also, let her do 1Be'iore Tara sat two Women, both menial service," cried the widow ra- elderly, 'One a stout and ' matronly pidly; "and t'he'n, if she can do these ,figure, with a grave but kind count- things, 'brother, she is a Brahms❑ euan'ce, and grey hair neatly braided, widow, and true; else carat her curt to with heavy gold rings round her aleck,the uotesulanans With w'h'om site liv- wrists; and ankles, plainly Ibult richly ed. Are them ready to do all this, .dressed, indioatinee rank and wealth; girl ?" she continued, stretehin'g out the other evidently a widow, clad in her long skinny ,Ilaoci:d arm, which coarse white esrge, her 'tread clean was naked to the shoulder, and show - shaved, and :her wrists, ankles, and ed that the serge about her was her neck without any ornaments, She had only garment. strong coarse features, :much wrinkl- r.l'ra's spirit sank within her. Yes, ed, small piercing eyes deep set in her such as the ,beings before her were head, and her skin was 'flaccid and !Hindu widows—such they w,ou'Id shrivelled. She was the elder sister of claim her to be. "It were (better if 1 the Envoy, and lived with him a life were dead;" she groaned—."better if 1 of austere penance and privation, and, were dead." as a IHindu widow, was a pattern of "Better if thou wast dead!" echoed scrupulous attention to the rules - of the \vidow. "Ay, much better. 'Satoh her faith. 'N•either rose to meet her. as then art, were better dead 'than. Tara advanced and touched their live, in a harlot's guise, to be a di's- feet in token of reverential •submission grace to •the,'faithl and salutation. 1133, the lady, whose "May, peace, sister;" said Ther bro- evident rank had attracted Tara first, alter•-e"T will have none of this. (While the action won :received at least with- she is with us, she is our quest and out repugnance, and perhaps with in- daughter, and shall be cared- for tencl- teres,t;'butOry the other with .marked erly, Take her away, weenba, and let aversion—she drew (back her feet as her rest. 'I will see eeezool 'Khan at though to prevent ,pollution, and the Dunbar to -morrow, and inquire if shrank aside, evidently to avoid con -'what she says the true; (hut my heart tact. already tell; nae it is so," this, but only once, and yet he had not dared to strike her. She was not stunned, ;but 0, the Misery of her nand I :She sett her lips were cut, and her mouth was 'bleedin'g. The pain of this; the degradation of having .been ,truck, made the girl desperate, If she had had a dagger she would have stabbed Moro or herself, She could ace him very dimly, for the place was -!ark except the 'faint light which came in from the drawn curtains. She saw that he was sitting, leaning Irainet wee of the wooden pillars of the ro'nr, rocking himself ire and fro, He had drawn his knife, and a faint .r}, _.. -'515' e ;int me tee _'nam of the naked 'blade teas seen , ;seri'. ar title I,,, ,e av ;net again as he mooed. era:- she e1". eve here. ,ond 1.1 die, or he? No matter. In a frame i .,tit,.. ate hind like hers death ha; ttr' terror. 1 x11 It is only the return 1,: cen-u nsness hien brine: ever with it, and she lay meting: ell tae r unl, hwitt itch - e 1 n '11 111tcCy. If int moved foam s e•ii '1, r1 -;,e 1;2101,0 site nm -t die: but he ;set move, :old-adleniv the rock - Lea -ire :.e „ e ,1,e•1 to fail charily -fee. and 'ay there n1 at , aess. '\ rte feigning. in , filer eo get !,i. ,,v,,r? N... it slid r,.,t it.e: lav -t°I', breathing r iia l 115 lel that titiek ,r, e tib e,tli • iu. i. rr, and :1,55 • _•,'rl 1 it a;*;+i.. :`ti:: -115' ve- con- .. e . .1111 step -Mee , vtr4 I ov•.:r lilt❑' yet ,`'] to ton' - to esea t. is t''e tont„ 1,.til far. n ..,,:u ..11'1 1=r. b, i,l' 111111 Stir eel Iiiased it its her unit . Ili inscn-IL'r; 111 1 'vev1' : 10:i Iii- eeards the 1:011. turned up - .•11 1 .,1't:trot her hent:.... n 1"(..7 11 1%vrr The evil ..,_ ,' 1 ';,'r.', at Iter heart i .. 11t1..' li t,'i , '131,11 tile' 1 trickle l int.. iter • ! th, ., t1 1 smarted awl r ..a'11. 1, he had riser. r to :ler. r 1A4 A1111 ;t-.:1:. :r15 1' 147 -, eeert arise 111. r;• 1 11. 1 kn. / lr,' ., .,:1'. '1: •. .,L ; 1 eennel 1111 a 111 1/i s r may leet .. 1 t thin' it t i 1 <,r au,ment=. 1 ih' -111 1,•A.: : 'ri111 tai -e,1 d into her lee. The fare wits . ! e114 clammy: y: wee this death , 1.ere,r rt- '5 nater. elect she weu:11 r >1k.e - me 1'n irnn, her she fanned a in the ria of her garment, and ear a whale he a ,peee'.i his eyes gen- •i;•, ••tlunga3" he said. stretching out is nets. "where are theta girl? come „ mss," It tva= the old tone of kind- lmost ad. d', or fund fool, she i net resist it; and, w-ipialg the from her lip., kissed his fore - a2 d \lean chile, '('ara, sorely shaken in aly en,1 mind, ha'! Ibsen put into the ii;ter. She heard the .bearers ask the •.1 l.rahmnn whether they were to 'eke her f .ezoos Khan's tents; and :letad openers the door, and said to her kindly that ahe had better come t, her „sat people, and that his wife n tsaiter, wht' knew- them, would take charge of her, and be dcind to lino, fluty were at a village souse milesferther oil, and he himself n,, .i 1 sett ort her there, She 11, a, heipleee to object: in the first ;lace. she dare not prefer the Me- -illiness noble's house, as strang- er, an leer faith and to 'her own peo .:le; ser 'tare she resist a .Brahms❑ of (be ;Envoy's povverful position in xnatcver he chose to do. IS'he hats' no alternative, indeed, for he shut 'the door ere she could reply, the bearers took her forward' at a rapid pace, and the night was somewhat advanced, ere she w'an again set down at the door of a respeetable house in a vil- loge, and several ,womenaservam•ts, such as are menials inl3rahmun:fam- ilies, 'kindly assisted her to alight, bringing whatthere rocas in the palan- keen after her, i'etre— :• re— Fear; aid 'teal h :o ell -•n tesea eel 1 ,- , . 4.... , she err L ..t: fer i.- . 1 , ..:1•r, "Ne rtl", : 1„ rr;' t.'.. -tar ng b, hi, feet. ars. tad -ie. her arm he ,'irk her r r morel This ir,: n thee? I to.r. th' e t':e have „one ten far to rcr"le. \\ II that oki dotard he quiet, Will he ‘pare my character? Not he. He has been my enemy from the first, supplanter] mte in my authority, crossed :ate in every design, anis lastly in this.—Why rlirlat thou bungle with the shawl ? 'Coward I witch d devil 1" - and he struck her violently on the face with his open hand at eaoh word. "Why didst !thou fail me?'Got" and he flung her away 'frons him, so that she tot- tered and .fell 'heavily against the fall lbeyoncb ''Cris may 'Her fall .and agony of mind pre- vented her hearing the 'frightful nurses 'which ,followed, Once before, right, and 'Saturn ruled from the second hour of the first watch to the card. Could anything be worse ? We should not have moved at all, My' pearl, my love, she should not 'have left us! Hall Heil May the peace of 'the Prophet be with :her, and the pro- tection of Alfa be upon her till we meet again1"' "Ameea! !Alm een1' sighed ,Zyria, but she was not cotnfortecl, mor was F'azil. "Thou art welcome. daughter of \ y as 'Shastree," said the one; "peace be with thee," "And that gilded thing is called a widow and a \loorlee!" cried the other, with a scornful glance at Tara. "C) sister, admit her not! Why has the any hair: \\'hy is she more like a "ride than :, U-idow ?--a harl,,t rath- er titan a virtuous wotna:t?" "I am a tell w -and an orphan," re- united Tara meellt sinking clown it trembling ti. tntly, es elle ad- dressed the tint epeaker. "I hat ul -aril front ,1 -leen, sir lady, U he kind 0 11111 I ells 11 ene ,,11 earth to ;noteet net They ere all lee :t1 ,nus may God help me!" \'our ,tl,th(1r 1011; „lee. „f the 1)11•. ry-- . \\'' r. scar she nor:" 1151:5.1 I 11, I:nc y . toile, 5' 1 .5 name was \nrb:a ileo, "lh, nee' leteav of tire?" "1 !•, no' kleoei ::r.ly," r,'tlrnr, Fart; teliey have r.eeer here to ,. , .1 11 tarn; Let my ler. ,aur was et; 1 ns; d t • ,,eak of them. "iter ''her l tv'r merrie 1 that d°.;1 . Mere trimmers. and :lakya l:ye is n•c 111 let ,.v h, r," i.ai,t the t r, 0 her! .. n, : to herr, erie': 1':.r,, sols- at:rc'.v— n. e!ve ter U'. lh " I he.,t;'1 t r 1iy y,.11; 150!. it •, '/;: y; ler e'itldre t laic, by all • n :eve on cern. net 10 Aveme1.: ,c.,h to '; e . t , 1 - ye tettr..11 1511. 11 ;:t 1 5. 30 11' 1 irl?" eekeel the ter:•,1:11 r her. '•1', yi,! P1111:rn 11rt," -. 11 he. 11,.W cnter111 all 1 ,',in . rpt '3:- -1, r':. r,ne, t;. •:. it i l eamae: '.1 ..••the hen h'1 I, eeee ariae -tet to ler, rrt .!t.rt :, t hart! „n a•'. 1tr. Its kit 111 11 1 ' 1, 1;0. 11,15 and wily •''- 1! west -.tile•r It _ \di !' nee from \torr, 1 r;n'nir11 '' "Fr let Mere 'reinvest! !" exclaim - d 1ia,:h ladies in a breath. -Ye., from hint did .a resctie her, sister, else slie had fared 'badly, I returned the Eno,'. ":\ violent std tcickid hire,--w•hn moat be brought before the council, 10 prevent further scandal. But speak. daughter, —thy name? "Tara," "Tara: well, fear not, Amba Bye is strict, but kind. Speak truly, we listen." Para told iter little story: how she had :become a priestess when the god- dess callers her; what she knew of holy books; how she had beer car- ried off from the temple by lforo Trinnmul, encs show he had persecuted Iter before, How she was taken by Faris Khan, and had been saved by him from the King's harem. at Beeja- ponr, 'Finally, how they had treated her with honour and respect, arae) were taking her to her only refuge at Wye. Ah, it was a sad story .now: a glim- pse of a heaven of delight now she.. ant front her 'for ever! She saw the stony eyes of the grim old widow wandering over her, from her glossy braided hair and the garland of jes- samine flowers which Zyna had' put into it just before they left camp, to the ,gold ornaments about her neck v Iiicli Zyna would have her wear: and, above all, to the silken scree, and the golden anklets ,which Fazil liked, 'hecaues the tiny bells to them .clashed so' musically as site walked: Over and over again, as she told her simple story, and was believed by the 'Bab: .,Sahib ands hit wiife, ,ilid his 'sister evince decided unbelief and scorn. ee,mha ll3ye rose alert said a few soothing words to Tara as she stood vvsr her tiled raised her up. "Come," she said, "1 ail! not harm tliee — conu'." And Tara -rose and followed her to an inner room. The old lady had perhaps 'been afraid of her sister - in -late, or she was softened 'by 'Tara's beauty and grief, for, ee she closed the dohs, she sat d'wu and took her t" her heart, lotting her head ra: ltee h'., 11 'Thou art a gentle lamb," 'u stud, stoking her hea•1. God her. thee. child;' and Tara clung to the kind bent. and lilt :is it were, lmtne arta- once mere doted ,uunn•l her, That night she eleet with .\,nh, ht5 Her elven tea: at n 'broken, and fait ef icer:`lel ,h•e:nn,; lint mar- led suttury end yoen in the end , h- tain,'i their ma-t,ry .'ver her, and -nils 3:11,, a 'Ice;, lot:❑ — leer,- , see lee,, that the edit `.aas high in the p rn;•tg ere she aw„ke, i; sad been a mare' time tet ,1V2!0, lettere. :,led the K'ten's 33:1-03„'d. en I 5.3'1,'' 'lie Khan and the Peer ea; n., far int ' the night. speaking- of Lara. No on, 11-1,1 slept.to Faeil, he, ,lith Sher, Elan, Luks thorn, ams CHAPTER LXTX 'Magnificent as is the scenery of the 'Western IG'hauts of India through oust their range,. it is anowhcre, per- haps, more strikingly beautiful than in the neighborhood of the seat isolat- ed plateau which—rising high above the mountain -ranges around it, and known under the name of iMaia-bn'l- esh'wur, from the temple at the source of the sacred river Krishnla on its sunn:nmit—is now the favourite retreat and s'anatoriu'm of the Bom- bay Presidency. Tran ,roads, laid out so as to exhibit the beauties of the scenery to the best advlantage—pret- ty ,English -looking cottages, 'with 'bril- liant gardens, and e considerable nat- ive to'wnr, are now the Main features of the place; but at the period of our tale it was uninhabited, except by a few Brah'muns and devotees, who, otttracted ,hy the holiness of the spot, congregated around the ancient temple, and occupied, the small vil- lage beside it. Otherwise the charac- ter of the wilt scenery is unchanged. Front points near the edges of the ,plateau, where mighty 'precipices of -basalt descend sheer into forests of everlasting verdure and luxuriance, the eye range, over a sea of rugged mountain -tops, — ,ome, scathed and shattered peaks of barren: rock --oth- ers with extensive Ilat summits, hounded by naked cliffs which, falling into deep ' gloomy ravines covered with dense forests, would seem in- accessible to man. 1'ii „cele reader, lei our tale, this .remelt will be familiar; but to oth- u's .1 t 1'lino;t iutpo-able m convert by ,lescriptien any adequate idea of ita p,ctiliar character, es: of the beau- ty of the ever-changing aerial eltect,, that very in aspect alis ,t as the spec - t e1 1' turns from one point to another. Ren in early meriting, as the ;nn rises n4cr the :nater mists, the naked litialee ami precipices. standing apart like 3 -bit l , -h+ten with rosy' teas, while the must itself, a; yet dense and undisturbed, lies wrapped around their bares, filli::,a every ravine and valley, and 4littering like a son n molten silver. .\gain, as the morning 'breeze rises in the valleys +helow this vapour breaks rip slowly: circling round the leely ef it 'rst rade r,,nud the calm - try ,ler miles, a l taraegit tee night. seeking- Para. N.' one dared ses.elc hint, mrd the mull had never seen itis extinct Ii,' 'rt, Ile and Lnkeh- mtlnil, list+'', aetit•ity even :m'pas-eat his 1, vv 11, i,.ul stoppesl every pal:ut- keen: eatery rot; or carritege eels ete,I; every resod femele ti'. y 0111d ,e‘1, l::t:.es had brei: PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DR. IE. A. McMAST'EIR.—Graduate Of the Faculty of Medicine; Univers- ity of Toronto, and of the New York. - Posh 'Graduate School and 'Hospital. Member of the College of Physicians- and 'Surgeons of Ontario. Office on High street. Phone 27. DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT sGeaduate of Faculty of Medicine, Un- iversity of Western Ontario. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office 43 Goderich Si. West. Phone .317. Hours 24,30 p.m. 7.30-0.00 p.m. Other 'houns by appoint- ment. Successor to Dr. Chas. Mackay, IDIR. H. HUGH ROSS, P14Taiepnt and Surgeon. Late of London Hos- pital,. o -petal,. London, England. Special attention to diseases of the eye, ear. nose and throat. Office and resi- dence behind Dominion Bank. Oboe ercial Hotel, Seaforth, 3rd Monday ore•." Phone No, 5; Residence Phone Ido. ,c; rc'te.l tile.,, 'hitt ilr, trace of 'tare ace 5mnd--mme; and Fazil .etitrned 1,:11:c 'ie_ie..ter' and worn ottt, :13-. 1,11.11, V t"1'. t, ch o Lc hos hearse and the torn. and t,; :tart conte more hitt, Lek;'a;ntm. wlto :c0111e1 1101 1e'ace lain,, .n au erreed e 111 113 fro tl'-o, The; day tl:,i ea; .till absent) Babe Sahib eaught \'tool Khan after the Otte -1.11...n Derbar, and 101d him What had happened: hon- he had rescued Tara, here lie had sent her on to Wye with hi. vt e and sister, and how she would he safe 111 hist hands; and he heard in return how she ,was respected and loved in the Ktlan'r family. "\\'e cannot allow her, Khan,” he said kindly, "to remain with you, much as you have respected her faith. It would be a scandal to iirah- mnns, if the daughter of Vyas 'S'has tree were the guest even .of 'Afzool Khan and his household. It is not compatible with her purity or her honour, which, now her father in dead, her people must ,protect. We— that is, my wife and myself—have charged ourselves with her for the present; and her people, the Durp- eys of Wye, are :rich and devout, they vill'receive and protect her." A'fzoo1'Khan remonstrated as far as possible. Tara had grown to be a familiar and beautiful object to hint; abet he felt, the Brahantin was right, and he must not connect her titanic with his son's. He dare not ,mention to Lurlee what hail been alone, but he told 'Fazil, when he returned, and so all, knew of it. "At least she is safe and in hon- ourable keeping, +said Fazil, when he had heard a:11, "and for the rest, as 'God wills. 'Bart as for that Brahman, father, Ile escaped me once -it may not the again." "Looks" cries] Tnrrlee to IZyna, who .vas sitting sobbing :biltteely—rloond Had T only been careful, this-woulcl never have. happened. 1t was (Sunday mountain -nlllatlte, lingering in wreath- amine their gen- and preci- pices, and clic in:' to the fore.., 1111- 11 diseipeted entirely by the tierce hearts ..f the stn, Then, quivering un- der the lucid heat, long ridge, , trigged valleys are spread colt below, heli rrneee beyond range melts tend- eriy into :1 ,lint distance of sea and sky, .'('tire,') .Cl'arated in odour, yc: eh„uing the occasi"nal sparkle of sail like a faint escort !sassing 011 the horizon, dost glorious of all. per- haps, in the evening, when, in the rate cob.,urs of the 121': ricin 5-ap- :n the mountains ;flew like fire; and peak awl precipice. sorest and Men, are bathed in gold and crintsen light; or, a; the light groves dimmer, shrouded in deep purple shadow till HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, Oat they disappear in the gloom which. quickly falls on all, . .Westward from this great moun- tain plateau, and divided from it by a broad deep valley clothed with for- ests, the huge mountain of Pertab- gurh rises with precipitous sides out of the woods and raviti'es below. The top, irregularly level, furnished space for dwelling houses and magazines, while ample springs of pure water, sufficed for the use of a 'large 'body, of men, by which it could be easily defended. At :various period's of time —by the early .Mahratta chieftains of the country in remote ages, and after- wards by their Mussulrnan conquer- ors—walls and towers had been add- ed to the natural defences . of the place, as well as strong gateways, protected shy bastions and loo:holed traverses, on the only approach to. the snnim,it — a rugged pathway, which could hardly be called a road. Under very ordinary defence, the place was perfectly impregnable to all attacks by an enemy from with- out; and, at the period of our tale, it 'was. a -Vassal, on the one hand, and' was held as his capital and choicest of the amlbitiou's: design's of the Em stronghold, among ntatly such fast- +peror Asrungzeeb on the other, to ncsses in those naountaina, by Sivaji,ra'ise hiai,self to a position in. which dlboslay, a man destined to play a' ,he could secure the actual aclminis- conspicu,ousapart in the history of his tration,, ,and eventually the sovereign - country and people in particular, and !135 of his native wilds, of 'India at large. (To Be Continued) Wet have already informed' the reader, in a somewhat desultory Keep D'ou'glas' Egyptian Liniment manner perhaps, for we are not writ-' 'always' in the stable, ready for imine ing his history, .of the attempts made 'd'iate use, (Removes 'proud flesh an,si hy'Slvaji to •astablis•h ati i'nctopond'ctrt inflammation, Thresh or Hoof Riot. power; anti, by taleiatg advan,tagc o1 patnfn'l and 'irritating. Remove there, the weakness ar?it dislrac'ttoit of the quickly and surely with Douglas' lain,gd'dtm of "Betja'poor, 01 which, he Egyptian Liniment: DR. F. J. BURROWS, Seaton*Y. Office and residence, Goderioh eteastt.: east of the United Church, Oonoaae for the County of Huron, Tele'phws., No. 46. DR. F. J. R. F1O'RStTER-cEye, B� Nose and Throat. Graduate in Ltedir cine, University of Toronto 1SW. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Mooredeld'S• Eye, and Golden Square throat hoses - owls, London, England. At Oomtts- ercial Hotel, 'Seaforth, 3rd ,Wednos-- day in each month from 1,30 ,p.m, to. 5 p.m. •, D,R, W. C, SPROA'T.—Gradilato a'A Faculty of Medicine, University od Western Ontario, London. Memlxe, of College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. Office in rear oQ, Aberhart's, drug store, Seaforth, Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m,, 7.3tt -9 p.m. Other hours by appointment, , Dental IDIR. J. , A. MUN'N, Successor Dr, R. R. Ross, graduate of North- western University, Chicago, I11, Li- centiate Royal College of Dental Sur- geons, Toronto, Office over Silks' hardware, Main St„ Seaforth, P3ioec' 151. DR, F. J, BECHELY, graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R Smit'h's grocery, Main St., Seaforth. Phones, office 185W, residence ;85J. Auctioneer. GEORiG'E ELLIOTT, Linenecf Auctioneer for the County of Hu*r„'. Arrangements can be made for Sete Date at The Seaforth News. 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