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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-07-01, Page 6PAGE ,SIX, `What do !I care?' she said -point- lapping water around then, similarly ing to the salmon. [livid, the 'low-lying' hi11s 'between And then he begged her to drink a these were singularly keen and intense little whiskey and water—for luck's in color. -The air was hot and close salve—though he had 'been rather though the breeze still carie blowing scornful about these customs in the tip Strath Terry, There was a feeling W'arn'ing; and she complier]—smiling as if thunder were imminent; thougl 'towards hits as the tNetheeby bride there were no clouds anywhere gath may have looked at Young Lochin- eriug along the purple mountain -topes. var; but yet he would not drink .in This unusual darkness seemed to her presence; he put the flask aside; affect the fishing. 'Round after round and presently they were at their work they 'lade—touc'hing nothing hut one again, both 'lines out. and the south- or two kens; and this !Ronald deelar erly breeze still 'keephig up. ed to be a Abad •-sign, for that when the They passed the other boat. kilts began to take, there was small 'What weight?' was the cry. chance of a dean ,fish'." However, 'Miss `.Eleven and a -half. 'Have you got Carry did not c°g>:e "••She had caught one?' her first salmot'v"t1 that was •enough. "Yes: Nay, i't was suffident to.snake her 'How Winch:?' very cheerful and comtmunit'ative; and IJtls�t over seven,' she to'l'd hint a good deal about het 'Duncan will 'Inc a savage man,' various friends in the Garclen City— said Ronald, with a laugh. 'It's all but more especially, as at seemed 0. the bad luck of his boat, 'he'll°'be say- the respectful .listener, of the young ing; though it's good enough 'luck for leen who, from a humble 'beginning the two first 'fish to IncAclean fish and had been largely successful in busi- no kelt.' ness; and she asked him many gates - However, the ,Duke's boat 'fell tions, about himself, and was curious away .from its suspicious beginning about his relations with Lord Ailine that morning. When lunch -'time ar-O'f course, she !went on the aesnntp rived, and both eob'les • landed at a 'tion that the future of the world lay part of the shore agreed upon, where in ,America, and that the future of there was a large rock for shelter, and America lay in the'bountiful lay b a good ledge for a seat, 'hiss Carry Chicago: and she half intimate( had but the one !fish; to he taken out that she could not understand how and placed on the gran, while her la -any one could waste his time any- ther 'had two—respectively seven and where else. Her father had been bort thirteen pounds. ,And very :pictures- in a log -cabin; but if he—that is Ste, indeed, it was to see those white- Ronald — could see the immense gleaming creatures lying there; and blocks devoted to 'Hudson's reaper the two 'b'oats drawn ep on the shore, '011 Clinton and Canal Streets' 111 with the long rods out at the stern; would understand what individual en and the gillies 'foranfiig: a group a't terprise could achieve Ont west. The some distance off 'under the shelter 'manifest destiny' of Chicago loomed of the stone dyke; and the wide wa- large in this young lady's mind; the tern of the lake all -a ,llreezy blue in eastern cities were 'not in it, so to the cup of the encircling sunlit hil.Is. speak; and Ronald heard with reser- Ronald got out the luncheon, for Inc ence of the trade with Montana, and had seen to the packing of it -and he Idaho, and Wyoming, and Colorado, Knew more about table -napkins and and Utah,'and Nevada It is true that things of that sort than those sten; she was recalled from this imparting and then, when he had made every- of information by a twenty-five min - thing right, and brought ashore a utes' deadly struggle with a creature cushion for Miss Carry to sit upon, that turned .out after all to be a verit- and so forth, he went away. able clean salmon: and with this tri - 'Ronald.' Mr. (Hodson :called to hint, umph ended the day's`sportt for the 'ain't you going to have some lunch?' afternoon was rapidly .'wearing to "I've; air.' dusk. The gloom of the 'evening by "Comite along, then; there's 'plenty the way, was not decreased by a vast pf' foam ri,'* it here,' mass of smoke that came slowly roll - 'Thank ;Mt' sir;: 1 know where ing along between the black sky and they've put my Tittle parcel,' said h'e=- the black lake; though this porter and 'he: went and sate down with the than thing - that looked as if da gillies; and soon there was enough ,chole world were on .fere—meant no - talking and 'laughing amongst them= thing farther than the burning of the faintly heard across the wind. heather down Strath "ferry way "Welin• said her father, when they When both cobles were drawn up 011 Were left alorte, the beach, it was'found that M•r. Hod- '1Oh'it's just too defgh'tful for any- sun had also added one clean salmon thing.' to his score; so that the !five fish, put This was her sumniineup af•''the in a row on the grass, made a very whole sttuation. And then she added— ;goodly display, and were a sufficient - 'Papa, slay 1 send my ,satin: 'n to ly auspicious ,beginning, Lily Selden?' 'Carry,' ;said her 'fa'ther, as they wouldn't call it kindness,' said walked home together in the gather - he. 'Looks more like boasting. And ing clarkness. 'do you know what you what's the good, since site is staying are expected to do? Yoti have caught at an hotel? your first salmon: that means a sov- Oh, she wit] be glad as 1 ant even ereign.to the then in the boat.' to see it. But can't they cook it at an 'I will give a sovereign to the young hotel anyway? 1 want to he even with fellow,' said she, 'ane] willingly; 'but Lily about that balloon. I don't sec I can't offer money to 'Ronald,' much myself in going up in atballoon. 'Why not? it is•the custom here.' 1 would just like to have Lily here "Oh, 1 declare I couldn't do it. My now—:think she wouldn't fall down gra cions, no! 1 would sooner -1 and worship these beautiful crea- would sooner—no, no, papa, dear, I tures?' could not offer him money.' 'Well, you may send her yours, if 'Well. we 01nst (1n something. You you Eke.' her father said, 'But you see, the are taking up all hi. time, 1 needn't dawdle so over your lunch- suppose we'll have to send for cuuttit-, eon. 'these days are short; and I et- ,�.ihie if you care to go on with want to see what ie can do on our that boat--' first trial,' ?i should think I did1' she said. `l'e.• d,dy now'. if it comes to that,' 'Bud why should you send dor. another said she placidly --and she put n i0U- ui1L;e 5:' lone. •c- 11nnadd says he is no; p1r' est 1,1 rnits lit her ;:'or' c`, 'rosy? Il_ dare at he can tell ns when I , ainst emergency. 'te is; 1 don't believe he's half sn shy \.iii rt they tyer: rd e.tt it 0I1l. 'if 110y 1 1 s. , 'tad lc's much better fun P J t Vas this that vas :outing 11101 one. ..1 11,-.,• Highlanders; hr viii ninhrr 1 tcruoo.n? 'rite '.t ant- his 010 1 wa , o Irl. with all his 17id d; 1 not ,lie az •lt, ,ln'r, s:s, be had a ;.r try gats1 ntt ,n 1 t• i t ,i I .a• mono ,•st o9„tads apt- ,f 't • ],elf and his 1 -.an opinions. lis ia- r1 , bu1 t ,ran e -ion.; say you aro ,t '',2„1 if won differ 'qtr -'11 ...1 1i., .1.1 time skis,, ;1'1se: nr- ,^.1r hint; ',lit itc. _ .. n t'd ^au fee! like 'stat, and gradually heean 1111 t: :Ae 1 them besides.'she added. I, dor' , And darker, It wr i 1 ' s•franu� rvl' 4 ti•t . - can u it 's•1 h t e; for. while the. sktes overlieud :,+te t,1! , , r i, ,,. Why. I hart heel wcr-' thus niton' s.a,y black, 1111 the giving hint a gr •r:t deal e•4 good a lvi:1e THE SEAFORTH NEWS this afternoon.' 'You? About what?' 'A'bout Illinois,' she said. ' CHcAPT'ER X V. What that mysterious gloom had meant on the previous evening was revealed to then the next morning by a roaring wind that cane swoop- ing down from the Clebrig slopes, shaking the house, and howling through the bent and 'leafless trees. The 'blue surface of the lake was driv- en white with curling tips of foam; great bursts of sunlight sped across the plains and suddenly lit up the northern hills; now and again Ben Hope or 'Ben Hee or Ben Loyal would disappear altogether behind a vague mass of gray, and then as quickly break forth again into view the peaks and shoulders all aglow and the snow -patches glittering clear and sharp. The gillies hung aibout the inn - door, disconsolate. Nelly made no speed with the luncheon-haskets. And probably Mr. .Hodson and his daugh- ter would have relapsed Into letter- writing, ett writing, reading, and other feebl methods of passing a rough day in the Highlands, had not. Ronald conte along and changed the whole aspect of affairs, For if 'the wind was too strong, he pointed oat, to admit of their working the phantom -minnow properly, they might at least try the fly? There were occasional lulls in the ,gale, it was something to do, Would Miss 'Hodson venture? i1i.ss Hnelson replied by swinging her wat- erproof on her arca; and they all set out. \\'ell, it was a wild experiment. At 'first, indeed, when they got down to the shores of the loch, the case was quite hopeless; no boat—much less a shallow ,flat-Ihottomed coble — could have lived in such a sea; and they merely loitered about, holding - them- selves firm against the farce of the wind, and regarding as hest •they Wright the savage beauty of the scene around then]—the whirling blue and white of the loch, the disappearing ant, reappearing hills, the long prom- ontories suddenly 'become a vivid and startling yellow, and then as suddenly again steeped• in gloom. Bat Miss Carry was anxious to be aboard, '\\'e should only he driven across k the shore yonder,' Ronald said; 'ar maybe capsized,' 'Oh, but that would he delightfnh' she remarked, instantly, '1 never had sty life saved. It ,Would read very well in the papers.' 'Yes, Inst it might end the other way,' her father interposed. 'And then I don't see where the fun would conic in—though you would get ,your newspaper paragraph all the same.' Ronald had been watching the clouds and the direction of the squalls 021 the loch; there was some appearance of a lull, "We'll chance it now,' he said to the lad; and forthwith they' shored the boat into the water, and arranged the varions things. Miss Carry was laughing. She knew it was 011 adventure, 1 -ler father rem- onstrated; but she would sat be hin- dered. She took her seat in the coble, and got hold :of the rod; then they shoved off, and jumped in; and pres- ently she was paying out the line. to which was attached a 'Silver -Doctor about as long as her forefinger, Cai.t- in • of •a Cast- ing, course, e, was beyond her ekill, even had the wind been less violent: there was nothing• for it but to trail the fly through these rushing and tumbling and hissing waves. And at first everything seemed to go well enough -.except that the civbde rolled in the trough of the waves so that every minute she expected to be ui'tched overboard. They were drift- ing down the wand; with the two oars held hard in the water to retard the pace; and the dancing movement of the cable was rather enjoyable: and there was a kind of fierceness of sunlight and wind and hnrry'ina water that fired her 'brain, These poor peo- ple fingering on the shore -what were they afraid of? Why, was there ever anything so deli,g1itful as this -the cry of the wind and the rush of the water; and everything around hi glancing lights and vivid colors; for the lake vas not all of that intense and driven blue—it beanie a beauti- ful roseate purple where the sunlight struck through the shallows of the long hanks of rankly sa nd. She would have waved her cap to those pour forlorn odes left behind—hut that she felt both hands mast be left free, in ease of emergency, But alas1 that temporary hill in whiel{they� had started was 0000 ot'- cr. \ :harper squall than any before rattle darkening ane' tearing a1ro52. the loch; 11; then another and nothek anti! a downright gal, was blowing, an 1 ,1npau•cntl\ !nereataing every mo- ment in vi,olenec. Whither were they dr r i 1;;? They Aare, net run mix rob. le' :bore; all along 111008 rock; , !i',', ea was brralau1 whit they: 11 ,211121 halve been epsem and 212 bow 1;1 in a couple of nlinutc•s. urrer c1,,, Johnnie, lad,' shr heard ott:i' 1 call out 'We'll have, t., :Into 1 . ',,�, 1, and l .. shor,s at. tb•- ,n.'• 'Very troll; we can try:' ?And then the nisi moment all the situation of affairs seemed changed. There was no longer that too easy and rapid ,surging along the cable but apparently an effort to drive her through an impassable wall of water: while splash after smash on the bows carte the successive waves, springing into the air, and coming down on the 'ha -cis of the Wren with a rattling vol- ley of spray. Nay, Miss Carry, too, got her Highland ,baptism—for all] her crouching and shrinking and ducking; and her laughing 'face was running wet; and her eyes -which she would not shut, for they were fascinated with the 'miniature rainbows that ap ; peered loom time to time in the whirl- ing spray --were hall -blinded. But she did not seem to care. There was a fierce excitement and enjoyment in the struggle—for she could see how hard the men .were pulling. And which was getting the better of the fight.? -- this firth and patient endeavor, or the fell power of wind and hurrying er- seas? e And then something happened that made her heart stand still: 'there was. a .shriek heard above all the noise of the waves - and instinctively she caught up the rod, and found 'the line whirling out underneath her closed fingers. What was it Ronald had ex- claimed? 101, thunder!' or some such thing; but the next moment he had called to her in a warning voice— . 'Sit still—sit still—don't move— never mind the fish—let 'hint go—hell break away with the fly and 'welcome.' But ft seemed to hint cowardly ail- vice too; and she one behind her fa- ther in the score. d•Ie sent a .glance forward in a kind of desperation; no, there ear ho sign of the squall mod- erating, and they were a long way from the the head of the loch. More- over, the salmon, that was either a strong beast or particularly lively, had already taken out a large length of line, in the opposite direction: 'Do you think,' said he -;hurriedly, 'you could jump ashore and take the rod with you, if I part you in at the point down there?' '1'"es, yes!' she said, eagerly enough.. 'You will get wet.' 'I don't care a cent about that --1 1 will do whatever you say---' the spoke a few words to the lad at the bow, and suddenly shifted his oar thither. ':\s hard as ye cam, my lad.' And then he seized the rod from her, and Regan reeling in the line tvith an extraordinary rapidity, for now they were drifting down the loch agahl, 'l)o ye see the point down t'here,. this side of the bay? • 'Yes.' 'There may be a little shelter there; and we're going to try to put ye. ashore. Hold on to the rod, whatever ye do; tool get a fooling as fast as ye can.' 'And then?' she said. 'What then? What ant 1 to (lo -for she was ra- ther bewildered: -the water still blind- ing her eyes, the wild choking her breath. ]loll on to the rod—and get in what line ye cant.' All this wild, rapid, .breathless thing seemed to take place at once. He gave her the rod; seized hold of his oar again, and shifted it; then they ,seemed to 'be turtling the bow of the boat towards a certain small pro- montory where some 'birch trees and scattered stones faced the rushing water. \Vha•t was happening --or. go- ing to happen --she knew not; only that site was to hall on to the rod; and then there was a sudden grating of the bow sit stones=a smash of spray over the stern --the coble wheel- ed round -2120=1d had leapt ]oto the water—and, before she knew where she was, Inc had seized her by the waist and `swung her ashore—and though she fell, or rather slipped and quietly sat dgwrm o1 some cocks, slue still clung to the rod, and she hardly had had her 'feet wet! This was what she knew of her own position; as for Ronald and the lad they :paid 130 fur- ther ]reed to her, for they were seek- ing to get the cable safe front the heavy surge; and then -again she had her own affairs to attend to; for the salmon, though it was blissfully sulk- ing after the first long rushes, Wright suddenly make uits mind for can- tri•ps, Tlten-Ronald rias by her side again —rather breathless. You've 21111'1 go't hold of hint?— that's right—:but give him his own time—let him alone -1. don't !want him in here among the stones in rough water like this.' And then he said, rather sltalitefac- edl ly— '1 beg your pardon for gripping ye as f bad to do—'i l thought we should have been over—and you ,vrmld have got sorely wet.' 'Oli that's all right,' site said - •seeking in vain :u':idthe whirling waste of waters for any sign or glint - 0 -t' of the - salmon, 'ilnt 3-on—you must be very wet—why did you ,iutnn 'oto the w Iter?' 'Olt, that, nothi,pg--there, let hitt 1—giie hint his tin wart !—none, reel 111 a chit—quicker—dluicker - - tht 'll do, now.' As soon as she had got the 'proper strain on .the fish again, she heli] out her right hand. 'Pull off my glove, please,' she said —but still with her eyes .intent on the whirling waves. Well, he unbuttoned the long gaunt- let—though the feather was all sat- urated with water; but when he tried the fingers, he could ,not get them' to yield at all; so he hadito pull down the gauntlet aver the hand, and haul off the glove by main force—then he put it in his roc'ket, for there was no time to waste on ceremony. , There was a sudden steady pull on the rod; and away went the reel. 'Let him ,go—let him go --ah, a good fish, and a clean fish, tool' 'I couldn't see hint at ala,' she com- plained. He's a long way out; and a good job, too; 1 hope hell tire himself 'out there, before we bring him m among the stones.' 'It's a 'bag fish, that .ore,' saidthe lad Johnnie, who had dnawm .near with the clip. ' Moreover, the gale was abating somewhat, though the big waves still kept chasing each other in and springing high on the rocks. She be- canme more eager about getting the fish, hitherto, she had been rather excited and bewildered, and intent only 011 doing what she was bid; now the prospect of really landing •t'he sal- mon had 'become joyful, 'B'ut how shall we ever get him to conte in here? she said. - ''He's bound to conte. if the taokle holds; and I'm thinking he's well hooked, or he'd .been off .ere now, with all this scurrying water.' She shifted the rod to her right hand; her left arm was beginning to feel the eontineed strain. 'Has the other boat been out? she asked. 'No, no,' said he, and then be laugh- erI, 1t would be a fine thing if we could take back a good fish, T know well what they were thinking when we let the boat drift down the second time—they were thinking we had got the line aground, and were in trouble. And stow they canna ;see us—it's lil- tle they're thinking that we're play ing a fish.' '\\'e' and "ata' ,he said quite natural- ly; and she, also, had got into t11e xray 0f calling him Ronald—as every out 1111E \Veil, that mist, a long and a stili fight with the salmon; for whenever it foam'] that it was being towed fill the shallows. away it' went again with rush on rash, so that Miss Carr had her work cut Out fclr her, and ha every nn1scle of her arms and back aching, 'Twenty pounds, 301111 see,' sh heard the lad Johnnie say to his conn- panioni; and Ronald answered him-- d e ] wunld rather than ten shillings it was.' 'rwtm.ty punuds! She knew that this was rather a rarity on this loch— ten or eleven pounds lying. about the average; and if only she could cap- ture this annual --in the teeth of a gale, too -and go i>ack to the others in triumph, and also with another tale to tell to Lily S:helderl She put more and more strain on; she had both hand's firm tin time butt; her teeth were set hard. Twenty pounds! Or if the hook should give way? Or the line be ctrl on 0 stone? Or the fish break it with a spring and lash of its tail? 'Fortunately, she knew but lit - de of the many anti heartrending anti - dents that happen salmon -fishing; so that her fears were fewer than her hopes; and at last her heart beat quickly when she 1111 Ronald take the dip in his hand. But he was very cautions; and ,baric her take time; and spoke in an equ- able t'olce-just as if she were not growing desperate, and wondering how- long her arms would hold out1 Again and again, by dint of tight reeling up and putting on a deadly strain, she cahght t glimpse of the salmon; anti each of these times she thought she could guide it sailing:ly toward the spot where Ronald was crouching , down by the rooks; and then again it would turn and head away and disappear—taking the line very slowly now, but still taking 11 She took advantage of one of these pauses in the fight to step further back some two or three yeards; this was in Rktaald's direction; and she obeyed Without' nndcrstanding, But soon slue knew the reason; for at last the salmon seemed to conte floating in without evert an effort at refusal; and as she was called on to give hint the holt ,firmly, she found she could almost drag hint right up and -under Ronald': mu. And then there \cos a tont] 'hurrah!' from the lad John as the big silver fish gleamed in the air; and the next second it was lying there n'the withered grass and hrerksui, \liss Carry indeed, was so excite] that she came near to .breakiu:g the ''op of the rod:,she forgot thsi the struegle was over; and still held ell or tightly, 'Lower tile. top, Miss,' the lad Jo1n1 :d,l, 'Or ye 0201 put the rod town al- together.' t THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937 PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DR. E. A. McMiASITER—Graduatte of the Faculty of Medicine, Univers- ity of Toronto, and of the New York Post 'Graduate School and Hospital. .]]ember of the College of Physicians and !Surgeons of Ontario. Office on High street, ,Phone 27. Office fully equipped for x-ray diagnosis and for ultra ,&&ort wave electric treatment, ultra violet sun lamp -treatment and infra red electric treatment. Nurse in attendance. DR. GI•LBER1T C. J1ARROTI' Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Un- iversity of Western Ontario. Member of College of Physicians andSurgeons of Ontario. 'Office 43 Goderich street west. Phone ,317. Hours 2-4.30 :pam„ 7.30-9 pm. Other 'hours by appoint- meat. ppointnien:t. Successor to Dr. Chas, 'Mac'kay, DR. H. H'UGIH ROSS, Physician and Surgeon Late of London Hos- pital, London, England. Special at- tention td diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Office and residence behind Dominion Bank. Office Phone No. .5; 'Residence Phone 1014. DR., F. J. BURROWS, Seaforth, Office .and .residence, :Goderich street, east of the United Church. Coroner for :the County of Huron. Telephone No. 416. DR. F. J. R. .FORST'ER— Eye Ear, Nose and Throat, •Crraduate in Medicine, University of Toronto 11897, Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Mooreleld's Eye, and 'Golden Square throat hospi- tals, :London. At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p,nn„ DR. W. C. SPROAT Physician - Surgeon Phone 90-W. Office John St, Seaforth Auctioneer. 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Yeo, HolmesvilIe, DIREOTORS Alex,•Broadfoot, Seaforth No, 3; James S'holdice, Walton; Wm, Knox,. Lon des boro; George Leonhardt, Bornholm No. 1; John Pepper, Bruce - field; ,Tames Connolly, Goderich; Alex McEwing, Blyth No, 1; Thom- as Moylan, Seaforth No. 5; Wm. R. Archibald, Seaforth No, 4. 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. Indeed ile took it from her, to lay it down safely; and right glad was she for she was pretty well exhaust- ed by this time, and fain to take a seat on one of the rocks while :they proceeded to weigh the salmon with a pocket -scale. (To Be Continued) llnung a session of colrt there was .so much talking and laughter going on that the. judge, becoming much provoked, shouted: "Silence! !Order in the court! \Ve hat•c decided a half. dozen case's here this •morning, and I haven't heard a word di one. of. 'ern! Silence."' "iltat,don toe, does this train stop a't .Tenth street?" "Yes, watch me and get off one station 'before d do." "Thank you:"