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'Whit a minute,' she said -+and she .intereseing objects, And (finally she
shook her hand, to get the life 'b'ack said-
intoit. 'Ronald, any arms are a little tired.
did not hurt you?' said he, in j•W'on't you try a east or -two?-1 ant
great concern. 'eine 1 should learn as much by look
'We learn in suffering what we ing on.'
;He did as' he was bid; and she went
with hint; but he could not stir any
thing, The river was low; the clay wa.
clear; there was no wind. But alt las.
they came to a part of the stream
where there was a dark and deep pool,
and 'below that a wide bed of shingle,
while between the shingle and the
bank was a narrow chaddtel where
the water tossed and raced before
breaking out lnito the shallows. He
drew her a tittle bit back from the
'bank and m'ad'e her take the rod again.
of there's a chance at alt, it's there,'
he said. 'Do ye see that stone peer
there? -well, just try to drop the ay
a foot above the stone, and let it get
into a whirl.'
She made her first 'cast -the line
fell in a tangled heap about three
yards shoet.
'Ye've got'out of the way of it,'
said he, and he took the rod from her,
let out a'little more line, and then
gave it her again, standing behind
her, with his hand over -gripping hers.
1Ndw1'
The 'fly fell a foot short -but clean.
The next caws it fell at the precise
epot indicated, and was swept into
the current, and dragged slowly and
jerkily across Again he made the
cast for her, with the same negative
result; and then he withdrew his
hand.
That's right -'very well donee he
said, as she continued.
'Yes, 'hn't what's the use when you
are tired—'
She had scarcely got the words out
when she suddenly found the line
held tiht-'and tighter -'she saw it
cut its way through the water, tip and
toward the b'an'k of the poo 1 above
and clown and down was 'the point of
the rod pulled until it almost touched
the stream. All this had hap•pencd in
Inc wild second.
'Let the line go! --what are ye do-
ing, lassie?' he cried.
The fact was that in her .sudden al-
arm she had grasped both the line and
rod more 'firstly than ever; and in an:
other hatf-second 'the fish must inev-
itably bare broken something. But
this exclamation of his recalled her to
her senses -she let the line go free -
got up the rod --and then waited ev-
vtts--with her heart in - her month.
She had not long 'to wait. It very soon
appeared to her as if she bac) honked
an incarnate Bach of lightning; for
there w"as nothing! this beast 'lid not
attempt to do; now rushing down the
narrow channel so close to the bank
that a single oat -Jutting twig toast
have cut the tine; now lashing 011 the
edge of the shallows; twice jerking
himself into the air; and then settling
down in the deep pool, not to sulk,
but to twit and tug at the line in a
series of angry snaps. And always it
was 'Oh 'Ronald, what shall I do
now ' or, `Ronald, :what will he do
next?'
`You're doing well enough,' said he,
placidly. 'Bu't it will be a long fight;
and ye must not let him too far down
the stream, or hell take ye'below the
foot abridge. And don't •-give him
much line; follow him rather.'
She was immediately tolled on to
act on this advice; for .with one de-
termined, vicious •rash, away 'went
the salmon dawns the stream -she af-
ter hint as weal as her woman's skirts
would allow, and always and valor-
ously she was 'keeping a tight strain
on the pliant rod. !Alas' all of a sud-
den her each caught in a tuft of hea-
ther-clown else went, prone, her
arms thrown forward so 'that nothing
could save her. But did she let go the
rod? Not a bit! She clang to it with
the one hand; and when Ronald help-
ed her to her feet again, she had no
thsu h!t of herself at all -all her
hra•athiese interest was centred nn
teach in song,' she said lightly, 'If I
am to catch a salmon weth a fly -rod,
1 suppose I have 'got to go through
something.' '
She set to'wark again; and, curious-
ly enough, she ,seemed to ,succeed bet-
ter with the longer line than with the
short one. There was less jerking; the
'Forward movement was more even;
and though she was ear indeed from
throwing a good eine, it was very pas-
sable for a beginner.
• 'Y'ou know,' said she, giving hint: a
good-hainiored hint, 'I 'don't 'feel like
elaing this all day.'
"Well, "then, 'we"1l go. down to the
heater now,' said he, and he took the
rod from her.
'But the sky's too 'bright -there's
nothing so 'bad for fishing as those
nasty 'white 'clou'ds'
They walked down 'through 'the
swampy grass ,and hard 'healther to
the (banks of the stream; :an•d here he
got Out his 'fi-y'book-a Ibul'ged and
'batggy voburne mulch the 'worse for
wear .and. weather. And then it in-
stantly 'occurred to her that this was
something she could get for hint --the
mos't splendid ,fly -book and assort-
ment of salmon flies to be procured
in ;London -until it just as suddenly
occurred to her that dee would have
little use for these in 'Glasgaw. Site
Saw him seledt a 'black and .gold and
scarlet abject from that bulky vol-
ume; and a .few minutes thereafter
she. was armed for the fray. and he
was standing by, 'watching.
Now the elude', though an exceed-
ingly 'dour' salmon -river, is at least
easy .for a 'beginner to fish, for there
is scarcely anywhere a bush along its
level banks. And' there were 'the pools
-sante of 'them deep and 'drauuly en-
ough in all 'conscience; 'anst no doubt
there were .salmon in them, if only
they could be seduced from their lair.
For one thing, Ronald had taken her
to a part of the stream where she
could not. in any 'ease, do much harm
by her preliminary whippings of the
water.
She (began -not without some little
excitement, and awful visions of tri-
umph and glory if she should really
be .able to capture a salmon by her
own unaided skill. ;Of course she
caught in the heather behind her
sometimes; and occasionally the line
would come ddwn in a ghastly heap
on the water; but then again it would
go fairly oust and over to the other
'bank, and the letting it down with the.
current and drawing it across -as he
had shown her its one or two casts -
was a comparatively easy matter. She
worked hard, at all events, and obeyed
implicitly -until, alas! there came a
catastrophe.
'A little bit nearer the bank, if ye
can,' said he, 'just a foot nearer.
She • clenched her .teeth. (Back went
the :nos) with all her might -and for-
ward again with all her might --but
midway and overhead there was a
mighty crack like thalt of 0 horsewhip;
and calmly be regarded the line as it
fell on the 'water.
'The fly's gone,' 'said he -but 'with
,not a trace of .vexation,
"Oh, Ronald, II'm so sorry!' she
cried, for she knew that 'these things
were expensive, even where they did
not inv'ol've a cons'id'erable outlay of
personal skill and Itrou'ble.
"Not at all,' said he, as he quietly
sate •down on a 'dry 'bunclt of heather,
and got out this book again. "All be-
ginners do that, I'1'1 just show ye in a
'minute or two how to avoid it. And
well try a change now.'
'Indeed :she was in no way loth to
sit drown on the heather too; and even
after he had selected the particular
'Childers 'lee wanted, she took the
book, and wrath' have him tell her
Rhe names of all the various flies,
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getting in the line the while,
"But !.t'in afraid you're hurt,' said ice.
'No, no,'
Something was tickling the •side of
her face. She shifted the grip of the
sod, and passed the Ileac'''. of her right
hand across her ear; a brief glance
showed her that her knuckles were
stained whit blood, fatal s'lte took no
further heed; for she had to get ;both
hands on the roc) again,
'She has ;pluck, that one, Ronald
said to himself; but he said nothing
aloud -he .wanted her .to remain as
self-possessed as .possible.
'And 'w'hat if he goes down to the
foot -bridge, IRenald ' she said pres-
ently.
'Bub ye Must not let :him'
Bath
if he ,will go?'
'Tien yell give me the rod and 1'11
take it under the; bridge.'
The (fish 'lay there as heavy and dead
as stone; nothing they could do could
stir him an inch.
'"The beast has been at this work be-
fore,' (Ronald said. 'That jagging to
gel the hook out Js the trick 'o'f an old
hand. But this .sulking will never da
at all.'
IHe left her and went 'further tip the
stream to the 'place where the xive+-
ran over the 'wide bed of shingle.
There he deliberately walked into 'tile
wafter -picking up a few pebbles as
he went- and with a running leap,
crossed the channel and gained' the
opposite hank. 'Then ha quickly van,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 193
rod for her, and 'her ulster, as well as speaking of the shooting--'
t'1„ieesalneort;•'en!d they were laughing
and gayly 'talking 'together, 'like a pair
Of lovers almost san this 'clear spring
day. Meenie went slowly back to the
table -her face 'perhaps a trifle paler
than usual; and she sat down, and 'be-
gan to loet!k alt the little drawing that
she had been rattier proud of. 'Beet
her lips were proud and first. Why
should she give a drawing to any one
-snore especially to one who was so
ready with his ,friendship.ands-and so
quick to consort with strangers The
lines on the brown wood seemed cold
and uninteresting; she was no longer
anxious that they should suggest an
accurate .pidtnre; nay, she pushed the
thing away from her, and rose, and
went back to the window, and. stood
idly gazing out there, her lips. still
proud, her mien delfiant.
And then -well, Ronald was going
away. Was it worth while to let
pride or self-love conte ibetween them
and becloud these Lash few days, when
perhaps they might never see each
other nein? :For well she knew'ot her
mother's aims and hopes with regard
to herself; and well she knew that -
whatever Ale may have guessed from
those versos of `Ronald's which assur-
edly had never been meant for her to
see --it was neither for hint nor for
her to expect tlealt the harsh facts and
necessities of the world should ;give
place and yield to a passing fancy, e
dream, a 'kind of wistful, half -poetic
ed clown to eetltin a yard or two of shadow of what otherwise might have
the ,pot where the 'dour' salmon 'lay, been. But at 'least !Ronald and she
She thought this was very -foolish might part friends; nay, they should
child's play that he shottid go and part friends. And so she returned to
'fling little eltottes at a Irish he could the table --•' overmastering her mom -
not see. But 'presently she perceived enter), pride; and she took up the dis-
that he was trying all he could to get carded little drawing and regarded it
the pebbles to 'drop vertically and with gentler eyes. Tor, after all fas
parallel with the line. Ansi then the oh-, she could not forget) Ronald was go-
j'ect of phis d'erice was apparent, The ing away.
salmon moved heavily forward, some ,OHIAIP:TIEIR XXIII.
few inches •Daily. 'Another 'pebble w'as lit soon became obvious that the sal -
dropped. This time the fists trade a mon-;fishers frani the other side of the
violent rich up stream that caused Atlantic had got into a long spell of
Miss Carry's reel to shriek; and off deplorably fine weather; ,and a gentle
she set after him (Ghat with more (dr- melancholy settled down upon the
cumspection this time as regards to souls of the Billies. an vain, morning
her footing), geltting in the line as after morning, the men searched ev-
rapid'ly as possible as she went. Ron- ery quarter of the heavens for any
aid now 'cants over and joined her- sign of even a couple of due' deluge,
and this was 'comforting to her nerves. to flood the rivers and send the kelts
Well, long before she had lolled dawn and'being the clean salmon up
that fish she had' discovered the die- from the sea, !This wilt) and bleak re-
ference 'between lochefishing and the gion grew to be like some soft sum -
river -fishing; hut she slid ):ill him in titer fairyland; the blue loch, and' the
the end; and mightily pleased she was yetlnw headlands, and the far treeless
when she saw him lying on the sere stretches of moor lay basking in the
wintry grass. Ronald would have had vtntlight; Ben Loyal'e purples and
her try again; 'but she had had en- browns were clear to the summit;
ongh; it was .past louclt-tine, and she Ben Cldbrig's snows had nearly till
was hungry; moreover, she was tired; melted away. Nor could 'the discon-
anci then again she did' not wish he tented boatmen understand how the
should waste the whole day. So, when two strangers should accept this state
she had Oat down for a while, and of affairs with apparent equanimity.
watched him tie the salmon head -and- Both were now .prnvidesi with a book;
tail, they set out for the village again, and when the rods had been properly
very well content; while as .for the set so as to he ready for any enter -
slight wound she had received icy her settee., they could pass the time pleas -
ear catching on a twig of heather aptly enough in this perfect stillness,
when she fell, that was quite forgot- gliding over the smooth waters, and
ten now. drinking in the sweet mountain air. As
'Ansi ye are to have the fish,' said for Miss Carry, she had again attack -
he. el told Isis lordship this morning ed the first volume of (Gibbon -dor
you were going to try your hand at she would not he beaten; and very
the casting; and he said if you got one startling indeed it was when -a fish
you would be proud of it no doubt, did happen to strike the minnow, to
and ye were to keep it of course.' be en suddenly summoned back from
that is very kind; I suppose Palmyra to this Highland loch, In
!1 must thank pins if d :see hits?' nerfcct silence, with eyes asst attest -
And site was very curious to know tion all absented, she was reading
all ahnttt Lord 'Aiilitte: and why he thus-
shntild conte to Inver-:1ludal nterele \\'leu the Syrian queen was
for these few hours; and what kind brought into the presence of Aurel-
of prolde he ;naught with hint in the Ian, he sternly asked her, how she had
autumn. T -Ie answered her as well ae pre tuned to rise in arias against the
he rnnid; and then they went an en Emperor of Route? The answer of
other things -all in a very gay and -/,euobia was a -prudent mixture of re -
merry moor), for he was asproud as spent and firmness" -
she .ens over this achievement. .when sharp would conte the warn
,\t the same moment \feenie•Dntte- ing cry of 1lalcahn--"'There he is
las teas in her own little room, en- Mies! -there he is l" and she would
lash dowis the historian to fiat !Ix•
'Yam know very well, Carry,' ise'
would answea'---itrying to draw her
into the fields of .common sense -'1
can say nothing about that 'till I see
how mother's ,health is.'
'I am sure she would say yes if she
saw what the place has clone for you,
pa,p.a, salmon -(fishing has 'proved bet-
ter for you than _!bromide of potas-
sium. But that's notthe trouble a!t
all. Why (lid you let hien go? Why
did you let Item spend' the evening at
the Doctor's -and the .next morning
he went about the .whale Thiole with
Ronald! My 'only ,chance of spurning
a 'lord, too. ileo !they kneel in this
country, pappa, whenthey make their
declaration; or is that only in plays
Never mind; it would be all the sante.
"No, my lord; the claughter of a free
Republic cannot wed a relic of feud-
alistic; farewell, nay lord farewell! 'I
know (that you are heertebroleen for
life; but the slaughter of a free Re-
public trust be true to her manifest
destiny,"'
`Oh, be quiet!'
'And then the girls at home, when
11 got back, they would all have come
crowding around: r1Do tell, now, did
you get a British nobleman 10 pro-
pose, Calrry?" "Yost bet your pile on
that. Why you should have seen
hint writhe .and squirm on the floor
when I spurned hint 1I spurned him.
I tell you 'T. did -the daughter of •a
free IRepu'blic"—
''v\'ill you ;he :quiet!'
''Bat it was really' too ibasi, palppal'
she protested. '')'here he was loung-
ing around: all the morning. ;And all I
heard him say was when he was just
going -when he was on the mail -
car, 'Ronald," he called out, "have
you got a match about you?"- and
he hada wooden pipe in his hand_
and that's all I know about the man-
ners and conversation of the British
nobility; and what will they say of
me at horn?'
'When does Ronald go?" he wou'l'd
ask; and this, at least, was one sure
way .of bringing her bach 10 the paths
of sanity and soberness; for the near-
er that this depat'ture conte, the more
.concerned she was about it, having
sante faint'consciousness that she her-
self had a, share of the 'responsibility.
And in another direction, moreover,
she was becoming a little anxious. No
message of any kind had arrived front
the 'C'hicago Citizen. Now she had
written to Miss ierfoot before site
left for Puri,: bee stay in the :French
capital had extended to nearly three
weeks; there was the space occupied
in going and returning; so that if
;Pack Iluysen meant to do anything
with the verses i't was about time that
that shntsicl appear.And the more she
thought of it, the more she set her
heart an it, and hoped that Ronald's
introduction to the reacting public
world 'be a flattering one and one of
which he could reasonably be proud.
Her father had it in his power to se-
cure his material advancement; and
that was well enotsgh; but what if it
were reserved for her to confer a far
greater service on hint? For if this
Ilirst modest effort were welcomed in
a friendly way, .ntigbt he not be in-
duced 'to put forth a volume, and
claim a wider recognition? It need
not interfere with his more practical
work; and then, supposing it were
successful? Look at the status it
would win for pini -a thing of far
more value in the old country, where
society is graduated iu'to ranks, than
in. her country, ,chore every one (ex -
dept hotel -clerks, as else insisted) was
on the same plane. He would theta be
the equal of atty'bndy--even in this
old lEnieland; she had at least acquir-
ed so far a knowledge of English so-
ciety. And if be owed the first sug-
gestion and impulse to her?- if she
were to be the means, in however
small and tentative a .fashion, of his
ultimately establishing his Game?
That he cou'kl do so if he tried, she
never thought of doubting. She save
him every day; and the longer she
knew him the more she was certain
that the obvious mental force that
seemed leo radiate from him in the or-
dinary conversation was 'discussion of
everyday life .only wanted to be put
into a definite literary channel to
make its ;mark. And was not the time
ripe for a ,poet? And itwas not Edin-
burgh, or Glasgow, or London that
had nowadays Ito decide on his mer-
its, but two great continents of Eng-
lish-speaking people,
At length came the answer to her
urgent prayer: a letter from .Miss
Kerfoot, and a copy of the Chicago
•Citieen. elehe newspaper site opened
first; sew with delight that a long no-
tice -a very !long notice incl•eed--'hid
been accorded to the verses she had
sent; and with a .proud heart she pert
the paper iii her pocket, for careful
reading when she should get down
to the lake. 'Miss Kerfoot's letter site
glanced over; but it olid' not say notch;
the writer observed that "Mr. jack
Huysen had only seemed half pleased
when iltformed of .Carry's extraordin-
ary interest in the phenomenal Scotch
gamekeeper; and, referring 'to the ar-
ticle in the .Citizen, she said Jack
(Turner had entrusted .the writing of
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
,roger) on it work of ori of a not very
ambitious kind. She had lying before
her on the 'table a pencil -,ketch in
outline of such feature- of the land -
:scare as could be seen from the win-
doty-the loch, the worded prontnn-
tories, Ben Clebrig, and the little
clamp of trees that sheltered the inn:
and she was engaged in malting a
smaller copy of the drawin'g,•in pen -
and -ink, on a paper-ctetter .of ;brown
wood. She was not mach of an artist,
perhaps; 'but surely 'these simple :out-
lines were recognizable; and if they
were to be entitled 'A Sbuvetnir,' and
carried away to the 'so'u'th as a 'little
parting present, might 'they not in
some idle moment of the ,future recall
some -brief memory of these northern
wilds? So she was at wont at this
task -and very careful that the lines
Should be clear and precise -when
she heard the sound of voices with-
oet--or rather one voice 'which .pres-
ently she recognized as Ronald's: she
cot.tld not easily mistake it. And if she
were to go to the window, and get
him to stop for a nii•nute at the gate,
and show him the sketch Itleat she had
inst about (finished -perhaps he would
be pleased?'
She went to the w'indo'w -hist in.
sternly drew back. She had jarst
caught 'a ,glimpse; it was the 'Amer -
dean young lady he was walking with
salrnnn.
Which, quite apart from their killings Fnrtitnately thatt,a time when he a'as s,trpposcd 'to
had now taken to sulking, icreaturw n 'a pool
merits, seemed to her 'beautiful and be so 'busy; and he was carrying her
farther down; and she followed hint,
Medical
LIR. E. A. MoMAdrTIE1R-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. Mee an
High street. Phone 217. Office fully
equipped for x-ray diagnosis and :for
ultra 'short wave eleotric treatment,
ultra violet sun lamp .treatment and
infra, .red electric treatment. Nurse in
attendance.
DR. 'GI LB'E'R'T C. J'A'RROT i' -
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Un-
iversity of Western 'Ontario. Member
of :College of Physicians and'Surgeons
of Ontario. Office 43 Goderich street
west. Phone 37. Hours 2-4.30 ;p.m.,
7.30-9 'p.m. Other hours by appoint-
ment. Successor to Dr. Chas, 'Mackay.
DR. H. HUGH 'ROSS, Physician
and Surgeon Late of Landon Hos-
pital, London, Englaatd. Special at-
tention to diseases of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Office and residence
behind Dominion Bank. Office Phone
No. 5; Residence Phone 104.
.DIR. F. J. BURROWS, 'Seaforth.
Office and residence, 'Goderic'h street,
ast of the United Church. Coroner
or the County of Huron. Telephone
No. 46,
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rid 'being t•inienitty shaken and the
reel screaming out its joyous note.
Moreover, in this still weather, the
unusual visitor not uniregatently
brought same other element of sur-
prise with hint. She acquired a con-
siderable experience of the different
forms of foul -hooking and of the odd
manoeuvres of the !fish in such sir
cuntsitances. 'On one occasion the sal-
mon caught himself an the minnow
:b'y his dorsal fin; and 'for over an hour
contented himself with rolling about
under water without once showing
himself, and with such a strain that
she thought he must be the ch'am'pion
fish of the lake; when alt east they diel
get him into the boat he found to be
a trifle under ten pounds. ,But, 'taken
altogether, this cultivation of litera-
tare, varied by alt occasional 'fluke'
of a capture, and 'these placid and
dreamlike mornings and 'afternoons,
were far .from 'being as satisfactory a-
the former and wilder 'd'ays when
Ronald was in the boat, even with all
their 'chaconvforts of wind 'and rain
and snow.
By this time .she had acquired an-
other grievance.
'Why did you let hint go papa,
without a single word?' site would
say, as they sat Over their .'books or
newspapers its the evening. 'it was
my only chance. yon could easily
have introduced yourself to him by
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER- Eye
Ear, Nose and Throat. 'Graduate in
Medicine, University of Toronto •11397.
Late Assistant New York Ophthal-
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield'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.m.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Physician - Surgeon
Phone 40-W. Office John St. Seafort1-
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Arrangements can be ;made 'for Sale
Date at The Seaforth News. Charges
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•OFFICERS
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M. A. Reid, Seaforth.
AGENTS
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D'IRECTORS
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James S'holdice, Walton; Wm. Knox,
Londesboro; George Leonhardt,
Bornholm No.1; John Pepper, Bruce -
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or transact other business, well be
promptly attended to by applications
to any of the above named officers
addressed to their respective post -
offices.
it to Mr. G. Quincy 1Regan, ,who was,
she understood, one oe the mast cul -
tared young men in IChica'go, and
likely to make ;quite a reputation for
himself ere bong. There were some
matters mentioned in this letter; but
they need not detain us here.
(To Be Continued)
"How much of your salary do
take home to your wife each
day?"
"None of it."
'How's 'that?"
"Ste meets me at . the gate and
takes it home herself.",
you
pay
'"Bob Bttrns ]las established 'hian-
self as '.;'leading humorist by lying
about his 'kinfolks."
"Yeah, and I know sante who
would "even be funnier if theYy'd tell
the 6ruth about theirs,"