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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-02-22, Page 6he BY KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHAl D Copyright by H. CHAPTER XXXVIII. When the broad glare of the morn- ing sun 'broke through the dingy win- dows of the hut, Deirdre started from the cramped position in winch she had fallen, her head leaning wearily against a box. oddeand Stoughton. She was aghast to find that she had been asleep. As she woke with a startled exclamation, a hand went out to her. Her eyes met Davey's. It was as U that encounter in the valley of shadows had brae -hest all misunderstandings from the love that was like tate sun between them. Deir- dre had wrestled with death for pos- session of him. Her eyes still bore the shadow of the conflict. Davey was wan and vanquished. He knew that she had wrestled his spirit from the -darkness on which it had been'drift- ing, and the knowledge made a serene joyousness in him. Speech deserted them; they had no voices to talc with. Just thee gazing of eyes on eyes told all that there was to tell. Later on she went from his side and began to move about the hut, gather- ing the brushwood into the hearth, raking over the ashes and, making the fire again. His eyes followed her. The hut was shabby and disorderly by daylight. Conal had used it when he was mustering, and there was a heap' of rusty irons in the corner, a few hoarded tins and half -empty jars of grease on the shelves, some old clothes, worn-out boats and green -hide thong; behind the door. The bunk, with its sheepskins, and a table made of a rough hewn plank on three poles - set in the floor, were the only furn- iture. Deirdre found a bundle of rags on the shelf near the hearth, and searched for the bottle of liniment which :she knew was kept for use if - any of the men got a broken hand cr a kick from a beast in the stock -yards. Davey knew where Conal had stow- ed these things while they were work- ing there together. 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The cry was a prayer also, She bent over him; her arms en- circled him. From that first kiss of conscious lovers she withdrew a little tremulously. "Oh, you must be still," she cried. "If the bleeding -begins again you'll never be Strong. You must lie quiet night of the Wirree races. The School - now, and Ili see if I can find some master and'.Deircitre had accepted his food. There's sure to be flour and soma oatmeal about " "On the shelf in the corner by the hearth," Davey said. "And there was tea in a tin there a day or two ago." She found them and they breakfast- ed on a weak gruel and tea without just see dimly in the broad daylight. All the world's going dark to him, and it's breakiide his heart—eating the strength and the soul and the courage out of him, to Standby and let others, do things fee* hili'," Consciousness of what he had done came slowly to Davey. "Oh, it was mean and 'cruel and cowardly to heti him like that!" Deir dee cried passionately, and ran out into the sunshine after her father. When she came back into the hut, Davey, with a tense white face, was standing near the door. "I ought to be flayed alive—but I didn't know, I didn't understand," he said. There was no quieting or comfort- ing him. "Will he ever forgive me? Do you think he will, Deirdre?" His face was clammy with. the sweat of weakness. "It was more than Conal did—that. Conal wouldn't have done it." Deirdre went for the Schoolmaster. He came into the but again. He and Davey gripped hand's, Then the Schoolmaster led him to the bunk again and stretched hiin out en it. "It's all right, my boy! All right!" he said brokenly. "You lie still now and let Deirdre look after you," Davey's vigorous youth rebelled• at the days of idleness which followed. The wound knitted quickly; his weak- ness vanished' as it mended. Gopal had disappeared. No one had seen or heard of him since . the disappearance as silent proof of his having fired the shot that had almost cost Davey his life. When they went back to the shanty Steve talked incessantly about Canal.. Although no more had been heard of mills. She had helped Davey on to M'Laughdin, and the threatened raid the bunk against the wall and spread had never been made, he was, not easy the sheepskins under him when the about that . half hundred head of Schoobnaster and Teddy cane into the newly -branded beasts in the Narrow yard. Farrel carried a bag of food Valley paddock, At the end of the week Davey took and a couple of blankets strapped to his saddle. Deirdre 'net him out of doors. The sight of her reassured him. She told hint what had happened during the night --of Davey's long stillness and insensibility, and of Canal's coming n few hours before the dawn, The Schoolmaster went into the hut. "Father says"—Deirdre went straight to Davey—"he doesn't believe it was Conal fired that shot at you." Her eyes went out to him troubled and beseeching. "I can't help thinking it was, my- self, though I'd be glad not to. He's been such a big brotherly sort of man to me always, Oonal, and it hurts to think he could do a thing like that." She continued after a moment, "Father says, Conal came in after you'd gone last night. He'd been drinking, but his voice told him that he didn't do it, As soon as he knew you'd come after me, the way you were, he rode out after you for fear !you mightn't have been able to reach 'here. Do—do you think it was Conal, Davey?" Davey turned his face to the wall. He could not bear to' hear her defence of Conal—her solicitude and desire to think well of hint in spite of every- thing. Ile had no doubt in his own mind. The memory of that whistling shot from the dark trees, the agony of his long ride through the hills, came back to him. "All I know," he said bitterly, "is that I was looking for him before I left the town to tell him what mother had told me about the raid MeNab and • the old man and McLaughlin were get- ting up. At the Black Bull they said they'd been baiting Conal—about me t -,and he'd gone out looking for me— I promising to do for me. Some one said !he'd gone to the store. I went there and Joe Wilson told me he'd soon Canal riding out an hour earlier. 'I thought I'd catch him up on the road. It was from the trees by the creek the shot came, and Red took fright." "There's nobody else got a grudge against you, Davey?" "Not that I knew who'd want to settle nye that way. McNab, of course, hasn't got any love for me." "You went up to the store and straight out along the road past the Bull?" the Schoolmaster asked. "Yes, but I'd seen McNab in the bar a couple of minutes before. It couldn't have been him." Farrel threw out his hand with a gesture of doubt and disappointment, "Deirdre says she's heard Conal say that he'd do for you, Davey," he said, "but slie didn't think he meant it. Just his hot-headed way of talking! MeNab must have maddened him, filled him. up with drink. I can't tell you how it goes against the grain toi believe he could done a thing like this, and yet —it looks like it" "Was he back when you came away this morning?" Deirdre asked. "No," the; Schoolmaster replied. "Ask him when he comes in, wheth- er he slid, or didnot fire at Davey," she said. "I'll take his word. Will you, Davey?" "Yes." Davey's tone was a little tin- certain, The Schoolmaster went to the door again. Davey called 'him back with a rest leas movement. "What are you going to do about .a those beasts?" he asked querulously: "They're better here than at 'Steve's, but of course if M'Laughlin gets a tracker it wouldn't take him long to fired them. Teddy's got there in the four' -mile paddock this morning, but s they ought to be moving." "Perhaps Conal"—the Schoolmaster Even a sick child loves the "fruity" began. ' •lasts of "California Pig- Syrup " If the "Oh, yes, -I forget, Conal -he'll take lathe stomach is upset, tongue coated, them" of if your child 10 .cross, feverish, full Wavey fell back, oL cc1d or has colic, a teaspooutu1 will "Why can't you take then' your - never fail to open the bowels. In a few self?" fro inquired. liours you ran flee .for yourself how The Schoolmaster met his eyes for thoeoughly it works all the censtipa- a »foment. tign.po.s�on, sour bile and waste from litJost my laugh', e he said, with f little gradnng s, and Turned out of the bit between his teeth. "I'm going to take that mob to the Melbourne yards," he said. "We can't run them any longer in the Valley." "It's too risky, Davey," the School- master said. "MeNab's too quiet to be harmless, and there's only one man could run the mob with safety." "And that's Conal?" Davey asked. "There's riot a men in the country like Conal ,with cattle. He knows every by-path and siding on the ranges. Then he's hail -fellow -well - met with the men on the roads.. There's not one of them would give hien away," the Schoolmaster said. "I could run them." The line on Davey's mouth tightened. "And safer than Conal, I've been thinking. Some of the cows have father's brand oh them. Most of the calves ought to have the D.C. by rights, I suppose. They've got the cut of our Ayrshires, though Conal's done the double M's pretty neatly on them. "What's the old man's' will be mine some day, and so they're in a sort of way my cattle too. --I can say, I don't think Ayrmuir had any right—not much anyway—to them, if we couldn't get them. The old man wouldn't risk a couple of horses on the off -chance. Bosses and Morrisons lost three horses when they had a go for 'en., besides there isn't a man on our place could have yarded them. Conal got them. We were with him. You can hold hie share for this batch when I bring it to you. But I'm going to drive, saying they are Donald Cam- eron'e cattle. So they are, most . of them, I'll be drivng nay own cattle as a natter of fact, though it nifty be realizing on the estate,' a forced Ioan zoite Conder, little bowels and groes You a self, playful ebil-itegairt. Deirdre's eyes sparkled with anger. Millions of mothers keep. "California "Oh," she gasped, breathlessly, S'ig Syrup" bandy. They know a tea- "how dare you, Davey? How dare spoonful to -day saves'a stetyott?" morrow. Ask your drnggiat ft; e-gfiheenuld. lnoe i Daveat hy,_ uner. o1:oee. anger - in bis eyes; i "Callfornla Trig 'Srup" - which has aleleul I . "'You're u'e angryibeeause he Set me go acolous for baba.% and chiidq.•en of all out last night," she said. 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This Hospital has adopted the -eight -!tour system. The pupila..reoolve uliltornie of the School,; a- monthlyallowance and. -travelling. expenses to and from New York. For further Information apply to the Superintendent • from the old many you may say. My name will carry me tltrough and when the deal's over I can make it right with father. I'm going home." "Can't think what Conal means, leavin' 'em so long," 'Steve muttered irritably. "We can't have them en our hands any longer!" Davey's voice was short and irrit- able too. "You're right, Davey." The School- master spoke slowly, thoughtfully. "What you say makes the getting rid of them mind easy, but I hardly like the idea of—" "Taking your share, after - the way 'I've put it?" Davey interrupted. "But as far as I'm concerned they're Conal's beasts, and yours -and mine—because we got them. Nobody else could', and i they weren't any good to anybody eat- ing their heads off in the hills. But for all the world, it's as if I had con- tracted with you to do it on behalf of the estate. Ayrnnuir gets a third of the peofits. I'll !hand` it over to the old man -and as likely as not he'll be glad enough to see it, for a couple of dozen breakaways and scrubbers he. never exsected to make a penny out of again." - The Schoolmaster's gesture of nn - patience was one of resignation also. "It's a specious argument, Davey" he said, "'but I wish to heaven you'd kept clear of the whole business." That evening •Davey called Deirdre and they wandered down the hillside, watching the sun set on the distant edge. of the plains that stretched, northwards and inland, from the rise beyond Steve's. "I'm going to -morrow," he said, and told her of the promise he had made his . mother. "I feel it's up to ine to carry this job through, but when it's over I'm coming baek—going home. When I come back will you marry me, Deirdre?" "Yes," she said simply. "But if you'd only give up -going, Davey!" 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