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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-04-28, Page 6S ienti ficaIly Packer T50 As free from dust as tea can be. - AY. The oath, taken as he held in hi arms the bdy of his dearest friend Philippe De Vilmorin, sent Andre -Louis Moreau younglawye of Gavrillac to Y Nantes Rennes and thence et where his fervish speeche roused to action the citizens wh were chafing under the oppression o the nobility. Phillipe has been trick ed into a duel and brutally murdere because the great Marquis de La Tour D'Azyr feare the "dangerous gift of eloquence' which the idealistic divinity studen possessed. Andre -Louis swore t carry on the cause of his friend and revenge himself on the Marquis for Philippe's death and because the profligate noble had sued for the hand of the beautiful Aline De Kercadiou, niece of the gruff ord of Gavrillac, who was popu- larly believed to be the father of Andre -Louis. Returning frons. Nantes, Andre - Louis is met on the outskirts of Gav- rillac by Aline, who warns him that soldiers are waiting in the town to arrest him for sedition. GO ON WITH THE SfI'ORY. "My dear Aline! That I should have been the cause of so much con- cern and trouble!" exclaimed Andre with mocking nonchalance. "Do you realize that they have come to arrest yon?" she asked him, with increasing imatience. "You are wanted for sedition, and upon a warrant from 111, de Lesdiguieree.' "Sedition?" quoth he, and his thoughts flew to that business at Nantes. It was impossible they could have had news of it in Rennes and acted upon it in so short a time." "Yes, sedition. The sedition of that` wicked speech of yours at Rennes ons Wednesday." "You must not go into Gavrillac;" she told him, "and you must get down' from your horse, and let me take it. I shall return it to the Breton Arme." "You haven't considered what will. happen to you if you do such a thing." "What do I care for law? Do you imagine that the law will presume to touch me?" "Of course there is that. You are sheltered by one of the abuses I com- plained of at Rennes. I was forget- ting." "Complain of it as much as you please, .but meanwhile profit by it. Come, Andre, do as 1 tell you. Get' down from your horse." And then, as he still hesitated, she stretched out and caught him by the arm. Her voice was vibrant with earnestness. "Andre, you don't realize how serious is your position. You must go away at once, and lie completely lost until my uncle can bring influence to bear e to obtain your pardon." "That will be a long time, then," n (raid Andre -Louis. "M. de Kercadiou has never cultivated friends at court." "There is M. de La Tour d'Azyr," she reminded hint, to his astonish- a went, le "That man!" he cried, .and then he laughed, "Why, yes. You see,.I have not yet said, that I will be Marquise de La Tour d'Azyr. It is a position that T has its advantages. One of them s is that it ensures- a suitor's complete s obedience." , • "So, so.• I see the crooked logic -of our mind. You might go so far as r to say to him: `Refuse me this, and oI shall refuse to be your marquise.' o You would go so far as that?" "At need, I might-." f "And do you not see the converse d implication? • Do you not see that i your hands would then be tied, that d you would be wanting in honor if afterwards you refused hien? And do t you think that I would consent to anything that could so tie your hands? Do you think I want to see you damned, Aline?" - Her hand fell away from his arm,. "Oh, you are mad!" .she exclaimed, quite out of .patience. "Possibly. b13. But Ilike my madness. There is a thrill in ' rt unknown to such sanity ee yours. By your leave, Aline, I think I will ride' on to Gav- rillac ', "Andre, you roust not! It is death to you!" In her alarm she haftedher horse, and polled it across the road to bar his way. "Aline, on one condition only." "And that?" "That you swear' to me you will never seek the aid of M. de La Tour ! d'Azyr on my behalf." "Since you insist, and as time presses, I consent" Obediently he swung down from his horse, and. surrendered the reins Ito her. She was gone, and he stood listen- ing to the receding Clopper -clop of hoofs until it grew faint In the dis- tance. BOOK II: THE BUSKIN. CHAPTER I: Coming presently upon the Redon road, Andre -Louis, obeying instinct rather than reason, turned his face to the south, and plodded wearily and • mechanically forward,He had no clear idea of whither he was going, or of whither he should go. All that im- ported at the moment was to put as great a distance as possible between Gavrillac and himself. Midway across the vast common to the north of Guigen he carne to a halt. Beyond loomed a tall building which he knew to be an open barn, standing on the edge of a long stretch of meadowland. It eves as big as a house, yet consisted of no more than a roof carried upon half a dozen tall, brick pillars. But densely packed under that roof was a great stack of hay that promised a warm conch on so cold a night. He cleared a trough for his body, and lying' down in it, overed himself to the neck with the hay he had removed. Within five uinutes he was soundly asleep. When next he awakened, the sun was already high in the heavens. Then o his awakening senses came a drone f voices close at hand, to which at rst he paid little heed. "Oh, mon Dieu, Lettndre, let us sep- rate at once. If it should be my athet .. " "No, no, Climene;you are mistaken.. here is no one coming. We are quite afe. Why do you start at shadows?" More was not needed to reassure ndre-Louis. He had overheard Hough to know that this was but he case of a pair of lovers who, with ess to fear of life, were yet -after the manner of their kind—more timid f heart than he. In the space of cropped meadow etween the barn and the hedge stood man and a woman, both young. The an was a well -set-up, comely fellow, with a fine head of chestnut hair tied n a queue by a broad bow of black titin. Ile was dressed with certain wdry attempts at ostentatious em- ellishments, which did not prepossess ne at first blance in his favor. The child—she was not more than at, perhaps twenty at the most— ossessed, in addition to the allure- ents of face and shape that'went ry near perfection, a sparkling vi- silty and a grace of movement the e of which Andre -Louis did not .re ember ever before to have beheld. sembled in .one person. He could not have told you why, t he was conscious that it aggriev-. him to find her so intimate with is pretty young fellow, who was artly clad, as it appeared, in the st-offs of a nobleman, He could t guess her station, but the speech SQA A A Pebble was' the Cave Man's Candy! It kept' his mouth moist and fresh on his hot, rocky road. Calling on his sweetie, he took, her a smooth, white stone! Today, to make a lasting, satisfying impression, take her Igley'e. WRIGLEY �, I iCPQUOa Mlrl 'srnc Il T'4 10 IIdG , After Every Meal After Smohtng Tool CH2o 'e /f 'P -V i �lA ;( ���41 1d8UE No. 18. -rte. A e t 1 0 b a m t s to b 0 th m ve v lilt 111 as bu ed Ith ca no Minard'a Liniment soothes tired feet. - "HE IS COMING! WE ARE LOST!" that reached hint was cultured in tone l cloak and and word. He strained to l'a three -Lorne rod hat wade tstdes well aown over his nose so as to shade "That is what my heart desires, ,his face. Leandre, but I am beset by fears lest your stratagem should be too late. I am to marry this horrible Marquis of Sbrufadelli this very day. He arrives by noon. . He comes to sign the con- tract --to make me the Marchioness of Sbrufadelli. Ohl" It was a cry of pain from that tender young heart. "Save me, Leandre. Save me! You are my only hope." So her father Was marrying her to a, marquis! .;.That implied birth on her side.' And yet. she was content to pair off with this dull young adven- turer in the tarnished lace! "It shall never be!" M. Leandre was storming ,passionately. "Never! I swear it!" And he shook his puny fist at the h blue vault of heaven— Ajax defying Jupiter. "Ah, but here comes, our subtle friend. He will bring us news, I know." Andre -Louis looked also in the di- rection of the gap. Through it em- erged a lean, slight man in a rusty "aYlensieur," said he, with the .air of a conspirator, "the time for action - as arrived, and so has the Marquis. That is why." "Tell nee, tell mel Speak!" Climene StOey Tellipg-Narnes. It sometimes genes an added In terest to a 'favorite fruit to know what its name means. Take the aprl- '4 cot, for instance. The word has the sante derivation as our familiar word precocious, and for an excellent rea- son. In its native climate the apricot. tree buds very early in tile., spring! and has flowers before it has leaves. The fruit' follows rapidly,' and, in'. this early and rapid development, it carries out the full force of its name "early ripe." I The familiar green plum, 'so well i. liked for preserving purposes, has a practical reason for being called "greengage." It could not very well :tenanted a'g•een plum, as that would imply an unripe fruit, go;. as au Eng- lishman by` the name of Gage, first brought this uari'ety of plum into England, it,�g s very appropriately named for Ville the descriptive color being used as the. first syllable.of this, specially coined word. The coconut (often' spelled Cocoa- nut) is a -confusing name for many persons who think it must have some connection with the .cocoa- bean, be- cause of the similarity in spelling. It is claimed that the fruit of -the Coco palm was always spelled Coco l nut until the time of Dr. Johnson's l The Cremona Violin. The three,gc'eetest matters of the Cremona violin were Nichohaa- Amati, Joseph Guarneri del Gess and Aton nine Stradivairious.. Tbiey,. were simple; hard-working art:Nal wise sold their works of genius for a few florins. The spider crab of Japan has such long claws `that it measures thirty feet from_tip to tip. femme diotionarry, when, probably through mistake, the confusing let- ter "a" ' was introduced into the spelling of the word. This has been retained to a great extent ever singe. 'Coco" is the Portuguese word for mask, and there is also a species of monkey known as the "Macoco" from is -mask -like face. Atthe end of each coconut, on its brown , fibrous coating, are three marks hearing a grotesque resemblance to a face. Hence the name coconut, mask -nut, "Last night I landed Madrid;" said the angler who had taken to wireless, "but you should have heerd'the sta- tions that got away." nplored him, holding out her hands in 0 supplication no man of sensibil- ity could have ,resisted.' And then on the instant she caught her breath on a faint scream. "My father!" she exclaimed, turning distractedlyfrom one to the other ofthose two. "He is coming! We are lost!" (To be continued.) Cap of Light for Motorist. One of the most recent aids to the motorist is a oap . of specially' tinted rubber to be slipped:over the head- lights when driving through fog. The covering has -the effect of dhffusidg the beam and the orange glow through the shield helps the vision. ' ` Going fishing—take M!nard's Liniment. ni RI F9arned for rf fa ran/ cream is unexcelled for Dyeing y and Tinting. Professional �ath�, r Duse the Besffor?rou and $a6y foo: Samyerse 1Cindof � " S T b.e0,. t s ltr,•7it9 , ➢ Ill,! 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McGill Building, Montreal Largest Steamers flee .m ereal �"C'dS..'C&Ly.r ..-.�` � 4b"' 4F"F�m 5'n„4�I�•�'.'- i Y A'H'.tvd' .,..,�.°ro d8tji I ?aa<,s lfldifs-W1 ., :sit ..,. 3,1d.,.•rr.'.:at i*^..*',.1501 rix•.• �' ^_n ,..- ... ,...,,;sH•.sr,... - ...... ,,.. .-. y_i i, r. ,FU e1 t _w_, n� .�.di-. •'.emus. xa� _. .-.._. .... .. : I PROVED PIA NS ' • OF SAVING FORESTS Rapid Advances Made in Can- ada in Development of This Important -Work. METHODS FOLLOWED AT PRESENT TIME. Because "out of sight: is out of mind" the average dweller in tows and country in Canada is not, yet aware that the. advance in fire -fight ing methods in the paet decade has been even greater in our forests than in our cities. True,the cities have their electric alarms, motor equip- ment and aerial ladders, but the dif- ferent forest services and protective associations, which ten years. ago , were largely restricted to foot and canoe .patrols and a few hundred miles of telephone line. now have scores oflookout stations, thousands of miles' of telephone wire, and make use of the radio and the aeroplane, The great advancethat has been made tit forest fire fighting in the past few years has been the separa- tion of fire -detection from fire -sup-. pression.' Formerly there could be scarcely any division of labor. Ran- gers were ' assigned to long beats, which might --take a fortnight to cover, and patrolled these singly or by twos, as circumstances dictated It will -thus be semi how iimited would be the protection so -afforded, Also, when the patrol discovered S fire too large • for one man or two men to handle, itfniight take a week before headquarters could' be com- municated with and a force of men brought to the scene. Tw% CLASSES. Contrast those methods with plans followed in the be equipped r � eq PP d fo este, tq-day. These forests fall into two cliassesc(1) those here -fl w res are de- tected from lookout stations, and (2.) those where detection is accoinpllahed by the aeroplane patrol. In the first class a number of lookout stations are located, on mountain 'tope or in high towots, and all stations have telephone connection' with the forest headquesters. During the danger season a lookout man, equipped with fire:finder and map of the forest, 15 constantly on duty. When a fire is ighted he at once telephones head- quarters; giving its location. Through the forest run roads and trails, cut by the rangers in the slack season, so that, upon receipt of an alarm, headquarters is able to send at once, y motor truck or on horseback, a party to fight the fire. In the forests covered by hydro- ircraft patrol, roads and trails are often infrequent or looking, but myriad Iakes provide landing places. he detection planes which make - egular patrols are, fitted with radio pparatus. When a fire is detected the message as to its location is sent ack to the base. Here a larger plane, called the suppression plane, Is ept in readiness, and upon receipt f the report this is flown. to the ene of the fire with a number of Bre-righters and their equipment. IMPROVED. -EQUIPMENT.` In addition to the advance in fire- ghting methods the equipment has so been much improved of recent ars and includes gasoline -operated nips which, though light enough to carried on a man's back, have yet fficient capacity to pump water rough more than half a mile of se. In the national forests the aero - ane work is carried on by co-oper- ion between the Royal Canadian rr Force and the Dominion Forest rvice. In provincial forests other rangements are in „ force, but, wherever introduced, a giant step ward has been made by the use of areoplane. It might be thought at with such progress little weuld re to be done. as regards forest rection in Canada, but what is gently needed is that these methods ch now apply to only •a small part our forests be extended`. until all covered: This need is' causing minent citizens in all walks of life give earnest support to the various for authorities in their fire -pro - tion efforts. b a a 0 T r 1, k 80 11al ye pu site th ho Al A' at Se ar for the th re pro ur whii of are pro to fo tec Friendship. As for the number which this so- ciety admits, it is atany rate to be begun with one, thenoblest and greatest that we know, and whether �_ the world will ever carry it further, whether as Chaucer affirms, "There be mo sterres in the skie than a pair," remains to be proved; "And certaine' he is well begone Among a thousand that-findeth one." We shall not surrender ourselves heartily to any while we are con- scious. that another is more 'deserv- ing of our love. Yet Frinedship deep not stand for, numbers; the Friend doest no count his Friends on his fingers; they, are not nemerable. The more there are included•by this bond,if they are indeed included, the rarer and diviner the quality of the love that binds them. I am ready t' believe that as private and intimate a relation may exist by which three are embraced, as between two. In- deed. we cannot have too many friends.—Thoreau, .