HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1945-05-17, Page 7,LOUTS ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM
CHAPTER II
"Name of Goll He asks howl
3t is allvery simple, You stay on
as the Baron de Morpin, here in
YOU Chateau Yhilibert."
"Burt you, madame—J.
"I?" The bright eyes danced and
sparkled. 'Well, L have thought of
that.
"I shall be your housekeeper."
"But, madatne—"
"Stop making objections, This
place is like a museum and it's dull
As a morgue and it is the mercy
of the good God that hascaused
some excitement to happen. It will
be good to have these little ones.
There is no reason in the world
that they should ever know you
Were the butler. We can have a
new man in the morning. I'll phone
to Gabriel collet at once."
"But will it not be cruel to de-
ceive them, to let then, think—"
"No!" screamed madame, "No!
Not Nal But it would be cruel to
have them learns after being
bombed and torpedoed and frozen
and starved, that they are very
likely to be at least frozen and
starved again, my old one.
* *
"There!" She lowered her voice
as she saw the hurt, the trouble,
the defeat in Rudolph's pale blue
eyes, After all, he had dreamed of
greatness once, of the high places,
of ease and opulence, "I did not
mean that you would be unable to
maintail, them, but three is quite
a number and children need so
much! Believe me, too, you will be
doing a kndness to a lonely old
woman. Not in years have I had
the prospect of such fun or looked
forward so much to anything. You
must do as I tell you, Monsieur le
Baron. I must begin calling you
baron."
Rudolph stared at Madame, Fa-
bre-Lusignan, comprehension com-
ing like a slow dawn into his eyes.
"There are no words, madame —
none that I know in any language,
to express-"
"There may be sonic in Siwash,"
said the old lady, biting on a roll,
"but skip it, Rudi. When do the
young ones arrive?"
"I should judge from the little 1
have digested of the press account
that they wil' be here on tonight's
train. They know the name of the
station, St. Didier des Montagnes."
"They speak French? English?"
* * *
".I do not know. But I think it
is likely that, apart from their own
tongue, they speak Swiss, perhaps
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Austrian, with little French or
English."
"It is well then. They will traVel
in ignorance, even were there any
to tell thein you do not own the
Chateau Philibert,"
"Some day they'll have to know,
madame."
"Oh, tell them then you lost it in
a poker gauze. Now I shall talk to
that sly lawyer, Gabriel collet, on
thetelep'hone and have him send a
staff. I'll also tell hini that my
home is now the house of my
guests, the Baron Rudi de Morpin,
the young Princess of Gratzen, the
royal cousins."
"It sounds like a dream, ma-
dame."
She smiled up at him over the
white telephone, like an old pixy.
"1 began to live again, Baron. I
must also call my nephew, Roger
Faure, and tell him the same story.
He would be one to conte blunder-
ing in and spoil things. I take it,
Rudolph — Baron — it would ruin
everything if the pretty Meridel
knew—"
"She would not stay. I think,"
Rudi shook his head. "If she is
like—"
"Alt!" The black eyes danced.
"Ah, it was then her mother for
whom you vowed to build the gold-
en castle,"
Rudoph nodded slowly. "She was
born for a -castle."
"All women are," saidmadame.
i"Ntough most see theirs in the
smoke from the kitchen stove or
the steatm from the wash tub. Ah,
you, Pellet, my old spittoon. how
goes it I want you to seed me
some servants at once. I am en-
tertaining royalty. Oh, no, my
smart friend—not Napoleon; nor
am 1 Cleopatra. You listen to me
and keep quiet."
St. Didier des Montagnes is only
three hours by car from Montreal.
Gabriel Pallet who of late had oh -
decked little to madamte's most ex-,
travagant whims, sent the requir-
ed domestics up to the mountain
chateau so quickly that it savored
considerably of Aladdin's lamp.
* * *
The old Indy inspected the new
cook, maids and butler. The chauf-
feur had already gone to meet the
}wheezy old train that arrived at
S. Didier every other night, The
baron, the subdued but stately Ru-
dolph, had accompanied him.
These people, madame had stipu-
ateti, must know nothing of her
status at Philibert. She was the
beusekeeper, Madame Laurin. She
had left off the usual ghastly
makeup, donned a black silk dress
end white cap and looked the part.
Site was a great actre's, madame.
Rudolph's eyes glistened when he
saw the way she curtsied in the
great entry hall of the chateau as
the princess and her little cousins
(walked up the wide steps.
* * *
The new staff gave their respect-
ful salutations, genuine awe in
their eyes. This was indeed a prin-
cess. True, she wore an olid tweed
Burberry that had seen many
storms and a fawn felt hat that
was battered and out of shape, but
her hair was like Marguerite's and
when she uncovered her head the
thick braids of it. lay coronet fash-
ion like things woven of golden
sunbeams, and her mouth, though
red and soft, was imperious; the
'blue of her eyes was deep and
fearless. The blond little boy, Pol
Martin, stood on one side of her,
Rosine witlt long straw-colored
curls and great blue -black eyes,
clung to her hand.
They looked about them' and
suddenly Mericlet's !mouth twisted
and she flung her arms about Ru-
dolph's neck and hid her face
against his shoulder; the little
ones came shyly close to him.
They were like neatly exhausted
swimmers in a wild sea, mused
madame, who have at last reach-
ed the safe and solid land. Aud
in that moment she thanked God
that she- had done this thing.
• "If 11 please Year Iligluness,"
said madame in slow French --"I
shall show you and the tittle ones
to your apartments." With a nod
she dismissed butler, maids and
cook. The chauffeur hall entered
with the meager luggage.
(To Be Continued)
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By Anne Ashley
Q. How can I make a good
duster?
A. By using an old piece of flan-
nel, dipping it in paraffin oil and
letting it soak for several hours.
Wring out tightly; then wash in
tepid water and let riry. It will ga-
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Q. How can I make a hair set-
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A. By taking 314 pints of water,
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5 minutes, and then strain,
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Q, How can I make a starch
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Adapt Recipes
To Foods On Hand
One of the many problems of
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recipes for, available foods and
adapting them to today's needs,
With an eye to "shortcuttine and
simplifying they have worked out
some new, streamlined combine -
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Here are some of the new tricks
recently discovered by these ex-
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usaully cooped before mixing with
the other ingredients but here is
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Oven Macaroni
1 cup uncooked macaroni
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This creeping baby doll has amts
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31h cups canned tomatoes
% cup cold water
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup grated, nippy cheese
s/,, teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
Combine all ingredients. Turn
into a greased dish. Bake in a
moderate oven, 350°F, for 1 hour.
Six seevinds.
Tomato Curry Vegetable
1)/a tablespoons mild -flavoured lat
lie cup Chopped onion
11/2 tablespoons flour
yid teaspoon salt
3k teaspoon curry powder
2 cups tomato juice
21h cups drained canned green or
wax beans
Melt fat in saucepan. Add onion
and cook 5 minutes over low heat,
stirring occasionally. Combine
flour. salt and curry powder and
Stir into onions. Add tomato )trice
slowly and cook, stirring constant-
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Add beans and heat thoroughly.
Six servings.
Note:—This sauce may be used
on left -over vegetables.
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1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons sugar
3i teaspoon salt
3i cup milk
2 cups rhubarb cut in 1 -Inch
Pieces
3i cup brown sugar
g cup boiling water
Mix and sift flour, baking pow-
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combine. Place rhubarb in a greas-
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over it, Dissolve brown sugar in
boiling water, pear over batter;
Bake in a moderately hot oven,
375°5', for 30 minutes. This pud-
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TEA
CHRONICLES
of GINGER FARM
By
Gwendoline P. Clarke
• * 4 8 rt
• Yesterday I was down town and
I niet many persons who looked
happier than I had seen them for
some time. That haunted look was
gone from their eyes ... they want-
ed to stop and talk about where
their boys were and what they
were ,going . , . and possibly for the
first time in months they talked
without restraint and without fear.
It was good to talk with them.
:x * *
Yes. it is easy to rejoice with
those who have reason for rejoic-
ing. But what of the others? On
the day of victory what can one
say to he widow whose only son
was killed when his plane crashed
just a few short weeks ago ,,, or
to the father whose nineteen -year
old son was recently the victim of
a sniper's bullet ... or to the family
who, as yet, have no knowledge of
the whereabouts of their son re-
ported to be a prisoner of war in
t=crmatty, .\ttl above all, how can
one find words to sympathise with
the young wife and mother, who in
the midst of general rejoici..g, re-
ceives word that her young hus-
band has been killed in action?
Perhaps these are not very
cheerful thoughts — nevertheless
one should remember there are
hundreds of such cases in our
midst — and if one remembers,
then naturally one takes care that
diose who have suffered greatly
will not be wounded still further
by tactless and over -exuberant ce-
lebrations if it is in ottr power to
prevent it.
* 4 *
Happily, there is another side to
the picture. The long looked for re-
turn of the "five-year" men, flus -
bawls who must learn to court
again the girls they married. Fa-
thers renewing their acquaintance
with the kiddies who were mere
toddlers when Daddy %vent away,
And who can match the pri,le of
the father who sees his son or
daughter for the vett lir>i time?
Some of these happy family re-
unions are taking place day after
day ... and now that the war is
over, every mother, every wife and
every sweetheart, whose loved
ones have been spared, will feel
that at last she can really hope —
hope without that nameless dread
— that the time will come, when
the boy, or boys, who went away,
will be marching home again.
Yes, but we shall need to have
patience and fortitude. Wars are
not settled overnight. bighting will
cease but there is still much work
to be done, and the lads who wear
the King's uniform are needel for
the job, And there is still Japan!
* $ *
As for us — particularly for the
women who wait — we have our
work to do —. there is no room for
idleness or relaxation while un-
dreamed of distress prevails in
Europe — but we can go forward
With hopeful hearts, doing the job•
that nearest, helping, each in our
own small tray, to build a new
world, making our homes and our
communities places that our boys
will be glad to conte back to; re-
membering always that it depends
upon us whether the boys will say
upon their return "THIS was
worth fighting for!"
That "Pro" Look
Keep an ironing board and iron
set up yhile sewing. Each seam
should be dressed as soon a; it is
stitched, This produces neater,
more tailored results and gives the
garment that professional leek.