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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-07-12, Page 2Li UTT �II�D'S Pfl'�YER OR, THE DUEL IN THE GLEN. CHAPTER XXXIV. Ire seats the child ou a hassock, and at that moment the letter catches his eye again. He picks it up voluntarily and reads it over to himself again, and as he reads he clenches his hands together; his face pales to a dead white; rage is getting the better of his terrible grief -it is bet- ter s0. He rings the bell violently for Nan- nette, and in a moment more, that young person responds; but she shrinks back in dismay as she crosses -.he threshold and observes her master standing there in such a towering rage; and little Ruby wide-awake, sitting huddled in her night - robe on the hassock. "Did you want me, sir?" she asked, timidly. "Yes," said Esmond, huskily. "1 want you to take care of my child, Nannette, until I come back; promise me, faith- fully, you will do this. Mrs. -Mrs. -Es- mond has gone away -never to return!" The girl looked at him in dismay; some- thing of an inkling of what was transpir- ing about her, occurred to her. "Do you promise?" he asked harshly. . "Yes, sir," she replied -"but I-" "Silence," he cried, so stormily she could scarcely realize it was kind, haPPY Mr. Esmond who spoke to her so sternly. "Oh, papa, papa, where are you going?" cried Ruby, springing up from the has- sock, and catching at her father's hand -"tell me, papa; where are you going?" Heedless of Nannette's presence, he caught the child up in his arms, and an- swered her. I am going to search for your faith- less mother," he cried, "pursue her -not to forgive her and take her back. She has gone from me deliberately and with- out cause, and though she should come back and plead to me on her bended knees, madly as I love her, my outraged pride would rebel so fiercely, I eould not forgive her. I would never take her bask. If she has gone -wish another -I will avenge the Esmond honorto -the death, " And as he spoke, he put the child down hastily, and strode from the room, and from the house, with the screams of both Ruby and the nurse ringing in his ears; the former realizing only this -that her father was going far away from her. And the latter, realizing some great evil, with spread wings, was hoverino over the house of Esmond. Fhe took little Ruby in her arms, and sought to pacify her. She knew not what answer to make to her questions. Great Borrow prevailed among the ser- vants when they discovered -as servants always do -what had transpired. They talked the situation over freely among themselves. The world always condemns woman, without mercy, where there is the least excuse to pass judgment upon her. The servants discussed the situation, wondering vaguely why their young mis- tress had suddenly left her beautiful home, and the handsome young husband and child, both of whim she had appear- ed to fairly idolize. There was no lack of love and happi- ness between husband and wife. They were perfectly sure Mr. Esmond fairly adored his young wife. Aliti well, there. was no aceounting „Csa the freaks of the grand ladies{ in high alfee The old.- housekeeper, hire,. Perry, iaho had been in the service of the Esmonds since early childhoed, was greatly, trou- bled over the affair. She took charge of the household, waiting patiently the turn of events. At the end of a week, a change came in the shape of a letter from Mr. Esmond, addressed to the housekeeper. It was a long letter full of instructions, -"Just like he was preparing to leave the world," muttered the old housekeeper, wiping her spectacles with the corner of her apron. "Ab, me -ah me, what sorrow marrying does bring most of folk, to be sure." What a pity it is to see a fine home like this broken up. Little Ruby sent off among friends until she's old enough to be put in a convent, and Master Frederick wandering the world over in search of a fair, false face -the Lord knows where." Carefully she read over the last page of his setter, which was b'•,efly as fol- lows, -"Dismiss the servants, and send them away, -not empty-handed, but with a year's stipend each. See that Nannette takes Ruby to the friends I spoke of, without delete: and last, out tOt lea at leave everrii.Ing about the place as she left it, when she went away." Mrs. Perry carried cut the inetruetiens, of the +.Id servants refu-ntl to be sr. of faithfully -in every respect. Save one-two away. We have been in Master Frederick's service, and in the service of his father before him," they both declared, .F,•ravely. "Our place is here -more than ever now since trouble has fallen over the..house." So they were left in charge of the place, Meng they would not go. A few days later, Esmond returned to Nee if his wishes had been obeyed: As he turned the key in .the lock he found that the door was fastened upon the inside - evidently some one was within. It was opened the next moment by the old footman; the familiar figure of the old butler was in the background. "You are displeased to see us. master," WAS A CONFIRMED DYSPEPTIC Now Finds it a Pleasure to Enjoy Meals ' Here is a case which seemed as bad and as hopeless as yours can possibly be. This is the experience of Mr. H. j. Brown, 384 Bathurst St., Toronto, in his own w,rds : t t'c entlemen—I have much pleasure in mentio-+ing to you the benefitsreceived from your Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets and can cheerfully recommend them. I simply had confirmed dyspepsia with all its wretched symptoms, and tried about all the advertised cures with no success. You have in Na-Dru-Ca Dyspepsia Tablets the best curative agent I could find. It is now such a pleasure to enjoy meals with their consequent nourish- ment that I want to mention this for the benefit of others," The fact that a lot of prescriptions or so-called "cures" have failed to help you is no sign that you have got to go on suffering. Try Na-Dni-Co Dyspepsia. Tabl a+5 and see holy ;onion#y ibis sterling remedy will give you relief and start your stomach working properly. If it doesn't help you, you get your money back. 5oc a box at your druggist's. Compounded bv 1Ge National Drug and Chemical. Co, r.i' Can tile, Limited, Montreal. 141 they both said, huskily, "but oh, Mas er Frederick, do not send us away;" and when they both knelt before him wear- ing solemn allegiance to him in life or in death -what could he say or do. They stayed; and perhaps it was their corn- pauionship, though they never intruded upon him, that kept him from going mad. He went but once into the rooms made so dear in the past by her sweetpres- euce, and that was to close and fasten the windows and draw the heavy silken curtains. Raising his eyes, he saw a sielit that cut him to the heart like the sharp thrust of a sword. It was Irene's por- trait, smiling down at him from over the marble mantel. A groan of agony burnt from his lips. mingled with a bitter im- precation. With a sudden movement he raised Itis right arm and turned it with its face toward the wall. The impulse had been strong within him to hurl it down and set his heel upon it, "No, no," he muttered, hurrying from the room; "X have loved her too well for that; and Heaven help me, I love her still." With trembling hands he closed the door after him, after taking one last, lingering look within, as though to im- press every object on his memory -as one looks back at the dark recesses of a vault wherein his dead lies. Then, drawing the key from the lock, he strode out into the grounds and threw the key far from him in the tanglewood. What he suffered during the days that followed only Heaven understood, and his two old servants knew. For days and niglits at a time he would pace the floor of his room suffering the tortures of the melt, in vain endeavors to teach himself to "live and learn to for- get" until at length exhausted nature sunk him into the merciful oblivion of deep, dreamless sleep. At length, the two old servants prevail- ed upon him to leave the villa forever. The day came at length on which be was to take his departure -and it was just three weeks since the eventful day this great sorrow, the first he had ever known, had fallen upon him. The cleverest sec- ret service men in all Europe had been employed by Esmond, to discover if there was any possible clew as to where Irene had gone. Then it was the startling dis- covery came to Esmond, that Victor Ross, Irene's old lover, was at tho hospital. Some one of the attendants remembered seeing the lady meet the gentleman quite unexpectedly, face to face, in the grounds -and she had thrown up her white arms and fell forward in a deep swoon. The young doctor had caught her and held her in his arms while the attendant ran for water, instead of placing her on one of the garden benches, and, as the attend- ant returned, she saw through the branch - PS of the trees, Dr. Ross kissing the svhite face. As soon as she had brought the water- the attendant was summarily dis- missed. That night, Dr. Ross suddenly disap- peared from the hospital. One of the por- ters at the railway station recognized the young doctor, in ono of the compart- ments of the foremost ceach of the Eelin- burgh express which steamed out of Lon- don at nine o'clock at night on that par- ticular evening. It transpired that the handsome young doctor dills slat eo. al ane; he was accnm- »•ecnierf-'blr' a i's4 y' 13easeily. veils , whoa clung:. to iris arm, Bobbing bitterly, and whom lie tried in vain to soothe. 'they broke all this very gently to Es- mond, not one of the secret -service men detailed to work up the cane, doubted for a moment but that this settled the rat- ter as to how and when young Mrs. Es- mond had gone, and that she had not gone -alone. All efforts to trace the doctor and the lady, seemed futile, however. It was then that London society had been shocked by the application by Fred- erick Esmond, for a divorce from his beau• tiful young wife. On the threshold of the villa as they were leaving it, Esmond paused: "I shall never enter this door again," he cried, raising his hand in the eunlight, as though registering a vow to the blue, smiling heavens. "You have both sworn to cleave to me in life or in death," he reminded them, "now. both of you, mark well what I say, from this time on, I am a man with but one purpose -one object in his breast -and that is, to find Dr. Ross. I shall not be answerable for what will happen after that. I will avenge the Esmond honor if 1 have to wade through seas of blood to do it." Neither spoke for some moments. At length, the butler placed his hand on his excited young master's arm, "May I make so bold as to ask yon if you mean to challenge him to a duel, Master Frederick?" he asked, fearfully. "Yes," responded Esmond, -rimly, "many a man would shoot hits down on the spot, with less provocation than I have. 1 would give even a dog a chance for its life." "He is considered the best shot in the country. Master Frederick," urged the old butler in distress, "what if you should be the one to -to-" "To fall," supplemented Esmond, adding recklessly. "It does not matter what be- comes of me, I would rather die than live.'" Think of the little one, Master Fred. erick-dear little Miss Ruby -Oh, forgive inc Tor reminding you -you have her to think of -you must take care of yourself for her sake." T shall avenge the Esmond honor for her sake as well as my own," returned Frederick. "Say no more on the subject, nothing can change my determination. I will search the world through until 1 find Ross -then let.,Heaven show mercy to the one that deserves it." "Did you do as I bade you: telegraph. Nannette, my child's nurse, to have litt'e Ruby at the cross-roads when the train calve in?,. We have five minutes at the station, no more." "I did, sir," responded the butler; "Nannette is faithful, if she knew you ii were to pass through the village she would. have been sure to have brought Ruby to the station to see you, anyhow, were it only for a moment. But 1 must remind you, Master Frederick, if we are to catch the express we must be making our way to the station now," he declared. •Without one backward glance, Freder- ick Esmond passed down through the avenue of over -arching beeches and away from the hepie be way Meyer destined to behold again, As he reached the high arched entrance gate, he paused a moment -a rush of memory nearly overpowered hint. Ile was thinking that it seemed as if it were only yesterday that he had brought Irene there -a bride; and how his cheeks had flushed and his heart beat ars the carriage drew near that gate, for as they both raised their eyes they saw the words "Welcome Home," over the great arch, and he had turned to Irene, and said - "Yes, welcome home my beanteoue bride- res- darling Irene!" Ah, -how bitter was the niemery to the broken-hearted man who was leaving that home forever. At the station, Frederick and Dr. Rose met free to fare -mid that was the beginning of the bitter end. 'CHAPTER, ';X It was a lovely reornilxi and the birds sang as 1)1 no such thing as sorrow O great, busy world of men. It was a pretty woodland cool dell, carpeted with wil green moss, with the suns down through the swaying the trees upon the nodding it shines, too, upon a prat. ingfrom rock to reek d hillside, which tosses tip it to the morning light. How strange it,seemed 'that should be chosen as the sCeiie''' encounter. How cruel it seem pale primroses and nodding dra erg the sun set, be stained wi being's life blood! � Two figures sit on a lenge grafi'. rock by the brook -side. They are litle Rttby . ,and- her- nurse. Nannette. "I am so tired, Nan," says the child, slipping off the rook, andltronaug her- self face downward au the lon; wat.ug grass, and tossing her hat beside her: "Where are wo going, now? what tiwas it you had to tell me if I was a very goon little girl?" Nanneto shifted about uneisil--, under the searching gaze of those da. i,, child- ish eyes. "Would you like to see your pn;. Mise Ruby?". she asked, slowly. • The child sprung up with a cry "STY papa, Nannette! eh, yes ---Yee, Winch; you know I would, But, Nei/mock', I want to see mamma so much even Tia has I -do -papa. Oh, Nannette pal: inc to speak of my mamma; `a a G. I -i-- can't help it, Nanny, I we?. /al- so much.,, Its : only natural," mares netts, compassionately, as she etc:'• •:•t t,te child's fair flaxen earls. "But you have not answered an.IL is Ruby," she said, eagerly.. , "Would you like to see your pe,•a?" Ruby bowed her curly t,...i vcx'y gravely. "Then you shall Ruby el'o "Do you see the station over y "1. she inquired, again, ' Ruby assented, eagerly. "Your papa will be there at i,;i, Hsps+cis this morning," Nannette we'.q. no t- sultin" the letter she had reee- 'c , few days previous, for the twent. t`,: n410:- "but m5—"but he is not coming to Stay ' Yo•. are to be with him only a little .; you are to . come away qu r l,. + MP You wont cling to him and bei :i r Is:n with him if I take you to bi ' ,v, I you, lltle Ruby?" "Not if I can heli it. Nanny r ':n:' the child, truthfully; :"for 41:- I m :o lonesome here. When are we „it'd home, Nannet.e?" Tears came to Nannette'' eyw 1 don't know,'" she answered, drew-RI,a,- ' perhaps never again." But I miss my dolls and iniv t,- -•nY own nice room, and the law s •tn4 the child. "I am going to eol pine. to tnko pie home," she declared.; ;', where my mamma is." You will make him fe•"1 x+ al foal] if you do " said Nannette. "Your 1, ln,r} is all broken up now, Ruby." . At 13+ 41! tuome" 1 the shriek of a far-off trails f.-11 upon their ears. Nannette sprung to her felt, "Come, Ruby," she cried, 'we hat"eri s niveh time to get to the station," -• They reached the platform `n-; as the express dashed pantingly , up a he sta- tion -and in that moment, John; the but- ler, who was Frederick Rsmoint's valet now, sprung from the railway calrriage, having been watching for Nainlette and hurried breathleevly to meet lit• s - "For the love of Heaven , lkt little missy away from here, uviol i antei<te," he cried, without 'svaitirr ,,° • -." }-1auge greetings with the meaty, rp, Sag dovnar, he wltisper`ild bar that mxide'Naduette r ,, • ivxi]h ter- ror—uttering .a.wild .sharp * "You must take Ruby sway at once, warned John "the sigh; of her would unnerve him past, all recall; be is on this train." And to the chile's great wonderment, Nannette, with a ,,,face white as death, picked her up in her strong yonng' arms, fairly flying from the spot with hese and cryine the while as though bei ', heart would break, as she ,vainly pleaded. with Ruby to stop crying --"Papa, papa, I want to see papa, Nannette," and stop .strug- aling in her arms. Something in Nannette's white terror- stricken face struck awe to the child's heart in spite of her rising rebellion. "Why didn't you let me' see my papa," cried Ruby, stamping her litle'foot, and crying out vehemently, when Nannette; at last, released her, unable to carry her, • e .was U. the a rfleep rs and Uterine' hes of e;' iktxd. le leap-; sti`611: e Clirai" a yliot. deadly is the should. Man ese You cannot afford brain -befogging headaches. NA -DRU -CO Headache Wafers stop them in quick time and olear your head. They do not contain either phenacetin, acetanilid; morphine, opium or any other dangerous drug, 25c. a box at your Druggist's. • 121 NATIONAL DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED. heavy burden another step, and had sunk Lamest fainting by the wayside. "Oh Ruby, poor litie Ruby," she cried, grasping both of the child's little hands, let, us kneel right down here in the long grass, and ask the -good Lord to take care of your poor dear paha in. this aw- ful hour. He is in awful danger. Oh, Ruby, Ruby, pray for your papa, as you never. prayed for him in your life before pray hard." "I don't know what to say, Nannette," said the child in bewilderment; -"I've for- got what comes after 'Now I lay me down tq sleep., „ "01t, never mind that one; pray for your poor papa, Ruby, dear," sobbed Nannette "That always comes first," persisted the child; "oh, no, it don't, Nanny, I forgot: it's three weeks now since I said my prayers -since -since the night mamma went away -I g,tess they commence with Our Father, which art in Heaven. Isn't that it, Nanny?" The girl nodded, too convulsed with sobs tospeak, she could only- articulate over and over again, "Pray hard for your paha, Ruby, and God and the listening angels mus • hear you. Say, God spare ma papa's life this day." Surely there was no sight under the light of Heaven more touching than little Baby as she knelt down in the long green ese, and clasped her little white hands, raising her sweet childish face to the summer sunshine. - "God spare my papa," she lisped, "and -and-any mamma. I - want them, send them both to me, and I will be so good, Lord, -I'11 not tear my frocks or break my dolls, unless I can't help it. Oh. 1 forgot, Lord, I want -to pray for nothing but just papa, Nannette says. Give papa his daily bread, God, and -and-:' •'Ard spare his life this day," said Nan- nette, through her tears, and the childish vo,ce repeted the words af.er her. -±'rely God•and the - listening angels grouped about the Great White Thros•e, war k^.ew what was to take place within that fa -a] hour, would listen to the prayer if ^tent inrocent child and heed it. Nannette rose from her knees and brushed the tears from her eyes. Ruby, followed her example, "Come away from the glen, Ituby," she murmured faintly, "every sound I hear from afar off sounds like -like -oh! never mind what it sounds like -come away!" In hurrying so desperately along Nan- nette must have struck into the wrong path, for to her bewilderment she soon found they were in the labyrinth of •a deep wood; this was surely not the way into the grounds of the villa where they were stopping. "I cannot go any further, Nannette,;., declared Ruby, wearily. "1 am awfully tired; let's sit down here and rest." Nannette's mind was too full of a har- rowing thought to think of rest. "I'll carry you," she said. She pushed on bravely with Ruby -but this child of four -as plump as a partridge -was no light burden for Nannette; she soon found her strength was again failing her, and each step, to ber horror and consternation seemed to lead her still further into the heart of -.the deep silent wood -no matter which way she turned. , The girl's soul grew faint with fright. She would not tell little Ruby they had lost their way -at least not 'yet, still, in the face of it all, what should she do? Ruby was not able to take another step. "Heaven help me I -I -do not know what will happen next " thought Nannette, per- plexedly, "there has never been a day so fraught with horrors to me." Was it only her fancy or did she hear voices from afar off? Nannette stopped short and listened. She couldfaintly distinguish the sound of far off voices and she determined to make her way in -that direction at all hasards. Can you walk a little further, Ruby, dear?" she asked, anxiously. "I'11 try," said Ruby, "but I'm awfully tired; see, I've walked a big hole right through my bran' new slippers." "Never mind," said Nannette, soothing- ly. (To be continued.) S' Canal finest s su ab>r at its best Your love of cleanliness and purity will be y` gratified by this 5 - Pound Sealed Package of . v^ Extra Granulate Sugar_ It's Canada's finest sugar, fresh from the Refinery; untouched by human hands. Each Package contains 5 full pounds of sugar Your Grocer can supply you. 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Address Publicity Manager, entent Company Limited, 303 Herald Bldg., l�iontreal ✓/:'i j 0; fi „- .. /' .�� / :l7.. �' /fir'/rte � i.•�r���.,ir'..,.C.��.+.���v!/G/CGL 2 On the Farts SEEDTNG THE GRASS LANDS. Too much importance can not be given to the selection of pure 'grass' seed, for there is no greater fail ure or disappointment in farm man- agement than to fail . to secure a good stand if grass or clover. Every year 1 am becoming more and more favorably impressed with the value of alsike clover, although. we have used it for a number of years in all of our grass and seed. mixtures, writes a correspondent.. We have repeatedly failed to se- cure a favorable stand of common red clover, and to our surprise the.. alsike would come along and make a good stand and we would be en- abled to harvest a very profitable grass crop. Many times red clover, will not thrive for the reason that the soil has become somewhat acid, but the alsike will make a very good crop notwithstanding the acid con dition of the soil. 'Another valuable characteristic of alsike clover is the fact that it will - stay in the soil several years, and: if permitted it will reseed itself. Al- sike clover grows' but little after" mowing and no second crop can be expected from it.: Both in this re- spect, as well as the longer time it requires to mature its maximum crop, alsike clover stands after red clover. Its great and undeniable- advant- age, on the other hand, lies in the fact that it is mare hardy than the common red clover and can be suc- cessfully cultivated on moist soils and land that is flooded at certain times during the year on which red clover will not grow. If alsike clover seed is mixed with pasture grass mixtures, it yields rich and certain grazing crops, and when cultivated on arable land red clover seed should be sowed with the mixture with which the field i seeded. In this way a great advantage i gained in the fact that the first yea after sowing the fodder may be har vested chiefly consisting of red cloy er and in the following years afte the red clover begins to deteriora the alsike comes in, in its place, an yields rich and certain crops, wit the timothy and other grass see with which the meadow is seeded.. -On ourr farm we follow the sa general methods of culture that Practice in growing red clover, wil the addition of the following:' the alsike has a tendency to lod, when it is in full vegetation, we that it is advisable to sow it wi other grass seed, by preference wi timothy and red clover. The cro by this means are very rich and t timothy supports the clover, so th it does not fall to the ground an rot. While alsike does not yield large crops to the acre as comma red clover of equal stand. yet it very profitable, and in actual fee ing value I have found but littl difference ton for ton when it wa being fed to a herd of dairy cow and for feeding horses and all kind of young stock I have found greatly superior. The time of cu ting and curing will make more ken difference than the variety. Alsike clover is not considered b soil experts to be as good a soil im proving crop .as common red. clava for the reason that it lacks th branching root system of the re clover, but it is a legume (nitrogel gatherer) and hence on many soil where the red variety cannot b used as a nitrogen gatherer. It is my honest opinion that ther are many farmers who have -give up growing clover who could mak a success of gro'ving alsike clove instead of experimenting with re clover. ' I have found in actual praetic that it is a better business proposi limn to sow a mixture of grass see that will make a certain stand un der the usual conditions than t spend large amounts of hard -earns money to experiment with a cro so uncertain as red clover., on an fields where it is not practieall sure to make a good stand. •I. BOW WOW. "You say the man gave a whish Well, go on, what followed V1 "His dog." The germ of suspicion is often f tal to the microbe of love. If the hair is very oily and har to cleanse, add a tablespoonful. alcohol to a large basin of water. "May I ask you a friendly que tion V "Certainly!" "Why don you hire a servant? Your wife in feeble health. "That's just She has all she can do now. I doll' want her to have any more to coo ter!"