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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-04-23, Page 3"If I do not marry vuu. semi toe mysielf," she answered, lifting her beau- aho. eyes to his face. Aubrey could comprehend that -ab ell in French girl—and he admired. her SAM the firra, quiet •way lit which she mad it. "Then let its go," he said. "We ca.unot etat too soon. Only 1 do not know where to go. Do you know?" "When Lord Hawkehurst was talking to me last night," she said, lettng her (lame fall at the remembrance, "he ead he would wed me at a little chapel ,ter the raottntain." "We will find it,' he said, and led ber Mit of the hut into the fresh morning .tori where the hut stood they coulri COO far away across the mountains and down into a number of little valleys. The meuntaine were outlined clear and sharp in the morning air, but the valleys were all wrapped in fog, which had not yet be- mire to rise. The storm had tompletely passed away, but its effects were visible on every side, and when Aubrey saw the terrible galleys that had been washed irate the road, and noted how the moun- tain brooks were even yet swollen iuto tenants, he wondered that he was alive 1.4+ see the dawn. "Do you see?" he said, pointing every- thing out to her. "If we had tried. to go deem the mountain hist night we should have perished. "What of them, then?" she asked, her tye s; big with a startled look. "It was a. risk of their own making," he answered, in a low tone. She turned her head aside and a It.tracte smile passed over her fair face. But when she looked at him again there was on her face the wondering look of a child who is thinking of Meriting thine. 'They were cruel to mea site said, Asoftly; "but I hope no hartu has hap- pened to them.' 'That is as Heaven wills," he said, but .eould not bring himself to hope anti:. good for them. The road was so washed and torn that It bad nothing of the semblanee if road at all, but the fact that it was the only practicable way over the mountain. It was more like the bed of a mountain breok. Inca° took Aubrey's nrin, and he no- tified with a thrill of pleasure that she had a small white hand, that would have demo credit to the proudest blood. He was beginning, in fact, to find many Manning features in his fianeee, Ile looked down at her front his stal- wart height, and saw that she was of a round and. supple figure. And when she leaned, with his help, across a muddy spot, it was not unpleasant to see that her foot was small and slender. Onee, on a level bit of the road, there Walt so much marl that the ouly way to get her across dry -shod as to carry her over, and his breath came and went WOrt: quickly when he held her rounded form elose to him, and felt the beating of tier he,art. She grew more talkative, too, as they went on, and he felt that it was because Let bcr growing confidence in him. Ser- i ram times he caught her great brown Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Vienna, W. Va.— "I feel that I owe the last ten years of ray life to Lydia E. Phakhana's Vege- table Compound. Eleven years ago I was a walking shadow. Iliad been under the doctor's carebutgotno relief. My husband per- suaded me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound and itworked like a charm. It re- lieved all my pains and misery. I advise all suffering women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." —Mns. Erna& Wnnivrox, Vienna, W. Va. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com - wand, made from native roots and orbs, contains no narcotics or harm- ful drugs, and to -day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of: female diseases of any similar medi- cine in the country, and thousands of vohmtary testimonials are on file in the Pinkha,ra laboratory at Lynn, Mass., from women. who have been cured from almost every form of female complaints, inflammation, eteration,displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodie pains, backache, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every such suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Corapound a trial. If you vrould like special advice sout your case write a cotifiden- Old letter to IVErs. rinkhans, at no, ilfass. Her advice is free, mad always helpfu. eyes Metined twain' (el nis mem it. if trviug to surpriee the eatore of the man who had been so noble in his treatment of her, bet of whom, she had heard .sttell dreadful thiege, It gree to be a very delightful man-. pation tohim to mark various expan- sions of iuterest, please re and mirth light up her beautiful lave. And what a very lovely lave it was. by the way! Why had he not noticed before how ex, eeedingly beautiful she was? He weuld not need to blush for hie countess when he took her to Aubrey Castle. "You were afraid of me last night," he said, once, jest to see the play of ex- pression on her efa.ee, :Her eyes sought hi $ face very slowly, and. dwelt there 'with a look that gelid it not to fear bine "I did imt know you, then," she shyly said. "But you don't know metal more of inc now," he said, "I know that 1 was wrong, them'", she answered, Amply. "I hope," she went on, in a low voice, which she knew how to make peculiarly aweet, "that you will not regret What you are doing for me." "I do not Malik I shall," he answered, beginning to believe that he had been ra- ther fortunate than otherwise. "If had not asked you to marry ole. inight never .hame married, I never tht-oughofe doing so before." She did. not say anything in answer, but he was satisfied with the look that flashed into her eyes. It took them 30111C time to reach the little chapel spoken of, and, under other eircumstancee, Aubrey might have been greatly bored; but thie maiming, despite the night he had paseed, he enjoyed his walk. "That must be the elel:- he said, at last, pointing. down the reed to where a little (MOM; chapel stoo,i ou a slight plateau. "Yes," she said. ehvly, ite if the !nub den nearnees of the 1:hapel metaled her. He looked down at her with a very genuine tenderness in hie' eyes, and checked her program by a restraining touch of his hand that, made her look up at him, Your name is I:1mM," he said. "You do not know mine?" "No," she whispered. "It is Itupert-eltupert Cecil. The Oecils are one of the oldest familia in the realm; but you are a Senar, and a Settee is the mate of a Cecil. 1 am glad og it, but I should have done the same in any ease." "You are very noble anti:generous," Wm. seitt. He smiled, and looked down at her with a pleased expression. "Inyour country," he said, "it is a:a- tom:my for the wife to bring a dowry te her husband; in mine it is the other way—the husbands always dower their wives. It just ,oceurred to -me that it would give an air of formality to our waidding, in the absence of witnessee, if told you what I intended to settle on you." 92 it pleases :,•ou," She said.. 9 have been tenating of it," he went on, "and I think it will be best if I give yon the !Surrey place, and ten thousand a year." She held her bead persistently down for a, moment, but presently looked up, and said, innoeeatly: "That is a great deal of money, is i t He laughed, it was so much like deal- ing with it child. But he liked her ig- norance of money. "It would be about, two hundred and fifty thousand francs, You should be able to clothe yourself with it." ".Ah," she murmured, "I shall not know what to do with so much money." "You will soon !earn," he laughed. It was a Protestant chapel, or there might have been diffieulty in winning consent of the clergyman to a marriage between them. As it was, the clergyman looked askance at the bedraggled condi- tion of Aubrey's garments, and asked hini plainly how it was that two strang- ers, apparently wealthy-, should be wan- dering on the mountains at that time of day and in such a condition. .Aubrey ied hint aside, and answered in a few words, .explaining briefly that he and Lucie had been belated and had been forced to remain iall night in the little 'deserted hut on the mountain." The old man was not difficult, to con- vince. indeed, he readly MIL in with the idea, and made objection only on the store of witnesses. "Your family," suggested Aubrey. "I have none." "The firet strangers that come along." "Few come along at this hour of the day." "Some will surely come," seidmilubray, impatiently. "Open the chapel, and have everything in readiness," The old elergyntan, stimulated perhaps by a timely jingle of gold in Aubrey's pocket, bestirred himself and got every- thing in readiness. That done, he eame out to the front, where Aubrey and Lu- cie waited, and looked up and down the road, murmuring: "Unless Providence aid you, 1 deal see where your witnesses will come. from." 'Haw many aro neededf" demandad Aubrey. • "Two, my lord." Every foreigner with money Was vein sidered • nobleman in the ItyroL , "Then Providence has been kind, for here .come two over the very road, we just traversed." C R (te,031;t17,tEsxeo'tti4ictia.oriblileedjlitU:if:, eery:aii,)ips11,1)11YelgiagAver'sliil:u5,Y.satfils, (tontuitiA tut acids; is Ilarlale33 becausecomposeu only of imeling.gimis and balms. Fifty year in use. (mure guaraineed, Sold. by all druggists We. bottles. Bents() substitutes, PUTNAM'S PAINI.ESS CORTI 'EXTRACTOR CURED Thc 0lif Meat Melded Ilk 'oyes, and Melt- "iell-4::3e.it1-411y1;tu are right," he said, it i'?UVld('1i1ieedhle0d11. f.t0r" any4id ts, eniet tlov a 'word of hiadhlitudet" The theee stood in the, porck of tie ebapel, Waiting for the travelers to ....elm up to them., Beth Aubrey and. Lucie eyi d them curiously Until they were nem on• ough to be. recognized as natives, 'Pivot Aubrey betrayed lus thoughts by saying tool:J:s no one we know." 0k: men of the other side," said the "It i old elergetman. "I wonder to see them outaianea1 t tilitislio114" The steadily 011, talking earnestly together, but not yet having seen the party on the porele Nor did they notice thern until they were hail- edby the old. clergyman. "Just in time, boys?" he called out, "There is a wedding 00 Mai murnirg and if you will stop and witness it I have nu doubt the happy groom will make yoer hearts lighter and your peek- t ets heavier." The men looked. toward the ehapeld and stared. 13m, they listened to all the old snail said, and then spoke together. One seemed to be urging ,:he other, till one called out. "Of course ism will witness the weddirg and are ,glad to happen along in ihe nick of time." "I wonder," murmured Aubrey to im- clee"why they eye us in sueh a &Mama" "They may have beard. of 04," sug- gested Lurie, its a, sly whieper. "01 eourse that is it. Well, if they have heard of us, they will know how to tell the rest of the tale. Happily it is ending as all gond stories should -- with a wedding. Is it not so. 1.11rie "Yes, my lord." "Call me tupert" he gaily sail. "Yes, Rupert," she replied. nay followed the elergyman, end were, in turn, followed by the two Opppt. tune witnesses; aud, PEC many minutes were gone, Rupert Cecil and Janie Stelae were pronouneed man and wife. Aubrey turned to the beautiful girl, and took her in his arms, and. pressed a kiss upon ber Then he stood with her arm locked i11 bis, waiting while the slow old man entered the marriage on the register, and then made out a cer- tificate to give thera„ The two witnesses stood mutely watching the newly mar- ried pair with n singular expression on their faces. "Here is the eertid,leate, My lord," said the 01d num, et le eta Rupee -nianefold al it and put it ..in e It 6 Then he drew a handful of editc beam his pooket, ami gave a liberal deittaur to the elergynian and to 'eaeb 02111e. witnesses, "Now, Lady Audrey," he said to Lneie. "we will go on our way, but where that way lies I have not yet decided. Ilave you 'any suggestion?" "My lord," :raid one of the wit neesee awkwardly, o.t this point, "are von who left a horse and hired another at the inn on the other 51,10 "I have no doubt I am he; for T did the very things you epeak of," replied Aubrey, good-naturedly, "And perhaps the lady le one of tlie party that, canoe m the evening. limed n, vehicle to ermas the mountain, and was lost "Again you are right,' replied Aubrey, wondering what the men were coming to. "Ther. I have sad news for you," Lucie started and clung a little Moser to Aubrey, but she held her head so thin be could not see her faee. "Sad newsl" repeated Aubrey. 'Speaka then, and let ne hear." "It is this: The gentleman who went with the party of ladies was this morn- ing found dead in it ravine not far from the little liut. His horse—the same you rode, my lord—was lying on him, his back broken." EVERY WOMAN WHO SUFFERS Can Find Sure Relief in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mrs, J. Oliver Tells How She Lost Her Pains and Weakness When She Used the Old Reliable Kidney Remedy. Elgin, Ont„ April 10.—(Specia.1)--Wo- men who suffer, eta' there are thous- ands of them in Canada,, will hear with interest the experience of Mrs. .1. Oliver. of this place. She has suffered and found a cure and :he. has no hesitation in saying that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I suffered for over a year from Backache and Fainting Spells," Mrs. Oliver states. "1 win tired and nervous all the time and the least, ,exertion would make me perspire 'freely. My feet and Ankles would steel! and. I lead a dragging seneation across the loins. I saw Dodd's- Kidney Pills advertised and bought some. Twelve boxes cured Inc." All women who suffer should use Dodd's Kidney Pills. %hey make healthy Kidneys and healthy Kidneys are the first rule of health tor woman. 'Che fe- male organs depend almost entirely o0 the Kidneys for • their health. No wo. man can hope to be healthy and happy unless her Kidneys are right. The Kid- neys need oreasional help or they must become tired or sick. And abliost any womauan tell you out of !ter own ex- perience that notbi's Kidney Pills are the help they need, ffHawkshurst!" (Tied Aubrey, "He gone to make answer for himself." :.adnilie elder lady," went .on the MeSStvit. ger of evil,. "wax als'o found lying by the roadside this Morning. The .carriage had broken in a gully. The driver will 1"),t aillilL'ec was aghast. He felt .the lioId (01 hie arni and ('l'ied out: "flas.the ladysiteis Mill living?" "No, my lord, she is dead." "Lucie he compassionately murmur- ed. "your mother is dead." "She was my step -mother," he heard her whisper; and, if he had not known it WaS 1111p0S3lble, he would have be. lieved he caught a tone of rejoicing in the faintly uttered word. "We will accoin)baity you back," he said to the men. "Put first we • must procure horses to take us over. Or, at least, one horse for ..iny wife. 1 will pay you well tt you will eontinue on and procure what you eau for- us." ClIAPTER VE. Lord Aubrey had telegraphed for Sir Charles Loftus, and he had come. A eertaut tie had bound together the two titled renegades,and during the first shock of the knowledge that Hawkshurst • was dead, 1, W:la grieved; lea with meu of his stamp it is inevitable that self should predOntinut 8, and Inc second thought had been that now I 10 Would 3,11518 510138 il‘Vvtaottbefore bit meet have "I Will 1(53,1111(13 all the cars incident to the sending home of the bodies," he 1 h.'e latI 81' 1 ‘1'1111 htt;r1 y h ana had no wish to learn. 1;3,:artnits1ti;i:tortti,d. io friends in Frant,e, the will not go home, tor stiffioieta for 1111 rse I1111 go with me on a tour of some lell„ . Sir 3, harles t1nde1'steo4 eel enough, but he 115-01(13,01 on Air of surprise. "Lady .51nbrey i" he repea 3d. emit" saki Aubrey with some embar- rassment. "pm at wit kn.. 1 8110,tia 111313 to:.t sent that .I hate bean so tor- t made 34 1,1 :maitre the Meet of Made- Lizeie." "Alit" replied 5••;1. (hallos, NV! 11 11 31111113 118 1311ad not repress, -I. emnpreltend sour heal 1 I OW, 'l'Illt 31e'rv, 01 1(.30 W her y()1 t.," Aubrey W118 williug to let it go with that underst a tell ma and Made 110 l'r "V* hen ma)* 1 se,' -1" 11'NY 2" ed Sir Charles, in his most re,peettul ((1.3liner. '1 will ell1 vord tei,u1rior:Iia11.1..,1 she will l "And so," said Sir Charlie, -you have mithlenly, enough left the ranks of the tetehelors. Well, yo(( have it beautif,11 an1 high -bred remote -34, and will eertainly make a sensation oh _flmew return to Eng. land. But whet ti blew to the waiting maturnae wile 1(143 1' 1.een hiding their time fur so long:" Lady Aubrey sent word that she would, reecire Sir Charles in the parlor, nod that gentlemen were to the appoint- ment. Bret aeking Aubrey if bit W011111 ilot 30, toe,. • l'hank eon no." aneweriel Ithroy. ha 1 13 1.:.[.11, in OW at mosplima of death emoigit: 'on'e you are good Rough to tit:to off ttly 3(111(114, dm enotinit to my flan LiuLliti:d'y Aubrey sate wan hie by th win- dow in tioi matte-, eet manlier selelur‘d leis net grim etricken. She turned when sir Charms. enteial, end bowed to him with an air of di-eint lacognition, Ile smiled, and Miami the doer behind 'aim. "'Weil," he said, in a jocular tone. "this is a mery net afieir. butit is au ill wind Hen Metre ei, me, meet e do mit untleadand you," elm eoldly said. He smiled in a -itader way. but did not lose eountenitnet3 tor an instant. "1 van readily exolaiti," he answered. WAS junior partner in the imterpreie that has reeniteti in malting you. the Countess of Aubreee I inherit the Pru' fits of my friend Ilawkeinirst, just as you inherit those of the marquise, hope you are not going to be eo Denali as to repudiate my Aare. It only neette a word to the earl. to drop you. in the mire you came from.' The beautiful lips of the young ad- yeeturess (nosed in a hara line for a mo- ment, and then relaxed into an. easy smile. -Yon are, hasty with your iliveats," said. "1 merely walled to learn how far you had been taken into the confiaceee of my friends. You will remember 'hat I did not know you. What am your terms'!" "Ala my dear countess:" he, in:claimed, "you are as shrewd as you are beautiful, and words could not say more. My share is ju.t half. It is an easy fractien„and is a jolt 0115." "Half of what t" she asked. "Half of everything,. Aubrey will make a most liberal eettlement. 1 know him, Ile is foolishly generous. I (etre nothing for any estate he may glee you; but I oak half 0:111:1:0',:liitiller;):-,lieelettglvtivIlidebIei lIarbgee- enough to enable 113 both to live very comfortably and—hOlieetly." ilit1:i'tsr;te'elt1:1gii:,$)85' originally from the French," you are es:acting," she said. "Half is a great deal to give, and he said, with a suave smile. "It is that 'half a loaf is better than no bread.'" The young adventuress turned to the window to hide the evil look that tlis- to,r,yteodulthearyfte, acel.asid habit of threatening," site said, in'a half -defiant tone. "I do not know as well as any departed. friend llawkshurst, perhaps," he replied, "how to deal With yOUr seN. 1 do not wish to displease you; but, in fact, there is no use in mincing matters; I must have one-half, or you get none." she once more faced him, and shrugged 1'.1e.1:lesfiltz°ttliti'd:tris' least be, shall be, But, of °bum, I have nothing as yet; and shell not have until WC go to England." "I can wait," be answered. "And how, f you will kindly give me the address of year...clear is DOCTOR SMD ONLY ZAM-BUK COULD CURE HE ECZEMA, In view of the numerous cures whteh Mau - 130k L'as worked when all eine has failtaa, there is little wonder that in the end VW doctor attending Mrs, P. St. Denis, of Thompson street, Winnipeg, Ishould tefl eed there was nothing but Zatn-Ituk could eater! her. The result showed the far-seeing wls- i dam of this praetitiouer, and haying been. completely cured Zam-Buk, Mos. St. Dends. gives ber experience for the benefit or other sufferers, i Bhe says: "10,,zentn started on one side at Imy face and nose. At first my nose felt sore, to what one feels when having a bad 4•Dl8.. 1 paid no atttention to this, namable 11 would pass away in a. day or so, but to 355' surprise it got worse. The moose then became swollen and bard, and turned a purplish red, as well as part of the cheek on that side of AO: faee, As the disease devetopea, laimatiest and ulcers broke out, then the skin arackett in places and peeled off in flakes, leaving me,. ., and nose raw au .01e. '3'bis condition rt-arted on my general health, and 1 became 1 souse *f ate 'irritteioo and rho pain, aad tat very ill. 1 could atkt, no 4leep 31tett be- : face was in suoh a sharking condition that 1 for two months I did net go out of the house. 1 applied remedies; whitdi were supposed to. te nood for stan diseases, but in vain. my I. doctor also treated me, but without effect, man one day be ,atcl that the only thing whicit would now be likely to cure me was .',,,terittg on las adrko, I procured a suppir Ond found that even the first, applications ttod a .morbing effect ou the sores. I left off everything els«, In favor of :Ads balm, and non'aed IL tiberally every day to the affected nartg. In a remarkably ,,bort time, *300- ( 0,' obstinate nature of any disease, we saw trace', of improvement. which en - f 'managed to to presevere with the Zeal -Butt 1°'nte'-b.12 btehgeom drat.; 8110(1. tleu tram» of leaying, the somi seemed to be lose 11115:1, ancl it aboutree Wee me inoet of the acres were healing nicely. To cut 03011 story short, I continued with the Zara- ; Milt treatment mall my face was cleared , completely of all traces of the troublesome sod panful eczema," Zam-Buk is a MIT cure for outs, /acerattone, festering sores, bad leg, and all skin injuries and diseases. It is also 8 taro for pilOs. Drustaiits mid ewes everYwhare seti 1131 Sde a box, or nest free from zatunnak co.,Tor- onto. en reetapt of 31(135. You aro warned against cheap and harmful imitations some- tinitss repreented as "Just as good," munieate with thettt, and send them the dear departed in a suitable casket, atthe expense of the earl." She gave him the desired address, and lie went away well satisfied with himself for the manner in wheat he had con- ducted the delicate affair. She watched him quietly until he had elosed the door after him. Then the look of an angry tigress distorted her face, and she hissed,. through her (dosed teeth: "Only he stands between me and, the perfect; enjoyment of what I have earned, and what fate has ahnoet given Me. Aht he opposes his dull wit to mine! We shall ;see! Ile laughs best -who laughs last., my English friend!" Lord Aubrey wee -impatient to be away from the seene of death. Perhaps lie was also impatient to see more of hie bride in a happier mood, and away front tiverythin'ee that suggested the 'mete of the wedding and the eircum- stanees leading to it. Perhaps too, he , felt rather than notieed a covert sneer in the manlier of Sir Charles, and it was unpleasant to him. That night Sir Cbariee dined with them, and they bade him :adieu, with the understanding that they would be gone before he was awake in the morn- ing. Ile Mimic hands with them when they parted for the night, and in doing so gave o. slight pressure to the little hand of the countess. Something like a flame darted from her dark eyes as he did so, but he only smiled. "I would get up in the morning ear- ly," he said to Aubrey; "but the fact is, 1 ant a little under the weather. suppoet I have felt this affair more than. I realized." When he was gone the countess turn- ed to Aubrey, and in the gentle, coax- ing way she had adopted with him, .said, with a sort, of shudder: "It seems to me that I could not rest in this house. I seem always to bo see- ing the face of—of—him." What more natural for a child of her nature, Aubrey was rather pleased than otherwise, and began to wonder if there was any way out, of the diffi- euolutei-dnot mind the fatigue, Lucie'!".W "Why," he su e cried, ddenly, "what is to prevent us from going at once? You xv (To be continued.) THIS TONIC BUILDS UP, Many medicines stimulate, break down, leave you worse than ever. Ferrozone is different—it's a blood purifier, a nerve - strengthener, a bedy-builder. Pale anad- Tnie girls are given color and vigor. The tired and sleepless ars strengthened and restored. "Better than all tonics 1 found Ferrozone," writes Mrs. E. F. Oastleton, of Woodstock. "I was completely nut down, cheeks were blanched, lips white and had every sign of anaemia. Ferro - zone added to my weight, gave me strength, ambition and good health." Nothing better; try Ferrozone yourself; 50e. per box at all dealers. • Recreations of a Famous Musician. Sir Edward Eiger, the famous musi- cian, is said, to be very keen on chemis- try and spends some of his leisure time 03 analysis and experiment. He has been an enthusiastic cyclist and ean tell a. good story of adventures encountered on the highways and byways of western England. At one time he made a hobby of kite flying and was not ashamed to be seen tugging at a string and gazing heavenward after a. struggling object with a long tail which strained to get higher and ever higher. He is also an ardent naturalist, —English Mast