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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-10-01, Page 7"But he does not love you, and I do!" cried the young man, passionately. "Love!" she exclaimed. "Do you talk of love? What ha ee we in our world to do with love? No, no, my lord! If you love me, be my friend while that may be. Soon I shall be his wife, and then I must not see you again. It would —would be wrong." "But why should you be his wife if you do not wish?" he eagerly, deniandecL, "I must do as my parents wish," she replied, in a low tone. This conversation took place a few days before the day set for the wedding. The next evening it was renewed; and Rockingh,tl,;;i, emboldened by his success in at last speaking of his love, pressed his suit with all his force, which was not so much in itself;• but under her skillful guidance had the appearance of being a great deal. The spectators watched and wondered. Aubrey seemed not to see. The days fled by, and the day of the wedding came. The whole social world had been invited; and no one was likely to be absent, since it was well known that Lord Aubrey had given carte blanche to have everything as it should be. The cathedral was packed by a not- able gathering. Those who had been in- vited were there early to secure their seats beyond the silken lins; and the outside publle filled all that remained empty of the vast edifice. Lord Aubrey waited in the dean's room, his groomsmen with him. The famous singers, who had been hired for the occasion, sang for the waiting spec- tators, and the great organ pealed forth in joyoas praise. The time set came and passed, and still everybody waited—the guests and the public in the main edifice, and Lord Aubrey and the groomsmen in the wing. The guests and people won- dered; the groomsmen east stealthy glances of surprise at each a thee. Lord Aubrey alone maintained the same cahn which had characterized hint during the weeks that had flown. At last the door of the dean's room was thrown open. The groomsmen look- ed at each other with glances of relief. "Lady Gertrude has come!" they mur- mured No, it was Lord Moreham only. He was white and staring. "Aubrey, Aubrey!" he cried, "for you." He handed him a white, scented note, directed in the peculiar slanting hand- ru. e, ord Aubrey US • ,z e event were t most ordinary one. The spectators could hardly command themselves to respond. He opened it and read carefully, and without the change of a muscle. Those who eagerly watehed his face could make nothing of it. When he read it through he folded it quietly, and said, iu a calm voice: "Gentlemen; I am sorry to have put you to so much trouble. There will be no wedding. Lady Gertrude has decided to marry the Earl of Rockingham. 1 trust you will all join me in wishing her a ]sappy life." "It was without my knowledge," cried Lord Moreham. "She eloped with hien a few minutes ago." Lord Aubrey shrugged his shoulders. He had not said anything of an elope- ment. However, it was out, and it was not many minutes before the news had spread through the vast throng in the cathedral. Lord Aubrey went home as quickly as possible, and that evening re- turned to .Aubrey. It was whispered afterward that he had not been unprepared for the sudden change of mind. His groomsmen told how composed he was all the while; and everybody recalled how patiently he had borne with Lady Gertrude's slights. Everybody wondered what had been in the note he had received. It would not have helped them much if they had known. It read: "Lord Aubrey,='With the help of the Earl of Rockingham, whose countess 1 shall be within six hours, I am able to cry quits. You ruby appreciate how something of my feelings when the form- er wedding was interrupted." "Poor woman!" was the comment the earl made on the note within himself. He had suspected something of the sort for several days, and had prepared himself to receive the announcement with composure. He had been quite wil- ling that she should obtain all the satis- faction she could from her method of re- venge. And he would not have raised his voice to cheat her of it, had he known how. CHAPTER XLIII. .A year rolled by. It was again at the Height of the Lonaon season. In inany respects it was. similar to the preceding one. This season it was Lady Rocking- ham ockintiham instead of Lady Gertrude Moreham, who was the bright, particular star. Nor had she the one lived she dreaded. Erna, Lady Melrose, was now, as she had been during the former season, at Romley. Tho marquis and marchioness had been induced to leave her this time, while they renewed their acquaintance with the gay world. Not since his visit to Rowley had l,r- na seen Lord Aubrey. After his return to Aubrey she had received a letter from him. It was brief, but it was full of hap" pines., It read: "My Darling, -1 qan wait for you now; though I could not wait near you. I ani going to the Continent, but shall return on the anniversary o, the, day x;waa te. have taarried Lady Gertrude. It Wilt forever be a day blessed to me, It was the day I won you" Then, on the anniversary of that day, Erna threw off her mourning and Mine among the people of the Castle, so radi- ant in the beauty of hope and love ful- filled, that they stared, accustomed as they were to her. It seined to her that she could not meet Aubrey in the formal atmosphere of the drawing -room. It was met of doors in the free a'ir of heaven that she must first see her love. And it was there he found her. He said nothing, nor did he speak when he came striding over the green sward. ' She stood up and waited, her soul in her eyes, her red lips. parted. In another moment she was in his arms, and he was raining sweet kisses down on her fair face. - "How brave and true you have been," she whispered, at last. "It was easy to be brave and true for this," he answered. "Have you eror doubted me?"' - "Never. If you had gone away without 'a word, I should have known, and should have been here waiting to -day.'' "Did your heart tell you in that hor- rible time that all must come right?" he asked, gazing don at her as if he would draw her soul up from its restt- ing place. "I did no despair," sae answered. - "I have had everything at Aubrey made ready for your naming," he sand, after a pause, in which their hearts com- muned in silence. "Was it not premature?" she asked, with a faint touch of her old wayward huinor. I•Ie smiled serenely. He was too cer- tain new to fear anything she might say. "Not at ail," he answered. "I had de- cided that the wedding would be Within a few weeks, and I knew what you would wish to be done." She waived the question of time, and said: "I would wish nothing done to Au- brey. As it was, it suited axe exactly. You might change, but you could not improve it." lie laughed as a boy full of happiness laughs. "That is why I did not need to be home to superintend what was done." "Men you have changed nothing?" "Notating. not even the horses in the stable, nor the boys attendant thereon. d Selim tb„•y and all your old slaves. I eltl•thimc of having the wail trimmed off a few feet." "I hope you did esi0 1, "No," he replied, "I left is for you to look and wonder at. Besides, I could not have oluenged it. It was there I first saw you." She cast a roguish glauee up at him, and said, demurely: "Then you have left the cliff where it was." "Yes. I bane even spent a number of pleasant hours on. a certain ledge of rock. As for Aunt Augusta, she is where you left her. Not quite so certain of her infallibility, perhaps, but a liv- ing model to all wpmankind" "How long ago it. all seems," she mur- mured. * The wedding that took place at Rom - ley was a very quiet one; but the news of it made noise enough in the world. Lacly Rockingham smiled sneeringly when she was told of it; but when she was alone she clenched her little hands and murmured: "It would have been a better veng- eance to have married hint myself" ' Aubrey welcomed the bride with au enthusiasm that was every bit genuine. But no one was quite prepared to see Erna what she was; even though the news of cher social triumphs had found its way to the quiet place long ago. Aunt Augusta was simply sublime. She either forgot that she had ever des- paired of Erna, or she had earefilly concealed her real feelings in the old days; for now she could of repeat often enough that she saw her darling just where -she lied always been sure she wculd be. At which Erna always smiled gently. There were two persons who had fad- ed out of Erna's life, but whom she never had forgotten—Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins. They had had rather a dif- fieult these after the loss of their two great actresses; but soon after Ernahad come into possession of her income as Marchi:ones of Melrose, he had insisted on the worthy manager letting her as- sist him to obtain a theatre in London, You can painlessly remove any corn, either hard, soft or blending, ty, applying Putnam's Corn Extractor. It never earns, leaves no sear, contains no acids; isharmless because composed only of healing gums and bairns. Fifty year,, in use. Cure guaranteed. Sold oy all diug,sLs 250. bottles. Refuse substitutes. PUTNAM'S 'PAINLESS CORN EXTRACTOR which had .always been the very pin- nacle of his ambition. He had become one of the successful ones : of the metropolis, and had return - to to Erna all she had advanced hien, Bnt Lady Aubrey :forgot no oue. Jt•u, the .stable -boy; who had gotten into trou- ble by letting her have Selim—she :.aw married to his sweetheart, and gave him the trimmest little cottage in Au- brey for ..as nest. And when there waa a little Rupert CeeU about the Castle, i; was Jim's dearest delight to show him the jump Lady Aubrey had once eincle, and which no one but Lord Aubrey lad over made since. (The End.) o IN A JAPANS SE PRISON. Convicts Support Themselves and Sometimes Their Families. In Japan a convlot may earn enough money while in evil to maintain his family. He has the best of food and lodging, is taught a'..'erade; and if he wishes pursues the study of foreign lan- guages. At Sugamo a quaijfied teacher in- structs the younger prisoners in read- ing, writing and arithmetic. Prisoners of 20 and upward who are in seclusion for the first time are taught geography and history. • If on entering the prison, says a writ- er in the Wide World, a man declares that he has a knowledge of English he is carefully exsmined by a linguist and the extent of his know edge fathomed. He is then allowed to eseessue his studies, the necessary booksheing supplied by' the authorities. 'When there are sever- al in together ce teacher is obtained from outside and lessons are given re- gularly. In the offices a record of each prison- er is kept daring his stun This serves to show whether th `. convict prompt to obey the officials ie whethvi he shows affection for his parents and relatives, whether he writes letters home and whe- ther he makes progress or not in his studies. The main building at Sugamo is de- signed in the form of a dumbbell, the two ends being divided into five ray stars. From the centre' watch stand the warder can see along the whole of the rays, , which comprise 300 cells. And what cells! Think of tt twenty feet high and double windowed. The convicts are he used in groups. In a cell of eight m te--all rooms in Japan are measure' mats—twelve convicts are' ace:, ed. The floor isa covered with h mu.h o r soft martin and on this the men's bedding is spread when they are ready to turn in. Every- thing is spotlessly clean. "The chief warder stopped before a door at the extreme end of the corridor, and after trying a dozen keys succeed in throwing it open," writes a visitor. "With some misgivings I entered. The room would have gladdened the heart of an amateur photographer. Not a single ray of light penetrated its walls. It was ventilated by means of small tubes that ran through the cement in such a way that they did not ,admit light. " `There are three forms of chobatsu (punishment) for insubordination,' said the warder. 'The first is confinement in an empty room, the offender being com- pelled to sit on a mat without moving or speaking from morning, till night. The second form is confinement in a similar room slightly darkened. The third and most sever cis confinement in this totally dark room, the maximum punishment being five days. I have nev- er known a man Svislt to come here a second time," he added significentIy. "In the bamboo carving shed were men with large, intellectual foreheads, bright, intelligent eyes, clear cut mouths. Only one man reminded xne of convicts I had seen in England. He was short in stature, the eyes were small and oblique, the forehead narrow and receding, the ears large and jowl flab- by. His crime was manslaughter. "He was the chief actor in a drama of jealousy that was played to a fatal fin ish in one of the hovels of Tokio's East End. -A faithless wife, a hypocritical friend, a. surprise, and in the narrow hovel a fight to the death had been waged, the guilty wife the only witness. He did not look up as I passed him, this humble Othello. With 'marvellous dexterity he was fashioning in bamboo an angel with outstretched wings. "In the weaving department the con- victs were making uniforms for the army. Piles of the finished garments lay on the shelves around the shop, and here again the workmanship was perfect. And how they worked ! The shuttles were thrown through the warps by hand, and it was obvious that the weavers were -old `lags:"' " `It pays them to be industrious,' said the warder. `The average convict makes ten sen (five cents) a day; four sen go into his own personal account. A skilled worker will make twenty sen a day, eight being his own again. Some of these men actually support their fam- ilies on what they earn- in -prison 1 As you know, the average coolie can live bit fifty sen a month.' "It was natural that after parading this paradise I should doubt if Japan's treatment of her criminals led to a de. crease in crime," concluded; the visitor. "The officials confessed that of robbers, blighters, thieves and swindlers, 60 per cent. came . back to the prison. Tlie, Weakest individtual can sometimes break -a promise. . THE FAIR AT NtJNI—NOVGOt3OD. Changed Business Methods at Russia's Great Central Market. St. Petersburg,—The annual fair at Nijni-Novgorod is now in full awing and will keep open until 'the end of the month.' •A change in .its char- acter as the centra) market for Rus- sian national produce which has been steadily passing over it for a long time has taken very infinite shape htis year. It is still the recognized meeting place of manufacturers and wholesale buyers, but instead of their wares changing hands in bulk for cash cbawn, as in the old days, the fair has come to be more of a normal prc- duee exchange where orders are fill- ed from samples and payments are settled by bills of exchange. The old time merchant used to produce his wad from the leather fortfolio that he kept buttoned inside his blouse and close his bargains to the tune of scores , of thousands of rubles. He feared the complicated machinery of modern credit and regarded a busi- ness man who wished to pay him with a piece of paper which some bank would give cash for at a future date as something in the nature of a con- fidence man. But the producers have modernized their business methods. Sellers of Moscow cloths and textiles, of Astrak- han furs, of topazes and turquoises from the Urals, prefer to be paid by the equivalent of cheques and the country merchant is having to adopt their ways. The transition means a busy time for a class of polyglot com- mercial lawyers at Moscow known as swori'a, translators to the high court. They have to interpret the system as it applies to the wool growers from central Asia and Tartar storekeepers from the Caspian. Transportation facilities in Russia have not kept nace with the increase of commerce; aria that, too, has help- ed to transform the Novgorod fair into a market for the inspection of samples. On the other hand the or- ders now booked are greater than they ever were in the ready money days. The growth of large manufacturing concerns in Russia. has displaced the old style of auction Haggling which used to prevail at the fair when the buyers had had a look at the visible supplies and the sellers had formed an estimate of the demand. Less than a score of houses control prices in some of the chief staples. In raw iron, which is a big in- dustry near Nijni-Novgorod itself, there is a slump in the market. Last year a small supply and high prices ruled, but in the absence of any cor- porate uuderi:tanding among the pro- ducers the output has been increased all around and two new manufactur- ers have been tempted into the mar- ket. When they all saw what they had been doing prices collapsed before the market opened. Russian cloth is dearer ov ung to the rise in the price of wool. The strong- est cloth is made in the Simbrisk and Kazan provinces and the best textiles in Ekaterinburg. The cloth trade is partly demoralized through the chief buyer being the "Intendantzvo," or Government supply department which furnishes for the army, the railway staff, and the police. A sensatorial inquiry into its methods that has been proceeding for the past year 'proves it honeycombed with corrup- tion. The scandal is felt at the Nov- gorod fair. This h the third year that many of the cloth makers have had to wait for their money' from the Government pending the Senatorial inquiry. Some of them have been fined $50,000 for delivery behind contract date and sim- ilar irregularities. Five factories have gone into liquidation, with Govern- ment fines as their largest debts. Others are borrowing money from the banks at 9' peg cent. on the security of the Government receipt for the goods delivered. The panic in the supply department of the Government has arrested near- ly all new busyness from that quarter. Yet business conditions in general are so sound just now in the country that in spite of this drawback pro- duction is improving. The winter market for cloth is good. The only manufacturers who have reduced their output are the five engaged on Gov- ernment orders who had to liquidate owing to fines. Already the fair is benefiting by the assured good harvest in the majority of the provinces of European Russia. Henry Hudson (Philadelphia Record.) He was an Englishman. His discovery is to be eelebrated, The eerenionivs will begin Sept. 25. ' He sailed into his namesake river on May 1, 1607. He got into the Hudson by mistake, while seeking India. He sailed in the interests of the great trading companies.' One day one of his sailors saw a mer- maid, but Hudson said it was only a seal. Then the Dutch East. India Company heard of him and started Itim on an Arctic expedition. After seeking ngrtheast and northwest passages in vain, he decided any old passage would do. He had a letter from Captain John Smith concerning the Sea of Verrazano, a great body, which was supposed to lead to the Pacific, So, Sept. 3, 1609, he steered the Half Moon toward Staten Island, and from thence up the Hudson's blossomy banks. The next year, in the interests of rieh Englishmen, he discovered Hudson's Bay, 'giving to England a splendid fur trade. But part of his men mutinied, and Hudson, with eight others, were put off in .an open boat, never again to be heard of. IndigeStiO Dyspepsia Cleans Slow starvation. 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Ile found the nest ander an apple tree and although the eggs were larger around than the snake's head, his • neck or even his body, he had no trouble in getting then pushed down the narrow passage. 'You could eee themt" go without any trouble and when the four eggs were_ in the snake you could see the four knots on the snake. how1 die them?Well did he digestW lI that was an easy question for Mr. Black- snake. He crawled up. the body of the apple tree; wrapped himself around it and tightened himself until pop, pop, pop—and all the eggs were broken.— From the Statesville Mascot. CURED 4 YEARS RHEUMATISM DRIVEN FROM THE BLOOD a A Remedy Which Assists Nature Makes a Cure Which is Perma- nant as This Case Proves. • Every sufferer from rheumatism wants to be cured and to stay cured. The prospect of the frequent return of the trouble is not atractive to anybody who has gone through ono siege. Most treatments aim simply to "keep down" the rheumatic poisons iu the blood. 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