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The Herald, 1910-04-22, Page 7"You pique my curiosity antazingly, Uncle !Roland," laughed his ward, ring- ing the bell for the removal of the breakfast things as Minnie heft the room, "I'm going out now for a blow and a cigar, my dear," laid her uncle, • amnsed; "but I won't be long. I'll try to get some news of the other ship- wrecked creatures; they were all housed somewhere." Certainly great calamities bring out the best side of human nature, and prove the Creator has not left himself without witnesses on earth in the hearts of the ereated. CHAPTER III. When Clifford canine back again he found his patient -still pale and lan- guid—ensconsed in a huge easy hair by the fire Mimic kneeling on the rug, and Blanehe sitting opposite with some fancy work. "That's right," said Dr. Clifford, sit- ting down beside Mrs. Errington, and taking her hand. "I see my girls have taken care of you." "Oh, you are all too kind," faltered Christine; "but I shall be able to go to London this afternoon." "Go to—fiddlesticks! said the doctor, gruffly. "Your pulse is very Iow and weak still, and no wonder. You don't leave here till I think proper." "But, Doctor Clifford, please listen. I must go; you have all done to much already for a perfect stranger of whom you know nothing— Nay, hear me!" "Oh, I'll hear you, if you're a veritable sea lawyer, but as to knowing nothing —11'm!—you are proud, and have a will of your own"—lightly touching the reso- lute but tender mouth—"and so have I. Physicians are autocrats, and you don't go till I choose—that'; flat!" "Doctor Clifford," said Christine, des- perately, "I feel under false pretences till you hear me. I was not a passenger aboard the Undine, but only her stew- ardess, shipped for the home trip." "Very good, my dear Mrs. Errington; and an honest, respectable berth, too," said the physician, composedly. "The ups and downs of life have no law but necessity; you are none the less a well- born, well-bred lady because Dame For- tune chose somehow to make a football of you and kick you out of your proper place into the berth of a stewardess; and I'll be bound you did your duty as such. too. You stuck by your ship and skipper like a brick, too!" She flushed up. "That was only my duty, as belong- ing to the ship," she said, quickly. "One more in the other boats would have periled them. Besides, every one else had friends or relatives to mourn and stiffer by their loss, and I have none, as ♦ )old you." .1".1. scarcely took that literally—quite so Iiterally," said Clifford, huskily, glanc- ing involuntarily in the wedding -ring. "You are so young." Christine saw that glance, and her teeth set close for a moment; then she said: "I meant it literally. I an twenty- four, and I—I lost my husband years ago." "Yearn ago t" repeated both father and deugbter in a breath. as if they could not have heard aright. "Yes," she said, quietly; but, like her face, that rich, low voice of hers had a world of suppressed passion and force underlying it. "Nearly six years ago I married, just over sixteen, a young ar- tist, and in barery zwo years he died." "Good heavens! a widow at eighteen!" muttered the doctor. "What could you do?" "Ay, I had to face it soon enough," she amid. still looking steadily into the fire. "I went back to the old aunt who had brought me up—the only relative I had —but in a few months she too died, and with her her income; but I had a little— about fifty pounds a year—of my own, so I was able to think what best to do. Ah! pardon me---" she paused abrupt- ly; but those three deeply interested faces and the doctors' earnest "Please go on!" tirade it almost incumbent on her to eoutin'ue the explanation • of the an- omalous position in which she admittedly stood. "I could not live on that," Mrs. Er- rie:4ton went on. "I was highly educat- ed and accomplished, very musical, 1 spoke several languages, and I had tra- veled. I was too young to teach, and I hated it; the humdrum life would have maddened my restless spirit." "I am certain of that," said Clifford, sotto voce. `But what .else could you do, then?" asked Blanche Leroy, in genuine sur- • prise• ' 14 Karate Solid f Gold Shen Nava We will glue yon 7onr libelee of aneet those beon. Mal rinse,solid old sago cL sed 14 karate gshell pilin, engraved or seta with elegant simulated J.weJ , for the sale of 4 boxes only. at tto, a box, of Dr. Moberia'e riotous Veplotablo Pilo. They are the greatest remedy for Indigestion eoaetipa- tion, rheaiaattent, weak or impure blood oe4arrh dbiew es of the liver and dxilya Whoa yon have sold these 4 box.e of pilo send no the looney $1. sod the mime of we dude/drool and i�rre will mend yon, your of *moot thole kane,eme Rugs, plata or. 'ratad of met with preoleno stows. dont yonr nanuo and address fmwodiately sad we y0180)14,074 pookentd.tko ?lhi nod Taney ire Wldck to giro away to ynrolwero of o p�{lea. Ws do not Itmk any moue before aaunnit a aro nobles* Teo take back wast en Address ti4tlttte' MlatlteiM 00. it411 T R • -Several things, '_Hiss Leroy. 1 e..ull go as a traveling oompaniou, lady -wee Jere, and I did so; and as I never nzhndeel !row I made myself useful, and if the ex- act berth was not to hand, took what was, I have seldom been long out of employment. But I was hard driven this time in New York. I yiad been travelling in Europe with an American lady and her daughter, and head etken them back to New York, where I was to be paid up the greater part of salary due to me. When we arrived, to 1 the hus- band had failed utterly—and, in fact, they all disappeared. I tried to get soinething before my small funds were gone, but in vain; my last reference, too, was nil, and any other was across the Atlantic. At last I had not •'nough to pay my passage to England. One evening I heard that the stewardess of the Undine, Red Star liner, for Landon, had been run over hi Broadway that clay, her leg badly broken, and she had been taken tb a hospital; also that the boat must sail next morning, and her captain had not been able yet to get a steward- ess. I at once went down to the Undine and offered myself for the berth, telling Captain Sebright the exact truth, which my boarding-house people could verify. How he laughed! but he had got a lot of Iady-passengers and his own wife aboard, and was in a corner; so he shipped me, and I joined that night." "Quite an adventure," said the doctor. "Dear me- and then to be shipwrecked, and lose everything—clothes and all!" "Not much, luckily," said the fair couriere and ex -stewardess, smiling. 'I never travel with a large wardrobe, and I had sent over here before I left 'Paris all save what was absolutely necesaery for the run to New York and back. And I always worn that belt with whatever money or valuables I had in it. 13esides, I shall be paid, of course, diremay t get to town." "I am glad, indeed, to hear that youd loss is not so bad," was the hearty reply. Minnie asked: "But how came a steamer to be so helpless—such a wreck? Was the cap- tain in fault?" "Not a bit of it, Miss Clifford. But we had had a very sough passage, espe- cially up Channel; and that gale of the last forty hours was about ono of the heaviest I have ever been in, If we could have kept her engines going, al) might have been well, strained though she was; but early last evening she took green seas on board, and one, that nearly pooped her, rushed down into the engine-roow and swamped out the fires, besides carrying away the binnacle and damaging the steering. bgear. Then, of course, she wouldn't keep steerage way, and became unmanageable, driving help- lessly before the gale—an, on to this lee shore. Then our skipper fired two sig- nals of distress, and got the boats ready —with little hope, teenthough, he tome, of their living in sudh a sen." . "Oh, how terribly frightened you must have been!" the girl cried, with dilated eyes. "No," said the other, quietly, "I did not fear. I was unconscious of any feeling but a strange, calm self-possession. I suppose I had too rnuolr to do to think of fear and death sentiently. You see, I was a sort of she -captain," she added, with a slight smile, "and had my poor, frightened women -passengers and young children to encourage and control. Poor things! it was hard enough to keep some of them from shrieks and confus- ion, which bewilder the men, and too often loses all chance of rescue. But Captain Sebright was so cool, so splen- did, that it inspired everybody to be brave 1" she said, enthusiastically. "It was such an example!" "So, I suspect, was somebody's else —quite as much," said the doctor, sig- nificantly. "Then you are out of work again, Mrs. Errington?" "Yes." Clifford got up, and began walking up and down slowly, with his hands be- hind him, and a puckered brow, cogi- tating over something. His daughter turned; but at that mo- ment se waiter entered, and said that a gentleman wished to see Dr. Clifford; he was in the next room (used for din- ner by the Cliffords). "Excuse me, then, ladies," said the physician; and went away into the other sitting -room, where he found a middle-aged Haan—unmistakably seafar- ing—awaiting him. "Sir," said he, warmly grasping the other's hand, "I believe I owe you dou- ble thanks; for I hoar that you not only helped pull me and my. gallant fellows ashore last night, but took charge of my stewardesss—a grand creature, air 1" "Ah, you are, then, Captain Se - bright 14c exclaimed Dr. Clifford. "I am delighted to know you, for I have just been hearing about you from your stew- ardess. She says you ispired them all." "Nonsense! I only did my duty," said the other, quickly. "But she—she's a splendid woman ! She doesn't know what fear or losing her head means. I believe she was invaluable all the voyage, and when the gale caught us, and that aw- ful wreck came, she was just the right hand of us all, and saved me half my care and anxiety for the passengers. She inspired es, I think. She kept up the men by a word or look—as cool as act+- cumber. She kept the women quiet, un- dor control, so that we men could stet unhampered. When the boats came alongside, she stood ready, and handed thew on to us at the gangway, stead- i1y—wouIdn't let 'em hurry, push, scream, and would not leave the ship till the last of us. `Give 'ere the chance,' aap'n, elle said, in that determined way + A+ 'CUD n 11V a41.1 O U R $ You can painlessly remove any ecru, claim r hard, soft or bleeding, by applying Pntnain's Corn Extractor. :it ncvariants, loavesnoscar, contains no acids; is hanriesc beeanse comae:sal only of healing gums and y+alms. gift) years in use. pure guaranteed. Vold 07 all druggists 20e, bottles. Refuse substitutes. PUTINWAIVI'SPAINLESS' CO r ' N EXTRACTOR And if you lift me in by force, I will jump overboard.' She would, too, sir, I tell you. She's as brave as she's hand- some—that Mrs. Errington 1" "I am sure of that, Captain Sebright, I hope none of your people are hurt?" "Thank you, doctor—no. All getting on well, I've been looking round after them, and arranging for their going on to London. Everybody is so •kind to us shipwrecked folks! How is Mrs. Erring. ton? Could I see her? As the company's agent will be down soon." "Certainly. Ill go and send her in to you. And when you have settled your business, she must• bring you to be in- troduced to my girls." "If the ladies will excuse my unfash- ionable appearance, then," said the captain, glancing laughingly at his dress. "It's dry, and that's all, doctor." "All right, captain." And away went Clifford to Lams se beautiful Christine Errington, and tell his girls what the captain of the "(1n - dine" had said of her. "And it confirms you in some project that popped into your head, pap," said Mimi*, slyly. "Don't deny it, Doctor Slyboots." "Miss Sauce -box," said he, "you're right. But you won't know it for a few days, when, perhaps;I will propound. my project to our guest. Hush! here she comes with Captain Sebright." * o * * * One thing more connected with the disaster: All attempts entirely failed to discover who was the stranger who had aided the life -boat's crew, and then res- cued the stewardess so desperately. He went as ho came—unknown! CHAPTER IV. The evening of the day after Captain Sebright's visit, Mrs. Errington herself unconsciously gave her' host an easy opening for propounding his wishes. "Doctor Clifford," she said, "I am quite strong again, and I cannot any longer intrude on your generous hos- pitality. To -morrow, please, I must go to London." Te girls cried out: "Oh, no—no!" He looked at them, and instantly though of Sebright's expression, "that determined way of hers." "Want to look for another berth, eh?" said Clifford, leaning his arm on the table. "I shall leave to directly, certainly," answered Christine, smiling. "Ah! I suppose you wouldna Bare for a situation that made England -•London —its headquarters?" "I should not mind it at she =eat, quite unsuspecting his dri if ,` :*"-e one Z could take. There are one or two of my former emplyoyers to ,vhom I can refer." "Very good; that Bierman 'S natters. To be plain and to the pt et., Mrs. Er- rington, it is myself and my two girls I am thinking of. I sometimes want the assistance of a secretary, and the girls need a married lady as a compan- ion and chaperon, to walk, ride, drive with them, take them to amusements, into society, and assist Minskto play hostess in home society. In fact, be like a married elder sister. She and Blanche are only nineteen and twenty, you see, and only left governess and masters this autumn. They are on life's threshold, at the age to be spreading their wings, while I am fifty, and begin- ning to fold mine; and if you would come to us, I fancy we should all pull very well in the same boat" Mimie could contain her joy no long- er. She jumped up, threw herself on her knees before Christine, and fairly embraced her slender waist. "Oh! how jolly! Ah, you must—must say yes, Mrs. Errington!" Christine's dark eyes had sparkled, and her soft cheeks flushed while the doctor spoke, and now she stooped and kissed the lovely girl at her feet with tremulous lips, and her voice was a lit- tle unsteady as she answered the phys- ician: THEY TOOK HIM OUT OF HIS BED Dodd's Kidney Pills cured Mr. F. McAuliffe's Lumbago. Lachute Man, After Fourteen Years Suffering, Finds Health and Strength in an Old Reliable Kidney Remedy. Lachute, Que., April 12,—(Speci.al).-• .Auer fourteen years of suffering, which started from pleurisy, followed by dropsical swellings, and culminated in Lumbago, and confined hien to his bred, McAuliffe a well-known re- sident of this place, has entirely re- covered his health, and he says with- out hesitation, "I am suree I owe it entirely to Dodd's Kidney Pills," "I was laid up with Pleurisy, which a£Bocted my k:laneys," Mr. McAuliffe continues. "I suffereda. great deal of pain, especially in my back. I was also terribly troubled with dropsical swellings, and finally, after many at- tempts to get rid of my trouble, I found myself compelled to give up and was confined to my bed with Lumbber�. I tried many medaoines but they #ailed to do me any good. '.then I turned to Dodd's Kidney Pills, and after ting one box I felt greatly relieved. 1 took several more boxes and found myself eoiaplebely cured." Daddim Kidney Pills always cure any of hors. 'They've friends; I've none. and all forms of Kidney Disease, • "You are may, very 1 it:d, Dr. Clifford. But ;nlaly 1 ens -you must think ale too rung for much a responsible posi- tion.' osi- tion ' "No, I don't," said Roland Clifford, btu luely, 1 don't want ;r frump far my 'children's. friend, I want a woman, young, clever,. faithful, wftln a heart as well a;; brains --a woman of the world, Who knows when to loose reins, and Isles to draw them in. • Cbiue oia trial, at any rate, and if either party 'finds it a failure, we call part company, I'll pay you a handsome salary, and write to your leferenees at once. I can't speak or act .more. fairly, ran I?" "To, indeed --no, indeed, De.. Clifford."' said Christine, earnestly. "I aeecpt your offer, then; subject to replies from my references, of course." "Very well. Now, de you stil insist on leaving us to -morrow?" on. yes, Dr. Clifford. 'For ane thing, I have no clothes here at all, save these," said firs. Errington, stall- ing, "and I must go to our shipping of- fice, and report myself in accordance with Captain Sebright's letters. Yes, I must go, please, to my lodging. I will give you all the addresses." "And I, mine. 3ttmie, my desk, dear." * >:' s as * But that night; alone in her room, that handsome woman •stood ore the mir- ror, pale as death, befand. wrung her hands in passionate agony. "Great heavens!" the bloodless lips muttered, "what if he should ask me for nmy, marriage certificate! Why didn't they let me drown? Oh, heaven! why didn't they let ane drown?" Ah, met ah, Me! So young and fair! What was her untold story? CHAPTER V. "I declare Mr. Falconer Si. Maur, you are the coolest, most audacious scamp that ever lived!" "My good fellow, have you only just found that out?" said the other, opening wide a pair of great dark eyes veiled by long, dark lashes. Kenton Morley raised his bright eyes, and scanned the speaker, from the mass of wavy locks, all "Golden where the sunlight played, But where tendrils sought the shade Dark and very beautiful," to the small, well -shaped foot that rest- ed on the carpet. he said, with an odd little dry smile, "I don't think it took me as many months as I have of years' knowl- edge of you to find that out. I don't need to be told at this time of day that you are up to everything, and something more besides." The other laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "Thanks—a compliment—with the bar- sinister arsinister through it. Anything more, in a small way, while we're on that sub- ject?" "Yes. On my word, this evening I do not know whether I am most amused, most aghast or most angry with you." " 11 three, ifyoulike, en - Be a e , i�. re- turned the unmoved Falconer, stroking the soft, drooping moustache that shad- ed his lip. "I don't care; though, for the life of me, I can't see why you're so down on are this time. I told you when I came in, that I only wanted two thousand pounds before I go down to Newmarket." "Only!" repeated Morley, leaning one arch on the large office secretaire at which he sat. have you forgotten that you are pretty deep still in my debt, do spite of what you have paid off from time to time? 'Phis drawer here con- tains your bills, etc., to a heavy tune, my friend. And what are they worth as security, really? Yonr heirship to an uncle who may at any moment cut you off with or without the proverbial shil- ling "For which chance you get suitable in. terest, remember," suggested the younger man, with a sarcastic curve of the haughty lip, and a quick flash in the dark eyes. The advantage isn't all on my side, is it? Also, you hold heavy insurance on my life, the premiums of which half absorb my uncle's allowance. Also, as I have, in the long run, both skill and a lucky hand at le jeu and on the turf (though 1. don't care so much for that kind of gambling, 1 keep your bagatelle of interest fairly paid up; and if I don't--pouf!--over it goes into the capital, to stand against me. Fair play is a jewel, Ken, and you must confess that, taken all in all, we are at even odds" "1 don't deny it, Mr. St. Maur; but, still, I don't feel at all inclined to draw so large a cheque this evening." "I am sorry forour 'feeling,' then, since f feel absolutely inclined to In dorse the said cheque and sign the neces- sary bill belonging to the same. Get out both papers quickly, old lien Mor- le:y;t my patience is nearly exhausted, if yours isn't; so hand over, like a jewel— and you can't refuse, you know." "But 1 will, then!" said Morley. "But you won't!" returned the other. The two amen looked at each other steadily for fully a minute; then the elder's lips gave, his eyes wavered, fell, and Ire leaned back in his chair with a halt. laugh. "They say there is no fool like an old fool, and only on that ground cr-n it be, I suppose, that I have let you get round some unguarded, soft corner long ago, and keep your hold. Heaven only knows Why I like you. for I'm sure 1 do not!" "I'm very certain 1 don't!" said k'al- coner, gazing on the speaker in utter surprise, but with an instant softening of eye and lip that was almost in itself some light key -note to the riddle. "I had not even the least idea that you had any such liking for me, but 1 am grateful for it. Thanks!" There was a courteous grace in the last words all his own. The money -lender smiled, and began Unlocking one of the secretaire drawers before him. "Why don't you get clear of all this vortex, 5t Maur?" n' ., .• ,,,ca +i,*,. ,i.,«me" simmered 'St. Maur, dryly, "by such a sinner as t am." ....bu..V uu.,., 1L,.Ie:nu. d Morley, 'eek Heart, Poor Blood Shortness of Breath a Symptom. "It was a good thing, I began taking F c rr ozone when I did, or my condition would 1:ave, fallen into Pernicious Anae- mia, and title disease I ani told is incur- able," writes Mr. Samuel S. Michaud, of Pembroke. "I am thankful both for re- cevery and escape from a disease that surely runs its course in a brief time. The first symptosis that gave sign that my naturally great strength was failing, developed from climbing to the fourth floor in an office building in Montreal. When 1 got to the top, a blindness seemed to overcome my eyes. I breath- ed lieavily and my breath was very quick and short. "My blood. had turned to water, I was told, and I needed the very best tonic obtainable to vitalize it. You can im- agine bow run down in quality my blood was when it seemed that I was suffer- ing from Pernicious Anaemina. Ferro - zone worked wonders, • Every week I could see how my blood was making my constitution stronger. I hadn't any heart disease. The palpitation was caused by poor blood --so was the short- ness of breath. Ferrozone has made a new man of nie. I am as hearty, ruddy and vigorous as I was twenty years ago. I urge every man and woman in poor health to build ap with Ferrozone." No tonic is so certain as Ferrozone— just one or two tablets to take at meals. 50c per box, six for $2.50, all dealers or The Catarrhozone Co., Kingston, Can- ada. quietly, as he drew out a cheque book and a bill form, "by such a handsome shier as you are:' "I should like to know how, then, friend Kenton" "You ask that! Are there not heir- esses—rich widows? Marry, man, mar- ry!" retorted the money -lender,. covert- ly overtly watching the "handsome sinner." He saw him start slightly, and win. • as if the sharp point -of a weapon.had touched his breast; but he said, with a bitter, cynical Iaugh: "Thank you for nothing, Ken. Who in that market would marry a reckless gambler to pay his debts? Heiresses generally have confounded guardians, and rich widows are 'cute rather, most of them. HI must be euchered, .1 must; but, by heaven! I'm not bad enough for - sinner as you are." (To be continued.)' do0 -ma HARD-SHELLS DT KENTUCKY. Captain Tracey, who lived down in Kentucky, deals a good old Hard -Shell Baptist, who occasionally would tell a e story at the oxpenae of the brethren.. vS, Year sbre a S e (v r t Y ��eT 13o so conspicuous-. ly orl:li'riuox on the temperancequestion as they 's in ebur time 'd, ax "Ori„one, • oeeasxo r,” said "the brethren in, my; regicsn to have a, grand ahiueh echering all the faithful in the net:giTitch; expected to exert thee:lea es" to erxtera tain suitably- and hospitably the visits brethren. Two of my neighbors me each other just before the grand gather- ing. One of them said: "'What are you going to do?' "'Well,' replied the man, 'I've livid in a gallon of firstrate whiskey.' "'A aeon!' retorted ties neighborh,. with a look of contempt; 'Why, I';vee'4gt . abarrel, and you are just as' able . ` support the gospel as I am'" iti' d w.m BANISH PIMPLESs AND ERUPT!' in the Spring Mos People Need a Tonic Medicine. If you want new health and new strength in the spring you must build up your blood with a tonic medicine. Following the long, indoor winter months most people, do feel depressed and eas- ily tired. This means that the blood is impure and watery. It is this state of the blood that causes pimples and un- sightly eruptions. To this same con - clition is Slue attacks of 'rheumatism and lumbago; the sharp stabbing pains of seiatica and neuralgia; poor appe- tite, frequent headaches and a desire to avoid exertion. You can't cure these troubles by the use of purgatives; yon need a tonic and a tonic only, and among all medicines there is none can equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for their tonic, life-giving, nerve restoring powers. Every dose of this medicine makes new, rich blood, which drives out impurities, stimulates every organ, and brings a feeling of new health and energy to weak, tired. out, ailing men, women and children. If you are feeling out of sorts give this medicine a trial, it will not disappoint you. Mr. Paul Cherbonneau, a young man, well known in the town of St. Jerome, Que., is ane of the host who bear testimony to the value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, He says: "When I left school I became a bookkeeper in an important office. Probably due to confinement, I began to suffer from in- digestion and lona of to. I be- came pale arta seemingly bloodless and was often seized with palpitation of the heart and violent headaches. I tried several remedies, but they dM tot do me a bit of good. I was advised to try Dr. 'Wilinams' Pink Pills and did so, and the use of eight boxes brought me to perfect health and strength. I have since enjoyed the best of health and cannot say too much in praise of this valuable medicine." Sold by ail medieino dealers or by mail at tO cents e box or six boxes for $2J0 from The Dr, iVi!liams' Medicine Oct, lrookviUe. Ont. .r%