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Home My WebLink AboutThe Herald, 1910-06-24, Page 7.ste rata -tessetersa He answered: "I flung everything in the fortunes of to-day—ruin, or a grand coup; to gain a bold step to freedom, and—you." Christine saw at once the new moral danger that threatened to wreck all her efforts through her very bold of this passionate, undisciplined heart. "In plain truth,"- she said, slowly, "in this mad gambling game of to -day you taken your honor and your wife against ruin—not thousands of gold!" "Christine!" "Husband—love--be true to yourself., and never—oh, never again play such a fearful game as that!" All the rich love, all the passion of the woman's soul, weiit out to him in those deep, suppressed words, and they sunk into his very heart's core. It wassminutes before he could answer or dare to trust even a glance; then he turned his handsome face, still quivering with the intensity of passionate emo- tions forcibly suppressed, full to hers, and met her eyes. "I never will, wife, I promise. Flow - ever desperate and reckless I may be, I will never again play dead against abso- lute ruin, for your sake and for honor's sake." "Dearest, thank you for that." For quite a mile they rode on in si- nnce. Then St. Maur spoke again: "The one chance that both those two soaves might fail was so remote --such a bare possibility—that I think in my then temper I did not recognize or real- ize it as being almost beyond possibility —I would not think of it as being on the cards of chance at all, or face the fact that if—if both lost—it was ruin, be cause even Morley would not have stood by me to meet all the loss. If either Kingfisher or Frank's Hercules had failed to take the place for which I had backed them, the pan on the one innings would have saved the loss on the other—or nearly so. Do you follow me?" "Yes, quite." "I had backed Kingfisher very heavily —Hercules for a place for much less—so that if the former won, and the latter failed to come second or third, I should still have cleared a good sum, despite the loss on Hercules; but if the case had been reversed, I should have lost the said sum on the race." "But you could have met it?" "Yes—just, I think, without Morley's aid." "And now," she added, "since both won your bets, you have gained a large sum?"' "Ah, yes, thousands—marry thous- ands " She dared not say, "It is ill-gotten gold--ci not touch it!" it would be straining the cord too taut; but she said, gently: ' "And, Falconer, what will you do with its" He looked at her and smiled. "Pay half at least to Kenton Morley on Monday evening or Tuesday; it will materially lessen his count against me and ease off interest. I won't go to hire for much again, if I can help it, either—if Fortune isn't too hard again. I think, darling," he added, in a lighter tend, "that you brought me luck by wearing my colors." "I hope I shall bring you better luck than tliat yet, dear husband," she an- swered, softly. • The light flashed up into the nian's eyes; herself, then—her own precious self at his side again; it must be—it must be, before long! He could not— would not live without her! CHAPTER XVIII. "Please, sir, if you are disengaged, Mr. St. Maur would like to see you," said Mr. Morley's old clerk, entering his mos ter's private room about 11 on the Tues- day morning. The money -lender was busy over a pile of inauspicious -looking papery, his brow somewhat puckered, his lips rather oniin- &usly compressed; but at that annotunee- ment he looked quickly up with a posi- tive gleam of pleasure over his whole face. "Show him in, Robinson, and remember I am engaged as long as he is here." Robinsonretired, and Morley swept the papers into a arawer, rising, as the doer again opened to admit the tall, graceful figure of his favorite. client, "I am glad to see you. by dear St, Maur," he said, cordially, gr.+.seeng the other's hand; "very pleased to see you. Sit down," resuming his own place. "Thanks for your welcome," said Fal- coner, smiling, as he threw himself into his usual seat, the easy-ehair on the hearth near by; and for all the writing his own hand had written against him, he was so brilliant and gifted, so rich in the glorious beauty and pride of bis manhood, that it was ,iurely no wonder if that childless. solitary man, almost entering the vale of his sixth decade, welcomed this bright being of another world, and, had put forth round him for years the tendrils of affection that .bad wel-nigh withered for want of moisture; it had grown very slowly on the hard, worldly man of money -making, this lik- ing! it had been long before be recog- nized its existence; but there it was— and recently, a fact admitted to its ob- ject. "And when I say I am pleased to see you, I mean it," said the money -lender. "I know you do, Ken; that's the oda part of it, for you must feel tolerably sure that I have come for cash agaiu." "Truth to say, I expected you last week, against settling Monday," said Morley, coolly. "Take a glass of wine, though, before starting into business." "Thanks—but I had rather not-" "Breakfasted late, eh, young man?" "If you call 8 o'clock late—yes. I never take pegs, you know." "I know you don't, nor care about eating and drinking at all; it's not among your vices." "Got plenty without that add," said the other, with a half -bitter laugh. "Well, suppose I'm euchred—cleaned out by Derby settlings yesterday—what will you stand?" "What have you the audacity to ask, you bold sinner? That is mare to the point, I take it." "Oh, well, I might have hag, last weer;, to ask for ten thousand if 1 had chou_l.t I should have got it, to save utter ruin." Morley looked hard at rhe spe firer, puzzled by his manner. "Utter ruinl" he repeated, slowly. "De you mean to say that it has come to that—one one race—so sudi.'nly:" "Why not? is that so sta.), ige ei LLirg iu your experience, Ken?" "To be ruined, and never even to come near me! How insane!" said the elder man, striking his hand on the solid table beside him, hurt, wounded, stung with anger by the sharpnese of the pain. In an instant St. Maur had sprung up and laid his hand on- the other's shoul- der. startled, vexed. with himself, pained to a degree. "Ken—my dear Morley—forgive me. I never dreamed you would care much if I did go to the bad. It was all my worthless moquerie. I'm not done for this time." "Not ruined—oh, thank heaven!" He grasped the young man's hand like a vise for a moment before he let hien resume his seat. "And if you bad been—" "If 1 had, Ken, I should have come straight to you; not to ask for ten thousand 'pounds, because that would have been absurd, but to tell you that I must cry bankrupt, and vanish" "You would ---honor bright, you would —have come to me, St. Maur?" said the elder man, eagerly. "Yes; but 1 repeat, not for help to such a tune as that, when your account against me must be somewhere about fifteen thousand pounds. To ask you to cash up another ten on virtually no security, would have passed even my audacity, and been met by the flat re- fusal it deserved." "I'm not quite so sure of that, though," said the money -lender, strok- ing his gray beard reflectively. "I like gold as well as most hien, of course, and keep a tight grip on it, but I'm not at all hard; and when I told you that 1lik- ed you, I meant what I said, as I always do, and I should have stood by you, and possibly made some arrangement for you to give you a chance; though I dont say I should hav etouched at all upon so large a sum as I see you were mad enough to risk last week; it went very near, in the code of gamblers, to staking your honor" St. Maur started, flushing deeply—al- most his avife's very words. OUTDOOR SPORT AND ZAM.''13VK, Every athlete, every ball -player, every swimmer, every canoeist, every roan or woman who loves cep ut box life and exa ercise, should Zam-Bolt handy.col herbal axe. Zazn-Buk is a purelyprepare, tion which, as soon as apglied. to cuts, bruises, burns, sprains, listens, etc., sets up highly beneficial operations. First, its antiseptic properties render the wound free' from all danger from blood poisoning. Next, its soothing properties relieve and ease the pain. Then its rich, herbal balms penetrate the tissue, 'and set up the wonderful process of healing, Barbed wird scratches, insect stings, skin diseases, such as eczema, 'heat rashes, ring- worm, babies' heat sores, chafed places, sore feet—all come within Zam- Buk's power. It also eases and cures piles. All druggistsand store. Avoid imitations. St. Maur took bun up In' to spoken, suppressed way. "But I held her heart, and she mine—my life's one love— ay, through all the reisery 1 have wrought on both—the wreck, perhaps, 1 have made --through all the deep wrong I have done her, and heart -breaking sep- aration of . six years, when each halt thought the other dead, she has been the one woman at the bottom of ray life, wound in with every fibre of my being!" "Thank heaven! she Will save him yet, then!" muttered the money lender, "She does live still, then, St. IVlour?" "Ay," he said, facing round now; "it was my wife I saved at 13righton, after all, Kenton, in that gale. I knew that only a week ago; but 1 first saw her to recognize her in the theatre that night before Newmarket." "And why," saki Norley, after, a pause, "is all this strange, sad story a secret whatever degree, at lieart—retrieving a downward path, if only by one step. Falconer saw the expression and read it aright, with a wonderful gratitude that told very little vanity or self-con- sciousness could be reekoned amongst the man's faults; but glancing suddenly up, Morley caught that look in the vel- vet -dark eyes, and both men smiled. "You are a bit of a riddle to me, Ken," said the younger. "Because I admit ---shall I say—an ec- centric e-centric liking for such a very mixed pickle of good, bad and indifferent, as goes by the name of falconer St. Maur —is that it?" "Yes, exactly; it's a riddle, Ken." "Well, leave the riddle, and accept the fact as I do. You area it much deeper riddle to me than I ani to you, and one that, from an idle curiosity, I should, above, everything, like yon to read ine, yon touched it that evening here just l.efore the Newmarket—do Sou remem- ber our conversation?" "Yes." St. Maur : teanf'•1 back in Ids chair, but the hand that had rested lightly on the cushioned arm clinched upon it. "You urged ms to pull in, and threw out the suggestion. to see how I took it, that I. alight marry a rich wi- dow or an heiress, and 1 replied, 'Thank you for nothing." "That was not all you sail," said Mor- ley, resting his broad hands on the bills he had counted down; `may I remind you?" warren, Ont. i eb. lith. "1 had a horse that had a Spavin for a long time ,and I had tried nearly every kind of medicine when a neighbor told me to use 1 endall's Spavin Cl,re, which I did and 11 acted wonderfully," 111. noeErrrI3AI,. Kcndall's Sumba Cure is no untried experlmen t, but is the world's standard remedy for ail Swellings, Soft Bunches and Lameness in hoe= and man. used the world over for ,;c years. itveny farmer, stockman, express- man, livery proprietor and horse owner generally should keep it always on hand. $1. a bottle -6 for $5, Ask your dealer for free copy of our book "A Treatise On The horse"—or write us , DR. 0. .1. ?KENDALL CO. 55 ,Cnn"xsbanrig Falls, - Vermont. ImPilSnr .; i'1 a aazu SC4 i sir ,,i'r.;'a;�ilri ""Yes." "You added, '11 I must be eciehrcd, I most; but by heaven'. 1 am not bacl enough for such a gime as that.' I said, `There is a woman at the bottom of that, of course;' and you r'plied, "There's a woman at the bottom of most men's lives, isn't there? There is misery and wrong enough without my piling up more' Do you remember sexing that'?" "Ay, and I meant ever- word," Tie •got up and began wal!aki,: to and fro the room. "You don't c e s ale to do that, snrrly--to Krieg .. „,man I don't care for?" front your uncle? For your wife is your equal, of course, or you would not have married her." "lb is a secret, Ken, and must remain one while he lives, as far as 1 can see; because my young wife happens—by the irony of fate, 1 suppose—to be the one woman banned to me by my uncle, for whose sake I should be unrelentingly dis- inherited—utterly! You must under- stand that. She is the daughter of a lady who jilted him ,shamelessly, unpardon- ably, I admit." "But the poor child, nor you, had noth- ing to do with that!" said Morley, in- dignantly. "Certainly not; but how few of us are just or reasonable when our feelings or passions come into play? and William Orde is stubborn to a degree, I tell youl" "And you dare not even hint the mat- ter to him, then?" "Not a breath! I know what that means for me; and fqr you, every cent of your .security to the winds!" ""IH'm ! that would not quite do, eith- er," said the moneylender, with a grave but kindly smile. "Does—pardon me my questions—does your wife see the neces- sity —of secrecy, I mean?" "Yes, now—when I told her every- thing a week ago," "She is not, then, living with you anywhere?" Morley asked, looking down. FOR INDiGfSTION The Process of Didesfiou is Con trolled by Blood and Nerves. If you live indigestion and you be- gin a course of treatment to make your stomach stronger, you are on the right track for a real cure. You can, never cure yourself by eating pre-di- gested foods, or by taking purgative medicines. The stomaeh is not doing its own work under these treatments, and there can be no real cure until the stomach is strong enough to di- gest all the food necessary to main- tain the body in normal health. The great aim of the tonic treatment for indigestion in all forms, is to strength- en the stomach to a point where all foods eaten will digest easily and nour- ish the body. A tonic that will strengthen the stomach is what is needed, as the process of digestion is controlled by the blood and nerves. 'Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are an ideal tonic. They actually make new, rich blood, and thus bring strength and tone to the stomach. This has been proved over and over again, and tb,ou sands of grateful people have not hesi- tated to say so. Hero is an instance: Miss Eva Tocher, Balmoral, Man., says: "I am writing this letter on be- half of mymother, who wishes you to know how much Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for her. For several years she had been greatly troubled with indigestion and notwithstanding. the medicine she was taking the trou- ble was growing worse. Every meal was dreaded, and left behind it a feel- ing of nansca and severe pains. As she continued site began to lose strength and energy, and was hardly able to do any housework. Acting on the advice of a friend she began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and soon began to feel better. She continued taking the pills until she had used ten boxes, when her health was fully restored and she could take any kind of food without the least discomfort. Since that time she has not bad the slightest return of the trouble." Thousands of cured men and wo- men speak from experience of the benefits derived from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in eases of indigestion, anae- mia, rheuriatisin, general weakness, mains in the back and side, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, and the troubles that afflict women and growing girls. These pills are sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 150 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co.. Brockville, Ont. "I know it," he said, with a kind of proud humility that touched the old man; and I shall never again, I hope, sail so terribly close to the wind. I was mad. I don't the least deserve your kind words and friendly feeling, nor the luck that has crowned my desperate throw of the dice. If Matador had won I was ruined" "Ah, then you backed Kingfisher?" "Very heavily, and Hercules for a place, and he, you saw, of course, was second. I won on both, and as the result of yesterday's settling," he rose up and laid a slip of paper before the money- lender, "please take that off my old ac- count." Morley took up the cheque, looked at it, then up into Falconer's face. "My dear fellow, have you made a mistake in the figures?" "Not at all; I have drawn a cheque for five thousand pounds --•it is quite right. Give ilio a receipts and mark it off the total debt I owe, that's all" "I will hand you over bills of yours to that amount," said the money -lender, unlocking a drawer. Into his rugged face there had come such a sunshine look of pleasure as few ever had seen there --- not the gladness of the lender receiving his own again with usury, but the pleas- ure of the man who sees another—for whom he cares, whose welfare he has, in "Not for worlds: ft wonbl be your ruin. body and sou!!" shil-the.nhoney- lender, strongly. "I want to see you saved; and nothinti.1 verily believe, can do that but one thing—oche being, who- ever she may be. Vtrzive me if 1 speak out and probe wo:ends; but ii, as 1 fancy, it is your owe sin^i and conse- quent position that stand in your way with relaiivs on beth sides, or in any way. 1 could perhaps help you material- ly. 1 -vonld make any arrang.>ment that 1. possibly (Ionia noise to help you if you will but trust in4 with your confi- dence; it will he as safe as the grave with me unless tam bid me, speak." Falconer St. Maur swung round, and stood still on the other side of the secre- taire. IIe was de. tltly pale with the intensity of emotion ' stirred to its depths. `"I know it!" he said, in a suppressed way: "and I will "_rust you—even if it were not to your nwn best interest tc keep my secret—because you have won the right to confidence; but all your for- bearance and utterly unlooked-for kind- ness can not possil:!v help me." "Ah, don't say that, boy—don't say that!" interrupted Morley, -leaning for- ward in his earnestness. "Is it your un cle's opposition? Surely 1 can be of Borne use if that i- the; obstacle!" "It is the obatarle. Kenton, but not as you think; the thing is done, and, thank heaven, totting can undo itt" He paused. - "What do you Innen? What have you done?" "I am married." In all the wildest range of possibility that answer had Lever suggested itself to Benton Morley. and he fell -back in his chair in utter blank: amazement and dismay, staring at the younger man. "Married!" he repeated at but. "Good heavenst I never dreamed that ---of yon —1 confess. Now, when was it?" "More than eight :'ears ago," said St, Maur, half turning :17;1(12. There was deal , fence for a minute. till the money lender broke Rt: "Only twenty-three! 'Then—ehe— she—" "A trusting child of sixteen, whom 1 easily persuaded int.') a secret nt r!a„e," There was a world of bitter pain in the one word that told its own story to the keen -witted listener. He stretched out his hand and clasped the other's closely, holding it,"thank you more than I can say for your confidence," he said, huskily. "Yon have never treated me nor judged me, I know, as nothing but a mere hard, grasping money -lend- er, to be made use of and despised. You have ever been courteous, and given me credit for some heart and feeling, some human sympathies; and now you have trusted me as a friend—the lone- ly, childless old man—and you will not find your confidenee misplaced, believe me. Now, can you read the riddle of my eccentric liking for you?" "Yes, friend." "One favor I would ask," said Morley, presently, pushing the roil of bills to his client; "you may think it a singular One." "No matter if I do, Ken; what is it?" "Dou't tell your wife that you have told me all this." "I -rill not, till you. choose to retract the request," answered St. Maur. "Thank you very much." Once more a close hand -clasp, and the two men so di.sintilar, yet so oddly link- ed, part•".d. But Morley sat for a long time, his head resting ou his hand, thinking over the sorrowful life's story he had heard, reading much ie. between the lines; all the wrong and misery, and sin; all the gnawiug remorse abed passionate, cling- ing love for that one woman who had never lest het hold—a gambler's story of two lives well-nigh wrecked by the fatal passions with which the loved and lov- ing wife had now to wage such stern warfare. "But she'll save him yet !" the money- lender muttered; "there is gold in the man, in spite of all—and not the least, his love for her. I must find her out later, for I'll play into her hands as far as possible. I think I was never more taken aback in my life than when he said those three words, Good heavens! I had thought of everything but that. Falc St. Maur married—and more than eight years ago, too! How should any- body who knew him iinsgino"? I can't realize it yet. And Mr. Orbe—Mr. Orde, if you had not made it impossible for this marriage to be acknowledged " at once, your boy might have been ree.aim- ecl lost gago, and never have been what he is now—a b »mbkr, Heaven help him and his!" And the old inen rose up with a heavy sigh. • AN CM FOR 25 GENTS don't mind my taking it from Fele St. Maur." Addison's brow cleared. "No, I don't mind Fate at all; but I have warned you before, my dear Nell,. that in Madame Raconier's house play • is often carried to positive gambling, especially after twelve, or according to the people who have dropped in, A music and card party is very pleasant, but high play in the salon is not admirable." "No; I kttow, dear Frank, and I don't like it any more than Mrs. Errington, who was there, too." "Mrs. 'Errington! Olt, she played and sung. of course. she is so musical?" "Yes. she and St. Maur; it Was a treat to hear then; then she came into the card room and looked on, but madame challenged her, and she played. Why. Frank, she is a capital player, and knows every game, I do think; all that are played anywhere." tlo us continued.) A VS Erit We have on hand thirty-five organs; taken in exchange 00 Ilcirttzntan & Co pianos, which we must sill regardless cs ,OSx, ±0 make room in our store. River? Instrument has peen thn,rougbly over hauled, and is guaranteed for five years and full amount will be allowed on ex change. The prices rein from $10 to $33 for such well-known makes as 'Thomas, Dominion, Ram, 'Uxbridge, Goderich an Bell. This is your chance to save money A. poet card w111 bring hill particulars.-- Heinfzntan & Co., 71 Bing street east, iiam.lton. CHAPTER XIX. Why the Worm Turned, A prominent feminist in France, Mlle. Clare de Pratz, who itt also known in England as a novelist, was telling me the other day why she became a feminist in the first instance. It appears that when the men students at the Sorbonne real- ized that women not only could compete with them, but they could beat them, they were annoyed; when en one year's list three women's ,names came out on top the authorities decided that in fu- ture two lists must be published, one 1or men and one for women. In that way no comparisons could be drawn, and the amour propre of messieurs les etudiants could be guarded from rude jars. ----The Queen. "Prank!" "Well, il, my dear?" The major lacked up over the top of his Innes. "T want a f v^ T m,d note, p ase, " "•7iv Jove! do ;‘,.n2 indee ! What for, please? for you had a cheque o sly the other day b'ca lS-_ yc'u said your pin- :noney was of roil. " "Don't 'hOc o: �. t:" s a g ,o.l boy; but r .t ;' ,t t 3 me: it's ail right " said Helen, with r, laugh that was a lit- tle. uneasy. Addi. on frowned a : i t'e, and put aside the pretty, ontA ie tcilyd hand. "Pardon me. my deo I;elen, but I must know what it is for." "Tut! how tiresome you are this morning, Frank. I owe it, that's all." "'lb whom? and what for?" "Fele St. Maur, theta, if you must know front A to Z'." she said, petulant- ly. "I lest it last night at cards to Ma- dame Raconier, I didn't •mean to play so high, but I did; she went up, up— end, of .course, no stakes ever frighten hor—and I lost more than I had, and Centreville, has been appointed treas- Vale lent itt to me. I'm very sorry; but I got excited, I suppose. I knew you [ urer 0f Lennox and Addington counties would be angry about it, though you in succession to the late Irvine Parke. The female house fly lays from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty eggs at once, and as those eggs mature in two weeks, her descendants number hundreds of thousands in three ironths. Therefore all house- keepers should commence using Wilton's Fly Pads now, and by killib?g the few flies you have at present, cut off the host that would 00'1e later ;n the season, Cee* SCOTCH 110('.1 ORt S RECOP.D. (Westminster (rarette".) l?r. James Morris, ub,r was one of the oidc;•t medical practitioners in Scotland, h:h, in. -t eii: cl at I)nnfcrniline. When he eol, bra Ltd his jubilee as a dactor some ten - ale a,o he mule this statement; "During m;, fifty y a.rs in practice I have attended. 50,1100 patients, adminis- tered ehler.,form 111,000 times with abso- lute immunity from fatal results, had 3;000 births (1.000 consecutive cases without a death), made ;about 1,000,000 visits, and trevelled about•100,000 miles.'' Not a bad record for a country medical man. William Shannon, an old resident of