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The Herald, 1910-11-18, Page 76';t;1"1s 4f,,,,n•i114,4X1.d1itr!d 0 c•w n :a^'�� vat �s�ti ,ni ;: aa: uua :ri 0 w tt.t1:t .c, vttle tee e, "p,,,trat +ru .•41,040,, Ail 3 .0111., l+t?X.) ,•:5;440lerEiR'l8 Ni!i)313r.1401, : a :. R..� lif .Her breath came forth in short,. quick little pants, the color rose and waned on her cheeks, her eyes expanded, then Md themselves behind their, long lashes; the music, the full meaning of hia words fascinated, overwhelmed, tool; abso'.ute possession• of her; but she could not speak, "And you, Joan," lie asked, eagerly, humbly, "shall I tell you how you sheat know 'whether you love mea little — just ca little? Yes? Were you glad to see me the other night, or did it matter nothing to you that it was I who stood beside you instead of some other man? Are you glad to see me now? Would sou be sorry if I said `Good -by,' and you knew that I was going, stover to se- ta= Tell me; Joan !" Silent still, she looked out to sea, watching a curlew as it rose above the cliffs and tittered over the down. "No," he murmured, "you would not sterol Then, indeed, you do not love ase iu the least, Joan, and hover will. Love comets cit first sight, or hover at all! You do not love me, Joan! And ib is good-by—and forever—" and his hands grew loose on hers. With ae, faint little cry she turned to him, and her hand clasped hie, but still held him off. "Yes!" she panted. "I know! I love you 1 I1°—if all you say is true—I love you 1" He caught her to him, and she let hex head rest upon his breast, but AS his lips bent down to kiss her, put up her hands to keep theist off, in simple maid- en modest;:. "Cllr, my darling!" he murmured, paesienrat.cly. "Is it true? Can it be true? 1 have thought of this, dreamed of it, and Itas it come true? Joan, any darling! My love: Tell me once morel 'Whittler, `Stuart, I love your'" Her head drooped lower fora mom- ent, then she raised it till her lips were near his ear, and whispered the confess Hien that cost her more than he could guess. "Stuart, I love you!" and twice she -repeated the sweet words, "I love you! I love you 1" Hie passionate kisses could no longer Ise kept Leek, and they rained upon her face and hair, until, trembling and al- armed, she strove to free herself, and then he soothed her back to courage again. "Forgive me. Joan! I did not mean to frighten you1 There, one kiss more, and 3. will be content for a time. But, oh, Joan, if you knew how happy I am !" "Perhaps I can guess by my oven heart," the stud, with innocent frank - nem. "Ah. haw strange it seems! And and you have cared for me all this teener "Yes," he said, fervently; "front the first;, from the very first, Joan. My heart spoke plainly enough that night; it said aloud, 'Here is any mate.' But on I went, like an idiot and a clod. T would not listen: I would not believe! Pool that I was; I tried to argue it clown : But—" Ile stopped aud drew the Itot,d around her tenderly, with an air of appropriation, which made her thrill thevegh and ;hroegh with a name- less delight. Thele was silenee for is moment, then and a hideous smoking -cap. the said softly, at if see -were commun. . m e with herself: "Look here, Joan," said Emmeline, ran'nut ttn,!eryttlnd refry you should holding the hideous cap in a protesting caro for ate; yon who hair seen the kind of way. "Julia and I have been quarreling, as usual.. world, and have met so many beautiful l. It occurred to me " she 'topped, and it little shudder the other day that, es Lord Villiers had ran throub€ her, a cold thrill of mtiden- lv iv:th,us, . "But- perhaps you have loved•' -1 am not the first--" "You ate the first in my heart, the first. women !. ever really loved, J'oan,' he said, answering her unfinished gt.es- t:on with the alacrity of passion eager to p'l'eas( anis satiety. "The very first! You reign alone queen of my heart, Joss), and you --se" She looked up at him in simple faith and truth. end .ensiled a eider, solemn emiJe. "l die not know until to -night what love mneme." est tics, settle'. '1'rese itty she started. ".1 most go." she said, re'11etantly, al. Poet sorrowfully, AS Eve might have spoken wiles, the hour arrivd for her departllrc from her parodies,. flu struck a attach and looked at hie watch, end Chile the. beim horned looked. at her lam, with ail a love'r's passionate et: ego "So sus,;1!" iv. ea}d. "We seem to have been here q1 smelt' a minute. Let me wrap your eli.ik tightly around you. Seel" and ender the pretence he foiled her in hie arias far a moment. "Joan, tremor -row 1 will come for yon, and we will come ht re atolls, ',tarot en dries very sl,oi, and you sha11 tell 111e ogee, more that you Jove me! How surprised Col- onel Oliver that the two girls will be! And yet t don't think they wi11," and bee .laughed with a quiet enjoyment. "Yon—yon will tell iMac?" site said, falteringly. t>.•.iti not if you wish it, dearest," he said. "Let us watt ttettil the day after to -int crow. It will seem till tht sweeter, having our eeeret to ourselves." "Yee," ahe assented, with a great up- . listing of the heart. "tiotil the day after i,o•)ncrrow•, anti they shall know," and she sighe•a fn r,tl't' "And you will meet me to -morrow,, dearest?" he said. They had reached the skirts of the village, and the lights of the Elms shone ahead. of them. "Yea," she "Where?" "Come to the stile by the park," he said. "We shall be. alone there; come early, Joan. I shall he there at eleven, and we can take a long wells, we'two to- gether and alone. And give me one parting Wats, ,roan. Good -night, nay dar- ling—good. night !4. He held her in his arms for a moment, his lips pressed to hers, and then she slid from his embrace "like a moonbeam," flitted away from. ltitn, and was lost in the shadows. He waited until he heard the gate shut behind her, then turned and -walked rapidly toward the Wold, his brain still hard. at work. "1 will persuade her to marry me soon," be said, "and the Vold shall be Made fit for her; there shall be music and laughter once more in the old place, and all shall go as merry as marriage belle. Olt, .Joan, Joan, 'sty simple, inno- cent darling, you have suede a new man of Stuart Villiers." And so, manufacturing geed resolu- tions as he went, he unlocked the door and entered his lonely rooms, to throw himself in a chair by the fire, and call up a sweet vision that only a few mo- ments ago nestled against hiss heart. If it be true that the road to hell is paved with good resolutions, how sadly and with what infinite despair Inuit those who have reached the Dismal (Dates look back upon the way they had trodden:. assented, obediently. CHAPTER XII. Joan opened the door softly, and as ,softly she stole along •the passeg:. If site could only reach her room and be alone with the new, strange joy which suffused her whole being! To be alone, and yet not alone --for would not hie face, his voice, be always with her. night and day, from henceforth, and from henee- forth to be wile smed by her, and hugged and cherished as something belonging to her—to her, Joan, the hap- piest of heaven's mortals? She longed to reach her flowers and whisper her love to them; she longed to be at the open window, that she might look down at the spot where they had stood and the steange, sweet, almost painful joy had first come to her! But evil chance had willed otherwise. As she reached the parlor door, the voices of the two girls were raised in unlovely shrillness over some dispute; the sound emote upon Joan's tears—filled with the music of her lover's voice—and made her shudder and hurry past; but the door was ajar, and Jude caught sight of her dress, and called to her in strident toues: • "Is that you, Joan? Conte here." She turned and t,lowly, reluctantly, pushed open the door and entered. The two girls were seated at the round, rickety table, and the garish light of the ugly, tracked lamp fell upon a mis- clianeous litter, ounspicuout among which were a pair of wool work slippers t m 171 colds Imola txtc:kly slops eoudiws, ruses ttt,e abreast cad lessee. - - - 23 cents, been so extremely kind and—and at- tentive---" "He has spoken about twenty words to her," interpolated Julia, with a dis- agreeable sneer. "That I ought to make seine return. So I walked down to the village and got a pattern of a smutting -cap in canvas. I don't suppose he particularly wants a cap; but all the sane, I thought it would look ae if I were not insensible to his kindness. Well, I set to work and filled it in and made it up, but instead of keeping the thing to myself, I men- tioned it, like an idiot, to Jue, and I need scarcely tell you, who know her so well, that she instantly went and cop- ied niy Idea. Bought a pair of slippers, if you please! As if he hadn't enough slippers. And she must needs try and steal a search on me." "1 sltould be sorry to steal anything of yours, my dear Ent!" tcmarked Julia, parenthetically. There was something so grotesque, so comical in the scene that Jean, looking from the cap to the slippers, and from those objects of art to the inflamed faces of the girls, felt the spirit of mirth rising within her. and suddenly broke into a peal of laughter. Like unfamiliar musie the laugh ran through the room, stud the girls, after staring, at he).' in amazed silenee, turned pale with anger and commenced to pour out the vials of their, wrath upon her devoted head. "Oh, you laugh, do you?" exelaimed Julia, Starting up and clutching the slippers; "that is alt the sympathy we get from you!" "We aro laughed at its our own house!" said Runnel:Mc; "and by Teen. We have sunk low indeed. I suppose you will say that it doesn't matter whether Lord V'i.11iars gets our presents or not?" Joan might truthfully have enstvered in the affirmative, but stood silent. "And I suppose yon will say that he has not shown us .any attention Julia; "and toltsiclering the alianielete way in which you ran after hint, it' is GLAD TIDINGS FROM NOVA SCOTIA Sure Relief For Suffering Women is Found in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Miss Kathleen Murphy Teles How She Suffered • and How Easy and Com. plate Was Her Cure by the Great Canadian kidney Remedy. Tangier Mines, Halifax. Co., N. S., ,Nov. 14.—(,5 ecial)—There is no longer any doubt that of the thousands of suffering Women of Canada, nine out of every ten owe their troubles to 1i ilney Disease. For that reason it is glad tidings that Miss Kathleen Murphy, of this place, is sending out to her suffering sisters. "My troubles started front a cold," says Miss Murphy in an interview. "I had .pains in my )lead and back, and Rheumatism and Diabetes finally devel- oped. "Then I started to take 1)odd's Kid- ney Pills and they cleared out toy Ritmo ntatisnt, cured my Kidney Disease and brought back my stealth, "1 would not be without Dodd'e Kid- ney filly, for 1 have given them a thor- ough test and found theist to be all that is claimed for thele." The secret of health .for women is to keep the kidneys strung and healthy. Healthy kidneys mean pure. blood, abuts - dent energy and a clear, healthy com- plexion. The one sure way to keep the kidneys healthy is to use Dadd's Kidney Pills. wonderful that he has had the courage to speak to uta at all." Joan's color rose and fell. "I wonder you haveu't thought fit to make him a present," said Enini l:ne, with a sneer. her beautiful face pale and sad and in- digosltt. The truth trembled on her lips. She felt as if she must cry aloud, "I am his! I acct Lord Villiers' future wife!" but it Beelike to her as if the declaration would be simple sacrilege at such a time and to such as these. • • She 'hinted and walked to the door, the eyes of the girls follpwing.her with deet) jealousy burning in each; then she paused, her lips parted as if -she was go- ing to, speak, but instead she remained silent and passed out. - She went to her room, the sneers and fury of the girls pursuing her; and it was flours before she could forget them and recall the passionate voice and hand- some face of her lover.. • Palo. and distrait, she carne down to breakfast on the morrow, and amidst a (Settee silence took her place at the table. The two girls shot a couple of venom- ous glances at her, then stared at their pintas. The colonel—who had lost heavily at loo at the club out the previous evening —growled at the toast and swore at the bacon, but carefully refrained from ad- dressing her until he rose; then he said, in a would-be careless voice: "Oh, Joan, by the way, you look as if you wanted a change. You have not been yourself lately. What do you say to going down to Marazion, in Corn- wall?" ` elarazion? ' said Jetta, scarcely know- ing what she was saying, her eyes fixed on her plate. "Yes," she said, fumbling with his eye- glass, "Mannion- just the place for you. I kuow some people there who would take charge of you: of course, it will cunt me sunuthing--lodgings ere awfully clear now everywhere -but 1 don't mind. 'You'd better go t e-morrow—the ten- elettu train. Look here, ,loan; I've :meta all about your goings on with Lord Vililare. and 1'd better tell you at mum that it's of nu use—just a waste of time and energy. You're my' ward, you know, and 1 shouldn't enunttnatru or give ms- consent to--to--anythin of "I?" said Joan, the kind, even if Lord Villiers wished it; "Yes. I have no doubt that year self- and from what 1 know of him, eh? Oh, conceit is equal to the oceasion." The lank here, it's no use. you know --Julia gray -green eyes scrutinized Joan's face and )tett are bosh u'd r than you are, as she spoke. "Where have you been to- anti --•ell ? Better go t., Marazion, Joan-- night, oan—night, Joan?" you understand; stop there for three or fora' months;, and - alt:' 1'11 drive you over tis ette)t the train t,-nturrow." And the eolonel v{ut up and left the room. 'The two girls stattd at her with a ma - lichees , smile, and Joan, drinking a rap of utilk..got tip quickly and silently left the room. She Preis up to het' Immo and looked out at the sea in deep. dietratted theegltt. 'On the cliffs," said Joan, and her eyes drooped under the bold, cruel etru- tiny. "Ilave you been alone to -night?" de- mauded Emmeline, sharply. "No, I have, not beets alone," said Joan, quietly, her eyes fixed on the lamp. "Olt, indeed:" sneered Julia; "and who accompanied you, pleuse?" "I have been with Lord Villiate," sem said. The two girls turned, green With jeal- ous envy, and then pale with fury, and fixed her with the stare of a couple el basilisks. Emmeilae, as usua., was. the first to speak. "11 ith--•.Lord—•Vial" :]alt'. else exclaimed , t',ueislt coast and Lord 'Mire miles under her breath, 1 away. \u more meeting- and walks en "To -night, at this thee, on the eTiffs!" the 011ie, 110 ,wet word; of pieces gasped Julia. 'And you can stand there fr:tng1't aith love: e'er would not the and dare us lice this. Joan, you are the .euh,nel, prompted by the spitnfld geirls, "Sheettemost shameless ;;ire in*Christendom!" pat her ander Close c p.e,nage ami Pres!" tete word broke from her weight' She tta old b: a clot"Pri- pet in a ga l>. saner wherever the, shit. her. Se) ' CHAPTER XI)/. ,brut eo111d not :tope to see Lord Vil- liers there. She ec,uld hear Itis voice, serf hie flue no mora---ior four months were as good, or as batt, as eteroity to her. 'doepit'ttu'ed herself alone on the bleak e $llilrClel "� ,'e93: But there shall be an end to this. W'e don't 'shouse that :Lord '1'illiarr, should be hunted owt of the place by you. Yee, hunted!" almost shrieked Julia. "i'!1 tell papal HIe shall send you away, end at once! Yon shall go to -morrow, or we w M. Joan, you are an impostor!" "An impostor!" repealed Joan, stand- ing, pale, yet firm its the girlish lamp- ligh L .}'es, .au imposter. ()h, we are not de. eeivod! We see whet you are aiming at. But to -night's work settles it. You shall leave I)eereitntbe to -morrow. Wait till pupa comes home!" Joan looked front arse to the other, PLANK FELL® Hamilton Man Badly Injured Reuben Atherton, of 367 Ferguson ave- nue, Hamilton, an employee of the Otis Elevator Company, sustained serous in- jury while at tan a. :1 plank fell from a height o11 to iii., right foot, crushing it badly, He wit's t:11Ce11 110me, where Zt111- liuk tyres applied, with gaud result. 'fulling 1115 experience of the balm, Ito said: "After the doctor had dress,'d the damaged feet with some preparation of ]lis own 1 Was its great pain, and as day after day 1 s,'emcat to get no relief I left off rnedicel treatment and tried Zaus-liuk, From the very first appll,a- tiott 1 traced an improvement. Zane L'uk really seemed to stet like inagle, cleaning ail the unhealthy matter front the wounds. drawing out all discolora- tion, inflaminstien and soretaety: and - started healing in quirk time. In two wed is the tree and foot were Witii 31ga313. Z'att!-1+uk Balm is; certainly a wotle 1 i l3 healer, and 1 would nut care to bye wit't- out a box in the house. you can 11be the above statement in any papers, hooks or publications, as it may lead some utt- er sufferer to 1150 Zunt'lhuk and.. gel relief as 1 did." All workers thosiid keep /.stn -)sole handy. Applied to to cot or wound, 1t stops the pain, commences heeling, and --what is eglutliy frac it prevents all possibility of bloc, p) Bonin , Zara -Bolt is equally gr ed for ,.stilt dlteat.ses, and cisme ceZt:tl1t, 15'11, ulcers, abstessea, vari- cose uleerel :e'tlp• sores. abseeesse9, val'i- ete. It heals made, creche, •chapped hands, frost bite; cures plies x114 all Inflamed conditions of the skin and tissue. Fifty cents a box, from all druggists and stores, 'brit avoid imitations aunt substitutes, Some of Which are highly dangerotts, and none are beneficial. • vitae that them:sit her lover might b ever su nc u, nh:e ironed not be permitted to see ]lint. iter hrtsit, butte a- it w.lse sank under the p osp.et, and was to, Iteavy its lead us -'.e !,,fa est the o1.t frieze cloak and west. dowse to the park. ' he rceelied the :stile, and a moment later laird Villiers was by her si.t'. "MY “`"1!:l4, and y'ntt int" "ine: they cannot overtake 119. They might Ire said, his strung arms thrown around tele graph, perhaps, but 1 men beat them Ler. ,even there,” he added eonfidently. • GOOD HEALTH FOR YOUNG GIRLS What Is Needed Is the Rich, Red Blood Dr. Williams' stink Pills Actually .Make. Perhaps you have already noticed that • your dnugll'ter its her `'teens" has developed a fitful temper, is rest - lees and excitable. In that case re- member that the march of years is leading her on to womanhood, and at this time a great responsibility rests upon you as parents. If your daughter is •pale, complains of weak- ness and depression, feels "all tired out" aftera little exertion; if she tells of headaches, or backaches, or pain in the side, do not disregard these warnings. Your daughter needs help for she most probably anaemic —that its, bloodless. • Should you notice any of these signs, lose no time, but procure Dr. IVilliama' Pink Piles, for her unheal- thy girlhood is bound to lead to un- healthy womanhood. Dr. W"lllianr3'' Pink Pills enrich impoverishedblood and by doing so they repair waste ad prevent disease. They give to sickly, drooping girls, health, bright- ness and-e-lutrm, with color in the cheeks, bright eyes, a lightness of step and high spirits A ease typical of thou- sands cured through the AAP of Dr. Wil- liams' „Pink Pills is that of Miss Grace Cunningham, Winnipeg, Man., who says: "I really rennet say ennurh in praise. of ]h'. 'Williams' Pink Pills, as they have made too feel like it. new girl. I was pale and almuat bloodless and think that on an average T missed at least t' three school seesios a week, because I felt like a broken Amen -person, and ton weak to do ens -thing. The doctor's medicine I took did little more than keep me in hope; itcertainly did not cure ate. Then I was advised to take Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills, and they soon made use feel like a new person. Day by day 1 gained strength and color, and I have your medicine to thank for it." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all ntedirine dealer, or may be had by grail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.i50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Pence; then 110 sal:] iu a low voice, in wlhieh entreaty and command were skil- fully mingled:"Joan, you must be very brave, dear- est! You will not be afraid?" "Why should 1 be afraid?" "Why, indeed! I am big enough to take care of you, certainly. But all the same, you will need all your courage. le there an early—a very early train from here?" "Yee, the mail train, at 4 o'clock." "We alma have to go by that, deur- est." 'Yes," she said unhesitatingly; "it will be quit:] dark." "All the better," he saki, gravely. °I,is- te e to ase, Joate Are yon brave enough to : teai out of the beige to -morrow at half -past three, and to conte to the end of the lane by the hill'? We can reach the station in half an hour or less, and !t•• ]half tray to ;London or further before 1 they miss us." A faint shudder ran through her. "They cannot overtake us?" she whit- pered, the colonel's furious fare and the two girls' bitter voices rising before her. 'Crust to ale," be answered. "No, •'1'c:. I have cute," she said, forcing a smile. "But it is fur the teat time." "The lust timed" he e:hued, smoothin; her sutra siii.y ],air ;rout her forehead. "What. d., you mean:"' '•Colonel Oliver i, going to send me to Mtt r scent: •".,V0 .11ttraralti :' Where on earth is that?" be. ee.eh:iltleli. "And why?" "1t is 00 the ('ornislt coast; and ---and — because he -thee- .thitll; that 1 am lou-- ton ftiet111., with you!" "Oh, they do! Let me look at you, Juan, ole ,torten;;! Yoe look pale. Have they heels browbeating vont"' ;she was chem, her lung white fingers Lu,yitig wits elle great buttons un ]tie elated 44a 1. "Joan, th.•yliwan to make a prisoner of yon! !leen• melte to part 119!" "Oh, no!" glut 131'N!thc,il, unconsciously pressing teeter to him. "''es, that ie what they mean to do. but they :..hill now! t)'1ly 'sate the word ty it atter so smart, they shall not: nothing shalt separate its!," "Slurry," she repeated, "nothing shall separate Ins!„ "(;oc.d, my darling:" he said. "And now to put tour ,i.ttlt into affect! .loan, toe you l,ra.< e otteel.t 'to come with me, i:ntead of going to Marazion?" 'Tu ;*o sli1h roti instead of wain,, to :,d,et-...tea. -,sit' echoed, looking up at Lint. ..a-1 "Liston. loan, soy darling! shit n,1 e'f going to Marazion, when, yo t t. 111 1,i.:; 1'ri•,.tn •r, and shut up away fie:1 1-''. t✓eii t'Ut1 ,'01111? to Lon- don with me aha 1,,e lny elf:':'" • "Your w'; e'" •Tee wards elropped from her 1< ,'.:1• blt' 1,, ssy!!ublt', and hell' chc't'l.,9 t .til'v1. � ,.Vts -' n , widd Say the t;.etd. .L• miet see ,le.u• Je, t r -uly dan - int•; R tett ,..-4""o t:.'e, I 1t:n est your mid be knelt to her and kissed And ter iter; er fate leaned - over hitt turd i r;:urel: "Yes. 1 t t1 sthate!" il.. stood -tee tit for It mamma, •ir two, Smoothing 1i 1 !lair as elm needled beside ,hint, her de eh ryes fixed nn ths sky, across which clerk clotels were sweeping restlessly, and Itis geld( brain was at work p)annut;; their flight. )'irt1 10113to1033 pu:tfs;d 111 absolute si- Ile looked at his watch. "1: fair 1 meet go now, darling," he said, reluctantly. "There are all sorts of arrangements to make; and—and we must not be seen together to -day, in ease they should grow suspicious•." Ile held her for a moment, then re- leased her, and watched her as her slim, girlish form sped top the slope:]. (To be Continued.) if ,Y quickly 'stop. coutgt1s, cures colds, beats She throat cod luarls. - - . ,^.a cents. SHORT LIVED. (Montreal Witness.) Why ere athletics so often ennlpara• tively short-lived We have seen over and over again the seemingly robust break down et fifty or thereabouts, and have learned that they bad, been trenuut.,, runners or playsns in former years. Prof. Ilugo Munsterburg. the Harvard psycholegiet. asks in connection with nthletles rued Lee altht ":.Must it really be kept a secret that the dogma of physical etercise 1s a 111 brio of the inlagivaticth?" lee goes on to say that millions of people are running wildly to eateb a bale, lifting weights in fullest perspiration, trotting with gasping breath. and doing a hundred other Imes less, et unite simply b,'c•an.,i' tt meaning- less fashion has timidly thrown them Litt) smelt as habit. •m " Nightingales front China. An interesting attempt to :acclimatize the Chinese nightingales in Vienna was made last wee!', writes our correspond - dent, when thirty of the pretty green birds were set at liberty in the city pari., where it is hoped they will take up their abode. At the end of the week the park keep- er counted twelve of theta still in the neighhu, hood of the tree where they had been liberated. The remainder appal.. putty are exploring Vienna. Reports of their visits have been received from sev- eral public gardens. If the birds stand the variational of the Viennese climate and agree to live in the •parks a large number aro to be imported. --•London Daily Mali.