The Herald, 1911-09-29, Page 2OR, THE END CROWNS ALL.
CHAPTER XX.
",Then you mean to tell me I'm
not Violet Martindale at all? All
this doesn't belong to me'? I'm
not an heiress—nor anything of.
that? It's all been a mistake ? I'm
just—what am I?—an impostor !"
Violet spoke breathlessly, and
ended with an uncertain laugh,
looking from one to the other of
the three people before her with
very bright eyes and very flushed
face. They were in the library at
Standen Towers—she, Lady Mar-
' tindale, Mr. Strachey, and Joy —
who stood beside the other girl,
her hand on Violet's arm, her soft
eyes full of tenderness.
"There has been, as you say, a
mistake," Mr. Strachey answered
—"a mistake for which you are in
no way to blame. You have simply
been the victim of another person's
gra or!'
Fie used the last word after a
second hesitation. Being a man of
kindly instincts, he had no desire
to hurt the girl's already wounded
feelings, by speaking harshly of her
mother—more particularly as that
mother was dead. For Mrs. Daw-
son had.not lived to see her daugh-
ter again. On the very night after
her confession to Gertrude, she had
sunk rapidly, and had died before
anyone beyond the hospital could
be summoned to her bedside. Now
had come the difficult task of tell-
ing her daughter the truth, and
Violet was receiving the news in a
way that was both unexpected, yet
characteristic of her.
"An error, you call it !'' she said,
flushing yet more deeply, "well, it's
kind of you to say it that way,
when I suppose you've every right
to call it something else. But there I all your smiling ways and your pre -
wasn't much error about it, to my tendingto be fond of me and all,
way of thinking." . She lapsed more that you're only sneering at me
and more into her former modes of the whole time, and thinking how
speech, as her temper rose, and as
Joy pressed her arm with a restrain-
ing touch she .flung herself away
from the gni le l and, „nd said
to be looked down upon, and treat-
ed like dirt under your feet, T
haven't never felt like one of you,
and I never should, and I'm sick
to death of mincing my words and
trying to behave the way you all
think right. I'ni sick of the whole
thing, and jolly glad to get shot
of it. There !"
"Violet!" Joy began,, but Violet,
launched on a torrent of words, re-
fused to be arrested in her vehe-
ment flow of speech.
"You all laugh at me up your
sleeves 3 pit needn't tell me you
don't. You all despise me : I sup-
pose you wouldn't deign to know
me at all, not if you hadn't thought
I'd got this bit of money. T don't
want your hateful money ; I'm tired -
of the whole blooming show. So
now you know."
Lack of breath brought the ti-
rade to an end; but there was nei-
ther shame nor compunction in Vio-
let's face, when at last she paused.
a sort of indignant triumph at hav
ing spoken her mind, and spoken
it with freedom, was her predoen-
inant expression.
"Violet, I don't think it is quite
fair of you to speak like that,"
Lady Martindale said gravely, but
very gently, "we have done our
best to make you happy here, and
I know Joy still wants, as well as
we all do, to consider your happi-
ness!'
"Yes, please, I want you," Joy
began eagerly touching Violet's
arm again. But the other tore it
away from the kindly touch, and
exclaimed with renewed energy :
"I don't know, and I don't care,
what you want me to do. I shan't
do it anyhow. Oh, you needn't
look at me like that. I know, for
I• wad - a, fiaud-4nothing
more or less—a, !tend?. But, mind
yott, I never knew a thing about
it. I never fade any doubt it was
all right, and that I was Violet
Martindale fast enough. My mother
made me believe it, the same as she
made the rest of you believe it."
Her eyes glared at Lady Martin-
dale and the lawyer, as though de-
fying them to do their worst.
"Yes, Violet, dear"—Gertrude
spoke soothingly, "we quite under-
-stand and know that you were as
ignorant of the truth as we all
were. We are all so sorry that-"
"You needn't be sorry," Violet
tossed her head angrily, "I'in sure
I don't want anybody's pity, nor
Soap .OiatIllent
No other emollients do so much
for pimples, blackheads, red,
skin. tS nr =
Mop asin sea".... 'sews"
scaly sunka
en, -.in and falling
hair, chapped hands and shapeless
nails. They do even more for skin-
tortured and disfigured infants.
Although Outiemra Soap and Ointment err;
Bold by senates and dealers everStwhore, a llbrrSi
sample of each, wi+b 32 -page booklet on the skin
and hair, will be sons, 'poet,trtr, on application til
'Cut[otuu," Dryt, &°•;.n toitou, U. • . A.
Joy bent her head in assent, then
said reluctantly, "I found it ,out
quite by chance. It was like know-
ing it in confidence, and Violet
promised to tell—"
"Oh, yes! Violet promised ' to
tell," the other girl broke in, mock-
ery again in her accents. . "Well,'
now she's told, and I'm sure—I'm
sure—I'm glad I married Jem," A
sudden tremulousness came into
her defiant accents. "Jem won't
always be wanting me to be sone-
thing different. Jem won't barn er
me to talk nicely and to behave ,`
teelly. He—likes—me-as—I atv --
he fairly worships . me—he alis c .'s
did. He thinks there's nobody li e
me, and I'd sooner—go-to hire -.
than stop—here — where Hobe. 7
wants me." She spoke more a, I
more tremulously, with long pau: ;s
between' her words, and as the R .
max, she dropped into the near
chair and broke into stormy sobs,
the unrestrained, hysterical -
bing of her class.
"Come upstairs with me," J
whispered, putting her arm rout.
the trembling girl. "We mnsin
talk any more business now, Don,.
ery, Violet, dear, just cometnei.l
upstairs and rest,."
"I've been a beast," Violet brm`;
out, sobbing More 'hysterically-'"
perfect beast to you, when you..'s;
been as good as ever you could ,l
to me. I'ni sure I never meant
half of what I said."
"I'm sure you did 'x, ov
smiled downupon the-thannessarenett
face, "but come upstairs 111.7w
don't worry about t ,` any a',
"I don't know t+.r-hatevei ca e
over me," Violet 's,l<id, her !nest -le
still coming in brsoketi soh .l~
breaths; "I have gots a iaeast e?' .•
temper, and no mistake, and
so patient with me, tool :tut..
tongue gets the better of me, s.
I do say awful things 4,40
mean."
"Never mind about it all-
Joy's
ll Joy's tones were as soothing
though she spoke to a petu;
child, whilst she helped Violet
the chair into which, she lead di
ped and led her fief res hed
their elders s31e'ntly watchiene
two girls, .+ ertrude's eyes very.
as they. •tested on Joy.
"Mss Joy .is a very sweet
lady," Mr. Strachey- said elks
c -illy, when the door had close
superior you are. I've had enough hind her and Violet
of your --preaching and jawing, I young people of her age,
don't care what you want. I treated a ,cult, sit
shan't do. it." . un'
The ' engin. girl to i1'cd Iter 'tag'
on Joy's pprotestingform, and Mrs
Strachey ooked at ady Martindale
with a little shrug of the shoulders.
She had been seated in the arm-
chair by the fireplace, whilst Mr.
Strachey sat at the table, papers
strewed before him; but now Lady
Martindale rose and went to Vio-
let's side.
"Try to understand us a little
bit," she said, refraining from
sharpness of speech, because of the
pity and tenderness in Joy's sweet
eyes; "we are all sorry, so very
sorry, for what must be a great
shock to you, and Joy is only anxi-
ous that you should have as little
suffering and discomfort as pos-
sible."
"Oh, Joy needn't trouble her
head aboutme!" Violet turned and
Iooked at the other girl again,
with flashing, eyes. "I'm sure she
has no cause to go bothering her-
self over my affairs. I'm very well
able to see after myself, and if I
wasn't—I've got a husband to see
after them for me ! There—are you
satisfied now ?" she added, her eyes
still fixed on Joy's face. "You've
worried me to tell, now are you
satisfied 1"
"A husband? Oh, Violet! what
do you mean ?" Lady Martindale
looked, as she felt, thunderstruck
and bewildered.
"Yes, a husband. Oh; you
needn't be afraid !" slio laughed
mockingly, "I haven't interfered
with anybody any of you are in-
terested in," Gertrude's color
mounted sldwly. "I've married
somebody who's good enough for
me, if he isn't one of your fine
gentlemen. I've married somebody
who doesn't think inc dirt. If `you
don't believe me, _there's my wed-
ding -ring, and I shall go away to
my husband to -day." With a dra-
matic action, which, being by na-
ture a poseuse, she thoroughly en-
joyed, Violet drew from within her
dress a long chain on . which hung
a wedding -ring, and this she flung
down upon -the table before the
astounded lawyer, saying:
"You needn't trouble to call me
Mass Dawson of Miss alt�th? wtiy /nuts.
More,- my name's •Stibbard—Mrs. "The fact of Miss Violet's marri-
ON DS
For a trustee investment in Ontario .a
most Satisfactory selection could be
made from these high-grade offerings:
City of Toronto 4's, due 1944.
City of London 41/2's, due 1913.
Township of York 5's, due 1.912-31•.
County of Simcoe .(guaranteeing Town
of Midland) 5's, due 1911-40.
City of Fort William 41/2's, due 1927.
City of Si. Thomas, Ont., 412's, due
1912-41.
'City of Niagara Falls 5's, 'due 1911-
30,
'Town of Port Hope 41's, due 1913
50.
Town of Petrolea.4%z's, due 1911-34.
Town of. Wallferville 41/2's, due 1911-
30.
Town of Welland 41/2's, due 1940.
The income yield ranges from 4 per
cent. to 43/4 per cent.
A wider range of debentures of this
character furnished on request..
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some. help from Miss Martindale,
if, as seems probable,she should
wish to offer it to him and his
wife."
The lawyer was not wrong in his
surmises. Mr. Jem Stibbard, as
later events proved, did not show
Himself in the least averse to ac-
ting anything that Joy was pre
ed to give to him and his wife
er what he 'termed "a start" in
it married life. Nor did Violet
any sign of pride, either wise
ish, when Joy diffidently and
itating words, ashen to he
to settle upon her a defi-
xu of money.
gheuld like it to be a wedding
tin if you will look on it in
ay " she said with a little
1 tip!
you what Joy has nb
house;" Gertrude reverie
ly; "she carried about a
such an atmosphere of 'suns
sweetness that sl1e, makes
the better by her very
What she is, more than nt
does or says, gives her her
She has such a sunny, softe
fluence on every • one sl
across. She is; the very
went of her name."
"You will he. glad :to keep bel,;:�sncl • deflnitetaess that made them
isningy in her voi.ee: "If
d 1 lid.. Sti bald w'ottld
ningrnilseestet
,ou—iia-that-sway, I should
to settle fifteen thousand
ids of Uncle,Toin's money upon
'e Jem Stibbard, an assistant in
aall grocerystore, fifteen thou -
1 pounds seemed, what indeed
s, a most magnificent fortune;
g 'cherished visions of a `flour-
ahing business of his own, of"e, de-
taehed house, and trim garden in a
'iburb, began to assume a solidity
here as the laughter of the..
house ?"
"Glad is too small's• word," Goys
trade smiled; "but I to not kno:w ,
whether I am going to 'have that
gladness—at any rate, for the pre•t
sent. You know she: has set her
heart upon getting back the ;Manor
House at Mottesley for her adtpted
aunt, old Miss Sterne; 'Arid if Joy
succeeds in getting her'•chiht'.,.4,
home again, she will certaina3, want
to live there for part of the year,
with Miss Sterne."
"There are -a. great many things
to be discussed." Mr. Strachey
tapped his pencil on the table, and
looked thoughtfully out of the win-
dow at a budding beech -tree. "This
big fortune that has come to Miss
Martindale from Mr. Falkner,
makes her a very important lady
indeed. In a, shall -way, she is a
millionairess !"
"And if anyone ever made good
use of a fortune, she will make good
use of hers. Her one thought is,
'What can I do for other people
with all this money ?' First she set -
her heart on buying back the Ma-
nor House; next she is devising
plans for helping Violet without
hurting Violet's pride, though, be-
tween ourselves, I fancy 'Violet's
pride is a negligeable quantity;
and, lastly, she has endless schemes
for every poor friend she po.tseeees,
every charity in which she is inter-
ested. r I:-ive never ;vet heard her
propose doing anything to, please
herself or buying anything for her
awn pleasure. She is the most love 1
ing little soul, absorbed • in other
people's interests—other people's
James Stibbard—and I shall go to
him to -day. I'm sure I'm glad to
drake the dust of this blessed place
off my feet."
"Did you know this,. Joy?" Ger-
trude said in a low voice, her ears
having caught the angry words,
"you've worried me,,to tell."
age relieves us of some difficulties,"
Mr, Strachey said after a pause.
"There can, at any rate, be no
question of her staying here, wh.ioh
in the kindness of her heart, 'Miss
Martindale might have suggested;
No doubt the young manw-Mr. Stib
bard --will not be above accepting
no longer -mere castles in the air.
And before his dazzled eyes, there
began to 'float dreams of still great-
er gk1x'y in: a, dim and distant fu-
ture; of a carriage and pair, or
even a motor -car ; of a little house
in the country which he would call
"our place," of delights to which
his flights of imagination had never
before dared to soar. By Joy's
`sunt urgently seconded by Lady
'Martindale, Jem Stibbard was in-
vited to come and spend a day or
two at Stan.don Towers, in order
to make their acquaintance,. and
to claim and take away his wife.
And if those two days were the most
uncomfortable aiid most , embar-
rassing that Mr. Stibbard had ever
known in his life, they gave him
food for conversation, and for de-
licious boasting, during the rest of
his existence.
"As ,I said to her ladyship," or
"as Lady Martindale and I were
saying," became stock- phrases on
•
his lips, and he never ceased to
expatiate on the vastness, the
beauty, and the elegance of Stan -
don Towers, "where," as he was:
wont to say, "my wife spent a
great deal of her youth."
The suburban villa to which he
took Violet, was the consummation
of all a suburban villa. can be. Tem's
heart swelled with pride over the
colored glass in the front door, the
terrible tiles in the fireplaces, the
wildly artistic wall -papers, the con-
ventional garden, and, above all,
over the elegant suite, upholstered
in yellow plush, which graced the
drawing -room. Joy's generosity
supplied the wherewithal for the
furniture of the villa, and its gen-
erosity- found.its one reward in the
pride and delight with w hien Violet
and -hese lie Shand showed her ,every
• ('o nesemitiatnted4 . .
esennases
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The weightiest correspondence of
private individuals is trifling when
compared with that of some of the
rulers of the world. For example,
think what it would mean to have a
daily mailbag of twenty-five thous-
and 1 This is about the average
number of postal communications
which reach the Pope each day.
The Kaiser comes next to his Holi-
ness. The ruler of Germany re-
ceives about seven thousand five
hundred postal communications
daily. This, of course, does not in-
clude purely private diplomatic
despatches. Closely following him
is the American President, with a
daily mailbag of five thousand,
Our own. King George is next to he
counted. In eomparison with the
previous rulers, his is a trifling
daily correspondence ; it rarely ex-
ceeds tweney-five hundred. The
Tsar of the Messina only gets .some
five hundred postal communications
every day. The average daily num-
ber received by Alfonso of Spain is
three hun.derd. The King of Italy
is -exceptionally blessed. Save on
special occasions, his daily mail-
bag keeps within the two hundred.
Two things operate to rid us of
a, friend—pleasure in- which -we do
not need them and trouble in which
we do need them.
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THE FORMATION OF THE SOIL.
Vegetation begins with the very
simplest forms of plants, such ash<%
lichens and mosses, and is, ofjtt''
course, very scanty at first. Theses
plants on dying become a part Or
the soil, alio! of the plant nutrients
used by them being'thus returned, ;s
writes Mr. Alfred Vivian.
Food 'that has once been used by
plants is very readily made avail-
able
vailable to succeeding crops th ougl>tie
the process of decay. The soil tsl
now able to produce a larger crop;
then'.h `
as it contains the plant food in
previous growth in addition to than'
added through the agencies detailedir
:r.
above
In this way the growth gradually,,
becomes more abundant. Thebe„
plants upon decaying give rise to k
humus, and this increases the fer-
tility of the land both by being a
source of plant food and by increas-
ing the water -retaining power. Hu-
mus is a very important factor in
fertility. During the .. decomposi-
tion of the plants, acid substances
are formed which act upon the
rocks in such a wayas to make
more of th-e plant food available.
One of the products of decay old
fermentation is carbonic acid, and
this is-dissolvecl in the soil water,
and this gas-containing water is'
an important help in disintegrating I
the rocks.
As the nutritive materials au-
crease from these various causes
the lower simpler forms of plant
life are gradually replaced by those
which are more highly organized.
With the advent of plants., like
our common crops, which bear
roots, other factors in the forma-
tion of soils are introduced. Tho
roots secrete an acid substance that
has a solvent effect on the mineral
matter of the soil, and the roots
themselves also assist mechanical,
ly in breaking down the rocks.
All are familiar with the tre-
mendous force exerted by plants in
breaking apart rocks • and stones if
once their tender rootlets obtain a
foothold in a crevice.
The roots penetrate the soil
sometimes to great ;depths, and as
they decay after the; death of the
plant',• they leave little channels', in
ate'soil which serve to carry down
water laden with carbonic acid, as
Buell as to introduce the oxygen of
the air, that, in its turn, is a. factor
in bringing about chemical changes
in the soil, which assist in inaking
plant' food available.
Sooner or later in the process; of
soil forination,. plants of the pulse
family, (legumin•ous plants). such
as clover, vetches, lupines, etc., are
introduced
If you dig up some of these plants
you will find Iittle nodules •or tu-
bercles on their roots. These
nodules are the homes of numer-
ous bacteria, which enable the
plaints to derive part of their food
from the nitrogen of the atmos-
phere.
This peculiar property of legume
inous plants is of great importance,
for it is undoubtedly nature's prin-
cipal method of increasing the sup-
ply of nitrogen in the ground.
The nitrogen compounds accu-
mulated by these plants eventual-
ly become a part of the soil through
their decay, thus adding to its for-
tility.
It will readily be, understood Iliadrs
the various agencies concerned i
the formation of the soil do not act
separately nor necessarily in an
such order as that in which the
have been discussed.
As a matter of fact all the pre
eesses described take place simul
taneously. The lower plants d
not wait for the rocks to be pal
verized, for we see such organism''
as the lichens growing on reeks from
which ono would think it impose
Bible to obtain food,
If the lichen is removed, grooves
or furrows will be found on the
surface of the stone, due to the
action of the. plant.
YALE..
Nor are all soils furled directly ';
from the original rocks,, for one • of
the effects of weathering, etc., is
to separate such rocks as the gra-
nite into simpler substances, with
the result, for example, that huge
deposits of limestone are formed in
one place, and in another whole.
hills of sandstone.
The sail is almost 'constantly
moving, for some of the same agen-
cies which form soils are ceetinu-
ally carrying thenS away. Running.
water grinds the rocks, but at the
same time transports the fine par
ticles to lower levels. It cuts deep
valleys in the surface of the earth
and carries away the debris, nes';
positing it at 'various distanee$
ham its source.
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