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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-01-01, Page 744 44LIAV .��I'f✓�W.G/P l^.I -6,.,• 4:14-4/ Cigar' i ✓_ a _eg, AfRok The night was beautiful ; the wind *as soft and fragrant, the' sky calm ,and clear, the moon shining bright - N,'. He smiled ashe asked himself why, should be unhappy. What was [there to make him so? Why' need he feel depressed? Yet the very? air .around him NVas filled with whisper- ings—the night wind full of sighs. !'I am growing fanciful," he Said to , himself ; "and what tangible evil r ha,vel I to grasp?" There w'as nothing but a cloud of fancies ;•> his prospects were bright enough. He said to himself over and eaver again that no one was so for- tunate. Had he not a partnership? Had he not a certainty of calling the loveliest girl in the county his wife ? What had be to freer ? Yet what was the strange, dull pain that made 'his brave young heart fail him ? What caused the strange shuddering that came over him ? Why had he a !keen and penetrating, i. vague, in- .e.e finite feeling of an evil day to Q03:00 ? He tried to repress it ; he could undeestk:.nd women being uer- vauis, but not ine,n. a Ear the first time he. noticed that night a look of anxiety on his fath- er's face, and he asked what had brought it there. 4"Seadow,s—nothing but shadows ; fancies—troublesome fancies," was *the reply ; yet it was strange the son ;turned away, with a feeling almost of ,detekelair. 'Nor was the mystery fess - teemed w'fien, on the clay following, ;iris. Lansdale, going on her daily Found of eihopping, met the vicat•'s j. wife, Mrs. Hunter, who stopped to speak to her. "This Is a very sad affair, Mrs. ' Lonsdale, she said; and Kate, 4llooking at her, asked quietly what t affair she meant. She looked so entirely unconscious that the vi- car's wife was surprised. "Have you heard no bad news of r-of—any one ?" she asked; and Kate answered : "No:' Then Mrs. Bunter related some trifling little story; and even as Eche related it Bate told herself `sfthat she was inventing it. With her :honest, straigh'tforw.ard eye:: elle ?looked at the vicar's lady. "You are not telling me what wads 'in your mind when you first spoke to me," she said. "What wore you !thinking of, Mrs. Hunter ?" But Mrs. Hunter, after laughing- ly parrying the remark, hastily ;.said good -morning in a very em- barrassed fashion, and walked ,away. Mrs. Hunter's remark could mean 'nothing; yet the heart of the lov- ing, anxious wife grew heavy with' - a her. Sad news? What sad news could there be affecting her or hers? And, if there was sad news !about any one else, why could she !not have said wheat it was ? Slio wa,n the tbiud who went home /that day with a terrible sense of 'foreboding. Her pretty house seem- ed almost to oppress her. She wish- . ;ed "haat' she had not burdened hers` self with a nursery governess; as for the new ,silk dress, it no longer gave her the least pleasure. What wax this cloud hanging over her hus- band and her children ? Was it only nervous fancy, or was there !evil looming in the distance ? She was soon to know ; and when THE AVii',RAUE BABY. 21be average baby is a good baby— .eheerful, smiling and bright. When hole cross and• fretful it is because he 1s unwell and he is taking the only :means he has to let everybody know ibe does not feel right. When baby is cross, res less and sleepless don't •dose ham with "soothing" stuffs, •swlhnch always contain poisons. Baby's Own 'lkh,blets are what is needed to ,.put the little one right, Give a cross baby an. occasional Tat,blet and see show quickly he wall be transform- ed 'into A bright, smiling, cooing, ;happy child. 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For the secret was known now — the ,shadow had become a substance, the vague fancies had all assumed a form, the airy nothings had become realities, so stern a,nd so cruel that they had driven Darcy Lons- dale almost to despair. Mrs. Hard - man's heir-at-law, James Hardman, had given legal notice that he in- tended to contest his relative's will on the ground of undue influ- ence. He maintained—and . nothing coulci shake his opinion—that Darcy Lonsdale had taken undue advan- tage of his position, that he had influenced a weak-minded woman, and had persuaded her to leave bine the half of her money. It was a clever ruse, advising her to send for another lawyr; but it would not help frim. Mr. Lonsdale found that the ru- mors about him had been growing daily, that his friends and neigh- bors were all talking of him, while he himself had 'not the faintest idea of the mischief that was abroad. James Hardman had been in Lil ford—that he knew, and the fact had not interested him in any way; but he did not know that James Hardman had been silently destroying his reputation, had called upon his old friends, and h'ad, In the moat subtle fashion, insin- uated tha there had been a con- spiracy against him, end that he Intended to dispute the will. Every one in Lilford knew, this before the least rumor of it reached Darcy Lonsdale. He went at once to Mr. Malcolm; but the honest lawyer had no cheecie,g news for "I am a lawyer myselfi" lie said, "buf,a I an never, tell how a lawsuit may end; it might take tate right turn, and again it may take a wrong ono." "But," returned Darcy Lonsdale, "Mrs. Hardman meant mo to have the money, did she not ? That one broad feet no one can diepute." ''I believe honestly that she in- tended you to have it. I know ebe did. Ciro talked to me for some time about the good it would do to you and your children." "'Tien what can there be found to dispute ? She intended to give me the money, and ,she did give it—what Is it to any one ?" cried Darcy, Lone. dale. "The law dealer heavily with cases like this. James Hardman will plead that he is Heir at law, that he is tho Rightful heir of the late Eliza- beth Hardman., that be has been brought up lis expectation of re- ceiving the money„ and that you have taken an undue advantage of your laosition as her legal adviser and friend to induce her to leave It to you." " But," declared ' Mr. Lone- dale, onedale, "I did no ,such; thing. I swear to you I never asked, influ- enced, or said one word to her about it. How dare any man say such a thing of nae 7" James Hardman has been brought up to. ,believe that he would inherit twelve thousand pounds, and, find- ing six of it given elsewhere, he is very angry about it, and says some bitter things." "But how is it possible that any one who knows me could believe that I have acted unfairly ? How can any old friends and neighbors be- lieve it ? I havo lived among them Pall my, life—they ought to, know me better. I should not believe sucha scandal of any one of them" ; and tears of wounded pride and wounded affection stood in his eves. " What are a man's friends worth, Malcolm, If they believe evil of him so easily ?" " Perhaps they do not allg.believe it," said George Malcolm. "'1"lien why do they not say so ? Why not say, 'We bave known you for years, and we believe in you 7' Why not say that, instead of looking coldly at me ? , As 'pass by they con- verse about me, in whispers, and are startled when I meet them." "Jana Hardman has talked a' great Ileal among them," said Mr. Mal- ooln, slowly. "Ho has said some hard things of you " "But my Old friends," rejoined Darcy Lonedale—"the people I have lived among so long-ehow can they believe such a, slander?" I am not much of a cynic, but will love me now 'as She has peeper this I m'ast'say';: that I believe our roisfortunee are not always dis- pleasing to' those • we call our friends.' "But these,peeple have know,n me so long!" Loneda.Ie could think of noth- ing 'so strong hs that—no arguneeet Was so potent. Fi'c'hes lived am,_ ong them' all his 111e, Why did they not trust liim as The trusted them? "If any one among them had come to me and had told me such a thing of another, I would not have credit- ed it—a,nd they are only too ready, it seems, to believe it of me. Mal- colm:, how' In Heavens name, am I to�rgo hom'ea. and tell this to my wife? An.., 1 to tell her that a blameless life, Spent in the midst of people who have known ree'able& I was a child, is no shield against slander 7" "I am very eorry for you, indeed," said George Malcolm•; "I can say no, more. I do not believe it, and I eh'ail stand by you :through it ail." The two men shoots hands, but Darcy, Lansdale's face worn a puz- zled, wondering look. "Can it be a. jest, do you think, Malcolm—a jest to try me 7" 'No, It is no jest. Hardman will get the mone • if he can." " I would nor. take it "unless i thought it were really mine—I would refuse to touch It; but I cannot do that, for I am sure my old friend left it to me for the children. I 'must be just to them. Great Heaven! I have kept a. ,blameless name all my life only to meet with' this fate— to. see my old friends point to me as a man who would cheat his client ! I wish I had been dead before I had known this! Tell me what Hardman is going to do." "He has placed the whole matter In the hand's of a London firm, and the trial will come on about the end of September. You must prepare your defence and look up your witnesses. 'If my whole life does not witness for me," said Darcy Lonsdale, with quiet dignity, "then the words of no man can benefit me." He dreaded going home—for the first time in kis life he dislked passing through the streets of his native town, for the first time he shrunk from the glances and words of his old comrades. "Heaven help Kate!" he said to himself. "How, can I tell her ?" But Kate knew already—such news travels .fast. It was no weeping, hysterical wife who clang to him, half mad with womanish fears; tb bright ,tender'face looked into his, sweet, waren, white hands clasped his, loving lips kissed hire, e. brave, bright voice cheered b'im with the music of home words. , "I have heard all about it, Darcy," said leis wife. "Never nand—no one can injure you. You are innocent, Honest, and honorable. Never mind what any one says—!leaven knows the truth, and I love you all the more that you hear this blame so evell." Darcy Lansdale was relieved to find his wife sq_ cheerful, and they sat down to discuss their difficulty, "Give the money back again, Darcy," said his wife. "11 1 were in your p.ace I would not touch one schilling of it." "If I did that it would look ase though I feared inquiry — as t'hiough, I knew that I had gained it by wrong means, and remorse com- pelled me to return it. It seems to Me now: tliae I am compelled, in pee- tifleation of my own honor, to keep lrt----Mrs. Hardman certainly meant me to have it. Then there are the chil- dren,—I cannot rob them;. I must not ttiakeeirss."from them what is really hi "But," said his wife, "if there should be a trial, and it should go against you. ?" "Then I 'nest bear it like a man, Kate. I Halve had many blessings— If it pleases Heaven to send me a reverse I must not complain. " But, for ail that, she knew that his heart was sore and heavy, and that he was disturbed by a hundred doubts and fears. She soothed hien, c miforted bim, and did her best to ee.eo'urage hem; but 'she could not persuade hien. to forget hes trouble for a moment—it was always in his thoughts. Presently Felix came in, and one glance at hie son's Saco told Darcy Lansdale that the had heard ' the whole story, The handsome young lace wars full of emotion. Ile went straight up to hes father and laid his hand 1.ovengIy upon hes shoulder. "Let Inc help you, father."* he s+aid. "No man shall say one word against Left Me help to fight your battle, father. I should like to take every man who beli;ove+e, the story, dr who affects to believe it, and thrash him" "My deeer Felix 1" exclaimed Mee. Leetsdale. e '"So I ebouid, maclre," and tho young, handsome face deepened with angry ,scorn for everyone who sileoald harbor an evil thought of one so be- loved. The love between father and, eon was almost pathetic in its Ihten- eity- Presently. Mrs. Lansdale said, inns- tngly What will Violet say when she h eians I ?" "Say21;" pried Felix. "She will be in- dignant. atm will agree with, me that any man who listens to it ought to be shot. Wliy do you leek 50 strangely at me,madrre 7e• ",I was wondering," site saki, "who.. ther this would make any difference to her or to her parenstsi--I •mecca rosp'ect of yovaiSedf." "Diffo>~eneae ? 1Vo--;ydt I ,am tProngin. Yes, it will make this one difference, Sleet will love inc the better and eling to mo 'the mane. I have no doubt about Vlolert-ony sweet Violet. It is the one thdng needed to quicken her terve fob me wiith a new, estrange lite." JEIo wondered why Mrs. Lonsdale sigleed. Why need anyone 'Sigh ? testes love, Visolett's fatal. was his i'aak of refuge„ ¶1» doubt her word be 4eatll. "I have no rear." he said, throw- ng h ing back bias !heal proudly. "Violet ;xt For s ari Colds. loved me before. My only trouble Is. aboa't my dear father, and what I can do to help hum." They talked until long after mid- night ; they looked the evil in the face. If they went to law, and the taw Wass agai resit them, what then.? They *would be dreadfully embar- raa>sed for ready money. The aur- sery governess meet go, but "they could remain at Vale House, and the p�artnersibip should not be dis- eolved, CHAPTER VIII. ' i !, Thr autumn was came; the golden glory of :summer h,ad given way to it. Mho luxuriant trees made the woods a picture. The yellow, leaaves lay in dank heaps, the earn bad all .been out and carried, the fruit gathered ; the gloaming we,s longer, and the eun,get liazd clouds of deeper crimson, The little town of Lilford had ex- perienced a social earthquake. The great trial of Lonsdale vs. Hardman had been decided, and the verdict— no one bat the twelve intelligent jurymen who gave it knew why—was against Darcy LLonaclalo; the will was declared null and void, and the whole of the property weer' to be given to James Hardman. That wns hard; but hardest of all was th•e cruel things said by the plaintiff's eoansei. Darcy Lonsdale lietenea to them like one in a dream. Ile heard all kinds of underhand motives attributed to trim ; lie heard himself cle cribed as a conspirator ,as one who had taken advantage of his position to influence a weak-minded woman. He listened to words which burned him, branded him—which almost robbed him o•f bis self-respect—which so completely bewildered him that, if he had been a weaker man, 1m would not have known whether he was guilty or not. The blameless life of which he was,so proud, the blameless name which he valued above all other blessings, were bespattered. As he listened to the cruel words, which fell like molten lead on his Heart and home, he could have cried aloud that it was all false. He had lived In Lilford both ns boy and man, and all his old friends knew that he was incapable of doing any creature a wrong or an injury. any called few witnesses. He might have had a far better defence than `ho did, but that he trusted so en- tirely to the notion that his own innocence must .lm patent to all'men. The verdict was against Lem—unjust- ly so, tome said, for the judge had summed up unfavorably for him—and Darcy Lonsdale ,went home crushed and heart -broken. Those were dreary days in Vale House. "I ,Miall never hold up my head again,' ,gain,' caed Darcy Lonsdale, with a deep sob, "1 shall never look my fellow -men in the face." That hie old friends should have believed this of him, pained ttae brave, honest Heart. He nanl a long lllnesa, from which it was feared at lira that he would never recover. It was a dreary time. The business fell away; the toenepeopie said to each other wi,th a grave ,hake of the head, that they could not trust a man of whom such things lead been said—that they could not leave their interests, as before, in las hands. One after another the old names disappeared from hes books. Men lie had known all his simple life fought .clay of him—avoided hien, and the dreary time he passed on. Felix worked hard, but it was like rowing againet an angry current. There were some gleams of comfort ; one of them neither father or son ever forgot. It was an evening in October, dark and chill. For the first time the in.. valki had come down stairs, and the weight of anxiety upon !him was like a weight of lead. There were days of strict economy in Vale House. There Was no tempting fruit for the feeble ipppetlte„ no go:acrous wine to giro strength to the feeble frame. The best medicine that the invalid had were the cheering, kindly words Of his wife, the love of his son. That evening Felix camp home late from his office ; he was tired, owing to the hard work and ill -fortune of the day, lie fought nobly with mis- fortune ,but be fought in vain. His kind face brightened when he saw a loiter for him. It must be from Violet, Who would write to him except Vin - Let? And despite all his sorrows his heart glowed as he thought of her, his if only Portiful one !hour, andto suns himself In the eget of her presence! Ho w her so seldom new. Ho was hardat work during tho day, and the nights were too cold for walks and rambles. IIe occasionally went over to The Limes, but the welcome that he re- ceived there was not of the warmest, and he could not see Violet alone. :He took up the letter wl,th a smile and read It. It was not from Violet, but from her father, Francis 'Jaye, saying •that the marriage must be deferred for at least a year, as he was quite sure that under the circumstances Felix could telt .'harneer 'himself with a wife. (To bo Continued.) ; rtl Pt- The campaign speech that always sets• with, approval is "What will you have, gents ?" , s , , MURDER STATISTICS. Homicides in Lcndon and Chicago— Efficiency or Police Protection. Io' the Metropol1tae police distriCq of London, .which covers an area oZ 688 square miles, and contains a population of 6,500,000, there were committed last ,year just t3rentyl murders. In four cases the murders - eels committed suicide. In all the others arrests were made by the plol-. lice. There was DO undiscovered, grime—to use the British expressions•-., during the year. Tike Metropolitan pollee district is, roughly] speaking, three and a half, times as large as the City; of Chie cage, both, in area and in populai- tion. Yet, in the City! of Chicago, during the same period there were 128 homicides reported to the po- lice. Among these cases, according to the records kept at detective headquarters, there four in which the killing was done by officers in: tire performance of their duty, and eighteen in which the murderers. committed suicide, or were them- selves killed at the time of the crime,! Among the remitting 106 cases con- victions were secured in 34, while in 53 eases arrests were made wh'iclxj either did not, or bave not ,yet, re-, suited in convictions. In 19 cases net arrests were made. These last are Chicago's "undiscovered crimes" tor„ 1902. It would net be fair to draw cone elusions as to the efficiency of our pollee force from these figures alone:, Tbo London murders are probably aI} cases of deliberate crime— murder; . in the first degree, The Chicagat cases include in addition not only crime of passion but also crimes con-: cerning the true nature of which there may be some doubt. The Cools County c;oaoner's total of murders for 19.02 le oxalyj 13 . Moreover 10. some of the cases in `which no are rests could be made, and in some cit those in which the arrested .peen; were not pinlehed, the fault meal net have lain with the police. The Landon metropolitan force le materiallyi larger in proportion to population and territory than 'tbe, Chicago force. It hoe 14,476 officers and men, and its annual" pay rolls about $7,000,000. The total numbest of arrests of all kin.ds made by it in' 1902 was 112,205. The Chicago force numbered 2,732 officers auil men, with a pay' roll of $8,174,P134 The arrests numbered 70,314, In other words, with a population' and area three and a half times as large as Chicago's, the London force had five and a 'third times as madyl officers, who were paid two and a quarter time, as much, and who made one and three-fifths times as " many arrests. One other fact deserves to be tak- en' into account. In London thnrteen murderers were tried by the courts, nine being sentenced to be hanged and four being judged insane. In Chicago there was only one hang- ing —that of the brute Timms —. while most of the sentences were ridiculously' light—Chicago Herald. Another Mean Man Exposed. "Now," ,said the lawyer for the: cross -petitioner, as nig took the fail! witness in hand, "I want you to tele the court just when y'ou first bsgani to think your busband was treating eve: cruelly?" "It was on Cl.rristinas, two gears ago." , { "'What was the nature of ebb. troub1eaf1" "I had bought his mother a pocket- book for a present" s r s.! 4, . eYe+e?" ! "Well, he got mad and talked were fully. because he gave my mother! a gale watctc" i "Beoause he gave it, you say'?" 1' "Well, of course I picked it out', . but I let them send him the bill aril ma gave him...all the credit for, it." THEY HAVE SWEET TEETH. The Russians are the greatest peo. talo in Europe for rakes, pastry and ewoets. Pastry cooks and candymak ers receive higher wages in the Rus- elan cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Novgorod and Grondce than they can possibly earn eL5e Where in Europe. An English travel- ler who recently made a :trip over the Trans-Siberian Railway, from St Petersburg to Irktusk, stated that ha could buy sweetmeats and candy. Where he could not obtain the or - (Unary comforts and neeossities of life. I.huve never been in Russia, bulb from friends of ming who have been there I learn that such is not exarg•. gera°ted in the least. A Russian may be 'without towels and soap, combs and brushes, brooms and matohes, but nowhere le he far from a ,candy ?hope Next after the Russians the Italians are falcon's for their sweet dishes, although they aro of quite a different charaeter. 'The Italiana are fond of iced dishes, ice creams, water ices, etc., and although not generally known, it was an Italian cook who first invented,. or rather discovered, the art of making ioei cream, sone two conturies agog., Wathipigton rasj, I s