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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-02-24, Page 6Save Money and Beautify the Horne Grow Your Own Vegetables and flowers —Buy— o rbc s S: wig cis we are the oldest Seed House in i• Canada which should be an assurance of the quality and service that we give. *aw Write for our 112 page Catalogue FREE John A. Bruce & Co., Limited HAMILTON Established 1850 ONTARin 1 GREEN TEA TT. when you want a change. It's delicious. c `a. A Lot of Money BY SOPHIE KERR. PART III. The wrought -iron doors of the tall house were swung open by a discreet and correct butler. "This is • Miss Thorne, Bowen," said Mr. Fink. Bowen know what to do. With de- ferential welcoming murmurs he pos- sessed himself of Anne's suitcases and wafted her into her house toward what seemed to be a tiny room at the side of the hall. "If Miss Thorne will take the elevator," he conveyed as much by gesture as by sound, "I will take her to her room. Dinner has been prepared and will be served whenever Miss Thorne wishes." Anne looked despairingly at Mr. Fink. She felt small and Iost in the wide vastnesses of the hallway. "When will you be back?" she asked. "I'll telephone about half -past nine to -morrow, if I may, and make an ap- pointment for i4Ir. Grayson, the senior member of the firm, to see you. If you should need me in the meantime, here is a card with niy telephone num- ber. And now let me wish you a very refreshing night after your long trip. Good night, Miss Thorne" As the door shut behind Mr. Fink, Anne felt a moment of panic. Turn- ing, she caught on Bowen's wooden countenance a fleeting expression wherein were blended an intense cur- iosity and an almost human sympathy. It disappeared instantly and left hint as correctly blank as before, but Anne knew he was her ally if she needed one. As the elevator slowly rose, she asked: "Where is Mrs. Torrance?" "Mrs. Torrance will be at dinner, Miss Thorne—and Mr. Torrance." "Who's Mr. Torrance?" asked Anne, surprised. "I thought she was a widow." Bowen coughed. "Mr. Torrance is Mrs. Torrance's son, madam. Her only child. Mr. Roy Torrance." "But he doesn't live here, does he?" "Mr. Roy Torrance has bean with his mother a good bit since Mr. Thorne's death." Bowen hesitated, his hand on the door. Then he plunged into confidence. "Mr. Thorne did not permit hint to come here, madam." Anne got on very well with Jennie, the trim maid who unpacked for her, displayed the resources of the old- fashioned white -marble bathroom, and ministered to her generally in all - seeing, pleasant silence. "It's mag- nificent old furniture, but all out of date," thought Anne. "And it's urine. It seems ridictiious. Mine --carpet, chairs, bed and all. This whole house is mina, my very own house. With an elevator in it! I had no idea!" But before Jennie she tried to ac- cept everything as a matter of course. She wanted, awfully, to ask the girl some questions, but thought better of it. "I'll just ring that you're coming down, madam. And then I'll show you the way," said Jennie when she was ready. "I'll be here when you come upstairs, madam, too."'" "That's nice," said Anne, smiling at her. "I wish you would be. I'm find- ing things lonesome and strange to- night." Jennie looked complete understand- ing: She pressed various buttons, thew took Anne back to the elevator and ran it clown to the first floor. Anne followed her in a fog of unreality, which was not lightened when Bowen ushered her with majesty into the dining room. The room was empty save for another manservant, but the table, with candles in floriated candel- abra shining above a mass of richest red roses, was set for three, "Dinner has been announced to Mrs. and Mr. Torrance," said Bowen. "But they have not come down." He pulled out the chair at the head of the table, a carved high-backed chair, and Ano took her place. Bowen was putting before her a round oan'ape of some dark stuff that tasted fishy and good she didn't know it was caviar—when the door opened violently and a woman came followed by a young man. " Gh," said the woman sharply, "you ttidn't wait. I suppose you felt it wasn't necessary," The words were a slap in the 'face and Anne felt her blood rise hotly. She rallied her self-control, and sat Intik, turning her head, held very high, tewiird the speaker. "M'lra, Torrance, I suppose. How do you do? I ani Anne Thorne. No, I didn't think it was neceseary to wait" She saw triumph gleam iii Bowen's eyes as he held Mrs. Torrance's chair, atei she knew she had done the right thine; Nov that the other woman 'ersas "worn,, Anne 'could see her, a stormy sallow face, with haggard eyes, a too -buxom figure, a gown of calculated grandeur. "She put on low neck and short sleeves and all that jewelry because she knew Pd not have anything like it. She wantea me to feel awkward," thought Anne. She became more deliberate and alert, on her guard. Now she turned slightly toward the young man. Like his mo- ther, he was in evening clothes; like her, he was dark and sallow, and there was something sinister about hire that Anne could not fathom, But he was bowing, smiling, ingratiatingly, agree- ably. "We are so pleased; my mother and I," he said, "to meet dear Uncle An- drew's heiress." This was plainly untrue, for Mrs. Torrance added with nasty emphasis: "I see you've taken the head of the table." Anne looked at her and did not answer. Not for nothing had she bat - tied with the unruly Cartertown First Grade for two conquering years. Whatever she had managed to teach them, they had taught her to be cau- tious in conflict. But she wished Mrs. Chaner was there—what a glorious set-to she would hare with Mrs. Tor- rance. Bowen was bringing in her soup, de- licious. Little toasted crackers came with it, and tiny stalks of crisp celery with savory cheese, anti ripe olives. "I see you have taken the head of the table," repeated Mrs. Torrance, leaning toward her and ignoring a warning gesture from her son. "You have good eyes," said Anne placidly. "Motherl" exclaimed Roy Torrance;, and then to Anne: "We're so used to seeing Uncle Andrew there, mother and I, it .seems strange for another to have his place, you know." He was oily and obsequious, but his eyes did not senile. Anne began to1 dislike him actively. "I thought you didn't come here while he was alive," she said. Mrs. Torrance flung down her nap- kin, cracked a dramatic hand on the table, half rose. "This is unbearable," she shrilled. "Isn't it enough that we should be, paupers after all my years of slavery' to that old devil's whims, but that we should be taunted and sneered at—"1 "I was neither taunting nor sneer- ing," neer ing," said Anne. "Yon started this! fuss and now you don't like it. I1 think we'd better finish eating dinner without any talk at all." "You give us lessons in manners too. You dare—you upstart, you pretender ! Let me tell you that I'ni having your- clauimn to this estate well looked into. and there's every chance that I can prove you're not the real heir at all..". Mrs. Torrance collapsed into her chair, whimpering, and the scene ended as quickly as it had begun. Now that it was over Anne felt half sick, unnerved. Why hadn't she had dinner in her room? She must stick this out, hateful though it was. Roy Torrance, glancing at her,. divined her uneasi- ness, and set himself deliberately to talk --a pleasant, light patter of new books, new plays, new music; of peo- ple whose names Anne had seen in newspapers, movie stars, singers, actors. It all made a picture for her of the sort of life she might enter, and at the same time was was trying to find out her tastes, her peedilec- tions. "He wants me to like him," Anne divined. :'He deesn?t want his mother to make trouble." She looked at his hands. They were white, as useless, as cared -for es the hands of the woman who had sat across from her in the Pullman. "Louis could double him up and break him in two and not half try," she thought, and with that there came a piteous home- sick pang for Louis, his strength, his honesty. This ,strange, half -rotten pair—they revolted her. And yet there was a certain fascination in Roy Torrance's talk. He opened a thou- sand ways to enjoy her new fortune, fired her imagination in spite of her- self. As the dinner ended she rose first. "I'm very tired; I'm going to bed," she said abruptly. "Good night." "Oh, but waft—why don't you come into the music room a while and let ine play for you?" protested young Torrance. • "Some of, the new things you'll enjoy so much hearing in con- certs,. later.» ' "He plays beautiful, like a pro- feseional," saki Mrs, Torrance, her dislike of Anne overcome In her wish to display her sons • "I'M sorry, but I'm . too tired," she said. "Let us at least show you through the lower part of the house." He was anxious to keep with her, that sifts !clear, "I don't believe you've seen your new domain yet. It's all fear- fully quaint and out of date, but in its time it was considered quite grand," "Not to -night, thank you." She felt Bowen's approval of her firmness. He stepped before her, subtly shunting off the Torrances, ° "Shall I take madam to her room?" ho asked. Anne felt safer when she was up- stairs with Jennie, These two Tor- rances--they frightened her, There was something so sinister about the young man's face; his eyes shifty, yet bold. 'And the mother's outburst, stifled against her will—it amounted to an attack. She didn't want to be alone with them. After Jennie had gone Anne locked and bolted the door. The great can- opied bed was luxuriously soft; the sheets were smooth linen, lavender scented But Anne could not, for a while, go to sleep. It wad all too strange, too disturbing. This house, these servants, these varied amusing possibilities that Roy Torrance had painted for her, what were they but barriers between her and all that she had, until now, hoped for and treasured? Barriers between. her and Mrs. Chaner, between her and Oartertown, and, most disturbing of all, barriers unscalable between her and Louis Haynes. Louis with his fields and his cattle, his orchards, his square plain house with the prim flower beds before it, his straight and ordered life. (To be concluded.) Success. This is success; to live beyond :de- ceit, Too big to play the liar or the cheat, Too big to leian when burdens, heavy grow, Asking no favor from a friend or foe, Standing to life and all that it may mean With head erect and hands and, con- science clean. This is success: to live from year to year Not asking always sunny skies and clear, Bat wise enough to ,know and under- stand. Lite never runs exactly as we've planned; Seeking the hest, but when the worst is met Taking the blow without too much re- '. gret. This is success: with all to play the friend, Willing to give and glad at times to lend, Laughing and singing 'whensoe'er you may, But walking bravely through the rainy • day, Giving your best throughout the pass- ing years, Neither deceived by flattery nor by sneers. This is success: the love of friends to win, To taste no pleasure that may lean: to sin, To take no profit from the hand of • shame, But by a fair fight win or lose the ! game; i To get from life such triumphs as you can, Bat still through good or i11 to play the man. —Edgar A. Guest. Hubby—"You say that dress cost $60.00. Where do they .get the right to charge so much for suck a small affair?" Wifoy--"It's merely a cover charge," Canada a .World Leader. 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Each adaplted the words to his own thoughts until' those in authority and some with literary ability got hold of it, and in place of a rough, half -ribald song, made it a 'hymn of thanksgiving. The King was not renrove•d from the song, but instead of the prowess of his arms, the victory was attributed to the fact that 'there God for him wrought marvelionis y," Tradition alone, however, has not kept tho song in existence, for a little later musi- cians of the day wrote harmonies to it, Of a base, crude type, with bits of syncopation in the different parts, and to the way in Which s,orne of the manu- scripts were preserved we owe the fact that "The Agincourt Song" is known to -day as one of the best and most. readily learnt, es well as 0114/ ' of the oldest of English folk songs: A Wise Polley. When a high -salaried executive left the employ of the Marshall Field store, some one asked Mr. Shedd, the presi- dent of the firm, what he was going to cin, "Hire another orrice boy," he said. 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When men.' moved with herds .and tents up from Ur of Shiner Plains guided by. th,e stubs Iui night travel over the hot desert—what compass guided' them over the ohaartlesa sands to Babylon, from. Babylon to Nineveh, north and. northwest to Palestine and, Egypt and Greene, a:std, Ronne? When the purple sails of Tyre blew to the winds over ivory rowlocks with slaver prows went and west to the Pillars of Hercules, what star guided them over the chart - less seas where the Meddterranean opened out to a wild unknown world. Peopled' by dragons? And when rough sailor pirates from the Pribe of Dan fled from slavery by Persian and Greek conqueror up to the northwest coast. of Europe in slipshod watt so frail the hvlil had to be "trussed" round and round by ropes till Ireland was reach ed, or Cornwall, whence came the tin' of Caathage traffic, or Lad (London), where blue-eyed slaves from Crete Gould be bought—what sitar' pointed their prows over the billows, which geographers said would rola them over a flat earth sato the abyss of eternity? And when the navigators defying the gleiegraphers set out from Portugal and Spain and England,' and later from. Boston, to circumnavigate the globe—the globe of which the prophets had sung, "Hips dominion should extend from the riveris to the ends of the sea," and the Gentiles should enter into the heritage of God —what star proved better than a pilot compass that jumped, to magnetic variations? Again I was back on the east side of the Rockies. Again the sky-blue lakes mirrored white peaks above, and sombre motionless forested shores, and a cold sickle moon; and the Dipper with its seven torchlights was a dia- mond thing in the lake below and the vaulted blue above. Where were we going in this march of Empire? I looked where the Dipper pointed his diamond torchiights through a sky filtered in silver gauze. He seemed almost to toss his -flash- lights into a future too dazzling for very hope. He was signaling some un- known semaphore to the North Star— the Star of Destiny,—Agnes C. Lout, in "Enchanted Trails of Glacier Park." %'lpl /Nit -Sag' The Movie Stars So say all whose work is hard sifter they try the deli- dobe, invigorating refresh - j anent of Wrigley's Doable Mint. Wl �t,i,i .. , 00v 131-E- u �j,,,, -„M1 ,'' Min Awry Moo/ —and Alivr Smoking ,j tea. 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