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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-08-20, Page 6p • I! the full charm o1 8696 is revealed The flavor is pure, fresh and fragrant. Try it. Black. Mixed or Green• Blendo. Love Gives Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD BY ANNIE S. SWAN. °1Love gives itself and le not bought." --Longfellow. CHAPTER XXV: (Cont'd.) Judy looked through the window, with a far -away expression in her ,eyes. "I am not so much surprised at that "That lovely, lovely lady who doesn't look as if she was an ordinary human being at all! Oh, Miss Rankine, isn't it a frightful tragedy?" "You have used the right word. after what you have told me. 0 And God knows what the end will be! course, it was all very different from Then will you try and get that ad - anything he had ever known. Surely dress for me? I shall have to go home it was a frightful mistake for him to now and tell Carlotta." come to America!" "You don't think me rude if I ask "It's a mistake for most of them to a question, Miss Rankine? What come," assented Jean quietly. "Your brought him to this? Of course, any- brother isn't the type that makes good body with half an eye could see that here. He's too fine. What he suffer- he was not an ordinary man at alli— ed—but there! I don't want to go on that he was a gentleman through and like that and he never spoke of it, through—what we call a been gentle- anyway," entle- „ man—as well as one by upbringing an"But what are we to do?" asked and training." n her hands a little all. another forlorn unit in that great .and ! besides for something he did for me difficult city, And elle wanted des- down east. Did :he tell you?" perately to :know the whole story and "` esi" admitted Jean after a mo- te follow it to its end. ! merit, "lie did." Her eyes ranged round the crowded j ('I9 be 'continued.) tiers of the audience without finding Judy, who was not in the house, but 1 10-11o'rrow. had' stopped at home to write ex -To=day maiy be dark and forbidding haustively to Claud, who had return.: our hearts may be full of despair, ed to Cambridge, to tell him how they But To -morrow the hope that wa'a wan - had just missed Marl. Jul now ing will prompt us to do and to blamed herself bitterly for alovving these fateful hours to be swallowed up dare. carelessly; even Carlotta'e calm pro Te -dor was may feel that 'life s, sorrows nouneement that that too had been outweigh all the joy that we written in the book of destiny failed. crave, to satisfy or comfort her. But To -morrow wild teach v. the lesson Jean Dempster did not sleep Bound- . thait life Is worth while to the ly that night, her pillow was dream,- brave, haunted, and she awoke unrefreshed, About an' hour after she had begun Paint heart is forerunner of sadness, -- her business day someone rang h-er : despondency robs us of health; up sharply on the 'phone. Tho man who Se chock full of gladneee "You, Miss Dempster?" ie the man who makes- most of "Yes," answered Jean shortly, life's wealth. "Fordyce epeaking. You rang pieTo-day' may be all that is mournful— up at the factory �yesterday, I believe, several times. What did you want?" our paths cannot always be "Only an.address, Mr. Fordyce,"' bright, answered Jean in her' pleasant Scotch But To -morrow we'll somehow take voice, "an address to which Mr. Alan courage, and trustingly enter the Rankine has gone out West." fight. "Oh," came somewhat doubtfully over the telephone, and the listener To -morrow the sun will be brighten.; quite evidently hesitated. He had had Tomorrow the skies will be fair, a good many affairs in his life re- To -morrow our hearts will be lighter; quiring extreme caution and reserve we'll •cast aside soreow and care. regarding all his movements, and it Remember when heartsick and weary: was as natural for him to hesitate he sunshine comas after the twee, this as to breathe. Quite.possibly a woman was'at the bottom of Ran- rain; kine's plight, and he might be glad to ' To -morrow -is time to be cheery; To get away from her. morrow we take hope again! "Say—you're Scotch, aren't you?" o "Yes, same as you," answered Jean Japanese Proverbs. on the spur of the moment. "That's my excuse for venturing." The character and the ideals of any "Well, where are you speaking from nation are always pithily expressed in now?" the popular proverbs' that have become "My office—in the Dormer House, part of th•e everyday speech of the peo- on Broadway." ple. Here is some of an interesting "Oh! business woman?" proverbial philosophy of the Japanese: "Stenographer's office." One Japanese characteristic, perse- "Right. I'.11 come round inside an verance, is expressed in the'saying: hour or an hour and a hall, on my •Fall seven times, sfand up the eighth way back to lunch. Can't give you „ that address off-hand—well for' var- time. • Another proverb in the same Vein deolares: "A road of a thousand miles begins with one step," The Japanese equivalent of "casting pearls before swine' 'is "giving gold coins to a cat' 'and instead of "a wolf in sheep's clothing" they speak of "a wolf dressed in a priest's robes." When a Japanese wishes to explain that a thing is quite impossible he tells you that one might as well "learn to swim in a field" or "lap up the ocean with a shell." "A small-minded man looks at the sky through a reed" and "The heart is the same at three as at sixty" are other Japanese gems. Picturesque too are "At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark" and "When the hen crows the house goes to ruin." The latter saying indicates the Japanese view of femin- ism. Equally pithy is: "There is no medicine for 'love -sickness or for a shaven jaw. But his -gray eyes were fool." not so hard as they might have been. They were quite soft and"kindly as - es With Ice -Cream.... they rested on Jean Dempster's pleas- 1n nearly all the small tows in Spain the buying of ice-cream from a street vender is made the opportunity for a gamble.. On the top of the zinc pail that holds the cream is a small wooden `plate above .which is poised a revolving stick. Round the edges of the plate, which, is gaily colored, graded numbers from ten 'to one hundred are painted. The intending purchaser pays the ven- der a penny, which entitles him to one twist of the stick. If the pointer in- dicates a number higher than that made by the stall -holder, the winner is entitled to an ice-cream free of charge and another twist of the stick; With hick, and provided the game is played fairly, one can have a succes, Bion of ices for the •original penny. If two in the afternoon.' the stall -holder wins in the first, in- "At Sherry's?" inquired Jean with stance the penny is lost and the cus- uplifted brows tomer receives nothing. These bar= Judy, wr.-�ngi g littl "Nltsfortunes I can't go into it ious reasons." "Can't we find or go after him?" It's a long, sad, bitter story. I hope "Thank you, Mr. Fordyce. I Il be "Who are 'we'?" asked Jean on the we shall meet again—we must! Car- hare." spur of the moment. lotta will wish to see you, Miss Demp- , Now that was destined to be a mo - "Miss Carlyon—that is,, Miss Ten- ster. I don't know how to thank you. mentous morning in Jean Dempster's terden and I," said Judy quickly. "I I don't think I can even tryl But Pm; • life, and, all unconscious of it, she don't know how I am to tell her! Is thankful—oh, so thankful!—he had a! pursued her usual avocations in her there no way of finding out. the Al- friend like you here." quiet, methodical manner. berta address; and how far is it out I did my best,"said Jean simply Her desk was cleared 'and her office there? Could�I go and come in a day "And oh, I've seen such�a lot of moth- spick and span when her caller was or two?" ers'sons stranded here! Its cruel, I announced. Jean Dempster smiled and shook her think! I wish something could be He looked at her keenly when he head done to prevent it! entered, and they exchanged brief "I'm not sure of the exact distance, "How did you come here? I sup- salutations. but it's nearer two thousand than onepose your family are with you?" "You know the chap?" began For - thousand miles from New York, Miss Jean shook her head. dyce, sitting down en the edge of the Rankine." "No. I left. Scotland to get away chair Judy had occupied yesterday. "Two thousand miles!" echoed Judy, from my old self. I've had my share Jean inclined her head, aware of in incredulous amazement. "Why, of tragedy.. I'm fed up with it! I've the fact that Fordyce was studying that is as far as we have come!" seen lnttle else, I whiles think." her intently and was pleased with "Further. But this is the land of "It has given you the understand- what he saw. imniense distances. You can't go there ing heart," said Judy and moved by He was a man of about forty or after himMiss Rankine unless you an uncontrollable impulse, she leaned thereabouts, with a somewhat heavy have both time and money. But I could forward and touched Jean Dempster's figure and a square, good head, with get the address for you, I think cheek with her lips. immense determination ,in his clean - though he did not give it to me know the name of the man who has CHAPTER XXVI. sent him out. I could find out his ad - HIS WIFE. dress for you, if you would like to go and see him yourself; but, on the whole, I wouldn't advise you to." She added this as an afterthought, reflecting that perhaps the millionaire Several times that afternoon. Jean ant face. Dempster 'phoned to the East Side "Do you know the chap?" he re - factory askirg for Mr. Fordyce. Var- peated, and watched her face to see ions officials and subordinates inquir- the effect of the question. Fordyce—if all the stories about him ed her business, but to each and all "I know him quite well. He. board - were true—would not be likely to Miss Dempster replied that she must ed at the house where I live when he spare her feelings. I talk with Mr. Fordyce himself. Final- came to New York first, last May." "Pd rather not go and see him. Howl ly she had to leave her office without "Only then( He must have•descend- did my brother get to know him?" meeting with success, but left her ed rapidly! Eh? What was it?" "He was In the employment of his name and number to be passed on to 1 Jean did not immediately reply. firm, and had a row with the man- I him the moment he was available.' "I don't want that address for my- "He about some abuses he found Upon reflection she added that the self, Mr. -Fordyce," she said presently there. He hadn't learned to shut his business was urgent, and that Mr and with some irrelevance. "I'd•• like eyes to abuses. I don't think he ever would learn that—would he? The man's name is Fordyce. He has a factory on the East Side. I can easily get at him on the 'phone, or by letter, or interview, if you would like his address." "Of course I should like his address. I must get its We must cable to him or something." "Very well, Miss Rankine. I'll find it all out for you some time to -day. And where can I send it?" "We are at the Holland House." Fordyce would probably think so when you to understand that. If Mr. Ran - he heard it. kine had wished me to know his She went home to Mrs. Isaacstein's whereabouts he would have told me, feeling oddly detached from an her only he left me rather hurriedly that fellow -inmates and from the whole last night. I suppose he did take that ordinary current of her life. train?' Judith Rankine had not told her "Why yes, I guess so. He had all much, but Jean had Tier intuitive fac- his tickets, anyhow, and I said good- ulty largely developed, and had small bye to him at Sherry's at half -past difficulty in piecing the story together. It was, however, though true in some essentials, considerably wide of the mark. Such a restlessness was upon her Jean scribbled it down on the edge that immediately after dinner she left of her tablets, and at the moment the the house again and went in the direc- bell -boy brought an urgent message. tion of the Manhattan Theatre, hop - "I am sorry, but I have to attend ing to be fortunate enough to secure to my business, Miss Rankine," she said as she rose. "I wish I had had something brighter to tell you about your brother." Judy's face was now very sad, and her eyes rather hopeless. woman who mattered in Alan Ran - "We have both been uncomfortable kine's life. in our minds about him for a long She was fortunate in finding a cor- time; and as you have been so very nor at the eleventh hour, and she had kind to Alan, I ought to tell you that just settled herself comfortably when Miss Tenterden is his promised wife" she saw Harry Fordyce, the man she 'Yes— he had as much right there rows are a source of interest to stu- as the most of 'em," he answered with dents, who spend most of their spare a slight, dry smile, "in spite of the cash in attempts to defeat the ice - fact that he hadn't a stiver to pay cream man. with. Who wants the address then, The venders also sell a Very popu- if you don't." at the eleventh hour some obscure "His sister and someone else." a glass full of a white liquid resem- seat in the house, from which she' "His sister! But I understood from bung milk.• It is made from water' ! could watch Miss Tenterden. It was him that he had no people here. In no as a t great ctress that she was his circumstances a man doesn't want sums, crushed almonds, and orange makes an excellent "cooler." lar drink. For a penny one can obtain interested ian her, but merely as the his people about. Did she cable, or juice. When served It ie icy cold and what? "No. She is here in the city, stop- ping at the %Holland House." "On his track?" "Partly. Yes—I think that is why they came." Jean Dempster stood still in the had been trying all afternoon to get "Who are they? Not his mother! I. middle of the floor, as if petrified with into communication with, enter the hoped she was dead. Mothers envie. astonishment. ! stalls. He. was quite alone, and for the few moments before the curtain went up she had an excellent oppor- tunity of studying his face. He had no looks but only a certain rugged power; anti, in spite of all the stories which had been circulated h c uld find nothfn evil After eatingor smoking Wrigley's fresens the mouth and sweetens the breath. Nerves are soothed. throat is refreshed and digestion aided. So easy to carry the little packet! aI er oPeiy meal _ __ _. . �._- -.. �� . • she had honestly liked hind, and rnoth- i "U'S No, 33-eia5, l erred him, as she had mothered many about him, se o g or repellent in his face.He looked grave, and even bored,'signal, though several around hiin would have been pleased with his notice, he studied his' program intently, and spoke to none. After the curtain went up Jean, under the spell of what. most of the critics were agreed was one of the finest bits of acting New York had ver' seen, forgot all about'" hire. It was not until after the close of the econd act that she noticed that For - levee's stall was empty, and that, quite evidently, he had left the house. Perhaps she was not surprised; for it was a poignant story, and some of Carlotta's winged words. might have, pierced the joints of his armour. Jean studied the play even snore intently the second night than the first, and site watched Carlotta with a tender and painful interest which of sparse, hacl its being in her own inter- mit in Alan Rankine, Jean had not known how deep that interest had been until now, when he had drifted out of her life. It was not a love interest in the ordinary sense. Sha believed that she would never :feel Viet kind of . interest in a man a second time. But tate life for a chap when he's down on his luck," Something indefinable flickered across the hard face at the moment, and Jean's eye did not fail to perceive it. She was beginning to be deeply interested in Harry Fordyce." "No, 'not his mother I don't think, I'm` betraying any particular confi- dence in telling you --especially after you've been so kind to him. I saw you at the Manhattan Theatre last night, Mr, Fordyce. Well, let me tell you Mr. Rankine is engaged to Mar- garet Tenterden," Fordyce whistled in sheer amaze- ment, "Well, I never! Engagedi She's a fine woman --but then, he's a fine man. What was the racket, do you know? What brought, him down to the hobo stage? Couldn't get a word out of him !" "And he didn't tell me' much," said Jean reflectively, . "I could bet my bottom dollar it. wasn't drink," observed Fordyce. "No, it certainly wasn't drink. Sheer misfortune --family misfortune first, and followed by ,personal misfortune and ill -luck. He is the head of one of the oldest families in Ayrshire,his sister told me that much; and here ought to be estates, but I don't kis* what has become of them," "One more chapter added to the history of this inferno! observed revive with a sort of light bitters nese. "Well, I must say I liked the chap, and I'm eternally eb1iged to hint. Minard's Liniment for Burns. The •Blank Book. 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