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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-10-01, Page 6The choice teas used exclusive. ly it Salada yield richly of their elicious goodness. Say Salad a. Love Gives Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD BY ANNIE S. SWAN., • °Love gives itself and is not bought.P' Longfailow. ..le.P7.'ER XXIX.—(Cont'd.) "You are surprised, doubtless, at "I culdn't believe them when they this late call," he began in his slow- 'to'd me at the station, yesterday, that est, most guttural and -difficult voice. it But the matter is urgent. I• have called to ask whether you will be so good as to give me the latest clues you have concerning your—your hus- band," he said deliberately, though undoubtedly he faltered on the name. . "We have no recent clues," ' she answered simply. "The only address we got, when we went to New York, was that of a cattle ranch in Alberta, belonging to a man named Fordyce. But Alan never went there." "But he went in that direction, I understood from Dr. Sanderson?" said Peter with painfdl eagerness. 'Oh, yes, We believe that he is somewhere in Western Canada, or, more likely still, in. the Kiondyke. lie met a man en the boat going out, who asked him to go up to the Yukon with him, and I believe that is what he has done." "That is all the information you can give me? Do you happen to know the name of that man?" "Affery. And he had an address at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Dawson City. I have written there, but got no answer." Peter Garvock took out his note- book and made a note of all the names and addresses of which Carlotta had spoken. "Why do you want them? I've told you it isn't any use writing. We've done everything in the writing and cabling line that it is possible to do, but without result." Peter Garvock's face wore a strange expression as he closed the book and replaced it in his pocket. "I don't want to write. But I shall go, Mrs. Alan, and bring him back if be is alive. If he is dead then I shall assure myself of the fact before I conte back to Scotland, so that your mind—and mine—may be at rest." Carlotta's face visibly paled. "But why should you do that?" she asked unsteadily. "Do you know what you are undertaking? It is a fright- ful journey to the Yukon. It will take you six months, and unto'_d money, and then—and then—will it be of any use?" "I have to make that journey. You have heard the word atonement, Car- lotta? Well, it is atonement I seek to make," said Peter Garvock, and pass- ed from her astonished eyes out into the night. She did not see him again, but by the middle of the week it was known l in Ayr that Peter Garvock had left Scotland for America, and that the lobject of his journey was to find the lost Laird of Stair. you had arrived," said Bobbie, chang- ing the subject, because Judy s graphic words moved him more than he cared to show. "You might have written." "There wasn't time. And, anyway, did it matter? For if we were away a thousand years from Stair, we should come back to find you and Edie just the same! Say, Bobbie, I've just inet Peter Garvock at the march dyke, at the very place where he and Alan fought that dreadful Sunday after- noon, which you and I will never for- get!" Bobbie Ieaned up against the stone balustrade, looking the deep interest he felt. "So you saw old Peter—eh? Well —and didn't he look a sick and sorry man?" "He did. Among the changes that are going, Bobbie, the greatest, I do Believe, has taken place in him!" "He has never had a day's peace of mind, I believe, since it all happened. llow did he take your coming back? And does he know that Miss Carlyon Is actually Alan's wife?" "I told him. I don't exactly know what is inside of Peter, but it is some- thing deep, and very different from what was there last time I saw him! But do come inside now and have sots•. tea, and see Carlotta." n The man of whom they had talked was still out upon Barassie Hill, the prey of a thousand conflicting thoughts. He spent hours roaming there, in the sweet spring solitude, and finally, out of the chaos of his shoughts, there rose the image of one strong desire. Shadowy and almost incoherent at first, before many hours •vere over it had taken shape and had become the purpose of a life. Between eight and nine o'clock that night, one of the reduced household cf Stair was surprised when the front - door bell rang, to find Mr. Peter Gar- vock on the step. "I wish. to see Mrs• Rankine, if you please. Tell her that it is Mr. Peter Garvock, and that the business is urgent." Yes, sir. Conte in," said the wo- man, who was a stranger to the fam- ily history of Stair and The Lees, and was simply surprised that a celler should come so late on a Sunday even- ing to the house. Carlotta was alone when the mes- sage was brought, and after reflecting for a moment, she rose and went downstairs without consulting Judy, as was her first impulse. Judy was in the Pool, as it hap- pened, alternately refreshing and har- rowing her memory with old things and old dreams; and thus so remotely -hidden at the back of the house that she did not hear the clang of the bell, nor the entrance of the visitor whom the maid had put into the little morn- ing -room. • Carlotta, in a sweeping gown of black velvet, with a turned -back col - lax of old lace, looked a perfect pic- ture, but Peter Garvock's pulses did not stir at sight of her, The fierce passion which had devastated his Iife and the lives of others, had burner itself out, and left but an empty ker- nel behind. Carlotta was completely mistress of herself, and gave him a quite kindly greeting, but she neither offered her hand nor did he. AFTER EVERY MEAL v affords benefit as well as pleasure. Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spurdigestion. A to di estionlong. lasting refreshment, soothing to nerves and stomach. The World Famous Sweetmeat, untouched by hands, full of flavor." ISSUE No, 39—'25. a CHAPTER XXX. THE TRAIL. Some wise person has observed that the only way in which to learn the geography of the earth correctly is to travel in leisurely and observant fashion over its entire surface. . That being an impossible feat for most of people, the great majority have to live in a state of comparative ignorance regarding the conditions of life at places remote from their own habitation and environment. Peter Garvock was reminded of this many times as he made' his moment- ous journey to the Yukon territory, Following in the tracks of his lost kinsman. The railway over the fam- ous White Pass was not long opened, and in London he had been able to obtain very little information regard- ing the journey. In New York he fared little better, and was obliged to push on to Vancouver, where he had been informed he could take his tick- ets to cover the journey and obtain the fullest information regarding it. By the time he reached Vancouver May was drawing to a close. In the railway journey from. the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, he had ample opportunity of being impressed by the land of vast distances and boundless opportunities, which has cured so many of our best and bravest to its capacious heart. He talked with his fellow -travellers, for, though the c,hjec i of his journey had lithe to do with the future development of Can- ada, ada, he took a Briton's interest in it. And each step of the way, meeting with some fresh interest, face to face with tremendous problems both econ- omic and racial, he felt that even should that object fail, the adventure' would not have been in vain! It is1 good for the stay-at-home man to real- ize how vast is the surface of the globe, and how small an atom he is upon it. Carefully weighing up all the meagre scraps of information his cou- sin's wife bad been able to give him, he concluded that his best plan was to_ lose no time hi coming up with Afiery. When Alan found himself utterly on his bearn.ends, what more llkeiy than "that he should ponder on the offer that'had been rnacie to him. angstrain every•nerve l» avail h,rrt- self -of it?;, ' he,only doubtiui porrat was its geniixieness, and even' the address of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Dawson City, •wiifle it gave an air of reality to the enrol affair, seemed hardly in itself 'suffi- cient tojustify ai rife taking a long and costly journey for the, purpose of verifying the bona fides of one of its customers. Over two • years had now ' elapsed since Af cry's offer was rade to Ran- kine on the steamer in raid -Atlantic. What might not have happened in two years? Soit was really Afery's track Peter Garvock was on, and as he drew near- er to his destination he became con- scious of that quickened eagerness of spirit which takes possession of the man who aims at some particular and momentous goal. If the prairies and mountains im- pressed him, he was still more amazed at the flourishing cities he found 'lo- cated on the Pacific coast which.' had opened up its golden waterways to tire commerce of the world. He bad to stop two days in Van- couver, waiting on the boat to 'take him to Skegway, and there helearned all the tortuous windings of the amaz- ing journey in front of hire Four days by sea to Skegway, .eight hours' rail over the White Horse Pass, then another steamer down the Yukon to Dawson=seven er eight days in all; just the same time as it had taken him to dross the Atlantic. At the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Vancouver he learned, to his satis- faction, that Affery had certainly been in Dawson as late as the previous summer. That was something to go on with at least; and he prepared to enjoy the novelty of his journey with a little `less of the impatience which had marked its earlier stages.. There' are few experiences which lay a greater hush on the spirit of a man than to travel. over vast places, in which he is made to realize the power and majesty of Nature, and .the boundlessness of her resources. Garvock, though a quiet,. stay-at- home sort of a Ivan, had made the usual travel journeys in Europe, and had been once to India on -business to the Bombay house of his firm; but he had never desired to explore or study India. To him'it was merely a busi- ness place of call. Now, however, he tasted for the first time the delirious and obsessing lure of the trail—if I may put it so. Each fresh picture unfolded to his gaze on that wonder- ful journey from Vancouver round the Pacific coast filled him with awe and a strange kind of joy that was half pain. The weather was glorious. In- these. surprising lands, summer comes with an outburst which can be little -under- stood on this side. If she is longin coming, at least she is no laggard when once she sets out in earnest, nor is sha niggardly of her stores.. . The largeness of her gifts in the matter, of flowers and perfumes and beauty, is indescribalbe. Garvock felt and moved in an en- chanted land. Such wealth of flowers, such riot of coloring, such sunsets and sunrises have to be -imagined sing they cannot be described. Not now i.i any particular haste to get to his destination, he even grudged the hours spent in necessary sleep, fearing to lose one item of that vast and mov- ing panorama of snow-capped moun- tains and precipitous bills rising sheer from the waterways, often so closely land -locked that it looked as if the boat must perforce have to make pause at the limit of the world! It was Norway stupendously magnified, and it seemed to have neither boun- dary nor end. Any ordinary man in whom the in- stincts of feeling and reverence are not dead must be uplifted by such ex- perience, and be brought, in spite of himself, nearer to the eternal verities. By the time Peter Garvock reached the White Horse City, where he had to entrain over the famous Pass which so many thousands had converted into a trail of blood and death during the tremendous early onrush to the .gold- fields, he was a very different rnan— a, humbler, better man—than when he quitted the narrow confines of his office in Renfield Street, Glasgow, on the morning of the day on which he had left Scotland on his strange quest. At White Horse City he learned be- yond doubt that the ice had not yet gone out on the Yukon, and that once. over the Pass, he would have to make the last three hundred miles by stage- coach instead ,of .by steamer. That sort of thing in the twentieth century Iifts a man clean out of the rut in which his life has hitherto been set!• He had few fellow -passengers on the train which carried him over the Pass. The season was very early yet, and the few desiring to reach Dawson, wanted to make sure that the Yukon was navigable first. Peter had pro- vided himself with a certain amount, of literature, such meagre stuff as he could find about Alaska and the frozen north; but, somehow, the reality seemed to drive all the written ac- counts out of his mind. Sitting in his luxurious parlor -car, as the tour- ist train climbed the -rocky steeps, of CIi$E A handy size pack- age for occasions when half a pound is 'lust right. IMO White 1!Ior°se Pass, 'he eQuld fug low, in imagination, the' desperate trail of the gold -seekers in "'ninety. seven and 'ninety-eight. The distance' over tll•e Pass was lope. hundred end eleven miles; 'then those who actually reached the banks of the Yukon were faced" by an alternative-- either lternative—either they must make .camp and wait for ,the navigation of the river to begin er they must continue the trail over the frozen mountains to Dawson. Arrived at White Horse' City where Garvock spent the night, he set out on thestage which was to carry him over te final reaches of his journeyy: It' was very finely equipped, splendiil- ly horsed, and every precaution taken to maintain the efficiency throughout the ti*chole distance. Horses were changed every twenty miles, the rest heusee,"where they invariably stopped to sleep, were comfortable and fide - (mate, and the days, driven, through the most stupendous scenery of the world, so remote, inaccessible, so un- touched,, undesecrated by the hand of man, mads the mostprofound im- linession on Peter Garvock. It had the odd effect of thrusting .hint back Upon himself, of making him shy of speech even with his fellow -travellers. But these experiences he never foe - got, and lives to this day in the hope of repeating them. . Dawson, at the junction of the Yu- kon and Kiondyke rivers, he found to be a bustling, cheerful little 'place, though all the feverish haste and hor- ror of the gold -seekers' time was now a thing of the past. Wide streets, comfortable homesteads, quiet, well- equipped hostelries for the traveller had taken the place of the bars and boarding-houses, • and dance -houses that had yawned to receive the miner and relieve him of his gold, The gold -born city was now emin- ently respectable,, and while its growth must necessarily be restricted by the nature of its climate and 'other con- ditions, . still it provides home and livelihood for a large number of res- pectable and self-respecting citizens. `(To be continued.) London's Roman Relics. Tfie ' Bank of England is to be closed shortly .for extensive repairs and additions, and mod good deal of excavation will be involved the So- ciety of Antiquaries has appointed a .committee to examine any Roman re- lics- that may be unearthed, It is almost impossible to dig to any depth in the city area without finding some trace of the Roman city. One of the surpr--ises awaiting visitors to the London Museum, as well as to the Gaildhall Museum, is the enormous 'number of articles and relics of all descriptions which havebeen found in' the river and during excavation work for the foundation of city offices. A ;recent site excavated, close by the Safe Deposit building, proved one of •tle richest mines. of Roman relics ever discovered, and the bank site ought to yield much of interest. That Loudon in Roman times was no, mean city is shown in a remark- able way. Not only have many artic- les, been found, but upon them no fewer than three hundred names- of. makers have been deciphered. 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