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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-10-15, Page 6e Delicious Flavor drawn frQtalt. the leaves of has won it millions of users. Finer than any japan, Gunpowder or Yoram, Hy'sork. Ask for SALADA. Love wives Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD BY ANNIE 8. SWAN. °'Lave gives Itself and is not bought:—Longfellow. .41 CHAPTER XXXI—(Cont'd.) "I'm not off my nut, Peter, old man! Only -only up here, at the Lack of Beyond, a man gets a bit away from the normal. Test me, how long is it since you, left Scotland?" "Five weeks yesterday." "And—and—are they all well?" he asked, and the question fell with ob- vious halting and difficulty from his lips. "They are all well. I am here, Alan, by your wife's leave, and with her blessing. She wrote to me the night before I started to wish me God- speed." Sc:stething keaped in Alan Ran- kine's eyes—a hunger of the heart which was like a flame in its passion! It broke up the deadly stillness of his face, banished the remoteness, brought him back, swift and sure, to the realms of living men. "My wife! Then then you know, Peter?" "They all know. And she and Judy are at Stair together, waiting for you, and my immediate business in life is to get you to them as quick as I can." Peter fumbled in his pocket, brought out the thin, gold -bound letter -case, and handed to his cousin the little note he had received from Carlotta at The Lees the night before he left it. Thus and thus did Carlotta write: "Dear Peter,—It is a great thing makes your food do you more good. Note how it relieves that stuffy feeling after hearty eating. Sweetens the breath, removes C food particles from the teeth, `-0 gives new vigor to tired nerves. Comes to you fresh, clean and full -flavored. R,' Et 7 W �IUtlAUIhrRdilPO'IItGb'W tb�IWb'uNl'6PoALnNQ,'h10.111=1. Namongsertmet The Ri ht Way to Boil Potatoes Put the potatoes in an SIMIP Enameled Potato Pot. Cover 'with water. ;Add salt to taste. Boil until soft. When gnialied, drain off all the boiling water through the strainer spout. No danger of steam scalding the, hands because the handle securely locks the cover on. If your family uses potatoes, you require one of these. SM.P Enamel eco.. POTATO Por ... 118 Wits nets 14f'I.Pu!61M"NI iiniM IONO ilNtll!i$104.h!,WI! tn.nUE No 41-'25. this that you are going to do—one of the great deeds of love and service which redeem life from its badness, and lift it up. God will be with you, I don't doubt, because many will be praying for you in Scotland. For me —if it should be that the good God permits you to bring back my husband to Stair, then my debt will be one that never can, or will, be paid. But I shall be content to owe it, because I know that it will make you a happier pian. God bless you, Peter Garvock, and I am, till death, "Your grateful friend, "CARLOTTA RANKINE." Having read these words, Alani rose to his feet, and still holding the slim sheet in his fingers, walked ;way. And Peter, understanding, sat still, looking after him, and the wonder of the whole story was upon his soul, like some flood that bore him away. When Alan came back his face had taken on a new look—that of a stead- fast soul which behold;; the goal in front. "You can have it now, Alan. Later, when—when you have something that is of more account, you can let me have it back." Rankine gravely nodded, and open- ing the bosom of his shirt, placed the folded sheet within, handling it as a man handles that which is precious to him. "Now speak, Peter. Tell .me every- thing, for the hunger is gnawing in my heart like.a ravening wolf! Speak till you are tired, for I will never tire of listening!" Peter spoke, going back to the be- ginning of things,. to the summer in which Rankine• had left Scotland, giv- ing a faithful recital of all thathad happened to Stair, and those so dear to his cousin. "It's an amazing tale, Peter, but the bit I don't get the hang of -fully is how they can afford to go back to Stair to live. What miracle has hap- pened in the meantime?" "No miracle, Alan," said Peter, with an odd smile. "You saw Car- lotta in New York, holding the most critical audience m the world in thrall? The woman who can do that puts money in her purse. It is your wife who has redeemed Stair 1" Rankine looked incredulous for a moment, then his fare slowly flushed. "Bless her! Bless her, ten thousand times! ,lilt—" "Sher set out to do it," went on Peter Garvock, for now that atonement was possible, he would give it in full mea- sure, pressed down, and running over! "Judy told me that, from the moment you left Scotland, Carlotta set herself to do this, and because she held her- self responsible for the parting of Stair -•--but it was 1 who was respon- sible for that! 1, and no other." "No, no! And, anyway, you've wiped it out to -day, Peter! By God, you have! For though I have it in my power to go back, and, if I choose, re- deem Stair in full, it is a question' whether. I would have done it, but for you. When a man has been here for a spell, Peter, at the Back of Beyond, clean out of all the things that matter in the lives of men, something hap- pens to him; either he loses his sense of proportion, or he is clean lifted up to unimagined heights. He comes nearer God, I suppose, or else the Devil gets hire. When I came out of the shack just now, I was not sure but that the Devil had me fast. You see, I've lost my pal, and what that means to a man on the Yukon—well, nobody but the man who has been through it can understand." "But, after. 01, Adan," said Peter the practical, "mountains and gold - Each 15 -cent pack- age contains direc- tions so simple any Woman can tint soft, delicate shades or dye rich, permanent colors in lingerie, silks, ribbons, .skirts, waists, dresses, Goat s, stockings, sweaters, draperies, coverings, hang ings---everything!' Buy Diamond Dye§—no other kind --- and tell your druggist whether the ma- terial yol, wish to Colryr 14 wool or Silk, or whetherit is linen, +cotton or infixed goods. fields and the spell of the Yukonars all very well; and I grant you:: their power in full, for I've felt it myself since ,I have been here, but you Gant get away from the factthat there le a woman belonging to yen" at Stair, and that, atthe present moment, she is neither nail, wife, nor widow. And so right back you march with me—this very day, if I can take you!" It was the right note to strike, and the red rose in Rankine's cheek ,again. "You're right, Teter. But listen to the tale of the last two years, and then, perhaps, you will grant,;thet there are seasons in a man's life when to shirk his responsibilities seems not only natural, but absolutely the only thing to do. "When I saw Carlotta in the Man- batten Theatre that night, Peter, and realized the impassable gulf between us, something seemed to burn in my brain till I did not know who or where T was. I had only one object in front —to get clean away from New York, to put the whole breadth of the Am- erican continent—the world; if pos- sible!—between me and the woman whose life 1 had spoiled,. 1 realized then—as you 'say—that she was neith- er maid, wife, nor widow, and that the wrong I had done her was irre- parable. "I had the idea of suicide when I got outside, but, somehow,..I lacked either courage or resource—I can't tell. Anyhow; I had my chance, for my railway tickets were hi my pocket, and I boarded the train at midnight,, as I had intended to do, and I woke in Toronto. I went on, but did not alight at Calgary, as I had intended, for there was one man in New York. who knew that address, and: from whom it might be possible for Carlotta to obtain it. I went on to Vancouver, and there I fell in with a Yorkshire. man, who offered me a job on . his ranch, a little east of the Rockies, and near enough Calgary that I could have found the other man's place without difficulty. But I lay low and kept dark, and for nine months I was lost there, and was nothing more than ohe` of a number set to certain tasks. I did well, for I liked the life, and, of course, I was at home in the saddle- a good life for the young and fit, a life which a man can live and keep his self-respect, though it leads no- where in particular, and keeps him for ever adrift from all ideas of home. I spent my days in the saddle,; and my nights chiefly in thecook-house. wagon, for we were away' from the homestead, on the round -up, six weeks at a time. I could spin you a good many yarns about that bit of my car- eer, but they'll, keep. Perhaps—who. knows?—some day, on Barassie Hill, we may sit on the march dyke and reel them off!" Peter turned his head away, for a strange, salt moisture stung the eyes that • had never known a -tear since boyhood. CHAPTER XYXII. ALLAN'S STORY. "Nine months of the ranch, then Keighley died, and I had to quit.", Alan did not say how or why, though that part of his experience, and Rose Keighley's frank offer of a matrimon- ial partnership would have, made no uninteresting chapter. "Then- I' tried` the lumber camps, but that was the absolute limit! Gad! what brutesmen are, herded together, cut off from all that's good. The mother's sons I've, seen wallowing in the pit! I couldn't stick it. I quitted that too; and all. the time 1 was making slowly West, or, to put it with absolute correctness, North-West, towards the Yukon . and Affery. He said to me the night I bade him good-bye at the Central Sta- tion in New York that we should meet on the Yukon—and we did. "I came here in October, and found Affery in Dawson City. It was the queerest meeting! I came down with the last boat of the season, and the pack -ice was grazing her shins all the way down the river, and on the quay there stood Affery. " `So you've come!' was all he said,. as casually as if we had met by ar- rangement. 'I hoped it would be by this boat, for the trail and the stage in winter are not for the tenderfoot,' "Just as if he had been expecting me, see! And never a single Ques- tion as to 'why or how T had come. Ke. just laid hold on me, and the next day we came up to the shack. "But that was the beginning of winter! You mean you wintered here?" Rankine nodded. "It was his idea, and 1, well—I hdan't much choice, and it's a good life, Peter -the life of the wild—for those who understand it. We lived like trappers on what we shot and -foun. and at night, shut down in the shae we were as comfortable as any man could desire. It was Affery's .real home. That castle he bought in Don- egal never held him, nor ever could. He belonged to the wild. "He..was obsessed by the idea that there was gold hidden in this neigh- borhood—the eigh-borhoodthe fortune of a pal who. built this very shack. Time and again' he had come hack t4 seek it, and those who kne* about it took it as the harmless obsession of a chap not, quite right here," said Rankine, tapping his. forehead, se"But it was more than a notion—he found it before he died. "I have a sort of queer feeing• about teliing you this yarn, Peter, for you are a chap wlio deals in hard facts, and you'll find it difficult to swallow."' "Oh, no," Peter assured him cheer- fully. "We're a long way from Scot- land now, and it's possible to swallow anything!" ":Well, the winter went on. We e had a grand winter, Peter, and here my soul; in a sense, came to itself. We 1 had books out from Dawson, and we read and discussed everything under heaven, and I was as happy as u: man could be who hada past he was afraid to look back on. "There never was a day when ,the thermometer was higher than fifty below zero, and in, the nights it some- times fell to seventy." "Can folks live through cold like that?" Rankine nodded. "It is possible, with suitable oth- ing and a house small enough to con, serve the heat. Aflgry's churn,; sirs- MIR, built .the shack down there, and by Gad, he Wit it .welt! There isn't a chink or cranny •in it where so &ouch S8 a breath of wind can get through. It's lined, sand interlined and when the stove's piled high, and going mer- rily, it is as comfortable and warm 'as the heart of man could desire! In March, when the cold is at its worst, at the time when more temperate cli- mates are enjoying their spring, Af.. fery got a bad cold. "He was always out in the scrub, watching the wild creatures, shooting, when we needed fresh meat, but he never trapped apythingg! He said that was a cowardly and devilish way of treating dumb animals; and it was through kneeling for a long time at a trap iso let loose a gopher that he got this cold. "It was snowing hard, and he got it soaked into him, and next day his temperature was up. He got better of that, and was about again but not so strong as before.' Ile talked less about leaving the Yukon, and more— l), great deal more—about Arizona's treasure. He was as set on discover- ing that before he died as other omen are on accomplishing the objects of their ambitions! And the odd thing was that, after all, he did discover it just six weeks ago to -day!" "No!" said Peter Garvock in the utmost amazement. 'Then there has been truth in it, after all?" "It was all true—absolutely so. Arizona told him about the gold on his death -bed, and when he was almost past speech tried to direct him where to find It. But he couldn't. The only thing Affery was able to make out was that it was somewhere near the shack. After Arizona died and at subsequent visits to the shack, he dug all about it. He took up the floor., -took off the roof, and explored every likely nook and cranny. As a matter of fact, the nuggets were hidden on the overhanging bank of the creek,ust below the house. I'll show you the hole later :on, It was as cunning an ar- rangement as you could imagine—a regular little mine—yet so carefully concealed by the brush and the boul- ders outtiers that nobody could have imagined that there was a covert there even for a muskrat! • But Affery saw one com- ing out under the brushwood one day, and exploring its hole, found the bag with the nuggets, No! not only one bag, but three, packed full and burst- ing with their shining contents that had lain there, unknown to any hu- man being, since Arizona's death in 'ninety-nine." (To be c'ontinued.) Keep Minard's Liniment to the house. RIPPLING SIDE -DRAPED GOWN. A very charming model is this printed crepe gown in beige tone, with its rippling side -front drape in new pointed effect. The round neck and short sleeves.are finished with a ruche fashioned of the material of the drap- ery, and a flat ornament is cleverly placed at the hip. 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