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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-03-17, Page 6oats For Purity, Flavour and ,roma. B71s. gout have not tried it„ send us a post card. for a free ,ample, stating the price you now pay and if yott use Black, Green or Mixed Tea. Address Sal.adagTo rontO ntk=• ah. .1VI -F JS By F1?EDERIC I30UTET. • (Translated by Wm. L. McPherson.) The servant, an old woman with an impassive face, returned to the Inttc- cham'ber where the soldier eves v,reit- ing and made a sign to him. He fol - towed her through the semi -darkness of a salon, apparently in disuse. The hobnails of his heavy shoes grated on the floor. She pushed open a door for him. Ile entered, . A gentleman who was seated at a iia. in the last three 'months. Grief oughtn't, to make us egoists -especial ly so far as you -are concerned. • I should have thought of that before. I can't act my self• as yourpetite corr'espon- dent. I am too much tied down with my work. And really, I couldn't Write letters to you -not in any case. -Bat I have some relatives- • The soldier straightened Erased up desk near the window got up lumber- in protest. , t • ingly. IIe was tall but soinewlnat Idont %want that. I don't want stoop -shouldered. IIe wore a short that!" he cried I dont want any - beard streaked with white and there one elsel I didn't come for that pure were deep furi'o%vs in his face. His pose. I came In order to find out -to eyes were hidden behind speetacles. know. 1 had to come. I. have been. fie put dawn the booI: which he had m . Paris two days, 1 came for only :n his hands. one thing, and I had to wait three "Please be seated,' he seta, in. a months for my furlough in order to politely colorle:.s one. "What can came. For two days 1 have kept pass- I do for you? I am M. Noi''tier." Mg before your ho-ose.,rwithout daring - The, soldier tool,: a zest. He had to to enter. 13v to -day I had to. 1 make an effort to keep from trembl- couldn't help pit. Think -think of it- �ng. Si frightful embarras=sment left her .otters--' His voice left him. fine ct tongclouded. His bronzed "Her letters! They were all I had. fae was how IIe had no udac- I am a miner from the North and my understand . had had remember family stayed on there, But her let - what to ectad. Heacouldn't remember tern -the took the lace of every - gladly he had meant and Say. Ire would thing. They always said exactly what iingclg to look at his is a -vi , hed. ogazed ought to be said, • You could have be - mechanically about the dully lighted lieved that she bad known me all my life. She talked .to me of my parents. room, Against the walls were same She told me that I would see them sufficient to warm theechintne books in oak cases; a littlelire, hardly again. She spoke to hie about myself - ered in• the grate. Through the flick - win and told ane the things which people don the November fog could be seen think in their hearts but don't know how to explain to themselves or settling down on the wasoes of the Lusk others. She ; ust said the things which enibaha Gardens. It o ?'.1 nearly dusk, I needed to hear', those which -add to "What can I do for you?' i'4I. Noir- tier repeated.. one's courage, which make one see The soldier made an effort, better why it ie necessary to -fight other things, too. She told the eci Cance "I am Louis Perrot" he stammered. And " ' what was going on here, nn. Paris - "Oh! yes. Oh!! yes. I know-" stories which made me laugh. She M. Noirtier spoke quietly, but his gave Me advice as to how to keep well. hands were shaking a little. In short, they. were letters expressly "You• are the one to whom my wife for me. I looked for. them every Week. . used to write-" And when I was in the Iine I read "Yes. That's it. She was.iny god- then] over again. That helped me. mother," the soldier answered, in a Nov its all ended - voice choked with emotion, the depth Tie gave" a sob,, M. Noirtier, his of whic'le contrasted strangely with head u his hands, listened. , hie ' simple and quite conventional "I -beg your pardon for telling you phrases. all this." Perrot 'went on. "I can't; "Then it is true -then it is true!" help it. I must say it. I have suffer - he resumed, after a silence. "You see, ed too mach. Think of it! I was on I couldn't believe it" relief with my section, when I got the' M. Noirtier made no reply. He letter. I didn't even lookat the en- i looked steadily, without seeing' it, at °elope,' I was sure that it eves from the book which he had laid on the illy godmother, since no ane else ever desk. Finally he raised his head. wrote to hie. I went to a quiet spot "I thank you for coming, M. Per- to read it, so that- nobody could inter - rot," he said, in his distant manner. rupt me. I wanted to be happy all to i "My wife was much interested in you: myself. And then -then I opened it l I know that. For that matter, she and read. At first I didn't understand. . was always very active, very devoted. It was another lady, an acquaintance She was engaged in many relief of yours, who wrote me," works. She wore hereelf out an thein, He stopped again, and then resum- e\en after she had become ill. But ed. Who could have believed -it was so "She offered to continue writing to' sudden!" - roe, since now I had nobody. But I'. He stopped and made a despairing didn't want that. That would have! gesture. prevented my thinking always-' "'Don't let's talk about that. Let'a He lowered his voice and went on: talk about. you. M. Perrot. You must "I had hard work getting it into my'. have found ?ourself greatly neglected head that it was true. Sometimes I didn't believe it. And perhaps it i:; i only since I have seen you -since I. am here, where she was -that I al -1 ,/ \ together believe it." aNow it seemed almost as if he were - \ .� talking to himself. * ` "We soldiers out there -we know; i•. ! that welikely are like y to be killed. We expect it. It may happen at any neo- nnent. So it never occurs to ua that; s people in the rear can die. And here! I am, alive! And Ebel" He stopped. A deep silence fell in .• the gloomy room, where it was fast : growing dark, There was a sudden break in the' silence, and the soldier noticed that' M. Noirtier was sobbing. "I have remade you suffer," Perrot stammered. "I beg your pardon. I shouldn't have come. But I .couldn't help it," M. Noirtier didn't raise his head. "No, no; don't apologize," be said. He tried in vain to control himself. A. still more violent sob escaped him, He couldn't prevent himself from groaning: • "But I am an old man. I ant alone cuithout hope ---without her" "Yes, certainly; the soldier mur- mured. M. Noirtier-finally" collected himself. e.1.21 He sat there in the dark, absorbed and, silent. "I 'lutist go," said Perrot. "Yes; I utast go. But I would have liked--" "What?" asked M. Noirtier. "Nell, I should have lilted- ... If if isn't possible you must tell Inc so. 1 sboilld have liked- - - If yon have ,a picture? 1 should have liked to see her.' M. Noirtier didn't•answer. He light Minard'a Liniment tor Burns, eta. # Grandfather snlil s while Baby tells hire ho'o3 nice his beard feels and how sweet itsmells. The secret is the morning wash ,o,itit Baby's Own Soap -the soap Mother tasee for herself and for the children. Rases G,' France and other natural, perfumes glue their aroma 10 P Jur new serial, "By the Law Of 'Tooth and Talon,".. will begin next week. The story tells- of the struggle ,. between Bolshevism and Justice and is full of dr'a- uratic situations. You will not have a dull moment . while following the excit- ing course of events which terminates in the final tx iumpli of Right over Might. ed a lamp on the desk and pointed td. a pastel on the wall above hien, • The soldier saw a delicate figure with blonde hair and with clear* eyes, in which there was an expression of sweetness and thoughtfulness. "That was made some years ago,' said M. Noirtier. "But, she hadn't changed at all." Silence fell again, They stodd there, under the eyes of the pale fig- ure in the pastel, each pursuing his own memories. Then the soldier went away. (The End.) Women! Use "Diamond ,';':: Dyes.53 Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Welke; Coats, Stockings, Draperies, -- Everything, Each paegage of "Diamond Dyes", contains easy directions for dyeing'' any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dyer streaks, spots, fades and ruins ma terial.by giving it a `dyed -look.". Buy "Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has. Color Card. 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"I have just spent three says," site writer, "in the once City or Light, which I had not revisited since the war. I brought to it memories of streets, gold and blue and gray, like a delicate water -color, thronged -with. Merry, b,lsl' people, brilliant with shops, kaleidoscopic with color and movement. The blue and gray and gold were there-ebright, clear; frosty weather, with air intensely -Vivifying, impossible- to describe save hye_the- - trite comparison, iced wine. To draw. it LAO your lungs seemed in itself a sort of ecstasy. But there is no ecstasy in Pari,e; it is a sad city. "Its citizens are dregeeat nearly' all in mourning, and even. those who are. not wear sad -colored clothes. You see - a few ele antes in splendid furs, a cer- tain number of expensive Americans, and here and there a painted thing- with iringwith vivid lines, Out of place and out. of taste, lost and futile as a btitierflY 1.n a winter of dark trial. - Dutt taken: as a whole, Paris is filled with the gravity of those who hotve only just. left the death chamber. Stamp of the Ordeal. "'Upon every countenance you see the stamp of the ordeal. Dien - and wrmen alike have looked on horror se long, have so long fronted the ex- treme ot human suffrritlg, have had so strenuously to brace their smile to meet personal and public calamity, that they heyse tot y' -t been able to lay off their armor. The peas still behold, the soul still, stiffens herself. Prance bas agonized. and France cannot for- get "And life is difficult. The people - are cold Banti food is scarce, Last year, of all years, pestilence fell upon the cattle. foot and mouth disease rav- aged the restored herds. Milk is all but un.obtain.able; even the weaitb3' , have to get a doctor's certificate far a Baily pint for each child: trot!: won= der how it f res With the spoor. You see the pinched faces, and you guess. Sugar, too, seems wanting ---sugar and . milk, these two necessary heat -giving factors -for health; and with this, fuel shortage. People Impoverished, "Signs of the struggle for existence meet you at every turn. .Along the boulevards and nearly -all the streets booths have been set up, filled with - pitiable grinicrack wares, such as would hardly pass muster even in a county fair; gild as if it were indeed a fair, every SOO yards or so some ur- fortunate arrests the traffic, gathers a ring about frim of staring, silent people, mournfully to display some feeble acrobatics. "Paris, indescribably altered, heavy with the memory of the past, weighted with the burden„wof present difficulty, hardly able yet to look to the bright- ness of the future! it is only when one is there that one realizes how little, with all our own great share of it, we have really endured, compared with the French, what it was the noble and beloved dead saved us from at the eoe:t of the supreme Saerifice. ".In contrast with London Paris is as a town still in a state of siege. Eng- land never Drew the foot of the energy on her soil, she never saw the town invaded; the home burn, never- heard thering of the conqueror's heel on her own pavement, never saw her youth; her girls and her boys, driven forth like cattle to toil for the aggres- sor, "We ought all to bear a heart toward ]!ranee very full of sympathy and for - 1 bearance." 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