Zurich Herald, 1923-03-01, Page 4BY KAT ARINE SUSANNAH PR/CHARD.
Copyright by Hodder and Stcrug'hton.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
When the broad glare of the morn-
ing sun broke through the dingy win-
dows of the lint, Deirdre started from
the cramped position in which she had
faIlen, her head leaning wearily
against a box.
She was aghast tofind that the had
been asleep. As she woke with a
startled exclamation, a hand went out
to her. Her eyes met Davey's.
It was as if that encounter in the
valley of shadows had brushed all
misunderstandings from the love that.
was like the sun between them. Deir-
dre had wrestled 'with death for pos-
session of him. Her eyes still bore the
shadow of the conflict. Davey was
wan and vanquished. He knew that
She had wrestled his ,spirit from the
darkness on which it had been drift-
ing,
and the knowledge made a serene
joyousness in him.
Speech deserted them; they had no
voices to talk with. Just this gazing
of eyes on eyes told all that there was
to tell.
Later on she went from his side and
began to move about the hut, gather-
ing the brushwood into the hearth,
raking over the ashes and malting the
fire again. His eyes followed her.
The but was shabby ,and disorderly
by daylight. Conal had used it when
he was mustering, and there was a
heap of rusty irons in the corner, a
few hoarded tins and half -empty jars
of grease on the shelves, .sonic old
clothes, worn-out boots and •green -Bide
thongs behind the door. The bunk,
with its sheepskins, and a table made
of a rough hewn plank on three poles
set in the floor, were the only furn-
iture. Deirdre°found• a bundle of rags
on the shelf near the hearth, and
searched for the bottle of liniment
which she knew was kept for use if
any of the Hien got a broken hand •cr
a trick from a beast in the stock yards.
Davey knew where Conal had stow-
ed these things while they were work-
ing there together. He tried to help i
Deirdre to find them,. 'She was at his
eic e' iin an instant.
"You mustn't move," ,she said, a
compelling tenderness in her voice.
Fie fell back. '
The touch. of her hands was a shock
of joy. His face turned up to her, wan
with weakness, raclian1 at her near
presence. His eyes went through hers.
"Deirdre!"
The cry was a prayer also,
She bent ever him; her arms en-
circled him. From that first kiss of
Conscious lovers she withdrew :a little
tremulously.
"Oh, you .must be still," she cried.
"If the bleeding begins again you'll
never be strong. You must lie gtuet
now, and I'll see if I can find some
food. There's sure to be flour and
some oatmeal about."
"On the shelf in the corner by the
hearth," Davey said. "And there was
tea in a tin there a day or two ago:
She found' them and they breakfast-
ed on a weak .gruel and tea without
milk. She had helped Davey on to
the bunk against the wall and spread
the sheepskins under him when the.
Schoolmaster and. Teddy came into the
yard. Farrel carried a bag of food
and a couple of blankets strapped to
his saddle.
Deirdre met him out of doors. The
sight of her reassured 'hint, She told`
him what had happened during the
night -of Davey's -long stillness and
insensibility, and of Conal's coming a
few hours before the. davm,.
The Schoolmaster went into .the hut.
"Father says"—Deirdre went
straight to Davey—"he doesn't believe
it was Conal fired that shot at you."
Her eyes went out to him troubled
and beseeching.
"I can't help thinking it was, my
self, though I'd be glad not to. He's
been such a big brotherly sort of man
to hie always, Conal, and it hurts to
think he could de a thing like that.".
She continued after a moment,
"Father says, Conal cane in after
you'd gone last night. He'd been
drinking, but his voice told him that
he didn't do it. As soon as he knew
you'd come after ine, the way you
were, he rode out after you for fear
1 you mightn't have been able to reach
here. Do—do you think it was Conal,
Davey?"
Davey turned his face to the wall.
He could: not bear to hear her defence
of Conal—herr solicitude and desire to
think well of him fin spite of every-
thing. He had no doubt in hie awn
mind. The memoi7 of. that whistling
shot from the dark trees, the agony
of his long ride through the hills,
came back, to him.
"Ali I know," he said bitterly-, "is
that I was looking for him before T
Left the town to tell him what mother
had told the about the raid MeNab and
the old man and McLaughlin were get-
ting up. At the Black Bull they said
they'd been baiting Conal—about me
—and he'd gone out Looking for me—
promising to do for me. Some one said
he'd gone to the store. I went there
and Joe Wilson told me he'd seen
Conal riding out an hour earlier. I
thought I'd catch hila up on the road.
It was from the trees by the creek
the shot came, and Red took fright.
. "Tnere''s nobody else got a grudge
against you, Davey?"
"Not that I know who'd want to
settle lie that way. McNab, of course,
hasn't got any love for the."
"You went up to the store and
straight out along the road past the
Bull?" the Schoolmaster asked.
"Yes, but I'd seen McNab in the
bar a couple of minutes before. It
couldn't have been him,"
Farrel threw out his hand with a
gesture of doubt and disappointment.
"Deirdre says she's heard Conal say
that he'd do for you, Davey," he said,
"but She didn't think he meant it. Just.
his hot-headed way of talking! IvIcNab
must have maddened him, 'filled him
with drink I ean't tell you how it
s against the grain to believe he
done a thine like this, and yet
ooks Pike it,"
he back when you 'came away
rning?" Deirdre asked..
the ,Schoolmaster replied.
lin !'hen he conies in, wheth-
er did not fire at Davey,"
"I'll take his word. Will
y?:,
vey's tone was a little ni-
Imascter went to the door
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?" he asked queral'ouSl'y.
ter Here than at 'Steve's,
se if M'Latighlin gets a
maid'n't take him long to
eddy's got them in the
ock this Morning, but
be moving."
nal"—the Sehoolntaster
rgot, 'Conal-•-he'ii take
fart take thein your -
d.
er met his eyes far.
he said, with a
turned out of
with anger,
eathles ly,
Row dare
his eyes,
rite ga.
yam.
kali
ad
just see dimly In the bread ii'ayla ht.
All the wvirld's going dar't( to: htan;
and it'•s breaking his heart—eating the
strength and rho stall alta the eeurage
out of him, to stead by and let ethers
do things for him."
Coris'ciousness of what he had done
came slowly to Davey.
"Qh, it was mean and cruel end
cowardly to hurt hint like that!"'Dei--
die calci intesi'onately, and ran out
into the sunshine after her father.
Wiien she carne back into the. hut,
'Davey, with a tense white face, was
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" I ouig+ht to be flayed alive --but i from the old man, you may say. My
didn't know, I didn't understand," he name will carry me througli and when
the deal's over I can male it right
said.
There" was no quieting or comfort- with father. I'm -going home."
ilig him. "Can't think what Conal means,
"Will be ever forgive nte? De you leavin''em s•o long," Steve muttered
think he will, Deirdre?" His face was irritably.
clammy with the sweat of weakness. "We can't have thele on our hands
"It was more than Conal didt'hat. any longer!"
Coned wouldn't have done it." • Davey's voice was short and irrit-
Deirdre went for the Schoolmaster. able too,
He came into the hut again.. He and "You're right, Davey." Tlie School
Davey gripped hands. Then the master spoke slowly, thoughtfully.
Schoolmaster led him to the 'bunk "What you say makes the getting rid
again and stretched him ant ea it. of them sound easy, but I hardly like
s a i r g b, my boy! AN right! the idea of
he said brokenly. "You lie still now . "Taking your share, after the way
-and let Deirdre !look after you." • ' I've put it?" Davey interrupted. "But
Davey's vigorous youth rebelled at as far as I'm conderned they're C•onal's
the days of idleness which followed, ]feasts, and yours --and mine—because
The wound knitted quickly; his weak- we got them. Nobody else could, and
news vanished as it mended. 1 they weren't any good to anybody eat-
Conal had disappeared. No one ingtheir heads off in the hills. But
had seen or heard of him since the foall the world it's as if I had con -
:night of the Wirree races.. The School- tractedi with you to do it on 'behalf of
master and Deirdre had accepted' his the estate. A.yrmuir gets a third of
disappearance as silent proof.`„of his the profits. I'll hand it over to the
having fired the shot that had almost old mart—and as likely as not he'll be
cost Davey his life. ! glad enough to see it, for a couple of
When they went back to the chant dozen breakaways and scrubbers•he
Steve talked incessantly about Conall. never expected to make a penny out
Althoughno more had been heard of of again.''
M'Laughlin, and the threatened raid The 'Schoolmaster's gesture of lin-
had never been made, he waa not easy patience was one of resignation also.
about that -half .hundred head of "It's a« specious argument, Davey,”
newly -(branded beasts in the Narrow he said, but I wish to heaven you'd
Valley paddock.
At the endo of the week Davey took
the bit between his teeth. .
kept clear of the whole business.,"
That evening Davey called Deirdre
and they wandered down the hillside,
"I'm going to take that niob to the watching the sun set on the distant
Melbourne yards," he said.. "Wel-caii't edge ,of the plains that stretched,
run them any longer in the Valla, northwards' and inland, from the rise
"It's too risky, Davey," the School- beyond Steve's.
piaster said. "MeNab's too quiet to "I'm going to -morrow," he said, and
be harmless, and there's only one man told her of the rromi's'e he had made
could run the mob with safety." his mother. "I feel it's up to mo to
"And that's Conal?" Davey asked. carry this job through, but when it's
"There's not a than in the country over I'ln coming back—going home.
like Conal with cattle. He -knows 'When I 'come back will you marry me,
every by-path and siding on the Deirdre?"
ranges. Then he's hail-fellowwel - "Yes," she said simply. "But if
met with the hien on the „roads. you'd only give up going, Davey!"
There's not' one of them . would give D.avey's face had a look of his fath-
him away," 'the Schoollirastei said. e'r for the moment, a sombre obstinacy.,
"I could run therm" • The line on "There's something in the game,"
Davey% mouth tightened. :;And safer he said. "You're on your nettle to
than Conal, I've been thinking,. Some carry it through when you've begun.
of the cows have father's brand on But you needn't worry. I'11. be all
them. Most of the calves aught to right. My story'Il be good enough if
have the D.C. by rights, I' suppose.. there is any trouble."
They've got the cut of our Ayrshires, Deirdre sighed.
though Conal's done the double . ls2'e' "But I can't bear the thought of
pretty neatly on them. your going," she said. "If only you
"What's the old marts will be mine wouldn't!"
some day, and so they're in a sort of (To be continued.)
way my cattle too. I can say, I don't ="-
think Ayrmuir had n right --not Dye Old Curtains,
Sweater or .Skirt
ce ,,.. in Diarnond Dyes
mach anyway—to th
get them. The old
a couple of horses
Rosses and Mo
horses when they o for
besides there isn't a . on am .lelace.
could have yarded. the. , . Conal got
them. We were with him. ' You -:can
hold his share for this bateh when I
bring it to you. But I'm going to
drive, saying they are Donald! Cain-
eron's cattle. So they are, most: of
them. I'll be drivng my own cattle
as a platter of fact, though it may be
realizing on the estate, a forced loan
f we couldn't
reuldr't risk
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'The Nazareth.
The olives girdle Nazareth,
And far away the great sea shines.
The aigilt wind when it whispeeeth
Bears in its heart a dream of pines.
And nearer with their bloom -perfume
Are rosy drifts of almond bloom.
.,But the 11111 town of Nazareth
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And all its round of mortal breath
Is meanly said and meanly done,
(Qh, n'e'ver, so the Prophet salth,
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'Tis even as the world outside.
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