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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-05-28, Page 2J A MES II OLDEN MoCREADY LIMITED, £ . Canada's largest shoe manufacturers, sup- plied, within thirty -thee days, 32,217 pairs of leather ankle boots and 30;000 pairs of canvas shoes for the outfitting of the First Canadian Contingent, the largest quantity supplied by any .manufacturer. These boots Were worn by our soldiers on aciiveservice both in this country and In the training camps in England. They were sub jected to the most severe usage that boots could. be subjected_ to. They travelled over rough roads and smooth. They waded through mud and through ,slush past all description. They were soaked by the never -ceasing rains of an abnormally wet English winter. They were .baked on hot stoves, grilled on steam radiators and roasted before open fires. Yet, THEY STOOD THE . TEST. Out of the entire 32,217 pairs of leather boots supplied by this coinpany only a single pair was shown to be open to criticism when the Government enquiry was made six Months later. Experts employed by the Government exam- ined 1365 pairs and 348 odd boots made by various manufacturers. Among the number were fc..ind only seven pairs of boots of Ames Holden McCready manufacture, of which five were Maid to be, repairable, one pair unrepair- abie, ttnd ONE PAIR HAD A SOLE UNDER GA'GG+7. The best proof of the durability and service- ability of the Ames Holden McCready boots, howerrer, was afforded by the sworn state- ments of soldiers who had worn these boots constantly from the time they were issued in September, 1914, right through to March, 1915. - They swore that they had worn the boots through all the rough experiences •at Valcar- tier and on Salisbury Plain and that they had given excellent service throughout. Ser- geant Nussey, of Toronto, who had served twelve years in the British Army, appeared be- fore the Committee with a pair of such boots still on his feet and submitted them to the committee's inspection. The testimony of these witnesses has since PILS F been amply corroborated by numerous reports and letters received from officers and soldiers at the front all testifying to the good wearing qualities of the Ames Holden MoCr'eady boots. s * a * When the question was raised concerning the quality of the Canadian soldiers' boots, Aires Holden McCready Limited placed them- , selves IMMEDIATELY upon record, by writing to the Government, as desirous of having the most thorough investigation of the matter. The appointment of a Parliamentary Committee and the official enquiry followed. It occupied sev- eral weeks' time; The Committee stopped at nothing in their efforts to get at all the facts. This Company purchased the best leather and supplies available in Canada and spared no expense in manufacturing the boots. All aur invoices, and shop and manufacturing records were produced before the Parliamentary Com- mittee for their inspection and information. We had nothing to hide and were proud of the boots which were furnished to the Government. THE AMES HOLDEN McCREADY BOOTS CAME OUT OF THE ORDEAL UNSCATHED. • The Committee reported to Parliament that .the boots supplied by this company substan tially complied with the sample; that no paper or other fraudulent substances had been em- ployed in their manufacture and that all charges involving the integrity of this company or of the boots supplied by them had been abundantly disproven by the sworn evidence taken before the Committee. Tlie report, which was adopted by Parlia- ment, was A COMPLETE VINDICATION FOR .9i\1ES HOLDEN •ICCREADY LIMITED. * * * In bringing these fasts prominently before the people of the Dominion, Ames Holden McCready' Limited are actuated by the desire not only to protect their own good name which needs no vindication with the thousands of Canadians who are familiar with this con- pang and its products but also that of a notable and important Canadian industry, which has been unwarrantably aspersed. MONTREAL - TORONTO EDMONTON VANCOUVER gereaMe l 3 f •7 WINNIPEG DE LORIMIER - ST. JOHN ST: HYACI'NTHE The Lady to Or, Leonora West's Love. CHAPTER' XXV.—'Continued). So one day she came into the little room where Leouera, sitting at the window, gazed wistfully out at the green grass and the blue •sky, with an unconscious pathos on the sweet, girlish face. My dear, you are tired of this stuffy little chamber, I know." she said. "Not very," said the girl, a little drear- ily. "1 suppose I ought to be grateful to you for giving me such a home." "Grateful to me for hiding you away in these little, musty roome, es if you hadn't the sweetest face the sun over ehoue on!" eried the good woman, selfrel3roachfully. "Not a bit of it, my dear. I'm ashamed of myself for treating you so. It mustn't go on so, or your health will suffer, and so I shall tell Lady Lancaster; and if she won't allow you the liberty of the grounds I will go away from here and make us a snug little home 'somewhere else, where we may come and go as we please; " so there!' said the good woman, with sud- den independence. heonora rose impulsively and went and kilned the comely face of her friend. "Aunt West, would you really do that much for me?" she exclaimed, delight- edly, Yes, 1 would,' Mrs. West answered, firmly, "Poor Dick left you to me to take care of, and .I'm bound to do the beet I can for your happiness." "Ah 1" said Leonora, checking an impa- tient sigh. "And I've come to tell you," Mrs. West continued, ''that if you'd like to go'and eketee the Abbey eu'-ns, you may go morning, Leonora." If I'd like!' cried the girl. "Oh, Aunt West! it's Just what yI was wishing for, 1 shall be so happy!" "Yee' you shall go. dear, and stay all day. if you like. I'll put you up .a nice cold !null in .a little basket. and 111 hire tae lodge -keeper's boy to show you the way. I'll give him a shilling to go, and he will stay all dy to keep yon from getting frightened." I hal] not be frightened," said Leo nori r a•cliant. 'I don't know; it's still and lonesome- " likehere, and the bate and screech -owls night startle you. And there's an old die• manta:el rlutpel, too—' "(7h, how lovely! I shall eketch tbat, tool Leonora exclaimed, clapping her hands like a gleeful cbild. "And a little old grave -yard," pursued etre, West. "Stale of the Lanoseters are buried there. Yon might be afraid of their ghats 1 a n r;at afraid of the Lancastere, dead or liemer the eirl answered, sattoily, her slc.,ili+ r:sinf, at the prcepect before her. Sae ..i l firth lsn city under the convoy a ,i of little Dale, the lodge -keeper's lad a ! yrttr teiou,c lutein who plied her with i °n:1:' ..fill while be walked by her W:.11 illi: lnrtcbbneket Mrs. West had l•t ,fares! evil; es aiainty care as if for L: •' . Tom -ester he reaolf. ,;;at oit client the boy's happy volt - 18 ...t •n li ielm did not hced•it very :t; ;t,' they hurried through the !,tire, eel ere • the brawn -eyed deer browsed on the velvety green grass, and the great oak -trees cast shadows, per - baps a century old; across their path. When they had shut the park gates be- hind them, and struck into the green country lanes, bordered with honeysuckle and lilac, Leonora drew breathwith a sigh of delight. "How sweet it all ie! My fathor'e coun- try, too," she said. "Alt he was right to love these grand old English homes, al- though he was but lowly born. What a grand old park, what sweet, green lariee, what a sweet and peaeeful landsoaipel IL is no wonder that the English love Eng land! She remembered how her father, now dead and -burled under the beautiful American skies, ]tad loved England,, and always intended to return to it isome day with his daughter, that she might behold his native land. She remembered hew often he had quot- ed Mee. Herman's lines: tions of our life matter, after all?" the girl asked herself, soberly. 'The grave awaits no all at last! "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth gave, Await alike the inevitable hour; The 'path of glory leads but to the grave.' " Sitting there among the Ionely green graves and broken, discolored monuments„ "The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Am4dst •their tall ancestral trees O'er all the peasant land! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny glen, And the swan ;elides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream." "He loved the homes of England, al- though his fate was not cast with them," she said to Herself, "Poor papa! I must try to love England for hie sake; It was airways dear to him. although he was fond of his kind adopted home, tool" When they reached the ruins, she stud- ied thein carefully on every side to secure a picturesque view, She found tb•at to get the best passible one she would have to sit down among the graves close to the little diemantled chapel. "You drain`; going to sit down nunang them theer dead folk,navies?" inquired 7obnnie, round -eyed, and on the alert for ghosts. „Yes. I am, Are you afraid to .stay, Jobnnie?" she asked, laughing. "Ya'as. I be,": he replied, -promptly. "Very well; you anar go off to tt die. tante andplay," said. Loonoaa. 'Don't let any one come this way todisturb ane. And if you get hungry, you may have a sandwich out of my basket.' ' "I'm htrtr$ry now, ho answered, greed., fly.' Already, you little peg! alio cried. "Very well, take your aandwioh now, and he cif out of any way. I'm going to make 0 pioture." She sat down on the broketr dread=stone of an old grave, took out her materials, and while she trimmed her pencils, glanced down end read the name on the tomb beneath her. It wars Clive, Lord Lancaster, Something like a. shudder finessed over her as thfs dead Laneastor, gone from the; ways of men More than a 'century ago, recalled .to her the living one... "What do all the paltry ohne and ambi- "I leg your pnrdon for interrsupting you," lie said; "but --you are sketching thy+ ruins' "will you let me 600 your work P'" Mite .held it out to Jilin iia 'silence. XTs scrutinized int. in mingled wondrr and delight. liow perfect! how spirited! how beau- Well" be cried. "You anuet bane real misfit! Pitank you!" she answered, with a sligtt incilinatioti of her bead. Ile stood watobing the halfraverted face a anoment in faience. It had a slightly bored air, as of she wishod be had not come, or that be world, at least, coon go. "You are very brave, Mese West, sitteng said, all that momentary gauss," he y pause, "Did you leave your friends' to oome bach and tell me that?' inquired she, with delicate earce San. No -o, s cwiy. ' X snare back to ask a flavor. Miss West." "Indeed!". ineredulo:usly. "Yes; and it is this: I should like to have that sketch, My friend, Lady Adele:, ie in raptures over that pile of old ruins. She would like to have a picture of it. lie was watching her closely. no lyse r,rwaavied for his intent ecauteny by eee- ing an angry crimson flush the round cheek. Yau would like this for horP" said Leoners., with ominous calmness,. "Yee; will you part with it?—for money, if you will. It is singularly perfect, and should be worth something considerable,' "You are very kind," said Leonora. She had pulled a flower from a grave. end was tearing its petale apart with tierce ciheiity between her white lingeiv. "No I am only just,' he said; then, with :a smile: "Ah, Mies Weet, do not be so ; cruel to that poor flower. I have a shuddering conviction that it is meta- ihorically, myself you are deliberately annihilating." She glanced up to him .rather curiously from beneath her shady lashes. "I --did not really think what I was do- ine," she said. "Why Should you think 1 would treat you that way?". "Because I have been so unfortunate sue to incur your dislike;" he answered. She did not utter the denial he half hoped she would, but she threw her mu- tilated flower from her with a quickly. ,appressed sigh. "Well, San I to have the sketch?" he in- quired, after waiting 'vainly for an. an- enveNor. '." "You refuse?" he asked, chagrined. "Yes I drew the picture for myself, not for Lady Adele. she replied, amnia 'She will be disappointed at my fall - are to secure it for her,' said he. "That doss not mutter to me," Leonora recurred, coldly. "Why dose she not make a picture for herself?" 'She does rot sketch." "Ah! it is beneath her dignity?" aeked the girl. No, but beyoug her power," he •re- turned "Really?" asked the girl. ' ' "Yes," he replied; "sae assures me that she hat' no talent at all in that way. You who are so clever, Miss West, might af- ford to f-ford-to pity her." "I do, but not because she can not draw," said Leonora. "Why then?" "Because, for all her high },mirth and proud position, she will have to sell her- self for money." The shot told. She sane his cheek grow red. tt s o "Mrs. West ]las been.telling her tlie things. I wish to Heaven she had held her tongue!" be 'thought, bitterly. But aloud he said, lightly; "Perhaps you may find' it expedient to dothe same thing, Miss West," ' To do iv, she inquired. 'To marry for money," he replied.. "Anel you think it would be expedient?" she inquired, drawing her delicate black brows together in a vexed little frown. "Yes, for you," he replied. "You are too beautiful and gifted, Miss West, to be contented in your present humble condi- tion. You should marry wealth and posi- tion. Both would become you "rarely." "Than& you, my lord," she said, with a,. pretty gesture of mock :humility, Teat reminds mo to tell you that De Vera will be here to-morrow,j' he said, suddenly. "What has that to do with our sub- ject?" shortly. "Everything. De Vero is in love with 'you, and he lerich and well born. You can be Mrs. De Vere any time you wish." 'Did your friend employ you to tell me this?' 'asked Leonora, pale "with passion. with the ivy creeping over over their dile "No; but die would have no objection to inscriptions, Leonora, a little lonely Week,. my doing so. He will tell you so himself figure, began her sketch. She worked industriously and skillfully and nothing disturbed her for several hours. Johnnie had availed himself of the op- portunity .to snake an excurafon into the woods on Ilia own account, and sbe was; quite, alone; but nothing alarmed her, and she worked on fearlessly amid the fragrant stillness" of the lovely June day, whose calmness was broken by nothing louder than the hum of the bees among the fiowero, or the Joyous carol of the sky -hark ata it •soared from earth to heav en, losing iteel£, as it were, in the Illimit- able blue of the sky, The midday sun climbed high and high er into the sky, and Leonora, pausing over her nearly completed sketob, 'Du"ih- ed hack her wide hat from her flushed face, and stopped to rest,, glancing at the, quiet graves that encompassed her. "What a still and peaoeful company we are!" she said, aloud, quaintly,' never thinking how stran.ge it looked to the her sitting there --the only living thing. among Lhe silent tombs. Then all at once, as if the ten.ants of the grave had come to life, Leonora' heard a soft babel of voices' and laughter. With a start she turned her head. A party of gay young ladies and gen- tlemen were strolling toward her aoroes the level greensward. Porercnoet among them was Lord Lancaster, walking beside the eaid'e daughter. It. was too late for retreat. Every eye turned on the graceful iignro sitting there so quietly among the graves of the dead and gone Lancesters. As they passed the low stone wall that divided them, Lancaster lifted his hot and bowed' low and profoundly. Then they were gone, but an eager hum of masculine voices was borne back to her ears on the light breeze: "By Jame! what a beauty!" "Heavens! was that a ghost?" "What a lovely being! Who is she, Lao - caster ?" She heard is deep, musical voice an - sever carelesely: It is Miss West—a young lady who is rs aying in the neigthborbood for the sketching, I believe." They went on toward the ruins. Leonora., with n deeper color in her fair Moe, bent over her sketch and rapidly put some finislning touches to it. "Now 'I wonder where little Johnnie can be?", site thought. She glanced up and eaw Captain Lan- caster coming beakto her. CHAPTER XXVI. when he comes. "And you advise me. to marry. him?" elle asked, gazing into his face with her soft; steady glance. "I should presume to advise you; yet it would he a good thing for you, I know. De Vere adores you. lie would be your slave,' and you would be like a little ugeen in the position to which his wealth would raise, you." You mare a great deal of wealth," she Arid, gravely, and waiting curiously for has reply. It is a great power in the world," he replied. • Xs it?" she asked. "Ali! Lord Lancas- ter, 'almost thou persuadest me' to sink to Lady Adela's level and sell myself for. gold." "You seem to have imbibed a strange contempt for Lady. Adele," he said. 'I have. Where is her wamanliness, her self-respect, that she can lend herself to that 'wicked old woman's ambitious' schen es for buying a coroneted head with leer twenty thousand a year? She is the daughter of a. hundred earls, and yet she can give herself to you merely for the moneys sake. Pah!' 'Need it be merely for the money's, sake?" he asked. 'Ann -I repulsive to look upon Mies West? Is it quite impossible that, a woman, Lady Adele, or another, should give inc her heart with her hand?" Something like 'wounded, pride quivered in his voice, and he looked at her re• proaohfulls. "Would it roe impossible for me to be loved for myself .alone?" ho went on, slow- ly. "Might not some good, true. sweet evoman love me for my own self—even as I am?' She looked up at the handsome face, the large, graceful : form, and siletrtly re• ogled the words Lieutenant Do. Vero had. spoken to her on the steamer's deck that day: He . la more run after by the women than any man in the regiment. "Iie knows his power." she thoug:htc and from cheer contrariness made no an - ewer to bas appeal, .'He shall not know wimat I think about it," she said to hor- sed!. CHAPTER XXVII, The handsome young lord stood look• ing at the fair face and mute reel • lips with a hall chagrined ale for a moment; then he said, ziar3Ldlyt "Good -day, Ntita West, I sce how dis• agreuab'.e my Orrees?ce is, so I will leave ombto your - s 1 hope fled'tof those old gallows t Ile came on quickly toward the figure dfitting among tete graves, with the entail ead pouaed do an ly, although Leonora Was thinking to herself: 'B:o is soya ng to scold me, perhaps, for trespassing on 'his property.' Ile came u,p to her and stond barehead-' ed before,. her, with the siindigb:t falling an his fair head. -•;all, stalwart, hand; bone --a: living. Lancaster among those dead and gone ones, and one who did no discredit to the name, ItENSON'S Corn Starch In the famous. Yellow Package Don't ask mere. lyfor'cornstarch' or even for 'the best starch', but insist on BENSON'S -the 'Quality Starch' witha reputation gained by half a -century's ex- perience. AT ALL GROCERS will come out of their graves to haunt you for your scorn of their descendant." "I hope not, indeed!" said Leonora, and Hien she laughed. He Waned back et the sound of that laugh. Per!haOs she was relenting. She had risen, indeed, and was holding out to him tale sketch he coveted. "Take it," she said. "I was in a bad temper just now. Lady Adele may have it." Will you, indeed, be so kind?" he ex- claimed. radiant with plaaeure. "But, indeed, you must not give your whole morning's work for nothing. Let, me -- He put his hand into his pocket and brought out shining gold piece. "Thank you, nu9 lord," said Leonora, demurely, as ste received the money into her palm. 'I shall be able to buy my- self anew dress with this." "You are not angry?" he said, struck by an inexplioable something in her tone. "Oh, no; I am very glad .to be so well paid' for my, 'work," she answered, with the same demure air; and then she sa'd, suddenly: "Good-anorn ing," ' and walked away from' him. He followed her. "Are you going home alone, Mies West?" "No; I have a small escort hereabouts, if he has not eaten my lunchand run array;" she replied,.oarelessly. "Johnny Dale?' No, hehas not run away. You will find him in the lane, where I saw 'him ass we came through, Shall I find him for you?" No, thank you. Doubtless Lady Adele is impatient at your long stay," she said, wanking coolly away from "The deuce! I expect she is. I had quite forgotten the daughter of a hun• dred earls," he said to himself, ruefully. "I forget everything with Leonora West. She would not answer my question, yet I would give the world to know what she really thanks. 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