HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-06-18, Page 2The Lady of aft, :n i e
Or, Leonora West's Love.
CHAPTER XXXII,
"Lord Lancaster, I °want to ask you•:
something," said LadeAdele East -
saw sketching among the ruins ye
terday?
wood,•
"Yes," she "replied.
It sues in the evenin "It was iliiss West --De Vere's in-
was
•had come in g' atter the gels- axuorata, he answered.
Vozxz, their wal- Lady Adele- did not speak for a mo -
flute and wine. Lord Lancaster had : meet, She was surprised into silence.
retired "rather sulkily to •a .corner, andhee she recovered her speech, she
the earl's daughter had followed him said, faintly:
and sat down near limn. "You' said she was staying in the
She looked very handsome in her neighborhood for the sketching,"
dinner -dress of rose -pink satin drap "That was a small fib, Lady Adeia,
ed with creamy lace, Her brilliant for which I humbly grave your par -
black eyes searched his face, as'size don. The truth is 'that Miss West's
Said: father, lately dead; has left his daugh-
"Lad3' Lancaster has been telling ter to Mrs. West's care. She is stay -
us the strangest story before the ing at Lancaster because she has no
gentlemen came in. i am going to other home."
ask you if it is true." "Ah! Then she is the housekeep-
Hetried to rouse himself to interest er's niece. I presume that is the reas-
In her theatre, on Lady Lancaster called ,her a sere -
"Yes," he said, "I know that Lady ant," said the earl's daughter, in a
.Lancaster can: be very interesting," tone that quite excused the dowager.
sarcastically: "What is it all about, He gave her a quick look which, notLady Adele?" being an adept at reading expressions,
She lowered her voice, and glanced Lady Adele did not understand.
across the room ,where Lieutenant De "No, she is not Mrs. West's niece,
Vere sat with rather a bored look on Inez• father's brother was Mrs. West's
Ins face, trying to become interested husband. There is all the relation -
in the. lively chatter of the pretty Miss i ship there is," he said, almost curtly.
relation -
Dean. ! Lady Adele gave lzim a glance that
"It is about that handsome Lieuten.- i was rather haughty, yet hal '
ant f
jealous.
ala
De � u
Vere," s.
re
she e
sand •I
can
Lasee e
Lan -that
anLieutenant
caster
De '
1Vera
hasre
been telling tis that he is t has a zealous champion in you," she
infatuated with a ridiculous creature ; said, with a tincture of bitterness in
—a servant, I think she said, or some- her voice.
thing_ like that. And he is going to "I do not think he needs or desires
propose to her, and it will a champion,"
be a match. brow, most likely (,ate, pion, he answered.
Lord Lancaster. Please tell mehis ifit
is really so ?
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"No, it is not," he replied, pulling lin marrying below his own station in
savagely at the innocent ends of his : 'life. He will need some one to make
long mustache, excuses for him:"
"Then it is not true? Lady Lan- "His wife, if he wins her, will be an
caster was only telling it to tease all-suffi,ient excuse for him," Lances -
Emma Dean, I fancy. Emma has been ter said, calmly.
setting her cap at the lieutenant, you "Why?"
know. She will be ver she asked, rather piqued at
y glad to hear his words.
it was all a
joke." "Because Miss West is quite fascin-
' But it was not a joke, reaIly," he ating enough to make any man excus-
said, embarrassed. "Yon know what
able for his folly, if folly it be," he
Tennyson says about a 'lie that is half z'epli�d.
a truth,' Lady Adele. Well, that is "You are very complimentary to
how the case stands. Lady Lancaster her," Lady Adel
has simply held hi a said, see her head
p y misrepresented the facts. high. I can not see how she
There was . a grain of truth in her could be so fascinating. I - did
bushel of falsehoods." think not
she was SO very pretty, re
"Oh, dear!" cried Lady Adele, in She had quite common, brown
dismay, She nestled a little nearer and gray eyes, I think, and one
him on the fauteuil where they were those ,baby faces that ' som
sitting,.., "Do, tell me :the right of it, admire, bat•.ernieh I nev e pe
id."
Lord Lancaster; I am all curiosity." "It is not at all a baby face,"
"Then I will tell you the right of it said.. "She has a great deal of ch
if you care to hear," he replied; and
there was so stern a look on his pace ter and decision in f it, I think,"
that the earl's daughter was frighten- Indeedt But, course, you have
a better chance of studying her
ed, She wondered if he was angry face than I have, and may be a better
with her. judge: I think
"I hope you are not offended with you are more than
ane for repeating what LadyLances- half -way i yourse with they Adele ex
p g I er's niece a reproachful Lady AdeIa ex -
ter said," she observed, sweetly, civ- I claimed, flashin
g leg hili a demure Took out of her upon him, for, being wlaglance of
large black eyes. Lady Lancaster's of
He Iooked at her gravelythat eelieme, she felt
without replying.a a minute he belonged to her.
She was very hand- I "De Vere would not like that much,"
some, certainly—a brilliant brunette, i he said, carelessly, without betraying
very vivacious when. it 'pleased her 1 leis inward vexation, y ng
to be so, and again with a languor ++ She fanned herself rapidly
and indolence amounting to laziness, t pink satin fan for a momentP y with her
She had been in society several sea- said, with a keen glance at him: then
sons, and owned to twenty-three "Lady Lancaster bas formed a fine
years oId. She was beautiful, grace -(plan for showing him his
fel, and dignified and Lane t breaking off rho affair " folly and
won
"Surely he mustlbe aware that he willed.
be e
eiene
,Plowing,. the San
-A clever cartoon by Walk
ds ; or, Rate's Labor Lost.
er in "The ; London Daily Graphic,,'
toned a single spray,: of starry white
jasmine flowers at the side, Some of
the same sheet; fragrant blossoms
fastened the full ruff of white crepe
lisse at the round, white throat, and
cobstituted her only adorning. Her
white arms and dimpled wrist, left
bare by the elbow -sleeves of her
dress, were more beautiful in their
shapely grate than Lady Adela's ten -
button gloves and dia,nzond bracelets,
"She has had. the impertinence to
get herself up in full evening.: dress,
the minx!" the earl's daughter mutter-
ed, almost audibly; and then she ut-
tered a suppressed exclamation of an-
noyance, for Lord Lancaster had start-
ed t
ed, for her side; and
was
making k
way rapidly in
g
his
s
ii
Y d
p across s
s th
e room to the
door.
"He has left me for her!" was her
jealous, angry thought, and a sudden
hatred for Leonora entered her heart.
Meanwhile, Lord Lancaster had
reached the spot where the girt �v
standing, with a slightly heighte
oolo.r on her face,' but'. with that q
air of self-possession she habitu'
wore, She was not at all overwhe
ed by the honor Lkdy Lancaster
thrust upon her, but she was a lit
indignant at the dowager, who
posely left her standing there' alo
taking care that De Vere did not
her and go to her rescue.
But she forgot. her nephew sitti
in full view across the room, or s
thought that he would not forsake t
side of Lady Adelaide, What was h
amazement when she saw him sten
ing by the girl's side, saw the fair fa
lifted to his with a grateful senile.
ally. "Lady Lancaster has commanded
hair, your humble servant to appear before
of I your highness g ess and execute divers
ople pieces of music," she was; Sayih secs_
chievously, when the dowager, nuac-
eb ed down upon them like a hawk,and
arae with an angry aside to her nehew,
bore Leonora off to the piano:
The next minute De Vere came for-
ward gladly. By this time every one
was looking, yet he was in nowise`iu-
timidated.:
"Oh, Miss West,.how glad I am to
meet you, and looking as charming as
ever, too!" in an audible aside, while
his face beamed with delight. Leo-
nora drew her hand rather hastily
away.
"I am not here on equal terms,
please remember that," she said,
turning around and sitting down on
the piano -stool. "It is my lady's or-
ders
that I shall amuse the com-
pany."
War Aids Invention.
The suddenly ieereeeed import -
since of the aeroplane as a means of
warfare has resulted in n.umerou�s
devices to make their use practic-
able and .safe.
In carrying out . eeanting observ-
ations with military ,aereplaan�es it
is necessary to have two men in the
machine., The one is a pilot :end
his duty is to operate and to steer
the craft. The other gives his un-
divided ,attention to scanning the
ground and below 'him and to making
sketches
o
of fortified works,
osti
fie
d
ing the disposition of the en,esmy s
guns, the movement of the troops,
etc.
Unfortunately, the .great noise
made by the motor rendegzs it im-
possible for the two men to crarryl
on any conversation ' Often -f44
ted; proves a drawback for a right um,-
•
uiet derstancling between pilot and ob-
ally server. To eradieate this diffi!oulty
lin. a Ioud-speaking telephone system is
had now in use in most of the cars.
tle I+,•aeh main is provided with a :spe-
pus- Bial helanet fitted with recweever
ne, over the ears and a. transmitter lo-
ses sated in convenient range of the
ng mouth. This is a practical arid easy
he way of oarryng on a oonvessation
he in spite of trexlvemdo�tus noises made
er by the motor. -
d• Another argument in favor of
ce the telephone helmet is t a,t it pro-
tects the wearer from one deafness.
Leading French and Englisch
scientists have made a tho:rougg•h in-
ve.stigation on how the csroldiers'
hearing is being ;affected by the
wa,r.. They are one in the opinion
that the cannonading.is Making
many a Man partially or eoinplete-
ly deaf.
The injuries to the drum ;and the
nerve eaidings are due to midden
condensation or rarefaction of the
air in the external auditory meatus,
Strangely, one ,ear is affected more
than is the other. Gun deafness is
in a, measure preventable. This is
most easily accomplished by keep-
ing the mouth open, for in this way
the etneosphesio pressure is equal-
ized. 'Naval officers intuitively
cJiew't�oothpacks. This seems to ac,;
compltist the sane end while the
b'
that she
Lancaster er felt
for Lancaster Parke b tfihis mistress
i
not beat any taster at her bright
glance, nor at her sweet, half -confiden-
tial tones.
But he looked back at her reassur-
ingly as he replied:
"I ani sorry Ilooked so black as to
inspire you with such an idea, Lady
Adele. Of course I am not offended
with you. Y
"Really?" he inquired, sarcasticai-
ly. .
"Yes; she is quite sure that if he
could once see this girl in the com-
pany of real ladies, he would see the
difference and become disenchanted,
"'Yes?"
"It seems as if the girl can play
quite well," said Lady Adele, going on
in her low, confidential tones "And
not answerable the ladies are all curious to see her,
for Lady Lancaster's
think, however, that she cmightoehave { Soe Lady Lancaster , going to'have
shown more respect to,Lieutenant De !{ text,r x you n to know; for d Just fora pr t
Vere than to indulge herself in such De Vere can not helpethen Lieutenant
gossip, more than half of. it being 1 ference between her ndethe the dif.
false."
"Oh, then he isn't going to commit
such a Sally after all?" she exclaimed,
relieved that it was not so, for her
patrician pride had been somewhat
hurt at the idea of one of her own
order descending to a plebian.
"You jump`so quickly from one con-
clusiox to another, Lady Adele; the
you will not give me time toe ,t
he said, smiling. xplain,,
"Oh!" she cried, abashed, "Then I
shall not say another word, only lis-
- ten to your story."
"There is no story—only an ex -
Planation." he paiA " - •
'r see" gf it, oil •�-�I - ` 'e"aouid inty think
De
Vere
would thank me for getting him right.
Yes, he is in love, Lady Adele, but
not with a servant girl, as my aunt in-
sinuated. The young lady who has
won his heart is a fair, refined young
girl, cultured and accomplished, and
of respectable although not noble
birth. She is an American girl who
came
vel'
wx
th
De
Vere
and
myself
i;z
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from New York to her aunt, who is "Oh, Lord LauEcasteXIIu.
the housekeeper here. That is the late! She Is come ' now!"
are tooy
long and the short of the servant -girl Adele, far her glance, too, cried Lady
story.,, had fallen
"You know her?" cried Lady Adele saw with inexon the pressible chagrinng eShe
amazed, "Oh, how I would like to Leonora ways in simple but thate
see this fascinating girl, admired both costume. Her dress of faultless
by .i,Ieutenant De Vero and Lord Lan- shining, thin, black' material, wasofcaster!"of
"You have seen her," he replied, whiteh and fashionable snake, and her
with that quick iiuslz that showed so marble -like lthrou ets i, arms gleamed
clearly through bis fine skin.g the thio folds.
"Where?" 1" she cried, amazed.
She arranged all her rich tresses
"You remember the youngladyof chestnut half in loose puffs and
We 'waves on the to of her head, and fas-
of his own set. Perhaps it evil' oc tree
him of his fancy,"
"Perhaps," said Lancaster, dryly;
but his heart began to beat. Would
Lady Lancaster really bring Leonora
into the drawing -room? Something
'assured him that if she did it would
only be to humiliate and snub her.
He read this intuitively in Lady
Adela's supercilious expression, I-Iis
heartswelled with hot resentment,
He rose hurriedly.
"She shall not send for her;" be
said; but the earl's daughter answer-
ed, with ill -concealed malice•
' "Silt 1i aIreacTY` c •one say
"Then she shall not come.
s .
e
I
will
myself yel forbid
it," ,
he.
exolaimed;s but
even as the words left his lips, lie
paused and stood for a moment
speechless. The drawing -room door
had just opened then, and Leonora
West stood just inside of it, hesitat-
ing on the threshold.
"Then I shall turn your music—ma x guns are being ,fired,•..Some
I?" he entreated. y p'l'ug their ears with cotton, but
She have a ° careless assent, and this is not con,sider�ed sufficient.
looked at theJeweler's wax
greatpile of is considered
„ music. oKi
"Perhaps e. fwar u better
to play," you will select Mile -thing � 13t EIS' eburs,
p y, she said; and seeing, with-
out �T•
turning her head, that Lancaster The man who married for
had gone back to his seat by the earl's never •emoney
daughter. gets through hearing about
"He is afraid she will be jealous of it. the shell without injuring the kernel.
me," the girl said to herself, with the ---
least Tittle curl of her red Hp.
"Can you play this?" De Vere
quired, placing a simple . little song
p .
g . ,•
Woman's Voice Is Never ,Hea,ral.
On Mount Athos, ,called the Holy
Mountain by Greeks and Slays,
there existe a, republip of 6,000 or
7,000 souls, and every one of the
inhabitants is a man. Not one .wo-
mtan has ever been there, and, even
stranger stild, not a female animal
o.
f�a .
uy kind is permitted within its
boundaries. It its a. republic of
males.
Por hundred, of years soldiers
have guarded the gates that no wo-
man might ,steal 'through and pro -
fame the Cloistered holiness in
which the good monks! live. Com-
prising twenty nx,onastesies, a doz-
en villa;gee and ln'any scores of
lonely dwellings, this monks' re-
pu!blic governs itself after tthe„rules
of the Greek aura as a. true theo-
cracy.
Keep's, reached by boat from
Saalonios, is the capital. It is a
picturesque village on the eastern
slope of the holy mountain. Over-
hanging rocks are studded with
hermitages, anti hon+eysombed with
lonely cells. The �oouncil chamber
is at one end of the single street.
. To the synod the monks send
twenty-four dcelegates, who elect a
president emery . four years. He,
with a privy council of four, rules
the tiny republic and administers
its •foreign !affairs!.
Located in the heart of the terri-
tory so recently wrested by Greece
from Tuckey, the foreign relations
of Athos have been completely in-
terwoven with the Balkan troubles,
and Bulgaria and Serbit have
contended with teach other for noin.-
inal possession,
Yet through all the strife of war
the lonediy hermits and the silent;
monks have not broken their daily
routine of prayers and ,service, and
this strange women:less theoeraey
still persists, a picturesque and
romantic relic of the middle ages.
'I°-•-------
London's Monument is the loftiest
isolated' column in the world.
Woolwich Arsenal possesses the
largest steamhanxmer in the world. It
is capable of striking a blow of near-
ly a ,thousand tons; and yet it is so
carefully adjusted and accurately
timed that it is possible to place a nut
under the huge hammer and to crack
before her.
"Yes; but I do not want a song, 'Horses '
ease. Give me somethin !J tJ ���
pl g by High e anSearee in Britain
Mo-
zart or Rossini—something brilliant.'
I
am on exhibitiont
"Can. ,you see,".saucily: 1
whispered you
to. herr asI he lsearched for
the music.
"Ole, yes; and Beethoven, too, lam
fond of music, so I have studied it a
great deal, I can play almost any-
thing," she' said, carelessly, as she
took the piece he handed her --an ex-
ceedingly brilliant and difficult piece
by Mozart, and ran - her quick eyes
over it,
She placed the music before her,
and struck the fIrst• notes. The hum
of voices in the room grew instantly
g
still, No one seeke gyhiic� that y
r grand
torr
en
t
of music rose and f
charmed air, as those slim whit the
gars of Leonora swept tile echoic
keys, They Tor t the erfornier to
a little, even a' sic folxgof t14r .
cheeks glowed, her eyes sparkle
le
Wlblbe she played elle remembered
thnig but the` lhai'ni•oizies that n
shed from her subtle finger -touches
Theart s
of
the
grand g composer
ed her, and when she paused
dr charm
It was with a low sighofb t last
pain and pleasure. landed
"Brava!" said De Vere, bendin
over her, and she mined.
"Have I done well?" It is because
I hake a passion for music, and have
given my soul to It."
(To be continued.)
Stresbixrg, the capital ,
wasis of A:ls�nce
,annexed by Germany in 8x70,
bak-en by France in 1681, and re-
captured by Germany in 1S'f0.
The statement- that draught
horses will be a 'scarce commodity
in the British Isles when the war
is over is no rash ;statement, but is
based on stern. facts, as the fol-
lowing extract ;from "The Farm
and Stockbreeder," a prominent
British W agricultural publication,
goes to'show.
Where Canada 'stands as a, future
soiree of eupply is the question of
the times for us to answer, and our
answer
should take a very mater-
iel form. Let the ,seaso f t~
ng see az reootrd est iedi.elied; not inthe
breedi
na or mares, but in the
�r breeding of good draught mares.
d. Let Canada, stand ready to supply
o- the lleficit of the Motherland -at a
Wer
prod.
• 'Following is the extract •
"Week `i� ek
wee'
k
the
by draught �h
g t lxorse.
appears to be getting dearer. Sinoe
the war began prices have .advanced
g
very rapidly, and a horse of
weighty characteristics - is edsily
disposed of at a high price. Buyers
are much less discriminating than
they were because they find they
cannot obtain a, 'sufficiency of
horses. The very best are excep-
tionally dear, and—at the markets
in the West and Midlands of Eng-
land particularly' --buyers have been
keenly competing for such, horses
as
femurs s ai•
eable '
really x ,n.,,a t� sell. One
y ,lders where these horses
n o lolo' Mani from. Trade has been so
brisk, no doubt, that it suggests
some little saoriftceon the part of.
the breeders, ,and tempts them to
market stook .which otherwise they
would bold up. It is doubtful if
we
have
reached d
the •
limi
t of
mar-
ket values, but it is fairy .
y csafe to
eay that horses wale never dearer
in the recollection of Iiving breed
rs,
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Jottings of Styles.
The circular skirt, .which persist-
ently sags at the bias seams, is re-
sponsible far new ideas in the un-
even; finishing of hems, Land seal-
s. lops, overlapping each
er
flowerlike effect that is tvery' give a
Squares with pipings of satin reare
new, But the very latest`trick is ,an.
edea from the house of Premet, where ..
the bottom of skirts are cut in four.
points. You can catch the scheme if
you can imagine a circle cut in the
centre of a square piece of cloth:
This circle represents the line that
goes about the waist. • Theoints
may be faced with anotheii . color.
Whether or not the shirt is worn
with a lace' drop skirt or something
of the .sort our informant does not
say.' If not, we fear that Premet's
latest creation will be suitable only
for the stage, where almost nothing
is ore '"'voguey" than something
that
is more.
Rumors continue to the effect
the return of the princessgownisthnt'
in-
evitable this corning -winter. In fact,
in t,
y come during it may ing the summer. Cer-
tainly it .is being made u
style shops in , es
p
for fall of Paris where model
wear are well 'tinder way.
Sixteen inches' from the floor would
convert a skirt into a mere frill, yet
t is said that we are coming to such
abbreviated raiment, "With it will be
worn the Russian boots with crink-
ed tops of soft leather—that is, if
women are willing to put themselves
to such ugly things, which is doubt-
ful. Some few women will follow
he style, no matter where that mad
repulse leads, but the great major-
ty combine new ideas with their own
od judgment of what is fitting and
erect. The Russian boots catch
nto the hem of the frock and are al-
gether "clumsy and awkward.
Avoid as you would avoid trouble
1 the putty shades, the tan and the
Ige of early spring. They are out;
t and yet. more out. Bluish grey
an excellent color of the moment,
d a gabardine of this shade trim
-
d with a strong marine blue
ekes a splendid got -n. Fashion
s us jumping these days. By the
e one has decided upon a thing,
hisk; it is passe! For that reason
s best to regard the extremely
ular materials and styles as
gs to be feared. A touch of con-
vatism is a great help' toward
afety first" in shopping. Make
to slowly in your selections.
t a recent wedding the brides
ds wore gowns of blue taffeta,
silver lace about the hems of the
is and pantalettes of blue taf-
trimmed with silver lace. The
oes 'were embroidered with yel-
baskets of flowers, and some
the decorative scheme was hand-
ted—a combination of painting
embroidery. The necks were cut
d, the sleeves scalloped and, with
unusual and striking costumes
worn Watteau hats of white
aurae braid, with long stream -
of light blue taffeta, weighted at
ds with clusters of pink roses,
blue .hosiery and gold slippers
eted these picturesque outfits.
ustable collars for coats are
which means that one may have,
1 collars for one's coat, which
idedly handy for cleaning and
fishing. The high coati celiac
ubs against the face and gath-
wder
ooften ruins the entire gar -
Unless one has detachable col -
white plaited protectors of ors
should be worn.
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If you have anything in the world
to do, do it.—Carlyle.
Success in life often . turns out
the reverse of success in living. --
peen Inge.
There its one thing .th.at can never
turn into suffering, and that is the
good we have done.-Maeterdincle.
A brave mese strenuously fight-
ing fails not of a, little triumph now
and then to keep !him in heart. --
Carlyle.
Be 'that forgets his friend is un-
grateful to hint, but
, he
who
f r-
gets his God is ungrateful to hi'm-
$elf,—Bunyan.
The darkest shadows of life are
those which a mean .filulaelf makes
when he stands in his, own light.—.
xord Avebury.
Re knows ,not his, own strength
that bath not met 'adversity, Heav-
en
prepares g
re ,
ar
good ood. even with crosses,
but no ill can happen to a good
main,. ---Ben Johnson,
In those vernal `seasons of the
year, when the air is codon and
pleasant, it werean injury and sul-
lenness against Nature not to go,
out and ,see her riches and par-
take in her rejoicing with 1leaeen
and earth—Milton.
Our life .is like the life of a tree
again and again stripped of every
sign of "life that it hitusuit.
p forth,
and yet which still has gathered al,
those apparent failures into the
sttedeee of one long, continuous
growtlx,—Pllad�lips Brooks,