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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-04-07, Page 6Slt°O 11111, i enflueza.iik-1i'nearly a minute, and the silence was and all nose rots broken only by their deep breathing. throat diseases cured. Then she laughed softly, and Scars end : ti ro 1,. rs. nit inn iter• ,how exposed. y. " kept from borough thought that laugh was the senile, eta, er then d reuses witwithsm?0�33:Ii,O xoTm"'..aii- must desolate sound hi3 had ever .%10e. f,aa,, u111:111situ t.+til.* gutn•anteed to do so. hest heard. thing for } '„.", 'wires; t= c:tt the blood. S] Q• s is Then she stopped, and with an lin Oi t at 11 di ue es is et r"i harness shops or t''X1T'tinufao- tt:rc•,.;, :1 k. eta,. tt.+.rt•"i. pel'ious gesture pointed to the door. 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C'.,'rzu'�..�'u""r neo.::... c4.�.'.'.'.i�.�.a"�••'�,°''."<.:2"7r�^i"`�..s'�3;ir�:.a�P'� ".rs.,'ki:«"t--r ;L° „.,":."t`.•�? .,h'.�.w•• .,__.,�•.a� For Sale by AA Dealers. E4 cel„ arA 7 ]i [J1rjN AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE ar<<o BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY ALJF LSC CHAPTER VII. (Cont'd..) Scarborough paused, and Elsa, who had made no sign or movement whilst he was speaking, asked quickly: "It had gone?" "Every penny of it, I am told." "Poor girl! How she must have loathed the Varneys! What did she do?" "Made up her mind to make her living. There was one accomplishment in which she excelled, and she resolv- ed to put it to account. She became a riding -mistress." "In London?" "No, in Boston. A man who had known her father kept a big riding- sehooI there. He happened to be in England on a holiday, and he offered her a post in his school. She had a few pounds of her allowance left, and she made up the money for her pas- sage and outfit by selling her trinkets. A. month after she landed, Val B. Mon- tague saw her ride, and asked her to join the troupe he was getting up to tour the Atlantic Islands. She did so.” "It was an extraordinary thing to do," said Elsa. :"I fancy she is not a very ordinary girt. Besides, she had a reason. And Montague was not a stranger. She had known him out West as one of her father's stockmen, and she be- lieved he was to be trusted." "Still," said Elsa, "it was a mad thing, unless her reason was a very et ong one." "I believe it was." A faint smile flickered over EIsa's face, and she asked him something like a sneer: 1, as it Phil Varney? So she did net hate him, though his father had ruined her?" Scarborough ::hook his head grave- ly. "Phil did not know of the existence r'!' the circus troupe till three months later, when he joined it at Rio. Her motive was not that." Do you know what it was?" Yes." He got up and paced the room again. After all, the thing bad to be told, and his delay had not made it easier or shown him any gentle way of eaying a hard thing. But Elsa was not as other girls; she was brave, and would hear the truth without' flinching. He owed to her courage; not to fence with the necessity any! longer. He would say straight out! what had to be said. "You know that there are people who do not held the view you do about your father's innonce?" he said.; "Why do y ort say that?" she utked q icltly, • Recut se what I am going to tell you is :colt' plauelble if it is ' e:utl it the light rf that fact." She iooked at hum coldly. "Whet f tact ?" she asked. "That my father was guilty? ;•, that -.vbiti you l'h.tt there are people t•:ho believe tt t be wan guilty," he said. t rlt I anew that!" she said scorn - f It "Why, we have been living here r y4:,af'.• in San Miguel under the f r el see r rf Page, if not because .feole who think mee father ! 1 • t l I. We will take their ;i'a..itet3. Go on, please" :te ::fl;iir"1 of Carrington and ' Varney were investigated," Scarbor- ough Went on, "it was found that the partners, or whichever of them was the guilty man, must have known for a long time that the failure was inevi- ; table; and yet it was only within a period of six weeks before the crash came that the securities which repre- sented Margaret Ryan's inheritance were turned into ready money." Scarborough stopped. He had ex- pected 'that the thing would be hard to sayt but now, with Elsa's eyes widening with a growing apprehen- ' sion, he found it almost impossible. 1 "The money was taken to try to stave off the disaster?" she said. ! "No. It had not been added to the :firm's assets. No trace of it was found in the books. It was believed that—" Again he stopped. He saw Elsa's ' eyes fixed on him with horror looking t of their depths. "Go on," sine said. "Tell me quick- . "It was believed that the partner who had fled had taken this money !with him for .his own use. He had taken the orphan's inheritence, not with the intention of paying it back, if by its means he could save his firm ' from ruin but simply and solely for himself, to swell his crime -gained plunder. It sounds incredible, but many believe it, and amongst them the girl herself. I have told you that :in some ways she is a strange girl, a girl from whom one would expect; strange things. She took a fantastic 1 !vow of vengeance, dedicated the next 1 five years of her life—if the task should take so long—to tracking -down I and punishing the man who had ruin- ed her. She became a riding -mistress because she knew no quicker way of earning the money she would need; 1 she joined Val. B. Montague, because, ; with him she could begin her search at once, and earn money as she went. She. had heard that the object of her i pursuit - was hiding in one of the is- I lands of the Atlantic." "Horace," cried Elsa, 'suddenly, and i there was a note of heart -breaking grief in her voice. "Do you believe all :this?" • He forced himself to answer. "I don't know what I believe.• But, if it is true, it gives us what has been, lacking hitherto—a motive for the ; murder—if murder has been done." "It gives that, even though it is 1 not true," said Elsa quickly. "She be- i lieved it, and she vowed revenge." • Again Scarborough had to :lorce1 himself to say: 1 "I do not mean that, I don't think!. that Margaret Ryan is the murderess.) But. it is known that bQI'.trr•e ho left London Mr, Carrington invested: a large sum in diamonds. If he retained thein in his possession, as it is prom- • able that he would, they would supply . a motive. There are plenty of men. in the world who will .murder for less, With a cry that Wats almttost'a sob, Else, rose and faced him. "You say that my father had, those diamonds?" she asked ---""diamonds which he had bought with that girl's money! 'x'"ou say that, Horace?" "I say that that is the story 1 was toxd;' "Dei you believe it?" He did not answer. She waited "Go!" she said. "Elsa!" "Gel 1 asked for your help, but I will do without it. You believe ill of my father, whom I loved more clearly than anyone in the world"—and then in a lower tone, she added: "tili'you came, and I thought I had found one whom, I could love more!" He went to take her in his arms, but she shrank back from him. "Go!" she cried. "Go! 1. think_ I hate you now!" And then, in a passion of sobbing, or to let Itt help her. Shall we start? i' next to it. Next to him is the desk she threw herself into a chair, and Your machine is in the shed." of the health officer, wash bocci, table covered her face with heg hands. Varney understood now, and saw ! and sofa --all in a comparatively that he had made a mistake. It was small space. The school inspectors t the girl, not the pian, to whom the manage to exist here with the build - CHAPTER VIII. 'new knowledge made a difference. He , ing• inspectors, and there in one corner "Well?" asked Phil Varney, when, was glad that Scarborough had miss-' is a typewrite): with a young woman Scarborough returned from the Chine-- ed the point of his question, and he -i busily writing. Ite another cellar aro las to the Cable Station. honored his friend 4 or not understand -1 the clerks, bookkeepers and kitchen. "Richmond Carrington is dead ing hint. Varney had learned in a; Of course, the officials must eat, and said Scarborough :simply. rough school lately, and he knew that so e kitchen is absolutely necessary. "Murdered?" • in the world's eyes, his thought would "Despite this montonous existence, "I don't know, but it looks • like " be counted the natural one; and he the officials of Gorizia abound in good ""The -diamonds ?" I e zt. knew too, how to respect a man to humor. They laugh, joke and sing in "Oh, I suppose so. • .Have you an whom that thought did not even occur. the candle light and take their situa- hour to spare?" - "You meals to help her, hone the tion philosophically. less," was what he said. "The Italians bombard the city day "Yes.ee I am in the circus twebty "Oh, yes," said Scarborough, and and night. Of the 2500 houses ant minuteswill before my atpedon you nt they rode off together. buildings in the city not one has es- megins it do. What do you want • , for?" The rode to the pine -growers house caped damage. All the church edifices "I want you to help me probe this passed within a few hundred yarde have been wrecked and 12 boars of thing. I am going first to that girl, of the Caldeira de Morte, and the darkness makes Gorizia, like the dam - who, so far as we know, was the last turned aside to see the place where ned, lightless, black city of Maupas- person to see him .alive; and after- i Richard Carrington had met his death. sant's novel.• 1 The Caldeira lay in a shallow de- "While I was in the city only four Delgada. da. I want to be I shall go with yintroduced to to condo ? p • ression in the hillside, formed by an big shells fell. One 30.5 -centimetre Mona de la Mar." extinct crater, and they had to leave shell exploded - in front of a coffee "What for?"• asked Varney quickly.their bicycles to get to it. There was house, making a big hole the width of "You are not; a narrow fissure in the lip of the crat- the street. This was filled with water going tor murder assryou?"or er through which the warm, shallow during a rainstorm, and the inhabit - to suspect her of murder• are t "No. "• i stream from the Caldeira made its ants named it the "Lake of Shells i" "Then what do you want with her?" l way to the lower levtls. The path and In the long -closed coffee house the bil- "I want to know whether she saw the stream occupied the whole of this lard table Danced like some spirit - or spoke to Richmond Carington yes- fissure, but sometimes the stream ridden thing, while the biller(' balls terday. I want to know whether the! took up all the available space for and the cues flew in all directions. private business which made her re -1 itself and left no path; so that it was s Two blocks away another shell ex - fuse to perform last night was ani necessary to jump from rock to ploded and killed many residents who interview with the man who had rob- !rock in its bed, or to splash boldly had remained above ground. Their bed her. Is she the sort of girl who; through it. Walls of grey pumice heads, arms and legs were thrown in will be sensible enough to see that! plashed with irregular patches of red all directions and the street ran red. questions will be put, and. that she'll' lichen, rose for forty feet on either Blood still can be seen in the red have to answer for her movements?" side; and scorings and watermarks on earth and, like the drop of blood in "Yes," said Varney. "Ar1ci she's;.their flanks showed that there were the fairy tale of the Icing's daughter, sensible enough to have forgotten that 1 times when the shallow stream was a it seems to say : 'I, too, was once upon fantastic' vow business Iong ago. It rapid torrent. la time a young, handsome person !" was a only a piece of girlish froth in i (To be Continued). 1 Gradually the merciful rain is oblit- the beginning, nothing more than a; e. ! erating all its traces. burst of natural temper, expressed in' •) , 1 "But the Italians are paying for a romantically violent way. f course' PEOPLE LF LIt E IN CELLARS. i this wanton slaughter of the civil she soon dropped it" population, for out there beyond the "Probably," agreed Scarborough Crty of 30,000, -Gorizia Is Reduced to Gorizia bridge they are having heavy i "But I want to talk to her." a Few Hundred. losses. The battle changes from day "Oh, all right. I'll introduce you. Herr Josef Pogany, special corre- to day, and just now Oslavia is theHow is the daughter taking .things ?"'spondent of the Berliner Tageblatt centre point of stack. And thos "Bravely," said Scarborough. 1 and a writer of some prominence, tells residents of Gorizia who he. and eat "Did she know the truth about her of a trip he has just nade to the and sleep in their cellars no longer father?" ! fear that the Italians will ever suc- "No." warstricken city of Gorizia, near the ceetl in breaking through." !Italian frontier. In graphic style, ":You told her?" [herr .Pogany ~writes a description of Yes, but she didn't believe it." 'life in the wrecked city. Was Not Impressed. Varney nodded. "That's natural," i "Of the 30,000 inhabitants of 1 A young housewife was showing a he said. Poor girl, this is a rough! Gorizia," he says, "only a few hand- new and inexperienced servant about time for her! And for you too,. old' red remain. These live, eat and sleep the house, explaining the various du - man," he added quietly. "I think I' in cellars. There is oto longer any ties that wound be hers. In. an upper I can understand what you are feeling! life above ground. Every day more hall they came suddenly to the head 1 What difference will this make to !shells explode in the city and every, of the stairs, and the lady said:— you?" ! day some of the old inhabitants re-; Nancy, you will go- down this way al- Vuarney's question mutant to ask turn. But there is how a new ways." And with that the lady slip - !what difference the knowledge that'Gorizia. 1 ped and stumbled, going down the 1 father was an unpunished criminal! It is Gorizia underground. Every; stairs with many turns 'and bumps. would make in Scarborough's feelings; man, •woman and child lives in a cel- The new maid was frightened and towards the daughter. It was a ea-; lar, very much •like the early Chris- said:—"Lor', missus, I'm afraid I turaI question perhaps, hut luckily !thins lived in the catcombs. And as won't suit you at all. That way. of Scarborough misutrderetoorl it. It the early Christians were aroused in going down stairs is a bit too danger - never even occurred to him that such their sleep by the howling of wild ous for me." a question would he put, 30 he answer-: beasts, so the present inhabitants of •--•-- ed it readily. He thought that Var- i Gorizia are kept aural e by the notes- Why He Was Whipped. neer was asking about Elsa, not about F sant explosion of shells. They have Tommy ranee home school in tears, himn• fall gone back to a primitive mode of "What is the matter, darling'?" ask- Ihope that in the end it will make „living. Occasionally a woman is seen' ed his mother. •"Teacher whipped no difference," he said. i in the street who has yenttn•ed out th me," he sobbed. "What for?" "Nci- Varney shot a Puzzled look at•him,' obtain some food. Not only the citi-; thin', 'cept answering a question." saying: tens, but all the officials of the city "That is very singular. Did you an - "I don't quite see. Do you :mean to i have `buried' themselves in the earth. : seer it correctly ?" "Yes, ma," say that it does make a difference-; They occupy the cellars under the ;""What was the question, dear?" now? f !Public 'bulidin s. The Director of "She. asked me whopot the -mouse in "Yes. She refuses to speak to me, ! Finance has a desk and a mattress her desk." p dad r en charycterizes the Flavor Quality Uncitalleng,ed kr Twenty-three Ye 'se. ox "Mother Says We Couldn't Run The Farm Without N COR}r i ��IBYR��ra�_ T'S downright scandalous, the number of 20 pound tins I buy, But, as Mother says, we us0 !t for 'Most everything, "Nothing else tastes quite ;o good on all kinds of Hot Bread, Johnny Cake and Griddle Cakes. "Mother uses it for all her cooking—for Cookies, Cakes, Otegerbread atad Pies. "Anti am almost ashamed to mention the quantity of 'Crowe Brand' and bread that my youttgs ors consume. This syrup oeriainly is a favorite in my home", The 20 pound tin is convenient and economical for home use, although you Skn tet "Crown Brand" in 2, S and 10 Viand tin:, and 3 pound glass Jars, Askyour dealer, THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED ewers tAL, OAROINAL, "shANT4ORD,. PORT WILLIAM. ltlakn.r n "Lily TTthrlr" C'r n Xrr.r ,—Itearou's Corn S arch—' .Ytiver Clue " ]: a eu , r Starch. May' we sendyott a copy of our 11 ' . *ok, " Dessertsea andles"? `pre. bend a lelllful—and free. Write tor It to our Montreal OffIne. a21 agees- "Spring Tonics." T ie tonics which the vied stn jovi1 y of ndividuais need at this period of the year is fresh air, exercise and u sinrplier diet. Owing• to weather con- ditions many of our activities are re- sttrictecl iii the winter. 'there is also' a tendency to eat excessively of meat and fatty foods. As a result, alien the spring arrives with its warm days many of us are like a fucnacetthat lies been so choked with fuel that it doesn't draw well, You cannot buy relief from these conditions at a dollar a bottle. Med- icine will not make up for overeating and underexercise. The high death rate which almost invariably prevails at this season of the year !rein pneu- monia, tubercolosis and other respir- atory diseases is largely due to the reduced physical resistance. of indi- viduals, which makes then pa rtieu- larly sensitive when the sudden changes of temperature oe••ur which are common at this time of the year. Old people are susceptible, as they are housed more closely during winter- time than the' young. Let your spring tonic preseription read something as .follows. Eat meat but once a day and spar- ingly. Thiose not under the donor's care should take a glass of water before retiring for the night and one an hour before breakfast. Get all the fresh air possible. Sleep with your windows open. See that your clothing is heavy enough to protect"you against sudden changes of weather. Walk in the open air five or six miles a day, Banish Gloom in Sunshine., If every one could only realize the tonic effect of a little sunshine they would be both healthier and happier, Cover some green grass with a piece of carpet fora month and note the result. The grass will have complete- ly changed. It will have lost its color and become almost white. 'ibis: is exactly- what happens to people. If you live in dark, gloomy roorhs you cannot be rosy or entirely healthy. • Not only does this Iack of sunshine impair your health, but it effects your mental attitude. You cannot be an op- timist and live in a gloomy place, and who wants to be a pessimist? Many of the most dreaded germs are completely annihilated by a con- tinued application of sunshine. This is the reason all modern hospitals are built on the pavilion plan, which ad- mits light on all sides. Disease germs are not the only variety that dread the light. The germs that breed discontent, pettiness, jealousy and real unhap- piness aro all bred in darkness. Did you ever try a brisk walk in the bright sunshine when you seem to be completely surrounded by all sorts of "glooms?" It is a simple remedy; not a costly one, but effica- cious. -One hour of such treatment will usually rout a whole regiment of these pests. If you haven't the energy fur a walk, put on wraps to keep you warm and sit in an easy chair in the cor- ner of the porch. In lien of the porch try raising a southern window and sit where the sun will shine on you. If your gloom has not vanished in an hour, you should commit a doc- tor, who doulitless • will prescribe for a sluggish liver. For a sick liver will make -even rosy glasses reflect a dark glow. . SOLDIERS REVIVE MACE. Weapon Popular With Warriors of Old Not Out of Date. English newspapers mentit;tt the feet that the mace, so popular with warriors in the days of knighthood, is not oust of date in the present struggle. I3oth the German and the allied 1ieueh. warriors are armed with it weapon which car be called nothing but. a mace. It is a short. heavy club, cov- ered with spikes. The bludgeons are supplied top artier which creep up on I the enemy's trench under cover of darkness. When an attacking party, small 1n number, enters an enemy's trench Ilia success of their venture depends on their ability 10 avoid discovery by others In the sante trench or an ad- joining one. For this reason it is no- cessary to kill their opponents tilentiy. The mace 01• spiked bludgeon nialt.es this possible, I3y killing silently the few watchers in the trench ait.tcked the enemy can gain a footheid for a, larger attacking force. The Pessimist's View. "Father," said the small boy, "What's an '?" "An optimist,optimistmay son, is a moan who tries so hard, to be cheerful that. you feel sorry to see over-working himself," Idleness is an inlet to d-,,rdcr•. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own cp.n;;a.ny.