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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-08-04, Page 6AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER XXII.--(Cont'd). "Cunning man, Davis!" said Varney with satisfaction. "He, and I will make a success of our partnership, if ,it comes off. Think it will, too! Now tell me about Mrs. Carrington." Scarborough gave him an account of the scene at the Chinelas the even- ing before, and of the modification in their plans which it had rendered ne- cessary. At the end lee asked: "Which is the inn where you saw Gillies the other day?' "That rambling block at the end of the village nearest to us," said Var- ney. nemoreo• "I'veit x had myeye on y Y less since daybreak, but there's been no sign of either him or his donkey, I don't think he can be there, or he would have been stirring before now." "I'll go and see before the girls come," said Scarborough. "After they arrive, if we haven't seen him be- fore then, we'll quarter the country, and get a thorough notion of the he of the land. If Davis makes any- thing out from the scratchel stone it will be an advantage to us to know as much as possible beforehand of the main features of the district. It's what Gillies has been working at, I imagine. I wish we knew where he is now, and what he is doing." "Oh, yes, there's a chance. But he only got the plan yesterday, you know. What I'm more afraid of is that he may have found that he was on a wrong secent here, and is work- ing somewhere else. Still, we'll take the opportunity here ourselves." "In couples, of course!" said Var- ney. "Miss Carrington and y Muriel and me! Capital! But wh does Mona come in.?" "Oh," said Scarborough laughing, "she's not the girl to spoil an arrange- ment of that sort. She'll probably say that she prefers to work alone, and shall have to be ungallant enough to let her have her own way. I say, old chap, I don't care much for the frog things. The taste isn't bad, b the idea's nasty. I'm going down the inn for breakfast. Will come ?" "l a t•7ia-p?tes-lellee to t for you here. The girls might turn up you see. What shall you do if you meet Gillies there ?" "Don't know. Wait and see what he does, I suppose." But Gillies was not at the inn. Scarborough went in, and asked the landlady in Portuguese what she could give him for breakfast. To his surprise he was answered in his own tongue, spoken with a strong northern accent "Weel, there's jist salt cod a beans, and if ye dinna like th there's the bitter mixture. It's wha the folks hereabouts breakfast on as general 'thing, and if ye're the Amer can tourisb I take ye for, ye'll wanting to taste it. They. all do, there's not many of them can take a second helping' "What's the bitter mixture?" ask- ed Scarborough. "Oh, just half- a • loaf o' mai bread, belled up wi' lard, garb onions, vinegar, whole peppers an saffron. Will I get you a plateful? "No, thank you," said Scarboroug decision. ` I'm not an Amer can tourist, you see, so I haven't th curiosity or bhe courage to try it. I a plain Britisher, hungry, and Makin to a fellow Britisher to give him better meal than that. By the wa you have had a eount,rynan of you staying in your inn lately, haven you?" "The Scotchman who's explorin the countryside on a donkey, an thinks that folks will take him for native? Yes, he's been here; bu Who told you that he was a fellow oeountryman a' mine?" "Well, you are Scotch too, aren't you ?" t`1 was born in Fraser's Wynd in the High Street of Ediinburgh," said the woman proudly. "But I'm think ing 1,. hadn't told you that, and it' no likely you would be able to guess it from my tongue. What's it to be? Salt cod and beans, or will it be yams and red sausage 7" "You gave the Scotchman something better e .an any of these, didn't you ?" asked Scarborough. "Oh, f%xnal lie was a pernicketty body, and gave me a. lot o' trouble getting things for him. , I couldn't please him with anything, until I put an eel from the Hot ;River before hien. He liked.that.' "j like eels too," said Scarborough, "and I have been told that the worm exited of the Riberia Quente breeds the Best in the world, "Ay, but 1 havens one in the house, Not bat. w3 at there might be one,or Oen two, In the eel' baskets; but my ou. ere guidman, hasn't been down to the river yet to see." In the end Scarborough breakfasted off bread and wine, but when the land lady learned that three ladies were coming, she promised to have a proper meal, including• fried eels from the Hot River, ready for the whole party hi an hour. Scarborough drew her u on the subject of the likes and dis- likes likes of the Scotchman, for he saw that Gillies had been giving trouble over his meals here, as he did at the yenta in Ponta Delgada, and that the woman had resented this. He did not find it necessary to ask her ! about Gillies' movements during the time that he stayed in her. house; she I had a grievance, and was voluble about it, and Scarboraugh let her rattle on while he =etched his break- fast, However, beyond the fact that Gil- lies had not been seen in the district since yesterday morning, he learned httl, The woman knew nothing of how he_spent his time when he was there, except he was often seen near the edge of the lake, fishing in the water with a net at the end of a pole. He never caught anything, she ex- piained scornfully, and wasn't . likely bo, by that senseless way of fishing. When she showed signs of becom- ing autobiographical, and had started to explain how it came about that she 'a. respectable. Edinbaegh wo,-rean with a Free Kirk upbringing, was now the wife of a Portuguese innkeeper, Scar- borough discovered hur:felly (bet he had finished his' meal, and must go. Her history might possible he inter- esting, but he did not wait to hear it,. other things of greater importance felled his thoughts just now. He returned to where he had left Varney under the maize -cobs. "Gilles goes fishing at the edge of the lake with a net at the end of a long pole," said he. "What does that se mean, Phil?" ut "That the diamonds are hidden in to the water," said Varney promptly. "But he has given up the occupa- tion since yesterday morning Got an interpretation of that?" "Yes. Either he has found ~them and is off—or he hasn't and is fishing somewhere else." "In either case we are wasting time by staying here?" "Shouldn't wonder," said Varney calmly. "But we must wait for the girls anyway. What have you dis- covered ?" Scarborough told him what the Scotchwoman had said.. "Then I tell you what," said Var- ney. "When the girls come, we'll have that meal you've ordered for us. and then we'll ride back to the Casa Davis to hear how the photographic experiment has turned out. We can't nd at, t a i - be go chasing Gillies aimlessly about the but island of San Miguel, because we don't know which way he's gone; but if Davis has managed to interpret the message on the scratched stone, we shall have something to guide us: If ze the stone tells us where to go, we'll c, go there, and I hope we won't find d that Gillies is before us." " "Why should he be? He doesn't gli know about the stone." 1- "No but maybe the stolen pian e wasn't quite so indefinite as Mrs. Car - 'm rington says it was. It is since he g has had it in his possession that he a has ceased to work here. We shall y, have to give up bhe happy day of rs hunting in couples that we had ar- 't ranged. That's the pity," he added ruefully. g "You can ride with Muriel." said d Scarborough laughing,. "You've Barn - a ed it. I'll look after the other two." b "Thanks, old man," sari Varney, brightening at once, "I'll take you at that!" Half an hour later the girls arrived, and when they heard what Scarbor- ough had learned at the inn, they agreed that Varney's proposal was the - right one. However, when they were s on the point of remounting their ma- chines to ride back to Casa Davis, Mona pointed with. an exclamation to a figure that was limping down the hill towards therm. "It's. Val B.!" she cried . "Then what has become of Mrs. earring - to e ' "I think he's hurt?' > said Scarbor- ough, anxiously. " I'll ride on and meet shim ?" He brought bhe circus man batik to the group by the door of the inn, and after a long draught of wine, Val B. Montague opened his mouth to ex- plain. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "you see before you •a cock -sure fool who has been taken clown a peg. dictated a letter of introduction last night, did I? --in which I got our The Secret of Flaky Pie Crust It's in our Recipe Book—with a lot of other recipes for making good Pies. But—we're going to tell you right here how always to have the top crust fine and fluky -and how to have the under crust Just right, even when using fresh fruit. Just use part Sy. G • STA i instead of all wheat flour. Try it, and prove it. Get a package of BENSON'S at your grocer's, and write to our Montreal Office for copy of our new recipe book, 'Desserts and Candies" that tells how. THE CANADASTARCH CD. L MITED T 1 5ONTREAL, CARDINAL, DRANTFORD. 218 - FORT WILLIAM. .. VIf2'11b.�YP 8 friend here to say that Our Mr. Mon- tague was a man in whose ability he had entire faith! Mr. Scarborough, sir, I was a fool. I also stated, I be- lieve, that it was going to be my pie, 'Tisn't my pie at all, as it turns out; it's the widow's." He paused and took another long drink. "She has given you the slip ?" ask- ed Mona. "Where is she ?" asked Scarbor- ough. Montague looked from one to the other. "No," he said. She did not giev: me the slip. She merely rode away from me on my own donkey, and told me I tp n't to follow, and I didn't dare to disobey her. Where is she? I don't know. The only thing I am absolutely sure of is that Our Mr. Montague, of Val B. Montague's Am- erican Circus Combination, has been made a complete fool of, and that by. a woman whom he thought all the time that he was himself fooling. Anybody Iike to kick me?" "Tell us what has happened." said Elsa. "This!" he answered. "Your mo- ther and the scoundrel Gillies have joined forces- and, the man in •whose ability Mr. Scarborough, expressed entire confidence, allowed them to 'do it.,, CHAPTER XXIII. "Mrs. Carrington and Gillies have joined forces!" Scarborough repeat- ed with dismay, and the others echoed his exclamation of astonishment. "That was what I said, six," re- sponded Montague. "And ib struck me, from what I saw of the pair of them, that it will be a strong coali- tion. oalition. More fool I for letting ib come about! Guess you're sorry you en- listed me as a recruit, aren't you ?" "Are you hurt?" asked Mona,anx- iously. `Twisted my ankle on a stone, and got a large blister on my heel, that's all. I'm a poor walker, and walking wasn't part of my plan for the day. The widow arranged that too, and didn't consult 'me about my prefer- ences." "Give us the bale, Montague, and we'll condole with you afterwards," said Varney. (To be continued). DIVIDE ENEMY'S FORCES. Russian General Says Constant Pres- sure is Necessary. The London Daily Mail correspond- ent ae Petrograd sends the following despatch: Gen. Russki, who retired from the Russian northern command through serious ill -health, has just passed through Petrograd on his way to spend the rest of the summer in Fin- land. In the course of conversation the famous soldier spoke of the pres- ent state of affairs' with the g.eatest satisfaction. "Continued pressure is necessary now," he said, "pressure at a number of points, so that the enemy's forces may be divided, If this is kept up steadily, and if all the allied armies avoid the mistake of pushing on more quickly than is prudent, then the end niay come in sight a good deal sooner than seemed likely a few months ago, "The Germans are making their last effort. They have been forced to change their plans, and no longer possess the initiative. Their strength in munitions is still very great, and the task before the allies is not an easy one anywhere. "The allies superiority in numbers has now deprived the enemy of the advantage of operating upon interior lines. Even now Germany will make a desperate effort to snatch victory by bold tacticsand the employment of all her resources, but let the allies stand firm and successes cannot be long de- layed." The Value of Underdrainage. shrould be made so that they will What has struck me most of late carry off a maximum amount of warm s the vallis and importance portance of t drainage ,and how little farmers avail themselves of the opportunity of im- proving their lame in this manner. I will quote a few particular instances of the effect of tile drainage that I have come across. Our farm has a certain amount of tile -drains where they are most need- ed, but has by t xou h g system. They were put in before my time at the rate of about one drain a, year. A field we had in corn last year was always wet on the south side do when the e re st of the field was to work, and consequently was sel- dom worked up well, and, on account of this and its - low-lying condition, never raised more than half a erop. A few years ago a five -inch elrain was put through it, and although this did not drain it thoroughly, this part of the field always raises one-third bet- ter crops. Last year was wet and We had the field in corn. At /one time, on such a year, there wool have been practically nothing on thi strip but the tile did the business, an it went 100 bushels to the acre and the rest of the field about fifty. • Another field was hi oats' last year and seeded down to alfalfa. Them are several drains running across th field, bub at quite a distance apart When I mowed'the field I received an object lesson. A few rods on each side of the tile `drains there was fine, thick crop, but farther away, th alfalfa was badly winter -killed an hardly worth cutting. If the field had been thoroughly under -drained i would easily have yielded two loads per acre. As it was it barely went a load to the acre and almost all of that came -from over the tile drains. We intended to put two fields in oafs this year. There were both good fields and of similar soil. One is well underdrained, the other has no drains in it. The drained field was fit early, worked up nicely, and was one of the first sown in the vicinity. The other field was wet and stayed• Wet until it got too late for oats, so �'" decided to plow it and plant it in coni y changed The weather suddenly ch d to the other extreme and became hot and dry. We were finishing anoth- er carp field and by the time we were ready to plow this field . it was too hard and remained so 'until it was too late for corn. So in this instance lack of tile drainage meant the loss. of a crop. These are just a few of many similar personal experiences in this line. Now,; I may be wrong in making such a general assertion, but from my personal experiences tile -drain- age means at least one-third better crops, or an increase in production of 33 per cent. Now by a recent law in Onbario a farmer without sufficient funds can, I believe, borrow up to $1,000 from the township for the pur- pose of tile drainage, and be charged interest on it in his assessment; to- gether with his other drainage taxes, at the rate of 6 per cent. If he can invest this money at a profit of 23 per cent., and only pay 6 per cent. for it what better investment could he desire ? Why is he so slow to avail himself of this golden opportunity ?— Reginald Jukes, in Farmer's Advocate. ile air. The stable fixtures should be such as to offer the minimum ob- struction to the free circelation of air This is one of the chief advantages I see in metal stable fixtures. At night when the cows are out every- thing should be kept' open so as to provide for a complete chi»ge of air before they are put in again the fol- lowing day. Cows kept in a cool, well ventilated stable for a few hours. each day during the hot summer. months will show their appreciation in an increased ,milk flow. -"Dairy man�� in Farm and Diary. To Prevent Overheating. Horsemen will soon need to be on their guard against overheating. Most cases of overheating can be pre- vented by keeping a few simple things in mints. Give at least a pailful of water 'haeach horse about 10 o'clock, and again d at 3 or 4 o'clock on a hot day. Be very careful with a horse that is e a Iittle out of health, if you are work- ing him on a hot day. Look out for a horse that after sweating freely suddenly stops sweat- ing. Put such a horse in the shade as soon as possible and give- a moder- e ate drink. ' Do not put a horse not in good con- dition for hard work, in the centei•of a a four -horse team in hot weather.. Work carefully on a hot day when d the atmosphere` is moist and heavy. A horse, can hardly- get too hot to. water, but one must regulate the t amountby the temperature of the -wa- ter. In case of an attack of overheating the horse should be taken to the shade as soqn as possible. A treat- ment of the surface of the body, parti- cularly of the head, with cold water should be given until the temperature is within a degree or two of normal. Stimulants, such aswhiskey or brandy, well diluted, should be given as early as possible. In most cases it better to plan to avoid over -heating than to plan to treat the horse for it. ---M; H. Rey- nolds, University Parra, St. Paul. Doubtful Recovery. The lusty -lunged itinerant auction- eer was holding forth in the market place. Taking . up a box of cigars he shouted at the top of his voice. "You can't get better, gentlemen! I don't care where you go, you can't get better l" "No," came .a cynical voice from the bade of the crowd, "you can't I smoked one fast week, and I'm not better yet." It takes twelve seconds for the prtye jectile of a 12 -in. naval gun to reach its point of impact when firing at a range of five miles. Shells for 12 -in. guns cost $500 apiece. Cow Comfort in Summer. How stables have been generally de- signed with the object of keeping cows eeenfortable in winter only. This may lea'te been all right in the past, but conditions are rapidly changing in the dairy industry, and it is becom- ing quite as necessary to proide for stable comfort in summer as in winter, The practice of milking in the born; is now common, and will become more eh as the use of the milking machine in- creases. Instead- of throwing green feed over the pastlax•e 'fence to the cows we now have the summer silo and feed them in the stable. As dairy methods improve the' 1y nuis- ance claims more attention, and every one knows that flies bother the cows less in a cool,' dark place' than -in the open stmlight. On most good dairy farms the cows are kept in for at least a part of the day he the warns months, and this should not be lost sight of when stables, are built or remodelled. The chief consideration in provid- ing for summer comfort iseto have a continuous stream of fresh'air pass- Mg through the stables. The pee - veiling wind hi this country is from west to east. In order to catch the most of this the stable should lie Mirth and south. with the windows in the east and west, , side. This ar- rangement agrees with the winter dee' tweeds .for lots of sunshine, The windows should be entirely removable. Ventilating shafts and 'feed shutes Preserved Raspberries keeps their natural color if you use the pure cane sugar which dissolves at once. Order by name in original packages. 2 and 5 -lb cartons 10 and 20 -ib bags PRESERVING LAJ3ELS FREE Send red ball trade -mark out from abag orearton to Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd. lkowc,, Ieiri ., Montreal 43 WINDFALLS THAT 'WERE ' ONDE FUL LEGACIES X?ROM PEOPLE THEY HAD NEVER SEEN, N, Romances of Large and Unexpected Fortunes Suddenly A.ecp ired. 'There are few of the stories of sud- denly -acquired riches mare fascinat- ing, and also more tantalising, than those which tell of mon and women raised ed fro mone xt p y to affluence by limy expected legacies from testators whom., in many cases, they have never even set eyes ons says London .:Aii,- suers.. A month seldom passes in which the newspapers ors I not p d o tell us of some m such story as that of the San Francis co tram -conductor, named Gop''ic, who returned from his day's work to - find a letter awaiting' him with the news that a distant cousin, whom he had never seen, had left him $1,0001- 000; of Adelaide Wright, a telegraph- ist of St. Louis, who became a mile lionaire iii a day through the death' of a great -sunt; or of Mdlle, Burch, a poor Swiss girl, who was :made rich by a legacy of $250,000 from a weal thy Englishman whore she, had years, before, tended when he fell in a faint' in a London street He Was Well Rewarded. It is not long since the papers Were full of the romantic story of Michael M'Donald, caretaker of a Lancashire club, who awoke one morning to learn that he and his brother were sole heirs to a millionaire uncle who had died in California; and of the good fortune of Miss Annie Scott, daughter of a weighrnan at Idle 'Station, near Bradford, who came into a fortune of $500,000, the gratifying fruits of her friendship with Miss Alice Page, a wealthy young lady of Manchester. Still more remarkable was the story of Mr. J. R. Conway, a Sheffield, man, who in his younger days in London had played the "Good Samaritan" to two ladies rediuced almost to starve - tion. Years passed. Mr. Conway had long left LonZion, and his good services to the distressed gentlewo- man were but a faint memory, when one day he received a solicitor's let- ter informing him that the survivor of the two objects of his charity had died a rich woman, and had left him a legacy of $150,000 in recognition - of his kindness. Too Old to Enjoy it. "It is a pity- it did not come to nee earlier in life," was the comment of Edward Corcoran, a Dublin saddler nearing seventy, when he learned that he was heir to $500,000, left him by a friend of his boyhood, John Sullivan, who had sought fortune across the Atlantic. Fortune was in her most caprici- ous mood when, a few years ago, she revealed Richard Roberts, a Dur- ham sandwich -man, who was living in an old tenement at a rental of three shillings a week, as next-of-kin to a millionaire relative, of whose exise tence he scarcely was aware; and al so when four brothers, Brisbal erase ams, found themselves heirs to the es- tate of a kinsman, a Brooklyn mer- chant, valued! at a milion and a guar- ter uarter dollars. Among other :favorites of Forbunel in recent years were Miss Molly Dee laine, a pretty and popular actress, who thought riches as remote as the stars, when one day bhe astounding news carne'' to her that a relative, of whom she had seen very little, had left her the comfortable fortune of $200,000; and Miss Agnes Jennette Russell, of Dunfermline, who unex- pectedly inherited $485,000 on the death of a brother, in whose sordid room hi Brooklyn were found two trunks containing securities worth $400,000 and - a bank -book showing deposits of e85,000. Duty First. But perhaps the most, remarkable of all these stories of lucky windfalls is that told of, young William Warren Morrison, who was employed, in i; Boston printing office. "The boy, who is Seaenteen • years old," says a Boston paper, "has re- ceived news that he is heir to $20,- 000,000 left to him by his great-uncle, a Californian Croeses. He knewt about it, .. but was at • his work to -day, clothed and in his right mind. Re trotted around with proofs, answered tele telephone, ran errands, and performed the various duties of the 'printer's devil.' as zoalr ldasly as if his life depended on keep,, ing his Sob ati three ;dollars a week' For many years 'past the populo4. tion of Germany has been ineI'easin ', at the rate of ,about 000,000 a. year, In 1871 the population was. 41 roil- lions, and by 1910 it had risen bo al. most $5 rnillioits»