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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-08-11, Page 2«e CA.BLEM4 EXCITING PRESENT-alftY ROMANOE BY WEATIERBV CHESNEY dir�3G CHAPTER XXII1. (Continued.) "The tale, sir, is one that I am ashamed .of," said Montague ; "but I suppose you've:,got to know it. After Mr, Scarboro>.igh had started this morning, without waiting for break- fast, as h, -1"s:" young enough and fool- ish enough, to be imprudent in these matters, lemade a good breakfast and then started myself. When I reached . the ChYinelas I found it would have bE en beter if I had hurried, for the idolti* had already gone into the town nt Ribeira Grande. I had let her get ahead of me at the start, you see. of capping my effort if she could, she found he X followed livery at once, and electrified me by putting a question found her ats carriagear takles, ber- which had nothing at all to do with gaining for a to take her to what I was saying, Las Furnas. I presented my letter of introduction, and, as Mr. Scott and "Is the pie yours so far, Mr. Mon - Mr, Scarborough warned me last tague ?" night would be the case, she laughed "My Pegasus of poetic fancy was at me. However, I didn't mind that ; dashed to the ground, and there was in.,fact X had counted upon her doing not so much as a flutter left in his ?so, and should have been put out if wings ; I did not even finish my she hadn't. I improved the oppor- phrase but looked at her, instead. Her tunity of her laughter to make • as manner had changed, anti she was re - quaint and possibly outrageous re-' girding me with a mocking smile. mark or two, and thereby succeeded' "'Is the pie yours ?' she repeated, t considering. If they could have seen In amusing her further. She saw that; 'Does our Mr. Montague consider that me at that moment they would have I was a man of some originality of, he is working his commission of de- smiled, for if I am 'vain, my vanity thought, and she was pipued into an-! lay with surprising ease and success ? was in a fair way to being flayed •off swering me in my own vein. That; Or did he dispise his antagonist so me in shreds ; .She gave it a whip -cut again was what I wanted. We in- ! much that he anticipated that success at every sentence. dulged in a regular duel of badinage would be easy ? Do you really think in that stable yard, and if a third par..; I am a fool ?' ty had been there to listen, I think he "She had taken the matter into her would have agreed with my opinion; own hands. I realized that further that in the clash of wit against wit, I pretense was useless. Since, appar- we both emitted some quite brilliant ently, she already knew my cards, I sparks of fancy. The result was what showed my hand. I had forseen ; the widow was pleased "`l.think,' I said, 'that you will be with herself,' and began to think that somewhat late for the picnic at Las an hour or two spent in my company Furnas.' would be interesting and stimulating. "'Possibly,' she retorted, 'I shall I worked hard to keep that impres- not want to go. If you will look be- sion alive in her mind, until I had got hind you, you will see a man ap- her to agree to what I wanted ; and proaching us. By the pace at which I succeeded—as I had of c ourse he is coming, it would appear that he and admire the scenery, and perhaps by that time her steed would have re- covered enough to proceed. Now I knew quite well that he wouldn't, and I thought she knew it too ; but delay was what I had been playing for all along, so I fell in with her suggestion without comment. • We conversed lightly, perhaps even at times bril- liantly, for about twenty minutes, and the just when I was in the midst of working out a pretty fancy in mega- phors for her delectation, and thought that she was honoring me with her most alert attention, with the purpose ("P. cestoid flit t,Venri got it to 5t4 supply/ . fit 4,11.90,; gild X tali/. thotigliif lYittlRt nates fttui1ed, ldn' Mit SearboP'- ougli, tell yon,k oho Oat4, %at I was bo itiid th4 door sox' Nous time 1aat night t I kftd4 about the toraWbed stone, "Put you don't know what the words on it mean,' I cried, 'No one does. "'No, but Andrew Gillies may be able to guess. He knows more than we do, you remember, ,about what my husband's movements were on the last day of his life. We will see how the point strikes you. You would like to be present at our interview, ne doubt ; and I owe you some return for the pleasant morning you have given me.' "She laughed, and I take it that yoi'i will believe me when I say that I was feeling pretty riled, "'1 ani of the other party,' I remind- ed her sulkily. "She laughed again, and said that she didn't consider the act of any. importance. I think I never felt quite so futile as I did when that woman laughed at me. And yet, you know, I admired her for it. "The man on the donkey didn't come up to us very fast. He seemed to be hesitating because she wasnt alone ; and when she saw that, she called out to him not to be afraid that I was a friend of hers and harm- less. I have been accused,of being •a vain man more than once in the past by people whose ppinion wasn't worth thought I should—in doing so. "She accepted my offer to be her cicerone, and she even adopted my 'Silver� Cana a's finest Laun t,,:; ry Starch goner tloiia a! Oaaadtati Ala Wise �AQ "Silver idt {heir haritoliAtbdrj!'or �r" 4 {blot' that ''Suver ,„„pt late n red the est hullos, A.t ' our racer's, 'rH d fiANAbA ferAFIcm (L L i M rr ti morticed, row, oreetford, Fort WilIhm. Atow. a 4'01'010k YIand,, ae4ces armee corns ups, a0 Dewo,,'d Coni 234 that,' she replied quietly. 'Your con- science, I do,' he replied, punctuously, have cultivated the habit of truth, be- cause, considerably to your own sur- prise, you discovered in early life that it pays. Had you anything to do with my husband's death ?" "He shot a curious glance at her,,, and I thought his eyes quailed before hers.• "'I'did not kill him,' he answered. "Were you present when he died ?" (To Be Continued.) THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Lord Buckmaster Was One of the Leaders of the English Bar. Lord Buckinaster, recently appoint- ed the Lord Chancellor, who has been urging everybody in Great Britain to economize and save all they can in war time, is 'one of the most important men in the Cabinet, for it is through him that King George signifies his consent to anything signed in his name. about 35, and it is related -that on one occasion a client remarked, "It'sa nice thing to pay a boy like that such a big fee." But after Lord Buckmas- ter had won his case for his client, the latter made a further observation: "There's no knowing what fee that young man will want when he reaches 60." Undoubtedly his energy and indus- try have been the secret of his won- derful success. Furthermore, he is held in high esteem for his personal qualities, and, when his legal duties permit him to do so, there is nothing gives the Chancellor greater pleasure than to hie himself to the country with a fishing rod and spend hours on the riverside. --4 Horse items, Careful feeding is a. pretty sure safe- guard against colic. If watered after eating grain, there his danger of the grain being washed into the intestines in an undigested state. • If a team is hot and tired coming in The Lord Chancellor is technically at noon, give a half-hour's rest, and "the keeper of the King's conscience," then a little water, with judgment, be- fore the noon feeding. If a team is given a few swallows of water in the field when the driver takes his drink, there is no danger of trouble from drinking too much water at one time. A horse should never be allowed to drink his fill after having been de - two. I know that your hands aren't prived of water until he is famished. clean, but I don't know quite how deep unicorn. Below is worked in silk a One of the best cures for sore shoul. the stain on them is. You've got to 1 motto in Latin meaning "For God ders is powdered boracie acid dusted satisfy me on that point before we go and My Country." on the sore ; it is healing and non-ir- further.' It is an interesting fact that the • "The fellow had dismounted- and was standing beside his beast, with "I liked the way she tackled Gillies, advising his Majesty in regard to though. She didn't give him time to signing all State documents. Fur - think himself a great man. She just took top station from the first, and kept it. 'Don't come too near me, Andrew Gillies,' she cried. 'Keep your distance till you've answered a question or thermore, the Lord Chancellor is the custodian of the Great Seal which figures on these documents. The Seal is kept in an elaborate purse made of the finest purple velvet, heavily em- broidered in colored silks .with' the Arms of 'England—the 'lion and the is riding a better donkey than either one arm resting on the saddle. She of these which you hired for us. Whe- i had treated me pretty scornfully, but ther I go to the picnic or no, will de-' I could have struck him for the look suggestion that we should go, not in pend a good deal upon him, I fancy.' on his face when he answered her :— a. carriage, but on donkeys. I pointed "'You are going to make him an "'I didn't think you could be par- ticular, Rachel Carrington"' "I'm so far particular that X art the line at association with a murder% er.' she answered . at once. 'You have many vices, Andrew Gillies, and possibly they added to your commer- tial value in the past. One of the most noxious of them is your canting parade of piety. But you used to have one virtue ; a curious virtue it is too, to be part of the complement of a. common swindler. You speak the truth.' "'According to my lights and con- science, I do,' be replied, unctuously. " `I have a different theory as to out that the carriage road made a long sweep round, whereas on don- keys we could take a short cut across the hills which I knew of. Moreover; the San Miguel donkeys are good, and closed lids. are the favorite instruments of travel I His name is Andrew Gillies, she in these parts ; and when one is in said. `Do you know him ?' Rome—it was not necessary to argue "Then, as though to complete my further ; she saw, the advantage ot humiliation, she told me exactly what my proposal, and I think there was a she had done and what she meant to certain quaintness in the idea which do. She did not even pay me the com- pleased her. I ordered the donkeys, pliment of regarding me as antag- and I had a private word with their ovist from whom it would be advis- owner first able to conceal information. I had "Your mother, Miss Carrington, is thought that my fanciful eloquence a brilliant conversationalist, when had impressed her. I see now that she meets with someone who 15 cap- she had been laughing at me all the able of apreeiating and replying to time, and I think she regarded me as her sallies ; and if I may say so with- a somewhat foolish windbag. You out undue boasting, I think she found will understand that I found that suf- that person in me Indeed, had not ficiently galling, past experience justified me in rely- "It seems that a few minutes after ing to a certain extent on my own; Mr. Scarborough and the two ladies powers in this respect, I should have: left the Chinelas, Mrs. Carrington, made a different plan. I think we; who had been wakened by the crunch - both enjoyed the ride, at any rate in; ing of their footsteps on the gravel, its earlier stages. 1 know, at least,l got up and looked out from her win - that 1 did. I dow. She saw a man in the garden, "After about three miles, the beast and he saw her at the window. He she was riding went dead lame. It I took a note from his pocket, held it was a contingency for which I was up for her to see, and then laid it on not unprepared. in fact, in niy pri-, a garden seat in full view from where vate words with the man from whom � she was standing. Then he went we had hired the donkeys, I had stip-' away. The man was Andrew Gillies, ulated expressly that the one he sup-! and she told me that he had in all plied to the lady should not be able to' probability been waiting in the garden go five miles without breaking down. 1 in concealment for a long time, hoping The man performed more than his for a chance of delivering the leter. contract, for it broke down, as I say,' You three, by your early start, gave in three. # him the opportunity sooner than he "Now do you see my plan ? I knew had hoped. that you were busy here, and that "Without waiting to. dress, she you did not want to be interrupted.' threw on an ulster and went for the The widow's intention was to inter-' letter. rupt you, and mine therefore was to: " ` It suggested an interview,' Mr. delay her, by all and any means, jus -1 Montague,' she told me sweetly, 'and Linable and unjustifiable. That was; the place which was mentioned was why she was riding a donkey which' this road on which we are now. You bad been privately guaranteed to metimed that good animal'sattack of as certain to go lame at the first 0r1 lameness very well. If we'•had gone second bit of stiff climbing we came a quarter of a mile farther, I should to. I thought that the widow would. have had to invent some excuse for thereby be compelled to do one of two' stopping. AS it is you have given me things : either to abandon the expedi-"j the opportunity unsought. Do you tion altogether, which was not what, still claim the ownership of the pie ?' I thought she would do; or to waste a! "'No,' I said, with a grudging ad- considerahle part of the morning by; miration at the way in which she had walking back to Rebeira Grande and' played with me, 'it's yours, What are hiring a carriage after all. There was you going to put into it ?' a third possihility--that she might! " `That depends,' she said. `Though suggest continuing the journey on my we agree ,that the pie is not yours, I donkey, and leaving ins to lead the' can't claim that it is ali mine either. lame one back home ; hut to that I' Andrew Gillies will have a finger in was reedy with the unanswerable oh-) it, too, and I shall wait to see what his jection that she did not know the{ contribution is before I offer mine. evav You understand the situation, I think. "It was a pretty situation, and II He probably found that fact out very was curious to lee how she would soon, and that is why he waited so meet it. Of course she met it in the I patiently outside niy window this one w•ry which 1 had not anticipated.I morning. Now why shouldn't he and "She laughed as though it did not' I pool our resources—he supplies the matter. MI down by the roadside, andi plan, and I the additional information e�.id tint we would rest for an hours which makes the plan 01 value ?' offer for the hire of his donkey for the day ?' I said. But I knew well enough that the remark Weld foolish.' "She glanced at me. •through .half - Lord Chancellor takes precedence of every temporal lord and anyone who is not a member of the royal family, and of all bishops, except the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. The appointment of Lord Buck - master to the Chancellorship in 1914 astonished a good many people, for his promotion to the highest position on the bench with £10,000 a year came after. only two years as one of the law officers of the Crown. Lord Buckmaster, however, was, before his appointment as Solicitor -General in 1913, one of"the leaders of the Chan- cery Bar, where lie had a very large practice. For some years he was Chancery "special." "Specials" do not appear for a less fee than 100 guineas. His Lordship, who is 56 years of age, is famous for his energy and youthful appearance. He only looks ritating. Proper -fitting collars will prevent sore shoulders. A team of horses spends years in faithful work. Each horse is entitled to a collar made to order and well fitted. When a team changes owners, the collars should go with the team. No two horses have necks and shoulders just alike. A properly made collar, made espec- ially for the horse that is to wear it, becomes adjusted to the conformation of the neck and shoulders. Fancy the agony of trying to wear another person'bb shoes, Think of it and be merciful to your horses. • FRENCH INGENUITY AT THE FRONT GREAT otroovrr LIKE BIG HOTEL FOR OFFICERS, • All exhibits at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition from foreign coun- tries are admitted by the Customs free of duty. +.s+y 1 ifS- t� .�g}9. tg '"k' i3ir. • s a` ere's the Way to ccs Jam .t r Jelly Making lo—Use ripe — but not over- ripe fruit. 2o—Buy St. Lawrence Red Diamond Extra Granulated Sugar. It is guaranteed pure Sugar Cane Sugar, and free from foreign substances which might prevent jellies from setting and later on cause preserves to ferment. We advise purchasing the Red Diamond Extra Granulated in the 100 lb, bags which as a rule is the most econo- mical way and assures absolutely correct weight 3o—Cook well. din 4o—Clean, and then by boiling at least 10 minutes, sterilize your jars perfectly before pouring in the preserves or jelly. Success will surely follow the use of all these hints. Dealers can supply the Red Diamond in either fine, medium, or coarse grain, at your' choice. M.aray other handy refinery sealed packages to chose from. `� o11� real. tet. La.wrence Sugar �.efie�,.,° �e�s � Lirnited, Accuracy of 75s Marvel of the War—. Fall With Ripple of Machine Gun. Ingenuity displayed by the French defending the Oise position is de- scribed by the correspondent of the London Times. Writing from Brit- ish headquarters at the front he says: The French front in the region of the Oise is a most welcome contrast to the flat country of Flanders. There are places on the British front, such as near the Somme, where we hold the high ground which overlooks the enemy. But for the most part it was the Germans 'who chose the line on which'to stand when they fell back from the Marne, and over most of the front, especially in the north, in the stationary warfare of the last year and a half, the enemy has held much the more advantageous posi- tions. At many places, however, the French drove him farther than he wished to go, and at such points the better ground is in the hands of the Allies. Accurate Shooting. Recently I walked some miles in French trenches where they run. through woods and overarched with bracken. Wild strawberries and lily of the valley grow along their edges, and in the dusk rabbits come down into them, to the huge entertainment of the men. There I looked down from an observation post, so well con- cealed that the Germans might search the hillside with their guns for a month and never touch it, straight on to the German front-line trenches al - moat at my feet. I watched a French "76," from a battery well behind me on the other side of the hill, amuse itself by knocking the trenches into dust. The rapidity of the fire was such that the shells fell almost like the ripple of a machine gun, and the accuracy was so excellent that, while I watched, only one shell seemed to fall as much as a couple of yards from the actual trench. There is, indeed, not much room for careless shooting, for there are places where the French and German lines are only 20 paces apart. Not far• away I saw a most ingeni- ous "Bochetrap," the nature of which must be left a mystery, but the essen- tial element is a machine gun so placed that though it has been there for several weeks, in the course of which there has hardly been a day when it has not been used, the en- emy has not the smallest notion where it is, nor is he ever likely to find out. The officer who invented it—a strap- ping fellow from Bordeaux, six good feet tall and every inch a soldier— takes great pleasure in his piege, as the Germans certainly do not. Playing Box and Cox. The German has shown himself in - genions enough in this war, but in the constant struggle of wits which goes on along the front line trenches he is no match for the Frenchman. The French have reduced the displaying of posters conveying disconcerting news to the enemy to a fine art. Not very far away from the "Boche-trap" men- tioned there is a piece of trench which, the French discovered, the enemy oc- cupied only in the night time, presum- ably because it was too exposed. So the French took to occupying it for the other half of the 24 hours—play- ing Box and Cox as it were, and being careful always to leave no trace of their occupancy behind. The need of using it has passed now; but while the game went on the position—mere- ly because the Germans never thought of it except as part of their own line —had conspicuous usefulness. The same ingenuity the French carry into the construction of their dugouts and similar places. I have been through one monumental dugout which is to the ordinary hole that goes by that name what a great London hotel is to an Irish turf cabin. There is 30 feet of solid stuff overhead as you go down passages, all beautifully timbered, past suites of bedrooms, those for the higher officers with easy chairs and telephones and writ- ing tables, to rooms which one calls apartments, for messing and for of- fice purposes. An elaborate system of ventilation has ben installed, and it is all so secure that the Germans have not got a shell big enough to awake a man asleep down there. At the Aquarium. Visitor—What kind of a Yash is that? Attendant—That's half dogfish and half catfish --he just eat a catfish as big as himself 1 It is estimated that there are 10,000 permanent residents of Canadian Nal tional Exhibition City during the two n weeks of the Fair.