The Huron Expositor, 1890-05-16, Page 2saa
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Ilk LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK,
BY W. D. HOWELLS.
VI.
(Continued from last week.)
"One never can know what one's fel-
low passengers are going to be," said
Staniford, turning about, and looking
not at Mr. Hicks' face, but hie feet, with
an effect of being, upon the whole, dis-
appointed not to find them cloven.. He
added, to put the man down rather than
from an exact belief in his own sugges-
tion, " She's probably some relation of
the captain's."
" Why, that's -the joke of it," said
Hicks, fluttered with his superior know-
ledge. "I've been pumping the cabin -
boy, and he says the captain never saw
her till yesterday. She's au up -country
school-marm, and she came down here
with her grandfather yesterday. She's
going out to meet friends of hers in
Venice.'The little man pulled at his
cigar, and coughed and chuckled,'' and
waited confidently for the impres .ons ,
" Dunham," said Staniford, s fl
hand you th sketch -block of mine to
put in your bag, when we were packing
last night?"
" Yes, I've govt it."
I'm glad of that. . Did you. see Mur-
ray yesterday ?"
"No ; he was at Cambridge."
"I thought he was to have met. you at
Parker's,"1
The conversation no • longer included
Mr. Hicks or the subject he had intro-
duced ; after a moment's hesitation, he
walked away ,to another part of the ship.
As soon as he was beyond ear -shot, Stan-
iford again spoke :
" Dunham, this girl is plainly one of
those cases of supernatural innocence, on
the part of herself and her friends,
which, as you suggested, wouldn't occur
among any other people in the world but
ours."
You're •a good fellow, Staniford !"
cried_ Dunham.
"Not at all. I call myself simply a
human being, with the elemental in-
stinctsof a gentleman, as far as concerns
this matter. The girl has been placed
in a position which could be made very
painful to her. It seems to me it's our
part to prevent it from being so. I
doubt if she finds it at all anomalous,
and if we choose she need never do so
till after we've parted with her. I
fancy we can preserve her unconscious-
ness intact."
" Staniford, this islikeyou," said his
friend with glistening eyes. "I had
some wild notion of the kind myself, but
I'm so glad you spoke of itt,„ rat."
Well, never mind," responded Stan-
iford." " We must make her feel that
there is nothing irregular or uncommon
in her being here as she is. I don't
know how the matter's to be managed,
exactly ; it must be a negative benevo-
lence for the -most part ; but it can be
done. The first thing is to cow that
nuisance yonder. Pumping the cabin -
boy ! The little sot 1 Look here, Dun-
ham ; it's such a satisfaction to me to
think •
of putting that fellow under foot
that I'll leave you. all the credit -of sav-
ing the younglady's feelings. I should
like to begin stamping on him at
once." •
" I think you have made a beginning
already. I confess I wish you hadn't
such heavy nails in your boots !"
" Oh, they'll do him good, confound.
him !" said Staniford.
" I should have liked it better if her
name hadn't been Blood," remarked
Dunham, presently.
" It doesn't matter what a girl's sur-
name is. Besides, Blood is very fre-
quent insome parts of the State."
"' She's very pretty, isn't she ?" Dun-
ham suggested.
Oh, pretty enough, yes," replied
Staniford. " Nothing is so conime)n as
the pretty girl of our nation. Her
beauty is part of the general tiresome-
ness of the whole situation."
" Don't you _ think," .ventured his
friend, further, " that she has rather a
lady -like air ?"
"She wanted to know," said Stani-
ford, with a laugh. Dunham was silent a while before he
asked, " What do you suppose her first
name is ?"
" Jerusha, probably."
Oh, impossible !"
" Well, then,—Lurella. You have no
idea of the groteseaueneas of these peo-
ple's minds. I used to see a great , deal
of their intimate life when I went on my
tramps, and chanced it among them, for
bed and leoard, wherever I happened to
be. We cultivated Yankees and the
raw material seem hardly of the same
race. Where the Puritanism has gone
out of the people in spots, there's the
rankest growth of all sorts of crazy here-
sies, and the old scriptural nomencla-
ture has given place to something com-
pounded of the fancifulness of story -
paper romance and the gibberish of
spiritualism. They make up their
names, sometimes, and call a child by
what sounds pretty to them. I wbnder
how the captain picked up that scoun-
drel."
The turn of Staniford's thought to
Hicka was suggested by the appearance
of Captain Jenness, who now issued
from the cabin gangway, and came to-
ward them with the shadow of unwont-
ed trouble in,his face. The captain, too,
was smoking.
" Well, gentlemen," ;he began, with
the obvious indirectness of a man not
used to diplomacy, " how do you like
your accommodations ?"
Staniford silently acquiesced in Dun
ham's reply that they found them excel-
' lent. " But you don't mean to say,"
Dunham added, "that you're going to
give us beefsteak and all the vegetables
of the season the whole way over?"
" No," said the captain ; "we shall
put you on sea -fare soon enough. But
you'lllike it. You don't want the sarae
things at sea that you do on shore ; your
appetite chops round into a diferent
quarter altogether, and you want salt
beef ; but you'll get it good. Your
room's pretty snug," he suggested.
" Oh, it's big enough," said Staniford,
to whom he had turned as perhaps more
in authority than Dunham. " While
we're well we only sleep in it, and if
we're seasick it doesn't matter where we
are."
thought I'd better speak to you about
him. I found him yesterday evening at
my agent's, with his , father. Hes just
been on a spree, a regular two - weeks'
tearand the old gentleman didn't know
what to do with him, on shore, shy
longer. He thought he'd send him on
a sea voyage, and .see what would come
of it,and he pleaded hard with me to take
him. I didn't want to take him, but he
worked away at me till I couldn't say
no. 1 argd inmy own mind that he
couldn't get anything to drin on my
ship, and that he'd behave hiffiself well
enough as long as he was sober." The
captain added—ruefully, "He looks
worse this morning than be did last
night. He looks bad. I told the old
gentleman that if he got into any trouble
at. Try -East, or any of the ports . where
we touched, he shouldn't set foot on my
ship again. But I guess he'll keep
pretty i straight. He hasn't got any
money, for one thing."
Staniford laughed. " He stops drink-
ing for obvious reasons, if for no others,
like Artemus Ward's destitute inebri-
ate. , Did. you think only of us in
deciding whether yon should take
him ?"
The captain looked up quickly at the
young men, as if touched in a sore place.
" Well, there again, I didn't seem to get
my bearings just right. I suppose you
mean the young . lady ?" Staniford
motionlessly and silently assented.
" Well, she's more of a young lady than
I thought she was, when her grandfather
first came down here and talked of send-
ing her over with me. He was always
speaking about his little girl, you know,
and I got the idea that she was about
thirteen, or eleven, maybe. I thought
the child might be some bother on the
voyage, butthinksI, I'm used to child-
ren, and I guess I can manage. Bless
your soul ! when I first seen her on the
wharf yesterday, it most knocked me
down ! I never believed she was half
so tall, nor half so good-looking." Stan-
iford smiled at this expression of the cap
tain''s despair, but the captain did not
smile. " Why, she was as pretty as a
bird 1 Well, there I was. It was no
time then to back out. The old man
wouldn't understand. Besides, there
was the young lady herself, and she
seemed so forlorn and helpless that I
kind of pitied her. I thought, What if
it was one of my own girls ? And I
made up my mind that she shouldn't
'know from anything I said or did that
she wasn't just as muc at home= -and
just as much in place my ship as she,
would be in my house suppose what
made me feel easier about -t, and took
the queerness off some, was my having
my own girls along last voyage. To be
sure, it ain't quite the same thing," said
the captain, interrogatively.
"Not quite," assented Staniford.-
" If there was two of them," said the
captain, "I don't suppose I should feel
so bad about it. But thinks I, A lady's
a lady the world over, and a gentleman's
a gentleman." The captain looked sig-
nificantly at the young men. " As for
that other fellow," added Captain Jen-
ness, if I can't take care of him, I
think I'd better stop going to sea, alto-
gether, and go itouthe coasting trade.
He resumed is cigar with ,defiance,
and was about rning away when Stan-
iford spoke. " Captain Jenness, my
friend and I had been talking this little
matter over just before you came up,
Will you let me say that I'm rather
proud of having reasoned in much the
same direction as yourself ?"
This was spoken with that air which
gave Staniford a peculiar 'distinction,
and made him the despair and(adoration
of his friend : it endowed the subject
with seriousness, and conveyed a senti-
ment of grave and noble sincerity. The
captain held out a hand to each of the
young men, crossing his wrists in what
seemed a favorite fashion with him.
" Good 1" he cried, heartily, "I thought
I knew you."
The captain knocked the ash from his
cigar with the tip of his fat little finger,
and looked down. "I was in hopes I
could have let you had a room apiece,
but I had another passenger jumped on
me at the last minute. I suppose you
see what's the matter with. Mr. Hicks ?"
He looked up from one to another, and
they replied with a glance of perfect in-
telligence. " I don't generally talk my
passengers over one with another, but I
THE MORON EYPOSITOft.
DUNCAN & DUNCAN,
get upon the land. That's why I've got -
upon the water." Staniford laughed
again, and pulled comfortably at his
cigar. " Now, you," he added, after a
pause, in which Dunham did not reply,
" you have not had losses ; you still
have everything comfort able about you.
Dq hast A Iles was Menschen - begeh'er,
even to the schonsten Augen of the
divine Miss Hibbard."
" Yes, Staniford, that's it. I hate
your going out there all alone. Now, if
you were taking some nice girl with
you 1" Dunham said, with a lover's fond
desire that his friend should be in love,
too. -
To those wilds ? To l: redwood
shanty in California, or a turf hovel in
Colorado ? What nice girl . would go ?
` I will take some savage woman, she
shall rear my dusky raoe.'"
"I don't like to have you take any
risks of degenerating," began Dunham.
"With what you know to be my
natural tendencies ? Your- prophetic
eye prefigures my pantaloons in the tops
of my boots. Well, there is time yet to
turn back from the brutality of a patri-
archal life. You must allow that I have
taken the longest way round in, going
West. In Italy there are many
chances ; and besides, you know, I like
to talk."
It seemed to be an old subject between
them, and they' discussed it languidly,
like some abstract topic rather than a
reality.
" If you only had some tie to bind
you to the East, I should feel pretty -
safe about you," said Dunham, pres-
ently.
" I have- you," answered his friend,
demurely.
" Oh, I'm nothing," said Dunham,
with sincerity.
" Well, I may form some tie in Italy:
Art may fall inlove with me, there,
How would you like to have me settle
In Florence, and set up a studio instead
of a 'ranch,—choose between sculpture
and painting, instead of cattle and
sheep ? After all, it does grind me to
have lost that money ! If I had , only
been swindled out of it, I shouldn't have
cared ; but when you go and maks, a
bad thing of it yourself, with your eyes
open, there's a reluctance to place < the
responsibility where it belongs that -
doesn't occur in the other case. Dun-
ham, do you think it altogether ridicul-
ous that I should feel there was some-
thing sacred in the money ? When I
,..remember how hard my poor old father
worked to get it together, it seems
wicked that should have ,stupidly
wasted it on the venture I did. ' I want
to get it back ; I want too make money.
And so I'm going out to Italy with you,
to waste more. I don't respect myself
as I should if I were on a Pullman pal-
ace car, speeding -westward. I'll own I
like this better."
" Oh, it's all right, Staniford," said
his friend. " The voyage will do you
good, and you'll have time to think
everything over, and start fairer when
you get back."
" That girl," observed Staniford, with
characteristic abruptness, " is a type
that is commoner than we imagine in
New England. We fair people fancy
we are the only genuine Yankees. I
guess that's a mistake. There must
have been a good many dark Puritans.
In fact, we always think of Puritans as
dark, don't we ?"
" Ibelieve we do,". assented Dunham.
" Perhaps on account 'of their black
clothes,"
°` Perhaps," said Staniford. "At any
rate, I'ni so tired of the blonde type in
fiction that I rather like the other thing
in life. Every novelist rune a blonde
heroine ; I wonder why. This girl has
the clear Southern pallor ; she's of the
olive hue ; _and her eyes are as black . as
sloes,—not that •I know what aloes are,
Did she remind you of anything in par-
ticular ?",
" Yea ; a little of Feed's Evangeline,
as she sat in the doorway of the ware-
house yesterday."_
" Exactly. I wish the picture were
more of a picture : but I don't know
that it matters. She's more of 'a pic-
ture."
" ` Pretty as a bird,' the captain
said."
" Bird isn't bad. But the bird ie in
her manner. There's something tran-
quilly alert in her manner that's like a
bird like a bird that lingers on its
perch, looking at you over its shoulder,
if you come up behind. That ttick of
the heavily lifted, half -lifted eyelids,—
I wonder if it's a trick. The long lashes
can't be ; she can't make them curl up
at the edges. Blood,—Lurella Blood.
And she wants to know." Staniford's
voice fell thoughtful. "she's more
slender than Feed's Evangeline. Faed
painted rather too fat a sufferer on that
tombstone, Lurella Blood has a
very pretty figure. Lurella. Why-
`Lurella ?"
Ob, come, Staniford ?" cried. Dun-
ham. " It isn't fair to call the girl
by that jingle without some- ground for
it."
" I'm sure her name's Lurella, for she
wanted to know. Besides, there's as
much sense in it as there is in any name.
It sounds very well. Lurella. It is
mere prejudice that condemnsthe novel
collocation of syllables."
" I wonder what she's
now,—what's passing in
mused Dunham aloud.
" Yon want to know, too, do you ?"
mocked his friend. " I'll tell you what,
processions- of young men so long that
they are an hour getting by a given
point. That's what's passing in every
girl's mind—when she's thinking. It's
perfectly right. Processions of young
girls are similarly passing in our stately
and spacious intellects. It's the chief
business of the youth of one sex to think
of the youth of the other sex."
Oh, yes, I know," assented Dun-
ham ; " and I believe in it, too"—
" Of course you do, you wicked
wretch, you -abandoned Lovelace, you
bruiser of ladies' hearts ! You hope the
procession is composed entirely of your-
self. What would the divine Hibbard
say to your goings-on ?"
"Oh a don't Staniford ! It isn't fair,"
pleaded, Dunham, with the flattered
laugh which the best of men give when
falsely attainted of gallantry. " I was
I wondering whether she was feeling
homesick, or atrange, or "
" I will go below and ask her," said
Staniford. " I know she will tell me
the exact truth. They always do. Or
if you will take a guess of mine ' instead
of her word for it, I will hazard the sur-
mise that she is "not at all Homesick.
What has a pretty young girl to regret
in such a life as she has left ? It's the
moat arid and joyless existence under
Continued -On 3rd page.)
VII.
Staniford and Dunham drew stools to
the rail, and sat doyen with their cigars
after the captain left them. The second
mate passed by, and cast a friendly
glance at them ; he had whimsical
brown eyes that twinkled under his cap
peak,while a lurking smile played under
his heavy mustache ; but he did not
speak. Staniford said, there was a
pleasant fellow, and he should like to
sketch him. He was only an amateur
artist, and he had been. only an amateur
in life otherwise, so far ; but he did
not pretend tohave been anything
else.
" Then you're not sorry you came,
Staniford ?" asked Dunham, putting his
hand on his friend's knee: He charac-
teristically assumed the responsibility,
although the voyage by sailing -vessel
rather than steamer was their common
whim, and it had been Stanifords pre-
ference that decided them for Trieste
rather than any nearer port.
"No, I'm not sorry,—if you call it
come, already. I think a bit of Europe
will be a very good thing for the pres-
ent, or as long as I'm hin this irresolute
mood. If I understand it, Europe is the
place for American irresolution. When
I've made up my Mind, I'll come home
again. I . still think Colorado is the
thing, though I haven't abandoned Cali-
fornia altogether ; it's a question of cat-
tle-range and sheep -ranch."
You'll decide against both," said
Dunham.
" How would you like West Virginia?
-They cattle range in West Virginia, too.
They may sheep -ranch, too, for all I
know,—no, that's in Old Virginia. The
trouble is that -the .Virginias, 'otherwise
irreproachable, are not paying fields for
such enterprises, They say that one is
a sure thing in California, and the other
is a sure thing in Colorado. They give
you the figures." —Staniford lit another
cigar. _
" But why shouldn't you stay where
you are, Staniford ? You've money
enough left, after all."
" Yes, money enough for one. But
there's something ignoble in living on a
small stated income, unless you have
some object in view besides living, and
I haven't, you know. It's a duty I owe
to the general frame of things ' to make
more money."
" If you turned your mind to any one
thing, I'm sure you'd succeed wheretyou
are," Dunham urged.
" That's just the trouble," retorted
his friend. "I can't turn my mind to
any one thing,—I'm too universally
gifted. I.paint a little,I model a little,
I play a very little indeed ; I can write
a book notice. • The ladies praise my
art, and the editors keep my literature a
long time before they print it. This
doesn't seem the highest aim of being.
I have the noble earth -hunger ; I must
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IN DARKEST AFRICA.'
HOUSE FURNISHINGS
Is complete and we solicit a call before you purchase. In Carpets we
offer Special Inducements.
Duncan & Duncan, Seaforth.
THE PUBLIC are hereby notified that the
title o f STANLEY'S NEW BOOK is " In
Darkest Africa," and anyone representing any
other book as containing an account of the
Relief of Emin Pasha wiIl be liable to prose=
cution. Any one subscribing for any other
book on such false representations is not hounds
either legally or morally to accept such book, or
to pay for the same when presented.
The Presbyterian News Co., Toronto.
D. T. MoAINSH, Manager. 1169
HAMILTON & M'INNES
SEAFORTH,
For Oheap Boots & Shoes.
We are still keeping to the front in the shoe line, and as we have
purchased a very large stock for the spring trade, we • are preparedi to
sell goods which twill suit everybody, both in style and price.
Our stock is complete, ,and'any one wishing to provide themselves
with a new pair of shoes, will do well to call and see our stock and
pries.
. We do not confine our bargains to three or four days in a month,
but we :will give you goods for thirty days in a month at prices that
cannot be surpassed by any one.
We have just received a few lines of goods from New York, manu-
factured by Nathaniel Fishernt Co., that are extraordinary good value.
Everybody should see these goods, for when you see them you will boy
them.
We have a very fine line of Ladies' and Children's Tan Goods,
also Olive and Coffee color, which are very cheap.
Men's, Boys' and Youths' goods in abundance. As we must sell
the se goods in the next two months, the prices will be made right.
TRUNKS AND VALISES.
We have an overstock of Trunks and Valises, and we will have
to dispose of them in some way to give us a little more room, so this
is a splendid chance for any one wishing to get a trunk.
Call and examine our goods at the RED FRONT SHOE STORE
HAMILTON & McINNES,
Latimer's Old Stand, Opposite William Pickard's, Seaforth.
New Music Store
IN SEAFORTH.
PapSt & O'Connor
Hare opened out next door to Jordan's Grocery
Seaforth, an
ORGAN AND PIANO DEPOT.
DEATH TO HIGH PRICES NOW. They have
the: agency of the THOMAS ORGAN, with
Seribner's Resonant Pipe Combination. They
have also Violins and other small instrument&
tar Please Give them a Call.
I CUIN i . :2§3NE: THINISANDS OFBOTTLES
WEN AWAY YEARZ.Y.
When I say Cure I do net 'mss[
i merely to stop them for a time, aad then
'ave them return again. 1 MEAN A RADICAL C U R E I have made the disea.ie of Fits
Epilepsy or Fabling Sickness a life-long study. I warrant my. remedy to s9urs thi
worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receivinga cure. Seed a'
ince for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my Infallible Remedy. ive Expif&ss aac
Post Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address :—H. 0. MOOT
LL10., liewneti Office, 586 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTO.
SPRING CLOTHING.
1161
DEMAND POND'S
EXTRACT. AVOID
ALL IMITATIONS.
Our success in selling our Winter Clothing and Overcoats, has in-
duced us to buy a very large stock of Men's, Youths' and Children's
Suits for this
SE E I- N G-' S TRAM f
We have bought the nicest, neatest and nobbiest stock of goods
this spring that has ever been offered for sale in Seaforth: We have Steam Boller Worksr
fine goods, elegantly made, almost equal to custom work, cut right in
PM; Vtirjs�
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FAC -SIMILE OF
BOTTLE WITH
BUFF WRAPPER.
Fon
ALL PAIN
Influenza
Ferninine
ConpIaint§
Lameness
Soreness
Wounds
Bruises
.Catarrh
Burns
Piles
T
u n Cure.
Chilblains
sore Eyes
FrostBtes POND'S
c :.rsenss EXTRACT'
4
3 3 Throat co.._
Rheumatism 76 FIFTHAVE.
' heUd 11aifsi 1'/ I�1EW ~ioRli.
inflammations
MADE ONLY
Si' THE
and
Hemorrhages
Kippers Plow Shop.
Plows for All.
THOMAS MEL'
Againgettieg ready for the benefit of his many
customers, and all farmers in need of P>idws
Gang Plows, Land Rollers, Cultivators, Har
ro s, which are all genuine, and sold at button-
pri , Why, farmers, throw your hard casn
away when you can save by calling on Pie for
your lows and implements. Plow Rep' g—
Farmers, now is the time to hunt up your ws.
A larger stock than ever of plow repairs on hand.
The best American mould boards for all lands of
plows on hand, and put on every kind of plows.
Genuine plow handles, plow bolts, plow oast-
inga, gang castings, in fact everything in the
plow line, to be had by going' to the Kippea Prow
Shop. Good work and small profits leads us to
success.
I hereby return thanks- to my many customer
for their large share of patronage during the
past, and also for their prompt payments during
the hard times, and D=ishing you all better sue-
sess this year.
Tes-MELLIS, Hipper.
1161-tt
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture
urn%tore Emporium, 1
SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION[:
F'pnerals furnished on the shortest notice,'
and satisfaction guaranteed. A large assort-<
ment of Gaskets, Coffins andShrouds, die„
always on band of the best quality. The bests
of Embalming Fluid seed free of charge and
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director: Beg'
dense -- GODERICH STREET, directly op• l
posite the. Methodist church in the house
formerly ccupied by Dr. Scott.
,ea574611v
TION ROOT COMPOUND. --Com
ed of Cotton Root, Tansy and
Pennyroyal—prepared by an ofd play-
ician. Is successfully used seat*
by thousands of women, and has been
preseribed in :a practice of over thirty
ears. Prjoe, $1. Will be mailed to sny address
in Canada and United States. Doctor'$ consul-
tation hours, 9 to 11 and 1 4. Diseases of
women treated only. Sealed partscularr two
stamps. Ladies only. Addres€ POND ;LILY
COMPANY, No. 3, Fishe Bloc 131 Woodward
Avenue, Detroit Michigan. 1163-i3
GODERIOH
style, and the prices are right. You must certaiirly come in and see
them.
To the ladies we will say that we can outdo • any bargains ever
offered in Boys' and Children's Suits.
In our Custom Department we are not excelled in nobby styles,
perfect s, or first-class workmanship. p. ur prices are always f t fit fi t l k h' O 1 the
(ESTABLISHED 1880.)
Chrystal &Blau
Manufacturers of all kinds of Station
ary, Marine, Upright & Tubular
n --
11-4 lowest. �J ■ ' R. S
We keep the latest styles in Hats, Caps and Gloves. Ties from Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet Iron
five cents to fifty cents. Braces from 20c up. Our- large stock of Works, etc.
just
Straw Hatsarrived.
Also dealers in Upright and Horizontal Slide
. Valve Engines. Automatic Cut -Off En&et I
specialty. All sizes of pipe :and pipe ting
OARDNO BROS SEAPORT
constantly ha
y on hand. i . Es imatea furnished
ss
. sh Works opposite G. T. R. Station, Goderieh.
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