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THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK.
BY W. D. HOWELLS.
(Continued from last week.)
XI.
No one said anything more of the
musicales, and the afternoon and even-
ing wore away without general talk.
Each seemed willing to keep apart from
the rest. Dunham suffered Lydia to
come on deck alone after tea, and Stani-
ford found her there, in her usual place,
when he went up some time later. He
approached her at once, and said, smil-
ing down into her face, to which the
moonlight gave a pale mystery,
"Miss Blood, did you think_ I was
very wicked to -day at dinner ?"
Lydia looked away, and waited a mo-
ment before she spoke. "I don't know,"
she said; Then, impulsively, "Did
you ?" she asked.
"No, honestly, 1 don't think I was,"
answered Staniford. "But seemed to
leave that impression on the company..
I felt ai little nasty; that was all ; and
I tried to hurt Mr. Dunham's feel
But I shall make it right with him
fore I sleep; he knows that. He's used
to having me repent at leisure. Do you
ever walk Sunday night ?"
"Yea, sometimes," said Lydia, inter-
rogatively.
"I'm glad of that. Then I shall not
offend against your scruples if I ask you
to join me in a little ramble, and you
will refuse from purely personal con-
siderations. Will you walk with me ?"
Lydia rose. •
"And will you take my arm'?" asked
Staniford, a little surprised at her readi-
ness.
"Thank you."
She put her hand upon his arm, con-
fidently enough, and they begin to walk
up and down the stretch of open deck
together.
" Well," said Staniford, "did Mr.
Dunham convince you all?"
"I think he talke beautifully about
it," replied Lydia, with quaint stiff-
ness.
" am glad you see what a very good
fellow he is. I have a real affection for
Dunham."
"Oh, yes, he's good. At first it sur-
prised me. I mean "—
" No, no," Staniford quickly inter-
rupted, "why did it surprise you to find
Danharn good;"
"I don't know: You don't expect a
person to be serious who is so—so"— -
"Handsome ?"
" No,—so----I don't -know just how to
say it: fashionable."
Staniford '1 Why, Miss
Blood, you're fashionably dressed your-
self, not to go any farther, and you're
serious." -
"It's different with a man," the girl
explained,
"Well, then, how about me ?" asked
Staniford. "Ain I too well dressed to
be expected to be serious ?"
"Mr. Dunham always seems in earn-
est," Lydia answered, evasively.
"And you think one can't be in earn-
est without being serious !" Lydia suf-
fered one of those silences to ensue in
which Staniford had already found him-
self helpless. Ile knew that he should
be forced to break it; and he said, with
a little spiteful mocking, "1 suppose
the young men of South Bradfield are
both serious and earnest."
" How ?" asked Lydia.
"The young men of South Bradfield." -
"I told you that there were none.
They all go away."
6' Well, then the young •men of
e Springfield, of lieene, of Greenfield."
"I can't tell. I am not acquainted
there."
Staniford had begun to have a dis-
agreeable suspicion that her ready con -
:tent to walk up and down with a young
man in the moonlight might have come
fram a habit of the kind. But it ap-
peared that her fearlessness was like
that of wild birds in those desert islands
where man has never come. The dis-
covery gave him pleasure out of propor-
tion to its importance, and he paced
'tack and. forth in a silence that no
longer chafed. Lydia walked very well,
and kept his step with rhythmic unison,
-as if they were walking to music to-
gether. That's the- time in her
pulses," he thought, and then he said,
"Then you don't have a great deal of
aocial excitement, I supposee—dancing,
and that kind of thing? Though per-
haps you don't approve of dancing ?'
could be confronted with them, even in
his present lordliness of mood. In a
fashion of his when he convicted him-
self of anything, he laughed aloud.
Lydia shrank a little from him'in ques-
tion. "1 beg your pardon," he said.
"1 was laughing at something I happen-
ed to think of. Do you ever find your-
self struggling very hard to be what you
think people think you are ?"
"Oh, yes," replied Lydia. "Bu
thought no one else did."
"Everybody does the thing that
think no one else does," said Stanif
sententiously.
"1 don't know whether I quite I
it," said Lydia. "It seen -is like hyp
risy. It used to worry me. Someti
I wondered if I had any real . self.
seemed to be jut what people made
and a different person to each."
"I'm glad to hear it, Miss Blood.
are companions in hypocrisy. As
are such nonentities we shall not all
each other at all." Lydia laugh
"Don't you think so? What are y
laughing at? I told you what w
ings. laughing at !"
be- t` But I didn't ask you."
"You wished to know."
"Yes, I did."
"Then you ought to tell me what
wish to know."
"It's nothing," said Lydia. `'
thought you were mistaken in what y
Said."
" Oh ! Then you believe that there
enough of you to affect me ?"
" No." •
" The other way, then ?"
She did not answer.
"I'm delighted !" exclaimed Stan
ford. "1 hope I don't exert an uncom
fortable influence. Ifshould be very u
happy to think so." Lydia stoope
sidewise, away from him, to get a fres
hold of her skirt, which she was carry
ing in her right hand, and she hung
little more heavily upon his arm. "
hope I -make you think better of your
self—very self-satisfied, very conceite
even."
"No," said Lydia.
"You piclue my curiosity beyond len
durance. lel! me how I make yo
feel."
She looked quickly roind at him as i
to see whether he was in earnest
"Why, it's nothing," she said. "Yo
made me feel as if you were laughing a
everybody."
It flatters a man to be accused of sar
casm by the other sex, and Staniford
was not superior to the soft pleaaure o
the reproach. "Do you think I make
other people feel so, too ?" -
"Mr. Dunham said "—
" Oh ! Mr. Dunham his been talking
me over with you, has he? What did
he tell you of me? There is nobody
like a true friend for dialing an under-
hand blow at one's reputation. Wait
till you hear my account of Dunham!
What did he say ?"
"He said that was 'only your way of
laughing at yourself."
"The traitor ! What did you
say r
"1 don't know that I said any --
thing."
"You were reserving your opinion for
my own hearing?"
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"Oh, yes, 1 like it. Sometimes the
_ summer boarders get up little dances at
the hotel." _
"Oh, the summer boarders !" Stani-
ford had overlooked them. The young
men get them up,and invite the ladies ?"
he pursued.
"There are no young men, generally,
among the summer • boarders. The
ladies dance together. Most of the
gentlemen are old, or else invalids."
"�h !" said Staniford.
" At the Mill Village, where I've
taught two winters, they have dances
sometimes—the mill hands do."
"And do you go
"No. They are nearly all French
Canadians and Irish people."
Then you, like dancing because there
are no gentlemen to dance with ?"
There are gentlemen at the pic-
nics."
"The picnics?"
"Te teachers' picnics. They have
them every summer, in the grove by the
pond."
There was, then a high-browed,
peptid high-school principal, and the
desert -island theory was probably all
wrong. It vexed Staniford, when he
had so nearly got the compass of her
social life, to find thie unexplored corner
in it.
"And I suppose you are leaving
very agreeable friends among the
teachers?"
• "Some of them are pleasant. But I
don't know them very well. I've only
been to one of the picnics."
Staniford drew a long, silent breath.
After all, he knew everything. He
mechanically dropped a little the arm
on which her hand rested, that it might
slip farther within. Her timid remote -
nese had its charm, and he fell to think-
ing, with amusement, how she who was
so subordinate to him was, in the dimly
known sphere in which he had been
groping to find her, probably a person of
authority and coneequenee. It satisfied
a certain domineering quality in him to
have reduced her to this humble atti-
tude, while it increased the protecting
tenderness he was beginning to have for
her. His mind went eff further upon
this matter of one's different attitudes
toward different persons • he thought of
men and women too, before whom he
ehould instantly feel like a boy, if he
"Why don't you tell me what you
thought? It might be of great use to
me, I'm in earnest now ; I'm serious.
Will you tell me ?"
" Yes, some time," said Lydia, who
wits both amused and mystified at this
persistence.
" When ? To -morrow ?"
"Oh, that's too soon. When I get to
Venice !"
"Ah! That's a subterfuge. You
know we shall part in Trieste."
'• I thought,' said Lydia, "you were
coining to Venice, too." .
"Ob, yes, but I shouldn't be able to
see you there."
"Why not?"
"Why not?:Why, because "— He
-was near telling the young girl who
hung upon his arm, and walked up and
down with him in the moonlight, that in
the wicked Old World towards which they
were sailing young people could not
meet save in the eight and hearing of
their elders, and that a confidential ana-
lysis of character would be impossible
between them there. The wonder of
her being where she was, as she was,
returned upon him with a freshness that
it had been losing in the custom of the
week past. "Because you will be so
much taken up with yovr friends," he
said, lamely. He added quickly,
"There's one thing I should like to
know, Miss Blood ; did you hear ,what
Mr. Dunham and I were saying, last
night, when we stood in the gangway
and kept you from coming up ?'
• _
Lydia waited a moment, Then she
said, "Yes, I couldn't help hearing it."
"That all right. I don't care for
your hearing what I said. But—I hope
it wasn't true ?" -
"1 couldn't understand what you
meant by it," she answered, evasively,
but rather faintly.
"Thanks," said Staniford. "1 didn't
mean anything. It was merely the
guilty consciousness of a generally dis-
agreeable person." They walked up
and down many turns without saying
anything. She could not have made
any direct protest, and it pleased him
that she &mid not frame any flourishing
generalities. `Wes," Staniford re-
sumed, "1 Will try to see you as I pass
through 'V enice. And I will come to
hear you sing when you come out at
Milan."
"Come out? At Milan ?",
"Why, yes ! You are going to study
at the conservatory in Milan ?'
" How did you know that ?" demand-
ed Lydia.
"From hearing you to -day. -May I
tell you how much I liked your sing-
ing ?' •
"My aunt thought I ought to culti-
vate my voice. But I would never go
upon the stage. I would rather sing in
a church. I should like that better than
teaching."
"I think you're quite right," said
Staniford, gravely. "It's certainly
much better to sing in a church than to
sing in a theatre. Though 1 believe the
theatre pays best."
"Oh, I don't care for that. All I
should want would be to make a liv-
ing."
The reference to her poverty touched
him. It was a confidence, coming from
one so reticent, that was of value. Efe
waited a moment and said, "It's sur-
prising how well we keep our footing
here, isn't it? There'a hardly any
swell, but the ship pitches. . I think we
walk better together than alone."
THE H 0 RON EXPOSITOR'
"Yee," answered Lydia, "I think we
"You muan't let me tire you. I'm
indefatigable."
- "Oh, Tin not tired. I like it,—walk-
ing,"
"Do you walk much at home ?"
"Not much. It's a pretty good walk
to the school -house."
" Oh ? Then you like walking at sea
better than you do on shore?"
It isn't the custom, much. If there
were any one else, I should have liked
it there, but it's 'rather dull, going by
yourself."
"Yes, I understand how that is,"
said Staniford, dropping his teasing tone.
It's stupid. And I suppose it's pretty
lonesome at South Bradfield every
way."
"It is,—winters," admitted Lydia.
"In the summer you see people at any
rate but in winter there are days and
days when hardly one panes. The
snow is banked .up everywhere."
lie felt her give an involuntary
shiver; and he began to talk to her
about the climate to which she was go-
ing. It was all stranger to her than he
3ould have realized, and less intelligible.
She remembered California very dimly,
and -She had no experience by which she
oould compare and adjust his facts. He
made her walk up and down more and
more swiftly, and, he lost himself in the
comfort of his own talking and of her
listening, and he failed to note the little
falterings with which she expressed her
weariness. All at once he halted, and
said, " Why, you're out of breath! I
beg your pardon. You should have
stopped me. Let us sit down." He
wished to walk across the deck to
.where the seats were, but she just per-
ceptibly withstood his motion, and he
forebore.
"1 think I won't sit down," she said.
"1 will go down stairs." She began
withdrawing her hand from his arm.
He put his right hand upon hers, and
when it came out of his arm it remained
in his hand. •
"I'm afraid you won't walk with me
again," said Staniford. "I've tired
you shamefully."
"Oh, not at all !"
"And you will?"
"Thanks. You are very amiable.'
He still held her hand. He pressed it.
The pressure was not returned, but her
hand seemed to quiver and throb in his
like &bird held there. For the time
neither of them spoke, and it seemed a
long time. Staniford found himself
carrying her hand towards his lips;
and she was helplessly, trustingly, let-
ting him.
He dropped her hand, and ,said ab-
ruptly, "Good -night."
"Good -night," she answered, and
ceased from his side like a ghost.
Staniford sat in 'elie moonlight, and
tried to think what the steps were that
had brought him to this point; but
there were no steps of which he was
sensible. He remembered thinking the
night before that the conditions were
those of flirtation; to -night this had
not occurred to him. The talk had been
of the West commonplaces : yet he
had pressed her hand and kept it in his,
and had been about to kiss it. He bit-
terly considered the disparity between
his present attitude and the stand he
had taken when he declared to Dunham
that it reeted with them to guard her
peculiar isolation from anything that she
could remember with pain or humilia-
tion when she grew wiser in the world.
He recalled his rage with Elieks.and the
insulting condemnation of his bearing
towards him ever since ; and could Hicks
have done' worse? He had done better:
he had kept away from her; he had let
her alone.
That night Staniford slept badly, and
woke with a restless longing to see the
girl, and to read in her face whatever
her thoughts of him had been. But
Lydia did not come out to breakfast.
Thomas reported that she had a head-
ache, and that he had already carried
her the tea and toast she wanted.
"Well, it seems kind of lonesome
without her," said the captain. "It
don't seem as if we could get along."
It seemed desolate to Staniford, who
let the talk flag and fail round him with-
out an effort to rescue it. All the
morning he lurked -about, keeping -out of
Dunham's way, and fighting hard
through a dozen pages ot a book, to
which he struggled to nail his wander-
ing mind. A . headache was a little
matter, but it might be.even less than a
headache-. He belated himself purpose-
ly at dinner, and entered the cabin just
as Lydia issued from her state room
door.
She was pale and looked heavy -eyed.
As she lifted her glance to bim, she
blushed; and he felt the answering red
stain his face. %Then she sat down, the
captain patted her on the shoulder with
his burly right hand, and said she could
not navigate the ship if she got sick. He
pressed her to eat of this and that; and
when she said she would not, he said,
well, there was no use trying to force an
appetite, and that she would be better
all the sooner for dieting. Hicks went
to his state -room, and came out with a
box of guava jelly, from his private
stores, and won a triumph enviable in
all eyes when Lydia consented to like it
with the chicken. Dunham plundered
his own and Staniford's common stock
of dainties for her dessert; the first of-
ficer agreed and applauded right and
left; Staniford alone sat taciturn and
inoperative, watching her face furtively.
Once her eyes wandered to • the side of
the table where he and Dunham sat;
then she colored and dropped her
glance.
-He took his book again after dinner,
and with his finger between the leaves,
at the last -read, unintelligible page, he
went out to the bow, and crouched down
there to renew the conflict of the morn-
ing. It was not long before Dunham
followed. Hc stooped over to lay a
hand on either of Staniford's shoulders.
"What Makes you avoid me, old
man?" he demanded, looking into
Staniford's face with his frank, kind
eyes.
"And I avoid you?" asked Stani-
ford.
"Yes, why?"
"Because I feel rather shabby, I sup-
pose. I knew I felt shabby, but I did-
n't know I was avoiding you."
"Well, no matter. If you feel shab-
by, it's all right • but I hate to have you
feel shabby." Ile got his left hand
down into Staniford's right, and a tacit
reconciliation was transacted between
Chntinued cn 3rd page.)
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908
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FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, the south half
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seedesi to grass. There is a frame house and
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MIAMI FOR SALE. --Containing 119 acres,
...12 being parts of Lots 1 and 2, on the 8th
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VARMS IN TUCKERSMITH AND STAN-
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Apply on the premises or address Brucefield
P. 0. GEORGE PLEWES.
He also offers for sale for the same reason his
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Having obtained a patent for
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112r Physicions Prescriptions and Family Receipts accurately
compoundei at moderate prices at
LUMSDEN & WILSON'S,
SCOTT'S BLOCK, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH.
IJHE Fi
if THOUSANDS OF BOTTLES
I m CIYEN AWAY YEAW.Y.
1AThen I say Cure I do not meal
merely to stop them for a time, and the:
lave them return again. I MEAN A RAD ICA L C U R E. I have made the disea,te of Fite
Epilepsy or Falling Sickness a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to CUsee tin
rorst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for nbt now receiving acure. Send a,
ince for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my Infallible Remedy. Give Enigma ant
Post Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address :—H. G. ROOT
&as DrafIrCh *Nice, 186 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTO,
The Best Place in the County to
Buy Good Groceries is at
FAIRLEYS, SEAFORTH,
ONE DOOR SOUTH OF THE POST OFFICE.
Cheap Groceries every day in the week (Sundays and holidays
excepted) at John Fairley's. We aim not so much to give quantity as
quality, believing that the best goods are always the cheapest. All
goods warranted as represented, or cash refunded.
Teas all grades, from common to choicest. Blacks from 30c to
70c. Greens, from 30c to 60c ; Japans, frem 25c to 50c.
Sugars—Thirteen pounds of Granulated for $1, and grades equally
low.
Canned, goods in Peaches, Pine Apples, Tomatoes, Corn, Peas, etc.
Pickles in bottles and bulk. Pure Coffees, Spices and Extracts. Flour
at mill prices. Butter, Eggs, etc., taken in exchange.
Goods delivered promptly.
J. FAIRLEY, SEAFORTE.
SPRING CLOTHING.
SIIMON••••••••••.M.1
Our success in selling our Winter Clothing and Overcoats, has in-
duced us to buy a very large. stock of Men's, Youths' and Chiidren's
Suits for this
We have bought the nicest, neatest and nobbie,st stock of goods
this spring that has ever been offered for sale in Seaforth. We have
fine goods, elegantly made, almost equal to custom work, cut right in
style, and the prices are right. You must certainly 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 n9t excelled in nobby styles,
perfect fits, or first-class workmanship. Our prices are, always the
lowest.
We keep the latest styles in Hats, Caps and Gloves. Ties from
five cents to fifty. cents. Braces from 20c up. Our large stock of
.Straw Hats just arrived.
CARDNO BROS., SEAPORT
SEAFORTH
Musical Instrument
mszEpoRaiam
Scott Brothers,
PROPRIETORS,
SEAFORTH, - ONT.
CWom.PBpileaAlnly8614, CBoirmd'Danville.
u—elpuhn;haDmom, NineiwonYpoiarktio;
Guelph;01GAD1NomSinion— W.anBeiCl ome4Co.,paiy,
Bowmanville ; D. W. Kern & Con
Woodstock.
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The above instruments always on hand, also
a few good seoond.hand Pianos and Organs for
sale at trona $25 upwards. Instruments sold on
the instalment plan, or on terms to suit cue.
torners. Violins, Concertinas and small instru.
ments on hand; also sheet music, books, Ako.
SCOTT BROS.
DEMAND POND'S
EXTRACT. AVOID
ALL IMITATIONS.
FOR
ALL PAIN
influenza
Feminine
Complaints
Lameness
Soreness
Wounds
FAc_simiLE., Bruises
BOTTLE WITH
BUFF WRAPPER.
Catarrh
USEPiles
Burns
D'S
EXTRACT
It will Cure"(
Chilblains
Sore Eyes
Frost -Bites
Hoarseness
Sore Throat
Rheumatism
inflammafions
MADE ONLY
BY THE
PO N D'S
EXTRACT
76 FIFTH AVE.
NEW YORK.
and
Hemorrhages
New Music Store
IN SEAFORTH.
Papst & O'Connor
Have 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
Scribnees Resonant Pipe Combination. They
have also Violins and other small instruments.
Aar Please Give theta a Call.
1161
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funerals furnished on the shorteet notice
and satisfaction guaranteed. A large assort-
ment of Caekets, Coffins and Shrouds, &c.,
always on hand of the beat quality. The best
of Embalming Fluid aired free of charge and
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resi-
dence — GODERICH STREET, directly op-
posite the Methodist church in the house j
ormerly ocoupied by Dr. Scott.
)TTON ROOT COMPOUND.—Com
d of ,Cotton Root, Tansy and
ennyroyal—prepared by an old phy-
elan. Zs successfully used monthly
by thousands of women, and has been
prescribed in a practice of over thirty
years. Pnce, n. Will he mailed to any address
in Canada and United States. Doctor's consul-
tation hours, 9 to 11 and 1 4. Disease a of
women treated only. Sealed pa.rt:culars, tar)
stamps. Ladies only.. Address POND LILY
COMPANY, No. 3, Plebe Bloc 131 Woodward
Avenue, Detroit Michigan. 116843
GODERICH
Steam Boiler Works.
(ESTABLISHED 1880.)
Chrystal & Black,
Manufacturers of all kinds of Station
ary, Marine, Upright & Tubular
!BOILERS
Salt Pans, Smoke "Stacks, Sheet Iror
Works, etc.
IAlso dealersin Upright and Horizontal Slide
Valve Engines. Automatic Cut -Off El-4)2es*
ISCSOP:Ciattainh
tYtiy "on siazn.Estimatese6d°f PiPe'and
pipe
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engat
short notice.
Works opposite G. T. R. Station, Goder1ek.
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