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The Huron Expositor, 1890-07-25, Page 22 THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK. BY W. D. HOWELLS. (Continued. from last week.) XIX. He could see that she avoided being alone with him the next day, but be took it for a sign of relenting, perhaps helpless relenting, that she was in her usual place on deck in the evening. Ile went to her, and e ` I see that you have forgiven me," he said. Forgiven you ?" she echoed. " Yea," he said, " for letting that lady ask me to drive with her." " I never said "—she began. all the Oh, no ! But I knew it, same. It was not such a very wicked thing, as those things go. But I liked your not liking it. Will you let me say something to you ?"- " Yes,' she answered, rather breath- lessly. " You must think it's rather an odd thing to say, a8 I ask leave. It. is ; and I hardly know how to say it. I want tell you that I've made bold to depend a great deal upon your good opinion for my peace of mind, of late, and that I can't well do without it now." She stole the quickest of her . bird- like glances at him, but did not speak ; and though she seemed, to his anxious fancy, poising for flight, she remained, and merely Looked away, like the bird that will not or cannot fly. " You don't resent my making you my outer conscience, do you, and my knowing that you're not quite pleased with me?" She looked down and away with one of those tutus of the head, so precious when one who beholds them is young, and caught at the fringe of her shawl. " I have no right," she began. " Oh, I give you the right ! he cried, with passionate urgence. " You have the right. Judge me 1" . She only look- ed more grave, and he hurried on. " It, was no great harm of her to ask me ; that's common enough ; but it was harm of me to go if I didn't quite respect her, —if I thought her silly and was willing to be amused with her. One hasn't any right to do that. I saw this when I saw you." She still hung her head,and. looked away. "I want you to tell me something," he pursued. " Do you re- member once—the second time we talk- ed together—that you said Dunham was earnest, and you wouldn't answer when I asked you about myself ? Do you remember?" "Yes," said the girl. "I didn't care then. I care very much now. You don't think me—you -nk I can be in earnest when I will, t you? And that I cin regret—that illy wish "—He took the nand that yed with the shawl fringe, but she fitly drew it away." Ali, I see 1" he said. " You can't believe in me. You don't believe that I oan be a good man—like Dunham !" She answered in the same breathless murmur. "I think you are good." Her averted face drooped lower. - " I will tell you all about it some day 1" he cried, with joyful vehemence. " Will you let me?" "Yes," she answered, with the swift expulsion of breath that sometimes comes with teara. She rose quickly and turned away. He did not try to keep her from Leaving him. His heart beat tumultously ; his brain seemed in a whirl. It all meant nothing, or it meant everything. - What is the matter with Miss Blood l" asked Dunham, who joined him at this moment. " I just spoke to her at the foot of the gangway stairs, and she wouldn't answer n'fe." "Oh,I don't know about Miss Blood— I don't know what is the matter," said Staniford. " Look here, Dunham ; I want to talk with you—I want to tell you something—I want you to advise me—I—. There's only one thing the$ can explain it, that can excuse la's There's only one thing that can justify_ all that I have done and said, and that can not only justify it, but can make it sacredly and eternally right, -- right for her and right for me. Yes, it's reason for all, and for a thousand times more. It makes it fair for me to have let her see that I thought her beau- tiful and charming, that I delighted to be with herthat I—Dunham," cried Staniford,-" I'm in love !" Dunham startedatthe burst in which these ravings ended. " Staniford," he faltered, with grave regret, " I hope not 1" " You hope not ? You—you--- What do you mean ? How else can I free my- self from the self reproach of having trifled with her, of "— Dunham shook his head compassion- ately. " You can't do it that way. Your only safety is to fight it to the death—to run from it." "But if I don't choose to fight it ?" shouted Staniford,—" if I don't choose to run from it ? If I_ "— " For Heaven's sake, hush ! The whole ship will hear you, and you oughtn't to breathe it in the desert. I saw how it•was going ! I dreaded it ; I knew it ; and I longed to speak. I'm to blame for not speaking !" "I should like to know what would have authorized you to speak ?" demand - en Staniford, haughtily. "Only my regard for you; only what urges me to speak now ! You must fight it, whether you choose or not. Think of yourself—think of her ! Think—you have always been my ideal of honor and. truth and loyalty—think -of her hus- band—" " Her husband !" gasped Staniford. `-` Whose husband ! What the deuce— who the deuce—are you talking about, Dunham ?" should have dreamt of such a thing 1" " Why ?" asked Staniford," shortly . "Oh. the way you talked at first, you know, ands,_,_ " 1 suppose even people who get mar- ried have something to take back about each other," said Staniford, rather sheepishly. " However," he added, with an impulse of frankness, " I • don't know that I should have dreamt of it myself and I don't blame you. But it's a fact, nevertheless." •. " Why, of course. It's splendid ! Certainly. It's magnificent 1" There was undoubtedly a qualification reserva- tion, in Dunham's tone. He might have thought it Fight to bring the inequalities of the affair to Staniford's mind. With all his effusive kindliness of heart and manner, he had a keen sense of social fitness, a nice feeling for convention. But a man does not easily suggest to another that the girl with whom he has just declared himself in love is his in- ferior. What Dunham finally did say was : "It jumps with all your ideas— all your old - talk -about: not caring to marry a society girl "— " Society might be very glad of such a girl !" said Staniford, stiffly. Yes, yes, certainly ; but I mean — " Oh, I know what you mean. "It's. all right," said Staniford. " But it isn't a question ofmarrying yet. I can't be sure she understood me,—I've been so long understanding myself. And yet, she must, she must ! She must be- lieve it by this time, or else that I'm the most infamous scoundrel alive. When I think how I have sought her out, and followed her up, and asked her jndgment,and hung on her words, I feel that I oughtn't to lose a moment in be- ing explicit. I don't care for myself ; she can take me or leave me, as she likes; but if she doesn't understand, she mustn't be left in suspense as to my meaning." He seemed to be speaking to Dunham, but he was really thinking aloud, and Dunham waited for some sort of question before he spoke. "But it's a great satisfaction to have had it out with Myself. I haven't got to pre- tend any more that I hang about her, and look at her, and go mooning round after her, for this no -reason and that ; I've got the best reason in the world for playing the fool.—I'm in love !" He drew a long, deep breath. "It sim- plifies matters immensely to have reached the point of acknowledging that. " Why, Dunham, those four days at Messina almost killed me ! They set- tled it ! When that woman was in full fascination it made me- gasp. I choked for a breath of fresh air ; for a taste of spring water ; for—Lurella 1" It was a long time since Staniford had used this name, and the sound of it made him laugh. " It's droll—but I always think of her as Lurella ; I wish it was her name ! Why, it was like heaven to see her face when I got back to the ship. After we met her that day at Messina, Mrs. Rivers tried her best to get out of me who it was, and where I met her. But I flatter myself that I was equal to that emergency." " Dunham said nothing, at once. Then " Staniford," he faltered, " she got it out of me." " Did you tell her who Lu — who Miss Blood was ?" "-Yes." " And how I happened to be acquaint- ed with her ?" "Yes." " And that wel were going on to . Trieste with her ?" "-She had it out of me before I knew," said Dunham. " I didn't realize. what - she was after ; and I didn't realize how peculiar the situation, might seem "— " I see nothing peculiar -in the situa- tipn, interrupted Staniford, haughtily. Then he laughed e`onseiouely. " Or yes, I do ; of._ course I do ! You must know her to appreciate it, though." He mused -awhile before he added : " No wonder Mrs. Rivers was determined to cone aboard ! I wish we had let her,— confound: her 1 She'll think I was ashamed of it. There's nothing to be ashamed of ! By Heaven I should like to hear any one "— Staniford broke off, and laughed, and then bit his lip, smil- ing. Suddenly he burst - out again, frowning : " I won't view it in ' that light. ` I refuse to consider it from that point of view. As far as I'm concern- ed, it's as regular ase' anything else in life. It's the Berne to me as if she were in her own house, and I Iiad come ,there to tell her„that she has my futur a in her hand. She's such a lady by instinct - that shefs made it all a triumph, and I thank God that I haven't done anything to mar it. . Even that beast of a Hicks didn't : it's no merit. I've made love to her,—I own it ; of course I have, be- cause I was in love with her; and my faalt has been that I haven't made love to her openly, but have gone on fancying that I was studying her character, or some rubbish of that sort. But the fault is easily repaired.” He turned about, as if he were going to look for Lydia at once, and ask her . to be his wife. But he halted abruptly, and sat down. " No ; that won't do," he said. That won't do at all." He remained thinking, and Dunham, unwilling to in- terrupt his reverie, moved a few paces off. "Dunham, don't go. I want your adviee, Perhaps I don't see it in the right light." " How is it you see low?" asked Dunham. " I don't know whether I've a right to be explicit with her, here. It seems like taking an advantage. In a few days she will be ,with her friends "— "You must wait," said Dunham, de- cisively, " You can't speak• to lee. be• fore she isin their care ; it wouldn't be the thing, You're quite right about that." "No, it wouldn't be the thing," groaned Staniford. " But how is it all to go on till then ?" he demanded, des- perately.. " Why, just as it has before," ans- wered Dunham, with easy confidence. But is that fair to her ?" " Why not? You mean to say to her at the right time all that a man can. Till that time comes I haven't the least doubt she understands you." '• Do you think so ?" asked Staniford, simply. He had suddenly, growu very subject and meek to Dunham. " Yee," said the other,with the super- iority of a betrothed lover ; " women are very quick about these things." " I suppose you're right," sighed Staniford, with _ nothing of his wonted arrogant pretension in re- gard to women's moods and minds, I suppose . you're right.: And you would go on just as before?" " I would, indeed. j How could you change without making her unhappy— if she's interested in you ?" "That's true. I could imagine worse I147 -ems, iris we:mate =SKSe 1 .%4' V. -41:41-34."!: _i.l=.s.r - ;+7 . i. ; . ti' ti Fi : ii ,• ;S.hS d THE HURON EYPOSITOR. things than going on just as before. I suppose," he added, " that something more expli3it has its charms ; but a mu tual understanding is very pleasant,—if it is a mutual understanding. He looked inquiringly at Dunham. " Why, as to that, of course I don't know. ' You ought to be the best judge of that. But I don't believe your im- pressions would deceive you." " Yours did, once," suggested Stani- ford, in suspense. - " Yes ; but I was not in love with her`" explained Dunham. Of course, said Staniford, with a breath of relief. " And you think— Well, -I must wait 1". he concluded, grimly. " But don't—don't mention this matter, Dunham, unless I do. Don't keep an eye on me, old fellow. Or, yes, you must ! You can't help it. I want to tell you, Dunham, what makes me think she may not be a wholly uninter- ested spectator of my—sentiments." He made full statement of words and looks and tones. Dunham listened with the patience which one lover has with an- other. XX. The few days that yet remained .of their voyage were falling in the latter half of September, and Staniford tried to make -the young girl see the surpass- ing loveliness of that season under Italian skies ; the fierceness of the sum- mer is then past, end at night, when chiefly they inspected the firmament, the heaven has begun to assume some- thing of the intense blue it wears in winter. She said yes, it was very beau- tiful, but she could not see that the days were finer, or the skies bluer, than those of September at home ; and he laughedat her loyalty to the American weather. " Don't you think so, too ?" she asked, as if it pained her that he should. like Italian weather better. "Oh, yes—yes," he said. Then he turned the talk on her, as he did when- ever he could. " I like your meteor- ological patriotism. If I were a woman I should stand by America in every- thing." " Don't you as a man ?" she pursued still anxiously. " Oh, certainly," he answered. "But women owe our continent a double debt of fidelity. It's the Paradise of women, it's their Promised Land, where they've been led up out of the Egyptian bond• age of Europe. It's the home of their freedom. It is recognized; in America that women have consciences and souls." Lydia looked very grave. "Is it—is it so different with women in Europe ?" she faltered. " Very," he replied, and glanced at her half•laughingly, half tenderly. After a while, "I wish you would tell me," she said, "just what you mean. I wish you would tell me what i& the difference." " Oh, it's a long story. I will tell you -when we get to Venice." The well.worn jest served its purpose again ; she laughed, and he continued : "By the way, just when will that be ? The captain says that if this wind holds we shall be in Trieste by Friday afternoon. 1 suppose your friends will meet you there on Saturday, and that you'll go back wtth them to Venice at once." " Yes," assented Lydia. " Well, if I should come on Monday, would that be too soon ?" "Oh, no 1" she answered. He won- dered if she had been vaguely hoping that he might go directly on with .her to Venice. They were together all day now, and the long talks went on from early morning, when they met before breakfast on the deck, and until late at night, when they parted there, with blushed and laughed good nights. Sometimes the trust she put upon his unspoken promises was terrible ; it seemed to condemn his reticence as fan- tastic and hazardous. With her, at least, it was clear that his love was the first ; her livingandloving were one. He longed to testify the devotion which he felt, to leave it unmistakable and safe past accident ; he thought of making his will, in which he should give her everything, and declare her supremely dear ; he could only rid him- self of this by drawing up the paper in writing, and then he easily tore it in pieces. - They drew nearer together, not only in their talk about each other, but in what they said of different people in their relation to themselves. But Staniford's pleasure in the- metaphysics of recipro- cal appreciation, his wonder at the quickuess with which she divined char- acters he painfully analyzed, was not greater than his joy in the pretty hitch of the shoulder with which she tucked her pocket handkerchief into the back pocket of her sack, or the picturesque- ness with which she sat facing hies, and leant upon the rail, with her elbow wrapped in her shawl, and the fringe gathered in the hand which propped her cheek. He scribbled his sketch - full of her contours and poses, which sometimes • he caught unawares, and which sometimes she sat for him to draw. One day, as she eat occupied in this, "I wonder," he said, " if you have anything of my feeling, nowadays. It seems to me as if the world had gone on a pleasure excursion, without taking me along, and I was enjoying myself very much at home." " Why, yes," she said joyously; "do you have that feeling, too ?" "I wonder what it is makes us feel so," he ventured. " Perhaps," she returned, " the long voyage." "I shall hate to have the world come back, I believe," he said, reverting to the original figure. " Shall you ?" — " You know I don't know much about it," she answered, in lithe evasion, for which she more than atoned with a conscious • look and one of her dark blushes. Yet he chose. with a curious cruelty, to try how far she was his. "How odd it would be," he said, `• if we never should have a chance to talk up this voyage of ours when it is over !" She started, in a way that made his heart- smite him. " Why, you said you "—And then she caught herself, and struggled pitifully for the self pos- session she had lost. She turned her head away ; his pulse bounded. " Did you think I wouldn't ? I am living for that." He took the hand that lay in her lap ; she seemed to try to free it, but she had not the strength or will ; she could only keep her face turn- ed from him. - " Mrs. Rivers." " Mrs. Rivers ? That flimsy, feather - headed, empty -hearted — eyes -maker That frivolous,' ridiculous—Pah 1 And did you think that I was talking of her ?- Did you think I was in love with her ?" " Why,4' stammered supposed —I tiliought— you know — "Oh 1" Staniford walked the deck's length away. "Well, Dunham," he 'said, as he came back, " you've spoilt a pretty scene with your rot about Mrs. Rivers. I was going to be romantic ! But peri ape.I'd better say in ordinary newspaper English that I've just found out that I'm in love- with Miss Blood." ' With her !" cried Dunham, spring- ing at his hand. " Oh, come now ! Don't you be ro- mantic, .after knocking my chance." " Why, but Staniford," said Dun- ham, wringing his hand with a lover's• joy in another's love and his relief that it was not Mre. Rivers. "I never Dunham, " I At Messina, it, my dear fel- REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. BULDING LOTS FOR SALE:—The under - signed has a number of fine building Lots on Ooderioh and James Streets for sale at law pries. For partioulare apply to D. D. RAIL SON 902 i ARM FuR SALE. —Being Lot 11, Concee- „1! sion 0, Rowlock, County of Huron, con. Wiling 100 acres, 75 under crop, balance good hardwood bush, good frame house, bank barn and bearing or,hard, 81 miles from Wroxeter station. Easy terms. 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Karn & Co„ Woodstock. The aboveinstruments always on hand, also a few good second-hand Pianos and Organs for sale at from $25 upwards. Instruments sold on the instalment plan, or on terms to suit eus- tourers. Violins, Concertinas and small instru• rnents on hand ; also sheet music, books, &o. A famous sweeper. The uui t famous in the market. Medium in price, handsome in finish, substantial in construction, and rich in de- vice. No improvement passes the cradle of experiment before the sweeper receives the benefit of it. We allow none to excel it as a sweeper ,- constructed in walnut or in maple, with mahogany finish; hand decorated, containing the following of our principal patents : broom action, automatic reversible bail, " everlasting " brush, and spring dumping device. This sweeper has been adopted as- our stan- dard ; it has four large rubber tired wheels and rubber furniture pro- tector ; it is constructed by expert workmen, tested by experts before leaving the factory, and guaranteed by the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company. Take one on trial ; for sale by - J. FAIRLEY SEAFORTH • u I•�1 f ri te When I say Cure I do not meat • • merely to stop them for a time, -e , sad that lave them return again. 1 MEAN A R A D I C A L C U B E. I have made the disea,'e of Fits Epilepsy or Falling Sickneee a life-long study. I warrant my. remedy to i .are tin rorst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send a' ince for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my Infallible Remedy. Give Exposit ant Post Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address :—H. Q. ►LOOT i.C:, Branch OfiRt e, 186 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTO. SCOTT BROS. FOR. ;ore Eyes ;atarrh _ameness emale ;omp(ants iourribenuersils prains ;hafing 3rtses USE 'Ga'ds 'files POND'S 3urns Nounds Em�D � CI illi CUSANDS OF BOTTLES MEN AWAY YEAR►,Y. Important Announcement. BRIGHT BROTHERS, The Leading Clothiers of. Huron, AVOiD ALL !MTh TIONS. THEY MA's BE DANGEROUS. FAC -SIMILE Of BOTTLE WITH BUR WRAPPER. Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and surrounding country, that they have added to their large ordered clothing trade one of the Most Complete and best selected stocks of' Boys', Youths' and Men's Readymade Clothing IN THE COUNTY. Prices Unequalled. Remember- the Hotel, Seaforth. nsect Sites stings yore Feet NFLAMMATIONS and lEMORRHAGES ALL DEMAND POND'S EX TRACT. ACCEPT N( SUBSTITUTE FOR 1" PAI N ;Tiiii.cig:ft,Fini 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 Seribner's Resonant Pipe Combination. They have also Violins and other small instruments. ear Please Give them a Call. 1101 'John S. Porters Undertaking and Furni- ture Emporium,, SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION - Funerals furnished on the shortest notice and satisfaction guaranteed. A large assort- ment of Caskets, Collins and Shrouds, &c-, always on hand of the best quality. The best; of Embalming Fluid aced free of charge and prices the lowest, Fine Hearse. S. T. HOLMlsB, Funeral Director. Resi- dence — OODERICH STREET, directly op- posite the Methodist church in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Scott. TTON ROOT COMPOUND.—Com sed of Cotton Root, Tansy and Pennyroyal—prepared by an old phy- clan- Is successfully used monthly by thousands of women, and has been pprescribed in a practice of over thirty years. Price, $1.` Will be mailed to any address in Canada Canada and United States. Doctor's consul- tation hours, 9 to 11 -and 1 4. Diseases of women treated only Sealed 'particulars, two stamps. Ladies on 3 Address POND LILY COMPANY, No. 3, Fishe Bloc 131 Woodward Avenue, Detroit Mitigan. 1183.13 GODERICH Steam Boiler Works. (ESTABLISHED 1880.) Chrystal � Black, Manufacturers of all kinds of Station ary, Marine, Upright & Tubular BOILERS f lead the Trade. Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet Iron_ Works, etc. Also dealers in Upright and Horizontal Slide Old Stand, Campbell's= .Block, opposite the Royal valve Engines. Automatic Cut -Off Engines. specialty. All sizes of pipe and pipe fitting. constantlyon hand. Estimates furnished , short notce. Works opposite G. T. R. Station, (loderioh. BRIGHT BROTHERS. juptoth. are. The ant tt- ok. ,ye but distraug had, pal was • the sail w ith rel T iewelry the exueers.. otight to get a souvenir of i`►f hu devoti them •little overrule0 hi oat ing of . yeout of th aid they oar', carne . on de. Staiiif€ird leave. 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