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TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS -1899
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(Continued from last week.)
CHAPTER XXXIX
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
• "'Yes,' I says, 'don't ye like it?'•
We'll,” said David, "She,never said
a word. She &awed- in her arm an' ,,- , ,
14and, an' fust she pulled off one
thing an' dropped it on the fioor, fur
took'Iiolt of the bunnit with her left onion AGAINsT
off as she ed reach, ani then another, tig,1111U
an' then another, an' then, by gum!
she went at it with both hands jest
as fast as she could work 'em, an' in
less time zi Pm tellin' it to ye she
picked the thing cleaner 'n any chicken
yon ever el*, an,' when She got down
to the carkis she squeezed it up be-
tween her two hands, give it a wring ,
an' a twist like it was a wet dish
towel, an' flung it slap in my face.
Then she made a half .turn, throwin'
back her head an' grabbin' into her
hair, an' give the awfullest screechin'
laugh—one screech after another that
you c'd 'a' heard a mile—an' then
The road they were on was a fav- throwed herself face down on the -
°rite drive with the two men, and bed, screarnin' an' kickint Wa'al, sir,
at the point where they had now ar- if I we'n't at my wits' end, you c'n
rived David always halted for a look have my watch an' chain.
back and down u n the scene below a
them—to the south, beyond the inter- I no way, but, as -luck had it, it was
veiling fields, bright with maturing one o' the times when we had a hired
crops, lay the village; to the west girl, an' hearin' the noise she came
the blue lake, winding its length like gallopini up stairs. She wa'n't a
• a broad river, and the river itself a young girl, an' she had a face humbly
silver ribbon, till it was lost beneath 'nough to keep her awake nights, but.
the southern hills. • . - she had some sense, an'—`You'd bet -
Neither spoke. For a few minutes ter run fer the docther,' she says,
John took in the scene with the plea- when she see the state my wife was
sure it always afforded him,•and 1 in. 'You_ better believe I done the
then glanced at his companion, - who heat of my life," said. David, "an'
usually had some comment to, make more luck, the doctor was home an'
upon aything which stirred his ad- jest finishin' his tea. His • house an'
miration or interest. He was geeing office wa'n't but two three blacks off
not at the landscape, but apparently an' in about a few minutes me an'
at the top of the dashboard. H
"—°' him an' hs bag was leggin' it fer 'my
hum," he said, straightening the house, though I noticed he didn't
reins, with a "clk" to the horses, and seem to be 'n as much of a twitter
they drove along for a while in sp.- ps / was. He ast me more or less
ence—so long, in fact, that our friend questions, an' jest as we got to the
while aware that the elder man. did house he says:
not usually abandon a topic until he j «'Has your wife had anythin' to
had "had his say out," was moved to farm or . shock her this evenin'?'
suggest a continuance of the narra- . e .Nothin"t I know on,' I says;
tive which had been rather abruptly "cept I bought her a new bunnit that
She wouldn't let me touch her
broken off, and in which he had be-
come considerably interested.
"Was yout wife pleased?" he ask-
ed at last.
"Where was I?" asked the other
in return.
"You were on your way home with
your purchase," was the reply.
"Oh, yes," Mr. Harum resumed."It
was a little after tea time when I
got to the house, an' I thought prob'ly
nd her in the settin' room wait-
er me; but DU wen.% an' f went
up to the bedroom to find her, feelin'
a little less sure o' things. She was
settin' lookin' out o' winder when I
come in, an' when T spoke to her she
didn't 'give nue no answer except to
say, lookin' up at the clock, 'What's
kept 'ye like this?' - "Wa'al,' he says, lust, you step
'Little matter o' bustnis,' I says .
in an' tell her Inn here an' want to
lookin' as smilin"s I knew how, an'
didn't seem to come quite up to her
iaees.' At that," remarked Mr, Har -
um, _"he give me a, funny looko an'
we went in an' upstairs.
"The hired girl," he proceeded, "had
got her quieted down some, but when
we went in she looked up, an' seein'
me, set up another screech, an' he
told me to go downstairs an' he'd
come down putty soon, an' after a
while he did.
"'WOW 1 says. •
"She's' quiet .fer the present,' he
says, takin a pad o' paper out o' his
pocket, an' writin' on it.
'Do you know Mis' Jones, your
next-door neighbor ?' he says. 1 ah.
lowed 't I had a speakinh acquaint-
ance with her.
holdin' the 'box behind me.
"'What you got there?' she says,
slewin' her head 'round to git a sight
at .
"'Little matter o' I says ,"
agin, bringin' the\ box to the front an' an"arkput in an envelope—hap to the
in a note that he'd wrote
'
feelin' my face straighten out 's if
hospital—better send it up with a
hack, or, better yet, go yourself,' he
says, 'an' hurry. You can't be no
-use here,' he says. T11 stay, but I
want a nurse here in an hour, an' less
if possible.' I was putty well scared,"
said David, "by ' all that, an' I says,
'Lord,' I says,'is she as bad off as
that? What is it ails her?"
"'Don't you know ?' says the doe,
givin' me a queer look.
"'No,' I says, 'she hain't ben fust
rate fer a spell back, but I couldn't
git nothin' out of her what was the
matter, an' don't know what pertic'-
ler "thing ails her now, unless it's that
dum'd bunnit,' I says.
"At that the doctor laughed a little,
kind as if he couldn't help it.
"'1 don't think that was belly to
blarne,' he says; 'may have hurried
matters up a little—somethin' that
was liable to happen any time in the
next two -months.'
"'YOU don't mean it?' I says.
"'Yes,' he say. 'Now you 'git out
as fast as you can. Wait a min-
ute,' he says. 'How old • is your
wife?'
"'F'm what she told me •'fore we
was married,' -I says, 'she's thirty-
one.
"'Oh!' says, raisin' his eyebrows.
'All right; hurry up, now.'
"I dusted around putty lively, an'
inside of an hour was back with the
nurse, an' jest after fee got inside
the door " David paused thought-
fully for a moment and then, lower-
ing his tone a little, "jest as we got
inside the front door, a door upstairs
opened an' I heard a little 'Weewaa!
like it was the leetlist kind of a new
lambs—an"1 tell you," said David,
with a little quaver in his voice, and
looking straight over the off horse's
ears, "nothin' t I ever heard before
nor since ever fetched me, right where
I lived, as that did. The nurse, she
made a dive fer the stirs, wavin' me
back with her hand, an' 1—wa'al--I
went into the settin' room, an—wa'al
—ne' mind.
"I dunno how long I set there list'-
nin' to 'em movin"round overhead,
an' wonderin' what was goin' on; but
fin'ly I heard a step on the stair an'
I went Out irto the entry, An' it was
Mis' Jones. 'How be they?' I says.
"'We don't quite know yet,' she
says. 'The little boy is a nice form-
ed little feller,' she says, 'an' them
children very often grow up, but he
is very little,' she says.
"'An how 'bout -my wife ?' I says.
"Wa'al,' she says, 'we don't know
jest yet, but she is quiet now, an'
we'll hope fer the best If yon want
me,' she says, come ani time,
night or day, buts' must go now. The
doctor will stay all night, an the
nurse will stay till you c'n git some
one to take her place,' an' she went
home, an'," declared David, "you've
hearn tell of the 'salt of the earth,'
an' if that woman wa'n't more on't
than a hoss c'n draw down hill, the'
ain't no such thing."
"Did they live?" asked John after
a brief silence, conscious of the blunt-
ness of his question, but curious as
to the sequel.
"The child did," replied, David; "not
to grow up, but till he was 'twixt
six an' seven; but my wife never left
her bed, though she lived three foul!
weeks, She never seemed to take no
int'rist in the little feller, nor nothin'
else much; but one day—it was Sun-
day, long to the last—she seemed a
little move chipper 'n usual. I was
settin' with her, an' 1 said to her
how much better she seemed to be,
trin.' to chirk her up.
'"No,' she says, ain't goin' to
live.'
"Don't ye say that,' I says.
see her, and ast her if she won't
come right along; an' then you go
down to my office an' have • these
things sent up; an' then,' he says,
'you go down town' an' send this,—
you'd run a flat iron over it. She
seen the name on the paper.
"You ben spendin' your time there,
have ye?' she says, settin' up in her
chair an' pointin' with her finger at
the box. 'That's where you ben the
last half hour, hangin"round with
them minxes in Mis' Shoollged's.
What's M that box?' she says, with
her face a-blazin'. e
'Now, Lizy,' I says, 'I wa'n't there
ten minutes if I was that, an' I ben
buyin' you a biumit'
u n -
nit ?' she says, stifnini up stiffer 'n
a stake. .
"'Yes,' 1 says, 'I heard you say
somethin"bout a spring bannit, an' 1'
thought, seein' how economicle you
was, that I'd buy you a nicer one 'n
mebbe you'd feel like yourself. I
thought it would please ye,' I says,
tryin' to rub her the right way.
"Let rtie see it,' she says, in a
voice dryer 'n a lime -burner's hat,
pressin' her lips together an' reach -
in' out fer the box. Wa'al, sir, she
• snapped the string with a jerk, an'
sent the cover skirinnin! across the
room, an' then, as she hauled the
parcel out of the box, she got up onto
her feet. Then she tore the par
off on't an looked at it a minute, an'
then took it 'tween her thumb an'
finger, like you hold up a dead rat by
the tail, an' held if off at the end of
her reach, an' looked it all over, with
her face gettin' even redder if it
could. Fin'ly she says, in a voice
'tween a whisper 'n a choke,
"'What'd you pay fer the thing."
"'Fifteen dollars,' I says. 1
"'Fifteen dollars?' she says.
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"'No,' she saysal ain't, an' I don't
didn't know :jest what to say, an'
-
she spoke
ce agin: spoi
"'I want to tell you, Dave,' she
says, 'that you've ben good an' kind
to me.'
" 'I've tried to,' I says, 'an' Lizy,'
1 says, never fcrgive myself a-
bout that bunnit, long 's I live.'
"'That hadn't really nothin' to do
with it,' she says, 'an' you meant all
right, though,' she says, almost in a
whisper, an' the' came • across her
face, not a smile exacty, but some -
thin' like a little riffle on a piece o'
still water, 'that bunnit was enough
to kill most anybody.'"
CHAPTER XL.
John leaned out of the buggy and
looked back along the road, as if
deeply interested in observing some-
thing -which had attracted his atten-
tion, and David's face 'worked oddly
TOT a moment.
Turning south in the direction of
the village, they begun the descent
of a steep hill, and Mr. Harum, care-
ful of loose stones, gave all his at-
tention to his' driving. Our friend,
respecting his vigilance, forebore to
say anything which might distract
his attention until they reached level
ground, and then, "you never married
again?" he queried.
"No," was the reply. "My mat-
rymonial experience was 'brief an' to
the p'irit,' as the sayin' is."
"And yet," urged John, "you were
a young man, and I should have
supposed—"
"Wa'al," said David, breaking in
and emitting his chuckling ' laugh, -‘,!I
allow 't mebbe I sometimes thought
•
in full blast. an' winders full 0' buns
nits. Wa'al, sir, .do you know what
I done? Ye don't. Wa'al, the' was
a hose car passin' that run three mile
out in the country_in a diff'rent direc-
tion f'm where I started fer, an' I up
I tin'- got onto that car, an' rode the
length o' that road, an' got off an'
walked back—an' 1 never went near
- her hotise f'm that day to this," said
David, "was the nearest I ever come
to havin' another pardner to my jobs
an' sorro's."
"That was pretty near, though,"
said John, laughing.. ' _
t`Wa'al," said David, "tnebbe Prov' -
deuce might 'a' had some other plan
fer stoppin' me 'fore 1 smashed the
hull rig, if I hadn't run into the mil'-
nery shop, but as it was, that fetched
me to a stan'still, an' I never started
to run agin."
They drove on for a . few minutes
in •silence, which John broke at last
by saying, ,"I have been wondering
how you got on after your wife died
and left you with a little child."
"That was where Mis' Jones come
in," said David. "Of course, I got the
besttnurse I could, an' Mist. Jones 'd
run in two three titnes ev'ry -day
an' see 't things was goin' on as right
's they could; but it come on that I
had -to be away f'm home a good deal
an' fin'ly, come fall, rgot the Joneses
to move into a bigger house, where
I could have a room, an' fixed it up
with Mis' Jones to take charge o' the
• little feller right along. She hadn't
i but One child, a girl of about thirteen
( an' had lost two tittle ones, an'• so
between Navin' took to my little mite
of a thing f'm the fust, an' my mak-
in' it wuth her while, she was willin',
an' we went on that way till—the'
wa'n't no further occasion fur 's he
was concerned, though I lived with
them a spell longer when I was at
home, which wa'n't very often, an'
after he died I was gone fer a good
time, while. But before that when
I was at home, I had him with me
all the time I could manage. With
good care he'd vowed up nice an'
bright, an' as big as the average,
an' smarter 's a steel trap. He liked
beim' with ine better 'n' -anybody else,
and when 1 c'd manage to have him
I couldn't bear to have him out o'
my sight. Wa'al, as I told you, he
got to be most seven year old. I'd
had togo out to Chicago, an' • one
day I got a telegraph sayin" he was
putty sick—ate I took the fust train
East. •It- was 'long in March, an'
we had a breakdown, an' run into an
awful snowstorm, an' one thing an-
other, an' I ipst twelve or fifteen
hours. It seemed to me that them
two days was longer ,'n my hull life,
but I fin'Iy did git home about nine
o'clock in the mornin'. When I 'got
to the house Mis' Jones was on the
lookout fer me, an' the door opened
as I run up the stoop, 'an' I seeby
her face that I was too late. 'Oh,
David, David! she says (she'd never
called me David before), puttin' her
hands on my shoulders.
"'When?' 1 says.
" "Bout midnight,' she says.
"Did he suffer much?' I say.
" `No,' she says, 'I don't think so;
but he was out of his head most
of the time after the fust day, an'
I guess all the time the last twenty-
four hours.' -
'" 'Do you think hettles'a' knowed
me, I says. 'Did he say anythin'?'
an' at that," said David, "she looked
at me. She wa'n't cryin' when I
come in, though she had ben; but at
that her face all broke- up. 'I don't
know,' she says. 'He kept sayin'
things, an' 'bout all we could under-
stand was "Daddy, daddy," an' then
she throwed her apern over her face
aneeett.e
David tipped his hat a little farther
over his eyes, though, like many if
not most "horsey" men, he usually
wore it rather far down, and lean-
ing over,etwirled .the whip in the
socket between his two fingers and
thumb. John studied the stitched
ornamentation of the dashboard un-
til the reins were pushed into his
hands. But it was not for long.
David straightened himself, and, with-
out turning his head, resumed them
as if that were a matter of course.
"Day after the fun'ral," he went
on, f`I says to Mis' Jones, 'I'm goin'
back out West,' I says, 'an' I can't
say how long I shall be gone—long
enough, anyway,' I says, 'to_git it in-
to my head that when I come back
the' won't be no little feller to jump
up an' round my neck when 1 come
into the house; but, long or short, I'll
come back some time, an' meanwhile,
as fur 's things between you an' me
air, they're to go on jest the same,
an' more 'n that, do you think you'll
remember him some?' I says.
"'As long as I live,' she says, 'jest
like my own.'
" 1 says, 'long 's you re-
member him, he'll be, in a way, livin'
to ye, an' as long 's that I allow to
pay fer his keep an' tendin' jest the
same as I have, an,' I says, "if you
don't let me you ain't no friend o'
mine, an' you ben a good one.
Wa'al, she squimmidged some, but I
wouldn't let her say 'No' I've 'rang-
ed it all with my pardner an' other
ways,' 1 says, 'an' more 'n that, -if
you git into any kind of a scrape
an' I don't happen to be got at, you
go to him an' git what you want.' "
"I hope she lived and prospered,"
said John fervently.
"She lived twenty year," said David,
"an' I wish she was livin' now. :
never drawed a cheek on her account
without feelin' t I was doin' some- I
thin' for my little boy.
"The's a good many diff'rent sorts
ant kinds o' sorro'," he said, after a
on't, an' once, about ten year after moment, "that's in some ways kind
when 1 ben tellin' ye, 1 putty much o' kin to each other, but I guess losin'
made up my mind to try another a child 's a specie by itself. Of'
hitch -up. The' was a woman that I course I passed the achin', smartinn' •
seen quite a good deal of, an' liked point years ago, but it's somethin' you
putty well, an' I had some grounds can't fergit—that is, you can't help
fer thinkin"t she wouldn't show me , feelin' about it, because it ain't only
the door if I was to ask her. In i what the child was to you, but what
fact, I made up my mind I would ; you keep thinkin' he'd 'a' ben growin'
take the chances, an' one night II more en' more to be to you. When
put on my best bib an' tucker an' : I lost my little'boy I didn't only lose ,
started fer her house. I had to go • him as he was, but I ben losin' him
'cross the town to where she lived, • over an' agin all these years. What
an' the farther I walked the fiercer he'd 'a' ben when he was so old; an'
I got—havin' made up my mind— " what when he'd got to be a big boy;
so 't putty soon I was travelin'' 's if an' what he'd 'a' ben when he went
1 was 'fraid some other feller'd git mebbe to collidge; an' what he'd 'a'
there 'head o' me. Weal, it was ben afterward, an' up to now. , Of
Sat'day night, an' the stores was all course the times when a man stuffs
open, an' the streets was full o' i; his face down into •the pilfer nights,
people, an' I had to pull up in the I passes, after a while; but while the's
crowd a little, an' I don't konw how some sorro's that the . happenin' o'
it happened in pertic'ler, but fust I thin'gs help ye to ferglt, I guess the's
thing 1 knew I run slap into a w'oin- ' some that the happenin' o' things
an with a ban'box, an' when I look- , keeps ye remember%', an' login', a
ed around, there was a mil'nery store , child 'a one on 'em."
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CHAPTER XLL
It was the latter' part of John's
fifth -winter in Homeville. 'The bus-
iness of the office had largely increas-
ed. The new manufactories which
had been. established did their bank-
ing with Mr. Harum, and the older
concerns, including nearly all the'
merchants in the village, had trans-
ferred their accounts from Syrchester
banks to David's. The callow Hop-
kins had fledged and developed into
a competent all -'round man, able to
do anything in the offiee, and there
wasa new "skeezicks" discharging
Peieg's former functions. Consider-
able impetus had been given to the
business of the town by the new
road whose rails had been laid the
previous summer: • There had been a
strong and acrimonious controversy
over the route which the road should
take into and through the village.
There was the party of the "nabobs"
(as they were characterized by Mr.
Harum) and their following, and the
party of the "village people," and the
former had carried their point; but
now the road was ah abcomplished
fact, and most of the bitterness
which had been engendered had died
away. Yet the struggle was still
matter for talk. •
"Did I ever tell you," said David,
as! he and his cashier were sitting in
the rear room of the bank, "how
Lawyer Staples come to switch round
in that there railroad jangle last:
spring?"
"I remember," said John, "that
you told me he had deserted his
party,end you laughed a little at
the time, but you did not tell me
how -it came about."
"I kind o' thought I told ye," said!
David.
"No," said John, "I am quite sure
you did not"
"Wa'al," said Mr. Hamm, "the'
was, as you know, the Tenaker-
Rogers crowd wantin' one thing, an'
the Purse -Rabbit lot bound to have
the other, an' 'run the toad under
the other fellers' noses. Staples ihis
workin' tooth an' nail fer the Parse •
crowd, an' bein' a good deal of a
politician, he was helpin' 'em a good
deal. In fact he was about their
best card. I wa'n't takin' much hand ,
in the matter either way, though my ,
feelin's was with the Tenaker party,
i know 't would come to a point where
some money 'd prolagy have to be
used, an' I made up my mind I
wouldn't do much drivin' myself un-
less I had to, an' not then till the
last quarter of the heat. Wel, it
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Incorporated in 1855
CAPITAL AND RESERVE $9,000,000
Over 120 Branches
The Molsons Bank
THE MOLSONS BANK is prepared to render every assistance
possible to responsible business men or farmers in financing their
business.
The Manager will be glad to go ,into your affairs with you and
give you any information needed about banking,
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Cleaning and Dyeing
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It makes no difference where tyou live; parcels can be sent in by mail
or express. The same care and attention is given the work as though
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We will be pleased to advise you on any question regarding cleaning
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New Standards of Value
$1365
F.O.B. CHATHAM
WAR TAX EXTRA ,
Gray -Dori has brought peace -time stan-
dards of value to the motor car business.
Greater value than the light car has hereto-
fore offered. $1365 brings you a car com-
parable with those costing several hundred -
dollars more.
• LOOK FOR THESE THINGS 1N
THE CAR YOU BUY
The Gray -Dort motor is big enough for
its job—not stunted -3341 bore and 5',
stroke—with big water jackets and a big,
honeycomb radiator. The crankshaft is
• husky—many pounds heavier than other
builders of light cars think necessary. The
pistons are extra -light and three -ringed.
Special design prevents valve -warping.
High -carbon steel gives toughness to moving
parts.
The carburetor is a Carter—improved
this year. Westinghouse starting and light-
ing. Connecticut ignition (newly'improved).
The whole chassis parallels the motor in
quality. Heavy frame of channel steel.
Husky rear axle, Chatham -built. Long
springs, cantilever in the rear, and built
here under our inspection. The big brakes
now have Thermoid lining. A new steering
gear, 50% larger and stronger than the
light car standard.
• The Gray-Dott is as pleasing to the artist
and to the driver as it is to the mechanic.
The smooth lines of the body are restful
after so much of the extreme in present-day
cars. The Gray -Dort finish, development
of 60 years' 'coach -building, will win your
instant, and lasting approval. Add the
smartness of French -pleated upholstery,
and a new top, tailored in our own shops.
IDO T
The big gasoline tank is now in the rear
—for good -looks and convenience. As in
big cars, the einergency brake is on a lever,
the side -curtains open with the doors. A
shorter, smarter cowl gives more room in
the driving compartment. The new hood,
with its many long, narrow louvres has a
touch of European smartness.
AND YET THE PRICE IS $1365,
(PLUS WAR TAX)
You know that such a car as the Gray -Dort will
be in heavy dernand at $1365. We have doubled
our production this year. But there is likely to be
a shortage. See the Gray -Dort dealer now.
PRICES
The Gray -Dort 5 -passenger car, finished in Cray -
Dort green and black and with standard equipment
is $1365 f.o.b. Chatham. War tax extra.
The roomy 2 -passenger roadster is the same price,
THE GRAY-DORT SPECIAL
For the =In who wishes something a little extra
in his car, we have built the Gray -Dort Special.
Maroon body, with brown rayntite top. Plate glass
rear window. Gipsy curtains. Rookie tan wheels.
Motometer. Tilting steering wheel. Real leather
upholstery. Mahogany, instrument board. just
the touches which Iift tkis car above the ordinary.
$150 extra on the standard.
AND THE ACE
'Ile Gray -Dort Ace—the most beautiful light
car of to -day. Sapper green body with handsome
California top to match.
Trouble Lamp and bull's-eye flashlight. Electric
cigar lighter. Rear -vision mirror. Plate glau win-
dows. Oversize, grooved -tread tires. This is the
ds hass car for the man who does not wish to pile
up a' tremendous operating cost. $255 extra en
the standard.
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Chatham - Ontario
G. D. C. HARN • Seaforth
41111041114.
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