The Huron Expositor, 1921-06-17, Page 7k
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Toronto—William Briggs.
(Continued from last week.),
"You can't butt in and get fresh
with a main like that," Tembarom
said. ."Nfoney wouldn't help you,
lie's too" independent."
After the steamer had sailed away
it was observable to his solicitor that
Mr. Temple Barholm was apparently
occupied every hour. He did. not ex-
plain why he seemed to rush from
one part of New York to another
and why he seemed to be Seeking in-
terviews with persons it was plainly
difficult to get at. He was evident-
ly working hard to accomplish some-
thing or tither before he left the
United States, perhaps. He asked
some astutely practical business ques-
tions; his intention seeming to be to
gain a definite knowledge of what
his future resources would be and of
his freedom to use them as he chose.
Once or twice Mr. Palford was
rather alarmed by the tendency of
his questions. Had he actually some
prodigious American sdheme in view?
He seemed too young and inexperi-
enced in the handling of large sums
for such a possibility. But youth
and inexperience and suddenly in.
herited wealth not infrequently led
to rash adventures, Something
which Palford called "very hand-
some" was done for Mm. Howse and
the boarding-house. Mrs. Rowse was
evidently nut proud enough to resent
being made secure for a few years'
rent. The extraordinary page was
provided for after a large amount
of effort and expenditure of energy.
"I couldn't leave Galton and dry,"
Tembarom explained when he cans,'
in after rushing about. "I think I
know a man 'he might try, but I've
got to find him and put him on to
things. Good Lord! nobody rushed
about to find me and offer me the
job. I hope this fellow wants it as
bad as I did. He'll be up in the air."
He diseaverecrthe whereabouts orthc
young man in question, and finding
him, as the youngster almost tear-
fully declared, "about down and out,"
his proposition was met with the
gratitude the relief from a prospect
of Burnet hing extremely like starva-
tion would mentally produce. Tem-
barom took him to Galton after hav-
ing talked him over in detail.
"He's had an education. and you
know how much I'd had when I but-
ted into the page." he said. "No
one but you would have let me try
it. You did it only because you saw
—you osaw—"
"Yes, I saw," answered Galton,
who knew exactly what he had seen
and who found his up -town social
representative and his new situation
as interesting as amusing and just
tollghl.ii with the pathetic element.
Galton was a traveleew
d man and kn
England and several other countries
well.
"You saw that a fellow wanted the
job as much :is I ilid would he likely
to nut up a good fight to hold it
down. I was scared out of my life
when I started out that morning of
the blizzard. but T cotildn't afford to
he see ret. I guess soldiers tviso are
scared figtht like hat when they see
bayonets coming at. them. You have
to."
"I wonder hew often a man finds
out that he does pretty big things
when bayonets are coming at him,"
answered Gallon, who was actually
neglecting his work for a few min-
utes so that he might look at and
talk to him, this Now York descend-
ant of Norman lords and Saxon
kings.
"Joe Bennett had been trying to
live off free -lunch counters for a week
when I found him," Tembarom ex-
plained. "You don't know What that
is. He'll go at the page all night.
I'm going to take him 11--toxvin and
introduce him to my friends there
and get them to boost him along,"
"You made friends," said Galton.
"I knew you would."
"Some of the best ever. Good-
natured and open -barreled, Well, you
bet! Only trouble was they wanted
you to 'eat and drink everything in
sight, and they didn't quite like it
when you- couldn't get outside all the
champagne they'd offer you."
He broke into a big, pleased laugh.
"When I went in and told Muss -
berg he pretty near threw a fit. Of
course he thought I was kidding. Thit
e
when I made him believe it, h, was
as glad -as if he'd had luck hirriself.
It was just fine the way people took
it. Tell you what, it takes, good luck
or bad luck to show. you how good-
natured a lot of folks are. They'll
treat Bennett and the page all right;
you'll see."
"They'll miss you," said Calton.
"I shall miss tb'em," Tembarom
answered in a voice with a rather de-
pressed drop in it.
"I shall miss you," said Calton.
Tembarom' s face reddened a little.
"I guess it'd seem rather.fresh for
me to tell you how I shall miss you,"
he said. "I said that first day that
I didn't know how to tell you how I
—well, hots'felt about you giving
a mutt like me that big chance. You
never thought I didn't know how lit-
tle I did know, did you?" he inquired
almost anxiously.
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Gallon replied.,, --47%,_ a-. tired man,
and good spirits . ;iiild geOt4,. teinPer
seem to me, 0010 the biggest apseta
a man can ihring into a thing. ' I
shouldn't hagh'dared do it when I was
YAW age. 'You'deserved the Victoria
cross," he added, chuckling,
i- "What's 'the Victoria Cross?" ask-
ed Tembarom. • ' \
I "You'll find out when you go to
; England.'t' ,
"Well,I'm not supposing that you
don't know about how many billion
things I'll have to find out when I go
to England."
"There will be several thousand,"
replied Galton moderately; "but you'll
learn about them as you go on."
, . "Say," said Tembarom, reflectively,
"doesn't it seem queer to think of a
I fellow having to keep up his spirits
because he's fallen into three hundred
(
and fifty thousand a year? You
wouldn't think he'd have to, would
' you?"
I "But you, find he has?" queried
' Galton, interestedly.
Temfbarom's lifted eyes were so
' honest that they were touching.
"I don't know where I'm at," he
said. "I'm going to wake up in a
new place—like people that die. If
you knew what it was like, you
wouldn't mind it ad much; but you
don't know a blamed thing. It's not
having seen a sample that rattles
you."
"You're fond of New York?"
"Good Lord! it's all the place I
know on earth, and it's just about
good enough for me, by gee! It's
kept me alive when it might have
starved rue to death. My! I've had
good times here," he added, flushing
with emotion. "Good times --.when I
hadn't a whole meal a day!"
"You'd have good times anywhere,"
commented Galton, also with feeling.
"You carry them over your shoulder
and you share them with a lot of
other people." -
He certainly shared some with Joe
Bennett, whom he took up -town and
introduced right and left to his friend-
ly patrons, who, excited by the at-
mosphere of adventure and prosper-
ity, received him with open arms. Ti)
have been the choice of T. Ternbarom
as a mere representative of the Earth
would have been a great thing for
Bennett, but to be the choice of the
hero of a romance of wildest opu-
lence was a tremendous send-off. He
was accepted at once, and when Tem-
barom actually "stood for" a big fare-
well supper of his own in "The Hall,"
and nearly had his hand shaken off
by congratulating acquaintances, the
fact that he kept the new aspirant
by his side, so that the waves of high
popularity flowed over him until he
sometimes lost his joyful breath, es-
tablishi- aim as a sort of hero him-
sd•lf,
Mr. Palford did not know of this
festivity, as he also found he was
not told of several other things.
'lids he (-minted as a feature of his
client's exotic His extraordin-
ary lack of concealment of things
vanity forbids niany from confess-
ing cetelmual itself with a quite
c i.,iirfill po,..er to keep his own coun-
sel when he was, for reasons of his
,;'. 11. SO 111(.111:ed.
"Ile c.. in keep his mouth shut, that
chap," Hutchinson had said once, and
Mr. Palford remembered it. ",Most
of is tem.!. I've got a notion I can;
)it I don't matly's the time when I
should. There's it lot inter in hint
tan you'd Il ink ler. Ile's nitugh:
but a led but h.: 1,t lie half such a
foul Lis lie looks ll
ile I'Virilet hesitant nor timid,
Mr. Prd
alfe‘•bserved. In an entire-
ly unostenttitions way he son orealiz-
ed that bis looney i.race things into
I''; Ile . knew he could do
most things chose to do, and that
the 'power to du them rested in these
days with himself without the ne-
cvssity of detailed explanation or ap-
peal to others, as ill the case, for
instance, of this mysterious friend
or protege whose name was Strange -
ways. Of the history of his acquaint-
ance with bins Palford knew nothing,
and that he should choose to burden
himself with a halfwitted invalid—
in these terms the solicitor described
him—was simply inexplainable. If
he had asked for advice or by his
manner left an opening for the of-
fering of it, he would have been most
strongly counseled to take hid to a
public asylum and leave him there;
but advice on the subject seemed
the last thing' he desired or anticipat-
ed, and talk about his friend was
what. he seemed least likely to indulge
in. He made no secret of his inten- I
tions, but he frankly. took charge of I
them as his own special business,
and left the rest alone.
"Say nothing and saw wood," Pal -
ford had once been a trifle puzzled
by hearing him ,remark casually, and i
he . later, as e re-
membered the comments of Joseph
Ihnehinson. Tembarom had explain-
ed himself to Little Ann.
You'll understand," he said. "It
is like this. I guess I feel like you I
do when a dog or a cat in 'big trouble
just looks at you as if you were all
they bad, and they know if you don't
stick by them thfty'll be killed, and
it just drives them crazy. It's the I
way they look at you that you can',..
stand. believe something would
burst in that fellow's 'brain if I left
him. When he found out I was go-
ing to do it he'd just let out some
,
awful kind of a yell I'd remember
till rdied. dried right up almost,
as soon as I spoke of him to Palford.
'
He couldn't see 'anything but that he I
was crazy and ought to be put in an
asylum. Well, he's no t. There're !
times when he talks to me almost
sensible; only he's always so awful I
low down in his mind you're afraid
to let him go on And he's a little
bit better than 1e was. It seems I
queer to get to like a man that's sort
of dotty, but I tell you, Ann, because
you'll understand—I've got to sort of
like him, and want to see if can
vim it out for him somehow. Eng -
la seems to sort of stick in his
mind. If I can't spend my money in
living the way I want to live,—buy-
ng jewelry and clothes for the girl
live,—buy-
lug
like to see dressed like a queen-
-I'm going to do this just to please
myself. I'm going to take him to
England and keep him quiet and see
what'll happen. Those hig doctors;
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ought to know about All there is to
know, and can pay them any old
thing they want. By pugs! isn't it
the limit—to sit- here and , say that
and know it's 'true!"
l"
the explaining of neces.
sary, detail. to him and piloting him
to England, Mr. Palford did not hold
himself many degrees responsible.
His theory of correct conduct assom-
ed no form of altruism. He had for-'
mutated it even before he reached
middle age. One of his fixed rules
'was to avoid the. error of allowing
sympathy or sentiment to hamper
him with any unnecessary burden.
Natural . tendency of temperament
had placed nib obstacles in the way
of his keeping this rule. To burden
himself with the instruction or moth.,
ification of this unfortunately hope-
less young New Yorker would be
unnecessary, Palford's summing up
of him was that he was of a type
with which nothing palliatiye could
be done. There he was. As un-
avoidable circumstances forced one to
take hirn,--commonness, slanginess,
appalling ignorance, and all, ---one
could not leave him. Fortunately, no
respectable legal firm need hold itself
sponsor for u "next of kin" provided
by fate and the welds of America.
The Temple Barhohn estate had
never, in Mr. Palford's generation,
been specially agreeable to deal with.
The late Mr. Temple Temple Barholm
had been a client of eccentric and
abominable temper. Interviews with
him had been avoided as much as
possible. His domineering insolence
of bearing had at times -been on the
verge of precipitating unheard-of ac-
tions, because it was almost more
than gentlemanly legal flesh and
blood could bear. Arid now appear-
ed this young man.
He rushed about New York stren-
uously attending to business concern-
ing himself and his extraordinary ac-
quaintances, and on the day of the
steamer's sailing he presented him-
self at the last moment in an obvious-
ly just purchased suit of horribly cut
clothes,. At all events, their cut was
horrible in the eyes of Mr. Pafford,
who accepted Ill, cut but that of a
West End tailor. They were badly
made things enough, because they
were unconsidered garments that
Tembarom had barely found time to
snatch front a "ready-made" counter
at the last moment. He had been
too much "rushed" by other things to
remember that he tLILISt Ina rt. t hem
until almost too late to get them at
all. He bought them merely because
they were clothes, and warm enough
to make a voyage in. Ile possessed
a monster ulster, in which, to Mr.
Palford's mind, he looked like a
flashy blackleg. Ile did not know it
was flashy. His opportunities for
iultivating a relined taste in the
mer attof wardrobe hail been limited,
and he had wasted no tent' ins fastidi-
ous consideration r oregrets. Pafford
did him some injustice in taking ,t
f.i'rg.teinted that his chide'. of eostume
was lin. result of ihiliberate bad tits!,
IL was really not choice at. all. 11-
nei.her liked hisclothes TIDY -.1
11‘.111. Ile hail heir toil he needel
ty got• t Nil hhailarcd
e;ite
the advice of the first salesman who
ho
eharge of him whendro
he pped
into the hig department. store he Lica,
us
familiar with hiatus,' it was the
cheamst in tow in. Even when it was
no longer necessary LI; be ClWrip, it
was Lil»C-SaVing and easy to go into
a place one knew.
The fact that hp was as he was,
and that they were the subjects of
comment and objects of unabated in.
terest throughout the voyage, that it
was proper that they should be coin- •
panions at table and on deck, filledHr.
Hr. Pafford with annoyed unease.
Of course every one on 'board was
familiar' with the story of the dis-
ceverey of the lost heir. The news-
papers had reveled in it, and had
woven romances about it which
might well have caused the deceased
Mr. Temple Barholm to turn in his
grave. After the first day Tembarom
had been picked out from among the ,
less -exciting passengers, and when he
walked the deck, hooks were lowered
into laps or eyes followed him over
their edges. His steamer -chair being
placed in a prominent position next
to that of a pretty, effusive Southern
woman, the mother of three daugh-
tors whose eyes and eyelashes attract-
ed attention at the distance of a deck's
length, he was without undue delay
provided with acquaintances who
were prepared to fill his every mom-
ent wit in entertainment.
"The three Gazelles," ns their mo-
ther playfully confided to Tembarom
her daughters were Balled in Charles-
ton, were destructively lovely. They
were swaying reeds of grace, and be-
ing in radiant spirits at the prospect
of "going to Europe," were compan-
ions to lure a mutt to any desperate
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they pleyeti on guitars, and they -sung.
Th were' lie adorable as they twee
'love •and gay.
"I a fellow was- going to fall OS
love," Terdbarout ,• said to Palford,
"there'd be no ,way opt of this for
him unless 1443 'Climbed the rigging
and draged his food up in a basket
till 'he got to, Liverpool. If he didn't
go crazy about' Irene, he'd wake up
raving, about Honors; and if he got
away from Honors, Adelia Louise
would have him 'down on the mat.'"'
N'rorn which Mr., Telford argued that
the impression made by the little
Miss Hutchinson with the -Manches-
ter accent had not yet had time to
obliterate itself,
The Gazelles were of generous
Southern spirit, and did nut surround
their prize with any 'barrier of pre-
cautions against other young per-
sons of charm. They introduced him
to one girl after another, and in a
day or two he was the center of
animated circles whenever he appear-
ed. The singular things, however,
was that he did not appear as often
as the other men who were onboard.
He seemed to stay a great deal with
Strangeways, who shared his suite of
rooms and never came on deck..
Sometimes the.. Gazelles prettily re-
proached him. Adelia Louise sug-
gested to others that his lack of ad-
vantages in the past had made him
feel rather awkward and embarrass-
ed; but Palford knew he was not
embarrassed. He accepted his own
limitations too simply to be disturb-
ed by them. Palford would have
been extremely bored by him if he
had been of the type ef young out-
sider who is anxious about himself
and expansive in self -revelation and
appeals for advice; but sometimes
Tembarom's air of frankness, which
was really the least expansive thing
in the world and revealed nothing
whatever, besides concealing every-
thing it chose, made hen feel himself
almost irritatingly battled. It would
have been More natural if he had
not been able to keel, anything to
himself and had real:y talked too
much.
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rom this, but this ie'all earMatk04,
long before it reaches him, It was
for tide reason that be decided' aortae
time. ago to dieposa of a considerable
portion of his. estates ip South 1,0n -
don, and it is possible that a great
proportion of the money so raised is
'to go to endow his sister and his,
brothers. In addition of the income
the Prince of Wales receives from the
source already mentioned, he receives,
the pay of his rank as Colonel of the,
Welsh Guards, and this may be said -
to be all that he possesses.
CHAPTER X
The necessary busine.,i in London
having been transacted, Tetnbarom
went north to take of the
home of his forefathers. It had
rained for two days before he left
London, and it rained steadily all the
way to Lancashire, and was raining
steadily when he reached Temple
Barholm. He had never seen such.,
rain before. It was nue quiet, un-
moved persistence of it which amaz-
tal him. As he sat in the railroad
carriage and watched the slanting
lines ,,r it unahating downpour, he
felt that Mr. Palford inevitably
make some no -nark up eL :t. But Mr.
conlinued to i.ead his news-
papers Li:tea-11y, though the
cer.ditien of atmosphere ,iirrounding,
hien were entirely acce,fonted and na-
tar.d. IL W;IS. • necessary
areomp:iny his
ePerit t,, de.:Ma.i. ti, but the
01:1,a ate, of I 1`.12 made the
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11,t !Mt. 11•• had •I 1:)(4•11. W1,1-
C;',111ell or risential is' his neighbors.
his tenants, and his family, and pro-
per and fitting cere.MMies hail been
ubserved. But here was Ltn heirwhomnobodyks,
whom nobody ew
kn, whose very ex-
istenee nobody had t•vv11 suspeeted, a
young man who had been an out-
cast in the streets .if the huge Amer-
ican city iif whieli lurid descriptions
are given. Even in New York he
could have produce -I no circle other
than Mrs. Bewee', boarding-heuse
and the objects of lit,' rest tel the up-
town page, so he brought no one with
hint; for Strangeways seemed to
have been mysteriously disposed of
after their arrival in London.
Never had Palferd & Grimby on
their hands a client who seemed so
entirely alone. What, MT. lPaliford
asked himself, would he do in the
enormity of Temple Barholm, which
always struck one as being a plac-n
almost without limit. But that, af-
ter all, was neither here nor there.
There he was. Yea cannot under-
takt to provide a Irian with relatives
if he has none, or i' In acquaintances
if people do not wantto know him.
Ills past having liven so extra-
ordinary, the neiglibothool .would nat-
urally be rather s y of him. At
first, through mi'-' force of custom
and respect. fur tin old name, punt' -
'Hiles, if semew•I, I- alarmed, polite.
ness would he shea t, by most people;
but after the first calls all would de-
pend upon how fr,ieh people could
stand of the man himself.
The aspect of the emintry on a wet
winter's day errs tl,t enlivening. The
leafless and drim.iny hedges looked
like taindles of si;c1:,: the Mtge trees
which in June he Majesti,t
bowers of gn, 7101V held out
great skeleton c r,ni , which seemed to
',Lc:niter. -both. emeli sed sky. Heavy -
faced laborers It-ann.:al along muddy
lanes; cottages with soaked hits of
dead gardens looloal like hovels; big,
melancholy earl -heroes. dragging jolt-
ing carts along the country roads,
-hung their heads as they splashed
through the mire,
Continued Col page six
THE PRINCE'S INCOME
Surprise. was recently expressed in
scene quarters at the announcement
that the Prince of Wales is not to
start a racing stable, but the fact of
the matter is that he cannot afford I
to do so at the present time. Prac-
tically the whole of his income is de-
rived from the Royal Duchy of Corn-
wall, and 'last year the sum of
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£42,000 was paid into his banking
account from this source. Out of
this, however, he snakes a substantial
annual contribution for the mainten-
ance of his sister and younger bro- '
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