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The Huron Expositor, 1921-08-05, Page 7• r-Slit•r" tai•V • t, Toronto—William Briggs. (Continped from last week.) U he...had been a duke, he would not have regarded the servants' point of view; it wouldn't have mattered what they thought. Perhaps, she hastily decided, he was like this because, though he was not a duke, boot -black- ing in New York notwithstanding he was a Temple Barholm.- There were few dukes as old of blood as a Temple Barholm. That must be it. She was relieved. Whatsoever lay at the root of his being what he was and as he was, he somehow changed the aspect of things for her, and without doing anything but be himself, cleared the atmosphere of her dread of the surprise and mental reservations of the footmen and Burrill when she came down to dinner in her high -necked, much - cleaned, and much -repaired black silk, and with no more distinguishing change in her toilet than a white lace cap instead of a black one, and with "poor dear mamma's" hair bracelet with the gold clasp on her wrist, and a weeping -'willow made of "poor dear papa's" hair in a brooch at her col- lar. It was so curious, though still "nice" but he did not offer her his arm when they were going into the dining -room, and he took hold of hers with his hand and affectionately half led, half pushed, her along with hint as they went. And he himself drew back her chair for her at the end of the table opposite his own. He did not let a footman do it, and he stood behind it, talking in his cheerful way all the time, and he moved it to ex- actly the right place, and then eau. ally bent down and looked under the table. "Here," he said to the nearest man- servant, "where's there a footstool? Get one, please," in that odd, simple, almost aristocratic way. It was not a rude, dictatorial way, but a casual way, as though he knew the man was there to do things, and he didn't ex• pact any time to be wasted. And it was he himself who arrang- ed the f ,h' stool, making it comfortable for her, and then he went to his own chair at th' head of the table and sat down, smil'ng at her joyfully across the glass and silver and flowers. "Push thi.t thing in the middle on one side, Bi still," he said. "It's too high. I can" see Miss Alicia." Burrill fot id it difficult to believe the evidence of his hearing. "The eperg. •, sir?" he inquired. "Is that what it's called, an apern? That's a new one on me. Yes, that's what I mean. Push the apern over." "Shall I remove it from the table, sir?" Burrill steeled himself to ex- act civility. Of what use to behave otherwise? There always remained the liberty to give notice if the worst came to the worst, though what the worst might eventually prove to be, it repuired a lurid imagination to de- pict. The epergne was a beautiful thing of crystal and gold, a celebrated work of art, regarded as an exquisite possession. It was almost remark- able that Mr. Temple Barholm had 1 nt not said, "Shove it on one side," but .Burrill had been spared the poignant I indignity of being required to "shove." "Yes, suppose you do. It's a fine enough thing when it isn't in the way, but I've got to see you while I talk, Miss Alicia," said Mr. Temple Bar - holm. The episode of the epergne— Butrill's expression, and the rigidly restrained mouths of Henry and James as the -decoration was removed, leav- ing a painfully blank space of table- cloth until Burrill silently filled it with flowers in a low bowl—these things temporarily flurried Miss Alicia somewhat, but the pleased smile at the head of the table calmed even that trying moment. Then what•a delightful meal it was, to be sure! How entertaining and cheerful and full of interesting con- versation! Miss Alicia had always admired what she reverently termed "conversation." She had read of the houses of brilliant people where they had it at table, at dinner and supper parties, and in drawing -rooms. The French ladies, were brilliant conver- sationalists. They held "salons" in Which the conversation was wonder- ful—Mme. de Steel and Mme. Ro- land, for instance; and in England, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Sydney Smith, and Horace Walpole, and sure- ly Miss Fanny Burney, and no doubt L. E. L., whose real name was Miss Letitia, Elizabeth Landon—vihat con- veration they must have delighted their friends with and how instruc- tive it must have been even to sit in the most obscure corner and listen! •Such gifted persons seemed to have been chosen by Providence to delight and inspire every one privileged to hear them. Such privileges had been omitted from 'the scheme of Miss Alicia's existence. She did not know, she would have felt it sacrilegious to admit it even if the fart had dawn- ed upon her, that "dear papa" had been a heartlessly arrogant, utterly • selfish, and tyrannical old blaekguald of the most pronounced type. He had been of an absolute morality as far as social laws were concerned. He had written and delivered a denuncia- STOP THE PAIN Baadaehe, Neuralgia, Rherimatio, Back- ache, Sciatic and Ovarian Paine. One or taco DR. MILES: ANTI -PAIN PILLS, and the pain is gone. Guaranteed Safe and Sure. Price 30e. Bold in Seaforth by , E. UMBAaEl, Plum., B. , • len,a ve-ititOing,t4a ' lt thements of ,hce;patiohlogers. during he :21Ong yeara'' ofbpi • patstorlita.• itliciaellkreadkng reneedil'Of 'the alp - fel relat onship. of the male progeni- tors he '-'Brontetall Jane Austen, B'ariny- Burney, tkod BrowaillEs Was Ifeepipaitry renabidei--arhui, she revealed a perception of which she was not aware. 'Be had combined the ver- lleAualities of all of them. Cense- quentlY, brilliancy of convertation at table had not been the'attractive habit of the household; "poor clear PtPa" had confined himself to scathing crit- icism of the incompetence of females . who could not teach their menials to I "cook a dimier which was not a dis- grace to any decent household." When not virulently aspersing the mutton, he was expressing bit opin- ion of muddle-headed weakness which would permit household bills 'to mount in a manner which could only bring ruin and disaster upon a minister of the gospel who throughout a pro- tracted career of usefulness had sap- ped his intellectual manhood in the useless effort to support in silly idle- ness a family of brainless. and mad- dening fools. Miss Alicia had heard her character, her unsuccessful phy- sical appearance, her mind, and her pitiful efforts at table -talk, Apscribed in detail with a choice of "Idjective and adverb which had broken into ter- rified fragments every atom of cour- age and will with which she had been sparsely dowered. So, not having herself been gifted with conversational powers to begin with, and never having enjoyed the exhibition of such powers in others, her ideals had been high. She was not sure that Mr. Temple Barholm's fluent and cheerful talk could be with exactness termed "conversation." It was perhaps not sufficiently lofty and intellectual, and did not confine itself rigorously to one exalted sub- ject. But bow it did raise one's spirits and open up curious vistas! And how good tempered and humorous it was, even though sometimes the hu- mor was a little bewildering. Dur- ing the whole dinner there never oc- curred, even one of those dreadful pauses in which dead silence fell, and one tried, like a frightened hen flying from side toiside of a coop, to think of something to say which would not sound. silly, but perhaps might divert attention from dangerous topics. She had often thought it would be so in- teresting to hear a Spaniard or a native Hindu talk about himself and his own country in English. Tem- barom 'talked about New York and its people and atmosphere, and he did not know how foreign it all was. He described the streets --Fifth Avenue and Broadway and Sixth Avenue— and the street -cars and the elevated reailroad, and the way "fellows" had to "hustle" "to put it over." He spoke of a boarding-house kept by a certain Mrs. Bowse, and a presidential. campaign, and the election of a mayor, and a quick -lunch counter, and when President Garfield had been assassin- ated, and a department store, and the electric lights, and the way 'he had of making a sort of picture of everything was really instructive and well, fascinating. She felt as though she had been taken about the city in one of the vehicles the conductor of which described things through a meg- aphone. Not that Mr. Temple Barholin sug- gested a megaphone, whatsoever that might be, but he merely made you feel as if you had seen things. Neer had she been so entertained and en- ard. If she had been a beautiful girl, he could not have seemed more as though in amusing her he was also really pleasing himself, He was so very funny sometimes that she could not help laughing in a way which was almost unladylike, because she could not stop, and was obliged to put her henclkerchief up to her face and wipe away actual tears of mirth. Fancy laughing until you cried, and the servants looking on! Once Burrill himself was obliged to turn hastily away, and twice she heard him severely reprove an over- powered young footman in a rapid undertone. Tembarom at least felt that the up- lifting heaviness of atmospherewhich had surrounded him while enjoying the companionship of M. Palford was a thing of the past. The thrilled interest, the surprise and delight of Miss Alicia would have stimulated 'a man in a comatose con- dition, it seemed to him. The little thing just loved every bit of it—she just "eat it up." She asked question after question, sometimes questions which would have made him shout with laughter 'if he lead not been afraid of hurting her feelings. She knew as little of New York as he knew of Temple Barholm, and was, it made him grin to see, allured by it as by some illicit fascination. She did not know what to make of it, and sometimes she was obliged hastily to conceal a fear that it was a sort of odom and Gomorrah; but she want- ed to hear more about it, and still more. And she brightened up until she actually did not look frightened, and at her dinner with an excellent op - petite. "I really never enjoyed a dinner so much in my life," she said when they went into the drawing -room to have their coffee. "It was the conversa- tion which made it so delightful. Conversation is such a stimulating thing!" She had almost decided that it was "conversation," or 'at least a wonder- ful substitute. When she- staid good night to him and went beaming to bed, looking forward immensely to breakfast next morning, he watched her go up the staircase, feeling wonderfully normal and happy. "Some of these nights, when she's I used to me," he said as he stuffed tobacco into his pipe in the library— "some of these nights I'm darned if little old thing and hug her in spite I sha'n't catch hold of the sweet, of myself. I Sha'n't be able to help it." He lit his pipe, and puffed 'it even excitedly. "Lordl" he said, "there's some blame' fool going about the world right now that might bave 7,- --2 • • t.,,e • •4 1 1%141 .ttO ..404114 ' • ' t ‘7"11%1 , Hilt • • ,, 1 k ' et! IR He le I/0,ot t king her iiaqi, , It' Mc! lisle her gotwo,06#: „.... • , Jverr 11143**414,-,. .• tions 04 hook! ly interested m every VitiPiditle ; made, In fact, . 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This it had revealed itself to him, she could do in a special way of her own, because during her life at Ternple Barholm she had felt it her duty to "try to do a little good" among the villagers. She and her long -dead mother and sister had of course been working adjuncts of the vicarage, and had numerous somewhat trying tasks 'to perform in the way of im- proving upon "dear papa's" harrying them into attending church, chivying the mothers into sending -their chil- dren to Sunday school, and being un- sparing in severity of any conduct which might be construed into imply- ing lack of appreciation of the vicar or respect for his eloquence. It had been necessary for them as members of the vicar'S family—al- ways, of course without adding a sixpence to the household bills—to supply bowls of nourishing broth and arrowroot to invalids and to 'bestow the aid and encouragement which re- sulted in a man of God's being regard- ed with 'affection and gratitude by his parishioners. Many a man's ca- reer in the church "dear papa" had frequently observed, had been ruined by lack of intelligence and effort on the part of the female members of his family. "No man could achieve proper re- sults," he said, "if he was hampered by the selfish influence and foolish- ness of his womenkind. Success in the church depends -in one sense very much upon the conduct of a man's female relatives." After the deaths of her mother and sister, Miss Alicia had toiled on pa- tiently, fading day by day from a slim plain, sweet-faced girl to a slim, even plainer and sweeter -faced middle- aged and at last elderly woman. She had by that time read aloud by bed- sides a great many chapters in the Bible, had given a good many tracts, and bestowed as much arrowroot, barley -water and beef -tea as she could possibly encompass without do- meatic disaster. She had given a large amount of conscientious, if not to intelligent, advice and had never failed to preside over her Sunday school class or at mothers' meetings. But her timid unimpressiveness had not aroused enthusiasm or awakened comprehension. "Miss Alicia, the cottage women said, "she's well mean - in', but she's not one with a head." "She reminds me," one of them hail summed her up, "of a hen that lays' a' egg every day, but it's too small for a meal, and 'u'd never hatch into anythin'." During her stay at Temple Barholm she had tentatively 'tried to do a little "parish work" but she had had noth- ing to give, -and she was 'always afraid that if Mr.Temple Barholm found her out, he would be angry, because he would think she was presuming. She was aware that the villagers knew that she was an object of charity herself, and 'a person who was "a lady" and yet an object of charity was, so to speak, poaching upon their own legitimate preserves. The rector and his wife were rather grand peo- ple, and condescehded to her greatly on the few occasions of their acci- dental meetings. ' She was neither smart nor influential enough to be con'sidered as an asset. It was she who "conversed" dur- ing their walk, and while she trotted by Tembarom's side looking more early -Victorian than ever in a neat, fringed mantle and 'a small black bon - ret of a fashion long decently inter- red by a changing world, Tembarom had never seen anything resembling OTHER TABLETS NOT ASPIRIN AT ALE Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross" are Genuine Aspirin If yen lent see the "Bayer Cross" on the tablets, you are not getting Aspirin—only nn neid imitation. The "Bayer Cross" is your only way of knowing that you are getting genuine Aspirin, prescribed by physicians for over nineteen years and proved safe by millions for Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Slid for Pain generally. Made in Canada. 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He "caught on. -to" the fact that though she was -very much given to the word "dear,"—peofile were "dear" and so were things and pLiBes,--ohe never even by chance slipped into saying "'dear lioneiroft," which she would certlainly have (Lei if she had ever spent a happy moment in it. As she talked to him he realized that her simple- accustornedness to English village life and all its ac- companiments of country surround - 1 ings would teach him anything and everything he might want to know. Her obscurity had been surrounded by stately magnificence, with which she had become familiar without touching the merest outskirts of its privileges. She knew flames pnd customs and families And things to be cultivated or avoid -I, and though she would be a little startled and much mystified by his total ignorance of all she had breathed in shire her birth, he felt sure that she would not re- gard him either with -private contempt or with a lessened liking because he was a vandal pure -and simple. And she had such a nice, little, old polite way of saying things. When, in passing a group of children, he failed to understand that their hasty bobbing up and down meant that they were doing obeisance to him as lord of the manor, she soeke with the prettiest apologetic courtesy. "I'm sure you won't mind touch- ing your hat when they make their little curtsies, or when a villager tushes his forehead," she said. S`Good Lord! no," he said, start- ing. "Ought I? I didn't know they were doing it at me." And he turn- ed round and made a handsome bow and grinned almost affectionately at the small, amazed parry, first puzzl- ing, and then delighting, them, be- cause he looked so extraordinary friendly. A gentleman who laughed at you like that ought t•t be equal to a miscellaneous distribution of pen- nies in the future, if not on the spot. They themselves grinip- I and chuckl- ed and nudged one another, with stares and giggles. "I am sorry to say that in a great many places the viilagers are not nearly so respectful they used to be," Miss Alicia explained. "In Row - croft the children were very remiss about curtseying. It's autte sad. But Mr. Temple Barholm was very strict indeed in the matter ,•f demanding proper respectfulness. Ile has turn- ed men off their fame, for incivility. The villagers of Tempi, Barholm have such better manners.sban some even a few miles asway.1' "Must I tip my hat to all of them?" he asked. "If you please. It really seems kinder. You—you needn't quite lift it, as you did to the children just now. If you just touch the brim lightly with your hand in a sort of military salute—that is what they are accus- tomed to." After they had inns -ed through the village street she paused at the end of a short lane and looked up at him doubtfully. "Would you—I wonder if you would like to go into a cottage," she said. "Go into a cottage?" he asked. "What cottage? What for?" He had not the remotest idea of any reason why he should go into a cottage inhabited by people who were entire strane•es to him, and Miss Alicia felt a trifle awkward at having to explain anything so wholly natural. "You see, they ;11'0 your cottages, and the people :11'(` your tenants, and—" "But perhaps they mightn't like it. It might make 'em mad," he argued. "If their water -pipes had busted, and they'd asked me to come and look at them or -anything; but they don't know 111,yet. They might think I was Mr.• Bu t "I don't quite—" she began. "But- tinski is a foreign name; it sounds Russian or Polish. I'm afraid I don't quite under -land why they should mistake you for him." • Then he laughed—a boyish shout of laughter which brought a cottager to the nearest window to peep over the pots of fuchsias and geraniums blooming profusely against the dia- mond panes. "Say," he apologized, "don't be mad because I laughed. I'm laughing at myself as much as at anything. It's a way of saying that they might think I was 'butting in' too much— pushing in where I wasn't asked. See? I said they might think I was Mr. Butt-in-siti! It's just a bit of fool slang. You're not mad are you ?" "Oh, no!" she said. "Dear me! no. It is very funny, of course. I'm afraid I'm extremely ignorant about —about foreign homer." It seemed more delicate to say "foreign" than merely "American." But her gentle little countenance for a few seconds COntinlled vie page six Hay - Fever SUMMER COLDS, ASTHMA, spoil many a holiday. RAZ - MAH Positively stops these troubles Sneezing, westing, coughing, weeping eyes aren't necessary -- unless you like being that way. 51.00 at your druggist's, or Write Templetons, Toronto, for a free trial. Setdd by E. Umbach • ai:;:s• ••• .aysi '40 JA.42), 6.166 . 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