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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-08-12, Page 7J i mbaromt By Frances Hodgson Burnett Toronto—William- Briggs. - (Continued from last week.) "The last part's true, all .right," Tentbaroan owned, "but there's some mistakes in the first part. I wasn't bob in the workhouse, and though I've been hungry enough, I 'never starved to death—if that's what 'clemmed' means." Tummas looked at once disappoint- ed and somewhat incredulous. "That's th' road they tell it i' th' village," he argued. "Well, let them tell it that way if they like it best' That's not going to worry me," Tembarom replied un_ combatively. Tilmmas's eyes bored deeper into him. "Does na tha care?" he demanded. "What -should I care for? Let every fellow enjoy himself his own way." "Tha 'rt not a bit like one o' th' gentry," said Tummas. Tha 'rt quite a common chap. Tha 'rt as common as me, for aw tha foine clothes." "People are common enough, any- how," said Tembarom. "There's nothing much commoner, is there?" There's millions of 'em everywhere— billions of 'em. None of us need put on airs." ' "Tha 'rt as common as me," said Tummas, reflectively. "An' yet tha owns Temple Barholm an' aw that brass. I tonna mak' out how th' loike happens." "Neither can I; but It does all the samee." "It does na happen i"'Meriker," ex- ulted Tummas. Everybody's equal theer." "Rats!" ejaculated Tembarom. "What about mult-millionaires?" He forgot that the age of Tummas was ten. It was impossible not to forget it. He was, in fact, ten hun- dred, if those of his generation had beep aware of the truth. But there he sat, having spent only a decade of his most recent incarnation in a whitewashed cottage, deprived of the use of his legs. Miss Alicia, seeing that Tembaront was in'erestud in the boy, entered into domes tic conversation with Mrs. Hibblethwtite at the other side of the room. Mrs fibblethwaite was soon explaining the uncertainty of Susan's 'temper on wash days, when it was necessary to depend on her legs. "Can't you walk at all?" Tembarom asked. Tun nas shook his head. "How long h: ve you been lame?" "Ever since I wur born. It's sum - mat like ricket;. I've been lying here aw my days. I look on at foak an' think 'em over. I've got to do sum - mat. That's why I loike th' atlas, Little Ann Hutchinson gave it to me onct when she come to see her grand- mother," Tembarom sat upright. "Do you know her?" he exclaimed. "I know her best o' onybody in th' world. An' rloike her best." "So do I," rashly admitted Tem- barom. "Tha does?" Tummas asked su. spiciously. "Does she loike thee?" "She says she does." He tried to say it with proper modesty. "Well, if she says she does, she does. An' if she does, then yo an' meg] be friends." He stopped a mom- ent, and seemed to be taking Tem- barom with thoroughness. "I could get. a lot out o' thee," he said after the inspection. "A lot of what?" Tembarom felt as though he would really like to hear. "A lot o' things I want to know a- bout. • I wish I'd liked th' life tha's lived, clemmin' or no clemmin.' Tha's seen things goin' on every day o' thy loife." "Well, yes, there's been plenty go- ing on, plenty," Tembarom admitted. I've been.lying here for ten year'," said Tum.mas, savagely. "An' I've had nowt i' th' world to do an' nowt to think on but what I could mak' foak tell me about th' village. But nowt happens but 'this chap 'gettin' drunk an' that chap deein' or losin' MERE IS ONLY ONE GENUINE ASPIRIN Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross" are Aspirin—No others 1 lit arida 0a lent �.t'I� Rowe a' 'tyoaieh.e acitin' ,'If .I'd not been cripler'd.ha' been at work for a y r• by tioga 'arnl».' money to hy''an" go "to r"4eriker '•' "You seem,to be sort ofetuek Miieiica, .8o'W!a ,that?"' •i'PG.11at.,,doet mean?" "."I"nlean you .seem to like it," ' "1 dunnot loike it nor yet not 10 H, bat I've heard a bit more abou than I" have about th' other plates th' ';nap. ;Foals goes there to thefr fortune, an' it seems _bike then a good bit doin'.". "Do you like to read newspapers said Tembarom, inspired to his qu by a recollection of the vision things "doing" in the Sunday Ea "Wlheer 'd I get papers from?" boy asked testily. "Foalk like hasn't got tis' brass for 'em." "I'll bring you some New Yor papers," promised Tembarofn, gri ning a little in, anticipation. " we'll talk about the news that's them. The Sunday Earth is full pictures. I used to work on th paper myself." r "Tha did?" Tummas cried excite ly. "Did tha help to print it, or .WR it th' ore the- sold i' th' streets?t "I wrote some of the stuff in it" "Wrote some of th' stuff in i Wrote it thaself? How could tha common chap like thee?" he as more excited still, hie ferret ey snapping. "I don't know how I did it," Ter barom answered, with increased chee u and interest in the situation. wasn't highbrow 'sort of work." Tummas leaned forward in his i credulous eagerness. 'D "Does tha mean that they pal thee for writin' it—paid thee?" "I guess they wouldn'thave don h it if they'd been Lancashire," Tem t barom answered. "But they hadn much more sense than I had. The paid me twenty-five dollars a week that's five pounds." . "I dunnot believe thee, said Tum Inas, and leaned back on his pillo short of breath. a I didn't believe it myself till I' paid my board two weeks and bough a suit of clothes with it' was Tem barom's answer, and he chuckled a he made it. 1At, a many uPooi littAA r. ays wF on : Pobitively stops these trou:lltasl 8aeenln , weexing, coughing weeping eyes aren't necessary— „__ wtless you like being that way. t it Te npletont e Toronto, for free trial. on seek SCold by E. Umbach eve ? had me, an' she was weak an' poorly cry an' aittin' at th' door' wi' me in her h. of arms, an'. he passed by an' saw her. 'the He stopped an' axed her how she was dein'. An' when he was goin' away, us he gave her a gold sovereign, an' he e says, 'Put in in th' savin'sJbank for him, an' keep it theer till he's a•big Andat lad an"' wants it.' It's been in th' aavin'sebank ever sin'. I've got a of whole pound o' ansa own out at inter- est. There's not many Iads ha' got "He must have been a good-natur- d ed fellow," commented Tembarom. "It was darned bad luck him going to the Klondike." "It was good luck for thee,". said t? 'Pommes, with resentment. �� "Was it?" was Tembarom's un- biased reply. "Well, I guess it was, es I one way or the other. I'm not kick- ing, anyhow." m Tummas naturally did not know r half he meant. He went on talking It about Jem Temple Barholm, and as he talked his cheeks flushed and his n- eyes lighted. d "I would na spend that sovereign if I was starvin'. I'm going to leave it. to Ann Hutchinson in ma will when e I die. I've axed questions about him reet and left ever sin' I can r•emem- rt ber, but theer's nobody knows much. y Mother says he was fine an' hand- some, an' gentry through an' through. If he'd coom into th' property, he'd ha' room to see me again P11 lay a t+ Mifflin', because I'm a cripple an' I d canna spend his sovereign. If he'd coom back from th' Klondike, happen t he'd ha' towd me about it." He pull- - ed the atlas toward him, and laid his thin finger on the rubbed spot. "He Mun ha' been killed somewheer about here," he sighed. "Somewheer here. k Eh, it's funny:" s Tembarom watched him. There s was something that rather gave you - the "Willies" in the way this little t cripple seemed to have taken to the e dead man and worried along all these t years thinking him over and asking h questions and studying up the Klon- - dike because he was killed there. It a was because he'd make a kind of story of it. He'd enjoyed it in the - way people enjoy stories in a news- paper. You always had to give 'em a kind of story; you had to make a story even if you were telling about - a milk -wagon running away. In newspaper offices you heard that was the secret of making good with what you wrote. Dish it up as if it was a sort of story. He not infrequently arrived at astute enough conclpsions concerning things. He had arrived at one now. Shut out even front the tante drama of village life, Tummas, born with an abnormal desire for action and a fev- erish curiosity, had hungered and thirsted for the story in any form whatever. He caught, at fragments of happenings, and colored and dis- sected them for the satisfying of un - fed cravings, The vanished man had been the one touch of pictorial form and color in his ten years of exist- ence. Young and handsome and of the gentry, unfavored by the ownerof the wealth which same day would be his own possession, stopping 'gentry -way' at a cottage door to speak good-naturedly to a pale young mother, handing over the magnificence of a whole sovereign to be saved for a new-born child, going away to vaguely understood disgrace, leaving his own country to hide himself in distant lands, meeting death amid snow and ice and surrounded by gold mines, leaving his empty place to be filled by a boot -black newsboy—true there was enough to lie and think over and to try to follow with the help of maps and excited questions. .I wish I could ha' seen him," said Tummas. "I' awntost gi' my sov- ereign to get a look at that picture in th' gallery at Temple Barholm." "What picture?" Tembarom asked. "Is there a picture of him there?" "There is na one o' him, but there's one o' a lad as deed two hundred year' ago as, they say wur th' spit an' image on hint when he wur a lad hissen. One o' th' owd servants towd mother it wur theer." This was a natural stimulus to in- terest and curiosity. "Which one is it? ,Jinks! I'd like to see it myself. Do you know which one it is? There's .hundreds of them." "No, I dunnot know," was Tum- mas's dispirited answer, "an' neither does mother. Th' woman as knew left when owd Temple Barholm deed." "Tummas," broke in Mrs. Hibbleth- waite from the other end of the room - to which she had returned after tak- ing Mins Alicia out to complain about the copper in the "wash -'us'—" "Tummas. tha 'st been talkin' like a 'magpie. Tha 'rt a lot ton bold an' ready wi' tha tongue. Th' gentry's noan comin' to sec thee if tha clacks th' heads off theer showthers." "I'm afraid he always does talk But Tummas did believe it. This after he had recovered from the shoe became evident. The curiosity in hi face intensified itself; his eagernes was even vaguely tinged with some thing remotely resembling respect. I was not, however, respect for th money which had been earned, bu for the store of things "loin'" whit must have been required. It was im possible that this chap knew thing undreamed of. "Haa tha ever been to th' Klon dike?" he asked after a long pause. "No. I've never been out of New York" Tummas seemed fretted ,and de pressed. "Eh, I'm sorry for that. I wished tha 'd been to th' Klondike. I want to be towd about it," he sighed. He pulled the atlas toward him and found a place in it. "That theer's Dawson," he announc- ed. Tembarom saw that the region of the Klondike had been much studied. It was even rather faded with the frequent passage of search- ing fingers, as though it had been pored over with special curiosity. "There's gowd-moines theer," re- vealed Tummas. "An' theer's welly nowt else hut snow an' ice. A yoyng chap as set out fro' here to get theer Lee,. to ilea tit on th' way." "How did you get to hear about it?" "Ann she browt me a paper onct." Ile dug under his pillow, and brought out a piece of newspaper, worn and frayed and cut with age and usage. "This heer's what 's left of it. Tem- barom saw that it was a fragment from an old American sheet and that a column was headed "The Rush for the Klondike." "Why didna tha go theer?" de- manded Tummas. He looked up from his fragment and asked this question with a sudden reflectiveness, as though a new and interesting aspect of things had presented itself to him. "I had too much to do in New York," said Tembarom. "There's al- ways something doing in New York, you know." Tummas silently regarded him a moment or so. "It's a pity tha didn't go," he said. "Happen tha'd never ha' coom back." Tembarom laughed the outright Augh. "Thank you," he answered. • Tummas was still thinking the matter over and was net disturbed. "I was na thinkin' o' thee." he said it an impersonal tone. "I WAS think - in' o' t' other chap. If tha'd gon i'stead o' him, he'd ha' been here i'stead o' thee. Eh, but it's funny," And he drew a deep breath like n sigh having its birth in profundity of baffled thought. Both he and his evident point of view were "funny" in the Lancashire sense, which does not imply humor, bust strangeness and the unexplain- able. Singular as the phrasing was, Tembarom knew what he meant, and that he was thinking of the oddity of chance. Tnnnnmas had obviously heard of "poor Jem" and had felt an inter- est in him. "You're talking about Jem Temple rholm I guess," he said. Perhaps e interest he himself had felt in e tragic story gave his voice a tone mewhat responsive to Tummas's' n mood, for Tummas„ after One ore boring glance, let himself go. s interest in this special subject', s, it revealed itself, a sort of ob-' salon. The history of Jem Temple rholm had been the one drama of short life. "Aye, I was thinkin' o' hum," he id. "I should na ha' cared for th' ondike so much but for him." "But he went away from England en you were a baby." '.Th' last toime he coom to Temple rholm wur when I wur just born. ak said be coom to ax owd Temple rholm if he'd help him to pay his ebts, an' th' owd chap awmost kick - him out o' doors. Mother har just If you don't see the "Bayer Cross" Ba on the tablets, refuse them—they are th not Aspirin at all. Insist on genuine "Bayer Tablets of I sew Aspirin" plainly stamped with the safety "Bayer Cross'—Aspirin prescribed by nt phyaicinns for nineteen years and proved ; Hf safe.jmy millions for Headache, Tooth-wa ache, Earache, Rheumatism, Lumbago,' ae Colds, Neuritis, and Pain generally. ' Ba Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets—also 1 hie larger Bayer" packages. Made in Canada. 1 ea Aspirin is the trade mark (registered ' KI in Canada), of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylieacid. i wh •While it is well known that Aspirin I means Bayer manufacture, to assist the Ba , public Against imitations, the Talelcts of � Po Bayer compnny, Ltd., will be stamped Ba with their general trade , mark, the d "Bayer Cross." ed Does It Pay to Worry About Appendicitis? Can appendicitis be guarded against? Yes, by .preventing intesti- nal infection. The intestinal antisep- tic, Adler-i-ka, acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel removing ALL foul, decaying matter which might start infection. EXCELLENT for gas on stomach or chronic constipation. It removes matter which you never thought was in your system and. which nothing else can dislodge. One man reports it is unbelievable the -aw- ful impurities Adler-i-ka 'brought out. E. Umbach, Druggist. (lith;” ire:'fey $ g to me abaft dam ' mgl�e r t ; I lm expiaiiiroed Tegi*-rem r f ". chin ',together -- poor, Aut.", MOO 0�,,l1iefa laiiTs startled, 'hnd tire. '6Itt4�latltwGi t was •plainly fiuster'ed• trelµepilf iglY. She quite' lost her temper.' .%,:. "Eh; she eelaii8ied, "Chs wants tha young sed knocked off, Tum'mea Hibblethwaite. go fair daft about Or young gentleman as—as was kill- ed. He axes 'questions mony a day till I'd give him' tit! Stick if he waana a cripple. He (bothers me to death." "I'll ring you some of those New York Papers to look at," Tembarom said to the boy as he went away. He walked back through the vil- lage to Temple Barholm, holding Mies Alicia's elbow in light, affectionate guidance and support, a little to her embarrassment and also a little to her delight. Until he•had taken her in- to the dining -room the night before she had never seen such a thing done. There was no over•+familiarity in the action. It merely seemod somehow to suggest liking and a wish to take' care of her. "That little fellow in the village," he aside after a silence in which it occurred to her that he seemed thoughtful, "what a little freak he is! He's got an idea that there's a picture in the gallery that's said to look like Jem Temple Barholm when he was a boy. Have you ever heard anything about it? He says a servant told his mother it was there." "Yes, there is one," Miss Alicia answered. "I stometimes go and look at it. But it makes me feel very sad. It is the handsome boy who was a page in the court of Charles 11, He died in his teens. His name was Miles Hugo Charles James. Jem could see the Likeness himself. Some- times for a little joke 1 used to call him Miles Hugo." - "I believe I remember him," said Temlbarom. "I believe I asked Pal - ford his name. I must go and have a look at him again. He hadn't much better luck than the fellow that look- ed like him, dying as young as that." CHAPTER XVII Form, color, drama, :Lein divers other advantages are necessary to the creation of an object of Interest. Pre- senting to the world 11,10 of these assets, Miss \Alicia had slipued through life a scarcely remarked unit. No little ghost of prettiness had at- tracted the wandering eye, no suggetion of agreeable or a disagreeable power of self-assertion had arrested attention. There had been no hour in tier' life when she had expected to count as being of the slightest consequouee. When she had knocked at the door of the study at Rowcroft Vicarg,. and "dear papa" had exclaimed irnt:lily: "Who is that? Who is that?" elle had al- ways replied, "It is only :Uicia." This being the case, her gradual awakening to 'the sintdlarity of her new situation was mentally a process full of doubts and s nnetinies of a- larmed bewilderments. If in her girlhood a curate, even a curate with prominent eyes and :1 receding chin, had proposed to her that she should face with hint a future enriched by the prospect of being called upon t. bring up a probable family of twelve on one hundred and fifty pound., a year, with both parish and rietiry barking and snapping at her worn- down heels, she m,ul•1 have been sur:' tc assert tenderly that she was a- fraid she was "not worthy." Thi; was the natural hili.' of her mind, and in the weeks w'hielt followed the foggy afternoon when Tembarom "staked out his elven," she dwelt often upon her unwe'thiness of the benefits bestowed upon her. First the world bee w stairs, then the village, and then ,,,,e county itself awoke to the fact the' 'he now Temple Temple Barholm ha,1 taken her up." The first tendency .d :he world below stairs was to resent •Ise unwarranted uplifting of a mer II whom there had been a certain 11'•ury in regard- ing with disdain and treating with scarcely veiled lac!. consideration. To be able to do this with a person who, after all was Said and done, was not one of the serr' ret class, but a sort of lady of bis''', was not un - stimulating. And be:ew stairs the sense of personal rar.'or against "a 'anger -on is strong. The meals serv- ed in Miss Alicia's remote sitting - room had been serve at leisure, her tea had rarely been he, and her mod- estly tinkled bell irre_ularly answer- ed. Often her far fe..01 liberally sup- plied fire had gone ow on chilly days, and she had been afraid to insist on its being relighted. ller sole defence against inattention eetild have been to complain to Mr. Temple Barholm, mut when on one deet. ion a too obvi- ous neglect had (Nivel her to gather her quaking being tsWether in mere self-respect and say, "If this contin- ues to occur, William. i shall be oblig- ed to speak to Mr• Temple Barholm." William had so looko,1 at her and so ill hid a secret smile that it had been alllmost tantamount t•. his saying, "I'd jolly well like to see you." And now! Silting at the end of the table opposite his. if you please! Walking here and walking there with hint! Sitting in the library or where_ ever he was, with him talking and laughing and making as much of her as though she were on aunt with a fortune to leave, awl with hey mak- ing as free in talk ns though at lib- erty to say anything that came into her head! Well, the beggar that had found himself en horseback was setting another one galloping along side of him. In the ,niddst of this natural resentment it was "a bit up- setting," as Burrill said, to find it dawning upon one that absolute ex- actness of ceremony was as much to be required for "her" as for "him." 1 Miss Alicia had long felt secretly sure that she was spoken of as "her" in the servants' hall. That business- like s'h'arpness which Pafford had ob- served in his client aided Tembarom always to see things without illusions. lave 7 A: .. adt1., F'.. m... ;:.Itt sr u' l'i w ,at :taiga Ow Ar short ; regard him r. AS mus more than air be aleoknew that i£ man rind. woared bad eiz ploytnerit wbiol' wos i)ot°'trade hard far them, And wera well PAM ,for doing, they were net anxiope .teleee it, and the man who paid their wages Might give orders with some certainty ' o of finding theta "obeyed. He waa "sharp" in more ways than one. He observed shades he might have been expected to overlook. He observed" a certain shade in the' demeanor of the domestics when attending Miss ,Alicia and it waa.a shade which mlarked a difference between service toe for her and service done for himself. This was only at th, outset; of course when the secret res'en• anent was felt; but he observed it, mere shade though it woe. He walked out into the hall after Bdrrill one morning. Not having yet adjueted himself to the rule that when one wished to speak to a man one rang a bell and called him back, fifty times if necessary, he walked after Burrill and stopped him. "This is a pretty good place for servants, ain't it?" he said. "Yes, air." "Good pay, good food, not too much to do?" "Certainly, sir," Burrill replied, somewhat disturbed by a casualness which yet suggested a method of get- ting at something or other. "You and the rest of them don't' want to change, do you?" "No, sir. 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