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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-10-07, Page 7OCTOBER 7, 1921. T.: Tembarom , By mason Hodgson Burnstt Toronto--Witliau Brlgp, (Continued from last week) The dukes bow had a remote sug- gestion of almost including a .kissed band in its gallant courtesy. Not, Iowever, that Early Victorian ladies had been accustomed to the kissing of bands; but at.the period when he had beat known the type he had daily bent over white' fingers in Continen- • tal capitals. "A glass of wine," Miss Alicia im- plored. "Pray let me give you a glass of wine. I ant sure you need it very much." He was taken into the library and made to sit In a most comfortable easy -chair. Miss Alicia fluttered a- bout him with sympathy still delicate- ly tinged with alarm. How long, how long, it had been since he had been fluttered over! Nearly forty years. Ladiee did not flutter now, and he re- membered that it.was no longer the fashion to call them"ladies," Only the lower -middle classes spoke of "ladies." But he found himself men- tally using the word again • as he watched Miss Alicia, It had been "ladies" Who had. flut- tered and been anxious about a man in this quite way. He could scarcely remove his eyes from her as he sipped his wine. She felt his escape "providential," and murmured such devout little phrases concerning It that he was almost con- soled for the grotesque inward vision of himself as an aged peer of the realm tumbling out of a baby -car- riage and d col g led over on the grass at i the feet of a man on whom later he had meant to make, in proper state, aeformal call. She put her hand to her side. smiling half apologetically. "My -heart beats quite fest yet," elle said. Whereupon a quaintly nov- el thing took place, at the sight of which the duke barely escaped open- ing his eyes very ,wide indeed. The American Temple Barholm put his arm about her in the most casual and informally accustomed way, and led her to a chair, and put her in it, so to sreak. "Say," he announced with affection- ate auth rity, "you sit down right away. It'; you that needs a glass of wine, and I'm going to give it to you." The relations between the two were evidently en a basis not common in England even among people who were attached to one another. There was a spontaneous, every -day air of natural, protective petting about it, as though the fellow was fond of her in his crude fashion, and meant to take care of her. He was fond of her, and the duke perceived •it with elation, and also understood. He might be the ordinary bestower of boons, but the protective curve of his arm included other things, In the blank dullness of his unaccustomed splendors he had somehow encounter- ed this fine, delicately preserved lit- tle relic of other days, and had seiz- ed on her and made her his own. el have not seen anything as de- lightful as Miss Temple Barholm for many a year," the duke said When Miss Alicia was called from the room and left them together. "Ath't she great?" was Tembarones reply. "She's just great." "It's an exquisite survival of type," said the duke. "She belongs to my time, not yours," he added, realizing that "survival of type" •might not clearly convey itself. "Well, she belongs to mine now." answered Tembarom. "I wouldn't lose her for a farm." "The voice, the phrases, the car- riage might survive,—they do in re- mote neighborhoods, I suppose—but the dress is quite delightfully incred- ible. It is a work of art," the duke went on. She had seemed too gond to be true. Her clothes, however, had certainly not been dug out of a wardrobe of forty years ago. When I went to talk to the head woman in the Bond Street I fixed it with 'em hard and fast that she was not to spoil her. They were to keep her like she was. She's like her little Cap, you know, and her little HOW YOU CAN TELL GENUINE ASPIRIN Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross" • are Aspirin—No others! 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There had been no rash the hope that the uraex Iored t I might be a rich one. The man plicity was. an actual complexi had eaten iahbuainess=likee and aline1 about his mouth which was strong enough to have, been hard ;if it had not li good-natured. "That as confoundedly clev ' his grace commented 'heart}! "confoundedly. I should never had the wit to think .of it m or the courage to do it if I had. women make me shy." • "Oh, well, I just put it up to th Tembarom answered easily. "I belive," cautiously translat duke, "that you mean that you them feel that they alone wse aponsible." "Yes, I do," assented Temb the grin'slightly in evidence. it up to them's the short way of say- ing it." "Would you mind my writing that down?" said the duke. "I have a fad for dialects and new phrases." Ile hastily scribbled the words in a tablet that he took from his pocket. "Do you like living in England?" he asked in course of time. "I should like it if I'd been born here," was the answer. "I see, I see." "If it had not been for finding Miss Alicia, and that I made a promise Pd stay for a year, anyhow, I'd have broken loose at the end of the first week and worked any passage back if I hlydn't had enough in my clothes to pay for it." IIe laughed, but it was not real laughter. There was a thing behind it. The situation was more edifying than one could have hoped. "I made a promise, and I'm going to stick it out," he said. He was going to stick it out be- cause he had .promised to endure for a year Temple Barholm and an in - d to of seventy thousand pounds. The duke gazed xth' him as at and ream realized. "I've nothing to do," Tembarom dded. "Neither have I," replied the duke f Stone. "But you're used to it, and I'm hot. 'm used to working 'steep hours a ay, and dropping into bed as tired s a dog, but ready to sleep like one nd get up rested." "I used to play twenty hours i ay once," answered the duke, "but I idn't get up rested. That's prob- bly why I have gout and rheumatism rmbined. Tell me -how you worked rid I will tell you how I played." Jit was worth chile taking th 'tie with him. It had been wo hile taking it with the chestnu steering peasants in the Apennines, >metimes even with a stone -breaker y an ••En;;lish roadside. And this e was of a type more unique and stinctive than any other—a fellow ho, with the blood of Saxon Kings d Norman nobles in hisi veins, had nown nothing but the street life thecrudest city in the world, who oke a sort of argot, who knew no rallels of the thing's which sur- unded him in the ancient home he d inherited and in which he stood art, a sort of semi -sophisticated vage. The duke applied himself th grace and finished abilty to awing him out. The question he lied were all seemingly those of a n of the world charmingly inter - cd in the superior knowledge of oreigner of varied experience. His thod was one which engaged the erect of Tembarom himself. He. not know that •he was not only estioned, but, so to speak, delicate - cross -examined and that before the 1 of the interview the Duke of one knew more of him, hie past stance and present sentiments, n even Miss Alicia knew after air long and intimate evening talks. e duke, however, had the advent - of being a man and of cherish - vivid recollections of the days of youth, which, unlike as it had n to that of Tembarom, furnished egree of solid foundation upon ch go to build conjecture. THE HURON EXPOSITOR t �•��— — send for rroebo t tin odd• ears of 'friewh's l And world -ramous ep- ara�forzpneeppe.yy It wes its—Mawr° faahlon- over so mom e, rro mak assets, osY,x.+Wtx frau wiped' t whet "sir o c's u> ane e . 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First Lady Edith, ntade perhaps bold by the suggestion of physical advant- age. besbowed by the calor, talked to .him to the very best of her ability; . and when she felt .herself fearfully 'flagging, Lady Celia took him up and did her very well-conducted best. Neither she nor her sister were brit n oR inn, He beautifully edged Lady Joan grand out of her position, , e could not es, by behave ill to him, he was far too old, mite he sold to himself, ' leaving out tha stag fact that a Duke of Stone ia, a too clean respectable personage lie be . quite Bo on! waxed aside quite Tembarom began to enjoy himself s ap- ,, little more. Lady Celia and Lady which 11lttt1le bei to �y themselves a aloe. Lady Maliowe was end- I filled with Admiring delight, Cop- y of tain Palliser took in he situation, e fact ' and asked himself .que�.iona about nes in 'a aim. ty. He n, but of historical instruction on their lirst morning in London, immediately af- ter breakfasting on toast and bacon n and marmalade and eggs. "She meant me to go, but some. evem of how it was put off. She almost cried y. • on our journey home when she aud- have denly remembered that we'd forgot- ybelf, ten it, after all." shop I "I am sure shq said it was a wast- ed. opportunity," •auggester his grace. em;' "Yes, that was what hit her so hard, She'd never been to London ed the before, and you couldn't make her made ! believe she coeld elver get there again e re- and she said it was ungrateful to r Providence to waste an opportunity. , arum, She's always mighty anxious to be "Put grateful to Providence, .bless Iter!" • She regards you as Providence,,, remarked the duke, enraptured. With a touch here and there, bhe touch of a master, he had gathered the whole little story of Miss Alicia, and had found it of a Whimsical exquisite- ness and humor. "She'a a lot too good to ire," an- swered Tembarom. I guess women as nice as her are always a lot too good to men. She's a kind of little eld angel. What makes me orad is th think of the fellows that didn't get busy and marry her thirty-five years ago." Were there—er_ntany of 'est?" the' duke inquircel. "Thousands of 'em, though most of 'cm never sew her. I suppose you never saw her thed. If you had, you might have.done it." The duke, sitting with an elbow on each arm of his chair, put the tips of his tine, gouty fingers together and smiled with a far-reaching in- clusion of possibilities. "So I might," he said; "so I ruight. Myloss entirely—my Ueel— m Y abominable Y fly.' They had reached this point of the argument when the carriage from Stone Ilover arrived. It was a state- ly barouche the coachman and foot- man of which equally with its big horses seemed to have hastened' to an extent which suggested almost panting breathlessness. It contained Lady Edith and Lady Celia, both pale, and news whichhadbrought them t horrified from Stone Hover without a mom- ent's delay... They both ascended in haste and swept in such alarmed anxiety up' the terrace steps and through the hall to their father's side that they had barely a polite gasp for Miss Alicia and scarcely saw Tembarom at all. "Dear Papa!" they cried when he revealed himself in his chair in the library intact and smiling. "How wicked of you, dear! How you have frightened us!" I begged you to be good, dear- est," said Lady Edith, almost in tears. "Where was •George? You mast dismiss him at once. Really— really—" ' He was half a mile away, obeying my orders," said the duke. A groom cannot be dismissed for obeying or- ders. It is the pony who must be dismissed, to my great regret; or else we must overfeed him until he is even fatter than he is and cannot run away." Were his arms and legs and his ribs and eoilan-bone and head quite right? Was he sure that he had not received any internal injury when he fell out of the pony carriage? They could scarcely be convinced, and as thery hung over and stroked and patted him, Tembarom stood aside and watched them with interest. They were the girls he had to please Ann by "getting next to," giving himself a chance to fall in love with them, so that she'd know whether they were his kind or not. They were nice look- ing, and had a way of speaking that sounded rather swell, but they weren't ace •high to a little slim, red-headed thing that looked at you like a baby and pulled your heart up into your throat. Don't poke me any more, dear children. I am quite, quite sound," be heard the duke say. "In Mr. Temple Barholm you behold the pre- server of your parent. Filial piety is making you behave with shocking .ingratitude." They turned to Tembarom at once with a pretty outburst of apologies and thanks. Lady Celia wasn't, it is true, "a looker," with her narrow shoulders and rather long nose, but she had an air of breeding, and the charming color of which Palliser had spoken, returning to. Lady Edith's cheeks, illuminated her greatly. They both were very polite and made many agreeably grateful speech- es, but in the eyes of both there lurked a shade of Anxiety which they hoped to be able to conceal. Their father watched them with a wicked pleasure. He realized clearly their t well-behaved desire to do and say ex- actly the right thing and bear them- selves in exactly the right manner, and also their awful uncertainty be- fore an entirely unknown quantity. Almost any other kind of young man suddenly uplifted by strange fortune they might have known some parallel for, but a newsboy of New York! All c a o d a d d a to w' g ad on di aw an of sp pa ro ha ap sa wi dr 4s ma est a are int did qu ly em ext tha th Th age ing h is bee a d whi is rth t - "A young man of his age," his grace reflected astutely, " has always just fallen tout of love, is falling into it, or desires vaguely to do so. Ten years later there would peehaps be blank spaces, lean years during which he Was not in love at all; but at his particular period there must be a young woman somewhere. I won- der if she is employed in one of the department stores he spoke of, and how soon he hopes to present her to us. His conversation has revealed so far, to use his own rich simile, 'neither hide nor hair' of her." On his own part, he was as/ready to answer questions as 'to ask them. In fact, he led Tembarom on to ask- ing. I will tell you how I played" had been meant. He made a human docu- ment of the history he enlarged, he brilliantly diverged, he included, he made pictures, and found Tembarom's point of view or lack of it gave spice and humor to relations he had thought himself tired of. To tell familiar anecdotes of courts and kings to a man who had never quite believed that such things were realities, who almost found them humorous when they were casually spoken of, was edification indeed. The novel charm lay in the fact that his class to his country di'd not include them as pos- sibilities. Peasants in other 0011711- tries, oin-tries, plowmen, shopkeepers, laborers in England --,all these at least they knew of, and counted them in as factors in the lives of the rich and great; but ail_ dear young mart -el "What's a crown like? I'd like to aee one. How much do you guess such a thing cost—in dollars?" "Did not Miss Temple Barholm take you to see the regalia in the Tower of London? I am quite shock- ed," said the duke. He was, in fact, a trifle disappointed. With the .puce dress and unelersleevee and little fringes she ought certainly to have rushed with her pupil to that seat Everybody knows that in Canada there are more Templetoln's Rheumatic Capsules Sold than all other Rheumatic Remedies combined for Rheu- matism, Neuritis, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, etc. Manydoctors prescribe them, most druggists sell them. Write for free trial to Templeton. Toronto, Sold by E. Unibach• in Walton by W. G. Neal. haat talkers at any time, and limited by the absence of any common fam- iliar topic, effort was ,necessary. The neighborhood he did not know; Lon- don he was barely aware of; social functions it would be an impertin- ence to bring in; games he did not play; sport he had scarcely heard of. You were confined to America, and if you knew next to nothing of Am- erican life, there you were. Tembarom saw it all,- -he was sharp. enough for that, --and his habit of being jocular and 'wholly unashamed saved him from the •misery pf aw- kwardness that Willocks would have been sure to have writhed under. Hie casual frankness, 'however, for a moment embarrassed Lady Edith to the bitterest extremity. When you are trying your utmost to make a queer person oblivious to the fact that his world is one unknown to you, it is difficult to know where do you stand when he says: "It's mighty hard to talk to a man who doesn't know a thing that belongs to the kind of world you've spent ' Your life to ain't it? Y I:u td don't you mind me a np' rrwte. I'm glad to be talked to anyhow by purple like you. When I don't catch on, I'll just ask. No man was ever electrocuted for and knowing, and that's just where I ant. I don't know, and lin glad to be told. Now, there's one thing. Bur- rill said 'Your Ladyship' to you, I heard hien. Ought I to say it, er oughtn't I?" Oh, no," she answered, but some- how without distaste hi the momen- tary stare he had startled her into; "Burrill is—" "Ice's a servant," he aided encour- agingly. "Weil, I've mover been a butler, but I've been somebody's servant all my life, and mighty glad of the chance. This is the first time I've been out of a job," What nice teeth he had! What a queer, candid, unresent.ful creature! What a good sort of .smile! And how odd that it was he who was put- ting her more at her rase by the mere way in which he was saying this almost alarmingahing! • By the time he had ender!, it wad not alarm- ing at all, and she had caught her breath again. She was actually sorry when the door opened and Lady Joan Fayre came in, follnw•ed almost immediately by LadyMalluwe and Captain Pal- liser, who appeared ;.o have just re- turned from a walk and heard the news. Lady Mallowe was most sympa- thetic. Why n:rt, indeed? The Duke of Stone was a delightful, cynical creature, and Stone Hover was, de- spite its ducal poverty, a desirable place to be invited to, if you could manage it. Her ladyship's method of fluttering was not like Miss Alicia's, its character being wholly modenn; but she fluttered, neverthe- less. The duke, who knew all about her, received her ;uniabilities with appreciative smiles, but it was the splendidly handsome, hungry eyed young woman with the line between her black brows who engaged his at- tention. On the alert) as he always was, for a situation. he detected one at once when he it t his American address her. She did not address him and scarcely deigmeil a reply when he .spoke to her. When be spoke to others, she conchrctod herself as though he were not in the room, so obviously did she chie.ae to ignore his existence. Such a hearing toward one's host had indeed the chatnn of be- ing an interesting novelty. And What a beauty she was, with her lovely, ferocious eyes and the small, black head poised en the exquisite long throat, which was on the verge of becoming a trifle 'oo thin! Then as. in a flash he revered between one breath and another the quite fiendish episode of poor Jam Temple Barholm —and she was the gid! Them he became almdist excited in his interest. He saw it all. As he had himself argued most be the case, this poor fellow was :n love. But it was not with a lardy in the New York department stores; e was with a young woman who would evidently disdain to wipe her feet upon hits. How thrilling! As i,:ely Mallowe and Palliser and the other." chattered, he watched him, observing his manner. He stood the 'hand'ome creature's steadily persistent rudeness very well; he made no effort to push into the talk when she coolly hold him out of it. - He waited without external un- easiness or spasmodic smiles. If he could do that despite the inevitable fact that he muss. feel his position uncomfortable, he was possessed of fiber. That alone would make hien worth cultivating. And jf there were persons who were tai be made un- eomlfortable, why not cut in and circumvent the heaut\ somewhat and give her a trifle of unease? It was with the light and adroit touch of accustomed'nesa to all orders of little situations that his grace took the matter in hand, with a shade, also, of amiable imalice. He drew Tem- barom adroitly into the center of things; he .knew how to lead him to make 'easily the odd, frank remarks which were sufficiently novel to sug- gest that the was actually entertain - n' her part Miss Alicia was restored to the happiness any lack of appreciation of her "dear boy" touchingly disturbed. In circum• stances such as these he appeared to the advantage which in a brief period would surely reveal his won- derful qualities. She clung so to his wonderful qualities" because In all the three -volumed novels of her youth the hero, debarred from .early advantages and raised by the turn of fortune's wheel to splendor, was transformed at once into a being of the highest accomplishments and the most polished breeding, and ended' in the third volume a creature before Whom emperors paled. And how mere than charmingly cordial his grace's manner was when/ he left them! 'To -morrow, " he said, if (my daughters do not discover that I have injured some more than vital organ, I shad! call to proffer my thanks with the most imlmenae formality. I shall get out of 'the carriage in the Manner customary in respectable neighborhoods, not roll out at your feet. Afterward you will, I hope, come and dine with us. I am de- voured by a desire to become more familiar with The Earth." CHAPTER XXV It was Lady Mallowe who perceiv- ed the moment when he became the fashion. The Duke o8 Stone called with the immense formality he had described, and his visit was neither brief nor dull, A little later Tem- barom with his guests dined at Stone Hover, er and the t dinner was further removed from dullness a than any one of numerous past dinners always not- ed for being the most agreeable the neighborhood afforded. The duke managed t, d his guest as an impresario might have ,managed his tenor, though this was done with subtly concealed methods. He had indeed a novelty to offer which had been .discussed with much uncertainty of point of view. He presented it to an only languidly entertained neighborhood as a trouvaille of his own choice. liere waits drams, here was atrnos- phere, here was charm verging in its character upon the occult. You would not see -it if you were nut a I collector of such values. "Nobody will he likely to see hint as he is unless he is pointed out to I them," was what he said to his 1 daughters. "But being bored to I death, --we are all bored, — once 1 adroitly assisted to suspect him of being alluring, .most of them will spring upon him and clasp him to their wearied breasts. I haven't the least idea what will fiappen after- ward. I shall in fact await the re- sult with interest" Being told Palliser's story of the "Ladies," he listened, holding the tips of his` fingers together, and wearing an expression of deep interest slight- ly baffled in its nature.. It was Lady Edith who related the anecdote to him. "Now," he said, "it would be very curious and complicating if that were true; but I don't believe it is. Pal- liser, of course, likes to tell a fmod story. I shall be able to discover in time whether it is true or not; but at present I don't believe itt." Following the dinner party at Stone Ilover came many others. All the well known carriages began to roll up the avenue to Temple Bar - holm. 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