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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1922-03-03, Page 7and th t l.e would cer- qil a dine. '. hard in then hgnor, The men stood f s e viidrt time tog(et her, atter the 1 -1 , e„ "Ilsd the °Me, dt�rtg the creat eq is of Ithe 1 . v, alt +eU " uheerf till•, rs diirappMre{l' into their' d !con's, �,... Ao .hour Inter. Clay stood without his stoat, and wit F 's nen in bit1 pant him by t'heissl houd Bedside and aback not s hep,' sold MacWl1li4iPsip' sitting rep- What is it? What hame- you beenaptpg?" he demanded: "Not working, `"I'h'ercl ''Wave .some re sorts came in after we left," said Clay, "ai►d'I' find I wi'll have to see Kirkland to, -morrow morning.. •Send them word to run it with some peculiar sentiment. So me dawn on an engineat five -thirty, they suffered him to sing it in peace. will. you? I• am sorry to have to MacWilliams went through hi' re- wake you, but I, co'-i!dn"t remember pertain to tha ancon": ,led a nuse- in which "shack that en,.ineer lives." nterts of young I,,'xh,.rn an l Hope. I MacWilliams 'umm-ed from his bed When he had ftni$hcd he asked Hope and began kieloing about the floor for if 'lir knew a ea. .lc sii,g of which he his boots "Oh, tth:,t's all right" he had only heard by rep+'tati , i. One said. "I wasn't asrrep, 1 was just---" of the men at the mines had gained he lowered this voice that Langham le certain celebrity by c' -.i rung to have , might not hear him through the can - beard it in the States, but ss he gave i vas ,partitions --"I was just lying a- a a completely new set of wor4s to the i wake .Playing duets with the Presi- tur,e of the "Wearing of the Green" ; dent, and racing, for the International as the true version, his veracity was ' Cup in my new centre aboard yacht, doubted. Hope said who knew it, of that's all!" course, and they all went into the MacWilliams buttoned a staterproof drawing room, where the, men grouped coat over his pajamas sad "!tamped n I this bare tfeet into hi! boots. "OL, I tell you, Clay," he said with a grim chuckle "we're mixit.;� right in aribh t• (Continued tram last _ week.) "Yee, .but you hadn't seen me Sir tw'enty-two years then," she answer- ed. "I don't think you have changed much,", she went on. "I expeobed to find you gray with cares: Ted wrote. us about the way you .work all day at the trines and sit up all night over calculations and 'plans and reports. But you don't show it. When are you going to take us over the mines? To- morrow? I am very anxious to see them, but I suppose father will want to inspect them first. Hope knows all about them, I believe; she knows their names, and how much you. have taken out, and how mush you have put in, too, and what MacWilliams'" railroad cost, and who got the con- tract for the ore pier. Ted told us in his letters, and she used to work it out on the map in -father's study. She is a most energetic child: I think sometimes she should have been a boy. I wish I could be the help to any one that she is to my father and to me. Whene , er 1' am blue or down she mafxes fun of tire, and—" "Why should you ever be blue?" eesked Clay, abrupt'y. "There's no real reason, I suppose, the girl are,/tired, smiling," "except that life is so very easy for me that I have to invest some woes. I should be better for a few reverses." And then she went on in a lower voice, and turning her head away, "In our family there is no woman older than I air to whom I can go with questions ' that trouble n, Hope is like a boy, as I said and plays with Ted, and my father is very busy with his af- fairs, and sine my mother died I have been very much alone. A man cannot unders' :u1. /Arid I cannot un- I deratand why I should be speaking to you about rn s,lf and my troubles,' except—" she added, a little wistful- ly, "that you orce said you were in- terested in me, even if it was as long as a year sago And because I want you to be very ::ind to me, as you have been to Ted, and I hope that we are going to be very good friends." She was so beautiful, standing in the shadow with the moonlight about her and with her hand held out to him, that Clay felt as though the scene were hardly real. He took her hand in his'and held it for a moment. His pleasure in the sweet friendliness of her manner and in her beauty was , so great that it kept him silent: j "Friends!" he laughed under hie' breath. "I don't think there is much j danger bf our not being friends. The danger lies" he went on, smiling, "in my not being able to stop there." Miss Langham made no sign that she had heard him, but turned and walked out into the moonlight and down the porch to where the others were sitting. Young Langlham had ordered a native orchestra of guitars and reed instruments from the town to seren- ade his ,people, and they were stand- ing in front of the house in the moonlight as Miss Langham and Clay came forward. They played the shrill, eerie -music of their coun- try with'a passion and feeling that filled out the strange tropical scene around them; but Clay heard them only as an accompaniment to his own thoughts, and as a part of the beauti- ful night and the tall, beautiful girl 'Who lead dominated it. He .watched her from the shadow as she sat lean- ing easil forward and looking into the night. 'Phe moonlight ,fell full *pen her, and though s'he did not once look at him or turn her head in his direction, he fe'l't as though she must he conscious of his presence, as though there were already an understanding between them which she herself had established. She had asked him to be her friend. That was only a pretty speech, perhaps; but she had spoken of herself, and had hinted at her per- plexities and her lonliness, and be argued that while it was no compli- ment to be asked to share another's pleasure, it must mean something viten one was allowed to learn a little of. another's troubles. And while :his mind was flattered and aroused by this promise of con- isdbnce between them, he was rejoic- ing in the rare quality of her beauty, and in the thought that she wad to be near him, and near him here, of alt places. It.seemed a very wonder- fui Wag to Clay—something that ceuld only have happened in a novel era play. For while the man and the hour ftequenttly appeared togetle- .er, ire 'bad found that the.one woman in the world and the place and bha taut was' a much more difficult com- bination to bring into effect. No one he assured himaelf, thankfully, could have designed a more lovely settieg for his love -story, and be' hoped it was, than this into vesicle she bad come of her own free will. • It was a land of romance and adventure, of guitars end latticed windows, of warm bril- liant days and gorgeous silent nights, under purple' heavens end white stars. And he was to have her all to himself, with no one near to interrupt, is oth- er friends, even, and no possible rival. She was not guarded now by a com- plex socia? *system, with its respon- sibilities. lie was the most lucky of men. Others had only seen her in cher drawing-roorn or in nn opera box, but he was free to ford mountain -streams at her side, or ride with her under it} g and laidliiag, but singiag the the four hundred,. we are! I'm sub- archee of the great palms, or to play ; tsbngs of which the new -comers had stitute and understudy within anybody a guitar boldly beneath her window% become so weary, but which the three gets ill. We're right in our own He was free to come and go at any hour; not only free to do so, but the very nature of his duties made it nec- essary that they should be thrown ! oonstantly together. The music oef the violin moved him and toughed him ,deeply, and stfrred depths at which he had not guessed It made him' humble and deeply grate- ful, and he felt how mean and un- worthy he was of such great happi- ness. He had never loved any woman as he felt that he could love this wo- man, as he hoped that he was to love her. For he was not so far blinded by her beauty and by`what he guessed her character to be, as to imagine that the really knew her. Heonly knew what he doped she was,- w'hat -he be- lieved the soul must be that looked out of those kind, beautiful eyes, and that found utterance in that wonder- ful voice which could control him and move him by a word. He felt, as he looked at the group before him, show lonely his own life had been, how hard he .had worked for so little—for what other men found ready at hand when they were born into the world.ie felt almost a touch of self-pity a his own irn- penfectnees; and the po er of his will and his confidence in 'himself, of which the was so proud, seemed mis- placed and little. And then he wond- ered if he had not •neglected chances; but in answer to this his injured self- love rose to rebut the idea that he had wasted any portion of his time, and he assured himself that he had done the work that he had cut out for himself to do as best he could; no one but himself knew with what courage and spirit. And 3o he sat combating with himself hoping one moment that she would prove what he believed her to be, and the next, scandalized at his temerity in daring to think of her at all. The spell lifted as the music ceased and Clay brought himself back to the moment and looked about him as though he were waking from a dream and had expected to see the scene dis- appear and the figures near him fade into the moonlight. Young Langham had taken a guitar from one of the musiciar;s and press - de it upon MacWilliams, with inoper- ative directions to sing such and such songs, of which, in their isolation, they had grown to think most highly, and MacWilliams was protesting in much embarrassment. MacWilliams had a tenor voice which he maltreated in the most vil- baneous manner by singing directly through kis nose. He had a taste for sentimental Bongs, in which "kiss" rhymed with "bliss," and in which "the people cry" was always sure to be followed with "aa she ,goes by, that's pretty Katie 'Moody," or "Rosie MIcI.ntyre." He Thad gathered thiel songs at the side of camp -fires, and in canteen% at the first section house of a new rail'road, and his original col- lection of ballads had had but few ad- ditions in several years. MacWilliams at first was shy, wbieh was quite a new developemext, until he made diem promise to laugh if they wanted to laugh, explaining that he wound not mind that so much as he would the idea that he thought he was serious. The song of which he was especially fond was este called "He never cares to wander from .his own Fireside," Adrlch was especially appropriate in Doming from a man who had visited almost every spot in the three Am- ericas, exeept his thome,'in ten years. 'MacWilliams always ended the even- ing's entertainment with this chorus, no matter Chow many times it had been sung previously, and seemed to regard it with muck the same venera- tion that the true Briton feels for his national anthem. The words of the chorus Were: "He never carers to wander from his own fireside, He.never cares to wander or to roam, With kis babies on his .knee, He's as happy as can be, For there's no place like Home, Sweet themeelves about the pins o t was a night they remembered long after- ward. Hope sat at the piano protest - Men heard open-eyed, and hailed with\ class at, last! Pure amateurs with no sihouts of pleasure The others en- professional record a -ainst us. Me joyed 'them and their delight, as ; and President Langham, I guess!" tiheugh they were people in a play ex- ITe struck a match tied lit the smoky pressing themselves in this extrava- wick in a tin lantern. gent manner for their entertainment, "Bu't,'now," he s hid, cheerfully, until they understood how ;poverty -"my time being too valuable for me stricken their lives shad been and tht I to sleep, I will go wake up that nig- they were not only enjoying the mus- ger engine -driver and set his alarm is for itself, but because it was char- clock at five -thirty. Five -thirty, I be- acteristic of a,'1 that Vie,' had left be -1 Neve you said. Al' right; good - hind them. It was pathetic to hear night." And vwhistlin ' cheerfully to them boast of having read of a cer- I himself MacWilliams disappeared up tain song in such a paper, and of the the hill, his body hidden in the dark - fact that they knew the plot of a late I nes and his legs a`u,wing fantasti- cally in the light of the swingiag Un- comic had played in it. and that it had tern. or had not been acceptable to the New York public. . "Dear me," Hope would cry, look- ing over 'her shoulder with a despair- ing glance at her sister and father, "they don't even know `Tommy At- kins'!" It was a very happy evening for them all, foreshadowing, as it did, a continuation of just such evenings. Young Langham was radiant with pleasure at the good account which Clay had given (sr him to his father, and Mr. Langkam was gratified, and proud of the manner in which his son and heir had 'conducted himself; and MacWilliams, who had never before been taken so simply and sincerely by people of a class that he had al- ways held in 'humorous awe, felt a sudden accession of dignity, and an unthatp'py fear that when they laughed at what he said, it was because its sense was so utterly different from their point of view, and not because they saw the humor of it. He did not know wlhat the word "snob" sig- nified, and in his roughened, easy-go- ing nature there was no touch of false pride; but 'he could not help thinking . how surprised his people would be if Home." MacWilliams loved accidental' and Clay walked out upon the veranda and stood with his back to one of the pillars. MacWtilliams nd his pleas- antries disturbed and troubled him. Perhaps, after all, the be -y was right. It seemed absurd, but it was true. They were only employees of Lang- ham—two of the thousands of young men who were working all over the United States to please him, to make shim richer, to whom h,, was only a name and a power, urhi-h meant an increase of salary or the loss of place. Clay laughed and shrugged his shoulders. He knew that he was not in that class; if he did good work it was because his self-respect demand- ed it of him; he dirt not work for Langham or the Olanrh , Mining Co. (Limited). And yet he turned with almost a feeling of resentment toward the white yacht lying calmly in mag- nificent repose a hundred yards from his porch. He could see her as clearly in her circle of electric lights as though she were a picture and held in the light of a stereopticon on a screen. He could see her white decks, and the rails of polished brass, and the com- fortable wicker chairs and gay cush- they could see him, whom they re- ionsand flat coils of !ceps, and the ,garded as a wanderer and renegade' tapering masts and intricate rigging. on the face of the earth and the prod- How easy it was made for some men! that igal of the family, and for at reas- This one had tome like the prince in on the best loved, leaning over a' the fairy tale on his magic carpet. grand piano, while one daughter of If Alice Langham were to leave his lnuch-revered president played Valencia that next day, Clay could comic songs for his delectation, and not follow her. He had his duties the other, who according to the news- , and responsibilities; he was at an - papers refused princes daily, and who t other man's bidding. was the most wonderful creature he : But this Prince Fortunatua had had ever seen, poured out his coffee ! but to raise anchor and start in pur- and brought it to him with Cher own ; suit, knowing that he would be wel- hands. ,come wherever he found Cher. That The evening came to az end itt lust, was the worst of it bo Clay, for he and the new arrivals accompanied knew that men did not follow wo- their visitors to the veranda as they . men from continent to continent with - started to their cabin for the night... out sone assurance of a friendly Clay was asking Mr. Lanham when greeting. Clay's mind went back to he wished to visit the mines, and the the days when he was a boy, when others were laughing over farewell his mother taught in a little school- speeehes, when young Langham startl- house undor the shadow of Pike's ed them all by hurrying down the Peak, and when Kit Carson was his length of the veranda and calliag of hero. He thought of the poverty of them to Pillow. those days—poverty so . meas and "Look!" he cried, pointing down the! hopeless'tihaf it was almost something inlet. "Hare comes a man-of-war, or to feel shame for; of the days that a yacht. Isn't she smart -looking? followed when, an onahan and with - They won't let them land. Can you out a home, he had sailed away from make her out, MacWilliams?"; New Orleans to the Cape. How the A long, white ship was steaming mind of the mathematician, which he slowly wp the inlet, and passed with- had inherited from the Boston school- isa few :hundred feet of the cliff on ' mistress, had been swayed by the which they were standing. spirit of the soldier, which 'he had "Why, it's the `Vesta'!" exclaimed inherited from his father, and which Hope, wo'rideringly. "I thought eke t led him from the mines of South wasn't coming for a week?" l Africa to little wars in Madagascar, "It can't be this 'Vesta'!" said the Hgypt, and Algiers. It had been a elder sitter; "ache -was not to have' life .as restless as the seaweed on a sailed from Havana until to -day." rodk. But as 'he looked back to Its "What do you mean?" asked Lang- , poor beginnings and admitted to him- Iham. "Is it King's boat? Do you self its later successes )re gave a sigh expect kion here? Oh, what fun! I of content, and ahgking off the mood say, clay, here's the 'Vesta,' Reggie stood up and paced the length of the Ring's yacht, and he's no end of a veranda. sport. We can go all over the place ' Ile looked up the hill to the low - now, and he can land us right at the 1 roofed bungalow witlh the palm - door of the mines if we want to." leaves about it, outlined against the "Is it the Ring I met at dinner aky, and as motionless as patterns that night?" asked Clay, turning to cut in tin. He had built that hones. Mise Langham. He had built. for her. - That was her "Yes," ache said. "He wanted us to room where the light was shining out come down on the yacht, but we from the black hulk of the house a - thought the steamer would be faster; bout it like a star. And beyond the so he sailed without us and was to house he saw 'his five great moun- have touched at Havana, but be has , tains, the knuckles of the. giant band, apparently ehanged his course, with its gauntlet of iron that lay shut Doesn't she look like a phantom ship and clenched in the face of the sea in the mooniest?" that swept up whimpering before Young Langbam thought he could Clay felt a boyish, foolish pride rise distinguish Ring among the will what he stalled "barber -shop ,horde." figures on the bridge, and tossed fits He used a beautiful accidental at the bat and ztthouted,' and a man in the , very which w b he was tori, stern of the yacht replied with a word "be," wave of leis kala and he used to hang on that nota for "That ,must be Mr. Ring," said a long time, so that those in the ex- Hope.'Ho didn't bring any one with creme rear of the hall, as he was wont him, and be seems to be the only man to explain, could get the full benefit „ of it. And it as is custom toaft. as empbasine "for" in the last line by she stopped ,hog stood with watching a rattle of a the yacht htas speaking instead of singing it, and then cointog to a fu 1 stop before wins and a confusion of orders that cams ah across the water, and chalice mag�ain with tate excellent then the part separated and, the truth titt dIle ere . NO place likee three mea p down the hill, $e a�waW gandou+i. Lenabam weeny assuring the other ; ma ma at oke wad kb laugh lassihed d helm *tai song' at : f104 ! an aan wM1tWA�4:1 bias r ' .liteste that it olSr he 'lb ' wrtM 4- 1 `NMA uRAz-sidAna —Mt1► srn11,--11. Ise SSM • &WWII Is tGlietr�ao�nta.J 111 ti's 1st eensalbr�oasciiii tett+",= e� q deep emelt it.wei......treer eye Bold by >E. V,aslbss'k. fa Wets by w..4, *AL in Ms l,r,ast as he looked toward the griitt makes he 'had 'discovered and opened, at the iron mountains that were crumbling away before his I touch. Ho burned his eges again to the yacht, an this time there W410% I$ ,1W ,,,yacht, of elf ins them. He WOOS yy ' with pleasure of the struggle he air, and partly at his. owu mi'm Soil," he avid, ism sad 4sed sl d at the p in 'tbe black eaters. to A'ght row for any AV: r It Measures seas! 100% sof stw�twhtsww#t sttissaw ettwtses his' feared band good night toward the 'light on . the �1, as be turned and walked bac 'into. his bedroom. "And I think," he slur ' muredgrtm grimly, as h put onit the light, 'that she is worth fighting fox "` (Continued next- week.) a bowed New York State leas 776,000 motor. -yehieI.L Five women are engaged as taxi drivers in Tope Kan. . Boston has 1121 suburban own- ers of (passenger 'automobiles. In Italy, thirteen of the most im- portant automobile manufacturers are in Turin, Fifty-eight hundred automobiles were, stole= in the city of Chicago in 1621. "STAND Marg Mone; than twice the numher of garages than homes were built in Oshkosh, Wis., last year. There are ,only fOmpan the United Stites t rinrtng', electric automobiles, • Motor vehicle replacements in the United States are estimated at 1,400,-, 000 cars this year. • According' to a recent survey, Cc„n- ecticut has 2,895 motor 'vehicles for every horse in the "'tate. Moira Cellt.rrbfitillaiN � te"" r fil a "n n u:;ti" , t Catarrh mu strostR nen thee proversit le MoreTobacco forthe Money Okat good S. S. CANADIAN FISHtR OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT MERCHANT MARINE A party, numbering twenty-seven representative Canadian manufacturers and wives, sailed front Halitax on Wednesday, February 15th, for a tour el the West Indies. the delegates left Toronto by Canadian National - Grand Trunk route on Sunday evening, February 12th, travelling in 'glacial sleeping car direct to the ship's side. - They arrived at Halifax On the evening of February 14th, sairmg the Wowing evening on the "5S. Canadian Fisher," one of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine's fine ships regularly in this service. They win arrive at Kings- ton, Jamaica, on February ZSth, where they will be interviewed by Me Governor of Jamaica. Arrangements have also been completed for the entertainment of the party at various other points en route by Government Trade Com- missioners. Boards of Trade, and Chambers of Catnnterce. The primary object of this trip is to consider how trade between Canada and the British West Indies caw best be promoted. It is felt that tae trade agreement recently negotiated between Canada and the West ipdiea should he very beneficial and should foster a large iatercbaege of ementeree. With the object in view of looking into conditions geneimliy, to learn what goods the West ladies have is sell to Canada, and to describe what goals Canada has to sell to the West Indies, this tour was organised by the Canadian Manufacturers Association. The torr will occupy a month, during which time the following places will be visited: Nassau, 13.1., Kingston,' Jamaica, Panama Canal, La Guaira (Caracas), Port of Spall, Trinidad, Demerara. Grenada. St. Vincent, Barbados., St. Lucas, Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts and Bermuda. The Wowing is a list of thersons constitutin tete party: Sir Alexander and Lady Bertram, Jobe tn. Re ram & Sons, Co. Ltd.. Msestreal, Quer C.I. and Mrs. RW. Leotard and Mr. Douglas Mitch, Cosisg*s Reduction' Co. Ltd., St'. Catharines, Ont.; Mr. G. Clifford McAvity, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dividsoe, T. McAvity i John, N.B.• Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stratton, Peterbero Review Co. Ltd., Pettibone, Oat.. Mr. feted Mn. G pert, Geo. J. Lippert Table Co. Ltd., Kitchener, Ont.; Mr. and Mrs R. H. Terser, J )f: Turner. Ltd, Ont.; Mr. and Mrs. H. Pocock, London Concrete Machinery Co. Ltd. Lone, Oast Mr. and Ides C. H. Payee„, Secretary of the Commercial Intelligence Breech of the Department of Ltd., and Commerce el Came.". Col. Anther, Hatchh,'Canada Steel Goods Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ont.; Mr. Jas. Anderson, reenacting the BerderCities Chani ior a Commerce, W taliser, Ont.; Mr. W. H: Shapley, Goad, Soviet, & Mae Co. Ltd>, Besetleed.'( , Greene Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd., Walkerviiia,ntt O.; -Mr. i. D. Johann, Caviar Commit CO. Ltd., ) Que.; Col. H. L. Edmonds, John Merraw Screw sod Net Ca l td., Ingersoll, Opti:. Me W J iron d: Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ont.; Mr. S. L. Gown, The Megery M a P' '` , Towers, Superintendent Foreign 'rade Deeps $iss 1, ROW . L •. w Canadian Nodose! Railways padCa neat Miithan$.ih sine. R. 4 W trip by Mr. C. K. H"o"wl, art Twiigfittllfi'�'eerirs Meier