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The Huron Expositor, 1923-07-06, Page 7d140 or eterinary Co rum Duiget*liir, e! 'f'or»lute• All a g# dip lie ordinal*, treated;Itille. p�p.; on Ma 4Y:. dr., MainStreet, atopen, opposite own 1141, PIMAitlat ,311K Barrister ilo)l tbr,'Conveyaneer and MOW) Pudic. Solicitor for the Do- sdttion Bank. Odin in rear of the Ho - Innis= Bank, 8eafortb. Money to amend. J - BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Convey - snare and Notaries Public, Etc. OOye, iit the Fudge Banding, opposite t lbfpo111tor Office. coq! " I ROUD1 O H L„$ISS RAN AND Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub- ts, rte. Money to lend, In Seaforth en ,Monday- of each week.. Of lee in =Idd Block. W. Prondfoot, K -C., J. L. gilloren, B. E. 'Holmes. VETERINARY F. HARBURN, V. 8. lonergraduate of Ontario Veterin- ary.College, mulhonor'bry member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the mostitmod- alen , principle*. Dentistry and Milk Wi ler a specialty. Office opposite pick's Hotel,. Drain Street. Seaforth. Ell order left at the hotel will re- gain prompt attention. Night calls Weeived at the office JOHN ORI WE a4. 8. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- IaIrrYy College. All diseases of domestic annuals treated. Calls promptly at - bonded to and charges moderate. Vet- lehiary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich street, one door east of Dr. Scott'S 'Ace, Sea - forth. MEDIC L DR. G. W. DUFFIN Hensall, Ontario. Office over Joynt's Block; phone 114. Office at Walker House, Bruce - Held on Tuesdayeyand Frida • hours 2 to 6 p.m.; phone No. 31-142. Grad- uate of the Faculty of Medicine, Western University, London. Mein'- bet eta=bei✓ of the College of Physicians and surrg'eotis` of Ontario. Post.Graduate welsher of Resident Staffs of Receiv- ing and Grace Hospitals, Detroit, for 18 months. Post -Graduate. member of Resident Staff in Midwifery at Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit, for three months. , DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master Rotunda Hospital for Woinen and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied -by Mrs. Parsons. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m. Sundays, 1•to 2 p.m. 2866-26 • DR. J. W. 'PECK Greiduat6" of Faculty of Media ne McGill University, Montreal; member sof College;of Physician" and Surgeons a f Ontario' Licentiate Of Medical Conn. ell of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resideft Medical staff of General Hospital, Montreal; 1914-15• Office, 2 doors east of 'Pest Office. (Phone 56, Henan. Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office add residence, Goderich street e ast of the Methodist church, Seaforth Phone 46, Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin- aty University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Oitarlo;. pass -graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Oftce-,-Back of Do- minion Bank, ,4eaforth. Phone No. 5, Night calls answered from residence, Victoria street, Seaforth. AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed .auctioneer for the counties if Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling up phone 97, Seaforth or The Expositor Office. Charges mod- erate and satisfaction guaranteed. Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pore Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and 'Farm Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing market. Sat- isfaction assured. Write or wire, Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone 18-93. t' 2886-52 R. LUKER Licensed atm oneer for the County of Huron. Sal attended to is all parts of the county. Seven years' ex- parlence in Manitoba and Saaskatehe- wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No. 173 r 11, Exeter, Centralia P. 0., R. R. No 1+ Orders left at The Heron atepp*{to; of8al, Beeforth, promptly Qoug Tit 9111 creole ,first • r ittn9it lr9 ipes I/011. Yotr t it, d be,,proper .ht this+ POiht.,'e whe'leli oral'„ She ke hrd me eteadfeetly,fot ntontent nd en a ou1R' het'"heeld. "Pd . iatber . not tell y0u,,,ny ,name, • Mr,. Smart, It really Can't -matter, yo'r know. I've .tbogght it. all: out very carefully, dud X'we decided that It 'ib not -best 'for yOu to know. YOtt aeo if you don't know who it is ares sbelte;hige the courts .odp't hold {i You ty account; You Will -he quite innocent of deliberateh eontt"Iwing to defeat the la'v. No, I shall pot telt you my name, nor my btieban4'e, nor (Continued from last w.aek.) ,you father's. If you'd like to know, however, I•'will tell yo u my baby's "—in the presence of his sinter and name. She's two years old. and I her husband. But I must not distress think she'll like you to call her Rose - you with sordid details. Suffice it to many." bay, I turned at last like .the pro- By this time I was quite hypno- verbial worm. I applied fop a divorcetired by this charming, confident ten months ago. It was granted, provisionally as I say. He is a de- generate. He was unfaithful to me. in every sense of the word. But in spite of all that, the court in grant- ing me the separation, took occasion to placate national honour by giving hitt, the child during the year, pend- ing, the final disposition of the case. Of course, everything depends on father's attitude in respect to the money. You see what I mean? A month ago I heard from friends in Vienna that he was shamefully neg- lecting our—my baby, so I took this awful, -this perfectly bizarre way of getting her out -of bis hands. Pos- session is nine points in the law, you see. I—" "Alas!" interrupted I, shaking my head. "There is more than one way to Iook at the law. I'm afraid you have got yourself into a serious—er —pickle." I don't care," she said defiantly. "It is the law's fault for not prohibit- ing such marriages as ours. Oh, I know I must -seem awfully foolish and idiotic to you, but—but it's too late now to back out, isn't it?" I did not mean to say it, but I did, -end I said it with some conviction: 'It is! You must be protected." "Thank you, thank you!" she cried, clasping and unclasping her little hands. I found myself wondering if the brute had .dared to strike her on that soft, pink -cheek! Suddenly a horrible thought struck the with stunning force. "Don't tell me that your—your husband is the man who owned this castle up to a week ago," I cried. "Count James Hohendahl?" She shook her head, "No. He is not the man." Seeing that I waited for her to go on, she resumed: "I know Count James quite well, how- ever. He is my husband's closest friend." Good heaven," said I, in quick a- larm. "That complicates matters, dcesn't it? 11e may come here at any time." It isn't likely, Mr. Smart. To he perfectly honest with you, I waited until I heard you had bought the castle before coming Bre myself. We were in hiding at the house of a friend in Linz up to a week ago. I did not think it right or fair to sub- ject them to the notoriety or the peril that was sure to follow if the officers took it into their heads to look for me there. The any you bought the castle, I decided that it was the saf- est place for me to stay until the danger blows over, or until father can arrange to smuggle Me ,out of this awful country. That very night we were brought here in a motor. Dear old Conrad and Mrs. Schmitt took me in.,They have been perfectly adora&bleall of them." "May I enquire, madam," said I stiffly, "how you came to select my abode as your hiding- place?" "Oh, I have forgotten to tell you, that we lived here one whole summer jus' after we were married. Count Hohendahl let us have the castle for our—our honeymoon. He was here a great deal of the time. All sorts of horrid, nasty, snobbish people wen here to help us enjoy our honeymoon. I shall never forget that dreadfut summer. My only friends were the Schmicks. Every one else ignored and despised me, and they all bor- rowed, won or stole money from mel I was compelled to play bridge for atrociously high stakes without know- ing one card from the other. But, as I say, the Schmicks loved me. You see they were in the family ages acid ages before I was born." "The family? What family'?" "The Rothhoefen family. Haven't they told you that my great-grand- mother was a Rothhoefen? No? Well, she was. I belong to the third generation of American -horn descend- ants. ,...,Doesn't it simplify matters, knowing this?" "Immensely," said I, in something of a daze. "A}1d so I came here, Mr. Smart, where hundreds of my ancestors spent their honeymoons, most of them per- haps 88 unhappily as I, and where I knew a fellow -countryman was to live for awhile in order to get a plot for a new story. You see, I thought I might be a great help to you in the shape of suggestion." She smiled very warmly, and I thtntght it was a very neat way of putting it. Naturally it would he quite impossible to put her out after hearing that she had already put her- self out to some extent in order to assist me. "I can supply the villain for your story if you need one, and I can give you oceans of ideas about noblemen. I am sorry that I can't give you a nice, sweet heroine. People hate heroines after they are married and live unhappily. You—" "The public taste is changing," I • ��� civnfor alarof Trench's world-famous prop - Oration iEpilepsy and Pita— simple (tomo trratmont. Over AO risco success, Testimonial.. from all parte °Obey/widower 10001n one year. write at omato: TRENCH'S REMEDIES LIMITED 3607 a0.Jamffi' Amb Ottttrlodelalde3t.>0. trespasser upon my physical—and I was about to say my moral estate. Never have I known a more compla- cent violater of all the proprieties of law -and order as she appeared to be. She was a revelationpnore than that she was an inspiration. What a coin, ageous, independent, fascinating tic buccaneer she was! Hey calm tone of assurance, her overwhelming "confidence in herself, despite the oc- casional lapse into despair, stagger- ed me. 3 couldn't help being impres- sed. If I had had any thought of ejecting her, bag and baggage, from my castle, it had been completely knocked oat of my head and I was left, you might say, in a position which gave me no other alternative than to consider myself a humble in- strument in the furthering of her ends, whether I would or no. It was not amazing. Superior to the feel- ing of scorn I naturally felt for her and her kind,—the fools who make international beds and find thept fill- ed with thorns,—there was the delic- foue sensation of being able to rise above my prejudice and become a willing conspirator against that de -- spot, Common Sense. • She was very sure of herself, that was plain; and I am positive that she was equally sure of me. It isn't altogether flattering, either, to feel that a woman is so sure of you that there isn't any doubt concerning her estimate of your offensive strength. Somehow one feels an absence of physical attractiveness. Rosemary," I repeated. "And what am I to call you?" "Even my enemies call me Co'int- ess," she said coldly. . "Oh " said I, more respectfully. "I see. When am I to have the pleasure of meeting the less particular Rose- mary?" "I didn't mean to be horrid," she said plaintively. "Please overlook it, Mr. Stuart. If you are very, very ouiet I think you may see her now. She is asleep." • "I may frighten her if she awakes," I said in haste, remembering my anti- pathy to babies. Nevertheless I was led through a rtouple of bare, unfurnished rooms into a sunny, perfectly adorable nurs • ery. A nursemaid —• English, at a glance—arose from her seat in the window and held a cautious finger to her lips. In the miclile of a bed that would have accommodated an entire family, was the sleeping Rosemary— a tiny, rosy-cheeked, yellow haired atom bounded on four sides by yards of mattress. I stood over her timorously and stared. The Countess put one knee upon the matttress and, leaning far ever, kissed a little paw. I blinked, like a confounded booby. Then we stole out of the room. "Isn't she adorable?" asked the Countess when we were at a safe dis- tance. They all are," I said grudgingly, "when they're asleep." "You are horrid." "By the' way," I said sternly, "how does that bedstead happen to be a yard or so lower than any other bed in this entire castle? All the rest of them are so high one has to get into them from a chair." "Oh," she said, complacently, "it was too high for Blake to manage conveniently, so I had Rudolph saw the legs off short." One of my very finest antique bed- steads! But I didn't even groan. "You wit, let me stay on, won't you Mr. Smart?" she said, when we were at the fireplace again. "I am really so helpless, you know." r offered her everything that the castle afforded in the way of loyalty and luxury. "And we'll have a telephone in the plain hall before the end of the week," I concluded beamingly. Her face clouded. "Oh, I'd touch rather have it in my hallway, if you don't mind. You see, I can't very well go downstairs every time I want t•t use the 'phone, and it will be a nuisance sending for me when I'm wanted." This was rather high-handed, I thought. "But if no one knows you're here, it seems to me you're not likely to be called." "You never can tell," she said mys- teriously. I promised to put the instrument in her hall, and not to have an ex- tension to my rooms for fear of creat- ing suspicion. Also the electric bell system was to be put in just as she wanted it to be. And a lot of other that do not seem to come to mind at this moment. I left in a daze at half -past three, to send Britton up with all the late novels and magazines, and a big box of my special cigarettes. CHAPTER VI i Discuss Matrimony. Poopendyke and I tried to do a little work that ,evening, hut neither of us seemed quite capable of concentra- tion. We said, pI beg pardon" to each other a dozen times or more, fol- lowing mental lapses, and then gave it up. My ideas failed in consecutive - !zits two thGelli�t� he.invariablytdo tt by compelling:0 with the result tdlel lore had gone ov .flay very, thorougll he was mere. ala ed in hitch )its together e sequenne ?` ! at myself, dame irasible. events of the If anything; er oux pre filament than i dPled to 'Seam .the danger that att dart' my decision to .dhelt0r and prof eti is cool.hoad, ea; rather self centetteir .oung womanat.. the top of my, castle. To me, it wee ;something of ,e ; to him, a tragedy.' He takes , ery'thing serI- ously, so much so in fated that he gets on my nerves. I wlaltshe were not always looking at tidy$ through the little end of the teles# per. I like a chance, and it is a nil elty to some - tinea see things thronk the big end, especially peril "They will yany usall up for aid- ing and abetting," he proclaimed, try- ing to focus his eyes:;tpp the short- hand book he was funibJing. "Yon wouldn't have ,file turn Iter over to the law, would' you-" IP de- manded crossly. "Please don't forget that we are Americans.". - "I don't," said he, ;'That's what worries me most of am:" "Well, said I, loftily, "we'll see." We were silent for a long time.. "It must be horribly, lonely and spooky away up there -where she is," I said at last, inadvertently betray- ing my thoughts. Re sniffed. "Have you a cold? I demanded, glaring at him. ' "No,' he said, gloomily; "a pre- sentiment." re- sentiment" "llmpb!' Another period- of silence. Then: "I wonder if ' Max—" I stopped short. Yes, sir," he said, with wonderful divination. "He did." "Any message?" "She sent down word, that the new cook is a jewel, but I think she must have been jesting. I've never cared for a man cook myself. I don't like to appea; hypercritical, but what did you think of the dinner to -night, sir?" "I've never tasted better broiled ham in my life, Mr. Poopendyke." "Ham! That's it, Mr. Smut. But what I'd like to know is this: "What became of the grouse you ordered for• dinner, sir? I happen to know that it was put over the fire at seven—" "I sent it up to the Countess, with our compliments," said I, peevishly. I think that remark silenced him. At any rate, he got up and left the room. I laid awake half night a f t hemorbid- ly berating the American father who is so afraid of his wife that he lets her bully him into sacrificing their joint flesh and blood upon the altar of social ambition. She bad said that her father was opposed to the match from the beginning. Then why, in the name of heaven, wasn't he man enough to put a stop to it? Why— But what use is, there in applying whys to a man who dosen't know what Cod meant when He fashioned two sexes? I put him down as neutral and tried my best to forget hfm. But I couludn't forget the daughter of this brow -beaten American father. There was something singularly fa- miliar about her expuisite face, 0 conviction on my part Ufa is easily accounted for. Her portrait, bf course had been published far and wide at the time of the wedding;• she must have been pictured from every con- ceivable angle, with illimitable gowns, mats, veils and parasols, and I certain- ly could not have missed seeing her, even with 'half an • eye. But for the life of me; I couldn't connect her with any of the much -talked -of internat- icnal marriages that tame to mind JIB I lay there going over the meagre ryssortment I was able to recall. I went to sleep wondering Whether Poopendyke's memory was any better than mine. He is tremendously in, terested in the financial doings of our country, being the possessor of a flourishing savings' account, .and as he also possesses a lively sense of the ridiculous, it was not unreasonable to suspect that he might remember all the details of this particular trans- action in stocks and bunds. The next morning I set nay labor- ers to work putting guest -rooms in- to shape for the coming of the Haz- zaids and the four friends who were to be with them for the week as my guests. They were to arrive on the next day but one, which gave me ample time to consult a furniture dealer. I would have to buy at lege! sic new beds and everything elm with which to comfortably equip as many bed -chambers, it being a foregone conclusion that not even the husbands and wives would condescend to "dou- ble up" to oblige me. The expensive- ness of this ill-timed visit had not occurred to me at the outset. Still there was some prospect of getting; the wholesale price. On one point I was determined; the workmen should not be laid off for a single hour, not even if my guests went off in a huff. At twelve I climbed the tortuous stairs leading to the Countess's a- partments. She opened the door her- self in response to my rapping. "I neglected to mention yesterday roe lAp9 ,ftall OOP BOOBOO OM, staltc� •." ,. r1�', y Ill � . eu )m the park,'" ; r y i behove. H.otb Titania(' and notified to exptpaa ; 1pirdBote . mkey ' 1l be sate- t0 stow out; 'Om said suet uUy 44Worao are dre4dfu1 noseraifl '!Don't worry," L ea1d "We'll • ggt ; a lot of new adlocks forthe d9o1,p: dowaataire :bnd You'll he" es safe as. ,ran: e; you'll enly-kee quiet.'" ''Bat I don't. -see why L -should .bq made to mope, here all -di"' and • 411 -night like a sick cat; holding . my hand over Rosemary's mouth_ when she wants to airy and' muzzling poor Jinko so that he,—les "Mydear Countess" I interrupted .'ster; "you /should not forget that these other guests of mine are twit - ed here." "But I was here first," she argued. "It is most annoying." "1 believe you said yesterday that you are in the habit of having your own way." She nodded her head. - "Well, 1 am afraid you'll have to, come down from your high horse—at least temporarily." - - Oh I see. You—you mean to be very firm and domineering with me." "You must try to see things from my point of-" Please don't say that!" she flared. "I'm so tired of hearing those words. Per the last three yeara I've been commanded to see things from some one else's point of view, and I'm sick of the expression." "For heaven's sake, don't put me in the same boat with your husband!" She regarded me somewhat frigid- ly for a moment longer, and then a slow, witching smile crept into her eyes. "I sha'n't," she promised, and laughed outright. "Do forgive me, Mr. «mart. I ani such a piggy thing. Ill try to be nice and sensible, and I will be as still as a . rouse _4 the time they're here. Het `you must promise to come up every day and give me the gossip. You can steal up, -can't you? Surreptitiously?" "Clandestinely," I said, gravely. "I really ought to warn you once more about getting yourself involv- ed," she said pointedly. "Oh, I'm quite a safe old party," I assured her. "They couldn't make capital of me." "The grouse was delicious," she said, deliberately changing the sub- ject Nice divorcees are always doing that. We fell into a discussion of pres- ent and future ,needs; of ways, and means for keeping my friends utterly in the dark concerning her presence in the abandoned east wing; and of what we were pleased to allude to as "separate maintenance," employing a phrase that might have been consid- errd distasteful and even banal under ordinary conditions. "I've been trying to recall all of the notable marriages we had in New York three years ago," said I, after she had most engagingly reduced me to a state of subjection in the matter of three or four moot questions that came up for settlement. "You don't seem to fit in with any of the iter national affairs I can bring to mind." "You promised you wouldn't bother about that, Mr, Smart," she said se- verely. Of course you were married in New York?" 'In a very nice church just o!Y Fifth Avenue, if that will help you' any," she said. "The usual crowd in- side the church, and the usual snob outside, all fighting for a glimpse of me in my wedding shroud, and for a chance to see a real Hungarian no'.tte- nlan. It really was a very magnifi- cent wedding, Mr. Smart." She seem - cd to be unduly proud of the spectacu- lar sacrifice. A knittOe brow revealed the ob- fuscated condition of my brain. I was thinking very intently, not to say remotely, ' "The whole world talked about it," she went on dreamily. "We had a real prince or thebeat man, mtd'tlpo: of the ushers couldln't speak' a WOO of English. Don't you(remeytber t't the police dotted the streets, in' bi neighbourhood of . the_,Obureh 'a,ad wouldn't let people spofl'ever'ytb'jdg by going about their busmen as ey were in the habit' of doing? Some of the shops sold window space to sight -seers, just as they do at a coronation." "I daresay all this should let in light, but it doesn't." "Don't you read the newspaper's?" she cried impatiently. ,-She actually resented my ignorance. "Religiously," I said, stung to re- volt. "But I make it a point never to read the criminal news." "Criminal news?" . she gasped, a spot of red leaping to. her cheek. "What do you mean?" "It is merely my way of saying that I put marriages of that char- acter in .the category of crime." "Ohl" she cried, staring at me with unbelieving eyes. . ,. (continZued next meek) • Calgary, Alta. — Although. some years ago P. 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