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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-10-12, Page 7hili to ubQleAR11r Tf� *d404 fleetittttOs paik firs foil' Qua tel, $pafoiir vV tacit Meath,frons,,it 041 "o,, fsaterlp isek f OOt ltf Phone 267, Stratf+ , A. R. l3llilt Ak dentA , oi. On of e - Veterinary C*Rage, Untve$i of Toronto. All Aitlidppes of, do*eale.'alilina.Ia treated kithe moat: rood t'n principles. reasonable. Day or night utptly'attended to. Office one ' Hensall o osite Tgwn011. t, , pp = �!tlone 118. . LEGAL R. S. HAYS, Barrister Solicitor, Conveyancer' and i oto y 'Public. Solicitor for the Da WOOthBlink. Office in rear Of the Do - on Bank. Seaforth. Money to ..e -a, 11111BUDAD011niftLEIRIWI BEST els BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Convey - sacra and Notaries Public, Etc, Ofilte in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office's T?'ROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND HOLMES Barristers, Soiicstors, NptarlesPub- sis, etc. Money to lend. 1n 8eaferth on Monday of each week. Office in Block. Pr tgicld pudfoo t, KC., a d Killoran, .. 1tf B. E. 13olmea. VETERINARY F. HARBL'RN, V. 8. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary Collene. Treats diseases of tall domestic animals by the most mod- em principles. Dentistry and Milk lever e specialty Office opposite Biers Hotel,o Main Street, Seafbrth. AU orders left at the hotel will re- solve prompt atention. Night calls waived at the ot?hee JOHN GRIEVE, V. 8. , Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calle promptly at - Winded to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderlch street, one doer east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea - birth, a-+ MEDICAL DR. G. W. DUFFIN Hensel, Ontario. Office over Joynt's Block; phone 114. Office at Walker House, Bruce - field on Tuesday and Friday: hours 2 to 5 p.m.; phone No. 81-142. Grad- uate of the Faculty of Medicine, Western University, London. Mem- ber of the College of Physicians and surgeons of On"ario. Post -Graduate member of Resident Staffs of Receiv- ing and Grace Hospitals, Detroit, for 1S 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 Women 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. 2868-28 DR. F. J. IIURROWS Office and residence, GodeArich street east of the Methodist churdlt Seaford Phone 46. Coroner for the County of !futon. DR. C. MACKAY ' C. Mackay honor graduate of Trim tt University, an .V R., medallist of Trinity Medical 1 `l d-{ --member of the College of Ph 1`, i and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto FacultyofMedicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, Ragland; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night calls answered from residence, Victoria street, Seaforth. AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Idcensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and ,Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling ur phone 97, Seaforth •fir The Expositor Office. Charges mod - irate and satisfaction guaranteed. Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tionrl School of Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm Sales. Rates In keeping with pre ing market. Sat - !election assured rite or wire, Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone 18-98. 2886-62 HY * GEORGE BAR 11iaCU'k9H$ 6 G Dodd, Mead & 0O441ny 4 'P Cf A O<?t0400 (C• Oontinued *Mg fast Week.) The surly, arrogant expression was gong from his face. In -its' place was a puzzled, somewttat 3ngoirjn.g look. "No hard feeling on my part," I cried gladly. We ehook hands, Jas- per, Jr. slapped me on the back. "It's a most distressing, atavistic habit Pm getting into, knocking people down without rhyme or reason." "I daresay you had -reason," mut- tered Colingraft. "I got what Was coming to me.'4 An eager light crept into- his handsome eyes. "By Jove, we can get lin some corking work with the gloves while I'm here. I box quite a bit at home, and I miss it travelling about like this. What say to a half-hpur or so every day? I have the ,gloves in one of my trunks. Pm getting horribly seedy. I need stirring,. up." - "Charmed, I'm sure,"•• I said, as- suming an enthusiasm I did not feel. Pfit on the gloves,with this strapping skillful boxer? Not I. I was firmly resolved to stop while my record was good. In a scientific clash with the gloves he would soon find out what a miserable duffer I was. "And Jappy, here, is no slouch. He's as shifty as the dickens." "The shiftier the better," • slid I, with great aplomb. Jasper, Jr., suck out his chest modestly, an,d said. "Oh, piffle, Colly." But just the same I hadr't the least doubt in my mind that Jasper could "put it all over me." It was a rather sickening admission, though strictly Private. We made oiir way to my study, where I mildly suggested that we re- frain from mentioning our littte en- counter to Mrs. Titus or the Coun- tess. I thought Colingraft was es- pecially pleased with the idea. We swore secrecy. I've always been regarded as a peaceful, harmless grub," I explain- edstill somewhat bewildered by the feat I had performed, and consider- ably shaken by the fear that I was degenerating into a positive ruitlian. "You will •believe me, I hope, when I declare that I was merely acting in self-defence when I—" He actually laughed. "Don't apol- ogize." He could not resist the im- pulse to blurt out once more. "By Jove, I didn't think you could do it." "With my left hand, too," I said wonderingly. Catching myself up, I hastily changed the subject. A little later on, as Colingraft left the room, slyly feeling of his jaw, Jasper, Jr. whispered to me excited- ly: "You've got him eating out of your hand,old top." Things were coming to a .pretty pass, said I to myself when I was all alone. It certainly is a pretty pass when one knocks down the ex- husband and the brother of the wo- man he loves, and quite without the least suspicion of an inherited pug- nacity. I had a little note from the Coun- tess that afternoon, ceremoniously delivered by Helene Marie Louise Antoinette. It read as follows: "You did Colingraft a very good turn when you laid him low this morning. He is tiresomely interested in his prowess as a box -maker, or a boxster, or whatever it is in at letic parlance. He has been like a la "all afternoon and he really can't .t over the way you whacked hirci . 3 whack the word?) At first he was as mum as could be about it, but I think he really felt relieved when I told him I had seen the whole affair from a window in my hall. You see it gate him a chance to explain how you got in the whack, and I have been obliged. to listen to intermittent lectures on the _manly art of self-de- fence all afternoon, first from him, ?then from Jappy. I have a headache 'and no means of defence. He admits that he deserved it, but I am not sur- prised. Colly is a sporting chap. He hasn't a mean drop of blood in his body. You have made a friend of him. So please don't feel that I hold a grudge against you for what you did. The funny part of it all is that mamma quite agrees with him. She says he deserved it! Mamma is won- derful, really, when it comes to n pinch. She has given up all thought of putting a feat outside the castle. Can you have luncheon with us to- morrow? Would it be too much R. T. LUKER Licensed auctioneer for the Comfy of Heron. Sales attended vea years' In all ex- perienceDarts of in Manitoba8and Saskatche- wan. Terms reasonabld. "Phone No. 1V3 r 11, Exeter '.'entraps P. 0.. R. >L No. 1. Orders left at The Huron Repositor Office, Seaforth, promptly After Every eel Have a packet in your pocket 'for ever -ready refreshment. ,Aids digestion. Allays thirst. Soothes the throat. For Quality, Flavor and the Sealed Package, get .� atq:: wit trouqq if we were .td have-tt'in tt„9' leggg' is : I azo just mad to get out- of-doors if only'. for an hour gr two in that walled -in spot. 'air. Poopen- 1 dyke has been perfectly lovely. HO ..game up this morning tp tell me that you "haven't eueezedat all and there isn't the remotest chancenow that you *ill have a cold. It seems he Was afraid you might, . You moat. have a. very . ragged constitution Britton told Blake that most men would 'hawse died from, exposure if they had been put in your place, flow. good you are,to me. ALINE "P. S.—I may come divan to see you this evening." is shall skip over the rather unin- teresting parts of the next two or three days. Nothing of consequence happened, unless you are willing to bonsider important two perfectly lissful nights of sleep on my part. Also,I had the pleasure of taking the Countess "out walking" in mf court- yard, to use a colloquialism: once in the warm, sweet sunshine, again 'neath the glow of a radiant moon. She had not been outside the castle walls, literally, in more than five weeks, and the color leaped back into her cheeks with a rush that delighted me. I may mention in passing that I paid particular attention to her suggestion concerning my dilapidated, gone -to -seed garden, although 'I had been d b re to extinction by. o Jasper, Jr. when he undertook to enlighten me horticulturally. She agreed to come forth every day and assist me in building the poor thing up; prop- ping it, so to speak. As for Mrs. Titus, that really en- gaging lady made life so easy for me that I wondered why I had ever been apprehensive. She was quite wonderful when "it came to a pinch." I began to understand a good many things about her, chief among them being her unvoiced theories on matr:- mony. While she aid not actually commit herself, I had no difficulty in ascertaining that, from her point of view, marriages are not made in heaven, and that a properly arrang- ed divorce is a great deal less ter- restrial than it is commonly suppos- ed to be. She believed in matrimony as a trial and divorce as a reward, or something to that effect. My opinion seemed to carry con- siderable weight with her. For a day or two after our somewhat sanguin- ary encounter, she was prone to start —even to jump slightly when I ad- dressed myself to her with uninten- tional directness. She soon got over that, however. We were discussing Aline's unfor- tunate venture into the state of mat- rimony and I, feeling temporarily au- gust and superior, managed to say the wrong thing and in doing so put myself in a position from which I could not recede without loss of dig- nity. If my memory serves me cor- rectly I remarked, with some asper- ity, that marriages of that kind never turned out well for any one except the bridegroom. ' She looked at me coldly. "I am a- fraid, Mr. Smart, that you have been putting some very bad notions into my daughter's head," she said. 'Bad notions?" I murmured. "She has developed certain pro- nounced and rather extraordinary views concerning the nobility as the result of your—ah—argument, I may say." "I'm very sorry. I know one or two exceedingly nice noblemen, and rye no doubt there are a great many more. She must have misunderstood me. I wasn't running down the no- bility, Mrs. Titus. I was merely questioning the advisability of ele- vating it in the way we Americans sometimes do." "You did not put it so adroitly in discussing the practice with Aline," she said quickly. "Granted that her own marriage was a mistake, — a dreadful mistake,—it does not follow that all international matches are failures. I would just as soon be un- happily married to a duke as to a dry -goods merchant, Mr, Smart." "But not at the same price, Mrs. Titus," I remarked. She smiled, "A husband is dear at any price." "I shouldn't put it just that way," I protested. "A good American hus- band is a necessity, not a luxury. "Well, to go back to what I started to say, Aline is very bitter about matrimony as viewed from my point of view. I am sorry to say I attri- bute her attitude to your excellent counselling." "You flatter me. I was under the impression she took her lessons of Tarnowsy." "Granted. But Tarnoway was un- fit. Why tar all of them with the same stick? There are good noble- men, you'll admit." "But they don't need rehabilita- tion." "Aline, I fear, will never risk an- other experiment. It's rather cal- amitous, isn't it? When one stops to consider her youth, beauty and all the happiness there may be—" "i beg your pardon, Mrs. Titus, but I think your fears are ground- less." "What do you Mean?" "The Countess will marry again. I am not betraying a secret, because she has intimated as much to my secretary as well as to me. I take it that as soon as this unhappy af- fair is settled, she will be free to re- veal the true state of her feelings toward—" I stopped, somewhat dis- mayed by my, garrnlous turn. "Toward whom?" she fairly snap- ped. "I don't know," I replied truthfully —and, I fear, lugubriously. "Good heaven!" she cried, starting up from the benth on which we were sitting in the loggia. There was a queer expression in her eyes. "Hasn't 'atao011li 3Pruz t all p> I has 1,tta47:::; k oppgrtgn! ? t -" •old npte+t�A;t sed Idly wo ' P eta tale rientence, 1 telt there was, i'--41,46/, a. prlutary' note 4f {; ; rPle#It•Y.' and `,' „Neither ihlvu..I, 'W11 nder,• me?a„ It grilled me to . Cover that she,' , . Isn't i ettii!tg. to'Fie a habit"'! did .not even so mut fas take me in- ' ' Breakfasts ---or you?” . , to consideration LA; t`Breakfaet rid 'me:' 't . "you, can since t r-er—divorces", "1. con{eee, niy dda�r Canute , I inquired. I ,Tike 'Pott for braa 1 sIi," I said gal - She lias•"been in. "Sleclusion all of • + -- 'the time. She bas;lt0en no man,•-, that le to say, no Mali for whom :she. could possibly Ante a.,- but of course, Yon are ads n in youriim-• ppfession, Mr, Smart.. There is abso= lately, nothing in what you say." "a former sweetheart, antedating her marriage," I suggested hopeless - r0 "ThatIs a real tribute.", she sand demurely, sial teak Apr -,lace beside me, Together lye•:efoesed the court - On the steps Colingraft Titus -was standing. I uttered an -audible groan and winced as if in dire pain. "What is it?" she criquickly, Iy. "Rheumatism," .I' alums feed, care - 'She has no sweetheart. Of that fully raising. 'ray right arm and af- I am positive," said the with convier testing an expression of torture.. I tion. an not a physical coward, kind "She must have had an army of reader. The fact that young Mr. admirers. They were legion after Titus carried in his hands a act of her marriage, I maybe pardoned for formidable looking boxing -gloves did reminding you." S net frighten me. ,Heaven knows, if !She started. "Hat' she never men- it would give him any pleasure to tioned Lord Amlberdale to you?" she slam me about with a pair of gloves,, asked. ,. I am not without manliness and pluck P enough to endure physical pain and mental humiliation. It was diplom- acy, cunning, astuteness,—whatever you may choose to call, it,—that stood between me and a friendly -encounter With him. Two minutes' •,tire would serve to convince him t /he was my master, and then where would I warmest friends at the time b'f the Ivy. Where would be the prestige I divorce proceedings. But, of comer, ,had gained? Where my record as a there was nothing in that! They had conqueror? "I must have caught been good friends for years, nothing cold in my arms and- shoulders," I more,and he was a perfect dear went on,in worse facest Bushe couldn't fool me. I could as melting has see that there was ;:Something work- before 1 moved the Afflicted parts experimentally. ing at the back of her mind, but whe- "There!" she exclaimed ruefully. "I ther she was distressed or gratified knew you would catch cold. Men I was not by way of knowing. Always de. I'm so sorry." "I've never heard. her mention +qt's nothing," I made haste to Lord Amberdale," said I. explain:—"that is, nothing serious. Her 'eyes narrowed' slightly. Had I'll get rid of it in no time at all." I 1 but known, the mere fact that the calculated for a minute. "A .week or Countess had not spoken of his lord- ten days at the most. Good morning, ship provided her experienced mother Colingraft" with an excellent reason for believing '°Morning. Hello, sis. Well?" He that there was something between' tl'aggled the gloves before my eyes. them. She abruptly brought the Con- .4 disappointment was quite pa- versation to a close and left me, say- thetic. "Tell him," I said to the ing that she was off for her beauty Countess. nap. - "He's all crippled up with rheuma- Alone, I soon became a prey to tism; Colly," she said. "Put those certain disquieting thoughts. Sum- ugly things away. We're going in to breakfast." He tossed the gloves into a corner of the vestibule. I felt a little ashamed of my subterfuge in the face of his earnest expression of con- cern. "Tell you, what I'll do," he said warmly. "I know how to rub a fel- low's muscles=" "Oh, I have a treasure in Britton," said I, hastily.."Thanks, old man. He will work it out of me. Sorry we can't have a go this morning." The worst of it all was that he insisted, as a matter of personal ed- ucation, on coming to my room after breakfast to watch the expert man- oeuvres of ,Britton in *kneading the stiffness out of my muscles. He was looking efor new ideas, he explained. I first consulted Britton and then re- signedly consented. to the demonstra- tion. To my surprise, Britton was some- thing of an expert. I confess that he almost killed me with those strong, iron -like hands of his; if I was not sore when he began with me, I cer- tainly was when he finished. Colin - .graft was most enthusiastic. He said he'd never seen any one manipu- late the muscles so scientifically as Britton, and ventured the opinion that he would not have to repeat the operation often. To myself I said that,. he wouldn't have to repeat it at all. We began laying our plans for the fourteenth. Communications arrived from Italy, addressed to me but in- tended for either the Countess or the rather remote Mr. Bangs, who seem- ed better qualified to efface himself than any human being I've ever seen. These letters informed us that a yacht—one of three now cruising in the Mediterranean—would call at an appointed port on such and such a day to take ,her out to sea. Every- thing was being arranged on the out- side for her escape from the contin- ent, and precision seemed to be the watchward. Of course I couldn't do a stroke of work on my novel. How could I be expected to devote myself to fiction when fact was staring me in the face so engagingly? We led an idle, dolce far niente life in these days, with an underlying touch of anxiety and ex- citement that increased as the day for her departure drew near. I con- fess to a sickening sense of depres- sion that could not be shaken off. "Amberdale?" I Sre eated, with a queer sinking of the heart. "No, Mrs. Titus. An Englishman?" She was mistress of herself once more. Ina very degage manner she informed me that his lordship, a most attractive and houourable young Ehglishman, had been one of Aline's med up, they resolved themselves in- to a condition of certainty which ad- mitted of but one aspect: the charm- ing Countess was in love with Am- berdale. And the shocking part of it all was that she was in love with him prior to her' separation from Tarnowsy! I felt a cold perspira- tion start out all over my body as this condition forced itself upon me.' He was the man; he had been the man from the beginning. My ,heart was like lead for the rest of the day, and, very curiously, for a leaden thing it was subject to pain. Just before dinner, Britton, after inspecting me out of the corner of his eye for some time advised me to try a little brandy.' "You look seedy, air" he said with concern in his voice. "A cold setting in perhaps, sir." I tried the brandy, but not because I thought I was taking a cold, Some- how it warmed me up. There is vir- tue in good spirits. The Countess was abroad very early the next morning. I discovered her in the courtyard, giving directions to Max and Rudolph who were doing some spading in the garden. She looked very bright and fresh and en- ticing in the light of an early moon, and I was not only pleased but as- tonished, having been led to believe all my life that a woman, no matter how pretty she may be; appears at her wgqrat when the day is young. I joitred her at once. She gave me a gay, accusing smile. Whet have you been saying to mother?" she demanded, as she shook hanlhs with me. "I thought you were to be trusted." I flushed uncomfortably. "I'm sorry, Countess. I—I didn't know it was a secret." She looked at me somewhat quiz- zically for a moment. Then she laughed softly. "It is 'a secret" "I hope I haven't got you into bad odour with your—" "Oh, dear me, no! I'm not in the least worried over what mother may think. .I shall do as I please, so there's the end of it" I swallowed something that seem- ed to be sticking in my throat. "Then it is true that you are going to marry?" "Quite," she said succinctly. I was silent for a moment. "Well, I'm—I'nr glad to know it in time," I said, rather more gruffly than was necessary. She smiled ton merrily, I thought. "You must not tell any one else about Nummainamisstassommum This New Discovery! 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An unexpected diversion came one Play when, without warning and figu- ratively out of a clear sky, the. Haz- zards and the Billy Smiths swoop- ed down upon me. They had come up t)se river in the power hoat for a final 7.1tptember run, and planned to stop over night with me! They were the last people in the world whore i could turn away from my door. There night have been a chance to put them up for the night and still avoid disclosures, had not circumstance ordered that the Coun- tess and I should be working in the garden at the .srery, moment that brought them pounding at the postern gates. Old Conrad opened the gate in complete ignorance of our presence in the garden. (We happened to be in a somewhat obscure nook and seat- ed upon a stone bench—so he must be bald blameless) ' The gmarta brushed past the old man atrd'I, he ing their chatter, foolishly eicpitsed myself. I'sball not attempt to describe the scene that followed their discover of the Countess Tarnowsy. Be said, however, to the credit of Els e and Betty Bfily, the startled, refugee was fairly smothered in kisses and tears and' almost' deafened by the shrill, delighted exclamatlone that fell from their eager lips. I doubt if there ever was such a sensation be. fore!' * * * • They brought rather interesting r!ewa concerning the Count. It av-. pears that he and the baron had quarrelled and at the -time of my friend's departure from Vienna it. was pretty generally understood that there would be a duel. "I neverliked the baron,have I said, with a grim smile that could not beetni misinterpreted, "but hopeto hea''ens he isn't killed." rgrs. Titus sighed. "Tarnoway is arded as a wonderful marksman," Worse luck!" growled Colingraft, gloomily twiddling his thumbs. ,'What kind of 'a shot is the bar- on?" asked Jasper Jr., hopefully. No one was able to enlighten him, but Billy Smith shook his head dole- fully. "Maris Tarnowsy is a dead shot. He'll' pot the baron sure." "Hang it all," said I, and then lapsed into a horrified silence. When the Hazzards and Smiths de- parted the next morning they were in full possession of all of our plans, hopes and secrets, but they were bound by promises that would have haunted them throughout all eterar' ity if they allowed them to be violat- ed. I do not recall having seen two more intensely excited, radiant wo- men in my life than Elsie and Betty Billy. They were in an ecstatic state of mind. Their husbands, but little less excited, offered to help us in every way possible, and, to prove their earnest, turned the prow of the motor -boat down -stream, abandoning the trip up the river in order to be in Vienna in case I should need them for any purpose whatsoever. "You may rest easy so far as I am concerned, Mrs. Titus," said the young diplomat. "As a representa- tive of the United States Govern- ment I can't become publicly involved in this international muddle. I've just got to keep my lips sealed. If it were discovered that I knew of all this, my head would be under the snickersnee in no time at all. Swish! Officially suicided!" At ten o'clock the next morning I was called to the telephone. Smith had startling news to impart. Count Tarnowsy and Baron Umovitch had engaged in a duel with pistols at sunrise and the latter had gone down with a bullet through his lungs! He died an hour later. Tarnowsy, ac- cording to the rumours flying about official Vienna, was already on his way to Berlin, where he wquld prob- ably remain in seclusion until the af- fair blew over or imperial forgive- ness was extended to him. There . was cause for satisfaction among us, even though the baron had fallen instead of the count. The sen- sational affair would serve to keep Tarnowsy under cover for some weeks at least and minimise the dangers attending the Countess's flight from the castle. Still, I could not help feeling disappointed over the outcome of the meeting. Why couldn't Count Tarnowsy have been the one to fall? The Countess, very pale and dis- trait, gave utterance to her feelings in A most remarkable speech. She said: "This is one of the few fine things that Maris has ever done. I am glad that he killed that man. He should have done so long ago,—the beast! He was—ugh!—the most, de- spicable creature I've ever known." She said no more than this, but one could readily grasp all that she left unuttered. Colingraft rather sententiously re- marked to little Rosemary, who coulr! not have comprehended the words, of course: "Well, little Rose- bud, your papa may be a spend thrift but he never wastes bullets." Which was entirely uncalled for, I contend. I was struck by the swift look of dread that leaped into Aline's eyes and her pallor. On top of all this came the aston- ishing news, by cipher despatch from old Jasper Titus's principal adviser in London, that his offer of one mil- lion dnliArs had been declined by Tarnowsy two days before, the Count having replied through his lawyers that nothing short of two millions would induce hinf to relinquish all claims to his child. I had been ignorant of this move in the cast', and expressed my sur prise. "I asked father to do it, Mr. Smart said the Countess dejectedly. "It seemed the easiest way out of our difficulties—and the cheapest.. Ile will never give in to this new de- mand, though. We must make the best of it." Rut why did you suggest such a thing to him?" I demanded with heat. She looked hurt "Because you seemed to think it was the right and honourable thing to do," she said patiently. "i do, not forget what you •��;;'� pjrd: `rr}g 'just" iii" Aleve Baa x':h' hill* tu"tie as she`f me without ata: quite: out of Mega' r the:, Ataircaae, atul shattering swlftl_ ' i fnUy; 'aspedti. er expl&aatiort-- ir, 'L ter say, her reprbaehV; dawned upon are that I ;31$rl great :rmany..thinge to ,hell, would pay , me to verge i ri)et'- questioning her motives in any tieular. As the .d'ay_for 4fr;deaartassore ' nearer,—it wap . now but- toitjr-eight tit hours away, -bier tinsaner seemed to. Undergo a complete` change She lea», came moody, ,nervous"depressed.' course, all this was attrth the dread of dieeoderyd " when she was once .outside thee war Schloss n• . eo IB of o Hothhoefe I.eo .understand her feelings, -and ` iatheg lamely attempted to bolster' lipheir courage by making light of the sup. posed perils. (Continued next week.) 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'Esubli.htd 40 Years. 600 Aeras. Par partinrarswrite PELHAM NURSERY CO. Toronto, Ont. . eon POOP5 0' tJ.-., H:, :., Y.. „•';��` r,RAUrs ALSO A•' CM' PC,.' - . . ;4