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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1928-07-13, Page 7« URON EXP081 lter ate§ W u1d} # 411; IX ew 11°‘; Jaraluth re.dliY4464 de* Sims! Beeelewoode Jaime Connolly, Gibson, iilrudefield; James- Sholdiee, Walton. t- ION ON AND WINGIHM41 113 North: lawman Londeshoro Blyth Belgrave inghana Sout it 0 ,hriede and ulalii r the elege 'ant sks, waifod tips taiga. People thoight differeritly of these Wilma. The, ideaels she h tried to teach her childeen !were liot the ideals og the larger world. Labor said:net dignify'. itaelf, The, Matte 'of kings was mean- inglesel A- prnicese varying . was no Sitting rvery tens* and still in, the She Welded that' a teatime -Richaid had no one to teach: her. looked &wit un her. Belied perceiii- When. at last ehe- crept Into bed ed in her no. contain= grotuall of birth- beside -ithe sleeping PeggY, she was ef breeding. Yet ler grandfather *Bled to the bone, and she was cry- - Peggy stirred and murmured. Soothing -the childnAnne told her- self fiercely that she was a goose to he, upset because Eve Cheeley had was no better than Div:genes, Who had fumed and fussed beeause Toby had taken his straw in the stable. But her philosophy failed to bring peace mind. For e long time she lay awake, -working it out. At last deeided, weaeily, that .she- had yvept !because she really didn't know any of the worth -while things. She didn't know any of the young things and the gay things. She didn't know how to danee or to °talk .to men like Richard Brooks. The only things that she knew in the whole wide world were books! et ti4s, 71) kidiseif team to which the otters, , danced. She lifted her' Oat Ulna. Her shoes Were heavy, :and she _tile& them . She tried ge4the rhYthm. the light - was, -the grape of movement. But Iliad been .theafriend a the trend - father of Eicher& 'Brooks! When; PeggY come up, she annoulac- ed -that she was. ta sleep with •Anne. It *as an arrangement often made when the house was full.. :To -night a.m. p.m. Anne welcomed the cheery preeenc.e 10.36 5.51 of the thild, She sang her to sleern 10.49 6.04 and then sett for a long thne by the 11.03 6.18 little remit stove with Peggy in her 11.17 6.32 - She laid her down is a knook sound - 11.53 6.52 ed on 'her door. 12.13 7.12 "Are you up?" some one asked, 12.22 7.21 and she opened it, to find Evelyn Ches- .12.50 7.55 "May I iborraw a needier' She showed a torn length of laCe-trimmed flounce. "I caught it on a rocker in a.m. Belgrave • 7.15 Londesboro 7.35 Clinton ,• 7.56 Brucefield 8.15 Hendall 8.32 Exeter 8.47 Centralia : 8.59 3.05 3.38 3.47 4.10 4.30 4.38 4.48 5.13 Goderich Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin West. Dublin 11.17 Columban11.22 Clinton 11.50 ohnesville 12.01 6.20 6.36 -6.44 6.59 7.06 7.11 5.38 5.44 5.53 6.08-6.53 7.03 2.20 2.37 2.50 3.08 3.15 3.22 p.m. 9.37 10.04 10.13 10.30 my room. There shouldn't be any rocker." tnirsj4 Bower loves theme, -Anve said, as she hunted through her little baskete."She loves -to rock 'and rock. All the Womentaround here do." "Then, you're not onye of them?" "Not My grandmother was C-ynthia The name Meant nothing to Evelyn. 'It would ,have meent Much to Nancy B1:"orsoW did -You happen: to ,coine here? , I don'tiseelow any One could choose to come." "My mother died -and there was no one but my Greateuncle Rodman War - field. I had to• get something to don - so I came here, and Uncle Rod went to live with a married cousin." Evelyn had perched. herself on the post, of Anne's bed and yeas mending the .fiounce. Although she was not near the lamp, she gave an effect of gathering to her all the light of the room. She was wrapped in a robe of rose -color, a strange garment with fur to set it off, --and of enormous fullness. -It spread about her and billowed out until it almost hid the little bed and the ehild upon it. . Beside her, Anne• in her blue serge felt clumsy a,nd common. She knew that she ought not to feel that way, but she did.. She would have told her scholars that it -was not clothes that made the inan, or dress the woman. But then She told her scholars many things that weee right and good. She tried herself to be as right and good as her theories. But it was not al- ways possible.. It Was not possible at this moment. "What brought you here?" Eve persisted. teach sehool. I came in Septem- "Everything. We are not graded." "I hope you teach them to be holiest with thernselves." am not sure that I know what you -mean?" "Don't let thein pretend to be some- thieg that they are .not. That's why so many people fail. They reach too high, and -fall. That's what Nancy Brooks is doing to Richard. She is making him reabh too high." -She laughed- as she bent above her needle. "I fancy you are not inter - eked in ,that. But I Can't think of anything. but -the waste of it. hope you rvill all. be so healthy that you won% need him, and thee he will have. to tome. back to. New York." "I don't see . how anybody could leave Nevi York. .Not to come down here." Anne drew a quick breath. Eve spoke oterelesely: "Oh, well, I suppose it isn't seined hero for. a wo- man, bet for a triten-2a., main needs big' -spaces. Itiehtird ,be ereinped LE Goderich enset Auburn • - West. 5.50 5.55 6.04 6.11 6.25 6.40 6.52 10.25 MeNaught • 11.48 • Welton. 12.01 NleGa*. 12.34 C AFTER III In Which the Crown Prince Eaters :Upon His Own. It developed. that the name of the young man with the eye -glasses was Geoffrey Fox. Mrs. Bower told Anne ait elle breakfast table, as the two ,wo- men sat alone. "He is writing a book, and he wants "The little dark man?" "I shouldn't call him little. He is thin, but he is as -tall as Richard Brooks." "Is he?" To Anne it had seemed as if Richard had towered above her like a young giant. She had scarce- ly noticed the young man with the eyetglasses. He had melted into the background of old gentlemen; had be- come, as It were, part of a compos- ite instead of a single personality. But to be writing a book! "What kind of a book, Mrs. Bow - am going to give him the front room in the south wing; then he will have a view of the river." • When Anne met 'the dark young man in the hall an hour later, she dis- oovered that) he had keen eyes and a mocking smile. He stopped her. "Do we have to be introduced? I am going to stay here. Did Mrs. Bower tell you?" "She told me you were writing a book." "Don't tell anybody else; I'm not proud of it." Ile shrugged. "My stories are pot- boilers, most of them -with every- body happy in the end." "Because life isn% that way." • "Life is what we make it." "Who told. you that?" She flushed. "It is what I tell my school children." "But have you found it so?" She faltered. "No -but perhaps it is my fault. "It isn't anybody's fault. If the gods smile -we are happy. If they frown, we are miserable. That -'s all there is to it." "I should hat to think that was all." She *as roused and ready to fight for her ideals. "I should hate to think "All your hating won't make it as you want it," his glance was quizzi- cal, "but we vron't quarrel: aboat it." "Of course not," stiffly. "And re are to be friends? You see I am to stay a month." "Are you going to 'write about usdr" "I shall write about the Old Gentle- men. Is there always such a crowd "Only on holidays and week -ends." "Perhaps I shall write about you-" daringly. need a little heroine." lifer look stopped him. Hie face eltatiged, "I beg your pardon;" Said quickly. "I ehoulci not have taid "Would yoti have amid it if I had WOO tramerlonsa The color that had flelned. itt. heir &sake still dyed Wain, • thiniglit Of it last alight, after , • teal' MY. little children in. tny homet . Walt is dignity. in ma • 4,1406:: TN% -that 'People did; net tit.b. d'You, felt that We-4height lest of, "And tlint'I aa 2' did bedatIse "ThenCE. b.161' reit Paidone VOA SALE. -Five acres, one mile ATM Seaforth; modern house With fames, bath and toilet; small leiro; , ed Orchard. Taxes, $15. Splendid chance to start _chicken firm, hes, dn. Apply to Sea rth, -hell shrink to the. measure of all thie-nanrowneildr Me bed finished her flounce, and she rose arid gave Anne the needle. "In the niorninglf the weathet is gOod,• we are; to ride to Crossroads. lo your sehool verb; "1"It oppesite Crossroads. Rata. Malts' i;ether built it." duo -spoke stiffly. She had -felt turious with herself for Itofe ;epee ve% alothee, of her tthe gold eellab in her' heir: 'Melte ',had t ono, Anne IshOeillehhie, and flutg it her Vet& slint of her Vse lit le01:333144e;.0:770::'ibtatr bveyln h.S.hMOntlt Oh" 01:used to esuleo- here *modeled made tight ini violets' under the bank, and gave them to my' thq •"lron lived b time a Mile or two. away. Belts us down, and he wouldt4 on the point. .and fi Awe., in his broad beta. ing creel- wee his "nhotd were just' two stierts that father loved, -fishing and was a were pick ef them She ther's, to d -rive !Wand old 1.)ds fish - There grand - bat he was. a very bUsyedietor and couldn't ride often to.lecomedrh;t But he kept a lot a- themh. *Old have b Hi own dogs were -wiry . "My grandfather was Mind, and alw,ays in his library: Se :iny boy- hood was different. I used ti read to hina. I liked it, and it wouldn't ex- had a great contempt fate o y. s At tab' Solt aa, tent Ite Itate .2 change my memories for- yoUrs, ex- cept the vielets-I should like to pick them here in the spring -perhaps I shall -I told Mrs. Bower would take a roman far a month or More - and since we have -spoken of *violets -I may wait for their blooming?' He laughed, and as -they, turned back, "I have found several:things to keep me,' he said, hut headid not name them. All day Anne was a -ware of the presence in the house a the young guests. She was aware of Wirmifred Ames' blue cloak end of Eve's roses. She was aware of Richard's-4dg voice booming through the halb- of Geof- frey% mocking laugh. But she did -not go down, among them. She ate her meals after the others had finished. She did not-ma:At upon the table and, she did not sit up- on the stairs. In the afternoon she wrote a long -letter to hex. Great-uncle Rodman, and she went early to bed. She was waked in the morning by the bustle of departure. Some of the Old ,Gentlemen went back by anotor, others by train. Warmed by a hearty again, I shall try to forgive it." breakfast, bundled into their big "I shall never forgave it," she said, coats, they were lighted on their way "for what it has done to me and by Eric Brand. mine." It -was just as the sun flashed over "But you are here, and you( have the horizon and showed the whitenese brought your boy; that's a thing to of a day swept clear by the winds be thankful for, Narcey." -of the night that the train for the They were silent in- the face of ov- north 'carried off the Dutton -Ames, erwhelming memories. The only Phillip and Eve. sound in the shadowy hall was the Evelyn went protesting. "Some day ticking of the old clock -the old clock you are going to regret it, Richard." which had tick -tacked in all the years "Don't mcoak. Wish me good- luck, of loneliness with no one to listen. Eve." Richard greeted hina with hearti- But she would not. ;Yet when she ness. "This look pretty good to me, stood at last on the train steps to Cousin David." say "Good-bye," she had in her hand "It's God's country, Richard. Brin one of the roses he had given her and hates it. He loves his club and the which she -had worn. She touched. it city streets. But for me there's noth- lightly to her lips and tossed' it to ing worth while but this sweep of the him. hills and the rivea between." By the time he had picked it up -the He uncovered his basket. "Tom train was on its way, and Evelyn, put up some things for you. I've looking back, had her last glimpse of engaged Milly, a mulatto girl, but him standing straight and tall against she can't get here until to -morrow. the morning sky, the rose in his hand. She is about the best there is left. It was eight O'clock when Eric drove Most of them go to town. She'll pro - Anne and Peggy through the Adrifts .bahly seem pretty crude after New to the Crossroads -school. It was nine York servants, Nancy." when Geoffrey Fox came down to a "I don't care." Nancy almost sang late breakfast. It was ten when Rich- the words. "I don't care what I have ard and his mother and the dog Toby to put up with, Cousin David. I shall in a hired conveyance arrived at the sleep to -night under Troy own roof place which had once been Ilancy's -with nothing between me and the home. stars. And there won't be anybody Imposing, even in its shabbiness, overhead or underneath, and there stood the old house, at the crul of an won't be a pianola to the -right of the, avenue of spired !cedars. and a phonograph to the left, and As they opened the door a grateful there won't be the rumble of the sub- -war -filth met them. way or the crash of the elevated, and "David has been here," Nancy said. in the morning -I shall open my eyes "Oh, Richard, Richard, what glor- and see the sun rise over the river, ious day to begh0 and I shall look out upon the world And now there crone from aalnong that I love and have loved all of the shadowa a sound which made these yeara_o them. stop and listaa "Tick, took," And now she was crying, and Rich - said the great hall clock. ard had her in'his arms. Over her "'Mother, who wound it?" head he looked at the older man. "I Nancy Brooks laughed trennfloOls- didn't dream that she felt like this." ly. "Cousin David had the key. Ia NI knew -as soon as I saw her. You all these Yeats he has never let the roust never t,ake her back, Richard." old ,clock rtan dean: It seemed crater "Of course not," hotly. to think of it tic 'tag away in thia Yet with the 'perverseness of youth empty holiee.'' he was aware, as he said it, of a and - There Were tears in her eyea..- 'Be den sense of revolt agabast the pros- atooped and kiseed her. "Arad note peet a a future spent in this quiet that yOu irre here, you are going Ise place. Mashing came a vision of the ...oupok-broketi 0101r Oriciotkly4 Oa* het" ate giguadard diitgatee. nes ego- tile vieineka him). bib= phlefer-a raphite4 beauttrial9 pack comfort le. Lwinary sad one ten ink Oste- &fit prices. Mho President Eiedee 0.2228.te $6260 The Dictate?, a .0 11556 re nue AU pilaw f. 6. Wisikero4814, now, it seemed a wonder city. its tall building outlined like gigantic castles against the sky. It seemed filled to the brim with vivid life. --At seen indeed, to call hira back! ViThile David and Nancy talked he went out, and, from the top of the snowy steps, surveyed his domain. Back and back in the wide stretch of country which faced him, beyond the valieys, on the other side of the hills, were people who would some day lis- ten for the step of young Richard as those who had gone before had listen- ed for the step of his grandfather. He eaw himself going forth on stormy nights to fight .pain and pestilence; to minister to little children, to patient mothers; to men beaten. down by an enemy before whom their strength Was as wax. They would wait for him, anxious for his verdict, yet fear- ing it, welcoming him as a saviour, who would stand with flaming sword between disease and the Dark Angel. The schoolhouse was on the other side of the road. It was built of brick like the house. Richard's grand- father had paid for the hrick. Ilehad -believed in public schools and had made this one possible. Children came to it from all the countryside. There were other schools in the sleepy town. This 'was the Crossroads school, as Richard Tyson had been the Cross- roads doctor. He had given himself to a rural community -his journeys had been long and his life hard, but he had loved the labor. The bell rang for the noon recess, The children appeared presently, trudging homeward through the snow to their midday dinners. .inen Anne Warfield came out. She wore a heavy brown coat and soft brown hat. In her hand, was a small earthen dish. She stre-wed seeds for the birds, and they flew down in front of her -jun- coes and sparrows a tufted titmouse, ness. 'She was like a bird herself in all her brown. When the dish was empty, she turn- ed it upside dawn, and spread her hands to allow that there was nothing more. On the Saturday night when she load waited on the table, Richard had noticed the loveliness of her halide. They were araall and white, and without slags. Yet in spite of their einallnessr and whiteness be knew that theyewere reefal hand's, for she had aerved at Bawer's. And now he knew that they were kindly hands, for she had. fetl the ihirtla Who had atone begging to her door. Peggy joined her, and the two amaze out tha gate together. Anne lonitin2 them creased the road. happy'? " city he had letft, of crowded hospitals, "Very liappt, r bey." of bi.g men consulting with big ITIS71, It VMS nearly twelve when of old men inverting their secrets of Tireata ettrat 1100P12%.' UP the VIOL, heWing to the young; of limousines dbaaket.in-batie band, and speeding luxuriously on errands of ir. the ether.„, ehirai troli'od.s a mercy. of patierits pouring out their y•bokirip teriltound. 'rue ,,,fflog wealth to the Men who h made them To „ traii6gint; tout Of the do* ' as vi•elti. Mauer oleaeal it, fell, s it wet% OP- All gide hitclgiven.up beeause his tarot bl fltiOnahgo prom met,pith a of the place which his grandfather digaled didginos Which In, di had filled, -of the dignity of a country 116nerlield. out: both handU.; to the starch and for e3tperiment, At close eld loam 1, saw pist coining, 'nOln rangeb the big town sot between its heW ef.tietlf ataaatt id he haintiffalial, VIVO= and the sea had seemed noisy Comm .1tItt, ' .!'4 • ,ars4 strelgar. Its people hod seemed wouldn't want us," Peggy told him. "Were you really afraid?" "I wasn't. Rut Miss Anne was." "I told the children that they must not be disappointed if we were not able to do this year as we had done before. I felt that with people in the house, it might not be pleasant for them to have us coming in such a crowd." "It will be pleasant, and moth,er will be much interested. I wish you'd come up and tell us about it." She shook her head. "Peggy and - I have just time to get back to Bow- er's for our dinner." "Aren't the roads bad?" "Not when the snow is hard." Peggy went reluctantly. "I think he is perfectly lovely," she said, at a safe distance. "Don't you?" Anne's reply was guarded. "He is very kind. I am glad that he doesn't mind about the Twelfth Night pla,y, Peggy." Richard spoke to David of Anne as the two men, a few minutes later, cliaubed the hill toward David's house, "She seems unusual." "She is the best teacher we have ever had, but she ought not to be at Bower's. She isn't their kind." David's little house, set on top of hill, was small and shabby without, but within it was as compact as ship% cabin. David's old servant, Tom, kept it immaculate, and thI•re were books everywhere, old portraits, precious bits of mahogany. From the window beside the fire- place there was a view of the river. It was a blue niver to -day, sparlding in the sunshine. David, standing be- side Richard, spoke of it. "It isn't always blue, but it is al- ways beautiful. Erven when the snow flies as it did yesterday." "Anti ere you content with this, Cousin David?' The answer was evasive. heve imy little law practice, sad my hooka, And is 'any one ever content, Rich - Going down the hill, Richard poet dered. Was Eve right after all? Bid a man who turhed hie face away front the rush a cities molly lack red Stopping at the schoolhouse, he found teacher and &cholera still gone. But the door was unlocked and ho weirit in. The leanceil man woe charming, and tho good taste of the teacher was evident it; deeoratiento.' There were branchea of pine end cad. ar en the walls, a platens a Wade, ington at one end aril a flag draped over it, a pot a: gtkiramsea it, the south wittiew. There were' tIitord books on Atp Voluitind Pore, the ,' I'Vet,K,AM ihr a Matt 'Vier 10176': Be et once went to meet her. Gitze gushed a little as she speiss-te hitt, "A.nd Were awl& Oa 174