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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-08-16, Page 7AUGUST 1 E. TE]VIPLE T1`IURSTON (Continued from Iasi week) • ';A . moment later the.. •fourteenth dance began, and a little while after, with every sense compelled into the • •Service. of his bearing, he made out the sound ,of voices as they came out I Of the, house.. T'wo..people there were, a man and a woman: For a while, as their .voices 'blended with the music, he could distinguish no more, They were coming down the .drive. Ngw he could make out the resonance of John Desmond's voice. An, instant later, with her reply, he heard Patricia...' "Shure, ye- can 'come -and see •.me whin rm received," he .heard her say. "And ye're as mad` set on it as all that?" John Desmond,' asked her. Eagerly Charles listened .for her re- ply; but there was none. "Are to?" he rePeated. ""Ti's •a great thing to have a voca- tion," said' she. "'Tis a great thing to have a crown on yeer head," 'said he, "but God knows I'd rathet - have a hat." •• She laughed. Charles heard her 'laugh as they •came down into 'the shadows of the ,.trees, and there was dud tender note in , it., that women have when they laugh,' not so much out of theiy hearts, but out of the love •tliat is. in them, as though it were' a ' place all to itself and has nothing of hes ti eee about jt. N.ore like the, cooing of a bird it..was, and at the sound of it Charles Stuart found him- self shaking ,•from head to foot. They ,came across him an instant later, walking disconsolately .as he had been bid, with his• head down and •his hands in his pockets, far all the world as if he were sick of the 'gaiety • and noise up there •r, • • • "Who's that?" ' inquired, 'John Des- • mond sharply, stopping with Patricia hanging affectionately to his arm as they made him out. ' •Charles gave his name and saw a LEGAL McCONNELL` & .HAYS • Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. 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GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon " ' Phone 110 - Hensall 4068xSe DR. F. H. SCHERK Physician and Surgeon Phone 56 - Hensall AUCTIOTE•EItS • INATibL13. JACKSON Specialist in Farm and. Household Sales. Licensed in Hudn and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable;! satisfaction guarantee$d. ' For information, etc., write or phone !HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. W. 8. O'NEIL, DENFLELD, dNT. Licensed AUc(Ione'er Pure bred sale's, also farm stook and iznplleul, a is One , • per cent. charge. :i3at3hf etion guaratiteed. roti' sale dates, Phone 284, Granton, at idler : iteti6C, , • movement of Patricia's, but could not 'read its meaning.. John. Desmond felt it, too;' in the, swift tightening of her fingers on his arm. "Why are ye not. dancin', man?" he asked. "Aren't they. boppin' .up there like _young lembs,- with their fiddlers from Wa.terfor,h Rain' their, lips for want of 'a drink. Nowr why the divvle did �I say that?" . "Say what?" asked Patricia. ' "Why the divvle did I talk about a drink, and I leavin' one slitandin' on the , table, 'hale through,' the time I was routin' ye out behind that screen for the 'dances we were to have? Well, I've got two dances with ye, and. I can't .leave it wastin' there. What's more, I want Me 'pipe, for • I haven't had a smoke this avenin'." They were poor excuses, .but the light of them was clear enough to Charles. This was the'ch'ance he was, to be given, and his heart fell whey he heard Patricia proposing to go ,balk fo°r both drink land pipe herself. "Ye will not," exclaimed 'John Des- mond, ''ye'll shtand and talk to this poor fella has no partner at all— which is yeer own bad .management, mind ye, not' introducin' him as a stranger and doesn't know a soul. And t'e'll wait here ,the time I'll be comin" back with me pipe in two min- utes or less maybe, for 'tis the only' dance I'll have with ye this night." Without giving her time for another word, he left,, 'them, ." and though he listened. • with both ears alert as he walked up the drive to the house, there had been, nothing but silence between them when he reached the steps. "May the- Almighty God find his tongue for him," said he as he pass- ed into .'the house, "for 'tis a certain thing, surely, he's•got too many words in his throat to find ,it foe himself." , • VII PATRICIA'S VOCATION .. The moon raced out 'from behind .a cloud and made silver "On" Patricia's black hair.' It lit 'her face with mys- tery To Charles 'Stuart, as he stood there watchingher under those trees with'that gash of moonlight eut.across the .darkness; she .was like a ,saint it was sacrilege to touch., All the wis- dom of 'John Desmond seemed -'folly to him, for in those first ecstasies of love, men and women, .old and young, are like 'children kneeling at the feet of God., ' • All remembrance of her biting out her "words with a high spirit at bin that night when first they had met on the Stradbally roah seemed to have fallen out 'of the balance of his mind. He could•think of her'wild and untameable no longer while they stood there on the drive. But had he even' recalled the fact that she her- self, crying out that night for one of them there to be a man and wishing fir a pole -axe in her lathe hands, had echoed -the first ' principles• of Johu Desmond's, doctrine of force, it is c'oubtful it" he could have learnt his lesson from it then. , Alone with her in that :place and that darkness, and she with the moon- light in -ler hair, he was 'one hlpuo- tized with love and could .not 'speak. Only it seemed 'he could look, and 'With. all, his soul staring from his eyes. .like a wondering child pressing its face against the window -pane. . How is it to be known how much she knew of that amazement of the miraculous, in:which he stood silent all that while, as you would suppose a ' man 'might stand in the sudden ,and blinding presence of God? $ome- .thing she must have. known, and no •little too. So deep.,a •passiop of emo- tion as that does 'not confine itself alone to the heart and mind ,..el'`- a Man who ,suffers • the exquisite pain it brings. The air in a silence is full of it. Even a discordant noise can- not penetrate the intense ether sur- rounding a_ man and woman then. • An owl screeched' again in itb passage, over the trees as they stood there, the noise of the stamping of feet for applause _after the music was' still, came out of the house, but neither of these sounds reached, the ears of those two, enveloped in the' ,burning atmo4phere of his emotion. He knew it and could not speak. She knew it and dared not. For this, indeed, with little understanding of what it meant or how it would burn her when its flame was close, was. what she had feared that night might the e ' beauty and sanctity of her vocation.' It must be little comprehensible to those who cannot _take into their minds the ' glamour "of the convent life, •that a child who has been brought up with a , daily contempla- tion of it from her earliest youth should almost fear the contempt of God if she were to sacrifice the voca- tion which it had been His. .loving kindness to -graft within her mind. . Yet such had been the feelings of Patricia when, after their meeting in the woods, she came down that eve- ning dressed in her finery to Mrs. Slattery in the kitchen. Something she knew would happen,, and it was that something she had: feared, when first she had taken every precaution to put it beyond, her reach. What •precisely there w'ae to fear in it, she could nothave aald, fair • still it Was there lingering persistently in her mind, an , antagonism -to this yotlhg Men who, with 'Whatever (Anse, an ridden. hte,herse to 'death, and; In ,t 'at ,. same evening had •played a galling trick upon her pride. Nevertheless, feared it she had, and with. little consideration of the plea- sure they brought her, had•rnade'her contracts and filled her prograthMe with the names of the first, who had asked her to dance. Then she had believed, she • was safe, and quick though her heart was 'beating as Charles Stuart ran up those 'stairs, and sharp though the pain had been as he walked away; she had Shown himher• progrant'rne as one who knows that she has sought and fount!. im munity. , Sant now, here was 'Fate, throwing all her careful plans like leaves as playthings to th-p wind. She had some distant knowledge Abet tbat she lay under the ,,spell of an' enchantment, but .,,lever having heard that song of the prince's sword me it sweeps through the air, bringing. tele• might- iest of monsters to its knees, she had no desire to be set free, and jest be- cause it did not seem that freedom were even possible. Yet, if 'possible it were, then the bitter diaappofnt- ment of God was too high a price to pay for it, But strangely now, while they stood in silepce beneath • the• trees, something was thrilling in her heart, the sound'•of a'•.dlatairt:.cry that .called "her • trembling fritaThe - pur- ,poae she had thought was deepest in her soul. 'The desire to answer' it 'was like a wavedragging her out in- to the running sea, 'and still.. she dar- ed not speak for fear of .that con- tempt of God. It was .only when the silence, was too ,full 'to bear a moment longer all the burning weight of speech it held., that Charles inurmured her' name. Only the sound of his breath came' out. between his lips. - "Patricia,'' he said, and it was only because sh'e knew. •that, she• heard. "What is it?" ,she whispered back. He stood with', his hand hanging simply at his sides, like a young man awed in the moment of his first com- munion. - "I • love you," ' he said, having 'no other words, -and if menti were 'less conscious of their, words in such an hour, 'they wopld, • s,ay no more.' "I know," said, she—the .truest, an•d the simplest and the most wonderful: words.in all the world. '• This was the glisten of the sword she `saw—she had not heard its song. A hong while passed before they ev- en spoke again. And then he -asked her what it meant, for that it•seemed to him she must know best of them two. ."It's no good," she whispered back, "I shall be gone tomorrow." Knowing this answer, he pleaded it must mean more to her than that. "I've got a vocation," she replied, and lik'e a child whose hands 'are 'full. when it can hold no more. "Nathing could change that." . -"Nothing?" said he. ."Nothing—unless—unless" . "Unless what?" c'Unless 'there were something I don't know •of r- something so so strong that eveni-- even' if I fought against it I should be too weak to re- sist". ' Across the mind •of Ciarles Stuart then; and not till then, there rushed the. remembrance of the look of John Desntond's band they both had star- ed at. For two years his wife had tried to get him to use the weight'of his' arm the only wap said he, a man is stronger -than a woman. And here was her daughter now, asking for the, selfsame thing, however distant was •her knowledge of the demand she made.. As yet it was only the glitter of the prince's sword siie •saw. The, music of its song was what she asked •For, and in°that moment, Charles Stu- art flung out the timid question in.his soul. ' .•"Something." be repeated, "you're too weak to, resist?" ' She•bent her head and wondered with a :,quickening of her pulse at the new note ,his voice had 'struck. "All •right," said he—"all right," and once • again as they heard foot- steps coring down the drive, he re• p,eated those two Words 'so that they sounded like a tolling bell ringing a summons in the deepest chambers of leer heart. :"D'he •think )! could find me pipe?" :said the voice- of John Desmond, com- ing across the darkness and,reaching them where they still steed in the same .place as he had left them under the trees: ' ,"S'hure; I dunno where anything is. in that' house this night. Didn't I think I'd get away by myself'for two minutes in the. kitchen,. and wasn't there ,some young fella kissin' a girl behind the clothes -horse and they dryin' t'hemselve's like a pair of blan- kets in front of the fire. 'Tis no place for a sane man, I'm thinkin'. 'Tis either mad ye must be, or drunk and failing, that,,l.ye'd, need to be twenty years of age to think' ye weren't in an asylum. And here's me whole' two dances One and I niver sayiri' a word to 'ye." "Is the sixteenth dlanee beginning?" she asked. }'1't Is so," said he, "and there's more than one youag ,fella with a worried look in his faee, peepin'• into all the corners he can find, . Shure, .glory be to • God, •I saw;, ?van lookin' into the boot .cupboard. 'There's head In rthere,' says I. `I know that,' O ?OsXTO: be, °IVas' ioolem," to ciec re .feet in" 'em. 7 ith an in 4tant P.I.1114` .at xa> Suter ;that stopped, on' a! 3 dhea chhe]rne$o. in her threat,' Patricia turned away. from heuhi: 41 fist get 'back to the house," gai'd Have Yen, no dale . `"' qe Yeti .can give me at all?'; asked .Pharles. She shook her head. "Really' YolY've . g.40 two,". slit said —c`two whole ones Avhile father !was after getting his pipe —two that didn't belong to ye;" "I don't mind... `oho they belong to," said Chatrles, • She laughed genre, a tenderer note than John Desmon%liad eves heard in her laughter before-.. "If I'd maim. a promise to ye," said she,c "would ye like Me to break it?" And then, with. an thtexpect'ed impulse she turned! back a step and held out her handl "Good-bye," said • she. "There'll be such. • a rush, with them all goin' at the @rid, I might not have time to say it then." • John Desniond 'Stood by, looking fromone to'the other. "Perdiawo it tempo con quench) e dove," said 'Charles, "What's that 'mean?" she asked. "it's what they say in Spanish," he replied; "when' they'niean that time and space make ' no difference.- 4t paeans as much as to say, that time and 'space don't exist' at all. I'll eh - plain .it better one day." " "Ah, one day," said she, and h aw the moonlight on her face oti moment before she turned again and went, back to the hoose. • john Desmond watched her out of sight. When she was gone he never looked at Charles. "Se I've -•-got to drive lier over to Rathgormuck tomorrow," said he, . "That's 'right," said Charles. "Then she gets into that old' shah-, dridan 'they have, with an old. deaf man to drive 'em; and she its there with a •pack of nuns, like a, lot of squirrels 'in a cage, and she ,goes away across the hills to Clonmel." He nodded his head backwards and: forwards and for a while he stood in Silence. "Well, the Lord be witlfhthe days!" he exclaimed' at last. "The young mei, are not the same as they were when I was a boy. I wouldn't have. let her go hack ,ta the house, without gettin the worrd out of her first. i would not." "She's • 'promised • me one thing," said Charles. "An' what's thatf' "She'll give up her vocation if there comes something in her way she's not strong enough to resist." "And what'll that be, shure, if ye couldn't .tell it to her now, the time I'd be giving ye as good a chance as. any; man had ever hi his life?" In answer to that question, Charles Stuart held out his open hand. For a moment, .in wax t. oh comprehension, John Desmond starecthht it. "What d'ye me'a at?" said 'he. "Is there. ever a time' in her life," replied "Charles, repeating the very words that had been said to him, "when a" woman hasn't got to be'' won?" " John Desmnd looked at the hand. again, and then he seized; it in h;s own. "I can't help ye," said he. "Shur,., amn't I under me oath, and there'd be the curse of more than Cromwell. on me if I broke it a sijcond time, .J dufino what ye're sayin', mind ye, but glory be to God, 'I believe ye mane. it. Come along up to the house now and have a drink. I've the best rea- son•'in-the worrld for takin' wan." "What's, that?" asked Charles. "Shure, I damn well want it," said he. , VIII . THE PROSPECT • Promises are better out. of the eyes than of the lips, better given' with a grip;,, of the hand than offered with the readiness of 'the tongue. Indeed, John Desmond wanted none of the latter, preferring' to be in ,ignorance for the sake of his conscience, since it behoved him to keep to the' letter ,of his oath when- he had sworn at her birth to dedicate Patricia to 'a convent life., From the wringing•grip of his.ha.nds as they parted that 'night, ,when, long before the dance was over, Charles Stuart returned to Waterford, from the look no less in his eye, John Lies - mond was satisfied. that the doctrine Of his gospel of force had gone home. He' did not want to know how, he nev- er inquired in what way it was to. take effect. Ignorance was truly 'a bliss with him then. I He never be- lieved for a .moment that that fare- well he had been a witness 'to in 'the• drive was to be the end of it all; and even when his own mind began to wonder on ways• and means, lie put the thoughts swiftly,from him. , "And ye1`ve let him go, said Wirt Slattery to him when she caught •him alone in the kitchen after Charles's departure. "Ye've let him go out of the house and ye with' all yeer talk about m•akin` a saint of the young fel- la would be askin' her to marry him this night." "I ;liver stopped him askin' her," said he: • "Shure, wasn't it in, the, in- nocence of me heart I gave him the chance meself7 There was I wantin' me pipe and the half of a glass, I'd left shtandin' on the table an' it West- in'. '1 wan't be a minute,' says I to them, . And whin I came back hadn't he asked her and she rejectin' him, pint -blank, the way there could be no more words about it." "What a fool ye are," said she, "not to be askin' her what sire means byit,,, "Pis her own choice » ;he replied, "and werein`t ye there '1lirthe robin , For aevei,'al. '4'eelts, ,, aches• :will be .the ;neat' interesting'trot to" the hemeraaloers. The etop"this:year isI a good one and for naany it will mean a "pifl u'p',Int," since home eakexs will want to ean.,.or freeze as many peaches as possible. 1 ' For canning; the home economists .of the Consumer sector'. of the' Dom- inion iDe lertment of Agriculture re - 'commend the "V" varieties or the Rochester, .the Elherta__er the Golden Jubilee. • For freezing, they recommend -the "V" varieties, the E';berta, the J. Ii. Hale and the Candoka. Peaches may be canned. by eithe'' the -"cold pack" or the "hot pack" method.. For either Method, tlie, peaches are selected • according to size and' degree- of maturity. Good, sound and ripe fruit oely should be used. Peaches' with had spots Should 'be•, put aside acid the good portion used. for jam or desserts. After selec- and ye hearin' -me the time °I' swore to. Almighty God she should he a nun. Yirra, ye've tried to make me cheat God the Lord Gowant ,.and ye can try again, but I'm not ltstenin', mind ye. I am".not! What would I,be sayin' to Father Casey in', the confessional' the way I'd have to be •tellin', him I urg- ed her to take the young fella and kape herself out of the convent? If he can't get the worrd out of herself and,he askin' •her, shure, 'tis no bus,- tress of mine. Faith! I believe 'tis yeerself 'ud be glad to_see m@ •burp:-, inhale hell, ‘for the ungrateful woman ye are." . She went back to. her duties, in the dressing -room set apart for,the ladies, there stitching up• the rents in the frocks they brought to herh with the tears smarting in . her eyes and her lips trembling with her distress. It was near daylight' when all drag- ged themselves to their .beds, and not until eleven ;o'clock the next ramm- ing did Mrs. Slattery come creeping to Patricia's room' to call' her. For a while she stood watching her as she slept, with her head tucked in the curve of her arm, and there was much 'difficulty she had in that moment to reconcile human nature with religious faith. • . - • "'Tis no good, a fat thing like me,” at last she muttered aloud—"'Tis no good settin' me brains against•the will of the Almighty God. Shure, I might talk till' I :was sick,,. •'Tis got toebe, and that's all there is about it. 'Tis got to be." • (Continued. Next Week) tion comes the ,b2arurhng ,wltdh cogs' mete Qf .1ippini the pe{.cltes ?ti boiling. vatet'for 15 to dQ 0044 and then` diRRinp.,. in • cold water Wile• :Seth the color rand lo,zns, :the shins • so tha( they''.will 'a1P,'off eaeiiy, - Net mere: than sufficient .fruit fez• t*o -01^ three uoataineia should be blancjipAII'at one time. Peaches,., li1e pears, ,and ,aF plus, discolor . iiu.iely after"ipeeitpg;. and therefore should he dropped In.I.11 Weak brine of one teaspoon et .salt. to one quart of~water as soon as .they .are peeled, ;Since long standing in brine would give a definitely salty taste to the peaches, a small quantity':. ?only should be prepared at a time, sufficient to fill not more than , two. three containers. The peaches, when :.drained from , the brine, are halved or quartered and pitted. For. the void pacic method, the peaches are packed in sealers, cut side down. and covered with boiling syrup. The punt glass sealers .-and 20 -ounce tirJ .cansare,processed„int,the boiling wa- ter bath' for 20 minutes and the quart sealers 'and 28 -ounce tin cans 25 min- utes, Glass sealers only can be pro- cessed in' a thermostatically control- led oven at 275 degkees F.; pints, 35 minutes; quarts, 45 minutes. , ' The hot pack method differs from the cold pack. After, the,.. peaches are prepared. that is, blanched,. skin- ned, • drained from the brine, halved or quartered and pitted, they are !Sim- mered for five minutes, in the syrup and -packed hot, The processing time Cis decreased because of this pre-cook- ing. Sealers of ,both... sizes and tin cans-arerocesse -1-5_m _ p d mutes to the boiling water bath. If processed in the oven, 25 minutes are• allowed for pint sealers and 30 minutes -for quaint sealers, at 275 degrees F. ' The number of cold storage plants equipped with refrigerated locker rooms is increasing considerably •and many homemakers, are planning to take advantage of this method of pre- serving food.. . Peaches,:fre.eze well, provided a good flrn and ripe • fruit is used. Af- ter fruit is selected it is blanched, :that is dipped in boiling water -for :one-half to one minute, then dipped in cold water, the skin removed and' -the peaches halved and pitted. Be- cause peaches discolor readily they require quick, careful handling and 'special treatment to prevent darken- ing. arkening. The addition of half a teaspoon of lemon • juice 'to each dup of , syrup to cover the fruit is' added immedi- ately. ' Syrup in the proportion of one cup -of sugar to ley cups of water is, called moderately thin. A head space Of • one-half an inch atleast should be tea:; ,o left at the top of, ail\ cont_ allow 'ter ez au,sion during If containers 0.0 marked wi,, cription .and date,_ -possible. are. eliminated. P-eaches,. likeother r y t tables must'be frozen,' im*edda ter peeking.' If they are tit and stored, in. a 1oolher• gid, ea,,ch et tainer;asi it is Peeked '.shoultt be pun's'', the refrigerator or: other Tear :i place until all:are prepared, 'ankd nib taken to the locker plana without 1 Containers for frozen food may specially bought, but glass jars for •tis cans are satisfactory. 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