The Huron Expositor, 1949-04-29, Page 7ROBES
By MRS, C. S. PEEL
(Continued from last week)
But as the years passed 'thea'
opened page after page of the book
of life ,to Ivor. His -unhappiness
taught him much, and his; mind
broadened and deepened. 'The sur-
face things of 1i1e ceased to absorb
him. To the man. denied of the
love which his emotional nature
craved, sport, social pleasures and
the duties of his position did not
suffice. Ivor began to think, • to
read, and to observe; to probe for
the inner causes of events, to try,
indeed. to see life as it is and not
as it is presented to the kitten-
blind
ittenblind eyes of fortunate young sten
of the upper classes.
The men on the estate: the of-
fenders on whom Ivor helped to
Pass sentence at the Bench; the
boyle of the neighborhood with
whom the Squire played cricket
'and for whom he organized a foot-
ball club; the daughter of the un-
der gamekeeper who had "gotten
herself into trouble," and the
groom who was responsible for that
trouble. were the better for Ivor's
miseries.
And, while he went his way with
an aching heart, there in his own
hotise was his own little child,
lacking so sadly both love and un-
derstanding.
It was Jean again, though quite
unwittingly, who denied' the .father face, to watch him, sometimes list -
and the child the love which would less, sometimes irritable, was al -
have been their solace. Jean nei- most more than she could bear.
ther liked nor understood children; • But nothing could be done. It
babies seemed to her almost in- was not as if Jean had not tried
decent, to be kept in nurseries:: to do her duty, or as if there was
provided with every material nee:any fault on Ivor's- side. The trou-
essary, and in due time to be edu-
cated and brought up in the fear
of the
Lord.
Nurse agreed,reed ,holding
that romps and excitement
and vis-
itors upset children, According to
this expert a dead level of bore-
donai was the proper mental at-
mosphere of the child. Nurse ap-
proved of a mistress who visited Thea's little life wore away; and
the nurse at 10.30, and who had
the children brought to the draw-
ing room for ten minutes after tea.
After the birth of his crumpled -
looking, crimson1aced4 red-haired
daughter, Ivor had wished to be
friends with his baby. He would
have liked to hold her in his arms,
to laugh over her in her bath, and
as she grew older to play with the
little thing, to take her about the
garden and the home farm.
But entirely ignorant as he was
of the ways of babies he found it
impossible to carry out this pro-
gram. The cold civil disapproval of
Nurse, the veiled, 'but no less plain-
ly to be felt disapproval of his• wife
discouraged him. When he pene-
trated to the nursery, Nurse stand-
ing starched and 'stiff, Jane stand-
ing scarcely less starched and stiff
Anne peeping from some corner
embarrassed. him.
In his dilemma he sought advice
of Aunt Anthea.
"Can't those dragons ever go
away and let .me have that baby?"
he asked.
Then for the first and only time
his aunt broke down.
"Oh, my bay, my poor boy," she
sobbed, "what can I say—what can
I do? My boy! my boy!"
To Anthea, Ivor's marriage had
proved the bitterest disappoint-
ment of her life. To see his worn
ble was that Ivor was a mane with
all a man's needs, and that Jean
was buil the beautiful shell of a
woman—an abnormality; and for
such a state of affairs neither
Church nor State, nor medical
knowledge could find a remedy.
And so the first five years of
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Barristers, Solicitors, Etc.
PATRICK D. Mff((CONNELL
H. GLEIHAYS
County Cro Attorney
SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
A. W. SILLERY
Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
Phone 173, Seaforth
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MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
E. A. McMASTER,
Internist
P. L. BRADY, M.D.
Surgeon
Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.,
daily, except Wednesday and Sun-
day.
EVENINGS: Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday only, 7 - 9 p.m.
Appointments made in advance
are desirable.
GORWILL, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 5-J
Seaforth
M. W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90 - Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, EarNose and Throat
i
Graduate n Medicine, University
of Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
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Physician and Surgeon
Phone 110 - Hensall
DR. J. A. MacLEAN
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 134 - Hensall
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M. ROSS SAVAUGE
Optometrist
Eyes examined and glasses fit-
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120, Seaforth.
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then one evening the whole scheme
of things was changed.
Thea at five years of age was
extremely intelligent, 'beautiful in
an unusual fashion, nervous, irrit-
able, with a vivid imagination, and
a heart full of furious pity for
suffering as she understood it. As
armour against the baffling
strangeness of •things in general
she had adopted a devil-may-care
manner and a fierce scowl, and as
an implement of warfare or re-
venge she had perfected herself in
the most appalling shriek possible
to a child of tender years. •
This accomplishment she hoard-
ed for great occasions, having
found to her satisfaction that by a.
judicious use of her vocal chords
even Nurse could he vanquished.
Thea had spent an anguished
evening. There was a horrible
tick ng. under her bed which kept
her awake until Jane came to bed
at 9.30. Jane then shaded the light
so that it made a gruesome sha-
dow on the ceiling, and put her
hair into paper curlers which
creaked. She would not give Thea
a drink of water—"cold water isn't
good for little girls," she said—
then Thea said, "Beast! beast! pig!
beast'." and Jane said that little
girls that used bad words would
be put in the black cupboard.
"What black cupboard?" demand-
ed the infuriated child.
"The one that's there, always
waiting," replied Jane.
° Site put out the light, got into
bed and slept, leaving the wearied,
over -excited, thirsty child to lie
awake picturing to herself that
awful ever -waiting blackness — a
blackness into which one might be
put and out of which one might
never, never escape.
Next morning Thea, as Jane ex-
pressed it, "g st up on the wrong
side of the 'bed, and is that con-
trary thereis� no doing nothing
with her."
Her bread and milk caused her
to be actually sick, and later Nurse
had to abandon her efforts to in-
duce
nduce Tbea to admit that B -A -T
spelt bat, and C -A -T, cat.
The afternoon promised improve.
HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist in Farm nd House-
hold Sales.
Licensed In Huron and Perth
Counties. Prices reasonable; sat-
isfaction guaranteed.
For information, etc., write or
phone HAROLD JACKSON„ 14 on
661, Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth,
;pleat . fe r the ChgtitOt IR, d unt' e i
d ro"ye iptft_ the, 40eal Lqwa„ in Gb•0
waggonette Arrived ill ttte to tn,
the carriage drew up ' Peter's • the
eslitslonger's, and Nurse descended
to do some errand for aI4rs, Joust,
"What's 'those?" •aslt011 Thea,
Pointing to a troiihy of •stiarlet Q-
jecte which madea' cents piece on
the fiahrponger's alwb.
"Lobsters," replied, Sane. •
"What's lobsters?" persisted
Thea, leaning over the rail of the
waggonette and staring at Chem
with great interest.
"Fish, of course," replied Jane.
"Can they walk about?"
"Not when they're dead, silly!"
"Why are, they dead?"
"Could you eat 'ein alive?" quer-
ied Jane •sarcastically.
Thea shade no reply, but she
cursed: Jane is her heart.
"They puts them in a pot of boil-
ing water," 'continued Jane—bump-
ing a twin up and down on her
knee—"and boils 'e>aa till •they're
dead. I've heard say they scream
awful."
Thea gave a sudden shriek and
fell upon Jane, net sparing the un -
offending twin in her onslaught.
"Beast!" she screamed. "Beast!
pig! beast! they don't, they don't."
All the four miles' home Thea
tried to banish from her mind the
sound of those screaming lobsters,
for •she had scalded her hand one
day and knew the feel of boiling
water.
At tea 'she broke into crying.
Nurse, puzzled, tried to comfort,
and at last tucked her up in her
cot with her favourite wooden
horse, remarking as she departed,
"I can't think what ails the child.
I'll give her a dose of senna at bed-
time."
Thea, lying on her bed, her hot
tear -streaked face pressed against
the hard dapple-grey
painted flank
of Tobby, decided that she would
run away to some place where
Jane was not.
shelimbed out of
Verygently c
bed and, made her way to the door.
For once she blessed her little bro-
thers, for both the twins began to
cry, causing a commotion in the
nursery which veiled the noise of
her struggles with the door han-
dle.
Thea made her way through the
open garden door into the shrub-
bery at the side of the house, and
so through a coppice and out on to
the road.
The beauty and the peace of the
evening soothed the child; she
walked on and on, talking now and
then to her beloved Tobby.
"I shall go to little Aunt," she
told him. "I'll tell her to .buy me.
I don't think I'm dear, and I never
—never—never—"
And then round the corner of the
road came her father.
Thea's face went white, with a
yell of fury she made her puny ef-
fort to escape, and tripping over a
stone fell headlong, striking her
chin against the corner of Tobby's
green wooden stand.
Ivor picked up the struggling
shrieking child, made still more
hysterical by the sight of the blood
which dripped upon her pinafore,
and sitting down on a heap of
stones began to wipe the wound
and try to quiet her cries.
Surprised at her appearance
alone, agitated t her sobbing, he
held her closes to him. Then sud-
denly his own starved heart called
to his child, and he bent down and
kissed the wet and dust -smeared
little face.
"Oh, my little girl, my little girl,"
he said.
Thea, with the instinct of the
child, felt his need of her, her need
of him, and clung to him, pressing
her face into his shoulder.
"Daddy, Daddy," she cried, "I
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TOWN OF SEAFORTH
BICYCLES
IT IS STRICTLY AGAINST THE
LAW TO RIDE BICYCLES ON
THE SIDEWALKS OF THE MUN-
ICIPALITY OF THE TOWN OF
SE AFORTH
Many complaints have been receiv-
ed regarding this dangerous prac-
tice, and if it is continued the law
will be enforced to its fullest extent.
E. H. CLOSE,
Chairman, Street Committee
wQn'. t ge Shack, no, #g P:P1''
I ¶RPft"
Iyo>l: held 'het+elolieW, rate l}'E`'he!
slowly in bis arms, his!head 4,414
against ,hera and the grey' dne1F'
hadbee to wrapthem retiutl'Ite
fore he had Iittle by little' 4.9,,1494some knowledge. of the cause'of•
'rhea's misery,
Sitting there Ivor thought, `klri'o',
Thea, her Saha dying away into,pi -
eolts. little gasping breaths, cud-
died in his arms.
."Look here, old lady,". he said, at
last, . "we wont go back, I'll tell:
you what we'll de, ,, We'll go and
see little Aunt -,and Daddy will WAY
you and,you shall be Daddy's girl'.
That will do, won't it?"
"Yes, it will," said Thea with
conviction, "good Daddy." •
Thea was fast asleep in her
father's arms when making his way
across the lawn of the Cottage and
through the French window of the
empty drawing -room he mouatrod
the stairs. to his aunt's room.
Aunt Anthea had just finished
dressing for dinner.
"My dear boy!" she cried.
"I want you to keep Thea here
tonight. I'll tell you about it pres-
ently."
Thea roused enough to look at
Aunt Anthea out of a, pair of very
sleepy eyes.
"Nice aunt," she said, "Daddy's
bought me and I'll stay here."
And after awhile they left her
wrapped in one of her nice aunt's
flannel dressing `jackets, safely
tucked up on the large sofa with
old Mary, ex -head housemaid at the
River House and friend of Ivor, in
charge.
• The roan horse—in great indig-
nation at such interference with
recognized custom—was harnessed
to the light cart and driven off to
convey a note to the River House.
Thereconfusion reigned. ei ed Nurse,
accustoined. to take entire charge,
was almost in hysterics; Jean cold-
ly displeased.
The roan horse returned with
Ivor's night attire and the larger
part of Thea's minute wardrobe,
Over a Welsh rarebit in the nurs-
ery, Nurse sat in black displeasure,
while Jane expressed her opinion
to Anne that "some children—well,
they're `just like that! Do what
you may for them, nothing is
right."
And not one of the three under-
stood in the very least what mis-
eries of boredom, terror and irrita-
tion, five-year-old Thea had endur•
IMVA
bS.r, Harry Sperling •and, Ramsey'
acid Hazel visited With Mrttr OAP'
,ling at Victoria Hospital, I4)nd'OTi4
tilt Sunday.
1rs. Cliff Brook arhi sots Spent
Easter week -end with, herr parents,
Mr, and M'rs. Minor Dabbs, of Glen
Cain n.
` litre. Harry Sperling was tarn
to "Victoria Hospital, London, 1)Y
=butanes on Thursday last. We
hope for aspeedy reeovery.
Mrs. G. O'Hearn, of Toronto,
Spent the Easter week -end with
Mr' . and Mrs. Don O'Hearn.
Mr. Elgin Skinner, teacher in
Milton, is spending the Easter hol-
idays at his 'home here.
ZION
Mr. and Mrs. Harold. Smith and
family visited on Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Pepper.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Chas. Roney and
Gari with her sister, Mrs. Reg.
.Cudmore and Mr. Cudmore, Clin-
ton,
linton, on Sunday.
Miss Doris Annis, St. Thomas,
is• spending the Easter holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs- Wil-
bert Annis. -
We are sorry to report Mr. Joe
S'tatton is in Stratford Hospital.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. James Malcolm had
as their guests for Easter: Mr. and
Mrs. Ross Gordon and Donna, Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Murdie, Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Cully, Miss Mary E.
Graham and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Hyde and family, Hensall.
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Malcolm,
Keith and Bruce with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Gibbs, on Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hunter and
Britton, London, and 'Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Britton visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Keyes Easter Sunday
and were. treated to a turkey din-
ner.
Mr. Leslie Fielding and family,
Paris, called on Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Pepper on Sunday.
nda .
Mr. and Mrs. Herb. Britton and
family visited her mother, Mrs.
Workman, in Hensall on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Corriveau and
ed before she made her throw for
freedom.
(Continued Next Week)
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