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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1951-01-12, Page 7r v / Highest Cash Prices for DEAD STOCK Horses, $5.00 ea. Cattle, /$5.00 ea. Hogs, 50 per cWt. According to Saye and 4 Condition Call Collect SEAFORT4H'15 , ' 4 4 4 4 JAM+ P• 4 • Yh ,, CHAPTERR II u Synopsis • Timothy Hulme, principalof a gagd but impoverished Ver- mont "academy, Hires a studlo us bachelor existence with only his deaf' Aunt Lavinia for com- pany. They take their meals at Miss Pock'8, where other , Clifford faculty members gaths er to eat= -and usually to gos. sip. • Now that the teachers were all back a good many people ate their meals with Miss Peck. Anyone at thet long table was better company that Mrs. Wash- burn ashburn and usually Mr. Hulme sat down as far ate possible from the tiresome old woman, leaving her to the latecomers. .w1w deserved, what they got. ...It was while he was 'walking slowdy home with Aunt Lavinia un- der the flaming October maples that his mind came bounding up with the colorful hypothesis that perhaps the repulsion felt for bores by normal people does not come from mere selfish impatience, as Moralists would have it, bet is based on; insight into the real na- ture_-of. things. Ther -Hight impulse aroused by*' the sight of a bore 'might be justified by the fasts if one understood them. -Th® pest evening his mind, w hich usually sank into a coma at the mere sight _ of, Mrs. Washburn, sat up' alert' as he took the chair beside her; "Nice autumn weatb. er, • Mrs, Washburn," he remarked, • •nnfoluigig'his napkin. She answer- ed eagerly. • Mr. Hulme's mind swooned for a time. When it came to, later on, tars. Washburn was saying, . and so I always tell people it Is airapiy out of the question for me. Other People can, but I never could." "Oh, Mrs. Washburn, how very interesting," exclaimed Mr. Hulme, in all sincerity. But he reminded himself that generalizing from one ease is unscientific. He must lite ten to her many times, to allow for possible variations from the norm. But these first indications certainly looked; as if his theory about the norm was, correct. The people around them began to push away from the table and rise heavily from their chairs. He folded his napkin, allowing himself the derisive smile of cold, secret, satisfied, malice. And look- ing up casually, was staggered to gee young Susan Barney's eyes deeply fixed on him -on him! - with a penetrating intimate ex- pression x,pression of emotion. die was. as startled and shaken as if, in a room where he had lock- ed himself up to do something he was not very proud of, he had, turns edi around to find an intruder greeddlyk.watehinehb i.-• She look- ed ooked quickly down, slide her folded napkin into the ring, and keeping her dowered eyes on her hands, be- gan humbly, to gather the dishes) together to carry into the kitchen. For a moment longer, Mr. Hulme DARLING & COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED WhenYourBACK Begins to Ache REACH FOR BECAUSE - Backache is often due to an upset kidney condi- tion; and for over half a century Dodd's Kidney Pills have helped bring relief from Lad/ache by treating the kidneys. Get Dodd's Kidney Pills today at any drug counter. Look for the blue box with the red (sand. 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When he stood 'aP'hQ gave his shouldet r. a •shake ai glanced around t� and :his aunt,= "What under the sun did' Susan Barney think she was fol king at?" he asked nhimself; •perturbed, ung easy, and said aloud, "Well, Aunt Lavinia, ready to start back?" They walked slowly from the lighted room's yellow glow into the clear, blue of the autumn twilight Mashie. Some one behind' them called in a low tone, "Professor Hulse.' Iiia aunt 'hanging on his arm, he turned. They faced, Susan Barney coming towards them over the lawn from the back of the house. Under the dense shade of the old maples the twilight had thickened almost to dusk but he thought he could see that she was a little pale. She had put on a large apron as if ,she, had begun her kitchen work and then, seeing them leaving the house, had, after all, come out on an impulse. Her face was serious. She began at once, "Professor Hul- me, l wasn't . . . I was only . I' don't want you to think , " Although they were a considerable distance from the house, , she dropped her deep voice to a still lower note. "I've been so sorry for ;old Mrs. Washburn! Ever since 'I've •been here I've been noticing how everybody treats her. You know how meat, they all act. It mads me feel so ... so happy , , . to see you being nice to her, talk- ing to her, interested_in what she gr. Hulme was blushing. Not since his little boyhood had ke felt shame so burn its way over his face. For an instant his very eyes were suffused with heat, so that he squid' barely see. through the dusk the girl's averted head. Aunt La- vinia dropped his arm and took a step forward, saying warmly - not put off as another might have been by having no idea what peo- ple were talking kbout . . . "Ye're r -right, Miss Susan Bar-r-ney, my nephew Tim's a r -reason for think- in' hinkin' better of us all, I'm glad, some,, body, has. the wit to know it." She Laid a withered handl on the girl's shoulder and asked, "Do ye like music? Would. ye care: to listen in my room some free half hour ye might have? I'm• always makin' it by machinery since the rheuma- tism took my hands."- She held up her •stiff talon -crooked fingers. The girl searched the sunken dark eyes with a long look and smiled. "Oh, could I? And. could I bring my sister sometime when She's here?" "Any time ye're free," said Aunt Lavinia easily, "and, yes, indeed, bring your sister if ye like -cif she won't. fidget. I can't stand fidget- ing." To her the incident seemed ended., She nodded and took her nephew's arm to go on. But he could not of course go on without having said something: Like a tongue-tied' boy, not a word Could he ,find. He opened his mouth. And closed it; Good heav- ens, what was there to say? Ev- erything that came into his -'head was wrong, would but pull to a harder knot the misunderstanding he was ashamed to leave, ashamed to clear away. Aunt Lavinia be- gan to move slowly on. He bowed a little, his hat in his hand,ilfut Susan was turning back towards the house. If she would only look at him--once!-he night make her see ... 'He concentrated on mak- ing her look at him. But she did not. She walked quietly away over the grass. Now Mr. Hulme's mind had no time for •play. He sent it racing out to find the answer to an imper- ative question. That question wad), not at all whether he should clear up the misunderstanding. When a man puts •his hand into his pocket and finds a purse that is not his, he does not debate whether to keep it or not. At least Timothy Hulme does not. The question was how to do it. Here was no sim- ple gesture of handing back a fist- ful of coins. What had he to say except that his apparent kindness to an old, lady had been nothing but stony-hearted malice? But how could a safe way be devised until more was known about the person; to whom restitu- tion was to he made? The first step was of course to find out what kind of humanbeing thls Susan Barney was. Could any evidence be extracted from these last two ail -too -well -reg membered contacts with her? Not very much. The girl who sat across the table, transfigured with the joy of those who feel the world's heart beat, after long doubt of it as fire or ice -it was impossible for the man who had fooled her into that deluded gladness to recall it ob- jectively. He looked away from her to the other girl, half -veiled in blue twilight, lifting her hand with that slow gentle gesture to brush away the golden autumn. leaf. The Principal of the Academy took a drink of water. The idiocy a man's reflexes could Inflict upon him. And at any age! For two decades his clai3ses had been made up of girls and boys. young women and young men. He had taught them -and they had taught him that young beauty is a mute decep- tion. Shining candid eyes, looking straight into yours enshrined de- ceit, mediocrity, and cold egotism quite as readily' as honor and in- tegrity. ' He was, he often thought, inoculated against the almost in- vincible magic of youth, from haV-_ ing been exposed to it so long. Holding forth one evening at Miss Peck's table, Mr. Hulme b* came aware of a dialogue going on at the other end -Mrs. Washburn Was putting Susan through one of her ruthlessly prying inquisitions. He hastily withdrew from the talk he had ,began and cocked his ear to profit by questions which woul1ll have been'beneath his rldgnity to ask. "No, I don't remember mak father and mother," Stipa!, alt- eweredi pattetdtiy°. "They d I f wltea 11.' ae a little girl. Deltas--ehea my sisters -:was a . baby. Yes, Fa her was TeterBarpeyta• sem But I doa't know much about the Bar- ney, relatives. Grandfather Cadoret brought us up. Yes, it was his mother who was John Crandall's wife." There was a name Mr. Hulme recognized'. John Crandall was the termer and sheep raiser who short- ly after the Civil War had left his money to the Academy, the only gifit ever made to it since its •forms dation and all that made its ex- istence now possible. The intrusive questions contin- ued, the candido answers followed'. "Grandfather died the year I grad- uated from Normal School. No, he didn't leave us the house. He had put a mortgage on it -bigger than it was, relly worth. That's: what had put me .through the Academy and the Normal School. I believe one of the Ashley banks took it over, No, I don't think the .bank ever found anybody to buy it. It's a very small house and too far from the valley road to be prac- tical to farm. Lt's the last one on the old road to the Crandall Pitch." To Mr. Hulme it was easy to fill in the gaps of this outline; and a good• many times, after that when he was holding- his • newspaper be- fore his eyes he was -telling him- self the whole story -the little girl who grew up as fast as she could to take care of the house and the younger sister. .After school hours Susan came to the house to listen to the gramo- phone and, as she grew more fam- iliar, to bring a little order into the room where the gramophone stood. Timothy was usually in his office In the Academy building. But sometimes before she had left he came back for his late afternoon reading of the newspaper. Once as he started up the stairs she came running down. He could of course have stopped her then and told her what he felt he must say to her about old ,Mrs. Washburn. But he had been able to think of nothing,. as he looked up at her, save the filmy lightness of her hair, lifted and spread out cloud- like by her rapid descent. "Oh, good evening, Mr. Hulme." "Good evening, Susan." She passed him with a smiling nod. The front door opened and closed.. She was gone. Timothy stood silent, halfway up the stairs, his handl on the railing. On one afternoon the week after this, she herself gave him an ex- cellent opportunity to tell her any- thing he wished, by appearing in his office at the hour he kept open for consultation with'teachers. But she was for the moment so en- tirely Teacher, and the question she asked engaged. his pedagogical attention so instantly that he step- ped at once automatically into his professional role of mentor. "It's about nature study," she said, the quality of her voice an- nouncing that she was out of pa- tience with nature study. "You know the children are supposed this term to learn fifteen birds' nests and tell the name of the bird that built each one. They can't see what difference it makes, And neither can I. Honestly, isn't it just another list of facts somebody has thought up for them to mem- orize?" He turned his head a little to one side, looked down thoughtfully, stroked back his hair with his right hand and said, "Well, of course to learn -just the names of things without understanding is foolish. I wonder if -well, see here, suppose one of the children should tell the class that a crow was the bird that built the long oval nest that hangs at the droop - Ing Rip of an elm •branch? Or that it was an owl?" "Anybody''d know better than that!" "How so?" She said tartly, "Why, those birds are too heavy. They have to make their nests on a strong branch. And they're so big and strong they can keep enemies away from their eggs. without both- ering to hang the nest where no- body can get at it." He tipped back his ohair and asked, "How's that for one answer to your question?" She looked at him intently now, following his idea, looked eagerly for a flaw in; his reasoning and pounced on it, "Oh, but -yes, I see what you mean. But, Mr. •Hulme, there are lots of birds no bigger than an • oriole and no stronger that don't build their nests at the tip of a thin branch." (Continued Next 'Week) SOLUTION TO EOXWORD PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 1. Avast 1. Apache 4. Dance 2. Album 7. Sap 3. Throe R. Helve 4. Deaf 10. Amber 5. Neo 11. Azogue 6. Emu 15. Arc - 7. Scarf 16. Ossify 9. Lbs. 19. Hamlet 12. Zygoma 22. Gumbo 13. Gamer 23. Fees 14. Enoch 25. Ortho 17. Stooge 26. Harpo 18. Inter 27. Maroh 20. Ashore 30. Too 21. Larva 31. German 24. Extra 34. Reaper 28. Animus 37. Imp 29. Copse 38. Latex 32. Ersatz 40. Salem 33. Molar 41. 'Circa 35. Except 42. Uses 36'. Parka 45. 'Mitre 32. Limit 46. Thrust 69. Totem 49. Piazza 43. Starve 52. Awe. 44. Scene 53. Tomato 47. Haves 56. Viper 48. Upper 57. Those 50. iota 5.8. Vie 61. Zoo 59. Freda. 54. Oat 60. Ntrr6ri 65, Aka R. ADAM BROWN OF THE. RICE LAKE FUR CO. 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