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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-06-13, Page 2FRIDAY,JUNE 10, 1890. .4 - VAN,. DIM, ENGLISHMAN. EDNA LYALL. ed by Wm. Bryce, Toronto.) CHAPTER I. EXPELLED. Oh, yet we trust thlat somehow good "•fYi11 be the final goal of ill, We pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood. That nothing walks with aimless feet; What not one Life shall be destroyed, Or oast as rubbish to the void, 'When God hath made the pile complete. In Memoriam. uuSo Farrant is really to be ex- pelled? Tell me about it, for I've ward next to nothing these last few flays up in the infirmary." The speaker was a boy ,of about EOgenteen, who was walking arm in' ;arm with a companion of his own lige in the quietest part of a large ;'play -ground. "Well on the whole, I think you were well out of it. There was no ehd of a row on Saturday evening when it all came to light. 14ittle Harrison turned rusty, and told the doctor that some of the sixth had `taken to gambling and then there :was a solemn convention , and we ;:.;were all called upon to reveal any - ;;'thing we knew, and before 1 could have thanked my stars for ten sec- :onds that I knew nothing up sprung "- Donovan Farrant to coulees that le had been the first to introd'lce `.eard-playing. I fancy the doctor =thought him rather too brazen faced `about it, for he was awfully severe; ;e lent Farrant, you know, is one of hoes fellows who look stony when ay feel most, and he stood there, eolith his head thrown back, looking aifhe'd like to knock us all down." "I can just fancy him. He's certainly a touch of Roman in him; but what in the world did he do it for?" "Don't know. He's a queer fel- low. Such crazy ideas of honor, ;too;; Enough to make him spring rip ifi that wah answer to a gen- ei" accusation, and yet so little -eb. he could go on for weeks as tiofiingloader in this affair." "But what's all this row about a son?" rr Harrison—who's his fag, yen know ays Farrant forced h im ;a. ., t his wl to give his pocket - moneyOlneet- o ney for the ga►t bling, whereup- on you can fancy t doctor was furious, exaggerated things, and told Farrant he found h milty of disobedience, stealing, and bulfyy- ing, though every one knows he's no more a bully than you are." "Bully! I should think not! Why, the little weakly chaps make a regular hero of him, and he wes always hanging about after poor little Somerton, who died last term. That Harrison is a rascally young cub. I don't believe Farrant took his money." "Asked him to lend it, I dare say, and gave the young beggar a look from those extraordinary eyes of his." "Poor fellow, there he is!" said the first speaker. "Why didn't they send him off by the early train? He must have had enough of this .sort of thing yesterday." "Yes, in all conscience! He won't soon forget that Sunday. By Jove! it was a slashing sermon the doctor gave us, must be some reason for keeping hint here. I say, I wish you'd go and speak to hitt, Reynolds." After some little discussion, Rey- ., Holds gave a reluctant consent, and erossing the playgrouud, made his , ay to the place where the culprit .are T � ' standin . , ra ;, onoven Farrant looked some- 1'what unapproachable, it must be eConfessed. He was a tall, slight fellow of nearly eighteen, with dark hair and complexion, a cur- iously formed forehead, bespeaking rare mathematical talent, a fault- ' leas profile, a firm but bitter -looking r . mouth, and strange eyes—black in some lights, hazel in otherf, but al- ways curiously contradictory to the hard resoluteness that characterized the rest of the face for they were hungry looking and unsatisfied. He was leaning against the wall, but there was no rest in his attitude. With an expression of cold acorn, he was watching the boys in the play -ground. His face softened a little as a friendly greeting attract- ed his notice. . "I am very sorry you are going, w. , Farrant," said Reynolds, who had been racking his brain for words which would be at once kind and yet bear no reference to his dis- grace. This was the best he could think of. The strange eyes met his un- flinchingly; Reynolds felt they were not the eyes of a theif or a bully; yet there was something defiantly hard and scornful in the tone of the answer. • "Why should you be sorry? Why make yourself the exception to prove the contrary rule? Among all those"—he made an impetuous gesture toward the other boys— "not one cared a rush for me—not one would speak a word, though they knew that, except what I con- fessed, the charges were false." Reynolds w as about to reply when some one approached Donovan 'with a message—Colonel Farrant "had arrived, and was waiting for him. A sort of spasm passed over the cold face, but, recovering his self-control in en instant, Donovan Children Cry for replied icilt: "Telt Lae I v,iit torus." Thep, GO the fuessengt•t turned away, he folded his at me and leaned this time really for support, against the wall. A glow of shame had mounted to his forehead; Reynolds could see that he was in terrible distress. "Did you not know that your father was coming?" be ventured to ask, alter a few minutes. DocovaD signed a negative. "He was only to cwwe back from India on Saturday, and—and this is what„ile is met with!" Thereywas something in the tone of this sentence which made Rey -a, nolds feel that here the real Dono- van Farrant was showing himself, the suddec boyish shame and grief were so perfectly natural, so strange- ly contrasted with the tone of bitter scorn which be had at first assumed. But the words called up a sad enough picture even to the school- boy's wind, and his throat felt choked, and ..pe was shy of offering arietcensolatiou. You' will begin over again in some new place," he said at last.— "You have been left to yourself so much, eurely your father will under- stand and be lenient." "Do you think I care for his an- ger?—it's not that!—but to have brought this disgrace to him, to have—" be broke off abruptly with a stifled sob. Reynolds was amazed, for no one credited Donovan with overmuch feeling. But even as he wondered, his companion regained his com- posure, and wrapped himself once more in that impenetrable mantle of cold scorn. "Nell I ni est go; th is nothing to wait for," he said, round at the place he was le a foreter —leaving ulider a cloud. A Leak --of pain came into his eyes, but a satirical smile played about his lips. The smile faded, however, when he remembered the message which had just been brought to him, and his hand was icy cold .as ire abruptly took leave of Reynolds, then walked steadily on toward the school house. • Alt this time Colonel Farrant waited within the house. He had seen the head master, had beard the particulars of his son's disgrace, and now he was waiting alone, at his own request, trying to face this sorrow, trying to endure this ter- rible new shame. He was a middle aged roan, tall and soldierly; his teatures were almost exactly simi- lar to those of his son, but his ex- pression was so much more gentle that at first sight the likeneaP did not seem at all striking. Grief and disappointment were expressed in his very attitude ae he sat waiting drily with h:; head resting on bis ha;,d; and the disappointment a had not been caused by Donovan only. He had returned from India only two days before to rejoin the j a wife and children whom he had of seen for year., and somehow he home. was not quite what he ad expected, ane the long separa- ion seemed either to have altered is wife or to have raised a sort of arrier between them. He had een absor:ed in his work, had been ading a singularly self-denying ctive life; she had been absorded herself, and had allowed circum- ances to drift her along unresis- ngly. No wonder that Co:onel arrant had already found how w interests he and his wife had in anion; no wonder that, even in e brief time• since bis return, he d realized that his own two ildren were growing up in a home hich could not possibly influence em for good. Bitterly did he now grot that love of his work and slike of the quiet life of a country ntloinan had kept him so long in dia. Mrs Farrant's reception of e news of Donoven's disgrace d perhaps more than anything vealed the true state of matters her husband. What to him a a terrible grief was to her rely "yery tiresome"; she hoped ople would not hear about it, mented the inconvenience of ving the boy home just as they re going up to town for the Sea- n, spoke in soft, languid tones of s wilfulness, blit evidently was ite .incapable of -,feeling keenly out anything so far removed ni her own personal concerns. Donovan must not come home to at; the colonel felt that it would the worst thing for him. He ust go himself to the school, find t the whole truth, learn some- ing of his son's real character, d, if possible, win his love before king him back to the doubtful fluence of that strangely disap- inting home. Waiting now in the quiet room, ith the slow, monotonous ticking the clock, with the day sunshine reaming upon him, the colonel ied to recall Donovan as he was at eir last parting years and years o at Malta. Flow well he re - timbered the little bright-eyed erry child of three years old !— hat it a wrench it had been to ave him when his regiment had en ordered out to India, and the ttle boy—their only child then— ad . been sent back alone to Eng- nd And this was the same boy, hom he came to -day to find dis• aced and expelled ! How was it ossible that his little high spirited, ving child should have become a ief, a bully, a breaker of rules? e could not believe it. And yet e head master told him that Dono- an had with his own lips confessed at he mas guilty 1 A sound of footsteps without, me one speaking in a tone of re- monstrance, rouseda hitn, and th another voice, indignant and veh went) made him start to his feet, "Leave me alone! I will see hi no*, at once, as I am 1" And the door was thrown ope and the vision of the merry the year-old child faded suddenly, a in ire place stood the son of to -d pale, hagga.d, miserableaanly uphe by a desperate 'resolve to face t worst. Donovan looked at once 8traig into his father's eyes to read the what he bad to prepare himself fo and the very first expression he re was neither anger, nor shame, n disappointment, but only love a pity. His father's hand was on h shoulder, his right hand clasped h and, wbeu he spoke, there was n the slightest sound of upbraiding his tone. "Dono—my poor boy!" That was too much even f Donovan's hardihood. lie ha braced himself to endure anger reproach, or cold displeasure—bt to be met in this way! For th first time an agony of remor surged up in his heart. If only h could live his school days over agai how different they should be! Presently the father and son le the school, and, as they made the way to the station, Colonel Farra spoke of the plan he had made. H had some business to transact Ply mouth, he thought they woul go down there together, and pe haps spend a week in South Devo or Cornwall before going back Oakdene. Donovan evidently like this idea, but in another minute h face suddenly changed. "I had forgotten Dot. What a brute I am!" he exclaimed. "She will be expecting me; I mustn't dis- appoint her." Somehow that sentence cheered Colonel Farrant wonderfully. Dot, his little invalid gir'1 lead in a measure contorted him'1fie'day before by her evident devotion to Donovan. He had hardly dared to hope, however, that the love was mutual, or that, in his disgrace and sorrow, Donovan would yet have a thought to spare for his sister. "Dot will not expect us," ho said in reply. t'I told her that we should not Dome home for a few days. She sent you this." They were in the train now. Donovan took the little three -cor- nered note from his father. It was written faintly in pencil, but in spite of the straggling 'letters and wild ..spelling it brought tears to Lis eyes. "DARLING DON," it began, "I am so spry. Papa has told me all abowt it, and be has been verry kind. I don't think he bileves all the horid things they say off you, nd I never, never will, Don dear. Your loving DOT." The long, strange journey ended t last, but by that time Donovan's physical weariness was so intense that it overpowered everything else. As he threw himself on his bed that night, he could feel nothing but relief that at length this long- est and most painful day of his life was over. The future was a yawning blackness, the past a hor- rid confusion, but he would face neither past or future—the present was all he needed; in utter exhaus- tion of both mind and body he fell asleep. CHAPTER II.,a RETROSPECT. The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most immi- nent. Hamlet. God's possible is taught by His world's loving, And the children doubt of each. E. B. Browning. How was it that his son was so different from what he had expect- ed? That was the question which continually recurred to Colonel Farrant, as, with all the chilliness of an old Indian he sat beside the fire that May evening in one of the private sitting -rooms of the Royal Hotel. How was it that the child, whom he remembered as light - spirited, loving and demonstrative, had become proud, and cold, and repressed? It could not all be owing to the sense of his present disgrace, though that no doubt accounted for it in part; but there was a restless, unsatisfied expression, for which the disgrace did not account, and which appeared to be habitual to him, erhaps, had Colonel Far - rant nown all the details of his boy' life during the years in which h ad been separated from bin, he might not have felt so much perplexed. Donovan had a wonderfully good memory, and though he had only been thee years old when he part- ed wait his father and mother at Malta, he carried away a certain kind of remembrance of them—a dim vision of a mother who always wore pretty dresses, and of a father who was always ready to play with him, and could roar like a bear.— With these recollections he set sail for England, and was handed over by the acquaintance who had taken care of him during the voyage to the charge of an elderly woman in black, who was waiting for him when he landed at Southampton.— The elderly woman's name was Mra Dimly, and, as they made their way to the station, she informed Dono- van that she was his grandfather's housekeeper, and that he must al- ways do as she told him. Upon this, Donovan looked up at onoe to sorutinize her face, that be might judge what sort of things she was en e- 0, ee- nd Id he ht re r, ad likely to tell him to .do, and, child though be was, be could, Ree that Mra Doery would bo no easy mis- tress. Her long hooked non and mi pronent chin were of the nut cracker order, the corners of her mouth were turned down, her eyes were clear but disagreeably piercing, and her whole aspect, though i:re-- proachably respectable, was, to say the least of it, forbidding. Dono- van tried to find some reason for her name, but she was singularly unlike the soft -eyed doe in the ani- mal picture book; in time, however, he discovered that there was an- ortotber kind of dough, and thought nd he quite understood the reason of is Mrs Doery's name then, for her face is, was exactly of that whitish yellow of color, and in spite of all remon- strance, he -would call her nothing else from that day forth but "Doughy." o,. Mrs Doery asserted her authority d at once. It was a hot summer's or day, and Donovan, as he walked rt down the platform, complained of thirst, and begged for something drink. He had caught a glimpse some of his little acquaintances o board ship standing within the r fresh ment-roorn with tumblers delicious -looking milk in the hands, and this made him feel a uncomfortable craving fur som But Mrs Doery gave a decide negative—they would be home his grandfather's in good time tea; if he was hot, that was th very reason why he should no drink; she was not going to alio bits and snacks between meals, an he had better put such fancies ou of his head directly. Old 'Ir Farrant had two house —Oakdene Manor, a country hous which he had built for himself i one of the western countries, an an old family house standing in th main street of a little country tow at no great distance from London It was to the latter place that Mr Doery conducted her little charg on the day of his arrival, for he master had lately had a paralyti stroke, and had given up al thoughts of revisiting his newl built house, which, after standin empty for some time, was event ually let to strangers. It was i the old red brick house, with i narrow windows, and dark rooms and stately solid furniture, tha Donovan's childhood was to be passed. And somehow his childhood was not a happy one. He was very lonely, to begin with; there were no children of his own 'age whom Mrs Doery thought fit to associate with him ; his grandfather, though very fond of him, was too ill and help- less to be his companion ; there was no father at hand to play at-. "bear" with him, and Mrs laoery, though she was often excessively cross, could not in any otherrespect imi- tate that favorite °animal of the nursery. Then he had so little to do. Mrs Doery had at first in- structed him daily in the three R's, and he proved very slow with the reading, only tolerable with the writing, but alarmingly quick with the arithmetic. He took to the multiplication table, as Ml's Doery expressed it "like ducks to water," he answered the questions in the book of mental arithmetic with a lightning speed which fairly baffled the housekeeper, and before he was five years old the longest sum in any of the first four rules would not keep him quiet more than two min- utes. But then certainly by this time he had taken to working pro- blems in his sleep, and would awak- en Mrs Doery in the middle of the night by proclaiming in excited tones that if sheep were 39s. each, a flock of forty-five sheep would be worth £S5, 15s., or some equally abstruse calculation. Mrs Doery naturally liked to have her nights undisturbed ; moreover, she had sense enough to be rather alarmed at this precocity, so she asked the doctor to look at Master Donovan, and the doctor, seeing at once that he was f clever, delicate, excitab'e child, strongly recommended that all lessons should be stopped till he was seven years old. Mrs Doery obeyed this injunction strictly, and a time of woe to poor Donovan en- sued; "don't do that" seemed to follow everything he attempted.— He was not allowed to run about in the nursery, because Mrs I)oery "couldn't abide a noise," or iu old Mr Farrant's room, because "it was unfeeling to his poor grandfather;" if he ventured to make such a thing as a figure, everything in the shape of a pencil was at once confiscated, and when he rebelled he was whip- ped. For a little while heamused him- self by turning the letters in his picture -book into figures and cal- culating with them, but Mrs Doery soon found that he was up to no good, and forbade him to open a book without her leave. He was naturally bright and energetic, but he fell into listless lounging habits, his high spirits breaking forth now and then, and carrying him into all kinds of mischief. He was self-willed, and his battles with Me housekeeper were numerous; but, though his will was quite as strong as hers, he was generally forced in- to a sort grudging, resentful sub- mission, for Mrs Doery bad what .seemed to him a very unfair ad- vantage in the shape of a stinging little cane, and though, when Donovan kicked or struck her, he felt miserable the next moment, she never seemed to feel the least compunction in hurting him, but on the contrary appeared to find a grim satisfaction in bis chastisement. Children Cry for "'Pitcher's Castorlai e se e n, ft ir nt e at d r - n to d is 'Pitcher's Castorta. to. of n e• of ir 11 e. d at for e t w d t s e n d e n •I 8 e r e 1 y g t8 t • ...w,_..,. ..._..t..:. tom..._.. It was all very puzzling. Dono van could not understand it ; bu then there were so few things be could understand, except the• pro- blems about the sheep and such like, Mra Doery found him difficult to manage, and therefore she told him he was the worst boy she had ever known, and the more she impressed his badness upon him, the ngore he felt that for such a bad boy nothing mattered, and the leas pains did he take to obey her. And so the yea re passed slowly ay, and at last, in the spring, before Donovan's seventh birthday, old Mr Farrant had another paralytic stroke and died . Donovan cried a good deal, for hough his grandfa- ther had never een able to speak to him, yet he had always looked kindly at him and had seemed pleas- ed that he should conte into his room, and the little lonely boy had been thankful for that silent love, and was the truest—perhaps the only true mourner at his grandfa thei's funeral. The old house seemed in a sort of dreary excitement all through the week proceeding the funeral, and Donovan saw several people whom he bad never seen before, among others, his father's cousin, Mr Ellis Farrant, a dark, handsome man of eight -and -twenty, who patronized the little boy considerably, and held his hand while the Burial Service was being read, an indig- nity which Donovan resented keen- ly, trying hard to wriggle away from him. In the evening, however, he began to like his new cousin, better; the doctor and most of the other guests left early in the after- noon, but Cousin Ellis and the lawyer from London were to stay the night, as they had to look over old Mr Farrant's papers. The work did not seem to occupy them very long, for when Donovan went shyly into the library with a mes- sage from Mrs Doery, to know when it would be convenient for them to dine, Ellis Farrant declar- ed that they had looked through everything and woulel have dinner at once, and then, with the bland, patronizing smile which Donovan disliked so much, added that the little boy must certainly stay and dine with them too. Patronage was uneleosant, but then late dinner downstairs present ed great attractions to seven year old Donovan, and quite turned the scale in Cousin Ellis' favor. He sat bolt upright in one of the great slippery leather chairs, so as to make the most of his height, and though his- grief was perfectly sincere he nevertheless felt a certain melan- choly pride in his new black suit, and a delightful sense of dignity and importance in dining with the two gentlemen. The conversation did not interest him at all, except- ing once, when lie heard his father s name mentioned, and then he list- ened attentively. "Captain Farrant appointed you one of his trustees, I believe," said the lawyer. • IVMOI�FEY 1 MONEY ► M(1NEY 1 1 we oars make a fetwfdioatf,trom private t tgndti at ipw rate4-and moderate exgorrrc- Todoa made to suit botroware. 9xANNYNGI&+BCOTT,--- Clinton TO BE CONTINUED. (grofessional and other &rdO MANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors, CONVEYANCERS, &C., mnmtssioners for Ontario and Manitoba OFPte;E NExr DOUR TO NEW ERA, CLINTON MONEY TO LOAN. MORTGAGES Bought. Private Funds. C RIDOUT, Office over J Jackson's Store, Clinton. 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Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAiR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. 1 CLOSR 1 HPE 7.00 a.m., 1.50 p.m 1.35p,m.J 8 a.ni 1 p.m. 8.10 a.m 8,45 p. m. 12.40 p.m 4.15 p.m.,10.26 a,m a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m 7.00 4.15110.257.00 a.m. p.m 8.10 5.00 a.m. p m. 9.30 6.115 7.00 a.m. 2.30 p.m. 12.43p.m. HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money os Farm Security at Lowest Rates of Interest. MORTGAGES PURCHASEI SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. S, 4 and 5 per Gent. Interest Allowed on Deposits,according to amount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market 8gnareand North 8 HORACE HORTON. Goderlch, August 6th 1888 MANAGER. BIBLES & TESTAMENTS AT COST The Clinton Branch Bible Society have for sale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, Albert Street„a fine assortment of Bibles and Testaments. TESTAMENTS PROM Sets. UPWARDS BIBLES PROM ,Sete UPWARDty. COME ANDSEE. DR WORTHINGTON, De- poeitorl, A. O. U. W. The Clinton Lodge, No. 144,'meet in Jack- son's Hall on the 1st and 3rd Fridays in each month. Visitors cordially invited. R. STONEHAM, M. W. J. BEAN, Recorder. A COOK BOOK FREE By mail to any lady sending us her post odic l address. Wells, Richardson & Co„ Montreal- OLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library and Reading Rooms, Towu Hall, down stairs. About 2,000 Volumes i i the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket t51 per annum Open from 2 to 6 p m.. and from 7 to 9 p. m. Applications for membership received oy the Librarian in the room. — BENMLLLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEI NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, TRE LATTER 01. WRI@r WE MAKE A SPECIALTY LARGE STOCK ON HAND The aboye ornamental trees and shrubbery wl be sold at very low prices, and those wautin anything in this connection will save mono- purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmii ter. McKillop Mutual IIlsuralce Co. T; NEILANS, HARLOCK GENERAL AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wel as farm buildings and stock, insured. Insur- ances effected against stock that may be killed by lightning, If you want insurance drop a card to the above address. PAINTING. PAINTING. The undersigned desires to intimate In the people of Clinton and vip nity Seal be has r„ ta-•:.ed to w,: ^, and- Mends to remain here pe manently, and is better prepared than ever to do anything whatever in the painting or paper hanging line. All orders entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention. GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. J. C. STEVENSO) —THE LEADING— UNDERTAKER —A N D— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KE'P. ill STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transactea Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager. ICHLY Rewarded are those who read this and then act; they will find onorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are largo and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several hundreddollars a month, It is easy for any person to make 8$ per day and upwards, who is willing to work. Eithe sex,young or old ; capital not ueeded,we star you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader.can do ft as well as any one. Write to us at once for full particulars which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. N'I' O N Planing Mill DRY KILN! KILN i /THE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST 0051 -L PLETRD and furnished bis new Planing M with machinery of the latest Improved patter is now prepared to attend to all orders In hi line inthe .aost prompt and satisfactory winner and at road moble rates. He would also retur thanks to all who patronised the old m before they were burned out, and now being Ina bet• ter position to execute orders expeditiously feels confident he can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trun Railway, Clinton. THOMAS M.RENZiE ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Manufacturer and Proprietor for the best Saw Mitt Dog in use. Agent for the vale ,,aand^ application of the 1Freu11a PATENT A0rol4ATr0 Boman °LUANER. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on sh,rt notice. Boilers. Engine.. and all kinds of Machinery repaired espcditionsly and in a satisfactory manner. ?arm Implements manufactured andrepal Steam and Water Pipes furnish° position. Dry Kilns fitted up Charge moderate