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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1902-11-06, Page 314, dee 444,444 GIPSY'S MARRIAGE Tills "one, two, three,' "one, two, three" has beep pleat too much for hint; uolding her little supple form lo his strong arms, hearing her soft Laughter and still softer voice in his ear, has made him think of what It may be by and by, when she is hie own alto- gether. Perhaps Lady Dermot. til- vtnee his thoughts from the ex- pression of hie face, for with a sud- den crash the waltz ends, and she gets up frau the piano. "I ate tired," site says ,abruptly, and then adds, "Glpey, buy dear, will you run up . to my room for my packet . of crewel -wools?" -- and Ipsy runs off, still bright and limit- ing with excitement. Maurine, be more circumspect to year conduct 1" Lady Dermot says, hale when they aro alone. "MoCher, what do you mean?he demands, with sudden stiffness of voice and manner, the color mount- ing to hie checks. "It is lolly—nay, it is worse than folly, lt 1s »atdneso ! Would you dream of marrying a senoed-rate opera singer's daughter ?" aske Lady Dermot, bluntly. "You forget that she le a Dermot Roo, returns her eon, with the min - one darkening of the brows whish his mother knows so well. "A child years younger than your- self 1" she goes on. "I wonder you have not more sense, Maurice!" He cornea up and stands before her, "Mother, when I marry, it shall be whom I choose, and I shall expeot My wife to be received by you and every one else without com- ment or remark;" and without giving Ler any time to reply, be leaves the loom, CHAPTER. Xl. It is the night of Mrs. Bryan's dinner party, and that lady is setting In erste awaiting her guests. She is arrayed In amber silk, trimmed with black lane, and a topaz necklace worth a king's renown encircles her scraggy throat. The carriage aro rolling up the avenue one after another, and the olock wants five min:tee to heli- port -1. seven. The doctor and hie bride aro the first to arrive. Mrs. Morton to fit a terrible fuse, and overpowered with importance; she le sure the dinner - party bus been given for her, and she has on: her wedding -dress; and, ol$ob in thea bridal array, breathless End pulpltatlug, she gripe her bus - arm, and they proceed to the . drawing -room. I hope they have all come," she whispers. "We shall make it sensa- tion, Johan," she 'remarks, as she rus- tles and shakes out her trait. "Dr. and Mrs. Morton!" are an- nounced; and, to the bride's dismay, the long room! Is empty- save for the bootees. It is tool bad; and she crimsons as Mrs. Bryan advances, smiling malic- iously, "How do you do, Dr. Peetle—no, Dr. Mortar, I mean? ! Which 10 it —Pestle or Mortar ?":showing all her false teeth over her pun upon the dootor's name. "Won't you come to the fire? I think It is freezing." "Ah, yes, freezing'!';echoes the doc- tor, whose Ideas are as few and as far between as his patients, Mrs, Bryan makes a grimace at them behind tlteir.backs, for the bride Is ugly and uninteresting, and her husband is ordinary ,and commonplace to a degree. The door Is thrown open again, end the announcement is: "lire. and Miss Blake and Master Blake!" Whereat Algy Blake gnashes Ills teeth -- Waster Blake,' indeed! Stora le lovely to -aught, In dead black, without a. brooch or a brace- let of any kind. It Is a whim to test her fair loveliness by itself. She Is wondering it Sir Maurice will be here. Captain Lefroy is the next arrival. One glance fellows horn that Gladys is not present; but he covers hie dlsappolntmenit with a Huvtfe, and makes up his mind to enjoy a good dinner and be thankful. There are two arrivals now—an old colonel and his wife, and two stray men, who have driven hither together and look rattier nrrro'te; end behind these appear Lady Der- mot, lean on her non's arm, and Gipsy, email and shy, creeping in behind, under covet' of her aunt's mgallteeat figure. Flora Locks at (tipsy as she ap- proaches, and nothing in iter dress eseapes the keen observation of Miss Blake. Lady Dermot, who has tinted her arrival to a nicety, le hoping in sweet tones that she is not late, Hemel, elle knows very wee that there is mother carriage even now rattling past the win(towe; and with a mal moue nhuckle Mi,. Dr, an draws Gipsy forward. 'Your Brat dinner -party, my dear?, What a child you aro, to Mash like'' that 1" And than, in au aureate whit•; per to Cnptaln Lefroy, she mete: The prettiest little article I've seen for many a day 1" Although Gladys In not here. and; though he le an engaged man, Cap- taln Lefroy lots hie handtomo blue l eyes rest longer 'than necessary on i Gipsy's shy, frightened face. Once more the door In opened wide. - , "Mr. and Mra. and Mine O'Hagan!" , This is the climax. Mrs. Bryan has! played her trump card. The O'Iilgene! To bo asked tog meet the O'Itagane—people who made their money- out of soap! It is (00 much ! But erre they err. Indy Dermot , assumes her most "stand-off' air, Mra. Bloke takes refuge beside her, nhd. under cover of Mr, O'Hagatt'd bolaterous greeting to Ills hostese, the two outragod ladies pour their crows luto each other's ears. line, O'Hagan, with a tremendous strew on tlto "0," advances bland' and smiling, remarkable for nothing s., ptuch as the great width of Ile era!ete'oat, a snow -wilts expanse. The other gentlemen are arrayed in the evening -dross of the Hunt, and Mr. O'Hagan looks like a huge mag- pie among them. "Bless mo! All In pink !" he ejacu- Intes, staring at Sir Maurice's red beck. "I never saw that these be- fore." Lady Dermot shudders at the thought that those people, whom no- body line called on, should actually sit at table with her. t ! Mrs. O'llagate bulky, motherly, and covered with Jewelry, her heal ad- orned with a great turban wall a cairngorm In front, effusively thanks Mrs. Breen for asking them; and Miss O'llagan, n buxom dentsrl, gor- geous In bright pink silk, blushes eearlet at finding herself In such gotxtly company. SEASONABLE ADVICE. Change of Weather Disas- trous to Many People. Bad Blood Makes You Liable to Cold - - A Cold Makes You Liable to Twenty - Diseaee•s -How to Protect ourself I Changes of the season atfecte the! health more or less perceptibly. The: effect of the hot summer wencher on tho blood leaves it thin and watery,, and now that tho weather to change- able this makes itself disagreeably Celt. You feel bullous, dyspeptic and tin d; there may be pimples or erup- ttorte of the skin ; the damp weather brings little twinges of rheumatism. or neuralgia that give warning of the winter that IA coming. If Feu wont' to ho brisk and strong for the winter it 1t' now that you should build up tho blood, and give the nerves a little' iodic. Dr. Willinnnw' Pink Pills aro the greatest of all blood -making, nerve -restoring tonics, and will make you strong and stave off the aches and pains of winter If you take them now. 'Air. James Adams, Brandon, Man., to ono of the thousands 'Whom Dr. Wiliam,' Plek Pills have ro- storevl to health and strength. He says: "It is with deep gratitude that I acknowledge, the bettelit I have derived froth the use of Dr. Williams' Pink fulls. Before taking the pills my health was much shattered with rheumatism, nervous depreaslon and slerp.b'ssnees. For fully twelve months I rarely got a good night's sleep. When I began the use of the pills It was with a determination to give them( a fair trial. I did AO and can truthfully say that I could not wish for better health than I now enjoy. I shall always Speak a, goat word for Dr. Williams' Pink flits.` l'oor blood is the course of most disease. Good blood means health and strength. Dr. ,Williams' Pink Pills do not purge—they simply make pure, itch bleed. That's why they cure so many diseases. But you meet always get tho genuine, with the full name " Dr. Williams' Pinsk fills for Pale People" on the wrapper around every box. Sold by all druggists or sent by mall, poet paid, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, by writing direct to the Dr. Wlllfims' Medicine Co., Brockville, O:tt. The whole room seemed hull of 0'- Hagang. The atmosphere breathes of O'Hagan. The waistcoat seems to be everywhere. Ile le proal, happy, and very pleased; anti the cairn- gorm flashes, and the chains and the Jewels jingle and sparkle. Miss O'Ilagnn winders If she will go In W dinner with Sir Maurice Dermot, toed thinks l!Im no handsome and grand, but, oh, so terribly stiff I Mee. Bryan In delighted. Every one le uncomfortable, the wrong people have mot again, and she Is to her element. Not ono of Lady Demote/ ley glances In the direction of the sexup-maker Ihts leen lost upon her ; and elm absolutely revolt' In drawing out the (Magnin; and mak- ing 1111101 of them during the few mitnaen that elapse before dinner Is tumou need. There is n nother peculiarity of title ierentrlc o11 Indy. Site pays no heed to rank or title; In they mast go to dinner, paired off as she cheeses ; and Lady Dermot, to her F11(4,010,40; Horror, Bede herself car- riel along by the white wnleteoat of the Gilligan, and elto sooe the bob- bing healdrese of his wife ills - appealing through tlto door- trur before Her. And the bride, purple with rage, and with teens of tut rtifieation int her eyes, erre+ 1 titstea l of belug led In first to the pear,', of honor, as a - belle, and in her wedding {trees, - too, she simply makes oto of a crowd tt Ith Algy Blake. Poor, timid little Gipsy falls to the lot of Capt. Lefroy, the lovely flora resigns herself to the minletratlone of one of the two nervous men, the others get In anyhow, and Mrs. Bryan takes possession of Bir Maurice himself ; and he forgives her all as she whlepers: "She Is lovely!" and then, with nnother chuckle., she ndda: "I asked her on pur- pose, to let Mise Blake see her rival." Bir Maurk+e can Met Balch e glimpse of Gipey'', dark head; and he motiles once ns tier timid, ques- tioning look travels up to his. On the whole, Gipey gets on very well. She le awed Into silence, anti with a grave fuue listens to the hon of vocee around. Captain Le- froy tries to poke her talk; but she answers only "Yes" or "Nu" In so loty and frightened a voice that preect fly ho leaves her to herself. Possibly Gipsy hardly realizes that the calm eyes of Mleo Blake across the tulle paralyze her fac- ulties. She leels, rather than knows, the supremo contempt with which the calm beauty regards her. Only once has elle seen Maurice, when he bent forward for a second ; but ids kindly smile cheered her tim- id heart. Miss Blake also saw Me look and smile; and she hates herself and Item too for the heartache that Taste for the rest of the eventing. The coming ball and the bunting that never -failing topic, form the staple subjects of conversation. The hunt races, and county gossip, well spiced and well added to by the host- ess herself, aro discussed In turn ; and as the champagne passes round, tongues wag more freely, and the babel of velem flee Into something like a roar, t111 there emcees a sud- den puttee In the conversation. The O'Hagnn's voice alone breaks the momentary silence', and he la overheard saying in loud tones to Lady Dermot: "Hope you will come over to my place- some day, ma'am. Just drop In any time yon please. My missue will be prowl and happy to see you." The hostess seems to rejoice over this speech, for her whited ryes gleam as Lady Dermot's icy reply to the sonptnaker's advances Is drowned In the swing and hum of renewed conversation. But Mrs. Bryan feels eho has scored One. TO -morrow she will drop the O'Hagan family; but for to -night they have eeeve(1 her purpose—they have pall for their dinner, and alto is satisfied. Gipey, grave and silent, wonders why people enjoy dinner parties, and yet ehe Is happy lit her white gown and fragrant violets. "How do you ilke the place and the people?" oaks Captain Lefroy, as he looks Into the lovely brow: orbs upturned to hie face. Sir Maurice at the other end of the table dishes Jin Lefroy were not so dangerously good looking. "I like some of the people," G1pey answers, "and the place pleases me very much." "Which of the people?" pursues Captain Lefroy, modulating hie voice as he always does when talking to women. "I like one person," Gipsy says. "Only one! Who 1e that favored individual?" he asks, laughing. She colors suddenly, end then re - piles: Yerhnpe I ought not to say, be- cause it seems there are so many things one ought not to say to peo- ple," Captain Lefroy lowers his golden head In a perfect paroxysm of amuse- ment. "Don't tell his name unieee you like," be says, limiting at her puz- zled Lace. Two questioning eyes look up at him from out their dark setting. Site le totally Ignorant of the term "chuff," and yet the tone of Ids wire, Jere on icor. Gilley Is sharp, for all her Ineon- venttonnl ways, and site can see that Captain Lefroy is laughing at her. "I mean Idles Gladys Blake," she explains, with simple candor. "But I thought It might not be polite to say It to you when site la to be your wife." The Inborn tact revealed by her guileleee speech eobere the hand- some ince looking down into here. Ho thinks of Gladys, whose pure love le all his own. Hie Is only a second- hand, worn out affection at beet ; but how many times ho has waver - e(1 En his allegiance le known only to himself. Gladys would be Imp - pier tonight round she but know how he Is silently vowing to be a better men for ler sake. The dinner at last cones to as end, ottO the ladles retire to the drawing -room, where Mre. Bryntutt (Joe commoners her waspish {weep, - lion of making everybody unhappy. The bride, wedding dress turd all, cootie first on the list 'Come near the fire, Mrs. Murton. And how ie the baby'1 Hes it been va«eietted •ret? And then, as she TIC tett the rage, c(stluelon and out- raged feeling In Mee. Morton's face, her wicked laugh Tinge out. 'Porgies tan -1 gMte forgot: but 1 always tisk after the Gables—it wins the mothers' hearts." There le a subdued Nellie on evet,v cnpnttnnace, nal the unfortunate bride u1,It a she Intl never conte. The hostcse ewer attracts the lovely Aims Blake's attention, and, undo cover of a photograph album, comnumts on Gipsy, who has found rtfuz' on a distant sofa beside the poem -roue person cf lire. O'Hagan. "What tt little beauty—quite n exteket Venus, my dear: And Sir Maurice is hit at last. D1,1 you not notice it?" And, rte Mies Blake's cold lips close suddenly, the old lady rattles off to another subject, then fllte from guest to guest, "rubbing" them all "the wrong way." Mrs. O'Hagan, feeling that she has secured (111 entree Into the very cream of county society, makes hers eel! agreeable to Gipsy, in which kindly effort Olio Is presently joined by Mies (Megan, and tlto three are soca cliatttng pleasantly, Gipsy, un- conectous of the cold and warning gin:twee cal,t COat her from time to Hine by Lady Dermot, talke away brightly to Mrs. O'Hagan, who Ie really a kind and good-natured wo- man ; and Mrs. Bryan, happening by accident or design to scat herself near,, overhears the following frag meet of conversation: "And AO you are feud of drawing?" —froth Mrs. O'Iingnn. "I cannot really draw or paint, but I like to try to sketch," Gipsy re - piles, "My daughter ought to paint well," Mrs. O'Hagan remarks. Tier schooling cost over ttvo hundred a year—no Joke, I ran tell you. llut she le splendidly ednoated. Her piano alone Net two hundred pounds.'.' Gipsy is silent, and It le Mise O'Hagan 's turn. "Drmnaneen Castle would make a lovely picture; hate you tried to Wretch it yet?" "Olt, no 1' —from Gipsy, "What a pity you couldn't try It, HAD MADE HIS WILL Fully Expecting to Die, Had Arranged all his Earthly Affairs Hoa• heath a'ns Ildsnprpsnet, d to 1 h Happy Iteslormt1"n Hr llentib and Strength id' elle Terre . Sumner, .1a+u., Oat. w1_1S1e.l1,t1)— Mr, Louts Trrny, of title plan,', wee 50 111 with Intt!mmatien of the Ioty- riA ttnd Kldnwys that no one ever ex- p.'ctivt hint to recover. .111 hope had been abnndonel and Mr. Terry had merle 1114 will, fully topcting that he Geraldine!" remarke kers. O'Hagan. "It Is Net your etylo of drawing." "Sir Maurice would summon me for trespass if he caught nue sketching tae castle;" and M!ss Geraldine glee at at her'cwu humor. "011, no, he termite not 1" says Gipsy, hastily. "Add Item sure Sir Maurice would like you to sketch lite cam- - tie if you wished" t But Mrs. O'Hagen's turban and caltngornt begin td quiver. - "You are very kind aad very niee, _ my dear," site observes; "but Lady Dermot has not enlled upon tie, you see; aad so It could not be dent." Gipsy does not understand Mint site nouns, and therefore keeps ereetly sheat, while the wife of the ernpboiler waxes eloquent °ter her wretugs." "And ire dotat wish to force our- selves into steeety'," she continues. "No ono has walled un us, except Mrs. Bryan. Not that I care. I nm not ashamed of my antecedents. We've made our motive? by Industry. Afy husband was a factory -boy once, anti my mother was in a circus, and I am not ashamed to ea,' Ho," ' And my mother" Is ori Olpoy'e Ilpe; and flush elle stops, while a lite of crimson rueltest over her face and iter eyes droop, "And Ium nsliamed of her I" thinks the glt1, paselonately, as the recollection of all Lady Der- mot saki fllIs her with keenest anguish. Then the floor opens. The owner of the white waistcoat makes lis dazzling appearance among the other men, and err Maurice, looking round quickly, catches eight of Gipsy's fare, and, noticing that the sweet cess of her tole has a somewhat dis- tressed expression, he manages pre- sently to fund himself at her lido, a move that Is not loot upon Miss Blake, A little music is now, indulged In. Mise Blake, attended by one of the noudescrlpt ,young men, sings first ; find then Atlee O'Regan is requeeted by the hostess to perform, and that young Indy electrittee the audience with a comic song; whereupon ttte gentlemen applaud loudly, earl the holies smile, with. a Hort of sneering Indulgence at the vulgarity of the composition. ells% (Mager is lu rap- tures, rho eoap-boiler applauds loud- est of nil, and Mrs. O'Hagan beats time softly with iter hands. Pressed by Captain Lefroy, the fair Geraldine breako into song again, and Informs the eompnny generally that it Is madness to remember and wiser to forget." (To be Continued.) LADY OORDON,LE OX PAYS. 1dl;eletl Het' Niece, to Whom She Ilands Over $ (0,0(40. would (lie. Ie this extremity Mr. Cosgrave, P(x,temeter, thought of 10,110 Kid- ney Ville and immtaiinleiy gave !IIs. Teeny a done. , Tide tee -onset was c(uttinuel at Intervale with the re- sult that In a very abort time the man who tutor thought to le, dying, war: °n ilk feet and going around as if netieng led harm mei. This remark/Hilo cure (JC cosh nn extreme 1,,1.ee hue rreatei quite a ernsntlee in the nelghlsorl!aod tinil ❑uuty kind tarn'de err bane, said of Dodd'', Kidney Pillo for the wondered wot'k they ilia In Mr. Turny'uteuxoe. "MIK remedy luta always been re- etvguizesl 1'taong the! people t°e a sure euro for Barka cho, Onetime tient and 1111 Kldney Troubles, but this is the first (arc ever reported in this vi- cinity whore they have been used with fetch quick rosette. Mr. Teeny hlntolf Is very grate- ful to Ikehl'e Kidney Pella for Lie happy- restoration. People in and abet Summer have Just about secluded that there is teething in the way of siekness that Dorid'e Kidney I'illa will not cur". and there le scarcely a home to be found in tho neighborhoal that does not contain a. box of this wonderful inodielnc. Men, women and children are find - leg out every day soma new virtues in lt, and it is very interesting to hear theme got 'together and com- pare notes as to what Doold'e Kid- ney Plllo have done tq their various homes. , T.oudon, Nov. ^.—Tete libel suit of , Mies Dora Neale ngatnet her aunt, Lady Henry 'Gordon -Connex, has been set teel hut of exert. The ehargrt•heve been withdrawn, and Miss Neale Is to ror'icn -2,000 In addition to the err Ls. Ttti.o suit (vas hronght lest Felten - are. Mies Nualo charged that her mutt line made sant, remarks; whirl' Were a reflection nn her character. The deem Chief Juetic.e urged that the matter be settled privately in order to nvotd a scandal. MIAs N^nlc decline the compromise arranged by the tweeter; last August, tied invltiett upon a etndlcation. Tho Lord Chan- cellor thereupon restored the ease to the calendar, JOHN BULL LIMNED. Washington lt'vbtg's Feline at Depiet• bug Hitu. Moro then fifty years ago Wael- tngton Irving gave us a skot°n of John Bull, ono paragraph of which to, I think, worth reproducing at the prescmt time : "Though really a good-Monttcd, gcal-tempered old fellow at bottom, yet he is singular- ly fond of being in the midst of con- tenttott. It is one of les peeullarl- thts, however, that he only rel - Shoe the beginning of nn affray; he always gore into a fight witlt alac- rity, but comas out o! It gt umbling even when victorious; end though no one fights with more obstinacy to carry a contested point, yet, when tho battle is over nod he comms to lie reconciliation, to le fro marl taken up with the mere shaking of hands that ho Is apt to let hie an- tngonlet pocket all that they have been quarrelling about. It Is not, therefore, fighting that he (meat 00 much to be on his guard agnhiet at; einktng (Hotels. It to difficult to cudgel elm out of n farthing; but put him In a goal humor and you tna,v Weenie life out of all the money In its pocket. He le like a stout ship which drill weather the rouglt'et storm unln,Gtre(I, but roll its meets overhead In tie su^ceeeling enlm" Tim moral line in the ap- plicntion.—"Cnptaln Cottle," in the Tbneo,, SAVE THE BABY, A'Mol her Tells Hew Mang a Thr(•aten• ed Lila May he Preserved. To the laving mother no expellee is too great, no labor too severe, 11 It twill preserve tate health of her little ones, Childish ills are generally simple, but so light is baby's hold on life that it Is often a knowledge of the right thing to do that turns the tide at a crisis. And in baby's Ill- ness every trials is a critical one. "I think the timely use of Baby's Own Tablets would save many a dear iittle life," writes :firs. P. B. Bick- ford, of Glen Button, Que. "I take pleasure in certifying to the merits of these Tablets, as I have found them' a sure and reliable remedy. My baby was troubled with indigestion at teething time, and was cross and restless. The use of Baby's Own Tabiettt made a wonderful change, land I am glad to recommend them to others." Mothers who use these Tablets never afterward resort to harsh purgatives that gripe and tor- ture baby, nor to the fetecalletl "soothing" preparations that erten contain poisonous opiates. ILtby's Own Tablets aro pleasant to take, guaranteed to he harmloer. Send 2S cente for a full-sized box to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., if your druggl.;t dam net sell them. Had face for Mode,' t. A carpenter was (•m111uyr,l iu a bos- p1tal to Guild a room for peetenor- tottia In one corner u n e :! cued stor- age chamber for "stiff." The eu'rre- to.ry of the, iw•lilntioa on going 10 sen hour tete work «tie• getting an 1 found that the eh:nulu'r was fitted with two doors lustu'nd of one, and that a partition lied been constructed between them, forming two apart- ments. An ecpi:ovabott bring demand- ed, the carpenter said: "Oh, sir, we loft a pet in (feedoors d the a- tltlon In order toble an $isle ILe sepxers apart."