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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1903-02-26, Page 3s1I / 4 **A. c0.44:06„,,,c•pv,frn. 1011#a4 h 14, t eIV 4r hart aiit,4 intwtftictet GIPSY'S AIARRIA6E 444,444444444 'Yes.' she falters; and the blood vulgar anti commonplace to curt. • • • abbe back again elotvly. She dors not raise her eves, and Mire Blake "Lady Dermot, will you lot me ex- am Bee only the thick, talky lashes pint, to you 7" testing on the wanton cheeks; and "Me if ie' l+ d ad; M u tie thluke lbs watches till the teed has turned to, gine CL to b.'ttor as It to" Gipsy to white. answers, in a low voice, without to k - (Aim .:e Bryan, noting her confu- tng at Colonel Bryan. Ooze interposes las tall person be- She floes not k ow that he Inter- twewt them, pmts her speech wrongly, that he "Yuur husband ordered you to is think! ig to himsif that Sir Muu- drktk ehempagne, lod; Derntot,'111) t;,,r,• w.fe le selfish like all the ngys, try'iug to speak naturally. "No- world. bogie eau dance all night without ''Bo it For he antevert ,gravely ; !1e.' ". and It1e thoughts are with the sad - There are a hum of voices and a eyed, paesion:tto soma'' who lo ked Matter of tongues and knives and up at him In the mootllght. " Per - forks. The Ioyely Flora Inas at Carpe tome day you will see I am not least six melt alt offering crnckcre wholly to blame," he sage, still idlotteatly, and her ttrung, white epetk:ng almost in a whisper. ikow pads them all, pretences a Into Gipsy's fate comes a wave of regular volley of munkutry. rod. She stands up and flashes a look M et. Ummehaw is struggling with of womanly eoorn Into hie troubled the airy p.mun of a chL.keo which fare. hat Just been put on her plats. "Please take me back to my hue - "low 1 tee. ; 0,1 a y beak tweet 7' band;" and her voice le unsteady, murmur. alis Individual who has pre- her mouth quivering. "Oh, Sibyl, * nom the afterward, Sibyl"' she thinks—"finer. m'nerable ort; too a.,x:uu% to etiorten the Sibyl—anti I can do nothing far you." pieasuro ol ettendlag to Ulm Grim- "Your husband does not know of eltaw's wanto this?" he mike, half eagerly. The dry pin on. le swept away, to "I never knew that Sibyl lived till bo replaced Immediately by roma- to -day. and I have promised not to thing tweet, a_d, with tunatietele tell Maurice," she answers shortly. reptalty, the hero whl p re again: Unconventional as she lie she can. " Won't you have tum:.hiug moon 7" not tall to notice the relief In his —and elle 1• carded buck wife/ to voice when he speaks next. the ballroom. "Believe me, Lady Dermot, you It it cruel of him; but then lie la will he happier If your husband never engaged for every dance, and t!uto is knows o1 It.' precious. Su he, too, known $hr Manrlee's Baby' Ur,mdutw makes a great play pride. The young wife sighe, but over her supper. says nothing. "(Lie a little Jdly, peace—I never amid net et, a bale," she say., look- Sir Maurice wonders to -night why, ing tI etvuye and wilt potty honor atter the last carriage has driven at ueothor girl, who, evidu,ttly can away. and he oomoe back to the de- ad dons eat at a ball. sorted bull -room, Gipsy throw her The Baby removes her glovoe, Jin- arms around his neck and burets glee her bangles, and drupe her fan out crying and sobbing. and hwt.dkerchtet. They are picked "Yon are tired, my darling," he Op and elle plays with tho Jolly Nays, soothing and comforting her. tNoe.ly. "You are foolleh to cry, dear, and, If Truth to toll, there aro Inward you only knew all the nice tldnga I gnawing'. that render the eight of heard people say of my wife to -night. tke various meed things perfect it wouhi make you quite vain" agony; but then it Is only married Bat there le no opine in the tear - or very old people who really eat Jimmie! eyes looking up into hie own .at ateliers. —only 11 mobbhig sigh answers his "Ul to champagne, Well, only a loving caress; and (tipsy cries herself tiny, tiny drop. Will It go to me to sleep to -night. Her imbued won - bead 7' the ask., looking up earnest- Hera, at. ho looks at her asleep In the ly Into the taco of the male being gray (lawn, to sue tho tears yet wet attending to her infantine wants, upon her eyelarhus. "Soma of the Be assures her it wilt leave her head alone; and, thus adjured, she takes the least ttuy nip and smiles. Then the mackerel Oh, the peeing et them, the tiny shriek% ao.1 the e byness about the mottoes. And ono ebe tildes sad wilt nut let litin look at—not that he le 111 the leant anxi- ous to see It; and another motto ceases a groat deal of bluthhtg. The other girl, who 1* really tnk- Ieg sapper, and dr:nke her champagne ase Bays nothing about it, never palls a single cracker, and never loser eight of stn and handkerchief, but talks punto eennibly and plume antsy to the man at her Bide, die- ,ceeeing all cern of topics easily and naturally. She seems much more human and woman- like than babv Grimolutw, who leaves her jelly untested at.i goes away hungry, because It is WOMEN'S ILLS Promptly Relieved and lured by Dr. Williams' fink Pilo. Dr. Williams' Pluk P111e aro wom- N s best friend. They enrich the Mond, tone up the nervus, aol strengthen the vital organs tu per- form their (unctions regulatly. They bring the roily cheeks ono shapely forme that tell 01good health and bapp.nesa 110 the growing girl they are invaluable,. To the mother they aro a neceeelty. To the woman of forty-five they mean relief and ease. Or. filename' fink fills aro the beet medlolne teat Bo.ence has devleed for women at all periods of li.e. These ppfile euooeed when nil else fails. lliaousande of grateful women eaa- doree the truth of these statements. lire. John Whttc, Sanhanatien, Ont. Myst "Il gives me pleasure to bear testimony to the groat value of Dr. Williams Pink Pills as a euro for the allmente that all of one many women. I suffered greatly, and the periods were very Irregular, but thanks to these Mlle I am now quite well and free from the pains that made my life almost a burden. I eheertuliy give my experience for the benefit of suffering women." Remember that sub.,thtutee cannot lure, end see that the full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Pelle for Pale People" 111 on the wrapper around every box, U In doubt send direct to the Dr. Willlemle Medicine Co., Brookville, eft.., and the pills will be mailed, Most paid, at SOo per box, or six bores for 82.50. w,mtan put her out, lour little thing I" loo Wilke; nod so begone the drat day with a secret between them. For (Jaye Gipsy cannot muck Ills oyes without a ttarttud look in her own. H he epetkt euddenly, site col- ors, and faceted Dir Maurice knows ter 0 sptots something. Htiorlly after this Rho reoeives a letter from Sibyl, and for five minutes (lipey !lotus It In her hand, dobateug whether oho will tell Maurice. She stands In the deep, oak-,ramed wie- ttow, looking out at the falling leeeeo and the blue lines of nuouutaina to the dletauoe, Mat tio-iciug either, indeed, but thinking only of Sibyl. "Matinee 1" She hall wlilspere his name, and suddenly grows white as he gets up from reading the papers end comers over to where she stands. "I must be off, Gip.y," he nays, cheerfully "1 have a deal to dee about this morning. What are you going to do, my pet 7' Her band Is In her pocket, bon lee byl's letter. She will answer it by and by. Suddenly .he remembers a promise given. "Maurice, may I take somograpee to Mrs. Vivian 7" she alms, lookAg up with in fleeting lie is never cruse with her; but hie face hardous a little. "Can't you mud then, Gipsy?" "1 pxomieed to go," she replies, to a low tone; and then, very softly: "She Is dying, dear; and, Maurice, It can't be any berm to be kind to a person when she Is dying." Sir Maurine is frowning still. "People talk no," he begird, un• consciously using hie niother'r air• gmueut. "Gipsy, a woman cannot be too careful. 1 don t want to be unkind; but 1 would rather you did not make a friend of Mrs. Viv- ian." Her fingers closed tightly over Sibyl's letter. "Ho must never know now," she thinks, patsiaiateiy ; and the hot blueliee chase, each other over her ohe-lte as Sir Maurloe goer on with hie lecture - "ton see, my chili, once a woman gots talked of In the slightest degree, it is all up with; her.• 1 don't wieu to appear hard or &trait -laced, but it is the Doam roLofy else knows Mrs. t iv - tau ; thou why should you?" Sir Maurloe has yet to find out that his wife liar a will and opinimle el her own. "1 must keep my promise," she an- ewere, steamily, though with starttug toara, looking at bot husband as he stan& by her side, tender and lover- like'Jldl , but she darer not telt elm about bIL.•y l now—poor Sibyl, wiw hue boon no cruelly deceived through no fault of her own. Sir Maurice 1...010 clown at the tido of feeling la I1Ls wI(o's (ace. "lou are a etrauge girl, Glpey. What do you see to eke In Alroe a iv - hut eo very much ?"—laying both linnet. gently on her ehowders. "only that she Ie unhappy and lone- ly," Glpmy annwore. "Maurice, I am not Meier, and I can never know all about everything eke your another; but It mean. to me it cruel, wicked law that, became) a person Into done wrong, no ono le over to be kind to her ug,tht. And 'hon we Ball ourselves chrlettaue1 Maurice, don't be angry, but I cannot loo why it le wrong for nus to take 901110 grapes to poor Mrs, Vivian." In her heart she ie pleading for Sibyl, pleading w:nh her whole watt In her great tour-ffllo.I eyes. Ile cannot quite underetund this girl he lute married, Nu ch.Id1e11 in Rome things, yet with all a wu- eu:'e palmitin ani fervor In others. "Please lot me go." The molt, coaxing voice and tho lovely plead. lug Lane conquer him, us usual. 11 you IDte," he annwere, and then taken away the graciousness of hie perfaeeimt by adding: "You SAI -T: I V Fuii LI i I LI: ( I S. Mothers Should ittel'ciee Great. fare 111 shows nit Medwo,e :ur(;Itikthrut Every little one needs a, mul.cine at some time, and mothers minuet ae too oare,ul 1n mak.n; a so oatien. The soeeteed "soetltn,' p,tp.r f:one Invtu',ably conta.n op.a,o, an 1 other lturmtul drugs which stip ,y the little one and pave the way to a constant nocoselty for the use 0. narcotic drugs. Undo.tb.o ly the very best and the very serest medi- cine for little onna la It:ahy'n O,vn Tablet.. They are mildly laxative and gentle to their tuition nn t t'i re al, stomach and lowel toublot, re- lieve titmice revere, break up col le, portent croup an 1 al ay tlt , 1 ret i- t! n accoopiny n; the cutt.ng of teeth. Where these tablet. are used Iittte ones sleep natut-tt,ly booeuoe the canoes of irr;tation and eleep- lesiness are removed in a natural way. Pxperienao1 mothers al praise this medelne. Mrs. H. H. Fox, Or- 1an„e Ridge, Mtn., trim "B'tby'e Own Tablets are the best rotenone I have ever used for children ot a.l ager. They are truly a h waling 10 baby and mother's friend." There tablets are guarantee' to contain no op'ate an l can be given to n nets -born babe Bold by all dru;gists or sent post paid at tiem a I ox, by writing dlrett to the Dr WI t ins' Me to n' tong ny, tiro k- vtlle, Ont. have persuaded me, because I can't refuse you anything; but, remem- ber, I don't approve of It 1" Ho kisses her tenderly; and Gipsy goes away to fill n basket vith grapes and flowers, and io think very sully of Sibyl. • Forget me, Clime," eho wrote, "It will bo better for you; and, as for me, I cannot be mere wretolied than I am. I will perhaps come and see you once again," CIIAPPI;R XXVI, "'lay I toll you my story 7" The fever of death le burning to lairs. Vh'Ian'e citoeke, tate fever of unrest Mazes In her eyes. It h plain to ev- ery one she le dying day by day, and she le glad ort It —so glad! slay I tell you my story T' mite says. ptteously, to Gipsy, whose eyes aro wet with tears of eympathy, as mho mists by Mrs. VMan Boa, a min- istering angel Indeed, yet only a wo- man who believes it ie right not to be the one to coast the ihrnt «tone. Maro i'lvian tolls her story in a half -Slitter, miserable, disjointed way. "1 hated him, and they made me Marry him, Lady Dermot. Can you Imagine a greater agony than to Dove one man with your whole heart and soul, and bo forced to marry another? It doers not mud] matter now, find I need not tell you of the proseure that was brought to Mar, the mischief that was made, and of alt I suffered before I gave in, and became Major Vivian's wife, They told me the man I loved me fondly was false, that the man who had vowed to bo true to me, and who loved me so dearly, was, like every other man, Wee to the heart's core; and 1 botleved it all. And, alter 1 had been married six months, Rex Holi- day came home from India." Glpty turns half away from the tide of anguloh In the face up •ailed to hors. There le eomething unspeak- ably melancholy la the tear-filled volae. "Ice mane home to make mo hie wife, and found I had been marrled elx months. We met once—only once. We knew of all the treaohery then, and said good by—he and 1; and tried—out, I did try, and only Heaven knows how hard I tried, to be a good wife to my husband 1" Into the thin sad face comes a smile like pale suiutght alter rain. "When my Ilttle child was been I thought I could be happy ; but it was oat to be." The cite smile has passed from eyes and Iipe; here le a delicate, wo- manly (ace, but It grows hard now. Tatou elle gone on: "My husband would not IM me be happy ; even to you I ctmiot speak of all I have eu(ferel from a cruel, heartless man. Suoh mteery as mine la, thank Ilia - cell, not common ; and yet for the clabl'e stake 1 bare It all until--" Gipoy, noticing the pain 1n the face of the unhappy woman, lays her hand ou here. "Don't toll me U it palne you," oho wielepere. t must—I will ! Look here," unfits - toning a gold locket at her throat, and showing Gipsy a ring of pale gold hair—"my baby's hair 1 Oh, Lady Dermot, not t111 you have children of your own will you know or dream of a mother'. love! My little, fat, dim- pled baby was all the wide world to me, the only thing I had ; anal I tore sorrow and suffering as only a wife and a mother onn bear for her child's *rake until the child died." Her voice sinks to a broken while per, but her eyes have wept teen' fountain dry, or the fever -light has eirhNi It up, for they are. tearle0e now, as 401!! with 'misery, they aro raised to those other Nott, ten ler brown. once looking down so pityingly. "The world thought the child died a natural death—water on the brain, the doeture said. and 1 never 1111d0- oeival .Lm ; 1 311 I knew my baby died from u blow from Ids tonere. hand, and he—my husband—knew it, too." "Oh, no I" whispers Gipsy, aghast of thio agony ot human suffering. "Surely it was nest that I" There are no tears in the mother's epee yet ; with an almtaot rockiest. onimneos she can speak of a eorrow that Ie beyond the relief of tears. "Why should f digress you with what 1 went through? My child was gone, and with him winced almost to go my utast hope- Alt Lady Dermot, the world Is very hard 1 But what date It know of n woman driven to madmen and despair ? And i had no One to say a kind word, and my little Mai was dead." She lintf turns away her floe from the tender gime and the guileless pur- ity In Gipsy's eyes, and up to the blue -veined temples rims a soorch- In¢ plush. '1 Tilet him --and I wee eo unhappy, —and then It seemed the greater sin to stay with the marl who was my husband—the man who had killed my child!' Here elle molten a long pause, MTS. Vlvian'e hurried breathing alone breaking the eilence. Gipsy betide down, with the tears failing from her eyes, and her heart fllie with a great pity for this woman wiw, 111:e Sibyl, IN broken-hearted. The thin, dying face le turned still further away. ".and nfterward," she goes on, In a low, tremuloue tvhioper, "Idream- (A a dream, fend I caw my child In heaven, and I could not go to lrim beck ume—because--" She does not finleh the sentence; but her wasted hands cover her taco, nod tho guars of shame and sorrow come at last. And Gipsy, with that deepest of all sympathy—the sym- pathy of silence—sits with closed lice. Surely the most etratt-local per- son In tbo county could hardly blame Sir M'urice's wife now, ns, with, the Sean heavy and wet on her lashes, 4110 etxops and lays her lips on the bowed, etrlckdn head 1 "We said good -by, good -by for- ever," gaspe out the weary voice. "My baby'' dead face crone between ue—I will never see Rex again ; but"—nod through the tears chines a light that comes from no happe- nese In this world—"when I die, 1 shall take my chili and hold him in my arms—nothing can keep mo Lean him then." • • • • • To -night, when Gipsy tells the sad story to her husband, it comes Into hie head that, perhape, after all, lite wife is right, ani that a liths sympathy and kiedneeo is more In accordance with the great rule laid down, than the cotd,cruth- LMtg severity of the unrelenttig law. ,and so, with her husband's permission, Gipsy spend• many an hour at Laurel Lodge, and lightens n little the shadow% that arogalh- ering for the end. • • • • • Winter again has come round, and the reit coats aro out once more and the sport goes on as of old, though Jim Lefroy lies in the green churchyard. Sir Maurice is master of the hounds now, and Black Abbey, where the Into master held hie revels, le teaantlese. Tho oda house etamis back and deserted, with shuttered windows and grass -grown avenue, looking gloomy and dreary against the pale, wintry eky. Unca the gates were ever wide open, and its handsome, reckless, genial own- er rode often In and out. Many were ever coming and going; bet, since that last day when Jim Lefroy wan carried to hie grace, the heavy gates have been barred, the obi place hat been shut up. Mrs. Blake never looke up at the house, standing In Its silent grand- eur among the dark elms, without ai sigh and a wish that Gladys were reigning there now as Captain Le- froy'e widow, with a fat Jointure and a position second to none le the county. (Tu hs Continued.) WI'I NUT AN ESCORT. British Step 1(tllle;g of slaves Wheal t tleft/10s. D fore the British mono Into pos- eeselon In the Coag° it had bees the cuetoin, upon the demise of a07 great person, to kttl a large number of Ills eubj,.ete to accompany Wm luta the otlier world. But tbls Is 11030 a crime punishable with (tootle The taw 1. etrtotly enforced nail the practice IN being wiped out. When the Brelslt Uuvortm.nt camp Into power to the eouutry between Lttkce Tanganyika and Banyweok) in 1Sele a Chief, ovate had boon very powerful, diel. The British would not allow any slaves to loo klited to atecompauy their late master to the other world. He bud been kept above 1110 ground for fourteen mondt., 10 the hope that tete hard uLarts Of di Dr-t..e wou,d soften. hoe Mwatml- ba, the aeud thief, had Moe ready a great twin. 11u had wut-tated a graft number of lits subject., and A was unreasonable to allow tttm eo go to tis noxi. world w.taout any uomisuty. 11 was the custom to drag the victims to the tomb of ale ,oto 1m - peewee. pereonaoe, anal to g.ve eaoh u,e u tangle terrible blow on the head with an axe or club. if the vuaim mod It was a sure align that Ilam company was agreeable to the deoewsed. If he Lot better it slmwed lits cowpony was not 1wlutted. Mcmlwrs of the ticceteud'e family meet to the Britlah and pleaded w,tli them, but to vain. "If you kill it s:,n(;lt, person," they coni, "01 IW- oount of the death of Mwumba, you will pity for 1t stat your lives." One of those volts to the British occurred ten months after the death tit the Chief. "Well," Bald the white men, "have you buried your chief yet 7" "How nen wo bury h.m when yon w'lli pert permit tis t0 give tam any eimpanfone ? 11 wo should bury Mwaamua s,mply as an or.tnary mor- tal, he w00l1 avenge Memel, upon as and nring tootle oala,mitlee upon the country. Tdey were Informed agntn that If any effort was m: do to provide Mineola with an wort they would form a part of it. Fourteen months Passed, and the body was still wrap- ped in cloth awnttiug Interment. A deputation was eent to the British to m oke it last appeal." "Mwnmea, our ahlet, has now been erred many months and hie body Is not yet burled, Wo beg ot you to let UN hurt' with Sim at least a few; etavee," "No." "Then at least Justin few of his women." "Not a furan or a woman." "Wolf, then, a tittle child." "No. no, and m:ale nglaha no." These MIN nuthlnf to be hoped for from the infiexifle British. About the same time the report began to be emceed among the people that the chief would be very well content to mike the Journey Into the other world alone. Thin le what noivally ieppeaed. The baby was buried with- out the eteunl enori'1^', to the i-'reat satlofnotIon of tho majority of the paopl", nut to the profound humilia- tion of the ruling (amity. Sew hire re le of lives were saved by the determination to prevent this wholeaole hutohcry on the grave of the dead man. The Send. n 's Ambition. Idle. The l'oy wee going away to school, full of high hope. "I shall make the football team and color two pipes the first year," he Bald, bravely. Ills mother kieeetl hIm and wept. 13'.e father wrung his hand in silence. They were too full to epeak then. But when he wag gone, and they wore calmer, they tnike 1 to .ether of hien, and prayed that 111s ambition might not carry him beyond his strength. You Cannot Live Without Sleep Unless the Nervous Energy Daily Consumed Is Made Cood by Rest and Sleep Physical and Mental Bankruptcy Is Inevitable—Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. Sleep it. as neeeesery to life nal le foots or water. A simile night of wakefulness unnerves most people, and when el top: cos nees becomes chronic It soon leads to mental and phy steal co I ip e, p, ostrnt:on, mere - !yew or Insanity. ti:eeplessneer 1s an unmistakable ty reptom of nervotn exhcwetlon. Oplattet may give temporary retie.', but have a terrible reaction on the nervous system. Dr. Clete es Nerve Food cures steel] eeene88, fMet n.8 it cures nzrvove headache nervone dye- prpsht, Irritability, roetleeoness an I all the other symptoms o" nervous exhaustion, by acted increasing tl.e nerve 1, r'0 o. the I:0ly. To the nervous an 1 exhi etei, who feel that they are losing their grip on lite, find It dittieult to eoneen- trate their tltonghte an 1 to rem"m- ter what they hear or read ; to tide despondent and discouraged, Dr. Chaves Nerve Food comes, twine - tog Ypwbepesond ar'a'.tions. By not- ing ]bear weight wh:le using It you can peVve that new, firm Opel] end mods sr* losing added to your bads. AC tits tame time you wile foes the thrill of new, rich blood in your veins, and new vigor and en- er'ry in every nerve flbre. Mr. W. Ilawken, of No. 3 Roden Pae, and who to employed 1r iiadght'e Candy Works, Toronto, Ont., states: "I wee troubled for a long tine with very severe headaches I was very nervous, had no appctlte, and could not feet oe sleep well. 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