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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-07-02, Page 3*04+Im tt.0%.t rso►ms.a►+1.iorrrss-mss IVIIIIIIII•40•14111■141011111bri4011‘41111.•411'0106•400'1111111•41rmilar4 -.tie Ion quite, quite sure?" she ash:- 1V'il;: on i11a!icul:tecry of bitter ed ti,,' moll, wisdfnliy. "I1t'cnnse, Paul, wrath end iiel,1 '000 on he looked down - 1 can not boar for you to go." avoid at Ar.,y„ind site people tlirovt'• the mcvst'e was very positive, Mrs, ing their,nnry +illi} i1110 the air, heard 1.100.' the uta, answered, and moved away after the recce' had told 'him to nay 11(111 lie would follow i1, a. fen' min• PAUL VANE'S WIFEI tame, "You will walk with me just n little way, lay darlhqr our;” he whispered; and tht'1' wept atm, in arm away froin the crowd, nanslnl: among the slu'ublory for that lona f,i",well egress with which they ahvays parted, & "I will conte back for you as soon as I can," he said, "I hole to be in time to take you o1, your trip to the moon," smiling cheerfully. "I(,you.do not I shall be most crucl- lydisippointod. I have set my heat on going," else answered, "If I should be lute you will go with some one else, perhaps. 1 Amid not like for you to miss this coveted pleasure,' taking her fondly, into his arms 00111 holding' her 'dose to his warm heart. "Bow cruel theabh t0, One never feels it more sensibly than when it breaks on a scene of pleasure like this, A gloom has fallen on me, Vivian, and I cannot bear to leave you," kissing the red lips, the white brow ;and rounded cheeks with the ardor' of a lover. ' "Yet you must go," she said reluc- tantly, though still holding hint tightly strained in the clasp of her sofe white arms. "011, Paul, 1 have an idea. Take me with you," "Inyour condition, my oven love, No, that [rust not be. I will try to return to you very soon. If not, I will send you a message, Now kiss me (awe more, my own sweet wife, and let me go. Adieu for a brief while, darling." They stood heart to heart, lip to lip, One more 'yenning moment, thou parted with passionate pain, he to walk swift- ly away, she to wand' him out of sight with blue eyes dint with sudden tears and a cruel pang in her tender heart. This was their parting, "These two—they dwelt with eye on eye, Their hearts of old have beat in tune, Their meetings made December June, Their every parting was to dna!" Oh, Cod, oh, Uod, to think of their next meeting! • Vexed and uneasy over'fieding out that hea B den summoned bo s mo ed to his parishioner's house through some mis- take and learning the whole family was Well and strong, Paul Vane turned his stops quickly away from the house ami set out for Arcady again, though tired down upon sone cushions in the bottom with Ole long walk of over three miles. of 1110 light car, and turned his atten- Pascing the rectory gate, he stopped n tion to some means of keeping his pro - 111100 of saving Vivian. Overl1en,l dangled the slender rope connected with the es_afpe-valve, and reaching upward he caught and pulled it with a firm hand, then ,started back in horror. '114,, rope had conte loose in his hand! The escape -valve remained intact, and the balloon still held its course through the sky, The only chance of rescue sees destroyed, 01, God! hots coed he break it to the lovely, agonized, half -uncon- scious creature lying there so still at his feet? With 0 01)11011 moan he sank back into his sent, revolving in his mind all sorts of frantic plants of rescue. Site was dumb with fear and misery; she spoke no mod,'she asked no ques- tions„even no hour after hour ;vent by; and he wan;thankful for that one mercy; for how mak 110 to tell her the awful truth? The' hours wore on as he let there in his silent miser. As the•'+ -night ad• enticed it had grown colder, ond-1'ie had long ago removed his coat tfad Laid, it gently over Vivian's sltolildei's, How long was she going to lie there _ like that Its grew frightened at her stupor and silence that at first had seemed all for She best. Wino she, dying, this fair woman, whom, if he had dared, if it lctd not been wrong, he should have loved with the full fore of his pas- sfoiateheat?--a heart that had not frittered itself away- in small emotions, but kept itself sacred for the entrance of the master passion, "Love tenst o nus impassioned ioned so1i1 • :Not, 00 with other's, a mere port Of its existence, boo the whole— The Very life -breath of the heat.” their shoots of distress, and knew that he 1rns 1101 mistaken. 'There at the bottom of the car in which they were seated swayed the long, useless rope to and fro, "Oh, what 18 1:? fledY Ci Inn, sad• delle awakening to the coniciousuess of soum'thing,wrong. "We are mounting to a very high altitude, are' we not? Oh, [leaven!" throwing her arms wildly up. w•ru•d, ".See, see, the rope is lose! We are lost'" Her shrill cry of agony pierced his heart like a sword -thrust, She had sprung n d s pr rti to her feet with such wild exdtemeet that he feared she would full, and catching her gently by her soft white heeds, he forced iter beck into her seat. "Mos Vane, 1 implore you to be enlml" he prayed her. "Yes, it is true. "There has been on accident; the rope is loose, and we are adrift in the sky, But---" He got no further, for maddened with terror, the girl flung for, forward with a frenzied cry. "01, Paul! oh, my husband!" and in as sudden impulse of unreasoning despair she was about to precipitate herself from the balloon. Just i11 time Colonel Fairlie drew her back, holding her tightly clasped in I,is arms, for she struggled violently to tree herself and accomplish her insane purpose. "Let me go, let 10e go to him!" she shrieked, wildly; and for many minutes Ste had to restrain her by force, she was so deterunmed on breaking from Iden and leaping front lier strange prison. Tenderly but firmly Colonel Fairlie re- strained the frantic creature, promising to save her life if she wound be quiet and trust to him, "See, there is n rope to the escape - valve, Mrs. Vane, I I ran easily iet the gas cut of the balloon, and it will de- scend to the earth. Be quiet and brave; :and trust in Ood, will you not?" he implored, gazing with intense pity into the lovely, frantic white face, "You can save me, you can save are! Oh :leaven be thanked! for it would have hilied my husband had I been lost title this!" Vivian cried, in wild relief; and her frantic struggles ceased, and she drooped half swooning in the arms. that hell her so gently. Finding that there oras no more to fear from her frenzy, Colonel 1'airlie laid' his lovely burden minute to rest under the arch of white moon -flowers. Then be sav carriage after enrrian_e rolling away front Arcady, 100001ng the guests of the evening back to their homes, "They are breaking up very early. It can not be midnight yet," he though. "And poor dear Vivian, we shall miss our balloon ascension together. But 1 Hurst, hasten on to bring her home." He was about to walk forward when two [len confronted `him—Frank Bar- rett end Willie Benin to. "Will you come into the house, Mr, Vane? \Ve wish to speak to yon," the younger man said, gravely, for AIr. Bar. sett was speechless with dietress. • « • * • • Bentiv, pitingly as the story wes',told to Paul Vane, no one wondered that the shock and 'horror of it almost killed him. 1V110 could even hope that the beloved young wife would survive her deadly peril in the sky? CHAPTER XXL Upward, upward, freed from all res- traint, bounded the balloon with aerial -.lightness, and Vivian Vane, all uncon- sciaue as yet of the terrible calamity that had overtaken her, laugher with the glee of a child. "011, how (harming this is, Colonel Fairlie! :low sweet and pure the airl Ifow bright the ninon and stars!" she exclaimed, joyously; and he thought that the fah- and happy face she lifted up to him was the purest and the loveliest on l e , w'hh n h had everg +zed—sic h a eon. tract in itsangelic" sweetness to the dark, passionate one on wife]] he had honked with horror a moment ago; for Loraine', a0 she stealthily several the rope, had glanced up with a face full of 11e knelt down gently, so as not to munitions triumph into his eyes as he 'disturb her. and touched with timid fin. looked from tine light ear, and, brave man gers her face anti lands, how eold they as he was, Eugene Fairlfo had trembled were—how icy cold! Ho leaned down to at that look—trembled, for 11010 there piste[—to hear if she still breathed, .toy! rushed over him all its fell meaning. She wits sleeping at lost—gently, lightly, This tuns no experience to him, and like a little chili. as the fired balloon shot swiftly upward " the truth rushed over him—Loraine land Oh, if the day ;wand only dawn! A stealthily cant the rope :mai set him adrift clever thought hurl comm to him. While in the sky with his lovely companion. kneeling over Vivian he hail drawn from SHREDDED You Won't Mind Warm Weather if you eat Shredded Wheat, It does not clog the system or tax the digestive machinery. Every par- ticle of Shredded Wheat is easily and quickly digested by the most delicate stomach. Try it with fresh fruits for a week and note results. Sold by all, grocers. 553 WHEAT the scarf at her throat a glittering 0!! - em .mow. Ile would climb out, if only d n were here, upon the net•lvork of rope,, and punetu•e with this slurp ar- row the silken balloon letting the gas escape ser tont it night descend, Dawn at Last! Be hailed it with cry of joy. Little shalts of golden light quivered along the eastern horizon, am h, the pale light he clambered softly ''p among the ropes until he was near enough to reach with upraised haul th silk, With a heart beating high with hope he poised the arrow fon' the success I'M thrust. One moment more, and a piercing cry reached his ears. Ile glanced hastily downward and 011w Vivian, awake, sit- ting upright, and pointing with horror at tut immense eagle that was swooping down upon hint with deadly 111e01100 in its glittering golden eyes. Comprehending his awful danger, Eu- gene Fairlie made 0 fierce lunge at the bird of prey with the arrow, hot, star- tled and unnerved, he lost his hold and fell down, do)v), down, followed by shrill shrieks of Lege from the baffled lord1 and began for the second time the peril, nus ascent into the net, (.touching down in the bottom of the 000, Vivian w at011cd him tvitb dlhutad 0,1 es, while tholthig sots burst from her lip a 'Lod preserve him!" she prayed: Inst t even 1)1 that moment., as the strong white teeth tore 0 rent in 111' sill woe .,;1V him stagger backward as the foul air tushed into his fate through ' the. opening. Overpowered with the (1')! l ly fumes of the rapidly escaping 1 , consciousness deserted the brave fellow, his hands released their frenzied },rasp, and lie fell outside I.he ropes 1),s the bah , loot lurched heavily forward—then, tram Fors, he shot down into empty space, while Vivian, with 01 shriek of mortal [Tony, relapsed into unconsciousness, C'HAPTEll'XXII. When Eugene Fairhe's grasp relaxed its hold of the slender a'opies to which he clng, and he felt himself falling downward into spec', he gave himself up for lost; but, involuntarily throw- ing out his hands as he fell, they e.0• countered, to his great joy, the light wicker rite of the balloon car, and he clutched it with an energy born of de- spair; while Vivian, rising to her feet with shrill cries of terror, waved her white arms in the air and kept at buy the ;Menacing eagle that hovered over Fairlie with his fierce Leal: extended to tear out the anguished brown eyes look- ing upward to the pitying heavens, One or two moments of dizzy hope and de- spair ei nh1ned, and with an almost su- perhuman effort of strength Fairlie drew himself up intr, ,e position of safety by Vivian's side, ,and sank, momentarily ex- hausted, to the bottom of the ear, "1hiosk God, you are saved!" cried Vivian, ,joyously. In a whirl of euro• tion she clasped his hands is hers, while tears rained from her summer -violet eyes, "011. Cod, how terrible if run had gone down and left nut here alone!" she cried, "See, the great eagle, chatted of its pre(', still hovers about like a great vulture of fate. Ohl is it possible that we shall ever escape this living death?" Tie started up, forgetting his moment- ary weakness in anxiety for her. "We will keep on hoping, Mrs- Vane," he said, earnestly. "\\'e must not lose heart. Remember, Cod is 0p here, in the sky as well. as on 1Io-earth. Let us Oast in Dim" The deep solemnity of his voice calm• el her wild agitation, and site sunk trembling into her sent, moaning, in an awed voice: "But we are far from :Arcady and Paul! 011, how wretched he mast he over my fate! Do you think that he already believes me dead 1" '•llo not trouble yourself with such gloomy thoughts, poor little one," he -aid to her, tenderly, ns if to frighten - el child. Rising abruptly, he caught up his coat from the floor and flung it 0t the circling bird of prey, thinking to de ceive it with the supposition that it was food of some kind. The ruse succeeded, 'and the huge bird that had been hover• lug ahead the balloon with wild, discord• ant cries of ha ffled ha te now swooped downward greedily after the fast disap• peering .gorment. "It is gone!" ;+imine said, drawing a long breath of relief. He turned to Vivian with a brave smile. "I hove another plan," he said. "1 shall go back into the net -work of ropes again and try to puncture the balloon and let out the gas; Unfortunately, 1 have let fail your silver arrow, in the sur• prise of the eagle's attack, and I lulv-e no sheep instrument unless I can find one in some of these little locker:s." He began an eastersearch, Vivian watch- iug him with toed but hopeful eyes. "There is nothing here," he said, at last—"nothing that will serve my pur- po •A deep and bitter sigh hearty bis Breast, and he was about to turn away in despair when he caught sight of some light refreshments --a bottle of wine, cakes and 'rackets. He drew then eager- ly out of the locker, and he and Vivian made a light steal—light, because pot knowing how long they would be out. Ile would scarcely touch the f od, while on Aiviam't part the appetite vas 111011• 1)d err ' n h ' hours she had felt 1 in. Ito title I' 1 rocked �'f lkell'llg )(1 (k geld: Strange, .,1, 1 g 1 the fair tm•nn,and n strange fear chased the color from her cheeks nal the light from her eyes. "1 nm ill,' she thought in terror. "Oh. [leaven! is anything. going to happen to nu' here. Cod forbid! (rod 0(10)0 me!" and with a ueatu of stifled pain she hick her lovely feoo in her hands, utterly re - (wing to 'take more food. Eugene Fairlie gazed in unutterable sorrow, regret, and tenderness at the be- loved creature before him. A terrible suspicion had come to him, 01111 with aetnedder longer still to rescue Viv- ian and restore her safely to home and love. "1 would give my life for 11e'!" he said to himself, as be had said mann' tines on this perilous ,journey, and he knew that he must wait no longer. Something must to done, and Vane, quickly. Tie stooped gently and took Vivian's hands from before her pale, anguished face. "Look at me—listen tc‘ me," he ,,aid n n yoiee of deep emotion, "I aq.going to climb up to the balloon inns_. Vane. and tea' n hole in the ogee silk with Inv tla0th. 'Flier is no other way—none! Yes" -1)t her cry' of fen r—it is peril- ous; but it is our one risk. If I sucee1, the ens will be forced free the lnllonn and we will descend to earth in n little while if 1 fail—but I will not fail!" lie set his lips firmly an instant, then they quivered as if in paint, and he lift- ed the little hands he held and pressed his lips tende•10 upon }titin. "God bels you, God help von, .pretty Vivian!" he said, tenderly; then turned from her CHAPTER XXIII From the long trance of deep mneme sciotts11ess that had fallen upon Vivian on witnessing the awful fate of the de- voted Colonel Fairlie, she awoke to the reality of 00 event near at hand that thrilled' her with fear and dismay—o0 event that even when attended by all the usual surroundings of honur•love and care, mal tenderest Sympathy can be nothing less than painful and fear - inspiring, llow 11111(11 more so now to the tortured young wife who, all alone in Iter frail sky -bark, with no tender 11011(1 to tripe the dew of suffering from her frail brow or to clasp the writhing fin - ;';ors in offeetion's'fond clasp, 0005 .10011• el to an boor of •sickening pain, while the hot sun of all unclouded August day bent fiereely upon her and the irregular stymying movements of the now slowly deseeuding balloon added to her misery and discomfort, At lost, at last, long ere the noonday scot sailed high in the blue leavens, in the strange stillness of this upper world there came to Vivian's hear- ing, dulled by pato and 0011'000, 0 feeble avail—the premature cry of her child. Could anything have added to the des- pair and 'discomfort of the young wife's position, it must have been this, and her heart sunk with a bitter pain 04 she realized more fully than ever the horror of her situation. They must surely die- she and her little one—and the balloon, descending et last into some wide lake or tushing river, they would be ingulfed beneath the waters, and Paul would never know their dreadful fate, Colonel Fairlie, too—that noble heart had per- ished in the effort to save her, tier sobs burst forth as she thought of the hand- some form and face crushed and mangled out of all recognition by the terrible fall through space. Oh, why hal she ever ventured upon this perilous trip? Paul had not really wished her to go. She realized that now, recalling his looks and ;voids last night. That instinct of motherhood divinely implanted in every wow:w's breast gave Vivian tine power to care for herself and her little girl. She wrapped the tiny little body in the 1011fte embroidered scarf' site had worn about her shoulders, and laid the wailing little our close to her breast.t.lt fell presently into n. soft slumber; and Vivian, too, 10y weak and passive, lulled by the rocking motion of the great balloon, which now, almost empty of the gas which had been escap- ing ever since Colonel Fairlie hall turn the smallrent with Itis teeth, was rapidly hearing the green earth again. Ilal a hoose, discordant civ; ; the soar dow of huge, black, hovering wings; Ow glitter of fierce, golden ! eyes, aid the darting forward of a cruet beak. The eagle that hail attacked Fairlie in 'the early dawn, and whieh had followed the balloon at a distance all this while, had returned, intent upon prey, Vivian's violet eyes, dark and heavy with the stupor of pain, opened slowly at that awful cry and saw the huge bird hovering close above the car. A cry of agony horst from her pallid lips, upd, terribly weak and ill ,as she was, tie di- vine inatiuct of mother -love gave her strength to;sprulg to her feet with out- stretched arms—to wia'e the. eagle array. Perhaps she might have su0ceded, but the balloon at that instant gat such u violent lurch that she *as thrown back. ward and outside the balloon eau', af' fording the fierce bird au opportunity to swoop wait extended beak and talons upon the helpless little hnm1tlt eeature that had slipped from Vivian's .moveless arms. An instant our', and with a scream of triumph the eagle soared loco the air, while the balooy lightened 01 the weight • of Vivian, spasmodically mounted higher and higher, and pert) cps travelled half a mile further before it utterly la t 1 collapsed Ise( and found a g t t rave 3 1 in she t ehinilrg waters of the majestic J.uu- as it rolled 01(111 to 'the sea. Fortunately for Vivian, ler fall to 'nuc earth had been a short mac, will the svtt, grassy carpet of ferns and wild flowers broke the severity of the shock so mueeh that It was more from terror uta de- spair th,n physical pain that she lay so long unconscious on the sloping hill -side, tvitlo the tall pine trees keeping solemn guard above her silentform mad wilt Poing weirdly.overherd; for Vivian had 0111011 into 0 little county glove -yard, and the very atmosphere was full •:f a st'rang'e, subdued melancholy, mike t w itfi acre, "Tie dead slept all around me -ft 1• n; s1) calm and still, I hemi the long grass rustle on t1e graves upon the loll, As thoigli some: sleeper's wild heart stir t(11 trod throbbed beech 111' nihil, With something of the hopes and fears th,t stirred that heart of old," ITh ooe continued,) Tits Effect of Wealth. "We used to think she was n lazy girl.' "Yes; that 0000 wher he ;vas poor " "How about it now'?" 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Sir Robert Burt, British Inspector - General of Maritime Customs in China, 11,10 just returned. to Englund, after spending 59 years in tate great country of the little yellow scan. At the time of the Boxer trouble Sir Robert wrote: "In fifty years' time there will be 1111i - 11011S of Boxers fn serried ranks and war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government; there irk not the slightest doubt of that." Interviewed on the subject of the yel- low peril on his arrival home, Sir Rob- ert said: "1 am a great believer hi China's fu - tare. Chinn is a very big country, and it has (wey'ting it needs within its own ring fence. The Chinese are 0 most in- dustrious, intelligent, lawerbehng, and , easily.governed people, and, individually, they respond with wonderful reciprocity to reasonableness. The world can. thee - fore, form its own opinion as to ;what 900 millions of people nay do, once they are organized after European ideas. 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