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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1910-09-15, Page 7i 14044400,44.0.0.0.42-01,4•4 sm. "And the unforgettiing carabii ierl?" "Oh, I must take my chance," with the air of a fatalist. "What shall you do?" "I have my two hands, signor, Br' :sides, the signor has said it -i am rich." Giovanni permitted n smile to 'stir his thin lips, "Yes, I must go back, Your people have been good to me and have legally made me one of them, but my heart Is never here. It is always so colcl,'and every one clove. 'so quickly. You cannot lie down In the sun, Your police, bah; They beat you on the feet. You remember when 'I fell asleep on the steps of the cathe- rdral? They thought 1 was drunk and would have arrested me!" "Everybody trust keep moving here. It is the penalty of being rich." "And I am lonesome for toy kind, 1 'have nothing in common with these 'herds of Sicilians and Neapolitans who Deur into the streets from the wharfs." Giovanni spoke scornfully. "Yet in wartime the Neapolitans sheltered your pope." "Vanity! They wished to make an Impression on the rest of the world. It is dull here besides. There is no (joy in the shops. I am lost in these great palaces. The festa is lacking, Nobody bargains; nobody sees the pro- prietor. You find your way to the streets alone. The butcher says that his treat is so and so, andyou pay. The grocer marks his tins such and such, and you do not question, and the baker says that, and you pay, pay, pay! ' What? I need a collar; it is ;quindici-fifteen you say! I offer meat tordfci. I would give interest to the sale. But, no! The collar goes back into the box. I pay qui)idiet or I go without, It is the same everywhere - very dull, dead, lifeless." Hillard was moved to laughter. He 'very well understood the old man's lament. In Italy if there is one thing more than another that pleases the na- tive it is to make believe to himself fthat he has got the better of a bar- gain. A shrewd purchase enlivens the whole day. It is talked about, laughed over and becomes the history of the .day. Hillard presently Left the house and ;hailed a I+ifth avenue omnibus. He looked with negative interest at the :advertisements, at the people in the ,streets, at his fellow travelers. One of these was hidden behind • his morning ,paper. Personals! Hillard squirmed a little. The world never holds very much romance in the sober morning. ',What a stupid piece of folly! The ddea of his sending that personal in- .quiry to the paper! Tomorrow he would see it sandwiched in between e,„,;samples of shopgirl romance, ques- tienable intrigues and divers search :warrants. Ye gods! "Will the blond ,who smiled at gentleman In blue serge, .•elevated train, Tuesday, meet sante in park? Object, matrimony.” Hillard .fidgeted. "Young man known as Ado- nis would adore stout elderly lady in- dependently situated. Object, matri. moray." Pistil "Girlie, Can't keep ap- £ilointnneut tonight. Willie." Tush! "A French widow of eighteen, unincum- Aered," and so forth and so on, Rot, billy rot, and here he was on the way to join them! "Will the lady who sang -from 'Mme. Angot' communicate with ,gentleman who leaned out of the Window? J. H., Burgomaster Club." 'esitively asinine! There Was scarce one chance in a thousand of the mysterious singer's •seeing the inquiry, not one in ten thou- sand of her answering it. And the folly of giving his club address! That would look very dignified in yonder agony column. He would cancel the thing. He dropped from the omnibus at the park entrance, where he found his restive mare. $'e gave her a lump of sugar and climbed into the saddle. He directedthe groom to return for the hotse itt 10 O'clock, then headed for the bridle path. It was heavy, but the tilt was so keen and bracing that neither the man nor the hotse worried about ;the going. Only one party attracted ,flim, a riding Master and it trio of 'brokers who were verging on embon- ,point and Were desperate and looked At. Hillard went on. The park wax 'hlot 1tive)'; the trees were barren, the :grass yellow an sodden. d so en 9 "She is so innoeen youthful!" t, soy uWfuil - He found bimseli humming the re. !'train over And over. She had Ming if ;pith abandon, tetiderneda, lightness•. WO elle glimpse of her Wei He took the rise and dip that follti'lred. fardlr ktheaad a solita r J woman cantered east, ,ly along, Hillard had not been her be. ito>te. Ere spurred forwiird, faintly tele rioO. There Wee nothrnk tamWWWnr IA 4 " Liiure the ask By HAROLD MAC GRATH r � Copyright. 1908. by the 13obbs- Merrill Co. '•'..•«4NOltN4000080444 his eye In her charming figure. She rode well. As he drew nearer he saw that she wore a heavy gray veil. And this veil hid everything but the single flash of a pair of eyes the color of which defied him. Then he Looked at her mount. Hai There was only one rangy black with a white throat -from the Sandford stables, he was positive, But the Sandfords were at title mo- ment in Cairo, so it signified nothing. There is always some one ready to ex- ercise sercise your horses. He Iooked again at the rider. The flash of the eyes was not repeated, so his interest vanished, and he urged the mare into a sharp run. So he went back to his tentative re - mance. She had passed, his window and disappeared into the fog, and there was a reasonable doubt of her ever returning from it. The singer In the fog --thus he would write it down in his book of memories and sensibly, turn the page. At length he came back to the entrance and surrendered Tits r; V LN it•l'a.11 'rt►1 FF.PTE.;1 •. ;at ii �r'xu always be tweoty'six; lie .would al- ways be youlhfel. "And this Kitty Killigrew? I be- lieve I've seen hostel's of her in the windows uuw that you speak of it." "Weil, Jack, I've got it had this trip. I offered to marry her last night and was refused, "it seems to me that your Kitty is net half bad, What would you have done had she accepted you'." "Married her within twenty-four hours." "Come, Dan; be sensible. You are not such an ass as all that." "Yes, I am," moodily. "X told you that I was a jackass half the time, This Is the half," "Bet she won't;, have you?'+ "Not for love er money." "Are you sure about the money?," asked Hillard shrewdly. "Seven hundred or seven thousand, It wouldn't matter to Kitty if she made up her Arvind to marry a fellow. What's the matter with me anyhow? I'm not so badly set Up. I can whip any man in the elub at my weight, I can tell a story oe Well, and I'm not afraid of any- �." "Not even of the futurel" added Hil- lard, "Do .you >:eaily think it's my mon- ey?" pathetically. "Well, seven thousand doesn't go far, and that's all you have, If it were seventy, now, I'm sure Kitty wouldn't reconsider. What's she like?" asked Hillard, with more sympathy than curiosity. Merrikew drew out his watch and opened the case. It was a pretty face. More than that, it was a refined pretti- ness. The eyes were merry; the brow }gas intelligent; the nose and chin were good. Altogether It was the face of a merry, kindly little soul, one such as would be most likely to trap the Wandering fancy of a young man like Al errtbew. "And she won't have you?' Hillard repeated, this time with more curiosity than sympathy. "Oh, she's no fool, I suppose. And now she's going to Europe! Some manager has the idea in his head that there is money to be made in Italy and Germany during the spring and summer. American comic opera in those countries -can you Imagine it? lie has an angel, and 1 suppose money is no object." "This angel, then, has cut out a fine time for his bank account, and be'll never get back to heaven once he gets tangled up in foreign red tape. Every large city in Italrrce y and Germany has praeticali,v its own opera troupe. Poor The flash of a pair of eyes. the mare. He was about to cross the square when he was hailed. Hillard wheeled. and saw Merrihew. He, too, was in riding breeches. "Why, Dan, glad to see you. Were you in the park?" "Riverside. Beastly cold too. Come' join me in a cup of good coffee." The two entered the cafe. "Hew are you behaving yourself these days?" asked Merrihew. "My habits are always exemplary,". answered Hillard. "But yours?" Merrihew gulped his coffee. "Kitty Killigrew leaves in twe weeks for Europe." "And who the deuce is Kitty, t iilt. grew?" demanded Hillard. "What!" reproachfully. "You haven't heard of Bitty Killigrew in 'The Mod.' ern Maid?' Where have you been?, Pippin! Prettiest soubrette that's hit, the town in a dog's age." "I say, Dan, don't you ever tire of that sort? I can't recall when there, wasn't a Kitty Iiilllgrew. What's the attraction?" Hillard waved aside the big black cigar. "What's the attrac-, tion?" '"rtie trot is, Jack, I'm a jackase! hal! the time. I can't get away from the glamour of the footlights. I'm nu Johnny, You know that. No banging around stage entrances and buying wine and diamonds. I might be reck- less enough to buy a bunch of roses when I'ii not broke. But I like 'ein-- the bright ones. They keep a fellow amused. Most of 'em speak good En lish and cothe from better families than you would suppose. Just good fellowship, you know. Maybe a rab- bit and a bottle of beer after the per- formance or a little quarter limit at the apartment, singing and good sto- ries. What you've in mind is the chorus lady. Net for mine!" Hillard laughed, recalling his conver- sation with the polleemat. "Go On," he said. "Get ft all out of your system now that you're started? "And then it tickles a fellow's vani- ty to be seen with them at the restau- rants. '.ChatsW he a Ite ou tb y begins, know. I'll be perfectly frank with you. 12 it wasn't for what the other fellows say most of the chorus ladies would go hungry. And the girls that you and I know think I'm a devil of a fellow--elvicked, but interesting, and all that." Hilt&ihcl"a lsughtet broke forth again, and he leaned back. Merrihew would "1 long to get nip hands around her throat!" angel Tell your Kitty to strike for a return ticket to America before she leaves." "You think it's as bad as that?" "Look on me as a prophet of evil, 12 you like, but truthful." "I'll see that Kitty gets her ticket-" Merrihew snapped the case of his watch and drew his legs from under tbe table. "I lost a hundred last night too." "After that I suppose nothing worse can happen," said Hillard cheerily. Lost Five Children With DIARRHOEA Saved the Sixth One With DR. FOWLER'S Extract of Wild Strawberry. Mrs. Sohn Firth, Craighurst, Ont., writes:—"I have had six children and. lost them alt but one., When young ac;' would get Diarrhoea and nothing n•oubd stop it. As I lived in a 1 ae'.n' and p:are, I ei.1 net know of Dr. I'o.'; cr's Ex. r.et ( F Wild Strawberry. I saved my last el•ihl, who is !le - eight '••eight years old, tut 1 ov'e it to . , . Fowler's Extract of Wild Had T kno:,.n a"c'it• it `c"„'c 1 ;esti: 1 would have t=1 : ct t'r c,'' ci::, I , forever praise . ,, 1 it alit • il: r,, t'; be w th:Aft it 'lr; i' 1,” "1'.r. Vo -.11:1‘"." t.. " tlfet for ,)':(�." ^.:' C,.;° n)a a "world 1 :('.C'' telht:at:an :Ji '1k"„ it Bowel COm; laiats, Do not be i': •rite, lir: n hi• d 'sit scrupulous dealer t •ho stitute the se-r:;ll^r1 lain' ct'1 Ce•-• pounds for " t)i•. i(, • ;•7t's " f i•;> i� cents. ,;r,t:ufr eitc:'. o t I:• 'l (' 7,iiil.urn moo, iyia.:tcd,'iot:,hto. Ott. - KP • 'nt. .• "You wlil play,, for all My advice." "It's better to give than reeelvl-- that," replied Merrihew phiiosopbieal. ly, "I'ae a goon nilnd to follow the company. _ to met y. I've always bad a banker, Mg to beat it up at Monte Carlo. A fast tbrow, eh? Win or lose and quit. 1 might win." "And then again you mightn't, But. then next time i go to Italy 1 want you to go with me. You're good, compaay, and for the pletlsere of listening to. your jokes. I'll gladly foot the bills, and You mnv gemhle sour letter of credit to your heart's content, 1 must be oft. 'Who Is riding the Sandfords' blank?" "Haven't noticed. What do you, think of Kitty?" "Charming." "And the photo isn't a marker." "Possibly not," "Lord, if 1 could only hibernate for three months like a bear! My capital might then readjust itself if left alone that length of time." you at the club tonight," latish- ('fa#'d• 'lliey nodded pleasantly and took their separate ways, Merrihew stood very high in $illard's regard. He was a lovable fellow, and there was some- thing kindred in bis soul and Hillard's, possibly the spirit of romance. What drew them together perhaps more than anything else was their mutual love of outdoor pleasures. Take two men and' put them on good horses, send them forth into the wilds to face all inconveniences, and if they are not fast friends at the end of the journey they never will be, For all his aversion to cards there was a bit of the gamester in Hillard, els once in his office he decided on the fall of a coin not to withdraw his per- sonal from the paper. He was quite positive that.he would never hear that voice again; but, having thrown his dice, he would let them lie. Now, at I1 o'clock that same morn• ing two distinguished Italians sat down to breakfast in one of the fash- ionable hotels. The one nor the other had ever beard of Hillard. They did not even know that such a person ex- isted, sisted, and yet serenely unconscious one was casting his life line, as the palmist would say, across Hillard's. The knots and tangles were to come later. "The coffee in this country is abom- innblei" growled one. The waiter smiled covertly behind his hand." These Italians and these Germans! Why, there Is only one place in the world where both the aro- ma and the flavor of coffee are pre- served, and it is not, decidedly not, in Italy or Germany, And if his tip ex- ceeded 10 ceots he would be vastly surprised. The Italian never wastes on necessities a penny which can be applied to the gaining tables. And these two were talking about Monte' Carlo and Ostend. The younger ok,the two was a very handsome man, tall, slender and nerv- ous, the Venetian type, his black eyes, keen and roving, suggesting a hasty temper. The mouth, partly hidden un- der a graceful military mustache, was thin lipped, the mouth of a man who was always master of his vices. From his right cheek bone to the corner of his mouth ran a scar, very well heal- ed. And the American imagination might readily have pictured villas, maids in durance vile and sword thrusts under the mooniight. But the waiter, who had served his time in a foreign army, knew no • foil or rapier could have made such a scar; more probably the saber. His companion was equailt pictur- esque. With white head and iron gray beard, he wore in his buttonhole a tiny bow of ribbon, the badge of foreign service. "I'm afraid, Enrico, that you have brought me to America on a useless adventure," said the diplomat, "She is here in New York, and I shall find her. I must have money -- must! 1 owe you the incredible amount of 100,000 lire. There are millions un- der my hand, and I cannot touch a penny." "Do not let your debt to me worry you." "You aro so very good, Giuseppe!" "Have we not grown up together? Sometimes I think I am partly to blame for your extravagance. But a friend is a friend or he is not." "But he who borrows from bis friend loses him, Observe how I am placed. It is mnddening. I have had a dozen opportunities to marry riches. This millstone is eternally round my neck. I have gone through my part of the fortune which was left us Independ- ently. She has ell of hers, and that is why she le so strong. I am absolutely helpless." "Poor friend! These American 'axe men! They alt believe that a man must have no peccadillos once be has signed the marriage contract Body of Bacchus! The sacrament does net make a man less human than he was before. But this ono is clever. She might be Italian born." "Her mother was Italian. It is the schooling in this country that lids made her so clever. The only thing Italian about her is her hatted. She is my countrywoman there. Without her consent I Can touch nothing, and it I divorce her--pouffl--all goes to the state. Sometimes I long to get my' two bands round her White throat. One mistake, one little mistake! I am will- ing to swear that she toted me In the beginning, And I was a fool not to profit. by this sentiment. (lire ale pa- n ifr• . i 1 pa- tience, x t .ace t saytohet,'� 1 .o iniich and yen may have yetis freedom. here is always that cursed wits. The eroa'n ref Italy will never tvlthdrety its bawl, No 1VIth bis w'ire`s family en hie Mends, especially lel brother. the king will rt triv t ills t •h s." 1}- i ".\ »411, remember, we have but ten ttnr'(11''.7%:e'..itt' vial" not find time hears*. 1 knee 11 lett etch lath:here alai grocers Who call themselves the aristocracy. And some of them pay bridge and ecarte. " The ediplo diplonint smiledanticipation. "1 have,followed her step by step to the bent at Naples, She is here. She will not be bard to find. She bas wealthy friends," "You say she is beautiful?" "Yes. and a beautiful woman cannot. hide. Think of it! Chateaux' and vii. las and splendid rents, all welting to be gormmnlred by the state! Let us get opt into the air before 1 become excited. and fergct where 1 am." 'The waltet stepped forward. with the coats and hhts, CFIAPTER III, NNE. A11ig0T, FIREE tights later, as Hillard and Aier1'ihew were dining to- gether at the club, the stew- ard came into the grill loom and swept his placid eye over the groups of divers. Singling out FM - lard, be came solemnly down to the oreer table and laid a blue letter at the side of Hillard's plate. "I did not see you when you came In, sir," sald the steward, his voice as 1)olemn as his step. "'the letter ar- rived yesterday." "Thank you, Tbotuas." With no small difficulty IIillard composed his face and repressed the eagerness in his. eyes. She had seen; she had written; the letter lay under his hand! Who said that romance had taken flight? True, the reading of the letter might disillusion him, but always would there be that vision and the voice com- ing out of the fog. Nonchalantly he limimimpromammagammummommummommulmoui 1111111,11111110110111111MMIIPUIIapioninnio UImumjrtyu ) • (0 a 111111y,m,rd,�•�nn p• ..m,no w•,i .AVegetable I'reparationfgrAs- siwilating illeFaadandRegula- ting the S tWR&Ctls andBoweis of Promotes Digestion,Chesrful- tress andRest,Contains neither Oplunt,Morphine nor Mineral; NOT NAB coriC. Rowie et Ord Lp.m5:11Tc2lI'IT ? ' jlanpl,•in J'iccd - AA:Senna AinGlie !Wes Meuse Seed • Itrpeirrrint - ,m atel'runa4J'a vo 1Yaw;!'ced- ('�,ttltrrd Jicgar 4(4/'4TIz 7 Aperfect remedy for Constipa- tion, Sour Stoniaeh,Diarrhoea, Worms ,Ccinvulsions,Feveri sh- ness and Loss OF SLEEP. • TacSiniiie Signature of NEW YORK. CASTO 11 IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Airways Bought Bears the Signature of s In Use For Over Thirty Years EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. 0.000 BAINSAMINIMI • IA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. 1 Re sat there staring. turned the letter face downward and went on with the meal. "I did not know that your mail came to the club," said Merrihew. "It doesn't. Only rarely a letter drifts this way." "Well, go on and read it. Don't let me keep you from it. Some charmer, I'll wager. Here I pour all my adven- tures Into your ear, and I on my side never so much as get a hint of yours. Go on. read it." "Adventures, fiddlesticks! The letter can wait. It is probably a bill." "A bill in a fashionable envelope like that?" Millard only smiled, tipped the cra- dle and refilled Merrihew's glass with some excellent Romanee Conti. !'When does Kitty sail?" he asked after awhile of silence. "A week from this Saturday, Feb. 2. What the deuce did you bring up that for? I've been trying to forget it." "Where do they land?" "Naples. They open in Rome the first week in March. All the arrange- ments are complete." After coffee Merrihew pushed back his chair. "I'll reserve a table in the billiard room white you read your letter." "I'll be with you shortly," grate- fully. So with the inevitable black cigar between his teeth Merrihew sauntered off toward the billiard room, while Hillard picked up his letter and studied it. His fingers trembled slight- ly as he tore open the envelope. The handwriting, the paper, the modest size, All these pointed to a woman of culture and refinement. But a subtle spirit of irony pervaded ft alt. She would never have answered bis print- ed inquiry bad she not laughed "over it, for pinned to the top of the letter was the clipping, the stupid, banal clipping: "Will the lady who sang from 'Mine. Angot' communicate, with gentleman who leaned out of tbe win- dow? J. H., Burgomaster club." There was neither a fennel beginning nor a formal ending, only four crisp lines. 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