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The Wingham Times, 1902-07-31, Page 7=Mar Parted by at 0000000000000000fe # By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY Author of "Parted at the Altar," "Lovely Maiden," Florabel's Lover," Ione," Etc., Etc. ''''''''\--eeseeee•Qe'eeeeie;ese5p...e.eicee6eele'eseee t 10 kk"'W.0"*Wir %* • -With -Whihe. eel film. Velem. gilded te the safe cute inserted the key, The door es-ene batik on its hinges With a loud, eminoue creak. leldene sprneg from her Ililetes before the safe and tureed to the couch. Mrs. Chester moved uneasily on her pillow but the sound tud not wake her, one .egain Idene knelt trembling before he ,safee In a crimson velvet jewel case O. the eget hte, the eperkeing Chester 'mends, end on the left a packet of •papers, and beyoud them severe' lettere Quickly abstracting the two letters -she rowel in Mark l•iertell'S NFP11.1:11Dlrl* chirography, ehe thrust them Itnetile leer pocket-. closed the sore hurriedly and -softly, awl turned quickly toward ti" icouch to replace the key -turned. rud found herself face to face with Nanoe. Mrs. Chester's mid. In moments of the most thrilling clang ,er, hardened criminals display the iii eat heroic coolness and ester:Tv. thlene :Sefton end counted tile est, and Led planned what she should do in a cage of emergency„ should she be (Th400)1461 In her attempt to gain vossession of that all-impottant letter, Quick as thought she executee bet clever plan. She gitve IL lUtie suppreesel !scream, gazing around her withwell. simulated surprise. "Oh, where am I?" she cried, in pre- tended bewilderment, anti elnsping het -white beetle. . "Oh, I ma in somebody's Seem. I -I may you will forgive isth lely old habit et yleep-walking must have come over Ine.egnite" Cleverly vs chime lied carried out her idaring idea, she lind net sueeeded in de. •Ceirlue the lercinelt inn Id. "I ye Impel of people wanting about in their sham !nary a time be I' 'o,•' Wa- vered Nation,. significantly, "but I have never heard of a somnambulist defile what you tried to do to -night." "Why, what did I try to dor i•old 'Chime in pretended wander; but be neath her cool Inmvade she wits terribly ,excitee. "You were trying to open Mrs. Ches 'tot's sere," deelnred Xenon, bravely. "Yon Impudent event In bow d rc ,you.intimat.e !melt a thing?" gasped El stone, fairly evid with rnge. "It is true," whispered the girl stolidly. "Do you know you for tanking what I could do with suelt a false etateenott?' lvhispered thlellp, gilding up el. se to leer -so near th at her hot breath scorch- ed the girl's clueile "No matter would standwhat you could dm I ' my ground. and let tht whole stede world know what yoo have 'tried to do," (Ml could any etered the girl. elegantly eit was yee who atteinis; tcalepen that safe testight. and my sudden eatrimee prevented you from :lei --complishing it. word against Who weeld believe youtt mine? The coesequeect would, be instant disellarge. nud it wt be hard for you to gain hi anther Sitlati.O with a cloud li name." ke that restiug on your There are women that possess the .deadly maguetie fascination of a .sine -pent, and Vidime was tale of them. She held the girl spell -bound under cool. keen, steady eye& "On the other hand," enirtineed eantiously," keep my pitiful It'thit nf sleep -walking a secret-tt dead seer('( be- tween you and. me -and I will reward you handsomely for it. Do you come it?" As she spoke she slipped a glittering , ring from her finger, placing it in the ,girl's rough. toil-haedened hand. "Will you take this and promise Inc this shall be a dead secret between you and me?" she asked, keenly watching the girl's face. The rite; had been a present from Mrs. Chester to Elden° at Christmas. She had ato idea of its great value. „ There are. few maids that can with- stand a persuasive atgument of that kind. ' Dearly as the girl loved her mistress, the glittering bauble overcame her scruples. "No one shal lever know. I promise ,you, 'Miss Ildene," she answered, slowly. "Thank- you," replied the beautiful, ,guilty Culprit, gliding from the room. Gaining her own apartment. after tak- mg 1)8111ml:ir eare to secure the dome Uldeue pantingly sank into the nearest .seat, drawing the letter front her in cket. ,Slowly the clock on the mantel sum* the hour of one -then two. Still Elden° Sefton sat with the fatal letter in her hands. 'Word by word for tim twelfth time she had slowly read and re -read Mark Sefton's strange revelation (colt- cerning herself) to ,Mre.,Chester. At last Severe Pains in Left Kidney Mr. Ellis Gallant, Paquetville, Glouces- ter Co., 11.B., writes: "I feel it my .duty to write you, as I have received much benefit from the use of De. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. I was taken three years ago with a pain just below tfie ribs of the left :side, and right over the kidney. At first it did not cause me much suffering. but a year ago the pain, at times, was very severe. "After hearing repeatedly Of the value of Dr, Chase's Itidney.Liver 'Pills, I de- cided to make a trial, and after using two ' boxes the pain hacicompletely disappeared and / am well, thanks to this remedy. I have also used Dr. Chase's Ointment, and found It worth its weight in gold. You May .publish this letter if yeti like, oft May Indtese some other sufferer to profit by my experience' You cannot possibly make a mistake in using Dr. Chases Eichiey-Liver Pine for derangements of the kidneys, liver and bowels. It has proven itself worthy of the meet hearty endorsement of thous- ands of people. One pill a dose, es cads a box, at all dealers, or Edinansort, Bates &CO., Toronto. Dr. Chase's Kidneptiver Pills site or nor imeory 'ease: eves known to the teeftons-keew that t111 honeet, breezed light -house keeper was netlier father, and that the golden- . . girl who had won leutledg: t Mr front her was not her sister. She read, too, with a'white, awful face, ef the terrible secret her young mother had struggled so hard to tell, concerebig the little babe Fee eras fated to leave with the hottest light -house keeper's euef and a horrible fear ran through leldene's heart as she read the awful *wartime those dying lips hind uttered. "This babe must never love for she must never marry." "What curse is it that rests over ner bead like a drawn sword?" she cried. out, sharply, ne site crushed the letter in her aleatlecold hands, "Ant I to live wet -teat love all my life through? I etn• not -I will not believe. it! Though it ehould be me etermil doom, I will wed Rutledge Chester if I can win him, to:' I love him bettor than my own life -bet ter than WY own sent. Aye, though angels or devils warned me. I should lie aumf to their warnings. I would defy tate itself to become his bride." CHAPTER XI. A GREAT ereitrinsee Rutledge Chester's determination to go aln•ond was it serious blow to ids mother; but her grief wag slightly assuaged by his monde° that he would reninia with bee a least a month longer. That was it month never to be for- gotten by 'Chlorite for it sesta out Irian her life like a bright star long after the fitrure yearswere clouded over with the deepest gloom. With every day that dawned, with every sun that rose nee sot, Teldene's love for handsome nut- some face of Rutledge Chester as the ledge Chester deepened. The world wets impassioned lover. There was.something nothing to her; she became absorbed in almost sublime in the aderimelleve that this one passion; it was her life, her ell. There are some to whom the fatal gift of a great love is given. They are the happiest, even as they are the most miserable. They reatth the highest bliss THE ,WENGITAM TBFES. #1.1117 th 19112,. IC Wee. wrIll't*.,;. AVM- to tier, brie, tailed lceia1f with theme that 1 were 1'011 to her. A wild, longing Wieh Oahe to her that the relwarsala Might go on forever. They seent:d it part of leer es:stony. 'ruder the able supe,eu- tcritlenee of these Who had taken, the ere fair in hand, the drawleg-rooms were • rest cieseiviee ateeeged fu thy tele - The Leer and wet divided from the large room by a long, .sweeteng curtain of rise crimson silk; a very neat stage end been erecteil: and in the large room the chairs for the guests were arranged in -a &de, Sof u eller eight the roll of earring 'a. began, and burden after burden was deposited at the Cesester "Centaties and tableaux at Mete" So read the dainty satin pregtane at tone' When the silver :,-clock rang (int Ii musical chimes the hour of eine, he • eghts in the room were subdued, there WAS A Sort :Mind ar 0114 the rose - (veered, silk curtain was drawn up oe (1.1;11110)4. the prettiest tableaux ever O- ft° was a scene erten "The d'alieret Dattehter"-a scene where a WIWI (Wachter, who had fallen in love w.th handsome prisoner, steals the key fro.n lament's Ler stern old fethees pillow, sed throws open the door of her lover's prieou acid sets him free. The next was it scene front "Cupid et echoer -a merry, euneoving romp at boarding -school, who had fallen- in love with the young French dancine-maseir, and who Was detected at midnight being let (losses front the dormitory window la a delete., basket by her setwobnates to keep her tryst with her impatient lover. The anger depicted upon the grins face of the virago of a principal, who had Nene unexpectedly upon the scene. brougth warm appleuse and shouts of 13'illighittitnmat the tinkling of the silver the lights were turned low again. This was to be the last tableau out the hit of the evening. The softeet and sad 'at strains of music floated. through the room. There was it hush, tend as the silken omegu. went up ngain, it murmur of admiration and .surprise• rang through the drawing -mile The tableaux was the parting of the lovers by the sea -shore. The white waves seemed to dimp'e and sparkle in the moonlight which fell mem the faces of the two lovers clasped for the last time in each other's arms, It was little wonder people held their breath as they gazed upon the baud' lighted up his dark, grave, kingly face. Its he bent over his love. . "If this was noting, what leonld the reality be!" they asked themselves. But as they gazed upon the face of the that lite offers, andthey know the most girl he held clasped in his arms, their bitter of its mina. • wonder grew. • It eatipens. so often that a greet love lien Icing, dark curling hair fell around her lover face. like a black veil, Was It fancy, or did the wondrous face of tildene Sefton really whiten under the,r gaze, find her lips grow ashen pale. Was it love or terror that show in the dark, upraised eyes? The scene heldthevast audience spell- bound, and frightened them as they gaged until the silken curtail) shut out the scene from theirisight . And at that Instant quite a scene was transpiring back of the curtain. In stepping .back from the narrow, 'platform which had served as a stage, one of the planks beneath the Brus- sels rug gave way, and Rutledge was precipitated to the floor belowe-a dis- tance et ten feet • or more -his head as lavished ni me; It was so in Lldene case. itendsome Rutledge Chester, Who had given all the love of his heart to beautiful, golden -haired Voile, never knew, never dreamed, of this grow -hug attachment that was springing up tu thlene's heart for him. He must have been blind that he did not read the story those wondrous dark eyes, half hidden by their curling lashes, told him; that he did not netlee, if by areldent his hand touched against hers, how her little hand trembled, how her cheeks flushed, end paled at the soand of his voice, and her heart beat at the eon" of his eieweechieg footstee. There was something pitiful in her great love for lnin. striking one of the pillars that supported Were the senntor and his wife blind, the groined roof as he fell. too, that they did not notice the girl's A wild cry burst front theme's white wild, idolatrous love for their leuelsolve son? Ah! so it seemed, or they would have parted them at once. It would have been a deed of mercy. As for Rutledge Cheeter, he plunged recklessly in the mad whielpos-1 of social life, to forget, as far tts was in his lips. In an Instant she was kneeling be- side the bleeding, unconscious form. She raised his head tp her white arms, at- tempting to statmeh the blood that flow' ed from a, wound on his temple, with sobs and bitter cries pitiful to hear. • "Leave inewith him until the doe - power, the fatir-faceo girl whose losn tor end les mother coma," she whinier" • had made the world desolate for Lim. ed, motioning them all away. Ile turned for sympathy to Videne, and Silently they quitted the apartment, • in this way they were thrown into each elneime. the door aunty after. them: and other's society more thstn before. It happened Um& long before Verlie's departure cards had been sent out lot a grand ball, to be given by Mrs. Chester Tableaux were to be the main feature of the entertaimeeneand levee had rehears. ed with Rutledge to enaet that beautiful ,tragic love -poem, "The Parting of the Lovers." Rutledge would have given much tr have been able to resign his part. but those having the tableaux in charge would not hear of it. Uldene could take the absentee's place, they declared. tied so they settled it. There was no help for it, so Rutledge et:nattily ereshed out the throb of de- spair in his heart caused by the bitter- sweet memory of a fair Mee lost to him forever, and went on with the reheersal. These rehearsals but fed the flanse of hapless Uldene's love. They were as dangerous as an intoxicating draught, or it sweet. honeyed Dotson. 'rho Parting of the JAM'S' was one of the sweetest end saddest love poems: ever written. The scene which they were to enact, and from which the pomn took its noble, was sublime. It mire- sented it lovely, dark -eyed girl and her lover, who had met upon the sands at midnight to take it lase, tearful farewell of each other. A straegely •cruel fate parted them. A dying fist:hetess verse, if they two wedded, had Mtn thee' heerte asunder. The scene is sublime. . The whit etreteh of beach, and the dark, curling waters at their feet Deeded up by the tender, pitying •light of the moon; the two figures etandieg out against the dark background: the girl's beautiful White arms claspieg him, while the tragic sorrow on her lovely face, reveals but too eloquently that it is for the last time. The dread moment has come. Her lover must unclasp her arms. when -ah! how shell I picture it ?---he finds that the bright :voting life of his beentiful love ha tt gone out with the last, fervent caress, and, maddened with despeir, grief and horror, .the desperate, bout - broken levee clew; his darling eioeer in his arms. alai leaps far out into hte waves with kete anti they are never teen again. They would have been parted in life; but they have gone down into the dark abyss of death clasped heart to heart, It Was little 'wonder that these tee licarsels nearly betrayed the secret VI- 'dene would have died rather ,thatt re. veal. When she saw the expression of ear- nest, tattiest adoring love that Rutledge tried so hard to represent, a eeimsm, flush seemed to scorch her cheek and Mow. It woe addle. Ott his enrt, but BURDOCK LO BITTERS Is a purely vegetable System Renovator, Blood Purifier and Tonic. A medicine that acts directly at the same time on the Stomach, Liver, Bowels and Blood. 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I would give life fee yours, I would meet death to ease you our, ming." the cinema the necenselouis form s iii eleser in her white arms, .caretssine hi n wee piteous, ngony, aml mutiemeng broken words; of love over hen, l'esonselous, did I Say? It woe n :t quite that. • leer a few moments the force if the fail stunned mid bewthiered, ltutle lete Chester, action ar the cold water with which ITIclene bathed his :ace brought back his dazed senses et once. Ile Mt the clasp of the clinging a: his about him. The iiaS.aiolctte. Wa' I I ng. Imam- words; of love that were eobb out over him fell like e shock mem his stmtlee care, Sheer amazetent end. stem:neon chained els dazed semee, Should he open Isis eyes and falter; "Forgive. me, Indent.; I have mice's- eeleasly els:covered yoer love "or ea.?" It; would Ise worse than • eeam to -the girl's proml nature; the :heck. the cruel emberraitsment would prostrate bete Yet it was .ciltially Pllithittra.tsing to him to receive time esstwenees of ewe wild, idoet- teens love, with civesel eyes. the b - Heringbins to be unconscious. 3tutledge Chester Was a gentlentan mud it nein of Loner in the strictest sees> of the word; yet between ditty and de - new which way to I:et1111'11:17 1rt the s; retY ktl'it edoctor's -quick riot' stops relieved him in his strangely try- ing dilemma.. Tee usual restoratives were amil!,7. then he dared open his eyes. ttlat ne stood besitle him with A What'. Searal face. "Ole (lector, tell nir-is be btally hi -rt or not? I -I cannot boar suspense," he heard her pay, piteously, "Bully hurt? Oh. no. may dear," re- plied the doctor, cheerfully, "I am gad to say Mr. Chester has bad a tairacne ous map°. He has had a bad fall -n, slight scalp wound -and was statute, 1,, that's all: venture to say he will be all right in a day or so," Rutledge Chester looked lip ento her face, his own fleshing painfully. Bee heart smote him with a strange pity. The greet, earls velvety eyes that felt so quickly under his gaze were wet with tears., ' lesese„ Cteeeee • The itiag.e totteh of his band •setneed to 11111.erVe her. Quick as a .11aeh, else etuttelied it from els grasp gee sp Jug tete the veetelmie, lmt ere elm lubi tektite !Mother Step rOrWara she suddenly ewer tic end fro Mee a leaf in the -teeniest- tissue wind, mid would have fallen to the neer, if Rutledge bad not sprung ftewerd and quicely.eaught bier la Me Arias, "il'Idenel" he cried la alarm did not answer. She had sunk back in lila terms 14 it dead feint, inn:edge bare the slender form (Flee, Iy Ii, flme library, and rang the bell with , such a remanding' peal for the bongo- ! liteper that motherly Mrs. Pic ee wise "seirthe eleen out of her wits," 45 she, aftc zwads expressed it. • In 'n few words Itotied-e expla!ned wlutt had happened, "See that she is removed to her room at once, and give her your It tally at - Mitten)," Ice said, thouehtfully awl. gravel?. wonder that young master is so blind that he menet see the girl le nn' big away for love of eine" thought Mrs. Pierce, compassionately, as ADO Sal Othei akaek the long, lovely dark curbs that. • streyed over the pillow, and caressed the ,girl's little burning hands, 0Whe, any one can Stle Ole has not heelt the • same since Master Rutledge announced that he wets going abroad. But, then, men are proverbially An hour biter Eldeue had grown so • meets WOTS0 that a dectoe was sine monee in ell haste. Was it chalice, et - time strange complicate -in of fate most (suet e -the physienut (Idled in was pane; meter. Keith, the same physician who Ployed such a prominent part in one Of our .provious tempters. Drelesith looked greedy at the bong- tiful vationt letd been called to at- tend. -"She is suffering 'from nervous pros- tration, and an inteuse mental shock,' he said. "If it turns to brain fever be- tween this mid midnightesaving her will be something else than a miracle." Pierce carried down to This was the startIltinugstlealveole'3.1t. r in the library, and whia caused hint to send the following telegram flashing - southward over the wires to Mark Sefton: CHAPTER XII. THE FULFILMIENT OF A TtiltRIBL'E cumn. The secret he had discoveied in so strange a manner puzzled nue troubled Rutledge Chester not a little. He was amazed that any one should love him SG much -that It was of such vital importance tomny one whether he lived or died. His heart was touched; he was greatte perplexed. e If his henrt-hed not been glyee to an- other it inightehave turned thee to UI - dent'. Ile Alt se sorry for -her. 'He was thorough geetleman; and the ques- tion which agitated hen, was, What would he- tete.- •. es- • Ile admired 'Celeste exceedingly. he was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen; but admiration was one stmtiment, love quite another. He cam to the conclusion that the best course to pursue would be to go asvay at once. It would be kinder to Uleeti.eIlutu to stay, knowing her pitiful se In time she \voted learn to fel get him. She was only a romping, merry madeap of a school girl -it spoiled, indulged iclLeltWith absence she would be sure to forget this little romance, he assured h When he made known his determina- tion at the breakfast table, two days later, Mrs. Chester was 'greatly disturb- ed, and Melte grew Mee as death. , He was going-egoing away on the be- ginning of the following week. The words sounded like a deatleknell to hap. loss Ultimo. What should she do well her life after he went eway? The world would be so lonelyi, the brightness of ben life would be obscured in pitiful gloom. She arose and left the table, with a forced smile on her lips, and a steady step; but when the door of the breakfast room was closed between Rut- ledge Chester and herself the wildest sob that was ever heard •broke front hee lips, and she groped her way through the corridor like one ,striken blind. On the staieway he met Mrs. Chest- er's maid hurrying toward the breakfast. room with a telegram; but the matter did not intereet her -nothing interested her save that whieb. concerned Rutledge Chester. An hour litter Mrs. Chester came into her boudoir in a flutter of excitement. "I tun called away hurriedly by a telegram I have just received, Uldene," she said. "I shall be back Thursday at latest, Do you think you will mind staying here a day or so in charge of 'th'e sere:tete &are" she asked anxious-- 1Y. "Rutledge will be here you know, when be is not at his clul400m." "I ellen not mind," answered the girl. If Mrs, Cheetee had not been so fier-i tied and excited she would have netic&I how white rldeneet lovely face was, and how hopeless mei forlore wits het useal- ly gay, splightly manner. An hour later, the senator and his wife took their hurried departure. Mrs. Ca ,st- el.'s Met words, as she took her place beside her husband in the family consh, were: "I may have a startling surprise tor you when / return; still I must not be too sanguine." Thee the conch door closed with a beep, anti an instant later whirled out Of sight. "You will he eery lonely without mether the few days he will be gone," said Rutledge, thoughtfully, as he tam- ed to.Uldene, ."/ should suggest that you invite Aollle of your girl friends to pass the time with you." "No," replied tidene. eould not .mulare their elmetre and their laughter." she muttered below bet breath. "It would thrive me riled," Merle seemed to forget that she was standing on the celd Marble steps, with only the crimson ellk scarf wreptied loosely nronnd her dark, eerie head; but Itettledge remembered. "The carriage is tut of sight," Ile said, taking her cold little hand to lead her 'back. eteethe. iihrerse "Come Into the (To be continued) A Strait indite who joined the evens as, eallVas maim in that city, had a. lurid ex- peritau e of 24 hours, While in Wood- stockids fellow -employees "swiped" his o ewcout and his valise coutaiuing all his o trthlv belongings, and when the theft WAS reported he could receive no redress. Neither could the circus' manager give him his day's earnings, so the canvas man of 24 hours enmped the job. From the circus tents he drifted to the country and found employneeut with a farmer in East Oxford. 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Export of' Green Cheese Thu one great fault complained ot, in the quality of Canadian cheese en the other side has been its shipment in the immature condition; and for years past the "Trade Bulletin" has - repeatedly advised our 1!: aetorymen for (he sake of maintaining the good pres-e tige of their: cheese t* see that lit is properly cured 'before leaving the faetory it was only about four weeks ago that we drew attention to this matter; and a factoryman called at our dficc and explained to us yhet buyers were as much to blame es The makers, as the former he said fre- quently bought eheese at the factories beine well aware of itri green condi- tion end at the same time ordering t to be shipped immediately, In order to be in time for certain boats. There have no doubt been faults on 'both sides; but it is imperative that the ex- port of green' cheese ehould„be pun at stop to, in order to keep up the, high istandal d which our cheese has- been noted foe in the English market. The move made by Professor Robertson, a short time ago to have central curing rooms id the different cheese sections, is a move in the right direction. Soy- leral of thosa•turing rooms: are already' in, operation, and 'Vic hopes the lit shortie extend threugh the entire . country, as them can be little doubt that the greater proportion of air cheese factorie,e have not proper our- ine facilities. It is to be hoped that th"e shipment of green cheese whieht lute been gding on more or lee.si for -et number of years, past, will ,cease al- together, although it is to he feared (butt at times reeourse will be had to flue too early shipment of cheese from the factory due to the erixiety of reaeletng an d dvancing market, or "toe meet the urgent requirements of ehip- pets OD 'thts Aide or even importeeek its Great Britain.- Mentz -eel Trado • y An Aching Mack IS the first indication of Haney die - ease, and -.should be taken as a eignal of dimwit -a warning to use Dr, Chase* Xidney.tiver Pills while ;vet there is time to avoie the eireudful pains slid. metres fatality of this terrible disease There is no guess Work, no experiment- ing when yell USO this prescription, I. brings relief in a reenotkably 'Alert time, Stud bectmee of its •combined ,action on. liver and kidneys, ewes .complinatett easee which cannot It reached by tear ordinary teeetetellt.