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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1902-08-07, Page 7!'''‘'":=IZMAV411=774A=4.M4-= Parted byPate e000p000p00000000 "By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY Author of 'Parted at the Altar," "Lovely Maiden," If °Flofabel's Lover," "Ione," Etc., Etc, emu you come on at (Mee? Ulaisle :is very In Mrs, Chesterhi hurried and ante:- ,pected departure, she had quite forgo: - ten to mention her destination, one, therefore, at this critical hour tho could e not be recalled, eft The matter was all the more alarnt- ing when the young doctor called nue .:ledge Chester to Uldene's bedelde an .---hour Jitter, asking that Once doetors 'be called In for the purpose of can SUltatiOn, 4.X have done all in my power for her," he said, cempagsionatele. should 111.e • to have the opinions of other pbysicians as a last resort." 'Three sk HU, prominent phyeke n were summoned without delay. Each promptly concurred in the opielon of .young Dr. Keith, There was an acute mental trouble preying upon the heart of the lovely, hapless petient. Her estra nge symptoms baffled anti . puz :led them; skilful us they were. She Wilti -sinking—dying before their (yes; Emmet skill scented of little avail; all their ef- forts to arrest the scythe or. the dread ,destroyer, Death, tweeted tette. It wits -their opinion that when the tide drifte I' hout at midnight the lire of beautiful Ieldene would drift out with It. The doetore, together with Rutledge reteeeter and Mrs. Pierce, the house- keeper, sat by the conch, awaiting in l'the solemm hush, the AIM end. Out - 'side the door the servants knelt, weep- ing and wailing. The dying girl, who brought sunshine and joy to the quiet old maueion, had been dearly te- loved by one and all. Now they were kneeling, p•tating outside the door, wait- ing with everted face for the breath of life to leave its beautiful tenement of clay. Mark Sefton wenld come—come Into. When he (theme] all would be Over with dark -eyed Udine. A little beton. midnight she had open- ed her grim t du rk. wistful eyes, and a -.mile of unutterable joy lit up her face -as they rested upon Rutledge Chester. "Is it true that I am dying?" she whispered, faintly. 'Tell me, is It true? , Do not deceive me. I—I know—I fret that I ant." A, How could they look into her face , and :theme. her falsely. "Tell me, Rutledge, is It true?" she whispered. - He controlled himself with a mighty . effort, and bent over her, taking he spoor, fluttering little hand in his. "I—I fearit is to, 'Mime." he said huskily. "Is there any messege you would like to send to any one—any wish , you would like fulfilled?" She looked up lute his eyes with it , great light breaking over her lovely face. i"If one great wish in my heart cou'd be fulfilled, I—I could die happier," she faltered, in pitiful. quivering. gasps. "If there is anything I can do for you, rest assured that yen have only to ask and I will grant it, if it be in my timer, Teldene," he nnswered, huskily, little . dreamt:lig what the great wish in her : heart was, "1 (hunch telt you, Rutledge. I w'll whisper it to Mee. Pieree, and she wet tell you." she murmured. "Remember. Rutledge, I would never ask it if I were not going to die—so soon --yes, SO "Yon shall tell Mrs. Pierce," he an- - steered gently. And yet no thought came to him what elit was she wiehed In this her dying hour. The doctor and Rutledge withdrew to the other end of the apartment, and the , dying girl was left with the sobbing heusekeeper quite alone. "I wish—but, oh, it could not he," t sighed Itidene, faintly—"t wish—that could be Rutledge Cheater's bride. I loved him so in life with all my heart, with all my soul. I should like to be- acmg to hint on earth, and wait for him inside the gates of heaven. I should like his hands to clasp me as my life drifts out. I would like his voice to be the last such music r should hear on earth; and the words—ah. if I could but hear hint say: Itidene—my Indent—my bride!' I—oh, then t could die happy—so happy." "Woald it be hard for him to grant Me my dying wish, do you think?" she whispered, still fainter. "Remember, it would be for a few brief moments—: fly ..a few, fleeting moments—while I hover between this world and the great un- known world I am going to. Tell him Mea, Pierce. Tell him hew I love him. I love hint so well, that if, . after I ant dead, he came and knelt upon My tomb, parted the long grass, and whispered my name. I should hear his enieedil Ithemitther.. lie. a'aould Legs so Swelled He Couldn't Walk This case of Mir. 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Dew Chase's Ilatittertiver PiUs never gave !mown of me him If I weee red eying." Sobbing like 8 child, the old house- keeper called Rutledge Chester aside, and imperted to hint the startling mis- sion upon which the dying girl had tent her. 4. That was the bitterest hour of Rut- ledge Chester's life, Ile started bac* with a IOW, hdarse cry. Ile fought tote of the strangest battles with his own thoughts that mortal man was ever can- ed upon to face, "Remember,' mister, it is but for a few brief moments MS poor child would beer your name," urged the housekeeper. "She would not last the hour out that would see her your Witte. She is so young—a thoughtless child—and she loves you so," lie was touched to the depths of his soul; the struggle in his heart was end- ed. lie turned to the old housekeeper With a grave, white face. I will grant the poor child's dying wish," he said, hoersely. "She thall tr. me nide/ God giant that it may make her last moments -happier." A minister was hastily sunmented, and in the hour of midhight, while the wild wine mounted andsobbed' outside, and the whirling snowflakes without wrapp the earth in a cold, weite,. frozen shroud, the fatal maniage—that man could never break, :Ma Heaven would not an- nul—wag solemnized. In the solemn hour pf death Indene Jay back upon her pillow—Rutledee Chester's bride. While hovering on the brink of eternity she had braved the fatal warning that hung like a curse over hert beautiful. hapless head—that solemn warning: "She must never love, for she must never marry." CHAPTER "I WOULD IIATIIER SItE YOU MUD TITAN ins mon." We must now return to the thrilling scene transpiring in the undermound apartment in which beautiful Verlio Sef- ton found herself, by the force of etrange circumstances, an uuweling; prisoner. When Verle ate( he to consciousnme the great pilau -bete eyes flared open wide. it:111,1(11Am a lellltd hem t up areetut in m Melt she found bets 'Ii' then up into the face bending over her lu the annest bewilderment. "Where am I?" she gasped, faintly "And who are your 'Black Hagar showed her ivories in a broad grin. "Ise your nurse, chile," the arsweted. "an' the pussou who jes left -am yer doetor." "Have I been ill?" whispered Verlie, ineredttlously. "Yet ankle war sprained, honey, an' the doctor war fetched to set it." "Oh, I remember! I remember!" shrieked Verlie, in terror. "The dud— :end—tall that happened after It: If this is your house 1 pray' you to let me go at once," she sobbed, clinging to the old woman's skirts in a -transport of grief pitiful to behold. "Those who love me are se:etching for me in anguish that is more bitter to bear than death. I have a darling sister whose heart must here broken when she returned to the spot where sbe left ,me lying unmet - salons end 'found me—gone! 1 dare not picture it! 'Oh, leldenel Indenei" "And there is, another!" she sobbed piteously—"another who loves me, and who had only that evening asked me to be his bride! Oh! what must he be suf- fering, my handsome, nOble love, whom I love so dearly, as the horrible hours drag their slow lengths by! How be must have searched for mei He will go through fire and flood, search the whole world through, but what he will find me; and those who have detained me here will feel the full force of his vengeance. "Oh, Rutledge? my love! my lover' moaned Verlie. "Uneven grant that you may 'find me soon!" "It's many a long day afore yet lover would think o' Melte' yer hahe honey," laughed Black Heger. "Oh, if I could but persuade you to help me to got newly from here!" subbed Write, "Ile who mourns my loss Se keenly would reward you with plenty of gold if you would but help me." "Chile. I wouldn't dare ter do it," de- clared Black Hagar. "Ise powerful 'fraid of the einem He am it reggae debit% lie biting yer hater hissele an' says (he, when he left de room, 'Hagar, lee gwine ter leave duct gal under yer eye, an' of I den't find she inn hear when I cum back, I wouldn't giev much for yer ole black hide; you nun' my words!' So you see, honey, I wouldn't dare ter. 'Why, chile, he'd Murder Me! Ile nun none ter good ter do it." "Oh, heaven! what awful fate has conspired against me?" sobbed Verlie, wringing her little hands. "I cannot see where all this will lead to. Oh, eity me, Ilagarl If you will not see me free, kill mei Better dead than that I should fall into the hands of the man who brought time here." "Lot', chile, don't .yer .talk like that Old Hagar wouldn't tech one ha'er o' yer golden head fer ell Mars° Cap'n's illerotten gold. Guess not! But let me gem yet a bit ot advise, honey. For de geed liar's sake, chile, -don't go for to Witt' of him up. YeT don't know de emelt like I tie, 'Member ole Hazer's warnin% De caphi :um a fierce debbil." Left to herself), Verlie -thought aver the situation until he grew fututic w tit ternir. "Had Hea-Ven shut her out from it; • mercy?" she neked herself. There was Ito sleep for 'Write as the hours dragged by. It was well for her that there wits not. As she lay there thinieng over sone plan by whieh she might make her escapi, the sound of cantons feot- steps fell npon her ear; they chew near- er end nearer, and the blood froze ia ' %vale's veins, as they halted •oeteide the &or. • She gave It supprereed cry. Whielettel It Mee° wleich she THE WINGIIAN TIKES, Al G 'q 7, 1002. I MOM' moat, OW* 'nnek RoPr4” VT af instantly receeeuzea its flee enmities, to it tesitteettatee neeeh, and whom 11 me "As you. yalne your safety—hush! 1 ale 0 lie all my heert, oh, 44 wuu 4 it lie, here on an erten(' whieh _concerns eget or nay use to piped with youto reetore I vitally, You Must listen to• IOW I us to each other? Mr. Willed:re Meet have to say, Send Hague to unbar the would reward you well fer aiding Me, I every tumult Is Duteous, ant ante." "I Will wit unbar the floor," Cried Vele I The men started beet: ns though en Ile, "I am Omitted that these holte arrow had mulaenty pierced hie Imett, Nam even a elight pretectteit hi keel? "Wheel", he ettetit. fiercely, "is Rut- in: yea cut."- ledge Chester tman you leveethat "You Must lihe sten to what I have le man, above all ether emu, ii hont I have ray to you." repetted the Yining eantele, mem te hoe so hittedy—the man tent sternly; "it isa matter of life amid death. I assure o yu epee tus honor." made me whet I am, delve me trent the ee • • . it death, o a t a tn, ranee of honorable men QX me, we'ghtt little with yen," retorted the ,,anti ludo nit' limited erlialnal the gel bravely; "and es for lemor—it eute fine4'MaltieleeePa4111,?tleuittratIt"Ta3;‘-'''tno!T tihrls'V who wilfully_ abduets a young girl, (lad Why, his very tame rouses ft my dmuou keeps lam a captive, because elm llati by et my heart! And. tp -1311/114' that he chalice stumbled mem the nefari• us Mil. should have ereesea, my path egatine, lag of himself end his wicked assueint • te• that he, of all others. should have woe is deed to the word, honor. I would ; the ewe of the omit. being I have ever mu t trust 3 knOW fall well that I boye forfeit denotiticvh1 one I cold4 euro far. it is moth • your respect by what you have Knee anti 441 vowed once that I wonld pee him heard." he said, lit an agitated whiip •r, Nee, at a tenet (hide for meet lumen. -but there is this much honor about me I eit te tee east, I see a way now to the met warn you of tint •fatal colt- very sequences yew discovery, and your end, I bided env time. No re Pet" shall never go free. _eave its my wife! sistent assertions that you would bring. "We art petpahmt, to leave hhe watt the officers of the law upon us the first in flue course of it month for a longthy moment we set you free, has brought epon you. voyageebut you go with IW:1 , 11001111W1', I I would rather eve you dead at my ft et— "The men's solemn conference has I in an your yOntit end your filer youee meted. They' intend to show you no -1 eenutteethan -see' youellutmege Chester's mercy. The sen -tense they have passee !bride!" • upon you is imprisonment for rfe WithIn I lie stood ewey Rom tee door, Ida these walls, and that would be worse ; handsome face fnirly livid with satanic than death for you. Aye, death would rime; butt his' lest .worde bad Wen upon be it thousond times more merciful thee tient oars,• hoe fainted, Life antong fittest lawless me", Even if •"Wes there ever such a tangled web you did consent to an oath of -silence woyen by 4,nexomme flap," be irtnitoml, liOW, it would be too late," fins -thug the mule of his mustacbc. "She Verne did not feint; she did not cry loves Rutledge Chester." oat, or utter any moan; the horror of his words hele her epelehound. She wile young and brave—life seemed sweet to her. She realized that whet he said wits perfeetly true. 'hue -se outlaws, who could thus defy the laws of Men, would have no scruple lit defying the law of In the intense derkitess of the entente God; even if they made ewes with her, he did -not see' the slim, girlish figure' the world would be none the Wiser, that had followed hint close to the doer, "There is hut one eseuee for you," and listened with, Meted breath and Nee whispered her captor, "and that is, to beeome my bride. I am it reckless, de- been uttered. pale as death, to every word that had . Cant man, Miss Sefton; but your beatify "He cares -for tithe beautiful etrangtr," won nev heart at first sight. The eb- site muttered, with -a dry, hard sob. horkence in your beautiful eyes awoke went a retie awakening front toy me to it sense of my dewnfall from the dream. I thought he loved me. Hie mike of honorable. men. Be my wifh,eyes said so (eree theugh his lips.lid anti you. shall leave this place.forever. not. I might one dity have hete his wife could give tm evidence against bride if this gottleieltaited girl had not her husband; you would—" come between .us • teeth her pretty thee. • "Stop:" cried Verlie; "I. will not Oh, fatal day for me that site was "I beg you will teke time eons tier," Going .neoune by (Mother entrance, brought here:" he said, earnestly.. •and passing throughIlitear's eportment, "I need no time to consider," replied she found herself in •Vett:lites prestmee. Vettile, with rineleg scorn. "Do you With swift steps she crossed the room think • that freedom or life itself is and stood, with darkening brow, gazing meth purehasing at the. cost of be- dewn upon the prostrate liguee • the coming your wife?" cried the girl, with swinging lamp dtmle revealed to her, passionate vehemence. "Do you think I t eilt, the ettneger wee more beautiful could clasp the hand et the altar that titan any poet's dream, with her white, was stained 'with blood?" deflentely-chieeled Teem framed in its The mien upon the other (tide ef rtno sheen of floating golden hair, upturned cavern door winced under the scathing to the dim light. Words, A strange gleam 'shut into his A bitter pang of jealousy smote the eyes; it fearful panorame. passed M. helert 415 elle gazed.- As if a-ttracted .thwt magnetic goy,e, titiettancounly before his mental vision. Verlie's white eyelithhilitttered crest, and He could imagine a lost soul gazing from the deep abyss of Hitdes into the felicity site looks up In dismay into the face bending over her. .., The next moment and joy of Heaven, fully realizing that she has seruggied tit -her kneea, e4hging till hope for him was log fo-revert He began to realize that a dark chasm to the girl's Skirtg with an agony .of en- treaty paired to behold. "WO1 you help me to.keve this place?" she pleaded,. erentiettithese eYotte- are- a young girl like myself. Yon must be tender of itenit. I implore you to aid me. Restore me to my- fiienest and you shall be well rewarded foe it, Think 'how they will suffer. It will break my poor father's Mel mother's hearts when they are told of me stranee disammerance." "Yee would not like to necept the alternative that would role:tee you from this place? You would rebel against wedding Om ITOITI 1010 , brought tem here?" the girl 'asked, breatitlesely, a strange glitter in her eyes es she spoke. "'The very thought .would drive inc to fluidness." mooned Verne, with paestote ate vehementee "I wilt 'help you to leave this very night mien one condition," answered the girl, Alertly. "And that?" whispered Verlie, breath- lessly. • "And thee" repeated the girl, in a hurried whisper, "is that on take an oath 'of silence never to reveal this re- treat, and never to mention to a living being what you have seen- or heard troth the fatal hour you chewed to witness that duel to this. .1 have a father mei a brother there, and (tile whom I love bet- ter than the. For their 'sake I must ex- act a solemn vow of secrecy. -or I date not fled you. Don't yon. see?" "Yes." said Verne, heathy. "I can understend the situathm, and for year sake I would vow eternal -secrecy. "Yoe could shy, without going far from the tenth, that you were found With a spratned ankle, end taken care of until you were eble to be .ebont, end that. being (Writing. eder Mende could not be communicated with. You must make Janette if you would escape to- night," the girl went on, with a straege thrill of excitement in her voice, "for it is almost daylight how." She silenced -the joyful cry on Verne's Fps by eating heekily: "You must Wear me cloak anti my broad hat. ' Yon candieeard them, and. leave them et the first betel In the road. berme& the tall oak there, and don yam own. There is lint one exit, send that leads theoughta room in which if nem - bee of men ere congregated. You meet trek to your own bravery to Imes yon through that trying ordeal; it Will be fraught with greatest, danger. It any one ehould cal on to you or speak to you, make some exenee. Your voite is not unlike mine." She threw her own tiatk watererone cloak ever Verlie, who noticed, as those slim Mettle tout -lust hue., how they tremb- led, and how death -cell they were, At last, Vette,. (mewing with sim- pressed excitement, stood ready. She had ghee her sehimu Drenthe!' to that Whieh her ivecute tequh-ed. "Yon will give me eour -name," 'the whispered, "that I may never melee to• bless you for whet you have done ior this night." "You must know me only AS Kelpie; that is whet they call ine here. When you are home with yam' friends, when you ere happy with him whom you love, you will -sometimes tidal: of me, wilt eott not?" asked. "And whenever yoel think of Kelete, forget her stirrouhding,e, Think ler kindly., nue at her bath elo now", she added, draweng her ice- cold hand from dtmeie's chem. "Poke" that winding cavern to the tett Teta Will be to freedom, •Gotel-bye mid may 'God need' emu. She throw, .the •Jette, Mu Ade. ettelt CII,APTER. XIV. CLOSE EFS= Thin BOAIVIDE LAY A MEATITI- YoUNG OM, •yawned between himself and this fair girl; a fatal line streaked his hand, whieh wined forever. shadow the grasp of a peter one. It is it mistake to suppose that crime - steeped hands cannot love. The basest criminal, strange- te it may seem, can love as intensely, though not as purely or unselfishly, as the =blest hero. Prom the moment his eyes had rested upon the beentiful girl, mthe had dared defy -hint FO beaveiy and audaciously, the wish came to- this bad man that he had lived a different life that he might have wooed end, in tem, won her. A mo- ment he hesitated. "Do you love ,ane vete else? Will you answer me that, Mies Sefton?" "Yes," came the quivering -reply, in a choked, girlish Totem "I do. If. you had not detained me here I should now be the 'betrothed brede -of a good and • I To the Weary Dyspeptic, We Ask This Question; Why don't you remove that weight at the pit of the Stomach? Why don't you regulate that variable appetite, and conciition the digestive organs so that it will not be necessary to etarve the stotnach to avoid distress eftet eating? The first step in to regulate the towels. For this purpose • Burdock Blood Bitters , Has No Equal. It acts pretnptly and effectitally and permanently cures all derangements o digestion. Soft liar ess 4 -on tan make your bar. nese es soft as a stove and ts tough as whe by using hettetleA liar. noes Olt. You can lengthen Its life—olakett IfiSt 4141C0 Mt long sa .t ,rdintirey veils, EUREKA Harness Oil malt s peat looklhe Sie- nese gas ,it. Matta Or puts, heavy bodied oil, as. pecially -prepared w etch. hue the weather, • Sold everewetie In shast, *Rh by inrEFaiL CIL Comm ,nae 4 KM gems: :ea WM:VW, agg •Ottee ' fear at evety rem, thmtie flew demi, the narreW, sub-temple:en, Winding it:81W. She had /wetly uatheit the teld of the passage,. whim, -tornhum a Sharp tatirve, ehe toned iteeself temetouted by two u. thmliee heart veemed 46 outmet. wit4 tiuddeh fear, She Oared ma turn haat and a ten- feet nitre would le Mg her abreast of them. If they diteneiedeliee• identity, all wee lost.. She nertitel herster for the terrible - wheal. One eh. ,the Well tented his head maimd SW her • "Why, Nettie," he PAL epproeceing her, "what in the world takes tem otte berme Ileybrenke What ere you up to now? Some inisehief, be bfluaL7 "014y a walk," eeplied 'Veal c, , ties heart palpitatieg se Li:Molly lond, she was tiliete "hre lie must hear its leteeng, ht her greet nut:pity met fere», lest she fiSte,t to ranee her voice gutted jeet I he• lie toilets 'Mold you mind !toying dampener' he utskisl, bantertnehe She shook off mim hand from her arra, end deebed past leen lettere he could obtath 4 geed, view of her face, A ill" went more. tend—Oe, • joy! jety!—she had emerge:I iitto the gray, dull, nhety worn - light;. •the free air of heaven Kew nerosa her face. ' "How straargely Kelpie apts." sold the men, gazing eller the flying elite, girlie]) figure, "She ,he$ ii.ot been the suture rinse the goldenshaired little beauty Was breught Imre." laughed his companion, "She's aerie the eaptain has :allot in love with her; hintl 00'8 DISt PXOCtlY Whitt. Ws done. The a pity for poor Iiteliee is so food of. Bothlaughed and berried' on. • Mtentwhile, Verlie lotted hereelli lonoe more in the old testa tedecoMetery . who - e the retie accident had hammed' wheel bed led to sleet grave results. The. mention, epreined ;mete, -•whieh .hati n had 'time to mond ereperlee, demmenced (mate acutely, itn•d by the time slut' bad rou oiled the main road .beemile so ex- ernioting that poor Verlie threw up her hamis mid foil, fere dote:tweed. in the sn•othebeets hi a dead entire with tine •MlMe of Rutledge:on her quivering /Me. When the eon, wise, pink .and goldete over the eastern hills, it fell mom her upturned fame half veiled by the swede- goiden halm that 'leaned (NI e the white (tette. Her hands were lockett elosely tocether, low moans isseing from her lips. A Young mem driving hurriedly aiong suddenly• drew rein by the rasdfltde end gazed, with it cry of murprise on -We lips. "A young and beautiful ejacti- lilted, in great egtonishmeet. as he ' leafr ed from his sleigh, "Weat elm she be die ing here. I wonder?, He to -imbed the lovely little white lunele gently. They -were burning hot. Chrefully he raised the slight figure and placed It in his sleigh, • "It is. clearly evident that. I cannot lenve her twee,' he mused.' It seemed such a pity to take that fair you -mug creature to a charity hospital. Then a sudden idea occurred to him. 'Why not take her home? His mothre, of Mt people in the world,' would know Inst what to do her the beautiful, hapless etraimer. It was scarcely ten, is -lies to his home. if he cut. Itee0Fet IOU., • takille; the . ways. To Teach it ill a reundebout way by -the mild wee pyre twice the distance. Trilling les 1101 -se's -head, -he gnve the -spirited animal it cut with hie whip. :old away they went spinning over the white, crusted mum Within en lour he had drewn rein before a fine country house, ginning from the -sleigh, and wits berry. lug up the broad gravel walk toward the door. A young girl, brown as a gypsy, -who had been out on the side porch feeding the snow -birds, gave a slight scream_ "Oh, mother, mother! do come here, grtick. and see what hi -other Dick. has in his arms! It leeks like is coffin—no- -it's mc young girl!" she exclaimed in breathless dismay. By the time Mr. Richard Temple had re:lilted the curious young romp.who had bounded down the path te meet him, faerly beetling with curiosity. "Ear mercy's sake, 'whom -have you there, Dick?" she cried, with great, wild, dilated eyes. "Who in the world is that, and whites the trotter with her?" "Don't ask questions, Edna!" exclaim- ed her brother. impatiently. "Run tei • to the house and open the door, and get mother: end eon quick and see if there's hot water, end blenkete, nod mustatid, and peppermi-nt. Now for goodness mike don't steed there staring, Dena, with your eyes met month wide open. Don't you see this poor thing is nearly dead? I don't Ithow what's the matter With her." "Great good-ness!' ejaculated Edna, with a low whistle. "Yon don't soy sole 'The gepseith tour -boy always. exasperat- ed Mr. Temple. "Edna." he cried, impeithetilt- anti. sheerly, "will you Mid ahead to open the doer or not?" "Of couree," gasped theme still etaring with all her might at the slim figure In. held in his anns. But, alai! for Etimers hem eleng haste—she me-er coald be depended on in mums of eineegenve— with every step forwatd she slipped Mick two, end ite itichnid Temple cross- ekthe nori..kihenikeddiack Just -in tittle tie eve .thee hhieltt kigy'llend and it pair of heels serambling out ot ,a huge snow- drift, into width also had been 'preci- pitated headlong. • CHAPTER XV. "e0 P1-11:1SM AU. MY MOM% AND MY triltd.' ontAx or LovH;) Mrs, Temple had caught e giimpte of her mill front the window, and hurtled -to the dom. to open it for him, Iii it few brier words the eon had ep tlained the exate situation -et affairs. "Of course, yon acted for the best, as You supposed, in bringieg het -here, F:10 setelt "hut I have eiway$ been just a little dubioue about taking iii eitangers. 1 hope it Will tore Out melt" and she glanced et -the eager. unshed- thee of her handsome you% son. The lady would have been better pleas- ed if the stranger nail •been less fit:r tO look upon. "Dick is young, aud youth always bnpressible," she thought, its she led the way to ft cosy enoenhigemom; "who • .404 C14 Pel -T shoe nudging los vero—rnory l on have seee thie too—an I•can retncz.bcr oulf mime of Oleo F.upply was the .ettbh ill thoe when the only dili'cre co 14 Careen your old s1u,ca your new ehoeS,wetilit 4,••• that cue pair would be gm. It node ro iiilereuct if 4 w -4 too small and 7) too large— take t or leave thy in. %. t a change today, Wht diffaeuce between the "old timers" acd 4*Sovereign"- &hoes. tloverelo Shots made flout the tinest chrome tanneti, calf-- from Lid v:ith glove 11:e texture or patent leathers Of Rey:. I design. lit 15 different chapes, half sizes in each. t3 different widths la each balf axe- VortLailies and Gents hriee teethe Tia, always stamped ort the Sold in Wingham by W. j. Greer. Have you seen or heard the Berliner GFa °phone? 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"Why, Dick, I kitow this young girl!" elm exclaimed. "You mute telegraph Seneter Chester ana his wife mit once.; it is toe of the yang ladies who have been stopping at their house for the last month or so. Yen have heard of the two school girle—the In unette and the loeely little blonde who have caul.ed such a furore in- mead duties latch-. This is the petite little blonde—lovely Voile Satoh. You meet go os'i' to the way-etation end telegietel s, ohostCr itt onem , helmet meet hew been Mt ale cident—a, runawayt her ankle is wiy And -this wits th nty'ts'i':tiius- te'edrain whIch puzzled Iles. Chester quite it wfire. little hrev en- she olved if, anti which took her post Mete to :elm Temple's, was away from home at the time of the the home of her old friend," Mrs. Chester's intense surevese and joy upon beholding Verne can better be imagined than deseribed. She waeld have tithed her hoat ene-e, but it TIMES OLUIN me BS G OFEERS was deemed advisable for the sprained ankle to rehetiu perfectly itmetive for day or so. Then it would be as good Our clubbing -rates with no papers different as new; the sprain, though painful, was •after wsare as follows:— Mrs. Chester concluded to give Rut- ledge and Thdene a complete surprise, by not telegraphing—het letting them intow What a. Startling, sutenise she luta for them, Bow emu -a they would be When ehe The house occupied by Geo. Barkley, Elizabeth street, Brussels, was quite seriously damaged by fire on Tuesday morning, July 28. It is supposed to have originated from a spark igniting the roof. Before the engine was ready for work considerable progress was made by the flames resulting in the de- tuolislung of the roof and, otherwise damaging the building, whieb is owned by 3as. Strettot. The tenant's property* also suffered by water and breakage by removal. Both. parties were insured. Mr. and Mrs. Barkley and family have moved to Jas. Rellytt house, Mill street, whero they will Make their home -until nt .they get pesSession; of the 'house pur- chased front Sas. Oliver, now occupied by E. Speiran and family. Mr. Barkley Times and 'Weekly Globe Tittles and Weokly Mail Times and Vamily Herald and Weekly Star Times rind Weekly Sun riCS 1 tee 1 74' 1 Times and Montreal IN itness I CO entered, leading. Verlie by the beta Ahl Times and Western Advertiser 1 G how 'bunny Rutledge would be—her dad. Tintes and Farmers' Advomte 1 VS fi tug boy,. who loved beautiful, golden- , haired _ milt so itell!• Times and Toronto Daily 'Stet 2 MY Times and Daily Globe 4 'a 111 the excitement of accounting tor her absence—as She -laud deientblY •Promi%ed— We eOtild extend the list, bat it is not necessary. We can give you clubbing rates On any newspaper or magazine. This 'bun, Wingbant she bud not mentioned thot 'She had h ft knows but what it may end in his . In leVe with her. That thterght sent it thrill Of letter to Mrs, Temple's hetet. Diet( had ileintelted dlie„leeele„brittlert (To be Contineecl) —The Teets of1"—TatTethe pIttee to get neat job printing. Best wed at reason- able prices.