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The Wingham Times, 1903-11-26, Page 7TI[N: \YJNGIt..I NOYlt,ABER 26, 1903 ne. VASIIAENF31cMIi •Irenlr?iE kw.rff 3kT.P.,T ;M;•�••• " ": '•I: s�; '�i:!* :iE .re E, • A NOVEL. E3 BY MRS, ft LOVBTT CAMERON, Author of 04 Worth Winning," Etc, • 1 *r, % WIWK.)r..iE*7iE*:r`,*j1:*NtfItk it1Mi;V,r�ia,TTeCCTYesren a. 4 grunmo• acts itself out before my ,eyes; so vividly, indeed, that X scent to see my own poor little corpse, white and draggled with salt water, -carried out to sea, beneath eny very eyes. I I do verily believe that had I been left to wait there five minutes long- er T should have turned light -head - ,ed and the ghastly fancy would have become a reality. But the flash at a lantern. the -sound of oars, and the shouts of men recall me to life. , "Here! here!" I cry. ed in another second Shirk This- ! Perseus, as I call him to i myself—is below me. 1 let go of the :tuft ot grass and fell, not into the mea, but into his arms. i The boat was pushed off, and X was safe! Only half recovered from !any bewilderment, I listened to follows ihnmedfattty, but the pun - 1 Murk's hurried explanations, ~ "Did you understand what it was? ishment is even pleasanter than the No? Ah, what a bruteoffence. you rocks Mark Thistleby draws his arm a •on which she had been bumping 'have thought me! 1 found the rocas little bit closer round me, and me lead wa little bit closer to Iris side. •driven through the bottom of the with it I submit to my penalty with a res boat; she leaked awfully. I shoved ignation beautiful to behold. my waistcoat into the hole, but it Ah! sweet witching hour of bliss, was not safe; with two of us she why did you not last forever? But must have sunk. I did not know alas! it is well-nigh over; the ligirts- wltat to do at first; it seemed hor- of the little town of Seacliff have riblc to leave you, but it was the already come in sight, and every only thing to do. 1 rowed for my moment brings us nearer to them. life, but every five or ton minutes 1 •"Irow quickly these fools have ''had to stop and bale the water out brought us!" muttered Mark, with my hat You knew I should come chs - ;back for you, didn't you? Ilow +'brave you have been!" "I could not help myself!" I mut- tered; but no honeyed compliment ever sounded in my oars with half :such sweet flattery. We were being rowed rapidly out .of the bay, meanwhile; the two boatmen, whom Mark had brought 1 with, him rowed us, and we sat to- gether in the stern of the boat. Jl` He had brought a warm, thick r -shawl with him, and was now wrap- •;ping it round me. `"I have nothing to fasten it with, sand it. will blow off your shoulders —do you mind my holding it?" I don't answer, and presumably silence gives consent, for ho keeps 1 his arm sound me, and somehow it happens that being very tired I rest !:against his shoulder. "Poor little hands, how cold they are!" he says, and lays his over 1 -them. They aro cold, nncl his aro !•warm, and I do not withdraw mine. After that we neither of us spoke :dor a long time. •OIC;, divinest, happiest, blessedest night! It blows and it drizzles; the •sea is rough, and it is bitterly cold; the boat is the crankiest, most un- comfortable of her species, yet never moonlight. moments in velvet -cush- ioned gondola, tender warn Italian . skies, all fragrant with heavy scent- t•ed orange and citron flowers, was Shelf so intoxicating as that bolster - 1 ons hour upon the storm crisped wa- :•tors of the Devonshire coast. I I am wildly, insanely, supremely ;Snippy! No more thought of George ';'Curtis enters into my head than if that good and worthy old gentleman had never been born. X am alone in the night with I Mark Thistleby--for the boatmen don't count, it is so dark we cannot ;.see their faces—and I love him; if I :•did not acknowledge it then, I have known it well enough since. This ' man, whom yesterday 1 did not I know, is to -day the best and dearest .among men to enc. It is foolish, unmaidenly, wicked cif you will, but to -morrow will bo i time enough to fight against my fol- ; lye to -morrow I will crush it out of l my heart; to -morrow I shall go ! away, and neither see him, nor i think of him more; but for this one .evening 1 will let myself go down the current of those "enchanted wa- lrters"—for to -night I will bo happy. Despite the cold wind, the blood is '.coursing rapidly through my veins, and my heart is beating wildly. I " glance timidly up at my companion. I-Tas he any thought of me, I won- der? Oh, no—what a foolish fancyl 'His face is turned away from me, and I can just see its dark outline against the gray sky behind. He is is are h u h his t 0 of rile g ` kin , ��not thinking i g evidently far away. Upon seeing this I grow bold, ant„ favored by the darkness, take a pro- longed stare at him. It is ill-bred to stare, 1 believe; at least, I was always told so as a child. I am in- clined to think that It is oven worse. I ata inclined to look upon it in the light of a sitz; for are Wo not Iiosl•- t•ively: told whatever sin we do to be very sure that sin will find us 'out? With the perversity to which frail humanity is prone, whenever I see anything or anybody pleasant to look upon, I do look; and as invar- iably, with the remorseless retribu- tion that is supposed to attend that Mid all other bad actions, X am found out. In the present instance, I sin, and I suffer for it. I stare, and I am caught at it. But there the simile ends. div punishment, it is true, Sunlight Soap will not burn the nap off woolens nor the surface off linens, SUNLIGHT contentedly. And then suddenly, when we are but a couple of hundred yards from the shore, he bends his head down close to mine and looks into my face. It is so dark that I can hard- ly distinguish his features, and yet X seem to feel the light that is in his eyes and the thrill of passion in his voice. "For once only?" he whispers; and before I know what it is he has ask- ed of ale, he has touched my cheek with his lips. In another second the keel of the boat has grated upon the shingto among a crowd of men and women that is assembled to greet us. There are confused shouts, and questions, and answers, amidst which Captain Thistleby assists me out of the boat, and, very' stiff and cold, I 'begin scrambling up the beach towards the garden steps. The boat had been landed just op- posite our house, and as we reached the steps, Iiella carate running out of the .brightly -lit room into the dark- ness to meet us, with mingled ex - exclamations of dismay and delight, "My darling child, I have been so frightened about you—thank 'Heaven you are back safe! When I cane home an hour ago, I found nobody in, only a message sent up to the house by Mark when he came back for the float. I was so upset to think of you having been left in such awful clanger for so long. My poor pet, how cold and shivering you are!" "Yes, Bella, she is cold and tired, and must bo half starved; take her in and look after her, and don't make her talk till she is better." Saying which Captain Thistleby stalks off and leaves nue to Bolla's care. What a fuss they made over mc, that evening; and how nice it was; after dinner, to be installed in a big arm -chair by a bright fire, with two people making much of me, as if I had done something very wonderful. Bella was never tired of asking questions. The whole story was told over and over again to her, and every recital brought forth fresh ex- pressions of affection and pity, and fresh admiration for me, the unwil- ling heroine. As to Mark, the respectful tender- ness with which he arranged the cushions at my back and the foot- stool under my feet, and brought nig my cup of tea, made me feel ter- ribly shy and conscious, and I blush- ed in a guilty manner every time that I net his eye. Needless to say there were some details of our home- ward voyage in the boat which we did not think necessary to impart to our sympathizing della. I could not get the recollection of that swift stolen kiss out of my mind. I tried hard to be angry, to look upon it as an unpardonable liberty, as a deliberate insult, which every :well -brought -up young woman ought to resent; but these fine, vir- tuous sensations refused to be con- jured up at my bidding. I could on- ly feel foolishly happy. "Thank Heaven I shall bo gong to -morrow!" I kept on saying to myself, as I furtively watched Mark's tall, graceful figure standing opposite me, leaning against the mantel -piece: and then I could not help smiling to think how utterly my thoughts had changed since last night, when ho had seemed to mo to be such an odiously disagreeable man. Could it be only ono day that I had known him? and was it possible that I had in so short a tittle actu- ally lost my heart to this titan? No; T could not believe it. True, one day, spent as ours had been, entirely toe gather, and ended by so romantic an adventure, goes often further to- wards making people kttow each othe er, than Whole months of ordinary humdrum acquaintance; but then, was -I not engaged to George Curtis, and so reasonably supposed to be fenced about and protected from the charms of all other Man, "charm they never so Wisely?" And what a direful, miserable plight I should be in, were I. in this unwomanly anti reprt'lielesible 'utarencrt to lave 1 ! , lin _ i _i ie � ■ . l REDUCES OALP EXPENSE Ask icor the Octagon Oar, sat. ed my heart to go out unsought to this mon, so lately an utter strang- er to me! 11fy heart? --perish the thought!— my fancy has been captivated; but ley heart is safe, if 'not in George Curtis' keeping, at all events in my own. And as to Captain Thistleby, has ho not proved himself to be ex- actly what I p1edicted of him when I had described him to myself as one of that race of men, to Whom long moustaches and indiscriminate love -making seem to belong as a prescriptive right? The only unin- telligible thing to rho is that instead of feeling angry and indignant at the love -making, I have enjoyed it, loved it, gloated over it beyond all things! Decidedly X must be a very deprav- ed young woman, and original sin must be strongly developed Immo! ,24 CHAPTER V. • Bed -time came, and with it the end of what I can honestly say was still, with all its terrors, the very happiest day of my life. Bella and her brother-in-law wish- ed me good -night at my bedroom door. Bella, with the rapturous em- braces which always accompany my. demonstrative little friend's expres- sions of affections, and Captain Thistleby, who had carried up our flat candlesticks for us, with well- bred indifference, merely . remarking, as he handed me mine, that he hop- ed t should sleep well, and have quite recovered the fatigues . of the day by to -morrow morning. And then my room door was shut, and they passed on together to their respentivc rooms beyond. Bella, who was the very beau -ideal of a thoughtful hostess, had had a fire lit in my room, and, although it was August, the long chill exposure to the winds and waves I had ex- perienced made it a very grateful sight: Icer plaid had packed my solitary box, and it stood there already strapped and labelled, to remind mo unpleasantly of my coming depar- ture, whilst an open traveling bag, hulf filled, threw a still further air of dismantled desolation over my cosy bedroom. Partly the sight of these tokens of my approaching journey, and part- ly, perhaps, the reaction after the • afternoon's excitement, made me feel thoroughly depressed and low-spirit- ed: 1 leant my elbows on the man- tel -piece and stared into the red-hot fire. I felt disappointed—I hardly knew why, tad vexed with myself for being so. That cold, indifferent "Good -night," and the civil plate, tudes about my health, seemed such a descent into the commonplace prose of daily life. I felt unreasonably irritated. I do not know what else I had expected; nothing else, surely, and yet X was disappointed. All at once I was roused by a low tap at my door, and a voice outside spoke my namo almost in a whis- per: "Miss Clifford." "Yes." "Can you speak to mo for one min- ute?" I have already given it to be un- derstood that 1 am a very badly brought -up young woman. From my earliest infancy I havo been accus- tomed to follow the primary in- stincts of my nature, leaving all tho proprieties and conventionalities to take caro of themselves. I know not whether I may not have, on that occasion, transgressed every known rule of feminine decorum; but cer- tain it is that, with scarcely a mo- ment's hesitation—which moment, bo it known, was not taken up in any. wavering debates with my con- science, but simply in rapidly smoothing my rumpled locks at the glass over the mantel-piece—I opened the door. Mark Thistleby stood outside, and I leant against the door -post to speak to him. Since our formal "good -night," some five or ten minutes ago, ho had changed his evening -dress for a loose smoking suit, and I suppose he was on his way downstairs to discuss his nocturnal pipe. The smoking suit was of dark blue satin, with gold braided collar, and its magnificence completely over- whelmed me. He looked splendidly handsome in it. I cast ono swift glance up at him, and then, finding myself utterly un- equal to meeting his eyes, I hung my head shamefacedly. "Well?" "I could not say good -night to you without asking you to forgive me, Miss Clifford.", "What for?" blushing furiously. "You know very well what for. I could not help It. 1 am very sorry— no, I don't mean that either, for X ant not sorry at all; but I would not offend you for anything. I am the last man In the world that had any business to do such a thing; but the temptation was very strong, and men never do resist temptation of that sort, you know, if it is strong enough. You aro not angry,are you?" Ho spoke rapidly, and with a cer- tain amount of agitation in his voice,. which his half -jesting words could scarcely conceal. X glanced up at him, and his eyes were fixed upon nay face with a wist- ful, pleading look in their depths Which I could not quite undetetand. 'there is a stvong element of tree coquette ttbeett ale. It is given to "Mine Wotnun, Z.. yelieve as ie este- on the lungs Mr. John Pollard, Echo Bay, Ont., -writes : 1 I was troubled last winter with a 1 very bad cold which was beginning to settle on my lungs. I was so hoarse that I could scarcelyspeak, a n d ' had a nasty hacking cough which f ,.could not get rid of. One bottle 1 Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and 'Turpentine cured me and I can .heartily recommend it." . DR CHASE'S SYRUP LINSEED AND TURPENTINE. T�IRPE 25 eents i bottle, family the (three times as siilttteh) 60 Cents, at all dealers, or Edmansott, Hater & Co., •Toronto, 'To protect you 'worst imitations the poi. trait and signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, the •ttunons receipt book author, etre en every bottle. guard against man, their natural ene- my. I saw something in his face which made me tremble for his next words. At all risks, I trust avert it. X answered him lightlf', with a lit- tle toss of the head: "Yes; of course 1 air angry; but not half so angry as I ought to be with you " It was, I suppose, ,like a whole- some color water douche. The tenter look was gone out of his eyes in a second, and I could see that I had sunk myself a very little in his good opinion. "Very well: then it is to he peace, I presume, Miss Clifford, until the next time of asking, eh?" be answer- ed, in the most "chaffy" tone. The clanger was over; but was I any the happier? "Good -night," I said, turning away, listlessly, and gave him my hand. TTe held it between both his own, "By -the -way, you need be under no apprehension concerning 'next - time' " he began, lightly; and then after a pause of a second, with a sudden roughness, he added: "For I have sworn never to see you again!" He dropped my hand, and before i could answer him was gone. As far as the next morning was concerned, Captain Thistleby kept his oath. 1 saw him no more. Breakfast, in consideration of my departure, was half an hour earlier than usual, and Della was my only companion. A message sent up by the footman to Captain Thistleby's room, to the effect that coffee and kidneys were getting cold, only elicited in reply: "The Captain's love, ma'am, and you was please not to wait for him. He is very sorry as 'ow he 'as over - slop' himself this morning." "What a shame of Mark not to be down," remarked Bella, looking rath- er annoyed. "But he is sure to be ready in time to say good-bye to you, Freda. Another egg, darling ? Do, you have such a long journey before you," Breakfast was spun out as long as (To be continued). DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD. Don't Talk Hard Times "I think it is a mistake to talk s� rauela about the approach of fiord tins," said a manufacturer to The Toronto Star lately. "It is just, this. talk of hard times that brings hard theme — always has and always will —excepting In Vas's et war and tun- ing: and extreme conditions, Of every period ot depression .just about ?6, per cant. is duet to(' sentiment, and about ;ret—perhaps not that -- is duo to natural, legitimate causes. Sus ce.cdings periods of rampant prosper- ity and of depression are recognized now as naiural phenomena, which act pretty regularly, but their extreme- ness Ls largely a matter of septi- meet, Why should a continent with the diversity of resources that ours has be, on the highl road to wealth one year and wallowing in• the slough of despond! five years later? It is largely, as I said, 'bccause of senti- ment. Ono man talks of hard times, and 20 others who hear him get ner- vous, cancel larders for new ventures, curtail operations on old ventures, begin to sell their securities, and first thing they know a well-defined era of depression is under way. Then they wonder how it happened, and blame: It an the tariff. There are of °tenlse natural causes Which make. one season or a Succession of seasons Ices prosperous than another, but if people. would not go to fast in the good seasons, and would not talk so much about -hard times in; the, Poor seasons, Zherc would be little trou- ble. "At the present( 'tint' I don't see anything very alarming in the situa- tion either here or in the States. I think there are a good many' people crying 'wolf' Tor a purpose." It is an undoubted fact that nearly all the disorders from which infants and young children suffer are caused by de- rangements of the stomach or bowels. As a cure for these troubles Baby's Own Tablets is gentle, effective and above all absolutely safe. Mrs. Thos. Cain,Loring, Ont., gives her experience with this me• diciue in the following words never had anything do my little one as much good as Baby's Own Tablets. She was troubled with her stomach, and was teething, and was very cross and fretful. A few closes of the Tablets completely cured her, and I can sincerely recom• mend the Tablets to other mothers." This medicine promptly cures all stom- ach and bowel troabl,s, breaks up colds, prevents croup, destroys worms, and al- lays the irritation accompanyltig the cnt- tiug of teeth. Sold by all medicine deal- ers or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. The Worst hind. After Piles have existed for a long time and passed through different stages, the suffering is intense—pain, aching, throbbing, tumors form, filled to burst- ing with black blood. 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On the contrary, when chickens aro killed by twsiting theneck death results 'Mainly .from strangulation. The body of the chicken is not freed Prem blood on account of there being no space int the neck into which the blood can flow. The appearance of the flesh of the chicken that has been killed by twisting its neck is reddish and blood can 'be plainly; noted in it. In several cities in 'Canada al law is in force prohibiting the sale of chick- ens that are killed by ttwisting the neck.—F. C. Here. The Gift of the Gab. (London Punch.) Were I offer'd whate'er I might wish By the queen of the fairies. Queen Mab, I would ask no one's head in a dish— I would ask for the gift of the gab. To the modest, tho meek, the morose, The hues of the worlrl turned to drab; But life is all couleur de rose, If you have but the gift of the gab. Silent Robinson pays third class fare; Bolder Brown now and then takes a cab; Bat Smith drives his carriage and pair— For Smith has the gift of the gab. In the ase of his tongue and his pen An Oxonian beats a Cantab; And by this ye may know Oxford men: One and all have the gift of the gab. The Empire of Britain, 'tis said, Has beeu won by a habit of "grab"; Bat for painting the hemisphere red, Recommend me the gift of the gab. Now when you've perused the above, You may think me at rhyming a dab; But I'm blessed if for money or love I can purchase the gift of the gab. Tho Solar Plexus. Is the largest nerve centre iu the sym- pathetic nervous system. is situated just back of the stomach, and supplies ner- vous energy, the vital force of the human body, to the stomach, heart, lungs, kid- neys, liver, etc. By creating nerve force Dr. Chase's Nerve Food directly aids the solar plexus in supplying the power which rues the machiuery of digestion and so cures nervous dyspepsia, headache dizzy spells and bodily weakness. IMPORTANT TO MOTHERS. 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