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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1904-10-13, Page 7isotoeitiwtw Ci(�e,& Apr 16 7:he lt'rss of Ockid,,'"7he 014er"!Yactst". «c,,. Etc,;. ✓..rr.���. 0 THE WINGJ1.Md TIMES OCTOBER MI itlu4 She gave ham her hand. in black and white, 'Rare speoimen of woman belonging to the remote era, when she did nothing but try to be hap- py and was glad of it.' " She loaned toward David as she spoke, and aotne one brushing past her to greet a friend forced her closer, ao for a sec - end her shoulder pressed his, her lips were an inch away, her warm, startled breath 'wept hia throat. It was but a second'.' nearness, yet his heart gave a throb of almost Ravage joy. In a flash ber ,beauty became a temptation, a pas- sionate happiness filled him, a breeze seemed to sweep along his nerves, rood be know why an unexplained joy bad come to bim with the first sight of this woman's face. With her arrival his senses bad strug" ,gled to awaken as at a call. Now there 'Was no resisting the feeling. It was a .quick, complete fascination, Conscious •of it, be grew silent and looked at Olga with new vision. Be felt how apart from all others is the moment when a man first faces the •question placed before him by his own .consciousness, "Is this the woman I am to love?" It may be he awakens to the • truth slowly after she has passed through Abe changes from stranger to nearest 'friend. Or one look into an unfamiliar face may blur all save the pursuing ..newness of that one truth. The moment :is the same—oversweet, painful, inti - 'mutely dear, never to be forgotten. There was no chance for further talk between them. Smedley Joyce bore .down on Olga with a monocled stranger in tow, A moment afterward a famous ,singer was announced. Every one knew it was Smedley Joyce're law that the music for which he paid so much should be respected, and silence save for an oe- ccasioual whisper and rustle settled upon • the crowd as the singer appeared. She was pale, with heavy lidded, sad eyes. A white gown draped her thin • form. Roses flamed in her girdle. Her contralto voice was strange, unearthly, as she sang in a whisper of the heart •wrung damogei who watched from leaven. She sang of love with death closely following. Her fingers moved ..slowly; she seemed talking to the keys: "X wish that he were come to me -- For ho will come," she said. "Have I not prayed in hea'en? On earth, Lord, Lord, hos he not prayed? Are not two prayers a perfect strength, And shall 1 bo nf.aid? "There will Task of Christ the Lord This much for him and me— Only to live us onco on earth, With love; only to be, As then awhile, forever now Together, I and he." Music had never moved David Tem- ple like that strange song. It saddened , ".his heart, while hie brain was ravished with a sense of its beauty. It gave to • the new passion thrilling bim an ideal- sity which it did not possess. He looked at Olga, hoping for one •:glance, but she was sitting with her .!load turned away, her eyes on the sing- er, waiting for the next song. David -wanted to hear no more. Ho wished to :keep the memory of that cry of human need, holding an echo as if caught iu -the far spaces of heaven, to knit it with the revelation of the hour. To Protect You 'Against Imitations The portrait and etgnature of iter. A. W. Ch"see, Cho fatuous receipt boost acuithor, rot onmactavOry bex The graft prescriptiW. on* of a Chase have attained such enormous sales that the temptation le imitate them is con- tinuaIly growing stronger. Inorder that you viay be certain that you are getting his genuine remedies, The doctor's portrait and s;gaatesrc are bq every box or bottle o1 , /�.;RAVR!r ^ pt his remedies, This is '1iaM�+G `..et *Attexthat�any Medi- tines nea eines can have. Dr. Chase's. five bdoxe Pills, f s$L00. e pill* Dr. Chase's liorY6 Chau'a Ointinent, 606 cents it bocents a bs*. Dr. Chase'% Oatorrh Oar., 26 cents a bon. Dr. Chau►'$ aottaebs Muter, 25 cents cask ell far $t.00. !sir. 'Cbtue'a firer liars. f50 cent a bottle. 1Dr. Choy* Syrup of f tnueed sad Teepee. c tit0e, 26 end 60 cents a bottle, At all demos, or by milt postpaid on -receipt .smemwcmty,bttdyp Lest tetas only stsabN{ et tattled cert. Outside he found the dusk and the icy dr, There was a medley at cold colors in the airy, the solemn nigbt was near, the avenue veile:kin gray. He hurried an, feeling a new happiness tempered by the pain of uncertainty, Questions troubled him, Was this really love? Was his hand upon the string from which so many marvelous strains and pitiful discords had best{ struck? He bad always calmly and remotely contemplated the rounding of bis life with agreat Love, but aomothing in him bad heretofore disdained sentiment. At its best ithad seemed a snajestio weak- ness, commonly only a ridiculous thing. He bad known perfect friendship, but the love be had seen make foola of the wise, turn the flow of a life completely ont of its course, bad seemed as removed from hits as insanity until tonight, He still felt the touch of Olga's body, the violet's perfume no sweeter than bar breath. 0 Only to live as once on earth With love * * * "As once on earth!" There was rap- turous memory of a joy he had never known in those words. Their burden of passionate melody went with bim like the voice of conscience. He saw only Olga's inviting eyes. CHAPTER XI. David loitered over hia after dinner coffee. Though expected at the alms, a disinclination to enter the world of prose and machinery mastered him. He was in a relaxed and fanciful mood. He sat by the club window, 'actuations of the shadows flitting under the pimps, listening to the street sounds. He talk- ed with those about him on social hap- penings and politics, but always, no matter wh'at was said, felt a fine disre- gard of it all, because the glamour of the afternoon was with him still and his deeper thought was of that alone. "I'd love to bear Anne sing a ballad tonight," he thought, as he went down the steps, a cigar between his lips, "I wonder if she's at home. She can't be off with Donald anywhere, for he wasn't in town today. I'll see if she's in, at any rate. The walk down the lower part of the avenue and across Washing- ton square will be glorious on a night like this." David was in a mood when a man is his own historian and reads the facts of a life with pleasure or a sense of failure according to the truth in that intimate, unpublished record. He saw none of the passersby, was only half conscious of the frost and the gaslit streets. He was regarding his years from boyhood and measuring the completeness of bis pres- ent by his use of opportunities. It was a comfortable reverie. He had nothing to regret. The death of his fa- ther had been bis only grief, soon lived down in the fullness of ambition and independent wealth. No shadow lurked in his past. •He had experimented with "the world, the flesh and tale devil," but had formed no ignoble tins, He had splendid health, invincible will, limit- less desire for success in whatever be touched, clean years behind bim, a shadowless future: Suppose he mar- ried? A pioture rose before him as in- viting in its way as the others of the group. Why not? A woman, gentle, beautiful, sympathetic, reflecting him, sharing his life, children in his home, their future to be laid and finished when his own Life was practically over. His heart glowed; a spirit singing of triumph went with bim. Very soon—for be walked quickly— he had crossed the almost empty square to the street where Anne lived. Her ,sympathy meant much to bim, sings he wished•urgently for ber tonight, as if she would divine the power of tho new dream poraeasing him tend all his secret thoughts. He might lead her on to taut to him about Olga. As he went toward the house his eyes wore fastened on her wiudowse He was not aware that a man had come down the garden path and, having opened the gate, atood watching kdlit. Bat when his eyes became eccustomod to the shadow be saw Donald's face under the low drawn hat. It was almobt unfa- mil#ar, baggard, of a sick pallor, the old curse with a new shame upon it. David looked at h#zn in silence: The lenienoy of secret brotherhood between them had lately influenced his inward attitude toward Donald, and there was an elder brother's scrutiny and impa- tience in the look he fixed upon him. "When t sent for you this morning, Donald, I heard you hadn't been home Cor three days," he said gravely. "I thought you'd gone to the Iightehip to make the pictures for Arnold's story, though next Week would have done for that. Did yolt .ger Donald dm* book into the path, the light of the street letup atm hint. Ht seemed to age. He lifted his hands and let them fall heavily. "No, I didn't. I tateant to go. t-' Well, you see how it's been with me," he laid bluntly, "Yale's, beta drinking Agaits. "Vocs've hit it. Going at the devii'a gape," tt was•tbnu apathetic adhsissiost of ono ti nquil►lsed. DOM had *trays thought of hint With lnipatiofioe as one deliberately bad, What shrunk your woolens Why did holes wear so soon You used canton soap. SUNUGUT SOA1P Ex.... Oak fpr the ecta*eua Dar. ins REDUCES Re saw Donald's face under the lout drawn hat. seeking the congenial though it meant wreckage, and he had mentally washed his hands of bim, long ago. Just because he was a brother and dependent he had retained him on The Citizen despite his lapses, paying him for what work he bauded in, never questioning bim, let- ting bim entirely alone. He had always viewed two things as hopeless—a wom- an with a bobby, a man with a vice. There was no lasting virtue in reforma- tion. He had seen eo many failures even when men and women hungered for the good they were not strong enough to grasp. And now Donald—the old story, It was a pity. T•henyears behind bim were Ms future temptation. There is 'bock in a fall, but a stop to familiar conditions is easy enough. He fingered his cigar uneasily, almoat at a loss for words. "Pro sorry you were weak, Donald," and the words, despite bis effort, had a fiat, stereotyped ring; "but you mustn't fancy it's hopeless. :You must just be- gin the battle over again." Donald's eyes fell, a faint smile play- ed over his face. "So she said," and he looked up shrfnkingly at Anne's window. "She can't -save me, nor can any one else. I must save myself. That's what she said wheu she sent mo away tonight --I must save myself. I tried before --I was so sure—so sure—so ;happy. But when temptation got to ''climax it was like a paper house trying to get the better of a flame. You wouldn't bet on the paper house, wank you?" he said sharply. "Get away from the flame." "Suppose you carry it with yon night and day, night and, day, Mire, here, here?" be called out, his band tight upon his breast. His expression . changed to stolid gloom, and helooked`past David. "Only for her I'd give it all up and go to the devil without a regret, I didn't mind so much before Iknew her. Now when 1 know what a poor thing I am why can't I forget that she cares what happens to me, go away, quench this damnable torture by satisfying it and die, the sooner the better?„, Why can't I do it?" and his voice rose and quivered, but sank again to a whisper. "I can't. I can't. No one else cures a hang what becomes of me, but as long as she cares I've got to try in spite of myself, I've got to try and suffer and deserve a little her belief in me." He laid his arm along the icy bars and let his head fall upon it. David thought of his late self congratulation and contented review of his life, and the sight of this tormented soul was terrible. "Look here, Donald, this is all non- sense. You mustn't take this lapse so seriously. You must forget .it and start anew, " and he pulled at the bent shoul- der, his tone encouraging. "That's what you must"do. And yon mustn't Cathie no one cares but Anne,"he added :softly, his hand tightening where it lay. "I Dare very much." "You?" Donald lifted his head and looked at David steadily. "Yes, L Don't forget that. No one was more glad than I when you started in to make something of yourself. I pity you now. By and by I want to be proud of you. Don't say you have no friend but Anne Garrick. I hope you'll deserve her good opinion. But, remelt ber, I count on you too. I will do any thing in the world to help you. I1on't you believe it?" Ile held out his hand. Donald looked at it, but did not stir. There was al- most irretistible magnetism in Davld'a: kindling eyes, and Donald had always stealthily loved bim. But he could not touch the proffered hand, snob as he longed to. It 'would be renouncing too Sweet a revenge. "Won't you take my haitd?"" "No," he said insolently. ""shat have you ever been to me that I should. flatter this poetics impulse of yours --this impulse noww—'that moans White" Chagrif and uneasiness lofted David; Its hand fell. "I'm riatere. What do you maatr?" "You ogre what beoom,er of Me Yen tern for fiery oontemptible etist«attb? You?'" He stoed erect, imtteniug bili ooiat tightly totem bis breast, bit eyes I. Haat ant. dt1°, :'fon seem skeptioal," rind David's tone wag tracserealti la ai lea Most rn - '."*slier• jt 05 hot rim reedy to help you now or it iiny tTnia:" "Mit are you?" *kid Donald slowly, nodding his bead. "Your genero.ity comes too late, Thie is a strange place to have this shatter out between up. I rover supposed I'd speak of myself to YOU, but I'm not myself tonight. Trou, too, seem to have undergone a weeder- ful (Mange. The words you speak are unfamiliar. Why didn't you say bars ago what you've said tonight? Did_ you ever think of the diftoreuee between ns .---whet love and pare can make of a boy, what scorn and intolerance can Awake of bim? There were nights when I thought I'd go orad from Omer loneli- neas, nod you, full of your schemes and pleasures, never gave ane a thought, iffy heart starved for eytupathy,'but I couldn't •get near you. Don't let me tbink of those things before Iliad learn- ed to say, 'I don't care,' end when you could have helped hie. Don't let me thiuk of them." He brushed past David and pulled open the gate. "Wait a minute, Donald. What you say requires an answer. Listen to me.. You forget cirauutstauoes made it Al- most impossible for us to be friends. My father's unhappiness with your mother, bis dislike of you—cruelly un- just, I admit" --- "I was bis sin." And a sneer made Donald ugly for a moment. "His eyes couldn't bear to Iight on me. The eight 0? me turned bim sick and made him nose for comfort among thePaalme tell - &ng of King David's repentance. I was his materialized sin, uad he scourged me. You know that," "Yea, but there, don't let us go into that iniaerabie business. I'm only try- ing to defend myself. The injustice of those cloys wasn't my fault," "And after John Temple died was there any difference? You gave me work, but I was nothing to you. For eight years I've been busy atalowhomi- oide, strangling whatever was good in me. You said nothing. You didn't tell me then to brace up and make somo- thiug of myself. Ngty"—and the words were a cry of anguieh—"I seem to have a malformed soul ,unfit for struggle. It's like entering a cripple against a giant. Ouco what woilldu't I have given to have felt you really oared! Think what it would have been to me! I was without a friend, as ready for evil as a laid powder trail is icor a match. If you'd spoken thep as you did tonight"— ho paused, looking away from David. "You didn't. You offer your encourag- ing 'words now. Tbey're useless, end I refuse them." Ile closed the gate sharply, and David watched him down tine street. There was a sick aense of ship at his heart. For the first time he faced the truth. He saw himself wrapped in egotism, living for personal success, never think- ing of want in Donald's life, He had always known he was cold, practical, stern, apt to view the failures of life with impatience, the road to bis heart a narrow one beset by roughnesses; but to realize he had been cruel, too, and that toe remorseful soul he had faced tonight was in some degree a result of his self absorption, was a new and hate- ful fact. Even this" new consideration for DouaId had been selfish. His own unqualified content bad made him kind, as an overfull glass must waste some of its wine. On leaving the club he had looked forward to a oozy hour with Anne, when. he might have led her to talk about her Cousin; but he had been roused to some- thing sterner, to face a delayed duty, and when be did anything he did it well. Anne was writing when he went into the sitting room. "I met Donald at the gate," were his first words, and he noticed a Iook of anxiety pass over her face. • "Were you speaking to him?" "Yes, we had it out. Curious, wasn't it, after all these years to know for the first time tho real Donald at your gar- -don gate?" "Don't be hard on him," she said clearly, standingu . P An expression of defiance in her eyes added to his self reproach. He looked at her tboughtfuily. "I must have seemed a brute to you. Sit down by me here, Anne, and help me a little. I've always been so obedi- ent to my conscience it has never been a nuisance. Well, tonight it stings me like a fretful woman, and I must silence it," be said bitterly. "I'm going to do something for Donald. I've a scheme I think would save hits. I'm going to help hint with all my heart," " You will?" "With all my heart." "Oh, yes!" she said, seizing David's hand, her love for him rushing over her. "He's done all he could to ruin bis life, but you'll help him to value it now. You're so good!" CHAPTER XII. Mrs. Ericsson fluttered into the green and white room and stood before Olga. She looked like a quivering interroga- tion neark. "Why won't you go to see Irving with the Kents? The invitation has oonte at the last moment, but you know they got the box unexpectedly, so you uesdn't fancy you've been asked just to VI in.'" She survived Olga with phase este eyes and irritated air. Never had she seemed so pttrpoaely provoking es now, lying ' before the window in a Steamer chair, paint, attentive and polite. • "I'm not going, dear," said Olga, settling herself at an eagle which brought added comfort and turning the fashion fragrant* abs had been reeding feet doWnward oh her knee; "beesuse I'm lazy, beets tee this dry old snakes stay pose an ugly magneto ' - "You Lave stars" -e "Because I bate the theater in the daytime" arts Molt to death of Mrs. Sten. and het bttobby headed aha".. "Olga, yott% sieepiy skit* ant di* traded by roar ired#ffecettce." "And boa** AMA tcaple IS tom - keg iK 4'riliN 1. "w NA," WIth a lterlu�t�elteetsfte , "I asked bias in filet night,." bins. Ericsson dropped luta e4, ol►Rlr sue; folded her hands itt her lap.. "Olga," she said seriously, "for the past mouth, ever since 5wedley Joyce's tea, be bus ween following you 'Lout. You've encouraged him, whether for "Well,, about David Tem ilcf" she sad sharply. fun, as you call it, or not I don't know. But people say David Temple is not a marrying man and to have hits loom up like your shadow wherever you go will hurt your obances. It certainly will:" "Think so?" and Olga drew a loose strand of hair through her fingers. "I know it. You're very perverse. There's Bob Deschalles making a fool of himself over you, a man with one of the largest fortunes"— "And a fool. I'm not exacting when millions are appended, but 1 draw the line at him. Don't talk of him any more." She looked fully at her mother with open oritioism. "How little you understand me. If you knew anything of character, you'd have seen long ago I must be proud of the man I marry. I need not cure a pin for him, but because of brains, family or personality with wealth, I must re- gard him as a prize and have .other women envy me. D'ye see? Now who'd envy me Bob Deschalles—who under heaven?" She gave a conclusive shrug and re- turned to the magazine. Her mother looked at her and sighed impatiently. "Well, about David Temple?" she said sharply. "And what about him? He's coming at 5. I'm going to pour tea for him, which he'll pretend to drink, I'll see he thinks me beautiful, which I am, as well as a great many other things which I'm not." "You know well enough what I mean, Olga. You can be so provoking. Why don't yon answer me?" "You haven't asked me anything." "Does be mean anything?" she asked angrily. "Yes, he means everything." "Has he said anything?" And a look of rapacity made Mrs, Ericsson's eyes ugly. ot exactly." "Then how can you tell? Yon only think so. You've thought so before and been mistaken." "I feel it." "And you'd marry bit?" "Why not? I've used my eyes to good advantage, mamma, though I haven't seemed to soemneh, Women have stop- ped running after David Temple because he's been given up as hopeless. Suppose I win bim? If any have doubted my power they'll doubt no more. Besides he inspires a delicious sense of fear in me. As for what he is"—and she ex- tended her hands—"show me anything bettor. He's rich. The position he holds at the head of The Citizen, representing its brains and money, is the nearest thing to a title to be had in this coun- try. More than this, he's ambitious, and he'll keep advancing. He may go into politics, be the president—who knows --and I'll make things hum at the White House." She rose and in passing her mother drew her hang teas- ingly . down her small, worried face, flattening the nose. "How would you look, dear, between two foreign diplo- mats at a state dinner? Just like a pussy esti" she laughed merrily. "And how would it like to look lake a pussy cat?" "Don't be childish, Olga." Mra..Er- icsson rearranged her nose and rose testi- ly. "You've evidently made up your mind. Well, I'll be glad when it's set- tled and the strain of keeping up ap- paaranaea is over." " "'If you only weuldn't worry," said Olga placidly. "Not worry?" flashed Mrs. Ericsson from the doorway. "And where would you be and how would things be with you today if I didn't worry to find some Way of making ends meet? 14l say, 'Thank God,' when it's ended." "And I'll say 'Amen,' " Bald Olga, with more emphasis than was usual with her. (To bo continued,) • A REMARIKABLE RECORD. Baby's Own Tablets have a remark- able record. .All over the land you will find mothers who will tell you this tnedi- etne has saved the lire of their little Dims. When you give Baby's Own Tab - lett; to your children you hate a guaran- tee that you are not stupefying them with poisonous soothing staffs. 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