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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1904-12-29, Page 7,radia•*• *+*+*****tri******4**.** *sr,.:a*4. **q 4 t The Girl of the Orchard p Howard aeis3dibt f'•1, by Charles W. 8oekes. ti ;f ., 1t•ittic, *: .#�+INiF�ilfiti�lE416i1E31f, ,lf.+lf. dti4014lEaii. +YEiitFilt.. 3diltiliilt * was wen taught and more than ily mature in mind. Yet Dune o 1 caught Men cleverly pretend - o know more than he did. and I some small nequaintauee with ethods by which he delighted to ate the thought and apeeeb of elders. Millet he came upon the print, and We a' genuine surprise. Beyond uestion he recognized it at a glance, i; 'When I asked him iii the most or- ary tone I could command whetber g knew the lady he lied with a conn - nett of elueerity quite shocking in one so young. Indeed I could not have done it better myself. Still more suspicious than this false- bood was the fact that he almost izn- • mediately remembered something that be had promised to do for Mrs. Wither- spoon. He made this the excuse for bis departure, and a few minutes later :.X saw him hurrying away toward the of his life when he saw me. A youth of ordinary resources woii'ldi have been puzzled to account for his own nres- enct' asthere, and I think it w'a notable triumph of his peculiar genius that he 1 hesitated so short a time for a false- j Wed, scarcely long enough indeed to get hie breath. "Your aunt wants you," said be to , Lucy Ann. The gar} rose with a quaint little sigh. It was preasanter no doubt to sit there under the shade of the trees and be a model for a. handsome young artist, pleasanter even to envy Miss Jones' beauty and pretty clothes and unattain- able refittetttent of manner, than to toil' in arts, Withereennn's knell n. I pitied ber with hearty sincerity, exercising therein a virtue not my own, for such Merit Is no more urine than is the money that I spend. I have them both from my father, and my real nature goes back to some selfish anthropoid that lived in a tree and was perfectly satisfied so long as he had cocoanuts enough to fill his own stomach. "What. More cake?" exclaimed Trask, addressing Lucy Ann in a fine, Cheery tone. "Really you mustn't make it so good. We eat it too fast. I ad- vise you to make a nice soggy one this morning." "I guess you don't know my aunt," said Lucy Ann. "Miss Witherspoon„" said I, removing nay hat with reverence, "did you make the cake that we had with our ice cream last evening?" It is a great thing to mean what you say. If I had not vitally believed that that cake was the best ever baked since the world began, I could not have pleased this poor child. She would bave seen straight through me. As it was, she gave me a quick glance of • gratitude. "Yes," said she. "I made it." bad' told kW i,ikw* ttboatt rti. p15at. gratph. Did they geese that I had mope ' bwino,4 rt le ,r, ys lir lea riptlozl, 1 tie Trt►iI ilk ,, ; .' tests post'd It to tie Sibyl a? I rolpabiy. ; did. riot Waste t hours. '.Che tree* e(elteuhent one eiieiaits abo're ]Mks meal 'rade watt was.hithe Secret. Ile It ne'!tr i sang well in the wind, azid, the otters of pt�teb, and ties Ia'w of nature worked Le Where Sibyl Well, for Haat Matter, iso did I. die- i the world weft beedy nit wineTiny defeat me lit the present instance. The E yon %uestion, elle Wee the girl in the ; lured ute ttwaii /MB VII book;i e Mill Who wrote "'.Che Xvezzing Star'" orchard PI nae 'Walk manly mile* without , would never bell dartd to plabltslz tt 1 weariness, indeed with an aeceirp of , fcey tont z Itit 4l' I Iyot1 h rP ' CIIAPri ii VIII. t etrengtlt for every step, and when at . found feiv #hitt eodld plug it, I titTttk Tii7G ast;ecor tl i» 2114 WRECK., i last I strode across- the acids toward a epedal flispeusatloa midst have WO WO north wind was gaining Mrs. Witherspoonaf, with, the western grAnted me, for I got through the firet strength AS #lie clay advanced. , sun giving nae #1 halt anile of .shadow, i stanza like a nightingale, but I per- ! viewedd, that part of the house which spired freeiy with terror. !'hexa 1 The orchard was a mass off held the kitchen with a certain uneasi- : waited, and by my sensation, of dura- nese. At that distance it diel not !oak tion it sitauld have been 4 o'clock in big enough, the ri0Xt afternoon when I beard a But no titan will starve at Mrs. With- 1 bleared sound from the share. It was erspoon'ts, no matter what his appetite the guitar, and presently the lady sang may be. She fed us amply and well again. She bad chosen "Heart's. De - that evening, and I went forth after tbe fight," a quaint little melody, and the observer and the Wage. it seemed bad exceedingly content. The breeze i Sibyl's favorite of all, cis I remembered. perfectly easy to move a little way and bad gone down with the Bun, and the . I have strong faith in the power and tossing boughs as I looked down upon it front wy window. Those trees must have been planted by an in- spired geometrician, for the design was Much that whatever point of observa- tion nalgbt be selected there was al- ways one tree, and only one, between get a clear view, but at the precise in• stent when any given tree passed from the line of vision another interposed. The branches bung low, and tbe lodge was on a hummock, so that a waving green veil always fluttered before it. There was no strong temptation to lodir that way,, for bliss Seott's side of the lodge was the nearer to the house, and Miss Scott, by ail accounts, was not a romantic object, Nevertheless I had aeel•e-rd a habit of staring down into the orchard, and on this particular day the high and rising wind so tossed the boughs that I had a better view than usual. I saw bliss Scott sitting by the door, and I made her out to be angular, awkward and well past her Youth, yet these were guesses, for the distance was considerable and my glimpses momentary as the green bil- lows of the orchard rose and fell. Presently I saw jimmy Lawoine go down the crooked path, and l was not surprised. He exchanged a few words with Miss Scott and then dodged round the corner et the house, passing beyond my vision. Half an hour later I was startled to see him coming along the l��li;.,`�,1��1.```,f1/i'' carriage way that led from the road. There was, however, no mystery in his ti return by this route, for the "lay of the another. I was naturally most inter- ' i,irf4ir••.." land" was such that he could have 'eafed in the orchard, and I propelled passed from the lodge to the road with. the boat to a favorable position, keep - out being visible from any part of the Ing nay distance, however, as I had house, unless perhaps tbe roof. been taught. He paused just outside my window Suddenly I became aware of a light and seemed about to deliver a remark upon the shore. The lake meanwhile *of tremendous importance; then he had clothed itself with indistinctness changed his mind and went on without thitt was not the dark, but scarcely saying anything. This was one of more penetrable. That light had a red - jimmy's favorite methods of .}laking tes clash glow, and it illuminated nothing himself obnoxious; it was -a rite in his "Lucy Ann makes all the cake," said path stood Jimmy _La :wine o J'ero p Track. "She is an incomparable religion meof sorelyy, and it so thus a bight. artist" grieved sorely when he ilius an - me Strip of woodland that layheel of the "In that case," said I, "It is fitting noyed me to be reminded of his sister. • As for the physical resemblance be - house. He was not in search of Airs. that I should carry my hat in my hand tween them which Lucy Ann had men- tioned, I had never been able .to see it; but I was beginning to be painfully aware that there was a certain simllar- ity•in their ways. It was grotesque—the likeness of a fearful caricature. That which was with Anna a pretty air of reticence, the veiling of some sweet fancy, a delicious riddle, appeared in Jimmy as arrant trickery. Thus will a family trait often disclose itself in varied form in the dif- ferent individuals, and beyond a doubt the prudent may now and then gain valuable warnings in this way. But I did not wish to be warned;'I did not believe that it was necessary, and "you'd have seen a gaol many." many a time I could most willingly "So you've en. been a sch any." ,"' I have laid a hand upon James not in the rejoined. "Do you like it better than way of kindness t whene he performed making cake?" before my eyes this dire mockery of his • "Cake is mighty uncertain," said she, sister. I. "but I guess more school pupils are spoiled in the baking. I suppose a per- son naturally likes to do what he can do best. I wish I could draw like Miss rones.ie "Perhaps you' could," said I, "If Mr. 'Trask would teach you. Ile teaches her, doesn't he?" "Yes," said Lucy Ann. "Be teaches ber all the time." "Is she staying here?" I asked. She seemed not to have heard the question, and I was about to repeat it 'when she made a gesture toward the house, and at the same time shook her bead. "You'll see her around quite Often, though," site said. "Ain't she pretty?' "Indeed she is," I assented. "Mighty pretty, I call her," said Lucy Ann, and she compressed her lips firm- ly after the words were out. We walk- ed a little way in silence. "Coodby," she said isuddenly. "I've got to go in." She nodded to 010 and then ran light- ly toward the kitchen door, in which lake seemed to be smooth as a mirror !the n111 of chance to deceive a man, when I viewed it from the head of the • but to take tale for coincidence was an long path. It invited me, and not in impossibility. vain. j It could be only Sibyl that sang to There were bait a dozen boats on me, and I must have been less swept'. the strip of beach, and I chose the one bie to emotion than was the wood of that pleased me best. It was a rule at the boat that bore nae it I had, not Airs. Witherspoon's to follow one's Inn- thought tenderly of the little girl who pulses iu such matters. I judged that had wept in the dark at "Heart's He - a person whose impulses proved to be • light" in the old days, defective would be gently eliminated from this idyllic spot and that the dis- covery of his unfitness would be prompt. Such was my confidence la this notion that at the end of the first week I would have gone into the With- erspoon stable and saddled a horse womanly. I would have said the singer with my eyes shut, sure that had I had been tauglit not only by thoroughly been the sort of fellow to take the competent teisasters, but by ber own wrong horse I should not have re- ' emotions; wen taught by both, and in mained so long a guest of the house. j the school of the heart one gets no I paddled out into the lake. There degree at'10--1t is Indeed an early age was still a traceof color in the sky, and to be admitted. all the air seemed to be most delicately f I made no analysis at that time; I rose tinted. The mere eye could not ' merely thought that It was strange. See this, could not watch it fade into , Therein it was the more agreeable. I the faint gray of the ashes of roses, but did not wish to reduce this adventure it was none the less visible. There were , to the level of the known. It was all 1 whispers from All the shores. The rough asked to sit there in the red ray of fire hill spoke in its own way; the low and speak the language of music with ground where the willows grow hada a dream girl incarnated from the June very different story and the orchard night. There was an interval of silence. Ob. vlously it was for me to break it, acid I suddenly began to ransack my bruin for a good song. That was the wrong place to investigate. If I bed left my brain at Mrs. Witherspoon's it would have been better. Promptings tbat are worth obeying at such times arise from the deep seated. unerring region of in- stinct I could not think et the right song, but if I had sung without think- ing there would bave been no chance In tbe voice itself there was nothing whatever that reminded me of Sibyl. It was not girlish, and of course I could not fully realize the difference that the years bad made. She was still a child to toe, and the voice was ;Witherspoon or upon any errand of all the way back to the house—that is, hers. It did not comport with my hon- if Diiss Witherspoon will let me walk ▪ or to follow 11i111, but he had directed :with her." my attentionato the grove, which was Without waiting for a reply I said more than large enough to afford room good morning to Miss Jonerand Trask, for both of t1Fi. • and grinned at Jimmy so that he might I had come out with the intention of know that I was deliberately with - going down to the lake, but the wood drawing in order to give liim a chance upon the rising ground looked very in- to deliver his message about' the pia viting, and so, taking a different course ture. It was a great and rare pleasure from Timmy's and a more leisurely to observe that he was disconcerted. 'pace, I ascended the gentle slope. I "Did you ever see the like of Jimmy was almost within the shadow of the Lamoine?" said I to Lucy Ann when fine old trees when, turning a little to Nve were out of earshot. the right, I came suddenly into view eif "If you'd taught school, as X have," ,.,a white parSsol with blue polka dots. she replied, mentioning the occupation There was a. girl under it, and I stopped with a touch of pride, as I thought, .short. Immediately Mr. Trask jumped up from the far side of theeparasol, sketchbook and penial in hand, and bailed me by name. The sunshade dropped at that moment, and I had a glimpse of a dainty white gown adorn- ed with blue ribbons and of a very • effective hat—so effective, indeed, that I nearly fell over backward at ; the . sight of it, for beyond possibility of question it was tate one I had a picture • of in my pocket. This was the more :certain. because I saw the hat before the lady turned ber head—'saw it pre- cisely as the camera had caught it. There was but an instant of time, yet it was quite enough. Then I saw the.. ' lady's face and*ecognized Miss Jones • of St. Jo. She looked even prettier than when I had first seen her, and the gown she wore was .certainly a miracle of sweet simplicity. As she rose to greet inc I perceived that she also bad been sketching, and I bad already seen the "subject," who was ne other than our Iandlady's niece, looking quite pictur- • esque in her plain gray gown and the big sunbonnet, which seemed to be her favorite headgear. "Good morning," she said, looking up at me without moving from the "pose," Trask laughed at her in a gently teas- ing fashion _as he took a step or two toward her and put his sketch pad into her hands. "You're a great model, Lucy Ann," ' .he said. "I'm ashamed to bave done no better." She looked at the sketch with an eager, childish interest and seemed to •enjoy holding it in her bands. I saw this out of the corner of my • eye, Myr main attention being given to AIMS Jones. Positively this timid not be Sibyl; there was not the slightest physical resemblance. Pier manner vaguely reminded Inc of some ono 1 had kitoAvn, but surely hot Sibyl, whose habitual embarrassment in youth must have left some trace upon her, and Miss Jones was perfectly, at ease. I had been pursuing a phantom. The picture I had found unquestionably represented the girl before toe. She ,and Sibyl must be friends, and thus the picture had come into our house. It b th diointment and a was o a snpp teller. 11iy thought of it Was ti enlige mass of contradictions. I would have liked to find Sibyl, though I had tome to Mrs. Witherspoon's to avoid doing • so. I had given myself great uneesi' nese for fear that Sibyl would net be pretty, and here wag the prettiest girl that 1 had seen in five years, yet I was g'iad elle was not Sibyl. While we talked there was a orae. kltng in the underbrush and suddenly • Jimmy Lamoine burst forth. In a great • hurry. It must hate been the eurprlao t She gain the a Ottcic plane of gratitude. at that moment appeared Mrs. Wither- apoon, looking, as I thought, not quite As pleasant fid usual. X glanced back toward the spot whir=l we had left the dithers. All were upon their feet, Trask teeing in May dtreer• Not Iong after he passed the wtedow I sow him going down into the orchard again, 'this time accompanying Lucy Ann and carrying In a big basket the luncheon for Miss Scott and the girl. I, observed that Lucy Ann took out the portion that was Miss Scott's and that jimmy then carried the basket around to the other side. So Lucy Ann did not serve the girl; did not see her at all. What could this mean? Obviously that the girl was some one whom Lucy Ann would recognize if she should see her at close range. I lotted down this point for future reference. I had not yet made up my mind that the girl was Sibyl; that is, I had said so to myself, but something within me had refused belief. Ideally I could as easily believe that Miss Jones was Sibyl. The basis of this confusion was that elusive memory such as drives one distracted when a name dances upon the tip of the tongue for hours, even for trays, and will not be uttered. The girl reminded Atte of somebody, and it seemed that it I could but thinks of that person all doubt would vanish. It did not vanish when I thought of Sibyl. 1 $pent the afternoon in the woods ttione, "a book of verses underneath Thirty Years of Pile Torture Doctors failed and Mrs. Row• don never expected td be well again -•- Dr. Chase's hint =tront Cured. Mas. W. Itownott, North St., St. Catharines, except the narrowest path upon the water. I made it out to be a fire of of mistake. little sticks kindled upon the rocks that While I hesitated. a little breeze were quite rugged at tbe eastern side sprang up from the south. The bow of of the orchard's sea 'edge uear the hill. my boat was high, and she swung up - It was so placed as to be visible over on ber stern as on a pivot, pointing a small area only, and this I knew from toward the shore and making way in having come so suddenly into the view i that direction. I put strength upon my of it. Now, what should a light be kin- oar, but too late. There was a reef in died for upon the shore except for the the Witherspoon lake, and I struck it, sailor who seeks a harbor? A beacon Tite iron shoe of the boat grdted upon is set upon a rock as a guide to show the rocks with a singularly long.and the way. But there are false lights, of harsh sound. It seemed to me that a course, and the mariner must exercise man-of-war miRht have gone aground great caution; he must not set all sail and made less noise. in a hurry. I was 50 yards from the shore, but I am a good skipper of small craft. I perhaps tate girl did not know it. My can paddle over the rail of a boat, and boat may have been quite invisible to you shall neither hear nor see anything her, Indeed, if she were directly be - that bears a hint of propulsion. , And hind the fire it inust have been. If the thus I floated in toward the shore sound of the keel upon the rock were through the gray night. exaggerated to her, as it was to me, she Presently there came a sound as if a may well hove believed that I was hand had been laid upon a stringed in- strument; then there were chords very lightly struck, and at last I heard a woman's voice singing softly an air that was new to me. Considering this matter in a coldly rational fashion, it was evident that if the lady had wished me farther away she would have sung more loudly. Her voice was so won- derfully clear, even in this whisper of singing, that I felt sure she could have made the music audible across the lake. Plainly, then, this was an invitation, and .upon the, strength of it I cut my distance front tbe shore in 'half. Yet the song neither ceased nor grew louder. My boat must have been visible. It might look white or black in the night, for that question is not determined by the normal color of the paint. If the firelight reached it, the skiff would show white ' and declare itself more plainly for what it was. I decided to be frank about it and not try to prase for the trunk of n tree. In matters of romance I believe thoroughly in hon- esty—if it wins. So I cut off another rod or two of distance. The fire was now quite distinct. It seemed to be on a flet rock not much above the water level, and behind It was a curving wall, a little cliff ten feet high, but of this only the top was visible, for it was af; course impossible for me to see anything that was di- rectly behind the light. As for the singer, she was utterly in- visible. There was something mystical in this music, Which scented to proceed out of the fed the that, with the fa- miliar habit of inanimate moving ob- jects, assttmed to the eye the rhythm of the song. 1 was so deeply fascinated by nil this that I forgot my seaman. ship and let my our strike the boat's rail with a sharp sound. Ont., states t--" For thirty years I was severely Instantly the music ceased, And I was afflicted' with piles which gave me such pro- tortured by a perfect silenee. This longed torture that I did not expect to ever be was an emergency, and I knew it, Th2 wek again. I have been treated by physicians ginger might be at that moment escape who have grown gray in the practice of meds. tug by some secret path among the cine without obtaining rocks. For a moment I wad near to relief' I don't suppose the deadly banality ort Addressing her, theta ever was A mom a l0 long, ntroductn myself, com- discouraged sufferer Ito g g than I was.netting I kit w Piot what absurdity. Finally 1 was fortun. Then It odeurred to my .mind that Ate enough tw come sin,; there uhdoubtedly was a way of across Dr. Chase's escape for It r It might possibly be Ointment and after tis- ing a few boxes my permissible for me to sing. There have bong -standing c 0 to • been serenades in ell ages, and un' plaint departed and 1 dotxbtediy tit one tithe be another We - p.m tunree from I maty to every men sAtomhave !listened to worse voices then that if this Oimmcnt mine with v\‘,„y kind aeceptanea of the offering forhe sake of the apirlt in Which it has eon trade. So I song the. lust thing trit rattle into toy head, and It happeped be a billed called ' The indite trivial in very Con, with Miss onka at his right hand Wig` ItOW0011 could not be got for pod, 1I1nn11' Aft his left, 117 the wit less than tell Mears *box I would Mot be with. that 't'eein'g head turned !rein aide to out it.. tide I know that An ftnlinated eonetr• Dr. Chase's Ointment is to wily gtntrot ed tuition on tris ogrt`e u T auto. Portrait and netting sem be in 3raubt as to the $Y<b�et f. Jimni 4 Signature •f Dr. A. W..;hate, on y boa... -- - 1 Lod I eo id not cute far piles. Iib cents a box At all deatetir, Lelniin5op Mitten &CCo.r of much closer to the land. Whatever she saw or believed, the .1. result was the worst possible, The fire + + + 1 The hottest horse may oft he Dont ; The eooiest may show tire; The friar may play the tool. The fool may play the ftisr. WATT YOU THINK IT'S TIME we Orangemen, and especially us P. P. A.'s, were a little more loyal to the good KTng William, when the Catholics are praying for temperance once a day, and will neither treat nor be treated to anything that is sold be- hind the bar. If we were loyal to the man who fought so well for us at the Boyne, it would not need 40 extra magistratss in our County to keep us straight, Have retired from the old -tine sport, hilt never .44. flinched against all comers for about 3-8 of a t ntury. If you think not, all you have to di is to trot out ' your old- 4 time war horses and I will wrestle thele with one foot and come off with success the same as I did with that notor- - ious Jim Heron as I threw hien and slapped his mouth for trying to take rrfy life below the dam in the Maitland River. Taking my cold water bath one morning, swam and re -swam the rapids since.—A. R. SMITH. •t Keep Keep your eye on our advts. at all tunes for money- + • saving chances. We got the chance to buy the very best 4 make of Overcoats in Toronto. 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