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The Wingham Times, 1905-01-26, Page 7(11 feti44-44-414:aa04,--,:rr1 04'000** 0*t 10411011110eallse.`,011110,00a, The Giri of the Orchaid Copyright. 1901, by Charles W. Hooke', zry .. • hf o w a rcl ervirAimaaeotaarasek, memmir Nerdeazaanyarrai.. *** • .44'. atErtirki-4"1,. ,4tattittrzntereti-A V -• • • • 4 4 rt. 4 4' 4 e-4-e-vera-ttes.aercerer " "Come along with us," said she. "We are going up to the north tree." "Where we werebefere," added Trask 111 explanation. "AU the trees have names. There must be severe' thou- sand on the place, but I bave yet to :find one that hasn't been christened. Mr, Witherspoon named them." I responded that I had not had the ,pleasure of seeing that gentleman. "You probably never got him in a good light," said Trask. "Otherwise be is too thin to be visible. Ile is so thin that the wind blows him around the estate, and you'll always find him on the leeward side. The wind's north to- -day; he'll have drifted down by the lake," As to the invitation to accompany them it naturally seemed one made to be declined, and I was surprised to dis- ',cover that both master and pupil were :sincere in their wish for my society. We walked up to the north tree almost in silence, and when we had sat down upon the' ground in great comfort we fell into a most despondent strain of conversation. "Sad stories of the .tleath of kings" would have seemed like merry jests in the midst of our talk. I was again strongly reminded of • some one else when Miss Jones was speaking. She had ways of using words that appealed vainly to my • memory again and again. But the clew was nearer to me than it had been be- fore, and presently the truth flashed 'up before me—the girl reminded me • of my father. Continuing to speak when it seemed sto be my turn, but without putting any sthought into what I was saying, I be - :Igen to arrange the evidence in my mind. I knew that Miss Jones had come out of the orchard that morning, !but did that prove that she was the :girl? Certainly not. She was a friend .of the girl and had been her guest for a night. She had evidently been much in my father's company. I had found her • portrait infour house. She was Sibyl's :friend, and Sibyl was the girl. My si- ren of the lake had been Sibyl—surely -mot Miss Jones, for she had not the -,throat of a singer. Wet even at this time it was no easier ;for Inc• to believe that the girl was Sibyl than to accept the conclusion that .my father's ward sat before me there -on the grass. The girl, to me, remain - et distinct from both of them; her real personality hovered just beyond my mental grasp. If she were Sibyl, thea some strange transformation bed taken place; some image had effaced my con - /used recollection of the child, substi- stating itself instead and in such form !that I could not recognize the two as ,different views of the same individual. Returning to 'the consideration of •Trask, I asked myself why he bad ai- rways shown such feeling for the girl, -why he had sent the lilies to her? "I give him up," said I suddenly, :speaking aloud, to my owu surprise :and confusion. • "Give whom up?" demanded Trask. "There was some kind of a biting bug flying around," said I weakly, '"and I had been trying to catch him." This explanation was received with eredence, yet I felt the need of divert- ing attention. "Trask," said I, "we've fallen into a ,great fit of the blues for no especial reason that I can see, and you're the worst of the three. Tell me candidly what stems to you to be the matter with this world. I speak of,general ,prIneiples, of course, arid not of your private affairs." "The trouble with life," said he, frowning, "is that a man is asked to fight battles after they are done, to wave bis sword upon lost fields and beg the dead of yesterday to arise and follow him." "That sounds to me like some form sof fatalism," said L "It is a general kick," growled Trask. "I am not ambitious to give it a philo- sophical title. Destiny has too much the start of a man. He arrives :ninon prearranged conditions and •Kidney Disease and Rheumatism • • 'These terribly painful aliments are thoroughly cured by Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Since rheumatism arises from derangements ,cf thekidneys it can never be cured until these ..organs are restored to health. By acting directly en the kidneys Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills cure both kidney disease and rheumatism. - MO. 111011AR, Newmarket, Ont, states:— "1 have used Dr. Chstes Xidney-Liver Pills for kidney trouble, and would not be without ern for a great deal. They have certainly done me a world of good, and I would not •think of using any other medicine for an ailment of this kind." "My husband is troubled with sciatic rheu. matism and is using Dr. Chases Xidney-Liver Pills. They are doing him more good than any L. • medicine he ever used, and we both heartily re. t •commend theta as at excellent medicine." Dr. Chase's Xidney-Liver Pills, the comfort • bt old age, one pill a dose, 23 cents a box, at *12dealers. Portrait and signature of Dr. A. W. •Chase on every box. Mit cannot wham Dr, Chen% hake ;ache Platter hi applied: looks around, and, lot he must cross a late in a boat from which his great- grandfather knocked out the bottom, and the oars have been made wrong by some ono whom he never saw or 11 of." "Don't you care, if he's all right him- self," said a voice. "Ile'll get across." I beheld Lucy Ann, who came softly around the big bush in the shade of which Trask was sitting. Trask's countenance brightened re- markably as he sprang to his feet. "I thought you couldn't come," said he. "Your aunt was very discourag- ing." "Well, here I am," said Luey Ann 'cheerfully. "Isn't this lovely?" She sat down beside Miss Jones upon the farther side from Trask and fanned herself contentedly with a battered palm leaf,' Her Quaker suit had been freshly ironed and looked quite spick and span. "Dearly beloved," said she, breaking a silence that had fallen upon us, "we are met together here upon this solemn occasion to roll up .the bright sun in the blue sky, tie it with a string and bury It in the cold, cold ground. What is the matter with you folks?" "We were rearranging the universe," said I, "and not doing it well." "It's queer," said she, "that the man who is least fit to do it is always the one that wants to. I should think a despondent fellow would know that he oughtn't to try. If you'll take your pencil and go to work, Mr. Trask, you won't feel that way. The reason why the world was made in six days—such a terrible lot to do in so short a thue--was so that it might be a cheerful place to live in, being the product of hard work. That shocks your orthodoxy, doesn't it?" she added, taking Miss Jones' hand with a quick, childish movement. "There's nothing so shocking as your own creed stated by a heretic. You must know that I'm an agnostic, Mr. Terry. I've read one book about it all through. Another would kill me " "You sit still," said Trask, taking up his pencil, "just as you are. Don't move or breathe for 15 minutes, and I'll have you this time." The little Quakeress'froze to a statue while Trask worked away as if for his life. Ile, had shifted his position so that he faced the two girls. Lucy Ann was looking away from him, but it seemed to me that Miss Jones was studying him closely every moment and not for the sake of art. Somehow she seemed to me then a higher type of woman. There was an earnestness in her face that I had not seen before, and it became her. Be- yond question she was the most beau- tiful creature that I had ever beheld, and the idea that Trask could pay his court to her for any other cause than her own obvious attractions fell away from my mind. The thing simply would not permit itself to be thought of in her presence. Trask finished his sketch with en- thusiasm, and Miss Jones and I were permitted to see it as he was adding the last strokes. It was a remarkable study, very pleasing to the eye, but not a portrait. Miss Jones viewed it and expressed her appreciation in technical terms. And last of all It was exhibit- ed to Lucy Ann, who seemed to be startled by this delicious flattery. She glanced quickly at Trask and her cheeks flushed. "It doesn't look like me," she said, "I wish it did." Trask took the sheet into his hands and slowly tore it into strips while Lucy Ann gazed up at him in a way which, I grieve to say, reminded me 'slightly of a hungry little dog watching his master eat up the last scrap of the dinner. "The thing was a total failure," he said. "I don't know why. It seemed all right while I was doing it. Did you want it, Lucy Ann?' He bad glanced down into her eyes. "Yes," said she simply, and my hand Itched for a grip of ,the fellow's collar. "How many have you already?" he asked, with a laugh. "A few," said Lucy Ann. "I'll make you a better one," said he, "better than any of them, a really good one. You—just—wait." He spoke the last Words slowly and Shook his finger at her. "I don't want one that looks like me," said she. "I want one just like that." She pointed downward at the white fragments on the grass. So it pleased the little girl to be idealized by this particular artist. Then and there I made up my mind to speak privately to Trask and tell him gently to get out. *4.1 ft.•••111 CHAPTER XI. TEE MD= OP TIM SONO. N a lonesome Swiss village I Met a crippled youth, the son of an Alpine guide, and he COuld sing remarkably svell. lis repertory was not large, but it in - Bolted geed taste dad an 'unhappylspoS1tIon, lispoSition, both of which are supposed o be necessary elements of the artistic emperatnent. One day I heard the singer exercising , his voice upon something exceptionally weird, Miner and Meltinchely, itnd when 1asked iiin Whitt it Was h re- plied that Iso had ambled It the pre - ion a night, It wad Insistently ineont- • plete, and be had stipplied only one T11 line of words, which May be translated thus: "The path was straight and neither long nor steep." All the rest Was tra-la-la, as be sang At nay request lie 'spoke the singly line, Se that X might catch it exactly. "The path was a ray of light from ber window," he added lit explanation. "The woman he loved, you under. stand." "Well?" said 1 in an encouraglug fashion. "That path," he continued, "was sup. ported upon little snow wreaths"—and be waved his hand with a gentle, undu- lating motion, as if indicating the un- substantial arches of the drifting storm. "It led straight to her"—and here he paused and looked up into my face—"over a chasm as deep as the world." Hedrew his liand sbarply across in 4 front of him, as if his Angers had been the blade of a magic knife to carve the Impassable rift, of his dream to the very heart of the globe, "The Amen saw the way, but could not go," he hastened to say, afraid, as an artist always is at such a moment, that his pearls might have been east before swine. Seeing that I had not failed to com- prehend, he settled back upon his bench and glancetl downward with a shiver at his helpless and distorted legs. A month or more afterward in Berlin I put this air into a form that made a song of it, though the finished composi- tion was sadly inferior to the frag- ment. I was fully aware of this, but 1 had to do it. There was no ,otber way to get the thing out of my head. Also I wrote some verses which sound- ed like those familiar English trans- lations of classical German songs made by a person ignorant of both languages and of the art of poetry. Yet a patient and discerning listener might gather from my lines the gist of the poor young Switzer's notion. This little story is necessary to the telling of a. strange thing that hap- pened on Mrs. Witherspoon's lake. It may have been four or five days later than the incidents described In the last chapter, and meanwhile I had been making a most egregious donkey of myself from purely altruistic motives. I had devoted myself to Miss joues, taking her away from Trask whenever I could—and, singularly enough, that did not seem to be very diefieult. Such small artifices as I am master of fre- quently sufficed to divide the sketching party under the north tree into two groups, thus giving Inc an opportunity to talk with but one listeuer—some- times without any at all, I dare sear, looking back upon it now. My amiable Intention was to give Trask a chat:see to learn the truth of his own heart. 1 had changed my mind about telling him to go away, and had decided that he was really in love wig Miss Witherspoon and didn't know it. That she loved him was beyond ques- tion, and it seemed no more than fait that she should be seen for herself and not hidden in the light of another girl's beauty. X have mentioned the report that Miss Jones was an heiress, a rumor wIsich, M the singular conditions prevailing, I was not able to verify. She certainly had the way of one accustomed to everything that money can buy. But I never really charged Trask with mer- cenary motives. I believed that be was dazzled, that he was under the spell of a physical allurement, which, I am will- ing to confess, was strong enough sorue- times to make me tremble. For the girl was beautiful beyond belief, and that's the truth about it. The experienced reader will say at once that I was doing the worst thing possible, and to this opinion I can add that nothing else need be expected of Inc. In matters of romance I am the complete and perfect blunderhead. Poor little Lucy Ann! That I should wish her well and plot in her behalf was enough of itself alone to lose the game. This had been going on for the best part of a week, as I have said, and I was beginning to wonder in odd moments whether it was my heart or Trask's that was the subject of the experiment, when fate removed the bandage from any eyes for a small part of a second. We were walking in the edge of the north grove—we four—and this time it was Lucy Ann's society with whicb I was favored. I am of the opinion that Trask and Miss Jones, who were ahead, thought that we had stopped to pick borne roses. We hadn't, and the result was that we came upon them unexpectedly as they stood under a' gnarled tree with a great black trunk that looked as broad as a barn door. can see them now outlined against that sMgular background, the girl aglow, self luminous with her beauty; orBUOICIEM Jsints !a 1. hi n y a Trifllng Co Has been the Lumley Song of ivieny a Victim to their Last Long Sleep. A cough should be loosened as speedily as possible, and all irrita- tion allayed before it settles in the lungs. Once settled there Bron- chitisaud Consumption may follow. DR. WOOD'S NO11WAY PINE SYRUP is just the remedy you require. The virtues of the Norway Pine and Wild Cherry Bark, With other standard pectoral Herbs and Balsams, are skilfully combined to produce a reliable, safe and effectual remedy for an forms of Coughs and Colds. Mr. N. 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Surely if slice bad she was a thoroughbred. I gave no hint to her, nor she to me, uniese perhapsleis. e,there. was less color in Ler ei In the evening of this day occurred the incident of the lake. The Ore was burning upon the rocks for the third time. Once since the first interchange of songs I had found the beacon aflame and had thrilled to that wonderful voice again, responding humbly with nay own for want of a better. I think the experience had helped to preserve me from Miss Jones. Upon this third occasion it was consolation and a cheering view of life that I required, for I was bearing some of Lucy Ann's burden, and it was enough to sink the boat. Why did my father pass to me this spark of sympathy as the Greek racers handed on the toreb? He car- ries it easily, and it lights his way, but it merely burns my fingers. When I drew softly up along the path of the fire, the girl was standing beside it, and she seemed to be per- forating some sort of incantation. It may be, however, that she was only putting on some wood. Her face was turned away, and suddenly she disap- peared iuto the invisible space beyond the blaze. I sang a little song of Schumann's because it was short, and the girl, after The picture was a perfect revelation, a pause long enough to excite my ap- prehension, responded with "The River and the Rose." I thought the line, "What bast thou done with the rose?" might have some reference to my slighted token of flowers, but this idea did not come to me till the song was done. While she sang it was impossi- ble to think of anything. It was a matter of pure emotion. However, since questions were in order, I did my poor best with "Who Is Sylvia?" I was in hopes that her reply would throw some light upon the question, Who is the girl in the orchard? But for some minutes I was rewarded only by chords of the guitar, untranslatable, not meant to be understood. Then the girl began to sing even more softly than usual, as if to herself. I have never been able to understand the acoustic properties of that spot. The little elift' might well have acted as a sort of sounding board, but the ascending column ot air due to the firs should have neutralized the effect Lad to a certain degree muffled the tone to my ear. Yet there was a spot upon the water where I could get a most remarkable illusion of nearness. The singer would seem to be beside me, and more than once I felt that strange chill of the supernatural and looked almost fearfully into the shadows that were cleft by the. path of light. This time the miracle was twofold, for not only was the voice incredibly 'star, but COMPOUND • CURES AN ONTARIO LADY After years of fail uresauiseriesogonies net 4legponriPtiny, Mr. Hooper, of Tennis ail, Ont., wee cured by Paiue's Qslery ionitenual. She arlys;— " With 'meat pleasure and satisfaction ( ti.,h to add my testimonv to what has tireadY been said in favor of Peine'e Jittery Compouud. 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The manuscript was nailed up In a. box with various documents, papers and books contain-. lug records of laboratory work which I had shipped from Germany. I had seen that box unopened in our house since my return. , In New York I had not sung except In my room at the hotel when my father was there, and once afterward to Cushing. If I had favored either of them with that particular composition, beyond a doubt I should have told the story of it, and I could not remember to have done so. In fact, I would have staked my head that the song had never been heard in this country until the girl gave voice to it there upon the reeks behind her veil of flame. It seemed that she did not know it all, for she broke off in the middle of a phrase and went back to the begin- ning. • This must be by way of sug- gestion to me, and so I sang the strange little song, being Inspired to a the girl was singing my Swiss song, which she couldn't possibly know. (To be continued.) FREIE TRIA.114 BOTTLE. 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