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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1905-11-16, Page 7FNNIFllh1TFR; OURNht18J BY ROBERT BARR. fug to meet him, for I know he has something host interesting to tell me. gDon't you think yourself, princess, that a man acts rather h •3 a foul when he is deeply in love?" To this there was no reply, and the princess left the room. Miss Jennie jumped to her feet and almost ran to the library. She found the princewalk- ing up and down the long room with a telegraph message in his hand. "You are a most wonderful young woman," he said; "read that." "I have been told so by more observ- Sng men than you, Prince von Steinhei- mer," said the girl, taking the tele- gram. It was from the manager of the bank in Vienna, and it ran: "Special messenger leaves with package by the 11teran express tonight." "Just as I thought," said Miss Jen- nie. "The diamonds never left the bank. I suppose those idiots of servants which the princess has round her didn't know what they took away from Vienna and what they left. Then, when the dia- monds were missing, they completely lost their heads—not that any one in the castle has much wits to spare. I never saw such an incompetent lot." The prince laughed. "You think, perhaps, I have not wits enough to see that nay wife cares for me. Is that it? Is that why you gave we my own letters?" "Oh, you are well mated! The prin- cess now does me the honor of being jealous of me. Think of that! As if it were possible that I shotld take any in- terest in you, for I have seen real men in my time." The prince regarded her with his most severe expression. "Are you not flattering yourself somewhat, young lady ?" "Oh, dear, no l I take it as the reverse of flattering to be supposed that I have any liking for such a ninny as yon are. Flattering indeed ! And she has haughti- ly dismissed me, if son please." "The princess has? What have you been saying to her?" "Oh, I made the most innocent re- elo rJ "Enough of this Footing. There are the diamonds 1" cried the prince. cess sat at the foot, as far from her hus- band as she could conveniently get without attracting notice. Miss Baxter stood near a window reading an im- portant letter from London which had reached her that morning. The tail, thin detective and the portly Mr. Briggs came in together, the London man bow- ing gravely to the prince and princess. Mr. Briggs took a seat at the side of the table, but the detective remained stand- ing, looking questioningly at Miss Bax- ter, but evidently not recognizing her as the lady who had come in upon liim and his friend when they bad entered the train. "I beg the pardon of your highness, but what I have to say had better be said with as few hearers as possible. I should be much obliged if this young person would read her correspondence in another room." "The young woman," said the prince coldly, "is secretary to her highness and is entirely in her confidence." The detective, apparently unruffled by the discourtesy he met, bowed pro - mark, and it was the truth, too, which . foundly toward the prince, cleared his shows that honesty is not always the throat and began. best policy. I merely told her that you "May I ask your highness," be said, bad offered me ten times the amount of addressing himself to the princess, "how money she is paying me. Yon needn't much money you possessed just before jump as if somebody had shot off a gun you left Vienna?" at your ear. You know you did make The lady looked up at him in surprise, such an offer." but did not answer. "You confounded little mischief "In heaven's name, what has that to maker!" cried the prince in anger. do with the loss of the diamonds?" "Did you tell her what it was for?" rapped out the prince, his hot temper "No. She did not ask." getting once more the better of him. . "I will thank you to apply the clev- Cadbury Taylor spread out his hands erness you seem to possess to the undo- and shrugged his shoulders in protest ing of the harm you have so light at the interruption. He spoke with def- heartedly caused." erence, but nevertheless with a touch "How can I? I am ordered to leave of reproach in his tone. eonight, when I did so wish to stay and "I am accustomed to be listened to gee the diamond denouement." with patience and am generally al - "You are not goingbtonight. I shall lowed to tell my story my own way, speak to the princess about it if that your highness." should be necessary. Your mention of "What I complain of is that you are •Etie diamonds reminds me that my re- not telling any story at all, but are ask- spected father-in-law, Mr. Briggs, in- ing instead a very impertinent ques- fornus me that a celebrated detective, tion." whom it seems he has engaged—Cad- "Questions which seem to you irrele- bury Taylor, I think the name is—will vent maybe to a trained mind most"— "Bosh I Trained donkeys! Do you be here tomorrow to explain the die- • know where the diamonds are?" mond mystery, so you see you have a "Yes, I do," answered Cadbury Tay - competitor." lor, still imperturbable, in spite of the Oh, is Cadbury coming? That is rovocation he was receiving. too jolly for anything. I simply must p "Well, where are they?" stay and hear his explanation, for he is "They are in the vaults of your bank a very famous detective, and the con-. -len Vienna." elusions he has arrived at must be most "I don't believe it. Who stole them, "Don't try to excuse yourself. If I interesting." I then?" I had ever supposed you capable of such In the per special omessengertlio who fiiamonrst took a s arrived "They were put there by her high- baseness, I never should have married formal receipt for them and then most ness the Princess von Steinbeimer, you. I don't see how you will be able doubtless in security for money"— to look her in the face when she comes obsequiously took his departure. By the same train came Mr. Cadbury Taylor, "What!" roared the prince, spring- to visit us next week. ing to his feet, his stentorian voice "You don't understand," said John THE WIN('lIAM TIMES NOVEMBER 16, 1905 you, and if you bad overheard us yea would not need me to tell you eo. He thinks Schanutberg--not that I ever saw the poor man, but he is bound to be an idiot or the prince wouldn't be jealous of him, As nobody had stolen the diamonds after all thle fuss, so no one has stolen the affection of either of you from the other. I can sea by the way you look at each other that I won't need to apologize for leaving you alone together while I run up stairs to pack." "Oh, but you are not going to leave us I" cried the princess. "I should be delighted to stay, but there is no rest for the wicked, and I must get back to London." With that the girl ran to her room and there reread the letter she had re- ceived. It ran: DEAR MISS BAXTER—We are in a very considerable dilemma here, so I write to ask you to return to London without delay, go- ing back to the Tyrol later on to finish the investigation of the diamond mystery. The Duchess of Chisellunrst is to give a great ball on the 20th. It is to bo a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted. We have set at work every influence to obtain an invi- tation for a reporter, but without success, the reply invariably given being that an official account will be sent to the press. Now, I want you to sot your ingenuity at work and gain admittance if possible, for I am determined to have an account of this ball written in such a way that every one who reads it will know that the writer was present. If you can man - ago this, I can hardly toll you how grateful the proprietor and myself will be. Yours very truly, RADNOR HARDWICK. Miss Jennie Baxter sat for some mo- ments musing, with the letter in her hand. Suddenly her eyes lit up, and she sprang to her feet. "What a fortunate thing it is," she cried aloud, "that I did not send on the refusal of the princess to the Duchess of Chiselhurst I I had forgotten all about it till this moment." The Trelclsing Wagon. The South African wagon is a long, heavy cart mounted on four high wheels, as a rule, with a sort cf canvas tent over the back half, leaving the front clear to carry the miscellaneous furniture of its owner, drawn by 16, 18 or 20 oxen, curiously fierce looking, with their immense spread of horn, sometimes as much as eight feet from tip to tip and rarely less than six, but in reality as patient and hardworking beasts as one could wish to find. Their mode of progression is certain- ly slow, but there are a strangeness and a fascination about it which may draw men to it almost as the Alps draw their devotees. In front there marches the "voor looper," generally a small boy, leading the two foremost oxen by a rein or rope passed through their nos- trils. The driver walks alongside with the long and terrible whip he uses so un- sparingly or else sits on the front of the wagon and gets off occasionally to lash up the whole team with unfailing im- partiality. The traveling is all done at night, starting a little before sunset and marching till perhaps 11 or 12 o'clock; then there is a halt till a little before the first signs of dawn, when they go on again till the sun begins to get hot overhead, and then they lie by for the day. SUFFERING WOMEN who find life a burden, can bavo health and strength restored by the use of An Explanation. "John," said the funny man's wife sternly, "did you write this horrid mother-in-law joke in The Weekly Snicker?" "Yes, my dear," replied John hum- bly, "but"— "Well, I think you are just too mean for anything. Hasn't my mother al- ways treated you like her own son?" "Yes, love, I know she has, "but then"— as modest as ever, but giving some in- ringing to the coiling. "Do you mean dication in his bearing of the impor- f te1 f 1 to insinuate, you villain, that my wifetrine desperately. "She told me that joke herself, and it will tickle her to death tem elbadlio dledo him hiehinm eking. 4He stole her own diamonds?" to see it in print."—San Francisco blandly evaded the curiosity of Mr."If your highness would allow me to Examiner. Briggs and said it would perhaps be proceed in my own"— Couldn't Help Saying It. better to reveal the secret in the pres- "Enough of this fooling. There are the diamonds!" cried thebprince, jerk- "Dearest," asked the confiding girl, once of the prince and princess. ing the box from his pocket and Sing- after her usual manner, "am I really , I C � t'd Just what su. pe e " nattered a ing it on the table. 'Arr. Briggs, who had long been con "There!" shouted old man Briggs, vinced that the prince had stolen the atones. The important gathering took place cringing his clinched fist down on the oak. "What did I tell you? I knew it ell along. The prince stole the dia- monds and in his excitement yanks them out of his pocket and proves it. I Laid so from the first." "Oh, father, father!" moaned the princess, speaking for the first time. "How can you say such a thing? My husband couldn't do a mean action if he tried. The idea of his stealing the diamonds! Not if they were worth a thousand millions and detection impos- sable. "('nae, some," cried Miss Jennie Baxter, stepping enersetieally forward. 'I imagine everybeely !me had enough of this. l'l.,ar out, Mr. Briggs, and take Mr. Tayl r with you. I am sure he has telt had any breakfast yet, and be cer- tainly looks hungry. I£ you hire detect- ives, Mr. Briggs, you must take care of them. Out yon go. The dining room is ever so mach more inviting just now than the library, and if you don't see what you want ring for it." She drove the two speechless men out before her and, closing the door, said to the prince, who was still standing be- wildered at having his hand forced in m this manner: more good than so much , "There! Two fools from four leave MOW. two. Now, my dears—I'm not going to "A friend advised me highness either of you ---you aro simply .iii the library, the prince, with the dia- monds in ills coat pocket, seated at the head of the long table, while the priu- Protruding Piles Doctors Failed A helpless sufferer in desper- ate condition until cured by Dr. Chase's Ointment. Mn. .7ou a W. MoLlcoD, carpenter, Tarbot- • bale N.S., writes: "I was confined to my toed by protruding piles, unable to move with- out the greatest pain. As the trouble affected imy whole system, I was soon brought to realize the seriousness of my con- I dition, and though!, no person ever suffered as 1 did. Tho doctor gave me an ointment which did me no good, not even af- fording temporary miter.Then a specialist gave me a different kind of oint- moot, butiI b did e no the use of Dr. Chase s el Ointment, bind the first; . ,.f �1 pplication brought ro- Mit, MCLEOD slot. By the use of one through foolish misunderstandings that box I was comple y trouble a few words would put right if Dither ' cured and have not lied a trace of the old f had sense enough to speak them, i ren 9 at11Ce. I d to all sorts of was expose 0 you W 1 the woods as foreman of the Vnetmea, Gypsum . hero to speak them for you. Now, Co., and have had no indicativa of piles." madame, I am ready to swear that the And guaranteed Dr. Chsstee Ointment is the only positive ied euro for pike, 60 els., at all prince has never said anything to me dealers, or Edmanson, slates & Co., Toronto. , ( 1 that dM not ,show his deep love for two lone people who like each other immensely, yet who are drifting apart your first and only love?" "No, darling," said the young drug- gist, "but you are something just as good. "—Indianapolis Journal. Milburn'sHeart and Nerve Pills. Tho present generation of women and girls have more than their share of misery. With some it is nervousness and palpitation, with others weak, dizzy and fainting spells, while with others there is a general collapse of the system. Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills tone up the nerves, strengthen the heart and make it beat strong and regular, create new red blood cor- puscles, and impart that sense of buoyancy to the spirits that is the result of renewed mental and physical vigor. Mrs. D. O. Donoghue, Orillfa, Ont., writes: " For over a year 1 was troubled with nervous- ness and heart trouble. I decided to give Mil - burn's Heart and Nerve Pills a trial, and after using five boxes I found I was completely cured. I always recommend them to my friends." Price 50 cents per box or three boxes for $1,25, all dealers or The T. Milburn Co„ Limited Toronto, Ont. The South African gold mines recovered from the effects of the war, as shown by the out: i r• inr July —$9,031,250, against $S,di' t (.0'1 in Aug- ust, ISM, the highest record bete:re the ever. An Empty Nest, (Mary Abarr, in Harper's Magazine,1 A grave old man and a maiden fair Walked together at early morn; Tho thrushes up in the clear, cool air Sang to the farmer planting his oorn, And 0, how sweet was the fresh -turned hold! And 0, how fair tree! For daisy's silver and daffodil's gold Were fall of the happy honey -bens. "Ah, look! there's an empty nest," she said: "And I wonder where year's birds?" Then the old man quickly head, Though scarcely he noted her words; He tore the nest from the swaying tree, thing ung to the winds its moss and hay, And said: "When an empty nest you 800, Be sure that you throw 11 far away." "By why?" she asked, with a sorrowing face— "Why may not the pretty homeabide?" "Because," he answered, "twill be a place In which the worm and slug willhide. Last year 'twos fair enough in its way— lt was full of love and merry with song: But days that are gone today, Nor dead joys do wrong." were the budding sing the last have Boer bs weather last d fall, anspent b the winter in 1 which you haven't, t, and that's1 y I' Farmers' Faultry y Wo want all your Poultry, alive or dressed, and will pay the Highest Prices for it. Quotations sent promptly on regttest. FLAVELLES, LIMITED LONDON - - r ONT. raised his musing must not the living spoil joys RESIGNATIONS. (Sir Laurier rouses as follows after reading i',unaf(llow's immortal poem.) There is no flock, however watched and tended Bat one dead lamb is there! There is no Cabinet, howeoe'er defend- ed, That could have stood for Blair. J Israel Tarte for a brief space got bnay. And thought to seize my crown: I')1 het my hat it mole J Izzv dizzy The way I turned him down! Some severennes cane me melancholy As, for example, when British Coiumbia rot Sir Henri Joly That prince of gentlemen. Sir William. ton—from that staunch friend I parted. With tenderest regret; Broad -ganged, big -brain high -think- ing and great-hearted, I wish I had him yet! I sNorneakdo of I Sivftoetan dmiwitth a shade of feeling, That it was just the squarest way of rlealina To choose that way to quit. Let me he patient! These severe afflic- tions Not from the ground arise, They stimulate newepaper contradic- tinns, And Opposition lies. They are, at least. a kind of advertising, And. in that sense, no lose, Since than most put a stop to vain sur- mising If Laurier is boss. Here still am I! My years may be de- clining —Time's a haul one to rob— But noticefriends, while others are re- signing, That I stay with the job. The maiden heard with a thoughtful f ace— Her first false love had gone far away— And she thought, is my heart become a place For anger and grief and hate to stay? Down, heart with thy sad forsaken nest; Fling for thy selfish and idle pain; The love that is ours is always the best; And h smile to her she went a work again. Cause and Cure of Nervousnee. There are five causes of nervousness : 1. Low vitality of the nervous sys- tem. 2. The faculties of self-mastery being weak. 3. Loss of sleep. 4. Tho use of improper foods and drinks. 5 Association with erratic, excitable, nervous, idiotic, insane, cynical and pessimistic people. —H. F. Gladsby, in Toronto Star. There is nothiug more necessary to equip people for the "strenuous life" of modern times than good food. Man physically should be like a well regulat- ed machine and nothing contributes to this end more than food, that is not on- ly pleasing to the taste but that also strengthens and nourishes. It has been demonstrated that there is no other food made from flour so rich in nutriment and body building elements as are soda bis- cuits. This is saying mach for ordinary crackers and much amore for Mooney's Perfection Cream Sodas, which are widely recognized as the most perfect soda biscuits in all Canada. They are crisp and delicious, delightful to the taste and always wholesome. Being a perfect food, highly nourishing and easi- ly digested, they are fitted ito prepare wasted streugth, preserve health and prolong life. Mooney's Sodas are the re - suit of years of study of the best methods of producing superior crackers. They are manufactured in the cleanest and best equipped bakeries in all Canada. The workmen are the most skilled on the continent, and the materials used are of a very high order. The flour is a speci- al blend, milled only for the Moone y factory, and the butter and cream are procured direct from the famous dairie s of Western Oatario. 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