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The Wingham Times, 1898-03-04, Page 7.., ,.. .4.11.1..,..,,.. tole iY flf A C HMONT:D.A\ EOTYRIGHT I134 AUT1 'QP a e .0 'fete Ere rt0ADt,EY3 SECRET 'THE MYSTERY Worms STRM G 'BY WMOSE HAND`0 o 0 0 'THE OLD MU MYSTERY . ECT to se es e.Y rMe. AUTHOR CHAPTER X, azAi For. THE LOVI. or null. "It's no use. I've come back, you see. X guessed you'd be alone now." ' .And Sir Jaffray Walcott) laughed as he pi4ssed out through the window of the hot& on to the veranda and sat down •on a low basket chair, which creaked tinder the weight of his tall, powerful frame. Lola Crawshay, who was sitting alone at the end of the veranda, looked up from her book and first greeted him i with a glance and a smile, which made his pulses beat faster, and then changed and said in a tone which implied ' re- buke: "You said you would go with the others." "I know, and I meant it right enough. I always do when—when you 1 pack mo off. I got nearly as far as the ; town, and upon my word I meant to i go right on and find the little woman { .and my cousin and stop with them, ;;just as I said, but—well, I thought of .this cozy veranda, and that—that you" I —he glanced at her, checked himself ; and changed the fluieh of the sentence, adding ---"that on such an evening one ,gets such fine views of the scenery, you know, and all that, and so here I am. i That's all." And he turned his smiling, /endgame face to her. i • "You had no right to come back," `raid Lola gravely and almost coldly, ! and she closed her book and gathered I tap the fanny work which she had been f 'doing. Then she rose from her chair and stood just where the sun shone hpon her, bathing her in golden light `; and making her magnificent beauty seem almost supernatural in its dazzling ra- diance. Her companion gazed almost like one !bewitched by the glorious picture she .aaado. "Will you lot me pass, Sir Jaffray?" `oho asked, purposely avoiding his eyes. Ile jumped to his feet and reddened. d "Do you mean you are going in? Have I offended you? Don't go." Tho last was a whispered appeal, and he looked down at her and seemed to 1 search for her eyes with his. After a ,'long pause she lifted her face and turned, 1 lupou him a gaze which thrilled him till le almost trembled with the passion !which raged in him. Then she made as if to speak, but said enothing, and her eyes fell again, as i 4, hough beaten down by the ardent. look t Ibo bent on her, and instead of speaking she sighed deeply and tremulously. ,. 'She moved on as 1f to pass him with - Out speaking, but ho barred her path, and as though unwittingly she brushed tugains" him, then stopped, drew back and started and sank down again into her chair, leaving her arm on the ve- randa and her face on her hand end sit- ting quite still, like the statue of om- 'barrassed and emotional loveliness. Sir Jaffray leaned against the rail of, the veranda and made no effort to speak for awhile, content to feast his eyes i upon her lustrous beauty and to yield himself up to the full enjoyment of the sensations she had rousted. He was mad for the love of her, and 'the knew it well enough and meant to ' • he his wife. s But she knew also that there were 'difficulties to bo surmounted first and that she meet act warily and cautiously i if she was to succeed. . t It was ,more thau 1E mouths since I that scene on the Devil's rock, and she had already niacin e eelleut use of her 2, time time in England. She lied found Mrs. Villyers, the widow to whom her father i hhd sent her, ready at :rst to give her ' only a very cold. and former welcome, Twilling to do for a relative what the demands of duty, sympathetically inter- preted, might require, but unwilliug, on account of the ill odor of- Lola's fa- 1 ther with his family, to take her into the house on the footing of an intimate Iand loving friend. justified her But Lola bad amply j , shrewd old father's judgment, and the � oss fnln , the vvanniniy tact, the clever u_e ii supple adaptability and the patient , temper which the girl never failed to the sbo Was almost; to let her out until ther sight. As the old man bad predicted, more- over, Mrs. Villyers' introduction -open- ed the doors of every desirable house iu the county, nud Lola's beauty and ,ahrowdness did tbu rest. She was the beautiful Miss Crnwsbay, and nobody their oma ., t pledge from ono au. over tried to roaneMber that her father at the tiano had Lola the least intention 'that led a by winnlul; ed and deserved a roputatioh esiro to come between thein. ' other, because you think you can do positions, and the churches who have had enjoy Or d or such ill conduct as had rand° his I lI thlt de9ign was >vrSL formed elle with me as you will. " placed them there or allowed them ;fir' ds pension hire off on condition s n ver quite clearly knew. The bnioii Yd to remain." ! believed him dead. If he was still lin- ing, it was almost impossible for bine to find her, she thought. Anyway she would take the risk. • The homage which the men all round the neighborhood were eager to pay her wherever she went soon convinced her that she could marry almost 'whom she pleased, and, as she had long convinced herself that she had no love to give and no reason to fear any yielding to a weakness of the kind, she carried a very cool head indeed behind her very glow- ing and fire raising beauty. Her final decision as to the man abe would marry oamo as much by accident as design on her port. Among her distant connections was a bright, shrewd, gossiping little woman, Mrs. De Witt, whose married life was in Lola's views a curiosity. The hus- band and wife had no tastes in common, except that they were both intensely fond of the comforts which money can give. They went nowhere together. If they met in public, it was generally ac- cidental, and if they staid at the same place it was owing to quite independ- ent causes. Each had a separate circle of friends, male and female, for uncon- ventional purposes, though both moved in the same social set for conventional purposes. The "little woman," as most of her friends palled her, beard of Lola's beau- ty and went down to Mossoombe, the village near Waloote where Mrs. Vill- yers lived. to see for herself what tho girl was like and to judge whether she could do herself any credit and serve her own purpose by taking her up and bringing her out in London. Sho was more than satisfied by her scrutiny, and as Lola was careful to show a some- what different side of her character to her from that known to Mrs. Villyers --though mot at all more natural—Mrs. De Witt carried her off there and then to London, protesting that such a girl must not bo shut up in a country box, but must seek her fortune and her' hus- band in London. At that juncture, however, Lola proved her clover shrewdness. After staying with Mrs. Do Witt for a Iew days she relinquished what was in fact inexpressibly delightful to her, the pleas- ures leas ures of the London season, in order to return to Mosscombe and Mrs. Villyers, By that one act she secured forever the affections of the widow, who would after that go anywhere to please her, while she did not leave London until Mrs. De Witt had seen how much use: the girl could be in making the house. attractive to mon. She paid several visits to the lively my wife."• little woman's house, and it was in one There was no mistttliing the ring of of these that she tinct Sir Jaffrrty Wal - intense sincerity,dr of concentrated feel - cote for the first time. Ho had been in in thee calm, strong tone, and the abroad on a tour 'Half round the world girlfelt a flush of triumph as she recug hunting and shooting at the time of Lo - la's arrival in England, and she had this only beard of him by repute. She knew, moreover, that he was to marry 'fit ..lr WEN (aRAM TIMES, MARCH 4, ts98, of her father and stirred tho fires of that help one, l: know hot arbat .i think or temper winoh she knew so well how to. feel, say' or do, where you are. But control, But when once the purpose : thus I will not do --X will not help you to play that girl false. Go to her, She will make yen happier than I ever ease et is not love that makes liappineste That comes far more readily from the easy couteut of even flowing,. plaoid was formed nothing could stay it, and she Net herself to weave such a web of witchery over the man as he could not hope to break. • Sha knew that the climax was fast approaching, when, 'hearing that Mrs. De Witt and Bet';yl Leycester were going. I. to. stay et Torquay and that Sir Jaffray was to be' there at the same tine, she persuaded Mrs. Villyers to go there be- fore them and thus made it appear that the baronet had followed her. When ho found Lola was staying in the place, he did not attempt to conceal leis pleasure, and he would have been with her from morning till night if she would have allowed it; but, knowing the strength of her hold over him, she sunt him away continually to be with the others, while she herself would avoid him oatontationaly. This treatment only fed the fever of his passion, however, and, absorbed iu his love for her and desire to have her for his wife, he was perplexed L,' the thousand lover's fears and unoertaintica which the coquetry of her manner to- ward him created. .A hundred times in the first few days of this visit he had resolved to ask her to marry him, and ho sought to make au occasion, but always they seemed to be interrupted just when ho had begun to frame the question, and his wits were too dazzled by his love torn see that Lola herself contrived many'ot the in- terruptions. But on the day when he found her alone on the veranda he had returned determined that ho would wait no lon- ger. He was hungering for the knowl- edge that she loved him. When she was near, be could think of nothing else. His mother's objection to the marsisge, his more than half engagement to.mar- ry Beryl—every hindrance and caution was burned like dead grass in thelfierce, hot flame of his passion. Thus he looked at her with ttiehot oyes of desperate longing as slice at with her face resting against her hand and her eyes bent down, and itwasslike a sweet delirium to believe, as he did, that the emotion which had brought the blood to her cheeks and made•her bosom rise and fall iu loveliest confu- sion was due to the .feelings which, he had roused in hex. After a long pause be moved slowly nearer to her and nerved himself:. to speak. ' As he sat down close to her she turn- ed leer head and flashed a rapid glance right into his eyes and they as quick- ly turned away, the hot blood surging ;Tho total balance of assets on hand over her face in a deep blush. 131st Dec. 18c97.. was $128,562.46, "I want to end this suspense,"'he.:showing there is•.i'u the hands of the "1 love'you, Lola, and 1 want you for mv' wtf,oJ' friendship.. You and I are best apart. You think you lova'me now. You will come to love her ire time. You will be hsnnier. with. her. You and I are two oro err coeerser:a',J IR est Wawanosh. Insuranoo Co it Btzsrness Plxr'ab1e, Once a farmer had 1,800 bushels of wheat, which he sold not to .a single grain merchant, but to 1,800 different dealers, a bushel each. A few at them paid him In cash, bat far the greater number said it was not convenient then; they would pay later. A few months passed, anct the manta bank account ran low. "How is this?" he said. "Mr 1,800 bushels of ' grain The nineteenth annual report of this Company. jest issued, shows that the risks is force DPe. 31, 1897, amounted to $3,527,948.00 ; assets in hand Dec. 31, 189?7, were $128,- 577.50 ; losses paid space 1879, were $45,905.58. During the past year 885 p:lieies• were tesued, covering risks on property to the value of $1,080,275.01"1. The premium notes received for same amounted to $43,211.00; there were at the close of the past year 2910 policies in force, covering property or risks to the amount of $3,527,948.(,10. The gross or face amount of preneium notes on hand is 141,1517.92," and the avail- able balance of said notes, after de- ducting all payments made and levied thereon was 9+1`27,367.58. All claims for losses clearing the past `year, 33 fn number, 'which were •satisfactorily proem: were promptly paid, amounting in all to $7,374.86. When Sarn'wel Led, The Su'gr2gti`''` • OfcourseI love the hoose o' God, gent I don't feel to ham there '.p he way I aster to, afore New fsneled ways bad owe there. Though things are finer now a heap, My heart it keeps a elingin' Tee our big, barns old rne,•vin' house, Where Satu'wel led the navel'. flaw it's sorter solemn like To hear the organ peellie It kinder makes your blood- run.eold; Aar tills ye full o' teethe should have kept me in affluence until But eoiuebow, it don't tett', the al;,►ot--- anotller cropis raised, but I stave Mow, mind ye, > tkin''G sliuxin' No elere--ez that base viol die parted with the grain and have in. ,eea, atn'w4 te61 the„ingia'. stead only a vast number of accounts,. 80 small and scattered that I cannot get around a'nd collect fast enough to pay expenses."' So he posted up a public notice and asked all those who owed him to pay quickly. But tow came.. The rest said, "Mine is tally a small- matter, and I wily go aid pay one -of these days," fot'getting that though each iF,aeh voice a-ehasin' t'other round, I tell ye what, when he etruak up• The tune, and' Sister Harmer Fut in her party treble—eh ? That'e what you'd eail sopranner---- Why, a11'the choir with might a,�'' iveie Set to, an' seemed. a•tlin;:iu' Their htii1 souls out with every note,. 'What Sam'wel,led the siogin . An' land alive, the way they'd -race `!'Uro' grand old Coronation 1 account was very small, vvhen all l' It lose be.at all creation !: were putt together they meant a large sum to the man. Things went on thus. The man got to feeling eo badly that he fell ottt of bed and awoke, and running to his granary found his 1,800 huohels of wheat still safe there: He hadonly been•dream- lnMoral.--The next day the pian went to the. publisher of his paper and said t "Here, sir, is the pay for your paper, and when nett year's subscription is due you can depend on me to pay it promptly. i stood' rn"the position of an editor last nigbt, and I kno,ss bow it feels to have one's honestly earned money scattered all over the country in small amounts." --Ilnlon Signal. said in a tone little louder than a whis- per. "I can't bear it any longer. It'si not. fair to either of us. I came back on purpose." There was a pause of ember-. rassment between each sentence. Lola made no reply, but she was thinking fast what was the best course for her to take. Sir Jaffray gathered himself for. an effort and a resolute look Dame into liis fano, knitting his brows and setting his: lips for a moment before he spoke again. Then, forcing himself to be calm„ he went right to the point. "I love you, Lola, and I want you:for nized it. It promised her a certain.vaae- tory. But she knew that it was not to be won yet, and she played her part with consummate skill. his cousin, a distant relation of her At first she turned toward him: with own, Beryl Leycester, whose people 1 a look of infinite sweetness on hor•f`aco lived near Waleote. I and with the light of love licaming in her eyes, but she checked herself} as suddenly, drew back and then rose. "That is an insult, Sir Jaffray„ and a wrong which you at least might, have spared me," alio cried. Tho words struck him like. to slap in the face. "An insult? A wrong? To ask you to be iny•wife?" His tone was still calm enough, but it rang with tbo note of angered pride. Twice she turned to him impetuously, as if to speak, locking her fingers tight- ly together as if fighting with her feel- ings auci• unable to utter; the words which rose to her lips. Then she clutched the rail of the veranda tightly with both hands, and, leaving back, as .though at bay, she appeared to compel herself to break the silence, which once broken was followed by a flood of words poured out withrapid, vehement rushes. Mrs. De Witt had apoken much about him, describing him always'as ono of her chief intimates and suggesting more in her manner than in her words that there was an understanding between them of the closest and most confiden- tial kind. The moment that the baronet's eyes fell on Lola, however, ho seethed to yield to the influeuce which she exer- cised over men, and bo never had either strength or inclination to attempt to resist it. Perceiving this and knowing intui- tively that ant encouragement on her part would tend to estrange lir:,. Do Witt from Dior and being -quite uvevall- iug to have so agreeable a house .closed against her, Lola held herself in the strongest reserve against him and when other things failed made an excuse and Company the rnost apple security for policy holders. • Mr. Finlay Anderson, of East Wavranosh, is one of the representatives of this eom• pang CASTO I altos tltonght it meet 'a' set The bells o' heaven a-ringin' To hear us Crown Bina Lord of A.11; When Samiwel led the singlet'. Folks didn't sing for money then ;. They sung- because 'twas in 'ern. At,''must come out. 1: uster feel -- II parson couldn't win 'rim With preaebin"an' with prayin' an' His everiastin'•dingin'� That choir"d'fetch sinners -to the fold.. When Saanlivel led the singin'. [Seleotel_ Was: Top Of The Heap. Florida it -a land' of'• nobility,, it we may judge from the titled' habitants, "General"' captain"'arid. "colonel" are the common appell— ations all t'brotigh tbe••state. To'tber negro we -may give the credit ofitleis_ when.the dusky southern broth€,r sleets wealth or celebrity, be• mase Imediately titles hint.. As plain but jpvial+ millionaire• of 1 Pletsburg;—.tbe name—well, no�neat neat - For Infanta ani1.Children.. , ter =was tatting dinner last winter at. athotel•in•this city, where the oo1. ored waiter• who was, very attentive; greeted' hiin. vtith, . "Pleasant• day', governor."' `Yes) niee day olellnaan, but Ili not. a- governors..' After a while the'waiter remaeltecl "Makea long stay, ;general:" "Ole. TIO ;.onlys a• few days But then I ani not a general " St,om again ventured Steeetbo ; "Spendal country this, commodore, I2an't you think, ser" "Oh, yes, but Dam not a (MEMO. dere either." "Bitoss de Lasa, massa; . what is. you ?" "I am only a plain Amerieten ctrl.. :zen, Mr. , of the great gassy- city of Pennsyl»nia." "Counldt't: spot you wetly, sir,. :but I knew you. was top oft the pile ;somewhere,.sir.-Jaeksonvliio Times 'Union and Citieen. COOKING- FOR THs'1.2. ; SICK. S6t+•faM unite Pt• If �a xaegevrry. •. WSN-�tgeT, HATS THAT WILL BE W OBS - EASTER. TELE NEW MILLINERY THAT 'ILL HAVE. ITS -FIRST. AIRING AT THE CLOSE OF' X3ET+P. Leghorn; Manilla;. chip and rai la,. in all colors, aroused for the new spring hats, as•welltas an absolutely new straw- braid Frith a satin finish not unlike the silk—covered braids.- which - raids which• obtained: dating the winter. .DECAY OP- T}IH SUNDAY- !Sailor hate, thata:lways havean as - SCHOOL: sured'position, are:•in a new material in the form of woven bulrushes,. THE AVERAGiW SUNDAY -SCHOOL cit which, after- being braided; are TODAY IS A.H'EBUK15 To INTELLI- shaped •and genoeally edged with a. t enoa narrow. black. velvet ribbon. Linen• crash -is -also usedhfor this kind'af hat. In the Maroh Ladies' Home Journ- The most striking of all are•those of al Edward Bola, writes on the "Decay white or gray felt, intended foe of the Sunday—School," and points summer wear. out the reasons therefor. "I have in Rich ribbons of velvet, ei:lk, satin, . ,Hind," be says•, "coot less than 12 and moire are al used, being plaited: different meta wh:a are acting* as and shirred; while piece fabs}ea; superintendents- of our Salleby- heavily eanbroiddered ee itle beads end schools. Net one of these inen has sadtangles, also obtain. The fatinion even a suggestion of force; not a able colors are obtainnl::nn blue, ane - personal of personal magnetism,, not a alone blue t>ellutrope p r, , personal possession which goes to h ' draw children to him or to the school over which be provides. In five of these• cases the men have been failures in. business ; by. men in the, outer would they are passed over, and yet the church places. them iia, positions. which call preemenently for every element which they so .dis— tinctly lack. To be a. suetess??ul F a head of a Sunday •school..calls fo man with the instincts of leaderebip ; a than who will infuse life into the school; hope and 'Courage into his teachers ; who is fertile of ?hind and infinite in .-capaeity ; who. can draw children to him and lretairz their interest. Not onetr wrist he elevate his children in' a spiritual sense, but lessons of the highest morality trust be taught ; an in- Suenee refining' to mind and nature must be ex"sled, and all the time t be •n n,us the interest of the children arrested and held. Infinite variety of method rnust be sought. The young quickly tire of anything which long remains the same, and that is why they are tiring of the Sundaysehool. It has too long remained the same. It has fallen into a rttt, and the fault lies between the presiding spirits of the school who have no ability for their , •>hau) a'�ne t ;Iome Jou.rual : the light, sha•Iles of is y, rc,ivn;, "In cooking for ihesi:ek a modes•. pearl pray, pink and pale green;. ate heat is necessary to bring out and intensify, rather than destroy or keep within, the delicate flavorings of the materials used. :Where re^ ceipts coil for better it must be addedito hot dishes after they have been taken from `tete fire. ' All fried, things ennst be avoided. "Gruels, or semi starchy foods re- I quire long, slow cooking. Meats I must be cooked, but not overdone. Under no circuliartanees should raw meats, raw beef juice, or raw beef ten be used. Pasteurization is net- cessary to remove the danger of disease germs, "Serve hot foods hot ; cold foods; cold. This does not mean the ex- treme of either. "In arranging the tray keep everything as dainty as possible, using white or very pale -colors. A. not toe with simple vase of flowers, it decided'an odor, will prove an addep attraction. Roses, violets, lilies -of- the -valley, or bou.vardias are ad— visable for their daintiness and. ab:'ence of heavy odor." returned to Mosseombe. She was like one evrung by the deepest The baronet soon followed her, how- passion. ever, and, going to Walcofe manor, "Why do you say this to me? Why much to the delight of his mother, who do you torment ane? Why tempt me in quite misunderstood tho reason it his this cruel, heartless way? Yes, heartless. alk Loi with as can never be. rn began to stalk You know this thing roto much persevering patience uq he had you know—who better? --that between been wont to stow with some faro 1 us stands the bar of your unfilled prom- game. iso to your cousin, Beryl Leycester. At that time she was on very friend-. You know that all the world looks on ly terms with Beryl Levccstor, and her that as settled: You have known this her how ` and •shown 1 el:nown a quick woman's wit had all through. You musthav , Bind g}y Beryl, who hid her feelings be- yet you come to mo and press me to bo Bind a mash of reserve, loved the man your wife. You, h pledged to another whom, by the common desire of both you trreait f 'lies she was to marry. Nor woman, can ask mo to help y pray FOOD FOR Gi NVALE:,CE:w'PS'. SHOULI BE CAREET1L r PREPARED AND DAINTILY ILY SER\s6I�. hese; l:Trs, S. T:. Rorer lays. down t bales for "Cooking for the sick and , 57onvaleaeent in the 11areh Ladies'. combinations are noted in the: flowers. There• is a decided fancy for putting the trimming—that may take the form of a bunch of flowers, a bow of ribbon, . a drapery of velvet or satin—under the bei ne on the left side, so massed as to‘ have it come well on the hair. --March Ladies' Home Journal. ow, a ion o ' of s "You hold me for a child, a toy, ' 141', Bok concludes never sot foot in his native ' . was one great cause, while t plaything, to be used for a season and his remain.." With the assertion that stoat ho lien persistency 'country. her determination had been greatly ; tossed aside. You know your strength ra.+ not longidle, moreover, in helped by an incident in Which hits with Inc. 'tau think beeause you have "the average agulce to fns sc ool andt a Lala etnakin; 1 c r plans, She meant to marry. mother, who lead sieves liked her, hnd made me love you—What do I say? day Pito lr: a and nothing of the man who sliulited her and Moulted the memere Made i ao hate von. area ie. for. heaven discredit to she church." t led nee hri to MAW' )ilru, and ahs A TOMER SPEAKS. Tangy Dr. Chase Saved: her Foy, Mils Syrupof Linseed and Turpen- tine a Precious Soon. MRS. A. T. S.TEWART, Folgar, Ont., says: "From the 7th of January to the 30th, we were up night and day with aur two little boys, employing trying over kind of patent medicine we ever heard of. At thiswedid not time know of Dr. Chase's Linseed and Turpen- tine until after the 80th, when our young- est darling died in spite of all we could do, Sometime in February the doctor told as our other boy couldn't live till spring. We were about discouraged, when I got my eye on an advertisement of Dr. Chase's Syrup, "I tried at once to get 'some, but none of the dealers here had it. A. neighbor who was hi Kingston .managed to purchase two bottles which he brought straight to us, and I believe it was the means of saving our only boy. " One teaspoonful of the Syrup stopped the cough so he could eleop till morning. Our boy is perfectly well now, and 1 woula not be without Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed area Turpentine in the house." PRICE W5r., AT AU. DEALERS, er Edciansen, BWes it CO., f'oronte, Ont. DO1i'T LET IT AQ11i1. If 1 -our stomach, liver and bowels aro working properly you will have to head- ache. llurdoelt Blood littera will keep you right, so there is no need to- let your head ache. rhoreis lots of proof that this is so : "1 Ind severe headache for over e years and'was not free trot it for a single day. Finally I used Burdock r: Blood Bitters, with the result that it hat completely cured urs." Mrs, A'ifleolt Toronto.