The Wingham Times, 1898-04-01, Page 7Edi
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Zola gets the odd trick?" cried 14irs. t
Witt, looking up quickly. "I thought
ao two nights ago, Tell me all about it,
i But how about Beryl?"
Sir Jaffray smiled at her eagerness.
"You've Balled too an 'odd triter,'
and rile not sure that that's a cam lr
-
went," he said.
"113ah1 You men are all card tricks
to us. Some we win, some we don't,
some we throw away, and some we can't
hope to get. A good many wo win by
bluffing and finessing, and some are
snapped up because we are fools enough
to revoke. But it's a compliment to be
called the odd trick --that's what we're
all fighting to get."
i ".A,re you fighting to get me?"
"Haven't 1 maneuvered now to got
you alone here, and aren't you in about
the most objectionable and uncomfort-
able mood possible? You're not a bit
'Worth fighting about, and you're riot fit
itoranything but to be married."
"You're a bit pub out," be answered,
adding, after a pause: "'I'm glad I name
over, because wo ought to have a word
or two to put matters straight. Of
Course it must make a change in things."
"You xnean your engagement with
Lola?"
• "Yes,"
"Under the circumstances I wonder
you came," she replied Crossly.
"I Came to see Beryl."
"I think you're very horrid," she
rapped out irritably. "That means that
I'm not only in the way, but that I've
acted the part of nrarplot in stopping or
postpouiug a most interesting explana-
tion between you two. 1 adult I'd bet-
ter go to my betel." And she got up
from her seat and rustled bor dress
angrily.
"I'm sorry you take it badly," said
Sir Jaffray. "But you must see that
something of tlio kind had to be done,
Thiugs couldn't go ou."
"I don't know what you mean by
'things,' " she said crossly. "Marriage
needn't make a man a boor -before it
happens. There's plenty of time after-
ward for all that. Of Course I can quite
understand your wanting to train for
an Arcadian existence, and you can't
begin too soon. But you needu't start
by bludgeoning every woman you've
lenown while you haven't lived in
Arcady,"
"Sorry you've taken it like this.
We've been good friends, Iittle woman,
and I've many a thing to thank you
for."
.After a long silence Mrs. De Witt said
uddeuly:
"I must have seemed to take it very
eriously, I'n1 afraid. But remember
1m ouly a.woman, and when we lose
he odd tricks it's not only that we're
caul at losing them, but angry with
hose who have won them from us."
"That's all right, but then you and 1
ould never play anything else but don -
le dummy all our lives, and that's not
a riotously lively game."
"But it's sometimes safer than when
the Dards are not on the table," she re-
torted, adding, after a forced laugh and
in a changed voice: "I think I'm glad,
:agog, after all. I do really She's a
agnificent creature and as clever as
.she's beautiful. That's praise from a
woman, And if you'd only told me
k:lr
what you wanted and meant I could
avo helped you. And really, under the
ciroumstauce-, I'm sorry that I sent
Beryl off today before you came, though
if she know of this sire may have jumped
t the alrance I gave her of getting away
rather than stay and see you. You don't
peet her to like it, of course."
Sir Jaffray thought there was snore
lraturalness in her manner than he laid
ever noticed before. This pleased bins,
land when they reached the hotel they
hahook halide and parted better friends
than ever, perhaps, so far as he was
concerned.
ilo was glad to have had the ophortu-
:pity of the conversatiou, and as he lean-
ed back in the railway c ir'ri;,ga on his
rcturn ;aouruey the incident sue ested
to bite the chaangee in his life which his
In triage with Lola would mese,
. Iia, lead drifted into the friendship
With Mrs. Do Witt, and on Inc ..•ido the
relations had rrc •ee got as far as even
the mildest flirtation. Ile had been glad
to go to her Immo when iu town and
;,rad been aanni.a d morn than anything
'' the to watch hate dc:v"•lop a habit of
y snenopoliziug inin Ho had been quite
peen enough to read her and, quick
sen ugh to avoid anything like a cam-
: promising complication.
'over before had she made such an
"trftort at direst flirtation as in tho case
cif this arrangement to get him to her -
1 eself for a, • time at Torquay, and he
l railed as he thought how she had time
been paid out in her own tofu and left
I•alaae a, tiro result of her naananvering.
•eble es e e wbut yen wished. 1 tried be.
,cause 1 •: that you and his mother
'wished it, and I'd have gone through
by it. hut /annstconfess Wan. rcliaf.."
rna Rurhow.
A4TtiotetnF b to a 0
•f„1tsett MOADi,t;.Y:S 5ECWET
'THC t1YSTERY f1Fs10 rsnasE 5TR444
•t3Y irlP1o5E.1iAN0•4 0 0
"Taff OLD M8,L MYSTERY
ECT
Hui -father, who as a county, man
took great interest in the public affairs
of tbe district and had only a dins per-
ceptiou of what went on in his own
house, put on his piece -nee and looked
at her shrewdly. He was very fond of
Beryl in his way, and his chief oom-
piaiut was that she was not a boy, but
he thought he knew her so well that of
Course he did not understand her at all
and had no conception of the capable•
brain there sus behind the calm, regu-
lar and at times beautiful face.
"Do you really mean that JatIray's
going away from his word? Why, it was
all but settled." The thing that appeal-
ed to him chioflywas that it looked like
a breach of contract. "And do you
mean yon didn't want to marry him?',
You never said that before, child,"
"I didn't want to Beene to thwart
your plans, father," Beryl answered,
returning his look calmly..
"Have you two made this up between
you?" he burst out, as if with a sudden
instinct of abrewd conjecture. "I call
it infamous!" His own misconception
that there was a plot not to do that
which he wished irritated. him. "I'll
give him a piece of my mind," ho add-
ed.
"No, we have made up nothing, fa-
ther. Simply the thing has fallen
through because it was impracticable.
This sort of thing may be done when
there's a lack of feeling on ouo.side,
but it's irnpossiblo'wben there's nano
011" either side."
"It's infamousI" he repeated, now
quite angry. "I'll post the man all over
the county. I'll hound him out of the
place. I never heard of such a thing.
We !night be shopkeepers, making and
breaking engagements of the sort."
"But I'm glad, father. Don't you un-
derstand? I wouldn't have it otherwise
if I could. It was a mistake from the
first."
"Do you think I don't know what's
best iu these things?" he asked. "Upon
my word, times are getting on when a
girl can coolly tell her father that his
plans for her marriage are 'a mistake
from the first,' and with two estates
that run side by side for miles, and no
boy to have this oue. Mistake, indeed[
Ms -fiddlestick!" He rustled with a
gesture of inpatient anger the paper he
held and appeared to resume reading
it, but a minute afterward he said, less
irritably:
"Why didn't you tell me you didn't
want to marry him? That's just like
you women, and yet you will stick
your noses into public business. You
never know what you want at a time
which lets the knowledge be of the
least possible use. I didn't want to
force you into the marriage, child. I'm
nee a brute or a Bluebeard."
The last commotion was not very
clear, but it let Beryl turn the question.
"Bluebeard married all the women
himself, dad," she said. Laughing and
placing her hands on his shoulders, she
leaned over him from behind, her face
so close to his that she could rub her
cheek against his and kiss him at every
pause. "And you don't want ne for a
wife yourself, you know, do you? That
would be horribly improper, and all the
county would make a hullabaloo, and
you'd lose your chairmanship of this,
that and the other and be sent to Cov-
entry, and I'm not worth that, am 1?"
She was so rarely demonstrative in
this way that he was quite perplexed,
and when she had kissed him and
made him agree With her view of Sir
Jaffray's engagement and had gone
smiling out of the zoom he sat a couple
of minutes in puzzled thought till the
light broke in on hint, and he smiled,
"I'm afraid I've been a bit blind. I
thought the cared for him a bit, and
now here elle is so infernally glad to be
out of it that the ain't help kissing and
hugging she. Bless the child, if I'd
known I'd have broken it off long ago,
much as I wanted it. Ileighot If only
the boy had lived, there'd have been no
worry of this kind." And then lie re-
sumed his reading, interrupted by
pauses of thought.
But he never doubted for a moment
that lio had now read Beryl's feelings
accurately, and she was careful to keep
up her spirits and keep down her feel-
ings until her father was quite moons
oiled to the fact of the arrangement
having donne to au untimely end.
With Sir Jaffray, Beryl took a some-
what similar course.
"Of course 1 gueseed it long ago,
Jaffray," slip said, "Do you think you
and I have been like brother and sister
without my being able to road a good
many of your thoughts? Of course not."
And sho laughed without the least ap•
psrent restraint.
He noticed that she was unusually
demonstrative,
"I thought it would surprise you,"
be
said.
"If it surprised, mo, it was because it
didal't come sooner. rye idwara known
>v 1MMi ijA,N1 TOTES, APRJL 1, 1,69$.
that there met dome a time when this
would happen on your side or mins"--.
she laughed .again is sho said
"and 1 always woudered how it mould
feel if 1 were to he first, you know, and
bad to toll you, just as if you were real-
ly any brother, 1 often wondered how 1
should de it or how you'd do it if you
were first, 1 uever thought you'd thunk
of ' keeping such a tiring secret, And
I've watched you, yon know, and seen
it growing and wondered why you slav-
er uttered a word. I should have told
you that 1 guessed the other night at
Torquay -the night the mother wrote
ns those meet ridiculously mistaken lets
tere,-only, if you remember, litre. De
Witt carne out and sopped us in the
middle, And, after all, you oan't make
an opportunity for that sort of a nfi•
denoo. It has to cense naturally."
Ifo listened to her closely, comparing
the unusual manner with her oustozn.
arysaim reserve, and he gotnruoli near-
er to the real state of her feelings than
had her father. It hurt hiss, but he
showed no sign of this in his manner,
seeming to fall in with her humor,
"She's a good little soul, the little
He had meant to drop the maze pro-
nounced iri;:udsiip as soon as his en-
gagement was certain, and he knew
that there must be eou,e kind of expla-
nation. "Things couldn't go on," as he
had said, and he was glad that the
matter was over so easily.
As to Beryl, be was by no means so
satisfied. It was true'that, so far as the
idea of a marriage was concerned, be
1
et
She met him alone at the station.
had been forced into it largely by the
notions of others, but at the same time
the thought of causing Beryl sorrow
and trouble was one which distressed
him grievously. They had been stanch,
true friends from childhood, and in
many ways she had been like a.sister
to him,
She was, moreover, snob a clever,
sympathetic and ready witted girl that
et one time the prospect of a life com-
panionship with her had been full of
pleasure to hint. Many of the incidents
of their comradeship recurred to him,
and he was sensible of a feeling of re-
gret that in the future the relations
would have to be different. He hoped
that Lola and Beryl would be friends,
and be tried to persuade himself that
by his mother's influence this might be
I the ease, but the hope was at best a
faint one.
When bis thoughts slipped the mesh-
es of these light entanglements, how-
ever, and went to Lola, there was noth-
ing in them but the passionate confi-
dence of the absorbed and devoted lover,
and he wove a• thousand fancies with
the brightest colored skeins which the
glorying desires of passion could select.
He did not reach Immo until the ear-
ly hours of the morning, laving to
drive a long distance across country
from Branxton, the main line station
• at which the express stopped, and, of
course, saw no one. When he went
down late on the following morning,
Lady Walcote came to him, and, saying
that she had had a Ietter from Beryl,
who had returned homesuddenly, hand-
ed him one from her addressed to him.
It was not Iong, but it had cost the girl
much to write it:
ear DEAR a/keener--Tim mother's news
abant you has not surprised mc: in tho least.
T have been using my oyes and car , and my
chief feeling was a little regret that somehow
you had suddenly thought it not worth while
to Consult eta Yen ought to have known
how, as a woman, I should be longing to take
a part, and, as a friend, should be most anxious
to hole you in finding happiness. I wish it
you with alt lay heart. Your affectionate
cousin, I3enri, LnvcrsrEx.
"She is a good sort," said Sir Jaf-
fray, handing the letter to his ,mother,
who read it quickly.
"Yes. It would be difficult to find t,
more sensible girl than Beryl."
"I'll see her today," answered the
baronet.
CHAPTER V.
"NY NAND IS, RItL% -.-1,11$211 1
MAN."
Beryl had not written the letter of
congratulation to her cousin without a
considerable struggle.
Sha did not like and did not trust
Lola, and sho bed noticed in her many
things that had sharpened this distrust.
SIM had at ono time seen,a great
deal of Lola, as Mrs. Villyers had made
many efforts to bring tho two girls to-
gether, and though at first Beryl had to
some extent ootn@ within the influence
of Lola's unquestionably attractive
manner th@re had tle,?n fro regard or real
ikr t 1 atiz4'o y
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Mise. Anne A. Iiowey, of Been, Ont,,
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ten years, used a number of remedies
advertised, but was always disappointed
cit the result.
Last Tall sho suffered, intense pain in
her head and her throat was lined with
ulcers, The doctors called it Catarrhal
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saw that Dr. Chaee's Catarrh Cure was
being highly recommended, so procured
box from C. Thomson, druggist, Mon -
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Soon the ulcers cleared away from her
throat, the pain in her head ceased.. She
says that Dr. Chase's Catarrh Cure does
not cause distreas or sneezing when being
used, and is the most effective catarrn.
remedy she ever tried.
Mr. J, D. Phillips, a Justice of the
Peace, declares that he knows Miss Howey
and ,tor mother, and can vouch for the
truthfulness of her statements.
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each succeeding number better than
the last, civ feature of the April
Journal in a very beautiful page
illustration of the angel removing
the stone from the door of the sepul-
chre. Paul Caron is the artist, and
the accompanying beautiful verses
I are from the pen of William Van
Buren Thompson. Kato Westlake
Yeigh contributes another article on
tbe new Ontario, which is illustrated
' by five photos of the Rainy River.
An Easter article for adults, another
i for children, and the Story of the
I Easter Hare, are appropriate to the
season. Madeleine Geale contributes
another clever story, this time of a
small boy's conscience. The Can
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The April number of The Deline-
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it confirms and supplements the
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ranges over a very interesting field.
Dr. Murray's article on headaches,
treated in a popular es ay, but with
deseripton of how children regard
their toys will be a. valuable lesson
to parents. There is a practical
article on Renovating the Farm
• house which will apply equally to
any country house. For the house-
keeper there is an excellent paper on
house cleaning, while the second part
of almonds in the kitchen gives many
original and desirable recipes. Mrs.
Jones discusses Mourning Customs,
which, in conjunction with the Plate
of Mourning Styles in the front of
the book, makes this a good reference
number. Entertainment for adults
is provided in A Literary Detective
Bei•eau (2nd part), and the fiction tor
the month is by such a favorate
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Teo AO �,,
is ea
cinano eI5v81weeper.
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The Yukon nlilitai y er;piditiotm
will be brigaded at Ottawa about
the middle of April and rent forward
from there after iuspceti,1u.
Cook's Cotton Root Compottd.
Is successfully used monthly by over
10,000 Ladies. Sato, efteotuaI. Ladies ask
your dru gist far costes Cotton !toot Com-
pound. Take no other. as all Mixtures, pills and
imitations aro clangorous. 1t'r1eo, No, 1, $1 per
box, No 2,10 degrees stronger,$8 per hex,. No.
1 or 2. mailed on receipt of priee and two 8 -cent
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responsible Druggists inn C)anadp�1ended fry all
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Drams,
7
rrona Gay To Grave.
The death of an ossified than in
Tennesee is reported. He died bard.
--Chicago Tribune,
This is as bad as the man wbo
swallowed the thermometer and died
by degrees. It also suggests the
consumptive undertaker who died a
coffin,-Meciieai Record.
These remind us of a man who
choked while eating an apple, and
died of anpleplexo'l1t'tii-
cal RevieWila St. Louis hotel that a
Pike County farther blew out the
gas and clied from gastritis.--eleyer
Bros,' Druggist.
Not any worse than the loan who
was struck by an engine ; verdict,
died from locomotor attaelcsia.-At-
lantic Medical and Surgical Jour,
nal, ,
The other day in a smashup on
the railway near here an old negro
found a broken ear full of water-
melons. He ate eight and died of
melaneholera,--Montreal Pharznae
etieal Journal.
`Gaily the troubadour touched his
catarrh,' you will remember, and
that is what is the matter with the
troubadour. -National.
And summing up the list was ex
emplified In tbe death of a life in-
surance agent, who died the other
day of knows-all-ogy, or enlargement
of the brain, --Detroit Indicator,
Impure Blood In Spring.
This is the almost universal experi-
ence. Diminished perspiration during
winter, rioh foods and close confinement
indoors are some of the causes. A good
Sprieg Medicine, like Hood's Sarsapar-
illa. is absolutely necessary to purify the
blood and put the ""ystem in a healthy
condition at this season.
James Nelson, a meCbsnie iivin
at Toronto Junction, committed.
suicide Friday by taking earboiit
acid, his motive being undist;over—
able, .
1<Ir. R. Wolfe, lately returned front
England, is likely to again a c:con e
a resident t.f Listowel. lie IS
negotiating for the hotel at the
statism.
A pair of gloves passes throerblk
about 200 pairs :of bands i'rozu tII
OM the skin leases the dressers blit
the gloves reach the Bands of the
�v carer,
A young man named Ernest S„
Leslie, a tclegr. aph operator at Ban..
Peckham. Station, was fatally in-
jured wben trying to board a Mire
at Millbridge,
Telegraph wires will last for 40
years near the seashore, In the
inarrufacturing districts the tame
wires will last only ten years and.
sometivaes less.
Messrs. .T. 0. Kain, of Toronto,,
and J. F. Ellis, of H;irnburg, have:
rented the Commercial hotel, Sea.-
forth, and will take possession est
the 2nd of May,
A cigar contains acetic, formic,
butyric, valeric and proprionic acids,
prussic acid, creosote, earbolte acid,
ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, vi-
rodine, pivoline.
Invitations are out ror another
marriage in Bruce township oil
Wednesday. Bruce • has the in-
fection surely, for this makes about
50 since Christmas.
Between Madagascar and the
coast of India there are about 16,000
islands, only 600 of which are in-
habited, but most of which are
capable of sur porting a population.
HOOD'S PILLS are the best family' The greater tee' tides the less. Hood's
cathartic and liver tonin. Gentle, reit- I Saraapart1le cures scrofula; and may ba
ab!e, sure. 1 depended upon to cure boils ani: pimples.
} Stockings and socks can be easily -
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Goderich beeehall club has been caps, which are being made for the
re•orgameed for 1898. purpose, and are adapted to fit over
the worn parts, and l?e sewed is pose -
Dineen E. McFarland, c',llector of tion,
I
customs at Welland, is dead,
One pound of sheep's wool is cap- The facilities for inland t;r-aatia-
ble of producing one hard of cloth, l portaation are so limited in Brazil
that the inhabitants of the ports find
Forty offers of a site for the Bruceit cheerer to import .grain frons`
house of refuge have been received. I North America than from their own
Another attempt is to be made to' farms.
bring the railway rate war to an end.
Mr. R. F. Barbour, of St. Marys,
committed suicide by shooting him-
self on Tuesday.
To be properly proportioned a man
sheeld weigh 28 pounds for every'
toot of' his height. The Ontario bephHhieht *of rigri-•
Mr. Davis' bill to allow members
of the Mounted Police force to be
pensioned after twenty years' ser-
vice instead of 25 was passed with-
out opposition in the geese ee
Otte we,
.T. M. "Scribner ' vas shot and lciliea ,;',lltui'e baa reetived notification from:
by William Pear, near Brockville, in the G. 1'.'i, ar.d 0, P, R. that a.
mistake for a burglar. 1 special freight teleff of Iralf the
The Listowel Live Stock As- regular rate would be granted on
sedation will bald their spring show ppepigreed cattle between Ontario
on Friday, April Toth. clots.
Mr. Jas. Warren, C. E., of titaIk. Statisticians claim that the earth
erten, has been appointed county will not support more than 5,994,-
engineer of Waterloo. 000,000 people. The present popit
Twenty four thousand dollars will and
is estimated at 1,467,000,000,
and the increase being 8 per cent.
be required for educational purposes i each decade. At that rate the ut-
in Brantford this year. I most limit will be reached in the
The wearing of orange blossoms year 2,072.
as a bridal decoration originated in I Seaforth has a. surplus of e500
the days of the Crusades. l frotn their Jubilee celebration.
The United Staten Cabinet is said 1 On Monday next, the ratepayers will
to have determined that the present vote to
state of affairs in Cuba must end. the followinghaveit !vas's :expended Thein erectionoreof
1Edrnund Zeller, of Zurich, has qtr `cL't'ricuIturli ; to assist in erecting
in
been appointed clerk of the tenth
`` ai a11, or assist in
division court of the county of Huron. I Institute ti a debt on file Mechanic's
The title ot "majesty" was first' Chief of Police Young of Chathaan,
given to Louis XI, of France. Before
that time sovereigns were usually
"highness,"
A yonnr roan named le, Howey
was found dead in the bush north of
Neepawa, Man. His parents reside
near London.
Annie, the eldest daughter of the
late harry Mason, of Paekerarnith,
died at her home in Edgmondville,
on 1•Iondey of last week.
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ing. Mrs. Kitt„:,bury is employing
the law to bring her erring husband.
to justice.
Teefraclulent practice of "topping”
or feeing barrels of apples with good
fruit in order to deceive burets,
whilst the bream bulk of the feat, in
the body' ot the barrels Is of inferior
glaalrty, coneistitlr of small, gnarled,
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heavily against the sale of Canadian
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