The Wingham Times, 1898-05-13, Page 7DY
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a dovI115h clever woman."
Lala assumed an expression of heft_
;giant surprise, •
"I don't know what you mean, sir,"
she said, drawing herself up. "I was
told by my servants that a M. Turrian
cremes to see me, aha .c nave understood
from nay friends that that person is a
foreign n mician wllowishes to interest
Toe in some musical scheme, When I
heard you were here, I concluded that
that was now your object, and I came
.at once to see if I could help you. But
it seems I have been mistaken, and you
have found yon', way into my house to
offer me some kind of insult. I wish
you to understand, sir, that I am lure
in my own home, surrounded by my
sown servants, who will kuow how to
treat the man who insults their luis-
tress. "
She looked at him with resolute defi-
ance.
Ile started as she spoke and looked
'itrst angry and then amused.
"Devilish good, no doubt, but not
good enough," he said, with an oath
and a laugh. "One might think that
you and I had never met before—on the
Devil's rock, for instance."
"You are apparently under some
strange delusion, I have never seen
you before in my life," she said firmly,
"and so long as you hold to any delu-
sion to the contrary I decline absolute-
ly to speak to you."
"You are a magnificent liar," he ex-
Qelaimed, "and I know what you mean.
I don't consent. I want my wife, and
I'll claim her."
"I know nothing about your wife, no
more than about you. if that is all you
have to rave about, you will please not
to come here again, or my servants will
sefuse you admission by my express or-
ders. If, on the contrary, there is any
business I can help yon with, I shall be
ready to do what lies in my power."
"Do you mean that you dare to deny
you are my wife?"
"Absolutely. You are mad to think
of it. I am Lady Walcote, the wife of
.Sir Jaffray Waloot°, and though I have
beard of you as a fiddler"—she spoke
the word contemptuously—"and may
have had a lessor or two from yon in
singing or music, in any real sense I
have never seen you before in my life."
The splendid audacity of her manner
Almost took away his breath. He was
prepared for any other reception than
this.
"You are a devil!" he exclaimed in
.Preach. Then he added in English, "Do
you mean that you were not married to
mo in Montreux four years ago and that
ypu haven't traveled half over the cou-
tiueut with me as my wife?"
"That is precisely what I mean," re-
turued Lola coldly, firmly and deliber-
ately. "Precisely. It is quite ten years
since I was in Montreux, and I traveled
with my poor dear father alone up to
the time of his death iu Neufchatel, two
years ago. Obviously you have made
some surprising mistake."
"You are mad!" he cried. "You
can't set me at clefianoe. I have proofs
ample, uudeniable, complete --that
you are my wife."
"Proofs? Of what?" she answered
more quickly. "Proofs that you married
Lome ono else in my name, maybe.
Bring the priest who over made me your
wife and then talk of proofs."
"You devil, you know he's dead, but
I can bring a thousand people to swear
to you. Beauty like yours, my girl,
can't hide itself or be forgotten. But
what better proof is wanting than this
-that you stand here bandying words
with me over a platter of this kind?"
"You recall me to myself. I have
been ton indulgent to one who, I was
led to believe, is mentally afflicted. I
will listen no longer. If you repent the
slanderous tale that you have told, I will
have you pitched neck and crop out of
the house and kicked down the drive,
Do you understand me? Now, what do
you say?"
"You aro my wife, and I have come
to claim you," was the reply, sullenly
and doggedly spoken.
"You make your own choice. In one
minute after I ring that bell the servant
will bo here, and if you have not re-
traoted that slander before he conies 1
-semen ane nae► Fpolcen before, though a
feeling of intense relief and joy shot
into her heart as she saw that she was
beating him in her desperate move.
"Do you retract the infamous slander
you have uttered?"
"You are the devil!" he eriecl .again
in French;
At that moment the servant opened
the door.
" Well?" said Lola, turning to her vis-
itor while the man waited for orders,
"I retract," he said, rolling out the
Words in French.
"Oh, of coulee," said Lola, as if he
had mentioned the name of some wine.
"Bring some claret, Dalling, and his -
putts. "
While the man was gone for the wine
neither of thea] spoke, and Lola re-
mained standing by the fireplace, flush-
ed with a sense of triumph at having
won tho first move in the game, and
thinking steadily what to do next.
She knew her antagonist through and
through. Sheer, dogged force was the
only weapon that would boat hila down
and hold him in subjection. The slight-
est sign of weakness ou her Dart, the
faintest signal of fear, would make him
strong at once. It was only by making
him believe she did not fear the conse-
quences of his saying all he knew and
claiming her that she could hope to win.
But she knew also that sho must al-
low him a certain amount of license.
Within the limits she laid down ho
must do what ho liked, go where he
liked and say what he liked, and above
all he must bo well paid.
Thus she saw that the attitude which
she had adopted almost on the spur of
the moment and in obedience to some-
thing like au instinot was capable of
being used with easy advantage, and
she resolved that if possible the terms
should bo arranged before ho left the
house, but sho was prepared for an
outbreak beforehand.
He was a man who was sure to try
to cover his defeat in. a torrent of
threats as to what ho could and might
be driven to do.
He broke out in this vein almost as
soon as tho man had left the room after
returning with the wine.
"I suppose you rather plume yourself
on having beaten me, don't.you? And
you think that because I pretended to
retract just now you can play with me
as you please. Let me tell you one
thing first. I'llboquite open with you.
My retraction is simply and solely
for a time, because, my faith"—this
with a shrug of the shoulders and an
attempted light laugh —• "because it
suits me better for the time. But, mark
me, only for the time."
"It will be simpler and quite as
effective with me," answered Lola con-
temptuously, "if you will string all
your threats together into one long sen-
tence and get it off like a child says its
lesson. The project of yours concerning
the scheme in connection with the vio-
lin, for which, as I understand, you
want considerable money help, is a
much more material and practical sub-
ject for an interview of this kind."
Pierre Turrian rose abruptly from the
low easy chair whore he had been sit-
ting and began to walk up and down
the room, moving his head from side to'
side and shrugging his shoulders and
gesticulating.
Teen, drawing a cigarette case from
his pocket, ho turned to her and held it
out to her.
"Does Lady Walcote," pausing on
the words and laughing, "object to
smoke? Perhaps she herself smokes. I
have hero some cigarettes of the kind
my wife," with another quick, signifi-
cant glance at her, "used to like. Will
you try one?"
Ho held it open to her with an impu-
dent leer on his fait, handsome face.
"I take no interest whatever in what
your wife used to like or dislike," re-
turned Lola, with an expression of ab-
solute indifference. "I£ you wish to
smoke, you have permission," with a
wave of the hand.
"My faith, but you aro magnificent—
snblimel" he exclaimed in French.
Then he lighted a cigarette, and,
drawing in the smoke with the relish of
an inveterate smoker, he went on walk-
ing up and down the room.
Presently he stopped again, and
standing close to her he said:
"It is no wonder that I mistook you
for my wife. This is just as I can con-
ceive her acting in just such circum-
stances.
is a magnificent nlficent aCt e
She ,
stances. g
m —a a to
1r fool bn
haveseen l e ,
and
Iy
the very top of their bent—but there
she differs Trona you, madam," and he
bowed low with an assumption of gal-
lantry, "for she is the most extraor-
dinary and unabashed liar that ever --
married two ]nen in ono name."
He shot another glance of swift cun-
ning at her and laughed.
"I have already told you that x take
not the slightest interest in anything
thee concerns your wife, tiloggh I au#
wi11 eroor him to turn you out of the
house."
"You aro my wife," 11e answered be-
tween his clinched teeth.
Lola crossed the room in silence and
pulled t vigorously.
the bell orous
y
'.Ghon she turned toward her compan-
ion, with resolution in every line of her
beautiful face. She Said not another
we''c7, but watched him closely.
The color waned gradually from his
face, and ho moved restlessly once or
twice, Then he bit his lip and then his
wails env eyed the girl angrily,
"Whet t, rms dt1 yon offer?" be said.
I "I mule, no terms with slanderers,"
she ause rcd steadily 1n the same do-
iberrtte, /suit aonteusptt Das tone in
W" 1Ma. IIA M TIKES MAY 13, IbV8,
reaay to c.aseuen your e Berne if that is
what you',rant.',
"Bat guy sehenlfy even if it satisfies
ulo today, luny not be enough for ine
tomorrow, Wlmt then?"
"I do not understand you and do not
ahem to try."
"I mean ihet the purchaeo price of
my scheme and all the comfort that
the sueeess of it may bring to enc will
cease to satisfy me one day, and that
thea 1 may carry out mother purpose
which hes brought nae to England."
"1 dou't ask yea what your purpose
"Wen, what 'is it?" tlskeci the baronet.
is, ane I take no interest in it, but if
it ho Strong enough to pause you to give
tip the ease and comfort which yonr
scheme may bring you and drive you to
step nut into that hard, barren, work-
ing world, which I should imagine to
bo particularly distasteful to you, it
will be a !natter of surprise to me. But
it will be a matter for you to decide, of
cenrse. If you like to beggar yourself
for a whim, I should not tbiuk any
one will care, I least of all." Aud Lola
looked all the defiance which her words
conveyed.
"That is not true. Yon do care," he
said angrily, waving the haled which
carried the cigarette between the fin-
gers.
Lola shrugged her shoulders in re-
spcues and said nothing.
"You play the game as if you held
all the winning Dards," he exclaimed
again angrily, "as if i could not with
a word strip yon of all this fine house,
have you bundled into the street for au
impostor and made the mark of every
lout and loon in the miserable village
youcler. I can do this and more, as you
kuow. I can brand you with the hot
iron of shame and haul you to the dock
for a bigamist, and you kuow it well
enough, for all your bravado."
Sho was glad he had broken out thus.
It gave her an opportunity to drive
hone a point which she wanted to
make.
"I thought you had retracted that
scandal," sho answered coldly and
sternly. "1 am quite prepared if you
are to put that to the uttermost test.
Even if all you said were true," and
sho looked him straight in the oyes, "I
would not falter for the space of a sec-
ond. Even if it were true all that you
could do would never bring back to ninny married women have, found
your side such a woman as you describe
pawn tickets for two gold watches.
On being questioned about them the
husband coofessed.ho bad stolen the
watches and told his wife that if she
either benefit you or bring hes: nearer to I revealed the feet he would kill her.
you? If sho is Bach awouian as you say, , The young couple were 141',. anti
sho is much more likely to face the Mrs. J. H. Hester. The man world without you or, getting freed
con -
from you, to marry again. No, no, M. fessed to one theft which he had
Turrian." And she laughed easily and committed during their courtship..
lightly. "Take my advice as a disinter- i Before their mai"iage he said he was
ested party and stick to the musical employed at the New'York postoffiee,
scheme which promises you ease and and later, after marriage when he
comfort without risk." stayed out very late he said he was
Sho paused, and when ho made no
immediate answer she added: on the night relay of men. He is
"It is weary work to fight a clanger- a remarkably prepossessing fellow
ous and determined woman, you know, and .fond of society: In court Hester
and from what you say that is what gave his wife a savage look, which
your wife seems to be.." she paid attention to. She said she
Ho took no notice of this, but walked did not intend to have her husband
up and down slowly, smoking vigor- disgrace her further, and as be had
ously and inhaling and puffing out the deceived her she would not be
much vehemence.
light blue nof the cigarette with annoyed with him any longer.
.
"I am incliued to agree with your — he said at length, "though I get to the •i+'site is a woman's belief that
same point by a very different route. I there will peaches to put up no mat-
youean conceive that I might in the way
mention work out a very pretty tet' what happens.
revenge. If my wife, for instance, who The shareholders of the Hespeler
is in a poaition to help mo with this curling and skating rink will receive
scheme, to help me with money, you a dividend of 20 per cent stile season,underatancl " and he flashed 'a glance at
said, 'raising his eyebrows, shrugging
his shoulders and floum islhiug his !lands.
"Personally I do het, but were I that
woman I would. take your life."
"She tried onee, but I am pot easy to
kill." Tho expression on his fare was
repulsive in its leering, malicious tri-
umple
"Well, you can take your choice. I
am indifferent as towhat you do. Only
remember wbut I have said,"
At that instant the door was opened
curd Sir Jaffray Dawe in boisterously
and noisily, as was his wont
"Hello, Lola!" he cried, "I got away
Over the 'Phone. t
Rioter was delving into the intrie- ( A. , MOTHERSPEAKS.
aches of a lawsuit, when the jingle of
the telephone
bell interrupted,
"Is that you, 13ob ?" came in a
Tarpon -
sweet voice over the wire " 1 Itis yr
izp of I inseed ;end Tul'pos>G
"Yes. Who's talking?" time la, E'i CIOUS Boon.
"Don't you know witholit my tell;
ing you? It's Libby (Tibbs that was, 1!iliti• n• T. f;T1:WAP.T, FoIgax' On#„, 1
says; "From the 7th of January to
but Mfrs. Brewly now.";3Oth, we were up night and day with our'
"No ? .Bless yuui' little heart, but , two little boys, ampioying doctors an4
it does me gond to heal' vont' voice+ ttyin every kind et patent medicine we '
again. It recalls a Ieg;ion of plea: know of I)r (liars Linssed and Tuxpen
'delle haw Bal. Ohm 84veci her Boy.
]such sooner than I e«petted. You sant tnemOcies, long walks, long Gine until after the !fete, when our young -
much -
might have waited for me, Ah, is this talks, drives, boating, Malls and a' est darling died in spite of all we coulddsx.
M. Turrian? I heard he was here, ld
Lola introduced the two men, and
each scanned the other very closely,
though the Frenchman made his scru-
tiny furtively.
"I have beau explaining to Lady Wal -
cote, whom I had the honor to know
slightly some years ago as a pupil.—a
most distinguished and apt pupil --the
object of my being now in England."
"Well, what is it?" asked the bar-
onet, half carelessly, standing by his
wife's side and Pinking his arza in hers.
"1 am writing wliat I think will bo
a great treatise on the violin, The vio-
lin
ialin is my instrument, you know, and I
want to urge some changes, but I want
to do more than merely write. I want
to organize a band of violin players who
will show the world the real beauties
of the change I propose."
"Seems rather a fantastic sort of
mission," said the baronet. "Has M.
Turrian been explaining the thing in
detail to you?" And he glanced at Lo -
la's habit, as if asking why the inter -
;dew had been so long.
The Frenchman answered:
"Yes, madame has listened to me with.
grcat patience and, indeed, if I may
say so, has entered very sympathizingly
into my plans and has even made some
suggestions on which I shall act." He
shot a quick glance at Lola as he said
this. "And I think she has made me
more of a convert to her views of the
matter than I her to mine. I think you
would be interested iu the scheme, Sir
Jaffray, if I were to tell you the whole
of it."
"All right," laughed Sir Jaffray. "If
it ukases my wife it'll be•.nretty certain
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Mrs. Chas. Lewis, Hamilton,Ont ,nays:
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Swell and Burglar.
The spectacle of a youthful bride
of a month appearing in a criminal
court against her husband and
charging him with burglary was
recently witnessed in New York.
The honeymoon had been happy
until the young wife, searching in
her husband's pockets in a way that
your wife to be. You might drive her
from any position she now chances to
hold; yon might. even, as you say, put
her in the dock, but how would that
year of sunshine that went out in Sometime in hebru..ry�the dootor to . utr
darkness because you refused me." our other boy couldn't live till spring.
We were about dis,,vertisement of
ouraged, when I golf
"That's: all past, you knew. We're;
i
both married now, but you recall I Chase's Syrup.
my eye on an ad
that we were always to remain ! "I tried at once to get some, but none or
the dealers here Lad it. A neighbor whop ; was in Ii„ingston managed to purchase,
"Of course tt'e shall. I'll be up ttvo bottles which he brought straight to `
this afternoon to visit ever old. ',flues., us, and I bollevo it was the means o
1" saving our only boy.
Just give me your address, Libby " One teaspoonful of the ,Syrup stoppeat ;
Ploter couldn't get his mind on 1 the cough so ho could sleep till morning..
the law problems again, and as soon Our buy la perfectly well now, and 11
after a lunch as possible, he started would not bo without Dr. Chase's Syrup
of Linseed and Turpentine in the house:
out to sec the flame of his cellule PRICE 250., AT ALL DEALERS*At the deor the maid informed nim or I1dmanson, Bntos & Lo., Toronto, oat
that no such person as Mrs. Brewly 1 —• was visiting there. He was arguing
the matter when the gentleman of
the house put in an appearance and
looked suspicious. He curtly re:.
peated the information giveL by the
maid.
"But she telephoned inc from here,"
insisted Ploter.
"Now, I know your a fraud," said
the stately old gentleman, with cut: •
ting emphasis. "We have no tele:
phone. It will not he safe for you
to be seen around here again."
On his way home rioter was
seized with a horrible dread. When
he saw the blazing eyes and angry
Inside Light.
A number t,f butchers were con-
versing on what they had found int
the stomachs of animals they had.
killed. After narrating several
stories which could only be t.ccepted.
by the credulous, an old fanner
tt lien the discussicn was beginning sitting by declared that he had some -
to heeer,hne tiresome of him, "that thing to beat :anything that had
there is one branch of legal practice been told. The company asked for
in which a woman ought to be it. "Well,' said the farmer, "I had
a cow once. and I went out into the
her as he turned his head a moment ill The people of Ireland has e
passing, `with meeey, I could make :32,215,000 in the i'ostnffice Savings
my life what you call it, one of naso
and comfort, and I could do ]pore."
Here his voice sank and his utterance
became slow and deliberate, and he
rolled some of the words as if the mere
utterance of them gave him acute pleas-
ure. "I could watch her, holding over
her the knowledge that I could crush
her at any moment with a single word,
I could let her live her chosen life, bear
children, maybe, to the. man whom she
has fooled, and t11e11 I could snip the
thread of tho,jewel hilted sword which
she has hung up over her own life and
stab the whole of her dupes in the very
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"But she could kill you first! cried imitations are dangerous. Prise, No. 1, ELpet
Lola, maddened bythe cruel', of his • box;Ne.T,lodogreesstron6er,isperbox. kto.
y 4 1 or t, mailed en receipt of price anti trio scent
• words, stsmps. The Dealt aompwoy Windsor Oat.
e stepped sad looked at her and,
�- DTos. l and 2>teld ane recomalpuded ,y all
H pP d a;es onaiblo Drn isle !n l7anddt,
p g6
smiled tea ells, l
"I thought you took no interestill D o,1 ted No. 2 for sate by Cclh, A. Craipbell,
anything that concerns my wife," ho
bank. Pat is not so thriftless as
some people suppose.
Ostrich plumes, as they arrive in
the market, look like bedraggled
turkey feathers, and they pass
through a score of hands before they
become the well known fluffy
and graceful adjunct to feminine
attire.
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"I will admit," be said at last,
brilliant success."
"More successful than man?" she
asked.
"Oh, much more so."
"And what branch is that?" she
inquired.
"Cross esanlieation," he replied.
"And why should she be so success-
ful at that ?" she demanded.
"Because," he answered, "when
you combine knowledge of law with
woman's natural curiosity you have
a combination that positively cannot
be beaten for getting at facts."
She wasn't quite sure whether
she should consider it a compliment
or not, but she said he was real
mean, anyway.—Chicago Post.
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yard with a lantern to feed her, and
I left the lantern in the yard and
did not see it after that until t.he
next day. When we killed the cove,
there was the lantern in her stomach,
and the light still burning."
The *wise Bachelor.
The women refer to a man as
"domestic." when he doesn't want to
be let alone.
Some Olen seem to be using up
all their energy in giving the other
man a chance.
A man always tries to let on to
a girl that he just couldn't help
loving her, but he knows better.
It• is probable that house cleaning
is caused by a microbe. •
No man gets proper treatment in
this world until he has kicked so
long that it becomes a habit.
When two women get together
and talk about their neighbors, each
believes about half as much as she
expects the other to.
Every spring a woman is pretty
sure to find a lot of clothes that it is
a perfect sin and a shame that her
husband has never worn out.
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ecast 01 India there are about
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are capable of supporting a popu-
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In Paris, the chairs in the squares
and gardens are let nut to visitors at
a trifle each. From this toul'ee an
income of 150,000 francs a year is
derived,
If you wottid be well spoken of,
learn to speak well of others, and
when you have : earned to speak
well endeavor likewise to do wells
and thus you will reap fruit of being
well -e of —L icterus
spoken P
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