The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-05-30, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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ANNA S. SWAN
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CHAPTER I.
Tally-Ho!tt
"The Bellendale Foxhounds will
-meet at Essendon .at elevejj. .o’clock
xm Wednesday morning.” j
The above announcement, print
ed in the Bordwick Gazette, and
-further circulated by word of
■mouth, had the effect of making the
stj^es’aiid byways leading towards
dW old house of.Essendope .particu
larly -lively on a certain grey Nov
ember morning. It was years'Since
there had been a meet at Essendon
lawn—not, indeed, since ths,;.balmy
•days of the Ridde]l-Kerrs,, when
their horse-flesh and their devotion
to sport had been the talk as well
•as th pride of Bellendale from end
to end.
Riddell-Kerr, of .Essendon was
one of the names immortalized in
Border song and' story. Tales of
the daring and’ .courage of the race,
gating -from Flodden Fields' to the
<lays of the Red River that bold Buc
caneer who had-thought nothing of
<lrivin<>- in a herd .of. cattle #from the
Cheviots for the use of his merry
Essendon. men without so much as^
asking to whom they belonged,,, hut
who was always ready to make good
Sus freebooter’s claim .-with liis
broadsword were' stilT told- at cot
tage firesides on winter Rights. It
was.even believed by the more super-
stitous that the ’Red' River; a* fierce-
3-obking wight with wild/ eyes glow-
•ei’ing in the darkness, still haunted
!fche spur of the Chey-iots, on which
the old house 61’ ^Essendon wan.
built. But he had- not been actually
.seen within the memory-of man. -
It was a goodly show that' assem
bled on the soft .green -Ward before
the battlemented wings pf Essendon,
and since the November sun was,
kind, if a little uncertain, the scene
lacked nothing of pictiiresdueness.
The Master-, of '.the-; Foxhounds,
Lord Hatherley.and Htune, an elder
ly, .keen-faced < sportsman, leanojl
from his saddle .to spegk for a
moment with the kind hostess who,
with a- white wrap about her shoui-
.ders, £tood just within the low door
way to watch .the pretly and animat-.
«ed scene. She was fa tall, slight
woman with a gently, high-bred face 5ind with quantitj&s’df' diill soft hair,
which almost seBmed tq weigh her
3ieatly“poised',Seacl.' Sh’e hail very-
little coloi’, and time, or more pos
sibly care, had carved many unto
ward lines on her sweet face. Her
soft eyes were shadowed, and when
she smiled as she did when the Mas
ter -addressed her, the pathos of her
looks .seemed accentuated.
“This is as it should be, Mrs. Kerr,
and brings back to my mind many a
glorious morning. I never got in
to my hunting kit with -a better
heart than today. Don’t you think
this is as it should be, and does,'it
not warm your heart?”
“It does and it does not, Lord
Hatherley.’’ She answered, with a
scarcely perceptible sigh. “We had
a laugh over my husband’s, things
this morning, I-Ie has been so long
out of them that he and Leadbetter
were hard put to it to get buckle
and strap together. Yes, it pleases
me to see him in the saddle again,
though you will admit that his. mount
is not to be boasted of, and he him
self will
expiring
“He’s
meet by
runs him, close,
might c be better.
Kerr, when we had a horse to offer
a friend, but now everything’s
changed. There’s a motley crew
here today. Do you see that big man
in the brand newpink Coat? That’s
the new Laird of Bellenden Priory.”
“Is he?
Lord Haterley, and I like his
Harry has spoken
him very much,”
“Keep Harry
Priory, Mrs. Kerr;
den of thieves, and
“But Weaver Laidlaw told us that
he had been very generous to the
Playfairs, >and had behaved like a
gentleman throughout,”
.“I’d like to break a lance with
Weaver Laidlaw over that same,”
said, the Master grimly, '“Laidlaw’s
a eleven chap and a good lawyer, but
there are some things he does not
know, and one is the difference be
tween a lawyer’s honour anej. that of
U private gentleman.”
“You are severe, Lord Hatherley,”
murmured ■ Mrs. Kerr, still, looking
with a somewhat painful interest on
the well set up figure'of the new
man on a hunter with which even
the' MfF.H. cou)d find no" fault—
which, indeed,-he had-regarded al
ready With-a pang1 "Of envy, which
speak of today as his last
flicker.”
the handsomest man- at this
a long chalk, though Harry-
Yes, the mount
Time was, Mrs.
He’s -hr tine-looking, man,
fac$
likesto him, and
theaway from
it’s nothing but a
robbers.
nrayirn lent gall to his speech.
“I suppose they are nobodies, but
there is not very much to distin-
*guish between us, after all,
said with a little sigh,
cast in the same mould-
“No, madam, I beg to differ
close enough to Bentley Carrington
and yog will read linege in his. hose, Bo you see that trig jittle woman’s
figure in the loose fawn riding-coat?
That’s his daughter.” J "
“Is it? What a pretty face—’*
“Yes-—till you get . to close quar
ters, and again the nose! It is a
common nose, And he has a big,
raw-boned son somewhere who, they
say, is cleverer than his father in
these
which
Priory
tribe,
worth
the country,
buf I need not ask.”
“Indeed I have not, but chiefly
because, I,, have fallen into alj. sorts
of indolent
years.”
Bhe was
Carrington,
in his face-
of relentless purpose which almost
made her afraid. If he had made
up his mind to capture the county,
then she was perfectly sure he would
capture it, just as he had taken pos
session of the Priory because, he had
considered it a desirable home. <
But at the back of her mind there
lurked a secret respect and envy be
cause this man had made,, and had
at his command, rthe money which
was so painfully lacking in thp cof
fer’s of Essendon. There was"' so
little there, and the establishment
was so badly reduced that she had
display at the running breakfast
hard put to it to make any decent
display at the running breakfast
which the assembled huntsmen ex
pected iat the house where they were
asked’Jtome’feL' This su'dden -desire
of her husband’s to take part‘in the
sport of which the Riddell-Kerrs
had onc£ been passionate devotees,
as was evidenced by their portraits
as Masters of the Foxhounds—six
in a row-—-which decorated the in
ner hall of Essendon, hacl puzzled
her greatly.
“Alice,” he had suddenly said to
her one day, “we have buried our
selves tdo long and nursed pur pov
erty too tenaciously. I see others
as poor as we are getting the cream
of life. I’ll ask Heatherly to bring
there here fbr the next meet.”
But both he and his heir rode on
hired horses, and there was a -forced
gaiety about the old man which ill
concealed his heavy heart.
■ “Nobpdy has called but. such as
are nobodies themselves,” said Lord
Hatherley grimly.” We’ll keep them
out of the count}’ as long as we can,
Mrs. Kerr, and show them that there
are some few things which money
cannot buy. And when are you
coming over to the castle? Cone-
’tantia hade me ask.”
she
YVe are all
Get
shady financial .transactions
have been the • ruin of the
and the making of the new
And he’s working for all he's
to get his brood shoved upon
■ You have not called—
habits in the last few
still looking at Bentley
attracted by .something
-a suggestion of strength
a “Oh. .soon, tell her, Harry has
Jmep home only a few days from
British Columbia, you know--”, .“Ay, what did he fihd’ there?’*
“He wants to go buck to his cou
sin, Geoffrey Hamilton, who-is do
ing'well on his ranch.” ■ ''<
“But Geoffrey’s a fourth son.
There ought to be something better
than Canadian wilds for the heir of
Essendon.”
"“That's what we all think, but
where are we to get it, Lord Rath
er ley? There is nothing for him to
do here, e’ven if John Baillie were
dismissed and he took up the fac
tor’s duties^
that.”
Hatherly
ply, and at
rested simultaneously upon the heir
of Essendon who had ridden up to
the fair girl in the fawn coat and
was saluting her with very marked
warmth.
Lord Hatherley grimly laughed as
he turned his horse’s head. -
■ “Keep him away from the Briory,
Mrs. Kerr. - ’ ’ _ ”
blood clean and pure, though
may starve for it.’lin these
whole litany of his life.p Altep Ken
grasped his meaning perfectly, but
her eyes continued to rove over the
animated scene, and always they
would come back to-the pair on the
outskirts of ’ ‘ *
Hprry and
daughter.
The girl’s
there is no money in
did not immediately re-
the moment their eyes
Let • us- lceep the
for it.’t
words he embodied
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the * crowd—her. son
Bentley \ Carrington’s
»i, ; ' •
sweet face drew her,
just as the father’s did, but with a
•different magnet.
Alice Kerr was not without pride
of birth, and deep-rooted respect
for old traditions,- old names, old families was in her blood; but1 the
long struggle with poverty, while it
had not soured her, had somewhat
altered her view. The family« was
in straits through no fault of. its
own. The immediately preceding
Laird of Essendon, a wild, terribly
dissipated man, embodying in his
own person and conduct all the least
desirable traits of the race, had
•'squandered the property and left it
to, his successoi’ mortgaged to the
hilt; *’He had - squandered it upon
every evil thing, and his incredible
folly and wickedness’had culminated
in his bringing home’a wife from
Paris who aided him in all 'his folly.(
This woman’s, jointure—for she had
■survived, her -elderly husband for
nearly thirty years—had been an ad
ditional drain on the -slender re
sources of Essendon, from which
’.death had only recently freed them.
The present Laird of Essendon,
Mark Riddell-Kerr, the very oppos
ite in every respect of his disreput
able uncle, had done his best to up
hold his position on the very slender
margin left after the rapacious maws
of the various money-lenders had
been filled. Every scrap of unen
tailed land had been sold, and every
tree felled that could with decency
be spared, -and the ^.estate had been
shorn of much of its-former glory.
As for the interior of the house, jt
was shabby to the last degree,
though Anthony- Kerr and the tribe
of ungodly folks, lie had surrounded
himself with had not been able 'to
rpb^it' entirely,oL „its,c.'bpm.elY„, and
somewhat pathetic charm. One or
two heirlooms in the shape, of pic
tures had disappeared during his
period of proprietorship,’ and every
thing he dared lay his desecrating
hands on had been turned into mon
ey.Mark Kerr and his wife had never
been able to add anything to the
bare house or to restore any of it's
former glory. But they had lived
with dignity and simplicity, an'■ ex
ample and object-lesson to all, and
had won the enduring tribute of
their people's love. But now .in
their late middle-age it seemed as
if Mark -Kerr had. suddenly awaken
ed to the futility of all' his sacrifice
and to the conviction that' they had
lived grey and cheerless lives to very
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