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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-09-08, Page 6s THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, ll>32 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE &he jtouse of breams Come O'rue .. . ' .... ' - • £ pointed to twelve o’clock, had the sleepy hush of.noontide hung the roso-garden where1 gathering roses for the "■Can’t I help?" Burke’s voice broke drowsy quiet so unexpectedly she jumped, almost letting fall the { scissors with which she was scienti fically snipping the stems of. thO! roses. (She bestow'eflva small frown1 upon the head and shoulders ap^ ded n house. across SYNOPSIS BY MARGARET PEDLAR Giya Peterson and his twenty-year old daughter Jean are dining to gether in their home in Beirnfels, Austria, Glyn was of a noble Eng lish fapiily and against the wishes of his family had married Jacquel ine Mavory, the beautiful half French opera singer,. They had liv ed very happily together travelling around when they so desired but always returning to Beirnfels. One year ago Jacqueline had died and Glyn can stand it no longer, he is going away somewhere just wandering, and has made arrange ments for Jean to visit his old friend Lady Anne Brennan, in England. Jean remains at Mon- tavan awaiting a reply from Lady Anne. She meets an Englishman and spends the day at his cabin on the side of the mountain in the pine woods. When she goes to visit England this Englishman meets her at the station and proves to be a son of Lady Anne. CHAPTER XV ner ant- haa "Yes, he married her.” Lady An ne went on speaking in level tones. "I think matters were hurried to a climax by the fact that Nest’s step sister, Margherita Valdi, detested English people. She was much the elder of the two, and as their mothei had died when Nesta was born, she had practically brought the girl up. She would have never countenanced the idea of her marrying an English man, but Nesta so contrived her meetings with Blaise that Margher ita was unaware of his very exist ence, and eventually they married without her knowledge. From that day onward, Margherita declined to hold any communication with sister.” "Why had she such a rooted ipathy to the English?” Jean recovered her composure during the course of Lady Anne’s narrative, and now put her question with a goon semblance of detachment. But, in side, her brain was dully hammer- ing out the Acords "Married—mar ried!” “It seems that Margherita’s step father—-Nesta’s father^ of cotft4?se, who was an Englishman, treated his wife extremely badly, and iM'argher- ita, who had adored her mother, nevei’ forgave him and hated all Englishmen in consequence. At least that was what Nesta told Blaise, an It seemed quite probable.,, Italians are a .hot-headed race, and very indictive and Of course, these Valdis particular family—that the trouble began. Nesta was just a second-lfe.te, though extraordinarily beautiful girl, suddenly elevated ' to a position which she was not in the least fitted to fill. It didn’t take a month for the glamour to wear off-—and for Blaise to see her as I saw her He came to his senses to find himself married to a bit of soulless, passionate flesh and blood. Oh jean! If I could only have been there—fn Italy, to have saved him from it all!” Jean hardly heeded that instinc^ tive mother-cry. She was keyed up to know the end of the story. She felt as though she must scream if Lady Anne were long about the teu- ing, "Go on,” she said, forcing herself to speak quietly." Tell me the rest.” "The rest had the Tormarin tem per for its .cornerstone, Nesta was an utterly spoilt child, and a cou- quette to her finger-tips. She tossed dignity to the winds, and there were everlasting scenes and quarrels. Then, one day, Blaise came in and found her entertaining a man whom he had forbidden the housed I don’t know what he said to her—-but I can guess, .poor child! He horse whipped the man, and he must have frightened Nesta half out of her mind. That evening she ran away from Staple—Nick and I, of course, were living at the Dower House then- inquiry I had a letter from gherita Valdi telling me that had been found drowned. She evidently made her way back Italy, hoping to reach her sister, then, in a fit of despair, comuhitted sucjde,” "Oh, poor Blaise! How awful for him.’’’ exclaimed Jean, horror- stricken. For the moment her own individual point of view was swept away in a flood of sympathy for Tormarin. "Yes. It broke him up badly, Always, I think, he is brooding over the past. It colours his entire out look on things. You see, he blamed himself—-his ungovernable temper— for the whole tragedy . , ;-lf only he had been gentler with .her, not terrified her into running away! , . , , After all, she was a mere you know, revengeful, were of no was where ■and after months of fruitless Mar- sne s haa to and over was the that HAD RHEUMATISM FOR 20 YEARS txeifr uamra-Abiiuratr Established im M 1887 Published every Thursday n;orptn| at Exeter, Ontario child—barely seventeen. Bitt she was. a heartless, conscienceless minx, nevertheless . . . And Magherjta Valdi did not let him down lightly. She wrote him a terrible letter, casing him of her sister’s death, opened it—he was abroad at time—but3, of course, he had to it ultimately. Tied up in a little fearfullyl half-joyfully recognizing separate packet was Nesta’s w ed- ding-ring, together with a newspaper clipping of the affair, and, to add a last ^t-ah of horror, she had folded the newspaper clipping and thrust it thrqjigh the wedding-ring, label ling the packet, ‘Cause and effect.* It was a brutal thing to do.” They were both silent foi- a space, Jean painfully envisaging the tra gedy that lay behind that stern, ha bitual Anne asked herself tremulously if she had been wise—if she had .been wise in her disclosure? She want ed her son’s happiness so immeas urably She believed she knew where it might lie, and she had rak ed over the burning embers' of the past that she might help to give it j To her woman’s eyes, newly anoint- him. J ed with love’s sacramental oil and She knew that he himself was given sight, it had suddenly evident very unlikely to confide in Jean the i in a hundred ways, most of all evid story of his unhappy marriage, or ent in his sullen effort to conceal it that if he ever did so, it would be-^from her.ig0 much tlmt he had gaia, Qr had 4uot said—those clipped sentences, the bitten off short with a savage in tensity that had often enough troub led an bewildered her, now found Clieir right interpretation. He cared .... but the bondage of the past still held. And with that thought tjame re action. The brief, quivering ecs tasy, which had sent little fugitive thrills and currents rasing through every nerve of her, died suddenly like a damped-out fire, as she real ised all which that bondage implied. It was possible he might never break the silenee which'ire himself hadv decreed, ning he had recognised- ed upon—the fact that theY were only “ships that pass,” though now, for a space, Fate ac- 1 the see had, as far as actual fact went, giv en h&r love unasked, tempted her to disguise from herself the reality of what had happened. For. good or ill, whether Blaise returned her love or no, it was his. ■ z But in her inmost heart she be lieved that he, too, cared—half- til© pent-up force which surged be hind the bars of his deliberate aloof ( ness. | True, he had never definitely | spoken of his love in so many words hut Lady Anne had supplied the key to his silence. The past still bound him! Alive, Nesta had held him by her beauty; and dead, he held him I with the cords of remorse and un- 1 availing self-reproach—cords which gravity of Tormarin’s, Lady 1 can bind almost as closely a-s the strands of love. But for that------ The hot colour surged into Jean’s cheeks at the sweet, secret thought I which lay behind that "but” Blaise ' cared! Cared fqr her, needed her, 8 just as she cared for an needed him. but to shoulder all the blame him self, exonerating Nesta, ’entirely. Nor, unless Jean understood " ~ fiery furnace through which he had passed—that ordeal ' of impetuous, mistaken love, of disillusion, and, finally, of the bitter self-reproach. —could she possibly interpret aright Blaise’s strange, churlish moo'ds, his insistent efforts to stand always on one side, as though he were entitled to make no further claim and, above all, the bitter which permeated his whole All these things had been Anne’s mind when she had to enlighten Jean, just as Judith had seen, whither Blaise was tending/, fight against it as he might, and she was determin ed to remove from his path what ever of stumbling-block and hind rance she could. And, in this in stance, 'she felt instinctively that Jean’s own attitude might constitute the greatest danger. Any woman, as4 sincere and sensitive as she, might easily be driven in upon herself, shrinkingly misunderstanding Blaise deliberate aloofness, and thus un consciously assist in strengthening that barrier against love which he was stirving to hold in ."place be tween them—and which Lady Anne so yearned to see thrown down. It was to*this end that she had reopened the shadowed pages of the past—so.that no foolish obstacle, born of sheer misunderstanding, might imperil her son's hope of hap piness if the time should ever come —and she prayed it would come— when he would free himself from the shackles of a tragic memory and turn his face towards the light of a new dawn'. on life, quality outlook, in Lady decided Sihe had seen, seen, CHAPTER XV.I The dift of Love WhomThere are some people to love comes in a single blinding flash; it is as though the heavens were opened and the vision and the glory theirs in a sudden, transcen- •dant revelation. TO others it comes gradually, their hearts opening dif fidently to its warmth and light as. a closed bud unfolds ts petals, al most imperceptibly, to the sun. With Jean, its coming partook in a meausre^bf both of these. Love itself did not come to her suddenly, it had been secretly growing and deepening within her for month/s. ’■ But the recognition of it came up on her with an overwhelming sud- denness. > J Lady Anne, in recalling that bleak tragedy of the past, had accomplish ed more than she knew. She had shown Jean her -own heart. From those fierce, unexpected pangs of jealousy which had stabbed her as she realised the part played by another woman in Blaise’s life— the woman wbo had been his wife— had sprung the knowledge that she loved him. Only love could explain the instant,, clamorous, rebellion of her whole being against that other woman’s claim. And now’, 'looking back upon the months which she had spent at Staple, she compre hended that the veiled figure of Love, face shrouded,, aact walked beside her all the way, That was why those even, uneventful weeks at staple had seemed so wonderful > The recognition of the great thing that had come into her life left her ( a little breathless and shaken. But she did not seek to evade or deny it. The absolute xia nodur of her mind—candid even to itself—accept ed the truth quite simply and frankly. No false shame that she From the very begm- -and insist- two and _ *__had direetgd hie course of each into the same channel, a year, at midst, would float them out again on to the big ocean of life 'where vessels signalled—and passed'—'each other. She must, in the ordinary course of events, return eventually-to Beirn fels, while Blaise remained in Eng>- land. And that would be the end of it. ' < . She knew th'e man’s dogged per tinacity he would hold to an idea or belief immovably if he conceived it right, no matter what the tempa- tation to break away. And in the flood of light vouchsafed by Lady , Anne’s disclosure, she felt convinc ed that he had somehow come to re gard the tragic happenings of th® past as standing betwixt him ana any future happiness. Why, Jean could not aatogether fathom, but she guessed that the dominant factor in the matter was probably an ex aggerated consciousness of responsi bility for his wife’s death, and per haps, too, erness, a loyalty to urged him own personal happiness kind of atonement. Unless—and a swift spasm of pain shot through her, searing its way like a tongue of flame—unless Lady Anne had been altogether mistaken in her fixed belief that Blaise had ’hot .really cdred for his wife but had only been carried away on the swift tide of passion—-that tide which runs so fiercely in hot youth. Jean had her when she faced though she tremulously believed it was returned, She wbuld probably never know the supreme joy of ut ter certainty, never hear the belov ed’s voice utter hol'd all heaven hears them. But, through closed about her single thread of light—the light of her o.wn bestowal of love. Even if she never knew, of a surety, that Blaise cared, even if—and here she shrank, bait forced herself to face the possibility sincerely—even if she were utterly mistaken an he did not care for her in any other way save as a friend—his "little com rade”-—still ther# would remain al ways the golden gleam of love that has been given. For no one who loves can be quite unnappy, 1 CHAPTERXVII a certain lingering tend- ■suibcons'cious feeling . of the dead woman, which on to the-"sacrifice of Jiis as some -that and unitrammelled black hour then, the fact that ai those words .which for the woman who the darkness that , there gleamed a In the Rose-Garden The chalcedony of the spring skies had deepened into the glowing sap phire of early June—a deep, .pulsat ing blue, tremulous with heat. Ou the sundial, the shadow’s finger . But none since 1930 lj -u - This man must ha^vo something ___ _ ______ like a record for suffering, He says: pearing above the woouen gate on "Since 1910 up to 1930^—that is 20 which he leant,_________________< years—I have been a great sufferer "It's not very helpful to begin one with rheumatism, I am pleased to an electric shock,” she complained. that since 1930 up to date, I "How long have you been there?” . have been ‘free from that dreadful His attitude had a repose about pain, simply "by taking Ktugcheu it which suggested .that he might Salts- ' . have been standing there some time say that .20 years js a long time to- watching her, ' ' *t'''t "I don’t know, may I coine in?”Without waiting for her answer,1 and everyone ejse’s.. It is caused by he unlatched the gate and came shiirp-edged) uric acid crystals get- striding across the velvet greenness y°ur joints. Krushchen of the lawn, | will dissolve those crystals away; His visits to Staple had grown of Furthermore—if you keep up the. late so much n matter or dally oc-. ‘'little daily dose” ever afterwards, currence that they wer^ no longer hedged about by any ceremony, and Jean had come to accept his appear ance at any odd moment without surprise. * Since the day when she had lunch ed at Willow Ferry, and learned, as she believed, to' understand and make allowances for the bitterness which had so warped Judith’s na ture, her acquaintance with both the brother and sister had ripened ra pidly into a friendly intimacy. But the fact that Budke’s feeling towards her was something other, and much warmer than mere friendship, had failed to penetrate her conscious ness. ’ . It was patent enough to the look ers on, and probably Jean was the onljr one amongst the little coterie of intimate friends who had p-ot realised what was. impending. It is not very often that a woman remain entirely oblivious of the small,, unmistakable signs which, go to indicate a man's- attitude'towards her. In jean's*, case, however, she was so engrosse'd with i;the one man, that, at the moment, all other men occupied but a very shadowy rela tionship towards the. realities of life as far 'as she was concerned. So that she scarcely troubled to look up as Burke halted beside her, but went on cutting her roses un concernedly, merely oberving: "idle^sj not allowed. You can make yourself useful by paring the i thorns off the stems.” She gestured ' towards a basket which tood on the ground at her side, already over flowing with its scented burden of pink and white and crimson roses. He glaneed at the russet hep/d bent studiously above a rose bush and .......... .................. there was a gleam, half angry, half [ Dorchester Station amused, in“ liis eyes. Hi^ fingers ^Dungannon ... wfent uncertainly to his pocket, I Elmira ......... where -reposed’ a serviceable knife, {EXETER ...... then suddenly hd drew his hand sharply away, empty. "No,” he said. “I didn’t come ov-er to be useful this morning.’ I came -over”—he spoke slowly, as though endeavouring to gain her attention—“on a quite different errand.” There was a vibration in his \ Ingersoll .. voice that might 'have warned her, Kincardine had she been less- intent upon her , Kirkton ... task of wrestling with a refractory i Ldmbeth .. branch. As it was, she merely1 questioned absently: "And what was the ‘quite differ ent’ errand?” x 1 The next m-oment she felt- his hand close over both hers, garden ing scissors and .washleather gloves notwithstanding. _____ v___ "Stop cutting those confounded Owen Sound . flowers, and I’ll tell you,” he said, Palmerston ... roughly. 4 | Parkhill ........ She looked up in astonishment, port *Elgin .... and, at’last, a glimmering of what Ridgetown .... was coming dawned upon her. Even st. Marys ..... the blindest of women, the m-cgt pre-'Sarnia ........ occupied, ipust have read the ex-j Seaforth ........ pression of his eyes at that moment. ■ Stratford ...... -and 4 nothing else, I must awful rheumatic pain —W- P- t have that But as I am here about one," I Your rheumatism is just ‘like his • an4 everyone ejse’s.. It is caused by SUBSCRIPTION-—$2.00 per year io advance. RATES—Farm or Real Estate toy sale 50 c. each insertion for flrirt four insertions. 25 c. each subse quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar* tides, To Reni, Wanted, Lpst, or Found lOp. per line of six word®, Reading notices Card of Thanks vertising 12 aud Memoriam,, with extra vbrses 25 c. 10 c. per line. 50c. Legal ad-. 8c. per line, In one verse 50 c. each. it will never be possible for them to form again. Rheumatism will be gone for good. BISHOP CONFIRMS CLASS AT GRANTON * In St. Thomas Anglican Church, Granton, 11 candiadates received the rite of confirmation by Right Rev. Charles Allen Seager, D.D., bishop Granton, 11 candidates received the pared and presented, by the lay evan gelist in charge. Capt, F. M.‘ Felt, of the Church Army, and Rev. R; IM. P. Bulteel, rector ofYKir'kton, assist ed in the service. THE LATE MRS. DOAN . Mrs, Dean of the 1st concession of Bosanquet, died at her home on Tuesday, August 16th, after an ill ness of several months, She was married 17 years ago and leaves foul’ children: Opal, Beatrice, Lewis and Maxine and also two brothers, Raymond Calfas, of\ Detroit and Gordon Calfas, of Sarnia. Funeral services were conducted in the- Thedford Anglican Church by Rev. T. W. Jon6s with interment in tne Pinehill cemetery., iThe pall-bear ers were her fwo brothers and four nephews. i FALL FAIRS I iShe gestured > Ailsa Craig .... Atwood ....*...... Aylmer"........... Bayfield ...»...... 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