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Exeter Advocate, 1913-9-11, Page 2A Dark Shadow: wettweeeseeesteenneleees Or, A Coming Vengeance • OHAF,'TEIi V11, --•(Continued). "(rood evening," he said. "Dog?" "Yes; blind men ought not to. be with. out one. Oh, it's you, it, it?" It is scarce- ly necessary to say that alto h•td been looking on during• ,his adventure with the another and the child, "You seem foud of this neighborhood. Thinkin' of takin' a muse here?" "I've just been calling at your ploce—•-" ho began to explain;, but she cut in with ti vicious tug of her bonnet. "Been to measure the room for a new carpet -or ;e it a drorin'-reom sweet this time? Look 'ere, I'm almost glad to meet ;you, for I got somethin' to say about that planner. Ws going baok; and I'll trouble you far the addrere o` tkte place to send it to." She hitched up her basket, in whiclt pieoo of mutton, some carrots and pota- toes, a pound of eanales, and a bar of soap were lying amicably together like a happy family, and glared up at his de- fiantly from under the curlers in which ?ter hair was tightly bound in preparatien for Sunday. "Sorry, Miss !ribby," said Olive; "but it's sold, and I can't take it bask." "Bold? Who's bought it?" "Your father- or rather Mies Mina," replied Clive, smiling down at her, But Tibby was not so easily pacified; and her sharp retort came swiftly as a flash of lightning. Ole on the instalment dodge? And I s'poso you'll be comm' reg'1ar for the weekly payments, mister?" The significance in her tone and her ex- preetive countenance brought the color to Clfve's face. "On the contrary; he said, "1 shall not come again--uutil I am invited," ho ad- ded. Then you've seen the last of Benson's Rente," she said, with an emphatie nod. "'We're rather pertickler about our ac- quaintances, and we don't want no truck with gentlemen in the musieal instrument and furniture line. You understand me?" "1'm afraid I do. Miss Tibby." said Clive gravely, his eyes resting on hers steadily; "and I am afraid also that I could not convince you that you are doing nee an injustice." Piot in a month o' Sundays," she eafd; "any more than I should persuade you to mind your own business." She gave a toes to her bonnet, and. her eyes fixed definantly on him to the laat moment, swung away.. Clive walked on but preeently felt a tug at his coat, and turning. looked down et her quaint face, It was pale and troubled and uncertain. "Look 'ere; she said, drawing him ,aide; "1 didn't mean to let on so hard. But I'm puzzled like. 1 eee you with that child --you can't be a bad sort—" • "Thank you, Mins Tubby--" "You'd better hear me out; I ain't fin- ished yet," she said quickly and signifi- cantly. "What I mean is, you can't be a right down bad lot you've got a good 'eart-- But Mina' --she caught her breath-" Ifina'e all we've got, and. -and - then only .a kid herself -and more of a kid than most of 'em. You and your pi anners will be putting all sorts o' idea in her 'ead-like the things you read o in the novelettes. Bee? Oh, ah. yes; you see right enough. though you fix me with your eyes. as if you was a lamb in a slorter-'ouee.'' Olive's face was red, and his link eo tightly' drawn that they made a straight dine. For a moment he was silent, then lie said in a low voice: "Yes. I understand. You are wrong; but you have my promise. Good -night. She hesitated a moment, then she held out her hand. "Shake on it," she said laconically and he shook hands with her. Tibby's words rang tormentingly in hie ears as he made his way towards home, and he put himself on the ingnisitfonal rack. Why had he taken such an interest in this strange family? Would he have followed up their acquaintance, have sent the piano, if -if Mina had not been a mem- ber of it? It was ueelees to tell himself that he was no more keenly interested in the welfare of that particular family than ane was in many another which he had helped; and he admitted, after a turn of the rack, that the girl's beauty, and her extraordinary voice, the refinement of her speech, and manner, and presence, so strangely inconsistent with her surround- ings, had influenced him. That being so -well, Tibby was right in snlstresp had spoken the other night. Witt her eyes watching Lady Edith ,cloaely, she saw Olive raise his bat, and ahe waited breathlessly. Lady Edith returned his salutation with a slight bow; she seemed to hesitate, then she made a little gestuxe, as if bee/coning him. Sara set her teeth bard, and dropped her eyes. Clive went up to the carriage. "A long block, I'm afraid, Lamy Edith," he said. The colorwas stili lingering in bar face,, its listlessness had gone, and in ,its place was a kind of snppreesed eagerness. It seemed as if she could and nothing to say, she who was usually so ready with the small change which pagsea , cnrrent for conversation in Society. "Isn't it almost too bot for walking?" ,the saki at last, tr "We cooler here than in the House, any- way," he replied tvitt a smile, "I have Dome out to breathe." Then suddenly a thought struck him. "I am glad I have met you, Lady Edith; I wanted to ask a favor." The carriage began to move slowly, and she swept her skirts aside to make room lor him. "You had better come in,' she said. Olive murmured his tbaukt, and got in, glanoing with natural curiosity at ,the Hindoo woman as he did so. "It is Sara, my old nurse; my compan- ion now," said Lady Edith. We have been shopping. She has excellent taste; indeed, she dresses me now ae the used to do when I was a child!" Clive inclined his head; but Sara look- ed straight before her, as if she were deaf and dumb, You don't often ask favors, do you. Mr. Harvey?" said Lady Edith. "I am won- dering what it is you want me to do for you. Shall I promise beforehand?" "No; but I hope you will promise to help me when you have heard what it is," he replied. " Xou have such a large circle of friends; do you happen to know of any young people who want violin lessons?" She thought for a moment or two, and Clive, during the pause, noticed half-un- eoneoiously how exquisitely dreeved she was; certainly the woman, who looked so strangely incongruous, with her dusky hair and black eyee. her gold ear -rings and her semi -Oriental dress, deserved her mietress's tribute to her taste. "Let me explain," he said. "I want to interest you in the case of a struggling ususioian-I mean a real musician,; one of the beet violinists I have heard -but quite unknown. I came acmes him during one of my rambles in the slums—" "It is a man!" she eafd quickly. "I thought it was a woman." „He looked at her with faint eurprise. Why? Oh, yes; it is a man. A dwarf, hunchback, I'm sorry to say. I heard him playing in the street -oh, don't be afraid! He is quite presentable, or will be, with a new suit of clothes. And his manners - well, I"I1 answer for them." "You seem very interested in him," she remarked. "I am." He was silent far a moment. • Should he tell her the whole story, tell s her that hie interest in Blithe was prompt- ! ed by his interest in Mina? Why should he not But he did not. "I am," he re- peated. "Re is a good sort, le Blithe; and his is one of those them of genius hidden in dark places; one '.of those cases that ought to be helped into the light "Is he used' to teaching?""she asked ab- sently. She had been listening to hie voice rather than his words, and the voice etale into her heart, and was welcome there. "Yes," he replied, thinking of Mina, "He can teach singing, anyhow; and I'll answer for it that he'd be as good at the violin; though he may not go about it In the orthodox way. I wish you could see him; you would be as interested in him asXam." She ,smiled. "I'm. afraid not. You eee, I'm not philanthropist." "I hear you say it," he retorted smiling- ly; "but I have my doubts.: I sup,,cee he is very poor," she said, leaning back, but with her eyes on his face, and all her apathy gone. ""Very. So poor that he will be more than ,satiketied with half the fees the swell fiddlers demand And get so freely." "Let me nee," she murmured. "Yes; I think I can get him some pupils. I have some young cousins; who will have to learn, of course; and there are Lady Standon's nieces. Oh, yes; I think I oan manage it. Where shall I write to him?" Clivewas about to give the address; but checked himself, and said: "Oh, write to me, if you will be so kind. It is good of you} But I knew you would help me." Her eyes were downcast for a moment, then she raised them to his swiftly. "Why?" she asked in a low voice. Clive smiled. " 'Her heart was as gold- en as her tear,' " he quoted. The color rose to her face, and her eves veiled themeelves, but a smile hovered about her lips. "That wae very -pretty," she said. "But Yon would not have said it if you had meant it." I beg your pardon: I meant•it," he re- turned in his direct. way. "Did you?" she breathed. "ThenI must forgive you. But do you always make flattering allusions to your friends' per- sonal appearance?" "No; I don't," he said; "and 1 beg your pardon, Lady Edith. he words slipped out before I was aware of them. Yes; pray, forgive me!' "I do," she said, "Though I don't think the line fitted me. I fancy my heart is not golden,3,wbatever my hair may be. Don't trouble to contradict me; it wouldn't be worth while; for you know so little about either." I know you have beeu so very kind and good as to grant my request," he said. That's warrant enough ter my impertin- ent quotation." "Was it impertinent? 1 enppose it was," she said. "You thought 1 wae vain about my hair, so you humored me." There was a touch, of resentment In her tone that surprised and nurt Olive; and he looked at her gravely; but he knew that it would be wiser to say nothing; and presently she relented. "You are almost as bad as Sara there," she said with a laugh. "She fusses over my hair as if -as if it, were her own; and, if she iias heard you, you will have found a direct way to her heart." Clive glanced at the liindoo woman; but Sara's face was as imparsive and expree- eionless as if it were carved out of mahog- any. I'm' glad," he said. "I want all the friend, 1 can sett' we all of us do, if we only knew id Then you will send sae the addresses of tlw pupils, if you should get IitiHii , eseatsr Edith?" �,.e , *hall SBL 910121.e910121.I always Yes. .. , get everything I wand,:ailed "'That's easily' understood,' he re,,,.. laying stress upon Brie promise, And, of course, he would keep it. Why, what dif- ficulty would there be in keeping it? Surely, be did not want to see the girl again? Ile did not attach the leant im- portance to Tibby'e statement that his vis- its would put 'ideas" into Mina's head; the eyee of a child could not have been more pure, more free from coquetry, than those which she had lifted to him; the eyes in which the innocence of her mind and heart shone as through crystal; but all the same, Tibby had a right to rely on his promise, and it was well he had given it. But her outspoken distrust of him and bis motives saddened him; and when he reached his rooms he turned up the gas, and eonght to bury the whole affair in a more than usually complicated Blue Book; sad he did not go to bed 'until he was too tired to think. CHAPTER VIII. Harvey strolled oat of the House on Monday afternoon for a little air. He was one of those unfortunate men -they are not numerous -•who cannot sleep in the House; and usually he listened attentive- ly to even the prosiest speakers. for he knew that in a bushel of the verieat chaff there is always the grain or ear of wheat which goee to ell the granary of know- ledge; but this afternoon he found ,it dif- ficult to follow the honorable gentlemen who were stammering and faltering through a debate on that hardy annual, the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill; the House was hot and stuffy, though here were only a store of membere slumbering or fidgeting in their places; the voices 'seem- ed to drone like tbe humming of an over- laden .bee, and the hot June sun struck keenly through the latticed windows. He rose, nodded reassuringly to the 'Whip, and sauntered through Palace Yaed, and into the streets, thinking, not of the sill, but of how hot it must be in Benson's 1 ,Sts; and a picture of the slight figure, '11,•;th the clear ivory face bending over the°)nya of the piano, start- ed up before him. It Yee wonderful how plainly he could, see her •r hy,was it, why could he not forget the girl P''r'. ibh an un- conscious ,gesture of itnpatienco,'he cntiek- (Med i,Le we, je4 ?'ked On to 06-06-1,44.i4,atie- ':netting on the rai,ings tw Lr ir. "fid the neverending proceesion of ear - lieges, Every now and again a lady bow- ed to hini, and Clive raised his hat; but he was preoccupied, and tbe greeting and +f1rn a rifle that accompanied it were meth - Presently there «ante a block, and a carriage otopped almost in front of him. It, woe the Cheeterleighs', and Lady Edith was sitting in it, with Sara on the seat opposite her. I,ady Edith saw Clive he - fere he saw her; she had been leaning back rather languidly; but as her Baso rested cin the tail hone, tbe blood rose to her face, and involuntarily she 'leant forward ;with a sudden catch of ber breath. :tarn, whose eyes were fixed on her Mas- trex>„,s face, saw the start and the sadden blush, and the allot a oulek Blanco at the than et whom Lady ndith was looking; ft wee a Mance only, but elle knew that it was he, Mr, Olive Harvey, of ithens her simp]y, She laughed. 'That means that you cote elder me irreeiietdble, I suppose? Thanks, Are you Irish, Mr. Harvey?" "Of oourae,' he admitted laughingly. "We are three parts Irish and only one part English." "Then. I am forewarned," she said, smil- ing up at him; "and 1 shall only believe one.fotirth of your pleasant speeohee.- What nonsense we are talking!" aIle beolte off with a nbrug of her.ehoulders; but, Iter face was. beaming, and her usually cola oyes sparkling, as It she found his non- sense sweeter than other coon's wisdom, "Ten me what you have been doing singe 'We mot.".. "Not all!" he retorted with tnoek alarm. " "frust mo in all or not at a•Il ' " she retorted. `'You .tet, i :too can quote. f t onenose You nave neon worlklug hard, eta - tug the slums --it was 1n the alum You found your hunchback fiddler? and speak- ing and writing--?" "And eating and drinking and sleep- ing," he finished, "Do you really findtime for these?" she asked. "Xf a.A, come 'cud lot mo give you soma tea, 1,V•e are gging straight Moine." "I'm sorry," he replied. "But I must got baok to the bauble shop -some call it the'Babble' shop. 1'11 get down here, if I naay?" "In future years, l 1 am spared, I shall boast that Mr. Clive Harvor, the great statesman, onot asked me e. favor," she said, smiling up at him ae he stood, hat in band, betide the carriage. "I shall not bb believed; but no matter." "And I shall boast that Lady Edith trained the request said I shall be bo - 'toyed by all who know how golden her !heart is," he responded, Ile was turning away with this 'pasting,. Silken phrase; but she leant forward, and touobed him lightly on his eleeve to stay him. Yon got my aunt's Lady Dalrymple's. --card?" lie had forgotten it; but he nodded swiftly,• , Yes; and • thank your" When he had gone she . dropped back with a quick nigh.. Her eyes were down- cast, but there was a• senile in them, and a smile curved her lips. She looked up presently, and met Sara's dark brooding oyes :fixed on her; and she made a slight movement, of - impatience. "That was Mr, Olive Harvey, Sara," she said, almost defiantly, Sara nodded, "I know, dearie,". the Bald, I meant to out him -I told you," said Lady Edith with. an uneasy laugh, one al- most of apology, "But--- Well,.1 didn't," "No, deerie, you didn't," < said Sara eootaningly. 'He's a fine, handsome sahib. And he is not like the other English sa- hibs; bo can talk, ah, yes, he clan talk, Your Mr, Harvey!' "Yes; he can talk," said rainy Edith eoftly. "Bat,". the color rose to her 'face and she laughed, "you must not gall him 'my' Mr. Harvey, Sara." Sara made no response; but leant hack, and shut her lips tightly The House -sat late that night, and Olive did not reach the'Dalrymple's until past one. Lady Edith, though she had not directed a single glance towards the en- tranoe, and had danced and talked with the eaae and grape which distinguished her, began to grow listless and weary. "Re cometh not," the.plaint of the Lady of Shalott, echoed In her heart, though the emile scarcely relaxed on her face, and her voles gave no hint of the suspense that gnawed at her and made her furious with self -scorn; but presently she eaw him come in, and her scorn was intensified by elle thrill his near presence caused her. He came straight across the room to where the was sitting eurrounded, in an interval of the dance, by the usual little group of men who worshipped at her Shrine; and though every step of his found its echo in her heart, si;•e did not lookand at was himspeaking. until he was close at her side "Am I too late for a dense, Lady Edith?" he said. "The Bona is only just up, alas!" She looked at her programme. "There is one waltz," she said coldly; "but my father is going, I think." In his prompt fashion Clive went off in search of him. Want to dance with Edith?" said Lord Chesterleigh, smothering a yawn. "Only Just come? 1 sbould have thought you'd both of you have been.better in bed; but, all right, I'll wait, my dear fellow; what else are fathers good. for?" Clive went back, and without' a word of- fered her his arm. Coldly still she walked by his side; then he put hiearm round her, and they began to waltz. Her cold- ness melted as the snow melts in the hot sun of summer. Clive danced' well;. as do all men with whom music is a easeion; with her eyes half erased, her hand lying in his, .her !cheek almost:. touching:anis shoulder, they glided to the exquisite strains of the best band in Europe,. For the firet time in her 1ife,Edith Ches- terleigh knew what .bappiness might mean; for this wae a foretaste of it. Her heart beat as she had never thought it could have beaten; ber breath came pain- fully, yet with a pain that was half a joy. She raised her eyes -they were heavy- as eavyas if the lids were weighted -and looked up at hien with a shy, tender dreaminess. But there was ho response in hie. He was looking straight before him, gravely, almost sternly -and the very gravity and sternness added to the spell which held her in thrall -for he was seeing nothing of the magnificent ball -rooms, the bril- liant crowd that thronged them; in their place was a poor, shabby little room be Benson's Rents, with a girlish figure bend- ing over the keys; and the exquisite and moving music to Which he w'as dancing was drowned by the five -finger exercises played by the little street singer -whom he had promised never to eee again. (To be continued.) A Dog Day Story. Sandy Meivor was "no feelin' just well," so he went to the doc- tor. • "What do you drink V' demanded the =died:. "Whisky." "How much." "Maybe a bottle a day." "Do you smoke I" "Yes." "Well, you give up whisky and tobacco altogether!' Sandy took up his cap and in three steps reached the door. "Here 1" called the doctor, "you have not paid for my advice." "Ahm no ta,kin' it," snapped Sandy, as he shut the door behind him. • .p. His Oppgrtunity "What do you mean, sir?" asked the indignant maiden as she ex- tricated herself from her eager lov- er's arms. "That you are my chance for happiness," he cried rapturous- ly, "and always embrace an oppor- tunity," 'Way," she returned coldly, `kin this case you are but hugging a delusion." NIR1TEf 130Y—"If. you please, father's sent the ladder back:wot 'e borrered. He's broke it, and will you 'please 'axe it repaired at onee, 'cos 'e wants to borrer it agile next Fri- day." Oa the Farm e.'�r�r�►a►'e►�rk's�� Management of the Dairy Herd, It has . become an axions with some dairyonien, that the best re- sults are obtained only with .`the best breeds of animals, But suc- cess with such animals implies also the best management;, :and not every beginner is capable of the skilful handling necessary with high -bred cows, The higher we get in the scale of animal life, the more delicate the animal mechanism be- comes and the greater the need of wisdom in the human agency which controls its . movements. It is a long time before a baby can care for itself as well as can a bronco colt at one day old. A bronco colt can stand more simple hardship and abuse than can a colt from a standard -bred trotting mare or a high-class draft animal, but the bronco *ill never have the great speed at the trot of the standard - bred, nor will it grow -large enough to have the power of the drafter, The scrubby native cow can stand more hardship and abuse than a highly -developed, dairy cow capable of doing great work, and the latter loses her superior commercial value in unfavorable surz'oundings and under unfavorable treatment. It is found, therefore, that sue- cess in dairying depends as much on the kind of care and management bestowed on ehe herd, as upon the breed. Care anti mans gement are, for this reason, given the first con- sideration here. These should in- clude a much greater degree of at- tention to the comfort of the ani- mals that is ordinarily bestowed: In fact, it can be demonstrated that the nearer we come to applying the Golden Rule to the treatment of the dairy herd, and treating its members as we would like to be treated, the larger will be the sat- isfaction and rewards of dairying. These ate the touchstones of suc- cess. When the cow is comfortable and contented, she responds with a flow of milk far in excess of that which she gives when she had been uncomfortable and irritated. Everybody knows that in June weather cows give a larger amount of milk than in ,cold and wintry weather. If we aim to produce all the rest of the year, in stall and barn, conditions as nearly as pos- Bible like those of lune -in warmth, light, freedom from flies, etc., with succulent food in the form of silage and roots to replace the June gras- ses—who shall say that Bossy will not make ample returns in the milk pail? In nothing have most farmers so sinned against their herds, prdb- ably, as in the inadequate shelter provided them against winter's cold and the hot of summer. Warm, well -lighted and ventilated stables are essential to a high rate of pro- duction. A sanitary barn should have from four to six square feet of window space for each cow kept, Where cows are kept in the stalls much of the time,' it is not unreas- onable to say that the barn should be light enough for one to read in. Good ventilation is essential; but it should 'be so arranged that the cows ''shall .not be exposed to a draught. "While warmth without ventilationis conducive to disease, ventilation without heat ° is a eon- sumer of .feed." The range of tezzi» perature in the barn should be kept between 40 and 6Q degrees P, In summer the shades should be pulled down, lest the well -lighted learn be- oozne too warm, They will also keep out the flies, Itis well to have gunny -sacks hung in the doorway; so that;. as .far as the cow forces her", way through, the flies will be brush ed' off her back, Nowhere on the . farm is cleanli- ness more desirable than in ;tile dairy barn, Stalls and half -pews should be kept free from filth and moisture. Plenty of bedding should be usedat all times and the pens cleaned out frequently. If the calf pen is not a large one, it, should be cleaned out every day. In the gut- ters, it is well to use common slack- ed lune, or wood ashes, as 'an ab- sorbent. COWS should not be kept in "an ice -house, a hog pen ora dungeon." A dark, damp and dirty place is very favorable to the growth of bac- teria, which may attack the health of the animals, Plenty of sunlight keeps the place dry and kills bac;` teria, When'. kept in the barn, cows should be brushed daily, not only to keep the dirt and hair .from falling into the milk -pail, but to keep the pores' of the akin open. Thio makes. the cow more comfortable, and it cannot be too often repeated that anything done to add to the com- fort of the cow adds to•her product- iveness, • ' Pointed Paragraphs. When. in doubt, tell the truth.. Every time a girl's heart is bro- ken she eaves the . pieces.. It is easier to make friends than it is to hold•them. Even the silent mass is unable to keep his ignorance under cover. • Anyway, no man ever has occa- sion to apologize for doing his duty. Lots of men are willing t� sell their experience for ten cents on the dollar. Ordinarily a woman manages to hold her own—with .the. exception of her tongue. . 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