The Exeter Times, 1923-3-1, Page 2BY fscAri-IARINE. SUWNAHPRXCHARDij
Copyright by Redder and Stoughton.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. j "Deirdre!"
When the broad glare of the morne! The cry was a prayer also,
big sun broke through the dingy win- she bent ,ovev him; her arms en
-
dews of the hut, Deirdre started from circled him. From that first kiss of
the ereenDed posatiou in which she had coitecious lovers she withdrew a little
fallen, her head leaning wearily tremu1ent11V.
against a box. "Oh, you must he still," she cried.
She wee aghast to find that She had "If the b1eeding ibegint again
been asleep. As she woke with a neve-r be strong. You must lie quiet
startlett exclamation, a band went out new, and 'see if 1 eatt find some
to her. Her eyee met Davey,s, food. There's sure to be fiour and
it was as if that encounter in the some oatmeal about."
valley of sheetows had brushed ail e0ii the shelf in the corner by the
misunderstandings from the love that hearth," Davey said. "Andthere was
was like the sun between them. Deir- tea in a tin there a day or two ago."
tire ha,d wrestled Trill death for po,s_ She found them and they breakfast -
session of him. Her eyes tiubore the, ed oxi a weak gruel and tea without
shadow of the eoedliet. Davey was milk. She had helped Davey on to
wan and variquishecl. He knew that the bunk against the wall anti EPread
she liad wres.blect his apirit from the the sheepskins undee him when the
darkn,essozi whichnit bad been drift- Schoolmaster and Teddy came into the
ng, and the knowledge made a .serene yard. Farrel carried. a bar, of food
jeyousne,es. in him. and a couple of blankets strapped to
• Spee,ch desertea them; they had no his saddle,
'Mines to talk with. Just this gazing Deirdre rriet him out of doors The
of eyes on eyes told all that there was sight of her reassured 'him. She' told
to tell. him what had happened during the
Later on she went from his side and night -of Davey's long stillness and
began te move about the hut, gather- insensibility, and of Copal's ,coming
ing the brushwood into the hearth, few hours before the dawnh
raking over the ashes and making the The Schoolmaster went into the hut,
fire again, Has, eyes followed her. "Father says" --Deirdre went
• The hut was ,shabby and disorderly straight to Davey ---"he doesn't believe
by daylight. cenai had used it when it was Conal fired that shot at you."
he was muetering, and there was a lIer eyes went out to him troubled
heap of rusty irone the corner, a and beseeching.
Ti
few hoarded ties and haaTeemiety jars "I can't help thinking it was, my -
of grease on the shelves some- old. self, though I'd be glad not to He's
clothes, -w-orn-of, boats and green -hide
beep, such a big brotherly sort of man
thongs behind the door. The bunk, to ine always, Canal, and it hurts to
with its sheepeekins, and a tabae ma,cle think he could do a thing like that."
of a,rough hewn plank on three polee She continued after a moment,
set in the floor, were the only &earn- "Father says, Coital came in after
here. Deirdre found a bundle of rags' Yen.d gone last night. He'd been
on tbe shelf near the hearth, and drinking, bat his voice told him that
searched for the hotble of liniment he didn't do it. As soon as he knew
which she knew was kept for use if you'd come after- me, the way you
any of the 'men ,get a broken. hand ex, were, he recre out after you for fear
a. Mck from a beast in the stock -yards. You mightn't ha-ve been able to reach
Davey knew where Ccinal had stow- here. Do --do you think it was ()oriel,
ed these thin,gs while they were
work_ Davey?"
ing there together, He triedto heap! Davey turned his face to the wall,
'Deirdre to find them. She was at his
eould not bear to hear her defence
side in an instant. • .1 of COnal-her and desire to
"You mustn't move the saidi
a think well of him in spith of every -
compelling tenderness in her voice. thing. He had no doubt in his own
Fie fa bach.' mind. The memory of that whistling
• The touch of her hands, was a shock shot from the, dark trees, the agony
o.f ay. His fac.e eannadaue to her, wan of he long ride through tile hills,
th weakness radiant; at her near eanla-baek to him.
presence. His eyes, we throug'irzzireekarax'Aia' 1 know," he said bitterly, '9s
- ithat I was looking for him. before 1
wacia„:„,, !left the town. to tell him what mother
.
It E 11.14 AT IS II woe.. I had told me about the raid' IVIeNab and.
oratateat th 1 •
were get-,
Rheumatism Treatment. Wetc1-134ettiR-ri.15.- At th'e-Black
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RizeurnatasTae_eend4 they'd 'been baiting Cona.I-about me[
os't you. arorytbang: Try us anu be con- promising to do :Cor me. Some one said
vinced. No medicines. No electricity. he'd gone to the store. I went there
Ladies, Departneeek, 99 Kingst west and Joe Wilson told one he'd seen
nein, Adelaide 4.043. offia-ea, Tomato, Conal riding out an hour earlier. I
Winnipeg,
thought I'd catch him up on the road.
Vartcouver.
It was from the trees by the creek
the shot came, and Red took fright."
"There',s nobody else got a grudge
against you, Davey?"
"Not that I know who'd want to
settle me that way. McNab, of course,
hasn't got any love for me."
"You went up to the store and
straight out along the road past the
Bull?" the Schoolmaster asked.
`Yes, but I'd seen MaNab in the
aa.a..-ma.tter of fact, though it may be
reaIizgh1yIheeatate, a forced loan
we 1%aq to arnirianTettirieWrf-at will net
just sce daraly in the breed daylig,ht.
All the worldeaingi clerk to him,
and 'it's breaking his heart -eating the
etrength tind the eoul and the eouragc
out of 'him, to stand by and let others
. .things for him,"
lConeeieusneea efi what he had don
eeme slowly to .Davey,
, "Ole it waS mean and cruel ana
'cowardly te hurt him like that!" Deft-
dre exited pa,sedonattely, and ran out
-into the steishiee atter her father,
hen she came back into the hut,
Davey, ft a tense white -1600, was
standing near the door.
"I ought to be flayed elive-Anit I
didn't know, I didn't understand," he
said.
• There was no quieting er comfort-
• ing bini, ,
"Will lie ever forgive me? Do you
• think he will, Deirdre?" His face was
clammy with the sweat of weakness.'
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frem the old" mane you may say. My
name wiFl earry me through and when
the deal's over I ran make it right
with father. I'm going home,"
"Can't think what Conal means,
leavin" .'em so long," Steve muttered
irritably.
"We 'can't have them on our hands
`It eves reeee than 'Cone,' 'did -that I • "
Coral wouldn't have done it." 1 Devey's' voice was short and irrit
Deirdre went for the Scheolmaster.' able too.
He came into the hut again. He and, "You're eight, Davey." The School
Davey gripped hand's. Then the master spoke' slowly, thoughtfully
Schoolmaster led him to the 'bunk "What you say makes, the getting ri
again and stretched him out on it. 1 of them sound easy, but 1 luuelly lik
"It's all right, my boy! All right!" the idea of
he said brokenly. "You lie still now! "Taking your share, after the, wa
and let Deirdre took after you." II've put it?" Davey interrupted. "Bu
Davey's vigorous yeuth rebelled at as far as Pm concerned they're Cellar
the days ol idleness which followed. beasts, and yours -end mine-ebeeaus
he wound knitted quickly; lus weak-; we got them. Nobody erse could, an
nese vanished as it mended, they weren't any good to anybody eat
email had: disappeared. No one ing 'their heads off in the hills. Bu
had seen or heard of him since the for the world it's, as if I had con
Oliven 8 die Nazareth,
And fax away -the. great eea shines,
The night wind when it Nvhhipereth
Beare in itS heart a dream Of pineo
,And nearer with their blooni-perfu' e
Are rosy drifts of almond bloom.
But the.hill town of Nazareth
Lies dully spraWling, in the sun,
Ancl all i,ts round of.mertal breath
Is, meanly s,aid. 4ita meanly done,
(Oh, n(ver, so the' Prophet saith,
M'essias conies from 'Nazareth!)
The Elders quareel in the street,
And there, is cruelty and pride,
And save for one low, cot and sweet -
"iris, even. as the world. outeade,
Bu't there, "Tlion'rt' Weary, Mother
• mine; .
- I/s,e thou my feet instead of thine."
- Old Joseph, toiling manfully .
. At joiner's tasks from thy to day,
4 Leaks up with workeworn eyes to see
e Strong hand,s that bear those tasks
away. .
Y
t "MY yoke is done, thine soon 'shall be
s Take thou thY rest' ant. trust to me."
d_ Tire swarming 'children strive and cry,
And 0/1,0 falls hurt, a puny thing
• ---
Unmarked save by His pitying eye
f And eager hands that rescue, bring,
night of the Wirree races,. The S,cho,o1- traded '‘Vitli YOU to 40 it on behalf o
Like as a mother comforteth,"
having fired ihe shot that had almost old mari--sand as likely as not he'll be
master and Derriere had accepted his the estate, A.yrinuir ,gets a third o
desappeaeance eilent proof of his the profits PH hand it ov t th
'• cost Davey his life. 1 glad enough to see it, for a couple of
When they went back to the shanty, dozen breakaways and, seruhherS he
Stave talked incessantly about Conal.' never expected to make a penny out
Although no more had been heard of of again."
PPLaughlin, and the threatened raid! The ,Schoolmaster's gesture of inn -
had never been made, be was not easypatience was one of resignation also.
about that hall hundred head of "It's a specious argument, Davey,"
newlyebrandecl beasts in the Narrow he ,said, "but r wish to heaven you'd
Valbey paddock. kept clear of the whole business."
' At the end of the week Davey took That evening Davey called, Deirdre
the bit between Inc teeth. and they wandered down the hillside,
"Fin going to take that mob to the watching the sun set On the distant
Melbourne yards," he said. "We can't edge of the plains that stretched,
run them any longer in the Valley." northwards and inland', from the rise
"It's too risky, Davey," the School- beyond Steve's.
master said. "McNali',s teo quiet to "I'm going to -morrow," he said', and
be harmless, andthere's only one man told her of the promise he had made
could run the mob with safety." his mother. "I feel) it's up to me to
"And that's Conal?" Davey asked. carry this job through, but when its
"There's not a man in the country over I'm coming back---goin,g home.
like Conal with cattle. He knows When I come bad: will you marry me,
every layepath and siding ,on the Deirdre?"
ranges. Then he's hail-fellew-well- "Yes," she said simply. "But if
met with the men on the roads. you'd only give up going, Davey!"
There's not one of them would give Davey's face had, a look of his fath-
him away," .he Schoolmaster said er for the moment, a sombre obstinacy.
"I could run them." The line on "There's something in the game,"
Davey's mouth tightened. "And safer he said. "You're on your mettle to
than Conal, I've been thinking.. Some carry it through when you've begun.
of the cows -have father's brand on But you needn't worry. I'll be all
them. Most of the calves ought to right. My story'll be geed enough if
have the D.C. by rights, I suppose. there is any trouble."
They've got the cut of our Ayrshires, Deirdre sighed.
though Conal's done the double M's "But I can't bear the thought of
pretty neatly on them. your going," she said. "If only you
"ViThat's the old man's, will be mine wouldn't!" '
some day, and, so they're in a sort of (To be continued.)
way my cattle too. I can say, I don't
think A3airituir had any right -not
Die Old Curtains,
much anyway -to them, if we couldn't
Sweater or Skirt
get them. The old rnan wouldn't risk •
a couple of horses on the off-eliance. • in Diamond 'Pyes
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"Was he back when you came away
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she said. "I'll take Ms worth Will
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certain.
The Schoolmaster went to the door
again.
Davey called him back with a rest-
ess movement.
"What are you going to do •about
those beasts?" he asked queruleuely.
"They're better here than at Steve's,
but of course if W.Laughlin gets a
tracker it wouldn't take him long to
find them. Teddy'a got them in the
tour-rnile. paddoek this morning, b'ut
they ought to be moving."
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'Oh, yes, 1 forgot, Conal -he'll take
them!'
Davey fell hack.
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elf ?" he inviredi
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Till all the tentle,r tasks are done
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I didn't even raise, my eyes front my
paper oa his pattering footstepz passed
100 in ,the, hotel lotnige. Something in
hie voice, however, as he chatted in
Ruesian, caused Pie to look up.
"Who Is he?" I asked a waiter.
'`The smallest man. in, Ole 'world, sir
-Andre itatoneheff, is twenty
yea.rs of age, and only twenty-six
laacb-
0e in height. Ire often, comes in here
for tea. The, tall mare with him Is Itie
father
•
•
I determined to 'know 111001 wrItess
Lonatn nowSpal)er man:
The smale,st Mau hi the world is
one 8f the most fascinating pensons
have ever met, file head scarcely
reaches the level of an orainary table,
Be Weare a minute monocle, and ot.
his fourth finger, which is the length
cf an ordinary man's thumb -joint,
tiny ring in which, is set an excensitelY-
carved cameo.
Uses F'urniture to Fit.
His clotheS are of the latest cut..
The tiny double-bi•easted lounge suit.
he was weaning-ws of a style the-
ntost fastidious n„s.n might have en-
vied, E+orything, even the four black
bone, buttons which fastened his jacket
had been specially made, fr
Rataucheff hasean extensive and up.,
to-clate .wardrobe. I trentbl,ed 46' 41,
large -dog belonging to the proprietor -
of the hotel beushed by the -chair on
which he was seated. • That dog could
have annihilated him.
Fie is smaller than a.ny ehilcI of four,.
yet he is, adi intelligent, cultured man
but a great artist. He speaks no Eng-
lish, but Ira French and German he is
as fluent as inhis own language.
This tiny man comes from a colony '
of tweigy-to Russian midgets, many
of wheal had to liee from the Dolshe-
His paren-ts are normal people, -and
lic is• ono of the phenomena of Inman"-
ty for which there is no accounting.
When Inc spol e. to me his voice was
as high pitched and flute -like ai that of
Wherever he goes lie takes his own
set of furniture. He would be smoth-
ered in an ordinary bed and drowned
in an ordinary bath A complete suite,
-bed, bath, chairs, table, dressing -
table, chest of drawers, •-,vriting-desk;
arid tiny ladder -accompanies him
everywhere. His Whole outfit could
he fitted into a small trunk.
The mid.get's food, though the same
kind as that eaten by an ordinary man,
is less in quantity than a baby would
need to keep it.geing Chicken, meat, ,
puddings, fruit, milk, wines -anything
will form part of the meal -but when
the little man helps himself from a
•dish it is difficult to see whether ill,
quantlty has been reduced at all.
,. Midgets '''ever Live Lona.'
• ell?"71(
Atte average., -Hear Weald' be a' piece
aahneat an inoh. square, a quarter of a
potato, a small amount of cabbage,
and as much soup as could be poured
into anegg-cup. This would be follow,'
ed by a coffee -saucer full of pudding,
a couple of grapes, or a tiny piece of
apple.
Ratoacheft's handwriting is, hold and
clashing, rather pointed in character,
'and' larger 'than that of his six-foot
'father..
The ,smalIest man in the world told..
me, Wi•th iridifference, that midgets
tel-
duiia expect to live after thirty-five
years of age, by which time they are
White:haired "and old. "But then,' he •
added, "what doesit matter? We are
happy while we 14ve, and we've all got
to die some day!"
Otiglii of:Familiar Phrases.
How many people know the origin
of the phrase,,"a mare's nest?"
Certainly "mare" in this case has
'nothing te do with a horse. It is a
cori-uption. Of '"inara," a inelevoldne
de-
inon who, according to traditieli, pos-
sessed a nest fillet.' with wonderful
jewels and' o d
ticular "dei3iati' evOr ekitedpis ' donee,'
ful, but, he eertaiRlyeiviaratiencea our
speech, for-fienever .we refer :to
"ilightnitties." we are-, again uncoil-
sciebsly evoking the 'same
spirit. •
W.e,eu we say that something Is "not
wor,th a rap" most'of-us. imagine that
a "rap" means a rap of t,he knuckels.
But the tu•igla 'of this phrase dates
from the days of George L. when the
'.'rap"', was a counterfeit coin °Item ,
paseed off for a lialf-penny.
The expression, "I don't care a
conies from Italy. The -word fig is ae.
rived from "fice," the Italian eqUivalent
for a snap of the fingers.
- At one time bakers were fined se
• heavily for short 'Weight that ,
they threw in an, extra loaf to be,suree"
they were on. tine safe side --and SO
we' get the phrase; baker's desen.., ,
/,iewatlitys a "bluestocking" nleall
a. woman who is devoted to steciYa11
Pas nothing to !do teith hosiery: But.
in the sixteenth centary there existed
in Paris and Venice, societies .of learnt,
ed 17011),311 V-,`Ilo were bright blifeistocki
Ings to ilistingeieh them from the -led'
cultured members of their', sox.
And yet -11.'-se-S7e16:its:..1----'gs: long, 80 lOrig';
sav,r your faee but yestertia3,
Since then the la,rure have lapsed awair
aVatleiet a song.
gain
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