The Seaforth News, 1940-04-11, Page 6PAGE SIX
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940
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"1 an see why she stayed with
Bigot," I said teuatively.
"Break the dog's leg it can't go
hunting hones—mail, non! Holy. how
stupid are you English!"
"\Vhy doesn't the Intendant leek
Sr up now? She's dangerous to hint!
V -et Irmettther what she said?"
'"fennerre, yen shall see to -mor -
Voltaire needs 00 lune, for he has no
soul. No, by Sainte ltleloise! The good
God didn't make him. The devil
laughed. and that laugh grew into
3I'sieu' Doltaire. But brave --no kick
ing pulatis in his body."
"You will send for Voban--now" I
asked softly.
ile was leaning against the door as
w " he answered; -now all the he ,poke. He reached and put the
s'neep go bleating with tate be11, Bigot tumbler on a shelf, then turned and
Bigot---Bigot—there is nothing but opened the door, his face all altered
Bigot thele Is nothing but Bigot! to a grimness.
But. pili Vaudreuil the Governor is "Attend Isere, Labrottkl" he called,
:he great nun, and Montealnt alio! and on the soldier coming, he blurted
stn of 11ahonnet! Von aha11 see. Now one iti scorn, ''Here's thin English
they dance to Bigot whistling; he captain can't go 10 supper without
will lot•k her safe enough tomorrow. Voban's shears to snip him. Go fetch
less some one steps in to help her. hint, for I'd rather hear a calf in a
Before to -night site never spoke of barn -yard than this whing-whauging
him before the world --hut a poor for 'i\l'sieu' Voban!'"
,)aft thing. going about all sad and He mocked my accent in the last
wild. She missed her chance to -eight two words, so that the soldier grin-
-alio!" !nett. and at 0110e started away. Then
"Why are you not with Montealnt's he shut the door, and turned to me
soldiers?" 1 asked. "You like him 'again, and saki more seriously, "How
better,' Ilong have we before Master Devil
"I was with him. but my time was comes? meaning Doltaire.
out anti I left him for Bigot. Fish! I "At least an hour." said I
left him for Bigot, for the militia!" "Good:" he rejoined, and then lie
He raised his thumb to his nose, and smoked while I sat thinking.
spread out his lingers. Again light It was near an hour before we
dawned on me. Hee was still with the heard footsteps outside; then came a
Governor in all fact. though soldier- knock, and Voban was shown in.
ing for Bigot --a sort of watch upon "Quick, tn'sieu'," be said. "M'sieu'
the Intendant. is almost at our heels,"
I saw my chance. If I could but its- "This letter:" said I. "to Mademois-
dnce this fellow to fetch me Voban! elle Duverney," and I handed foto':
There was yet an hour before I was hers, and those lo Governor Dinwid-
to go to the intendace, die. to Si'. Washington. and to my
I called u1> what looks of candour I partner,
could and told hint bluntly that 1 Ile quickly put them in his coat,
wished Voisin to hear u letter for me nodding. The soldier --I have not yet.
to (lie Seigneur Devarney's. At that mentioned his name--Gabortl, knew
los Docked his our UAW shook his bushy not that more than 0110 passed into
head. fiercely stroking his mus• Voban's hands.
taches. "Ori with yens coot, nt'sieu'," said
1 knew that I should stake some- Voltam whipping out his shears, toss,
thing. if 1 said it was a letter for ing his cap aside, and rolling down
Ma 1'- o ise!le 11nt'a:'n'iy, !tut 1 knew his amen, ' \l'sie•n' is here,"
"Also that it It" was still the (infer''' I had old' my coat, was in a their
-r'5 Imo, fu Bigot'_ (0y, h• -would me in a twinkling, and he was Clippitlg
1 -1u1d the Seig11etn 1 ,I11)10ns with softly at 1(1,) as Dnhair,-'s hand tut'n-
tn. t,ov,-(1tor. And a woman in lip- ed the handle of the door.
.ase witli soldier --.that steam ,•enol -Beware - to -night'.. Velem whist).
5'nn•raiiag. So 1 8„1.1 11 fur
Besides. 1 1nei he ether ; ;,nr, k. "('.me: to mo in the prison,- said 1.
ural to teak,- a tri•-nrl meets toy ^ }(,.0 ,. ol,er your brother!”
enmdes it 1 (.11.114. i 1-i1+- ver there His lips twiteht•d. "1I'siete. I will if
was I ,-!cries., I can." Thos ho 80 id in my ear us re
was lit a 1„11,1 1(11' f1.„ln ,(1" I>nlaaire enteredand lame forward.
,
s.
.:e-11 1 saw his mouth and , yes .,pen rpoa ley liter' Detrain• broke ant.
sem.- in it big soundless pluck. 'shirk ...no,— En •lish gallants! They iso to
ens- 10 at, ,•;l0 with a :of -less alio! . price nor!,;1 and mnslceil by Velem.
i .gas,: hin, another tumbler of wi110. \ob,0,---a,. n eons from the conrt of the
-(erre: he auk it. 1 naris• 1' wide E1no. 11 e>,anish -s
u burharS \\'ho
at an11111. 1011i i,al'i d lu= 1 t d 5c,11\ohati:?"
.otter drinhu,a. it suit]. Poem .\ly mother. with Ile• 1•.11111:: help,
.:.a: 00e111 ila-y'io 100111' 1.. 1, a!,8 Fun11' 11
spy.' Dottair•• ( 11 ,"1, with it pinch of
laud rope's not r. e 0,a.' ! 1;11- -otos at 105 n„s,, aud replied 1az1ly.
8l''l. ^'111 11' a prep} .:ant in :n1- •) tic! 1:01 :.ay 'Who railed you Vo-
-
other .ring first. I trust. leen?' Vnhalt. bet who ca;levl you
,"a0itl.•,I if sell ll1,v'-li t' 111'It !' here. Voisin.'
-0 is L". -That Se-igle:es letvaru"y. 1 t 11
e .spok1 l' 1 -lily til,.
1 t a .A' purl es•-:.
ri Funf 1111)1; and 1 lale,a 115'- 5,re, cite "What wnald you have,. monsieur?
snsign— ahlm5. ,chat -altos tl,. - tae:! The eltud, 1 i(((5 better brtch,as than 11
And th,, nla ul .ell,-- 2.1(1. ut. excel- tsirber.s. 1 :- 18 for )tint,"
_ens: and a t u,. "'t' h i lane. ami a lle shrugged d his shoulders and
seat like Ie •ch es fu the racidl0. A101 eau). over 10 Volta11. "'Turn round.
;1011 a British ottir1r 111,.w0rl -11p 10 my Wnban.'• h, said. "Vobau—_and
kick your heels till galiows day! So stlrb a figure' a -knee, a hack like
droll. my dear!” that!"
"But will you te(111 Vohan?" I Then, while my heart stood still,
asked, he put forth a linger and touched the
"To trim your hair against the sup- hasher on the: chest. If he should
per to -night --eh. like that?"' touch the letters! I was ready to
As he spoke he puffed out his rel seize therm—hut would that save
cheeks with wide boylike eyes, burst them? Twine, thrice. the linger prod -
his lips in another soundless laugh, tied Voban's breast. as if to add an
and laid a finger beside his nose. His emphasis to his words. "In Quebec
marvellous innocence of look and his you are. misplaced, Monsieur le Vo -
peasant openness -hid, I saw, great ban. Once a wasp got into a honey -
shrewdness and intelligence—an ad- Bomb and died." -
'nimble man for Vaudreuil's purpose,
as admirable for mine. I knew well
that if I had tried to bribe him he
would have scouted me, or if I made
a motion for escape he would have
shot. me off -hand. But a lady—that
appealed to him; and that she was
the Seigneur Duvarney's daughter did
the rest,
"Yes, yes," said- I, "one must he
well appointed in soul and body when
one sups with his excellency and
Monsieur Doltaire."
"Limed inside and chalkedoutside,"
he retorted gleefully. But M'sieu' should be in fashion at Versailles."
Then he sat down, 'while Voban
made a pretty show of touching off
my person, A few minutes passed so,
in which the pealing of bells, the
shouting of the people, the beating of
drums, and the calling of bugles
came to tis clearly.
A 111111 hour afterwards, on our
way to the Intendant's palace, we.
heard the Benedictus chanted in the
church of the Recoilets, as we pass
ed --hundreds kneeling outside, and
responding to the chant sung within:
"That we should be saved from our
enemies, and from the hands o1 all
that hate us."
At the corner of a building which
we passed, a little away from tho
crowd, I saw a solitary cloaked iig-
nre. The words of the chant, follow-
ing Its, 1 could hear distinctly;
"That we, being delivered nut of
the hands of our enemies, might
serve Hint without fear'."
Aud then, front the shadowed cor-
ner came in a high, melancholy voice
the words:
"To give light to then that sit in
darkness and in the shallow of
death, and to guide our feet into the
way of peace."
Looking closer, 1 saw it was Math-
lite,
Doltaire smiled as I turned and
begged a Moment's time to speak to
)ler.
"To pray with the lost angel an
sup with the Intendant, all in one
night - -u liberal taste, monsieur; but
who shall stay tate good Samaritan!„
They stood a little distance away,
and I went over to her and said,
"Mademoiselle---Mathtkle, do you not
know pee?"
1-1'r abstruated- eye (red up, as
there ran to her brain some little
sprite out of the Hoose of Memory
and told her who I was, -
"There were two lovers in the
world," she said; "the Mother of Om
forgot then, and the devil came. I
Inn the woman," she went on; "I
made this red robe from the curtains
of Hell—"
Poor soul! My own trouble eeemed
then as n speck among the stars to
hers. I took her hand and held it, say-
ing again, "Do you not know me?
Think, Mathilde!"
I was not sure that she had ever
seen me. to know me, but I thought
it possible; for, as a hostage, I had
been 0111011 noticed in Quebec, and
Vahan had, no doubt, pointed me out
to her, Light leaped from her black
eye, and then she said, putting her
finger on her lips, "Tell all the lovers
to hide. I have seen a hundred Fran-
cois Bigots,"
I looked at her, saying nothing—I
knew not what to s1I7. Presently Iter.
eye steadied to mine, and her intel-
lect rallied. "You are a prisoner, too,"
she said; "but they will not kill you:
they will keep you till' the ring of fire
grows lin yunr head, and 111511 you
will 'nuke your scarlet robe, and go
out, but you will never find It—never.
and hid first, and then It hides....
It hides, that which you lost--lt
Bides. and you clot not find It again,
\'nu go stunting, hooting, butyou can
not Mal Il."
My heart Ive8 pinched with pain, 1
nudcrstood her. She did not know
her level• now ut all. If AIM', and her
Mother at the Manor could but care
for her. I thought. But. alas! what
,old 1 do? It were useless to ash her
to go to 111e Manor; she would (101
understand.
Perhaps there conte to the disord-
ered mind flashes of insight, illumin-
ations and divhlations, deeper than
are given to the sane. fol• she sudden-
ly -obi in a 0114810T, touching me
with a Demons linger, ••1 will go and
1.•11 111.1 W11,110 to hide. They shall not
end her. I know tho woodpath to the
Mentos }lush! site shall own all I
have---.•%rept the scarlet robe. She
1100111 me where the May -apples
gr. d•, Ge," --.she Wished me gently
away ---"g0 to 5)1111' prison, and Pray
But you eau not hill Francois
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d own gloom, and so gives us a new
temper lilted to our needs. 11'emenl.-
ber that at the great door I turned
back anti smiled upon the ruined
granary, and sniffed the air laden
with the scent of burnt corn—the
people's bread; that I saw old men
and women who could not be moved
by news of victory, shaking with
cold. even beside this vast furnace,
and peevishly babbling of their hun-
ger, and I did not say, "Poor souls!"
that for a time the power to feel my
own misfortunes seemed gone, and a
hard, light indifference came to me.
For it is true I came into the great
dining -ball, and looked upon the long
loaded table, with its hundred can -
(11e5, its flagons and pitchers of wine,
and on the f'aees of so many idle,
careless gentlemen bid to a carouse,
with 11 manner, I believe, us reckless
and jaunty as their own. And 1 kept
it up, though I saw it was trot what
they had looked for. I did not atonce
know who was 'there, but presently,
at a distance from me. I saw the face
of Juste Duvarney, the brother of my
sweet Alixe, a man of lint - twenty or
so, who hall 11 name for wildness, for
no badness that 1 ever heard of, and
for at fiery temper. Ile was in the ser-
vice of the Governor, an ensign. Ho
had been little alt home since I had
come to Quebec, having been em-
ployed up to the past year ill the ser-
vice! of the Governor of Montreal,
\Vo bowed; int he made no motion 10
come to me, and the Intendant en-
gaged me almost at once in gossip o1
the town; suddenly, however, diverg-
ing upon some questions of public
tactics and civic government. Ile
much surmised ole. for though 1
knew him brave and able, I had
never thought of 111111 Save as the
adroit politician and servant of the
King, the tyr1tnt and the llba•rtinc, 1
might have known by that very
scene a fete how's before th,a he had
a wide, deep knowledge human
I knew he was hinting at the bar -
bees resentment of the poor Math-
ilde's fate. Something strange and
devilish leaped Into the man's eyes,
and he. brokeout, bitterly,
"A honey -bee got Into a nest of
wasp; andI died."
I thought 0,f the woman on the hill.
Vohan inok,•tl for a moment as if he
might do 800(0 wild thing. His spirit,
his devilry, pleased Doltaire, and he
laughed, "Who would have thought
our Veban had such wit? The trade
of barber is double-edged, Razors
igot---110. 15 a devil:' Then She 111111st
into my hands a little wooden cross,
which she took front many others at
her girdle, "11 you wear -that the ring
of fire will not grow,' she said. "1
will go by the woodpath, and give her
one, too. She shall live with me: I
will spread the balsam branches and
stir the tire. She shall be safe, Hush!
Go, go softly, for their wicked eyes
are everywhere, the were -wolves!"
She put her fingers on my lips for
an instant, and then, turning; stole
softly away towards the St. Charles
River,
Doltaire's mockery brought me
back to myself.
"So much for the beads of the
addled; now for the bowls of sinful
Ivan," said he.
11I,
As I entered the Intendant's palace
with Doltaire I had a singular+ feel-
ing of elation. My spirits Pose unac-
countably, and I felt as though it
were a fete night, and the day's duty
over, the hour of play -was come, I
must needs have felt ashamed of it
then; and now, were I not sure :it was
some - unhidden operation of the
senses. Maybe a merciful Spirit sees
how, left alone, we .should have
stumbled and lost ourselves in our
Ruth Lowe, who was horn in To-
ronto, educated in Hollywood, tour-
ed the big vaudeville houses of Ole
northwesternstates as a member'
of Ina Ray Hutton's all girl baud.
Successful as vocalist and member
of a popular piano duo, she per-
formed almost - continuously since
1933 before the microphone, and
has now added )another feather to
her little green hat. Ruth is author
of the- new popular song "I'll
Never Smile Again," which was
introduced over the Canadian net-
works some time ago and which
received Its New York debut, with
Glenn Miller's orchestra doing the
honours, last 1001101. Miss Lowe has
just returned from a visit to New
York where site personally .thanked.
Glenn Miller- for his interest in her
song.
nature, and despised it; unlike Dol-
taire, who had a keener mind, was
more refined even in wickedness, and,
knowing the world, laughed at it
more than he despised it, which was
the sign of the greater find. And,
indeed); in spite of all tate causes 1
hadtodespise Doltaire, it is but just
to sayhe hall .by nature all the large
gifts—misused and disordered as
they were, He was the product of
his age; having no rear moral sense,
living wantonly, making his own law
of right and wrong, As a lace, I was
taught to think the evil person car-
ried evil in his face, repelling the
healthy mind; but long ago I found
that this was error. I hall no reason
to admire Doltaire, aud yet to this
hour his handsome face, with its
shadows and shifting lights, haunts
me, charms me. The thought came
(o me as l talked with the intendant,
and I looked round the room. Some
present were of coarse calibre—
busliranging soles of seigneurs and
petty nobles, dashing and profane,
and something barbarous; but most
had gifts of person and speech, and
all seemed capable.
SIGNS OF SPRING
While looping out of my window,
One Sunday afternoon,
I saw Iwo little birdies,
One Black, the other Brawn,
One of these was a Robin,
The first 1 hall seen this Spring,
The other a big bold Blackbird,
With glossy jet black wing.
The blackbird has a bright, bright
eye,
And a very wise wee head,
Which one and all philosophers say,
13y-110 man can be read,
The Robin's eyes are also bright,
And he is very cute.
He in the evening sits and sings,
His voice sounds like 0 flute.
Now which of those two birdies,
Would you rattler have around?
It matters 1101 for color,
It's only in the sound.
To me they both sound very sweet,
When I know why they are here,
It is to say cold Winter's gone,
And Spring is almost here.
So let us with the birdies sing,
In thankfulness to Him,.
And praise His name for ever more,
Who gives us all good things,
Then do not let us be cast down
But look up to the sky,
Lifting our thoughts beyond the
clouds,
To brighter realms on high.
—By Kate McM. Woods,
(Mrs. William Woods,
formerly of Walton)
Clinton, Ont,
VISIONS OF MY OLD HOME
While looking backward o'er the
years,
Just lel not take a peep,
I see my mother in the door,
While father counts his sheep.
1 can see his home-made flannel shirt,
His wide brinuned black felt hat,
And the cedar log beside the gate,
\Where he so often sat.
I can see our old 0011/ standing
Beside the wicket gate,
For Daisy knew when thirsty,
To come there for to wait,
Then my father with a pail in hand.
Brought water from the pump,
Amt as hestood 1010 watered her,
Then site would licit his coat.
I can 800 11111 Brown 1101150110ar the
road,
The 1111111 hence and the puup,
And the little hi11 in !'rout of all.
Where we used 10 run and jump.
There were boys and girls and grown
tips too,
Aiul of't times many more,
For in childhood day,., there's lots of
friends, -
Yen vomit them by the score,
I see the trees 1 helped to plant.
They look so nice and green,. But when I look hawk o'er the years.
It all seems like •r dream.
And I wonder why the scenes of
youth
comes hack to nee in vain,
1 can 11 11110S1 feel that sell: game breeze
And 001101 the drops of fain.
Those scenes of youth 1'11 13('01' forget.
Nor would 1 if I contd.
And i shall know what all is for,
If 1 but trust in God.
They say that all things will be right,
And all things be made plain,
And so perhaps the childhood scenes.
Will all conte hack again.
Then do not let me dwell too long,
Upon the things that's past.
But rather let me look beyond,
To things that's sure to last.
So let nee have just one more peep,
Around my hone once more,
And hear my father count his sheep
With my mother in the Cloor.
—By Kate McM. Woods
(Mrs. William Woods,
formerly of Watton)
C" -lin ton, Ont.
"Now, why don't you light against
your longing for drink?" asked the
temperance reformer. "When you are
severely tempted, just think of your
wife at Home." -
"'Tain't no use," replied the sod-
den one. "When I've got a real good
thirst on ole—well, I'm absolutely
devoid- of fear."
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