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The Seaforth News, 1937-07-29, Page 6',Dearest Em,' she wrote—after !Pack Huysen--.1 don't want to ask having -studied a long •while as to I the favor of him direct --will you ask how she sh'otild begin—'would it sur -}hint to print it in the Citizen, and 'to prise you to know that 1 have at last say something nice about it? I don't found my Hate, in the very handsome want any patronage: understand -1 person of a Scotch gamekeeper? mean let 11.ack Huysen nnderstaticl— Well, it ain't so; don't you break the that Ronald Strang is a particular furniture; but the fact 1s my poor friend of ibofh 'sty father and myself; train has been woolgathering a:lit•tle and that d' ant sending you this with- in this land of wild 'storms and leg out his 'authority, but merely to give ends and romantic ballads; and to- 'him ' a . pleasantsurprise, perhaps, morrow 1 ant fleeing away to 1?aris— 'Whet he sees it in print, and .perhaps the region of clear atmoslrhere, and to tempt hint' to give us some more. reasonable people, and cynicism; and I should like him to print a volume— I hope to have any lingering, cal, for he is really fax above his present Vete of romance contpletel}yp;'blotrn station, and it is absurd he should out of my head. Not that I watt?d call not take his place—and if he did that it romance, even if It were to 1iappen; I know of a young party who would lI should call it merely the plain re- buy 500 copies even if she were to go sult of my father's theories. You back home without a single Paris know he is always preaching that all bonnet. Tell ;lack 'Huysen there is to men are born equal; which isn't true he no patronage, mind; there -is to he anyhow; he would get a little nearer nothing about the peasant poet, or the truth if he 'vas to say that all anything like that; for this man is a men are born equal except hotel gentleman, if .1 know anything about clerks, who are of a superior race; it; and i won't have hint trotted out bat wouldn't it be a joke if I were to as a phenomenon—to be discussed .by flake him at his word, and ask ]nim the dudes who smoke cis atrettes in hon- he would like a gamekeeper as .Lincoln 'Park. 'I'f you could only talk his son-in-law? But you need not be to hint for ten minutes, it would be afraid, my dear Em; this chipmunk better than fifty letters --but I sup - has still got a little of her senses left pose there are attractions nearer and I may say in the words of the home just at present. '\ly kind re - poet— 'There is not in this wide memhrances to 'I'. T. world a valet so sweet"—no. nor any ' I forgot to say that 1 ani quite ht., Claude Melnotte of a gardener, nor norant as to whether newspapers ever any handsome coachman or groom, pay 'for poetry—I meant if a number who could induce me to run away of pieces were sent Or could Jack with hint. It would be 'splaying it too Huysen find a publisher who would low down on pa " as you used to :ntdertake a volume; my father will say: besides, one knows how these see he does 1101 lase anything by it. things always end. Another besides; T really want to do something for how do I know that he would marry 'Ronald, for he has been so kind me, even if I asked him? --turd I and attentive to xis; and before should have to ask 'him, for he would long it may -become more difficult to never ask rte. Now, Ent, if you don't do so; for of course a man of his abil- burn this letter the moment you have ties is not likely to remain as he is• read it. I will murder you as •sure; as indeed, he has already formed plan. you are alive, for getting away altogether from his 'Besides, it is a shame. He is a real ;resent way of life, and whatever hs' good fellow; and no such nonsense 'ries to clo ,1 know he will do—sunt has got into 'his head, I know. I know easily. But if I talk any more about . it, because I tried him twice for fun; him, you will he making very very got him to tie my cap under my mistaken uttessc ; and I won't give chin; and I made hint take my pock- you the delight of imaginintg even for et -handkerchief out of my breast- 'i moment t hat 1 have been caught a' pocket when I was 'fighting a sal- last; when the sad event arrive= anon b1 caught 'five in one day --mon- here will be time enough; for you to siters11 and do you think the bashful take your rake -walk of trittuph ill, young gentleman was embarrassed and clown the room - of ccitirse t' and showed trembling fingers? Not a 'Dancing in the darn'. as in the flaws. bit, d think he thought Inc rather a of old.' nuisance—in the polite phraseology Here followed a long and rambling of the English people. 'Ant I wish I :hrnwide of her travels in Europe could tell you about hint, really. It, since her last letter, alt of which all very well to say he is very hand- may he omitted; the only point to be some. and hardy -looking, and weath- remarked was that her very brief ox- er -tanned; but how can 1 describe to 'terience•s of Scotland took up 41 lis - You how respectful his manner is, nrunortinna1trl - large portion of the and yet always keeping his own self- space, and that she was minute in her respect, and he won't quarrel with description 'of the incidents and ex - me -.-ht only laughs when 4 have leen citenn'n•t of salmon -lining. 'Chen 'catkin • ahsolutd folly—then th,. papa followed an outline of her present and he have rare fights hit- lie has plans; a string of gttestions; a re - :very positive opinions, and sticks to quest for an instant reply; and final - this ,guns, I can tell You. But the as- ly—'\\ ith dearest love, old En, tonishing thing is his education; he Thine, Carry.' has :been nowhere, but seems to know And then she had to ropy the vers - everything; he seems to be quite con- es; but when she had done that, and tent to be a gamekeeper, though his risen, and gone to the window for a (brother took his degree at college and time, some misgiving settled to en - is now in the 'Scotch Church. I tel ter her mind, for she returned to the you he makes me feel pretty small at tattle, and sate down again, and wrote times. The other night papa and 'I this postscript: went .along to his cottage after din- "Perhaps, after all, you won't sec ter; and found hint reading 'Gibbon's march in this little piece; if you were (Decline and 'Fall of the Roman Em- here, among the very places, and af- pire—lent him by his 'brot'her, it a'p- fected by all the old stories and ro. p•eared. I (borrowed the first volume— mantic traditions and the wild seen - :but. oh, squawks! it is a gond ,deal ery, it night be different, Since I've too stiff work for the likes of rte. been to IE'nrope I've mute to ser And there is never the least pretence what's the trouble about our reading or show, but all the other way; he English history and literature at will talk to you as long as yob dike home; why, you can't do it; you alhout ,his deer -stalking and about can't understand it -unless you have what he has seen his dogs do; but lived in an atmosphere that is just never a word about 'hooks or writing fall of poetry and romance, and meet- ----unless you happen to have found jug people whose names tell you out they belong to the families who did N,.v I'm coming to -business. I great things in history centuries: and have never seen any writing ?f ifs 'intn.ric•s ago. I can't explain it very' uutil this morning. when. after long well—not even to myself; but I feel goading, he shaved the a .little poem tt: v by you can't take a single clay's whirl, I rill copy out and enclose in 'hive In England aitliont coming co- th et+.cc a11e11 I have finished. Now. ss a hundred things of interest— darling Elm, T watt' ou to do -me a Norman churches, and the tombs of real .kindness: the first time you see taxon kings, and old abbeys, and THE SEAFORTH NEWS monasteries, and battlefields, and, just as interesting as any, farm -hous- es .of the sixteenth ecnttu•y in their gautint old-fashioned orchards, And as for :Scotland, why, it is just steep - to the lips of poetry and tradition; the hills and the glens have all their roman re stories of the clans, many of them very pathetic; and you want to sec .these wild and lonely places before you ran understand the leg ends: And in southern Scotland too— what could any one :at home make of such a simple couplet as this— "The King sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the 'blude-red wine." —'but when you conte near Dunferm- line and see the hill where IM:a'lco•i'm Caninore built his castle in the 'elev- enth century, and when you are told that it WAS 'Front this very 'tawti that Sir Patrick Spens and the Scots lards set out far"9Nlorroway o'er the faem," everything comes nearer to you. •Lt :America, •1 remember very well, Flodden Field sounded to us some- thing very far away, that we could- n't take march interest in; but if you were here just now, dear Ent, and told that a bit further north there was a river that the }Earl of Caithness and his clan had to cross when they went to 'Madden, and that the people living there at this 'very clay won't go near it on the anniversary of the bat- tle, because on that day the ghosts of the earl and his' men, all clad in green tartan, came home again and are .ween to cross the river, wouldn't that interest you? in America we have 'got nothing behind us: when yaw leave the day before yesterday, you don't want to go back. But here, in the most vulgar superstition.; and customs, you come upon the stran=g- est things, Would you believe it, less than twenty utiles front this place there is a little lake that is supposed to cure the most desperate diseases— diseases that the doctors have given up; and tate poor people meet at mid- night, on the first Monday, after the change d( the moon, and then they throw a piece of money into the lake, and go in and dip themselves three times, and then they must get home before sunrise, iPerhaps it is very ab- surd, hitt they belong to that same imaginative race of people who have left so many weird stories and poet- ical legends behind them; and what I say is that you want to come over and 'breathe this atmosphere of tra- dition and romance. and see the plat. - before you can quite understand the charm of all that kind of litera- ture. And perhaps you don't find much in these verses about the poor people who have been driven away from their native strath? Well, they don't claim 10 be much. They oerc never meant for you to see. But yes. I don't think you will like them; and anyhow Jack 11uysen has got to like them, and treat theut hospitably, un- less lie is anxious to have his hair raised, 'Gracious me, 1 think f must hire a hall. 1 have just read this scrawl neer, Sounds rather noway, don't it But it's this poor brain of mine that Inas got fall of confusion, and cob- oebs. and theories of equality, when 1 w tstit attending to it. lily arms had the. whole day's work to do -as they remind The at this minute; and the Cereitral Hemispheres laid their heads, or their half-heacls together, whenil was busy with the salmon; and entered into a conspiracy against me; and began to stake pictures— ghosts, phantom earls, and romantic shepherd: and peasant -poets, •and I don't knoat What kind of dreams of a deer -stalker walking down Wabash Avenue. Bet, as I -aid. to -morrow i ed start for Paris, thank goodness: and sis in that calmer atmosphere 1 hope to to -nue to my :ut es again, and I will send ygig a long account of Lily Sel- 'leat's marriage ---though your last let- ter to me was a Land: what do f rare about the C..\ (':.\.? This letter, anyhow-, you mast born; I clnu't feel like reading it over again myself, or perhaps I would save you the trou- ble; but you may depend on it that the one I shall send you from Paris will be quite sane. Second P. S --40'f course you nuts' manage Jack Huysen with' a little discretion. T don't want to be drawn into it 1Ily more than iI can help; I mean, 1 would just hate to write to him direct anti ask him •for a partic- ular favor; but this is a very little one, and you know hitt as well as '111y of us. And mind you burn this letter — instantly — the moment you have retrad it—for it is just full of 'lonsense and wool-gathering;„ and: it will not occur again. Toujours a toi. have you been writing all his titre?' her father said, when she rose. ' \ letter—to„Enuna d erfoot,' 'It iviil make her stare. You don't oftenwrite long letters,' I do not,' said she, gravely regard- 'ng the envelope; and then she arFd- '.l.solemnly: Brut this is the record of a -hinter in my life that is now lase'l forever—at least, I hope so.' rq; CH'APT'ER XIIX. The wagonette stood at the door; Miss Carry's luggage was put in; and her father was waiting to see her off. But the young lady herself seem- ed unwilling to take the final step; twice she went 'back into the inn, an some pretence' or another; and each time she came out she looked impa- tiently around, as if wondering at the absence of gime ,one. 'Well, ain't you ready yet?' her fa- ther asked. 'I want to say .good-iby to Ronald,' she said, half angrily, , 'Oh, nonsense—you are not going back to America, V1'hy, you will be baok in ten clays or a fortnight. See here, Carry,' he added, 'are you sure you don't want Inc to go part of the way .with you?' 'Not at all,' she said, promptly. 'It lAt all events,' she said to herself, with just a touch of pique, 'he does not seem mtich downhearted at not going away.' And Tittle indeed did „he imagine that this song he Was thus carelessly .and unthinlcinggiy winging was all .about Meenie, and red and white roses, and trifles light and joyous as the sutnnter air. For not vet had blade care got a grip of his heart. Rut ,this departure of Mies Carry for the south now gave hint_ leisure to attend to his own affairs and pro- per duties, which had suffered some- what from his attendance ie the colble; and it was not until a4 these were put s'tnaight that he addressed himself to the serious consideration of the anrbitio•us and daring project that had been placed before him. Hi- therto it had been pretty much of an is impossible for Mary to mistake idle speculations -a dream, in short, the directions I wrote to her; and 1 that:looked very charming anis las- : shall •find her at the Station Hotel at Inverness all 'right. Don't you worry about me, pope.' She glanced along the road again, in the direction of the keeper's cot- tage; but there was no one in sight. pappa, dear,' she said, in an un- dertone—+for there were one or two olrluokers standing by—'if Ronald should deckle on giving up his place here, and trying what you suggested, you'll have to stand ;by him,' 'Ott, yes, 1'11 see hitt through,' was the complacent answer. 'I should take him to be the sort of man who can look after himself;; but if he wants any kind of hellp—+heli; here '1 alt; I 'wont go back on a man who is acting on my advice. Why, if he were to come out to 'Chicago—' 'Oh, no, not Chicago, pappa,' she said, somewhat earnestly 'not to Chi- cago. I am sure he will he more at home --he will he happier—in his own country.' She looked around once more; and eaten stepped into the wagonette. "He might have conte to see me off,' she said, a little proudly. 'Good - by, pappa, dear -4 will stand you a telegram as soon as I get to Paris,' The two horses sprang forward; \1iss Carry waved her lily hand; and then set to work to stake herself comfortable with her wraps and rugs, for the morning was drill. She thought it was unfriendly of Ronald not to have conte to say good -by. And what was the reason of it? '0f course he could know nothing of the nonsense she had written to her friends in Chicago, "Have you not seen Ronald 'about anywhere: she asked of the driver. No, men',' answered that exeeed- in 1y shy yrnr.h, 'he wast not about i l the morning. But 1 heard the :rack of a ,gun; maybe he w'ai on the hill,' And preset 'I'm thinkingthe road --it's two r' And indeed be Ronald who l- ong the road is shoulder, a is heels. ,tnci a front his left hand up his horses, fly he said -- that's hitt stung t of Itis dogs wlittteve this dict turd out to 50 l i cumin}; striding al- ong his gun over It :brace of setters at h nnething dauglin•g The driver pulled t 'I've brought ye two or three sol en plover to take with ye, :\tics l.ia cont,' Ronald said -and he handed the birds. Well, she was exceedingly pleas to find that be hart not neglect her, nay, that he had been especial th irkitig of her and her clepartnr Lot what should she do with the birds in a hotel? 'Its kind of you,' lie said, 'hitt ret iy I'm afraid they're -would you n rather give them to my father?' S'e. must not go away emlxty-haud- airl he. with good-humored in- tense; and then it '.wild' occurred her that perhaps this was some spun of the neighborhood and sn she accepted the little parting oft with a very pretty .speech of thanks.ire raised his cap, and was going on. "Ronald,' she called, turd he tmmed, '1 wish you would tell me' she said —and there was a little touch of color in the pretty, pale, interesting face 'if there is anything I could bring from London that would help you—I mean books about chemistry—or—or —a'hnut trees—or instruments for land surveying --a ant sure I could get them—' He laughed, in a doubtful kind of mating as the black-eyed young lady front over the seas sate in the stern of the boat and chatted through the idle hours. Her imagination did not stay to regard the immediate and practical difficulties and risks; all these seemed already surmounted; 'Ronald had assumed the position to which he was entitled by his abilities. and personal character; she only wondered 'which part of Scotland he would be living in when next her father and herself visited Eau•ope: and whether they might induce him to go over with them for awhile to the States. But .when Ronald himself, in cold blood, came to consider ways and means, there was no, such plain and easy sailing, Mot that he hesitat- ed about cutting himself adrift from his present moorings; he had :plenty of confidence in himself, and knew that he could always earn a living with his ten fingers, whatever' hap- peued. Then he h'ad between £.kB0 and £i9i(P lodged in a savings bank in Inverness; and out of that he ay could pfor any classes he might have to attend, or perhaps offer a. modest premium if he wished to get fnto a surveyiir's office for a short time. What should be do about Maggie, for example? Then Lord Al- ine had always been a ,good master to him: would: it tat sects ungrateful that he should throws up his situation without apparent . reason? \nd so I forth, and so forth, through cogita- 1 tions long and anxietus; and many a half-hour on the hillside and manly a half-hour by the slumbering; peat -fire Iwas given to thisgreat project; but 1 always there was one side of the question that he shut out front his mind. For how could he admit to himself that this lingering hesitation —this dread, almost, of what Inc await for him in the future --Incl anything to do with the -going away (rent \leenie, and the leaving behindhim, and perhaps forever, the hilts sand stream's and lonely glens that were all steeped in the magic and witchery of her presence? \\'as it not time to he done with idle fancies And if, in the great city -1n Eclin-, burgh or d;htsgow, as the case might be—he shotdd fall to thinking of Be•n Loyal, the Bonnie Strath Naves; and il. the long, long clays on ('teltrig; an'' d- \lemic coming title in the cvenino t"P from her wanderings by Mulct \\a - ter, with a few wild-IRowers, perhaps ed or a hit of white heather, but always eel with her .beautiful bine-gray High - 1y land eyes so hill of .kindness as she e. stopped for a kw minutes ' friendly Si' chatting --well, that would be a pret- ty picture to look back upon, all lam- 1- bent and clear in the tender colors of that memory loves to use. :A silent picture, of coarse; there would' be no sound of the sit miner rills. nor the sweeter sound of 31eenic's voice; but not a sari picture; only remote and ethereal, as if the years had tonne be- tween, and made everything distant and pale and dream-like, The first cledinite thing' that he did was to write to his brother in iGlas- e1 a', acquainting him ,w'.ith his plans, and begging him to csbtain some fur- ther particulars about the Highland and Agricultural Society's certificates. The answer that came back 'from Glasgow was most encouraging; for the Rev. Alexander Strang, thou;qh outwardly a heavy an'd lethargic man. had a shrewd head enough, and was an enterprising, shifty( person not a little proud of the position that he had won for himself, anti rather 'in- clined to conceal from his circle of friends—who were mostly members of his congregation—the fact that his brother was merely- a gamekeeper in the Highlands. Nay, more, he was willing to assist; he would take Mag- gie into his house, so that there might be no difficulty in that direction; and in the mean time he would see what were the best class -hooks on the su'b- ieets hned, so that Ronald slight be working away at then' in these ,.omparatn•ely idle spring, and sum- mer months, and need not give up his situation prematurely. There was ren sone hint thrown cut that per- haps Ronald might board with his brother; het this was not pressed; for "he fact wa S that ?Jrs.Alexander was 1 severely rigid disciplinarian, and on ell wa .l'ntbligeto he d, 'but it's too'Snteton to speadkye about ;aithat. I have- na made up my mind yet.' 'Not yet?' 'Batt you will?' He said nothing. 'Goocl-by, then.' She held out her hand; so that he cotild not refuse to take it.' So they parted: and the horses hoofs rang -gain in the silence of tate valley; and Me sat looking after the disappearing figure and' the meekly following dna:. \ then, in the distance, slit thought she could make out some 'Tint souitcl was he singing to hint- -11 as he strode along to -yawls the tittle hamlet? Y. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937 PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DR. E. A, McM ''ST-ER—Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, Univers- ity of Toronto, and of the New York Post Graduate School and Hospital. Menthes of the College of P'hysician.s and 'Surgeons of Ontario. Office on High street, Phone 27. Office fully equipped for x-ray diagnosis and for ultra Short wave eleoti'ic treatment, ultra violet .sun lamp treatment and infra .red electric treatment. Nurse in attendance, D'R. GILB'EIRr.0 C. Ja R'ROTT — Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Un- iversity of Western Ontario, Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Office 43 Goderich street west. Phone :317. Hours 2-4.30 p.m., 7.30-9 _p,m, Other 'hours by appoint- ment, Successor to Dr. Chats. 'Mackay. DR. H. HUGH ROBS, Physician and Surgeon Late of London Hos- pital, London, England, Special at- tention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Office and residence behinad Dominion Bank, Office Phone No. 5; 'Residence Phone 104, DIR. F, J. BURROW'S, Seaforth, Office and .residence, 'Goderich street, east of the United Church. Coroner for elle County of Huron. Telephone No. 416. DR. F. J. R. ,FOtRSTER— Eye Elar, Nose and Throat, 'Graduate in Medicine, University. of Toronto 11897. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorelfield's Eye, and 'Golden ,quare throat hospi- tals, London. At Commercial 'Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month from 1.30 p.m, to +5 p.m. DR. W. C. SPROAT Physician - Surgeon Phone 90-W. Office John St. Seaforel' Auctioneer. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Arrangements can be made for Sale Date at The Seaforth News. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. F. W. AHRENS, Licensed Auction- eer for Perth and Huron Counties, Sales Solicited, Terms on Application. Farm .Stock, chattels and real estate property. R. R. No. 4, Mitchell. Phone 634 r 6. Apply at this office. WATSON & REID REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENCY (Successors to James Watson) MAIN ST., S'E.AFORTH, ONT: All kinds of Insurance risks effect- ed at lowest rates in First -Class Companies, 1111, Mc:k1LLUP Mutual Fire Insurance Cif HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, Ont. OFFICERS President—Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Vice -President, John E. Pepper, Brucefield; Secretary - Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth, AGENTS F. McKercher, R.R,1, Dublin; John E. Pepper, ,R.R,), Brucefield; E. R. G. Jarmouth, Brodhagen; James Watt, Blyth; C. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; Wm, Yeo, Holmesville, DIRECTORS Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth No. 3; Janes Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Bornholm No. 1; John Pepper, Bruce - field; James Connolly, Goderich; Alex, McIEwing, Blyth No. 1; Thom- as Moylan, Seaforth No. 5; Wm. R. Archibald, Seaforth No. 4. Parties desirous to effect insurance or transact other business, will be prom'pt'ly attended to by applications to any of the above namedofficers addressed to their respective post - offices. the few occasions on which 'Ronald had been their guest she had given 'both brothers to understand that the frivolous gayety of Ronald's• talk, and the independence of his manners, and his !Gallia -like indigeren•ce alb•ottt the fierce schisms and heartburn•ings in the Scotch Churchwere not, in her opinion, in consonance with the atmosphere that ought to prevail in a Free Church minister's house. But on the whole the letter was very friendly and hopeful; and IRoaialkl was enjoined to let his brother know when his decision should be finally taken, and in what way assist- ance could- be rendered. him, (To Be Continued) Barber: "What's the matter? Aitt't be razor Lakin' holt?" Victim: "Yeah, it's taking holt all ight, but it ain't lectin' go again ”