The Seaforth News, 1927-04-07, Page 2Virtue of Merit
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When the peasant Mabey was shot
dead when
poaching on
n the do
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aln ofthegyeatooaleof Brittany, the
arquis de La Tour D'Azyr, a
shudder of horrorwent through the
sensitive spirit of
• Philippe ,De Vihnorin, a young di-
vinity student, who Was a believer in
the democratic doctrines which under-
lay the French Revolution. Philippe's
determination to secure justice meets
with little encouragement -"from his
friend
Andre -Louis. Moreau, a young and
brilliant lawyer, who is popularly be-
lieved to be the son of
Quentin de Keicadiou,'Lord of,Gee-
rillac. Andre -Louis looks with cynic-
ism on the new political doctrines but
agrees to accompany Philippa and ppt
the case before de. Kercadiou. The
Marquis was closeted with the Lord of
Gavrillac when they arrived. Philippe
goes to join the teem nobles and Andre-
Louis talks to the young and beautiful
Aline de Kercadiou. He is horrified
when the girl tells him that the Mar-
quis has come to ask her uncle for her
hand in marriage. •
At the request of the Marquis the
discussion of the death of Mabey is
hint, a too dangerous gift of elo-
quence." •
And he turned away, leaving cone-
Ple esC understandin8
with Andre -
Louis. Still supporting the limp,
draining body, the young man called
to him.
"Come back, you cowardly mur-
derer, and make yourself quite safe
by killing me, tool"
The Marquis half turned, his face
dark with anger. Then M. de Cha-
brillane set a restraining hand upon
his arni. Although a partythroughout
to thedeed, the Chevalier was a little
appalled now that it was done. He
had not the high stomach of M. de La
Tour d'Azy, and he was a good deal
younger.
"Come away," he said, "The lad is
raving. They were friends."
"You heard what he said?" quoth
the Marquis.
"Nor can he, or you, or any man
deny it," flung back Andre -Louis.
"Yourself, monsieur, you made con-
fession when you gave me now the
reaaun why you killed him. "You did
timed ' it 1.glause you feared him."
When the landlord and his people
cams, they found Andre -Louis, his
arms about the body of his dead
friend, murmuring passionately into
the deaf ear that rested almost
con in the inn. There was some-
thing sinister in the Marquis' attitude
which made Andre -Louis fear for
Philippe.
GO ON WITH THE STORY.
M. de Chabrillane, leaning upon a against his lips:
cane—for he had relinquished his "Philippe. Speak to are, Philippe!
sword to M. de Vilmorin—looked on Philippe . . , Don't you .hear Hie? 0
with quiet interest. Facing him on God of Heaven! Philippe!"
the other side of the combatants stood At a glance they saw that here
Andre -Louis, the palest of the four, neither priest nor doctor could avail.
staring frons fevered eyes, twisting Andre -Louis, holding the dead
and untwisting clammy hands.
He clung to the conviction that the toman's hand in both his own, swore
issue could not really be very serious. M.
him out of his impotento rage thata
If the obligations of Philippe's bit de La Tour clAzyr should pay a
g ppa s honor bitter price for this.
compelled hien to cross swords with "It was your eloquence he feared,
the man he had struck, M. de La Philippe," he said. "The thing he
• Tour dAzyr s birth compelled hint feared in you, he shall fear in me,
no less to do no serious hurt to the He feared that erten might be swayed
unfledged lad he had so grievously by your eloquence to the undoing of
provoked. M. le Marquis, after all,' such things as himself. Men shall
was a man of honor, I be swayed, by it still. For your elo-
. The encounter was very short, of quence and your arguments shall be
course. In youth, Philippe had re- my heritage from you. It shall profit
ceived the tutoring in sword -play that him nothing to have your blood upon
was given to every boy born into his his soul. That voice in you would
station of life. And so he knew at never half so relentlessly have hound -
least the rudiments of what was now ed hive and his as it shall in me—if
expected of him. But what could rudi-1 all else fails."
nients avail him here? Three dis-
engages completed the exchanges, CHAPTER V,
and then without any haste the Mar -1 For the second time that day
quis slid his right foot along the moist Andre -Louis set out or the chatoau.
turf, his long, graceful body extend- IThe squat Seigneur de Gavrillac
ing itself in a lunge that went under was restlessly pacing when Andre -
M. de Vilmorina clumsy guard, and I Louis was introduced. He was a'l-
with the utmost deliberation he drove 1 ready informed, as he announced at
his lade through the young man's once, of what had taken place at the
vitals.
`IBreton Arme.Andra-Louis sprang forward just in "The pity of
• f it!" he said. "The
time to catch his friend's body under pity of it!" He bowed his enormous
i the armpits as it sank. 'head. "Ah, this La Tour d'Azry is a
• With white ace and twitching lips, hard man, and he feels very strongly
Andre -Louis looked up at M. de La in these 'natters. He maybe right.
Tour d'Axyr, who stood surveying his "
work with a countenance ofI "one lcuest
but remorseless interest, grave' ter, question, monsieur my goat
"You have killed . him!" criedIis toi, said Andre -Louis, it what
is to be done."He was quite calm
Andre -Louis. and self-possessed, but very white.
Ofcourse," itI : de Kercadiou stared at 'hit"
The Marquis ran a lace handler blankly out of his pale eyes.
chief along his blade to wipe it; As "Why, what the devil is th
he let the dainty fabric fall, he ex- z eto
plained himself. "He had, as I told I Ma qrqu am told Vihnm'in struck M M. le
Mauis.
"tinder the very grossest provoca-
tion."
Which he himself provoked by his.
revolutionary language. The poor
lad's head was full of this encyclo-
pedist trash. It comes of too much
reading. I have never set much store
by books, Andre; and I have never
known anything but trouble to come
out of learning."
Andre -Louis felt a tightening of
�- his heart, a lessening of his hopes.
t "Your criticisms," he said, "are all
for the conduct of the dead and none
for that of the murderer. It does not
seen possible that you should be in
'sympathy with such - a crime."
"Crime?" shrilled M. de Kercadiou.
"My God, boy, you are speaking of
M. de La Tour. d'Azyr."
"I am, and of the abominable min,
der he has committed . . ,"
"Stop!" M. de Kercadiou was very
emphatic. "M. le Marais is my
friend, and is likely very soon to
etand in a still closer relationship."
"Notwithstanding this'?" asked
A.ndre•,Iouie..
M, de Kercaadiou was frankly im-
patient.
• "Whys, whale has this to do with it?
I may deplbre it. But' T have no
right to condemn it. It is a common
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"You . have killed" him!" cried Andre -Louis.
way of adjusting differences between
gentlemen." .
Andre -Louis
interrupted to
d him. "It
is no more a duel than if it had been
fought with iiistols of which only M.
le Marquis's -was loaded. He invited
Philippe to discuss the matter fur-
ther, with the deliberate intent of
forcing a quarrel upon him and kill-
ing ,him. I am •telling what M. le
Marquis himself admitted to me."
"And what the devil do you pro-
pose to do, if you please?"
"I shall go to Rennes, and lay the
facts before the Ring's Lieutenant,"
"He'll be too busy to see you, There
is trouble enough in Rennes already
on the score of these crazy States
General."
"Good -afternoon, monsieur my god-
father," said,Andre-Louis. •
"Wait, boy, wait!" The squat
little man. rolled forward, affection-
ate concern on his great ugly face,
and he set one of his podgy hands on
his godson's shoulder. "Now, listen
to me, Andre," he reasoned. "This is
sheer knight-erranty-moonshine, lu-
nacy. You've read 'Don Quixote,' and
what happened to him when he went
tilting `against -.windmills," the seig-
neur stormed. He was very angry
now. "Since you choose to disobey
me, you can break your empty head
against the windmill, and be damned
to you."
Andre -Louis bowed with a touch
of irony and reached the door.
"If the windmill should prove
too formidable," said he, froni the
threshold, "I may see what can be
done with the wind. Goodkiy, mon-
sieur my godather."
He was gone and M. de Kercadiou
a•
was alone, purple in the face, puz-
zling tut -that
last cryptic tic uttera
ce.
(To be continued,)
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Pianist .Pays 20,000 Francs
for New -Finger.
A finger ready for grafting is worth
uli to 20,000 fi•aucs in Paris, The fig-
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a stiff finger in an accident ,and de-
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The musician feared that •the de-
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The poor of Paris, as in many other
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blood for transfusion and skin for
grafting. Henri Danjou, an. investigat-
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sold now to make women beautiful' as
well as to give new fingers to pianists.
Lunches for Business Girls.
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Ura room' seer.[ smaller by Placing
rugs and sofas at night angles to the
long side•;of trio room,
3. Don't. "katter-corner" either rugs
or furniture.
4. Don't stuck an upright piano
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(for badanee)-against the largest wall
space you have, nni•ess that long avail
'space is •occupied by something even
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line of built-in book shelves.
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6. Slanting arrangements- merely
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7. Don't put heavy,: over -stuffed
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The principles of artistic arrange -
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The road went straight up interniiu
ably, so straight that the homilies the,
flanked it 011 either sides seemed to be
clinging robustly to earth with .tenaci-
ous strength up 1.11e upper side, and
bracing themselves with stiff down-
thruel roots olr the tower. There ware
deep gullies on either side of the road
twhaere the spring freshets had precipi-�
toted their waters, leaving in -their
wake a trail of :voter -smoothed peb-•
hies•,
At the top of the hill tho horse
broke into at swinging trot along the
road that stretched through a patch-
work of greens .said browns; squares
of brilliant green of the new grass,;
squares and oblongs of ,the fresher..
softer green or growing grain, stretth-
es of brown where the grass was yet.
to show.' And lar over ,on eltdror side,.
long lines. of treetops mnarkell Where•
the plateau. dropped away in Cascadee
of oaks a,nd beeches.
Straight ahead a farinhonlso -leered
out through clraperies'of lilac bushes,.
with an 'apple orchard flanking one
•
side. At thebee1n a tall barn with win.:
crows set high tie .ln the front gabler
gazedover he shoulder
ged tofh house ofthe au^e i nr
loll y � va 1
t to lfnhless. A foto outbuild•^
lugs stood about in casual fixedness,.
and a stump waited at the sides of the ..
house with alertly poised handle..
At the wine gate Lt front Of the•
armhonee, a boy in bine overalls and"
lvide stl'aw'hat, gazed urs in shy curl. -
catty at the carriage as it came to a
salt. before him. We .of the horses..
ossed Iris head restively with a jingle
f buc:lt)es, little clouds of duet rose' ,
x0111his unquiet hoofsand drifter M-
e Ibe railroad grass, •
"I-Iello, sonny," the dnli+er called,.
caning forward in his sent.' "Gan you.
el me where George 'Bradley lives?"
The boy took two steps forwardsin
he pleasureable glow of his enow-
edger "It's down the road about a:
lilt mile, on the right," ire exclaimed,.
you can't miss it," he continued; d!f-
ldenoe floating away on his words..
It's a' newly house, punted kinda
white."
The horses struck into their swing
-
g trot with -a rattle of harness and
whir of wheels, "A newly house,"
Ise driver smiled gently at the. horses'
ars, "painted kinds white. What's.
Ind of white, 1 wonder:"
A little further along, th•e road
"rued gently, and just where it
traightened out once more, a house
ood with a thick carpet of clover he-
re its door. At end of .the roof o•2
e house, the shingles were weather
ained and graying; they sheadad all
e way along until at the .other end
ey shone new and bright. A build-
s' staging stil clung to the side of
e house, anal everywhere were e•vi-
de
of a protracted and extensive
building and renovating. The house
cl been a small, old-fashioned farut-
o'use.. This was now but ;in adjunct
the larger, newer building "Well,
u couldn't exactly call it t, new .1
use," the driver said Musingly. "Ile
newly house all right," he chuckled'
ftly.
His companion smiled, and gazed
the house where new limber and
athered boards shone through the
st, inadequate coat of white paint,
nd it's painted kind of wbite," he
ted "When George gives it another
at or two of paint, it will be white."
From the long, green garden rows
!rind the barn, a many was walking
usewartl. The driver waved his
n vigorously, his companion leaned
•ward in pleasurable excitement, and
mall in the field halted and watch -
the approaching carriage with a
Id and expectant wonderment.''
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A beaver needs bark for food and
bar for building his house, and he
the greatest "logger" among the
ver animals. You probably are fa-
lai, with his dam-buii4tng talents,
he is equally clever anal elfleient
the forest.
A•t tree -felling each beaver marks In-
endeutly, A small tree i:a Cut "
ough from one side, but a large
usually on two sides or all
and, the chips being split alit ranch
by a woodancul's axe.
he common impression Is that only _
all saplings are cut clown by b•eav-
but this is to mistake; trees throe
t u1 diameter aro sometimes felled
nit in workmanlike style, too.
he 'mall tree offer no problem at
A big one may keep p a. faintly of
Cera buoy foo Scv ll nights, but
Ingle e'tiperieuce,1 be ver can fell
u inch poplar, chop it into five-foot
bone, and transport the whole 1:000
Ile water hi a single night.
's a sight worth seeing to watch a
vet take tt log sever the ground to
lake or stream. Ile grabs it with
se, wonderful teetli and drags with
rength th4at,is positively astound-
ln the water he tows it; or sonic
S grips it with hig'. arms, swim-
fs ale:ngside, and steering with his
1,agile tall,
lace veep a beaver go to the pond
oa" reappear with all the sticks
ouiil" hold inn has arms, and walk
ght on his hind legs to°tho top` of
rouse. They have not only bring
hini_, but the strength and su•Pp'1'e•
to execute their piens:
igen are Wits a choice, the beaver
nearly always select the aspen.
bark of poplar, willow, alder and
1 is acceptable, but aspen bask 10
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