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The Herald, 1907-11-22, Page 3ellYMAXXXXXXXXIMMOZIMMEaltt and KVZVat' NIEei'cJraW:e IINNg�p g q q XXXXg A►� 1lV �.dcV �A►'4� d�V �If l'W d�V �ft`V rkV A� CHAPTER XIX. "I am pleased that you have brought this sweet little girl home with you, Augusta," said Daniel Hunter, as he re- ceived his wife, adopted daughter, and, lastly, little Maud ---taking the latter tenderly by the hand, and leading her in- to the sitting -room. rIe drew her be- tween his knees, and untied her hood, and laid it off, while Mrs. Hunter and Miss Honoria went upstairs to take off their bonnets. The tea table was prepar- ed in the room, and Mr. and Mrs. Lovel were present, and spoke kindly to the little visitor. "A companion for Honoria, I suppose," said Mrs. Lovel, while Mr. Lovel bent his serious blue eyes earnestly upon the child. "Yes, I suppose. so. I hope so," replied Mr. Hunter. "Mrs. Hunter has brought you to spend. some time with us, my dear —has she not?" "The lady brought me to stay a week, sir," replied the child, who, instinctively meeting his tenderness, nestled closely in the embrace of her unknown father. The entrance of Mrs. Hunter and Miss Honoria gave a new impetus to the conversation. Mrs. Hunter partially explained the motive of her bringing the little girl over to the hall. And Miss Honoria rang for tea, which was soon brought in. The next morning Daniel Hunter rode over to the north side of the mountain, to see a quarry, from which his laborers were digging stone, to build the new school house. Mrs. Level and Miss Honoria, attended by Mr. Lovel, drove up to the Summit, to make some purchases and to bring the letters from the post -office. Mrs. Hunter commissioned them also to buy come ginghams, Swiss muslin, lace, rib- bon, and a little Leghorn hat, but she did not say for whom these things were intended. When all had departed, the lady and the child were left alone in the sitting - room. Maud was seated on a little cush- ion, examining a book of prints that had been put in her hands. Mrs. Hunter sat in her large lounging chair, contemplat- ing the little girl, in silence. Presently the lady left the chair, and went and sat down upon a low ottoman, and called the child to her side, and tenderly en- circled her with ono arm, and softly smoothed brad: the burnished auburn curls from her fair brow, and earnestly gazed deeply down into her beautiful countenance. The child's eyes were raised in unshrinking, perfect trust to hers. And anyone might have taken them for mother and child. Different as their complexions were, there was the same queenly turn of head and neck; the same graeeful, gracious, noble air and expression. For a moment only the lady gazed thus, and then she bowed her regal head until all the long black ringlets swept around the child's bright hair, and pressed an earnest, lingering kiss upon her brow. Then lifting her head again, she began in low, soft tones to ask her about her parents—whether she remem- bered them—whether she loved them. And Maud, leaning trustingly against her unknown mother'* bosom. told her all she had heard of what she supposed to be her real story, and how her mother and father were emigrants, on their way to this country, when a contagious fever broke out in the ship, and how they died of it, just as they were coming into S—; and how, as the city author- ities would not let them land dead bodies who had died of the fever, her father and mother had been buried in the S—. e The lady's eyes were streaming with tears. "Why do you weep, dear lady? Not for them—they have been in heaven this many a year." "My child! my child! I, too, have lost a treasure in the sea—a treasure, Sylvia, that will lie there till the day when the 0 Lord shall command the sea to deliver up its dead!" "Was it* your father and mother, dear lady?" "No, Sylvia—yea, my dear father was lost in a storm on the Chesepeake Bay. I Sues with him, and was saved by Mr. Hunter. 1 mourned for my father many years, brit 1 got over it at last. That was not what I meant. The sea has been very fatal to me! Oh, my baby! my sweet! my beautiful! my loving Maud!" exclaimed Augusta, dropping her head upon the. child's shoulder, and sob bing as she had not sobbed for ten years. The little girl.wound her arms around her neck, laid her cheek to hers, kissed off the tears as fast as they fell, caressed her tenderly, familiarly, yet so strange- ly! "Such a beautiful child she was, Syl- via! Such a sweet, heavenly child! Such an angel! And she was drowned! she was drowned! Suffocated in the cruel waves, with none td'save her—while I— I, who ought to have been watching her —I was idling on the deck! My child! My beautiful, sweet, lovitig child!" All the wounds of her heart seemed torn open, and bleeding afresh—her grief seemed positively as keen as upon the first day of her bereavement. And the little girl sought to comfort her. She tried to comfort her—earnest}y, because her sympathy was so sincere— silently, because she knew not what to say—clasping and kissing her neck— pressing her face to her cheek—kissing away the flowing tears, and, finally, dropping her head upon her bosom, and weeping, because she could not prevent her from weeping. At last the lady's passionate fit of sorrow spent itself ,and she raised her head and wiped away the last traces of her tears, and, kissing the child, she said: "Little comforter, I have not wept so much for many years, and there are none that I could have borne to see me weep as I have you. "Little comforter, I have shown you the very weakness of my heart, as I: would not show it to any other; and while I hold you in my arms, and press you to my bosom,` a peace and rest and contentment come to be as perfect as it is "incomprehensible; but I an :afraid that while you eomfort me,'I e you; that must tot he t e goltio,' go with me, and I. will show yott dear child's portrait and all her little things." And Mrs. Hunter arose and took the child's hand and led her upstairs—first into a large, handsomely furnished bed- room, where she said, in passing, "This is my chamber, SyIvia," and thence into a small, well -lighted, beautifully arrang- ed room, furnished with a child's pro- perty. "Come in, love. No one enters this room but myself; they cannot bear to do it, they say. Here are all little Maud's things. That is her portrait. They can- not bear to look at it, or even at any- thing that belonged to her, because they loved her so much, and grieve for her so much. People must be very different --for I loved her more than anyone else did—I mourn her more than anyone else does. ` I have never ceased to love cad grieve for her. Yet -it is here, among memorials of her, that I come for com- fort—that I come to pray. Look at her little girl! Is she not lovely?" said Mrs. Hunter, leading Maud up in front of the table, and directing her gaze to the/ portrait above it. It was a charming picture, a picture of the mother and the ohild. But the mother was purposely thrown into the background, and into shadow by her dark ringlets, dark complexion, and dark drapery, and her attitude in holding the child. Maud gazed at her own unknown portrait with the strangest sensations; and as she looked into the bright depths of the pictured eyes, until they seemed to be living, conscious eyes, returning her gaze and laughing at her, a smile stole over her features. 4406 4 406 pt, ' y4 400 Rapid change, of temperature are hard on the toughest coanstitutiona. The conductor passing from the heated inside of a trolley can' to the icy temperature of the platform—the canvasser spending an hour or so in a heated building and then walking against a biting wind—know the difficulty of avoiding cold. 9 • Scoit s Ennui b'aon strengthens the 0 body so that it can better withstand the O danger of cold from changes of temperature. It will help you to avoid taking cold. ALL DRUQCES Tal BO0. ANIS $1.00.. 44.000 40 000 "Why do you smile, Sylvia?" "I don't know, lady; only it makes me feel so strangely to look into her eyes, and to feel her looking back; her eyes look as if they knew some secret that I don't, and were laughing at me about it —and it seems to me as if I had seen her before, somewhere—in a dream—I don't know where—and somehow it does not seem to me as if she--" "Why do you stop, my dear?" "I was running on so foolishly, lady." "What were you going to say, love?" "I was going to say -Amt it was so foolish—I was going to say I did not think she could have been drowned." The lady trembled all over—she took the child's hand and led her to a chair, and sat down and encircled her with one arm, and dropped her forehead on her hand, and remained so several minutes; at last, without raising her head, she asked, in a low voice:` "What made you think so, child?" "I do not know whether it was the picture or not, lady—but as I looked at it I did think your 'littIe child must be still alive!" CHAPTER XX. • Ellen, in her little ' parlor, sat and wept. An open letter was in her hand; it was from Father Goodrich, in answer to hers asking his counsel as to whether she should accept Daniel Hunter's pro- posal to put her sonto school. Father Goodrich directed her to accept the offer in the same spirit of kindness in which it was given. "Would you," he wrote, "prevent a man from making re- paration for his sin—were it even a sin? How much leas should you hinder him from repairing what was his own, as well as your, calamity?" Arid further down the letter, he wrote: "But why do you keep the secret: of his father's fate concealed from Falconer? He is now fifteen years old; tell him how his fa- ther died, and why; tell him at once; if you do not, some one else will, in a less tender and truthful version." That was the reason why .Ellen wept, that .she• must turn back for Falconer this dark page in their life's history. Maud, full of happy reveries, had gone :Herbed. The colored. �pt?ople were nodding vrue'r their evening ,'r{ Oli. is the kitchen. `rslconer, who had gone, to the Summit that afternoon, had not yet returned. Ellen was waiting for him—resolved to take that opportunitye of quietness and solitude to tell him of the mournful past. It was early yet, not eight o'clock, and she heard the quick tramp of the boy's feet as he came running and bounding up the rocky ascent to the cot- tage—he threw the door open, and en- tered with a face radiant with youth and health and joy. "It was so pleasant, mother, to see the light of the little cottage window, streaming across the water as I came along. Did you expect me sooner, mo- ther? I should have been here half an hour ago, only I met Mr. Hunter at the Summit, and he engaged me in a talk, all about my wanting to be a sculptor, you know! And, mother, he did not talk as you and Aunt Abishag do about it! He didn't call it foolishness, but he talked wisely; he said it was a passion and a talent given me by the Creator for good purposes, that I must be faith- ful to it, and—and—he gave me these," said the boy, throwing a packet of hooks on the table. "Why don't you ask me what they are, mother? What makes you so unsympathisingg?" "I am not unsympathising. .I am glad to see you so happy. What is it, then?" "'Cunningham's Lives of the Painters and Sculptors,' mother . And Mr. Hunter told me to pay close attention to the early struggles and perseverance of all successful artists." And Falconer put away his hat and gloves, and sat down and began to untie his books. "Put them away now. I have some- thing to say to you, my dear Falconer." The seriousness of her tone struck him; he looked up, and for the first time no- ticed the deep mournfulness of her coun- tenance—it impressed hint so painfully that he jumped up and put 'away his books, and was at her side in a moment, full of affectionate attention. "My dear, dearest mother! You are iii trouble, and I have been rattling on se', What is it? Is it the grocery bill?" "No, Falconer." "'inlet, then—the taxes?"' "No, no it is nothing like that—" then, after a pause—"Faleoner, did you never wonder about and want to hoar the history of your father?" In a moment the boy's: face was as grave, as solemn, as her own. "Say, Falconer, do you never think about him?" "Mother, as far back as I can remem- ber, I recollect missing him --and 'being ill—and losing you for a time—and having you back again, but all - that is like a very long past, eonfused dream. And much more distinctly than that db I remember Aunt Abishag telling me I must never ask about my father, and never its much as name hire before any- body, much less before you, She has continued to tell inc soall my life, but she never would tell me why. Now, dearest mother, open your hear!; to me— tell me all about it. Is he living? Did he go away and leave you? Open your heart to me, dear brother. I will be so • prudent, Say, did he deceive and leav you?" "No—no, boy, you blaspheme! He w a saint; an angel, was your father—tl greatest blessing and glory of my lit but he was sacrificed, Falconer, he wa sacrificed --do you understand me?" Falconer did not. He fixed his lar .eyes searchingly upon his mother's sou tenance, but could not make out he meaning. "Sacrificed!" he repeated, vaguely. "He—your father—innocent—estim able—excellent—he died on the seaffol for another's crime." • The boy bounded like a wounded pan then . •. Ellen dropped her head upon he hands, sobbing convulsively, and so pas ed several minutes, until from the oppo site side of the room name a slow, heav step, and a husky voice, saying: "Mother! tell ine the whole story." Ellen repressed her sobs, calmed her self, and mournfully prepared to rela the dark and dreadful tragedy. ralconer n the flbo ather feet, tdropped his hrew fh toaand throb bing head upon her lap, and prepared t listen.le Eln told the story of her husband' arrest, trial and conviction, upon sir eumstantial evidence. Falconer listened in stern silenee, un til this part of the tale was finishe when he broke forth, bitterly: "And these are the laws of a model r public. So imperfect as to immolate th innocent and let the guilty escape!". Ellen next spoke of her journey to --to intercede with the governor fo her husband's reprieve. Here Falconer listened with the keen est attention. Ellen spoke of the grea interest everywhere testified by the peo ple in William O'Leary's fate; of th powerful intercessions made in his be half; of her own and his mother's in terview with the governor; and of th total failure of every effort to obtain reprieve; and she dwelt with unconseiou injustice upon the conduct of Denle Hunter. And again Falconer broke forth i passionate indignation: "And this is the man the demigod who has the whole nation at his feet. 0 I am but a unit in many millions --I am but a boy but here I consecrate mysel with all my faculties of mind and hod to the vindication of my father; to' th overthrow of this people's idol; an perhaps—perhaps to the remodeling o this imperfect law!" He exclaimed and gesticulated like rash, presumptous, vehement, passionat boy as he was—yet, nevertheless, hi sudden indignation and hatred were no the less strong, earnest, profound an enduring. His gentle mother was distressed—no that she imagined her poor boy coul ever, even if he lived long enough, ac eomplish any Of the Quixotic vengeanc threatened upon the world -renown statesman; but she waa alarmed for he son's, immediate interests; she feared thatFalconer, would spurn all the offers of Daniel Tlunter to assist and advane hiin. She dared not now even mentio Mr. 'Hunter's wish to place her boy a college—she only ventured to suggee that in refusing to grant a reprieve t O'Leary, Daniel Hunter had acted from a high sense' of duty—and that sine their bereavement he bad been very kind to the family -a suggestion that was met by the excited youth with such a torrent—such a storm of impetuous, im passioned denunciation and invective, as terrified the weak mother into silence. In striding distractedly about the floor Falconer's eyes fell upon the packet of books given him that afternoon by Mr Hunter—his eyes flashed forth again— he seized the parcel exclaiming: "To degrade rue by an- obligation. like this. To degrade me. Shall I throw them into the fire, or send them back to him." He held them poised in his hand a few moments and then cast them upon the table, saying, "I will send them back to him," And then, exhausted by the ve- hemence and impetuosity of his passion, the boy flung himself down upon a stool, and buried his face in his open palms and sat silent and motionless until El- len lighted the candle and placed it in his hands and bade hien: "Good -night." Then he arose, and put his arms around his mother's neck and kissed her and silently went to his room. And El- len retired to hers, where, sleeping the sweet sleep of peace and innocence, lay Maud. * * * * * The next morning early, as Ellen, Maud and Falconer were seated at the breakfast table, there was heard a rap at the door, Ellen said: "Come in." And the latch was lifter, and John the messenger from Howlet Hall, en- tered, bowing. Falconer started violently, grew red in the fact and looked threateningly at the messenger. But John passed him respectfully, laid Mr, Hunter's note before Mrs. O'Leary, bowed, and stood, hat in hand, v.iting. Ellen took up and reed the nole with a softening countenance. It requested her decision upon the question of sending Falconer to college and en immediate answer. She finished it and handed it over to her eon, saying: "These --you see what Mr. Bunter is anxious to do for you, and the assistance and patronage of a man like Daniel Hun- ter will make your fortune." Falconer received the note, and with lowering brow and curling lips glanced over its contents. Then springing up, he turned to the messenger and fiercely ex- claimed: "Go and tell your master that my ans- wer is this!" He cast the note beneath his feet, and set his heel upon it, and ground it to the floor. The man stared in astonishment; El- len heard in grief and trepidation And little Maud in wonder and sorrow. "Yes!" continued Falconer, "go tell ldr. Hunter that last night, for the first time, I was made acquainted with. all my family's 'wrongs. Last night. 1learn- ed for the first time, that through his obduracy alone my guiltless father died a felon's death --lies in a. felon's grave and his poor old mother lingers out her wretched days in a mad -house. Nor are my mother's nor my own wrongs tote gotten—not the least of which is, that he tries to force upon us obligation which, coming from him, would degrade us. Tell hint that I am his bitter, im- placable enemy. Tell him that I live to vindicate, to avenge my family. He may laugh at that, for ho is a great politician—I—a poor boy. Let him laugh now; the time will come when he will not laugh!— for let him remember; that while he is growing old and weak, I am growing strong, and let him be- ware 1" All were silent except Maud, who in a complete chaos of sorrow and amaze- ment, stole from her seat to her brother's side and clasping him in terror, said: "Oh, no, "no—don't send that message —don't. What do you mean." Falconer put his hand round her and drew her head under his arm caressing- ly, proteetingly, but did Trot otherwise answer her, or even Iook at her, or for an instant sheath his flashing glance,, that was still turned toward Daniel Hunter's messenger. And Maud stole her arms up round his neck and pressed her head to him and entreated: (To be continued.) 4 BADLY RUN DOWN. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Came to the Rescue After Doctor's Treatmet Failed. The life of any constant traveller is always a hard one, but those whose work compel them to take long tire- some drives over rough roads, expos- ed to all conditions of weather, are in constant danger of losing their health. The extreme heat of summer or the piercing winds of winter sap their strength, the kidneys become diseased or rheumatism sets in. What is needed to withstand this hardship is rich red blood—the pure blood that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills alone can make. These pills are the travellers' never -failing friend. Con- cerning them, Mr. George Dalpe, of St. Eloi, Que., says: "I am a grain dealer, and am obliged' to make fre- quent trips, sometimes very tiring. I returned home from one of these trips last summer very much fatigued. I was overheated and tried to cool and rest myself by lounging on the verandah till late at night. I caught cold and the next day I did not feel at all well. I had a head- ache, pains in my stomach and was very weak. I went to see a doctor but he said I would be all right in a day or so, so I started on another trip. I had not gone far before I felt very ill and had to return .home and go to bed. I had chills, head- ache, pains in my stomach and kid- neys. The doctor came to see me and he said I was overworked. He treated me for several months, but instead of improving I continually grew worse. r wasted away almost to a skeleton and really thought I was going to die. One day my wife returned from the village with a sup- ply of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. She urged me to take them, as she said they had been very highly recommend- ed to her. I did so, and by the time I had taken four boxes I felt en- ough benefit to decide me to continue them, and I took about a dozen boxes. They fully cured nie, and to -day I am able to go about my work without feel- ing fatigued." Fatigue, or the least exertion, is a sign that the blood is poor. Replace the bad blood with good blood and labor will be a pleasure. Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills make pure, red blood. That is why they cure anaemia, _ rhelunatism, kidney trouble, indigestion, heart palpitation and the nerve -Tacking ills of girlhood and womanhood. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 ce.ts a box or six boxes for $2.50, from The Dr. Williams Co., Brockville, Ont. Defenders of Switzerland. ,+Jp1 The report of the party who went • from this country to study the militaryr. , .v system of Switzerland y will doubtless be. r ',\ •$:e \, S e. that age for four years they4pligee ve'4o , '>' .+a "\ take up rifle shooting in a.:r'rs'', ' , t'p v Aci r gymnastic training. Every r �,, I,'�& his twentieth to his forty -fp �' e x 14,:t,...,;.,. liable to military training. ;hr ee e i efut' , it 1`?c work is accomplished in wit s y f0. ` n rifle clubs. which are enraged` b'tvis ah ° State for the purposecke,pAt im oo g'r �sm marksmanship. The potil"4i' is u 4e eJe, three and a half millilen ere �dg� e' ' 3,500 such associatioije ith Onage' ,- 0 2015•� , e9 000 members. On tf(.e. is s?e 'dhouicf have over '2,500,000, '�lo}nihpxs vie `v ;• 'So clubs instead of itb ne l401➢Q.-- erre ',,,,'0,,,„, Journal. ,Y.'? ,.% 4� r� ". h,� n e1r`�n,'tomJ1 ere co' .'r No mother ,;a 0 xpPi t °' erg $loan Tics �''''s 4 to escape all �hhavni9nottilnis oP.¢ii51d'oy'�r,� �c,�� hood, but she �,e r�a.�O�rt�U"y'.y''t�vi�'p� ��9r;' r�� `< that her e'hild''�v� 14 ';der Tea gives it anc4licasiS , e1. ll '• 4p mr,'� , . Tablets. 'aa.01' she cemin.' t •r� '-' .r . Wb unanimous on one point—that wee much to Learn from the little rem From the age of ten all boys go tleP;liif{ a compulsory physical and gyy t course until they are sixteen, tffi HELP a' s *'� r ' e'r'r ° .1' . A o ,Sp, C� '�'p safe in 1 .vin .this c�} ' the gun a4 e cis gover tt� 11:0ly� that conpi�iii �'r ii}l n f; 1,s�1'?s. rLIrid, ix im'�am sootlt g1, m. 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