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The Huron Expositor, 1921-11-25, Page 7`ivO MBER 25,1921. tireamieflenneerweeresemewesessuceremmiet T Tembarom $y• Frances Hodgson Burnett Toronto -,William Briggs. (Continued from last week) "Yes. People always said • so. That was why you found me in the picture - gallery the first time we met." "I knew that was the reason—and I knew I'd made a break when I but- ted in," he answered. Then, still looking at the ,photograph, You'd know this face again most anywhere you saw it, I guess." "There are no facos like it any- where,"said Joan. "I guees .that's so," he replied. "And it's one that wouldn't change much either. Thank you, Lady Joan." He handed back the picture, and she put out her hand again. "I think I'll go to my room, now," she said. "You've done a strange thing to me. You've taken nearly all the hatred and bitterness out of my 'heart. I shall want ito come back here whether my mother comes or not --I shall want to." "The sooner the quicker," he said. "And so long as I'm .here I'll be ready and waiting." "Don't go away," she said softly. "1 shall meed you." Tenet that great?" he cried, flush- ing delightedly. "Isn't it just great that we've got things straightened so that you car say that. Gee! This is a queer old world! There's such a lot to do in it, and so few 'hours in the day. Seems like there ain't time to stop long enough to hate anybody and keep a grouch on. A fellow's got to keep bustling not to miss the things worth while." The liking in her eyes was actually wistful, "That's your wary of thinking, isn't it?" she said. "Teach it to me if you can. I wish you could. Good- night." She hesitated a second. "God bless you!" she added, quite suddenly —almost fantastic as the words sounded to her. That she, Joan Fayre should be calling down devout beni- sons on the head of T. Tembarom— T Tembarom! Her mother was in her room when she reac :.d it. She had come up early to ' -ok over her possessions— and Joan' --before she began her packing, The bed, the chairs, and tables we• spread with evening, morning, and walking -dresses, and the millinc .y collected from their combined wardrobes. She was exam- ining anxiot•-s;y a lace appliqued and embroidered '; hite coat, and turned a slightly flushed face toward the open, ing door. I am goir:g over your things as well as my own," she said. "I shall take what I can use. You will re- quire nothing in London. You will require nothing anywhere in future. What is the matter?" she said sharp- ly, as she saw her daughter's face. Joan came forward feeling it a strange thing that she was not in the mood to fight—to lash out and be glad to do it. "Captain Palliser 'told me as I came up that Mr. Temple Barohlte had been 'talking to you," her mother went on. "IIe heard you having some sort of scene as he passed the doom. .As you have made your decision, of course I know I needn't hope that anything has happened." "What has happened has nothing to do with ,my decision. He wasn't waiting for that," Joan answered her. "We were both entirely mistaken, Mother." "What are you talking about?" cried Lady Mailowe, but she tempor- ! arily laid the white coat on a chair "What do you mean by mistaken?'' "He doesn't want me—he never did," Joan answered again. A shadow of a smile hovered over her face, and there was no derision in it, only a . warming recollection of his earnest- ness when he had said the words she, quoted: "He is what they call in New York 'dead stuck on another girl.' ' Lady Mallowe sat down on the chair that held the white coat, and she did • not push the coat aside. He told you that in his vulgar slang!" she gasped it out. "You—. you ought to hay,' struck him dead with your answer." "Except poor ,Tem Temple Barholm," was the amazing reply she received, "he is the only friend I ever had in my life." CHAPTER XXXII It was business of serious import- ance which was to bring Captain Palliser's visit to a close. He ex- plained it perfectly to Miss Alicia a day or so after Lady Mallowe and her daughter left them. He had late- ly been most amiable in his manner toward Miss Alicia, and had given her much valuable info/ttnation about companies and stocks. Ile ra'her un- expoetedly found it imperative that he should go to London and Berlin to "see people"—dealers in great fin- ancial schemes who were deeply in- terested in solid business specula- tions, such as his own, which were fundamentally different from all ethers inthe impeccable firmness of their foundations. "I suppose he will be very rick some day," Miss Alicia remarked the first morning she and T. Tembarom took thdlr breakfast alone together after Ms departure. "It would frighten me to think of having as limb`Money ar he seems likely to have quite soon," It would scare the to deaktr' said Tembarom. She knew he 'was mak- ing a sort of joker het she thought the point of R Waif her tremor at the thought of geitat fortune. seemed think forid be an excellent thtngr youhat to in- road in—I'm not sure .whet it was the India Rubber Tree -Company, or the mahogany barest* or the copper mines that have so much gold and silver mixed In them ghat it Nt'lli pay far the expense of the digging--" she went on. "I guess it was the whole lot," put in Tembarom, "Perhaps it was. They are all go- ing to make everybody so rich that it is quite bewildering. He is very clever in business matters, And so kind. He even said that .if I really wished it he might be ruble to invest my income for me and actually treble it in a year.,' But of course I told him that my income was your 'generous gift to me, and that it was far nitre than sufficient for my needs." Tembarom put 'down his coffee -cup so suddenly •to look at her that she was fearful that she had appeared to do Captain Palliser some vague in- justice. n- justice. "I am eure he meant to be meet obliging, dear," she explained. "I was really quite touched. He said most sympathetically and delicately that when women were unmanaged, and unaccustomed to investment, sometimes a business man could be of us to .them. Ile forget"- -affec-tionately—"that I had you." Tembarom regarded her with ten- der curiosity. She often opened up vistas for him as he himself opened them for the Duke of Stone. "If you :hadn't had me, would you have let him treble your income a year?" he asked. Her expression was that of a soft, woodland rabbit or a trusting spin- ster dove. "Well, of course, if one were quite alone in the world and had only a small income, it would be nice to have it wonderfully added to in such a short time," she answered. "But it was hie friendly solicitude which touched me. I have not been accus- tomed to such interested delicacy on the part of—of gentlemen." Her hesitance before the last word being the result of training, which had made her feel that it was a little bold for "ladies" to refer quite openly to "gentlemen." "You someitimes read in the news- papers," said Tembarom, buttering his toast, "about ladies who are all alone in the world with a little in- come, but they're not often left alone with it long. 'l't's like you isaid— you've got me; but if the time ever corns when you haven't got me just make a dead -sure thing of it that you don't let any solicitous business gen- tlenffian treble your income in a year. If it's an income that comes to more than five cents, don't you hand it over to be made into fifteen. Five cents is a heap better—jut plain five." `Temple!" gasped Miss Alicia. "You—you surefy cannot mean that you do not think Captain Palliser is —sincere!" Tembarorn laughed outright, his most hilarious and comforting laugh. He had no intention of enlightening her in such a manner as would lead her at once to belhold pictures of him as the possible Victim of appalling catastrophes. He liked her too well as she was. "Sincere?" .he Said. "He's sincere down to the ground—in what he's marere et world -ren ou e�rnsdtkwlorED epps and Rite— ( �r 3o ours e� a �6ment. icemen. 'r 5s anile from anemia ," 1 U':UY: 0'y lata n1 WM Mr, Weee TAEFlC',{ t• A(Mcvoy1l,;a LIMITCp 2607 lyuJaa. 4 rontoo.V7Wa sB6ffi reaohing after, gut he's not going to treble your income, nor amine. If he ever nukes that offer again, you just .tell him I'm interested, and that I'iI talk it over with him." "I could not help saying to hint that more money"when you had so much;" I didn't think you could want any she added, " but he said one never knew what might happen. Ile was greatly interested when I told him you had once said the very same thing yourself." Their breakfast was at am end, and he got up, laughing again, as he came to her end of the table and put his arm around her shoulders in the un- conventional young caress she adored him for. ."It's nice to be by ourselves again for a whale," he said. "Let us go ler a walk together. Put on the little bonnet and dress that are the color of a amuse. Those little duds just get me. You look so pretty in them." The sixteen -year-old blush ran up to the roots of her gray side ringlets. Just imagine his remembering the color of her dress and bonnet, end thinking that anything could make her look pretty! She was overwhelm• ed with innocent and grateful con- fusion. There really was no one else in the least like him: "You do look well, ma'am," Rose said, when she helped her to dress. "You've got such a nice color, and that tiny bit of old rose 14brs. Mellish put in the bonnet does bring it out." "I wonder if it is wrong of me to be so pleased," Miss Alicia thought. "1 must make it a subject of prayer, and ask to be aided to conquer a haughty and vain -glorious *spirit." She was pathetically serious, having been brained to a view of the Great First Cause as figuratively embodied in the image of a gigantic, irascible, omnipotent old gentleman, especially wrought to fury by feminine follies' connected with becoming headgear. "It has sometimes even seemed to me that our Heavely Father has a special objection to Ladies," she had once timorously confessed to Tem- barom. "I suppose it is because we are so much weaker than men, and so much more given to vanity and petty vices." Be had caught her in his arnis and actually hugged her that time. Their intimacy had reached the point where the affectionate outburst did not a- larm her. "Say!" he had laughed. "It's not the men who are going to have the biggest pull with the authorities when folks try to get into the place where things are evened up. What I'm going to work my passage with is a list of the few 'ladies' .I've known. You and Ann will be at the head of it. I shall just slide it in at the box-office window and say, 'Just look over this, will you? These were friends of mine, and they were mighty good to me. I guess if they didn't turn me down, you needn't. I know they'ra in here. Reserved seats. I'm not ex - THE HURON EXPOSITOR potting to ,he put With them butif I'm allowed to 'hstil wound where they, are that'll Int heaven enough (for me.' " "I know you don't mean to be ir- reverent, dear Tempt; ' she asped, AM quite sure you don't! ii -c- it isy your Amerlean way of ex- pressing your kind thoughts. And of oouree'—quite blaotlly—"the Al- mighty must underspend Americans —as he made so many." And half frightened though she was, she patted hie arm with the warmth of comfort hi her soul and motetttre in her eyes. Somehow or other, by was always so' cemfoe'tiug. He held her arm is they took their walk. She. Tied become used. to that also, and no longer thought it odd. It was only one of the ways he had of making her feel that she was being taken care of. They had not been able to have many walks together eine the anrivel of the visitors, end this occasion was at once a cause of relief and inward rejoicing. The entire truth was that she had not been altogether happy about him of late. Sometimes, when he was not talking and saying amusing New York things which made people laugh, he seemed almost to forgot wheme,lie was and to be thinking of something which baffled and tried him. The way in which .he pulled himself together when he realized that any one was looking at him was, to her mind, the most disturbing feature of his fits of abstraction. It suggested that if he really had a trouble it was a private one on which he would not like her to intrude. Naturally, her adoring eyee watched .him oftener than he knew, and she tried to find plausible and not too painful ?deems for This mood. IIe always made light of his unaccustomedness to his new fife; but perhaps it made hint Leel more unrestfwl than he would admit. As they walked through the park and the village, her heart was great- ly warmed by the way in which each. person they met greeted 'him. They greeted no one else in the same way, and yet it was difficult to explain what the difference 'was. They liked him—really liked him, though how he had overcome their natural dis- trust of his newsboy and bootblack -record no one but himself knew. In fact, she had reason to believe that even he himself did not know—had indeed never asked :himself. They had gradually begun to Like him, though none of them had ever accus- ed him of being a gentleman accord- ing to their own acceptance of the ward. Every man touched his cap or forehead with a friendly grin which spread itself the • instant he caught sight of him. Grin and salute were synchronous. Lt was as if there were some extremely .human ye'ke between then. Miss Alicia had delightedly remembered a remark the Duke of Stone had made to her on his return from one of their long drives. "H,e is the most popular man in the county," he had chuckle'!. "If War broke out and he were in the army, he could raise a regiment at his own gates which would follow him where- soever he chose to lead 'it --if it were into hottest Hades." Tembarom was rather silent during the first part of their walk, and when he spoke it was of Captain Palliser. "Ho's a fellow that's got lots of curiosity. I guess he's asked you more qusettens then he's asked his," hs begun at last, and be looked et her interestedly, though she was not aware of it. "I thought—" she basitated silgkely because she did not wieb.to be mitt - ca! --/'I sometimes thought be asked rhe too many." "What was he trying to get on to, mostly?" "Ile aeked so many things about u and your Ufe in New York --but more, I think, about you and Mr, Btrangeways. Ile was really quite persistent once or twice about poor Mr. $trangeways." "What did he ask?" "He asked if I had seen him, and if you had preferred that I should not. lie calls him your Mystery, and thinks your keeping him here is so extraordinary." I guess, it is—the way 'he'd look at it," Tembarom dropped in. "He was so anxious to find out what ,he looked like. He asked how Old he was and how tall, and whether he was quite mad or only a little, and where you picked him up, and when, and wkat reason you gave for not putting him in some respectable asylum. I could only say that I really knew nothing about him, and that I .hadn't seen him because he had a dread of strangers and I was a little timid. She hesitated again. "I wonder," she said, still hesitat- ing even after her pause, "I wonder if I ought to mention a rather nude thing I s,la'w him do twice?" ' "Yes, you ought," Tembarom an- swered promptly; "I've a reason for wanting to know." "le was such a singular thing to do—in the circumstances," she went on obediently. "He knew, as we all know, that Mr. -Strangeways must not be disturbed. One afternoon I saw him walk slowly backward and forward before the west room win- dow. He had something in his hand and kept looking up. That was what first attracted my attention—his queer way of looking ,np. Quite suddenly be threw something which rattled on the panes of glass—it sounded like gravel or small pebbles. I couldn't help believing he thought Mr. Strangewaye would be startled into 'coming to the window." Tembarom cleared his throat. "He did that twice," he said. "Pear- son caught him at it, though Palliser didn't know be did. He'd have done it three times, or more than that, perhaps, but I casually mentioned in the emoking-room one night that some curinus fool of a gardener -boy had thrown some stones and frighten- ed Strangeways, and that. Pearson and i were watching for him, and that if I caught hint I was going to knock his block off --being! Ile didn't do it again. Darned fool! What does he think he's after?" "i .am afraid he .is rather—I hope it is not wrong to say so—but he is rather given to gossip. And I dare say that the temptation to find some- thing quite new to talk about was a great. one. So few new things hap- pen in the neighborhood, and, as the duke says, people are so bored—and he is bored himself." "We'll be more bored if he tries it again when he comes back," remark- ed Tembarom. Miss Al.icia's surprised expression made him laugh. FRESH Tea—to be good—must be fresh LAB 331 AIL ISM Is always fresh and possesses that unique flavour of 'goodness' that. has justly made it Imams. "Do you think he will come book?" she exclaimed. "After euch a long visit?" "Oh, yes, heU1 come back. He'll come back as often as he can until he's got a chunk of my income to trehle-or until I've done with him." "Until you've done with lhim, dear?" inquiringly. "Oh! well,"--casually—"I've a Bort of idea that he may tell me something I'd like to know. I'm not sure; I'm only guessing. But even if he knows it he won't tell me until he gets good and ready and thinks I don't want to hear it. What he thinks he's go- ing to get at by prowling around is something he, can get me in the crack of the door with " "Temple"—imploringly—"are you afraid he wishes to do you an in- jury?" "No, I'm not afraid. I'm just wait- ing to see him take a chance on it," and be gave her arm an affectionate squeeze against his side. He was al- ways immensely moved by her little alarms for him. They reminded him, in a remote way, of Little Ann com- ing down Mre. Bowse's staircase bearing with her the tartan comfor- ter. How could any one -show could any one want to do hirn an injury? she began to protest pathetically. But he would not let heir go on. He would not talk any more of Captain Palliser or allow her to talk of him. Indeed, her secret fear was that he really knew something he did not wish her to be troubled by, and per- haps thought he had said too much. Ile began to make jokes and led her to other subjects. He asked her to go to the Hibblethwaites' cottage and pay a visit to Mamas. He had learned to understand his ac- eeotmi privileges in making of cot- tage visits by this time: and when he clicked any wicket -gate the door was open before he had time to pass un the wicket -path. They called of several cottages, and he nodded at the windows of others where faces appeared as he passed by. They had a happy morning together and he took her back to Temple Bar - holm beaming, and forgetting Cap- tain Palliser's existence, for the time at least. In the afternoon they drove out together, and after dining they read the last copy of the Sunday Earth, which had arrived that day. 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