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The Huron Expositor, 1922-02-03, Page 7• 11; 444, ',41,111r . , Charles tdcribiter's SOWS, New York. CHAPTER I "It repo good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Laughs= entered the draveing-room. "I want be ask a favor of you. 'I'm sure you won't wind. 1 would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're al- ways ao cross if one puts them next te men they dont know and who ean't help them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured. You don't mind, do you?" "I being called good-natur- ed," said Miss Langhsm, smiling. "Mind what, Mrs. Porter?" she ask- ed. Porter explained, vaguely. "He's a "He is a friend of George's," Mrs. iewboy. It seems he was very civil to George when Wadi out there shooting in New- l'.1,:cica or Old Mex- ico, I don't b -r which. Ile took George to his hut and gave him things to shoot, •ifil all that, and now he is in Ncw ‘.'ork with a letter of introduction. n 3 just, likeGeorge. He may be a m At impossible sort of man, but, as I s til to Mr. Porter, the people I've h !N can't complain, 'because I don't Ite ,w anything more about him th.n dm He called to -day when w and left his c...rd and Geo -nt.'s • lire. introduc- tl.m. and as s. nein d failed me for to -night, I jest th. tight I would kill two birds with. one stone, and ask him to pl-c,, and he's here. And, oh, yes " ..,-s. Porter added, "I' -at going to nut him next to you, you mind "Unless he wears leather leggings tion, and in either case she turned — and long snurs 1 -hal mind very restlessly away and asked herself ferent ways. He seemed to be at and yet from the manner much," said Mks Langham. how long it would be before the man his Oise, "Well, that's vtny nice of yet," would come who would ,pick her up in which he glanced up and down the purred Mrs. Pnrn-r -,s She moved on his saddle and gallop off with her, table and listened to snatches of nulk away. "Ile may not be so bad, af- with his arm arourd her waist and on either side of him he had the ter all; and Ii'l out Reginald King his horse's hoofs rlaEtering beneath appearance of one to whom it was and who was seeing it for on your (Alias sid-, shall I'?" she them, and echoing the tumult in their ' all new- askexi, r ausing and glancing back. hearts. t the first time. The look on Miss Langham's Lace, She had known too many kreat peo- ' There was a jolly grou.p at one f I d end of the long table, and they wish- . • $ „' 'i di1 ' Wrenn 444, AVI4i ;;; R call and the look in his eyes was a tri - 1610 whioh .he had no wink to put from her. re atin* at* ' stoP elod . , to Arseip bey eye* on. on the fee. Of lke‘ stringer, whoop doing than ,oir be- "FM own etei,were wiusdering wound' tie .m4* $o 4ift,i,7 thing., , 'endnie room, to give iser, so she gummed, the these Chaps were treating, sad soak- : ' 1 but that aiie bad caught him at it ides Viet he had not imenlisteningi int the WAY eifediht• TheY bad no the mamma be hed first looked * her. lila was a till, broad -shouldered youth, with a handsome face, tanned and dyed, either by the sun or by exposure to the wind, 'to a deep ruddy brown, which contrasted strangely with Ids yellow hair and =stook*, and with the patior of the other faces about him. We was a stranger ap- parently to every one present, and do out there in the wild . erness meant t14d his bearing 'suggested, in consequence thousands of dollars to the stock- . the ranch and camped mit in the a rrson who is not only sure of him- try, who would some day hold them Paners and magazinee through at banners either, nor brass bands. They fought mountain* and riven', sad fonr' !Pars on. they wars attadod on every *ids by "It% not polite_ to 11010Weir ieo far fever and the leek of food end 'revere bitch," she ORM "Wove you ow Of cow... They bad to sit down a- those who assisted at that tesportant round a camp -dire at Mist and cal- fUnetionl There Item 00 InanYtke,re culate whether,they were to tunnel al I don't remember."mountain, mountain, or turn the bed of a rives "No,I only read about it. I re; or bridge it. And they knew all the Inembit very welk I had ridden time that whatever they decided to oveand 1 r twelve miles for the midi that half wa back to that ease of manner whill coraes to holders somewhere up in God's coon- shade of rook and read the se f, but who has no knowledge of to account for them They dragged one with/ until the sun went' down Y. . You time 00, 70lt1 *mg* out. than the deference that Ile showed the claims and pretensions to social ' their chains through miles and mile* and I co LI see the print. One of her, and she did not like his taking it distinction of those about him. Iiia of jungle, and over flat alkali beds the papers bad an acommt of your as an accepted fact that she Wall as most attractive feature was his eye,, and cactus, and they reared bridges coming out in it, and a picture of workay,wise se himself, even though which seemed to observe all that was across roaring canons. We know , You, and I wrote East to the photo - it were true. going en, not only what was on the nothing about them and we care leis. 1 'grapher for the original. It knock - She was a woman and wanted to surface, but beneath the surface, and When their work is done we ride over ; ed about the West for three months be loved, is spite of the fact that she that not redely or covertly but wink the road in an observation -ear and and then reached me at Laredo, on the border between Texas and Mexi- had been loved by many \men—at least the frank, quick look of the trained- look down thousands and thousands it was so eupposed—and had rejected observer. Miss Langham found it an of het into the depths they have co, and I beve had it with me ever bridged, and we never give them a , since." Each bad offered her position, or did net look away from it. Shower. thought. They are 1 he bravest sol- ' Miss Lanham looked at Clay for diers of- the present day, and they 1 a moment in silent dismay and with them. i interesting face to watch, and she hand wanted her because she was fit,- acquainted with every one else in the ted to match his own great state, or room, and hence she knew this must are the least recognized I have for- 1 a perplexed smile. beard them. teiBut names, s,aerimd s ytoeuinneevtbeer bae"trere is it now?" she asked at because Ire was ambitious, or because • be the cowboy of whom Mrs. Porter she was rick. The mai who could had spoken, and she wondered how civil engineer, for all that, is the "In my trunk at the hotel." love her as She once believed men any one who had lived the rotigh life chief civilizer of our century." "Oh,"/ she said, slowly.. She was could love, and who could give her of the West could still retain the miss Langham was iwking ahead still in doubt es to how to treat this something oleo besides approval of look viten In formal elothes of one of -her with her eyeact of unconventionality. "Not in s half-closed, as her beauty and her mind, had not dia- who was in the habit of closing in- closed himself. She had begun to formal things in them. though she were going over in her Your watch'?" she said, to cover up mind the situation Kis; had describ- the pause. "That would have been think that he sever would, that he ; Mrs. 'Porter pre.sented her cowboymore in keeping with the rest of the did not exist, that he was an imag-; simply as "Mr. Clay, of whom I spoke ed• d the to you." with a significant -raising of "I never thought of that," she said. story." "It sounds very fire As you say, The young man smiled grimly, and the reward is so .gh r•isus. But that pulling out his watch pried back the lid and turned it to her so that she • fi " inatiion o m,vel. The men whom she knew vrere the eyebrows. and the cowboy made t th a - ' way fre. King., who took Miss Lang - careful to show ner preciated how distinguished was her , ham in. He Inoked frankly pleased, is ve a , position, and bow inaccessible she hovrever, when he found himself next The cowboy was Iking down at could see a photogra.ph inside. The was to them. They seemed to think to her again, but did not take ad - the table and ,,pullinn at a flower in the centre -piece. He had ceased to face in the watch was that of a young girl in the dress of fashion of smile. Miss Langhans turned on him ' '" "'ra years g . 1 1 pic- somewhat sharply, ris.nting kis sit: frank face, looking out of the ence, and said, with a slight chal- ture into the world kindly and ques- lenge in her voice:— tioningly, and without fear. "Do you agree, Mr Clay," she "Was 1 once like that?" she said, asked, "or do you profer the choco- lightly, "Well, go on." prize, but that if nhe would only of the way in which they were thrown late -cream soldiers, .11 red coats arid "Well," he said, with Ft little sigh that by ao humbling themselves, and van age othrong by eraohasizing her position they part of the dinner, during which time eleased her best, when it was what , he talked to the young married wo- she wanted them to forget. Each t man on his richt, and Miss Langharn of them would draw away backward, t and King continued where they had bowing and protesting that be was left off at their last meeting. They • knew each other well enough to joke . . unworthy o a . Ins life , into each other's society, and, as she gold lace?" of relief, "I became greatly interested stoop to him, how happy in Miss Alice Langham, and in her would be. Sometimes they meant it said, they tried to make the best of "Oh I don't know," the young man answered, with some slight hesita- comings out and goings in, and in her 1,,,s, was enntinually conscious of the tion. • "It's a trade f ir each of them. gowns. Thanks to our having a sincerely; sometimes they were it But while she spoke, Miss Lang - gentlemanly adventurers of title, The engineer's work is all the more press in the States that makes a d ' 't ' (ff. absorbing I imagine. when the dif- specialty of personalities, I was able from whom it was a business proposi- Presence of her neighbor, who piqued ficulties are greatest Ile has thefun to follow up pretty closely, for, of overcoming them." wherever I go, I have my papers sent "You see nothing in it then," she after me. I can get along without a ,, commas or a medicine -chest, but I asked, "but a saurce i.f amusement? "Oh, yes, a good iiii .1 mare," he can't do without the newspapers and ra plied. "A liyeliho. I ti..1 one thing. the magazines. There was a time I ---I have been an isigineer all my when I thought you were going to life. I built that road Mr. King is marry that Austrian chap, and I talking- about." didn't approve 'of that. 1 knew things An hour later, when Mrs. Porter about him in Vienna. And tlien I . , th . - wiric'h 1 .1 been ane of amusement, p e in the emphasize world to r the fact b laughing made the move to go, Miss Langham Tea " 31` ' a little more hysterically at their re- 0 . . „ .. g .1 am well—several others; some of them changed •on.sriousle. and she smiled with her own position at home— in ed t" y rose with a protesting si h. with polite acquiescence. America; but she sometimes compar- marks than the humor of those wit -sorry," she said it nas been most I thought worthy, and others not. "As you please, Mrs. Porter."she ed herself to the Queen ix "In a Bal- marks seemed to justify. A daugh- interesting. I never met two Men Once I even thought of writing you answered. She raised her eyebrows cony," and repeated to herself, with ter -in-law of Mrs. Porter was their whohadviss e so many inaccessible . 't d • ' about it, and once I saw you in Paris. slightly. "I am, as the politicians mock seriousness:— leader in this, and at one point she places and come out whule. You You were passing on a coach. The say, 'in the hands of my friends.'" "Entiren, too much in the hands of "And you the marble stater) all tstopped in the middle of a story and have quite inspired Mr. King, he was man with me told me it was you say friend," she repeated, as she time waving her hand at the double row , never so amusing. Put I should like and I wanted to follow the coach in he of faces turned in her direction, to hear the end of that adventure; a fiacre, but he said he knew at what room?' • hotel you were stopping, and so I let which had been attracted by the loud won't p, tell it to. ,!ne in the other turned away. This was the twelth They praise and point at as preferred time during that same winter that to life, ness of her voice, cried, ganly, "Don'tyou go, but you were not at that she and Mr. King had been placed Yet leave for the first breathing wo- listen. This is for privffe circulation. Cl bowed "If I haven't thought hotel, or at any other—at least, I It is not a jeune-fille story." The •couIdn't find you." next to one another at dinner, and man's cheek: of something more interesting in the it had passed beyond the point when First daneer's, gypsy's or street ball- debtitantes at the table continued meantime,"he said. "What would you have done--?"' she could say that it did not matter adine'sin talking again in steady, even tones, "What I can't understand," said asked Miss Langham. "Never mind," what people thought as long as she s e and he understoodIt had now And if it were true, she asked her- as though they had not heard the King, as he moved up into Miss Lang- h,, interrupted,"go on " reached that stage when she was not elf, that the man she had imagined . remark or the fiP rst of the story, and ham's lace "is howyou had time to Well, that's all,"'ssaid Clay, smil- s that she understood either was only an ideal and an illusion, the men next to them appeared equal- learn 'so rnuch of the rest of th e rld Y t dt 't act like ing. "That's all, at least, that con - quite sure ly unconscious. But the cowboy, Miss • (i) i '11 a man this poor young man." cerns you. That is the romance of who had spent hia life in the brush." him or herself. They had known was not King the best of e others, each other for a very long time; too the unideal and eve; -present others? long, she sometimes thought, for Every one else seemed to think so. them ever to grow to know each The society- they knew put them con - other any better. But there was al- istantly together and approved. Her ways the chance that he had another people approved. Her own mind ap- side, one that had not disclosed it- proved, and an her heart was not self, and which she could not dis- apps-ently ever to he considered, who cover in the strict social environment cserld asy that it did not approve as in which they bath lived. And she well? He was certainly a very was the surer of this because she charming fellow, a manily, clever had once seen him when he did not c-ompnnion, and on who bore about know that she was near, and he kad him the evidences of distinction and been so different that it had puzzled thorough breeding. As far as fam- her and made her wonder if she knew the real Reggie King at all. It was at a dance at a studio, and some French .nantornimists gave a little play. When it was over, King sat in the corner talking to one of the Frenchwomen and while he waited on her he was laughing at her and at her efforts to speak English. He was telling her how to say cer- tain phrases and net tolling her cor- rectly, and she suspected this and was accusing him if it, and they were rhapsodizing and exclaiming over certain delightful places and dishes .f which they both knew in Paris with the enthusiasm of two children. Miss Langham saw him off his guard for the first time, and instead of a somewhat bored and clever man of the world, he annoared as sincere and interested as a boy. When he joined her, later, the s line evening, he was as entertaining an usual, and as po- lite and attentive as he had been to the Frenchwoman, but he was not treatly interested, and his laugh was modulated and n It spontaneous. She bad wondered that night, and fre- quently since then, if, in the event *f his asking her to marry him, which was possible, and of her accepting 1146 which was also possible, whether shti? would find' him, in the closer knowledge of married life, as keen and light-hearted with her as he had been with the French dancer. If he would but treat her more like a com- rade and equal, arid less like a prime minister conferring with -his queen! She wanted something more intimate Rheumatism ? Or Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago? The remedy -s simple, inexpen- sive, easily taken and harmless. Templeton's Rheumatid Capsules Your drur/ist will supply you. Write for free trial to Temple - ton's, 56 Colborne St., Toronto. Sold by Z. la Walls* by W. G. NW. Langham noted out of the corner of her eye. after a look of polite sur- prise, beamed with amusement and continued to stare up and down the table as though he had discovered a new trait in a peculiar and interest- ing animal. For some reason, she could not tell why, she felt annoyed with herself and with her friends, and resented the attitude when the new -comer assumed toward them. "Mrs. Porter tells nue that you know her son George?" she said. Ile ily wentthe Kings were as old as a did not answer her at once, but bow - young , ountry could expect, and ed his head in assent, with a look of c Reggie King was, moreover, in spitenterregation, as though, so it seem - r ed to her, he had expected her, when she did speak, to say something less conventional. "Yes," he replied, after a pause, "he joined us at Ayutla. It was the terminus of the Jalisco and Mexican Railroad then. He came out overtire road and went in from there with an outfit after mountain l -ions. I believe he had very good sport." "That is a very wonderful road, I am told," said King, bending forward and introducing himself into the con- versation with a nod of the head to- ward Clay; "quite a remarkable feat of engineering." "It will open up the country, I be- lieve," assented the other, indifferent- ly. "I know samethine., of it," continued King, "because I met the men who were putting it through at Pariqua, when we touched there In the yacht. They shipped most of their plant to that poet, and we saw a good deal of them. They wee a very jolly lot, and they gave me a most interesting account of their work and its dif- ficulties." Clay was looking at the other closely, as though he was trying to find something back of what he was saying, hut as his glance seemed only to embarrass King he smiled freely again in assent, ant gave him his full attention. "There are no men to -day, Miss Langham," King exclaimed, suddenly, turning toward her, "to my II -rind, who lead as picturesque lives as do civil engineers. And there are no men OS e work is as little appreciated." "Really?" said •MissZangham, en- couragingly. "Now those men I met," continued King, settling himself with his side to the table, "were all young fellows of thirty or thereabouts, -'but they were leading the lives of pioneers and of his wealth, a man of action and ability. His yacht journeyed Inom continent to continent, and not mere- ly up the Sound to Newport, and he was as well known and welcome to the consuls; along the coasts of Africa and South America as he was at Cowes or Nice. His books of voy- ages were recognized by igeographi- cal societies and other serious bodies who hnd given him permission to put long disarrangements of the alpha- bet after his name. She liked faim because she had grown to be at home with him, because it was good to know that there was some one who would not misunderstand her, and who, should she so indulge herself, would not take advantage of any ap- peal she might make to his sympathy who would always be sure to do the tactful thing and the courteous thing, and who. while he might never do a great thing, could not da an unkind one - Miss Langham had entered the Porters' drawinproom after the greater number of the guests had arrived, and she turned from her hostess to listen to an old gentleman with a passion for golf, a pass'ion in which he had for long time been endeavoring to interest her. She answered him and his enthusiasm in kind, and with as much apparent in- terest as she would have shown in a matter of state. It was her princinle to be all things to all men, whether they were great artists, great diplo- mats, or great bores. If a man had been pleading with her to leave the conservatory and run away with him ,,and another had come -u,p innocently and announced that it was his dance, she would have said: "Ok, is it?" with. as much apparent delight as though his coming had been the one bright hope in her life. She was growing enthusiastic over the delights of golf and unconsciously making a very beautiful picture of herself in her interest and forced vivacityo.when she became conscious for the fist time of a strange young man who was standing alone before the fireplace looking at ;her, land frankly iliatenin'g to all the nonsense - 1 she was talking. She guessed that se had been lietenlag for some time, llinNE Yon Cannot Buy New Eyes But you can Promotes ttean.11ealthyCendifies OUR EYESUseMurine Eye Remedv 'Nicht and Morning.. Seep year Eyes Clem Clear and Maltby. Write for Free Rye Care Book, Oldie Ere Rands Cou 9 tail Ohio Simi. Memo "But not the only " h "How do you mean?" asked Clay, one, s e sai , -' for the sake of saying something smiling—"that I don't use the wrong• Perhaps not," assured Clay, "but forks?" the only one that counts. I always us that this was first ‚nit East, knew I was going to meet you sorne "No", laughed King, "but you told and yet you're talking about Eng- day. And now I have met you." land and Vienna and Voisin'e. Hot "Well, and now that you have met is it you've been there, while me," said Miss Langham, looking at Y" him in some amusement, "are you have never been in New York?" sorry?" "Well, that's oiirtly due to acci- said Clay, but so slowly dent and partly to design," Clay an- and with such consideration that Miss swered. "You I've worked for Langham laughed and held her head English and German and French com- a little higher. "Not sorry to meet panics, as well 1, for those in the States, and 1 go iiliroad to make re- you, but to meet you in such sur - then I'm what ysurroundings? .,n call a self-made " vfault do you find with my ports and to recei, instructions. And rou„wnclhinagt 8. dings?" man; that is, I've never been to col- "Well, these people answered lege. Inc always had to educate my- Clay, "they are so foolish, so futile. self, and whenever 1 did get a holi- You shouldn't. be here. There must day it seemed 1,) me that I ought to be something else better than this. put it to the advantage, and to You can't make me believe that you spend it where civilization was the, choose it. In Europe you could have furthest advanei — advanced, at a salon, or you could influence states - least, in years. When I settle down men. There surely must be some - and become an s.nert. and demand thing here for you to turn to as well. large sums for iiist looking at the Something better than golf -sticks and work other fen, have done, then salted almonds." 1 hope to live in Now York, but until Continued next week. then I go where 'h.. art galleries are biggest and and \,'Iere they have got the scienci of ,ioying themselves down to the very finest point 1 have enough rough a' o k eight months of the year to nuil, ate appreciate that. So whenever I 1'1 a few months to myself I take th,. Royal Mail to Lon- don, and from !here to Paris or Vienna. I think 1 like Vienna the best. The direct are generally important people 1 their own cities, and they ask one aliout, and so though I hope I am a niod American, it happens that I', e more friends on the Centinent than in the United States." "And how do,,, this strike you?" asked King, with a movement of his shoulder tow,i,1 'he men about the dismantled table. "Oh, I don't know'," laughed Clay. "You've lived alt -id yourself; how does it strike Tui?" Clay was the first man to enter the drawing -room He walked di- rectly away froni the others and over to Miss Langliani. and, taking her fan out of her hinds as though to assure himself of nnne hold upon her, seated himself with his back to every one else. "You have rome to finish that story?" she said, smiling. Miss Langham \V 3 F1 a careful young person, and would not have enenurag- ed a man she knew even as well as she knew King, to talk to her through dinner, and after it as well. She fully recognized that because she was conspicuous certain innocent plea- sures were denied her which other .girls could enjoy without attracting attention or comment. But Clay in- teretted her beyond her usual self, THE DOMINION B Ole Fifty -First Annual General Meeting of the Ithireboldere nk, held at the Head Office, in,Toronto, Se ZOth jilat41141V the following statement. of the affairs ei toll Bank as December, 1021, was submitted; enirifiggAL STATEMENT LIABILITIES Capital Steck paid .1a Reserve Fund 117,000,000 00 Retinae of Profit and Lon Aseestrit carried inward 715,480 59 Dividend No. 167, payabtaitrd Jan - nary, 1922 - 00.0F40 00 Bonus, one per cent., poems asa• 60 00 Fenner Dlvldendl $6,000,000 00 7,155,735 60 Total Liabilities to the Shareholders-..... . 113.985,1185 59 Notes fit,Gircastion 70.6 Due to Dominion Government 8,662,610 00 Deposita not hear- ing interest $18,018,016 88 Deposits bearing in- terest, including interest accrued to date 80,788,284 83 Balances due to other Banlei in Canada . . Balances due to Banks and Bank- ing Correspondents elsewhere than in Canada 833,679 23 Bills Payable 267,960 00 Acceptences under Letters of Credit 854,740 43 Liabilities not included in the fore- going .. 371,060 49 Total Public Liabilities 117,380 206 99 95,804,300 66 869,285 18 . 8131,336,942 58 ASSETS Gold and Silver Coin $2,117,000 19 Dominion Government Notes 15,715,807 50 Deposit with Central Gold Re- serves .., 1,700,000 00 Notes of other Banks ... 1,100,880 71 Cheques on other Banks 7,389,393 59 Balances due by other Banks in Canada .. 1,000 00 Balances due by Banks and Bank- ing Correspondents elsewhere than in Canada 2,397,658 15 30,421,756 '14 Dominion and Provincial Govern- ment Securities, not exceeding market value 13,371,201 90 Canadian Municipal Securities, and British Foreign and Colonial Public Securities other than Canadian, not exceeding market value 4,168,630 45 Railway and other Bonds, Deben- tures and Stocks, not exceeding market value 1,751,108 28 Call and Short (not exceeding thirty days) Loans in Canada on Bonds, Debentures and Stocks 6,561,853 52 Oall and Short (not exceeding thirty days) Loans elsewhere than in Canada n:l5,123 27 Other Current Loans and Discounts in Canada (less rebate of in terest) 63,710,574 03 Other Current Loans and Discounts elsewhere than in Canada (less rebate of interest) 554.542 96 Liabilities of Customers under Letters of Credit, as per contra 354,740 43 Real Estate other than Bank Premises ,. 5,430 37 Overdue Debts (estimated loss provided for) 1444,„5fit 59 Bank Premise, at not more than cost, less amounts written off5,830,229 52 Deposit with the Minister of Fin- ance for the purposes of the Circulation Fund Mortgages on Real Estate sold17,227 81 Other Assets not included in the foregoing . 299,596 81 $60,109,667 56 71,226,275 02 $131,335,942 58 ,issimsnamis E. B. OSLER, C. A. BOGERT President. General Manager. AUDITORS' REPORT TO SRARBROLDERS We he.e compared the above Ratan.. Sheet with the books and accounts at the Chief Office of The Dominion Bank, and the certified returns received from it. Branches, and after chocking the cash and verify-ing the securities at the Chief Office and certain of the principal Branches on December 21st, 1921, we certify that, in our opinion, such Balance Sheet exhibits a true and correct view of the state of the Rank's affairs. according to the hest of our informa- tion. the explanations giver to us and as shown hy the books of the Bank. In addition to the c-taminations mentioned. the cash and securities at the Chief Office and certain of the principal Branches were checked and verified by us at another time itt th.• year and found to be in accord with the books of the Bank. All information and eKplanations required have been given ti tut and all transactions if ti.- itt which have. Porn,. under our notice have, in oar opinion, been within th, powers of the Bank. G. T. CLARKSON 0, .1 DILWORTH Toronto. January lgth, 10f51 Cordon & ttlwirth, c.A.) 4' MACDONALD'S 51