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Branch Office - Hansall.
HansaII Seaforth
Phone 113 - Phone 173
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR: E. A. McMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of University of Toronto
The Clinic ,is fully equipped with
complete and modern X-ray and other
up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics
equipment.
Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in
diseases of the ear, eye, nose . and
throat, will be at the Clinic the first
Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5
p.m.
Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held
en the second and last Thursday in
every month from 1 to 2 p.m.
JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phones: ' Office 5-W Res. 5-J
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MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone" '90-W
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DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
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Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
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HOTEL, SEAFOtR.TH, THIRD WED-
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fret Tuesday of each month. 53
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"No, that's always the way with
you very good people -you do what
no one else dame do, then see nothing
wrong in it," said Bell., going to the I
table, but taking care that her gaze
did not meet Mary's; such being her
usual method of, wordy warfare, in
addition to which and the influence
that Mary had over her, she had but
little natural courage, apart from
shallow anger, even where she knew
herself to be right.
"Upon my word, Bella, what do you
mean? I don't see that I've done any
wrong -not to you-"
"Tn't it anything wrong, then, to
be in love with another woman's hus-
band " queried Bella sharply, as she
threw a short, rapid glance at Mary;,
who paused suddenly, silent, feeling
vaguely that she was at the edge of
an abyss, yet in nowise sure that she
understood the real meaning of Bel -
la's question. Her silence was as an
acceptance of. the charge; it gave
Bella the courage to continue: "Of
course it's p'•r'aps nothing to the par-
tic'larly good; but I know what ord-
inary people think about such things,
at any rate." And ,to and fro the
iron went hurriedly and ineffectively.
Bella's mind was becoming too agi-
tated to her to pay much attention to
her work.
Mary, her manner showing that she
was rather dazed, said quietly, "Why
don't you speak plainly, Bella? What
do you mean?"
"What do I mean? Why, that you
are in Iove with Derreck, of. course!
What else should I mean? I should
like to know!"
' Just as if, she had been struck by
a forcible blow within Mary stood,
feeling dimly, yet poignantly, that
some catastrophe had• happened ;
groping blindly around the how and
the why of it; admitting the truth of
the accusation; seeing that Bella and
others would find in it a sinfulness
which was not there, in the sense of
desiring to possess; aware that she
must extenuate it all to Bella, but at'
the moment impotent to find a way
of doing so -thus did Mary stand,
her head drooping slightly and invol-
untarily, under the 'consciousness of
a seeming shame which she would
not admit at a time,. of less confu-
sion; the while she vaguely, wonder-
ed how it had all come out. This sud-
denness, almost brutal in its naked-
ness, with which the matter had been
sprung upon her had rendered her
momentarily incapable of reply. Thus
the . American eight-day clock • ticked
the seconds away; the iron glided
swiftly backwards and forwards;
Alice breathed heavily, and neither
Bella not Mary saw the underlying
ludicrousness of the situation -that,
the tall, handsomely -made girl, im-
measurably the intellectual, and mor-
ally superior of the two, should stand
there, mute and apparently helpless
at the charge of the rather diminu-
tive, weak and very faulty one at the
table.
.Thus about a minute went by, ap-
pearingto them to be twenty. Then
Bella interrupted the silent painful-
ness of the moment by adding with
no change of tone or feeling: "Don't
you think it's a . scand'lous. piece of
,business? Do you think-"
"But, Bella-"
"It's fair to me?-"
"Will you listen to me?"
"Or right or proper -Z"
"Will you let me explain?"
"What can you explain? You coat_
deny it, it seems!"
Now Bella, a little afraid of her
own abrupt courage and that she
might be venturing too far, paused in
her work, lifted her head and looked
at Mary; whose mind was emerging
from its brief cbaos, to find the pain
of the situation growing clearer,
keener, more knife-like.
"No," she said in a tone that would
have gone deep into any sympathetic
heart, "I can't deny it, Bella. But, oh,
for mercy sake don't blame me! I
can't deny it -I never •• thought of
trying to! And .I can't help it, any
more than you can help loving Alice."
In this admission there was such, de-
spair, such apparent pain and mis-
ery that Bella, quick in her changes
of front and soft-hearted enough at
times, glanced in actual but brief pity
at Mary. The next instant she re-
marked sharply, yet not altogether
unkindly:
"But this isn't the same!"
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4.49
4.58
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5.21
5.32
9.45
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12:28
12.39
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"Yes, it is -in a way, Bella, it is."
"No, it isn't! How can it be? You
are a woman and he's a man!"
"You don't understand."
"No, of course not! I'm not
like some people; and I'm not
-But I'm good enough not to go han-
kering after a married • man!" was
the snapped, sarcastic answer, as she
once more felt that hers was the
whip -hand in the matter, and mom-
entarily remembered her own affair
with Bob Aplin, then sheltered her-
self behind the thought that she had
no love for him -while here Mary ac
tually said that she loved Derreck.'
"Bella, I don't hanker after Der
reck," Mary rejoined, with just en
ough quiet injury to arrest Belia's
attention, and briefly to curb that new
feeling of mastery between them.
'But you're in love vrith him!'
Mary was silent, for which reason
clever
good!
Bella added, "And that's the sarne
thing!" - .
4`No, not in my case, it isn't."
"Then i'nt blest if 1 eau understand
it, and that's the long and short of
it!" And down went .-the iron with a
clatter, on to its ornamental stand,
"Oh, it is so painful! -terrible!"
and Mary bowed her face into her
hands.
"Disgraceful, r should call it!"
"No, there's no disgrace iFt it,"
came mournfully from between the
closed hands. .
"Well, you beat me!" and Bella
dropped back into a chair on the op-
posite side of the 'rooth, staring at
Mary and .hardly knowing what to
say.
Mary let her hands- fall, showing a
tearless face that was now distraught
with increasing suffering and even
more pallid • than when she returned
from her mother's funeral. "There's_
no shame in it, Bella, because I can't
help it -because I've never tried to
take him from you -I couldn't if I
would -I don't think any woman could
-I should think it a disgrace to try.
If I had wanted to take him from
you, I shouldn't have done for you
wbat I have," said she, all in an ev-
en painfulness of tone and bearing
that was grievous to see and hear. ,
"Well, I must say it puzzles me,
that's all," Bella rejoined, with a
gasp that seemed to evidence relief.
Then she added in a quick, matter-
of-fact manner, "Anyway, he says
you're not to come here any more."
"He said that?" Mary asked in a
suddenly stupified way, that anribyed
Bella by showing her how painful
this enforced absence was to be.
"Of course he said it! -in a way,"
she realied, feeling a qualm, at the
lie. "What do you think he should
say, I wonder?"
And you don't want me any more
then?" came the somewhat dazed
query.
"Me? No, I never did want you -
it was you and others -did that.", Yet
her memory told her of many a weep-
ing admission that Mary was her
"best friend," her "guardian angel,"
etc. "And how do you think I could
have you here now!"
Without another word Mary's head
drooped again, as she turned and took
up her cloak niechanicallY; then she
left the room, opened the outer door
and passed into the night, feeling in
her heart the grief of a distracted
mourner, and leaving Bella so pained
that during a 'few 'minutes she was
inclined to fetch Mary back.
The rain had ceased to fall; the air
was clear and sharp though moist;
the clouds were broken up and dis-
appearing, so that the moon, then
some two hours high arid well on
towards her full, was putting a beau-
tiful night to what had been a mis-
erable day.
Mary walked around the end of
The Row and on to the roadway by
the harbor -wall, scarcely knowing
whither she went or what she did. To
her all things were ,pain, numbing
sorrow and desolation. The light of
the moon was a callous thing with a
touch like cold steel. Go indoors she
could not as yet. Bear her pain she
must and that alone. Dreading to
meet . her uncle in her ;+present frame
of mind, and knowing that unless she
could accomplish the impossible' task
of there and then hiding her grief
he wduld ask awkward questions, she
turned towards the petty and made
for the head of it -unaware that. as
she walked off .the old quay, Derreck
passed on the other side of the road,
saw her, hesitated, then went on-
ward:" in obedience to a rather late
consideration for Mary at the hands
of Bella, when the latter had every-
thing on her side, he had been hur-
rying back, remembering Mary's ten-
der nature and intending„to "see that
the thing was n9t overdone."
her feet, silvering the' naves es they
roiled towards her with a rhythm and
a motion that was fa$einating, and
seeming to invite her to descend
from those cold, hard, .:gid stones, and
leave the bitter, ulu'equiting world
and go out on its sailnmering radi-
ance. Meanwhile there was the cool
feeling of that gentle night -wind as
it blew steadily on and about her;
and at her feet, around the head of
the jetty, and along its' side, rippled
and lapped and splashed, ran and
hissed, and fell short or flopped
against the stonework, the irregular
recurring sounds of water that made
melody hi their gentleness, yet could
roar the defiance of a herd of wild
elephants. And Mary felt the influ-
ence of it all on her grief. It was a
subtle feeling that was growing on.
her, this appreciation of the beauti-
ful pathos of silent, mystic allure-
ment. She put her hand to her brow,
wondering dumbly, if she was on the
verge of madness. She saw the
quaint, old, brown -roofed,- Little town
there, across the bight of the harbor,',
noted the part that covered the cause
of her pain, and felt that pain be-'
come the more poignant because it
was hers . alone, and only she knew
its depth. With a sort orental
shake, like a black -robed apparition,
she turned her face seawards and
forced herself to think of that vast-
ness of water, with its ever -altering
face spread out to the enigmatical
night, to try to study it ink a way that
would dull her heartache. But she
could find no more in it than a cer•
tain similarity to love -so deep, so
abiding, so strong, so full of differ-
ences, yet so changeless. To her the
sea was not a subtle, temperament -
shaping force in Nature, only a sub-
limely beautiful thing, or a terrible
and cruel one, according to its tem-
porary condition. It had nothing spe-
cial to tell her, made no particular
appeal to her. Her utmost feeling
for it was a likingin which there
was considerable dread. In her com-
position there were but three plain
chords that responded to its super-
ficial phases -the attraction of a
lovely moonlit calm, horror at the
devastation of a wild gale, and the
appeal of the subtle melancboly of
such a scene as the present one. It
was this last that moved in her now,
like the flood -tide in the waters at
her feet, bringing her back to her-
self, her sorrow, that last look of
Derreck's in which her' heart led her
to think she had seen more than had
been thore, and the aching emptiness
of all things; till finally she toek
from a pocket in her cloak some pa-
per,' a pencil, and wrote steadily by
the growing light of the moon, while
she still paced to and fro across the
head of the, jetty, -pausing only at
each turn to put down some lines:
"Now the day of my life is over,
And the night creeps up apace,
While the crushing gloom
Of a corse -filled tomb
But outlines your pain -fraught face.
"And the years, in their stern long level
Are up -marshalled, black as hate;
And they threaten me
With their misery
Till I reach the death -kept gate-
"Till I pass thro' the joy -pearled por-
tats,
Till I sail the star -gemmed Blood
Tho' these eyes ne'er weep,
Yet the years will reap
From this heart its tears of blood.
With her cloak over her arm, ob-
livious of the keen air and seeking.
nothing more than solitude, Mary
gained the head of the jetty, only half
knowing where she was. She had
gone there with the instinct that she
would be alone; alone she was, with
the solitude of the sea and the Tright
for her, only acceptable companions.
And to •and fro she paced, nursing
her sudden pain and vaguely wonder-
ing if ever life was to hold for her
such happiness as it gave to other
women. Now she saw the meaning
of those Iate dreams -of wild horses
scampering about her. Weep she
Could not. She was not of the weep-
ing order of her sex. Her only feel-
ing was an unutterable loss, an empt-
iness of heart that was a positive
physical pain. Hers was far from
being a suicidal temperament, yet at
that moment she would gladly , have
gone to sleep with the knowledge that
consciousness would never come to
her again. Over and over it all her
mind went, the further and the im-
mediate past; noting details, seeing
fresh conclusions, reviving old plea-
sures, but gathering nothing from it
all except the deepening of tier pain,
down to that last, seemingly pitying,
sorrowful look of Derreck's when his
hand was on the latch of the door.
Presently Ole came to a standstill,
almoat Ott the edge of t'he quay and
dir•eetly. In the path of moonlight that
reached aeross the bay, well -neigh to
"When we meet in yon' fields of azure
Or the gold -green lanes..to.eome,
Will you pass me by,
In your anger high? -
Will your pain then keep you dumb?
"When '"we move 'mid the mighty
glories
Of a day that cariuot wane,
Will your bursting heart
Still refuse to part
With the balm to soothe my pain?
"When some orbs of angelic beauty,
Even rarer than yon' skies,
In their glowing, gaze
Thro' pure passion -haze,
Will the heart -light fill your eyes?
le
Olde,
ho .glut ,4Rf ` all
pcetlxred: tdr 1;or, that at+ i uld_.
her ' avroy, diipnyang lte ; Or?)�' ; he
of near'n,eas 'agfi ser ee
'rota this OW) hent Or 944Gp oflit;;
taw,ards the sea, tind?1114 in 'it* olir;.
tilde and pathos a ii.rkr to the an dila
in• 'her iteaza. Then, put of i1 e dark ;
ness beyoz d'- the affang there name
balling' a three -W sled schooner that
looked trim and neat in the distance.;
her starboard light- showiag' faint=
green as the moonshine picked her
out of the deeper night. • •And Mary's
mind fell to seeing in it sortie anal-
ogy to herself -it had come from tete
:sr away, only itself . knew where;
had met foul weather mostiikely and
might meet more; yet it would and
a port of peace by -and -bye. And if it
were wrecked? -there must he sor
row somewhere, and good cams by
sorrow. Yes, she mused, the sea was
Much like love, the only love she re-
'ogniz'ed-2apparently cruel and de-
vastating, in reality endless and sub-
lime.
Another turn and Mary noticed that
the lights in Quay Town were becom-
ing fewer. Her uncle would be alarm-
ed at her absence. Now she must
hide her grief in the secrecy of her
own heart; and she went homewards,
seeing nothing but an achiag empti-
ness before her.
CHAPTER VII
• IN THE MAELSTROM
Mary did find her uncle somewhat
agitated at her unusually prolonged
absence. He had sent Jane, their
servant, to,'Bella's house; then, on
learning that his niece bad been gore
i•rom there some hours, he had hur-
ried the woman away to ov . y likely
place near at hand. He did not think
ttat the girl had gone far, with on:y
that cloak for protection against the
cold dampness of the night. But when
no news could be gleaned of her, and
supper -time had long gone by with-
out her putting in an appearance, he
'las puzzled whatto make of the af-
fair,. ana was certainly becoming
alarmed; then she returned. On her
entering the room he looked up quick-
ly from the book he was trying to
read, saying:
"My dear, I thought you were lost!
And Jane's been everywhere, asking
for you."
"No, uncle, I've only been for a
walk," she answered while hanging
up her cloak.
In spite,' of her efforts to be as us-
xse'a Sg,sd.}a
to ext; Agog
to lie, "gutix'ely aur+P o,
ouch a ixatterr
way, and;" cel e'
that was no ut e a aa?
an average kigh ealu4ocl 00:Ogg
in the midst 4f "n' 'tliTtary life 711,
she saw daily certain •foy is .4
morality -and other Phases pf earirhx,
ness, which she recognized as beim
natural end rspparently insv table tc
those who were concerned in thei-'
while being aware of this, he deemed
her to be incapable of anyveluntary.
act that would bring shame upon'
either him or herself.* It was for
these trio reasons that he held his
peace, and severely impressed en
Jane the necessity of not repeatizig
anything that Mary said in her light-
headed moments; not that the latter
was quite ,needful, for Jane was old
in his service, had much respect for
Mary and was more tongue -wise than
the average woman of her station.
Mary was eight, days confined to
her room; and, in part due to the
weather, another week elapsed ere
she was seen out -doors. In this bard
weather a small steamer and a
ketch drove ashore east of Warren
Point, and both vessels became total
wrecks, with the loss of two lives
from the sailing craft -facts which
were added to the loss of the schoon-
er and the bravery then displayed
for getting a lifeboat fixed in the
place. By this time Mary was phy-
sically in a far worse condition than
when she returned to Minehead a
Month to five weeks previously. Not
only was the fair face practically col-
orless, but the dark grey eyes seem-
ed to have receded and to have as-
sumed a lustre that was at times
rather "creepy' to look on; whilst
even her hair appeared, to be more
flaxen than formerly, as if it had lost
its brownish tint. So that this 'lack
of`color combined with her mourning
apparel gave her presence a strange
suggestion of the unreal, that made
her presence a strange suggestion of
the "unreal, that made Mr. Milroy's
heart ache from waking to sleeping
-and kept his mind so occupied that-
his
hathis business began to suffer in con-
sequence. Along with this sadness in
her bearing there was a suddenly ac-
quired habit of silence. From being
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an outspoken girl, unusually frank
and equally tolerant to the shortcom-
ings of others, quite ingenuous its
many things, she had_ become more
than commonly quiet oi• tongue. To
herself she still repeated, as she had
so often done before, "What am I •te
do? -I can't help it." But a change
had come over her view of the mat-
ter. Bella's words and this upheaval
had so thrown her thoughts back up-
on herself that this sacrifical lave of
hers hard lost enough of its ideality,
for her to see it as she had not seen -
it before:
(Continued Next Week) '
"When I meet you, Beloved in Heaven
Will you pardon -e'en as I?
Will you then give voice,
In gladsome choice,
To a love that, may not die?"
Steadily, with no lengthy pause and
but few short ones, her over -full heart
had poured forth the lines. Now she
altered one word in the last line (re-
placed "may" for "shall"), returned
the paper and pencil to her pocket,
and found her attention fixed by the
window -lights in The Row and there-
abouts. This brought her tboughts
back to Bella and Derreck generally.
She saw how unutterable the depth
of this love was in all ways, and
caught at her breast with a quick
jerk as the thought flashed through
her mind that Bella might teal some
neighbor about it; thus setting all
eyes upbraidingly upon her, till she
would burn with shame and ask a
kindly Heaven to release her from
it alt. a It was awful td think of; this
-,inhuman sea was not More cruel than
life could be. .Ye't she Would pray to
the good ,God to 'spare her from, that
'humiliating puir1shaient. For it R.
were known, there woilld be no sym-
pathy fbri,:her anywhet* nothing lint
dgntumel s; else doubted •1P even her
A ttd'dheartedt Uncle vreaid. Inure than
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