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The Clinton New Era, 1891-02-27, Page 2La. FBID.E,i,Y, MTh BR`1J, ,11;Y E71 1..804 able :Ouse arida :moreover, Donuvaur +D.oneven's authoritative manse bad the Mt" of i'orcing Stephen shoo gent baok ` theMere idltra A Ntolisten to )44010 went 00, gra' s while 'the really efficient helpers #N, 19t came to the fere. Rouge offered "however Much sort inns kick at his brandy flask, g the word dishonorable ou calle enc! iii. at. very A MODERN ENC,�rLIaiHMA11 hardlyas the wayyou are going s as broug an extemporized litterws Y y g g was brought tip; and swoon was OD is anything elae. Only a few borne away to the neatest hotel. weeks ago you were going to an It was all done in such a bust - BY EDNA LYALL. Exeter Hall:nleeting with Mrd Cana- nese like way that for a time it ton, and now you are going to the seemed to Donovan only like his ,t'ublislied by Wm. Bryce, TQrontp, Z ------meeting with a set of hospital work. It wtis not till a CONTINUED- snobs, who, as sure as tate, will got doctor bad arrived and his own you into some scrape." f responsibility lessened that he Stephen was imperturbably good realized that it was Stephen Caus- humored that evening; be did net ton, the Ttemains' friend, Stephen take exception even at this very for whom he felt himself in a man - plain speaking, be only swung him- ner accountable, who was lying self lazily back in his chair and there in danger of his life. In a yawned prodigiously. When Done- disjointed way he gathered fromvan hod endefl, he sat musing for a Curtis the facts of the accident. minute or two, then said, abruptly: Stephen had caught sight of theme, "I tell ydu what, Farrant, you 1 and had gone to shock to them,$ won't Persuade mo out of going, but r,,dis had offered him a seat in I don't care a rap about being with i the dog cart,., and they had driven these fellows if you would go. Come off, intending to dine together in you can spare a day well enough, the town; something had startled and we can have no end of a spree. the horse, and the dog cart had been Donovan could ill afford such an overturned. The lest had escaped unnecessary expense, but ne knew with bruises and a severe shaking, that his presence would probably but Stephen had broken a rib, the keep Stephen straight, and, aftgr bone had i,ierced the lung, and he some deliberation, he conssnted o was for sone hours in a very po- go. carious state. The day proved to be exceedingly • The first moment that Donovan fine—one of those still autumn days could bkspp��r,od he ran down to dis- when scarcely a breath is stirring, patch a lblegram to Dr Tremain, when the limp yellow leaves float and not till he had with some ditii- down slowly and noiselessly from culty worded the message did one the rapidly thinning trees, and the thought of himself come to trouble sun sends its softened beams Sias through t.1 golden misty haze. Its_ j'D.'arrant, Royal Hotel, Z -, wits most delicious to get out of to Dr Tremain, Trenant, Porthker- smoky Londoa; except for long ran. Causton has met with abed walks every Sunday, Donovan had accident. Please tell his mother, not actually been out of town for and comb at once, if possible." more than a year, and the change a was thoroughly enjoyable. In spite What would hbe panic poor Mrs Causton of Sundry recepections of old times e in, and how strange it which would intrude themselves would seam to them all that ho— upon him, the day really bid fair to 1)onovari—should be with Stephen be a pleasant one. Stephen was at/.---. Of course Dr Tremain companionable enough, and every would know that the Z Races were ou, and would naturalry arrive thing was so fresh to him that Donovan found it easy work to at the conclusion that he had )ed keep him out of difficulties. Stephen there. It could not be All went well till the races were supposed teat the orderly mother's over, then, as they were elbowing son, who attended Exeter hall their way through the crowd sur- meetings, would have gone to such rounding the grand stand, Donovan a place without great persuasion. felt a hand on his shoulder and a In a moment there rose before Don - well known voice ringing in his ear. Duan the whole situation. The be "Well, Milord, Who would have chose must lie with Stephen; if be thought of seeing you here! How close to confess his long course of are you, my dear fellow?' self pleasiv, all would be well, but, He turned round to have his hand if he chose to bs silent, Donovan grasped by old Rouge Frewin.— felt that be could not betray hien, There be was, as unchanged as if for that even at the risk of being anis- all this eventful time the world had understood, he must hold his tongue been standing still with him—the —an easy enough task, surely= same genial, cheery, red faced old merely to keep silence—a task in captain who had watched by his which he was well practiced ! sick bed 'let Monaco, and cried like a He went back to the sick room baby when they had parted at Paris. and forgot all his presentiments in Donovan would have been both keeping anxious watch over Stephen. ungrateful and unnatural if his first The hemorrhage bad been c ecked, thought had not been one of real but all through the night the most pleasure at meeting again the kindly alarming prostration continued, and old man. it was far on in the next day before "Why, c plain, this is an odd the immediate danger was over, and chance that has brought us together! the patient fell into an exhausted How natural it seems to see you sleep. again! What corner of -the moon Lotime, left Lim then for the have you dropped from V' = ' first tme, the landlord's daughter "'lacking between London and keeping guard over him, and went Paris ever since you left us," said himself to get much needed food and rest. „ a 1 e with sigh. i have missed Rot a Rouge gd "How do you like Mr Farrant? Is he a pleasant companion?" asked 11I,rs Cauaton, as the t'ront:Aker closed. "Ob, he's a very good sort of fellow," .said Stephen, riuging ' the bell for his breakfast; "he's very clever, and works like a nigger." "Then I wonder be has time to waste on such a page^ as this," said Mrs Ca"stop, laying hei black- gloyed band on the "sporting News." The "Sporting News," as it hap- pened, was Stephen's paper, but he could not allow his mother to know that; with a slight pricking of con- science, he merely turned the con- versation. "Ob, of course even the hardest working fellows' must have a little relaxation. Farrant reads on every Subject under the sup." "I hope you never open thosa dreadful books of his which 1 see over there?" asked Mrs Causton, apprehensively. "Oh, dear, ne," replied Stephen, this time with perfect truth. "They are a great deal too stiff for me." Dire Causton gave a relieved sigh, and the conversation drifted away from Donovan to tbe exam- ination which Stephen was going in for that term. He had lost much valuable time when his eyes had been bad, but was nevertheless very sanguine. "I must ow❑," said Mrs Causton, as she walked back to her hotel with Stephen, "that it will be rath- er a relief to me when your course is over. I don't altogether like this arrangement of sharing rooms with Mr Farrant. I fope-he never speaks to you `about' religious mat- ters." "Never; he's a very taciturn fel- low, and as to theology, we should never dream of discussing it, so you may be quite happy, mother." His manner reassured Mrs Caus- ton, and he spared no pains to please her during her week's stay, escort- ing her to the National Gallery and the British Museum, and one night. even submitting to the very dullest of meetings at Exeter Hall. "If that poor Donovan Farrant would have come with us," sighed good Mrs Causton, at the close of a speech which had roused her to en- thusiasm. "Not much in his line, I am afraid," said Stephen, heartily ap- plauding the speaker with hands and feet in a way which delighted his mother. - "Dear Stephen was so much im- pressed by Mr —," she told one of ber friends afterward. And the poor lady went back to Cornwall quite satisfied that her son was do- ing well, that even Dr Tremain' suggestion that he should lodge with Donovan Farrant had not proved reallyiedangerous. It was, she still thought, a somewhat rash experi- ment, but certainly dear Stephen was not in the least contaminated. CHAPTER XXIX. A BRAVE SPRITE `yonder it is to see in diverse minder How. diversely love doth his pageants play, And shewes his powre in variable kinder: The baser wit, whose ydle thoughts al - way Are wont to cleave onto the lowly clay, It atirreth up to senanall desire, But in brave sprite it kindles goodly fire, That to all high desert and honor doth aspire, Ne suffereth it =comely idlenesse In his free thought to build her sluggish nest, Nis suffereth it thought of ungentlenesse Ever to creep into his noble breast; But to the highest and the worthiest, Lifteth it up that els would lowly fall: It lettes not fall, it lettes it not to rest; It lettes not scares this prince to breath at all, But to his first oursuit him forward still doth calf Fae a Queene. SPENCER. tel you, lad; it is a hard life for an old a ys priver forgot that autumn man like me. I am growing old, evening when the telegram arrived. fast,. ,and Noir bas been bard on me singe you went." "Is Noir here to-dayi" "No; he was to come back from Paris to -night. I do not know the ins and outs of it, but Noir is vett' uneasy just now; he won't settle do wn in England comfortably, anal it is a miserable life this knocking about among foreigners; it is killing me by inches, and poor old Sweep- stakes too." "What, is Sweepstakes still in the land of the living V' "Yes, he's at my rooms in town— not the old place in Drury Lane; Noir would not go there again.— By the bye, Milord, what are you doing with yourself now?" The question first reminded Don- ovan that there were reasons which made it advisable not to give his address to the Frewina. He replied that he was at present a medical student, and then as' he spoke he recollected Stephen, and turned hastily round,but Stephen was gone. The races were over; he might possibly have gone back to the sta- tion, but Donovan thought that he had probably caught eight of some of his friends and had gone to speak to them; he was a good deal vexed. It was impossible, however, to find him in such a crowd; he was obliged to give it up, and, quitting the race course with the old captain, made his way as quickly as might be to the train. They had not gone far when a block in the long line of carriages attracted their notice. "Some accident," said Rouge. "Never was yet at any races with- otlt'seeing a spill of some sort." Donovan pushed on quickly with out speaking a word. He felt al - moat certain that Stephen had somehow got into mischief. By the time he had made his way through the throng of people a dog cart which had been over- turned was being raised from the ground, and Donovan at once caught sight of Stephen's friend Curtis standing at the head of the terrified horse, whose violent kicking and plunging had caused the accident. Many people were offering their help, several were stooping over a prostrate figure; he pushed them aside. It was indeed Stephen Causton who lay there perfectly unconscious, the blood flowing slow- ly from his mouth. - "Curtis sent you word that he was going by the 9.30 to -morrow," said Donovan, coming into the sit- ting room one autumn eyening, and finding Stephen for once hard at work. "All right,4 was the laconic an- swer. "You are not going to the Z— Races?" asked Donovan abruptly. Stephen looked up with a smile. "In the words of the old Quaker, I must answer, 'Friend, first thee tallest a lie, and then thee askest a question." "But with the examinations so near and your preparations so frightfully behitdhand," urged Don- ovan. "Am not grinding like fifty niggers now to make up?" said Stephen. "But it's such nonsense your go- ing," continued Donovan, rather incautiously. "Why, you hardly know a horse from a donkey! You will got fleeced, and conte home up to your neck in debt." "I wish you'd let me alone," said Stephen; "I tell you I'm going, and you won't bother me out of it; so do shut up." "What do you imaging your mother would say to it, if she knew?" The queston was an uncomfort- Children Cry for figure that rose before her, wlud^ ing everything elm, .a strong faea with dark, sad reeelute >lnoirtl}. It could not be that Dortovanhadfor• gotten his high sits, bad thrown aside his search after truth, and sunk so low. -,-it could uot be!Hie face rose before her in vivid mem- ory; she felt certain that he had not done this thing. She'daahed away her tears, choked them back angr. ily, resolutely. "It can't be; it isn't so; I will never, never believe it 1" she cried, passionately. "Though all the world accuse Lim, I will never be- lieve it ! I will trust you, Dono- van—always!" She was calm again now, invin- cible in hor woman's stronghold of resolute trust. The errors of logic. the force of argument, the stern ar- ray of steely facts spend their force in vain on that stronghold. Her father came back before long from his sad errand; she went to meet him in she hall to ask after Mrs Causton. "Oh ! there you are, dear," he exclaimed. "I came back to fetch you. Aunt 'Margaret is terribly upset, and I promised that you should go to her." Gladys trembled a little, but she could make no objection, and ran up to fetch her things. "You must try co induce her to go to bed," said the doctor, as he walked back with Gladys to Mrs Cariston's house. "We shall start quite early to morrow morning, bus she- will be fit for nothing if she does not sleep first." M r s Causton was exceedingly fond of Gladys, and in spite of the real want of sympathy between them, this evening she clung to her more than ever, probably, in the depth of her misery, not noticing that there was a little shadow of restraint in her manner. For, though Gladys bad the sweetest and most delicate tact and sympa- thy, she often let hers' if become ahsorded in sympathizing with ode person. She was one of those characters who love the few ardent- ly, but are a little wanting in breadth, and now every doubt or reproach cast on Donovan pushed her further away from Mrs Causton. however, she did her best, lis- tened in silence to Mrs Causton's sorrows, helped her to make all the necessary arrangements for her journey, soothed her by mute ca- resses, and at last persuaded ber to go to bed. Then she lay down be- side her and tried to sleep; but long after Mrs Causton had forgotten her troubles in restful unconscious- ness, Gladys lay with wide open 'Pooryoung gat 1 He Was up all the night. Perhaps you'll wake him,°sir, if you see fit," and then,, with a curious; glance at the three visitose;•tbe'man withdrew, mental- ly ejaculating that he "wasn't goiirg to disturb the poor fellow, not if it was to see the queen herself." But as the door closed Donovan started up, "Is he awakol" he cried, fancying that Stephen's nurse had come; then, catching eight of Dr Tremain be sprung to his feet. "I am so glad you've come. IIe is really do- ing well now. The immediate dan- ger is over." As he spoke he shook hands with the doctor and Mrs Causton, then, for the first time catching sight of Gladys, he was all at once speech less. For one moment their eyes met, that strange meeting which seems like the blending of soul with soul. That was their real greeting. The conventional hand shake was nothing, and in another moment Donovan had ttf%ned hastily away,. and plunged abruptly into details of Stephen's accident. Mrs Cauaton was painfully agi- tated, and was indignant whenlDon- ovan insisted on the extreme rash- ness of going at once to see the patient. To wake up and to find his mother unexpectedly there would be the very worst thing for him, and though Dr Tremein qutie agreed, and in fact took the law in- to his own hands, Mrs Causton re- garded Donovan entirely in the light of au enemy. Dr. Tremain went himself to the sick room, and it was arranged that he should relieve guard, and when Stephen awoke, tell him of his mo- ther's arrival. Donavan left him there, and steeling himself for the encounter, wont slowly back to the sitting room, where Mrs Causton was lying in an easy chair, and Gladys was trying to porsuacle her to take a cup of tea. "Yon will have some tea, too, will you'not?" she said, 'coking up at Donovan. "They told us you had been up all night; you must be very tired," "Thank yen, yes, I should like some," said Donovan, allowing him- self to watch the little white hands as they lifted the big plated tea pot and poured out the tea. And as she handed him his eup he not- iced, in that strange way in which the minutest trifles are noticed when there seems least time to waste on then, that the china was thick, white, with a pink rim, and bore the stamp of the Royal Hotel. He was startled when Mrs Cans - ton first spoke to him; the welting eyes, keeping rigidly still for fear of seemed to embitter h er, and she disturbing her companion, and in made him feel that..his presence was spirit sharing Donovan's watch be- very distasteful. side Stephen's sick bed. "Have you any other particulars I In the morning Mrs Causton I to tell me of my son's accident?" she awoke little refreshed. She was asked, very coldly. almost disabled ,hy a terrible head- ache. Gladys had to do everything for her. As she brought leer a cup of coffee, it seemed to dawn on the poor lady that very soon she should have to part with her. "Ob ! Gladys," she said, plead- ingly; "could you not come with me'? I don't know what I shall do with- out you." For some days the household at "I would willingly conte," said Trenant had been disturbed and Gladys, trembling violently, "only --I am not sure whether mother could spare me—" She broke off abruptly, as her fa- ther drove up in tbe pony carriage. The thought of meeting Donovan once more had set all her pulses throbbing painfully, but she could not make up her mind to ask her father whether she might go, she could not even repeat Mrs Causton's words to him. The idea had, however, taken strong hold on Mrs Causton. She greeted the doctor with an urgent entreaty that he would allow CIladys to go with them. "I am so poorly, and she has-been such a comfort to mo. I do not know how I can do without her. "Very well, Gladys, dear," said Dr. Tremain, putting his band on her shoulder. "If you will come with us, and can do without any more preparation, it shall be so.— Nesta is better to -day, and we will send a note back to explain to the mother." "It was all settled in a few min- utes. Gladys hurried away to put on her walking things. The maid hastily packed her little night bag for her, and before long she was driving with her father and Mrs Causton to St. Kerrans. The journey seemed endless ; though they had started very early, it was four o'clock in the afternoon by the time they reached Z--. Gladys was very stiff and weary, but she bad hardly time to think of herself, she was so taken up with the effort of sympathizing with and helping Mrs Causton, while, as they drove through the busy streets of Z--, the consciousness that every moment was bringing her nearer to Donovan made her heart beat quick- ly, and the bright color rose in her cheeks. At length they reached the Royal Hotel, learned at once from one of the waiters that Stephen was doing well, and were ushered upstairs. Mrs Causton leaned on the doctor's arm, Gladys followed tremblingly, glad enough to cling tothe balusters. They were shown into a private sitting room. Already the after- noon light was failing, but a fire blazed in the grate, and in its ruddy glow Gladys saw Donovan. IIe was stretched at full length on the hearth rug fast asleep. The waiter hesitated. anxious, for Jackie and Nesta were both laid up with the measles, and Nesta, always a rather delicate lit- tle child, was seriously ill. The nurse had gone down for her supper, and Gladys had taken her place in the night nursery. As she sat be- side the sleeping children she heard a sharp ring at the door bell—a message for her father she supposed —and thought ne more about it, little dreaming what message it was and from whom. And yet, as she sat there in the dim light, hor thoughts did drift away to Donovan. What was he doing in those dull London lodgings which he had de- scribed to them '1 His letters had been fewer and shorter lately, and he never spoke of any future visit to Porthkerran. Were their lives growing further apart ? Was it never to be anything but waiting and trusting? Should she never learn that he had found the truth? She covered her face and prayed silently, hardly in thought-out words, but only, as it were,breathing out her want of patience, her love for him, and ber longing that he might think and do that which was right. The nurse came back, and Gladys released from ber watch, went down to the drawing room; she was strong to meet the news that await - .ed her, and she needed all her strength. Over and over again she read the words scrawled on that tbin pink paper, hearing with pain- ful acuteness all her father's sur- mises as to what could have taken Stephen and Donovan to those races. She hated herself for it, but it hurt her a great deal more to hear a shadow of blame attached to Dono- van than to hear that Stephen was lying perhaps in mortal danger. The one caused her a sharp stab of pain, the other only a shocked awed feeling—a vague regret. Her father wont away in a few minutes to break the news as well as he could to poor Mrs Causton. Mrs Tremain was called away to little Nesta, and Gladys sat crouch- ed up alone by the fire, feeling supremely wretched. It could not be that Donovan bad led Stephen astray—and yet her father had evi- dently thought it must be so! IIer tears flowed fast, but still not one was shed et the thought of Steph- en's accident; it was a tall manly • Pitcher's Castor-iae-__, TO 13E CONTINUED. NOT- ONE IN TEN. 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BRUCE, L.L.H LGiv'fltir', grauu- • ate Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. All oporatione of modern den- tistry carefully performed. Antesthotics ad ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. Office — Keefer's old etand, Coats' Block, Clinton. Will visit I31ytb profession- ally every Monday, at Mason's Hotel. n DICKINSON, THE OLD rrRELtAti,E .IJ Auctioneer still in the Sold, able and willing to conduct any sales entrusted to him, and takes this opportunity of thanking his patrons for past favors. Also Chattel Mortgages closed and rents collected. Char- ges moderate. D. Drcrtxsov, Licensed Anc• ionoer for the County of Huron. Residence Albert Street, Clluton. DR WORTHINGTON, — PHYSLOiAN Surgeon, Accoueber, Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and Surgeons of Lower Canada, and Provineta 1 Lieontiato and Coroner for the County of Huron. Of- fice and residence,—The building formerly ooinpled by MrThwaites, IlnronStroet. Clan tott,tJan.11.1870, - The Nelsons Bank. Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1856. CAPITAL, - $2,000,000. REST FUND, - $1,000,000 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. J. H. R. MOLSON Pres. F. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, GoaeralManager Notes discounted,Collections made,Drafls issued, Sterling and American ex- ciznge bought and sold at lowest current rates° interest at 4 per cent allowed on deposits. VA. RBI IC . Moaeyadvanced to farmers on their own notes with one or more endorsors. No mortgage re• quire(' as security. H. C. BREWER, Manager, January 1887. Clinton Clinton Post Office Time Table Malls are due for delivery and close for despatch at the Clinton Post Office as follows:— Ilamiltun, Toronto, Strat- ford, Seaforth, Grand Trunk east and Interme- diate nterme- diata offices , ... , ....... 7.00 a.m. 1.60 p. m Toronto Stratford, Sea - forth, T. and S. east.... 1.66 p.m. Goderich, Holmeavillo and Grand Trunk wort 1 p.m. 8,10 aim Goderich, 8,46 p.m. 2.40 p.m Hamilton, Toronto, 4.16 p.m. 10.26 a,m London, L., H, & B. south a.m. p.m, aim. p,m and intermediate offices 7.00 4.15 10.267.00 Blyth, Wingham, Rincar- dine,Lucknow, north and Intermediate a.m. p m. a.m. p.m offices 9.30 0.16 8.106.00 British malls, Monday,Wed- neadayy, Thursday 7.00 a.m. Bayfield, Varna, Herbison, daily 2.30 p.m. 12.46p.m. Summerhill, Tuesday and Friday, 6.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposits receivedfrom ono dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p,m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 0.30 p.m, THOMAS FAiR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889, CLOSE 1 nun 8 a, m HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company i8 Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of Interest. MORTGAGES PURCHASET SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 8, 4 and 6 per Cent. Interest Allowed on Deposits,according to amount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market Sgnareand North s dORACE HORTON, MANAGER. G04orlch,Antitlet 6th 1886 The bestEmbalming Fluid used sed Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. -�. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J.P. TISDALL, Manager RICHLY Rewarded are those who read this and then act; they win find honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several hundreddollara a month. It is easy for any person to make $$ per day and upwarde,who ie willing to work. Eithe sex,young or old ; oapital not needed,we star you. Everything new. No apoctal ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any one. Write tons at once for full particulars which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. °LINCI'ON Planing Mill DRY KILN! THESUBSORIBER HAVING JI MT3 COM - METED and furnished his now Planing Mil withmachineryof thelateetimproved patterns, Is now prepared to attend to alt orders in his line in the.nos t prompt and satisfactorymwnar • and at rens,wable rates. He Would also return thanks to all who patronized the old they were burned out, and now being"Yna bets' ter position to execute orders dxpeditionaly feels confident he can give eatisfactionto all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trunk, Railway, Clinton. �, THOMAS McKE1C(Z'IE ROBERT DOWNS, °LINTON, Mam,facturor and Proprietor for the best Siva Mill Hog in use. Agent for the Bale and application of the £ Fisu n PATENT AUTOMATIC BOILER CLEANER, STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on short notice. Boilers, Engines. and all 'tin Machinery repaired ex pedal and in a satisfactory mann Farm implements mannfaotnred and re- paired, Steam and water pimps furnished and put in position. Dryl Kilns fitted up on application. h argee Mod pato t