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The Huron News-Record, 1896-09-09, Page 6FATE'S INSTRUMENTS, CHAPTER XIV'[.—(Continued.) "London le uninhabitable to me, if I do as you eta." he said. She looked up, the tears escaping roan her eyes. "Ah. and the world to me, if you, .don't," George eat down in an arm-ohair; he abandoned the hope of running' away Neaera rose, pushed baok her hair from her face, and fixed her eyes eag- erly on him. He looked down for an in- stant. and she shot a hasty glance at the mirror, and then oolicentrated her gaze on him again, a little anxious smile coming to her lips. "You will?" she asked in a whisper. George petulantly threw his gloves on a table near him. Neaera advanced, and knelt down beside him, laying' her hand on hie shoulder. "You have made nee 'cry so much," she said. "See, my eyes are dim. You won't make me cry any morel" George looked at the bright eyes, half veiled in tears, and the mouth trembling on the brink of fresh weep- Lng. And the eyes and mouth were very good. "It is Gerald," she said; "he is so ferlot. And the shame, the shame!" "You don't know, what it means to ruse" "I do indeed: I know it is hard. But you are generous. ' No, no, _.don't turn your face away!" George still sat silent. Neaera took his hand in hers. "Ah, do!" she said.. George walled—at himself, not at Neaera. "Well, don't cry any more," said he, "or the eyes will be red as well as dim." "You will, you will?" she whispered eagerly. Ile nodded. "Ah, you are good! God bless you, George: you are good," "No. I am only weak." Neaera swiftly bent and kissed his hand. "The hand that gives me life," she said. "Nonsense," said George, rather. rotlg'hly. -"Will yon,:clear me altogether?" "Oh, yea; everything or nothing." "Will you give me that—that oharac- ter?" Yes." She seized his reluctant hand, and kissed it again. I have your word?" "You have." She leapt up, suddenly radiant. "Ah, George, Cousin George, how I love you! Where is it?" George took the document out of his Pocket. Neaera seized it. "Light a candle," shd cried. George with an amused smile obey- ed cher. "You bold .the candle, and . I will burn it!" And she watched the pa- per consumed with the look of a glee- ful child. Then she suddenly stretch- ed her arms. "Oh, I am tired," "Poor ohild!" said George. "You can leave it to me now." "However shall I repay you? I nev- er can." Then she suddenly saw, the eat, ran to hire, and picked him up. "We are forgiven, Bob, we are for- given!" she cried, dancing about the room. George watched her with amusement. She put the oat down and came to him. , you have made me happy. Is -that enough?" It is something," said be. "And here is something morel" And elle threw her arms round his neck, and kissed him. - That's [better," said George. "Any morel" Not till we are cousins." "Be gentle in your triumph." "No, no; don't talk like that. Are you going?" Yes. I stunt go and put things straight." "Good-bye. I—I hope you won't find it very hard. "I have been paid in advance," Neaera blushed a little. "You sf&all be better paid, if ever I can," she said. George paused outside, to light a oig- arette; then he struck into the park, and walked slowly along, meditating_an he went. When he ha -rived at Hyde Park Corner, he roused himself from his reverie, Now the woman was very fairl" said he, as be hailed a hansom. CHIAPTF,R XV. Mrs. Pocklington eat with blank amazement in her face. and a copy of the second edition of the Bull'e-eye in her hand. On the middle page,iri type widely spaced, beneath a noble bead-. line, appeared a letter from George Nestoln, running thus:— To the Editor of the Bull's-eye. "Sir, 'As you have been good enough to interest yourself, and, 1 hope, for- tunate enough to interest your readers, in the subject of oertain allegations made by me in respect of a lady whose name hats been mentioned In your col- umns, 1 have the honour to inform you that such allegations were entirely balseless the result of a chance resem- blance between that lady and another ^' person, and of my own _tasty concl u- nions drawn therefrom.. I have with- drawn all my assertions, fully and un- reservedly, and have addressed apologiea for them to these who had a right to receive apologies. I have the honor tobe,sir, "Your obedient servant, "George Neston." And then a column of exultation, sa- tire, ridicule, preaching, praying, pro- Thesying, moralising, and what not. he pen flew with wing, ofjoy, and ink was nothing regarded on hat day. Mrs. Pocklington was a kind-bearted woman; yet, when she read a sister's vindication, she found nothing better to safthan— gow very provoking," And it may be that this unregenerate exclamation fairly summed up public peeling, if only public feeling had heen Indecent enough to show itself openly. A man shown to be a fool is altogether too eommcm a +spectacle; a woman of • fashion proved a thief would have been a more piquant dish. But in this world—and, indeed, probably in any other—we must take what we can get; se�.nnd since society could not trample on Neaera Witt., it. oanaoled itself by eor- reetiog and chastening the misguided spirit of George Neston. Tommy Myles +shook his empty little head, and all the 1 other empty heads shook solemnly in time. Isabel Bourne said she knew she was right, and Sidtuouth Vane thought 1 there must be something behind—he al- ways did, as became a statesman in the raw. Mr. Espion re-echoed his own 1 leaders, like aphonograph; and the chairman of the Themis thanked Heaven they were orit of an awkward job. But wrath and fury raged in the breast of Laura Pocklington. She thought George had made a fool of her. He had persuaded her to come over to his side, and had then betrayed the of th VS0 ours. There would be boy in Ga urs. or, in other words, Isabel Bourne and Maud Neston would orow over her insupportably, 'I will never see him or mak to hila again, niamma,' declared Laura, Pas- sionately. "He has behaved abomin- ably!" This announcement rather took the wind out of Mss. Pocklington's sails. She was just preparing to bear majesti- cally down upon her daughter with a stern ultimatum to the effect that, for the present, George must be kept at a distance, and daughters must I e guided by their mothers. At certain moments nothing is more annoying than to meet with agreement, when -one intends to extort submission. Po Good t gracious, Laura!" said Mrs. the new " "you can't care much for "Care for him! I detest himl" "My dear, is hardly leeLee like it." "You must allow me some self-re- apect, mamma," Mr. Pooklington, entering, overheard thest words. 'Hallo," said he: What's the matter?" "Why, nay dear, Laura declares that she will have nothing to say to George Neston." Well, that's just your own view, isn't it?" A silenoe ensued, "It seems to me you are agreed." • It- really did look like it; but they had been on the verge of a pretty quar- rel all the same; and Mr. Pocklington wee confirmed in the opinion he had lately begun to entertain that, when paradoxes of mental process are in ques- tion, there is in truth not much to choose between wives and daughters. Meanwhile, George Neston was stead- ily and unflinchingly devouring his humble -pie. He sought and obtained Gerald's forgiafeness, after half an hour of grovelling abasement. He listened to Tommy Myles's grave rebuke and Sidmouth Vane'& cynical raillery with- out a smile or a tear. He even brought himself to accept with docility a letter full of Christian feeling which Isabel Bourne was moved to write. All these things, in fat affected him little in comparison with the great question of his relations with the Pock- lingtons. That, he felt, must be set- tled at once, and, with his white sheet yet round him and his taper still in his hand, he went to call on Mrs. Pock- lington. He found that lady in an attitude of aggressive tranquility. With careful ostentation she washed her hands cf the whole affair. Left to her own way, she might have been inclined to consider that George's foolish reckless- ness had been atoned for by his manly retractation—or, on the other hand, might not. It mattered very Little which would have been the ease; and, if it comforted him, he wars at liberty to suppose that she would have ern - braced the.former opinion. The decis- ion did not lie with her. Let him ask Laura and Laura's father. They. had made up their minds, and it was not in her province or power to try to change their minds for them. -In fact, Mrs. Pocklington took up the position which Mr. Spenlow has made famous—only she had two partners where Mr. Spenlow had but one. George had a shrewd idea that her neutrality covered a favorable inclination towards himself, and thank- ed her warmly for not ranking herself among his enemies. "I am 'even emboldened," he said, "to ask your advice how I can best over- come Miss Pocklington's adverse opin- fon." "Laura thinks you have made her look foolish. You see, she took your cause up rather warmly." "I know. She was most generous." You were so very confident." "Yee; but one little thing at the en tripped me up. I couldn't have 'fore- seen it. Mrs. Pocklington, do you think she will be very obdurate?" "Oh, I've nothing to do with it. Don't ask me." I wish I could rely on your influ- ence." 1 haven't any influence," declare Mrs. Pocklington. "She's as obstinate as a—as resolute as her father." George rose to" go. -Re was rather disheartened ; therice he had to pay for the luxury oft generosity seemed very high. Mrs. Pocklington was moved to pity. "George," she said, "I feel like a traitor, but I will give you one little bit of advice:' "Ah 1" cried George, his face bright- ening. "What is it, my dear Mrs. Pocklington ?" As to my husband, I say nothing but as to Laura--" Yes, yes l" "Let her alone—absolutely." "Let her alone! But that's giving it up." "Don't call, don't write, don't be known to speak to her. There, I've done what I oughtn't; but you'rean old friend of mine, George." "But I say, Mrs. Pocklington, won't some other fellow seize the chance?" "if she likes you best, what does that matter? f she doesn't--" Arid Mrs. Pocklington shrugged her shoul- ders. George was convinced by this logic. "I will try," he said. "Try 9" "Yes, try to let her alone. But, it's difficult." "Stuff and nonsense. Laura isn't in- dispensable." "I know those are not your real views." "You're not her mother; for which you may thank Heaven." "I do," said George, and took bis leave, rather ccmeoled. He would have been even more cheerful had he known that Laura's door was ajar, and Laura was listening for the bang of the hall door. When she heard it, she went down to her mother. "Who was your visitor, mamma9" "Oh, George Neston." "What did he come about?" "Welt, my dear, to see me, I sup - "And what did be find to say for him- self 9" "Oh, we hardly talked about that affair at all. However, he seems in very good spirits." "I'm sure he had no business to be." " erha.ps not, my dear ; but he was." "t ,didn't know it was Mr. Neston. I'1i so glad I didn't Dome down." Mrs. Pooklington went on knitting. I expect he knew why." Mrs. Pocklington counted three pearl and three plain. d d "Did he say anything about it, mam- ma l" "One, two, three. About what, dear?" "Why, about—about my not coiling?" "No. I suppose he thought you were out." llid you. tell him so?" "He didn't ask, my dear. He has other things to think about than being attentive to young woolen." "It's very lucky he has," said Laura, haughtily. y dear, he lets you alone. Why can't you let him alone?" Laura took up a book, and Mrs. Pocklington counted her stitches in a brisk and cheerful tone. It will be seen that George had a good friend in Mrs. Pocklington. In truth he needed some kindly counten- u.nce, for society at large had gone mad in praise of Neaere and Gerald. They were the faehion. Everybody tried to talk to them; everybody wan coming to the wedding ; everybody rav- ed about Neaera's sweet patience and Gerald's unwavering faith. When Neaera drove her lover round the park in her victoria, their journey was a trlumphal progress; and only the bur- den of preparing for the wedding- pre- vented the pair beteg honored guests at every select gathering. Gerald walk- ed on air. His open hopes were realised. his secret fears laid to rest; while Nea- era's exaggeeated excuse for George be- trayed,to his eyes nothing but the ex- ceeding sweetness of her disposition. Her absolute innocence explained and justified her utter absence of resent- ment, and must, Gerald felt, add fresb pangs to George's remorse and shame. These pangs Gerald did not feel it his duty to mitigate. , Thursday came, and Monday was the wedding day. The atmosphere was -think with new clothes, cards of inhita- tion, presents, and congratulations. A thorny question had arisen as to whe- ther George should betlevited. Neaera's decision was in his favor, and Gerald himself had written the note, hoping all the while that his cousin's own good sense would keep him away. "It wduld be hardly decent in him to come," he said to his father. "I daresay he will make some ex- cuse," answered Lord Tottlebury. "But I hope you won't keep up the quar- rel." uay re" "Keepup the quarrel, By jove, fa- ther, Im too happy to quarrel." "Gerald," said Maud Npston, enter- ing, "here's such a funny letter for youl I wonder -it ever reached." She held out a dirty envelope, and read the address— "Mr. Neston, Esq., Him Lordship Tottilberry,, 'London." "Who in the world is it?" asked Maud, laughing. Gerald had no secrets. "I don't knew," said he. "helve it to me, and ;we'll see." He ppened the letter. The first thing he came up- on was a piece of tissue paper neatly folded. Opening it, he found it to be a ten -pound note. "Hullo! is this a wdding present?" said he with a laugh. "Ten poundal How funny!" exclaim- ed Maude "Is there no letter?" "Yes, here's a letter," And Gerald read it to himself. The letter ran as follows, saving cer- tain eccentricities of spelling which need not be reproduced:— "Sir, I don't rightly know whether this here is your money or Nery's. Nor I don't know where it comes from, after what you said when you was here with her Friday. I can work for my liv- ing, thanks be to Him to whom thanks is due, and I don't put money in my pocket as I don't know whose pocket it come out of. "Your humble servant, "Susan Bort." "Susan Bort!" exclaimed Gerald. "Now, who the deuce is Susan Bort, and what the deuce does she mean?" "Unless you tell us what she says began Lord Tottlebury. Gerald read the letter again, with a growing feeling of uneasiness. He no- ticed that the postmark was Liverpool. It so chanced that he had not been to Liverpool for more than a year. And who was Susan Bort? He got up, and, making an apology for not reading out his letter, went to his own room to consider the matter. 'Nery?' " said he. "And ii I wasn't there, who was?" It was generous of George Neston to shield Neaera at Liverpool. It was also generous of Neaera to send Mrs. Bort ten pounds immediately after that lady had treated her so cruelly. It was honest of Mrs. Bort to refuse to accept money which she thought might be the proceeds of burglary. To these commendable actions Gerald was in- debted for the communication which disturbed his bliss. "I wonder if Neaera can throw any light on it," said Gerald. "It's very queer. After lunch, I'll go and see her." CHAPTER XVI. Mr. Blodwell was entertaining Lord Mapledurham at luncheon at the The- mis Club. The Marquis was not in an agreeable mood. He was ill, and when he was ill he was apt to he oross. His host's calm satisfaction with the issue of the Neston affair irritated him. "Really, Btfrdwell," he said, "I some- times think a lawyer's wig is like Sam- son's hair. When he takes it off, he takes off all his wits with it. Your simpplicity is positively childish." Mr. Blodwell gurgled contentedly over a basin of soup. "I think no evil unless I'm paid for it," he said, wiping his mouth. 'George found he was wrong, and said so." "1 saw the girl in the Park yester- day," the Marquis remarked. "She's a pretty girl." "Uncommonly. But I'm not aware that being pretty makes a girl a thief." "No, but it makes a man a fool." "My dear Mapledurhaml" "Did he ever tell you what he found out at Liverpool?" "Did he go to Liverpool?" "Did he go? God bless the mail Of course he went, to look for—" Lord Mapledusham stopped, to see who was throwing a shadow over his plate. May I join you?" asked Sidmouth Vane, who thought he was conferring a privilege. "I'm interested in what you are discussing." Oh, it's you, 1s it? Have you been listening'?" "No, hut everybody's discussing it. Now, I agree with you, Lord Maple- durharn. It's a put-up job." "I expect you t.honght it was a put- up job when they baptised you, didn't you?" inquired the Marquis. "And looked for poison in your bot- tle?" added Blodwell. Vane gently waved hie band, as if to scatter these clumsy sarcasms. "A man may not be sixty and yet not be an ass," he languidly observed. "Wait- er, some salmon, and a pint of 44." "And may he sixty and yet he an us, eh?" said the Marquis, chuckling. "Among ourselves, whyjio you sup- pose he let her off?" asked Vane. The Marquis pushed back his chair. "My young friend, you are too w Something will happen to you." ' "Hallo," exclaimed Vane, "Here's Gerald Neston,:" Gerald came hastily up to Mr. Blod- well. "Do you know where George is?" he asked. • "I believe he's in the club some- where," answered Mr, Blodwell. " Ntt, he isn't. I want to see him on business." Lord nw your father, Mr Nest rose. h I ksaid You must allow, me to shake hands with you, and congratulate you en your approaching marriaa.ge." Gerald received hie ldongregtulatlons with an absent air: "I must go and find George," he said, and went out.. There!" Bald Vane, triumphantly. Don't you see there's something up now?" The elder men tried to snub bim, but they glanced at one Another and silently admitted that it looked as if he were right. Mrs. Bort's tette had stirred into ac- tivity all the doubts that Gerald Nes- to had tried to stifle, and had at last succeeded in silencing. • There was a darkly mysterious tone about the doc- ument that roused bis suspicions. Ei- ther there was a new and a more un- sorupulgus plot against his birde, or else ---Gerald did not finish his train of thought, but he determined to see Neaera at once, as George could not be found without a journey to the Tem- ple, and a journey to the Temple was twice as faras a journey to Albert Mansions. Nevertheless, had Gerald known what was happening at the Tem- ple, he would have gone there first; for in George's chambers, at that very moment, George was sitting in his chair, gazing blankly at Neaera Witt, who was walking restlessly up and down "You- sent her ten pounds?" he gasp- ed. Yee, yes," said Neaera. "I can't let the creature starve." (To be continued). MODERN WARFARE, A Single Encounter Would Probably De- cide the Issue. Summing up the whale question, as between any European peace -trained armies of the present day, the extreme percentage of loss to be anticipated loc- ally, oo-ally, i. e., on -particular brigades and divisions will not exceed one in three (of which one is killed to four wounded), whereas for whole armies of a quarter of a million and over one in ten is the very outside punishment we may reas- onably expect. Compared to the slaughter of the Seven Years' War and the best con- tested fields• of the Napoleonic period, this is very little indeed. At Zorndorf the Russians left 21,000 out of 52,000 on the ground, and, though this is undoubt- edly the bloodiest battle recorded since the introduction of portable firearms, Eylau, Friedla.nd, Wagram and Boro- dino all exceed his figures for any pitched battle since the breechloader appeared in the field, Moreover, the horror of the whole thiing is not to to measured by figures of percentages only, but by the density in which the killed and wounded lie, and the fate of the latter afterwards. In a modern battle 20,000 men would fall on an area of about twenty square miles; at Zorn- dorf the 21,000 Russians and 12,000 Prus- sians lay on a single square mile, and of the wounded not one in three sur- vived, whereas in 1870 nine out of ten recovered, and the Prussian medical staff anticipate even better results next time. But death on the battlefield is by far the least of the two evils the soldier has to face. There is death on the Line of march and in hospitals along the road. Whereas, formerly, particularly under Napoleon, teen would die by the way for one who fell in action, in the last Franco-German war only one man died of disea$e for the two killed in action. Indeed, the health of men in the. full prime of life was actually slightly bet- ter in the field than in quarters. It may, however, be argued that, even granted that battles and marches may be less destructive, there will be more of them, because every able-bodied man being trained for war, the resistance will be more prolonged than formerly; but this prolonged endurance is only conceivable under the supposition that the leaders on both sides are hopelessly incompetent, and both fear to stake all on a aingle collision, a supposition that nothing tends to justify, On the con- trary, every leader brought up in the modern school is taught to understand the vulnerability of all modern milit- tary organizations and is penetrated with the conviction that one downright "knockout" blow effects more than weeks of purposeless sparring; and where both start determined to bring matters to a climax, the decision ,can not long be delayed. 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IF MEN (young orold) whosuffer horn Nervous Debility, Sexual Weakness an the results of Self, Abuse, eto., wilt write us confidentially a plain statement of their case, and promise to use our Remedy eccording.to directious, we will send prepaid by mall or express, a carefully prepared course of Two Months' treatment., for which we will make no charge If it fails to cure, Avoid Yankee frauds and Canadian quacks. Write us at once for a Remedy which 11 guaranteed to cure or cost nothintt Address N. S. M. COMPANY, Lock Box ass, Piston, Ontario, Canada. FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS s DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOOK'S BEST FRIEND L AR(iE>iY SALE, IN CANADA. CROCODILE AND OCTOPUS. A Battle Witnessed on the Orinoco River. Capt. Scott, of the bark Sylvia, novo in this port, tells of a remarkable oo- currence he witnessed a few weeks ago near the mouth of the Orinoco River. "Wo were bound for Rio de Janeiro," he said, "and were abopit a mile from the mouth of the Orinoco River whew my attention was called to a singular disturbance in the sea, near shore. It looked like a great fountain of spray, which moved from one place to another. I had never seen anything like it, and, there being no storm a.nd no sunken rocks along that part of the cosSrm� was at a toes to account for the phen- omenon. Lowering a boat, I took two sailors and we rowed to within a short distance of it before we could form any idea of what caused the cloud of spray. A large octopus and a mammoth crocodile were !fighting. The octopus had evidently occupied some deep water near the river, while the crocodile had been borne. into t hr ocean by the cur- rent. The octapu,s had thrown one of his tentacles around the saurian, and the latter's thick hide had prevented the cups from obtaining their usual hold. The, crocodile with a powerful ef- fort had freed himself, and in turn at- tacked the octopus. The long tentacles of the octopus would be thrown into the air and entwine themselves around the crocodile, which lashed the sea into fury with the powerful strokes of his tail. As we watched, several of the arms were cut off as if by a cleaver by the Lail of the erocodile, hut the octopus) threw out others to lake their places. Finally, after we had watched the fight for ha11 an hour, with honors seeming- ly about. even, the octopus made the mistake of trying to gather the erect - dile in and strike him with his Irak. This put the fish at. the mercy of the reptile, he opened his ponderous jaws and chased t hem upon the head of he octopus, ant! Ln a few minutes the crocodile had succeeded In killing his enemy, and getting to the beach. We returned to hhe ship and procured guns reit when we rearheri the land we could find no trace of the Crocodile, he evi- dently having made his way info the river again. The onto rite was floating on lop of the ocean, and was the largest I ever aa.W." A hornet's nest usually contains from 300 to 400 perfect. males end femnlea and an indefinite number of workers. Tice European hornet is mush larger than the commix eases and bas a tem- per in proportion to its size.