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The Wingham Times, 1904-10-06, Page 7AC?rlei2ie z., TILE 'YJNGJJAlz TIM ES OCTOBER 6,, Author of "Thea i((isspfGo%;L"ss"T.ho Olf fer•Noase Etc. etc,:. c°ryr..jhp er9E, 6Y Ch Rv6A0I •" •shrieked of shipwreck, mumbled of witches dancing in a haggard dawn; prayed for life while the block and the headsman waited. The unsyllabled ,desolation of the exile's life, it had haunted her for days. Although working in the office 0f a world known newspaper, she had never -seen the wonders of the mechanism used in its construction until one midnight Donald took her down to the pressroom. 'There was a weighty but soundless Vi- bration as she went down the stone stairs, but when the iron door was pushed back the noise was so tremen- •dous it leaped out like a bar and struck her. A gust of air accompanied it which :seemed to suck her down the ladderlike .stairway against her will until, dazzled and bewildered, she stood on a little bridge overlooking a plateau of stool ••that leaped and shivered in gigantic .sockets. Bare . chested nneu like sweat- ing pygmies stood between the big ma - ,chines, and above thorn, a monster of many jaws, the roaring presses snapped up the paper. On the first page there was a portrait of a murderer, and this was repeated all over the gaslit space. •On every side the sinister visage with eyes turned obliquely toward her came ridieg into 'view, and the glittering •clamps seized it, seemed to crush it fu- xiously until, like the stone Sisyphus, rolled, it appeared again, and the task Was incessantly continued. It was Donald who showed ber the underground restaurauts where the •newspaper"hacks" plunged iu the ear- ly morning hours for coffee that was like a fluid blessing. She went with him to all sorts of queer and storied nooks, Once they had tea in a place' 'known only to a few privileged scrib- blers. This was in a sort of cul do sac, * swinging lamp lighting the way up the long alley. Separated from the noise of the town and waited upon by a genial French host and his wife, they had seemed iu Paris, for the secretive niche in the crowded street might have strayed from one of Hugo's stories and settled, out of countenance, in a commercial at- mosphere. Together they went to well known studios where all was tarmony and beauty—idols so nbrously contempla- tive, mediaeval windows, woad carving from India and rugs from Damascus. She had watched the last touches put to ga landscape,, had seen a sculptor make lips of clay smile as if he had called life there. Donald bad taken her behind the .scenes of a theater, and she bad watched the progress of a play from the wings, had gazed with critical eyes and a sense •of illusions lost at the mechanism of wbat had so often enchanted her—exits, 'entrances, cues and prompter's book. ,end they had read much together— the exquisite prose of Huysmans and Maliarme, Kipling's crushing phrases painting the arid glitter of India, 'Tess," bare armed and fawn eyed, lov- ing tragically in a setting of clover and dawn mists; the fatalism of the "Ru- baiyat" and the wholesome cynicism of Thackeray. They shared all together as comrades •ancl confidants. The boy in Donald and the piquant schoolgirl only masked in the woman clasped hands and laughed. CHAPTER IX. One morning late in January Anne ,opened the sheets of The Citizen and saw this item among the shipping news: "Among tbo passengers on the Teu- tonic, which arrived in port last night, were Mrs. Lansius Ericsson and Miss •Olga Ericsson. Tho latter is the latest of our young countrywomen to return to America with a London reputation for beauty." Five days later Anne stepped from the 'raw afternoon into Dr. Ericsson's house. Her aunt had been in charge bate little while, yet the old house under her reign possessed what Anne felt it never could :have had without her. A maid who •was inoffensive of voice and light of step took up hor card, an open fire in- vited her, the aromatic odor of green things growing in a winter room filled Indigestion and Sleeplessness Are symptoms of nervous ex-. haustion which disappear with the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. Plenty of people who have a horror of nervous prostration and paralysis, suffer from indigestion, 'sleeplessness, and other symptoms of nervous .exhaustion not realizing the danger they are in. Nervous disease develops slowly and by restoring •vigor to the Wasted nerve cells by the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food you can prevent serious results. MR. MATTI1TW WitTTR, a retired farmer, living at 61 Elgin St., St. Thomas, Ont., states :— " For some years I have suffered more or less from indigestion and nervous dyspepia, and as a resale I have been subject to dicey spells and discomfort after eating. I used Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, and found it improved my digestion, steadied my nerves, and made me rest and sleep very much bet. ter. I Cart truthfully te- llt& TETE commend the Nerve Food to anyone who suffers from the above ailments. De. Oh&io's Nerve Food 60o. ft box. To protect you against imitations the pertratt end signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, the fatuous uetelpt book author, art on every boar* ,s the air, -the light was toned to a Pali yellow, ea if a suuset lid happened pre- maturely. It was. evident Mrs. Ericsson had a genius for selecting the salient requisites of an inviting home. "Anus Garrick," said a languid voice bohiud her, "how d'you do?" She turned to face the auut she but faintly remembered, a smell, nervous woman, pale haired, anxious eyed, so restless she seethed like one half paus- ing in a hurry before eoutiuuing the pursuit of something. She gave Anne her pale cheek to kiss and exclaimed; "How like your father. You're a Garrick. You are not a Gerard." The inflection was disapproving. Anne felt guilty for not looking like her mother. She commenced au apology for not having called before, but with amazing irrelevancy Mrs. Ericsson dart- ed for the door. "Olga is up stairs. Como up. We've been waiting luuch for you for 15 min- utes. It's all right, only with us every moment is of such importance. All the morning Olga bas been trying on hats." She turned at the top of the stairs, looking like a distracted sparrow. "She won't have a hat without a brim. Did you ever hear anything like it? Felice came all the way from Madi- son avcuue with ten bats, all close fit- ting, and we begged her to try one. She wouldn't, not if I went on my knees. Olga can be so set. Try and talk hor over to a toque. It's simply madness to insist on a brim when nobody is wear- ing one." Again Anne felt like a culprit. The felt andfeather creation on her • t ea one head had a brim. Useless to expect to find favor in her aunt's eyes, since, looking like her father, she came wearing a big hat. "Here's Anne Garrick pt last." And Mrs. Ericsson entered a big bay win- dowed room as inviting as' fluted swiss curtains and pale 'green appointments could make it. A young woman was beside a win- dow, a manicure set spread out on a small table before hor, and she was ex- amining a pink nail, much as a jeweler dons the springs of a watch. "Yon dear thing! How are you?" she said, going to meet Aune, and they kissed each other. "Let mo look at you, Olga," said .Anne, turning her to the light. "I've heard you are beautiful. Mr. Tinkle, our society editor, saw you At the opera last night and has talked about you all the morning." Olga lifted her head lazily in a chal- lenging way and with a purring laugh. "Upon my word, fancy," she said with an English accent as Anne looLad at hor. "What do you think? Am I?" "Yes, you are." . Few women could have welcomed criticisni in that green toned setting and raw light. The two emphatic qualities of Olga's beauty, etherealuess and deli- cacy, did not suffer. She was extraordi- narily white. The skin on supple throat and quiet cheek was of almost silvery pallor. Moonlight seemed bathing her pale blond hair. Her greenish gray eyes were dreamy, the pupils large; her up- per lip very short, full and coral pink. "A moonlight maid," the artists in Paris had called her. There was not a heavy note in hor coloring. The blond brilliancy of some Swedish ancestor lived again in her, some "flower of northern snows," and with it the deli- cate American features of her mother. She was of average height, and though slight her body had a delicate robust- ness. She wore a white flannel robe loosely belted, and her hair hung in a plait to her waist • "You don't mind my going to the ta- ble this way? I am lazy, but we are en famine," she said, strolling into the hall. "Mamma bates me to do it, but I simply cannot dress for lunch. I'm as stiff as a German cavalrymau all the afternoon and night. I mast have a lit- tle freedom." In the dining room they found Dr. Ericsson. He drew Anne to him and gave her a bearlike hug. ' "Is this your debut as a family man?" oho asked. "No, my second appearanoe. I'm get- ting used to the limelight I met David Temple coming up town last, night and prevailed on him to dine with us." "What a charming man he is," ex- . iatmdd Mrs. Ericsson, and from the oommeucement of the meal, with short intervals of rest, Anne was put through a oateohism by her aunt about David Temple. Her tongue played between her lips restlessly, while David's posi- tion, money, character and possible at- (aohments were inquired after minutely and with an appraiser's air. When the cross examination was finished, Anne had a feeling that David had been tick- eted and put away with other ticketed matrimonial posrlbilfties. The pauses in this research were filled In by a recital of Olga's past and com- ing triumphs, what she most and must Sot do, who was worth her knowing and who was not. Anne was glad to got back to the green and white room, the door closed, and only Olga there, looking at her with amused eyes. "Look here, Anne, isn't rhe harrow- ing? Ho you wonder how I stand it?? Thera (tight to be a kW for the suppress aim d uncaegefial relations. MAMMA is really impossible." She !lung herself into a rocker and to* one foot into the stab;sea of ltsr. Shirt waists and dainty linen are made delightfully clean ,and fresh with Sun- light Soap. 6a 1 .ideal, that It seemed profane tQ have il1Q huge grimsou turban al;n•+e was 1004 lite, that nature knew what she was ifeualius over .some ono, Ittisas Olga. about where she fasbroued neo 1tiee an weep tea +eioswd parted, David s;&w her angel, eto. One day ba walked into plainly. Xorley's, whore was having my pier, l be vas on u low seat beside a pf.rk trait donor mud found one with yrs, keep, her mother, now chatting at a Suttee Vane, a little monkey of .a wotxt- ate with a fast manner, and whom he particularly detested. SVe had a bet on as to which could blow the roundest ' rinse of smoke, I, his Madonna, his an- gdl, hie snow ;lower, won, while he, un- seen by toe, watched. Sudden business called him away next day, business so absorbing he never canto back. Mamma has sat upnights with be finger to her forehead wondering why. I µaa all blank amazement when the subject is broach- ed. And here endetle the romance of men who watched her cause to the same decision ---she was beautiful, loving gland. Suddenly she burst out laughing. "Ansae Garrick, you've a very express- ive face. You don't envy toe, although I'm a beauty and tbo only daughter of an adoring mother." She took a thin cigarette from a sil- ver box on the table. "Have one? You don't smoke? You don't know what a comfort it is." "But doesn't your mother object?" asked Anno, makeng herself comfortable among a heap of cushions. "Of course. What doesn't she object to? She doesu't want me to eat potatoes lest they make me fat nor to take cold baths, because they make me blue. She rubs my nose bard every night, because one little pink vein—see it—shows. She almost cries when I do my hair high and takes to her bed if I insist on more than one oup of coffee. I am.uot allowed to spend a penny as I please nor to have an original idea about a gown or hat. In fact, I'm my mother's stook in hand, which she is always pol- Shc took a thin cigarette from a salver box on the table. ishing, preserving, eying. It's very try- ing. Shall I tell you how I manage to endure this continual censorship mixed with servile worship—for mamma does adore me? A pioneer never regarded a finished cabin, every stick of which had been laid by his own hands, with more satisfaction than she does me. She does not seem to give papa any share in my being at all." k'I think I know what your tactics are," said .Anne, scrutinizing her good hnmoredly. "You're very soft and white. You seem to move iu au atmos- phere of amiability, but I have not for- gotten your early propensity for sticking pine nor the educated way your little nails could scratch. You could scratch still, Olga, if that were necessary, but you have found a surer way of gaining your way." "You've hit it. What's the use of continual dispute? Why worry this one little life out of yourself? You want your own way—take it. Be attentive to all the rules laid down for your con- duct, then ignore them and smile. When you're found out and reproaches are showered on you, think of some- thing else or go to sleep." She lit another cigarette with a ru- minative expression and clasped her hands behind her head. The look in her eyes was like that of a mild baby trying to diagnose a sunbeam. "Really, you know, if mamma would only rest hor tired little body qnd head and leave me to myself she'd be very wise. She has nothing to fear from me. I know what's expected of me. We're poor; worse, we're hi debt. She lives in perpetual dread of my marrying a poor man. Could anything be more ab- surd? Nothing in the world will ever be as dear to me as my personal com- fort. For a girl to go into business life as you have done, making her own way, working, struggling, is beyond my understanding. Some one must always support me, Anne, and support me 'well." "I wonder you came back to Ameiioa without a title or at least a fortune." "I could have married money several times, and a lot of it," said Olga,. "but unfortunately I distinctly disliked the men. It wouldn't do to marry a man ld t for the life ofou bo anvil ou COUno. Would it?" y "Oh, I don't know! Aren't you over- sensitive;" The laughter in Anne's tone did not disturb Olga. She pursed out her lips and nodded. "I almost caught a title too. This is the way I missed it. For one thing, mamma's eagerness frightened him. I'm sure he could see her shake as soon as ho appeared. I'm sure he saw her nudge lie. But that wouldn't have seri- ously mattered if he hadn't found me out." Her lips curled in a one sided smile. _ "I can laugh now, but really it was provoking at the lime. Val--Adeer thing he was—hated the least touch of naoon- ventionality in a woruan,and smoking he considered only a little better than swearing. By the way,I'm telling you the troth about myself, Anne. It's such a re- lief to tell it. I never do except to rala- tives. With mo it's impossible net to pose; they expect ionabob. Weil, my dear, I posed for Val for Sit long, Weary menthe. I played the little lamb, always with a bit of needlework, practicing the Itfadonna gaze, taking only one glass of champagne et dinners and declining otgarettea with a shy, roproaohtul Iptie. lie tell to tell Jae I lf40 his littlo distance, having early seen the advantage of the rosy light. Vise was in velvet and fuse, her li}s under a deli- cate veil' lazily smiling. A hat with a brim, and a big oue,. shadowed her eyes and gave them deeper mystery. Her posit was regal, geutlo. "file upwetel glances given to the rajah were lazy, provoking. Ilex delicate lips were hu- mid with a childish. seneeousuess. No wonder David and a dozen ether Lord Valentine Dunwearthy. It went gentle, true. She seemed the sort of up in smoke." . wouma meu so frequently choose as a "You weren't a bit in love with him?" "In love? No. I never loved anything but tbis.t Listen!" S"Le went to the mirror and looked wife and never us a emer.gde; a help less, fascinateng, fastidious oreature whose eyes express the words: "Tall me, dear, just what to do, You kuow foto it steadily for a moment, then so much better than I;" not a WORM!' turned to Anne, her whole expression of original opinions on anything inc changed. The laziness of glance van- der hits sun; asconventionalvisaror isbed, She flung up her head and thought as in the way she wore l or laughed joyously. To Anne's amaze the hair; not tailor made independent swere ni or athletic; ono whose gowns were always lines from "The Merchant of Venice" marvels to men's eyes, fragrant mys- where Portia decides to masquerade as a man left her lips, at first tenderly, with half bidden laughter, as a school- girl confides a secret, then with neeur- slice, a pretty swagger, delighted an- ticipation. Anne listened in wonder. The room seemed to fade, the clatter from the street became unreal, and it was not Olga who stood before her. It was Por- tia glittering in queenliuess and coquet- ry, the perfume of an Italian garden coming in with the suuset, a minstrel lounging near her, swords distantly clanking as waiting gallants moved. Her voice hail power and sweetness. Her awakened face sparkled changeful- ly. She seemed possessed of a soul with wings struggling to be free. When the last word was spoken, she sank down by Anne's side and seized her hand. " You liked it. I see you did." "Oh, where have you had the chance"-- "Didu't you know they went wild in London society over my Constance in 'The Love Chase?' I played it at a dozen houses for various charities. Oh, the stage! That would make poverty endurable. The life calls me, Anne. I know its disadvantages, no one better, but it's a rare lot when you feel your fitness for it. I'll never do more than dabble with it for amusement, but if I could -- if I'd been free to do as I pleased, the world would have heard of me. Here's mamma," she broke off, the light leaving her face. "She's coming with hot milk to givesme a face bath. By the way, she loathes noting, even my amateur work, but I've already made arrangements with Mrs. Oswald Morse to do Kate Hardcastle at Tuxedo for the Working Girls' library fund. She'd have palpitation of the heart if she knew it. I'll tell her the day be- fore." Anne left her in her mother's hands over a basin of steaming milk. The meeting had left a unique and emphatic impression ou Anne. "A woman with a thistle down con- science, a woman to pick the plums from life with soft, businesslike fingers and an indifferent air, 5 feet 5 of radiant selfishness—that's my cousin Olga," she thought as she went down the street, "but I like her." CHAPTER X. Olga appeared as Kate Hardoastlo at Tuxedo, and the towu, or that part of it circling in carefully barred orbit, talked of her. The papers seized on her as something new and printed pictures of her as a beauty, libelous things in which she looked dropsical or murder- ous or only harmlessly diad. Mrs. Er- icsson kept the reporters well informed, fumed over the newspaper abortions of her darling, went with her everywhere, to noon Leeakfasts, to dances ending at dawn, and in asides took pills to stay her heart. Every one knew that Smedley Joyce, who had met Olga iu London, had been her sponsor in the best society. In his sister's box at the opera she had made her first appearance iu New York. He had got invitations for her, given a luucheon in her honor, and at his rooms ou Fifth avenue, at a ten 'where a rajah in a marvelous turban winked his bril- liant eyes, David Temple saw her again. There are some men ouo cannot disas- sociate from the names upon their visit- ing cards. Smedley Joyce was one of these. Smedley, even to his intimates, seemed au impertinence and Mr. Joyce commonplace. He was his full carne, from the' glittering apex of his bald crown to the toe of his equally glitter- ing boot.• If he could, he would have been lighter, younger and with the lungs of a football half back, but just as he was people deferred to him. Hope. lessly devoted to a single life, his cult, however, was feminine beauty, and the woman ho admired became tho fashion. The personality of Smedley Joyce per- vaded Now York. He was a permanent fad; his vogue was unquestioned, like the Thanksgiving turkey and the horse show. In the fragrance and dusk of his bean. tiful rooms he seized David's hand in greeting and gave it the fashionable up- ward jerk. "Ah, you did got up to see us, you dreadfhlly busy man! You'd make at t rget you if that were possible." And David found himself passed on to make room for the next Domer. Ho declined tea fitom the matrons re- ceiving and kept near the door. He had come in only for a few moments to see the rajah and talk with him. Ae he stood there, his big ebonlders and keen face showing clearly above those mar - emending him, be looked across the whispering, constantly changing crowd tor the famous Hindoo. Close by the big, yawning leaves of palms eareenini the zither players he WV him: Te,1.*n brown Walt, with MMAIllim,l',IPIAI N,W;1-+4.111 ulotpl,m mI,1, w tones of lace and ribbous; a woman to love ease and oushions and never re- member an addrese, to coo to a baby, crave needlework at;d dabble in charity, altogether a seductive contrast to the restless spirit of a man's business life. Her physical radiance came upon David for the second tine with the power of a summons. He had frequent- ly thought of her since the previous meeting. No one who ouce saw Olga ever quite forgot her. Side by side with the fancy of what Elaine night have been her lovely face, rare in type, took its place. He made his way to her and she gave him her hand, sinking bank in a lazy attitude. The rajah was forgotten by him, and they talked of many things, of trifles mostly, but Olga had a way of making light talk entrancing. Her speech was pretty and her laziness wrapped a listener with a sense of mag- netic quiet. Growing morn serious, she questioned David about The Citizen, of Anne's po- sition in the office and spoke in an at- tractively feminine way of the mystery attending the making of it newspaper. "How can Anne do it?" she said, smoothing her muff, hoe trustful eyes lifted to his. "Oh, I suppose I'm stu- pid, helpless, but 1 shouldn't like such a life of tension and rush ; always among the wheels—that's how it seems to me. I'm afraid I'd be like a silly butterfly caught in a machine." "Anne's desires are different from yours," said David, and the perfume of the violets under her chin lightened his heart as if the shade of spring had pass- ed him. Ho Looked at her almost ten- derly. "Yours are better." "Think sa?" "Better for a woman," he said soft- ly. "I think so, but perhaps I'Tn intol- erant, perhaps I'm old fashioned. I ad- mire Anne, and I like her more than I can say. I like many women who hold her ambitious views, but they seem to me to gain brilliancy and self reliance at the sacrifice of a quality that is beau- tiful and indefinable, like a mist or a perfume." "And you don't despise a woman who likes needlework?" asked Olga, as if confessing to one of her pet diversions, "who doesn't belong to a woman's club, who cries over a novel and maybe not one of the best?" "God forbid!" said David vehement- ly. "Soon she'll be found only among obsolete classifications. I, for one, in- tend to extol her before she quite disap- pears." 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