New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 14

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924. m all at once now she knew herself the State Park and Forest commission |or New London reach tire Hop \nn]l\ormch §0 by way of Colchester and | who do no! drive in with thel: ewn {to be alone., She wished he had not 'and other civic bodies will also speak.!by turning north at Lyme on ihe|Salem. The roads into the park wiil cars. !left her; she felt almost inclined to| The program will include a pr Hamburg Cove road. From Hartford {all be posted at the time of the meet- | The public in invited and a large call out to him, but bit her lip to good chopping contest between teams and Middletown, the best method of |ing so that no difficulty need he ex- attendance is expected. lcheck the desire. of foresters and farmers: a woodlot |approach is.to cross the Connecticut perienced in veaching it. | His steps had quite died away now, thinning demonstration under charge river at the East Haddam bridge and Special buses will run from \hddle-I New Britainites daily express con- and there was a momentary silence, lof the State Iorester will demonstrate take the Millington road. . Carg from town, Saybrook and Norwich for those‘fidrnce in Herald class. ads. followed by the hollow banging of & forestry methods in wood cutting. In| D = distant door. this demonstration a piece of wood | Mary started violently; she took a 'containing many inferior trees which | @ |step forward, then stopped. are useless and are interfering with | ® How absurd to be nervous! He the growth of the good trees will be | “n[::lrlsde h:eb:;'; i iflmm'z"r'frmf Of I marked by blazing the trees to be cut. g . d n he: or more COr X! " BEGIN HERE TODAY but barred her way with his” armithan & moment. But she counted |deminy i iy hien Cut them: » The marriage of Dolly and Nigel When she would have passed him. each second by her racing heart- | gunionstration of forest fire-fighting | Bretherton proves unhappy. When You have to wish when your feet, heats. 2 2 . lequipment will also be given by the war is declared, Nigel is glad to en- touch new ground,” he said. hut | The patch of mooniight coming lgi O i B0 o and his as- list. He leaves Dolly in the care of the archway leading to the Maky Furnival. Nigel is Kkilled and Polly marries an old sweetheart, Robert Durham. Dolly and Iobert sail for America and word comes of the sinking of their ship. When Nigel's brother, David, cails to sce Nigel's widow. Mary is ashamed to tell him of Dolly's marrizge. David mistakes Mary for his brother's wife and aslks her to come to live at Red Grange with him and his aunt. Mary is very happy in her new home. David asks Mary if she believes in ghosts. He tells her Red Grange is haunted. ANOW GO ON WITH Tl|l my The gong boomed through the house. David rushed off to 't " as he laughingly said. He had given up dressing for dinner since Mary came, for Miss Varney had been quite right when she said she was sure the girl had not an evening frock, and some- thing in Mar; manner, some little reserve and pride, had kept her as yet from offering any such presents. “There is plenty of time,” she told Pavid gently, when he urged her to see that Mary got all she wanted. “We don't want to frighten her, David, and 1 think she would resent any such overtures just at present.” But to David's masculine ignor- ance, no wom, had ever looked half s0 charming as Mary when b watched her across the dinner table, The old room, with its oak-paneled walls and hanging armor, made a perfect background for her slight flzure and dainty head; the light of the red shaded lamps lent the touch of color to her pale cheeks that made her almost beautiful, He did not realize how often his eyes turned to her. When Mary and Miss Varney rose from the table, he joined them im- mediately, “I'm not going to sit and smoke in state tonight,” he said, half shame- facedly, meeting his aunt's surprised gaze, “I want to take Mary over the hous® befare the moonlight has gone. Will you come, too, Aunt Florence " “My dear boy! In all those drauglity corridors? You know I should be positively ill tomorrow. No, you can do the honors yourself; you're more closely related to the family ghost than T am.” She dismissed them laughingly. Mary followed David upstairs, She did not know if she were giad or sorry that Miss Varney had refused to accompany them; she looked at David, walking a little n front of her, and then back down the long stairs be- | hind them, fhould she go on? She wondered what it was that made her hesitate, what it was that momentarily stayed her steps. “Don’t you want to come with me? 1 belleve you are afraid.” He spoke jokingly, but there was a curious note in his voice, Mary laughed, “Of course I am not afraid.” Rhe Yan up the few &' ‘rs dividing them, and joined him, CHAPTER XXXVI, The Ghost “I am thinking of giving up part of the house to wounded soldiers,” David said presently. “More than half of it is always shut up, and the Authorities have been asking for ad. ditional convalescent homes and hos- these rooms would do plen- for wards" on." Mary's voiee sounded wistful; her thoughts had flown to Nigel, the son of this great house, who had given his life for England. He would never come here any more; the beautiful rooms would never again echo to the sound of his eheery laugh or voice She stified a sigh David looked down at her quickly. “What are you thinking?" She answered his quite simply: “1 was thinking of Nigel.” He was silent for a moment ®You are always thinking of him e said, “No, not always They had reached the wide landing now, and David turned to the right and pushed open a heavy, nail- studdeq ¢ r “This is the passage to the old part of the house,” he said He held It back for her to pase; she noticed that it fel Ain into its place with hardly a sound A Jong, nnlit paseage lay ahead of them: #t was dark sa @ for the moon light streaming through the high mullioned windows There was something eerie in its great beauty: instinctively she drew nearer to David “I was right about 1 oonlight you see,” he said. They stood for a moment, looking out at the garde t looked almost tike fairyland, Mary thousht, and it filled her A sense of ane, almost of fear. She would have liked to put her hand into David's, very much a8 a child in the dark gropes for ita mother's hand “And I8 this whete the ghost walks ™" she asked presently He shook his head “No-—m further along He tooked dotn At her Are vou #fraid " he asked Of rourse not Fhere was i dignation in her voice They went on to the end of the passage: there was ahother dosr there, much wider than the first Has Miss Fisher even heen hers? asked Marv suddenly A quick frown crossed David's face. I really do not know Why de you ask?” “1 was thinking how all this lovely Otk and paneling and polished floors Would suit her. She is S0 beautiful— Tike some princess in a fairy story “You are very kind.’ His volce was rather dry. “I thought women never admired one another.” “That 18 only a man's idea,” she 1 him with dignity David lavghed He pushed opem the second door, your eyes, and wish for the thing you want most in all the world.” CHAPTER XXXVIT V'or Happincss Mary obeyed unquestionably; she | shu. her eyes tightly and wondered what she ought to wish. | For love? But that had already passed her by! For riches? + Tt was | =0 unlikely that she would ever nave | them! For what, then, could she wish? Happiness? It almost scemed as if smeone put the tthought into her head as she stood there by David | Bretherton’s side, with the moonlight barring the polished floor at their fect, She gave a little sigh, “I wish for happiness, then,” she said. Bretherton laughed, “You ought not to have “told ticut State park at rant Governor “AND THIS 18 WHERE THE GHOST WALKS?" SHE ASKED, you muet never speak your wish to anybody.” He pushed open the door, and then entered, | There was a faint, musty smell of disused rooms; a sort of chilly damp- Iness made Mary shiver as she fol- lowed David into the darkness. | They had entered a sort of wide corridor, at one end of which the tall, painted piprs of an organ rose to the very ceiling. “This used to be the old music- gallery,” Dretherton said: “and it is chiefly here, too, that the ghost lady is suppored to walk.” “Oh!" sald Mary softly, &he looked round her with wide eyes, There was something d-prenml to (her in the darkness and sllence; she Iwnn to think of the men and women ~dead long since—who had walked the oaken floors and made the old | place echo with the sound of their veices. It scemed strange that none . of them would ever come there again; i strange, too, to think that some day she and David would be dead, even as they, and others would be taking their place In the world, and perhaps | standing where they stood now. I She fancied that she could ev@n | (e a phantom figure in the organ seat: hear the soft pure strains of | music issuing from those painted pipes "Doesn’t—doesn’t anyone ever use | it now?" she asked. | Uneonsciously she spoke in a whisper; David shook hiz head. | “It hasn't been tonched for years !There are other rooms further en. | Shall we go?” | Mis steps echoed hollowly as he led | the way; there was so little furniture | and no curtains at all at the high windows. Here and there the outline of an old high-back chair stood out of a | corner; or the ghost-shape of a fold- | ed card table, with quaintly clubbed feet and slender logs “If this were my house,” said Mary | suddenly, “1 should live in this part | of it—it's much more heautiful than | the other wing, 1t only wants the windows open, and big firen, and--" | She broke off, conscious of his eyes | hent upor her. “I ought not to | have said that,” she added, in con- fusion, “You do live here, don't you?" said David, smiling. A low archway led to a smaller, | narrower room ‘W oeought to have a light to mee the carving here properly,” he added in a mere matter-of.fact voice. “Will you wait a moment while 1 find one? There used to be candles kept in the organ-loft.” He walked away without waiting for her to speak Mary stood there in the Aarkness istening 1o the sound of his footsteps She was conscious of wort of timid £ CUTICURA SOOTHES ITCHING RASHES Bathe gently bt fresiy with Coti- curs Sosp to clesnse and purify btly and apply Caticurs mzmn-a‘h‘. Do not fail to include the exguisitely scented Caticura Talcum in your uflqmiou Ay o long music-room whole place with shadows. 'membered that David had said it was here that the ghost Her tongue feit dry in her moutth, the | walked. (Continued ix| Our Next Issue) 1] 1t has been used by them as a picnie |ground for generations. It is sit- {uated on the banks of the Kight Mile New Haven, May 10.-~The Connec- announces stopping the destruction, The state that it will hold its spring tield meet- now owns about 800 acres in this see- | ing May 24, at Ih“ Ih\ll'« Hop Yard tion. 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