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Wingham Times, 1892-01-15, Page 4l �r wM,,.1 MAr presence and passed son into the shad- I. My sister Fanny has a power of an% row Of eager on•Iookera lined the path toachiinan, as the bride's father lifte 11# 3 flt$, ow, fully enlightened, • nnyi.ni; alembic')no *Hier bonen bee from gate to porch, I sprang from her out; and I'll swear no one got ea 4 .._.. _ The wedding was'ta be early.. in Sep. ing possesses, the oarriage and passed up between of the oarritt a, +� temper, Two days before,]' had to run Yeti mark my 'mires,' retorted with tleke. Our gardner bad a good front We carried her into the "'hoose i1 ti:�3•. JANUARY 3' I G, :83a. 'up town ou business. The train was asperity, you had better give up mak. .place near the door. I•stopped, her bridal dress and drew bads her veil , see see =-= late, of couxse,far we are on the south- ing such an idiot of yourself. There'll Are' they waiting still, Bytes ? .1 I saw her face. Shall .I ever forget YS T1f,r lt)15 S WWODItsi '. eastern, end as I stood grumbling with be more wedding to morrow than ever asked, simply to gain time, for, of it ? White, white and drawn wit - . watch in band, whom should I see but you'll take the first part in it course T knew they were by ,the wait agony and ]longe', bearing sueb a loo' No one ever thought that May For- John Oharrington and May Forster. .A. prophesy, whieh, by the way . ing crowd'sattentive attitude, of terror as I have never seen 1 ei wuuld marry John Charrington, They wore walking up and dawn the oars trite, Waiting,. sir? No, nt:, six; why it except in dreams. And Ilse hair"; :. t 13011"ght tlitTerrntntly, and things unfrequented and of the platform, arnt But though l could snnrl confident. - must be o'v©r now, radiant brown ltgir, I tell you it a hick John Ghurrintgtou inteuiied heal in arm, looking into each other's eyes, ly to my sister, I did not feel so cootie Over! Then Mr, Oharringtoa's white like snow. qni at' w•,y of caring to pass. Iie careless of the syn pnthetie interest of fort,xble when, late, that night, I coarse ? ' As we .stood, her father and I, he ]telt her to ln+trr} tum before he Kent the porters. standing on the dcorstep of John's . To the minute, air; meet bate mad with the horror and the miser; • tip to Oxford. She laughed and ra fns- Of Bourse I knew better than to best. house, heard, that he bad not returned, missed you somehow, and, I say, sir, it, a boy came up the avenue•• --a tele sad Nina He asked ber again, she tato a moment before bur ing myself 1 went home gloomily through the loweringhis voice, I never saw Mr graph boy. They brought the one laughed, tossed her dainty, blonde y �' y 6 p Y Y tI ]?pill and atgatin Waged A third time. in the booking office. and it was not ram. Next morning brought n.brigbt John the least bit so afore, but my envelope. to me. I tore it open. '� till the Grain drew up at the station bine sky, gold sun, and sill Bach sol'!- opinion bb's been drinking pretty Mr Charrington was thrown fr he asked her ; she said it was bocom. that I passed the pair with my Glad, nese of air and beauty of cloud as go freely. His clothes are all dusty and his horse an Its way ,to the statiox nt; ,L eonu'meil bad liabit,and laughed stone and took a corner in a first-class tip to make aperfeet day. I woke . his face like a , sheet, I tell you 11;80. I{illed qu the-80ot 1 at him Mare than ever. smoking' cairriage. I' did this with ars with a vague feeling of having gone to didn's like the looks of him at all, and And he was married to May Fors Joan was not the only man t.ho gond an air of not seeing as I could bed anxious,and of being rather averse the folks inside are saying all sorts of in our parish church at 3,30, in 'wanted to marry her ;I she was the assume, 1 rride myself on my dise of facing that anxiety in the light of things. YouMI see, something' gone. presence of half, the parish. belle of our village catpite, and we cretion, but if John were travailing full wakefulness. very wrong with Mr John and he's I shall ho married dead or alive!. were ati in Yove with het more or lase ; alone I wanted his eeix.pany. 1 had But with my shaving water name a • tried liquor. Be looks like a ghost, What had passed in that carriage on it wait a sort of fashion, like masher's it onto from - John which relieved my and in he went with his eyes straight the homeward drive. ' No one know collars or Inverness capeb"• Therefore Hullo, old moo, coins his cheery mind and sent me up to the Foreters' before him, with never a look or a ---110 one will ever know. Oh ay, we were as tench annoyed as surprisedwith a light heart word for zione of us • m when John Charrington' walked into voice as he swung his bongoes into my It,Iay was in the garden. I saw her ways euoh a gentlemanl►,flat was al oh, fere as week was over our little local club --we held it in a carriage; here s luck, I was expecting; a dull journey 1 ' blue gown through the hollyhocks ,as I have never heard Bytes make so, her beside her husband in daft over the saddler's, I remember— Where are you off to? I asked, disk tits lodge gate swung to behind me, long a speech. The crowd in the ohuroh•yard on the thyme cog and invited ns all to his wedding. So' I did itot go u to the house •c7• cretion still bidding me turn meeeyea p but churchyard were talking in whispers --the churchyard where, they, Tour wedding. ,.,,reed aside a,...._. the - really , love -trysts. sk away, though I SAM without looking, - - - Wha B the happy 4 J _._ _, __-CL pEy £air? .When's it Iles written to you, too, she said, throw at the bride and bridegroom. Thus was accomplished J 'e n Chary to lie? that her's were red..rimmed. g p without preliminary greeting, when 1 The ringers were ready with their rington's wedding. John Charrington filled his pipe and To cid Branbridge's, he answered,f g p•p• reached her side hands on the ropes to ring out the lighted it before he replied.. Then he shuttling the door and leaning out for yea. 1'w to, meet him at the station merry peal as the bride and bridegrodm HoLLowni s PILLS,—Iu 'neral de. maid : a last word with his sweetheart. at 3 o'clock and carve stra'el ou to should` come out. bility, nervous temper, a d mental I'm sorry to deprive yor fellows of ' Oh, I wish you wouldn't go, John, the church, ' •depression, there unrivalled Pills have A murmur from the church annonno a marvellous effect.' The have wort rtiui only, joke—bat Miss 1+'crater and she was saying iu a low, earnest tone, :Elie face loojred pale,but there was ed them out the came, Bytes was the confidence of millions? to all parts ' I ace to be married in September. I feel certain something will happen, a brigbtne 9 in her• eyes, and a tender right. John; Oharrington did not look of the civilized world nstiiutions You don't mean it? loo you think. I should let anything quiver about the month that spoke of himself, There was dust on his boat, shaken by sensual excess , or by long He's got the mitten again, and its happen to me, the day after to -morrow renewed happiness. his hair wars disarran t:d. He seemed residence in unwholesome urates, or by eedentar habits,are- wonderfully turned his head ? our wedding day ? Mr. Brenbridge begged him so to to have been in some row, but there renovated by course of this a:xtraor- No, I said, ,risiag,.I see it's true. Don't go, she answered ' with a stay another night that had not • the was a black 'maik above hie eyet;row. Binary medicitate, which, pot vier utl as is Lend me a pistol, someone, or a first= pleading intensity which would have heart -to refuse, site went iii; Tie is so its action on the whole system, is yCIe was deathly pale. But his pallor class fara,�to the other end of nowhere• sent my Gladstone to the platform and kind but I wish be hadn't stayed. perfectly harmless to the- tenderest Y was not greater than that 'of his br Charrington . has bewitched the only me after it. She, was not speaking to 1 was at the station at 2.30. I felt pied of rare who might hate been carved in ivory- ide, frame. The fills are combalsams, without the a,dmi xture of a pt.stty girl in our twenty mile radius. me. John Charrington was made dif- rather annoyed with Jelin. It seemed dress, veil, orange blossoms and alt. grain of any mineral who ver, or of Was it' tnesmerit;su or a iove potion, i ferently ; he rarely changed his opin- a sort of slight to the beautiful girl who any otter deliterious substa ce. The As they passed alit the ringers•stopp• o erase d•rreci o y' eek ?• ions, never his resohutitins. loved him, that he should come, as it ea—there were six of them -and then p y, p werfully •oral bene- Netther, sir; but a gift you'd never Ile only stroked the little unglcsved were out of breath, and the dust o fcially upon the whole Mass of blood, • f on the ears expecting the gay wedding nor can we question the tact when we have—perseverence—and the hest lack' hande that lay on the carriage door. - travel upon him to take -her hand peal came the slow pealing of the pas- see indigestion cured, live! cot ipt$int a man ever had in the world, I must. May. The old boy's 'been which some of us.woald have given, shoo bell. arrested, the oppressed lungs Brought ; ' There was something in his voice awful good to me, and now he's dying the best years of our life to take, into healthful play, and every physical ' that silenced toe, and all the chaff of I must go and see him, but 1 shall But when the two o'clock train A thrill of horror at sal foolish ajest function renewed and strengthened b•y 1 Dome home in time for-- the rest of glided in and glided out again, from the ringers passed es dropped us all, their agency, 1 ,L the other`fehTowt; failed to draw itini LIF a 6having But the ringers themselves dropped the further. parting w,ts lost in a whisper and brought no'passengers, to our little ropes and fled like rabbits down the Iola Favorite overage. Thequeer *.pin; about it Was that in the rattling lurch of the starting station; I was more than annoyed. y belfry stairs. , The bride shuddered, John Howard Payne, the author otli when we congratulated Miss Forster, train. t There was no other train for forty five .and gray shadows c tme about her Sweet. Horne, was when a young man 1 sbe.blushed and smiled and dimpled You're sure to come ?' sbo spoke as minutes. 1 calculated that, with much. mouth, but the bridegroom led her on deeply -in love with Mary Harden, a for all the world as though she were in the train moved. hurry, we might get to the church in down the path where the people stood Southern girl of grace and. beauty, love with bhp, and. had been in love Nothing Ghali keep me, he answer. time for the cereinouy -but, oh, what with the handfuls of rice' but the hand- The New England Magci�ine recalls thea; with him all a time. Upon my word ed, as we steamed out. After he bad a fool to miss that first train. What a following incident ooneernin `l seen the last of the little fi Eula were never thrown, 'find the wed- g ' g the two, I think she d. Women are singular oligo on the other Wren could iittve done it ? ding bells never rang.In vain the ring. which serves to show that even poets creatures. ti platform, he leaned back in his corner These forty.five minutes seemed 'a ers were urged to remedy their tsars- may sometimes present themselves in: •We Were a 1 asked to the wedding. and kept silent for a minute. year, and as I wandered •around the take, they protested with many wills. prosaic phases. One morning, whilei In Brixharn everyone wilt .vas anyone ' vhen be spoke it was to explain to station reading the advertisments and pered expieti'ves that, they would see Payne was staying in the town where]j knew ever ody else who was anyone,`. me that his Godfather, whose heir he the timetables and the company's bys themselves farther first. the young lady Iived, he entered herj My sisters were, I truly believe, more was, lay dying at Peasmarch Palace,- laws,and getting more and more ttrgry In a hush like the hush in the chore house with a pale and dismal face. intereste in the trousseau than the some fifty miles, away and he had sent with John Charrington. ' This eonfi- ber of death,the bridal pair passed in. !Miss Mary, he asked, pathetically, bride h ireelf, and 1 was to be the best for John,' and John felt bound to go.' Bence in bis own power of,' gotl;ing to their carriage, and. its door was do you know what gruel is 1 manyswan. , he coming.marriagts was much • 1 shall be surely back to -morrow, everything he wanted the minute he slammed behind them. • Indeed I do, she auswered, Why, , f he said, or, if. not, the day after in wanted it was leading him Lao far. I • • what is the matter ? eh at afternoon tea tables andg a. Then We tongues were loosed. A ••"•ateour little drib over the saddler's and ]leaps of. time: Thank heaven, one hate waiting: Everyone does, ' but •1 babel •°of anger, wonder, conjecture 011, those horrid biscuits at the the question was always asked : Does hasn't to get up in the middle of the believe I hate it more than anyone else. from the guests add the spectators. •tavern seetn to be made of soleratus, she cars for hint night to get married nowadays ! The 3,35 was late of oourss. ` lard and half-baked flour? Could .you. And Ott ails Mr." Branl?pidrye dies 7 1ground myIf I d seen his condition, sir, said I used to ask that question myself pp pipe between my teeth,. old Forster to me as we drove of, I ' have a dish of gruel prepared far me Alive or dead, I_ mean tube mauled and stamped with impatience • as 1 would have stretched him on the floor Certrinly, she answered,and beaten - in the early days of the engagement, on Thursday!. John answered, lighting . watched the signals. Click 1 The ed from parlor to kitchen to la the but after one evening in Aug. 1 never : of the church, •sir, by heaven I would,y asked it again. I was coming hams i a cigar and unfolding the Times.- signal went down, showing- that the .case before Aunt Minda. g before I d let him marry my datigh� At easmarsh station we said goods train'should not stop - aai it haat no ter 1 , 0 Miss Mary, exclaimed that ebony from the club through the eburcbyard.. bye, and ;he got out, and I saw him passengers for our station. Five priestess of the ole 'and Our church is on a thyme grown hill, When he.put his head out of the p pans, yogi ride off; I went to London, where 1 minutes later 1 flung myself into the window. know yer ma not gwino to like that, and the,turf about it is so thiek and stayed the night, carriage that 1 had brought for John 1 never ktiowed gruel carried' inter soft that one's footsteps are noiseless. g Drive like fury, he cried to the When I got home the next after- Drive to the church 1 I seid, as coachman; doe't•apare the horses. • her parlor to company. Ter got n. 1 made no sound as I vaulter} the 4.]ow,'Imaened wall, and threaded m noon a very wet one, by the way—my someone shut the door': Mr. (earring- ge was obeyed. We passed the pride, chile. Go in thei•' house, au y 1 sister greeted me with : ton hasn't comes bythis train. way between the tombstones. It wasWhere's brides .carriage, 1 forebore to holt at give that gentleman - an, Oharringtou R Anxiety now re pineapple cheese. t,. - at the galtle instant that I ]toiled John y placed'• anger. What it, and old Forster turned his head (lharriugton's voice, and saw her face Goodness linctus; I answered iestilY. had become of the mane Could he away and swore., We reached banns Idol, Aunt Mind ,i;1Tx. Payne ha May was sitting an a low, flat gravy- Every man since Clain has resented have been taken suddenly ill ? I had before it. dyspepaia and wants only agile], that kind of a question. So lbs rust w g prepared, stone with the full splendor of the was• never known Minn to have a day's ill, We stood in the hall doorway,in the . g • p pared, and Itolj I thought you might liave hears ossa iu his life. And even so he might blazing afternoon sun, agd in abbot 't terri stun upon hot ntt;tnone facd• Its! from ]lin), she went on, asyou're toBoy, the bauseoy, was aumn)t:ndei, expression ended, and at once forever, j him telegraphed. Some awful asci• halfa minute we heard wheels crushing to sprue it, IIS , however, printed til give him away to•worraty, dont must have happened to him., The the gravel. When the carriage stopped he as greatly l itstered as•Attnt Mind( any guesttait of her lave for him. It Isn't be back ? I asked, for I had thought that he had played her false by such m conrprotriise of Earl] was traiisEi;ttred to a beauty I should, in front of the steps,old Forster acid I ;� y d'ig confidently expected to find trim at never-- no, not,fer a moment, entered ran down. iiity. Ile would have presented sy11n? bawl believed impassible even to that t hurt,. tttyihead. yet'+sametifing terrible had Great ]leavens the carriage is umpty+t p udly,but gruel woulk beautiful little face. bub and sake fro l Na (xeagrsy,- my sister always }gad happened to ling], and an me lay the And yet - ` smirob tlie, familq escutcheon fareveii Joiiii lay at her fret, unit it was Isis ;4 way of jumping at conelusions,espee• task of tolling his htride. I tell you 1 1 had the door open in a rttinute voice that bolas the stillness of the tally such conclusions as were Least almost wished the carriage would up, . and this is ghat 1 saw Still, his wounded feelings were root]` golden Autrust evening• l z fled whett'he env the steaming 'bevei favorable to their fel/ow creatural --.lie set and break so that somean4 else No sigh of Sohn Obarrington ; and age tluatl'± d like nectar, tory des,r, my deer, 1 believe that 1' has not returned, and, what is more, might tell her not 1, who—but that's of May, l)is wife, tzn�y a huddled heap Payne, is there alt should come back from the dead' if you may depend ttpatt it he won't. nothing to do with the story. of white Satin laying halt on the faB,ab ' id Mr; Pa you wanted roe. >Y ,gruel w ,re this came from f ' Yon mark my words, there'll be no It was Ave n-tinuteg to four as we' of the carriage and half on the seat. t 1 coughed at otter to indicate mBless you, Sir, replied Italic there'd ' s' wedding to morrow, drew ftp at the church yard. A Bauble 1 drove straight hero, sir, said the " bu bee bring ilio soother howl ! I y .laid little ed hill, ad kept 01 • The this etc ' A coup Maine He 'win going t liged to .He fa was of the 1 take a; t his wife and, tell elle did told the yet, I last got the sale drink b with hi one of and die died, tl • the fat pauper THE ft do held z Public here e that i colds, outsa • An whicl ityaa rema of M emit! upon Tl some press bavia to the 1 r..r he was stud T was whit self cov •en the kn lain ,zest tho we] wh wh Sea Vic the ..ape • re bei on bu fat I3