The Wingham Times, 1896-11-20, Page 22
THE 1'4� 1-7t f 11."C� A� w / t NOVEMBER i` EMBER 20, !8.'1,6.,
Yo u like ninny others I>r(tt>:tidy
need Cod User OH, hit
can't take the ot'dinar, ei lLlb ions.
Then loa) to us foe ' V iutpul(n's
Tasteless Preparation Cott Liver 011.
You can't taste the Oil, Ali von taste
is Wild Crhel-ry and that's Idea -tut.
\'!`bat yon gout is fit+sh and rt•tt'ngth
CU res efiattlis and colds :tonal w;tttiElO
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still holds a decided lead over its coo -
temporaries in shorthand and ldusine: s
training,
OV Ti 2,000 NTUDRICTS
have been trained in this school since
' it was established in 1876 tontl are to be
found in nearly every town and city an
tllie continent, holding choice positions.
Ilio the only school tn. Canada that
has been running 20 years without
change of management.
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lady; hal do not think that they are be
coming to nue wild either gives or wcopt
entertainments."
Thera Lcid been something of the sant
kind betsv:'on tho Doctor and Mr. Pea
coelte. "Why the Ibis>hief shouldn't ya
and your wife oomo and cat a bit of mut
ton, an: t: ink a glass of wino, over at th
notary, 'ik:s any other decent people:'"
nova h ;i..'ved that accusation against t
Doctor iit regard t.) swearing; but he wn
no donor :.ecldieted to expletives in conve
savior., :1rd might perhaps h eve indulged
in a strong word or two, had he not beer
prevented by the sanctity of his orders,
"Perhaps I ought to say," replied Mr.
Peacoeke, "ilecausa we aro nct like any
other cleeent people." Then he went on to
explain his moaning. Decent people,. he
thought, In reoatel to social intercourse.
ata theme who are ablo to 'give and take
with ease among each other. He bad fallen
into a position in which neither ho nor bis
wife could give anything; and from which,
though some might he willing; to accept
hiln.Iie would be accepted only, as it were,
by special favor. "Bosh!" ejacnlrlton tine
Doctor.. Mr. Peacooke simply smiled, said
It alight ba bosh, brit that oven were lie
inclined to relax hist wn views, his wife
would certainly not rela, hors. leo it canoe
to pass t -hat a't,); n h tiro Itoctor and Air.
Peacoltro vL reµ,l fe iR ee,of d"that
Smoothing of absolute friendship sprang
top between the two Indies, whon lir, I'oa-
coale hoe already balm more than twelve
months in Howiok neither had he nor Mrs.
Yeacocko broken bread in the Doctor's
house.
And yet tho friendship had become
strong. An incident hod lhaappenecl early
in the opening of the year which had serv-
ed gryeatiy to strengthen it. At the 5012001
thcro was a littlo boy, just oievc>n years old,
the only son of a Laity do Lawlo, who had
in early yt:ars bean a dear friend to Mrs.
Worth:. Lady de Latch/ was the widow of
a
baronet,and the little r
tr was the e
.Fheir
to a large fortune. The mother bad beon
most loath to part with hor treasnro,
Friends, unclo', and trustees haft declared
• that the old prescribed form of education
for British aristocrats must be followed,
—a t'nther school, namely, then Eton, and
then Oxford. No; his another might not
go with hien, first to one, and then to the
other. Stroh going and living with him
would deprive his education of all the real
salt. Thert'foro Bowser. was chosen as the
t'otl,or school, hecause Mrs. Wortle would
be more+ hoe a mother to her poor desolate
bay than any other lady. So it was aroang-
ed, and the "poor desolate boy" became
the happiest of the young pie:Ides whom it
was ltirs.Wortle's special province to spoil
Whenever sho could get hold of them.
Now it happened that on one beautiful
often:torn towards the end of April, Mrs.
Wortie had taken young Do Lawle and an-
other littie 'boy with her over the foot-
bridge width passed from the bottom of
the pars/to/Igo rarilen to the globe -meadow
whtelh Ian an the other side of too little
river, and witn thein lead gone a great
Newfaa od'and dog, who was on terms
equally friendly with the inmates of the
rectory and the school, Where this hrldgo
passed nerc�es the stream the gardens and
'the fields were on the sante levee But as
the water ran down to the ground. on
which t1;. ehocl-builclfngs had been erect-
ed, there arose n steep bank over a bend in
the river.ar, rather, steep cliff, for, indeed,
it was tilt:lo,st perpendicular, the forte of
the cure nt as it turned at this spot hav-
ing wattled. tlict bank. In this way it
had canto t:, pass that there was a precip-
itous fail of about a do'en foot from the
top of tin Mao cliff into the water, and
that the sr ,e: hero, as it vainest mond
the curv0 woo black and deep, so that the
bigger loom were wont to swine In it, art
rangz: ra V'1tt > for bathing having been made
on the ft.rher or school side There had
aometi-:as Kann a cine.+tion whether a rail
should not b 1 placed for proteetfon along
the top n grin cliff, but nothing of too
kind had tot been done. 'The boys; were
11ot supposed to play in this field, which
Was on tom other side of the river, and
could only bo reached by the bridge
through the parsonage garden.
On this day young De LawI, and hie
friend and too dog rushed up the hill be.
fore to romp, as was their custom, Mary
WortIe, who Was one of the party, followed
them, enjoining the children to keep away
from the wilt For a while they did so,
but of rourse returned, (ince or twlco
they were reea►lledl and Mcohled, always as.
1►erting that the fault Was alt tgetiler with
Neptune. It Wag Neptune that knocked
bltem down and always pushst them to.
wards the river, Perhaps it was Neptune;
bat he that ns it inlaid-, they' canto a mo-
ment very terrible to thele aII. Tho dog
In one of hL' gyrations °tamp violently
ageainst the little ltoy,knoeked hint off his
loge arid putlited him over the. edge. DIr1,
Warble, who had been making her way
RS. P ACOCKEE
slowly up the hill, saw too fall, heard the
1 splash, and fell immodiately to the
- • ground.
Other eyes had also seen the accident,
The Doetor anis Mr. Peacook0 were at the
e ' moment walking together in the play-
a f grounds at the school sitlo of tho brook.
When the boy fell they had paused in their
e walla, and were standing, the Doctor with
I i wall his face tarhis hock to the nedltowards , and tthe cliff.e taA
hnt
� lonti automation broke from )tis lips as ho
r saw the fall; but in a moment,--cilniost
' beforo the Do,tor bats realized the accident
1 which had occurred --he was in the water
. and two minutes afterwards young De
• Lawle, drenched indeed, frightened and
out of breath,but in nowise seriously hurt,
was out upon thn bank; and Mr. Yeacocko
dron'•hod also, but equally safe, was stand-
ing over hilu,while this Doctor on his knees
• was satisfyir'S himseif that his !into
1 charge liait1 received no fatal injury. It
' deed hardly bo exploiio l that tueb a to
; 111112'.ati)n :,F thie to zaleil all aceh!ttnt i); ti
t greatly in;reascd ton good fooling w.111
ivhirit Mr. Poctooekr was rc'g.1flo.1. b; all
the inhabitants of thy school and rectory,
CHAPTER, III.—THE MYSTERY,
Mr. Peacock's Himself said that in this
:attar a great deal of fuss was made nboot
nothing. Perhaps it was so. He got a
duoking.but being a strong swimmer, pro
bably suffered no real danger. Tho boy,
• rolling down throe or four feet of bank,
had then fallen down six or eightfoet into
the water. He might no doubt, have been
much hurt. He might have struck against
a rook and havo been killed,—in which
east Mr. Peacocke's prowess would havo
boon of no avail. But nothing of this kind
happened. Little Jack do Lawle was put
to hod in one of •,11e rectory bedrooms, anti
was comforted with sherry-negus and
sweet jelly. For two days Ito rejoiced
thoroughly in his accident, being freed
from school, and subjected only to ear -
ems. nos. f r
A to the e n
that
rebelled, having
bo-
, n
come tired of his bed. But by that time
his mother had been most unnecas arily
summoned. Unless she was wanted to
t:amine the forlorn audition of his
clothes, there was nothing that she could
do, But she came and, 01 course, shower-
ed blessings on ,Mr. Peaooeke's head,—
while Mrs, Wortie wont through to the
school and showered blessings on Mrs.Pon-
cocke. What would they have done had the
Peacoekes not been there?
"You must let tlletn nowahavo their way,
whether for good or bad," the Doctor said,
when his assistant complained rather of
the blessings, --pointing out at any rate
their absurdity. "Otte man is damned
forever,because, in the conscientious exer-
cise of his authority, he gives a littlo boy
a rap which happens to make a small tem-
porary mark on his skin. .Another bo -
comes a hero because, when in the equally
conscientious performance of a duty,. he
gives himself a ducking. I won't think
yon a hero; but, of course, I consider my.
self very fortunate to have had beside nit
a man younger than .myself, and quick
and ready at such an emergency. Of
course I feelogrntoful, but I shan't bother
you by telling you so."
But this was not the end of it. Lady
toe Lawle tteclared that sho would not Its
happy- unless Mr.and Mrs. Peacock° would
bring Jack home for the holidays to Do
Loth, Park. Of course she carried icor
blessings lop into Mr, Peacocke's little '
drawing -room, and hecnllie quite eonvfnc.
ed, as was Airs. ii'ortle, that Mrs, Pea-
r,ocke was in all ruspocas a lady,She hoard
of Mr. Pcacooloos antecedents at Oxford, ,
and expres.:ed her opinion. that they woro
charming pttople. : he could not bo happy
unless they would promiso to e0n10 to ')e
Lawle !'ark for tho holidays. Then Mrs.
Peicoeke had to explain that in her pass -
eat cir0ltntstancos she did not intend to
visit anywhere. She was very much fiat-
tt:red,and delighttld to think that the dear
littlo boy was nonee the worse for his acct.
dont; but there must bo an end to it.
'Therm was something in her manner, FIR
thcr said this, which almost overawed Lardy
de I4uvhe. Snit made horself, at any rate,
understood, and nor further attempt woo
made for the next six weeks to induce her
or Mr. Peacocks to enter the rectory din-
Ing;•room But a good cleat was solid
about Mr, I'eaeoeke,---generally in his fa-
vor.
Generally in lily favor,—beenusehe was
a Elate scholar, one could swim well. His
preaching perhaps did something( for Min,
but the swimming; did more. But though
tllern was so much said of good, there Was
smoothing also of evil, A lean would not
altogether mina.) society for himself anti
his wife unless there were some 0aauso for
hint to do so. Ifo and sho must have
known themselves to be unfit to nesoeiate
with suck persons as they would have met
at De tomato Park, There was no doubt a
mystery, and the !mystery', when unravel -
would no doubt prove to be very dole.
tariauy to the character of the pawns con-
t
tf
•
cornua. Mrs. Stantiloup'vrits quite su
Ithat such must be the east. "It might
very wool," said. Mrs. Stantilunp, "t
Dr. Wort le to obtain too sertiuos of a We
educated other for 111s f;ehctol, but it it
eamo loupe another thing whon he put
mon up to preach ing the ehareh, of who
lifo, fctr five yo:ars, ua ono knew Anything.
null bac.y had told her salnothillgr tts t
the nece,sity of a bishop's authority f
the appointment of a curate; but no oI
had strictly ikrlfued, to hor what n curt
is, oho wits, however, quite moldy to d
Ware that Aix. Ileacookehatl no business t
prowls in that pulpit, and that sollletltsu
spry uisagrc'.eablo would come of it. .Nt
was this tooling altogether confinoti t
Mrs,Stanttloup,though it had perhaps or
gloated with what She Iltttt said amok
Jreown friends, "Don't yon think it we
you should know smoothing of his life
during tiioso five years?" This had been
sant to the Reotor by the Bishop hi:nsole
who probably would have said nothing of
the kind had not these mores readied flys
ears. But reports, whon they roach a cer-
tain magnitude, and attain a certain ion"
portance, rogniro to be noticed.
So much in this world depends upon
charaotor, that attention has to be paid to
bad ehnraoter even whoa it is not deserved
In dealing with men anti women, we have
to consider what they believe, as well as
what we consider ourselves. The utility of
a sormon tlopouds much on the idea that
the audience has of the pioty of tho man
who preaches it. Thoagh tho words of
God should never luvve colpo with greater
powor from the month of roan, they wilt
come in vain if they be uttered by ono
who is known as a breakor of the Com-
n1anclments;—they will porno in vain frons
the mouth of one who is oven suspected to
bo so. To all this, when it runs said to him
by the Bishop in the kindest monitor, Dr.
Wortlo replica that such suspicions wort)
monstrous, unreasonable, and nnahari-
thble. Ho declared that they originated
with that abominable ;iraago, Mrs Stan-
tiloup. "Look round the diocese," said
the Bishop in reply to this, "and see if you
can find a single clergyman actin; in it,
of the details of whose life for the last five
years you know ab,olutoly nothir ."
Thereupon the doctor said that Ito would
snake inquiry of Mr. Peacock0 himself.
It alight well be, he thought, that Dir,
Pescocko would not like suck inquiry,
but the I).lator was quite sure that any
story told to hint would be true. "
On returning' home 12e found it neoes-
soe , or at any rate expedient, to postpone
his gnostions for a few days. It is not ea.y
to nsl: a n: an what henna. been doing with
five ,rears of his life, whon the question
fait itos a beliot that the five years Novo
been lasso:. badly. And it was understood
that the ciueotioning must in shine sort
apply to toe loan's wife. Tho Dootor had
onto said to Air„ Wortlo that he stood in
alwf tl dread of Mrs. 1?oa000le. There had
cert.ctaiv colpo upon 121n1 an Iden tlla. s1ie
toot a lady with whom it waufd not be
eas;, to zoo:tale. She was obedient, dili-
gent, and minutely attentive to any s; ish
that was expressed to bee is raga, tl to ha!
duties; but it had become 211ani attt
Doetor that in all mat tors bet .
inocicl she was independent, iron r•
no Inoans suh,;ect to external ll.+,c., t
re twer boys, --ditto sh>•vnnteon and sixt3e
bot years of ggel—Wem old enough to roma;
Or her and to regret all that they had los
11. to, hate the idea of Abolition, anti to.fe
e- : that the world had nothing loft for then
hitt what was to incl hot by opposttias, to,
se tide laws of tho Thdon, which was now
` hateful to
111 them. 111, h v
�. 0 avara 1)
II 1111, told besot -to -of the sntforing:t of thofr
or ' state, on attompt Haut boon motto tomtit-.
20 . tato thorn like gentlenton. But na rareor
to of tumor hn(1 been open to Goon, nate Croat
0^ had falionta by degroes into dishonor; (iia.
0 . honesty and brigandage.
tt ' Tho cooler of these, when ho woes; stilt
'1' little more than a stripling, had married'
it lfhIa Beaufort, tho daughter of another
3,'Y,
li
Ilk tioai'ag the name tvhi s h)sliec a herfatied as
n-. nob keroWn, and gollag'haoltha. that which
t, laheuttorly abhorrod, still solo should have
el 'on" it. And iso, reevlving, as, DA doubt
n he would have done under an' eireum.
,tattoos, that he mint# quit the pity of his
adoption,—he should, haro•lt:ft her with
siren mat 1
,
C
tits s s
u tantlnae as her spirit
would have tlsahlod her to (tL'llept; should
!;love gone Ilia widow d,avov, tool otiduretl
AS best ho might tihnddtta.tti:it ha had loft
the woman wlsom he Iovsi baelandi, in the
desert, all Motto! '.!'hat lionitadt not clono ,so
the reader is aware. 'That he bad! hood as
1110 of sin,--tllaat beam" shrrioul continued
in one great falsehood,, ---is' rtstttlifast
enough. Airs. Strilltiloup, when slot !tears
it all, will havo her triumph. Lcuiy de
I.awle's soft heart will r ojotce tu)cau•e' that
Invitation was not ageopiod, The Bishop
will be unutterably slhoot:ea; but perhaps,
to the good nlan,thero will be sow) solace
in the feeling that 1)0 had. hoer right in his
eiuruhisos. llorri• the Doctor bare it this
story It tr,tendetii to. toll►—and now also
Ala and Mrs, Pbacookec 120x0 it, when the
Mn and the falsehood were moan known tc,
nil tho world around thong; Tito mystery
leas at any rate boon told, and they wit,. ,
fool that on this acco:int nil hope of rotor- ..
est is at tin endhad better put down the
hook.
CHAPTER, IV. -•-throb'. DOCTOR, A SIi1=
HIS QUUESTION.
t'.`•1L'• wag not,for innta3100, very canStnnt itt
Mk 6w11 a'.t,'r,tiance at churoh, and never
sc:'med to feel it necessary to apologieo for
her obi -atom. The Do:^tor, in his man y 1112(1
familia, conversations ith Air. Pe
sa oIis W aeoeltt,
had not 'n
t tllttl
h 11128-
..kf able 1
to alllrl
l U to
this; and ha had observed that the hus-
band did not often speak of his own wife
unless it ware on matters having roforonoo
to the school.- So it canoe to pass that he
dreaded the conversation which Ile pro-
poses to himself, and, pastponod it from
day to (lay with a cowardice which was
quite unusual to him,
And now, 0 kind-hearted reader, I feel
myself constrained, in the telling of this
little story,to depart altogether from those
principles of storytelling to which you
probably have become accustomed, and to
put the horse before tho cart. 'There
is a mystery respecting Mr. and
Mrs. Peacock°, which according to
what has been xeoognized in such
hatters, ought not to bo elucidated
till, let tts say, tl,e last chapter but two so
that yonr interest should be maintained
almost to the end,—so near the cud that j
there should be left only space for thosm
little arrangements which are necessary for
the well-being, or perhaps for tho evil -be-
ing, of our personages, It is m purpose t
to disclose the mystery at one:coma to ask
you to look for tour interest, ---should you
choose to go an with my ohroniole,—slin-
ply in the conduct of my persons, during
this disclosnrc, to others. You aro to
know it ail before too Doctor or the h
Bishop,--beforo Mrs, Wortlo or the Hon,
Airs. letantiloup, or Lady do Lawle,—you
aro to know it all before tho Peaeockes be-
ea3110 aware that It must necessarily Ito
disclosed to any one, It may be that when
I shall have once told the :mystery there
will no longer bo any room or interest itt
the tale to you Lbat there are many such
reactors of novelslknow. I doubt, whothar
the greater number be not sueh. I ane far
from saying that the kind of interest of
which I a111 speaking,—and of which I in-
tend to ttoprivo myself,—is not the most
natural and the most etiiracions What
would the 'Black Dwarf' be if any Ono
itnew from the beginning; that he was a
rich man and a baronet? or 'The Pirate,'
if all the truth about Norma of the Fitful
Bead had boon told in the first ehuptor?
Therofore, put tho book sewn if the reve-
lation of some future secret 1>o neces Lary
for your oujoymont. Our inystera 's
going to be revealed in the next pawn
graph, --111 the nett half-dor.0n words.
Mr. and Mrs. Peacock° won not :can and
wife.
The story how it came to be so need not
bo very lona—nor will it, as I think, on •
tail any great degree of (idiomorb/anal-
ity oithor ulnen thn maul or upon too
Wotnalt.At.See:m tle Mrti'0acoc'ko had he.
some aequalntecl with two brothers nameal
Lofroy,rvho had canoe up frena Lon1Qtana,
anti bad achieved for thomseivt, chnrae-
ters which were by no cleans dosirabie,
Tiley were sons of a planter who, hail been
rich in extent of Cares and number of
gtlavts befor(1 the war of the Seteoston,
Gieuerra Lefray had been In shoe clays a
great )elan in his state, had hold a corn-
ntand during the war, niot had ia'en utter-
ly ruined. When tho war was over, the
rutnod plantorin his state. She foul been
only sixteen when her father tiled,anal not
ser•0nteen when she married Ferdinand
Lefroy. It was sho who afterwards came
to, Englund under the Immo of Mrs. Pett•
cocko,
Mr. Pencooke was Vice-PrOolde11t of tlse
College at Missouri when he first sow her,
and when be first became acquaintod with
the two brother;, each of whom was call-
ed Colonel Lolray. Then there arose a
great seandai in the city as to the treat -
went which the wife received from her
husband. He was about to go away south,
to Mexico, with the view of pushing Ms
fortune titre with certain, dosperadons,
who wero lnayinteining n perpetual war
against the authorities c the United States
on the borders of Toxas, and 11e demanded.
that his wife should accompany Ilion. This
she refused to do, and violence was used
to force her. Then it lathe to pass that
certain persons in St. Louis interfered ou
hor behatif,and among those were the Rev-
erend .Ml'. Peacocite, the 'Vice-Presidellt'0f
the College, upon rvhosa footings tiro singn-
lar b: auty and dignified demeanor of the
woman, no doubt, load had much offeot.
Tito man failed to bo powerful over his
wife, and then the two brothers went away
together. T110 woman was loft to provide
for herself, and Mr. Per -soothe was gener-
ous in the aid Ile gave to hor in (.ting so,
It may be undartstood that in this way an
intimacy was created, but it must not be
understood that the intimacy was of such
a nature as to be injurious to thafaair falno
of the lady. Things wont on in this .way
for two years, during which Mato Lefroy's
conduct drew down upon her reproaches
from no one. Then there oame tidings
that Colonel Lefroy had, perished in mak-
ing one of those raids in twhich the two
brothers were continually ooncorned. But
which Colonel LOfroy had perished:' If it
were tho younger brother, that would bo
nothing to Mr. Peaooclte; if it wore the
elder it would be everything. If l"crdin-
nnd Lofroy wero dead, ho would 11ot
The Doctor, instigated by the Bishop,.
had dot -ermined to ask some questions of
Mr, Pottcoeke LER to hisAtnorieanlife, The
lromiso hall boon givOn at the Palace, and
Ie Doctor, ns he returned home, repented
linisolf in that he had made it. FIis iota -
hip wan a gasane, tun had as an old woman,is toad ars 111rs. Stant Limp, anti wanted; tit
ltnnw things in which a man > houid feel
to intermit. So said the Doctor 121n2s011.
V
hat wife it tohiln, the 13ishou,or to hilt,
Ito Dot.tor, what Mr. Peacooke Sona been
doing in .America(? Tho mnn'sscholarship
vas patent, his morals wore nhlOxcepttoll.
Isle, his capacity for preacihing undoubted,
xis 1)00ullctl fitness for his placeatilowiok
unquestionable. Who had a rlgiit to know
foto? That Man had 120311 properly
duoated nt Oxford, and properly ordained
n mitering bis Fellowship, was; doubted
y no luau, Even it there had heon some
(=paltry btloksli(iings in America,---
hiob might he pos,,ible, for wilioh of us
aro not baokslided at Mlle tanto of our
fe?—ruby should they be raked! 11p? There
as an u1loharitablenoss in such a proceed -
ng altogother opposed to Mut Dootor'a
'ow of life. He hated severity. It may
Roost be said that ho hotud that state of
01'fcction which would require no pardon,
a was thrrongllly Human, quite content
Ito his own presentpoiition,anticipating
o millennium for too future of the world,
nd proi)nt;iy in his heart, looking forward
hea:•on as simply ton hotter aiternativo
hen too happiness of this world should
o at an end, Ho himself was in no re -
cot (a wieiq)ch than, and yet a little
letteaness was not- clistaasteftil to Miall.
And ho wilt angry with himself in that
o land made such 0, ;m000dise, It had heap
ruin o: lifo with hint never to take ad -
ca. Tho Bishop had his powers, within
Molt he. as hector of I;owick, Wotuki
rtainly obey' the Bishop; but it had been
s theory to oppose his Bishop, almost
aro readily than any one else, should the
!shop attempt to excood his power. ':'he
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scruple at once to ask the woman to bo his w
wife. That which tho man had dont, ann
that which ho hadnot done, had boon of a
suoha natnro as to solve all bonds of ogee, to
tion. She had alrcady a)lorvod herself to w
speak of the roam as ono whoso lift was to b
blight upon her own; and thongli 11)or0 sp
ou
had been no word of tspokon love from w
hor lips to his ears, he thought that he
might sncceott if he could be certain that 11h
Ferdinand Lcfroy was no longer among a-
ttics living, vi
"I shall never know," she said in her w
misery. "What I do hear I shah never 00
. hollow How coo ono know anything as hi
'to what happens in a country such as .n
that?" 13
Then he tool: t
vico-prositleut, professor, and olergyman
as be was, started to L oil'
r
#orho D1s
a
o l 011
border. He did toll her 'that the was go-
ing, but ba; ely told bot. "It's a tiling that
ought to be found out," Ile said "
p urs 311111 and stag and fish 1 1 1 •
and yet t.
v110 h.' �C 1'
bad .ro 1
I1.
t ctt
P Ho •
rt 113 au
gr
g
with -
w i 13ahnSJ. >
f, tut di.i na,, on that nom=
think that rho pronli: o shotliti ba ovaria
Oh no! Having sold that be would do f
, ,
want a turn of travelling. I shalt be away'
throe n)onths," 1She m0re1, bad0 exact
bless gum, but said not a worts to hinder or
to enconrtlgo his going. He was gone just
the throe months which he 1)11(1 hintself
named, and coon returned. 011at0 with his
news. He had.socn sho younger brother;
Robert Lcfroy, and had learnt from hint
that tho elder Ferdinand batt certainly
been killed. Robert had boon most un-
gracious to him, having even on ono occa-
sion threatened his life; but than had
0e0n 110 doubt that be, Robert, was alive,
and that Ferdinand had been killed by a
party of United States soldiers,
Then the clergyman bad his reward, and
was accopted by this widow with a full and
lappy heart. Not only bac! hor rolcaso
been completo,but SO was her present joy;
and nothing seemed watltiag to tboir hap•
piness during tho six first months rtftor
heir union. Then tint day, all of a sud-
den, Perdition(' Lefr tp tuts standing
within her little drawing -room nt the
College of St Louis,
Dead? Cel'tainly ho wait not dead! Ile
did not bellows that any ono had said that
e was dead! :She might ba lying or not,
--he did not caro ; Ile, Peaeooke, certainly
cad lied, --so said too Colonel, He slid not
bellows that Peaaaelte hail ever seen his
brother Robert. Hobert was stead,--
must have loon Ball, indeed, bo•
fore the dato givon for that inter-
view. The woman was a blgalnlbit,—that
is, if any Second ltltarriaga had ever boon
perpetrated. Probably both batt wilfully ;
agreed to.tho fz0 citoocl, For himself ha;
should resolve at once worn slaps be moan
to take, Then ho deported, it being at
that moment after 111110 in the evening,
In the morning Ito was grope again, and
from that r totitont they had hover heard
of flim or soon him.
How was it to be with thein? Thay
could have 811110st brought tllemsoives to
think it a dream: wero it not that others
heSides thellISC.Ives had seen the man, sand
known that Colonel Iterdin:lnd Lcfroy haft
been in St, I,anis, Then Moro canto to •
flim an idea that even she might clisbo•
hove rho wards which he had spoken,—. !
that oven sho might think Itis story to •
have boon false. Blot to Olio she soon put
an end. "Dearest," she said, "1 never
knew a worts that woo trno to cotyle Frain
his month, or a word that IVOs false front
yours," Should they part? 'Toro is no
ono who road; tills but will isy that they
should have pnrtotl. Every (lay' passed to- .
g other as 211ntt'and wife must be it false-
total told a silt. Thoth would bo absolute
2211Ndry for both In parting; but dome is .
no law front good or man entitling a span
to 0acapo from Misery at the e2pe1)80 of
falanhoati and s1n, Though thole hearts
might have burst in the thing of it, thoy
should have parted. Though she would
have been friendless, alone, and utterly
despicable 111 the 0y4.4 of the world, ab tin.
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At half -pant eight Mr. Poacooko cause.
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steed as to moms'. 'Tho Doctor had do-
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tattoo; clerical servico in the parish told
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one also if Aft Peacooke could not oblige
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in the usual way to the Bishop. I've had
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