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ANNA S. SWAN
CHAPTER I. (Continuodil
Mark K<er.r:und his wife .had never
Ijeen able to add anything to the
bare house or to restore an,y of its
former glory. But they had lived
with dignity,, and simplicity, an ex
ample and object-lesson to all, and
had.won. thex'enduring tribute of
their people’s love. But now in.
llieir late middle-age it seemed as
5f Mark Kerr had suddenly awaken-
jed to the futility of all his sacrifice
to the .conviction that they had
<ed grey and cheerless lives to very
little purpose. Many sorrows had
^graved pathetic lines oh his wife’s
face, and all their children save two
had ’died ’in infancy-^-Harry, their
heir, and Lilas,, a girl of eighteen,
just finishing her education at Brus
sels, where a distant connection of
the Riddells an reduced circumstan
ces kept a pension.
Harry had fiaiislied his Arts’course'
at Edinburgh University, where it
had been the unbroken tradition of
the Riddell-Kerrs to send their sons
when their school days were over.
It had. been of very little use to
Harry, who was a frankly common
place person little interested in books'
but keen enough on all the sport
and circumstance of country life
What to do with him now-—where to
find a legitimate outlet for all that
young energy so that it might be
turned to good account was the
problem which vexed the souls of
both father and motljer. He had un
doubted looks, and he carried him
self in the saddle with an easy grace
as to the manner born. ■ Even the
hired hunter and the shabby 'coat
■ detracted nothing from the bravo
show which-lie made.
There was undisguised eagerness
in his straight, keen blue eyes as it
rested on the'face of the .girl to
whom he bent" to make a) laughing
remark, and animation in hers.
Alice Kerr sighed a little as she
turned away.. Tn spite of Tlat-her-
ley’s warning it was borne in. upon
her that a very simple way out of
all their difficulties would be for
Harry to marry money. Then she
shrank back a little with - shame
at such a sordid" thought, her deli
cate .cheek flushing involuntarily.’
She drew the loose wrap she wore
more closely aboift” her,* .throat and
stepped out on th&Jawh to see the
hunting party start'. Sire smiled in
spite of herself tit the picture. Many
a cap was raised, many a hand
waved in humblest, most affection
ate .greeting to the sweet mistress
of Essendon. Many congratulations
had passed amoni
bers xjf the hunt
don meet was an
As ’She stood
procession out of
ed, a
still
ton’s
then
•rather
“I wonder whether I ought—whe
ther it wiojilfl be any good
•would
would
might
seems
ig the inner mem-
because an Essen-
auspiciops event,
watching .the gay
sight, she obsery-
liittle to the left, her son. Harry
rifling close
side. She
smiled arid
nervously
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, fith
ssendon
swelled
into a
sylvan beauty for which li
was famed.
The October ruins had.
the noisy Dirdum Water
noble tide. Mrs. Ken* could see it
sweep from the open carriage, and
on the Bridge she directed William
to stop the horses a moment for
the purpose of giving them a
breathing space before taking the
hill, and in order also that she might
watch the flood’s hurrying pace.
“I’ve never-seen the Dirdum big
ger, William—have you?’’
“Not since Lammas sixty-nine/’,
aai’swered William with that exact
ness of detail beloved of /is kind.
x,It cam’ doon on the seventeenth
August, and there
fl>’
a
were bunders
it. That was
now. Go on
CHAPTER 11
The Old Order
Hatlierly Castle, the seat of the
Lords of Hatherly and Hume, was
a landmark for many miles, around.
It stood very high on a frowning
rock overlooking the turbulent Dir
dum Water, which In oldtimes had
'been diverted by a- secret channel to
fill the moat and thus render the-
L'ortress practically impregnable..
Between Essendon, ' and Hatherly
there had been in those old flays a
constant anfl bloody feud, though-
once a. Riddell-Keyr had. braved the
floo'd .of Dirdum in a’La-mmas state
anti stolen his lady-love from the
very battlements of Hatherley—a
theft which the Humes had..not fail
ed to wipe out with blood. But these
old tales were forgotten now, and
for many years there had been
friendship warm and close, betwixt
the two families, ■ '
Hard times, long-continued and
acute agricultural depression, and.
other contributory causes had im
poverished the Humes likewise, and
it was sometimes said that the chief
• bon,ds between, the two houses were
pride and poverty.
The Essendon carriage approach
ed the old gateway of Hatherely
by a steep and winding road which
left the highway to Bordwick and
the south county at the Dirdum
Bridge. There were a good many
trees of the hardier sort on the
’banks of the Dirdum Water. These
thickened' toward, the castle Hill
and they added a touch of pictur
esqueness ■■ to the rugged scene
• which-, however, lacked the gentle
-ewes cairrit afore
.■sR-ht!”
“It’s, very pretty
then,, William,” and take the’ horses
gently up the hill. It looks very
steep today”.
The fat old pair took it in true
leisurely fashion, and they were not
at all ’breathless when they arrived
at .the outer gateway which shut in
the old drawbridge.
Nothing had been altered -at Hath
erley. The secret channel had but
to be tapped, the Dirdum allowed
its will in the moat, and in less than
an; hour’s time the Castle would be
-isolated as -of old, Alice Kerr smil
ed at the hollow i»ound made by
the carriage as it crossed the wood
en bridge, 'thinking of the fierce
feuds of those old days and of the
picturesqueness of life then in spite
of its lack of security. The inner
gateway was open and across a
courtyard paved with round cobbles
the carriage moved steadily to the
low, narrow, 'nail-studded door
the Castle. 1
> Lady Heatherly and Hume —
give her full designation — was
home, and she was more than pleas
ed to see her friend.
• Bhe was a tall, stately person with
features rather roughly cast for bea
uty, and she possessed a somewhat
forbidding, imperious‘manner, which
however, softened rarely as she
stooped to kiss Alice Kerr, for whom
she had a very sincere affection.
They had known one another in girl
hood, and they had kept up the int
imacy, more
all the years
“I was not
you at Home
tia,
or less close, through
of their married lives,
sure that I should find
this morning, Constan-
said Mrs. Kerr.
‘Strange that you should come to
me to-day, Alice. I said to them be
fore they rode off this, morning that
‘if I had not had a slight cold I
should have invited myself to lunch
at Essendon.”
“I only wish you had, Constantia,
We had a fine meet this morning,
and I never saw Griselda look bet
ter.” •<
“She sits well,” said her mother
With .a., sigh. .“But we canjt afford, to,
hunt much longer, and Hatherley
must certainly give up the master
ship next year.”
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break his heart. Besides where would
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“Ah, that is not the point. It is
money we are grasping for. Did you
ever know such times”?—poor Cosmo
• Hying on his pay and trying hard not
to. grumble. It is a mercy that nei
ther you nor I have a large family.
Ip we had had, God knows what
would have become of them. Have
you good news from Lilias?”
“Very good". The child is perfectly
happy, and vis, I think, being pre
pared for the frugal life;” said Mrs.
, Kerr with a smile merged immediat
ely into a half-sigh
am worried about. :
ling about, and we <
to make him.”
“He 1166(1 not 1)0
is surely enough to do at Essendon
if he has a mind to do it.”
“He must not take away his fath
er’s occupation, my 'dear, It is the
only thing that keeps M'ark decently
well and fairly happy.”
“Well, and what is th§ problem?
I can sympathize with you. When
we were young the heir to a place
like Essendon never caused any
body the slightest anxiety. He sini;
ply came home and learned from his
father how to look after his place.
The times are sadly changed,”’
“The place 'had dwindled now
that every -scrap of the unentailed is
gone, and there is not enough for
an able-bodied young man to do, and
frankly speaking, to keep him out
of mischief. We have even spoken of
putting him into commerce.”
“What kind of commerce?” in
quired Lady Hatherley, >a little grim
ly.
“The usual.kind that people in our
position take up,” replied Mrs. Kerr
vaguely. “Weaver Laidlaw has been
on a visit to London lately, and
when he came over one night to dine
and sleep, having business with Mark
he told us a ‘great deal about bus
iness life in the city—in London, I
mean. He was surprised to see so
many younger sons engaged quite
successfully in it.’*
“And did he advise sending Harry
to London?” asked Lady Hatherley,
with increased dryness,
' “Oh, no, he was simply relating1
his experiences. But Mark has been
talking, about it, and he has frequent
ly spoken of it to me. It might be a
good thing for Harry, C-onstantia'—
“Take it from me that it would
not. It requires a special kind of
character to succeed among*finan
cial sharks. You would probably find
that Harry would lose the little that
life has .and have nothing whatever
to the good. Besides, London would
spoil the boy. Alice, don’t let your
anxieties make you lose your sense
of the fitness of things—I had very
nearly said your common sense.’”
Mrs. Kerr fery faintly smiled.
^w“I„.am o.n)y„acquiring it, dear. I
effujef not help thinking as we drove
across the Dirdum Bridge up to the
Castle this afternoon of the old times
that I have heard and read of, when
Hatherely was a little” kingdom in
itself and its lord a/Sort of king and.
law-giver. Everything is changed,
Constantia, and wo must march with
the times.”
“Must we? Where,did you imbibe
these new notions, Alice?' Has Mark
pegun to take in a Radical paper?”
“Oh, no. but one- has to live and
learm And .after all, if people are
good and happy# what does it mat
ter whether they. can count their
family tree for generations back? I
supppose, indeed, that the new peo
ple have a tree of sorts.”
“Yes, no doubt they have a tree
—of’ sorts-. It might be very in
structive to ask Bentley Carrington
to supply us with -a copy of his fam
ily tree. He ought to have been
compelled to do it before he was
permitted to take up his abode, at
the Priory. Have you observed that
the man actually, flies a flag when
they are in residence? Could Roy
alty do more? If .we were tempted to
flaunt our poor ■ discolored ribbons
in the breeze the sight of that brand
new Union Jack on the Priory watch
tower would keep us back.” ..
“You are very Jiard on the mail,
Constantia. It .shows his loyalty at
least.” ■ , ■
“Loyalty! His pretensions is the
proper word? And have you see.n the
woman?” .
“No, because I haven’t called, and,
of course, they worship at Hatherley
church, while we are at Essendon.”
(To be continued)
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