The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-08-15, Page 3511
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
ANNA S. SWAN £-
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CHAPTER IX— (Continued)
“Mr. Kerr, don’t be angry, but I
•want to walk back: by the. Dirdum.
It won’t be dark for half an hour
yet,* and Mr; Jaqk Carrington will
see me safely across the'bridge,
can’t think of taking you so far out
of your way.” ;
Riddell-Kerr looked dubious.
“I don’t know that I ought to agree
to that, Griselda—you are in my
charge.”
“I promise to take care of her,
Mr, jKerr, gnd to see her across the
■drawbridge a‘t Hatherley before it is
•dark,” said Jack reassuringly,
“Well, if you will, thank you very
much. You are sure it will be all
right, Gtiselda?”
“Certain, I have been cheated out
of my walk, anyway. Good-bye, Mr.
Carrington—good-'bye Uncle Mark.
He isn’t my real uncle, but when I
'want to keep him in good humour I call him Uncle Mark,” si/ said
with a little flash of mischief as she,
ran down the. steps.
Bentley Carrington, smiled as he
watched the two disappear in the
tender twilight.
“A. fine high-spirited and beauti
ful young lady,’ he said^involuntar-
ily. •
“She’s all that, and wilful as well.
She has her own. way in most things.
Good-bye, Mr. Carrington. Thanks
between you and me would not be
fitting. I—I am a plain, blunt man,
.wnd words fail me. My wife, per
haps, will voice my gratitude better.
You have let in upon my family af
fairs the first ray of light that has
shone for over twenty years. All
that time I have been in bondage to
jsordid care. And now that you have
promised to look into things, I feel
a different man.”
“It’is in .my line of things, and-it
lie a pleasure besides. ) Well, you
may expect me at Essendon to-mor
row. morning at eleven?’
“There is something else,” said
Riddell-Kerr, and drayring ‘liimelf up
he looked-very straight and true in
to Bentley Carrington’s eyes. “I
ask your pardon—yes, I have need.
I have misjudged you and spoken
agaisnt you. I* ask.. your pardon.
When it is granted I shall be a happ
ier man.”
Carrington, realising what an ef
fort this admission was to a proud.
matured man, sipiply wrung
hand.
“Half the misunderstanding
I
ills
in
the world arises from lack of know
ledge. You did il’ot know my world
Mr. Kerr, 'neither cIq.-I know, yours.-
But that can be mended.”
“It will 'be mended, thanks to
•you, Gcod-bye. I am glad . that,
thanks lo my wife, my eyest have beep opened.” *
He sprang to his seat in the dog
cart, a little unwonted emotion
threatening to gain the mastery. It*
was not till he had reached the gates I
that he was troubled by thoughts of
Griselda.
“Now, I rvonder where that lim-
iner is and what she means by all
this. Hatherley will half-kill
when he knows.” •„ .
The', limmer did not cross the
drawbridge till the brief dusk had
been swallowed in the soft darkness
of the winter night,
me
CHAPTER X t
; Love’s Young Dream
After 'many arguments Griselda
triumphed and dragged a reluctant
but secretly curious mother to Bell
enden Priory. She would have hes
itated to ask her had she not known
that*Jack Carrington had already-
taken his departure for London.
. She had reason to (fear the sharp
mess of her mother’s eyes. The visit
passed off without catastrophe, and,
to Griselda’s surprise, her chaperon
had very few strictures to pass.
“I like the woman, Griselda. She
looks like a cook, and sometimes
she talks like one, but there is no
pretension, and she is most amus
ing about the attitude of the folks
towards her.”
“And Blanche, '“mother—isn’t
sweet?”
“Yes,” she admitted with
willing sigh. “M ..
tipn the 'barriers will ‘be
down.”
In this admission, somewhat pain
fully wrung from the mother, Gris
elda secretly gloried.
“She’ll marry •• Harry Kerr, of
course—anybody can see that. I
should not be in 'the least surprised
to hear that they are engaged, or
nearly engaged already,” she said.
“In a week, Griseldd! It is only
a week since that fatal hunting day,
isn’t it? The Kerrs are impetuous,
but I think Harry can hardly have
got that length yet. Besides, he has
to try his mettle of his pasture to
the satisfaction of the father in Lon
don.”
“He goes there ‘to-morrow. I
quite expect to (find him at /he
Priory this afternoon.”
“His mother was
Harry’s prospects yesterday,
the pain of parting from him-—he
is, as you know, the very apple of
her eye—couldn’t cloud her joy. I
hope she is not building too much
on this appointment, Griselda. You
and
I’ve
got
was
she
an.....____ ...... .. un-
“in another genera-
broken
radiant over
Even
Harry have been very intimate,
often wondered why you never
any 'further. At one time he
keen enough. Why was it?”
Griselda shut her lips together.
“Harry is too soft,
mother has spoiled
man -who is a man
feel it.”
“Like your 'father?”
“Yes, like my . father
things—'though I
heart might be just a trifle more
tender,” said Griselda unexpectedly.
“The man of my choice should? be
very strong, but at the same, time
quiet • - • •
like
should certainly learn to shout back
in that case.’’,
“There can’t
folks in one
member that,
might have got on swell enough if
there had been enough money.”
“I should have ended in despising
him. Nothing is more certain than
that, for I would have my own way
right through.” . . * . ... ....
“What of that? There are a
great many wives—quite happy ones
too—'Who go through the whole of
their lives with a secret contempt of
their husbands.”
“That life would not satisfy me,
for I would not be able to hide my
contempt ‘from him
with a curl of lie
want to look up to my
ever I take one. If I
such a one, then I will
married all my days.”
This was so strange a
mother, and his
him.
and
I like a
makes me
in some
think father's
in his strength. I should not
a shouting man, mother. I
be two shouting
house, Griselda—re-
And you and Hairy
said Griselda
lip. ‘‘I shall
husband if
don’t find
remain un-
... ... ____.. deliverance
for the high-spirited Griselda11 that
Lady Hume sat forward to.get a
better look at her face.
‘‘I wonder wliat has' come
you, Griselda. Last
ed on this matter we
ferent plane.”'5
“I was not serious
need not take me seriously now, un
less you like. Probably I shall take
yet another view of it to-morrow.”*»“You are your father’s child all
over, and nobody knows what un
expected thing you may do next. He
will not be very pleased to hear
where we have been today; so I
hope, now that you have tormented
me into doing a thing against my
'better judgment, you will leave me
peace for a little while.”
“Our visit had to be paid, mother,
time
were
th eh,
over
we talk-
on a dif-
and you
: now that the Kerrs have surrender
ed.” i
“They had‘something to gain. I
shall never cease to wonder over
that action of Mrs. Kerr's and I
should have liked to witness her In
terview with Bentley Carrington. I
like the man, and he had a kind way
with women.”
“You will, ask them to dinner,
then, one evening soon?” observed
Griselda calmly.
Lady Hume turned on her daugh
ter in a mild fury.
“What did you promise me yester
day—that you would ask me only
to make a formal call upon them? I
will ask them to dinner. Your
father would not be civil to them.”
“The Kerrs will do it, I know.”
“They are obliged. I am weary
talking about them. Give me a rest
from Bellenden Priory now, or I may
refuse once for all to have anything
further to do with the people. Who
is that on the black horse down in
the hollow?”
Griselda stood up in the carriage,
her slender .body swaying against
the grey of the sky,
“It’s Harry, mother-
gone up to say good-bye. Oh, I’m
sorry to have missed him. We must
make him return with us,
us, ond he is coming more quickly.”
“Do you think that he will be a
success in London, Griselda? Some
how one cannot associate business
ability with the Iiicldell-Kerrs. Not-
one of them has possessed it that I
over heard of.”
“ It may be there all the same,
mother, . ony. needing cultivation.
That is not what would disturb me
about Harry if he belonged to me.”
“What then, would?”
“His inability to say “No.” If
Harry Kerr comes back from Lon
don as good a man as he goes away,
it will be a triumph for—shall we
say?—Blanche Carrington. I don’t
believe anything' else but the mas
ter passiont would ' keep him
straight.”
“Griselda, how can you make such
wild statements? He has been the
best of mother’s sons—a little
sheepish always and easily dealt
with, but good—good, I should say,
to the core.”
“1-Ie has never been tried, mother.
Just look at the line of his mouth,
when he comes up to us. It wants
hardening, if not remaking alto
gether.”
He came towards them on the old
black cob, waving a gallant hand.
He looked the incarnation of
youth and health and hope, his
ruddy face aglow- with pleasant 'an
ticipation, his eye clear and bright,
his whole being instinct with life.
“Just turn Bobby's head', Harry.
You have been at Hatherley, and
you abe going back.”
“Not to-day. I’m due at Bellen
den before five. I hoped to have
■found you at home to bid you good
bye.”
“We too have' been at* the Priory,
Harry,” said Ltfdy Hatherley grim-
,ly. “So the surrender of the coun
ty is 'complete! The ohly one hold
ing out is my husband, and a litte
•morgu displomacy j.gnd.
he will be-led in as meek as a iamb?
Harry’s deep, merry laugh rang
out on the quiet air, and it was a
sound good to hear. It had no al
loy '’in it.
Afterwards when the shadows had
gathered about Harry Kerr’s life,
Griselda recalled that laugh with a
little ache in her heart. She heard
it now' for the last time.
Her heart felt very heavy ,ancl
tended to him, the playmate of her
childhood, more her real brother
than the hot-tempered Cosmo with
whom she had had so many bitter
quarrels. Harry had always been
the peacemaker in these stormy, tur
bulent days, and her memories
him were very sisterly and sweet.
“I’ve . got heaps and heaps
things to say to you, I-Iarry, and
is a
he must have
Oh, I’m
He sees
of
of
it
shame that you wo„n’t come
back. Don’t let’ the Priory ‘ folk
swallow you at one gulp. After all,
we existed 'before the new folk.”
Harry laughed out again, a little
’less spontaneously.
‘If I can I will ride back to Hath-
erley. But my mother is grudging
my being^ out this afternoon, and
there is still a good deal to do in
the way of packing up.”
‘Are you going to Edinburgh by
the early train tomorrow, then?”
they are stopping the Lon-
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“You are looking forward to yojir
London life, then, Harry, and have
no misgivings about it,” said Lady
Hume kindly,
“I mean to work hard and to
achieve something, Lady Hume. Es-
sendon will be in front of me all the
time-—it is for Essendon and my
fathei* and mother I go.”
“For Essendon only, Harry?” ask
ed Griselda with uplifted brows full
of significance.
He coloured slightly and shook his
finger at her,
“I shall miss most of all, I believe,
your guiding tongue, Griselda."
Griselda, to the surprise of them
all, and greatly to her own sur
prise, had to dash away a tear.
“I shall miss you, Harry Kerr;
and remember that Griselda expects
and what frightful scorpions the
guiding tongue will have in reserve,
if you don’t live up to these expec
tations. Well, good-bye, since we
must give you up to Bellenden.
Write sometimes—won’t you?—un
less you mean to forget tile Dirdum
Water altogether.”
She gave him her hand and clasp
ed his close.
“I would kiss you, Harry,, if I
were not afraid of tumbling out of
the carriage, of scandilizing mother,
and of frightening Bobby out of his
wits, ‘Tho kiss will keep, and when
you come back I will give it to you
in spite of Blanche Carrington.”
Sl^e turned away and sat down,
now; frankly weeping, Harry’s own
lips? twitched, and he hardly heard
the kindly words of wisdom and
counsel
sought
•friend
way.
“‘What is the matter with you,
Griselda?” she said anxiously as
the fat greys started forward again.
“I have never seen you behave like
this.”
“I have never felt like this be
fore; that’s why. I have got a fore
boding, a presentiment, a horrible
sinking at my heart, mother, and I
don’t believe that this is going to be
a good thing for Harry Kerr.. I
wish I could keep him back even
yet. Decent poverty can be borne,
but there other things out there in
the big world that are unthinkable.”
Lady Hume sighed. ^She had not
forgotten to Observe "the line of
Harry Kerr’s mouth, and she found
it even as Griselda had described.
Meanwhile the young man, all un
conscious of their misgivings, rode
gaily on to the Priory of Bellenden,
his pulses bounding, his heart over
flowing with all the rosy hopes
which the future offered. Not one
misgiving on his oWn part intruded
to mar the picture, fori what does
youth know of the pitrfalls lying
in wait for the unwary, what heed
will it take of the lure of the world,
the flesh, and the devil?
Harry Kerr rode through the Bel-
lepden woods that day—the very
embodiment of that splendid hope
anq...,courage which makes, and keeps
/tile-world young. Fortune,, smiled
upon him from start to'finish that
glorio.us day, for when he ejntered .the hall” of Bellenden he found
Blanche, of whom liis mind and
hehrt were perilously full, sitting
demurely by the fireplace, working
at a piece of delicate embroidery.
Blanche was womanly in all her
ways. She resembled Harry’s own
mother in this, that she wbuld be a.
home-maker before anything else.
A wise and motherly mother, though
despised in certain circles, had
taught the secret lore which makes
man happy and keeps him bound by
silken cords to his own fireside.'
Bentley Carrington, in all the years
that had elapsed since lie married
the daughter of a working .landlady
in the Fulham Road, had never once
failed to find within the1 four walls
of his own home the sympathy and
the rest that he sought.
Harry did not fail to observe the
light which leaped in the girl's
sweet eyes as she slowly rose to
greet him.
“Mother has gone to lie' down. She
always does so for an hour after
luncheon,
early callers to-day.
came.”
. “I know. I met
Dirdum Road, How
Griselda?”
“Oh, her I could love—she is so
bright and kind, but the mother is
very stern and haughty. ;She very
nearly—but not quite—overawed
my mother. Lady Hume is very
different from Mrs. Kerr.”
(To be Continued)
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