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The Huron Signal, 1887-10-7, Page 2otto • i• 0 1) ewer to tit that lend tenettest do home Pent' us a loses to pa ase trove 'roper ler kiadl Ae tesve teativ1 aided Stein te 1a l Hand seat 11 lird, s Mee it • wemth aft morn ' atte tappet later trout), round funnel saloon spinet lady 1 t erne, hre pi the alp by the C:syte took j gen part c often' than t with -4 t pass which Levi( cont e, ie reachi thos apps* of a�tl and 4 the 1e' t bra first heavy steam come the w alnico quicl banks nitro; wbah were Der, Ian bort wet fain an h pun( and proacl the ice be tit any.point Mut beet rock, alma her o shat timed is the the 11 the r rock • hetes the it tr* b1 rend Man was it w N oom� writt er tl daysu e ►o glor now ti.- • , nen brae erste .om had day; hi pi and Seri • Mer Aht 2 THE HURON SI(JAL. FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 1887. 1 GUI? TBYPTITIOL, Alice Andes was Dot a wemememw would select for • heroine bes•ase of bar personality. She was neither lance tabs small ; she was beautiful, (1 thiak beauty is a hard thing to define and limit), bat H was • beauty of Do wonderful or un- usual type, lied was of that kind whisk grows se one gradually, as lei• knowledge of the poaaemor of it grows. There was a wealth of sweetness and parity sbioiag op iu her eyes, which tears could never wash out ; and the mouth indicated firmness and resolution, whisk bad its beginning long before tbe night's vigil which had left it so sternly agonised. The trouble which. had tome to Alice Arnden is of no unusual kind. It is a midden sorrow, of • kind which has crusbed out all of hope in life, many times in the pact, and will many times in the future as long as men and maidens are wood and willful. One may my, " unity • lover's quarrel," but one should remember that then are hart tragedies in this world, under the torture of which seen and woman drag out long lives without finding pace. To Alice Arodee it teemed as though everything worth having in life was now forever utterly beyond her hope. She arose from the seat she had occu- pied for so long, and moved slowly around her bumble room. She had not . known, until the had moved, how nisch she was suffering physically ; how cold It was ; how cramped ani wary she was. .There was really little to do. Her bed had not been used ; her room was in order. Sbe bad plenty of time to pre- pare herself for the task of covering her sorrow from the gaze of her friends --if she oou1d. She made • fire and into it she re- morselessly put all the fragments of the paper which she had spoiled in her efforts to write a simple letter, lona ago, when her sorrow was new. Long ago ? Last night : Happiness gives sioge of lightness to eternity (lying about our being and so called time rather than eternity), which we roughly measure and call minutes and seconds ; but sorrow weights their noiseless feet with lad. wi.dowe of whisk we have sees two un- Marebean, ue bad snail the read was humpy pupa made which eonrey.d it to Osesge Fe. - It was a relief 13 both George and by. Estella `ingetey, the daughter of Alice that then wee service In the little Bertram, wee a beauty and ouw.thimg el eharch that morning, and everybody • flirt, would be /sued tat theta, Meisel sorrow Mote than one lady of Marsham had Gads a et es% abatement ut ata intensity q.arrd:ed with bur loser 04 befalls i• therttiddS1 appearing unaonoerned. Kingsley's •eouant. Aod last eight Then there is • mournful pleasure u there had been • little getheriog of the seeing what one has loot. young people in the cherub and einem In • place no larger than Marshals stance* bad doe. their wont-- seeming - every one knows everybody else. Every ly. to the brat platy Gout** Feoby otoe knows the business of everybody else same with Eet.11a Kingsley : the meet - some degree, or thinks eo, and says re. ins was out of • character to make it so - So oar two friends were known, mid kind foe him to leave his promised wife their relation to each other were known t. Dome with her father, as she had, but aim. And au poorly had they played his coming with Miss Kingsley had been their parts tbst when service was fiuieb- noticed by several. Itith the deed ho- od nearly all their friends had concluded fon him, Ralph Warden had no diffioml- that their engagement was over, and ty in deciding why George had bees at many were speculating as to the reason Mr Kinggsley's and eooeepuw.tly why he for it bed oueu es he had. Ralph Warden was too shrewd a manRalph was well acquainted with a not to see what every on. @lee saw. H. 70und man living where the Kiogal.yo said but little •bout it, as he spoke to had formerly resided, and through him one cud another, after church, but he be knew of the engagement 01 Mint was deeply interested and very much Kingsley to • geetlemao living then. puul.d. The time had bee, when the He had known this for • long time ; 1101041 had connected ha came with that and, knowing this, had thought of Alice Arnden, and there were these little of events which might have other - who had shaken their hada whan-ib-ilnotwYe deeply affected hint came evident that she had been won y Lot night, for instance, •laughing George Fenby, instead of Ralph. group of pediment had spoken of Mise Ralph had never spoken to Alice of Kingsley. One had said : '-She is • lore, and we will respect his reserve. beauty and heiress. Whoever wins her What he cared fur her may remain • will have a beautiful home. Th. Kings - sealed book len estate is the finest in Marsham." Georg. Fenby walked home aloes Now, every gentleman in the group Ralph Warden came the same road, but knew that the Kingsley estate was for a quarter of a mile behind him. Some 'ale and every use had counted at its distance out of the village Ralph sodden- true value the answer which Gorie ly came upon two papers, resting by the Fenby had made Indeed, his devotion aid. of the road. They bad most hkeiy to Alice Arode° was so absolute and been palled from the pocket of the owner complete that mu Doe, sat. her Mimi ea in removing his pocket handkerchief. self, would ever have doubted Ise • The smaller paper had blown apart, it mome°1- lay upon the other, and its contents"it's my highest ambition to be the wen so brief that Ralph had read it be master of the estate," laughed George, he had taken it into his head, and "and I have made offer which I think before he was aware of what he was will be accepted. I as. to have an doing. We have seen the paper beton. answer tonight. 11 I succeeded I shall It was the brief letter in which Aline he supremely happy. I1 not— Arnden bad dismissed George Fenby. why, I .i11 do as other men have Ralph Warden stood for • long time done—tailing of .hat I want, I will with the letter in his hand. take what I can Rot." " I've read it once; it can do no harm Ralph could not remember whore to read it again." h. said. Alice Anda[ has been when these in - And he read it again—not once, men ooceot surds had been spokes. That ly, but • dozen times. It named as if she had been near enough to hear them hs was trying to draw something from was evinced by her letter, which was be the bit of paper which he did not find tore bim. there. He could only dimly imagine how she Atter a Cline be .aoop.i and picked op mot hare suffered in trying to evolve the other paper, • lung, folded document the truth (es she believed the truth to but the action was merely a mechanical be from who[ she had heard. When a one. He did not open it to see what it human idol falls from the place it has was, but with his had bent forward on filled in the hears, not the least of the his breast, and with a very grays face be pain emu from what we nee, or believe wen: cn his wa He walked more slow- we see, of its unworthiness. To find out gold but Piled clay is • sorrowful thin. So he sat there, and pitied Alice Arn- den fur the faith in man which she bad last, as well as fur the man himself who had been put from her. With what pain beyond that which would come to her from a belief that her lover would think and do what his words seemed to imply, must she face the added shame of his stooping to tell it ; nay, more, to bout of it. Mr. George Fenby was neat among the actors in this little fragment of human life. I3e had est at his window that morning as Alice Arnden sat at hers. His wI .4 slow Io.d i. me •..n. coo -teem : from it he saw much the same scene shy mw. The stars failed out fur him as for her ; day brightened ; the sunlight fell across his face. But as he sat there with a cheerful fire near him, be was strong from happy sleep ; his eyes were bright and cheerful y and looked as though tan lad always i ly than before ; he sometimes stripped, been strangers to them, and his lips were smiling. The icy marshes seemed to Lim a tyle of the future. Smooth, white, pure— the light stretching warmly 'coos thein —and with the ocean outside standing to him, as to her, as a type of eternity—an eternity which he felt would be one of strength and happiness. George Fenby thought of what he had to be thankful for this lovely morning. A stall fortune, enough for himself— and one other, a fair woman—and good -- fair—tor hie promised wife ; health, She accepted at once, hopes; as she ( ''Beteg the horse home when it is all ( B$TFRR THAN Willa. did w that Orange Feeley t. y wpald are beI right," he said, "bet take all the time He was not there to sea, however, and Ralph had takes good sea to know that. 13. was already half way borne, but La. Arnden was is no snood to refuse. She was is • reckless temper and Ralph Warden had counted ua that.oe hdesirous of widening the breach be- tween ani George would have found it au easy task to make • be ginning that night. Ralph Warden's lips moved slowly as he seated himself beside Alio*, but we will not try to determine what be said to himself in that crt.ie in more lives thou Dos. "I admin your cloak and hat," ex and he talked to himself from time to time. " If this is final," he commenced aloud, and then relapsed into silence. •"A hinderer.' " Then, after needing and thinking fur awhile, he went on : " She never was moody and self -distrustful." He thought for many minutes now, " I don't understand what she means by his 'higher ambition.' His highest ambition lately seems to have been to win her. It has cost her • great deal to give him uo—any one can see that with education, friends, influence, position . half an ens. And hu freedom u not it was indeed • oodl r. t ' welcome to him ; he neither wanted it g y P 'apse our expected it." This man was strong and quick; good The noonday sun was shining and looking if not handsome. He tanked making everything pleasant There was like a lean who would not do • wicked a glow in the wieary air which seemed thirst, sr think it, while he might do • to have • promise of summer in it weak or foolish one. U. was a ' who Suddenly be stood still, nod a bot, sou?d be likely to win a woman's heart mfi.ro@ flush crept into kis (nee. - and bold it; a man whose kve a woan ..I wonder if it a true that hearts an might prim, and rho has of which sbe ever "aught in the rebound," as they bight wisely mourn. Weak enough to he a man, be was strung enough to be sometimes my they are ? I one hard hard to win from the life which bad And he clenched his hands and ones had him hurried on his way. There wag a happy smile on bis face as He did not stop again until he reach - b. bard his little brother knock at the I ed his home, .hen his mother and sir door, and he answered " Come in " in a ler were waiting for him, nor did he think his thoughts aloud arty mon. theory voice.With • few words of greeting and • few " Here's a letter for you, George." words of elce, he put his mother and '• Tbask yea," said George, as he took ag minor er aside for the present, and went up " You are .slcome. By the hand- to his own room writing on the envelof@ I judge the He seated himself at his table, placed message will be • pleasant one " And the b..y left the room. A pleasant message ! The smile deep tined on the man's face as he lovingly needled the getter • tittle time before he broke the bad. A peasant message ! These were the words h. read : " Ma. Gaows Faw,v,—I will not commit to be any longer a hinderer re- cording your 'higher ambition.' 1 with to speak with you again in all my ill*. I give les back your freedom. At.0 ■ Auriat." R. Mr. Fenby's moraine gift was the Rift of hie freedom, What should he do with it 1 His checks and lips grew Bold and .bite at the thought. Mer ifal heaven ' What could he do with it The sky teemed darkened, the earth e semed dreary and desolate ; tieorpge lamb, and Aloes Arnden, • bare queerest ref • mile apart, ee.ld not have bus mase widely seg atwtod bad an nem etrstehed h stwess them. And .ash looked on the same la.deaepe and mei it •pike at Inst The •illagte of Marsha= was • semi One, and most of it wee farther from the Okun abaft VIVO the two hews.* M Ike Ralph raised his head. The time had not been long since he sat down to think. But he knew it all. Two proud and obstinate young creatures had been paned by fate. And he muttered with white, compressed lips. "1 alone under- stand it all. I, alone, of all the world, can see it right. What a temptation We will not seek to follow his thoughts. What a man does should be the bass of our judgment. not what be would do. If be thought of the cura- tive effect. of time on suffering hearts, we can forgive him ; if • possible feline, in which • happy home of ba own wee the central figurs, roes op to meat him, we can do no less than pity him. if .he only had the slightest reason for what she had done—but she has none. If George Fenby nou really a @ooundrel—bat he is truely • noble man. The band of sunshine rested on his head like a golden crown. His face was almost glorified as he raised it to the light again. And surely the angels made a record of a second gift that day coming to the lot of those whose lives Alice Arnden's letter upon it, and read fall for •little time within the line of it again. Theo for the first time he I our .tory, when he said aloud : "I will looked at the other which he picked op }j� Ali!'* Auden .hall Nava her He turned it over and saw at once what loceraI4bsck again." it wee —• deed from Bertram Kingsley, F.ceoing service at the little church oonveying certain lands and buildings to was (ter. Ralph Warden stood nn the George Feeley. I steps as the congregation ams out. He Ralph Warden drew • long breath, looked happy. and the Tight faded slowly out of his If it be true that "coming Brenta east frier- to a .iegle moment he had seen their shadows before," and that "vino* the whole secret of the misunderstand- 1e ice own reward," he was happy. He ing. It might b3 necessary to go over I spoke cbeerfelly to this one and that it all to see the detail., but the genera) outline of the unfortunate affair was, he felt, as certainly in his possession as it one when they paved H. did not look like a conspirator. One would not have dreamed that he had made • plea weld have bean if he had bees given which for audacity would find few Ti- the privilege of looking fully and freely rale, while for simplicity it might find Tato the minds of the two lor.rs whose fewer. lives were drifting so far apart. ''It's better to have it over as moos tie Down out his head upon his hands possible," he said to himself ; "better on the table --the whiter ennehiae shone' for them and for me." that day on no nobler had --and from 1 Alice Arnden was peening him. He hie lips eau these word, .f .►iib frail leaned forward immunity Ino despoct peed. "Lad us : S"WtU yon come for • little drive with sot into temptation.- me, Miss Arnden 1 The night w per - He thought it all net Bertram feet and you look as if fresh air world do Kingsley owned the Best plass IA all, yen gond." you wish. Hen is another piper of yore which 1 loud this morning. Be limiest oiest that so meddlesome a Land and it. Alio@ Arnden and George Fenby, 1 give you back your filter —and my tlesau.g r H. *poke W n the hoe and obediemt to his word. it dashed down the road and left ham alma. Then is no more need of folh,wing the lovers, to be sun that all oases right, than there is of fullowittgg the reship; Muuutain stream to be sure it finds the sea. claimed Ralph, "though the saying may be as much a compliment to my eater's as to your own taste. Her'a aro like them, are they not r "Very nearly ; mot quite. Bet I didn't know that you ever noticed what your lady I.ieud. west." "I don't very often. I did today. Would the masculine eye detect the dif- ferences if- fereuc s r "I thick not. But it i. • pity to talk of dress on ouch • night as thea What a strong and hetpfut sermon we had tins evening." "Yes," said Ralub. They made a turn In the roan, and there was George himself only a few yards ahead. Alice put down beg veil at coos. Surely, fete was on tbe side of Ralph Wardao's plans that night. Get in, Gevrtre. I woot take • re- fusal " "Who is wish you ? Your sister r' "Yes," said Ralph, with a promptness which should be admired and pardoned. "Sit on this side," said Ralph, as George got in ; "I will sit between you. The night is beautiful, isn't it r "Very beautiful r said George, who really had not thought of it before. "You needn't go home at once, I will turn here, and we will drive over to- ward shore." He had turned his horse down the road leading in that direction before either of ha companions could say • word. The two lovers were gating on the loose they had basked upon in the morning. The moonlight may hays softened the harshness of it a little, but the man between them heard a sob from the woman at his left, and saw the moonlight sparkle suspiciow'y cn the eyelashes of the azar. on his right. And he thought grimly of himself as the image of fate—fate, with the destiny of two human beings in his hand. "I found a paper of yours this morn- ing," said Ralph, .lowly, '•and there it is. 1 could hardly help seeing what it wan I congratulate you on your bat gain. You bare bought the Brest estate about here, George. It is re- markably cheap at the price. I believe the deed was signed last evening 1' .,Yen,. "Mr Kingsley h, Lt• full/ d.ciddi to sell it until then had be i Since last October I have suffered from acute inflammation In toy nose and bead. Fur • week at a time I could not see. I have used no end ut remedies, also employed • doctor, who said it was impure Wuud—but I gut no It'll). I used Ely's Crum Bales us the recommend- ation of a fraud. 1 was faithless but it► • few days was cured. My noes sow, and also my eyes aro well. It is evnder- ful how quick it helped me.—Man. JLDsor, Hanford, Conn. • raw Rival ee atrrekan retnl.atee. America, which w ..sly maw becoming re- eonctled to the rivalry of Russian petruleum, a areaaad by serious competition in a hada quarter nearer Ti --1n Ceaeseela the pie tro1eum deposits of Lake Msracaybe, which have Meg Leen known fur their eopionsubs, ars at length being opened up by capitalist, sod there ase rumors reported by the Anseri- A resumet.icat taborer and Ms nese� M - sinemead lm. IStttsee, " No beer, thanksnus good,'It�t • It will do , after working L the street all the morning," need the Puling,foreman of a party of laborers frot Puling, Works department to one of the swat iutelligent id kis workmen, during ▪ rimming ning on an uptown street, the.ebet- it day. " I'd rather driuk whet i',o is ley cket be, " '. What's that r' ?