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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1887-12-30, Page 2war" THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY, DEC. 30, 1887. HELEN LAFONE .• oa THE FOES OF .e! HOUSEHOLD. A TALI OP 'MILIRH LIP& CHAPTER IV "I mast out build spew it"' she thought (•'it" referring to Peirsival's svi door pe.fsmasr for her.) "He Ines sae, and we are Mead. ; bet we .hall were le anything more Somehow I do not team to 'have it fa me to inspire peopis with a very deep att.obmeot It will last but osis month loaner, than Alice will oar, and N will all be at an sad. I shell have to behave as tkooes 1 did not aria, any ohaege, and I as out at all mare that I shall be able to. As -any rate it will be very dialcult, I weeder if I shall sloe learn ant to est wpm im- pales I made sock good resolutions at first, berme I knew be would only ears for else as long es be could compare lie with se *try sift, I kept my rade•. glen def asps Hoe. sod than be was se hid and pleasant, I raid not help Ilk - Sag bra ; whenever we talked we seemed to have so mush i. common. At kit I threw prudence to the winds, add thought 1 would have one plesas sem- mer in my life at soy rate. The only fault is that it has been much too pleas- ant latant 1 have enjoyed myself as I never did beton. 1 did not think it would be s , hard to give up at the end." Her fees had grown very thoughtful and rather sad as the t►oayhta passed through her mind, and she presently went oil — "If I only feat sun, if I could only get rid of this feeling that hei likes me, manly because there is no one else to like ; though. after all why should he like Alice best 1 Every cos else does, but her is different from other people He likes me because we are alike, and he would have nothing in common with her. However time will show. She half sighed, and went on thinking without changing her position. The soft beams of a September sun filtered down through a haze, gulden where the oda tootled it ; in the dieters, over the water and the half -veiled hills, a soft blue -gam. The shy was blae-grey too ; It was difficult to say where the sky end- ed sad the haze began. There was no viol, only a fitful breath of air which monody lifted the leaves, or ruined Helen's hair or the lace on the hat lying by her aide. She was quite alone, not even • beat was visible. She sat and dreamed heedless of time, and, what in this plans was of equal im- porters, tide also ; and she was consid- erably surprised to find on rousing her- selt tens her meditatiotu that the sun Was low, the warmth tone from the air, and the tide coming steadily in. It most have been the withdrawal of —OOJ1TIX V ID. be may Lase tar Hake was is dssdii "She's here, Dixon; she's here," whisk or out orf dryer by this time, and his gave bin sew slr.egtk, and pissed him heart fek eke at the thought. He dared is • momsat at Pereivsl's side sat 'atertaia the idea Tu be of aay Yes, she was them, Iyisg en • shelf of good he mast persuade L imesll that eke oak sompMte j YdsM from the •bwv, might yet be heaped, sad he was sows thoegh had they 'Mewed Dixuo's sag - e t the barb sad getting of a boat is gram and rowed roma the lalead they arm liar than he believed say sea had meet iasritsbty have ssen her. How dear it helms. 11. took Dist with able bad got there was apparent eno*ih him ; his heap alight he needed, sad of as Pneival tried to hit her up, sad bad sewer les of them read get over the to ?desist almor immediately, berme water hater than one she uttered • abarp cry of per. the time easese to take IL 11 is proves- "Row fur year Mas, Dixon," be laid "She mast have epeaiaed her mak," lag to Shish el all the biseaits 1 threw whoa they were Mt he said, 'oad Lew w tet her est of hen away so gaily." "Ill do my best, air, aerie fear. without giving her pais is some that 1 11 was interesting to watch the water Where will vow be going Ent, sir, tkiak ran tett." on bag as there was snakiest Tight, het yes i" The pain meet have brought Helen whew as hoar had goer by et was dark "To the asked, of worse. If she is back to fall consciousness, for she now and tolerably cold. Blie could not try there, Aiwa' he tired u1 it by this time, raised herself o0 or elbow, sad Wick - to kept warm by walking, for the shoe sad it the is tot----" not in the light of the lantern, said -- was too rooky and uneven to make walk- He did tot Tale► his sentence, neither "Mr Moore, is that you r ieg is the dark practicable, mita she was did Dues Irish it fur him ; they rowed "Yes. Thank hearse you are very mach colder than st present. on is guloses. loess There was otbing to do bat sit and They made rapid way, the wind was "Thank heaven, you are here. I had wait, though for what she had no very is their favor and the boat was • light begun to despair of over leavingthis clever idea. one place alive. Have you been here bag r About cine o'clock that same evening Before long the ostler of the inland "Ws have bra all over the island, Percival walked into the drawing room became wiser', and resting for a sewed end called and shouted all the time" at Tis Thwaite Perfect oilers reign- o0 their oars, they could hear the '•I never heard you. 1 must have K Mr Ing had fallen asleep over of the water against the stores fainted asses." Bat/eg per ; Mr, Woe, and her "Take oars when you lard, air, thew "Aglaia r missed daughter, Gertrude, were absorb- am some nasty pleas." "Yea ; I know I fainted before. It ed in their crewel work. Alter the 'Then is so telling ole which cede she was so cold, and I felt sick with pain earl greeti.gs had bra exohssg'd, will be, ' said Percival, "though I should sad hunger, I suppose" Percival looked round for Helen, and think ole this, in ease any one came" "Bow did you hurt yourself 7" Dot Aiding her beer to feet that the Nearer ad nearer they came, till they "I was trying to Leap warm by walk' object of hie coming had vanished. He could distinguish • white patch against ing, and I slipped is the dark. and mast waited, but she did not appaine gad hes the dark rocks. have sprained my ankle." crossed the room to (ilsetrada, who was "She's bon," said Moore ; "that is "Try to bear one wrench of pain, and sitting apart from the others, and askedbar whit* dress. I will have you out of this and on your "Is ant your sister at home 1 I And be called badly, way home is tea minutes." should like to ase her." , "Miss Woos" He was as rood as his word. In s "She is not in ; she went out after Bat there was no answer. very short time he had rescued her tam leach, and did not come home to dinner. her awkward couch, and was carrying It is leo silly of her tendo theca things ; her to the boat, proceeded by Dixon, she only gets mto scrapes." hoW►.g the !antero. "But if she has Dot come home, where She did sot speak nor apparently do you suppose shots 1" sotto* anything. She did not em to "I expect she has gone to Dr Haz- see Dixon, or to feel any cariosity as to lift's ; she often does. If you wait a how Pereira! had found her. She spoke tattle I daresay eh* will come in." Arlt when they were in the boat, Dixon "You take things very much for y b, rowieg and Perceval atttOR Dear to granted," he said, divided between when he had laid her down sad made amusement and anger. "I have been at her as oomtortabe as poesiblo. She was Dr Hazlett's all evening and have seen oosscioas of the simmer of the boat, cathing at all of your sister." and, putting set bet head, she laid it ole "If she is not there, I suppose she is Percival's sleeve, saying— somewhere else," she replied rather "Mr Moors." shortly, annoyed at his loco. "I am hen." "I suppere she is ; but it is late for "I am not dreaming, you are really her to be out aloe. ; something may here ; I as. .o longer on the island 1' have happened to her." "Yes, mein arose the bay.' "What should happen to her i" still hick bad "But you are sitting here, who is row - inquiringly. nag r' Bat she got no reply. Percival atepp- "Dixon... *l up b Mr L.foos, who had roused "Dixon !" she repeated, in • puzzled from his slumber at the young man's tone. "What has he to do with it 7 entrance, and. after repeating what he "Never mind now," he said gently. had said to Gertrude, went on. thls "Do not talk, you ars too tired ; I will "You will excuse my leaving you so tell you when we get home." abruptly, but I cannot help feeling un- hod y She obeyed him, and did not speak easy about bar, I w111 go to the village the hart to cast open• ain until after • long and painful and make some inquiries." doubt upon the trgawit Percival laid her on the couch in "You are verykind, bat I think ung man's hupea you ''We'll And bar oo-r," said Mr Moore l the drawing room at The Thwaite. .re giving yourself unnecessary trouble in a tone of resolotioo, "She is here on ( Thier arrival created some little sen• It ie sot the first time Helen has behaved sation, bat Percival cut all inquires very the island ; that's the chief thing, the rest b nothing." short, and leaving Helen nn the hand. of "She did not answer your call, ale," Mes Latone and her maid, her tired to observed Dixon modestly. the dining -room with her father and "I sassy she did not bear ; she may • gave him an account of the evenings ba on the other side. I'll cell again." �Oedinga' nce. Good night." And be called again, repeatedly, ran. - He was gone without shaking hand.. inz hie voice afresh at every few steps They heard the ball door tall to after they took, but he never heard any an. CHAPTER V. • and tier. they returned to the oc- mitering cry. cctozo ST filtCG'etSTANCft. cupatioas which had been interrupted by I "There ie nothing for it but to go right hu coming. " 31r Lafcne was irritable He 'meals g' round the island," be said doggedly, not altogether silence • voice which kept Percival rushed down to the village, "Give me the lantern, Dixon. You inquiring of every one he met if they I don't Rash it round enough. We a whisperingqutlthot hes bad best wrong b 's could give him new. of Miss Lafoae, rehear( but what is jset under oar feat'- nonetly taking for cru ed that Helen's The greater number had not oven her at Dixon surrendered the lantern, and nom ow an mpnce was to caused by her u ithg pod an impromptu visit b Dr Has - all, one or two had met her, but in the ' they made the complete tour of the lift, and that he might so have felt mon main street of the village, which was no island, until they stood .gain on the rias at all. But a woman said she halwhere t daughter. about the fate of t l e Ibm spot they had lauded, with the daughter. (N coons he did not like the Miss Lsfone in '•Dixon'e shop." knowledge that they bad sesched the Dizon kept the principal feeling that he was to blame, and that grocer's island over sod found nothing. bad it not been for the zeal and pertin- p in the place, and Percival knew Neither spoke ; both were thinking softy of a comparative stranger Helen be was rather a friend of Helen's, the sats thing, and trying to hide it inking it possible she might hare even from themselves. The thought i• might heave paid aur aye whim with her him where she was going, he ran the mind of each was- lite. Still it was always a somaort to re- tie step saying- fleet that after all it was really .he who 'Suppose she has alipped in the dark, was to blame for it all, that it was not Dixon, hers yon seen Mia Latrine lest her footing, and fallen Into the afternoon 7 ' water." he who had shown Ie than a father's is& Lairs 1 yea, sir, she was here And to prevent the thought from Rain- roam for his daughter's safety, bet three o'clock buying bruins she who had dispkyed mon thanI' CHAPTER V. outonn sit CIaCtN5TafCim. "By your leave, air," said Disco when the echo of Percival's voice had died away without provoking any reply. Mies 1.afone had on • black dress today, not • white one." Percival made no answer. He had thrown the boat on the beach, and now rose up to step out of it, saying, ''Light the lantern, Dixon, and be quick about it. 1 want to begin to look for bar." Dixon did as he was bidden. and they left the boat and began clambering over the rocks in silence. Naturally the first point in their search was the white patch wcheated Percival, and which proved so be totting but a particularly white block of limestone ; but close to it Percival picked up a crumbled hall of paper, which be unrolled as he said "She is bore, all the same, Dixon a one of your bags. "I give the same kind of to ever y, " murmured Dixon, but he had not Vie sun that rowed her, then being I to nothing else w do so, for her medita- I dope tions were not of a nature to end wb from lack of material, bat short up and try looked about her with a view to ratans- Sng home. As yet the tide was not high, bat she knew the 00.sytoo wen to draw any encouragement from that. The tide came creeping in to a certain point, then a wise saddeody arose and with or bound filled every curse of the bay, II oovored every inch of `Sand. A very short look from Helen'. :long-sighted eyes showed her that within ten minutes ♦ her inland would be a veritable island and herself a peiauter in it till the tide turned. Then it would be 'dark, and madness to attempt to get �across the teed. If she Goold not escape after this I en tide, she must remain until the after- " noon of the foUowiag day. she "It is now unfortunate," she thought that with &-smile, "that no one knows where se th I am -except Dixon," with a glance at Iola the paper bag lying at her feet, "and he into may kava the asses to cereal my where- " &bouts or he may not.' this All this time ale had been looking out "M over the bay, ani as the above thought , about / 1, pried th:ougbt her mind, "the ways," as It was called in the neighborhood, o re rushing in, °overawe everything and lapping op against the rocks upon which she stood. this foolish, thoughtless way, and, nal upon it, she will come home ills you are wandering over the cous- in search of bar." 'Possibly ; bot I cannot leave it to cis log grow�d, sash tried to sunset eo0ts • air • "Never mind what she bought ; did thing fresh to do, folly and wroat-headednessThe she say where she was going t ' I "Suppose we eat that dead tree there "Tea. sir, she said she was going alight," was Pereival's lather desperate why, sir, has she not some home ?" i idea. "It woad show e. the what. Pereira! clenched his hands as he re- , place ; she could not help seeing us thee. R "There is my last chance goos,.. she I Ply with •tone of sharpness which was I it would baro whits we went round said Mond, with a little laugh. "How i sot o idiotic of me to forget the time like this, and how angry they will be when I don't 'moms in to dinner." She looked at bar watch It was heli- ostat sir. "i should have been late in any ease," she thought "It is better to be alto- gether prevented from curing by an r- odent,aha. to be loosely late through forgetfulness ; it our family al least. Lal ate regain myself." Re sat down again and watched the meter plashing and swaying against the rocks. The tide was is, and seemed to s settling down until it was called off aa'whore. She sal absorbed in thumb. Until !t auddealy occurred to her that fuk hammy, ad ohm was streak with My. • •Dear me." she thought, "I supper i haws ranee to sal lentil tomorrow armor ; hew aim 1 to bath so krat. I ! irony ted men equal to , walk, wh of in his voice. I .gain. " "No, she has not come home. Tell me where she went to, can't you 7" The last word. were spoken almost savagely, for • vague fear was begin.iog to work at his heart, and he wanted to be up I sod doing. "8he said she was going to walk to the island acne the sande," replied the man, his face growing white with the same fear which he saw in Percival', face "Aad you let her ' Good God, Dixon, are you mad 1" " What I "Suppose we pall round the island, air," said Dixon. "We'd may be get a better view of the shore than stumbling .bog as we have been drag." Elea as they stood deliberating they heard a screed like • slob or • moan, whish seemed to our from the ground $moag the rooks a little to their right As they held their breath to bear if it were not repeated, it care again, sad was this time followed by • faint mar- iner, though they could distinguish no articulate words. ootid I do, art i said it was I Bot Moore did not wait for words. surely a bold thing to do. but sbe said she had done it tefore.' who, t\o.ig►, aoloiag teem the sstele pact and in the saw for as before, , bo eaagbt up the laa- She may have tern, whish in the despoodesey of the be kept by the mnmsnt bed been plumed on the growled, she by sot, by I.cd was of "Come down to th• shore with mca n and I re w hi help me offwith • boat. reached the hiked and tide or something, but if heaven, Dixon, Ill haveover the rocks as though they you up for i wen the hovel pavement of a .beef. murder I Dixon sersmbed .Her him as boat he He dad not know what he was satin, grad, sada mid the treed.— °retorting thoughts helped to restos* Mr Lafone's egusnimity. Unwilling as Moore was to go without seeing Helen again, the time pared, and no message coming from her, b. was forced to conclude that she had bees put to bed, sad fust it was of nc use pro longing his visit. He rose to go there- for, and was centring the hall, and gir ing only very divided attention to w Mr Leone was eying, being engaged in composing • roses. for Hele•,wbe• Mrs Leone came out of the drawing -room, saying— "I am ashamed to trouble you say more, Mr More, bat Heise insists epolenity seag you rein before sloe goes goto bed." Percival was within the room almost before she had finished speaking, and • ample of strides took him to the side d t Helen's reek. She was still looaiu, - ; t white ann d faint, and thewee • ,moll of gargled brandy std eau de Cologne in the room. He beat down t* her, and his vols• was hardly steady as he ,eked "Too are forme bettor r' He lad d, as he spoke, put his ha theta her outstretebed oar,d afee ea amus she gave it • alight Pressen. Her lips were tr•mblittg a *AN mad the did slit look M him. It lathed late his mead that Mrs Lehr W en beterr- ies/ her, and a wave of isdigs.tios rt•ah• .d lob his heart "I shall our and sea how yr are to morrow, ' he mow id. Good eight.' Her sammeng "Good oiehl" was bassi, audible, and m he left the room his toe was whiter and hie mouth more est than earl Whoa Perglval Forbad the Theirs oto the following aftersoos—►salaam • meld eld sot be postposad bed liege ui kiln chafing all atorag at bums --be found Hideo on the redo bet But is ou the drawing room. He was taken W a little moralise room where be knew eall- en were never eota tertaed, and where therrtute he and Helen amid be uudia- turbed. He was glad of at and wooder- ud whether any thoughts of kis visit ha bad been in her mind when achose this room w receive him. Solitude with Helen was teosseary to purposethe purpose with which be had rime over. The events of the previous even- ing had revolutionised hie feelings. He had already known that be loved Helen, and .bows all things desired bee for hes wife ; but be had not jut/ended to ask her to marry him yet He thought ba would watt, watch her, sod feel perfect- ly sure that she loved biro reek- ing. eek- ing. There was a ragas idea boating in his mind test he would wait till Alia ogre home. tie thought it would please Helen to be singled out im her sister's presence, as it were, chosen as his wits in the bless of Alias's beauty. The unlit before b. as had various good rumor for not actin[ in haste ; now all was 'hanged. He had hardly been able to speak as they rowed bums from the island, his emotion had been so great. A few momenta before he had been fighting desperately spinet the fear, rapidly growing into • certainty, that ardent.Helen had met with a fatal ardent. Now she was lying alive and safe within reach of his hand, The revulsion feel- ing fe• ing was more theaa he could bear with outward composure, and he felt thank- ful for the darkness which hid his face from the eyes of his companions. The very narrower of bar escape showed him all in a moment what her loss would have been to him. The caas releoess shown by her parents filled him with des- gost, and the sight of Helena fro' as be end "Good aygbt ' to her haunted him all through the night and prerented his weeping. When he had slept, it had never been for more than a few minutes, to wake suddenly from a dream of seeing Helen in some awful peril from which he ca tried in vain to save her. All the things.o worked upon him that be rode 0751 to The Throe on the following afternoon with the purpose of asking Helen to be his wife. "How do you ted this aftet•nonn 1' he asked when they had shaken hands, clean sod he nad taken the low wicker a which stood so temptingly near theou ccMh. "uch better, thank., she replied it a voice Tike her own again. "My ankle was not sprained, only badly twisted, Dr. Hazlitt said." "Ob, he did come, then "Why—did you know he was r' 10 "I called last night on my way home. He was nut iv, but I left a message sue gosling that be should cast a professional eye oo Thereyou was.s• . hide more color iu her cheeks me she said — "How good you are. It is to you I owe being oat of pain now. Mamma did not think it necessary to send fur him, and I suffered a good deal all night; hot wits he rime this musing he bound my foot up on scientific principles, so that it gives ms very little pain. 'th After this they were booileot— Heleo was thankless how mach happier the mere presence of Percival in the room made her ; Percival was thinking how he should best approach what it was in his mind to my. ''Tell me," mid Helen at last, "how you came to End out or know that I had eons out .t all. }-on told me nothing last night • as told her the the whole history, and �sDMpa•d in sileeee, more moved than As sited to show. "Aad, ' ooneird.d I'ercivai,his voice a Mtn deeper than usual, "If i had beenn half an hour later in netting he, or had sot thought of seeing Dixon so soon, . you would hare bra left where you hath were all night. For half an hour would have pude all the difference in the tide. It had turned beton we set out, sad though you did not know it, before we Waded there was hardly water to goat e" We could not possibly have crossed the sands after dark, and we should lave had to remain on shore, kaowiag when you were and unable to get to yr. " His depth of feriae was .o apparent hat Helen thought she orgbi to take • fighter view of the matter, so she said almost gaily. "Well, at any rate, you world know I was there, sad not in any nal danger, only di.sraferf." "There wee decidedly real danger after roe hart your fool, besides I spoke wrongly ; we did root knew, pad that wee the treebls, We supposed sad hoped roe would be these, bet Ibsen was always the attenuates w:.hb made ►» do ss'', • foolish Pinna 1 Yee mast bore lora what an aerial risk yeti 50" "It was rely beads* I wan edspill eretrgh to target the time," she tag as - ramblingly. "1f I had kept my eyes open I .koala have sat ham* •U eight, sal ne use w.r0W lave baps asp the wiser wawa I bad shone to tell them. 1 amen yds there is • priestly sats way over the sands ; it is only berme the eonsary people are wanting is mango that they try to make other believe it is daagerwus. If you like I ws'I take you some day, and you shall ase for tau- 8is spoke quite eagerly et the last, se though she were peupuseng a most en- joyable excursion. Percival raid not kelp smiling &a he replied "1 shall ~tautly out serurege each reckless risk of life. 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