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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1888-1-13, Page 2LA PONE 7 HOUSEN , • 4. PC 'Cianot you got any la' of them 1 That is ales• , when 1 ma with impossille a.s . JUNIUSS ,L1111. call my powers of obese% seem al humor t'a aid *wally find I get oe pivot "I Mall sensed name ; you meet owe 11 is ember • vitt* amenstent out of erste one- self." =, • "Is it r with a awe ell, I • lytnealleil to give you lay 0 - - • power." "I almost live on .tke suck 4 es MwskLiertenstely it es to ,lot IP • tbg who Gine hire Safest • a pleasant sicunim by oi entree they oould not val "Did anyone steels *Vet mak r "A young man am kr did not know ths of, droweed. "A charming fate, sei ing to anyone elm waled example.' They were West he so lug the water creeping 0 - the dietetics • "The hours I have nut Hetes. "I do not when this island en sot beast. If I ever go may fitak .rly for loog, I should rant witb me, I could not 'ars "Why abould r a teethorly r "I deal Icor ; thugs log to kis feet ea be miestes we shall en the wooderful wave, end io from that we can ro ' "Why be in hurry pleat of time." In hall an boor they w time Helen did aril e ase and made markt or Der bumor moved her. It was shortly Ware when they reached the Thinks, and Holes mid, "Mamma mid due stt that was a long time once you been see no, and I wee y come hare dinner with et the e you come I. "Will your median dregs said Percival, looker ic me intern "Oh yes, she Mer w goin,g and what you vskli tome." ' "Yoe know I ea o swingier the little sett *a he spoke. They walked op tie drive in @deuce, sad td they got ekes tc through the open 01880W languid ripple of MO voice speaking, without rash what she mid. Helen stopped Mort 1lTbet is Aiken She looked op at he it possible Me ase hes "Sewn we go teed Meal, composedly. "It mem be," she wit, else spoke. "That is ill 000 else spooks like t," Percival had thoon t oily musical, and he," he speaker. Ken • t Alin was to one hoei not to go to The Tbeo. would not run the riii family meeting. Beta voidably presort he fik eras curious to see he& would meet. lie would kin ase moth, timeght. 0. 104 hem ways kissed, and thefts there was the more *kr be. do be meditated as. f up the stove into the id. to... ready watching bit, oes,. wait impatience at thil'et-eatatie with slim hat anl it on t,. Let VI -Coining**. • t''.74‘ exabsotred. 1 se, so am seragised ; Mrs Lamm went to Mr Herbed, sod Mr THE "[IRON SIGNAL. 1111DAY, JAL 13, 1888. said, milk* segm, Portlff Weems bie week Messed bee. Than, am ha midi both*. "Why dont yes ft. sad talk to bee I" "She will sot talk to me." "Tbs. yes ben tried r .•A ham; bat aim is lik• a rely Wes- tinl gauss, end 1 More isellints ems a states whisk made ens wish 11 Nes give and able to talk to Me.' ..1 suppose that mesas my* est find bee intenstieg." at all "I s•Pnwwe um" ell lining "Neterally, yee Wet you hen sot • iuterested bit r ft. teed to glen ties ste„siin hi„, "I dare acaresif Latter myself that I daughter was seyrog. Ale hermit Lets Mee fortunate mough to du au." alluroll Palmed mu her flow sole ! 114414 •Y" '3'44 "4 16,1 both slightd. , Helm it smile bemuse a Lough, • low, soy, kaow your wit,ohar inimical little laugh which nobody OMR- 114:416deed Holliersalelifteutth011Wrootna7 to i' °mu". to sh. Would& It was est until dieser Pegged land a nay is Weill foe look* at Allem oe tie seem side of tbe and so keel sees with* feeklem oval of her fame eben-like ear. Whim they the drew* room again lie position seer the low whisk she reensed. sod tags of • time when she wee neverreties with bet ei her fess gamely. was mervelloesly spite of all he bed beard tion be had stidergoes,wb him to raise hie expand kigk, whim he did see bee at her beauty. She bad the features he lug ever very tell -se tall as many a dle Wight, sad bar figure ly developerL At mesa teat, and Percival did net he need comma himself Her movements were slow bet seenhow mined beieg esenplexion she was fist ; faxen hair was emled the back oi bey Deck end k waving fringe opoo hee y skier 11110 snowy white, with este rose fush in tbe oh very dark bin, with brows brown, lit op and gave which ins otherwise mike expression. At eighteen niftoently beautiful ; at • sSe would, in spite of her plexios, be °oars.. Perin it well as if he mew her silt( to the burden of her eight an to upon her. ill "She ought to 41. 01 five - he thought, eyeing her ool telly, "and goo would go •• grime with the reputation most beautiful woman of present her beauty is and bee white dress suits ties ; dead white, no- few weer it with impunity." He began to talk with gave bury evident sixes nor his converestios est Wend for her, *04 10 attempt and turned to She was sitting st a distant ing, sad the light of the showed her fan in profile distinctness. Percival We as critically as he Would any number of y of wordly disempatiost or tin asd trouble ever thicken features or rob theta of t beauty I So long as He and gall they would p toundoess, anti wear and wordly or unworldly, w them into greater .pirilu*li el frost the pan mann of to the burnished clouds of Alice's fringe shaded I brood, open brow, from waved freely back to the end with the sudden dee her, born of this mental re t ract ions, he rose qeiskly ing attitude against the crossing the room plated es's side. s"Wbat an you reading "Wordsworth."' 'jYoe agents your mind worth, you have him at y Yoe ought to join the W 0154 7. "Is there one I I dank 1110. I own like to seedy in any own "I know roe More as • minting for your own in self -oosildenes is stependo . 01 117 to shifts R. meld sot." "I seamen so man om asters," she goosed. • am embers of her mouth. "Now yes take to q mother of poet little w ben get tbe nest of k." "Yee eagle not now to at my 'little weas.' by this time that I am fell want en- I He mid eethinghhi,And "How do yes • lies "She is very besseifel," "No more r tbiek se mere." '1. AM a reties q watch - ds ia arly 57- 'r that °PP"' ,utl sat a-, dinner, mn the a small o ell in up his hair in o isd ran - estored is he 'Amin - r mid time favorite take it it." Os- ," tee of yuer • gee This at her t as Ode* of Tb 01. ID t preps's.- hi caused es a• ghast P•rfoct tie was of mid- ev &w- rits per - 'or that f More. ;racer ul, ily. In izzlingly asses at a loose Her !tit, deli yes of • ,.isehes of a face tinting in 5. mag - at t w *sty sate com- iiw it as ere with troy years • - "Whet makes yu• ley thin T'be asked.Lu.s els every use at bee f, and if they will "ffiesseha ss I kauw it. She mast ve eetasidwiticehhibee boweb7 haroil, pereosaul aiker • manse. oaths sweozetw.ol.their own aceord. dog 06•84 demaribiee W 1111"4..wigs." theight Fervid " oaf!. laughed rather hazily as h• assess- ionie, "1 a st way sato pass bee "Gould yea not hist to yoer moor from tbM,"41 LIPq likla bevel* bb ismiraiaTs thatroulbalbe.wishicirbiTllawouh.mild bet gimlacig"tuea:parel.18 "HhigorilidiLlses lighted up se she saw hint, geaa,, iindasv teas: shablikeh.nrh= erkii:4buth1.11111141me sele: histhatt ber companion, he said essakeelly- 1. 10.. "Did yes sot hear Mise Wears ash- le go. ss in fur yes, 7" 1151 Woe • hurried apology the yet* Metes 4. her wag ems guise, mg they wen left to to Dr misuses is thc.r001:mewwwItudtlamaywer °rheas's. awhwdeerserawiss... so elothowebsyssathese tilin tdw be took tbe clews jest not neset las Div lien was made* to attrai.a it erne le puma that sumo e LaagA.u.s fa," yes know; besidsu. um- by without her anise way of ler fj, 705 arevery., ;Eiretehdhe mo ete simi:bon.., wes sot mimed, soil mi the re am grate we isereased every day that Dr woad Dever Isere his bed alive ehe "And you are seek • bvpserite." "Ever/burl) it hrettorilo uo se 00- la no homer for tang gest ie ti amglikeib..legivitiiemem se et "tfcourasetIreeswtbs saamyhthaesTuhereitre.ha p:powtowg:tDu7zkaw.Dwswhvetadi.tarastrsel=Tato was bet istereoures with Peseivel He 1111•:0111,"1".b. IwolibM Mid sad the donor were se& friends it was ad feel* startled and luilluti7- 8410 pettedly agent that he Mould pay ower remembeted literimli el the Dr Le yeetinsme ii.it,I. ebe old lam withoss in ill beton "Whet is the matter eseataess bsentessiuruesdowas i"sheisioseressen1fesefer with him r she went en. egusili-Prakftie• 1 bobs" it ping. bet these visits were a gimat bows to Helen. Many a sight welch haPPisedWhes • War" Himu yoe bed been usele less arduous to her by seen himf 111 very in r' an Gaud, the fest that Porgies! had ems is just pouring out her geestions one atter the se they wen mediae dews, sad had est for 1011 an hoer tonna them all the uth"elr.beerd on 'my way b.. --I Imd to 0unet10e47 swim Or as moo to her ceH about •010•111talt--14 htfltilwed Ghoul day's work with for more strengtk sad an hour before. He was in Ind; sod 1 aserfeleses become Rimiest bad looked thhwingeuk it wirpillsgwileis.s.,very long UM, Won a early, sod raid WW1, dui mms' u beams of which had stayed with her the He said the last words slowly as if to whole dove sed made her end Midi light- himself. Helm felt s gab st her Wert eft se she heard thesi, sed remembered that Pur k .sereq .Ib s - bar friend wee no longer • young men bad tekes epos beeself - 10serge SW half rose from her chair, goyim- throsgb kis km illness the friend a her "He irdl be sloe.; I shoeld like to whole life. whose Madness hod bees sa- go to him." lad* end hie sympathy always ready. aYou ain't go tusillit." he Midi ley- During theme weeks Percival west tog 10. 10.4 open her arm. "He is all mere to the Thweite,,ntber spied his right for taught, but I was gong to sok .40,since Helm was sot then, sad yet net wittiest 'otiosity sad among. He if you win go to kiss tomorrow I" "How could yoe ask 1" she said re geoid no loftier coeepteie er been os, oroschfully. "Yoe meat keow I shell he crown. mood seemed to go as early as I ass in the morning." her Abetted ; • doses times a day be "But will your people lid yogi go I was neade to feel that be was the object Can you be spared r of bee special interest. "There le no qessties of emir*. I oe this particular afternoon ehe bed shall never be mimed, and fcr myself I almost insisted .poo his coining to the bogie, sal be had mom, very mush song 10 .111, for 11 104 bees his listen tios to relieve Hens M bit post, aod to seed her oat for • walk. Alice, however, contrive* to arrange Wags so that he could no loafer refuse her regale, sad so in the coarse of the afternoon he forted himself stroll* in the garden. Mom with Alice, in • very bed temper. '•Do yea beim, Kr 1100114 was maybe' es she walked slowly by his aide, her noised, heigbt snowing her to keep parfait step with bee, "what first made me take an interest is you, sad thug you most be diligent from other men r "I would not premien to dietimrsigi Gee hem another arms; the many good reasons you mug ban bed." "Ah, you earesetie," emit* straight into his Is.., sod infirm Mei her a glimpse of the transparent depths of her Mee eyes. "Do not give 'yaw - self that trouble. I sever see the point of s termini seises I choose. end if I shone set to gnaw that I have emu it, I defy enyese to fed it out. I want to 1011 yea this, and I shell tell y•oe, how- ever earcestio yoo choose to bs." "I sheski sever think of Win serets- tie with you. It you have 'royale" to say. may 1 beg 01 700 to my it bow, sad is a few missies I must go, end it world grieve sae to bees to isterrept you." "Why do yes want to go?" eh* ask- ed almost impstiently. "I have notic- ed that whenever I .sat to talk you al- ways barks to gay you seen go. When do yee go to, sed wbat do you do when "11"1"tthereensdardrly expest that with all yaw kiwi indulreoes for my stony fen - Mop, yee mould support the recital of • beg lig of baleen engagements." He spoke in a Min bantering tem, 5.1 001.. world Wes detested • abed* of impetimme n it. Alies besides, be- ing devoid of the feeling whish med• fit so easy for Helen M read Pereivel'e 'moods, bed sole. fine es instimek sea ▪ °111 -is a metier el besieges we will sea so mere about it. Wire I was go- ing le my is that you made me think yee must be dilliteet hem oiler wee bonen yea sever - gee way come plimeste. Ad yin know t" In spite .1 10. estesyseee, .11 510 bet list be Me beating* to fml betel, be sada see help sesiling, sad bb Mee Wee $ 1111. 5.... seedial es be repligi-- "I do set pay soundings% Wilke ho • ensonselems b win* I weighe sail move. I wee arerflesttly or,/ *were thee bed set pat aliened myna tie yaw WWI." "Do not be too kareblis ; b..ility may mkt some people ; week* make others look ouserd." Boos alter this Percival west away. Sometime after he had goes, Alice said - "What were you and Mr Moore talk- ing about, Helen I You seemed perfect- ly absorbed." "Did you sake us I We were talk- ing about Wordsworth pert of the time." "I thought Wordsworth was rather solemn. Were you talking about him when you laughed T" "Did you hear me laugh I Then we ,wers talking about somebody elas" Alice shrugged bee Moulders, saying - "I thought he semeel rather egultid- I snot see what 1 ems do for him the next time he comem" to jealousy 'it would be of no see ; ebe wield sot believe me. She would put it dose This time he laughed issertily. "There is an Idea ' Are you amine "Perfectly. 1 know very well. She has the meet inmost contempt for .y attractions -for want of • better weed -acid so far, I must ouotosa,the bad every reason fur her contorpt. She knows nothing of oar engagement, sod before you IMMO the only man who show ed sot preference for me was one •huse regard was nut astterieg.• "Pour Helen !- tensing and looking M ber with eyes full ot amusement. "I do not wonder you were discoetimoted with your life. Neglected by all these fascioating creatures, you most indeed hese felt that your life was missed. I pity you, from the bottom of my heart I pity you. What • miserable makeshift you have bad to c.ntent yourself with at last.'' "True ; mill, the makeshift has its good points. Long cantineed inter - °ours. with these people (nodding to- wards the house) would be as enervating as hviag in • hothoues. The society of the makeshift 'serves as a tonic. Ie fact,- suddenly changiag her tone, "coating from them to you is like pass- ing from a scented, heated drawing room fall of musk and heliotrope, to the open ses shore, where a strong, bracing wind full of the smell el the en blows upon your fo05.4 "Sir Cuthbert Maitland seems to ad- mire your sister very mech. ' "Yee, I wish she would marry him, but she does not appear to care for him. - "Why do you wish she would many him T. ••Peoinse I think they are suited to we another, and you must confess they look very well together. "Yes, he is dark and she as the fairest women I think I ever saw ; they are al- most equal is height, and they have the same slow way of moving about. Yes, 1 think they ought to marry ; perhaps they "I do not believe she cares for him at • shall be glad enough to get away frees all ; and though Alice lives altogether all these people." among people who don't consider love a They were silent foe a moment, then necessary adjunct to marnege, 1 don t she .eat on - think she will marry any one but the "Yon said he was very ill, Percival, ten he will get better ; bit. 001 .0 ill." She raised her eyes to his face as she spoke,and thee was an apposing tom in "It is ; she is not just like the ordin- ber voice, at whisk Percival seeded n- ary girls one meets in society. For one volontarily, as 11(00 be held the old thing, she hu not learned to subdue her sisn's life to his hand. own personal wishes. If she eta "I cannot dear," he said gravely, heart on anything she never rests until "it is too early to say yet, bet WIP will she has got st-stenehow.“ hope for the heat." "Somehow' That seems to imply "Of course, else replied mechsnicelly, that she is not very scrupulous as to the as though she did out know what she means she employs'. was savior, and ebe looked sway frogs "I do not think she would te scrape- him out of the window by waists alio Ins if she wanted anything very mach, was skim*, end of whbeit tb• Maud bid "You give her • strange character, and of the night. not been drawn down, into the Lame and it seemed quite unobtainable... Helen shrugged her shoulders. "I will call on my way home sad tell you seem to know her very well.- " 'The child is father to the man. I meditations. him ito," he maid besaking ia upon bar was htought up with Alt.,; we passed "That 1 will come 1 yes ; he silo yams together in the schoolroona. There ed for me r s be it as her sister, sod they contrived to pass is no place for studying character like "He aged for you this *venni, and I .- refine much tons together, and to enjoy many i the schoolroom.- told him I would send yam" laab. long private conversations in the heart I The Sir Cuthbert Maitland of whom "I should ao like to go tonight," eke • of the crowd. One day Heim said- they had spoken was • man, staying not mina sighing, at The Thwatte, but one of the neighbor- yea go boas. "you 'meld tette me m ing hones and some people said that "My deer. it impossible. I aas ge- would not hare been there, for it was ine DOW, and I gal 1.11 hint to exposit had if nut been for Alice Lafone he known among his friends that • country boom, filled with people gathered to - • c minty," ,d eriti- to the .ing the .y. At aromas, perfec- man could v. • e were e. Do better," for her ly k and w heard a girl to disk 01 10 on erh In day, irm KW- nd H if bably, t girls f riendebip kiss w removed his o ness aad follow T0000 with $ pleasant of hoe. It tree wierepied by and Mrs Wore, a ns di foam girl. Th.... Kvm lefeee's brother wee ot mem Alice Lal eager. Hoke woad forward eciemes She shook said a her words with bad eppereetly to make sleet M reeleing• Mr Wileshist‘ Miss, NI • MAW essefeedy, my IN have today "Well, boo ar• piston r tooraiwilliittostk .1 • hand IIew k did lee Det she ether he :a slight - • up the f Helen. • reed. over him he could not be blind to her lamp beauty, be could not help admiring her strik lux 811 she .wept about the garden or up and kok et down the large rooms of The Thwaite, Alice. roma which seemed as if they bad been r mount built sad furnished for the express par- :, sorrow pies of showing off such beauty as hers. delicate In the indiscriminate admiration and attention which Ahee excited has own si happy less obstrusive devotios to Helen passed air soft unnouced. She was not in such request CHAPTER VIL ALWIL Helens prediction wee verged. After Alice's return The Thinks became a different hoses. All through the sum- mer Percival had been Moog the °lily visi▪ tor there ; the few °then were frieeds sod 000mmporariee of Mr and Mrs IA. foes, or from ume to time some girls, friends, not of Helen, but her younger sister -girls in whom Percival hard been able neither to feel nor to feign the slight/et interest. They were all so much alike, a deadly monotony ran through their dress, manners and con- versation. Alice's presence in the hose. snit -tad a kind of revolution; people cisme to stay, and those lo the neighbor- hood visited more frequently; garden parties and other festivities took place. Under these circemstances.he saw very little of Alice. She was always in re- galia, always surrounded by • crowd of admirers, sad he failed to discover say pleasure in being one in • multitude. After having been singled out by flelen he resented the thought of being only one in • crowd to Alice. That be wee only one in • crowd would have been clear to anyone who bad taken tbe trou- ble to watch her isehavicr to him. She took little notice of him, seldom speak- ing, and than only ia the same way as everybody else, She singled him from the rest neither though partial inciiffer- Mee 001' undue attentioe Though she exercised no fascination man she iloves.' 'Her character seems a little cmpli- cated.'' a, from Helens he hair e head, te near '8 his at- loung- lee, and by Biel - •Sed. 'eta his rim the led ; • lied hems that is 011 you "Wind '11 !sow toseetly "You still think Alice ne more than beautiful T• He shrugged his shouldrs, saying - "I worship from star. You must see for yourself that I have a entail chance of improving our ecquaiotence." "dim is very mach admired, is she sol? I often look at her and wonder bow it is possible to be so beautiful. Who would suppose that she is two yean younger than I en r' "Intellectually vos Sre touch more than two yean her senor. I do not tre- acles eh* las were Uwe average inteUi- "Perhaps sot, bet among the people who form the world that probably counts to ber advantage. nil!, bow do you ksow she is sot clever, Moos y never speak to bet r. "There are many things about he dist realm me think so. If we were to bare half en hoers soevenation I would beteg re • hundred proofs" "Osly hen little patience. Yoe will sot havens( to somplaie that she will sot talk to 700." "Del I complain I Bet yos speak in riddlea Expiate vosnelf." "So far et my rate yogi do sot feel any interest le Aliso. Is it see Se "Perfestly." "Se sew thst at cam k very gala is reeding people's t ---- . when ilwq clowara bereell, sad eke k fabling yes with your owe weepesa Yoe iedifierent, ert she k Sy by., if you lest ebisigikebs0111, and !lass yes will he foram* te usual/ do years& with bet." ts; 41' .• • • la ` ••' • s` • • a h`i146111rAle"IiiitC. ‘.0 "Ir 11;, 4e.. 111111111e1Will*Att you tomorrow gether from all parts of the jmingdom, bstips„"se::::j. 11.:0112eaginlestilible"41 goillar07:til"liu'igh?11”ohlig: was his pet aversin. Hs was • man of she peened we head, tines sbnlist and of a commanding pretence, without robed it away frees hew sa dbooth between thirty and forty years of age, bidding him make baste. Ting Ind bani Parikulariv tall. Hi' Isser" been talking under oover of the meek which was going as, wed es he terse& ta go, Alise's voice came gear sad gaging to where they stood tegtbisr. 1 as ibwww"A"diffeisithitr w0M:11' ,viery, Wt°illgyeeirimiletsieis 71 .5. almost the fest time she hag "Eressedebe had sake: hiesetilalim w aotb.auYinitbiadtil: her, and ebe was esseeely IsrM)wid tsr hie answer. "I regret infinitely that I canna do 10.5 thislibanwieeommonleleiwww:rah, sawa'nbuidh"oessigIewthiall felmeitlifees.?0 ssl abethroakievelbeisiarisib, "oily droaistaw hit wile" "It is est ney Ise& C•eld " spare those few Wean r iwellehistel:kindes_iled es Holos's woods sees “00 et ogee ; geed sigalt." awl hi° "IP• posted. PI see men worm elm 1 aso 61 "Pirmsewbiipedell11.11148.1seleasodeley.401,011"06111. 77111•004, 118161.7ita Pitatalt4 bolsi to ibigiloge oto a. gm Alba we hit t• ikPrfrif4 I'' . "4": S. • • 7-‘ ; . .47 10 4.1. 1". wen good, through he was not exactly handsome, and his wannera were so quiet 08 to b0 almost severe. He no alone in the world, possessing absolutely no relations. Perhape it was the co- sciousness of being the last member a 110 old sad honorable family which gave his whole person • little tinge of melan- choly which W1181 attractive in the eyes of moot WORMS. He was eiondingiy deli- • aed his hair WM already slightly grey. His admiration a Alin wee vary ▪ arked, sod she did not apprenistly ease for him in the least, though as eke Cid not single anyose oet as the object a bee particular raspiet, he wee as yet spared the pangs of jesloesy. A few days altar the seevenstion whisk had passel Mitoses Helm tad Percival oe the mairjest of Alices okar aster, lions, ems tete tbe drawing - roses g 71se Tinge rather Me CB the nesies. ma, se seuel nice Aliee's ratters, filled with people, and he had ems diliesky is dinner* Heiss. He sew ber at lest meted rather is lbs bal iness'!, her idea dere WM* te beef bet is obeesety, sad lin** wIlk eirahat wearied awl &beset sampleal uai Porh61 •'Dt ly. u but 0 and fit glory/ p ever once t utiatu C are t chang crowd votiot have Cult. Pea epore chara for pc she weigi and eery rathe of ca and i W8.0 I ..no mt, b unlit main been he ki migh with yogis he u lanlj sem term A ly. a elm for her 50 thoi tiot hut See 704 ebi eht bet hal 101 TU 10 ar a "New gayly yes why it, on it it woo sot a inistfar el assess be yey ots. I wish ease et ibe ass I trim them* se, It yogi hese the rid oeil ifP*ifluiengiuippilh& 10