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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-3-24, Page 6URET PRIVATE AFFAIRS CHAPTER, IT—Rescreen. screen. When Nellie Morton left her room and wandered into the grounds for the second time that day, she was in a state of high and extremely unpleasant; excitement. The thought of the river cooled and soothed her. Exceee on that side, the grounds of Garwood House were closed in, shut off from the free air of heaven by tall, stifling brick walls. On the Thames' side the grounds • were open to the sweet broad flowing air of summer, A girl could not escape over these high brick walls, old acid sodden, and smelling dank in the sun. But one could escape by the river. Yes, one might be taken off by a passing boat, One might wander for months close to those greasy walls without seeing a living soul—such a thing as a meet- ing with young Chavtor that day might not occur again in a lifetime,—but on the river, people would often be in view, passing by now and then. Even supposing no boat came to take one away, still there was a Doorway of Escape on the riverside. It was the Doorway through which only the desperate went; but one did not know when one might be- come desperate. Here was the river, and how much cooler to walk up and down by the stream than to breathe the choking atmosphere indoors, No boats were in sight just now, but no need for any existed at present. If desper- ate need of escape arose wbile no boats were at hand, there lay the Door for the eespar- ate—the Water. That doorway could never be closed up. As long as Garwood House stood, it would remain free and open. While she passed up and down, the vio- lence of her perturbation subsided, She was able to survey more calmly the events of the last few hours. She no longer doubt- ed that the soene after luncheon had os)• ourred as it appeared to her. The dwarf, William Bathurst, had bounded into the room shouting with frenzied laughter, had told his mother he was bankrupt, bad been seized by a fit; and on recovering, Mrs Bath- urst had indicated to him that his only means of deliverance from rain was by a marriage with herself, and so getting the money her father bad laid by. If it ever come about that she was forced to select be- tween the fate foredoomed for her by the old woman and the river, she would not hesitate a moment. What should site doe Could she do anything? Of course, she could not be They had no callers at Garwood House ; forced into a marriage with that fearful and the servant was quite unprepared for Moan. Those who thought she, Ellen Morton, the apparition of a young man in dripping could be bullied or cajoled into doing any. flannels boldly demanding to see the lady thing against her will, did not know any- of the house. She was a little thrown off her thing at all of her, Ellen Morton. But her balance by the unexpecteddemand of this uncle and aunt were gone out of England ; young man. As, however, he was a next - her father was not coming home until the door neighbor—seemed to have something autumn ; and between this time and autumn, important to say—and mentioned Miss Mor - matters would bo very disagreeable for her ton's name, she thought she nugh o safely If she continued a guest at Garwood House. take in his message, in spite of general And if she did not continue a guest there, : orders against communications being whither sbould she go ? y brought into that house from the outside Here, against the wall, under this tree, world. She had ne notion there was any stood a dilapidated rustic seat. She would reason to bo uneasy about Nellie, for she tit and look deliberately at the case—the had net heard the Colouels words at the very hard and trying case in which she found d mewing room door, upon reaching the draw - herself. I ing room she spoke her message so that At her back rose the end of the wall over' Mrs. Bathurst, William Bathurst,ancl the Which young Chaytor had climbed ; on her • Colonel could hear, left, just at the end of the seat, ran the � " A gentleman about Miss Morton !" river, silent and deep and dark in the shadow cried the Colonel. " Show him in at once." of beeches and willows ; on her right lay a In his excitement, he forgot ho was not the tangled wildness of neglected undergrowth ; person to whop the message was addressed in front ot her stretched the dusty dry path- or the ono to give orders in the house. ..Che way, from which all verdure had been burn -'i servant retired. ed by a hot and droughty month. 1 ML•s. Bathurst was seated an the couch. Here, in the shade, the air was cooler and She had not recovered from the emotions fresher than even on the unsheltered path- which had just stormed through icor nature way by the river, She took off her hat, to and broken out into a wild, abject revela- let the breeze touch more freely her fore- tion of her blind love for her unhandsome ofedad eCk and hair. Her tio mind, instead son. She could not trust herself to speak. takingup , She had not strength enough to move. She ran back upon the past. She thought of leant against the back of the sofa. Her the happy time spent with the muff, kind- • eyes were half closed and lank -lustre as if hearted, simple-minded Colonel and his af- she dozed. She had a terrible feeling that fectionate, softetnaunered wife, She review - 'she was losing correct appreciation of her ed the peaceful days with them, and the surroundings. frank modest gaieties of Deighton, where I William Bathurst had taken a chair close she had emerged from school into life and,to the sofa, and sat with head dropped on the world. breast and mouth open, breathing heavily, What an overwhelming contrast between' like one who bas climbed a steep quickly. that stirringgarrison town and the lethargic , The Colonel, who had taken a fewuiuk stagnation of this Garwood House ! And to paces up and down the room, turned round thir: that only a week ago—nay, but yes- and faced the door, holding the girl's hat terday—she had been there with her sweet- still in his hand as young Chaytor entered. mindedauntandbluff uncle ; andhereshewas , "I am Miss Morton's uncle," said the to -day mewed inside these repellent walls, Colonel, without giving time for any ono with this chilling mysterious woman, and else to speak. " Where is she, and what this man, more fearful and odious than any has happened to her?" He held out the human being she had ever seen, than any torte hat, to give emphasis and point to the nightmase which had ever made the silent ques tion. chambers of darkness hideous ! "Miiss Morton fell into the river accident - She shuddered at the thought of the man. ally. Shegot was got out, and is now in our i Then she started, and looked around un- place next door quite safe. I assure you easily. Had that sudder shaken the leaves she 18 perfectly unhurt. Of course she eget of the tree overhead ? Impossible. Yet , wet." the leaves of the tree, or some other leaves i "And you, sir, are wet too. Perhaps I near, hal rustled more than the faint breeze _ ought to have begun by thanking you for would warrant. It was more than a rustle her safety?" said the Colonel, advancing to —it was a sound of rustling to which was the young man and holding out his hand. added a sound of pushing among twigs. l Chaytor took the outstretched hand and She looked around again. With a start, she bowed in admission and acknowledgment. Some living sprang to her feet, pale, gasping, trembling. "I happened to be near the bank on our thing was moving m the braek- side of the wall when the accident happen - n on the right, It could not be a large • ed" -- animal, for nothing appeared above the I "And yon jumped in and saved her? 1 ferns. It was pushing towards the river . wish her aunt were here to thank you." —towards her !—towards where she stood, I "Miss Morton is at our place, the Osiers, shaking in every Iimb 1 Then all of a sud- next door. Perhaps you, sir, would like to den ahideous lizard, huge, flat -backed, long-' see her?" he said, laying a light but signifi- tl.iled, stole furtively into view and looking ' cant emphasis on the you. ounningly round out of one small evil eye, I "Pray, lead on, sir; and take my wagged his prodigious head and waddled word for it, that you never did a slowly toward the girl. I better day's work in your life than On the wild impulse of escape from the ; when you pulled our Nellie out of the river, loathsome reptile, she sprang, backward, ' and you may count en my gratitude stumbled over the bank, and, with, a scream ; in great or small things while I live.—I beg fell into the deep slow -flowing water of the ' your pardon," said he, suddenly turning, river. { becoming mindful of the presence of the The lizard waddled forward, snapped up mother and son. " I am afraid you must the fallen hat of the girl, dropped it, and fancy me very rude. But I could only tumbled himself in the stream. think of our dear girl. I will come back At the same instant the form to you when I see her." And following of a young man clad. in flannels young Chaytor, he went out of the room, plunged into the river from the the two leaving the house by the front opposite side of the division wall against door. which the girl had been sitting. He rose .As Chaytor and the Colonel went round and struck back through the sluggish water to the Osiers, the elderman said : "Nothing to the bank with the head of the girl resting could be much more unfortunate than the on his shoulder. This time she was in no half- business on which I came out here. I have conscious state ; this time every trace of been quartered in Deighton. My regiment consciousness had left her. The young man is on its way to India. I am duo at Ports- gained the slip in his own grounds, and mouth to -night at the very latest, or rather a lowly and carefully carried her up the bank. first thing to-mortow morning. 1 bade Here he shifted his harden, to make it more good-bye to my neice at Bathurat's to -day, convenient. He did not call out for help. went to my club, and found a telegram from He never felt less need of help Brazil, forwarded from Deighton, saying in all his life. He never before felt so proud the girl's father is dead. They didn't know of his broad shoulders as when he rested her anything about it, the death, at Garwood head on one of them. He never felt so until I told Mrs. Bathurst -her son was roud of his strength as when he shook his not at home when I arrived. I am one of cad, and stepped forward towards the the executors and trustees. Her father in - boreae disdaining to n ou own to himself that tat he , gtended coming hack for good in the autumn bore any burden at all. He could walk It is very sad, awfully sad, for the poor thus to the end of the world, the burden child, I do wish I wasn't goingaway just helping, not hindering. now, and such a distance too 1 It really is When he arrived at the door, his part was moat nnforbunate that I should be. I ,sup - and he called for assistance, Mary pose 1 could obtain permission to join at and Lilian were instantly in at- Suez; or under the distressing circum'•- the inanimate girl,; and pre- stances, 1 might get leave if I applied for ed mother appeared, a it, But of course I shouldn't like to apply stately and gracious lady of middle age. To them George briefly explained what had cm - cured. The girl was carried up -stairs ; and when die was safe ne a room, with all four women busy around her, George stole out into the grounds fora walls and a smoke, to quiet him, and for solitude, in which. to build a romance all to himself around his beautiful neighbour and his two adventures with her that day—the very first day of her sojourn at Garwood House. It was plain to George that these two ad- ventures could not be mere accident. Fate must mean something by them. What did fate mean? Well, let time tell, and for the present let him dwell in memory on the girl's enchanting beauty. He • had been close to the wall on their side when he heard her scream and saw her fall into the river. He had caught a glimpse of her face as she fell and he was certain she had fainted before she touched the water. What a lucky fellow be was to have been on the spot ! What a lucky fellow he was to have her head lying on his shoulder as lie carried her up to the house 1 He must go back to the house now, to are how she was getting on, and he must then run round to Gar- wood to tell them she was safe. Miss Morton had recovered consciousness and was doing well. Mary, his eldest sis- ter, gave him the news; and he said he should call at Garwood to tell them of the accident, and that the girl was safe. "It was at the sight of your wretched ,Tacks) that made the poor girl stumble into the river," said Mary indiguantly. " I always knew that creature would do some dreadful mischief." " Ah," said George, " I thought 1 heard a second splash. He didn't hurt herr "No; , but we cannot thank k ou for that I am delighted the abominable reptile is drowned." "Some kinds of crocodiles take a lot of drowning. I'm off to see the one next door. All the water in the ocean wouldn't drown him, if the hangman is to have his due." Young Chaytor reached Garwood House just as the Colonel, impetuous with appre- hension, entered the drawing -room holding Nellie's hat in bis hand. Young Chaytor said to the servant, whom he met at the back door, afew yards from the window -door through which Colonel Pickering had just passed into the drawing - room : " I want to see Mrs. Bathurst at once, please, about Miss Morton," just now, with the regiment on the way, and after being so long at home too. But surely these are argent private affair's, if ever there were urgent private affairs.. I never saw Mrs. Bathurst until to -day, and never saw Mr. Bathurat until just now. What an extraordinary -looking pair they are 1 Do you know them very well?" "I do not know them at all, I never was in Garwood House till to -day, or spoke to either of them until this afternoon. Indeed, The Pxogiess of Three Rivers. I never spoke to them et all. You saw our only meeting," Mr, Nicholas Smith, who married a "And your family are nob friendly with daughter of the late Horace Greeley, is them?" United. States Consul at Three Rivers, (Zoo, "No one in our house ever spoke to either whence he has sent to the State Department mother or sen." at Washington an interesting report on the Bat"I wasn't and the ulyis post ed with Mrs trade and industries of that city. The dom- ing. do; the sou is positively revolt- wont describes the efforts to boom the town ing. Inot care much about leaving our girl in that woman's charge. Had 1 seen as a site for manufactures. It was a very conservative place until it awoke to the them, I would never have consented to the necessity of preserving itself from stagna- arrangement. You see, my niece was to tion. Sites for factories, financial aid, free stay with them only a short time, only un- of cost and taxation, were of£ered,and sever - til her father came hone, and now the poor al establishments located in pursuance fellow is gone. I don't like leaving our girl thereof. In the report Mr, Smith says : in that house." Upon a pledge of 100 acres of land with - "I'd rather leave her in her grave." on the city limits and $73,000, free harbor- " Would you ? By George, that's strong. age, and exempt from taxation for But I think you're right, No ; I will not ninety-nine years, an English syndicate leave her with thorn. They would be the was formed to build an abattoir and meat - death of her." canning establishment in the city for the "Or they would drive her mad," said benefit of the European markets. But a young Chaytor; and then he told. Colonel rumor adverse to. the local conditions reach- straneing all about the son's nickname, his ing London, a committee was sent out by arrange paroxysms of midnight laughter, the stockholders to ascertain the facts, and the chill mystery and seclusion in which when, unluckily, it transpired that the that house lay. promoter heel, inadvertently, no doubt, "I am very glad to hear all this from somewhat glossed the advantages of the you," said the Colonel as they entered the place by representing the province of Que. door of the Osiers ; "and you are quite bee as groaning beneath the tread of cattle right in saying it would bo better to leave aching to be converted into Enghsh brawn the girl in her grave than in Garwood." and muscle, and that these patriotic herds George introduced the Colonel to his were then actually being carried to Chicago mother who led him 'to the room • where to be butchered and shipped ignominiously Nellie lay. On the way upstairs he resolved as American beef to Liverpool and London. to say nothing about the death of Christie- .As the committee reached Canada in mid- phor Morton just now. winter, when snowdrifts and not short - When Nellie saw him she uttered a cry horns were rampant upon her thousand of relief and joy, and stretched out her hills and no cattle were to he seen, their hands to him, crying, as they wereleftalono indignation knew no bounds, and long be - "Oh uncle, uncle, this is too good to be fore the snow melted the company was dies true i Now I feel safe once more. You solved. However, the projector, nothing will not leave me! You will not ask me to daunted by his discomfiture, hied him to go hack to that awful house --to those aw- New York, and it is now reported, has fol people 1 I do not care what becomes of succeeded in organizing a new company me, so that you need not ask me to goback upon the terns of the old. there. I would rather go into the river. Ij The outlook for Three Rivers was dark did think of doing that, but I fell in by indeed, but it was the darkness that pre- accident. You will not dear, undo, lot me cedes the breaking of the morn. Mr. Smith go back again 1" adds ; "Never! Nat for the crown jewels of In shaping the destiny of a town, human England, my dearest child, would I let you intelligence is often mocked by blind chance. enter that place again. I'll telegraph for While the municipal authorities were tax- yonr auut to coine back to town froin Ports- ing their wits and theirroal estato in it hope. mouth, and I'll apply for leave on urgent lose endeavor to boom their charge, the private affairs." "" paper manufacturers ot the United States "But you don'tknow alt. It would be un- were anxiously looking around for supplies, reasonable of me to object so much for and in less than twelve months from the more whim or disliking ; but that monster time their attention was called to the St. is a villian, it thief, I think. Oh, my dear Maerice forest, lying within the diatrist and uncle, you do not know what dreadful pec. Irene which only the cedar and pine had plc they are. i been culled.,' 2,500 square miles of its timber The girl setup in the bed, pale and tremb- passed into their possession. ling, and recounted the scene n the dining-' Tho Laurentide Pulp Company, a New room. 1York Association, with 324 miles of these As Colonel Pickering listened to the girl's "limits," has started a mill, rho plant of story of that afternoon, he first grew crani- which is said to have oval $000,000; and in son with rage, then pale with resentment, 1800, the first year of its existence, alt un - and when she finished, he walked dumbly known andunadvertised as it was, it shipped up and down the room." At last he spoke to the United States alone $$,410,400 pounds in collected and firm tones: "This is the of its products. The ellen Falls and Ticon- most atrocious conspiracy that over carne deroga pulp companies, both of New York dose to me in all my life ; and if there is have just acquired 537 squaio miles of these justice to be got in England I'll have it, woodlands, and will, it is understood, pro - against that infamous pair." ' seed at once to the erection of mills at this "Oh made, don't do anything against point to pproper° wood for their factories at them, but keep me away from them 1 Do home. Two large Michigan firms have not lob them come near me. 1 never was holdings of I,6S3 square miles, and another afraid in all my life before ; but now I am Now York Company is now negotiating for terrified." 11,500 miles. to se It seems never to have incurred to quiet, i/ I must leave yon in ors. Ch s It Three Rivers that these refuse charge, while 1run back to town to see what can be bane and how I am to manage forests held her 1uturewealth; that the stone whin •• was rejected by the builder would be- all. 1)o not ho in the least uneasy, my clear 000,0 the chief corner stone, As these en • child. You will be as safe here as you terprises wiU furnish employment for at would bo in the tower."as at Duca too least 1,200 ince, all of whom have to be fed of lice father's death. She was This was not the time to the poor girl and clothed, I ueed hardly say there is a excited and too prostrated for more news of boom in the town, a distressing character. She had been look- Punctuality a Needful Virtue.ing forward to her father's return with great happiness. Of late years she had seen Punctuality is a most useful and needful so little of him that his person could be to virtue, which all would do well to cherish, her little more than a vague memory. .rant even at the cost of much personal exertion. the desolation of her present state of mind But he who, pnnotuai himself, rigidly ex - would be injuriously increased if she heard acts the same of everyone else, accepting no just now that she intuit relinquish all hope mese, making no allowance, rebuking of ever seeing that shadowy, far-awayfather:every delay with a severity quitodispropor- again. Nellie in her distress had not asked tionate to the offense, and indulging in an him why he hail come baclr after leave-tak-' impatience and indignation far more cen- ing. No doubt she thought accident or'surablo than the tardiness which called it some trivial manmer had brought him.; forth, docs more to bring his favorite virtue When he was gone to town there would bo into disrepute Ciento recommend it. Some talk at the Osiers of his visit. That would, years ago, in England, the principal of a be the time to tell her of her Ioss. i large business house met one morning, with Before setting out for town he confided to stern and frowning aspect, an aged and Mrs. Chaytor the object of his second visit feeble clerk who ha.l been absent from his that day, and asked the widow to bide post for two days. The latter. abashed at her opportunity for telling, the sad uewa to the condomnation lie read in his employer's Nellie. face, began in trembling accents: "Just think," said the Colonel to him- "I have been very ill, sir." self as he found himself in the train for "Ill, sir," repeated the stony-hearted London, "of the villiany of those pee- merchant, "ill, sir; you ought to have been pie in Garwood planning the robbery and dead." marriage of the dearest girl in the world Of course such extreme cruelty was only over her father's open grave 1 Hanging made possible by the unjust relations of would be too good for the hideous monster employer and employed, but we may easily and the old witch." believe that punctuality was the favorite When wereached London, it was too late virtne of this specimen of inhumanity. that day to make sure of the leave; but The very fact that our favorite virtue is from what he was told, he felt there woul i one in which we ourselves excel should be be no doubt about his getting it to -morrow sufficient to make us at least, doubtful as before the ship sailed, as the case was a to its great superiority. That we possess most peculiar and important ane, the cir- it and value it is certainly no proof that it cumstances admitting of no delay. So off excels others which we have Dot, and do he went to Portsmouth that night, having not appreciate. A truer insight would, telegraphed Nellie that hehoped to be back perhaps, convince tis that out of the many at the Osiers next day. virtues to which we can make but slight And next day he was back with two pretensions there are several of more weight months' leave. Ono of the first things he and value than the one on which we pride did was to go to bis own solicitor and: tell ourselves. At any rate, whatever it may him all he knew ; whereupon that solicitor be, and however essential, there is always wrote a brief note to William Bathurst some other of a different nature wanted to Esq., of Garwood House, From that clay balance and to guide it. The more we excel to this Colonel Pickering's solicitor has in one direction the more we need to excel never got a reply to the note ; and he says in another. The man with a strong sense when talking of the affair, that no doubt in of justice is especially called upon to culti- the hurry of Mr. Rathurst's sudden journey vate his generous impulses and the from England to Mexico with his mother, generous man should exercise more he quite forgot to reply. But as Bathurst than ordinary pains to hold the scales of hid borrows] the money that fatal Monday justice. Firmness without sympathy de - on forged signatures, Nellie did not lose generates into obstinacy; and sympathy the fortune laid by for her. . without individuality reduces a man to As the time approached for the Colonel's what Emerson calls " a mush of conces- departure for India, the question once more aions." So through the whole gamut of presented itself as how Ine was to provide virtues, each is dependent upon some other for the charge of his niece during his absence. for its own best efficiency, and the favorite Bob this was settled ono day promptly by one more than all others needs its ample - George telling the Colonel that, there being meat. no .objection from him as her guardian, Nellie had promised to be his wife, The Colonel told the young man that, Underground Lake. having saved the girl's life directly and her An underground lake has.been discovered fortune indirectly, no one else could have so throe miles from, Genesee, Idaho. It was good a claim on her.; and as be, George, was found by a well digger. Ata depth of six - a decent fellow,• and there, appeared to be teen feet clear; pure lake water ran out over nothing unsuitable in the match, he didn't the surface for a time, then settled back to know why Nellie's aunt should not see her the earth's level. 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