HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-2-5, Page 2A Dark
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Or, A Corning Vengeance
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They -were approaching the river; lie
limey that by thu eater:toter of the Rhone
axedthe eeraslogal sight of ee eaelor and
longeheteruele
The melot load grown dark and 'wet, and
the faiut and murky lights from the etre
lempe and the wretched laousee partiellY
revealed the squalor of the nviallborhood;
thaw wee a Slitell of tar and of bilge wee
ter ia the thiek ettuoephere; and, late as
It was, Clive oould hear the clang Of ham -
leers plexaeding from some of the block-
Itutkere' shops weere the xneu were work -
lug overtime.
PrEeeatlY he heard the dal' htfn-vlag of earelied for his knife to <out the rope that
water againet, the slipe whieh led down tound her; and he. hed aetually got the
to the ter as lv; and he leant over the
-- edge oe the knife against the rope wb.en
apron 4..af the cab and looked about bim, oe felt a aberp pain in his side, followed
the mieery of the narrew etreets a•nd al-
lese, tee noisomeneee of the whole place, by a heavy blow en the back of his head.
emote him with a nameless dread. He managed to rise, and. seeing round
out, and. looked round. They had stopped ""'"-
The cabmen pulled uP, and Clive lemPtioll,PflaiCe'rhy....kyie
to to. the ground,
who. gripped him, and Bang
iLl A place close by the river, almost, de- Where Clive came to it was with a cow
veld of bouees, and tio ea.eee, liehtee thee eciouenees of something eald at his feet.
It was almost pitch dark. openehis heavily,
and looked
nodded towards a low, half -ruined shed.
The cabman lle d eyee
About hire, and memory returned with all
which looked tes i' it had been- deeerted its .anguish. The dimlight was still burn -
by some bankruPt hbockomaker or mot, lug, en:d. try it he saw the motioulese form
builder, of Mina lying, bound ae le had heat seen
-mey eveht in there," lie said gruffly. her, and eit17 a few yardaway fmal him -
"queer kind. o' place. ain't, it, guv'tuer? With a haaraa or. be tvs,ea •to nwv° t0
'Phe young lady, she didn't eeem to fancY go to her; but he, too, -was bound at arms
it, an' sloe drew back like; but the gentle. and feet, and he mild only MOIre bie head,
man that came out to meet her, be eaye She was lying alnatiet parallel with him.
e.enoething to her -I ditto t catch ehat it and the water that was lapping at his
evas-and they went in together. I.ee come feet lYaS lapping at hers; and in a flash
o m,
out again, an' gave me a drink -two or he underettelei, the sigeilicanee of. their
three drink e it was, for the natter o' that joint I.easition; the eide was leasing elowl7
-.an' I drove away. An that's 'wet I've hut enrel,v, it would rise to the ledge Avast
going to do now. Don't eatelme i.eing above their heade; thenreceding, would
raeself up with anything queer. Good- euek them out. to the dark and. filthy :river,
night, gueener." whirh would bear them oa its.noysterious
"I'll giveyeti another five -pound note bosom to the sea or wash. -them up upon
to . ,, said. Clire I . eems nraddy bank into which they -would
But the cabman -winked and 'shook hieSink, and be loet for ever.
head. "Oue fiver in the 'and is -worth two ' Be and Mina, were alone in that awful
in the bush, sir," he said; --especially plaee; and yet not alone; for Death wae
-when there might be 0, beak and quad at Itheering between them, waiting to strike.
the end of 'em," he added, over hie eleoul- It was evident that leoelthe had thought
der as he drO1 0 Off. Clive 1r ed dead or he -would not have
Clive went to the ruined le-fe him ungagged; but there wae no hope
a. door. It iseemed to be Plied, and found
the eney means in this; for Clive knew that hie •voiee,
of en :tree, for he exam ned the eide of eakened by exhauetion and less of blood,
the building that ran down to the water;
and, he went back to the door, and knock-
ed. The stienee was so profound that it
seemed impeesible that 11.BY iiVillg thing
could be within it; but he knorked again,
; and Iris heart leapt as he heard, footstepe
' approaching the door. A voice from be-
hind it muttered cautiouely:
eIsh. that you?"
It opened into a blockmakeres deo elop-
ing a) the water's edge, a shop long Maee
&sorted and empty SaYe for a few xottieg
pierce or timber, broken kpars, and erede
of ane; and there, lying in s. corner, 'woth
her arme boiled te her skive, eves aline.
Mingliug with the coder of rotting wood
and bilge -water a eta a. faint, heavy etent,
which clung to the thick, dank. eta:ace-
phere. Clive knew it at once; it was
ahloreforfe. With her name en his lipe
he sprang to her -side and knelt over her.
"Mate, Mina!" he calleci to her, trying
to keep the horror from hes veice. "It, is
Ia-Clivel You are ‚safe, qnite trailer
Ile knewethat elheewae aneonstaioue, He
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"Oh, Mime Mina!" broke from his parch -
Ale don t! she bleathed. 013,00,t, giro Looted Upon by Londea's 1000r
•way, Olive. I can bear anything bet that. a Gaillfine Friend.
Let faee It together RS YOE Welled faee
it if you were alone, and wore not grier-
ing about me,"
"There is BO VOIllaXt in tom world like
you. Mina," he ‚said.. "So brave, ‚so no-
ble, and Yet 50 loving. reel you set me an
example: and. I'll try to follow it, dear.
If I could enly kies you, if I could :holy
touoli yoer hand!"
She sighed deeply. "That would make
deeth sweet. dearest," she acad. 'Hu'sh!
-some one is coming!"
CHAPTE XXXII.
Clive knew the TOiee t it was Keelaki'e.
Almost by an tnepiretion Clive thought
of Sara, and, imitating her voice, replied,
"Yee, quick!" The door was opened, and
Clive sprang in, thruet et to with iris foot,
and seised Boshbd. There was a dim light
burning somewhere in the :shattered build-
ing; and •Clive eaught the gleam of a re-
volver in. Enehkee hand. He etrack him
41 blow on the arm, and then grippealixa
tould not carry manY yards. And even
if he could have made himself heard, there
was little chalice or aesistanee coming to
him in that plaee of ill repute. Orielsfor
help, even women's ecreams, were too
frequent in thie locality to attract atten-
tion, much less bring aid.
For Itimeelf-ah, well, be could have met
death, if not with indifference. with. *elm -
nese and composure. But Mime Minn.!
The eweat broke out on his forehead, and
he writhed in hes bonde -until the ropes
cut into hie fiesh. Ile was not able even
ie writhe long; for Ina wounds 'were
bleeding, and he was almost too weak to
stir. lIe lay still, trying to sunimon all
las fortitude -not for loraself, but for
Mina. He e,ould almost hope that ehe was
already dead; for if ‚so she 'would be
spared the unspeakable agoey of watch-
ing and waiting for the death that was
slowly approaching.
He began to grow ,delirious, and he
fought against :the meat that was oreep-
by the throat; but. lie was not quick ing over him; but he thought that he had
enough to prevent, Keehki calling outfought in vain, that he was really delire
There came a response from several ous, when he heard something that sound -
voices and the hurrying of thoteteps; and e1 like a sigh. He waited a more:int, oa.-
olive kuele that he -would hex° to fight, ewe; the ‚sound came again, and, as calm -
against odds. His grip en the ecoundrel's 17 ae he eould, ‚said.:
thiroat • tojiki, neai'lyg, 1,,
etaggerecl; -with a twist of. the leg Clive The response he bad searcely dared hope
hurled him to the ground. Iterehlties head for came hack. Itaavae only a breath, a
must have fallen on stones; foe lie gasp- quavering breath, hut it made hire thrill
ed,
and. became unconseiots. Clive sprang through all his aching veins. It was one
to hiss feet, and sew two figures coming weed, breathed with infinite love a,nel de-
-towards him from the opening of the pees- spair:
age; a portion of the aiough boarding that -..CLivel"
lined it had fallen away, and Clive press- He could not speak for a moment. The
ed bizaself alto the space 'thus made, and
'waited.
One of the men held aloft a Ship's lan-
tern, and Clive saw that the two approach-
ing aesailants were foreigners: they look-
ed like Pelee Or half -bred Ituseiane, and
.ccoundrele ef even a lower clase than
leesleki. One ef them had caught up an
iron bar, and he held this ready to strike
as he ruehed forward. They had passed
Clive before they caught eight of Keshki
lying by the door; and se they stopped,
Clive eprang on to the mari with the bar,
'struck him between the eyes, end tore the
bar from hie hand.
Startled by hie sudden +onslaught, both
men drew back, and Clive, seizing the mo -
of hesitation, felled one of the men
with his own weapon. The other looked
from right to left like a Tee at bay; and
('Ti're, with the bar raieed, said thiekly:
•eetand latek! Let me pass! There is a
lady here -take me to her, and I'll wee ea, me te fight eey fear, -And noW 'YOU are
you money, micee money- than you've got here, in their bands!" She paused for
The man heeitated •a moment, then. he breath. "Ilow did you come here? Was
for ibis job."
it through 60111e-SOMO folly of mine that
said in broken English, and telonest
you traced me?"
"I found the cab, Mina," lie said. "There
"I no understand. Are yon zee per-lee:co?
wee no folly on your part; it is who
;shouted Clove. have been wickedly, criminally foolish -
"Mortal
for I did not leave word where 1 wee foe -
There was a moment or two of silence;
then he heard a faint °IT', a arY that tore Iboltveilnlgy071170; iea,rtlaiirint,hbeelePpec:enIckoninoew.thyelisu;
his heart in twain. It stopped :suddenly,
abruptly. Ralf lIend with dreael and fury, X know that brave heart and soul of youre,
an
eteuck the man down, caught UP the d. th.at you 'would turn with scorn from
any affectation of encouragement, of de-
lantere, and. ruehed along the passage. luelee hope.'
"Yes," she said, with a t,cezeb of loving
pride in her volee. "I would not have you
tell me anything but the truth. It would
make it harder. And, indeed, it -would not,
be hard to die here eo near you, almost
close by your Gide, if I could die alone, for
life is not Go preeioue to me."
A. dry sob burst from Clive, and he
writhed in lee bonds.
"There might yet be a chance for us,
Mina," he .'said . "If I could make anyeelf
heard -the Thamee pollee might be pass -
No, aeareet," she seed, and see evoke
eaguith of knowing thet she was lying
bound so near hini and that yet he was
Powerless. to help her, to eet her free, te
save her life, choked. the -words hack; but
presently he managed to control himeelf.
"Dearest!" he said. "Are you in pain?
Have those scoundrels hurt you?"
"No," she replied faintly. "I can soarce-
ly feel; I sm drowsy, an a kind of ettipor.
Ale but what does it raatter about tue? It
ie you -you, Clive, of whom I think! It
wee all my foIly, 'MY seneelees credulity,
which has brought you, lured into their
hands. It -was Koehki who tent the false
message. It was he who sprang on me
and bound me when one of the other men
brought me into this place. / knew that
they had snared me to spite you; and
was terrified; but I was glad, glee, Clive,
that I did not leave word where I was
going; the thought that I had not done
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the sweet, word unhesitatingly; ,for 'with
death so near there was no Jaeger any
need to conceal their love; and 'heart to
'heart could ‚speak freely. "The police
boat has passed up tlueriver; I heard the
two Teen -with Keslaki say so; and. if you
called out loud enough th be heaact
the men might come back. I think they
have left us beeattee they thought we were
dead or in too deep a, ewoon to call for
help. Oh, it is latter to he here, and to
know you are losing your life for Iner
eakel And sueh a, life So great, so good,
of cuch value to the whole country,
people,"
Clive laughed, /almost Mockingly, almost
deliriously. "Pet that, thought away front
you, Minn," he said; "don't. /lather it for
a, -moment. bily Wei It. cis X who have
fooled it away, I who have Juggled With
my happiness, and youre, yotrel Lying
here, like a helpIees idiot, I SO0 what a
fool, 'what an imbecile I've been. But ma
more of that; semreproach is lieeleee.
tan only ask you to forgive me, Mina, to
tell you that I' levo you, have never <hu-
ed to love you eillee love sprang nu in
1117 letleoin for Yoe, I had all unwittingly
Compromised a4y natal, thinking you
did net care kr ma I -Ives in honor
bound to ask her tO be my wife; and then
-when the -truth of her birth broke 'niton
me, the ehaine whif,:h X would have sun-
dered were wound niore elooely round me."
"I know, I know, Clive!" she atd. "Do
not let us thine of her, of ahythieg but
our love. Are you in pain, deaeest?
fear, I fear they' have treated you truel-
ly I" °
Ite heard the sobs elle tried to stifle, and
he answered earneetly: ,
''1 aan in no pain whateveze If thee got
at me I gave thenO so good ers they gave.
Wby didret I hill them ethezi I had the
thane's? Pool to gaie I"
"Isl'o; you would not do that, Olive," she,
said, "You eould 'not." There Wee a'
IMMO then else eaith "Will iteewill it be
lone"
Je onewered her in the seirit wotthy Of
lee. "Noe leng, tlarletifh It a spring
I(
"Yee, r esui feel it rieleg," elie amicl *ere
quietly, "We 511011 float out to the river,
CHAPTER XXXIII,
Clive listened; but the heavy throbbing
of his heamt for a time 'prevented hits hear-
ing the sound; then he Isaid• "Mina -be
cairn! I oan hear it, It is a wonaan's
step. Miea, we are s:a,ved!"
epair, followed, Ffe heard her
seep, then a sigh of disappointneent, de -
es the woman -the IIindoo woman!
Lady Edith:is servant --she came to rue: -
oh, I wish I had told you 1 -alt's threatened
me, and you, It is she who hae planned
this with Koshtki, and helped him. She
is coming to finish the work,"
Clove ground hie teeth. "Keep quite
still; let her think you are dead, still in
a faint," he ethlepered.
Ile himself closed his eye's by an almost
‚superhuman effort, and kepthis litabs me.
honless. It was Sara. She came elowly,
walking something like a oat or a leopard
over the rotting 'timber and the slinay
stones
She lifted the lantern, -Match, in their
haste, the Geoundrels had -left behind
them'and approaching Mina, beat and
examined her. Olive watched her 'with a
turmoil of emotions 'wallah my poor pen
cotunot set down. Ile ‚saw her- take an
Indian knife from uuder the folds of Iler
long cloak, and 'raise it; and an actual
phyeical holcriess easailed him.
The knife was poised for a moinent or
two; then, as if satisfied that her victim
was deael, and, probably eeflacting that
the ‚stab would not be only nnneeessaey
but eielty, she replaced the knife in her
girdle, and went over to Clive. Hie pulse
was so faint, lois appeaeance so like thee
of death, that it wee little wonder elle
was deceived. "To Oli've's unspeakable re-
lief -not ou his own accouut, but on
Mina's -for he knew that She now 'wee
watching, and that she would. at, have
been able to see the knife uplifted over
him without cryirig out -Sara did not take
out, the knife. She seated herself on a
balk beside him, and, folding her arms,
looked down at him -with gli.ttering oyes
in Wilk/ hOne the vindietive tualiceethe
cruel gloat•ing triumph here& one might
pieture in the eyes of n fiend from the
nethermost pit.
'Lie •there, my •pretty fool -Dig." she
crooned. Sara:has come to see you, to
see that you eleo soundly, to Ging you a
little lullaby, the little song we Hindeo
women sing to the butimeala-the thiak the
traitor, when the -min with the big swore
is waiting for him. Yes; you are a thief:
you stole my mietrees's heartathe heart
f 11 fie r and ou•
betrayed her for that trash there. Poor
little fool! Sara warned her; but ehe would
not, hearken, would not take heed. Arid
so she lies therelike dead carrion op the
banks of the sacred Ganges. And in a lit-,
tle time the river will wesh her away with
all the other dirt. Atod you, too 'will go
veithher, Daypretty Gahib.-I wish you
weren't „
She kicked him with her foot. and'
laughed with an evil. regret.
'Id like you to hear, to eee, how Sara
has avenged. the child of her bosom. The
pigs: have dene their -work too well; they
should have kept jeet, enough life in you
to give Sara the joy of seeing you diel
Never rain& fool -mane sh.e can watch
you -watch yon go drifting away down
the dark river. And ehe will not have
to wait long," ehe.added, as the' drew her
robe away from the rising tide, and...shaft.
ed higher up the mecca of woad.
Clive kept his teeth clenehed, drove back
the ery time threatened to buret from
him; for he knew that Mina heard every
word the -woman uttered In her mad and
savage hate, and the knowledge added to
1115 enguish.. If lics could be free for only
one moment -so save Mina first, end thee
to I vut the justice of an outragea
heavea to this pitiless fiend in been.an
form. . .
Sara was silent for a time -it seemed
Years to the two victims -the water rose
higher, rapidly now. Presently Saxe,
who -se eyee had been -wandering from le
dark river to the two. bound figures. be-
gan to laugh, mockingly, triumphantly.
"It coance, it comes!" she croonIt
comes te do Sara s bidding, to complete
her vengeance, Welcome, good. river! Sara
will help you 1" -
She picked her way to Minn, and plac-
ing ler skinny hand on :the girl's Ghoul.
der, pu.shed her into the tide She would
have heard the deep sob that broke from
Ilona s lips, but a,s her victim ftoa,fed.
uttered a, Shrill laugh. Then she went
back to Olive. He would have :spoken then,
would have °malted prayer's, entreaties --
for Mines life, but the couuterfeit of ot
swoon iind passed into reality, and he was
unconseions.
* 5
Five anirratee-lesS-Pfter Clive had
deebed off, Tibby realized the mietrke
he had made, the ewful mistake, in not
giving her the addeess of the place to
whieh he bad gone.. With a cry, ohe rush-
ed out of the room, and downthe seairs.
But Clive bad stertecl, and the boys who
hueg 'about :mould give her no inform-
ation, and only jeered et her distreseeahe
rati eet into the street in search of a Po-
licentaxt;„ then, not firodieg one, and ecaree-
ly knowing whet 'was doing, ebe ran
back to the house:, She had searcelY
reached the room when elle beard some
one coming hp the letaire two e.t a time,
the doer was Sung open, and. Quilton en-
teTreedo.ugh be had 'come so hurriedly, -he,
was outwardly quite ealna, and he spoke
even more slowly ate impaeeively theu
ielhAainl. ti e, Ti bby ? Ah, apparently
net!" as 'eibbe flung herself upon him er.v-
itig.
'Site's gone! Mina is lost-earried away!
And he lees followed her. And 1 don't
knew where thee' are. I'm worse tear: a,
-wretclied idiot -I let 'int go without eskite
'inol Ole they% be muedored!"
Ile took her 'by the shouldere, and thook
her none too gently; it Was the beet tang
lac :coiled have done; for ‚soothing verde
and phraeces would have been lost on Tib -
by in her frantie condition. •
(To be celL.,_Itime_ed.),
None are so blind as those who
aro looking for t_rouble..
In three years the Salacia. Tea
Co. have increased their ealee
3,g90,954 pounds. In other words
they hiwe added to their already
large .trade one-tenth of the entire
anneal 'tea, consumption in the
Dominiisin of Canad&
e tt.s passed into the English
language : "as slender as the Duch-
ess of Marlborough's neck" serves
for a degree ,of comparison in one
order of creation no less than "as
bulky as (G.K.C.' " serves in an,
other, so says a writer on the Lon-
don Sketch. But it is not, with
her, a case of neck or nothing; her
Graoe has a rare faculty for for-
getting her own 'graces, For
months her whole attention has
been given to the figures, not of
fashion -books or Tango, but of
sweated labor.
She has come to grips with a sub,
ject that is too painful for most
The-- DiMheas of Marlborough:
people to think about even at a safe
distance. Her- statement of the
facts is concise, convincing, terri-
ble. Her friends would far rather
she thought a,nd talked of the things
of her own world. "Let.them fight
it out themselves; we can never
understand them," is -the sort of
advice she is always getting. "But
you don't let them fight it out
themselves " she answers; "every
time you go shopping injudiciously
your money is given to the bad
cause of the employers. Ever"jr
time you are careless and buy the
products of sweating, you subsidize
the evil systein."
She rattles out her statistics as
easily, and charmingly, as another
duchess rattles out Epsom prices.
Though with less ,American accent
than an average Englishwcmian ac-
quires in ar fortnight in California,
she has, nevertheless, an Ameri-
can's sense of headlines. She puts
her case with extraordinary brevity
and effect. If you want to know the
facts about the east end do not go
to the east end, but go to Sunder-
land ,House, Mayfair, when the
duchess is telling, in her young,
steadfast, and convincing voice, the
things she .has learned during years
of constant study. "There are thou-
sands of women. and girls who are
suffering actual hunger want and
destitution though they axe work-
ing every available hour all the
year round"—that is the gravamen
of her charge against the existing
order.
The Duchess of Marlborough's
philanthropy has not been spasmo-
dic. During several years she has
spent more time at East Ham than
at Blenheim, though in no sense has
she left the world in which she finds
She and her campaign carry most
weight, She does not relinquish
her houses, nor her parties, nor her
pearls.. Her fascination does not
wane nor her youth turn to grey-
ness because she has things to do
and things to say, and a sot of very
'cruel and depressing observations
always on her mind and in het
heart. By station, by habit, by the
very finish of her features and the
elegance of her build, slice belongs
to a world of trivialities and lux-
ury; her manner, minus a certain
seriousness that will not be wholly
hidden Oren by the mask and domi-
no of fashion, is the manner 'of
Vanderbilt- cum Marlborough, of
Fifth-Avenue-cuni-Blenheim, of a
perfeet worldliness of the most at-
tractive sort. )3ut it is made more
dharming than the most coniplete
worldliness ean ever be by the soft-
ening influence of her large,sympa-,,
thie s,
The <h mm remains, in a fuller
beese that l!alteat1 Hired, is apt to
thi k, an A mer1.-an. tthe is
abs dud by i51 it l';'ig?aed, and
iti thc.re for gj.d, si-k: bolds to her
aith in the States and her natural
passion fey her country. She be.
Heves in the women et America, in
Ilia college -bred girl. She is eriti-
cal of the Englishman's roeted ob
jeetion to the higher female edu-
cation. He must, ,she thinks, have
secret fear that the wife he Ands
so hard to understand even 'when
she is unlearned, aniple woman,
will be absolutely incomprehensible
when she is highly educated, All
questions are to her the Women's
Question, Her study has been the
woman, worker; the hostels she
opened not, long ago were hostels
(the first of their kind) for the sex
that Lord Rowton left out in the
cold. But if her guest in Yorkshire
not lung ago was Mrs. Pankhurst,
it does not follow that the duchess
has given her support, to militancy.
On many paints those two were in
agreement; on many others they
were in opAsition. In Ameriea her
Grace could, like her mother, be
an out-and-out suffragette, because
itt America out-and-out suffragiSM
wins the vole without recourse to
extreme measures. All the •duch-
ess's chid problems have been en-
eountered in reconciling of Eng-
glish and American habits of mind,
Aed East Ham believes she is solv-
ing many of them with something
very like genius.
+1.
A MEMORY OF JENNY LIND.
One Who Met Her Tells About the
great Singer.
in 1884, writes a friend of the Com-
panion, my father moved from New
Hampshire to a little Canadian settle-
ment on the stage road halfway be-
tween Waterloo and Mon.treal. There
he set up an inn for the convenience
of the traveling public, who wished
to break the tiresome journey by
stage. There had been a distillery on
the place, but, true to his principles,
father promptly destroyed it, and had
hit sign painted "The Temperance
Inn," so that no one might mistake
the character of the place.
Our nearest neighbors were French
People, who had no children; but there
were six of us,' so we did not get
lonesome. The daily arrival of the
stage never ceased to be exciting.
Then there were other travelers in
chaise and on horseback, and once a
year a caravan of animals passed
through: Think of six children hav-
ing a whole menagerie to themselves.
We enjoyed the elephants espacially.
There was a lake a little way from
our house where the men took them
to bathe. It was great snort to watch
the big animals squirt water over one
another with the'r trunks.
Our house would look very bare in
these days of palatial hotels. There
were no carpets on the floors, but
Irish Norah, the maid, kept them im-
maculately clean by daily scrubbings.
On extra occasions our mother would
sand over the floor of the public re-
ception room in -intricate patterns,
and then woe betide the youngster
who ventured itt to disturb the work
of art.
One day there was the air of pre-
paration that always preceded the
-arrival of a special guest, whose
conaing had beer previously an-
nounced, We asked no questions, for
in those days children did not inquire
into the doings of their elders, but
we stationed ourselves where we
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two or three men and a plainly dresa.
ed woman got out of the stage. The
woman wore a veil, so we conht not
see her face; but her clothing looked
rather shabby, so we ran into the:" -
kitchen to tell Norah that iao one of
any account had come. North was
not in sight, but presently she bustlej
in, very much excited,
"It you childer want to see the
greatest singer in the world," she
said, "jist pape itt the dining room at
the end of the table be your faythor,"
We "pa,ped," and there sat our
plainly dressed traveler, She had a
sweet face, but we could not under-
stand why "the greatest singer in the
world" should wear an old black dress
with patches at the elbow (I saw them.
myself). As we pushed and scuffled
in our eagerness to see her, the door
swung wide open to our great con-
fusion. My father shook his head at
us, but the lady laughed, As we beat
a hasty retreat, I skrv that She was
speaking to him.
We felt we were great offenders,
and when father came out into the
kitchen a few minutes later, we ex-
pected a reprimand. But he only
sa,id, "You. children may go into the
parlor for awhile. Miss Lind wants
to see you."
It was a very bashful company that
flied into the TOOLE. The great singer
sat in a low rocking -chair by the fire-
place, and as we entered, beckoned
us to come to her. I was the smallest
of the group, so she lifted me up to
her lap, and then she began to sing
to us. I wish that I could remember
what she sang, but we knew nothing
about songs or music, and could only
feel the beauty of the tender voice
and the charm of the woman herself.
I am sure ,Tenny Lind never sang to
a more appreciative audience, or left
a sweeter memory behind her,-
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