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The Exeter Times, 1879-5-1, Page 22 ". HV TIMES MAT 1, 1879 MICHAEF, HARGRAVE$ HARVEST, CHAPTER V. --Continued They left the smite aftere tette, and wpudered away from the place togeth- er. Up the pleasant lane leading from the Lea, past more red•tiled berme be. longing to one of the fatwa owned by Lord Morniugtou, past the well kept house of a geutleman farmer, aoross the Leyton road, along Green Grove Lane, aril so an to Leytouetone Churchyard, where the hot rays of, the evouing sun were falling across a grave sadly dear to Mr. Holding.., They did not pause there, however, "It is veru quiet on the waterside, near Eat! Tituey'e old place," remark. ed Mr. Holcliug ; "we can sit down there and taut a bit." So they wout there. and beside that little lake—scene once upon a time of so grievous a tragedy—sat down and talked, "You dee, ' explained Mr, Holding, "business is not what it onoe wad, or times either for that matter- My fa- ther kept a' shop, where I have now the wa,•ellouse. Re lived over his shoe, and made murrey euough to bring up a family in a quiet way and start them all air." "I had the goodwill of the business when I began; but my 'mother's• little annuity had to come out of the profits. I was forced to pay an assistant, when my father had my services for nay keep. The business was drained almost dry by the time all the family bad got their trifle paid over to them, the lease was just upon oat, and the rent now for the part we have is three times over whet i t used to be for the whole hon ,o. Thou, trade is not so good ; there aro more iu the businems, and each week . some fresh mean starts. You know what my profits are, and I think, if you have considered the matter at :all, must see they are not immense. -Therefore, to cut a long story short, 1 cast about•for something else that I ehould like better, for, to tell yon the truth, I felt the eonfinment iu the City telling upon me, and it some - ]low came into my head that if 1 could only start a glass works, such as no- body else owued, I might, at any rate make enough, before other folks got bold of ttie same notion, as would give me a little income for myself, and a moderate portiou for the child. I am afraid I am trying you." "No," said IUicheel ; "quite the con- trary." "Well, I got a long lease of that piece of ground—a snug piece, I call it ;"crud I deckled to use the old baru or the works. I did not want to lay out an unnecessary penuy; and, fur- ther, I was determiued to take no cri.pi- tel out of the warehanse•-there is lit. tie enough in it at any rate—but to do the beat 1 could with what little I had put by, and all I could save. "We have lived very close, I tr. Gar - grave, very close indeed, and yet the venture has been starved for want of looney. The thing is not a success; I toll you that fairly ; but I believe it might be made a success. You can see how much has been spent, for I have kept a record of every halfpenry, and you can come in and out when you please, if you have the lecest fancy for the speculation. You need not be were growing, quite.olit She looked up, and smiled, Of couree,.he was old ; but after all, he did" )rot look so immensely old as many people ---Myr Suttaby, for iuetanue, and Russell's unole. Besides, be looked younger when he talked freely and pleasantly, as he was doing on this bright wiuter's morning, while she presided aver the cups and saucers. As a rule; -Mr. OGatrgrave dirt riotin dulge in much oouversation. In his, .own family circle. Breakfast, in partial- lar, was with him generally a hasty and silent imeal, often as not interrupt- ed by a message from the foreman.. The change, therefore, from Mr. Gargrttve silent to Mr. Gargrave talka- tive was no more strauge th n'deligbt- fnl, Even when. .he repeated his words of 'the previous' ev.l1iing, •anid said he wanted. to. . speak to 'ler about their relative peeitiuus, she only settled herself in her chairwith a pretty grav- ity, "You remember my taking tea with you once at Olct Ford, Lucy 2" he' went on. "At that time I was elork to your father, as young Terrol is olere to me now." "Were you ?" Lucy opeued ber eves wide, It seemed to her etre lge that he could ever have been anything like young Terrol. • "Yes ; I had then boon quite it Iong time in his e.nploymeut. When I first went t, your father I was quite a lad, little older than you are now. So we grew iu mere process of time to know and understand each other, and he trusted me." "He often said there wee no one he trusted as he did you." Mr. Gargreve3remained silent for a moment, and then resumed : "When I had money enough we went into partnership. Your father started this place, but be wanted more capital se run it on, and I was able to fiud the capital. Up to the time he snot with the accident I do not believe he had ever felt sertously amtinus about your future, because he believed he could uialte sufficient out of his basilicas to prevido for your future. I will not say be wee over sauguiue, but he did think hie ideas capable of being more largely carried out thau-thou"-- Mr. Gargrave broke off abruptly. "At any rate," he resumed, "when he met with the accident lee bad not begun to save, looney. Re cent for tee. and wo talked over affairs as tb.ey stood. "To take from the works the amount invested by him in them would then brave secured you a very poor provision. In effect we weld not have taken that mousy oat. We might have got an other partner .or we might not. Ex- cept to us, there really was no money's worth about the place. A.s a "grow- ing concern' the works were profitable; but to try. to .realize them would have been merely to sell so many barge - loads of sand,so; many , crucibles, and so t'uuoh personal experience and know- ledge acquired with difficulty, and al- most impossible to communicate. I hope I am makiug my, meaning clear to von Lucy ?" night till 1`wati btclftra Fite `ill till "?1a' it`le alio had been figittiag with the ing shunt them. You see they were wiud---the noise of the etreeta--the true," be went on, speaking almost to himself, •"0,teld 44e eithgelo >a true so T do not ask Yt ' thio tt]�ort�'ipg if i did right to Brit the poor old lady surprise of meeting a person from her etvn neighborhood, Fled se disconcerted 4. that she could nut speak a congest• ea sentence. "'Meyer mind," exclaimed Mr. Her- eeRi kindly ; "we'll noon be out of this row, d then talk in dace To describe Mrs. Brockley as she walked aloes with Mr. Herron would be sinrlily 'to' portray le mixture of homeless. vanity, iutrocent' pride, dread and huneiiiation tce'to the state of her attire, .and .an underlying grief, whittle no personal anxiety or exultation could cavae her to forget. Mr. Herron was the principal solicit- or at Bastion, solicit it to all the scion - try families, a very grand personage in Mrs. Brockley's estimation, and she ""tock it vary kind of him," she said af- CATAI113T11 CATARRH t 1 USS The great Sierra. Nevada Smoking Compound.. Vao:oblyp lire glxefo atarrtiyetdigeoren4,.. . a xsgr sag: or tC, LuTZet4 (ANTRAL inn te STORK mousy, '. What l do"ask' is. that your , will forgive. to fear jeopardiziug your w, 1.. MtTH,GeneralAgent, dhkona, out. ly-aa an ton we can a r ' peace," "RAC' I ever any fortune to lose ?" l' HE rALL AND WI.NTLc B TRADE she asked playfully. "I think you are fortune Mistaken. "leo," he ;answered. "Money has, been made here;• and'. as 1' refused to take Mr, Russell Suttaby into. partner ship,, it was my iutention to pay out by degrees such amounts as might ulti- mately make up the share I considered you justly entitled to receive. tstr. Suttaby said he should prefer what be culls "an agreed lump down" to any yearly payment, and be •was coining over this morning to go fully into the terwarde, "to be so pleasant and (REMOVAL! affair with mo." frieudly with nn old body like me, and She turned • her ring • round very in the middle of London. too," C. Sollthoott c Son, • TAILORS arrd 4f.0T1{IL>tt9, Take pleasure to irtorutthe innttbitantsof Exeter add surrounding coon try, that they have jure at>e.iecl out an o:.c,liettt assortment of T"eede, Matin,.!, f'187in Jse10., io thotltostetylee•andpatterns, and feel assaoreti that in boom actor etemtrt•ling, they eau suit the more Fas odious teat es. RElIOVALt REMOVAL! REMOVAL .REMOVALI thoughtfully, then she said, "WouldNot far from the spot where he bad REMOVAL! he nut lend you the money you need ?" met his townswoma•ti Wes a gniet hos- Mr. Gal t;' ave laughed as he answer- ed, ""Nu, Lucy, rich people are rarely ready leuders." "Besides," ho added, "even if I were willing to ask Mr. Sut- taby's help, which I am not, it would be impossible for me to do so, as he has beau rather pressing for a clafiuite settlement, or at least for a date to be uained when your fortune could be paid." Lucy retrained silent for a moment, then she said gravely, "I didn't know I was to have any money." "You foolish child l Did you think I should keep it all. Have I not al- ways been .your guardian?" "I mean," she persisted, "1 did nob kuow they wanted any money." "Why, all young ladies have, or ought to have fortunes." "If I were a mau I should' like 'to marry a girl wirbouta shilling." ' "'That comes of reading my sister's romances,," he said. • "I would not marry anyone' who had a fortune. My mother had no money, and think how my father loved her to the last day of his life. Oh 1 if you have really any money of mine, matte haste and lose it. 1 should hate to have a fortune." "I am afraid, Lucy,it is lost already. But I Will do my beat to repleoe • it., as speedily as may be. What 1 fear is your marriage may have to be eeferred for a time in consequence; that thought has been troubling me greatly." She looked at him. with her great, soft, honest eyes, and answered, • "Theo, do not let it trouble you any more. We can wait over so long years and years, if that be all. Aud please uev r think again of that money. I do not want it, and I know Russell does not, either." Mr. Gergrave entertained a decided opinion on that point, but he had no wish to discuss his iuipreseious with .her. "There is Ur. Suttaby now driving round to the couuting-houser Lncy,' he remarked. "I meet go to hien." Aud an be went to tell Mr. Suttaby the beet and the worst of ,the position CHAPTER VII.: "I am trying to understand et," she said humbly and depreciatingly ; but she need not have feared that be would feel impatient. Ho seas thiekinq •of the dead father and, the hopeful long in any hurry about deciding one way ago, and he had nettling in his • heart or ethenat the moment save pity for the girl "As to that matter, Mr. Holding," said the young man, atuiling, "1 can decide now. I want some part of this legacy' for another purpose but the bulk of it you shall have whenever it is paid to uie." "No, no,"exclaimed Mr. Holding ; interests, So as not to complicate "I can't let you plunge iuto the tbiug difficulties and hamper the trade at like a tooth ata candle. It is a big every turn, he left everytbiug to me, stake for you, and remember, though to quote his own words, in his plaob, so far as might be. you may win, still, you may lose." Withall my strength I have striven to do the best I could for you as wed as for .myself." "That Intl] sure you have," she ex• claimed "1 never --never can thank you sufficiently for all your goodness." "Ay t But I have not beau geed to you now; 1 1tave done ill instead of well." "1 do not understand," she said. He told her : be did not spare hini- aelf. Ile spoke more of his own folly than of the roguery.of Brent & Stall - and self-reproach towards himself. "Well, Lucy ; your father thought there was but one thing to do. If hi' lived, be knew you were as safe as he could m : make you if he died he thought be could trust rite to look after your "So be. it, then," answered Michael. "Whether I win or lose, you wou't hear me grumble. I would almost as leave lose withyou as win with auotb- er." CHAPTER VL. EXPLANATIONS. • Into all the details of the story nar- rated in the last few ch ipters it was happily uuneceasary for Mr, Gargrave to outer when, on the morning after hope ; he explained how the affair what be had called his flight, he and must cripple and might rink bins. IIe Lucy met at breakfast. If it had 'beenmentioned how it happened that Mrs. necessary it is doubtful whether in his Broolcley's money had been sant Lira then fratne of mind be 3culd have re• and more urrwillingiy than alt else-- vetted lse—vetted to a time so long poet—to es fur the last thing, probably, of which n period the ideas and hopes of whish he true man likea'to' epeak ie any religi- must have found it simply impossible sus impression---he-repeated the sent - to recall. once which, recurring to meniiry itr But there was no meed for Lucy to his hour of need, decided his refusal of be told. assistance he might be uuable to re- Iie had to deal with later tinges pay. with a more immediate difficulty, "I heard the words by chance," Ire "Until last Leight, Lucy," he began, said ; "I turned one day into a City addreesink his ward, who in the ab- church, where every Thursday a great sense of Mies Gargrave, still bleeped- preacher cjisceurses to suelt citizens as toted from headache, wag pouring out care and have time to go and listen to the coffee, "I never thought of yon him. The seemon did not particularly as anything but a child. Although impress the at the time; but those you are eugaged to be married. I sortie• words must have struck me, for they how peter realized you Ware almost staid itt my memory like the verse of grown up. I forgot you, like myself, some old ballad, and hunted me last EVIL DAYS. tiety where the lawyer generally put up on the occasion of his frequent vis- its to town ; and to this hotel he con- ducted his conn paniou. "Sit down and warm -yourself," be entreated, leading Ler iuto a snug nlartment, clueing the door asci pokmg the fire.. -'"What is it ? Your - are in trouble, and I c in help you." "I do not thinkyon oan,Sir," she an- swered, "but it is very good of you and me takin!t away my bit of basi- uess." "Pooh 1 Mrs. Brockley." be inter- rupted. "Do you suppose I bear mal- ice about tont. Ladies are sometimes tiet to be head4troirg. What is the trouble now.,. Dail think of me as lawyer, speak as if I were only a friend," Mrs..lerockley carried a .reticulo, --a contemporary, probably, of the tippet and the black veil : fr,'uz this elle pro- duced another pocket-Landkerohtef, with which she solemnly wiped her eyes, and said- "If'you please, Sir, I shall have to begin at the beginuiug." "Very well," 'agreed, Mr, Herron; and sat down resgnedly. "You know my poor dear husband had a nephew, Sir" "Sever•,rl," corrected the lawyer ; "one a most turbulent fellow—Daniel —Jacob—Samuel—yes—Samuel : has he been troubling you?" "Ife has always bean c"ming to me for money, Sir, which, indeed,he onsht not to have done, mince I helped to make what Mr. Brockley left me; and a man, surely, has a right to do what he Tree with his own." "Humph ! that's as it may be ; but 1 su;rnnee you gave this Samuel some and can't get it back again ?" "No, Sir, I did not. I kuew be was in good way here in London—be told me himself his agency was worth three hundred a year; and be • had money with his wife; and why should I give him what we earned so hard 2" la be conthweL. P. FR A.YN.b.i has remove to his new shop, lately occupied by Porkh s tFCo--two doors north of J. Grigg''s book store, whore you will find everything usually kept ir a first -Blass harness est,tblrshtuant, which for quality (et Material aud style of workmanship 15 NUT EAS1LY SURPASSED Call and examine my stook before purchasing elsewhere. Oue bitter day in the January fol. lowing Mr. Gergrieve'a `talk With Mr. Suttaby an elderly gentleman making his way with' the windup Hulbnrn-hill suet au elderly lady who ,.was making i her way against it. • Contrary to the mot—of the Irish wit—in this case the lady and not the wind was gettiug the worst of it, and wheu the gentleman met her she was indeed 'a. sight to behold, a spectacle to pity• Those were the days of crinoline but, as her principles forbade her to want abroad in a birdcage, the wind was inakiug wild eport of her demure skirts, twisting them, flouting them, jeering at them and her, trying to blow her fur tippet—oftau excellent quality, but anobsolete: patteru—off.her shout clers, playing pranks with the feather in her old-fashioned bonnet, tnockizg everything about her, from the long black lace veil—real lac:',, es sue said and believed, poor old lady -with which she tried to conceal her face to the tears in her faded eyes that would roll. down her cheeks before, in the strug- gle with tier enemy, she could raise a kerchief to wipe them away. "Mrs. Brockley 1', said, the gentle- man, pulling up. "Whet on earth are you doing here?" "Oh, Mr. Herron 1 . ohSir l" • And her tears, at•lsngtli obtaining complete mastery over conventioualityi poured down her checks ; 'while the %ins seiz- ing his opportunity, ".whiskeda her veil back over her bonnet, leaving her face bare to the sight of the whole passing world of Loudon. . Evidently a mau of decision, Mr. Herrou took the poor lady by the shoulder and turned' her with beck to the frolicsome wind, tucked her arm within his, and said, ""Islow tell tine alt about at l3nt poor Mrs. Brockley was quite unable to tell hum all about it. The L T. LAI LitY"S I,I14iL+1�VORIiS. PETER FRA' NE. PAINTING ! PA I N "i( I N Is prepared to bio all kfnds of: l:IousePainting, Paper=hanging Whitening, tea. at reasonab] a prices and peach—zany. J. J J.i GIING. Main st Exeter. our anima kilns Lein gnew in full operation and turningoat daily a large quantity of Mir E's thatfor all purposes . cannot be surpassed in the: Domin• ion. she • Itch n .ked Partioetrom a istauco can ti y i p either at the kilns or deliyerd by beanie at low est remunerative rates. Orderstrom n distance promptly attended to. W'HITSON & SCLATEIt. Teas! Teas!! Teas ! !! ';0;11(' ILIA NE KY A 1' .n11s$ GARLIC K'S. A full line now in, of Spring and Summer flats, and Bonnets, all the very latest shapes. New Flowers Feathers, and Ornaments, Trimmings in great variety. GIRLS HATS FROM $1.00 UP, nieeli trimmed. Everything will be sola as cheap as possible. randy Goods, Bodin Wool, Mottoes, rte., atuil ]rue always kept. Saekets mad e•or cut in the latest styles. MISS GARL ICK, Aaril, 78. Vain tat. F, coter. O"BYRNE & Co., --AT-- ells -AT— Try our 5Oe. Tea. NEW FRUITS JUST ARRIVED • Ore) +/ chem,) 111bs. splendid coffee sugur fat $1.00. Choice syrups. Don't forget our 20e. Vier: gar, and cheap soap, No trouble to show goods. 1i. E. SPICER, TWO DOORS NORTH OF POST OFFIC!. In returning our onstomere our sincere thanks for the very liboral support which has been extended to ns for the threeyearswe have been in ]3usiness, in Exeter, wo beg•to advise you that we :HAVE 'REMOVED T� our New Store, next door to Saruwell i$ Pickard's, where we will be better prepared than ever to supply the wants of our Customers. We have added largely to our stock, and our prices will be found lower than any House iu the Trade, auci the quality of the goods equal to the best. We would tall your particular attention to our stock of Cooking Stoves, wtiich is designed specially for Fanners' use, • The castings aro extra heavy, which prevents erackiug or twistiug by the heat,auc1 the prices and terms of payment will be found very reasonable. • O'"5t+t,s%C & Co., Next Door to Samwell ds Pickard's, Main ►trent. DO NOT READ THIS. gaving received a lot of new machinery,1 L_L wou,t,1 inform the farmers of the sur- rounding country that I am prepared to mann- faeture ell kinds of Horse hakes, Barley Forks, Grain Cradles, Suaiths, etc, and leaving seourexl the services of a first -Brass Turner, S am prepared to do ALL KINDS OF TURNING on the shortest notice, and for style and price I defy competition. Always on hand a first- elase stock of Fork and Shovel handles. Mill half a mile south of Exeter. A. COTTELL. THE EXETER Fleeing Mill Sash, DOOR, AND ACTQM1 END�LaS ,SII ALL KINDS O T 11 U E N I N CT Done to order. itemembv theplace 7r leo oiRT ,rd Eros. . E N SA_LiJ-i PORK PACKING HOUSE Having commenced business for the Favi andWinterTrad0 We are prepared tri, purchase any quantity of Perk,; subject to the following regulations; We rill take off two poenbhs Per hundred if dry, and three pound if soft. Shoulder stuck, twonty.five tents. • If any of the hong gut is left in, 25 cents estwill be deducted. No pork will be bought at any price Jr Warinrn . SALTS AGES —AND-- Pork ND---•Pork. Cuttings on hand at reasonable rates We want all Hogs Cutting aright 'through, grease to head, and .liams.opened out to tail. G. & S. PETTY, r ti