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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-11-19, Page 6r :PlF„•.R TIES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. Arlt BY R. L. FARJilON or of " Great Porter Square," "The Mystery of M. Felix," "Bread and Cheese aud Kisses," Etc., Etc. e first TLiinle—Supeelled by Mr Millington. of Shele terd's Bode. CHAPTER XXVL Mr. Barlow being anxio►ts that I should omit none of my experiences in connection with this history I have at his request added another chapter, which will be my last. During the Mx months that elapsed after my "night out ' with Simpson I saw no- thing more of him. He did not trouble me, and you may be sure I did not trouble him. There was a sufficient reason, as I after- wards learned, for ournot meeting. He and hie master had gone abro..d, and for the most part of this time remained oat of England. 1 did not pay -- another visit to Chudleigh Park. Miss Ilaldane wrote to me ewe about Onews to bot moriano lI , but I had conenmunict"te, and I replied to that effect. These were the Duly letters that passed between us. George, of course. kept up his cfarrespondence with Rachel Diprose, but their marriage appeared as far ofias ever. It did not lessen my lad's love for his sweet- heart, nor, as her letters proved, hers for him. Front these letters I gathered that Mise Heldaue's life at Chudleigh Park was rather .Duly. She received no visits, and pp*aid none, a alp that she had made no frieudsbips of an enduring nature among those of her station, On two occasions George informed me that there was a liken - hood of 3liss I'Ialdane and Rachel coming to London for a week or two and the ex ec- lady saluted or acknowledged her, but I noticed that most a£ thele looked furtively, even admiringly, at her. As she passed ua the second time she happened to turn her eyes in my direction, They rested on my face, but there was no sign of recognition, Although she gamed at ;e deadlier, Well?" questioned Barlow. "" It is Honoria," I said. " That is the name she is known lay," said Barlow. "I was here yesterday, and saw her for the first time, and heard her name, That ie: why I asked you to accompany me to -day," I sighed, thinking of Mies Haldane. u to," Isaid, A 's nd #his i wh t s ha come a he s " Yes," said Barlow, "Shelton the world at her feet, this girl whom you saved from drowning in the lake of lilies." We lingered by the rails till she came round a third time, and again her eyes tra- velled in my direction, and rested amoment upon me, as before, My presence did not appear to discompose her ; she was as Qom- *Moly self-possessed and composed as if we had never met before, ""Como and Mare a. cut of mutton with me,"said Barlow, an hour or so later, "at the namesake of a friend of yours ne the Strand," We strolled to Simpacns, and had a good p old-fashioned l+,',nglish dinner there, and tation set hire iu a glow of delight. lhut afterwards went to a theatre where they these elafts were not paid, being frustrated, . were playing a rattling fake, miscalled comedy. Strangely enough ---rt rsalways sag it never rains but itpeurs—in the principal boxsat o with ante H nor'a dressed It i ele sett with flashiug dia►nouds about her, We were fn the pit, and bad a geed view of her box,' in which. between the acts, appeared a suc- cession of gentlemen swells. I saw but little of the farce, my attention being centred upon this girl, (nee so low, now so shame- fully high, " Let us get another peep at her," said Barlow when the curtain finally tell. have been misconstrued, We hurried to the lobby entrance of the stalls where the visitors were waiting for as I understood, by 4r. Haldane, who "mete from Abroad that his daughter was to emsn at the USU. QAe e , and once o l , did George gofo ChudI lgh, to see Rachel he spent a Sunday there and stopped at The Brindled Cow ; that he did not go again was dueeto Rachel, who thought it best that he should keep away—for her young mistress' lake, I believe,, I tools the blame of title upon myself, George was any ecis, and as I Was not in fever with 1tr. Haldane my lad's appearance in Chudleigh might "You will be an old man, and Raehel an their meleaes, and there 1 witnessed: an old woman, I�said. to George, " before you other comedy, as unexpected as Honoria's souse together," appearance ne Rotten How earlier in the George. Things will be all right: before in;; on the arm of a gilded youth, Barlow long-'" nudged me smartly, and there, to my sur meats and sd not o I hintave edh ito# George ; butgl a girl he driee was betray Redwood,betrayed. e hesitated only a. appeared to be satisfied that nothing could moment, and then, with a confidant air, with occur t� lrovent Mnt and. Rachel being true outstretched band, and with a smile upon to each other. j" his face, advanced toward her. She gazed She is worth waiting for, he said, and , at bier with superb disdain, and witheue it's no use fretting." i heat wing any further attention upon him "" Not quite that, I hope, dad," said day. Assee Game out to her carriage, lean - Mr. Dudes' also was at a standstill ; he turned her hack upon tiler. In eeether had matte no further progress an the aflur moment she was in her carriage, and the upon wiii.b he was engaged, for although senile an Mr. Redwood's face vanished ; the "cat direct" was perfect, and people were laughing at him. Barlow and I talked of the inoidont as we walked away, and I expressed my surprise at Mr. Redwood's eagerness to be friendly with Honaria. " Know the world bettor, old friend," said Barlow, "This girl of ours is a marvel of beauty, and men ofloose fashion are run - fling wild after her." "Yes," I said, "' it is her beauty that made hint so eager." " Wrong once more, ' said Barlow. "It is not her beauty that attracts him now. We run alter the unattainable; we despisewhat is easily obtained: we value things, more or less, not for what they are, but for the ease or the difficulty in getting h Id of them, If the girl were as ugly as sin it would be the same to Mr. Redwood. She is a rare cone. modity, and he sighs for possession. You are familiar with a little fish called the sprat?" "' Of course 1 am." "A most delicate, most appetising fish, but being plentiful can be bought for a penny a pound. Make them as red mullet, and the world would rave after them. As it will one day after Honoria, if she plays her cards well," I make no comment on this scrap of philosophy. My task is ended, and I lay down my pen. he made ne fresh diseoveries he was still iu commission. It was his opinion that Mr. Haldane had left England to escape deter• tion.. I remarked that if this were the ease dr.lialtlan( must have had some suspieion that au enemy was working against him. Mr. Barlow coneurreutear ing that something must have reached Ur. Haltlaua's ears whiel► put him on his guard, My old partner'. paid inc now regular visite, which George and I reiurned. He and his wife had grown very fond of George, and about once a week svo all tech; tapper together, at Barlow's A house or mine. On one of these nights, when we were walking from his house, Bar- low, who liked a little walk after supper, being with us, be asked me if I had anything particular to do tomorrow. I answered, nothing. "; I want you to spend an hour with me," he said. " Come to the office between two and three." I presented myself accordingly and we turned from Surry street into the Strand, and there took a 'bus to the Marble Arch. I may mention that it was the height of the season,and London was vory gay, by reason of a Royal visit, which set society circles in a flutter. " I am going,"said Mr. Barlow, " to take you to Rotten Row." ,' Anything special going on there ?" I asked. " We shall see," was his reply. This wassomewhatenigmatical,but 1 knew that Barlow seldom did anything special without especial reason. In the 'bus he `y310.1nteered another piece of information. " Mr. Redwood is in London," he said. " And Mr. Haldane ?" I inquired, "I cannot say, but it is very nicely." Arriving at Rotten Row we found a good place by the rails, and watched the panor- ama of fashion as it passed by and repeated itself on horseback and in carriages. "It isa favourite pastime of mine," said Mr. Barlow. " I like to see the swells doing duty." "There are plenty of them," I said, " who don't seem to be enjoying themselves much." "It is a sad pleasure to many," said Mr. Barlow, " especially to the coinage swells ; but it is a duty they owe to society to show themselves. Look at that lot." There were three elderly ladies in the turn -out, and unutterable weariness reigned on their faces, which were worn and pasty with late nights. I smiled and said I would sooner be what I was and where I was. " Bunkum," observed Mr. Barlow. "If you were a swell you wtfttld do likewise." I disputed this, but Barlow would not be gainsayed. It did not escape me that all the time we were talking he appeared to be looking out for something not in the com- mon way, and a sudden lighting up of his fea- tures revealed to him that it was approach- ing. In a handsome victoria, the appoint- ments of which were absolutely faultless, mat a young lady, who as she came closer to us, caused the blond to rush into my face. "Ahq" said Mr, Barlow, who was observ- ing me closely as the victoria approached. .Barlow," I cried, seizing his arm, "you :remember my telling you about eke girl Honoria I brought toLondon from Chudleigh Park?" "Perfectly," he. replied. " I don't forget much;" "I could almost swear," I said. "that the very girl is sitting in thatcarriage." " Wait till she comes round again," said Barlow. I strained my eyes till I saw her in the distance. She was richly dressed, and leaned back in her carriage with the born negligent air of a lady of fashion. That •one so beautiful should attract universal attention was not surprising ; and indeed she was very beautiful. No trace of despair was on her face, which bore the expression of one x,aenstomecl to admiration. Hats were raised to her, and now and again a mounted cati'a,, e• carolled by her side, and exchanged salutations... Some she received gracious„y, aame, coldly, but even in her v.scmou":,there was an air of disdain and mower i'u. ;TfhthN+{;011' $ leafed to submit. No CHARTER XXVIL From Frederick Parton. Dunedin, Otago. New Zealand, to G. Parton, Esq., Westminster Palace road, London. My dear father,—My last and first, letter written to you from Australia in- formed you of the safe arrival of our vessel at Melbourne, and was necessarily short, because I had just one hour to make up my mind whether I would accompany a friend I made on the passage out, who hearing of the discovery of gold in New Zealand, urged upon me that it was just the place in which fame and fortune could ba quickly won. I allowed myself to be persuaded. My friend had been iu Australia before and he told me that it would be slow work in Australia to make money ; the gold fields there were well nigh worked out, the ex- citement and the fever were over, people had settled down, and so on, and so on, and so on. I saw the force of his remarks ; here was a new land, with new opportunities and glowing possibilities waiting for me. ” Done with you," I said, and an hour later we were ou board the " Eureka"—what a name it was an augury of success—with four or five hundred other adventurers, bent on the same errand as myself. Only I ; had a special motive which others laked •to spur me on, the love of the sweetest girl that ever drew breath, since Eve roamed with Adam through the groves of Paradise. I. see you dear old fellow, shaking your head and sighing, "Dreams, Fred, dreams ! Will you never awake 1" And I answer, " No, never." Why ? Because I am not dream- ing, because I hold fast to Hope, the fairy that touches reality -with golden light, that shows me the road to the future, when all my hopes will be realized, and you and 1, and one whom I devotedly love, will be living together the happy lite. Father mine, what made you a painter and a poet ? The solid, serious view of a man's. life and and a man's ambition, or that very fairy Hope which, with the higher spirit, Ambition, directed you into paths which made you what you are ? You lost yon, fortune. Well, I am going to male another for you and her. The dairy I kept on the passage from England to Australia, ` and which I sent you with my first brief letter (making up, I trust, for itsshortcomings), will show whether I lost courage on the way,; and let me say now that lam 'stouter - hearted than ever, and that though may pockets at, present are poorly lined, I am confident that what you call . dreams 'will one day, aud at no distant day either, be proved to be realities. What an incentive is mine ! I am coming back to you when my fortune is made. I am corning back to her I love ; years of delight and happiness are before as ; arm in arni and heart in heart, we shall tall;, of the harvest the wanderer has reaped for those near and dear to him, and you shall say, "` Well done, 'Fred ; you were right and I was wrong—happily so," Now, arriving in Dunedin safe andsouriel, the question was what should I do? The pilot who boarded us and conveyed tis into. Port Chalmers had set the whole ship in a state of excitement by reports of wonderful discoveries of new goldfields. Transferred at Port Chalmers ruto a small steam, tug that took us through the loveliestbayiu the world to Dunedin jetty, the news -was con. finned, As for the scenery I cannot des - cribs it ; my sketch, book is filled with themes for future work—and glory—to say nothing of the gold pieces which will roll in to sweeten success. A picturesque tumble- down woodenjetty,tohereplaced one day by a stately stone structure (for I see the grand future already looming), erawds of people burning with thawed fever, wooden shanties hastily thrown up to transact business the old Seotelt settlers scarcely knowing whether to approve or not of the invasion of heterogeneous human particles, but at the same time, with proverbial wisdom, turning the honest penny and making hay while the sun shines, adventurers bronzed with travel discussing the chances in. the unformed street, the continual animated going to and fro, the loading of drays, tie clattering of horses, the perspective glimpses of civilisa- tion's ivilisa-tions soldier, marching over the distant hills—•imaghte all this, father, if you ears, and paint pictures from it. But a man's eyes must behold these scenes to pro- perly depict them, They are like a page of old time history, full of romance aud colour. Said the friend rig whose oam- pany'journeyed hither, "Off we go tomer- row omer-row lemming to the goldfields; in six months we come back with our fortunes made." But pride and prudence stepped in and whispered in my ear; Said prude enae " How can you start ou such a journey with empty pockets ?" Said pride, "Don't huniilieto yourself by a confession of poverty." Therefore spoke I to my friend, " menot ac- eompen you ; here in this primitive city of wonders will I stay awhile, and rest my weary feet, and refresh my spirit, and strengthenmy body for future toil," (What have yon to say, father, to the style bibli • eel ?,Does it sit well on me ?) My friend remonstrated, argued, pressed, but I was .drug, and away Ire went, the nomad, in company with a hundred or two ahem, straight in the eye of the sun, I to a news- paper office ctroled, and there enlisted for a pound a day. So behold me, a budding journalist, bout en work and shekels. Here have been een three weeks, and am sixty shillings the rieber, alter paying board and lodging no joke, though mutton is two- pence a pound. I sit me dawn and pencil out calculations as to bow long it will take nig to realise a large fortune, putting riches, by to tate tune of twenty shillings a week. Humph : Rather a lugubrious outlook, if the calculation were to turn out an exact one. But this is only a beginning. When you build you must commence with single bricks, Tlien, every hour of the twenty.four, and every minute of the silty, aro not swamped by journailstia duties, Two water-colours are near completion, and the next question will be to find purchasers. Aro there are worshipper* here, are there rich patrons eager to draw largo cheg hes as an evidence of the wedding of grinding commerce and intellectual refinement and taste? The landlord of the principal hotel horn, who boasts of taking a thousand hounds a day acmes his bars, suggests a refile. By the beard of Venus whieir never grew, am I des- cended so low ? But why should I fume? Are there not are lotteries in England, and what is a lottery but a raffle ? Itis a distinc- tion without a difference. We must not be over nice in these new lands. The ,nail for dear home does not go out for twelve days, and before it closes 1 shallbe able to tell you the result of ley first art labour in this world -end Arcadia. I 'break off my letter here, amid go to bed, to dream of you and my Clear Agnes. These are dreams in which I have faith, Now to finish my letter, dear old follow, the mail closing to morrow morning. The raffle has come off. There was more than a spice of grim humour fu it. The pictures were hung in the public: room of the hotel, flanked by a couple of German chromes, hideous and offensive to the eultivatedartis- tic eye. Said I to myself, said I, " My paintings will teach these honest barbarians, will educate them, will prepare them for future works of glory." Puffed up with unbecomingpride—Ah, my dear father, if I had your humility I should be an infinitely better man ; blessings on yourhonestheart —puffed up then, as aforesaid, I lingered in thepablie room of the hotel, to takealesson from the critical opinions of entranced ad- mirers. There were none expressed, abso- lutely none. The pictures were scarcely glanced at. " We'll wake them up," said my friend the landlord, and beneath the greatachievements wasplacedaplacard with a written intimation that the first original local paintings by an eminent artist would be raffled on Saturday night at a half-a•crowna chance. Two blank columns were left for the names of my patrons, and when I first saw this announcement I noted that ten chances had already been subscribed for. I remonstrated with the landlord, who had rut up the placard without consulting me. " g-3 hat do you object to?" he asked. "To the low terms of subscription," I replied, employing the most dignified phrase that occurred to me. " Quite enough," said the landlord. " Look at those pictures "— pointing to the hideous German chromes— " can hromes—"can you compare them with yours ?" "No," said I honestly, "I cannot." "More can I," said the landlord, "and they only cost me four pound a pair." Imagine my feelings. When I recovered my composure I pointed out that the number of members required for the coming raffle was nob stated. "We'll get as many 'as we can," said the landlord. " The more the merrier." I said nothing, but thought sadly of the converse of ,the popular saying. In two days the number of subscribers had swelled to twentyeight, which would bring me in a total of three pounds ten shillings. De- pressed by the prospect of my attempt at art calture I suggested that the pictures should be withdrawn. "Can't be done,"said the landlord. " People have paid their half-crowns. The paintings are not your property." 1 immediately put my name down for six chances and invested my money the stern siipnlation being no credit would be given, By Saturday night there were forty-six subseribers to the raffle, ani my two great works, which I had fondly hoped would bring me at least fifty pounds each, were won by the proprietor of a cigar em-' porium. (Take note, there are no shops. here, nothing so low.) "Now," said the landlord, " you must stand treat." 1 was aghast, but a gentleman, called upon for a sacrifice " according to custom," never turns tail. Every person in the large room had a drink at my expense, and so far as 1 was concerned there was an end to my art ven- ture. Except the settling up. Contemplate bABATT'S GOLD Only Gold JOHN LONBO ALE AND ST011T; AWARDED MEDAL AT !TEItiATIO4L EXHIBITION. JAMAICA, 1891 MAwarded C� � Canadian United : States Medal for Ale to � � or .r Exhibitors. LABATT, 3 , LONDON, N. CAS ti e figures. Forty-six subscribers at elf crown a head (less my own six chances) corn to exactly five pounds. The frames for th, pictures cost me fifty shillings ; the " treat three pounds six shillings ; total debit, five pounds sixteen shillings; and my meritorious paintings. "But you've made a start," said the landlord, coneratulating me on the venture, Truly I have, Farewell, art, awhile, I moat come down to earth, for this rate of progress resembles the man walking onice who for every step forward slides two backwards. (xo BE coa-Txeu£o,) ei New Departure" of a Big Savings Bank. The greatest savings bank, in Austria the " Erste Oestorreichisclie Sparkasse," of Vienna, which has deposit.* to the amount of 100,944,004 florins, resolved to meek§ some provision for the old age of all its de- positors down to the smallest. It will do so in the following way, For every 100 fiorius deposited a capital sum of (146 brine' will he paid aver after thirty years. 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