Exeter Times, 1898-1-13, Page 2ver," said tie
ut eI know it is the
weatii: r that is affecting;
er. This heft would kill any one,"
twist go and sere her," thought
z
:Audrey; ""now is my'opportunity."
Sher seat to ask 1i: she might sail upon
r
The first answer was "No." Then
sent in' a basket of fruit andflow-
asking if she might visit her for
ive minutes; the answer was -if
leased.
Au1re soon. found herself in Elodie's
Y
Tattle drawing room. The window was
wide open, and a little couch wassdrawn
maawltto it: On it lay Elodie, She
looked. terribly ill. Audrey hastened
to her. She waited for no words of
greeting, but, bending down by the lit -
tie couch, she kissed. the lovely face.
"Why did yonenot let nae conte be-
fore?' she said. ""I have been.laneing
to be with you."
"I knew that if you came you -would
'stay; you arra. always so kind to me,"
replied Elodie.
""why should I not
Aardrey.
The delicate face flushed; and the
gray eyes filled with tears, Elodie's
hot hands clasped Audrey's.
"I will tell you," she said. "1 should
bike above all things. to have yeti, for.
u�y friend -I should think i:t the great-
est b1sssing that bad befallen nie but
I cannot deceive you : I must tell you
truth -and when you know it you
-arse to be my friend."
ontrary, I shall care more
erne declared Audrey; "there
n story:%hast you could tell mewhich
-would make ave care less for you, or
Peel Less ansioes to be your friend.
Put me to the test"
""I wish I: could; I should like, . .
frienr3.. Your face is bent so kindly
-over — your eyes smile, and your
stay ?'" asked
to of
a true friend
been and (Mare°
e.ss proud, my fats toild
A . different -Z ahold eat have
e;nhot I did But I will not blame
others. I was vain, Proud; disliked
eontral• I would not brook interfar-
ence• Captain Dighton .knew all my
faults he played upon them, Sir
IReel% was kind at tient; he saw the
captain allays with me, and said noth-
ing. I think he, was too strictly just,
pure and honorable in himself' to sus-
pect the want of such qualities in
others. Then people began to talk
about us, and he grew sterner... He
spoke to me several times about Archer
Dighton, but I defied hien.
I refused to listen; to him I was
insolent in my disdain. 1 -would not
be corrected or advised. Archer Digh-
tonemeourageid, are in all this; he set
,me against my iresband. Be told me
'that every gossip to London was privi-
leged leged to speak to Sir Roche about
wife.; be advised nee to resent it, He
saiki no woman of any spirit would
submit tosuch e.,thing. How fool-
ish I wasto listen:, for all the time 1
had much a e:stiot and ,espeot for my
own husband:1 eThiags went on from
bad to svQre : . Sir • Hoc,he became
sterner anta~.. pie ieler; , he.':ve sed me,
watched mer : annoyed me. Archer
Dighton aootliet clattered and 'pleased
me. Oen fatal.night we went to a
ball at Quern Haase.. I had no more
thought of &citing wickedly than you
have. now; but everything wbnt wrong:
Captain Dighton flattered me until 1
think 1 must: have became mad. There
were ono or :two very unpleasant
scenes:
"You will never be allowed to meet
me again;" said the caritain; " your
husband looks as cross as only a Bri-
tish husband can look."
"Ah, me! he liewildere.1 me . with
flattery, with sarcasm, with satire.
When the evening was drawing to a
close. ,he said to me;
"Aly beautiful Elodie, do not - go back_.
to, that i:atefut bondage, to the ty-
rant echo delights in showing his pow-
er over you. Come with me,"
"I went. It is a common story -sad
enough for a tragedy. You do not turn
from nee': Heaven bless you forever and
ever 1 You think I was easily tempted?
1 was so young- I knew so little ; it
one hand bal touched my shoulder, if
one voice had awhispered in my ear,
' Stop --think of what you are doing,'
I should not have gone. I only thought
haw vexecl: Sir Roche would be, ' how
it would punish him for having scold. -
ed nee. I never' thought of myself,
of my bliiehted life, my lost name -nee--.
er a�t all,- relieve me, 1 was so young
and so th sightless. I was only ons
ata^
1 me,' xcried,
ninon who has dared
y'r}s., e and. my blanc 1„
must eexuind you, madam, that
u :leave forfeited both: he said, with
a low Low; noitleer one nor the oth-
er helonge to you now.'
Since tben,l nave ites,:atred, I was
so reuteg alut so'. thoughtless when
dill than tie,^•l:lese dee& I think Sri
Roc1:e might have forgiven me. when 1
had n,teuel for it by years of repent-
ance,. Now 1 canonly die: of my des-
pair. You do not turn front me?"
'No," seta Audrey, and ehe drew the.
golden head down until it rested on
her breast, " The sin evae great ; I re-
coil from.that. It \%as a great, griev-
ous, foolish sin; it se,eree, to me to have
no excuse. 'S'.ou were not driven to it
by unkindness, not even by thegreat-
mess of your love for another.F
"No; ten minutes beforehand I had
not thou„ lit of it," declared. Elodie.
"Now you have suffered very. cruelly.
Bat there must be suffering evieere
there' is sin; they always go together."
Elodie raised her golden head i t;he
flush had died from her face, leaving
it marble white.
"There is one Pierson;" she cried,.
,'.whom T will never forgive. Zforgive
Areher Dighton,, who• spoiled my life.
I forgive Sir Bache, who has been so
hard and cruel; who has judged me
without mercy, who has refused to par-
donnee. I forgive the aunt who neg-
lected me, and filled ney mind with
ideas that were all wrong. But I will
never forgive the woman who: married
my husband-wbo took the piece that
I might have regained but for her. You
tremble! Ah, my story has angered
you 1 I cannot fdrgive her. How could
any woman marry a man whose wife
was still living and seeking his. for-
giveness? I do not; know whether she
'teas rich or poor, whether she was no-
ble or plebian ; but I hate her l"
She paused a few moments, for Aid-
,rey s face had. grown very pale.
You cannot conceive, she said,
"haw I hate her. I think so' much of
Rowan, for I was very happy there. I
picture her in the rooms I loved, wear-
ing thea jewels that I wore, taking my
plar;e, the servants calling her `Lady
Villiers?' ;I can imagine Sir Roche go-
ing to consult her, and I' hate her. t
know €Eat I am dying. Dr. Bonet
told, nee this morning that my life was
a:matter of days unless I control the
nervous fever that is killing me. I
cannot control it, for I am always
thinking of her who dares to call her-
self Lady Villiers while I live. Granit -
Eng that I foliaited eay place, still he
has no right to put any one else in it.
L. hate her!"
do you
-
ords
, tl'e v.
I,S3s. ., such
en
BPS Y E`
know that in a!l my life his se* en's 1 eek with Captain ,Dighton. He took
face was ever bent so kindly over e to' Paris, and then; I;.awoke with a
1` had no sisters, and my mother . died sense of what `I had done, In one -Peek
whew I was
young.
No Q
,Q
ma
n
face
I had found Opt his true ue
char.
a
er
.
It was selfish, Ugly
heartless, s
tit-
hes ever smiled upon me;:and you will
turnfrom. me when you hear my
/tory."
"Put me to the test,.'' said Audrey,
cheerfully.
The trembling hands clung to her,
the white. face turned to her, the trou-
h
`bled eyes filled' with, tears.
"I will telly ou all," she responded,
"and, if you, do not turn from me, it
will behecause you are different from
others, with a sweet wisdom. that I do
not understand. 'I shall watch your
face while I am. speaking; if it changes.
if it turns from me, I shall know that
you "have condemned me. I am not
Mrs. Dighton, I am not even a widow.
terly without p
out honor. My
bellion ,against
be again. with.
inciple, utterly with-
eart rose in hot re-
im, and I longed .to
e.noble
loyal man
whose. life I had blighted. Then I rea-
lized that by one not of mad folly I
had lost my position. my name, alltbat,
wasof value in the, world. I had pia -
ed a barrier between myself. an: my
old life. I had lost all. Only. Heaven
knows what that awakening was !Orel
In one week we :quarreled, and 1 lefi
Captain Dightom i carne hither, not
knowing whither to go or what to do.
I am called Mrs. Dighton here, because,
unhappily, my trunks .and my lettere
bore that name. I did not dare to
change it. After a time a mad .hoi:e
came to me. I said to myself that tuy
husband was a just man; that his
wrath and anger were reasonable; teat
�Iy hiiaaband is still living, but 1 ran f I lied ouira e t and insulted him -ti et
a-vay from him." that surely, when he knew how 1 had
lookedea eagerly to repented hewould forgive me: T re-
- weeping ex es g solved that 1 would live here in secin-
turned away, but, beziti-
��. ii'. Auclney slow year .after.
- b
year, until I had
lived
3"g down, the re^tor's dau bter kissed lown m sin, nal then hewould sure-
ly forgive. t aubledfdce.
Ii. was such a fcolish futile •ho :e.
"You : do not diets me, then? Oh,tI
-n t I can give you no stronger proof of
Tieavenl , there one creature left n ! how utterly foolish I was than in tell-
s world whom I tan call friend? II ing 'you this belief of mine -that Sir
TI S
'"Was it you? I aux not rP'rlsed,
et have always felt: that you del-
ferent from. the rest of the waax d-^
that you were more than an Ordinary
friend to me. No, I do' nob bate you--
I' love you with all my heart 1"
The sweet, gentle girl, emerged. the
shrinking, trembling figure with her
arms, She laid the tired head loving-
ly .on her breast ,e,nd forgot her own
eorro vs and wrongs ire the sorrow of
the unhappy lady before her.
"I feel, F,lodie, that 1 have a olatm
upon you. 'I will stay witlt you and
nurse you until you are well again.
" I shall never be -well,"said Elodie;
but 1 shall be happy. It • will be an-
other life. How wonderful it all
seemal And you were strong enough
to do that --to leave him to give up
13.oevan? I wish -oh. bow I wish that
I had been more like you I Tell.: me
about Rowan, I loved the place so
much."
Audrey talked to her until the gold-
en 'head drooped and the tired eyes
were closed is slumber.
To be Continued.
T}IE LIVELY RHINOCEROS.
wail tali you all my story," , she coatin- i Roche would forgive me. I wrote him
ued-"it isa sad one.- My mother : letters full of such passbnato sorrow
died while I
was very young, and no '• and anguish, that I believe, had he read
one. he would have relented. But he
good' woman trained me. That was ;never read them they all ctiixze back
thewomen
beginning of evil for me -no good `{ to me runopened, and then I knew that
wcamen trained me, no one ever talk-1
he was seeking a divorce from .me. I
ed to me of right or wrong. My aunt. 1 made no defense; what. could I say 4
Lady 'ut asiieid, adopted me; and she i The divorce was ranter.. Captain is h
had but one idea, and that was that ( ton's rage, when he found that he baht
I •must meeve the best use of ray beauty a•
arttn marry the richest man whosought: j a large sum of money to pay, e
mji l rand. That -vee my education, my saniething, fearful. I w'
is ai'ning-I mightalmost : ay, my re- of . the 1
r- it
NIA.tAE.Ll Nig W BRIDGE.
TIIIa QREATES'r ARCA IN THE, HIS-
TORY QF STEEL CONSTRUCTION
It? Will Stretch. ale [Feet In Ono Clear' Salm
sled Eiep'oee the Suspension irides,
Whtcl► 1: Les!i Thaye,,.`C'•n Ticrtri Old, but
11I1914if ACItt.
All thefalse work ,preparatory to the
erection of what is destined to be the..
greatest steel arebi bridge is in posi-
tion, and soon the erection of steel will
begin and be continued througliont the
winter, in order that the proposed new
structure may be finished for the ex-
pected heavy travel of next sumer.
This steel arch" is to be built across
the Niagara gorgel on the site of the
uPPer suspenson bridge, and its span
will be the greatest in the history: of
steel arch bridge building. As com-
pared with it, the new steel areb re-
cently completed fon the Grand' Trunk
Railway, two miles) below, will appear
very short. •
At the point where the areli is to
stand the cliffs are 1,268 feet apart,
and the suspension) "triage now resting
there seems but a 'slender thread from
bank to bank. The abutments for the
bridge stand close, to the water's edge
on either bank. There are four in
number, two on each side, and the dis-
tance between the members of the
pairs is sixty-seven feet. These abut-
ments were built, two yea's ago`, as it
was thought that the new arch would
be completed long ere this,but eche con-
dition, of the monetary and steel mar-
kets was not such as to inspire the com-
pany to proceed : with the great and
costly work untie now.
In the construction' of the abut-
mepts much care was taken to make
them most substantial.. The loose
Sone'Amas[ng Incidents Told by Major J.
W Mecdo mita.'
Armed in his heavy hide, almost ar-
mor -plated, equipped for both offezice
and defence, the formidable and pon-
derous rl in ce •os is not at all the an.-
imai whose angry onset one would
imagine to be a laughing matter. Nev-
ertheless; the tone in which Major J.
R. Ma^donald who bashed experience
treats such an incident is about that in
which an ordinary person relates the
scattering of a group of girls by : a
too sportive calf, or a cow of overinqui
sitive position.
In making the difficult survey for
s projected railroad in. East Africa
rhinoeroses -Were more than once dis-'
turbed in their lair by the major's
party. Sometimes they resented t.he.
intrusion, while on other o:casions
they seemed moved by curiosity to
come and investigate the caravan.'
They were not dreaded, though, they
were certainly, when they came to diose
quarters, avoided, and that nimbly.
"A caravan passing a solitary rhizio-
ceros to windward affords," says Ma
"Perhaps she did net know," re-
marked Audrey, gently -"it is possible
that she .slid not know -Sir Roche had
been married."
'She must have known -every one
knew ; niy portrait hangs in the gallery
at Rowan.."
Audrey did not tell her that it had
been. burned. - -
"Sir Roche stripped my rooms, he
me that bola
once
i to
e n
av
-entre everything g
e
[:$land to me. But I .noticed that h
did not Bend my portrait. You do
not know how my hopes rested on that;
he kept that by him."
Audrey remembered the pitiless_veice
that had said:
"1 tore her portrait from :the walls
and burned it. "
"Perhaps," continued the feeble voice,.
"this person whom they call by' my
name has ordered it to be taken away.
I shalinnver see Rowan again now that
she is there."
The sweet face bent more kindly over
her, the gentle voice }whispered more
ge nilly : out
"I hove something to tell you ala
this lady. I know her."
The golden head and white face were
railedqui-kiy and ulnen fell again.
"You knon her?" interrogated lIlo-
dia. "Tell me about her."
"1 will 'tall you all I know," said
Audrey. "To begin" she never *as
half as fair as you. She was quite a
sample girl, a clergyman's daughter,
and. knew nothing of the world. She
had nee-er heard of Sir Roche, and she
had never sash him until she meth him
at a friend's house; there they fell in
love with each other, end. Sir Roche
asked. her to be his. Ire never told her
that he had been divorced from his wife
-she sewer dreamed of such a thing.
He had taken every precaution, too,.
that she should azot knew i.t 'rhe ser-
vants at Rowan'' were changed, "there
was no way inelfish she could kno
it. If any one inadvertently s".
Lade -Villiers she, poor'
they meant Si.
was a si
Roe
jor Macdonald, "a very amusing spec-
tacle. The great beast scents the car-
avan at once, but cannot quite make
it out, -he is dull of. sight, -so he
stands facing it, and wagging his en-
ormous head from side to side in great
uncerihinty. Then up goes bis tail
and he comes tearing down, only 'to
mill "up after twenty or thirty yards
to repeat his investigations.
"To give time for reflection, he then
trots along parallel to the caravan, till
on an extra strong -whiff of scent he
wheels roand and again makes ahead
g
s This
for afe-v and.
head-
long- charge
o $ $Y
stupid: performance is repeated until,
in most cases, the .caraven has safely
paled and the rhinoceros is left in
his uncertain1 .
N
"Sometimesahou ever, the caravan is
of such length, or so slow, that a
charge borne comes off; then the por-
ters droptheir loads and scatter, and
the rhinoceros gallops through the line
and away upeiviud, with his tail in the
air, and no damage done."
• The first time that the major per-
nonally encountered a rhinoceros, he.
did so unexpectedly, and much too
near; in fact, for a fosv minutes be
and the rhinoceros indulged in a Brisk
impromptu game of tag about a dry
gully and some. trees, until hie could
get an opportunity to load. and'sheet.'
His friend Pringle watched and en-
joyed the ,episode; but before many
-seeks the tables were turned. and it
way Pringle who was pursued, and the
major who looked on.
"There is a theory," says. Major Mac-
donald, "that you can always turn a
rhinoceros if you reserve your fire.
at
th
Pringle geve e beast one barrel
aoui fifty yards, and another at ten.
But that rhinoceros was not. one of
the sort to turn, and but for the fact
that: Pringle was a. very active man,
he and the rhinoceros would have
changed roles, and he would haveeon-
stituted •the l;ag. ' As it was, the
vie)
•
earth and rook of the slope of the
hanks was excavated until a
SOLID BOO.I? FOUNDATION
was reached. Thier rook was then cut
away in stepform and on the founda-
tion so created, another foundation of
concrete -was built. Through this mass
of concrete four. long, heavy iron rods
were run and securely fastened, their
tops projecting several feet above the
face of the concrete mass, It was on
this concrete that the stone work of
the abutments was built, the tour rods
and four others, running through the
stones in order, that they weight beheld
securely. The tops of all the eight rods
project above the tops of the coping
in i
erten-
a
fs
stonesorder F to
ing for the bed plates of . the legs of
the arch, of wbicb each abutment evil.
the debris slopes of the bank, the
beautiful bridge, which had bean ad-
mired by thousauds, ley bottom _up-
ward. The storm, had. leeeer ed it from
some of the sbspeuder:s, and the con -
tinned bloats set it in motion until
its men weight aided in ripping it
from all, the suspenders, and it drop-
ped into the gorge. The last man to
cross it was Dr. Jahn Ilodge, svho pass-
ed over to visit e very sink patient,
That portion of the fallen structure
on the banks was removed, but the
greaterpart is still bidden beneath
the rapid waters of the deep and dan-
gerous gorge.
Within forty-eight hours after' the
bridge was swept away the directors
had suet and ordered a new struetuure,
patterned after the ane destroyed. On
Mayes, 1889, this bridge was opened to
traffic, just one hundred and seventeen
days after the storm. ' It . is . this
bridge that is now to give way to the
second arch across the gorge; it being
less than ten years old, " but quite in-
adequate to the demands of the times
since the trollee.has becomesuch' an
imoortant factor in taking people from
Point to point about the Falls.:
at hon the suspensions fridge is tak-
en: doevn, it to berebuilt on the site
of the old suspension bridge at Lewis-
ton, which was destroyed,. by a wind
storm. an April, 16, 1894, and never re-
built. It is one of the famous land-
marks, but, like the other famous
bridges of the Niagara gorge, Re end
is near.
support one. The stone used in build-
ing the abutmentsr are all very lar ge,
and .derricks of great strength were
employed in letting them over ` the
cliffs to the point of .use. The north
abutments on the New 'York State
side cif the river stands veryclose to
the portal of the Niagara .Falls Pow-
er Company`s tunnel, and in order to
protect it a strong retaining wall has
been built:
On the Canadian side the centre of
the new arch will rest e eetly on the
centre. of the present suspension,
bridge, but on the New York State
side it has been found necessary to car-
ry the eentre a little to the south
of the present centre of the suspension
bridge in order that the abutments re-
ferred to may clear the tunnel portal.
From these abutments or skewbacks
the arch will rise with graceful lines.
and the length of the areh;Tiroper will
be. no less than eight hundred and for-
ty
feet. ends n of th
will be connected to the cliffs by truss-
ed spans of beautiful • lines.
Unlike the railwayt arch, this latest
bridge will have but a single deck,'
feet.the width of:whieh' will
Ab u
ROW DAWSON LOOKS.
A Cantleivan Telt: Mow Me Elwell In the
Course of Illy Sojourn Among the
Miners.
r '' I''Tli�NIC1iILA
"1 i'ouaeiinies think 1
soon,""Ob, pshaw 1 Iia
:
-to seta the eliaiziless w
" Lend me a doll,
" Can't ; only, have a ha
right; ; you can owe: me
Yes, Z loved a
made a foal of ate."
do make a lasting
they ? "
She -"Your friend Oi
run into debt pretty-
into debt,', He seorohe
She-" Don't you th'
he music in every hon
means ! What I objet
door.,"
.Bertha-.." Miss Spit
remained shigle fee
Yea; but she didn't s
"Yes, sir, I want
niece," " Have you ask
"No, sir, I prefer the
love you 3vit.
Slee-" That's very nie
Re-" But what, darlin
about your arms.?"
Her Luok.-Jenkinse
it happens that Miss
when I call?" ,To
luck, I ;guess,e'
He-" Give m
ly-" I won't
say `I'.won"
said, I 'p
wouldn't41 a
side,
di'
The following letter, was written to
a gentleman in Montreal by his son,
who left for the Klondike last Jun
and came back, leaving Dawson C•'
on his return voyage in Septembe
"'For your own information net
say I think people fail to underr
generally that,the Klondike, is me
limited territory in the Ca
North-West. and every possible
was taken last July by people then
the ground so that a newcomer has no
ti,.. - shown titan he would have in Mont-
real or Chicago. There is a stretch of
some four hundred miles along the Yu-
kon river below :Circle City, ` and at
Circle City itself where good gold
claims have been marked; and where
gold has been found in handsome quan-
t.t.es ; but the crazy crowd persist in
rushing into Dawson, where they find
everything congested, every claim tak-
en, and even a lot to put a tent on a
,i,liffioult thing to secure without pay-
ing heavily for it. I think next sum-
mer there will be a great rush to the
American Yukon and the question of
sufficient food supply once beingsolv-
ed, expeditions will be fitted out for
; but it is
streams; sidajs,.
the numerous
a country only to be endure by young
anew of sound health and good habits,
and it is full of thar,lsiaips 'for them
at all trines. I managed to getthree
meals a day rightalong, suck as they
were, washed my face when I could,
and my hands when necessary, slept
in every :imaginable kind of bed, and
lay awake in someof them also, and I
did not get homesick, simply because.
I made up nay mini not to. The cold
winds at St. Michael'sand the warm
sun of the upper river ,the' mosquitoes,
gnats and other insects peculiar to un-
washed humanity*, make the daily life
very wearisome. Yet at intervals we
had some stretches of river and moun-
t.ain scenery, perfection' of sunsets and
pictures of northern lightsthat amp-
ly repaid one for 'it all..
There are several missions of the
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist,
Catholic :and Greek Churches at dif-
ferent points; but I think most of the
natives are. more interested in filling.
their stomachs than anything else, and
they are a heedless, childish lot at the
lest. 1 do not thinkany
oneleaving
$
Seattle after Aug. 1 this year sue-
eeeded in gettin- ti u -lir to Lawson
becau "
sbatay
whe
rng darn,
simply to knit
He-'" I notice that t
some hops of being able t•
cote, with tire moo ." Sl e-"'
ious mei I hope the mere he
is no tattletale."
Really Impossible. -Tom
wt an extrraordinary
the legislature?" lass, Figs
whhaich niso fool bills were pas,
be very much that kind " P
He -" When I was young I decide
make ane woman happy." She -"W
hasavye oudrsohavse
o.maine
d
a bachelor
che
lor
ma3 certainly flatter yourself the
Smith-" After trying for ten lc
years, I have at last succeeded in c
wincing my wife that I am1perfee
Brown-"" A.re you sure of is
Of course I, ams. 1t seas
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