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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1885-8-28, Page 2Argun 28, 1885. THE BRUSSELS POET. 2 A YOUNG GIRL'S WOOING, Bl' E. 1P. 111,01, Author of Sombre liivnls,""Frown Jost to Mnrnenti' dee., dee. What is it?" His eyes wero moist as he turned towards her, "I don't know, Madge," he said. "I know one thing, however, I shall never, as yon asked, say a word against your faith. I've soon its fruits to•clay.' CHAPTER XXXV. A NEW ExPERI1ntNT• Stella Wildinoro would not leave the seclusion of her room. As the hours passed the more overwhelming grew hor disappuiutmeut and humiliation, and her chief impulse now wee to get away from a place that had grown hateful to her. She had liaised almost a sleepless night, and eines had shut herself rip in her room, Lioiciug at the past with a fixed stare and rigid face, over which at tinges world l{ss m crimson hue of shame, Mrs. Wihlmore went down to dinner with her hushnud,and thculearnedthat Mr. Aruault had breakfasted with him. This fact she told Stella on her return, and the girl scut for her father im• ineiiiately. "Why did you not tell Ino that Mr, Arnault was here this mornieg?" she asked, lin rshly. He loosed at her sten;ily, but made no reply. "'Why by don't yon answer me ?" she re- sumed, springing e-sumecl,springing up in her impatience and taking a step toward him. He still maintained Tho same stead- fast, eat mst look, which began to grow emlaarrassieg, for it emphasized rho couseiiueucss which she could not stile, that she alone was to blame. She turned irritably away, and sat down on the opposite aids of the room. "It's just lien and parcel of your past folly," she beeau. "If I had known ho was here, 01151 could have seen him or writteu to l iii—" she still onc•.motered the same search- ing eves that appeared to be looking into her very soul, "Oh, well, if you have nothing to say—" '1 have a great deal to say," answerecl her father, quietly, "but you are not ready to hoar it yet.,' "'gore leetoriu•g and fault-finding," sail Stella, sullenly. "I have not lectured or found fault. I have w•urue.d von and tried to make you see the truth cued to help you." "±-mi With your n.cual success. When can we leave this honse ?" .oust heave it tc'•norrow. I Will :Teti'. in ltioaness auci. truth when you v to listen. I know the past; I leo e lit tie left now but memory." Ito tva:tel some moments, but there was no relenting on her part, and he pm:••: d All the afternoon canscieuce waged war with auger, shame, pride and fear —feat for the future, icor of her father, for Wm had neves before seen hfm look as he Bail siuoo ho had met hor on the 1,i.c::>:rt the evening before, Ho had man:fest:al none of his usual traits of irritability alternating with a coldness corresponding to her own. He seowud to have pawed beyond these surface in• dic,tions of trouble to the condition of one who sees evils that ho cannot avert and who rallies eufliciont manhood to meet then, with a dignity that bordered ou despair. As Stella grew calmer she had a _rowing perception of ±bis truth. He no longer indulged in vague, half - sincere predictions of disaster. Hie r:spect was that of a man who was looking at fate. This feeling was intensified by her mother, who at last came in and said, in a weak, half -desperate way, "Stella, there is no use of your going ou in this style any longer. Your father says we must leave as early as possible to. morrow. I can't do everything to get reach. I'm so unnerved I can scarcely stand now. Du cone down to supper with us, or else let a good supper be brought to you, and then let us act as if - we had not lost our 50naea utterly. Ycnr father looks and is so strange .that I seareely know him." "1'i1 not go down again, Nothing wr.•.:bd is [Wilt rho to meet Graydon MIulr au.l the curious stare of the pooplo. If you mil have a supper sent to Inc I will take it and do all the packing myself. Plesse tell papa that I wish to see him after supper." She tlicu made a toilet suitable for hot task, and waited impatiently, Her father soon appeared with a dainty and inviting supper. As soon as they wero alone Stella began: "Now, papa, tell mo the worst—not what you fear, but just what is before us.'. "Fat yeur.supper first," "No ; I wish to learn the absolute tr,tli. Yon said you had a groat deal to say to me. I'tn calm 10W, and I sop; teie I've acted like a fool long trough," •' i havo mulch to say, but not maty words, I must begin again, Heaven only knows how or where, I am pignut at the end of my resources. I do not po oposn to ropmntoli you for the 'est. It's gone now, and can't he ielped, My proposal to you is that y011 begin ails". lou have tried pleasing your,:elf and thinking of self first pretty thoroughly. You know what it is to isle a bele,. flow, why not try the ennui - teens of hc_illg a tine. contest, unselfish %melee, whoa; first enort is to do right. Iheitt u me, St, lin, there is a God in Beavon who t,iwarti s.lfishnoss and ural, so far from fooling for him. awl 1,m1;:1ie5 t: in Wart 011101 least on. empathizing, She wotihln't oven know peoted, You have had a terrible and practical illustration of what 1 say, Aro you not it girl of too much mind t0 make the cams blunder again ? With your youth you need not spoil your life, or that of others, unless you do it wil. fully." She leaned back in her chair, and bitter tears cants into her eyes, "Yes," she faltered, "my lesson has been a terrible ane; but perhaps I never should have become sane without it. I have been exacting and r1ceiviu5 all my life, ar111 yet to•uight I feel that I hast. nothing to slum for all those E?cy, , tmili;out v511'r,—mgt even alather's 10'.e, and little 0,51;11 np0ti it." He olive to bur side and kissed hor a;:alll itud again. ^Yen don't• know anything about a father's love," he s id. "It survives et•ery thing and aoytlliug, and your lava would ,:ave rue," Never, even under the oyes of Graydon Muir, had she boon so conscious of her lie..rt before, Hail lie seem her when she departed on tho earliest train i0 the morning ho would have witnessed a new expression on her face. CHAPTER XXXVI. AfADGii ALDE•:N'S rllun. When Henry Muir and his family gathered at breakfast tho next morn. ing, the removal to Hotel Kaaterskill was the uppermost theme, and it was agreed that Madge and Graydon should ride thither on horseback, and return by train, if wearied. Mr. Muir then wont to the city, well prepared to establish himself on a safer footing. Graydon and Madge soon after were on their way through tho mountain valleys, tho latter with difficulty holding her horse down to the pace they desired to maintain. Alter riding rapidly for some distance, tlwy reached long, lonely stretches, favorable for conversation, and Gray- don was too fond of hearing Madge talk to lose the opportunity. He looked wonderingly at her flushed face, with the freshness of tho morning in it; her brilliant eyes, from which flashed a spirit that nothing seemed to daunt; the sudden eonupressiou of her lips, as with power and illimitable grace she reined in her chatiug steed. Never be. fore had silo appeared so vital and beautiful, and he rode at her side with something like exultation that they were so much to each other. Ho was - turning his back on a past fraught with peril, over which ]ung the shadow of what must havo been a lifelong dia. appointment. The girl who would have taken me, as Henry chooses among commercial se- curities, cannot now make mean adjunct to her solf.pleasing career," he thought. "1 inn free—free to become to Madge what I was in Old times. What an idiot I was to endure Stolla's criticism while she was playing it so sharp between Arnault and myself 1 No wonder crystal Madge said she and Stella were not congenial! call Madge crystal, yet I don't understand her fully, and havo not since um)' return. Sho has had some deep, sad experience, which she is hiding from all. From what Mrs. Wendell said at the funeral yesterday, Madge must have revealed more of it to that dying girl than to any one else. Could sho have formed what promises to be a hopeless love in her Western home, and is she now hiding a wound that will not heal, while bravely and cheerfully facing life as it is? Perhaps her purpose to re. tare to Santa Barbara proves that sero does not regard her love as utterly hopeless. Well, whatever the truth may be, she hides her secret with con- summate skill, and I shall not pry into evou her affairs. I only know that as I feel now I should prize hor friendship above any other woman's love." "What aro you thinking of so drop• ly 2" she asked, meetinpr, pus oyes, "My thought just then was that I should prize your friendship above any other woman's love, and I Itad been felicitating myself that Stella Wildmere would neves havo the right to criticize the fact." "0 Graydon, what a man of moods and tenses you are I" Then she added, laughing, "There has been indeed a kaleidoscopic turn in affairs. Mr. Ar- nault disappeared yesterday, and Mary learued that the Wildineres lett by the early train this morning." "Yes, Miss Wildmere followed Arnault promptly. They are near of kin, but not too near to marry, Their nuptials should be solemnized in Wall street, under flowers arranged into a dollar Symbol." "I feel sorry for Mr. and Mrs. Wild - mare, though ; especially tho former. I think pro might havo boon quite differ• ont had the fates boon kinder." "I would rather dismiss them all from my mind as far as possible. Don'tthink me callous about Stella; tbo revelation of hor cold, mercenary soul makes rno shudder when I think how, narrowly I escaped allyiug myself to it," "Yon havo indeed had on escape," Madge replied, gravely. "If sho were a young, thoughtloss, undeveloped girl her womauhood might have con111 to her afterward. I hope I am mistaken, but sho„has made a singular impression 011 mo." "Please toll mo it, You have insight into oharaoter that in one so young is surprising," "I have no special insight. I simply feel people. They create an atmosphere and make 50100 dominant impression with which I always assooiato them," "I am eager to know what impression Mims Wildmere made." "I fear this would bo tree of hor oven after she becomes a mature woman, A man might he almost perishing at her side from mental trouble of some kind, lu, a11ci n0 00nldn11 malts ger snow ID, Silo would turn from him to a new dress, a now atlmirer, or a now phase of amusement, and forget him, and the fact that he was her husband would not make much difference. Some deet, oxporiouce of her own may cheep her, but I don't know. I fear another'e ex• porlenee would bo like a tragedy with- out the walls while she was safe within." "0 Madge, think of a man with a strong, sensitive nature boating his very heart to death against such pumice-stouo callousness I" "I don't like to think of it," she re. Plied. "Come, I ask with you now that we forget her as far as possible. She niay not disappoint a man like Arnault, Lot them both beoonre shadows in the background of memory. Horo's a level piece. Nov, for a gallop." When at last they pulled up, Graydon sant, •'Your horse is awfully strong and restless to -clay." "Yes ; bo has not boon used enough of late. boll be quiet before eight, for 1 ata enjoying this so much that 1 should iiko to return in the same way." "1 am delighted to bear you say so. 11Iy spirits begin to rise the moment I am with you,.and you are the may woman I over knew from whose side f conhl not go with the feeling, "hell. some other time would suit me naw.'" 1•Ier htngh rang out so suddenly and merrily that her horse sprung into a gallop, but she checked him speedily, end thought, with qso exultant thri.l, "Graydon now has surely rovealec, an unmistakable; symptom." To him sl'e said "You amuse mo immensely. You are almost as outspoken as little Iiarry, and, like him, you mistake the iipres• sioll of rho moment for rho immutable." "Now, that's not fair to mo. I'te been constant to you. Own up, Madge. haven't I?" With a glauco and a smile which she never gave to others, and rarely to him, she said: I own ep. I don't believe a real brother would have boon ]calf so nice." "Let tho past gpermuteo the future, then. Shake hands against all future misunderstandings." She was scarcely ready to shako hands on snob a basis, but of course would have complied. In the slight confusion her hand had relaxed its grasp on the curb -rein, and at tho same moment a locomotive, coming along tho side of the opposite mountain, blew a shrill whistle. Instantly her horse had the bit in his teeth, and was off at a furious pace. When the engineer of the train saw Madgo's desperate riding ho surmised that her horse was not under control, and put on extra stoum in order to take the exciting cause of the animal's terror out of tho way. He thought ho ooihl easily roach the summit of the clove where the carriage -drive crossed the track before Madge, and then pass swiftly over tho down grade hcyoud; but he had not calculated of the terrific speod.of the ]corse ; and when at last tho track and roadway were almost side by side the frantic boast, with its pale rider, was abreast of the train. For a moment, the engineer was irresolute, and than, too late ho feared, "slowed GOOD NEWS ��71 For the Farmer. I have secured the maim Grey township for a Patent Load Lifting Machine. Toll can do your hauling and mowing with one man loss than usual, as a boy can run the ma- chine. It is simple, durable, labor saving, convenient and can be had at a small expense. Fanners do not bo deceived, order this patent and take no other. Wo will take pleasure any time in testing it with any other loud lifter made, and as to its reliability, safety, strength, lightness of draught and expedition, it has no equal. 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"Oh, stop the train 1" she cried, and her voice, with the whole power of her lungs, rung out far above the clatter of the wheels, wakening despairing echoes from the mountains impondinu on either side. The speed of the ears was perceptibly chocked; tho passengers saw the foam• flecked brute, with head stubbornly bent downward and eye of fire, pass beyond them. Au instant later, to their horrified gaze and that of Graydon's, who was following as fast as a loss swift horse could carry him, Madge and the locomotive appeared to come together. Tho young man gave a hoarse, inarticu• late ort' between a aurae and a shout, and whipped horse forward furiously. The speed of the train was renewed, and ho saw through tho open car that Madge must have past unharmed. before the engine, just grazing it. It also appeared that alio was gaining the mastery, for her horse was roaring; then cars of ordinary make intervened and hill her from view a moment, and the train clattered noisily ou. When he crossed tho trait Madge was not where ho had last seen hor. Tho road beyond, ran at a greater dis• t'auce from the railway, and was lineal with trees and bushes. Through au opening among these he saw that tbo horse had rammed his old mad pane, that Madge was still mounted, but that she was no longer erect, and sat with her head bowe1l and her whip -hand clutching tho mane. Ito also saw, with t sinking heart, that the road curved a little further on, and evidently crossed the track again. A moment later— Oh horror I Au opening in the foliage. revealed Madge dashing headlong, apparently, into the train. 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