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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-2-12, Page 7• d Fes, 12, 16.,. TUE /31117581i1L8 POST, promemy With tine ()mamma neaasTrisfil and reany.tinted seaenholls. This rooii is evidently the pride ofthe, good wo. ulan's exietence, and it he with en ill. concealed pleasure oho ushers liar en - expected guest into ie. Dolores, sinking into a chair, draws a long breath of extreme exhaustion, "Eh, but you are done up I" says her hoidens comparaionately. " Come along way perhaps ?" ".& long, long way I" triennium Do- lores. Were she a Machiavelli in' pettiooete, the could have said othing nere C;41011. to mislead the mind of lir rogator. To tuat stalwart (Mae One • live miles more or less the girl haatra. veiled would Seen] as a mere nothing. "A . long, long way "—and uttered so pethe. tieally—innet moan a day'sj.ourney at the very linteb. And a day's journey has seemed indeed to poor Dolores. Her face is haggard.; already tho re - "ages of excitement and grievous recut. Jootin have made their maxim upon it. tier eyes, grown delicately largo and dark, look out with a singular inrongru. iy fee= the pallor of their Surroundings. Beneath them lie like shadows fatigue. lines tinted with palest parple. Some- thing i her whole mournful appear. ISUCC appeals powerfully to the womau heart. She notes the tracesofgentlo breeding in the girl's air, andmarks, when the light •'lister opens at the end, where the prat. by costly white dress peeps out. She is not insensible either to the soft frills of Moohlin lace that cling to the rounded throat and fall over the slight wrists; I he lade ten -button glovos'are in them - halves a revelation. " If you have ran away frorn home, donee" she says bluntly, but with evident Lively intent, glancing reflectively at the blanched cheeks and darkened lids before her, " why not go beak ? If they have linen angry with you—e-" one has been angry," interrupts Dolores hurriedly. " Eh, now I" says the woman, regard. ing her keenly. And yet something, teals Ince you are not altogether as happy ae you might bo." " Ah, that is trio indeed I' cries' Doe lore, with a fidddon passionate agree- ment, covering her face with her handl'. " Mit 1 do entreat you," she MnrrnOrS ImAmtir, "to ask 1110 no questions 1" 1 will uot," says tile woman hosbfl. " Keep your secret, my dear. There'e nn great harm it, I warrant 1 Aud SOW what Shallgive you ? A cue) o' milk and some bread.and-butter ? Tia leuely to me; and I can sod you WO mein tired and badly in want of food." "1 are not hungry," declares Dolores v...ry truthfully. " Then you ought to be. Dru think- ing 'Us a long hour since last you broke broad. What would yon say to a bro- ken egg now with a drop o' brandy in ?" asks this good Samaritan, with Tilts au insinuating air. " ,Than, he do say as how a beaten egg and brandy is the finest cure known for all the woes othe world. Here it—do 'o now, dear r " No,, no ; I will not trouble you," says Dolores gently, -'"'" See how ' good you.' live been to ine alrea4." Tut, coy dear I Let nee now do e0 'nothing really for you," entreats her hoetese ea:nearly. "1.1 ybu will then,'' says Dolores Kim idly, blushing warmly-- if you will be en vary kind, lab me—bathe 'my feet; they ache sol' Her voice ienivere "Tho road'was very hard," • alio goes on tremulously, raising pathe- Ile oyes to the' face ot her new iriead, " and in; shoes, 1 think, are very thin— though I never found that out until to - clay. A little water is all I want. eliall give you no farther ,trouble; I;" — uagerlyee" can bathe them myself,"q, The very anxiety with which She , this would prove"to the dullest observer triab such a task will be new to ' her. Her hostess laughs the idea to worn. " indeed-7as if I ahead lety.on2 miss!" . she Says. You just lie bank in that caerchair and waituntit 1 porno to you egein." • , She loaves the room on tho instant, ' told presently returns; bringing in .both her hands a largo bowl of tepid water. Depoeiting this upon the floor, ehe -dee park again, only -to reappear this time %ritita email tray on which lie a plate of 'al.and-buttet and a tumbler half fill. W41180.1110 opaque substance. ' " ow, past to please me, you'll drink thie," she says coaxingly. • • , • 1,, +tree eyes 111 with tears. She leans .4141 bee hostess. • you a daughter ?" she asks, vaittlyias it semen; but he train s followed by thogood wo. Of the house. ".)no, mies ; but shoe away from me of het time. She's a very likely le le Suean, and as good as hoe. ..eee She'a clever enmesh too, and ea - to as docent a young follow ea stopped 141 shoe -loather." alio has a, lover ?" asks Dolma • .1, 0! en teeny, with a sudden false bright- Seiw I ci a moment the deceitful glow fades 11,0 wailful flush bleat has dyed hev Omelet, note ebbing, leaves leer only WIC:A.140'00 glia than she was bo- , tore, Alas for her own lover I Where he now—of what thinking? She eleicite by a supreme effort the sob that mem in her throat, and tries to listen to Met answer to her question. ,T A lover indeed l" says the 'inotlice, with a pardonable pride—elle 1 kneel- itig before Dolores, and, being in the vele of untyinee, her silken shocestring, 1.1 blind to the agony in the youeg fated) above her. "'Sea deal as he thinks a' nay Susan I" she says. " Bet fad is, Mina. they're too poor to marry uutil he lies a certain suit in hand. Horan rent a farm well enough; bnt he >meet have 41040; to stook it, you tom So 0111` 4;stl• nem e te as bow eheal 00 int(' • vice a bit and SEM her Wai{08 and tne And he said he'd 'work himeolf to ale and bone until the sum was madeup, seems as how hen; going to room for h Bache' too, miss, don't it ?" " Is it much—the money I mean auks Dolores. Shebat reoovored he Self through the good woman's Avoca, and now feels Sufficiently interested in tide honed love -affair to wish to bear somewhat more of it. To her it Menne straugoly horrible that mere motley should be the means of parting two true lovers'. Money I What a bagatelle It sounds 1 What an easily eurmoun table difficulty it seem when one thinks on the other things —Beth cruel things— that no power Oil earth can overcome I " Two hundredpounds," says her hostess sadly. " but it do hound so hig a loomp 1 I doubt hut my Scan will be nmuy a veer older before she is Mrs, Joe— veer now, (1i—eh ?" She lute drawe off tho thin sheen and edit otoOkings +Ann time slum, mid in now bilged ie1 bathing with all a nun. .x'e teuderlliltilti the little white, bruised ieet. " The water feels like satin," earl Dolores gratefully, " Olt the relief of it1 What a kind, Idea womau you are 1 I wish your Susan heel that two huedred pounds. - Perhape "—slowly—" she may eonm day." '01), some day, yes 1" Totems tiro woumu, with gentle cheerfalneee. 1 fi the meantime she must c,nly work and beige Holm is a groat etrengthener. Well, and have you taken that ode,: of John's An, Ulm's good now 1 A n I, if Inn must, lie you say, sot out Why, it will do you a world o' geed I And whore be you bound for, mies„11 --smiling—" 1 he not asking a ere gneetion ?" . . k'or Dorminstar," mays Dolnees, muse, I think, be near there now, lice cense. when I asked dm man at tlio Station, he bail it Wm; Only fivo away, and I have beenavalking for many .hours." " Dorminster 4 Deal; heart alive, what has brought you this way 9" exclaims the woman, uplifting heraems in Con- sternation. " Why, you be ten mile:: from it now 1 You must have come th, wrong way l" • Ten miles 1" repeats Dolores faintly "How meld I have come the wren wry ? Ile pointed ib out to Me!? Then all at Mice ;she rernenalee• how she cateeeto a cross where to roieis joined, and was not Sure ot UST ternieg. Doubtlese, inher ignorance, she took the wrong one. • Oil, it is too cruel I. But she will not give in. Shois yet too near her home. She must go on, on, until all trace of her is lost. " Would no other town do Ton for the night 2" asks the woman; with sagacious concern ; she has secretly dung to her theft wine belief in the fad of the girlis having run away 'from home. " Is. there one nearer than Dormins. ter ?" asks Dolores anxiously. ' " There is Thurston; it 38 but ail: miles from this if you take the northern , " I had bettor go there," says Dolores in a low Voice. The thought of the six miles lyiup before her, to follow on the five miler, lying behind, finite overcomes her. She, who bas never boon •ecoustomed 111) hardshiPof may kind, to be compelled to trudge along a lonely road—alone She smothers her fear however, end, with a -bravery strange es it is pathetic,' looks mitt- her 'hostess With a faint . " Come with mo to the door," she says, "endpoint out to me the direction in 'which Thurston hoe." Thowomaa; acconmanying her keno theeshold; gives her full directions as to het route. • " But ask aa yougo along," 'she says gravely, " that no mistake be made a G. 10110 a elunieer unsetieging, nowt, she in broken by oruel drone:wigs. Ib Unrefroshed, she arose from this but is half.unconseioue sleep eo find the day far apent and noontide merging into 9" night. Twilighb darkened the air, ad r. a faint dull nest sprigging from a wribery manila fax down below in the hollow was rendering even more defealtile the unutterable melancholy of the dying, light, 111 burdened the very Laming breeze, which yet wan heavy with the intolerable heat. I3ut on -eon ! Ilur early watchword clung to her then, echoing in her ears and urging boo' to further dozing. Spriegiug to her feet, she stopped out again upon the thirsty road, but ieditiefeutly 'touched by the soft mist, and looked eagerly aroma her. Hero too the roads joined, A Keine of confusion filled heetired breln. No one was in eight, no help near, lalleer. able, purposeless, she took 'the nearest way almost imooneciouely, buil toiled with heavy footsteps and forlorn hope along the molated road. Arid now how her head, aches, . bow weary are her Mahe 1 She will be,t. the very next coetage, ancl, in vita of liar horror of being eurationed—a hurter (TO 134 arKeTINuED.) eoeond time. Aud, if you grow too tired, niy dome why, come back to me, and you shall have a bed here, though no doubt a rough one 1" Doloros, turning to her suddenly, throw e her arms around her nook, and kisses her warmly. "-Good-bye," she whispers softly, " I shall never forgot yen—never 1 And someday I. think—I know—wo • shall meet again I" She loosens her embrace and gems from het quickly. Without *so much as cme backward glanne, she disappears no the hoe and dusty road. Poorlibtle heart !" says the woman, writs:11114i her ae far as the bowl in the. road which presently meet hide her ellogothee—there is an honest; anxiety ifa her tone. Just at 'the wary lest Dolores eerie, mud Wares her hand. • "God grant she come to upright but coni !" says ' the womau fervently, ro. ttirfaing that last adieu with a, sbroeg the of regretful nneasinees at her' mere " lint whore be her friends— w hern Another uroment and Dolores is out of sighe CHAPTER. XXVI. ft is seven hours later, and Doloree is eta' walking 'elong the lonely high- way. 13ut not now ie her stoplight and int riationt ac it was in tho oarb4 morn, CD48 sloW and languid, and as the step ot One who has given house.room to deepair. ' Where le she now—how far advaimed boevards her joureey's and . Alas, nho knows not at this tnameet where her ourney's end may • be! She heel lost her way, and is walking onwards me- ohanically, stupefied in mind and wan out in soul and body, Not that he has boon motile* me,- ing all, this time. Sonia hours ago, eon - grieved by a &mite for met, she tinted &side into an fedjoiniug field, ana, over. ,owered by weeknees, crept under the !eel tee eel a friendly haycock and mole Sign ofthaSootoh Collar. • —00— Here We are with a Splendid ' Stook of . i- • . • . • Off,LLS, HORSE .B.E.1,NK.4773, &o. —00 -- Our ;farness fills the bill every time. Call and see our stock and. leave your crder. ' --00— A largo assortment of Trunks, Valises & Satchels to choose from. —oo— 'Repairing promptly attended to.11 —00.— Call-in and see our goods. We don't charge anything for looking. IL DE,NWIS. NEW GOODS AT THE Puild The Maininoth 'Hardwiqe Store.' . sTAN -. AR PLATFORI SCALES 900; 1200. and 2000 Pounds. ----0--- ramily goe1es, jor I3utter, Groceries, Etc., Etc. OPOSS-alat Saw's:— "NEW IMPROVED CHAMPION; "i310ER," "LANCE," &e. ---0-••••• • 7 J.9diReiMIA...,tiOGMFM•triLOS12121•11:1010, NATIONAL ROLLER MILLS. Wm. Vanstone & Son, -.1- Proprietors. We have much pleasure in announcing to the public that our New Roller Mill is in Complete Running Order and is giving the Best &a- isfaction. 4. SHORTS, MEAL, BRAN & CHOP CONSTANTLY ON HAND- . We also make the following brands ofilour Patent, 'Jersey Lily, Canadian's Pride and Snow StOrM. Gristing attendet] to with Promptness. All kinds of Limber cut to Order. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF GRAM. EAST HURON arriage Works, JAMEB CARRIAGES, DEMOCRATS,' EXPRESS • WAGONS, BUGGIES, WAGONS, • ETO., 'ETO., ETC.. All made of the Best Materials and finished in •ct Workmanffike manlier. Repairin4 and 'Painting promptly atiende0. to. Parties intending to buy should call before purchasing. REVERENOES.—Marsilen Smith, 13. Laing,lames Cutt and Wm. Mo- e, • r lielvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewar and D. Breckenridge; Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brussels ; Rev. E. A. Fear, Kirkten, and T. Wright, Turnberry Township. REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTH QF BRIDGE.• JAMES BUYER: jj • • -13 MO :0: GEO. THOMSON begs to an- natirvie,that he has removed to his own premises, lately occupied by*. Toba Grewar, and would tender his sincere thanks to his Numerous Customers for their past support and would solicit 'a continuance of • the'same. INC have opened 'out one of the Finest Stocks of Groceries, Crockery; Glassware„&c. ever shown in the town of Brussels, at *ic- es' which cannot be snrpassed by any other on,e in the Trade, :0: Our 'Grocery Department Contains everything kept in a First -Class Store including all the vevy Ohoicest Fruits of the Season. New Season's Lemons 211e. per dozen. Our Teas and Coffees. Have. gained a Wide Reputation and need no further eenimea ockery and Glass*are. All the novelties of the Christmas Trade,—China Tea sets, Iremiteao d Bedroom Sots, Glassware' Sets, also a411 The 'Electriebuck. saw . Tea Sets, White and Colore • the sundries in eounection with this department. CHOPPING AXES., SPLENDID ASSOETMENT. Bakery Department, First -Class Broad, Cakes, Pastry, Short Bread, Fruit Cake, and Ange Cake always on hand. 'Wedding Cakes a Specialty. • POULTRY BONED. 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