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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-5-21, Page 71412 21, 1 88 you know o£ Delaney House, Miss Rod - nay, you shall never be permitted to carry aoross its portals to blazon to a ourious, mocking world!" "Doou mean to killme?" shuddered tho girl, shrinking in terror from the dark, stern, agitated face, He started, and looked ab bor. "Poor child I Have I indeed frighten. wed you so much ?"he asked, "I must indeed bo an ogre in your oyes!' No, Alino—you are such a child, let mo call you so—no ; I do not moan to kill you. I am pe murderer. I shall simply bind you by an oath of silence when you leave this place." "An oath er. silence ?" she repeated, vaguely. "Yes," he answered, steadily. "I shall swear you to slices* regarding your whereabouts during the time you have been away—silence regarding the wound you have received—silence re- garding me—silence, in short, as to everything that can throw tho least light on your strange disappoaranoe from your home." "And if I reuse to swear ?" Aline ex. claimed, gazing at him almost de- fiantly, • 'If you refuse, you will never bo per- mitted to leave Delaney Heise!" he answered, firmly. Never ?" she echoed.. "Never 1" he reiterated. CIIAPTER XL The strange and perfectly nnnotewot. able manner of Aline Rodney's dis- appearance from her home had excited 8 groat sensation in the town of Ghee - tor. Such a harrowing mystery had never before agitated the pretty little conn try town. Mr. 'Rodney, Aline's father, was the only lawyer the town could boast, and although not wealthy, was a prominent member of soviet),p in Chester. His two pretty daughters had been educated as care.ully as his means would allow, and were the boast of the towu for their beauty.• Elba Rodney was ahaeel•eyed beauty, with soft waving tresses of chestnut. brown, and a complexion of the loveliest red and white, combined with featuroe of the purest Grecian typo. She was twenty-three years old, and so stately, pint, and dignified, that her more volatile sister Aline, audaciously dubbed her en old maid. Mrs. Rodney was a pretty woman of the same type of beauty as Effie. 'Mother and daughter were remarkably alike, both being tall, extremely grace. ful in appearance, and very dignified in manner. To both of them the wild and wilful ways of blue-eyed Aline was a perpetual source of wonder and annoy. anco. Thoy loved her, bub she was a sore trial to their patience, and their understanding. She was so gay, so wilful, so thoughtless, that, as Mrs. Rodney expressed it, she kept her family "in bot water all the while." They could never tell what mischievous prank their pretty Aline would be into next. Never were two sisters more unlike than Aline aucl Effie, both in mind and looks, although they were really fond of each other. Both wore beautiful, but ono was like a stately, bright -plumaged bird of paradise, the other like a brilliant humming -bird, • always on the wing, never at rest in its aerial flight. Neither Mrs. Rodney nor Effie could understand Aline's complex character. Sho was wild and wilful, but she was also warm-hearted and loving. She was always getting herself into some kind of mischief, always being blamed by mamma, and lectured by Effie. If papa had not petted her and Max adored hor she could not have stood it. But the forces for and against being very equally divided she was enabled to bold her own with tolerable equanimity. Sometimes mamma, acting upon a cis• taken sense of duty, allotted to Aline some quite severe punishments, as in the ease of the imprisonment the day of the pions ; but there was always papa to pot and soothe bis injured little girl, Max to load her with sugar -plums, and even stately Effie to lament that her darling little sister had to bo punished. So Aline, with all the faults of her head and heart was dearly beloved andibit- berly missed and mourned in the home from which she had so strangely drop- ped out like a link from a golden chain. The incredulous horror on returning from Walnut Grove and finding her gone was something better imagined than described. They examined the empty room, they peered beneath the bed, behind tho curtains, within the wardrobe, while little Max, in a fit of absent-mindedness, pulled out the bureau drawers, and even lifted the tray of her Saratoga trunk in 'a vain searoh for the lost one. Beautiful Aline had flown from the dreary room like a swift -winged bird from the prison bars of its cage. They palled her name, but she answered not. They sought her in her dearest haunts, but they found liar not. They were face to face with a mystery. Cook had not anticipated such alarm on the part of the family. She had missed the yoUng lady several hours ago when she had taken up luncheon to her, but being used to the misohiovous pranks of her young mistress, had believed that she was hiding herself somewhere within the room. She had set down the tray on a stand and gone away, looking the door behind hbr. It was looked still when they came home from the picnic rather earlier than they would have done but that .they were anxious about Aline—poor Aline who bad missed all the delights of tho picnic beoaueo sho had been a naughty girl yesterday and left undone those 'things which she ought to have done, and done those things which she ought not to have done. Aline had deserted the sewing.rea. chine and the ruffles mamma had sot her to hem yesterday and gone a.iisp• Mg with ton.year-old Max and his cora- . rade Harry Jones. Sho had ooaxedl away from nook the sponge -Dake that was destined to accompany the oream at dinner, and she bad triumphantly packed it into her lunch basket and shared it with the two boys that day on the river back whore they oast their lines into bio waves. Anil she had oome home with the end of her nose andtbe back of hoe nock blistered red, her dress -skirt Boiled and "brier -torn," like Maud Muller's, and her pretty bare hands turned brown, while Max Dame trailing behind her with his pantaloons rolled up to his knees, his foot and limbs all yellowed with river mud, and a string of ridiculous Little shining min- nows in his hands. It was bad for Max —it was utterly disgraceful for that great girl, Aline, decided mamma and Ellie. It was a case that called for punishment, more especially al Aline could not oven be induced to repentance for her fault. She iusisted that she had not meant any harm and that she had dono nothing wrong. She could not be brought to deo her error in the light that hor mamma wished hor to see it in. So Mrs. Rodney, dooming this an extreme case, resorted to extreme measures. Sho know that Aline had sot hor heart on the picnic in Walnut Grove—therefore she kept her away to meditate on her misdeeds, and, if pos- Bible, to win hor to repsnbauce. She even dared hope that under the stress of Bach a punishment Aline might be brought to promise "never to do so any more." But, after all, sho had been sorry to punish her bright Aline so hardly. She thought about it at the picnic. It rather damped her pleasure in the gay and festive scene. She told herself that i1 Aline was brought to a proper state of submission she would make it up to her. She had kept the girl back some- what, deeming her childish and un. formed. She would lengthen her dresses now, put up her careless, girlish ringlets, and let her take her place fn Chester society as a grown•np young lady. Perhaps the importance of the change might thrust dignity, as it w1350, upon the wilful girl, She confided hor plans to Effie when she could get her away for a moment from the ]cnot of admirers who always surrounded the pretty Miss Rodney. Ltfbo coincided with her mother. She was too secure in the consciousness of her own beauty to be jealous of her younger sister's charms, and she thought that it was quite time for Alin() to give over childish ways. So they wont home sorry for Aline's long day of confinement, and full of kindly intentions toward her, eager to hear of her ropeutance, and to give her the kiss of pardon; and they found her place vacant, her chair empty. They were full of incredulous dismay at first. They thought it must be one of her practical jokes, and that she would re- turn to them presently full of glee over the fright she had given them, and eager to hear how they had passed the day from whose pleasures she nag noon ruthlessly debarred. In the meantime, they wore full of wonder over the way in which the run- away had escaped from hor room. The little chamber formed a small wing of itself on the left side of the cottage. It had three windows, ono of which looked down upon the front of the street, another into the small, brick -paved back yard, and the third into the bean- tiful, neglected garden of Delaney House. It was quite impossible, they thought, that Aline could have escaped through either of those second -story windows unless she had made a rope from the sheets of her bed. But the downy little nest where Aline rested her fair form nightly was undisturbed in its snowy order. She had certainly not escaped that way, but had gone through the door, and the Rodneys were fain at first to accuse the woman whom they had left in charge of con- nivance at her freedom. Cook denied the acousetion sturdily, and, having a good reputation for vera- city, no one presumed to doubt ler vehement asseverations. The mystery thickened. They dis- cussed the possibility of Aline having a skeleton-koy to the door, and inclined to that belief. In no other way could they account for her absence. Night fell; and now, indeed, they began to grow alarmed. Aline was known to bo an arrant little coward hi the dark. Hor little foot would have carried hor flying homeward long before night overtook hor. "She has gone to some of the neigh- bors,"'Mrs. Rodney suggested, and her husband and little Max set out to see. Sho was not found at any of the neighbors. She did not come home hat night, nor for many another sue. coedinS night. It grew into a moat absorbing mystery, the strange disap- pearance of a young girl from her home. It was not a matter of local interest merely, but of general. From the local papers the item wee copied into the papbrs all the country over. It excited a great interest and sympathy. It bo. oamo one of the sensations of the day. Soaroh Was made far and near. Par. semens appeared in the newspapers; the largest rewards Mr. Rodney could afford were offered for his da'ughter's return. He was half made with creel anxiety ; he hurried hither and thither in search of the lost ono. Bnt, in all his grief and oxide', in all his sus• pfcioos, no warning instinct ever prompted him to look into his neigh- bor's house. It was the strangest thing that had ever happened in Chester. In the pretty quiet town no such sensation had ever been heard of before. A yourfg girl looked into her room in the safe sanctuary of home had disappeared in the strangest manner, and not the (TO BE CONTTN1I,ED,) Tial., J311.1.)86k:1.4M COMFOlITABLE HOUSE FOB sans.—Thu prep et ty Is located on 'Phomas street. There, In one neru of splendid land, wen 101(04, Lyith yn,nn, ore hard, &a, There 10 a aamtortable divelliug, stein' twit all the oonvoutanuos. The prusorty will bo sold for 0880, 0000 to he paid dewu and the hal u is to suit uursnasor. Per full particulars apply to ti. 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