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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-7-16, Page 7JULY 10. 1880. room thatMr. Delaney oocupiod as a bed- chamber. Mre. Griffin turned to Ohoap Jano, who was contoutedly puffing away at her stubby pipe. "Thorn is my master's bell now*" she said. "Will you just set here alf quiet while I step up and eeo what be wante ?" "Yes, go. Don't mind me," replied Mrs. Broadcloth, affably, The housekeeper opened the door bite the hall, closed it carefully behind her, and went up to Mr. Delaney's room. To her eup1rise, although it was barely six o'clock, bo had retired to bed. There was a feverish flush ou his face, and hie dark oyes gleamed restlessly. "Oh, Mr. Dulaney, you aro ill," she exclaimed. "Hardly that," Loreplied, with a forced smile l "bull am Certainly some. what the worse for the wonting 'received this morning." "Oh, sir, you should see aphysician I" she exclaimed, alarmed at his feverish looks. "No; the last ono' did me harm enongli by his loug tongue." Mr. Delaney answered, angrily. "I will have nothing of the kind. I need no one—I shall be all right in the morning." Sho saw that persistence would only irritate Lim, and dropped the subject. "Can I do nothing for you ?" she in. quired, anxiously, "No ; nave myself taken some drops that will soon cool my fever. I shall not take any supper ; but, after awhile, yon may bring me a cup of tea—nothing else." She boat a hasty retreat, sorryfor his sickness, but reflecting that it stood her in good stead at this particular time, when her loneliness had led her into such imprudence as admitting a human being under the tabooed portals of Delaney House. T will go and make the tea, and get her away as soon as I can," she thought, hurrying down the wide stairway, along the hall, and so into the kitchen again, where she had left Cheap Jane con- tentedly puffing at her pipe. "Well, now, Mistress Broadcloth, I will put the tea to draw," sho began, stoppedthen hor handroes her (ryes.d, and rubbed The great kitchen was empty, save for the gray kitten under the stove, purring away in lazy contentment. Tho old woman and the big basket had vanished from the scene as if they had never been. The door by which sho had en- tered, a little while ago, stood wide open, letting in the cold and the gather. ing darkness. Mrs. Griffin ran down the stops and into therounds in search of the miss- ing peddler; but the darkness and a haze of snow were beginning to fall together, and they soon drove her into the house again. wolladay 1 the strange old crea- ture has taken herself off without her tea, and just as well, perhaps, for Iwas on needles and pins for fear of being caught in her company," commented the housekeeper. CHAPTER XL. Aline Rodney's feelings on pluuging through the broken ice into the Cold, blank waves of the river may be bettor iivaginod than described. A�,yhiver of mortal cold and terror rushed over her ae,tlle icy current came m Contact with her warm, tender young body. She wont down, down, down, with a swift rush and a terrible sense. tion as of suffocation, into the infinite depths of death, ib seemed to her, and then arose to the surface and felt tho cold, sweet air in her face again, with a sensation of exquisite relief. Aline had some little knowledge of swimming. Sho tried to hold herself up in the water until relief should come. And a groat horror came over her at the thought of being whirled away under the ice and beyond all hope of rescue. How terrible it would be to perish miserably under that sheet of solid crystal, where but a little while ago she had sported gayly and fearlessly, but which now rose between her and the world like a glittering wall of destruction. Sho made an effort to keep from drift- ing away from the wide, ragged opening in the ice made by the falling through of her body. She knew that if once swept beneath that terrible Crust her death would be certain. The sounds from above came to hor faintly, deafened by the ringing in her ears, and by the wild shrieks of her brother nearer at hand. She was conscious of a vague anxiety over hor mother, a faint wonder if any of those people who hated her would ay to save her life, and then a numb. nessinduced bythe fearful cold overoame hor wholly, hor arms ceased to beat the waves in frenzied endeavor, and she felt herself sluicing again to rico no more. It was at that awful moment that Oran Delaney sprung .boldly into the terrible death-trap, fearless of danger, and only. intent on saving that frail, weak girl from imminent death. When he first sprung into the river the little dark head was going down beneath the waves. He was compelled to dive twine before he succeeded in retaining a hold upon hor. When after a desperate struggle be succeeded in holding her above the water, ho was almost exhausted himself. He feared that he Would succumb to the dreadful cold himself before assistance could arrive. The forethought of the men who had so fortunately brought ropes stood him ing d stead now. A little loaner in the colcTwaves must have exhausted his re- maining strength. He was frightened when they wore drawn out of the water and he saw Aline's face clearly. It was pinched and blue, and the parted lips and closed eye- lids looked like death. Had ho boon too I ` late ? he asked himself, anxiously. He claw the unconsaio p THE BRUSSELS POST 7 us form laced r...�..®r...®..n..,.„.,,,.r...,,,x,:a; 1n the vnhlulo and driven away toward home with a silent, speechless trouble in his heart. Hie thoughts followed her, in fancy, to thatlittlewhite chamber whore her parents and the old family dootor hung anxiously over her, trying to infuse life into the chill and rigid forte, that, seemed as if it would never breathe the warm breath of life again, Oh, that I had never taken her to that fatal river 1 She would not have gone if I had not urged it I" cried poor Mrs. Rodney, wringing her white hands in despair. She remembered the old fortune -tell. Dr's strange words: "The clouds that overhang your future aro so dark and heavy I cannot pierce their gloom. Per- haps the ecu may shine for you again, perhaps never l" "It was a true prognostication 1 That old crone diel, indeed, read the cards of fate truly I It was the shadow of death that hung over my poor darling I" Dried the anguished mother in mingled grief and wonder. But she was wrong. Tho tangled thread of poor Aline's life was not broken yet. Her little foot were not done wandering yet through the weary mazes of the world. Insensibly a little warmth began to creep about the poor Chilled body, or the stress of their patient endeavors, a faiut pulse fluttered about her heart, and at length the black fringe of the lashes trembled feebly against her cheek. Tho old physician, standing anxiously over her, with his hand upon the blue.veined wrist, looked up, and said, kindly, to the distracted mother : "Thank God, the revives! She will Iive I" CHAPTER SLI, "Aline, you have not asked me saved your life, yet?" "No, mamma." It was the morning after Aline' most fatal accident, and she was sit up in au easy -chair before the fire, pretty, bright blue wrapper. Sho very pale and quiet. She had b listening to her mother, who had b telling her the details of her rescue, who now remarked in wonder : "Aline, you have not asked me saved your life, yet." "No, mamma," the girl answered a tone of visible embarrassment, w a faint color rose to her cheeks. "I should think you would be curi over it," said Mrs. Rodney, in a ton slight disappointment. •I have not thought about it," young girl replied, evasively. "Then you will bo astonished wh you learn who the person was—the last ono you or any one else would h thought of," declared Mrs. Rodney.. "Yon make me feel quite curio mamma," said Aline, with a faint smi and a tone' so listless it belied her ass tion of interest. "I do not suppose, if you guessed day, that you would come at all ne the truth," pursued firs. Rodney, "I suppose not," answered Ali laughingly. Sho loaned back wearily, and watch the leaping flames of the fire with smothered sigh. Oh, if only her moth would but drop the subject. But lairs, Rodney had no intention doing so. "Indeed you would nob," she went o "You would sooner think of any o else that you ever knee', though fade you never knew this gentleman I" "Then it was a stranger," said Alin seeing that an answer of some sort w expected, and feeling a guilty consciou noes of deceit, for she had an Intel ti knowledge that Mr. Delaney had save her life. She had caught a glimpse his dark, handsome face behind th tree Max had pointed out to her just a she Crashed through the thin ice int the river. "Yes, it was a stranger, although yo have seen him a thousand tinges, an although you knew his name. Prepar to bo surprised, my dear. Only think it was our unsociable neighbor, Mr Delaney 1" Aline knew that sho was expected t appear greatly surprised, but to hav saved her life sho could not have enact ed such a fraud. She was too Iran and honest. She could only falter out embarrassedly "Mr, Delauey 1" "Yes 1 I knew you would be surprised Every one was," said Mrs. Rodney. " was surprised, and, to tell yon the truth Aline, I was proud, too. Just to think that after the mean way the Chester people had treated us, that the riohest and grandest man in the place should risk• his life to save yours I Oh, how grateful 1 feel to him for his kindness 1" "Grateful I" murmured Aline, in an indescribable tone. "Yes, indeed I" cried Mrs, Rodney. "Why, my dear girl, you might have perished for any help those other men would have given you—that is, they did bring a rope, but that would not have been any good if Mr. Delaney bad not gone into the water and brought you up from the bottom." "It might have been bettor bad be left inc there," the girl murmured, half to herself. Mrs. Rodney shuddered at the bare thought "Oh, howglad I am that ho olid not," sho exclaimed "I feel Efko going down on my knees to thauk hint brine gal - lent bravery:" "Thank bin i Thank Oran Delany I Oh, mamma," dried Aline, with isrepros- Bible agitation. "Whhy, yes, my dear; of course we should thank him," cried Mrs. Rodney, "and yot, strange as it eeelne, your papa and I are at a loss' how to do so. You goo, he is so strange. Although he saved avour life, he has never called or sunt to inquire how you are. And yet,, (PO BE CONTINUED,) who s al. ting in a was eon SOU and who in hila ous 0 of the flu very ave us, le, 81, all ar n0, ed a ex of n. ne ed e, as s- ve of 0 s 0 0 nd a 0 0 k. , 1 %'l.'RATE1) FROM 'TILE PREM. on orpaboutthe May 1x0 tots d aunt inline .belele�'4 years old, neo 4 yearling oalvas,2 at titan! .are hollers, ono roan and the tabor te blaelt, and the two steers aro red ,an re.' and white re- epeatlYely. Any information loading letheir rauovsry will he Lha111100319. retulvvd, W41. 111-011AItis31;Lf,, 4811 Jamestown 0, 0, .13811138. E1.8 Ufdf Wi)RK STIII AI-I11:A , turning thanks to thin Inhabitantstof opportunity usseels and 010hdty for pant Patronage, and beg le state that having h„nln several Int pravemon10 in their kiln and medeof burning, they aro now int a better position then alar before to supply the Publlo with First -Plass Lime. This being the twelfth 0000011 of our busi- ness (10101:M1in lirusxels,tutdbay ing given un- it 00110 ed satistoo/ion 00 tar, the 0llblla can re. [10,. resolving geed treatt.ou t and ad rut -class article from vs. ,1,'irtt.Cla Oel lino at 16 aunts at the kilo. Wo also burn a Ne.l limo to plaxtoring at the sums price. Reale tuber the spot--Ilruosels Limo works. 42 TOWN & WA. ALLAN LINE. ROYAL MAIL S'TEAMSHTPS • ?til $e d'.`St.A..t4v, sw U' TO LIVERPOOL, LONDONDERRY, GLASGOW, LONDON, Ere. Steerage. $50415, LIverpool, 1,,,,,domlerry, Quo5uebown, Ohtagow, or Ballast to alusboa and always se low as by an y arst-elate One, Sununu ARRANGEMENT, 188(3. 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