HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-12-03, Page 3CHAPTER, I.
It was faat nearing that ntystieal
Hour, Christmas Eve. The scene as the
little hamlet of Hartley, far out upon
'the plains of the recent State of Wash-
ington, some forty miles or more from
Spokane, accessible only by stage across
the mountains in summer weather, and
quite buried from the world from the
time the first snow fell until the rays
of the following spring's warm sunshine
removed it, thus giving relief to the
snowbound villagers. •
All day bong, on this day which was
to be made so memorable, it had been
¢nowing hard; a northeast wind blow -
lug fierce acrd keen was piling the snow
ruthlessly about in huge drifts, espec-
ially over the one road which led over
the mountain toward Spokane, until
the serpentine trail was quite lost in.
the labyrinth of whiteness, even had
not the oncoming dusk lent its aid to
hide it from view.
The hour was so early that, despite
the deepening gloom, no homes had as
yet been lighted, save one, a urge ram-
bling stone house that stood. quite by
itself, shut in by a high stone wall—
at the farthest end of the village. For
the first time in twenty years the dark-
ness and silence of this house were brok-
en; every window was brilliantly illum-
inated.
The storm which came sweeping
through the mountain gorge was so
territac that not one of the villagers
had ventured beyond the genial glow of
his own fireside and thus become aware
of the wonderful spectacle.
The expression "wonderful" is quite
correct, for it would have seemed more
than that to the inhabitants of Had-
ley.
Mrs. Frances Harrison, the owner and
inhabitant, had not stepped beyond the
portals of the old stone house for many
a long year—never since the hour her
lovely young daughter, upon whom she
bad built such hopes, had eloped and
wedded a young man of the village,
whose only fortune was two willing
hands, strong and anxious to work, and
a great, big loving heart.
Exactly two years after the fair
young daughter had left the Ionely stone
houseshe returned to it one bitter win-
ter night to show her haughty old mo-
ther the fair, smiling little one that had
come like a sunshine into her life.
No one ever knew what passed be-
tweeii mother and daughter, for, hear -
Ing the well-kno wn ring, Mrs. Garrison
went to the door herself. There was the
sound of .high, angry words in the nye
tlates � e*.m. obbitrg,°'y"ri+:itul anis
in the eteughter's.
The mistress of ;the great stone house
turned the girl from her door, sending
her back from whence she came, even
in the teeth of the awful storm that
was raging.
The next morning the body of the
hapless young mother was found stiff
and. cold in dearth, with the white, drift-
ed snow for a winding sheet. Her last
act had been to take the shawl from
ebout herself and wrap the babe with-
in it.
The little one lived, despite its near-
aeas to death's threshold. The proud old
mistress of the great stone house heard
the pitiful story without the moving of
a muscle, save that her face grew hard-
er and grimmer.
She gave orders to the old servants
that the child should never be admitted
to her presence, not even if she lay dy-
tug, but she might have spared them
that admonition, for the child never
troubled .her in all the years that fol -
,
lowed.
The recluse of the old stone house had
a lonely enough life of it with the two
old retainers, who, with herself, form-
ed her household.
Of late years she had become an inva-
lid—either fancied or real—and had tak-
en to her bed. When that catastrophe
befell her, the old servant made the
mistake of her life by asking if the
granddaughter might be sent for.
Frances Garrison fell into a rage so
alarming that the old servant was lit-
erally terrified. She was warned under
pain of instant dismissal never to make
the mistake of making a similar sug-
gestion again. Old Esther knew by that
scene that her mistress' heart was hard-
er and stonier than ever.
On that occasion old. Esther was also
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herit ono dollar of the Garrison stoney.
ccbly will is already made," Mrs. Bar-
rison anuouueed, "and I will tell you
this much: My fortune in its entirety
goes to 'my nephew by adoption. He is
being educated at Yale—a great Eastern
college—with this object in view."
As the had uttered these words old
Esther had said to herself: "Ah! this
accounts for the lettere in the bold,
dashing hand which she had received re-
gularly from the far East." And there
came a day when a large package came
for her mistress. On opening the casing
it was found to be a large crayon por-
trait, finely executed, of a young and.
handsome man.
"Ah, this is Clifford Carlisle—my ne-
phew and heir!" she cried, excitedly. "Is
he not a young, fellow to be proud of,
Esther?"
The old servant had looked long and
earnestly at the pictured face. Yes, the
face was certainly handsome, but she
told herself'that it was not a good one;
there was an expression in the dark eyes
that warned those who were keen, care-
ful judges of human nature to beware,
and the lips which the curling mustache
half revealed, half concealed, looked
cruel; yet, for all that, the portrait was
an excellent one, revealing Xi as he
was in life -faultlessly, darkly hand-
some, like some young prince of royal
blood.
Mrs. Garrison had the picture hung
where she could feast her eyes upon it
at all times. And after that, long, thick,
closely written letters flew faster than
ever back and forth.
Mrs. Garrison rarely trade a confi-
dante of old Esther, but once, in the
enthusiasm of the moment, she forgot
her usual reserve and exclaimed, upon
the receipt of a long, ofifcial-appearing
envelope:
"I have had a great opportunity to
double the Garrison money, and I have
been wise enough to grasp it. Through
my nephew, dear Clifford, I have secur-
ed the right of purchase of a gold mine
in Arizona. Clifford is negotiating the
sale for me."
"Does it take much stoney, ma'am?"
asked Esther.. with the freedom and
.bluntness or a lifelong servitor, and her
mistress replied:
"Only ten thousand down, Esther, to
sort of bind the bargain. See, Clifford
has just returned me the receipt and the
papers. When he calls fox it—that is,
at the needful time—I am to pay twenty
' "^y :end spore. o He has secured it
let a close tiullege chum for that.
I selling price to any one else on
earth would positively be one hundred
thousand dollars, Clifford assures me."
"Have you ever seen the inine,
ma'am?" asked Esther.
"No; but Clifford has seen end exam-
ined carefully all the maps," she replied,
quickly and confidently. •
"I wouldn't like to pay out a great
fortune for something 1 hadn't seen or
wasn't likely to see," declared Esther,
which remark so angered her mistress
that she was never taken into her confi-
dence again.
But after that she would see a
thoughtful, if not troubled, look on Mrs.
Harrison's face; it was always after a
letter fromthe so-called nephew had been
received, and she would soon after be
ordered to draw her mistress' desk
close to the bedside, and old Esther knew
by that that she had a call from the
East for another cheque to go into the
gold mine. This occurred so often that
old Esther was not surprised that her
mistress grew nervous and had some dif-
ficulty in getting to sleep at night.
One day she announced briefly to Es-
ther:
"I have advertised for a young girl
to come here as companion to me, and
have selected, I think, a coinpetent per-
son—Miss Florence Austin. The young
lady will be here to -day."
This announcement nearly took old
Esther's breath away, it had bean so
many years since a stranger had crossed
that threshold.
Night came and with it Miss Florice
Austin.
Old Esther had expected to see a timid,
blue-eyed, gentle little creature. Such
she had imagined from the name. In-
stead, she beheld a tall young woman
with a face so like the little painted wax
dolls with their flaxen hair and pink
and white faces, that were in the Radley
shop windows at Christmas time, that
she could not for. the, life of her judge
whether she was twenty or thirty.
But at first glance honest Esther did
not take to the lovely stranger. She
could not have told why. Miss Austin
had not been an inmate of the cid stone
house a fortnight ere she had ingra-
tiated herself completely in Mrs. Bar-
rison's good graces. She learned many of
the family secrets, that the haudsome
young man whose portrait graced the
easel in her mistress' bedchamber was to
be Mrs. Garrison's sole heir. She learn-
ed, too, that he was expected at Christ-
mas to pay hor a long -promised visit.
Miss Austin had no desire to wander
beyond the grounds of the old stone
house; she never went into the village.
This so pleased Mrs, J3arrison that one
day she cried, enthusiastically:
"You are a jewel of a girl, my dear. I
do wish that you and Clifford would fall
in. Dove with each other when he comes.
I would further the match' in evert, way
possible."
"Oh, dear Mrs, . Garrison 1" , she hiL{l'
Murmured, in apparent dismay; •, "So
handsome and brilliant a yougg:lpian
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. CHAPTER II.
The eventful iiay.( ha'd rolled around
at last. Since OW horn Miss Asutin
had been in a fever of , exceptancy,
though her calm .%rg�oner in no way be-
trayed it. She ec inted the hours sec-
retly and silently, but with no less anxi-
ety than Mrs. Brarison did. The noon
hour came and went; the afternoon wore
slowly on, add at last dusk fell.
She had obeyed leer mistress' command
to order the canal c'' lighted throughout
the house with alacty. The guest ahem
ber had been put etil readiness. There
was nothing else to be done now, save to
stand at the window and wait and watch
for the coming of the heir.
Miss Austin had spent more time than
ever before in her oom that afternoon,
and when she eme)! ;d front it she look-
ed more than ever -Ike the wax dolls in
the shop windows. to which old Esther
always compared her.
She had taken one long, lingering
glance into the narrow, old-fashioned
miror ere she turn away. Evidently
the critical survey -of the reflection she
gazed upon satisfied .her.
"I think you will win the goal of your
ambition, Edith Jennings—or Florice Aus-
tin, as they are pleased to know and call
you beneath this roll)," she murmured to
herself. "When 'you read the ad-
vertisement of the wealthy, lonely
old lady who wanted a companion, you
said to yourself: 'Ah, here is an oppor-
tunity which might pay better than be-
ing a circus performer; I will secure that
position and entwine myself so com-
pletely around the old woman's heart
that she will make a will leaving me
her fortune, and it shall not be long af-
ter that ere I shall come into possession
of it.'
(To be continued.)
FarinvaId
(Continued from last week.)
"It would have tirade all the difference
in the world to rue!' he cried. "I have
searched the world through to find you.
You refuse to heap me now. You would
have listened to t - had you believed
that I wAs 1y ' et!tePte eviIlee ask her
to listen to me." '
His words seemed to soften her. '''eVaat
end will it serve?" she, asked, gently,
still without looking at • him. "I have
forgiven you, but you cannot alter the
fact that when you were about to marry
me, you had e. wife living."
"I had, but I did not know it. I swear
to you, Huldalr, by my own great love
for you, I did not know it."
She raised her eyes and looked at him.
"You did not know it'!'
"No; I thought that poor false woman
was dead. IIuldah, in the earliest days
of our love I told yon that I had. conr-
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mitred a folly in buy ~'`lath, surd I begged
of you to let the tell you what it was."
1. remember," she s,aid, gravely.
'Chat folly was my marriage. Mrs.
Neville, plead for me, that ,I may tell
her that: story now."
"'l,iiten. Ilulclah," I urged; "in honor
tru , re bound to. listen."
`I will," she said. "Tell rue your
story,"
"Oh! If I had known!" eried Lord
V'ynton---"if 1 could but have guessed--
that
uessed
that I was under your roof, that it was
to your sweet kindness I was indebted—
if 1: had dreamed you were Miss Vane!"
"It would• have made. no difference,"
she said,
"It is a story I ani ashamed to tell,"
began Lord Wynton, "yet I did. nothing
that was dishonorable. I went to Paris
when I was very young—not more than
nineteen. I was entirely ,my own mas-
ter, and one of a circle of young men
who were not really wicked, but `fast'
and foolish; priding ourselves on doing
extravagant things. We frequented
theatres and saloons. One unlucky day
L was introduced to a young actress—
Isabelle Dubois. You have seen her, She
was pretty in those days, with a bright,
sparking charm of manner.
"A boy caught in the toils of a beauti-
ful and accomplished actress, what
chance had I? She fooled me to the top
of my bent. She was years older than
1 was, but she consulted me about
everything. On one pretenoe or an-
other she kept me constantly by her side.
1 was so easily duped—it maddens me
even now to remember it. I was' a boy,
liking flattery, and enjoying the sensa-
tion my conquest had prdduced; she was
a keen, shrewd, worldly woman, who had
set her mind on marrying a nobleman.
She began to affect a. deep and passion-
ate love for me. She was always telling
me, indirectly, how much she had given
up for my sake; and one. evening she
wept bitterly. She said that people were
talkinb about us, and that we must part.
``When she talked 'about parting, all
the boyish chivalry of my nature was
aroused, and ]: offered to marry her. She.
feigned reluctance, and 'when she did so
my desire to snake her my wife in-
creased. She played with me so skilfully
and so cleverly that I began at last to
believe that all the happiness of buy
life depended on my marrying her; and
then when her feigned reluctance had
done its work, we were married at the
Church of St. Hoch, in Paris, Ah!
Huldah, if I could spare myself the
shame of telling and you the pain of
hearing the rest of my story!
"1 was a boy —not twenty—vain, fool-
ish and credulous; yet even I could not
long be blind to the true character of
the woman I had made my wife. She
was a. vain, worthless creature. When
I found it out and reproached her, she
laughed at me, and openly gloried in
having so cleverly duped me. When I
could bear it no longer, I left her re-
proaching her fee Baring ruined my life.
"'I dislike and despise you so emelt,'
she said, "that I will nob proclaim the
story of or ' mmeria-e even to reveal e
neeself on rod, te,� l.ulll t
verge for all''t at. swear teetetee Els Left
bitterest roveuge on you that ever wo-
man took on man yet !' "
"Five years since I read in a French
Journal that etas sent to me an an-
nouncement of her death. Then—oh,
IIuldah ! how I dread to speak of it !—
Elysium seemed to open to tae, for I had
met you and loved you. You Ranow how
I desired to tell you the story of my
fully, but you would not listen to it. I
should never have dared, never have pre-
sumed to address ono word to you, Hul-
dah, had I not felt certain of her death.
"Time passed on. The woman that I
had made my wife waited with fell,
cruel patience until site read the an-
nouncementf of our forthcoming. mar-
riage, and then she came over to Eng-
land. She might l:ay.: warned you at
once, but no, her revenge was to be com-
plete—she would say nothing until the
morning of our wedding -day.
"What followed you know. Some fate
afterward she wrote to me to say that
the money I had given her was gone,
and that unless she had money she would
publish the whole story. Rather than
that, for your sake, Huldah, I would
have beggared myself. My lawyers wrote
to her to come to London, and there
matters were arranged with her.
"I thought I had seen the last of her.
Imagine my horror when, at the railway
station, the guard showed me into the
very carriage where she was seated and
I had no time to change. I do not be-
lieve that we uttered ono word during
the journey. Then the accident happen-
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cumstances, I thought we were among
strangers, who would simply be scandal-
ized at the truth. If I had known we
were under your roof, IIuldah, I should
have spoken out. I went to Nice to see
if she was really dead, determined that
she should trick me no more, and after-
ward it was rumored that Lord Wynton
had married abroad and that his wife
was dead. The truth no one &news but
myself and you. Huldah, was I so much
to blame t"
"Then when you began to love me,"
she said, looking steadily at hits—"when
you first asked inc to be your wife -
you believed lier dead? "I did, as I be-
lieve it now,"
"You had no idea on that fatal morn-
ing, that she was living?" I had not the
faintest idea of it."
"Why did you not tell me all this
then?"
"My darling, you would not let me;
you did not perrili, me to speak. You
forget. Do you not think you have been
hard upon me, 13ultlah? Have I not suf-
fered enough for my stupid folly?"
"Yes, quite enough." .
"And my darling, will you listen to
me now. Let me be happy before 1 die,
for the sake of my great love, my great
despair."
I slipped away from the seene. ,I am
quite sure that I rambled for more than
two hours ,by the water-sido and then—
well, all I need add is that Lord Wyn-
n
on rowed us horse to the River House,
at he 'dined there, and he made Hula.
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