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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 MADE IN CA MA Best Yeast hi the World Sold and Used Everywhere E. W. Gillett Co., Ltd. Toronto. Ont. ealausausamiainviimawmarwquail informed that the girl site had so un- luckily reminded her of should never in- 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 one who is to. iulterit such great v earth • You can paroles bard, Heft or bleed Corn Extractor. rt1 contains no.adds; Jai only of healing gumpps ase,. Cure guaranty 2b0, bottles, .gefuse tPUTNAM' CORN E, CUR IN 24idOUF15 eniove any corn eitLrl by applying Putnam': ever hums, leaves 110 Bear, :runless because composed d bairns. _Fifty' years In t Fold oy all Ur•ngg:Bts statutes, `PAINLESS 'TRACTOR ---would never lob; like inc." But,: for all t)- 1ong since. made iv Garrison's handac •a poor companion) le Miss Austin had er mind to wed Mrs. e heir. She had never heard of the existence of the disowned young granddaughter, . 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. 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"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- ed. At River House I submitted to cir- 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. 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