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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-12-31, Page 3"Yes," assented Norine, never dream- ing what her unfortunate answer would lead to. Her companion had learned all ho eared to know. He had intended linger- ing by Norine's side until ha was oblig- ed by the lateness of the hour les tear himself away from her delightful pres- ewe; suddenly he changed his mind. "It is too cold to permit you to re- main longer with me, 'great as the joy of being near you is to me, little girl," he murmured. "Say that you will •meet. me hero .to -morrow at the same hour, Norine." "I and very much afraid I shall not be able to come to -morrow," she answer- ed, "for to -morrow is grandma's birth- day, and all the neighbors will be com- ing .to the cottage all day long to see her. For that reason it would be diffi- cult to get away." "Even for a few moments?" he asked, holding the little hands closer and draw- ing the slender, girlish form nearer to, him. Norine shook her golden curls, "It is best not to make a promise, and then be obliged to break it," she said, thinking to herself he little knew what a hardship it would be to her to let a whole day pass without seeing him. "Then I shall surely see you the day after, Norine?" he questioned. "Yes," she replied, "I will be here." Cliffod Carlisle suddenly bent down and touched the lips that had never known a lover's kiss before; and that kiss burned Norine's lips long after she had left him. "Cold," she murmured. "How could any one think it cold? Why, my heart and every nerve in my body are on fire, throbbing as though the blood in my Tel* were suddenly burned to hot., strong wine." Meanwhile Clifford Carlisle had walk- ed rapidly in the direction of the Barri- son home. "Thirty thousand in cash!" he mut- tered. "Now who will not say that the devil does not help his own?" Miss Austin was passing through the corrider as he entered. "Mrs. Garrison was just asking for you," she remarked. "I was about to send up to your room for you, thinking you were there. He did not look any too pleased at the intelligence. Clifford Carlisle had not been under that roof a week as yet, still he had told himself long since that the bardest work he had eyer done was to dance attend- ance on this querulous old woman. He could not endure it much longer, even_ with the Garrison millions in sight. CHAPTER VIII. "IIave you any what, 'Sirs. Bar- rison wants of me?" asked Carlisle, throwing off his sealskin coat, impa- tiently. "That is what I hear every hour in the day, it seems to me." Miss Austin laughted a sweet little musical laugh. "I should not wonder if It was to show you her new backgammon set that arrived an hour since. I—I may as well tell you a little tiny secret—the dear old lady is intensely fond of the game. In playing backgammon she never real- izes the flight of time. She would play from now until midnight, ceaselessly, even forgetting that there is such a thing as meal time for herself or any one else." Carlisle groaned. "I see my finish if she were ever to find out that I understood the game, which, by the way, I have a great horror of," he declared, adding, eagerly: "Will you not come to my rescue in this affair, my dear Miss Austin? Say that I have gone to my room with a raging head- ache. Indeed, that would not be an un- truth, you know, for the very thought of spending half an hour over that most stupid of' games renders me in that con- dition. ondition. Induce her to look for a martyr elsewhere." "If I play on the guitar for her that will cause her to drop to' sleep at once, and that would deprive you of her so- ciety the entire evening," she murmured, artfully. "Never mind me; do not consider me in the. matter, I beg of you," he an- swered quickly. "To niy mind, sleep is better than medicine for the indisposed. Play your guitar by all means, for this one evening, at least, and I shall appre- ciate it, I assure you." Miss Austin blushed deeply. He had not field it in so many words, but she understood from his remarks that he hoped old Mrs. Barrison would fall asleep that they might have a quiet evening to themselves in the parlor. • It is strange on what a light remark, falling from a man's lips, a woman who is desperately in love with him will build her hopes. • "1 Will try to have It as you desire," murmured Florice, and her heart beat with feverish triumph.' She told herself that the hour was not far distant when he would declare Him- self, • Already she could see herself in fancy the wife of this handsome, debonair young man, the heir of the vast Garrison wealth. In- Clifford Carlisle she had ni.et her match—the one man• on earth whom she could Piave loved madly, passionately, for himself, if he .had not had a dollar en earth—and while he seemed to admire lier as all other men whom she had met did, he seemed in no great hurry to make love to her; and this annoyed her visibly. They dined together, alone in the big, bleak dining -room, as they had been accustomed to do. But instead of Clifford Carlisle saun- tering to Mrs. Barrison's boudoir, immo- lating himself upon the altar of duty by passim the evening there, he went in- stead quickly to his own apartment. Miss Austin lost no time in gathering her Music together; not bright, tuneful, in- spiriting music, but instead drowsy, dragging melodies, that would have the soporific effect of putting a person to sleep if anything could. But for the first time since the young girl had been beneath that roof the old lady proved perverse. "Put down your guitar and talk to me, Florice," she exclaimed, petulantly. "I am not in the mood for music ti - night." Miss Austin bit her Hp, and a strange, angry gleam came into her sharp, green - blue eyes that the long yellow lashes had shaded so well. "Shall I read the latest magazine to you, or—or would you prefer that I should ring for Mr. Carlisle?" "Don't trouble yourself to do so just yet; he will come to me directly. You may read until he comes." Miss Austin read until her throat ached. Mrs. Garrison was slightly deaf, and she had to pitch her voice in a very high. key. "Read more distinctly, so that I can understand. you. You mumble your words all together. I want particularly to hear that review on Dewey's work at Manila. Commence that page over again, and read slowly and very • distinctly, please." Another page with quite the same re- sult. How could she read the tiresome old reviews calmly, with her thoughts elsewhere? "You may as well stop right where you are," exclaimed :(Irs. Barrisan angri- ly. "You murder the king's English in a most shocking manner to -night. Are you tired?" "No, Mrs. Harrison," she murmured, "but to tell the truth; I have a very annoying headache I had hoped it would pass away, but I find. I am doomed to disappointment." "You had better lay down your book and rest a while," said Mrs. Harrison. "If Clifford does not come to me soon, you may ring for Esther to summon hint here." Again Miss Austin's heart beat with silent rage. That meant that the quiet evening she had promised herself with Clifford Carlisle would begin and end in her devastated hopes. A sudden thoughts came to her. She would force this tantalizing old woman to go to sleep, whether she would or not. She wondered that this way out of her difficulty had not occurred to her an hour before. Of course Clifford Carlisle was wait- ing for her down in the parlor, wonder- ing with all a man's impatience why she did not put in an appearance. With the noiseless, gliding motion peculiar to her, Miss Austin crossed over to the cabinet at the other end of the room where the medicines and Iiquors were kept. "Let me pour you out a glass of wine, my 'dear Mrs. Harrison," she murmured. "The night is so cold, it is even percep- tible in this warm room; I think it will do you good." "As you will, my dear Florice," replied the old lady; "I think myself something stimulating would not cone amiss. "Perhaps I had better give you a lit- tle brandy," suggested Miss Austin. 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PUTNAM'S PAINLESS S CORN EXTRACT°_: "You shall sleep,' and''that speedily, too, if I can have my ,r ay about it," muttered Miss Austin, between her tightly shut teeth. • r .She poured out. the wine and the wo- man at the other end of the -room did not see . her add a, few drops of dark, greenish liquid to it; hzifr she did no- tice as she raised it to her lips that it had a very bitter, brecl:ish taste to it. "That is only your fancy,. my dear Mrs, Harrison," murmured Florice. ,"The taste is in your mouth after the bit of bird you have just eaten." "Nonsense ll" exclaimed the other, sharply. "I, say it i the wine, Please do not suggest that could. make a mis- take about liquors." "Certainly not. I hope you will par- don me for int -denoting such a possibil- ity," she remarked, with apparent inno- cence; but old Esther, ,. --happened to enter at that moment, detected mi- derneatli her words a covert sneer. "I think I will take "'advantage of Esther's presence to retire to my room to rest a little while, as you advised a few moments ago, dear IvIrs''Barrison," she said, gliding toward'tlee, door. Esther did not tell her mistress that instead of going to her room, she had distinctly beard Miss Austin going down the stairs, for they creaked-fittdibly even under her eat -like tread. A moment later she heard her turn the ]mob of the parlor door. "A liar is the last perstin on earth to be trusted," thought old. Esther, who by this time had a most cordial dislike for the stratnge young woman, who seemed to do pretty much as she liked with her mistress. "What brings you here at this hour, Esther,' asked Mrs. Barrien, 'vebudering- ly, for the methodical old servant's ha- bits were like clockwork. She had never been known to finish her supper dishes thus early and repair to her room. "I thought perhaps you saw the fire, and would like to know about it," she replied. "There bas been many' a. fire in Had- ley during the last twenty years, and have I ever had enough intessest in them to inquire about them?" she asked, curtly. "No, ma'am—no'" responded Esther, "but I happened tsee this one -as I was returning from the post -office with the mall." Old Mrs. Garrison saw at once that Esther wished to talk with her of the conflagration. Perhaps it was the wine she had just drunk which prompted her to humor the old servant. "Was it muck of a fire?" slie. asked, "and what was it, a house,rk. shop.a• "It was the pretty little eottdlge that you always admire so much from your window. The house where the young mo- ther lived who was teaching her little baby to walk." "Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. Harrison, her curiosity getting the better of her deep resolve not to allow any of the village happenings to interest her, "the mother and infant escaped of course." "Their lives were saved by almost a miracle, ma'am," said Esther, solemnly. "It appears that the youngmother was subject to 'fainting spels. One of these spell same on suddenly as she was putting logs on the kitchen fire and she felt unconscious, with the dear little baby in her arms. Her clothing caught fire and—and the place would have been burned to the ground, and she in it with the baby, if the dense smoke had not been noticed by a gi—person who chanced to be passing; ,sand at the risk of this person's life, an entrance was made through the blinding smoke, and the poor young mother and little in- fant dragged out in the nick of time. "I happened along just thea and stood guard over the two while this person went into the burning betilding and ex- tinguished the flames by numerous pails of water, though I called loudly upon the person to come qut." "That was indeed heroism!" exclaim- ed Mrs. Barrison, greatly excited over old Esther's graphic account of the occurrence. "You must find out who the man was. I have a notion to reward such bravery. If I was burning in this room. Esther, who on earth would risk his life to save me?" "This same person would, if—if the person kneiv who you were." "Who is this, of whom yeti speak so mysteriously as that person?" "May I dare to tell you, ma'am?" cried the old servant, trembling with excite- ment. "Certainly, Esther, speak right out; I am anxious to hear.' "This person was your discarded granddaughter, Norine, ma'am," whis° pered Esther. CHAPTER IX: For a moment Mrs. Barrison stood fairly petrified. "Have I done wrong in telling you ma'am, when you expressly forbade me long years ago to never mention the girls name in your presence?" asked Esther. "I had forgotten her very existence until a few days ago, when her name was spoken in my presence. Since that hour,' do what 'I evould, I have not been able to banish her from my thoughts. The girl's face—as I imagine it must look --haunts me, Esther." "God knows it should," thought Es- ther, but she dared not give vent to thisstead: though In words, but said in - know it is an ampossibility, but oh! how I wish you could sae the young girl, ma'am;; it would do your heart good. The lass is so blithe and bonny; she looks the picture of you when you were a lass. 1 remember you well; your hair was as bright as gold their, and your cheeks red as,ine nose--" "Hush!' cut in uur mistress, sharply. "/ cannot, I will not, listen to auotlher word on this forbidden subject. ,Flow dare you make 'so bold as to r tie it." "1 had hoped time might lu soften ed your heart, meant," remit, old Esther, sadly, "when yeti co -1 to re- member in your lonely menials that the girl, Norine, is the only human tie you have on earth—X must have my say out, even though you turn nue from your door this day for uttering it. You harbor strangers around you, who do not care a snap of their fingers for you, and are but too anxious for you to die to see what you have left them; and this young girl, your own flesh and blood, who should love you if anybody on earth would, has never been allowed to darken your door. I say it is a burn- ing shame, ma'am, and you ought to realize it. "Now 1 nave said all that has been on my mind to say this many a year, and you can do with me as you like. A woman who would turn her own child and her helpless little baby out into the hardships of a bitter cold night to live or die as God saw fit, could have little compassion for an old servant like me." "Stop, Esther—stop. I cannot hear it; not another word. Leave me. I would be alone. I—I am not angry with you, for uttering the convictions of an honest heart. I will ring fur you if I want you. But.stay, pour me out another glass of wine ere you leave me; my head throbs strangely, as—as does my heart." Esther did as she was bidden; poured out the wine, but the moment her mis- tress put it to her lips she set it down quickly again, muttering: "This does not taste bitter like the last. I knew there was something the matter with that last glass of wine, and 1 told Florice so, Es- ther," she added sharply, "I have taken something that does not agree with me. Give me an antidote, quickly." Old Esther hastened to obey. Her prompt action saved her mistress. She called no one to her aid, though Mrs. Garrison grew strangely ill dur- ing the next few minutes, but in half an hour's time she was so relieved that she was her old self again. "Leave me now, Esther," she com- manded again. "I—I want to think. As you pass Miss Austin's door, and that of my nephew, tell then that I have retired for the night and do not wish to be disturbed." Esther never 14.new what prompted her to pause on the threshold and look back at her mistress; and as she saw her then, she remembered her all the after years of her life. Mrs. Barrison had seated herself in an armchair by the fire, and was lean- ing her head dejectedly on her bands, gazing abstractedly into the glowing sea coal fire. "Good -night, And may God bless you, mafam," murmured Esther below her breath. '"You have your faults, but be- neath it' all you have a tender heart. I anisure." Long aftet the door had closer] upon . old Esther'`bent, retreating form, dirt:` Garrison sat in the same position, gaz- ing into the fire—gazing fixedly, with- out seeing. "It is eighteen years ago to -night," she muttered. "I —I would give every drop of my heart's blood to turn time back to that never -to -be -forgotten night and live that one hour (which darkened all my after life) over again. I was shad. Yes mad! "I have ever since hated even the me- mory of the man who took my treasure from me. It did not occur to me until old Esther spoke so plainly to -night that I should not have let my hatred descend to the child, who was not responsible for what occurred. "I was the last, but for my child, of a proud old' race, who valued blue blood above gold; and when she, my idol, for- got the pride of her forefathers so en- tirely as to wed the village blacksmith, no wonder I almost lost my reason. "But years mellow all griefs, level all pride. What good are the ancestry to me now, of whom I was so proud. None whatever. If I sent for the girl whom I have neglected so long, they would not let her come to me. Indeed, she would not wish to come. What interest can she have in 'an aged grandmother who held herself aloof from her all these years, though in the same village? "No, thee- would not let ]brine cross my threshold. It is too late to make overtures of friendship now. But there is one way that I could retrieve the er- ror of the past, and that is by changing my will—leaving half my fortune to Clifford, 'and the other half to the neg- lected Norine." Rising suddenly to her feet, Mrs, Bar- rison crossed quickly to her writing desk, and, drawing a long, thin key from her bosom, fitted it to the compartment that was scarcely discernible to even a scrutinizing, searching gaze, this time revealing , as it opened to her touch a small secret drawer, in which lay a fold- ed paper, upon which was printed, "The bibranentatbIGUITIN.MaabbnIMIESICSUMUMMITESSIn 17 14 Karats Solid C' 8 Gold Shell Ein.gn Wo will give on your choice ofosoofthose beau- tiful rings guaranteed 14 karats solid gold shell, plain, engraved, or sot with • elegant annulated jewels, for the sale of 4 boxes only. at 24e, a box, of Dr. Maturio'e ransoms Vedetable Pills. 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