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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1906-12-14, Page 7Zsmaisias" Every Leaf is Full of Virtue Every Infusion is Delicious CEYLON GREEN TEA Has Such a Fine Flavor That You Will Use it Always After a Trial. Lead Packets Only. 40e, roc and. 6oc per lb. At all Grocers. 0000000000CPCMCOCCIMCDO*0000 0 0 o 0 '.1-1 F . 0 0 0 ....... ............ 0 0 "Think of all that to -morrow, child; and when all the country around shud- ders at my crime, when all the people call down imprecations upon my name, do not you curse one who has nourished you at her bosom, when that bosom is cold in death," said the woman, solemnly. "Ohl she is mad! mad!" claimed Rose, In dismay, at hearing these words; then lowering her voice, she said: "Moth- er! mother! try to collect yourself! It is I, your poor daughter Rose, that kneels before you. Do you know me?" "Ay, I know you well, and I know what I say," repeated the woman, sol- emnly. "Mother! oh, why do you talk so wild- ly? It is very dreadful! But you are not well! -let xne go for some one." `Yes, you must go for some one. You must go to the castle this afternoon," said the woman, in the same tone of deep gravity. 'To the castle! I, mother!" exclaimed Rose, in surprise. "Yes; you must. go to the castle; and, when you get there, ask to see who calls herself Lady Etheridge." "The baroness! Dear mother, why do your thougrts so run upon the baroness? What is she to us? Besides, is it likely that she will see me, a poor girl, a per- fect stranger, this day of all others, when she sees no one?" "Hush, Rose! and for once obey one whom you have so long looked upon as your mother. It will be the last time I will ask you to do so. Demand to be admitted in the presence of the baroness. Say that you have come upon a. matter of life and death, that nearly concerns her ladyship; insist, and she will not venture to refuse you When you stand before Lady Etheridge say that her old nurse, Magdalene Elmer --1 "Her nurse, mither! You Lady Ether - 'ridge's nurse! I never knew that be- fore!" interupted Rose, in surprise. "There are many things that you not knew, my child. But attend Say to the baroness that Magdalene Elmer is dy- ing!" "D,ying! Oh, raothr, do not say so! It is very cruel! You are not sick in bed -you are sitting up! You are not old eieher, but have many years of life be. fore you." "Child, hear my words, but do not judge theni! Say to Lady Etheridge that Magdalene Elmer, her dying nurse, prays --nay, demands -to see her this night! Tell her that I have a confession to make that she must hear to -night, or never! Conjure her by all she holds dear on earth! by all her hopes of heaven! by all her fears of hell! to come to me T.0 - might: Tell her if she would escape the heaviest curse that could darken a wo- man's life, to come to me to -night! to "eome to me at once! There; get on your bonnet, and go!" "Mother—" "Go!" "Oh! indeed, I fear her wits are wan- dering! It is not safe to leave her atone!" thought Rose, in distress. "Rose, will you obey me?' "Mother, yes, certainly; but let me send some one to stay with you while I am gone." "Do as you please as to that, only lose no time on your way to the castle," round, After that 1shall be at liberty to go at once. I am expecting Mr. Hastings here momeoterify. NaY, my dear, you, need not leave the room; but when you hear my visitor's name announeed you may retire to that bay window. You will find some prints there, that may amuse you fpr the few moments that Mr, Hastings will remain," said Lady Etheridge, And even as she spoke the door was opened, and a servant announc- ed: "Mr. Hastings, ray lady." On hearing the name announced, Rose had turned away and stolen off to the window, within the flowing curtains of which she sat quietlywaiting. She heard the lady say, in her peculiarly rich and deep tones: "Light the chandelier, Williams, and show Mr. Hastings in." And in one moment there was a blaze of light flooding the .library, and in the a little lonaer." Inext instant Albert Hastings enterled "I prefer "'to go now, if you please, my the room, approached baronees, rale- lady." ed her hand to his lips, and said, gal- "Indeed, if we were not going to the said the woman, in a cone of asperity that admitted of no opposition to her will. Rose hastily prepared herself for her long walk, and then stepped into the next door to ask a, neighbor to attend her mother until she should return, and then bent her steps in the direction of the castle. CHAPTER 11L Lady Etheridge was sitting alone, wrapped in a love dream, when Mrs. Ma- berly, her waiting woman, announced that a young person who represented herself to be the daughter of her lady- ship's nurse desired. audience. Rose -for of course it was she -ewes shown into the chamber, and Mrs. Ma- berly retired. "Come hither, my dear," said Lady Etheridge, holding out, her hand and ad- dressing her as she would have spoken to a child. And indeed, Rase, though of the same age as the baroness, yet in the fair, soft delicate type of her beauty, seemed several years younger than Lady Etheridge. At the invitation she approachecl and cook the hand that was held out to her and raised it to her lips. It was a nat- ural and instinctive tribute to the queen- ly presence of the lady. "Now sit down, my dear. You are the daughter of my nurse ?" "Yes, rely lady," said Rose, seating herself in the chair at the same table that had lately been occupied by Colonel Hastings. "_And now, my child, tell me whet it. is I can do for you." "I have to prefer. on behalf of my mother, an extraordinary request. She prays of your ladyship to come and see her this night," said Rose, reddening. Lady Etheridge looked up with a sur- prise and inquiring expression. "My lady, I know it is a very strange message; but I must give it as she gave it to me. She said: 'Tell Lady Ether- idge that I, Magdalene Elmer, her old nurse, prays to see her ladyship to -night. That I have a confession to make, which she must hear now or never. That 1 con- jure her, by all she holds sacred on earth! by all her hopes of heaven! by all her fears of hell! if she would escape the heaviest. curse that could blast a WO - man's life, now and forever, to come to- night, for I am dying!" "I will go to your mother immediate- ly," said Lady Etheridge, hastily, as she rang a little hand bell that stood upon the table. It was answered by a page, to whom she gave the order that a plain, closed carriage should be brought round within half an hour. Rose stood up to take her leave. "Stop a moment, my dear. You walk- ed. from the village?' "Yes, my lady." "Then you must not walk back, it would be too much for your young strength. Besides, you would not get back before night. You must ride with me, and you will reach home all the sooner." "I thank you, rny lady," said Rose, blushing at the thought of this honor. "I have an engagement that will not occupy me more than fifteen or twenty minutes, while the carriage is coming 4•0000001geat 0 0 0000000000.0000: ocz Don't neglect your cough. Statistics show that in New York City alone over 200 people die every week from 0 consumption. 0 0 And most of these consumptives ;night be living now if they had not neglected the warning cough. You know how quickly Scote.s Emakrion enables you to throw off a cough or cold. ALL DRUGGISTS50e. AND *1.00. 0 • ,! 0 0 0 000004:00004:40000000000000 the lantl • sick -bed of your mother, you should "I am here by your commands, my liege lady, my adored Laura." That voice! Rose Elmer started and gazed out from her retreat Yes, there he stood, her own betrothed lover, bowing over the hand of Lady Etheridge, and ad- dressing to her all those tender epi- thets of love that he had been accustom- ed to bestow upon Rose! The poor girl not leave the castle to -night," said Lady Etheridge. Mrs. Maberly then brought her lady's bonnet and shawl, arranged. them upon her lady's graceful person, and handed her gloves and in a few moments they left the room and entered the close car- riage to drive to the village. CHAPTER IV. It was by a soft moonlight that Lady did not faint nor exclaim; tho. blow was Etheridge entered the street leading to too sudden and too. heavy; it stunned. erurse Eimer,$ house. The street was and benumbed her :into the stony still."' very still; for it was the hour at which nese of a statue, as she stood there wi.th- i the hard-weerkiree inhabitants usually in the shadow of the window curtains. I retired to rest. Lady Etheridge was She was cold as ice, her blood seenied ' glad of this; for, idol of the neighbor - freezing in her veins, her heart was. sink- I hood. as she as, she could scarcely have ing, there was a dead weight in. her ' appeared in the village streets without eliciting some well -meant but annoying demonstration of regard from the people. The carriage drew up before the hum- ble. almost squalid. habitation of the laundress and Lady Etheridge alighted, bosom, yet she was unconscious of these sufferings -every sense was aborbed iii witnessing the scene at the library table. Again he raised her hand to her lips, with more expressions of passionate love, when the lady, with a playful gesture saying in dismay and sorrow: toward the window, indicated that they "This is the house of my old nurse. were not alone. Then they 'Poke This should never have been, and shall tones so subdued that they must have no longer be, her only refuge. She shall been inaudible, at that distance, to any henceforth dwell in ease and comfort, sense of hearing less preternaturally please Heaven." strained than that of Rose. I "Lady Etheridge, you know not what "I have begged you come here this day, an hour, may bring forth!" spoke evening. that I may place these docu- a sepulchral voice within the house. ments in your hands," said the beroness, With a shudder of vague alarm, the gently pushing toward him a packet of baroness crossed. the threshold arid en - papers. I tared the house, followed by Rose. It With a look of interest, he took them remained just as Rose had. left it five up, and perceiving their purport, flush- hours before. A .smouldering fire in. the ed to the forehead with ill -concealed grate and a flaring lamp on the chim- triumph, as he exclahned: ney-piece luridly lighted up the scene. "The title deeds of the Swinburne es- But the woman, Magdalene Elmer, had tatesi-my adored Lady Etheridge! my left the chair and lay extended upon the boloved Laura! your confidence, -your bed, attended by a neighbor. munificence overwhelm me! You -but' "Come hither, Lady Etheridge," spoke you never did your own personal worth, the same sepulchral voice, in a tone nor my love the wrong, to imagine that of command at strange variance any mercenary thought mingled with with the relative positions of the speaker and. the person spoken to. my devotion to you" "No, Mr. Basting. -no, Albert, nev- The baroiness, amazed and wondering, er doubted, ,or wcold doubt, the pure approached the darkest corner of the disintereetedness of your regard for poor room, in which the curtained bedstead. Laura Etheridgen, "And if this peosess Laura, instead of being the Baroness Etheridge, of Swin- burne, had been the lowest cottage mai- den, 1 should have loved her all the same. She would still have been the queen of my heart." "The loved of your heart I do believe she would have been," said the lady, with a beaming smile. Then, with af- fectionate earnestness, she pressed the documents upon his acceptance. He made a. strong feint of refusing so stood. The woman in attendance rose and re- linquished her seat to the lady. "And now, Mrs, Martin, take Rose home with you for an hour, for what I have to communicate to this lady must be heard. by herself only." The neighbor in silent wonder beckon- ed Rose, and. both left the house. Lady Etheridge was alone with the strange WOM£1.11 who bad. summoned her. Magdalene Elmer raisel herself in bed, and put aside the dark curtains, so that vast a sacrifice;bit fluidly, with seem- the light of the lamp shone full upon her ing reluctance, suffered them to be fore- own ematiated. face and figure, as well ed upon his reception. Then the inter- as upon the stately form of the baroness view terminated. With the chivalric sitting near. "Now look inc in the face, Lady Ether - courtesy of that period, he dropped up- on one knee, raised her hand to his lips, idge-" arose, bowed and retired. The baroness raised her own large, lu- As soon as she was left alone, Lady minous, dark gray eyes to meet the Etheridge rang a bell and. summoned the fierce, burning, dilated orbs of the worn - little page to inquire if the carriage an, and felt .ii, strange, painful, electric was ready. Being answered in the affir- thrill shake her whole frame. mative, site said: "Oh, pray do not look at me so! it dis- "Tell Mrs. Maberly, then, to bring me tresses me and can do you no good," a dark bonnet,. shawl and gloves to this said the baroness, shuddering. room. I am going out:" "Lady Etheridge, you would be aston- When the page withdrew to obey, Lady ished were I to address you by any oth- Etheridge sauntered toward the bay win- er title than that you now bear, would dow, saying: you not?" "Come my dear, I will not detain you The baroness looked at the speaker any longer. inquiringly, and did not answer. There was no reply; but on pushing -Or if not astonished, you would ouly aside the curtains Lady Etheridge found be distressed at the supposed. hallucina- Rose stretched in a. swoon upon the tion of your old nurse; therefore, as yet, floor. I shall only call you by the name to "Good Heaven! how has this happen- which you have been accustomed." ed? Ale 1 see, she has had a long walk The baroness could only look and. lis - and probably a lonv fa.st, and she looks ten intently, being unable to conjecture very delicate. 1 shoitid have offered her to what the strange words of the woman refreshments. How very thoughtless of tended, if, indeed,they tended to any - child 'fainting from exhaustion; pray, thing, know well that you have all sorts of me not to have done so,"exclaimed Lady Etheridge, hurrying to ring, just as "Lady Etheridge, what sort of an erlu- Mrs. Maberly mitered the room. cation have you reeeived?-0h, I do not "Ah, Mrs. Maberly -here is this poor mean as to the polite branches, for 1 restoratives and took her lady's place masters and mistresses for every art and of wine," said her ladyship, going back science that is deemed necessary to the head, and beginning to chafe her hands. training of a young lady of quality. - to the swooning girl and raising her fair Presently Mrs. Moberly returned with but I mean to ask have you received the education that fits, that strengthens, by. the fainting girl, and succeeded in that prepares you to meet trial, sorrow, and adversity; for these are the lot of restortatives and rook her lady's place bringing her to eonsciousness. Rose op- all; must sooner or later come to every ened her eyes and gazed around with a stony stare. ., "Poor child, you fainted with exhaus- tion. You have overtasked your streogth. Here, drink this wine; presently you will swallow a piece of biscuit," said Lady Etheridge, as she .held the glass to her lips. Rose mechanically swallowed a little wine and then gazed around the room again, and passed her hands thought- fully across her brow, as though trying to dispel some illusion and collect her faculties. Then perfect memory return- ed, a rush of indignant 'blood dyed her face with blushes, she made'an effort, arose and stood upon her feet. "You feel better now, my ehild?" said the young baroness, "Yes, my lady, much better," she ans- wered, steadily. "You must not °Veda,* your strength so again, my child." "I will ne't, my lady. I am quite ready to attend you." "You do not look nor speak quite right yet, my deer; yote had, better rest one, even to you, who are styled the Baroness Etheridge, of Swinburne?" And here the woman paused, fixing her wild, mournful eyes intently upon the face of the baroness. "There is something behind your words woman,' said Lady Etheridge. "What it is you have to tell me I cannot imagine." "1 have a story to tell you, Lady El- deridge, and I had best begin at the be- ginning; but first pour me a little wine from that bottle on the chimney -piece." Lady Etheridge complied, and when - Magdalene Elmer had. drunk a glassful, she drew a deep breath, and -commended her story. "Lady Etheridge, my father was the game -keeper at Swinburne Castle, as his father and grandfather had been before him . •Our family name was Coke. When I was about seventeen years of age, iny mother died, leaving to my care:onelove- ly little sister, about ten years old. I became the housekeeper for my :ether, and the mother of my little sister, May. Willem Etheridge; Om late baron, was then about my own Age. Be had not come to his title, as his bachelor uncle was still living. The young gentleman spent all his,. holidays at Swinburne Cas- tle, and during the season, employed his time largely in woodland and field sort, He was often with xny father and, the under game -keepers. .And he was also a frequent visitor of our -lodge in the woods when there was no one present to prevent his talking nonsesense to the gamekeeper's pretty daughter! as 3. was called. And nonsense, and nothing but nonsense it was; yet it won any silly heart, for I was but seventeen. Do sot shrink from me, Lady Etheridge. My af- fections were wen -not my honor, ,And It foolish creature, believed all his vows sincere, because when he made them he 1 was really in earnest. The spoiled and inexperienced boy believed what he said, when he swore solemnly that he never ld th out me and cou love any o er woman that he would marry me as seen as he oaine to his titles and estates. "At length the youth took leave of us and went to Oxford. When he returned he still called me `Maggye but he jested about our childish love. And I, who had grown older, began to understand how impossible it was that the future Baron Etheridge, of Swinburne, could ever mar- ry his game -keeper's, daughter, and I bore no malice against this young Oxonian, but 1 retainedin my heart a kindly af- fection for my boy lover, as though be had been a creature altogether separate and distinct from this fine young squire. (To be continued.) 4 - 0 CHAPPED PATCHES AND COLD SORES • Zatr2-Buk a Speedy Cure. At this season chapped hands, chil- blains, rough, red sken, and. other ef- fects of the cold: are very common; alindgrZeaard-BoulcniauL ,rthe homely healer, is i Mies E. 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