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The Clinton New Era, 1889-10-11, Page 2--:-, rm-R."' - :7--. FltID.AY, OCT. lb, 1888, Could Au,bt Atone? MY THE AUTHOR OF "MAGDALEN'S Leoreov," ETC. he will be buried in the large Gough vault at Kinfare. Poor dear Arley, I always liked him." "What an awful death for one teo young!" eowmeuted Cuthbert, with dreamy, sad thoughtfulness, won- dering if there was a "Little -Glad, nese" who would mourn and weep CONTINUED. and lament tor the man so suddenly summoned into eternity. ".And it seems but the other day that he succeeded to the estate." "Very true," Mrs Somerset assent .ed, plaintively. "Where are you. going?" she added, as Cuthbert rose from the table. He looked at her in surprise. "To itfke office, of course; I am rather late." "I think you had better send a note to Mr Batton, Cuthbert, in- forming him of your good fortune. You really must not set foot inside that horrid mill again. I always thought that you were degrading yourself in going, but of course the salary was a consideration in our unfortunate circumstances. How thankful I am that ycur name has never appeared connected with CHAPTER XXV. trade! It appears almost providen- tial." "Mother, what are you saying?" Cuthbert Somerset was under the impression that his ears were play- ing hint false. What! Treat the man whd had been his kind, gener- ous friend from boyhood, who had promised to give into his keeping, bis greatest earthly treasure, with such insolent ingratitude! Surely he must be dreaming, for it could never be his own mother, whom he loved and reverenced, who counselled such a proceeding. "Poor dear Aley!" Mrs Somerset said, musingly, paying no heed to her son's exclamation. "It really does, as you say, Cuthbert, appear a most shockingly dreadful thing; but, my dear boy, depend upon it, everything happens for the best. I dare say he was unhappy and miser- able—in fact, I think I have heard something of the kind; he was al- ways restless and roving about from one place to another. I must say I always thought it rather selfish that he never asked me to Broadlands, when he must have known how greatly such an invitation would have pleased, me; but I am quite ready and R•illing to forgive and forget now. Let me see—what was I saying? Oh,that Iliad heard that he was wretched and restless; and so, of course, death would be a boon to him. And—dear me,how strange 1 never thought cf it before!—with poor Arley's death the curse the Lady Winifred laid upon the house of Gough has died'also. Your name is Cuthbert Somerset, you know— Cuthbert Ernest Somerset. I re- member how much I wished for it to be Cuthbert Gough, but your dea"r father objected. You remem- ber the old legend of the house, do you not, Cuthbert?" "Yes," be replied; as he walked into the hall for his bat.at the con= elusion of Mrs Somerset's- rambling epeecb. It would have been strange indeed had he forgotten. Mrs Som- erset had delighted in rehearsing the story to hire from his earliest boy- hood. "Cuthbert!" that lady cried, as he walked down the gravel path. "Do you want me, mother?" he asked, turning round in obedience to her detaining cry. "Yes; come back just for a few minutes.' I want to say something to you." "I must beg that you .will not de-, tain me longer than absolutely ne- cessary. I am very late; Mr Barton will bo thinking that there is some- thing wrong." "Perhaps it is quite as well that you should go to the office once again," she began, when hestood be- side her. "Therearemanythingsyou can mention by Ford of mouth bet- ter than by letter; and,if Mr Barton has been a little selfish, be has also, in his way, tried to be kind." "What do you wish to say, mother?" • Cuthbert was growing impatient. He was deeply wounded by his mother's words and manner; he was fearful lest his impatience should betray him into speaking unkindly and disrespectfully. "Of course you will speak to Mr Barton respecting yout engagement." "What of that?" Cuthbert's face v, eft• very stern as well as grave. "Why, it must be broken off; you cannot marry her now. ` A manu— facturer's daughter is far beneath the master of Broadlands." "Do I understand you to say that •I must break off my engagement to ll rsRees 'set's' face brained a Miss Barton --must relinquish the variety of emotions. Undoubtedly hope of calling hest wife?" she was shocked --but that was not The face white with passion, the the prevailing sentiment within her gleaming eyed;. should have warned breast. her; but Mrs Somerset's perceptive "Arley Gough killed!" she ex- f faculties were not of the keenest. claimed. "Poor fellow, how dread- "I es, that is what' I said. Of full" - course you see it in the same light as mother? I cannot re- I do.'' zze i� in the prima of man- He put his band upon her should - hood." er and compelled ber to look into "Cuthbert, don't you remember? his face. She saw then the error she cried, the prevailing sentiment 'into which she had, fallen;sheshrank showing itself in words. "My dear before the angry' gleam of Ms eyes. boy, you are the next heir-at-law to "Mother," he said—and she de- Broadlands—you are poor Arby's tected a slight tremor in the tones successor!" . usually so firm—"it would deeply "Hush, mother, please; at such a grieve me that any misunderstand - 'moment 1 cannot be r t'o think of it." ing should arise between, you and "But it bus t be thought of, me; but I swear that, if you every Cuthbert," Mrs Somerset persisted, speak such words to mo again,' will for gettir ., her srraco tible neryes in go away, and will never more make here great excitement. "Poggr dear my borne with you." Arley, it was an awful eneMig for Ele meant ever word, be spoke— him!" more than be spoke; Mrs Somerset "Of course he will be conveyed to fully recognized that. She made Broadlands," she continued, present- him no reply, and he aft r looking ly, finding that no words camepfrom her steadily in tho face fur some Cuthbert in response to her own; moments, without another word "there will bo a grand funeral, and turned a . Chiiaii►';” Cry for € hence' Castoria. Children! Cry for • "'Little Gladness — little Glad nese!" how he dwelt upon the words! How they rang glad changes in his heart) He liked to remember the shy, tender grace with which his dainty, starry-eyed darling had ap- propriated them to herself; he liked better strill. to remember that she 'had whispered to him that she loved him—that she had loved,him ever since she could remember. It was decided that at Christmas Cuthbert should be admitted into ,'<,, the firm as partner. Then old Ben the gardener's supposition would be verified, and over the great doors of the factory and upon the lesser one leading to the offices would appear "Barton and Somerset." But I4'r Barton would not hear of an im- mediate marriage between Mary and Cuthbert. "Sl are her to me for another twelve months," he said, "and then I will offer no opposition. You are both very young, and can afford to wait; and, although you have prom- ised not to take her away from me, yet, when once she becomes your wife, she will never be exclusively mine again." And they were content to abide by the old man's decision. Young and loving, trustful and hopeful, with the world lying like a sunny brilliant .picture, without spot or blemish, be ,Sore them, how could they be aught but content? "Mr Barton is quite right," Mrs Somerset concluded. "You are both much too young to marry. I think it intensely selfish of you Cuthbert, to speak of such a thing just yet." "Another of those fearful railway accidents," Cuthbert said one morn- ing at breakfast, about a fortnight after the conversation with Ralph Barton—about a fortnight after he had won the glad certainty that, at some day not far distant, he might Call Mary his own. "Another accident! Really one feels afraid to enter a railway car- riage," Mrs Somerset responded. "On what line, Cuthbert, did you li say?" "The Great Western. Shall I read you the account, mother?" "Cuthbert!"' There was indig- nant reproach in 11Irs Somerset's tone. Cuthbert lifted his eyes from the paper, and regarded her with an air of innocent suapri;le. "You might remember how sus- ceptible my nerves are," his mother observed;r'eplying to his look. "You might know 'that listening to such harrowing details as those doubtless aro would quite upset me for the clay. I really wonder that you can be so selfishly thoughtless." But Cuthbert had resumed his reading long before' the lady's won- derment had terminated. "Mother," ho began presently, his tone one of intense excitement; but suddenly he stopped short, and re- garded Mrs Somerset doubtfully.' "Well," Mrs Somerset said, peev- ishly, after waiting a few moments, "what were you about to say? Dear ore, Cuthbert, you seem dreadfully absent this morning! You know -.wry well how greatly I dislike any- body to commonce a sentence, and then leave it unfiuished." Butthera came no immediate re— sponse from i„or son, and, looking up in indignant srrprise, which im- mediately changed into maternal anxiety,'l.1rs Somerset agar that all the, eoler had died out of his face,and kAat a look of horror had crept into his eves. "Cuthbert," she cried, in affright, __.-•,—_. ", duet, is the matter? Are you ill?" "No," he replied slowly; "but I am .greatly' shocked." "Shocked! At what?" He looked at her .again,as though in a litt'e indecision. "You must learn what I have just ad sooner or later,". he said, thoeghtfully. "Perhaps it is as well, or better, that I should tell you now." "Cuthbert, you try me most se- verely. It is most selfish of yon. \Vhy do you {rot tell me what is wrong at once?" "Amongst those killed in the railway accident," ho replied, im- mediately, "was my cousin, .Arley Gough,of Broadlands." •M "Never more make hieborae with mel" Mrs Soruerset'thought, with a burst of weak, hysterical, passionate tears, as she watched his receding figure. "Ab, me! This is all the thanks I get for devoting my whole life to him! Why, I might have married over and over again but for thinking of his happiness and com- fort! Never more make his home with me!—Why, that means that I should never live at Broadlands— and all because I said that vain, senseless little doll of a Mary Bar- ton was not good enough for him! A manufacturer's daughter for the master of Broadlands! The idea ise absurd! He ought to marl y a grand tall woman—a beauty, with the grace of a duchess and the air and bearing of a queen, I never thought that my only son would bring such trouble upon me through his deter- mination to follow the bent of his own desires and selfish wishes. I almost wish Arley Gough had never been killed." Cuthbert's anger had not all pass- ed away by the time he reached the factory. • . That his own mother should suggest such a dishonorable, heartless course to him seemed past belief. What, give up "Gladness— little-Gladness," whom he loved so passionately, with all the ardor of first young love, whom he bad loved so long,almost without hope! No— a thousand times no! Better; far better to resign the inheritence which the untimely death of his cousin had given to him. Give up "Gladness—little Gladnessl" Why, he could not live without her! i1Ir Batton bad arrived before hi,m. "Is anything wrong!" he asked, glancing at Cuthbert's stern grave face. "You are late, and you look 'as though you were shocked or grived." ' "I am both," Cuthbert replied. "Flave you read the morning's pa- pers, Mr Barton?" "Not yet, Cuthbert. I talked to Mary at breakfast instead of reading. Is there anything very particular?" "There has been a. 'terrible acci- dont on the Great Western line, sir. Sixteen are killed and—" "Bless me, how dreadful!" Mr Barton interrupted. "anybody whom we know, Cuthbert?" "My cousin, Arley Gough, of Broadlands." "What do you say?" Mr Barton cried, the paper which he had taken up dropping from his hands. "That fine handsome fellow, whom I once saw before he succeeded to the es- tate? Poor ill-fated young man! No wonder you look grave, Cuthbert. It' must be a great shock to Mrs Somerset, I am ;sure, she is so deli- cate." A slight frown contracted Cuth- bert's broad forehead, as he reflected how 'his mother had received the new?. Mr -Barton saw it, and won- dered a little what feeling had called it there. But the frown passed away, and Cuthbert answered quiet- ly_ "She is not so much shocked as you may imagine." Then the two stood for a few mo- ments quietly, gravely regarding each other. Presently Cuthbert turned away with a little bigh, and went towards hiss desk. " "Watson told me, as I passed thro'igh the lower offices, that there were some buyers here from a large American house and that they seem- ed inclined to order largely." "Yes, I have seen them," Mr Bar- ton returned,, with an air which in- dicated that his mind just then had wandered very far away from busi- ness and buyers and orders. "Cuthbert, who is the next heir to Broadlands? Your cousin was unmarried, I believe." "Yes; Iam his nearest kinsman, Mr Barton." "You, Cuthbert — you? Then bless me, you must be the heir?" "Yes," Cuthbert replied, with an air that implied that the fact was a matter for sorrow rather than re- joicing. "Why, my dear boy, how coolly you take itl Of course I cannot congratulate you just now, in the face of the awful death of your poor cousin; but Broadlands, I have been told, is a large and rich estate, a possession which for. beauty and value is to be coveted." "I have been told so." "And yet you come to the mill just the same as over—a tl ifle more grave perhaps—and begin to talk of buyers and their probable purchases, just as though nothing unusual had occurred!" For a fow moments Cuthbert made no reply; his thoughts were busied with a new fear, arising out of his altered position, which had presented itself to his mind. "Mr Barton," he exclaimed, sud- denly, his tone one of impassionate entreaty, "you will not take Mary from me because I succeeded .to Broadlands?" "Take Mary from you because you succeeded to Broadlands!" Mr Barton echoed, his eyesopened wide with amazement. ''What can you "But on that account youiwill not deprive me of Mary?" An expression of puzzled wonder- ment. crossed Air B40 01;1'13 fsce, but only for a moment. "Deprive you of Mary? Why Cuthbert, I credited you with more sense! I promised to give you my child because I have known you from infancy, and, having so known you, feel sawed that I consign her to safe keeping,to a love which will not wane, but be ever tender and ture and watchful. It is true that the idea of the business passing into the hands of a stranger has been al- ways a very painful one to me—that it has pleased me to think of you, and possibly your children, being masters here for many, many years to come; but Providence has ordered otherwise—and what right have I to complain? You must give me one promise," he added. "I know now that it would be folly to exact the f'tilfilment of one you made me a few weeks since. I do not expect that you will live altogether with me at the Copse; but for a few months at least in every year, let Mary visit m0." The tears glittered in Cuthbert's eyes—they did no disgrace to his young, noble manhood. . "I could never think of asking yon td part from her," he cried. "Wherever we may make our home —at the Copse or at Broadlands— there you must likewise be. Mary, I am sure, would never listen to a different ars augment. I should ex- pect and merit instant dislussal if I dared to hint to any other." Mr Barton shook his head in quiet, dumb dissent; but Cuthbert saw that the smile upon his lips was a pleased one, and he did not des- pair of finally winning him over' to his own views. "I could not be spared frorn the business," he said. "There is no one to take your place, you know, Cuthbert." "You do not want the cape and anxiety of business, Mr Barton— sell it." There was a dismayed exclama- tion, a very grave, decided negative; but still the advice was received more graciously than Cuthbert had dared to anticipate. "\\'e will dismiss that topic, if you please," I1r Barton said. "I think you and your late cousin kept up a correspondence, Cuthbert's" "A very irregular one, sir." "Ay, doubtless. You will bo hearing from his solicitors in the course of a post or two. You will go to the funeral, Cuthbert?" "Certainly." "I wonder what Vary will say to the news. You would like to con- vey it to her yourself, I am sure. What do you say to walking to the Copse this morning?" "If I might be spared," Cuthbert began, the flush upon his cheeks and the light in his eyes expressing very plainly. how much' the sugges- tion -pleased hirer. treereeeerese, "Spared? Well, it appears that we shall have to spare you,• however little we may like the idea; so there is nothing like beginning at once. I shall hope to see you at dinner time, Cuthbert." "'Thank you; I shall be only too glad to meet you then," was the reply. "He's a noble fellow," Mr Barton mused,as the door closed upon Cuth- berty"he deserves his good fortune a hundred times over. But the mill will pass into strange hands, after all my hoping and castle -building. Ab, well, so that Mary is happy, it matters very little who is master here after me." CHAPTER XXVI. "Were over sorrow and trouble like unto Leine?" was the question which kept repeating itself in Philip Rainsforth's mind in !;hose weary days of cruel doubt and anguished spense. He gave little outward sign of his ward misery, though his face was ry grave and ' stern and his words were few, but this last had always been the case. No one knew that his nights were passed in restless, feverish sleeplessness; n6 one heard the oft -reheated prayerful cry that his wife might be given back to him re and sinless. "I was blinded," he would think; "surely my oyes were holden. I have been urgentle and failing in tenderness, but only' let her he re- stored to me and the future shall atone for the past." But there were times, too, when, reflecting upon the words she had spoken; reading over, again and again, the strange letter sire had written, bitter, black,angry 'passions would arise and a terrible ' doubt take possession of him. "Gone to another Love!" would en be the burden of his thoughts. Gone to seek in another home the happiness I denied her here! She knew no one but Arley Gough, and he is dead; and yet she tloes not re- turn. But he must have been in— nocent in thought, and deed, or ho could not have so stood before me -- so answered me. If I only knew sometbing definite—could but gain the least clue which I might follow mean?" r up; but this dreadful doubt, this "I have no natural., taste or in- terrible uncertainty is killing me!" clination' fot Wiliness, as you are But the days wore away, and aware, Mr Barton; as the master of there came no tidings of his lost Broadlands it would be both ohne- wife. Advertisements were inserted cessary and undesirable." in all the leading newspapers, but Mr Barton began to understand they proved unsuccessful; his awn the young man's meaning; untiring search was of no avail;even "1 understand," he said a little the skilled ,detecitve whom he em— sadly. "The death of A 1 y Gough riloyed failed to discover the least upsets the plans we so lately formed trace of her. A dense, unfathomable concerning the partnership; and my mgt.( ry seemed to rest about the successor hero must be a stranger," fate of unhappy Wynne Rainsforth. Su in ve pu Arley Gough had been laid in the vault of the Goughs at Kiefere sotloe mouths, and' Cuthbert Somerset, and his mother were installed at Broad - lands, and the trees were bare, and the snow lay thick upon the ground, before Philip Rainsforth relinquish- ed hope, and gave up his search in the bitterness ' f despair. "She must be dead," he told him- self then. "If she were living, I should havelfound her, or at least heard something of her." He never asked for Vashti. If by any chance Miriam mentioned the child, he made no, response, but shrank as though one had dealt him a violent blow. Miss Rainsforth, too, adopted the idea of death. "Her letter was written in her passionate, wicked anger," she thought, "to annc'y and vex us. If she were alive,she would return, if only for her child's sake." Then Clovernook grew distasteful to Philip Rainsforth. Wherever he went the sad eyes and ringing, re— proachful voice followed him; the thought of what might have been, had he so willed it, haunted him. He grew to loathe the home to which he had once been attached, and resolved to leave it. He electri- fied Miriam one day, when the cro- cuses and snowdrops were beginning to peep from the earth,by informing her of the resolution he had taken. "I shall let Clovernook upon lease as soon as I can find a desirable tenant,' he said, "and enter into business. I have been talking to Mr Somerset, about it, and be says he has ro. doubt that he can find a suitable'person." Astonishment for a few moments kept Miss Rainsforth silent--indig- nation ilent—indionation and anger as much as aston- ishment. "Thee roust be mad or dreaming," she cried at Length, finding words, "when thee speaks of letting the home which was thy father's to strangers!" "Nevertheless it is what I have resolved upon doing," lie replied, quietly. ._a With \Vynne's loss, Miriam's in— fluence with her brother had grown less, instead of greater, as she bad fondly hoped would be the case. Now the, stern resolute face, the quiet, determined tones, convinced her that any opposition she might offer would be worse than useless. "Thee knows nothing of business," she ventured, with an air wleich,for her, bordered upon timidity. 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LARGE STOCK ON HAND, T▪ he above ornamental trees and shrubbery wl be sold at very low prices, and those wantin anything In this connection will save menu purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be - promptly attend tl ed td? ` Address, . JOHN STEWARRT, BenmilIer. McKillop Mutual Insurance Co. Tr, NEILANS, HARLOCK GENERAL -AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wel as farm buildings.audstock, insured. Iusur- -ances effected against stock that may be killed by lightning, If you want insurance drop a card to the above address. PAINTING_ PAINTING. The undersigned desires to intimate to the people, of Clinton and vicinity that be has returned to town, and intends to remain here permanently, and is bettor prepared than over to do anything whatever in the paiuting or paper ha ing line. AU orders entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention.' GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. The Molsons Bank. incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1855. CAPITAL, -000,000, REST FUND, - $1,000,000 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. THOMAS WORKMAN, - President. J. H. R. M0LSON Vice -Pres. F. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, Geacral Manager Notes discounted,Collections made, Drafts issued, Sterling and American ex- r4xnge bought and sold at lowest current rates. Interest at 3 per cent allowed oe deposits. irARMECIi.ir3. Moneyadvanced to farmers on their own notes with ono or more endorsers. No mortgage re- quired as security. II. C. BREWER,' Manager, January 1887. Clinton Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails aro doe for delivery and close for despatch at the Clinton Post Office as follows: CLOSE 1„ DUE Hamilton, Termite, Strat- ford, Soaforth, Grand Trunk east and interme- diate offices Toronto Stratford, Sea - forth, IT. and s, east, Goderich, Holmesvllle and Grand Trunk west Goderich, Hainilton, Toronto London, L., H, & 1'3. south and intermediate offices Blyth, Wingham, Kincar- dine, Lucknow, L.,1I.&B. north and intermediate a.m. p m. a.m. p.m offices 9.30 6.16 8.10 5.00 Britiah mails, Monday,Wed- nosdny, Thursday 7.00 a.m. Bayaeld, Varna, Herbison, daily 2.30 p.m. Summerhill, Tuesday and Friday, 5,30 p.m. 6.30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposits received from one dollar -upwards. Office 'hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m, Savings Blink and Money Order ONleo Close at 6.30 p,m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. - 7.00 a.m. 1.55 p.m. 1 p.m. 8,45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. a.m. p.m, 7.00 4.15 1.50 p.m 8 a.m 8.10 a.m 2.40 p.nt 10.25 a,m a.m. mm 10,26 7.00 12.45p.m. J. C. STEYESO, —THE LEAI)ING— UNDERTAKER HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of Interest. MORTGAGES : PURCHASEI SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Gent. Interest Allowed • on Deposits,according toamount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market 8gmare and North 8 HORACE HORTON. MANAGER. Godorich,August 6th 1886 FALL GOODS Just Arrived NVA•TC711ES, CJI...COCYJECS, Silverware. J. IBIDDLECOMBE, CLINTON laikk EMBALMER. •A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEP 1. ill STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. • OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRAN & TISDALL m BANKERS, CLINTON., ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business.transaetea Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager. RICHLY Rewarded are those who read this and then act; they will find honorable employment that will not take then from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every Industri- ous person, many have rondo "and aro now making several hundred dollars a month, It is easy for any person to make 85 per day and upwards, who is willing to work. Eithe aex,young or old ; capital not needed,we star you. Everything now, No special• ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any oue. Write to us at once for full particulars which we nail free., Addroass Stinson & Co Portland. Blaine. CLTNTON Planing Mill —AND— DRY KILN-• mut SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST COM, PLETRD and furnished his new.Planing M with machinery of the latest improved ,patter Is ,now prepared to attend to alt orders in hi line in the :nest prompt and satisfactory manner and at reae.mable rates. He Would alae retur thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being ina bet• ter osition to execute rdrs ex feels confident he can give s tiefaotion to laaltalr FACTORY—Near the Grand Trun Railway, Clinton. - THOMAS Mat(FNZIE ROBERT DOWNS CLINTON, Mnnt,faoturer and P''opr1etor for the hell Sine Mii1 Dog in use. Agent for tho ehle and apPlicntfon of the t Ffaiian PATENT AUTOMATIC Helmut CLEANER. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on short notice. toners. Ensiiler,, and all kinds et a. Machinery repaired expediltlettehr and In a satisfactory manner.. I, Fern: mplements manufactured and repai Steam and Water Pipes furnished and 8 position. Dry Kilns fitted up orappltcet a Chargesmoderne la ,fluff