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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-11-07, Page 2x. estArgaitB1,+'ea 7, ISM ri1eet+heile- t 'nal' be Otit last .gat j A ! -e was growing faint, the effort Y x had leen very great, but, still ex- erti!ag ail his strength of will, he controlled his weakness sufficiently QDERN ENGLISHMAN to scrawl the address on the envel- ape. Then he sunk back ' again, exhausted. "You'll have to see the clergy- man, if you get worse," said Anne, sympathetically. "There's one as come next door to an old chap as was dying last summer, and they say he do make the folks quake and sweat." Donovan was past smiling. BY EDNA LYALL. Publishes by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. CONTINUED. Close Weide him, though un- ccnown, the love of the AAll•Father watched and ehielded from evil the nenwho, by such wretched wander- After that he did not remember lege, was being led on. And the much. There was -only an ever 'pity which springs up very readily present consciousness of endless in most of our hearts, when we are pate, the raging, burning, aching brought pace to face with pain, ' misery of fever, Till then the hours brought human help and comfort to had dragged on with terrible slow - Itis sick bed. The landlady, care- nese of wnich only those who have worn and harassed with many children and a good-for-nothing husband, yet found time to do a few absolutely necessary things in the sick room; she could not help be- Vm;ng sorry for her apparently friend - leas lodger. Once or twice she pained him terribly by asking: "Haven't you no mother wbo could come and see to you?" And Donovan would sign a neg• ative, and, when she had left him to himself, would feel the loneliness and suffering with double keenness. Nair Frewin would come in two or three times a day and ask how be was; the old captain would hang about the room with anxiety writ- ten on his kind old face, but he missed his companion's vigilance and example; the drinking mania seized him strongly, and he was seldom quite sober. There was one other amateur nurse, the poor little overdriven servant. She used to shuffle into the room every now and then, and tbith infinite care and clumsiness would drag the pillow from under his head, shake it op violently. and turn it, or hold a glass to his burning lips and !,pill its con'ents down his night shirt. But he learned tabu grateful even for such rough attentions, for there is nothing like weakness and suffer- ing for teaching patience. The loneliness was terrible. too, that he would detain any ono who came to him as long as possible. Old Rouge, with his unsteady gait and halfjincoherent talk, was better than no one, and even the little slipshod servant, with her rough head and dirty bands, was worth the ex( tion of taking, just for the sake ul aving a human creature within reach. "I allays liked you, sir," she said to • him once. "You ain't allays a -calling for your boots, like iIr Frewin, or in drink, like the captain, and you never shouted out 'slavery' down the stairs for me, as though I was one of the poor blacks. I allays liked you, Mr Donovan." Donovan was amused, and in spite of his burning head and ach- ing misery, threw out some ques- tion or response to detain her "And I've done things for you, as I've not done for no otf)er lodger," the girl continued. "I've blacked your boots a eight better than any of the others, and though you did want such a terrible lot of bath water hevery day, I allays brought it up reg'lar. If the lodgers h'is civil and kind spoken, I do my best for'em, but most of'em—why, they treat us poor girls like dogs, that they do. and talkin' of dogs. I've done that un of yours many a good turn; times and times I'v stolen bits 'o meat and things for 'im." "Oh! but you shouldn't do that," said Donovan, quickly. "Don't do it again. It's wrong to steal, you know." But then be caused. What was he saying? How trivial were this poor ignorant girl's dishonesties compared with his own ! Bitter were the regrets which thronged up Oto his mind as he lay wearily on his bed of pain. He .could not escape from his secret foes now; he could not banish thought by violent bodily exercise or by wild excitement. All his anguish of last year returned with terrible force, all the agony of self -loathing weighed upon him with cruel cease- lessness. This, combined with the want of good nursing, aggravated his illness. The doctor began to look grave, and one day Anne, the little servant, fairly burst into tears when she came up to tidy his room. " What's the matter ?" asked Donovan, feebly. "Have they been amoldin;; you V' "No) leo, it ain't that," said the girl, holding her apron to her eyes. "But minus she says you'll die, sure as a gun," He smiled a little, thinking that few had been told of their danger in a more open and undisguised way; but it ought to have been good news to him, and for a time he tried to think he was glad. And yeti lie did not go to the root of the matter, and own that the "peace of nothingness" looked less attractive when viewed nearly; he said instead what a wretched life he had had, how little enjoyment, how much suffering, and now he was going to die for- lorn and unattended in a miserable London lodging. Then came a great longing to see his mother. He called the girl to him, made her find writing materials, and raising himself on his elbow, wrote with great difficulty a few pencil Words. "I am very ill. My death wiil perhaps eas9 more consciences then OnA, " Will you not come to me, of tbia hardened cheat with belpleaa.; orders: to ear netbiug. Omit it to: gratitud mistress. It the o y vitas` lio'd, 4:nd N''oir, as be inched demi at let nae come, lila Donovan se, . eu the struggling agony, understood it mustn't mind. 1 istresa is tube all far beer bawarty would have told I'm gone to nurse my slater. done, A well regulated mind, ac- 1. promised I wouldn't say a word custowed to view things quietly, or to her, otherwise- master wouldn't a Christian wbo has never known have told me where you was." what it is to be anything else,would "He opened the letter, then 1" probably not have known so exact- sakes! Donovan. ly what to do; they would have of• "He had your letter, sir. I made fered words to a state beyond the uo doubt it was emit to him, for the comprehension of speeeh, or would mistress hadn't seen it." have advised self control, when the Evidently then, it would be quite very -fact of the convulsed frame useless to attempt writing to his and sealed lips showed that no con- mother; after the lapse of all these trod was needed. But Noir had menthe ot silence, Ellis still kept been through just the same fierce guard over her correspondence. A conflict in his cell at Dartmoor; he sort of dim idea which had crossed knew that no words would avail, nis mind of appealing to his mother no thought comfort, that what na- for money to start him in some tune cried out for was a pres nate honest calling, died away. He must stronger than self—something or continue to aupport himself by bis precarious winnings, only -- and here all bis strength of will asserted itself—he would never be a party to Noir's deceptions again. It was not a very cheering prospect; saw that it must not involve an e tire break with the Frewins, an they had been so good to him tb he shrunk very much from t thought. Atter all, as he ofte said 1.o himself, his death woul solve many difficulties. But he was not to die—that wa evident. Thanks to Mrs Doery good nursing, he began to recove steadily, and, as his strength retur ed, a certain enjoyment of life re- turned to him, too, et times. H began to wish very much to he ou and about again, even though s many difficuities would have the to be faced. His intercourse with old Mr Doery was a good peal hampere by various causes. He never men tioued Dot's name, he never men tioned his present way of life, s that their range of conversation wa rather limited. He asked a thous and questions, indeed, about hi mother, and the whole manor house hold, but except with regard to thi subject he was very silent and utter ly uncommunicative. From day to day he would lie with a sort o rigid patience, abstractedly watch ing Doery as she sat mending his linen, or with his eyes fixed on the hate ul little oil painting of the shipwreck, which stared down a him from the dingy green wall paper with black spots. It used to remind him a good deal of his own life, that forlorn looking vessel with broken mast and battered hull. One night, when he was almost recovered, ho was roused from his first sleep by noisy merriment in the adjoining room, and found poor Mrs Doery fairly frightened out ot her wits, "They are only enjoying them- selves," said Donovan, with weary l Sarcasm, i "Well, Mr Donovan, it's more like animals than like men, that I will say," replied Doery, with her customary shrewd severity. "3iay'be,'' said Donovan, turn- ing from side to side with the rest- less discomfort of one being dis- turbed. "And nobody can't deny that it's a dreadful place that you are in," continued the housekeeper. "Seth a shocking goings-on in them courts out at the back, and then all this noise in the very next room when honest folks ought to be abed and asleep! It's a dreadful place, I call it." someone who would not preach, but been alone in illness can form any would understand. He gave, poor idea But now he lost all. thought fellow, all be could give—hiwself— of time, and was only dimly aware and after a time Donovan's core of the visitors who carne to him. vulsed limbs relaxed, the hands Now and then he had a sort of loosened their hold, the face settled i•islon of Rouge's round red face into its usual stern, Had expression. anxiously peering down at him. "Thanks, old fellow," he said Once he fancied himself chained faintly. down in one of Doery's red-hot fur- Noir, with an odd choking in uaces, where, dove -like be had his throat, turned away and made cried for water, and then he had ready some gruel which had been looked up, and Noir was beside heating. By , the time ' be had hiru with the cooling draught be brought it, Donovan had recovered had thirsted for, and be had fallen a little more, and there was a sort bark ag.in, refreshed, wondering of smile en his worn face. greatly that his request had been "I can't get over your turning granted. The Christian's God was, nurse, Noir," be said, in rather atter all then, wercitul ! Wild trembling tones; "you've been— thoughts they were which haunted awfully good to rue," gin: in I,ia delirium, and yet Noir "Only make baste and get well," Frewin, as he watched beside him, said Noir, roughly but kindly. was struck by the tone of his fev- "Am I not doing my beat by ered utterances. He was prepared swallowing this abomination," said for ravings against injustice, but Douovan, trying to form his lips in - instead, Donovan's most vehement to a smile; but failing piteously. words were of self-reproach. At "You'd better be quiet, or you times he would take a theological won't get off to sleep again," said turn, and would argue for and Noir, peremptorily, the fact being against every conceivable doctrine, that he could not stand the effort .,ml then again he would fancy at cheerfulness which his patient himself back among his late wan was making, for there are few panions, gambling or indulging in things more painful than to see a revelry; but throughout there was thin veil of assumed cheerfulness never ono inpure word, and Noir drawn over great suffering. But marvelled at it. A strange wild the effort was a brave one; he could life was revealed, with an under- not help knowing it, and as he re- current of anxious questioning, one turned to his place beneath .he gas, predominant vice, but behind it instead of taking up bis newspaper, much that was nolle, a familiarity he mused over the hidden trouble with every kind of evil, but, in which had been half revealed to spite of it, a strange retaining of him, from time to time casting a purity. glance toward the bed. Nothing, One nacre, too, was constantly on however, was to be seen there ex - Ma lips—a name which Noir had cept a mass of rough brown hair. never bad never heard him mention Donovan bad turned his face away before. He wondered much to from the light, and Noir only knew whom it referred, what gave rise to that he was not asleep by the ab - the agonized longing for this one solute stillness of his form, and by presence. the long drawn but half restrained Perhaps in this was Donovan's sighs which reached him every few keenest suffering. Ile dreamed minutes. continually of Dot; she was beside The next morning the old cap - him, no longer ill and helpless, but tain, with his feather brush, was as happy and strong and bright. As usual dusting his shells and corals, yet, remembrance was such terrible when he was interrupted by the pain to him—it was so entirely his little maid of all work. object not to remember the past— "If you please, sir," with unus- that the vision which kept recurring ual animation, "'ere's a lady as will to biro was almost more than he 'ave it Mr Farrant lives 'ere, and• could bear, and the extraordinary I can't get 'er away no'ow." reality of it deluded him 3t times. Rouge, removing his smoking - It must be real: she had come back cap, hurried forward, and found to him, and he would stretch out himself face to face with an elderly his arms to keep her; then, coming woman with a thin severe face. to himself, would find that it was "There must be some mistake, only a dream. One night the dream madame," he said in hie pleasant was more vivid than ever. He voice. "No one of the name of fancied himself on a wide open Farrant lives here. We are the clown; he was ill and faint, and the only lodgers, except one poor fellow sun was beating down upon him named Donovan, who is very ill." pitilessly. He closed his eyes to "There!" exclaimed Mrs Doery, shut out the intolerable brightness, with relief. "Now why didn't and then suddenly became aware of you tell me that before, though I a shade between him and the sun, was certain he must be here some - and, looking up, saw Dot standing where; he'd never make a fault in beside him. Such a rapturous meet- the address. Take me to him at ing it was ! Her face seemed once, please, air --I've come to nurse changed, and yet the same, and her him." bright eyes shone down upon him "Bless me!" exclaimed the old with just the old loving light. He captain. "Now that's really a could feel her fingers ruffling up his wonderful piece of luck, for he is hair as she used to do in the old in need of better nursing than we times, and her voice, merry and can give him. You are a relation childlike as ever, seemed to give of his?" Moe new strength. "It is my turn " Relation, indeed !" said Mrs to nurse you now," she said. And ' Doery, with virtuous indignation—. then, just as he was feeling the full "relation, sir! A. pretty pass he bliss of her presence, a thick white must have come to if you take me mist rose from the ground and rolled for a relation. I am the house - between them. He stretched out keeper." his hands, tried to struggle up,help- "Your pardon, madame," said the lessly beating against the cold white ' captain. "May I not offer you wall. Dot was there just beyond. some refreshment afte: yoar jour - He must reach her ! This sudden nay?" and he put his hand on the meeting, only to part,was too cruel! inevitable black bottle which was But the more be dashed himself always within convenient reach. against the impenetrable barrier, "I'll thank you, sir, to take me tho harder it became, and, madden- to Mr Donovan," said Doery, se- ed by hearing her voice in the dis- verely, "and not go offering a re- tance, he grew more and more reek- spectable party spirits at this time less, till at last his own cry of des- of day." pair woke him. Trembling, ex- Rouge, feeling subdued, hastily hausted, panting for breath, he led the way to the sick room, mut- stared round the little room. The tering, under his breath, "A very scene was changed. Fight' as he dragon !" But, nevertheless, he would, there was no chance of his rather enjoyed the new arrival, and seeing Dot again; even the white there ,vas a ring of amusement in barrier was gone. The gas was his hearty voice as he went up to turned low, and close beside it sat the disordered uncomfortable look - Noir, nodding over Ms newspaper. ing bed where Donovan lay. The blank of realization was so "Welt, Milord, I've brought you terrible that he fent he must call on a new nurse." some one or something outside him- If anyone had told Donovan • in self, and his companion was roused his childhood that he would ever by a call so wild, so despairing, welcome the sight of his grim tyrant that he started up at once and hur he would not have believed it; but, rigid to the bedside. nevertheless, there was an unspeak- "What is it ?" he asked anxious- able comfort and relief in the advent ly. But Donovan could not anew• of poor old Doery, er, his breath would only come in "Oh ! Mr Donovan, what have gasps, his whole frame was convuls• they been a-doin' to you!'' she ex - ed. By the strange frena onry claimed, horror struck at his looks, of suffering, Noir Frewin Ander- for he was evidently quite clear stood him. He did not say a word, headed, but utterly weak sled help - but just took the two burning hands less, and with a face so thin and in his, and Donovan, with a sense worn that she hardly recognized its of relief, tightened his hold till the "Did my mother send you ?" he grip was absolutely painful. Any- asked as soon as the captain had thing human would have served to left the room. support him; he clung to the hands "No, sir, master sent me, with Chiidrin Cry for I : pitcher's Castoria. Children Cry for �vlaiela eapeei:xlly oppealed. to la sympathy -Mils! lojestice iilfffere and the strong •crrdurauee reanifes ed. He put down the book relnc -wetly when he was ton tired to bol it any longer, not even thinking of any possible change in his ;fixed beliefs, but simply very much struck by a noble We, which, it seemed probable, had been lived many years ago—with something of the same sort of interest which he had felt for ane or two of the old Romans, and for a few of Shakespeare's characters. Modern Christianity --or the so called Christianity which bad been brought under his notice—offered of attractions to Mw. The whole sys- tem seemed to him hollow and false —a great profession, and a niggard- ly performance, a mixture of dollish- ness, hypocrisy, and superstition.— But the life of Christ was grand ! Such an unexampled career of noble self devotion filled him with wonder and reverence. However much the he misguided followers had fallen off, there could be no doubt that the dmind of Christ had been—he natur- al ally used the past tense—one of he dazzling purity and beauty. In the enforced stillness of the dcouvalescence the story haunted him strangely, and undoubtedly • he was influenced by it—his ad- miration of a noble mind ennobled 8 him. At present that was all, but • It was much. n• As soon as he was about again, e he took an early opportunity of telling Noir, the decision which he had ,Wade. before his illness Noir, nwho had already shrewdly sur- mised that he should lose his young accomplice, made nu attempt to d • turn him trom his purpose. • "Turned good, 1 suppose, as most • fellows do when they have been within an ace of dying," he reseal k- o ed, sneeringly. s "Glad to hear your think so," a said 'Donovan, with coolness. "I own you've a proverb to fall back • on. 'The devil be felt sick; the s devil a monk would be.' _ However, I've no monkish tendencies, only I don't mean to to your decoy any longer, s "Well," said Noir, goodhumored- ly, "I myself sha'n't be sorry to leave the old trade for a bit. We'ye been talking of going abroad. Come with us. It would set you up in no time. What do you say to Mo- naco ? A try at the red and black?" "Anything for a change," said Donovan; but there was relief in his tone,for the break with tae Frewins, which he bad dreaded a good deal, would be no longer necessary.— "Honest" gambling of course he had not renounced, in fact, by means of • it he must live, and this proposal to go to Monaco exactly fell in with his present frame of mind. His spirits began to rise. TO RE CONTINL•En- 17►It . 1,[01 ! 1114'.�L'U' is;; �`�Uli.'. d, Dr. I;Ceve. Corolla fp Coality� of $tiros, t.: Ar. grrIbuli,Gradlaatet ofTeroaiteAnci'vip- 1 xis ITiatvc i rs tics; memoator Ooiloge of t• 1 Puy bstp Obstetrical n0 lots ofeEd nbtl rgh; ate of 4 Loudon,. Eng„ and &unbar is l osltitala Oliico:•..,1yi;urray Block Batten ury fit,, Oust too. Night ends answered at Dr. Bee's residence, liinron St., Or at Grand TJtai` ii 1: Iotel,Tetepwone, "London isn't wade up of Con- naught Squares," said Donovan, bitterly; and then he drew the bed clothes over his face, and would not say another word. The next day was Sunday, and by dint of many assurances of his perfect recovery, !gra Doery was at length persuaded to leave him for a little while and go to church, Dono- van having overruled her dread of losing her way by assuring her that the old captain went every now and then to salve his conscience, and would he delighted to escort her. When she had left him he lay for a few minutes listening to the church bells, but his thoughts were very troublesome that day, and just to stifle them he reached out his hand and took Mrs Doery's Bible from the table. It was nearly four years since he had opened one, and then it had only been under compulsion at school, and though he had read many books written against it, he never had the slightest inclination to study the book itself. Beyond a few chapters which he had been made to learn in his childhood as a punishment, he remembered little but a sort of general outline of the history, and a few of the more striking parables. He took it up now rather curi- ously, opened at St. Matthew's Gos- pel, and, skipping the Table ot Genealogy, began to read in a care- less, cursory way. By and by, bowover, in spite of himaelf, he grew interested. From the few isolated chapters which he had heard occasionally in church and during his school life, he had never gained any idea of the character of Christ. Now reading straight on, with a great cravipg after some fresh interest, he was naturally very much struck. 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Office hours from 8 a.m., to 7 p,m, Savings Bank and Money Order Otilee close at 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, Aprll2D, 1880. 8.10 6.00 HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co8y This Company is Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of Interest, MORTGAGES': - PURCHASE: SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent, Interest Allowed on Deposits,aeeordinq toamotent and time left. OFFJCE--Corner at Market Srynaroand North 9 • HORACE HORTON, i tide loh,Aatguat 801188E aiAtrAaen. A. O. U. W. sons Hall on triLodge, let a d°8144, d Fndaysin e h month. Visitors cordially invited. R. STONEHAM, M. W. J. BEAK, Recorder. A COOK' BOOK ,, By mail to any lady sending.us her peetottie 1 address. Walls, Richardson & Con Men,reat- OLTNTOE MECHANIC'S INBTI•g1TE, Hall down starReading ot 2,000 Qvolu, ie la the Library and all the Leading New" papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket ,1 per annum Openf rom o tions for membe ahiW,eceiv p. oy the Librarian in the room. BENMtLLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREE: NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE. TUE LATTER 01, WnICII WE MARE A SPECIALTY LARGE STOCK ON HAND The aboye ornamental trees and shrubbery wi he sold at very low prices, and those wantin anything in this connection will save mono purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, 8enmlller. McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company FARII S: ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTNr, ONLY INSURED ol't ICERs, Thos- E, Hays, I'resideut, Seaforth P. O.: W. J. Shannon, Seey-Treas., Seaforth P. 0.; Juo. Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. O. DIRECTORS. Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Donald Ross, Clinton: Gabriel Elliott, Clinton; Geo. Watt, Harlock; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; J. Shan - non, Walton; Thos. Carbert, Clinton, AGENTS. Thos. Noilans, Harlock; Robt. McMillan, Seaforth; 5. Carnochan, Seaforth; John O'- Sullivan and Geo. Murdie, auditory, Partes desirous to effect Insurances or transact other business will be promptly attended to on application to any of, the above officers, addressed to their respective post offices. J. C, SFEYENSO, —THE L.EADING— UNDERTAKER —AND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEPI ill STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL t FARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager RIY(1 thieandth nraet;thepwillfind honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous makingseveralhp dreddollarsabm are h, I! is easy for any person to make tee per day and upwarde,who is willing to work. Eithe eex,young or old ; capital not needed,westar you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader,can do it as well as an one. Write to us at once for full,,artioulare which we mail free, Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. ci T 'I'ON Planing Mill DRY KILN! KILN! THE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JiJ8T 0Ola- with maehineryot hmine andiela oetimproved pahis new ng rr�s, is now prepared to attend to all orders in hits line in the most prompt and satlefaetorymanner and at rear triable rates. Ho would also return thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, end now being in a bet- ter position to execute orders expeditiously facie confident he can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trunk Railway, Clinton, THOMAS McKENEIE ROBERT DOWNS f CLINTON, Manr,faotcror and Proprietor for the best MINIS Mt,i Dog In use. Agent for the sale and Bo1LEn°LEANER o temSAM FITTINGS furnishte Partorr ed and applied on short notice, Roller. Engines, and all kinds 1ltaehinery repaired etepeditleul and In a saNefaetory manner Farm implements manufactured and re- paired, Stearn and water pnumps furnished and put 1n position, Dry Kiln fitted hp on appliodtion, Iidtkdr lkiederate