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�dednesdaty, June 10th, 1891.
THE WINTERS AND THE
PALMLEYS.
"To go hack to the beginiug—if
one, must—there were two women
in the parish wheu I was a child who
were to a certain extent rivals i11
good looks. Never mind p.trticulare,
but in cousequence of this they were
at daggers -drawn, and they did not
love each other any better when one
of them tempted the other's lover
away from her and married him.
He was a young luau by the name
of Winter, and in due time they had
a 8011.
"The other woman did not marry
for many yeare; but when she was
about thirty a quiet wan uamed
Palmley stilted her to be his wife,
and she accepted him. You don't
mini when the Palmleys were Long -
puddle folk, I>ut I do well. She had
a sots also, who wase, of course, nine
or ten years younger than the son of
the first. The child proven to be of
rather weak intellect, though his
mother loved him aR the apple of ber
eye.
''Tie woman's husband died when
the child was eight years old, and
left his widow and boy in poverty.
Her former rival, Mao a widow, but
fairly well provided for, offered for
pity's sake to take the child as er-
rand -boy, small as he was, her own
son being hard upon seventeen,
Her poor neighbor could do no beta
ter than let the child go there. And
to the richer 'woman's house little
Palmley straightway went.
"Well in some way or other—
bow, it was never exactly known—
the thriving woman, Mrs. Winter,
sent the little boy with a meseage to
the next village one winter day
much against his will. It was get••
ting dark, and the child prayed to
be allowed not to go, because he
would be afraid coming home. But
the other insisted, more out of
thoughtlessness than cruelty, and
the child went. On his way back
he had to pass through Yalhury
Wood, and something came out from
behind a tree and frightened him
into fits. The child was quite
ruined by it ; be became quite a
drivelling idiot, and soon afterward
died.
"Then the other women had noth-
ing left to live for, and vowed ven-
geance against that rival who had
first won away her lover, and now
bad been the cause of her bereave-
ment. This last affiction was cer-
tainly not intended by her thriving
acquaintance,though it must be own-
ed ti llt when it was dune she seen,
ed but little concerned. Whatever
vengeance poor Mrs. Palmley felt,
site had no opportunity of carrying
it out, and time might have softened
her feelings into forgetfulness of her
supposed wrongs as she dragged on
her lonely life. So matters stood
stood . when, a year after the death
of the child, Mrs. Palmley's niece,
who had been born and bred in the
city -of Exbury, came to live with
her. •
"This young woman—Miss Her.
rietPalmley-was a proud and band•
some girl, very well well brought
up, and more stylish and genteel
than the people of our village, as
was natural, considering where aha
carne from. She regarded herself as
much above Mrs. Winters and her
son in position as Mrs. Winters and
her son considered themselves above
poor Mrs. Palmley. But love is an
unceremonious thing, anti whet in
the world should happen but that
young Jack Winter must fall woful-
ly and wildly in love with Harriet
Palmley almost as soon as he saw
her.
"She, being better educated than
he, and caringnothing for the village
notion of his mother' superiority to
her aunt, did not Rive him much en•
couragement. But Longpuddle bee
ing no very large world, tliettwo
'fd+ TtY'e�rrrg a good deal atm
each other while she was staying
there, and, disdainful young woman
as she was, she did seem to take a
little pleasure in his attentions and
W1741)090.
400eciay when they werepicking
apples ,fol{tither,, lie aaketl he to
' tuarry hi,pi., Sire kiacl Pot expected
auythin eta practleal •40 that tit- Pe
early a bole,. apedwas. lea by her
eurprise.into .a half•pr'onrise; at any
rate`,alie did not absolutely refuee
Mite arta accepter conte little preee
ente gait be made her. '
"Hat he utter drat her view of Lite
watt ratuple village lad
than a8 nher yoa8unga nadall to look up. to
and he felt, that he roust do some-
thing bold Co, secure her. So he said
one day, +I am going away to try to
gets into a better position thou 1 eau
get here.' Iu two or three. weeks he
wished her goodaby, and we.ntawey
to Monksbury, to superintud a
farm, with a view to start as a farm-
er himself ; and from there he wrote
regularly to tier, as if their marriage
were an understood thing.
"Now Harriet liked the young
man's presents and the admiration
of hie eyes; but ori paper be was
less attractive to her. Her mother
had been a schoJl-mistress, and Har-
riet. had besides a natural aptitude
for pen -and -ink work, in days when
to be a ready v. riter was not such a
common t hing us it is now, and when
actual Band writing was valued as
an accomplishment in itself. Jack
Winter's performances in the shape
of love letters quite jarred her city
nerves and her finer taste, and when
she answered one of them, in the
lovely running hand that she took
such pride in, she very strictly and
loftily bade him to practice with a
pen and spelliug.book if he wished
toplease her. Whether he listened
to her request.or not nobody knows,
but his letters did not improve. He
ventured to tell her is his clumsy
way that if her heart were more
warm towards him she would not be
so nice abont his handwriting and
spelling; which indeed way true
enough.
"Well, in Jack's absence the weak
kame that had been set alight in
Harriet's heart soon sank low, and
at last went out altogether. He
wrote and wrote, and Legged
and prayed her to give a rea
son for her coldness ; and then she
told him plainly that he was not
sufficiently well educated to please
her.
''Jack Wiuter's want of pen -and,
ink training did not make him less
thin-skinned than others ; in fact he
was wofully tender and touchy about
anything. This reason that alio gave
for finally throwing him over griev-
ed him, shamed him, and mortified
him more than cal be told in these
titues, the pride—of being able to
write beauliful flourishes, and the
sorrow at not being able todo so,
raging so high. Jack replied to her
with an angry note, and then site
hit back with smart little stinger,
telling him how many words he had
misspelt in hie last letter, and de-
claring again that this alone was
efficient justification for any wo-
man to put an end to an understand -
ng with him. Her husband must
tie a better scholar.
"He bore her rejection of him in
ilence, but his suffering was sharp
—All the sharper in being untold.
She communicated with Jack no
more ; and as his reason for going
ut into the world had been only to
provide a home worthy of her, he
ad no further object in planning
uch a home now that she was lost
o him. He therefore gavo•up the
arming occupation by which he had
oped to make himself a master -far-
mer, and left the spot to return to
lis mother.
"As soon as lie got bask to Long-
uddle he found that Harriet had
Ir•ea,ly looked wi', favor upon an-
ther lover. He was a young road
oulractor, and Jack could not but
dinit that his rival was both in man-
ors and scholarship much ahead of
im. Indeed, a more sensible
etch for the beauty who had been
ropped into their village by fate
ould hsrdly have been found than
hie man, who could offer her so
uch better a chance than Jack
ould have done, with his uncertain
uture and limited abilities for grap-
ling with the world. The fact was
o clear to him that he could hardly
lame her.
"One day by accident Jack saw
n ascrap of paper the handwritting
f Harriet's new beloved. It was
owing like a stream, well spelt,
he work of a man accustomed to
he ink bottle and the dictionary, of
man already called in the parish
good scholar. And then it struck
1 of a sudden into Jack's mind
hat a contrast the letters of this
oung man must make to his own
iserable old letters, and how ridio-
lous they must make his lines ap-
ear. He.groaned and wished he
ad never written to her, and won-
ered if she ever kept his poor per -
nuances. Possibly she had kept
em, for women are iu the habit
doing that, he thought, and
hilat they were in her hand there
ae always a chance of his honest,
upid love assurances to her being
ked over by Harriet with her pros.
t lover, or by anybody who
ould accidentally uncover them.
"The nervous, moody young man
uld not bear the thought of it, and
-,lflq»w.�,•pjled.::to-aal:l�oa��to�,a..-�•
urn thaw, as was proper when en-
gements were broken off. He was
me hours in framing, copying and
copying the short note in which
made his request, and having
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8bQuld JaQt part wi h what was hers,
and wandered at hiis baldness iu
troubling ber.
"Jack wee, much affronted at this,
and deterwiuod. to. go for his letttere
himself. ;He chose a time when he
knew she Wee at home„ and knock-
ed and went in without much °ere'
mony ; for though Harriet was sa
high and Mighty,Japk had small re-
spect for her aunt, Mrs. Palmley,
whose little child bad been hie boot
cleaner in earlier days. Harriet was
in the room, this being the first time
they had met eiuce she had jilted
him. ,He asked for his letters with
a stern and bitter look at her,
"At first she said he might have
them for all that she cared, and took
them out of the btrreau where she
kept them. TLen she glanced over
outside of one of the packet, and
suddenly altering his mind, she told
him shortly that his request was a
silly one, and slipped the letters in-
to her aunt's work box, which stood
opeu on the table, locking it, and
saying with a banteriug laugh that
of course she thought it beet to keep
'em, since they might be useful to
produce as evidence that she had
good cause for declining to marry
him.
"He blazed up hot. "Give me
those letters 1' he said. 'They are
mine.'
U `No, they are not,' she replied ;
'they are mine.'
"' Whos'ever they are I want them
back,' says he. '1 don't want to be
made sport of for my penmanship :
you've another young man now !
He has your confidence, and you
pour all your tales into hie ear.
You'll be showing them to him 1
•"Perhaps,' said my lady Harriet,
with calm coolness, like the heart-
less woman that sho was.
"Her manner so maddened him
that he made a step towards the
work -box, but she snatched it up,
locked it in the bureau, and turned
upon him triumphant. Fora mom•
ent he seemed to be going to wrench
the key of the bureau out of lief
hand ; but he stopped himself, and
swung round upon his heel and went
away.
When he was out of -doors alone,
and it got night, he walked about,
restless, and stinging with a sense
of being beaten at all points by her.
He could not help fancying her
telling her new lover or her acquaint
antes of this scene with himself,
and laughing with them over those
poor blotted, crooked lines of his
that he had been so anxioue to ob-
tain. As tho evening passed on he
worked himself into a dogged reso-
lution to have thein back at any
price, come what might.
"At the dead of night he came
out of his mother's house by the
back door, and creeping through
the garden hedge went' along the
the field adjoining till he reached
the back of ber aunt's dwelling.
The moon struck bright and flat
upon the wall,ttwas said, and every
shiny leaf of the creepers was like a
little looking glass in the rays.
From long acquaintance Jack knew
the arrangement and position of
everything in Mrs. Palmley's house
as well as his own mother's. The
back window clone to him was a
casement with small leaded squares,
as it is to this day, and was, as
now, one of two lighting the sitting
room. The other, being in front,
was closed up with shutters, but
this back one had not even a blind,
and the moonlight as it streamed in
showed every article of the furniture
to him outside. To the right of
the room is the fire -place, as you
may remember ; to the left was the
bureau at that time ; inside the
bureau was Harriet's work -box, as
he supposed (though it was really
her aunt's), and inside the work-
box were his letters. Well,,he took
out his pocket knife, and without
noise lifted the leading of one of
the panes, so that he could take
out the glass, and putting his hand
through the hole, he uufastened
the casement, and climbed in
through the opening. All the
household—that is to say, Mrs.
Palmley, Harriet, and the little
maid-servant—were asleep. Jack
went straight to the bureau, so he
said, hoping it might have been
unfastened—it not being kept
locked in ordinary—but Harriet
had never unfastened it since she
secured her letters there the day
before. Jack told afterward how
he thought of her asleep upstairs,
caring nothing for him, and of the
way she had made sport of bim
and of his letters ; and having ad-
vanced so far, he was not to be
hindered now. Jack, by forcing
the large blade of his knife under
the flap of the bureau, burst the
weak lock ; within wee the rose-
wood work -box just es she had
placed it in her hurry to keep it
from him. There being no time to
to spare for getting the letters out
of it then, he took it under his arm,
shut the bureau, and made the
beet of his way out of the house,
latching the casement behind
and refixing the pane of glass in its
place.
e" -Winter -found ,.his_. ways . hack...ta.•
his mother's ae he had come, and
being dog-tired crept up stairs to
bed, hiding the box till he could
destroy its contents. The next
morning early he set about doing
this, and carried it' to the balmy fi
the, back of hie Mother's dw.el.l>cg.-
Hore by°ihe.. hearth he *opened. the
box,. rad began burning .one by one
the 'letter's 'that bad.- coat .him No
much labor tis writs and shame to
think of, meing to return the box
to FIarriett, anafter repairing tie
alight damage he bad caused it by
opening it without .a key, with a
note -.—the last she would ever re-
ceive from bine—telling her trium-
phantly that in`refusieg to return:
what he lied asked for she had cal-
culated too surely upon his submis•
aion to her whims.
"But on removing the last letter
from the box he received a shock ;
for underneath it, at the very bet -
tom, lay money—several golden
guineas—'Doubtless Harriet's pock-
et -mousy,' he said to himself ;
though it was not, but Mrs. Palm
ley's. Before he had got over hie
qualms at tin's discovery ho heard
footsteps coming through the house
passage to where he was. In haste
he pushed the box and what was in it
under some brushwood which Itry in
the linhay ; but Jaok had already
been seen. 'Two conetablea entered
the ont house, and seized him as he
knelt before the fireplace, securing
the work box and all it ooutained
at the same moment. They had
dome to apprehend him on a charge
of breaking into the dwelling house
of Mrs. Palmley on the night pre-
ceding; and almost before the lad
knew what had happened to him
they were leading him along the
lane that connects thatend of the
village with this turu-pike road, and,
along they marched him between
'em all the way to Caster'br'idge
jail.
"Jack's act amounted to night
burglary—though he had never
thought of it—and i,urglaty was
felony, and a capital offence in
those deye. His figure had been
seen by some one against the bright
wall as he carne away from Mrs.
Palmley's back window, and the
box and money were found in hie
possession, while the evidence of
the broken bureau lock and tinker-
ed window pang was more than
enough for circumstantial detail.
Whether his protestation that he
went only for his letters which he
believed to be wrongfully kept from
him, would have availed him any-
thing if supported by other evidence
1 do not know ; but the one person
who could have borne it out was
Harriet, and she acted entirely su-
dor the sway of her aunt. That aunt
was deadly tower'?s Jack Winter.
Mrs. Palwley'e tune had come.
Here was her revenge upon the
household which had ruined and
deprived her of her one heart's nese-
me—her little son. When the ae-
size weak drew on, and Jack had to
stand his trial, Harriet did not ap-
pear in the case at all, which was a1 -
lowed to tape its course, Mrs. Palm -
ley testifying to the general facts of
the burglary. Whether Harriet
would have come forward if Jack
had appealed to her is not known ;
possibly she would have done it for
pity's Bake ; but Jack was too proud
to ask a single favor of a girl who
had jilted him ; and he let her alone.
The trial was a short one, .and the
death sentence was passed.
"The day o' young Jack's execu—
tion was a cold dusty Saturday in
March. He was so boyish and
slim that they were obliged in
mercy to hang him in the heaviest
fetters kept in the jail, lest his heft
should not break his neck, and
they weighed so upon hire that he
could hardly drag himself up to the
drop. At that time the goverment
was not strict about burying the
body of an executed person within
the precincts of the prison, and at
the earnest prayer of his poor
mother his body was allowed to be
brought home. All the parish
waited at their cottage doors in the
evening for its arrival : I remember
how, as a very little girl, I stood
by my mother's side. About eight
o'clock, as we hearkened on our
door -stones in the cold bright star-
light, we could bear the faint
crackle of a wagon from the dirce.
tion of the turnpike -road. The
noise was lost as the wagon drop-
ped into a hollow, then it was
plain again as it lumbered down
the next long incline, and presently
it entered Longpuddle. The coffin
was laid in the belfry for the
night, and the next day, Sunday,
between the services, we buried
him. A funeral sermon was
preached the Same afternoon, the
text chosen being, 'He wife the only
son of his mother and she was a
widow.' . , , Yes, they were gruel
times.
"As• for Harriett, she and hey
lover were married in due time ;
but by all account her life was no
jocund one. She and her good
man found that they could not live
comfortably at Longpuddle, by
reason of ` her connection with
Jack's misfortunes, and they settled
in a distant town, and were no
more heard of by us; Mrs. Palmley
too, found it advisable to join 'em
shortly after. The dark -eyed,
gaunt old Mrs. Winter, remember-
ed by the emigrant gentleman here,
was, as you will have foreseen, the
Mrs. Winter of this story ; and I
can nivel11-call•- to -mind= haw -= lonely- - -otos
she was, how afraid the children
were of her. and how she kept her-
self as a stranger among us, though
she lived so long.--Harper's Month-
ly.