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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-07-15, Page 7The Huron News -Record provision for the gape Qf hie soma- till site atoQd again beside, hint ° in I>. 01,.60 a Year -4144 to tedveace ' what uncertain business, On enter- the. (Tett start of the shop, " A month after the marriage _ ing Jo11ite found father and 'The o'e a deal,' be said. Joanna's mother died, and the couple daughter about to begin tea, 'You mustn't say that, Captain were obliged to turn their attention xx anes.day, July 115t1►, 1891. 'Ob, I didn't know it was tea Jolliffe, because the words belong to very practical matters. 'Nowthat ti nae,' me,' he sold. 'Ay, I'll have a cup to sonie.bgdy case.' she was loft without a parent Joanna TO PLEASE IIIS WIFE, with much pleasure." 'Oh, I know what you mean° could not bear the notion of her hue - He remained to tea and long But, Emily, upon my life, I didn't band going to sea again; but the afterwatd, telling wore tales of his know till arts morning that • B you question was, what could he do at The interior of St, Dawes' church, seafaring life ; several , neighbors cared one bit about me, or I home? They finally decided to take called to listen and were asked to ahouldn't have done as I have done. , IA I3avenpool town, was slowly come in. Somehow, Emiay Han- I have the host of feelings for ou a grocers shop fu High street, darkening under the close clouds uing lost her heart to the the sailor Joanna, but I know that from the the good will and stook of whish of ti, winter afternoon. It was that -*undey night, and in the beginning she hasn't oared for me were waiting to be disposed of at Sendai ; Service had just ended; course of a week or two there was more than in a friendly way, and I that time. Shfrdrach knew nothing ;, •'4he face of the parson in the pulpit a tender understanding between see now the one I ought to have of shop -keeping and Joanna very was buried in his hands, and the there. asked to be my wife. You know, little, but they hoped to learn. vougregation with a cheerful sigh of One moonlight evouing in the Emily, when a man comes home To the management of this grocery e#elease were rising from their next month Shadrach was ascending from sea after a long voyage ' vo age he s as business they now devoted-'atheir - ,rknees to depart, ° out of the town by the long, straight blind as a bat—he can't see who's energies, and continued to oonduct For the moment the stillness road eastward, to an elevated who in women. They are all alike it for many years without creat enc. 'was so complete that the Burg- suburb where the more fashionable to him—beautiful creatures—and •,ing of the sea could be heard out- houses stood—if anything near he takes the first that comes easy, cess. Two sons were born to them, •side the harbor bar. Then it this ancient port could be called without thinkiug if she loves him whom their mother loved to idolatry, was brulteu by the foutatene of thefash}unable—when he saw a figure or if he might not some love although she bad never passionately -clerk going toward the west door tobefore hila whotnfrom her manner another batter than she. From the loved her husband, and she lavished open it in the ostial mauuer for the of glancing hack, he took to be first I inclined to you most, but upon them all her forethought and -exit of the assembly. llefure, how- Emily, But on coining up he you were eo backward and shy that care. But the shop did not thrive, ever, lie lied re„shed the doorway found she was Joauna Phippard. I thought you didn't want me to and the large dreanes she had enter - the latch was lifted fruw without He gave a gallant greeting and bother 'ee, and so I went to taiued of her sons' education and and the dark figure of a roan in a walked beside her. Joanna sailor's garb appeared against the"Don't became attenuated in the face 'Go along,'she said, 'or Emily Don t say any more, ,lir. Ju,liffe of realities. Their schooling was of light. will be jealous.' dont !' said sho, chokiug. 'You the plainest, but, living by the sea, Tee clerk steppe,; aside, the He seemed not to like°the sugges• are going to marry Joanna next they grew alert in all such nautical sailor closed t}te door gently behind tion and retrained. °D munch, and it is wrong to—to—' arta and enterprises as were attract- ' hire. and advanced up the nave 'Oh,I',wily, my darling' he till he a toad at the ehaucel step. What was said and what wase.ive to their age. f done on that walk uever was clear- cried, and clasped her little figure The great interest of the ,rollifles' .The parson looked up from the in hie arms before she was aware, private little prayer which after se ly recollected by Shadrach, but in Joanna behind the curtain turned married life outside their own im- many for the parish he quite fairly, some way or other Joanna con- pale,mediate household had lain in the f ` takes fur himself, rose to his foes reined to meats hits away from her tried to withdraw her eyes, mnrr.age of Emily. By one of those �'` gentler and ouneer rival From but could not. It is only you I l:' , -and stared at the intruder. o y love as a man ought to love the odd chances which lead those that i .. that week onward Jolliffe ° I. `t beg your pardon, sir,' said the more and more °in the mastic of woman he is going to marry; and I lurk in unsuspected corners to be sailor inn voice distinctly andibls Joanna Phippard and less in the know this from what Joanna has discovered while the obvious are , to all the congregation. 'I have said—that she would willingly let passed by, the gentle girl had been rumored about the quay that old „t come here to offer thanks fur my company of Emily, and it was soon or off. She wants toha thriving mer - narrow escape from shipwreck. I Joilil]'e's sou who had co+ue bout° I know, AO only said "Yes" to me chant of the town, a widower, some Am given to understand that, it ie from sea was going to be married to out of kindness. A. fine tall girl years older than himself, though the proper thing to do. if you have wowuu t0 the like her isn't the sort for a plain still in the prime of life. At first the former young , 'no objection.'sailor's wife; you bo the best suited great disappointment of the latter, for that.' Emily had declared that she never, The parson, alter a moment's never could marcanyone, pause, said, hesitatingly, 'I have no Just after this report had gone 1Ie kissed her and kissed her y but JI r. objection, certainly. It is usual' to about Joanna dressed herself' for a again, her f]e:Yilile form quivering Lester had quietly pers tvcred and mention any such wish before walk ono eveuiug and started fur irl rho agitation of his embrace. '1 had at last won hor reluctant assent. cervico, so that the proper words Emily's house in the little cross «•under e aro you sago—Joauna is Two children also were the fruit of may be used in the general thanks- street. Intelligence of the drop going to break off with you ? Oh, this union, and as they grew and giving. But, if you wish, we can sorrow of her friend on account of are you sure? Ilecanse—' prospered Emily declared that she read from the form for use after a the loos of Shadrach had reached 'I know sho would not wish to had never supposed she could live storm at sea.' her ears also, and her conscience make us miserable. She will re- to be so happy. 'Ay, sure ; I ain't particular,' reproached her for winning him lease me.' The worthy merchant's house—one salt; the sailor. away. 'U}i, I hope she will ! Dou't of those large, substantial brick man- Joauna was not altogether sans- - The clerk thereupon directed the fied with the sailor, She liked his stay any longer, Captain Jullilfo.' cions frequently jammed up its old - 4`:i • sailor to the page in the prayer attentions, and she coveted the Ile lingered, however, till a fashioned towns - faced directly on book where the collect of thanks- dignity of matrimony; but she had customer came for a penuy stick of the High street, nearly opposite to giving would be found, and the never been deeply in love with sealing wax, and then he with- the grocery shop of' the Jolliffes, and rector began reading it, the sailor Jolliffe. For one thing, she was drew. it now became the pain of Joanna to kneeling where he stood and repeat- ambitious, and socially his position Greets env had overspread behold"ihe woman whose lace she ring it after him word by word in a Y p was hardly so good as her own ; Joanna at the sceno. She looked had usurped out of purecovetonsness �•-h coact voice. The people, who while there was always the chance about for a wayto escape. To get ltad remained agape and motionless of -in attractive woman mating con- out without Emily's knowledge of looking down from her position lof e at the proceeding, mechanically siderabiy above her. It had° long her visit was indespensable. Sh8 comparative woaltlrupon the humble knelt down likewise, but they con shop window, with its dusty sugar tinned to regard the isolated form beau in her mind that she would crept from the parlor into the not strongly object to give hint p usage, and thence to the front loaves, heaps of raisins, and canisters of the sailor, who, in the precise back again to Emily if her friend door of the house, where she lot of tea, over elle, it was her own lot middle of the chancel step, remain- reside. The business havingso ed fixed ou his knees, facing the felt so .very badly about him. To herself noiselessly into the street, to p east, his this end age had penned a letter of T1 e sight of that caress had re- hquds joined and quitedwindled, Joanna was obliged to ant, 1118 us of his appeanance in renunciation to Shadrach, which versed all her resolutions. She serve in the shop herself, and it their regard. letter she carried in her hand, could not let Shadrach go. Peach- galled and mortified her that Emily intendingto post it ifpersonal When the tha_ks ruin had 1 ing home she burned the latter and Lester, sitting in her large drawing -come to an end he arose ; g g observation of Emily convinced told her mother thst it' Captain room over the way, could witness rose also, and all wantoutle people ofchurch her that her friend was suffering. ,Jolliffe called sho was too unwell her own daneings up and down 'together. As soon As the Bailor Joanna entered Sloop lane andto see him. behind the counter at the beck and .emerged so that the remaining day- stepped down into t}ie stationery Shadrach, however, did nut call. call of wretched twopenny custo- Y shop,which was below the ave- He sent her a note expressing in %light Fell upon hia face, old inhabi- P 1 mars, whose patronage she was 'tants began to recognize him as no ment level. Emily's father was simple language tie state of his driven to welcomelad[ never at home at this hour of the feelings and asking to be allowed g Y—Persons s -i'• other than Shadrack Jolliffe ag to whom she was compelled to be young man who had not been seen day, and it seemed as though t0 take advantage of the hints she Emil was not at hone either, for badgiven hint that her affection civil in The streets—while Emily was at Haf the f for several years. A Y , bounding along with her governess son of the town, his parents had the visitor could make nobody too, was little more than friendly, is died when he was qnite young, on hear. Customers came se seldom by cancelling the engagement. and conversing with the genteelest hither that a five minutes' absence people of the town and neighborhood, tahic}t account he had gong to sea Looking out upon the harbor and p p .early in the Newfoundland trade. of the proprietor counted for little. This was what she gained by not Joanna waited in the little sho the island•beyond he waited and `lie talked with this and that p' waited in his lodgings for an answer letting Shadrach Jolliffe, whom she where Emil had tastefull set out 'townsman as he walked, informing as women can, articles in thein' that did not come. The suspense had so faintly loved, carry his ailec- ,; them that since leaving his native salvos of slight value, so as to grew to be so intolerable that after tion elsewhere. glace years before he had become obscure the meagerness of the stock dark he went up the High street. Shadrach was a good and honest captain and owner of a email coast•in trade, till she saw a figure He could not resist, calling at man, and he had been faithful to her I's a ing ketch, which had providentially pausing without the window, appa- Joanna's to hear his fate. in heart and in deed. Time had been saved from the hale as well as clipped the wings of his love for randy absorbed in the contempla- Her mother said her daughter was pP 8 -himself. Presently he drew near tion of the sixpenny books ackete g to to two girls who were leaving p y ' p too unmetl to see hien and to his Emily in his devotion to the mother B of paper, and prints hung on a ' the churchyard in front of him ; string. It was Captain Shadrach questioning admitted that it was in of his boys; he had quite lived down they had been sitting in the nave at consequence of a letter received that impulsive earlier fancy, and Jolliffe peering in to ascertain if hie entry and had watched his Emily were there alone. Moved from himself, which had distressed Emily had become in his regard doings with deep interest, after- by an impulse of reluctance to meet hen deeply, nothing more than a friend. It was ward discussing him as they moved him in a spot which breathed of 'You know what it was er. the same with Emily's feelings for out of church together. One was aabout, p him. Possibly had she found the ,,;• slight and gentle creature ; the Emily, she slipped through the haps, Ars, Phippard ?' door that communicated with the other a tall, large -framed, deliberate Mrs. Phippard owned that she did least cause for jealousy Joanna would girl. Captain Jolliffe regarded the parlor at the back. Joanna had adding that it put them in a very almost have been better satisfied. frequently done so before, for in It was in the absolute acquiescence loose curls of their hair, their backs painful position. Thereupon Shad - her friendship with Emily she had p of Emily and Shadrach in the results -and shoulders, down to their heels, rash, fearing that he had been guilty for some time. the freedom of the house without she herself trod contrived that ceremony. of an enormity, explained that if his 'Who may those two maids be ?' letter had pained Joanna it must be her di:tcorttent found nourishment. •,, be whifpered to his neighbor. Jolliffe entered the Through owing to a misunderstanding, since Shadrach was not endowed with rho thin blind which screened the 'The little one is Emily Henning; glass partition she could see that ha had thought it would be a relief the narrow shrewdness necessary the tall one Joanna Phippard.' he was disappointed at not finding to her. If otherwise he would hold for developing a retail business in the 'An, I recollect 'em now, to be Emily there. He was about to go himself bound by his word, and she face of many competitors. Did a ous- sure.' He advanced to their elbow out again when her form darkened was to think of the letter as never tomer inquire if the grocer could real - and genially stole a gaze at them. the doorway, hastening back from having been written. ly recommend the ,wondrous substi- 'Emily, yon don't know me,' some errand. At sight of Jolliffe Next morning he received an oral tute for eggs which a preserving bag, said the Bailor, turning his beaming she started back es if she would man had forced into his stock, he brown eyes on her. havegone out again. message from her, asking him to y fetch her home from a meriting that would answer that when you did not 'I tbiuk I do, Mr. Jolliffe,' said 'Don't run sway, Emily ; don't ?' evening. This he did, and while put eggs into a pudding it was diff;- Emily shyly. said he, 'What cau make you walking from the Town Hall to her milt to taste them there; and when The other girl looked straight at afraid ?' door,he was asked if Iris "real Mocha cot. "him with her dark eyes. 'The face 'I'm not afraid, Captain Jolliffe. said with her hand in his arm ' she fee” was real Mocha, ,he would say .of your mate I don't call to mind so Only—only I saw yon all of a , grimly, "As understood in small well,' he continued. 'But I know sudden and—it made me jump.' It is all the same ore before be. shops her beginnings and kindred.' The voice showed that her heart tween us, isn't it, Shadrach '1 Your + letter was sent in miatake ?' One summer clay when the big Th ey walked and talked together, had jumped even more than the brick house opposite was reflecting Jolliffe narrating particulars of his rest, of her. 'It is all rhes same as before,' he late narrow escape, till they reach• `I just called, as I was passing,' answered, 'if you say it must be.' the son's oppressive heat into the •ed the corner of Sloop lane, in he said. 'I wish it to be,' she murmured, shop, and nobody was present but which Emily Hanning dwelt, when,'For some paper?' She hastened with bard lineaments, as she thought husband and wife, Joanna looked across at Emily's door, where a car-. with ',a nod and a smile, she left behind the counter, of Emily.nage had drawn up. Traces of pat- thent. Soon the Bailor parted also 'No, ho, Emily. Why do ye get Shadrach was a religious and ronage 'from Joanna, and having no es- behind there? Why not stay by scrupulous man, who respected his g had been visible in Tamil's y imolai errand or appointment, turn- manner of late. mei You seem to hate me. word as his life. Shortlyafterward ed back toward Emily's house. , , thetook "3hadrneh, the truth is, you are She lived with her father, who I don't hate you. How can I?wedding place, .Jolliffe have not a business man," his wife sadly —Zabel - himf?elf, etre eaceroun�tant; e che---Maisn,,con a-au,.t. aKtel hateeeace cau„ -ing conveyed to -Emily as gently _as era business , e ieY.ou were.not.bleu ht talk like Christians.''b�lb�l'eib Fffrbr`Iie tial T'aflen fiiio �' g daughter, however, keeping a littlewhen estimating Joanna's mood as up to shop keeping, and it is is im- stationery shop as a supplemental Emily obeyed with a fitful laugh, one of indifference. possible for a man to make a fortune at an occupation be as jumped Into, as yen did into this," Jolliffe agreed with hor in this as in everything. 'Not that I cap a ropes end about making a fortune,' he eaid carefully. 'T am happy enough and we can rub on some- how.' you know you eau count to 300 iu that heap t It is a fortune 1' 'Yes, yes. A fortune—judged by the se.,. But judged by, land---" however, she banished considers• tions of the money for the nonce. Soon the hoye carne in, and next Sunday Shadrach returned thanks She looked again at the great —this time by the wore ordinary house through the screen of' bottled channel of the italics iu the General pickles. 'Rub on—yes,' she said Thanksgiving. But a few days bitterly. 'But see how well off after, when the questiou of iuveet- Emily Lester is, who used to be so ing the rnoey aro•,°, he remarked poor. Her boys will go to college, that she did nut seem so satirlied as no doubt; and think of ours— rte had hoped. obliged to ge to the national school.' 'Well, 300 see, Sha,lr.+cl,,' she Shadrach's thoughts had flown to answered,'cve cuuut by hundreds. Emily, 'Nobody,' he said, good They cuuut by thousaunls' (podding humoredly, 'ever did Emily a better toward the other side of the street). turn than you did, Joanna, when 'They have art up a carriage and yon warned her oft' me, and put au pair since you left.' end to that little simpering nonsense 'Oh, have they ?' between us, so as to leave it in her 'el v des,. Shadrach, you don't power to say aye to Lester when he know how the world moves. How• came along.' ever, we'll du the best we cau with. This almost maddeued her. it. But they are dell and we aro 'Don't speak bygones !' she implur poor still.' ed, in stern sadness. 'But think, The greater part of a year was, for the boys' and my sake, if not for�esttlturily anent. She moved sad - your own, what are we to do to get ly about the louse Bud alio)), and richer?' the boys were still occupying them - Well, he said, becoming serious, selves at the harbor. 'Joanna,' he 'to tell the truth, I have always felt earl one day, 'I see by your move• myself unfit for this business, menta that it is nut enough.' though I've never liked Le say so. 'It is nut enough,' said she. I seem to want more room for 'My boys will have to live by steer - sprawling, a more open space to ing the ships that the Lessers own strike out io than here among —and I was once above her !' friends and neighbors. I could get rich as well as Ady man if I tried my Jolliffe Was not an argun,eutatie• own way ' man, and be only murmured that he thought he would take another I wish you would. Whet is voyage. He meditated for several your way ?' days, and coming home from the 'To go to sea again." quay one alternuou said suddenly : She had been the very one to '1 could do it for 'ee dear, iu one keep him at home, hating the semi- wore trip, for certain, if—i1'-- widowed existence of sailors' wives. 'I)o what, Shadrach ?' [lar her ambition checked her in- stincts Du CV, and she said 'Do`Enable 'ee to carne by thonsauds you think success really lies that instead of hundreds.' way?' 'If what;' 'I am sure it lies in uo other.' 'If 1 might take the boys." 'Do you want to go, Shadrach ?' She turned pale, "I),u't. say 'Nut fur the pleasure of it, I can that, Shadrach !' she answered hasti- tell 'oe. There's 00 pleasure at sea, ly. Joanna, as I can find in my hack `«'sty?' parlor here. To speak honest, I 'I don't like to hear it. There's have no love for the brine. I cover danger at sea, 1 want 'nut to bo had much. Ilut if it conies to a something geutoc-1, and no danger question of a fortnue for you and to theca. I couldn't let them risk the lads, it is another thing. 'Chat's their livoa at sea. Oh, I couldn't, the only way to it for one born and over—over !' bred a seafarer as I,' 'Very well, dear. It shan't be 'Would it take long to earn ?' dune.' 'Well, that depends. Perhaps The idea grew and magnified, and not.' the mother's heart was crushed and The next moruing Shadrach pull- stifled by it. Emily was growing ed from a chest of drawers the too patronizing ; it would not be nautical jacket he had worn during borne. Shadrach's wife could not the first month of his return, brush- help nagging him about their corn- ed out the moths, donned it, and parative poverty. The young men, walked down to the quay. The amiable as their father, when spoken port still did a fair business in the to on the subject of a voyage of Newfoundland trade, though not so euterpriso were quite willing to embark, and though they,. like their much as formerly. It was not long after this th it he father, had no great love for the sea, invested all he possessed in purchas they became quite enthusiastic when ing a part ownership in a brig, of tLu proposal was detailed. which he was appointed captain. Everything now hong upon their A few months were passed in coast mother's assent. She withheld it trading, during which interval lung, but at last goers the word— Shadrach wore off the land rust that the young men might accompany had accumulated upon him in his their father. Shadrach was un• grocery phase, and in the spring usually cheerful about it; heaven the brig sailed for Newfoundland. ltad preserved him hitherto, and he haat uttered his thanks. God would Joauna lived on at home with her not forsake those who were faithful sons, who were now growing up in- to Him. to strong lads, and occupied them -- All that the Jolliffes possessed in selves in various ways about the the world was put into the letthem enter - harbor and quay. 'Never thine, prise. Ths grocery stock was pared let them work a little, their fond dowu'o the least that possibly could mother sai to hor self. 'Our afford a bare sustenance to Joanna necessities compel it now. But during the absence, which was to - when Shadrach comes home they last through the venal Nowfoud- will be only 17 and 18, and they land 'spell.' How she would shall boed from the port and endure the weary time she hardly their education thoroughly taken in knew, for the boyo had been with hand by a tutor; and they will per her formerly ; but site nerved her - haps be as near to gentlemen as Emmy Lester's precious two with self for the trial. The ship was laden with boots their algebra and their Latin.' and shoes, ready-made clothing, The date for Shadrach's return fishing tackle, butter, cheese, cord - drew near and arrived, and he did age, sailcloth, and many other com- not appear. Joanna was assured modifies, and was to bring back oil, that there was no cause for anxiety, furs, skins, fish, cranberries, and sailing ships being so uncertain in what else came to band. But much their coming, which assurance prov• trading to other ports was to be ed to be well grounded, for late one undertaken between the voyages out wet evening, about a month after and homeward, and thereby much the calculated time, the ship was money made. announced as at hand, and presently the elipslod step of Shadraoh the III. sailor sounded in the passage and The brig sailed on a Monday he entered. The boys had gone out morning in spring, but Joanna did and had missed him, and Joanna not witness its departure. She was sitting alone. could not bear the sight that she had As soon as the first emotion of been the means of bringing about. reunion between the couple had Knowing this her husband told passed Jolliffe explained the delay her overnight that they were to as owing to a small speculative cowsail some time before noon the next tract which had produced good re- day; hence, when awaking at 5 the sults. 'I was determined not to next morning, and be ird them busti- disappoint'ee,' he said : 'and I think ing down stairs, she did not hasten you'll own that I haven't.' to descend, but lay trying to nerve. With this lie pulled out an cher- herself for the parting, imagining us canvas bag,efull and ramal ore they would leave about 9, as her mohusband had done on his previous the money bag the giant whom Jack slew, untied it and shook the voyage. When she did descend she contents out into her lap as she eat beheld words chalked upon the in her low chair by the fire. A mass husband fa of the bIureau, but lna y of guineas (there were guineas on husband or sone, ra the hastily - the earth in those days) fell into her scrawled lines Shadrach said they la with a sudden thud,weighing by`j gone off thus not the pain her pB B by leave-taking, and sons had down her down to the floor. chalked under : 'Good•by, mother.' 'There 1' said Shadrach, com• The first summer lapsed away. plaeently. 'I told 'ee, dear, I'd do Only one summer more and the it; and have I done it or no?' spell would end. Toward the end Somehow her face, after the first of the time Emily called on her excitement of possession, did not quondam friend. She had heard retain its glory. 'It is a lot of gold, that Joanna began to feel anxious ; indeed,' ,she Qaid . And —is, ills dh,�. lig , rgcei�ve,• „yen leEter� frim all? husband or sons for some months. °"'� ° �"'c " '�' "="' 'All ? Why, dear Joanna, do Continued on seventh page.