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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-06-10, Page 771.—ra r•-• 11 g RT. if the STORK ill ”1:4.xwE CONTIETT11Dr, "'letter," be i'eplied, With &sort ,Of, impatient catch In his breath, "Oh yes better, I su ese 9) r Mr logiebY 4)4 e4, gravelh steachlY at ths y (Mg Warr troubled fee°, while Uttering soitte 00OuneqPIa908. about tirne'hOPe, and patience, which , he knew to he. futile, He had kleen that expression upon so 'Inany faces when visiting the s44, am"hefis4 prodnced those futile commonplaces so often'because they seemed to mean naoret11411 hopeless silence. Medway's voice and face said "she will never be better," and they implied a pained self reproach of winch the rector had the key; for it was while in her brother's charlo that Ethel Medway had "re- ceived the injury which darkened her youth, ° "Not without heart," he reflected. "I• wanted to see you about the cricket dal," Captain 1VIedwa7 con- tinued., in his usual voice. "I shall be knocking about here for a few weeks. I suppose your eleven is made up, but if I can be $ff any use—" "I do wapt someone to show them what bowling means," Mr Ingleby ouickly intettupted, plunging headlong into the subject, on which he was eag- er as a school boy, having, as Captain Medway knew, a profound conviction that cricket was the basis of all manly virtue, if not of every Christain grace, and conceiving it to be hopeless to try to improve the morals and manners of the village youths until he had imbued them with a love and knowledge of that national game. They walked up and down beneath the trees for a good ten minutes, dis- cussing and arranging, Mr Ingleby happily oblivious of everything but the grand pastime which was to soften the hearts and purify the souls of the Marwell youth until he was brought face to face with unwelcome facts by his guest's sudden question if Miss Ingleby were at home. He would have replied that she was engaged, had not the drawing room window furnished a full-length portrait of His sister reclin- ing in a low chair talking to Jessie, who was invisible from without. Some mad notion, of carrying Jessie off into safe hiding crossed his mind and was dismissed before he reluctantly admit- ted the wolf into the very presence of the pet lamb, who appeared no wit dismayed or surprised at the invasion. Miss Ingleby had been watching her young guest with an interest on which her brother's recent observation had put a keen edge. Jessie's remarkable beauty struck her more forcibly than t had done before, perhaps because her attention was turned to it, and the idea that beauty of such distinction amounted to a misfortune in a girl so strangely situated entered her mind. Jessie was a little pale, which was natural after her hot walk, but the graceful languor of her attitude in the low chair she had taken betokened sometime more than physical wear- iness; there was, to a keen observer, a subdued passion in it and in the half wearied, half -strained set of her fea- tures, but, sharp as Miss Ingleby was, she could not see fax below that won- derful combination of mask and mir- ror, a human face. She was a little startled by the sud- den radiance which transfigured the young girl's face in the midst of their quiet chat, an electricflash, which gave depth and fire to her 2yes and made -herofornrand features instinct with spiritual life. A deadly pallor succeed- ed this lightning brilliance; Jessie moved, as if uneasy from bodily pain, her heart beat in thick pulsations so that she pressed her hand a moment to her Bide, her movement apparently gave her relief, her color returned in rich purity, she spoke with animation and held herself almost proudly, all her beauty seemed aglow with some spiritual fire as she glanced through the open window, past Miss Ingleby, whose face was turned to her. Surely, Miss Ingleby thought, the . number of broods Cousin Jane's hens -----lad-d—fiatched that spring was not a question calculated to make a girl's heart beat too fast and her color come and go in that remarkable way; and what was there in the announcement that twenty-four cows were now in milk at. Redwoods, and yielding, so many pounds Of butter a* eck to make her glow like a young Pythimess? Yet those were the unexciting topics under discussion, and therh,Vaainhthing but the sunny green linden tree before Jessie's eyes—so Miss Ingleby thought, her own face being turned from the wincleyv.' . The ateange fire was still in Jessie's eyes when Mr Ingleby brought in Cap- tain Medway, whose visit, unaccus- tomed as it was, m nowise surprised Miss Ingleby, so naturally and grace- fully did he communicate his mission from his sister. Having explained his wants, he turned and apparently became aware of Jessie's presence for the first time. "How do you do, Miss Meade?" he said, with the exact shade of surprise that laaepectedly meeting anindif- ferentill'erson produces, expressed in face. "I have just seen your cousin, he hopes to finish carting by sunset. People need not be very anxious about their hay to -day, Miss Ingleby, need they?" "People need be anxious about no- thing, unless they aregeese," she re- turned; "just as if anxiety could keep the rain from coming down." "You are a philosopher," he com- mented, with the charming smile ex- pressed more by the eyes than by any other feature that few people could resist, much less Miss Ingleby, who had now reached an age when young and fascinating men are regarded with maternal tenderness, and who /openly avowed that she loved a chat with a fine, bright-eyed young fellow who had won his spurs in actual battle. a Mr Ingleby had narrowly watched the demeanor of both his guests on their meeting, and the result of his scrutiny Was eminently satisfactory. He asked Jessie to come to a table at the other end of the room that he might show her a portfolio of engrav- ings, over which they chatted happily, while Captain Medway, taking a seat i by Miss Ingleby, engaged her n a con- versational tournament, in which. though he broke many a stout lance, he was Piranquished. When tea Was announced, Miss Ingleby supposed that Captain Med- way would not care to join them, and CblIdrfl Cry for ill'717,Pir -7:117,7"VMTW147771r7°'11' T czm .oct 1:0d. gentletbalV- added Sir Arthur, i ast. `VW an (Cow.' ogt 00049040h 1 141., dareeftYl But- 110444,1 1,011$•IL n,nlr_ heap" with surprise thathe bad a clal devotion for the tlybrld rep know as blab teal an „.evidence, ofoe plY doni.efito tastes 400 a guarantee (IR bunion virtue ,.wbieb she often p (bend subsequently DA his favor, A. Party ,of four nt, table Is perf Aftal if the four people gathered rou Mem ANdeby's teapohtbat evening ,114:61r40113kkelTiRISES in a quiet w theirafaoes belled. theta, Vowis May have' been. carved more scientifically than these placed before Captain Medway, hosts xpay-htkve been more'brilliankthciugli not ofteA more caustic,. than that a, Miss Ingleby, and, young beauties may have been 'more bewitchii3g than JeSsie, who sat facing Captain Medway with a quiet glowinher 'lace like the glow in the heart of a blush rose, for the most part silent, yet .occasionally contri- buting an apprqpriate observation, and smiling with gentle self -contain - latent at the mirth-ful sallies between the brother and sister; but no one pre- sent thought it possible to improve these things, Nor in the disposition ot the four at table and afterward, did it appear strange to the Inglebys that Captain Medway And Miss Meade never once addressed eaela other, nev- er that is, with one exception, when Mr Ingleby having been called out of the room on some parish businese, Miss Ingleby had, at Captain Medway's re- quest, played straight through the "Waldenstein" sonala, declining. his •Direr to turn her leaves. Then, Jessie being in. her old place commanding a view of the lawn, Captain Medway stood nearher, and during the allegro movement spoke to her in a low voice which she heard through all the storm of music. Jessie looked up and replied also in a low tone. No one could have heard what they were saying, or divined from their faces what the tenor of their words might be; Jessie's eyes were very soft and her blush -rose face was expressive of a happy calm; there was a subdued fire in Captain Medway's eyes and a suppressed excitement in the set of his features, even a faint quiver of the lip half concealed by the heavy mustache. which might mean a quick response to the passionate flow of the sonata Miss Ingleby was playing so well, or some- • thing else. The fiery music poured on, Jessie gazed out silently into the green heart of the linden with an intense conscious- ness of a living human soul near her, a soul whose wild pulsations were in some way mingled with hers; she was keenly aware of a magnetic gaze upon her averted face, keenly sensitive to the throbbing of that strong music so like the wIld beating of a human heart; she turned the opal ring round and round her slender finger as if working some occult charm by the movement, till she could bear it no longer, and with a sudden slight turn of the head met the clouded Are of Medway's gaze, which fell Were hers. Then he Evoke again, Jessie replied tranquilly, and he turned away with a slight frown; the quick movement ended and Miss Ingle- by paused a moment before beginning the beautiful long drawn chords of the adagib, when she found Captain Med- way by her side murmuring some words of appreciation that she was too absorbed in her music to heed. ertr jouvgaegdp' ntlelp.an by birth," his father replied, with ' oupbasia, and as Q,;:t, he spoke be caught (ilaude's eye Oft ud him with a look of Sorprisq mut eau.. did tu?!' aY, Oh„ I thought he was a foondling brought up by some farmer, aud rose foil the ranks," returned Jim; 'Swell he Is engaged to a confoundedly' geoa looking gir4 that's _ "After alit what is birth to a wo• man?" Claude added with a senten- tiousness that highly amused his moth- er, "rank and name descend by the male side. The son of a d4ke's daugh- ter may be only Mr Smith. "Mr Smith with a difference, a duke's grandson," Sir Arthur inter- jected. "Still plain Smith, or Smith -Swell, ington at most, sir. But as you said, beauty and manner are the only need- ful things for a woraap, her name and rank come how her hnsband." Sir Arthur was not sufficiently in- terested in the question to point out that this was not precisely the pui port of his words, "Did I say so?" he return- ed with a gentle smile, retiring into the seclusion of his Morning Post. "I hope you will go to no more tea parties, Claude," his mother said, plaintively, "they make you ponder- ous. I wish Clara would come, one does get so bored at Maxwell. Didn't somebody say something about haying a letter from her, by the way?" "I heard from her to -day, here is the letter," Claude replied, "you don't care to read it, mother? Well, it's all about nothing. Stupid dinner parties, very slow balls. Garden party at Chiswick. royalties gracious and boring. Love to .Aunt Gertrude and Uncle Arthur, weather melting, season over, nothing more." "I believe," Claude reflected when he was alone, "that the governor is half in love with her himself. Who could have fancied him solemnly giving out - that her beauty was distinction, of ad- tniring the manner of a girl so born? But who could imagine that I—Ahl Jessie! What princess ever moved with so sweet a dignity? Philip Ran- dal, indeed! A clown by her! By Jove, I've lost my head. That I should live to be so hard hit 1 It seemed so easy at first. The old story, rustic, beauty, vanity, ignorance of life, and so on. I wonder if any man knows how great a fool he can make of himself for a wo- man's sake. I never thought there were such women. If my mother had been such a woman—or Clara, or if I had had such a sister -.I might have been a better fellow; I might at least— Heaven only knows—" 4 hard, heavy sigh. almcmt groan, broke from him; his face settled into a frowning rigid- ity, his eyes darkened, his mouth lost its genial curve. He turned to the open window, gazing over the star -lit sum- mer night. "I /unfit lay up my parallels with caution," he thought, a slight smile twitching his lips. "How in the world can I keep Clara in town? If she brings her heavy artillery to bear upon me, what is the good of all these grad- ual saps and well laid trains? Why won't she marryBardexter and help me to marry Jessie. I know she would like to be a duchess. She winds the governor round her finger and my mother sees with her eyes. She is clever. Her knowledge of life is ex- tensive and peculiar.' "I am so utterly alone," Jessie mus- ed as she passed along in the sunny morning, through the fields next day "and so absolutely helpless. I cannot be sure of what is right. 7 can only try to do what I think is right—If they would but let me! If I could see Phi- lip face to face I might make him un- derstand, poor boy; but he is so far away and letter are so different. He thinks himself so wise about me—in his man's arrogance. He—a man—is a human being; I—a woman—am a sort of weak attenipt at one. If a man could once look into a woman's heart how surprised he would be." She had reached the edge of a hay field which was divided from the next by a tiny wooded gorge: at the bottom of which gurgled and rippled a bright brown thread -of if, stream crossed by a wooden foot -bridge. She descended the slope with easy light -foot grace, and pausing at the bridge and leaping against the slight hand -rail looked down, arrested by the fascination of flowing water, into the brown, shallow stream, dappled by leaf shadows and sunlight. Sheahad not waited long before she heard a firm, quick step descending from the opposite field, and looked up into the handsome, good tempered face of Mr Ingleby, at which her own brightened, and she said, with a pretty eagerness, ae.he appropphed her: 1.4E am po gled Ingleby. I hope you are net ahurry, I was on my way to see you." • CHAPTER V. JESSIE's CONFESSOR. • "Been to tea at the parson's!" ex- claimed Jimmy Medway with a pro- longed stare of astonishment at the unmoved face of his elder brother. "Well, 1 am—" "I had no idea that Ingleby was such a good fellow," his brother said, tran- quilly. "I wish I had looked him up before." "What was Were to do, Claude?" Lady Gertrude asked, from the depths of her chair, with her usual air of un- willing interest. "Nothing. There lay the charm. Miss Ingleby is a crack pianist and can talk. One listens. Ingleby is keen on cricket, wants me to set the village boys on to play—one must, I suppose. "Certainly," Sir Arthur added, look- ing up from his Morning Post, "that kind of thing is expected of one. And the Inglebys- are very rodill5eople: You mayrely uppn it that I should never give the living to a man whom I could not see at my table with pleas- ure." "But, Claude, just fancy Claude go- ing to tea with the parson," continued Jimmy, wbo was sirrteen and looked up to his eldest brother as a prince of fast, men. "I, always said," murmured Lady Gertrude, suppressing a yawn, "that Claude would develop iuto a model squire in time. He will soon be au fart in, top dressIngs and shert home— ,erOcited by tUrnrps and'depressed by cattle' "disease. You know :ifie kind .of man—stout and beefy." "There is no knowing to what heights we may reach by dint of en- ergy and lofty aspiration," replied Claude, looking before him with a curious little smile, "even Jim, now, Jim might become a bishop—or a judge. Come, Jim, you are the last, and one of us ought to be in the Church." All of a sudden a light seemed to flash upon Jim and he began to chuckle quietly to himself. "Is Jessie Meade a crack piano player?' he asked, demurely, "or is she keen on cricket?" ,Claude looked im with an angry frown that only half subdued Jim, who had passed Jessie at the rectory gate that afternoon. "Jerisie Meade, what about Jessie Meade?" asked Sir Arthur, who had lost the thread of the conversation in 'his naper. "A very quiet well-conducted young peron," Lady Gertrude remarked, "I really think her quite a godsend for poor dear Ethel." "I don't know what poor Miss Meade has done to be called a young person," exclaimed Claude with sudden heat. "Claude is right, my lady," said his father, "it is very dreadful to be called a person, especially a young person unless one is a young person." "But what on earth is Jessie Meade?" cried Jup. "Isn't a rough farmer's danghter a young person?" - "No, Jim," replied Sir Arthur, "Miss Meade, though a miller's daughter, is not a mere young person. She has every- qualification for ascending the soCial scale. Beauty such as that young lady's is a distinction in itself, even without au&manner as hers." -"Surely, sir," obj ted Jim, "a wo- man takes her father's rank?" "Her husband's," ipterrupted Claude. "And Miss Meade 18 89 good as TQ BE CONTINUED. rup G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drug store, sells all medicines, comes in direct contact with the patients and their families, and knows better _than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the failures and successes, and can therefore judge: "1 know of no medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness that had done such ef- fective work in my family as Boschee's German Syrup. Last winter a lady called at my store, who was suffering from a very severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give re- lief; but she had no confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the resu satisfactory I wOuld m for it. A few daya afte and paid for it, saying would er beWithout it i had gi eri har r Coughs, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, ts were not no charge She called, at she ture aS fa. ' tobi„ ' 4." ^ 166, fl WON 1111)X0 .IiPiSEVAn. TION In .14 .0403)pkot.voi1la.he."epiang. to Settle* , MeoCoo or bont ALirjl 1tli 1892, WS. ., leser011ii0t.0141prities SotOS of th0 clio1eat lands lo.,;411400 for ' farming 'OA ,f.,114eP rolongilivrooSa .VOr detalkolloferaeoiOu dat400/TW,...E., Generet lonnkt044 • 410wAsest;Ohicago, Milwau4eo o!S 13t. RfittA, Agliwey,;,,Phieege^ er A. J. Tsy1o,. (Jaimdin.Passeu'ger Agent, 4 Patnr Ile400 VIOOk, %treat°, Oat; It t4is tO:0,:o to tuo Best.; VICV1/4 ‘\,,\.\,‘ • ; .1.•• Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription. fOr INANkt5 and Children. It contains neither chIllilMe IlIorphine nor other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless trubetItutO for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor. 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