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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-06-24, Page 3sq. .PV*AIC-WI= gonlitrp. About a week after Jessie's confei. 'oion by the stream a message came from Ethel Medway entreating er t come up and spend the day- with he Everybody was out,. even the nurs usually treated, toesed*abent "Let nie see," elle oontlnued, open, lug it, "Pear ,Tessie-,4 was very glad to find your letter -yes. ---Cousin Jane -hum. Abraham. I beg youv. par, don, Miss Medway. Ohl here is the int.eresting part at last, --Sir Colin is a line old fellow, we learnt his value in 'the Crimea-," "That wedi'd," conimented Captain Medway, who had coiefully notett the eignifleance, Or ,rather, ifisignifit'auce. di the little staccato quetatiens. '"It is, very badlv. written," Jessio in - waaltA4 tiligtfanor. %Ts t") for.Ethel t velatti f d4Ors.. in half an hour's tinae Jessie rts stand, ing by `Ethel's touch, itireidi and hope inspiripg vision, with rain drop sparkling upon her hit hair, an her color heightened by the damp, suf air; ready to do anything to while away the tediuna of the oick girl, for whom she hadatenderness. The pp,le: pinched face brightened at the sight of her, and Ethel raised her arms and drew Jessie down to kiss her, the latr ter submitting to the caress with the princesS air Miss Ingleby had observed. "Everybody is so cross and disagree- able this morning,," she said, in a querulous tone, "I suppose the rain spoils their tempers. Do you feel cross, Jessie?", "Not in the least, dear Miss Med- she replied, with a gentle smile; "it is'.a.treat to come and see you." She scion chased away the gloom and peevishness, and in a few minutes had her patient in a wheel chair tra- Yersing the North Gallery, in which there were a few good pictures, among many family protraits and others of mediocre worth. To Jessie it was the picture gallery, and a source of great inspiration, since she had seen no oth- er, and it was a real pleasure, as she said, to linger through it and hear all that Ethel could tell her about the pictures. Indeed Marwell Court, real- ly a fine building full of artistic and interesting things, was the most in- teresting place Jessie had ever seen, though she had discovered that refin- ed and beautiful surroundings do not make people perfect. At the end of the long gallerywas a i large, deep bay window, and n this, at Jessie's suggestion luncheon was c, served on a large oak table. Here, be- sides the long :vista of the gallery, they had an extensive view of the park wits its beautifully grouped oaks arid beech- es, So that they seemed to' be in the moist, green world outside, being pre - tooted and divided from the rain-- swatbell park onlv by the windoW panes. "It is like a picnic in the rain," they said, and the time, instead of dragging by with leaden weight, flew, and the rare sound of Ethel's voice echoed through the gallery. It fell pleasantly upon the ear ef someo0 approaching the bay window unseen, -by a side corridor, so pleasairr ly, that he -paused a moment to listen to the girl's mirth. Jessie was show- ing some Indian toys and knick-knacks that she ad just received from Philip; terpolated,, latighingly; "bli I have read it aloud twice already, and know it pretty well. It iS understood that I am to save him the trouble of writing to othemin this Way." "I thinla,"eald Ethel,when they dfew breath after the final capture Of Luck - now, "that it must be rather unpleas- ant to have to read one's love letters aloud." Jessie laughed without embarrass- ment, Claude appeared to be interest- ed in a little mechanical puzzle which lay on the table. "Oh! Miss Medway," she replied; "they are not love letters. You see, we are not like other people -" here ghe broke off and colored, as Claude looked tr. She would have turned the sub ect, feeling that she had already said more than was be- coming of her own 'concerns, but that something in that swift, electric glance was like a challenge and aroused her. "We are more like married people," she continued. with gravity; "but why should I weary you with my affairs, Miss Medway?" "Oh, I like to hear, please go on," was the inevitable girlish rejoinder. "We were brought up together like brother and sister, ' she continued; "we were not like people who find each other out bit by bit, and are unread romances to each other." "Then how did you become engag- ed?'fasked Ethel. "My parents had always wished it, and when my dear father was dying he joined our hands; and that," she added, looking up after a long, breathless pause and meeting Claude Medway's dilated gaze with a sort of defiance, "makes it. so very solemn and binding." "I don't think so," returned Ethel, disgusted at the want of romantic in- terest in the narrative; "people ought to fall in love and be proposed to. and refuse a little at first just to bring the other one on, before they are married. If papa told me to marry anybody I should instantly hate him, and run away with somebody else. Why, peo- ple never fall in love with the people the are told to, de they Claude?" " ot such naughty girls as you, he replied, touched by the thought that t tude, suited to a supplian or cour- there could be none of these youthfull tier. But shadowed as his eyes were, experience for that poor child, and there was no naiStaking his look; and willing to turn a subject which had he was so absorbed that did not per - become embarrassing to Jessie: "we ceive the approach of an onlooker., shall know how to deal with you when whose light footsteps were unheard on an ineligible makes his appearance, the thick piled carpet. just order you to have him, Miss Wil- The new comer stood and silently fu' ." The the scene; the sleeping girl, He knew when the father died, he the reader and the listener, her face was touched with scorn and fear, hat- red and love, she was breathless and motionless ; while Jessie, conscious of Claude's furiNely adoring gaze and fearing to pause' or lift her eyes lest she should meet it,'vead in a thrilling voice, "And there is na knight living that ought to give unto God so great thanks as ye; for he hath given unto you beanty, seemliness, and great strength, above all other knights-. "How very appropriate!" broke id the new comer, with clear and cutting emphasis, and Jessie, looking up, saw _ClaraLtansdale -atanding-daak-astains the flood of dazzling light., with a cur- ling lip, and a fire of dark passion in her eyes. TEM CLINTON NEW Oon tt4re'lia4 Wen tn4r1 t111nYs74. It wps with the selfish love of the tit- . ter ho)pless that Ethel clung to Wm, . tillOtlier SiSter had (lied in childhood, leaving a. sort owfial inetnorY; lady Gertrude had fondled him °Yee Much In infamy, and when he ceased to be a baby, repulsed. him. lie might not throw lus arms aroand her neck be- PaUSe he rumpled her hair; he must not come too Pear, she didn't like boys treading on her dress aed pulling her aboqt, thPir hands are never Olean. A.nd when he grew up, a curled dar- ling, an ornam.fttal as well as Usefu social appendage, he OW ' too welt what value to put upon his mother' appreciation ot hini. There was in. stinetive affection hetween himself and his father and brothers, bat no tenderness. Yet but a month or SO since he would have laughed at 'the idea that he needed tenderness; roar - rid bliss was a thing to smile at; con- j4a1 virtue, though respectable, a thing too rare, at least on the oneside, to enter seriously into an estimate of life. Once Jessie caught his rapt gae as he thought these thoughts, and it flashed upon her that he had a look of Philip, something less than the moul- ding of a feature, something more than a passing expression. She glanced from him to a picture on the wall of a young cavalier with plumed hat and flowing curls, who had fallen in the Civil War. He turned, following her gaze. "Yoif are interested in Sir Philip?" he asked; "you often look at him.", "He remindwe a little of my both •-of Captain Handal," she replied, "It is curious; but we have thought so, ton," "But he is considered inach mor e like you, Claude," Ethel added; "my brother was dressed as Sir Philip for a fancy ball, Jessie." After tea Jessie read aloud from the grand romance which 'as set so many hearts beating and charmed so many minds in such different ages; those who first dreamed it are dust, and so are those who earliest felt its glamour; all the successive moulders and compilers have been ashes for centuries, and yet to day its charm is fresh and irresist- ible as ever. Ethel soon slept, lulled by the sweet voice. The phi:en glory, with its crown of armorial jewels, fell full upon Jessie, sitting Sidewise close to the sleeping girl; t fell upon Claude, who was fac- ing er on e other side of his sister, on ab th antique, cross legged oaken seat, his head slightly bpwed against the haad that shaded his eyes, his elbow resting on his knee, in a negligent at - she -had t Town a, richly'colored silket knew when Philip went out to India, sari around her, and was plating wit he knew Jessie's age, the whole story was clear to him, and particularly her intention in proclaiming the special solemnity of her engagement; his eyes grew softly brilliant, a smile. played over his face, which seemed instinet with 1 riumph and happiness; even Ethel wondered at the unusual beauty of her handsome brother. Jessio was thankful for the timely interruption of tea. She had lived amona simple, out spoken people, and was herself of a noble simplicity of thought and speech,_ but•she had_th.e- iiiStlirdWe DAY'S dower of reticence, and shrank from the publicity she had thought it necessary to 'give to her relations with Philip. "So very so- lemn and binding,' she repeated to herself while busy with the tea cups. She lived in thought again in that death bed scene, felt the clasp of the tremulous, dying hands tighten and then slacken upon hers and Philip's: as her father's hands grew cold and nerveless, she remembered Philip's grasp growing warmer and firmer, and she telt herself pass from the keeping of one to that ,of another. There was a solemn, prayerful look on her face, that gave a deeper charm -ttsher beauty, when she hancled_Cap, tain Medway his tea, avoiding his gaz,e; a feeling of victorious strength lifted her above the thrill which the chance touching of their fingers sent through them. The- rain gradually ceased, and a. flood of blinding glory poured in through the bay window at the other end‘of the gallery, and streamed slant- ly through the long .gallery, touching thin n Withn.;softerifd raidiance as it freao.114 theni. The .. upper portion of the window wafi° `filled with Stained (glass, chiefly showing armorial bear- ings, the Medway quarterings shed rays of gules, and azure upon Jes- sie'S`dress end moved upon her'httnds. Outside, the park was a living emer- ald of snit steeped verdnre, binds were singing, in the fragrance of the rain - awakened earth, all seemed. pure, beautiful, and joyous within and with- out in the lovely summer evening. Joy so pure as well as' deep had never before been Claude's, the memory of his past life and especially his first thoughts of Jessie, whose beauty and purity had so changed and elevated him, filled him with remorse; what did he not owe to that gentle and acious creature who had discovered is soul to him, and who would give him a life of.purest happiness? 'Ile precious moments flew while he sat in Elysium alone with the two beings most dear to him, watching Jessie tender ways with Ethel,,and the girl's affectiodate though ,Seltieh eiting to her; it seemed that a de6e tender- ness canna hitt; Jessies eyes when she spoke to Ethel, the thrilling thought came to him that she must love her, as indeed she did with a pure -love made up of pity and an associa- tion of which perhaps she was uncon- scious. Sitting there in the beautiful even- ing glory, beneath his own aueestral roof, looking upon the fine full -leaved trees glowing in the fresh sunshine, listening to the pure tones of Jessie's voice and entranced by her youthful and tthaching beauty, he wondered at himself. What different pleasures and interests woisld now be his in the simple' yet full and dignified life he wonld hereafter lead. Flow stale and unpiplitable all previous pleasures and dissiPation seemed; there Were inci- dents in his life for which he blushed for the first time; present associates the thought of which filled him with disgust. All that pOets said of love was true. He thought with it sort of self pity how' little pure human affee- . s - an ivory cup and hall, laug ing and making little jests with the happY abandonment of a child; while Ethel hung upon every word and gesture of her entertainer like a little kitten en- joying the gambols of an older "kit." It seemed such a pity to interrupt this innocent pastime, and the new- comer, whose footfall was unheard upon the thick, soft carpeting, slipped behind the heavy curtain of the deep window, and watched it. siikenSarighided$radUllY from the slim figure as ii-s-jibiseresT-WItli Jessie's efforts to catch the ball, until it lay at her feet and she paused, flush- ed and radiant, with one bright braid of her hair loose on her shoulder, to hand the cup to Ethel, that she might essay her skill. Then turning aside to arrange her disordered hair in the mir- ror formed by a glazed picture near the curtain, she uttered a little start- led cry. "I beg your pardon. like to spoil your game," Captain Medway said, coming forward, and bending over Ethel. holding a bouquet of white moss roses to her face, his foot catch- - - --ing-in the_sariatahe • Jessie, after the first crimii aT-Of Wide eyed surprise, became very pale. and hastily adjusting her hair and dress, stood apart. How like the brother and sister were, and how very patient and gentle the former was with the slight, maimed -creature, to whom he was so deyoted. He was not too graciousry received; his Sister poutingly reminded him that he was composed to be absent for the &Yr. It was true that he went off with t.40" ethers, he replied, but he could, not bear her to be all alone on that die' natal day, and she so low and depres- sed; •and see, he had bronght her the rare white roses she was longing for, and gone almost on purpose for then; ridden home ten miles in the rain and mud for them; was he not a good brother? "No," was the ungracious response, she and Jessie had been _perfectly happy together, she wanted no one else; and then began a catalogue Of Jessie's virtues, which the latter inter- rupted by making an attera,pt to go. But Ethel dissolved in tears at the very thought, and assuredher that she had promised to stay and have tea. "It would be a pityto spoil a good .action by, curtailing it," Claude said in tone that implied a sort of resigned reproach; and Jessie saw that she could not go away without raaking a fuss over nothing. "Besides," Ethel added, "you have not read me Captain Randal s Luck - now letter as you promised." Jessie hesitated, but the word "Luck now" was a cue that Captain Medway did not fail to seize. Everybody hada right to be interested in Lueknow, "Oh, bet that was all in the papers long ago," Jessie objected; "this is stale news, the letter was delayed, and it is only Captain Randal's personal experience, which might, I thought, interest Miss Medway." "Only! Lucky fellow!" he exclaimed, and she found that she must read the letter. Would a girl under any circum- stances read a love letter, he asked himself, while attentively studying her movements, and pulling his lovely bouquet to pieces at his sister's desitie. "Dear mei" said Jessie, looking abo at and searching among the toys scatter- ed on the table; "Where is the letter? Ohl here it is at last!" and she picked a f oreign looking packet from the floor, where it had fallen entangled in the sweeping sari. Captain Medway smiled behind his roses; it was not thus, he had been led to believe, that lovers' lettetsi well* :Chilitreit'Crtfor ' TO BE CONTINUED. • , csstorla,is Dr, Samuel Pitc er's prescription ear r to i andChildren. It contains n.either Opium, Morphine nor , other '.!..'carcotic substance. It is n harmless substitute fo Varegoric, Drops, Soothing f.7 yrups, and Castor 011. 331,/ is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Wilms of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays / feverishness. Ca,storia, preventa vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhcea and Wind Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulatea tho stomach and bowels, giving Giealtlay and natural sleep. 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