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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-07-01, Page 3New lfAxwm.tA; blauv. • ooign,,W.EP. 014T7ER VII, CoNFIDUNCE, Claude, thrown Pff kis balanc0 for the. moment, ulttered a taint exclanitaion,1 then. he rose and. turned to l'eceive his Wimp with a grave smile. "TWi O s an unexpected pleasure," he said, offering his hand, which she did not take. "Have you only just ar- rived?" "I ought to apologize," she replied, with infinite scorn, 'for breaking in upon so delightful a moment. But was told you were alone with your sister." He met her gaze with a level direct glance that was like the cutting of. a sword. It was but a moment, dui ing which the long sunbeams slanted away, leav- ing that part of the gallery in chill grayness'before Miss Lonsdale turned with the faintest droop of the eyelids, and Captain Medway's features lost their Stern rigidity in something like a grim satisfaction. Jessie's only memory of .that scene was the glance Clara had thrown upon her, after those few words between the cousins, a glance of blended fear, hatred, and scorn, and of the emotion in Claude's face. She understood too well what it all meant; one ef the white naoss-roses was in her dress; he had handed it to her at his sister's desire; she took it out when she reached home, and look- ed at it long. She carried it into the kitchen, where a wood fire was burn- ing low on the hearth, and placing it in the heart of the retfAmbers, watch- ed till it was consumed. It seemed like killing a child. There Sarah found her drooping some minutes after when the dusk was falling. A few days after Miss Lonsdale's unexpected arrival, Jessie received a note, bidding her come to the Court, an honor which she declined, upon which Clara appeared at ItedwoOps. Jessie was in the garden gathermg fruit for those endless pots of jam which Cousin Jane delighted to make, and thither Miss Lonsdale penetrated without invitation, to Jessie's secret indignation. "Miss Meade," she said, "will you have the goodness to walk through the plantations with me? I cannot tell you m37 errand here." She could say "will you have the goodness?" so as to convey the impres- sion of "you will refuse on your peril;" the fascination which she had exercis- ed upon Jessie, lessened though it was since she had discovered that Clara Lonsdale was not only capricious but rude, had always contained an element of fear, and between this fear and the tenderness she still felt for the lonely woman, she yielded and followed her. "Jessie," Miss Lonsdale said when they had crossed the intervening fields and reached the plantation, "you know that you have been dear to me, that I have treated you as a friend." "You have been very kind," she re- plied, "and I shall always be grateful. But you are tired of me, and have often been both unkind and rude of late. I was a toy to amuse you when you were rhilLOMInuni. that, the -paint. r n off me- „ "NOnsense, why, if tired of you, have I taken all this trouble to see you? Come, sit on these faggots and talk rationally. You expecttoo much. You ought to know that I have your best interests at heart,” she said, drawing the slender figure caressingly toward her. Jessie took a seat as desired, and after various allusions which she de- clined to understand, Clara said, with more plainness, "Lords of Burleigh are all very well in poetry, hut in real life they simply don't exist." "Probably not; one does not expect everyday -life to be a poem," Jessiere-_ plied, with quiet indifference, as she rose. "And now, dear Miss Lonsdale, I must really say good -by---" "Nonsense, child, sit down," Clara returned, a flash of green light coming to hereyes as she detained her with no gentle hand. "You either do not or Will not see your danger. As you say, it was I who brought you tb that house and I should indeed be grieved if harm came to you there." "Pray don't distress yourself," she sitld, with burning cheeks, "no harm has ever come to me at Marwell. Why should it? No one in that house but yonrself has ever shown me anything butArinciness--" "Kindness!" echoed Clara in an ac- cent that burned into Jessie like cor- rosive acid, "kindness from a man like he is one of the fastest men of his set Claude Medway to girl like you! Why, Jessie, such men -have no mercy on girls in your position. We who live in the world know these things." "Then I am sorry for you," cried Jessie, rising once more and drawing her shawl round her; "and I ain sorry if such things are true. And I do not believe any ill of the gentleman to whom you allude. And it is not of the smallest consequence whether I do or not. He has never said a word to me that the whole world might not hear. reaust really go; it is late.' "I hate her, Clara said, stopping at the plantation fence, on her homeward way, resting her arm upon the rail while she looked with a sightless glance over the beautiful Maxwell woods. "I think I never hated any one so niuch. I hate her beauty, her intelligence, her graceful ways. What right have such as she to graceful ways, ensnaring men's hearts? But he has said nothing; thank Heaven for that, oh, thank Heaven! That girl cannot lie. Her face cannot lie. And she loves him. The baby -faced fool. And Heaven only knows what folly a man so infatuated may commit. He might even marry her. She must he got away from this place. One of them must be rerhoved. Jessie believed no harm of Claude MedWay, and was indignant at the aspersion cast upon him. To her he was a heroic, chivalrous figure, as dif- ferent from the real Claude Medway as the latter was from the heartless rake Clara had suggested. To figure perfectly as a hero it is necessary to be slandered a little. Though he was not angelic, or even heroic, there were good thoughts in Claude Medway's heart on the day of Clara's arrival. These thoughts made him happy; they gave him courage to do -what he had long been 1,1•0101fhin-l'- fPg•t0 eoutemonl 9 0 that Must come sooner or it to hio s father, the Very neXt day Sir Arthur had with tribulation and dismay, not the mournfill words, "Father. I Shined," bUt those still *Ore dreadful the better rOr'ee, •89 Wog. as? Y911 491:4 dt! 't," • • '1Q,Vre what Vankind *give to," enSerred the eeeend Orter t„11911g4g11,11y, "I9t alone the Women, Agero 4441, no Ptitton, stop to 't so 100g as there's any e! they left about. 'Taint what I ever giv iny nunclt9. to Smneyaternal ears, "Father, .1 am So soon as I got Go MOM'S wage I went in debt. • I to church along Meary Ann, It was the first time that the offence ' never thought nothin' about it. Aye, badheen of such magnitude, and with I mi mind the day. the apples was n what Sir Arthur deented SQ little ex- bloom and wattSen SUMO OW . . , ?Rog, for this wasno debt Mcurred by indulging his own .pleasures. "I )must live eliiietry for Some time," he added, to his 'father's intense Bur - since lie had- never laefore mani- 9 P4P P , 'Twits a pretty mgh too late when a come." The second carter ;sighed/ whether because the clergyman did not copie too latehe didneVsay. prise,ested any such intention. "I must The spectacle they were gathered to sell the hunters -a pity, too; those two gether to wonder at and discuss was young ones at the trainers' are turn- as Mrs Plummer was then observing Ing out so well, no end of Money in to her husband, "enough to make the them. I don't want to sell gut if I can very cat talk." Though the sun had possibly pull through without." sunk some degrees below the purple "Rar better to se 1 out than give up hunting. Do you suppose all these small squit es and farmers will vote fon a man who doesn't hunt, or otherwise horizon the skf was all aglow as if from some vast conflagration, and in the heart of this grow, the warmth of which could almost be felt,like that of make himself -pleasant and popular? the sun, sailed a majestic star, enve- cried Sir Arthur. "Upon my soul, loped in and followed by a broad and sir, this is pleasing intelligence, with fiery train. my affairs in such a condition. At All the lined and furrowed faces were turned toward the glow, the gen- eral expression was anxious and be- wildered, the eyes of one elderly man with down -drawn mouth and harsh features glittered with an unearthly light as he watched the sky. "That there '11 putt a end to marryen and eaten and drinken mates," he said. "Aye, the vlaame is a come, veeld of it, the hett of 't, avore long the yearth '11 ketch vire and the wicked be burned up like stra,a." "Lord lov'ee, Shnon Black," exclaim- ed Sarah, "if you doan't make my vlesh creep. It do get terble warm, to be stire, and the tail of 'n do get longer and longer. Whatever shall us do?" "Don't ye mind he, Sarow," said Jim "Barmai governess, it is all the Dore, who was a man of cheerful views your age to put yeur name to for such a fellow. You must have known that he could never meet them." "The poor beggar was so confound- edly_ hard up." "Beggar, indeed Such men are in- deed beggars. They are always hard up. How can a man be otherwise if he lives at the rate of three thousand a year, when he has but three hundred." Claude murmured somthing about expectations. 'Which he throws to the winds by marrying a barmaid and making his uncle cut him off with a shilling.' "Not a barmaid, sir, a governess, a lady by birth, a very pretty and charming wor saline; the girl had not is penny, cried Sir Arthur, with irritation; "neither beauty nor charm pay the butcher's bills, much less wine merchants and Bond Street tailors. "What I cannot conceive is that you should have done the thing twice," continued Sir Arthur, indignantly. "A man may make a fool of himself once- but this second hill seems a deliberate act -a -upon my soul, Claude, it is too much." "Of course it was foolish, but, by George! sir, I think you would have done the same," he replied. You see the poor devil was to be sold up and utterly done for, and his pretty wife came and cried to me, and -and bre- ught her baby, and, -and -well 1 what can a man do in such a case?" "I don't know what a soft-hearted fool can do," he returned, half laugh- ing; "every time a pretty woman cries or has a baby, I suppose my timber is to be cut down, and my land mort- gaged. I had hoped you would settle down and marry, and take your pro- per position in the county. .And here I am with Jim to send to Oxford, and Jack's commission to buy, and with Hugh vowing that an attache must lie beyond his present allowance, and what with bad times, the state of the country, losses here and losses there - perhaps it is well that this place is not entailed like the Suffolk property, though I should be sorry to sell Mar- well - "Sell Maxwell !" cried Claude; "sure- ly you cannot be serious." His last chance of breaking the subject of marrying Jessie was gone now. "I aln sorry to say," continued his fartJtJm.inbOEtto0SadeaaTh est' -he paused, and reflected awhile, and then in turn made his confession, one that, like his son, he had long brooded over, but feared to make; a story of growing expenses and dimin- ished income, of bad times, remitted rents and unfortunate investments, celmin at ing in large purchase of shares in a phantom company, the promoters of which had recently vanished with the spoil. "There is but one hope," Sir Arthur said at the conclusion of this melan- choly narrative, "a most natural and pleasing hope, and one that I had ex- pected you would yourself before this have realized, and that is your mar- riage' "My marriage!" repeated the unfor- tunate young man, while all the love- ly aurora hues of his new and beauti- ful hopes faded away from the horizon of his -life, "my marriage!" "You know your own affairs best," Sir Arthur continued, "but to me it seems that the thing has been too long, about. No doubt there is a private understanding between you, it should now be made public. It is not fair to Clara, that sort of thing puts a woman in a false position; it looks as if you were hanging back, which, of course, you cannot do, you have gone too far. She will make you a good wife, Claude; she is a thorough woman of the world, and though not beautiful, has an air of distinbtion that is beyond beauty. It is true that she has had several rather serions flirtations. but through them all she has always been devoted to you. She has her peculiarities, hut her heart is sound at the core, while her property-" He paused, and both men sighed deeply. A. few days later urgent business called Captain Medway away from Marwell. Otolleirer Ory for and broad features. "Simon t no - then but a Methohy. They be always vor burnen of us up." "Method's is too thirt °vsvur en - j yment themselves, so they,cain'tOide to see other yolks enjyen of selves," continued Jim, "they be all vur burnen of em up so as they med hae summat to groan vor. • They wants everybody to groan like they." Simon Black retorted something about the hard heart of unbelief, and compared himself to Noah. "Noah never went to chapel, I'll warn't," replied Jim, confidently.' "Reckon he went to church like a christened man and never groaned at everythink Comfortable." "'Tis a proper big vire," interposed the second carter, dubiously, "and 'tis terble warm vor the time o' year." "Some says 'tis trouble vor the na,- tion," Abraham interposed. "Some says 'tie ;vamine and pest," added Sarah, anxiously; "some says wars. 'Tis zent vor our zins, I hreckoon." So Cousin Jane, watching the glor- Vus portent from another part of the garden tyith her husband and son, averred. "I thought it , would come to this, what with drinking and wastefulness," she moaned. "Look at the wars and taxes we've had. I do wonder, Plum- mer, you don't repent -that I do." "I do repent, missus," he replied with an immovable face. "There's a many things I repent since the day you and me went to church together.' "How you and Roger can go on smoke ,smoke, in the rerY.eTee-of.that- cOinet,' rleTiVen Only knows, she com- plained, finishingl eating a large and luscious plum with evident relish. "The cornet isn't only a star with a tail, mother," replied Roger, "and the Almighty made all the stars, so there can't be any harm in it." "It isn't likely Old Nick would be let put a tail of .his own making, on to the _Almighty's stars, to he sure, add- ed Mrs Plummer. "I only hope it mayn't mean harm to Jessie," continued Mrs Plununer, "the girl's properly weared away. Fretting for Philip, I expect." "D'ye think it's only fretting for Philip?" asked Roger, after a pause. "Why, whatever should the girl fret about if it isn't that?" asked his mother. "She ought to be home by this time of night," Boger added, after another pause. "The time is no matter; Mr Ingleby always sees her home after dark," said Mr Plummer. "Mr Ingleby!" repeated Roger, an- grily: "does Philip know Mr Ingleby is always seeing her home?" "Why should Philipnot know?" his i parents both asked n amazement, while Rdger, with a few discontented grunts, let the subject drop, and fell again to silently ruminating upon the soinething which he imagined to be upon Jessie's mind, and the hints and whispers that had of late reached him concerning her. TO BE CONTINUED. CHAPTER VIII. THE COMET. "Well, there! Darned if this yer ain't the rummest star I ever see!" cried Abraham Bush, staring at the sky one warm, still September even- ing. "There's a many queer things I have a seen. Zeen a whale and walk- ed atop of en, terble slippy and squashy 'twas, to he sure." "I 'lows I've seen some queerish things, Abram," rejoined the carter, Jim Dore. "Zeen you and Sarow married, I did." "Go on!" growled Abraham, amid a chorus of chuckles from the little group of laborers gathered by the low stone garden wall to look at the won- derful portent in the sky, "You'd get married fast enough, I'll war'nt if so be as you et:mid get ar a ooman to hev ye." "Didn't take you no more than a matter of vifty year to get anybody to hae ye." retorted Jim, scornfully. "Abraham give a power of thought to materimony avore he took to't" chimed in is second carter. "Terble vine thing t'es to think about, ain't it, Abram?" "Materimony," returned Abraham, "is a deep thing. Terble deep, 'tis; there's a many inns and outs in ma- terimony; the more you think on t ugust Fiower How does he feel ?-He feels blue, a deep, dark, unfading, dyed- in-the-wool, eternal blue, and he makes everybody feel the same way -August Flower the Remedy. _— Hoie does he feel? -He feels a headache, generally dull and con- stant, but sometimes excruciating - August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?-He feels a violent hiccoughing or jumping of the stomach after a meal, raising bitter -tasting matter or what he has eaten or drunk -August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?-He feels the gradual decay of vital power; he feels miserable, melancholy, hopeless, and longs for death and peace -August Flower the Rem- edy. How does he fe 7 -He feels so 1 that he can Flower the full after eating a me. hardly walk-Augu Remedy. G. G. 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