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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-09-02, Page 3Itf Tat REin of thgting 13X MA*Witel, usax. 111•11=1.110411.1•11•011011 CONTINUED. CLINTOlit Era , epreading beyond, the further bank iti It POSt'aCilPto that thIS itISCIPatIng Wal$ POW only eelight in glimpses leen Of the world bad to a 'certain ex. ithronghtree trunks and beneetb came tent eittrected and Inflaeueed ,teseee Pies of leaves, a the* of green peva- tit'. utited it was no more than the in- quets guttered ciut above their tad, Imet1M- 11,fta stKing !moire over a weak 1 other "strange bright birds" Of that ene, Wiwarult1 pass avvity, fjet in the unfamiliar lend flew by, end a strange eireikihktancea he tbeeglit it unwise to lizard, with a brilliant throat, flashed I have luir out to India jest xet. across their path; the dark masonry of "There is but one course, ', !Ada said, 'that old temple was lost sght of, d though the teeling of tbiS,deCIYId witnees of e hoary creed, gloom and grandenr, and the majesty with whiee it traced itself upon the cloud- less sky, remained with theta. Thew path now rose a little, and awn they found themselves by a tum- bling, plashing cascade, Which swept with, many a light wreath of sone, down the reeks Into a dark pool o v•el- bung with graceful bamboos" beyond Which the river came in, sight ago I ii; and they sew some buildings ou the farther bank, sentinelled by palms, these trees so typical of the lauguId, graceful East. Surely, all their -lives long thff would remember those dropping pahris beneath the broad, bright Indian sky. "I don't know how to tell you Philip began at last, when they stop - lied, Ada sitting on a rock past whirle the water ruslied with a white tlaeh and a sound like the mill -water many times doubled, and he leaning against the rocky wall a little lower down. "It is bad news from home." She looked up; the light died out of her face at what she saw in his. "Ohl" she replied gaspingly, remem- bering the bad news he had received on that night of their first meeting at the ball, "but there is only Jessie left." "Only Jessie," he echoed, looking gloomily down at the swirling waters. "I am so sorry," she said, in a voice so changed with sympathy and tend- erness that it cut him to the heart; TO he had :not torn up Ada May - nerd% last letter before Lucknow, though it was quite illegible, darkly - stained as it was with blood. There was no sleep for him that night, a great part. of wbicle he spent in writing lettere and' arrenging pa- pere and things of value. --Nor did Mftcgatyppirsl. eleep much; obe wasf!,ect happy,. and the neeessity of livingover the cla408,teVeritri:weri too imperious. Philite% face bending Oyer ber, thejgray eyes wide,withte.rree . with love,. painted, itse lyon the dm* cortein of the. e bad' seemed to peep, With of her afall out of the limit's and ahg perpetu night. the shoe of life into the illimitable shadow of nothingness; whence she was called back byethe stormy exnression of a strong deep. love, to find herself crad- led like /tri Infant in loving arms, en- folded and supported in utter helpless- ness and peace in the power and tend- erness of a greatand enduring passion. It seemed to her fancy that hfe would never have returned to her but for the magnetic Potency of that other strong young life upon it; the deep pulsations of the heart on which she rested seem- ed to have set her own arrested pulses beating afresh, the charm of the fairy prince% kiss had awakened her from the sleep of death. "Young Randal seems to be Ada's good geruus," her father said; "he is always on the spot in the nick of time.' "There is evidently a fate in it, Ada," Mrs Ross added; and even Mrs May- nard murmured something about ro- mance, mingled with an interdict on. Ada's riding any more without her father's brother—which she had only done that day in consequence of Wil - mot's failing to turn up at the appoint- ed hour, Would Philip appear at the ruined temple to which they were to make a party that day? was Ada's first thought on waking and rising with the earliest peep of dawn. He had been asked to join thern and had pro- mised to ride over in the afternoon, if not on duty, as he knew he would be in the early part of the day. She hoped he would not come, and yet she knew that she would be grievously dis- appointed if he did not. They set forth in the beautiful cool morning, intending to reach their des- tination before the midday heat, al- though at this season it might well be borne, and by salamanders like Philip Randal, enjoyed. Ada's ayah had never known her mistress so concern- ed about her dress before; first one gown was tried and then another, this ribbon was taken and that discarded, flowers were chosen and then thrown away, because they would be faded before noon. But when these cere- monies were at last ended and Ada hastened, a little late, through the garden to the water side, where their iittle .yacht was awaiting them, it was not the neat fresh morning costume just received from home that caused Mrs Maynard to exclaim; "Really, Ada, I had no idea that hat and dress were so becoming!" but scene spirituaL elapse, Which at once fired and etherealized hr fake. — - She received the attentions of at- tendant cavaliers with rather more of the accustomed hauteur which at once charmed and provoked them, and caus- ed more spiteful things to be said of her than of anybody in Myserabad, especially by a certain young civilian Who was considered the most eligible bachelor at the station; she grew more and more preoccupied as the day wore on. -Tiffin was. served and_eatene 'and wise and elderly people rested hi the shade to admire the prospect and Smoke; the foolish young ones went off in twos and threes to explore the ruins or stroll by the water. "He is not coming," she said to her- self, declining to join any id these small parties, and taking a chair by die side of her mother, who was made , uniaare comfortable lounge for a grate - sesta inside one of the tents that had been erected by servants sent on be- fore. But she listened till, and soon the color flashed over her faee, her heart began the rapid drum music young hearts make at such times, and dile drew a little closer to her now sleeping mother, as she heard the quick canter of a horse echo from the road awl over the turf, and wished he had not come, and wondered why she had been so stupid not to wander away with the others. And yet when Philip had dismount- ed, given his horse to a servant, and walked to the encampment, speaking to the wise and sometimes drowsy lingerers in the shade as he passed them, Miss Maynard chanced, singul- arly enough, to be just issuing from the tent with that calm and unembar- rassed air which is expected of ladies on social occasions, and he of course stopped to speak to her. "I am staying with mamma, but she is gone to sleep," she said, in the low liquid tones which so charmed him; "the rest are exploring the temple." "Come with me," he replied, "I came on the chance of seeing you alone. Let us find some place where we shall not be interrupted." The princess air became apparent in the glance Miss Maynard directed up- on Philip% haggard face and bent - down, preoccupied eyes, when it soft- ened into a gentle smile and she re- flected that a soldier—a really great soldier—as Captain Randal was one day to be, might be brusque even on such an occasion as this. "Have you seen the waterfall?" she returned. "It would be pleasant there to -day. I don't want to climb over all the ruins after yesterday's bruising and jolting. 1 feel as if I had had a good beating." "Ahl yes," he returned, abstracted- ly. "it was a nasty fall; yes." "The fall was unpleasant," she said, with a demure air, reflecting upon the agreeable manner in which she had been picked up, and they walked sil- ently on, skirtingthe rocky eminences on which the ancient temple was built and passing beneath some trees which grew down to the water's edge, where their yacht lay at anchor, passed and repassed by native boats plying up and down the broad river in the bright sunshine. The rich level cousatry 6 6 tr._• 1191 after carefully reading the letter, an 1 know that you have already decided en it." "Yea" he replied, "yes, that seerned the onlyright course, but .1 wanted your opinion first." "You know," she continue'), as if pleading agaiuet beano objeutiou ma his part, "this is no ordinary engagement; it is not merely a question of keeping faith with a—fiancee — but keeping faith With the dead, and with all your past life. Perhaps this engagerrient with one• so young VMS net well done --but, Philip—it Is done." "It would be a scoundrelly desertion, though she did offer to release we from it." he replied. "Release you ?" "Yes, she offered that," he said, and told her as much as he could renaember of the letter and his reply. She turned away and looked at the foaming water for some time, and then she turned nd looked straight in his face with an arnest, candid gaze that went through im. "Philip," she said, "do you think that she loves you?" "I never thought about it," he re- plied, with the utmost simplicity; "I took it for granted." "How like a man 1" she coramented, with a strange little half -smile playing over her face, as she turned again to consider the rushing waters. "1 f she does not, I cannot force her to it tarry me," he said, rather wistfully,. "But if she does not, she may be won," she urged, turning again with the same earnest gaze. "You may think it stran " she added, with a wrong, very wrong, I never told yme vivid flash, Aeut girls expect to be "No. Oh, no!—Ada, I have done —or anyone—all about Jessie. It nev- courted. It is a homage that ought er occurred to me that it mattered. not 1.0 be withheld." Still, I think I should have told you, ".A.nd yet—" he paused, remember - if we had been a little longer together, ing that he had said no word of love because—you were—you seemed inter_ to Ada, though every tinue he looked ested in my life, and—it is so pleasant at her his eyes told the tale. to have sympathy from you. Not that "Do you remember Andromgehe's I ever dreamed that it could in any parting from Hector?" she continued. way affect you." o `Father, thou art to me and mother "Surely what affects my friend af- dear, and brother too, kind husband of my heart.' That is the relationship fects me,' she said, accentuating the word friend. between you and Jessie, my friend." "That is why I told you nothing; we "She has no one else," he asserted, awed by the pathetic tenderness which were sworn friends." he replied. And Ada's loieautaful voice gave to these then, in a few words, he narrated the story of the death -bed betrothal and words. of the purposed marriage deferred by "And is six thousand miles away, in the Mutiny. His relations with Mat. grave peril, alone and unprotected," sire continued, looking down upon him thew Meade and all the rest of his story, even his guardianshipthrough eyes brilliant with tears. She of Jessie. had grown rather pale during the in - she knew already, but something had always kept him from speaking of his engagement; perhaps the subject Wilb too distasteful. And when he did speak of Jessie, his manner was al- ways that of an affectionate elder brother. Ada was under the impres- SliOla that she was still a child. So probably was Philip; for him, she was always the little playmate of his boy- hood, the undeveloped slip of a girl who had bid him farewell nearly Iwo years ago. ten w; she was now bending s• y toward him, ber face partially shaded by one hand, her attitude, as she sat inclining toward the cascade with one knee on which her arm rested, higher throl the other, singularly sweet and graceful, and expressive beyond all words. "There is no one like you!" he cried. "No one. Who could help loving yolt?" "There is Ito one," she continued, b 1802. sigisowommixamminsimorftwommtessurraimmomw. 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SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the TEA trade and as our business in this branch is steadily growing, we conclude that our „goods and prices must be right. SPECIAL PRICES TO THOSE WHO WISH To Y NOW, aria CA611, THEIR SEASON'S SUPPLY OF SUGAR. CROCKERY , away down in price and away up in quality. A fresh stock of all kinds of sutTering two bright tears to fall lin- , hetded, "like Philip Handal in honor FIELD AND GARDEN SETDS. A trial respectfully solicited. CHAPTER IV. and truth. Philip, which would von 1 13 Y THE WATERFALL. rsattillii7ife• byrofee;, disloyal lover or a M'MURRAY & WILTSENEAR THE POST OFFICE CLINTON Ada watched the water flash down you again," he murmured, huskily. "But I st leave you and never see to the pool, and heard the story of the ,-/-1,.ver see yo", never!" death-l'ied betrothal to the accompani- -You will get, over this, you will ment of its manifold murmuring, wi r- out interruption or comment till the eiel; then she turned her face from the water to Philip with a little sight. "Yes, you ought to have told in', she said, in low and gentle tones unal- loyed by reproach. He could not speak or trust himself to look at her for a moment; yet. in spite of the keen unspoken reproach those gentle words contained, his heart throbbed with triumphant joy. "If I had ever dreamed—" he began, "I -thought you solar_ above my reach. We were on such friendly terms from the first. I knew that your people would never hear of anything of the sort. You seemed so safe. I did not think that I—a rough-hewn sort of fellow—could ever touch you like that —until--" "Until yesterday?" she asked, in the same low. gentle voice. "How could I help it?" he cried, -"how could D heard the mare's hoofs strike the wall, I heard the crash e—ah! And when 1 saw you lying there you were so white, so still 1 I shall never forget it. I was mad, dearest, I can only ask to be forgiven." He put his band before his face as if to exclude something from his sight. Ada had turned again toward the rushing wat- ers, her breast was shaken by a little sob and her eyes were full of tears. He brushed away the intruding vision and looked at her quivering face outlined against the rocky fall with mingled feelings. "But you wished," she said, turning her face once more toward him so that he saw the tears shining in heit eyes, "to tell me of your trouble. Never -mind yesterday. May I see the letter?" They read it together, he explaining here and there what seemed necessary. It was written immediately after Jes- sie's last to Marwell Rectory, when Miss Ingleby had received her with such marked coldness; it related the scandal as it was buzzed about the place, also Mr Inglehy's view of the actual facts, his conviction of Jessie's perfect integrity and child -like igno- rance of conventionalities. It spoke of Mrs Plummer's practical neglect of Jessie in suffering her to go about un- attended, and of the total impossibili- ty of making either the Plummers or Mr Cheeseman comprehend the kind of guardianship a girl like Jessie re- quired, and of the impossibility of keeping a young woman of her breed- ing and taste chained to the homely occupations and companionship of one so uncultivated as Mrs Plummer. Jes- sie's previous foiled attempts at con- fidence to himself were recapitulated, her mental and moral loneliness, her great beauty and charm, her talents; her dangerous visit to Marwell Court and false position there; all were dwelt upon affectionately, even lovingly. His sister's line of condnct toward Jessie was regrettedand the conver- sation he had had with her on her way from the Rectory was related. But, bravely as Jessie had accepted the conse!piences of her error, Mr Ingleby said, in conclusion, he did not think she could possibly remain in the neigh.. borhood after such a scandal, and great as was his confidence in her in tegrity and high principle,oneneverknew what unadva sedsteps o, girl init;httake in des$, pair: There' Wile UP di:41K he de coeiluer yourself, she replied, wit th•• same sweet gentleness and tbe ' .sa.we aro:Wet gaeo• !•Soule day you will show me your jetikie,- and the i trk.able will be forgotten. Life has , great things in it. and pleasing one's ' :.slf even the way of marriage, -ehrtdrett otytor , • , \I— ------is usually duty, does not eaerg, a great future before you, best opportunities possible to one so young, as my father says, It is hard, Philip, very hard, but after all, true prosperity and -promotion only come throagh duty. I shall hear of you, Philip, and be glad and proud. 'Not once nor twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory,'" she added. c o bring blessing. You is have talent and thoughyou must now miss one o the (TO BE CONTINUED.) THE BEST BLbOD. BUILDER. Mrs H. Lebceuf, Muskegon, Mich., writes- -"I hare used your Pink Pills and am 0013: vinced they have no equal as a blood builder." Of all druggists or by mail on receipt 50e a box or $2.50 for 6 boxes. Dr. Williams Med. Co., Brockville, Ont., and Schenectady, N. Y. Beware of imita- tions. 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