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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-09-09, Page 3•JR Tag HURT of the STii BY alfAXWItI44 GREY. COmessoBD. He moved toward herhis eyes kind- led with holy illa) and' a half articu- late cry on his lips, but something in the very tenderness of her sorroWN gaze made hita peuse, overawed, and draw back again. "And you, Ada? What will you do?"he asked, in half smothered • tones. .A sudden burst of tears was the un- apected and disquieting reply.. Ile 'Mood with his back to the rock, and ' his atlas folded across his cheat, and `looked at her with a white face and gleaming eyes. 44Anething but this," he groaned. "I cannot bear this." She Checked herself, quietly dried her ey, es and summoned a sweet, tender smile to her face. "I hope I shall do well," she replied, resuming her former attitude; "I have a' thousand Plans and projects, all for the 1 good and welfare of mankind," she added, with a little dainty sarcaem. • "I could not help it, I did not mean it. I tried so hard.," he said, heavily. "I -tried after the ball to forget you, • find 'then, that ruby! it seemed en- chanted. Chance took me to Gossam- •s, jee's house, and I could not avoid you. h muttonght not to have seen you again at Lucknow. And then, when your • rose Struck my face that day I lost my headil but I never dreamed of hurting , "Do not reproach yourself," she re- plied. "It would not be otherwise, and even if you had not told me, I am afraid—Oh! it began at the ball I never thought of anyone else in that way. It was my own fault. neere was never a word from you till yester- day," S"Ah, yesterday!" "I did not know till yesterday," she said, bringing the shadow of her hand more completely over her face and speaking in those low golden, clear tones of deep feeling, "'but it must a have been in my heart always. We must go. See how the shadows slant. They will be looking for us." "One minute more. I may never see you again," he cried, trying to ' prevent her from leaving her rocky seat, "and I must never even think of you again." "Not yet," she replied, taking the hand extended to help her down from her niche by the water, "not till things are right at home. And then I think we shall always be glad to have known each other, Philip," she added, with an infinitely tender and sorrowful emile. "If I might she for you!" he cried. • "Live instead; live well, live nobly," she rejoined. "Oh, Philip, dying is easy enough, livieg is the band part." He turned away. "Philip!" she exclaimed, "Philip!" He turned, extended his arms and would have embraced her, but she drew back gently and repelled him. "Never again," she said, and he fell back a pace, but pleading that it was their last moment together. "We must go now, she added, hur- riedly. "You know," she added, with the old tenderness, "most people would blame me—" "Blame your" he echoed. indignant - "Not such as you," she replied, with a smile of perfect trust, "you are tot, chivalrous. But tbe world, conven- tional people, if they knew what I have let you know. So, Philip, never let me blame myself, never let me re- gret, never let me be anything but proud of you." She moved from , die- waterfall as she spoke, the • hoarse murmur of the waters came fainter and fainter, the shadows of the trees deepened above their liZadtsestliffeiversfaded-once-moee into blue glimpees beneath leafy cano- pies. Philip made some tfervid, half- ' Articulate 'rejoinder as he walked by • ( her side full of a sudden perfect peace, s'and,lifted up in heart as he had never beet before. . -They separated before appearing at the-niver side, '.Where the yacht was ...1...a.hent.t44 ,Y.Pung P.(),Ple 'ri- med Ada CO have returnedWithlier midther, • who imagined her to have !been, with the, party: exploring the seettenaisle. The eligible civilian veffiroved 'wellirfrOrddiferbon,"and she fold him 14 s • • , W.; 110 ana ,akhing her yesterdaY's .ta. tumble:had Omade her, and was more ""Vlscioue to'him than he remembered • tffhave seen her. Phiiipdevoted him self to Mrs Maynard, whom he helped •env board; then he had a brief `Chat With the colonel, telling him that family af- • fairs called him suddenly home, and that he was obliged to give up his staff appointment and ask for leave, at winch Conolel Maynard was greatly 'concerned. He pamly told Philip that such an opportunity as he had now 'fell to the lot of few, and might never occur again, and implored him to con- sider before he threw it away. After- • ward, he told his wife that he verily believed "that little flirt Ada" had re- fused him, and that, on the whole per- haps it was as well that she should not have taken a nameless adventurer like Randal, even though old maidhood must now be her doom. Philip had sent his horse back and made one of the party on board the yacht. The wind was not. fair for them, they had to tack end delay their course, while the sun burned away in the west and went down in great pomp of crimson and gold, its glory reflected and redoubled in t he river, Though Ada and Philip did not speak during the voyage, it was a se- cret and sweet memory for their fu- ture lives. Each could see the other, each blessedly conscious of the other's presence, each would have liked to sail on fotever over the broad river, which was steeped in the splendid ardors of that glowing sunset. On and on for- ever over those richly hued waters, in the exquisite hush which follows the dying sun, they would have liked to glide, enjoying the picturesque fea- tures of that foreign shore, ite waving palms and mango groves. its dark groves of unfamiliar trees, its oriental • houses, the domes and minarets of the little towns, the dusky, brightly clad people passing in native boats and moving by the river side on and on, their keel cleaving now a wave of mol- ten gold, now a sea of liquid rose, now of amethyst, violet, amber, primrose. now floods of dissolved rubies. But the glowing radiance burned too sWiftlY away, the last sts in left th 4WaterS), the andden% night f011. lOnti; bo foe they reached their landing place They saw great stars orb themselve in the dark aky and tremble anon th fiver's breast, and when they landed a broad moon was just peeping abov the horizen, its mellow light was gild Ing the dark and glossy -leaves of th orange -trees, and lending a new wit,ch ery to the senior palms and delicat acacias in the garden. Philip and Ada lingered behind, un noticed in the darkness, and walked together in the shadow of those beaut i ful trees, touched now and again by the mystical glory of the rising moon Here,they clasped hands for the last time, and bid each other farewell wit h over -full hearts. Then Ada mingled with the others on the verandah, poo- ple wished each other good -night there, she shivering in the chill oir, though Philip had wrapped her in a warm Shawl. She heard his quick firra steps as he passed beneath the orange -trees and out of the compound into the road, on which he had been walking when her rose struck his face. Then they died away, and she owned, oh being pies - Honed, that she was very tired. A week or two later Philip stood on the deck of a steamer' and watched the Indian shore, with the gilded doines and light minarets of its brooding city. lessen and fade in the distance. Not quite two years before he hadlanded in the unknown, marvel -teeming Asian country, a stranger and An exile,. with a deep yearning for pale English skies and pale misty -English shores; he had found it drenched with blood and clouded with terror; out of the dare beast of the horror and strife,of those days he had plucked the beautiful flower he might never wear, he had fought and suffered, and won himself a name that he must now bury. in ob- scurity,. he was bidding good -by to everything he cared for. Farewell now to the blazing suns, the broad rich plains, the mighty moqptain ranges, the beautiful cities, iTcla with unfamiliar architecture and dense dark groves: the palm -circled temples, the dark picturesque people of many creeds, races, and tongues, the castle - crested hills, the thick forests haunted by fierce beautiful beasts and fierce beautiful reptiles, the brief but glow- ing dawns and sunsets, and the sud- den star -lit nights. Farewell to the dignified ,politeness of the grave, brightly clad, jewelled nobles, the sound of the rich southern languages, the mystery surrounding beings so alien to European habits and thoughts. All was fascination to him in that land of marvel. Even the'stately traria) of elephants, those huge sagacious crea- tures with more than human intelli- gence, even the jolting swaying pace of a camel, had a sort of charm when one was not riding it. But how much greater was the charm of rose gardens, orange and lime groves. and above all of that rocky waterfall, shadowed by its slender bamboos and drooping palms! The sound of those falling Waters would alweys ha.unt him, blended with the sweeter sound of Ada's voice. Farewell now to those memories; he must never dwell upon them again. Yet that hour by the waterfall nerved him to his drity, and his h, ve then entered upon a higher phase It had till then been so hard to give up, now it seemed simply right and inevitable; loyalty was ro more divided; in being loyal to earlier claim- he would best keep fa it 1 i wit It Ada. The shores faded into the general blueness, and he turned away from -the.eharmed scenes of romance/love and glory, forgetful of the horror and suffering through which these hiid been won, and set his face toward ell iil gray England and the chill prose of duty. Deeply as he pitied Jessie, and strongly as he felt his responsibility toward her, he was extremely angry with her, angry with the cold disap- proving anger that only a man can feel, and only toward a woman who belongs to him, and wko-Was, how- ever slightly, compronnsede herself. He did not think Jessie capable that a - wrong thought, but he did think that through folly or ignorance, or both, she had got into a very serious serape; and such folly, or such ignorance, in 'women is unpardonable in male eyes. Their womenkind, however foolish and ignorant in other respects, are ex - ted not only to be feultless in deed and ' 'Ilidfiglite-blit tilsolircireintispee- tion, tact, and knoevledge. Every man is Caesar to his 'Wife and sister. Caesar's wife meet be not only above suspicion, but beyond misconception. 44' itch is the arrogaisce of this frail an erring atom, man, to the woman O'd(ligns to love And respect. A more orcinghly and unconsciously foolish biped does not exist upon the earth, doomed as it is to bear the tread of so many foolish things. My womenkind, says this little autocrat, though silly, ignorant, and weak, dwell upon heights of unapproachable purity, cased in amino.. of invulnerable virtue; women in general, on the contrary, are ---well, we all know what women are! He has no mercy on the errors of his own sister. however tempted. but is ever tender to the failings of other men. Philip was not particularly angry with Clan& Medway. How could he blame him for amusing himself after the manner of his kind? He would of course think that girls must take care of themselves, and -that if girls are ignorant of what is due to themselves, so much the worse for them. Woe to the weak! Are .gilded youth respon- si ble for the misery of those who fall in their way? le not the world the world? Yes, my good Philip, and the devil is the devil, and a strong one to boot; but that is no reason why we should knock under to hirn. Once or twice it crossed Philip's mind that irretrievable disaster might have befallen Jessie, but he dismissed it as insulting to her. Rut Ada had fully faced this ghastly possibility. She could also conceive redemption and healing for a woman, as for a man; if, as she heard, a good woman could lead a husband from a dark past to a holy future, surely a good man might lead a wife. But Ada was only a woman, she had relit had the advan- tage of hearing men of the world in- struct each other upon the different code of ethics proper to each sex, as Philip had; and having early discover- ed that conventional morality is for the most part a hybrid between real morality and the expediency invented by ages of male selfishness, resolved to n,ceept none not basied upon justice and trirth. Therefore she expected Philip to save to the uttermost the one hinnan being dependent upon him. . - CLINIC/ NEW EVA Se tember ifga :t heart beat stronglY when, • 4404,404YlnillztalMn4 thilsnlvt(enverland roofe;bertgoetbc.p.04-vever s Ing from tbe pale sea. In is than e twenty-four hours he would look again • tmon Jeesleie sweet, pathetic child, e face. He would be very gentle with her, would appear to know nothing of i those ill-judged rambles; would place . her under some suitable lady guardian e far from the scenes of those idle tales, and gently and gradually win hex. . heart. Never till then had he felt how closely Jessie's life was entwined with . his, or how strong and ineradicable are the affections that begin with life itself. He little suspected the calamity that had long since fallen upon him. • ,ildreri Cry for 1 c 7 P itah.r.',400141141111 1 P. 011101.•1..a. 011;•., CHAPTER assavaesereddifliftlie- V. PHI1,3P'S WELCOME HOME. Philip loaf no time after landing in setting his face homeward, as he call- ed it. He stepped out upon the plat- form at Cleeve railway station in the afternoon of a cold, clear January day, and was surprised not to see a face he recognized in the familiar place. The flyinan, on being told to drive to Red- woods, asked where it was. "Sir Arthur Medway's place, Mar - well Court? Yes, knows that. 'Tis a good nine mile ride and the roads are heavy," he said. "Marwell village, farm on the right. Drive as fast as you can." The streets were silent with the dull and ghastly silence of snow: silent but not white, snowy but not picturesque; town snow is a sorry spectacle, chill, depressing,suggestive of all the soils and stains incident to poor humanity. Yet there was no sludge, no muddy deliquescence penetrating to the very Darrow with its chill, the sun was shining, the white topped roofs were outlined upon a clear pale sky, the icieled eaves sparkled as the long spikes melted and froze and melted and froze again; the snow was tram- pled into yellow brown powder in the roads, on which the horse's feet struck now and then with a muffled thud. The grammar school alone looked more venerable and picturesque than usual, its gray walls tufted with fea- thery drifts of unstained snow, its gabled roof, mullions, and drip stones traced in white snow -lines, its leafless line -trees showing a tracery of min- gled pink and white branches against the freezing sky. Philip thought of his early battles in the play -ground, and of that "big brute Brown," now a peaceful and substantial young trades- man, a good deal hen-pecked by a, fierce little scrap of a wife. Matthew aMtefiadrset. had pinched to send him there 1 t was scarcely two years since the death of Matthew and Martha; he al- most expected to see the former lean- ing over the half -door of the mill when he passed. The wheel was still, adorn- ed with jewelry and lace -work of icicles sparkling against its black steps; ice sheets spread from the banks half over the water, swans floated in the centre, pigeons wheeled in the sunshine, but a strange face looked froni the open half -door, leaning there as Matthew had leant. There was no golil-haired child clinging to his hand. The great willow, under whose leafy boughs he had lain and longed to be a man, dropped its bare yellow branches watr th o(4 snow-covered grass. town passed, the country spread pure and stainless beneath the pale blue sky, into which the rose of sunset R as softly stealing. This white, soft, ,st.iindless rote is a bridal vesture or a sfivoud, according to the gazer's mood; to Philip driving too, slowly over the n.aieless rotul, it was a wedding gar- nitrrit. With every hushed fall of the horse's feet he drew nearer to Jessie, In the one being who shared the mem- ories of youth and the affections of home with him. How glad she would be! Perhaps, after all, he ought to have written to announce his arrival, but there is something so attractive in the thotfght of coming unexpectedly upon long absent friends, and surpris- ing the warmth of their hearts. A _dream of Jessie's joyous surprise and warm welCorne had fleatedhaiiiirehint for weeks—another and brighter dream belonging to the warm country of mystery and marvel he had left be- hind, was resolutely banished to a deep recess of memory. Some day Jessie must hear of it, but not yet. Perhaps they would each have some- thing to forgive, but Jessie's shrift wOuld be ehort-and easy, hewas'sure, (To Ex CONTTNUED.) lroh, Mange and Scratches of every kind on human or animals, cured in 130 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by J. H. Combe, Druggist. Mrs Edward McManamen, of Salt Springs. Cumberland, N. S., has given birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. This is the third time in succession that this lady has thus distinguished her- self. 6 ugust lower" Perhaps you do not believe these statements concerning Green's Au- gust Flower. Well, we can't make you. We can't force conviction in- to your head or med- icine in to your throat. We don't want to. The money is yours, and the misery is yours; and until you are willing to believe, and spend the one for the relief of the other, they will stay SO. John H. Postal, 1122 Brown Street, Philadelphia, says: "My wife is a little Scotch woman, thirty years of age and of a naturally delicate disposition. 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