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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-10-14, Page 3INTO REART of the STOR eeteeeetteree illAXWEDI. GREY. 0101111.111111••••••• CONTINUED. "You had better not," thought Philip. "I am no saint," continued Claude, rather stiperiluously, Philip consider- ed, "but I could not insult -in fact, if I ever saw a true lady and one whose ti presence commanded respect, it was Nies Meade." "Fine words! But this did not pre- vent you compromising her by walk- ing alone in woods with her." "And you believe all that village wives' cackle? It is true that I have met Miss Meade walking in our own plantations. As she was in the habit of walking alone, having no chaperon it was not remarkable. I have met her walking alone with Ingleby, too; I saw no harm in it." "Plausible, but it won't do. How do you account for the mysterious and complete disappearance?" He turned away with a pained look. "I have heard since," he replied at last, "that she had much trouble for one so young. She was utterly alone, among people incapable of understand- ing her. She was high-spirited and sensitive. These miserable scandals had come to her ears, she had heen cruelly and unwarrantably insulted by coarse and stupid wretches unfit to —Whether her reason gave way, or whether it was an accident, we shall never know, but of this I am sure— you will see your sister no more on earth." There was a repressed sob iu his voice, and he again turned 'away, as if to struggle with invincible emotion, while Philip was silent from very rage and indignation at his hypocrisy. "That is a lie," he cried at last; "you cannot hide her long in a country like this. Unless, indeed, you have taken her abroad." "You are mad," Claade returned with cold contempt. "Not mad enough to believe all this," Philip flashed out. "I know that you met her and had a secret un- derstanding with her from the first. That you took advantage of your sis- ter's infirmity to make love to her. That you were once surprised when your sister was asleep—" "By my .consnu entild she _exp_ect Miss Meade to leave off reading aloud and wake my sister, and me to stump heavily away in search of another chaperon than the sleeping child—" "—I know that you gave her jewels and money—I have evidence—" "Then you know more than I do," replied Claude, quietly. "Besides yon insult her by the assumption." "That you were alone with her the day before her disappearance, that you distressed her exceedingly, telling her that it was too late to draw back, that you then arranged the details of her flight, her leaving the carrier within a mile of the town at Wellow Cross, and turning down toward the river, where the handkerchief farce was gone through—" "If, as you say," interrupted Claude, with a_singplar expression in his dilat- ing eyes, "1 met thTyTh1ie'iirtlTe- storm. who but herself could have told you of the supposed conversation?" "That remains to be seen," returned Philip, observing that it was Claude, and not himself, who supplied the circumstance of the storm. "Sally Samson herself told me that she rowed Jessie with the luggage—by the way, even ladies don't usually take luggage when committing suicide—to Lyn - mouth, and saw her on board the boat which catches three o'clock ex- press to Waterloo," "Did Miss Meade carry her luggage from the carrier's cart to the ark?" he interrupted, with what Philip thought well -feigned interest. "That part was well managed. Sal- ly's nephew fetched it from the inn where it was left to be called for. You cannot deny that on the same day you pretended -to -be called unexpectedly to - London, that you drove to Cleeve sta- tion in a dog -cart with only a groom, whom you left behind at the station. That you caught the boat of Lyne - mouth, even the baat's name is known, _.. The Lord of the Isles—and that you "traigled. liTtlie-thiree- Weibel "elfMegs to Waterloo," "I drove to Cleeve and took the train; I vient in the Lord of the Isles and caught the three express to Wat- erloo, all that is true; but I travelled alone. Ingleby went by the same ex- press, the train was long, I did not see him, he did not sea me, and unless he is an unusually ,powerfull liar, he did not see Miss MeaUe." "You would, of course, have prevent- ed that." "What was the price of Sally Sam- son's valuable information? My dear fellow, you must be uncommonly green if you can swallow all that, an old wo- man will yarn you for half a sovereign —uncommonly green." "If you did not think me very green you would not expect me to believe that you do not know where Jessie Meade is. You have done a very cruel and cowardly thing, Claude Medway. You have fatally injured one who had special claims on the consideration of every man with a spark of true manli- ness in him. One whose youth, inno- cence, orphanhood and utter defence- lessness --I will not say sex, because that, which ought to constitute a claim to men's protection, is but too often regarded as a bait to their lawlessness —one whose peculiar position, her nearest friend and natural protector being six thousand miles away --but I don't speak of my own wrongs, al- though you knew of our relationship and of the impossibility of my attend- ing to private duties at such a time. and although a soldier might be ex- pected to feel - that keenly -1 tell you. I scorn to speak of my own wrong," repeated Philip. quivering with indig- nation—"but her friendless and de- fenceless condition, not to mention her engagement to me, to whom you have always affected a friendliness, 1 have never sought or wished—should have made her sacred. Give back my sister, Claude Medway. give me back the de- fenceless creature her dying father -* that helelt anything, though in fad he felt the truth of every word. burn like Ilra into his bear, "I have tow. you," he said at last, In a dry, thin vcnce, "that I do not know where the lsAy is; I am not responsible for her. I say no utbre,." • "Then take the consequences," cried Philip, throwing his card on the table. "There is my address, if you should think better of your refusal upon re, fiection.',' "Yon Mean to go to law," returned Claude, with. the same marble face and icy voice. "Think twice first. Do not hastily drag her name in the dust! The dead own nothing but name aud memory, remember. Do not rob her of that one possession." "Living or dead," Philip, said stern- ly, "she had but her name, and of that she has already been most basely rob- bed." 0 The marble rigidity of the white face was touched into a taint quiver by this barbed truth. This may be the beginning of Hell merely to listen to the tale of the soul's own iniquity and see something of the anguish con- sequent on it. "You can do her no good," he said at last, moistening his stiff, dry lips before he could speak; "a woman's name and fame vanish before the breath of men's lips." "That is for your consideration," Philip replied, coldly. "I shall refrain from legal proceedings the moment I see her." So saying he left the room and the house, and Claude sat down at the table and gazed with a glassy stare rstraight before him. "It is too much," he murmured to himself, "that Jessie should suffer! And that poor fellow! She was all the world to him. He cared for her as I do for Ethel. She was fond of him. Philip would consent to our marriage indeed. There is good stuff in poor Philip. But he must not go to law, I must tell him all first," He turned Sally Samson's story over and over in his mind and thought it was probable, especially in connection with the luggage. The Plummers and Philip no doubt knew exactly of what that luggage consisted. There had never been the slightest doubt but that the luggage disappeared, and now there was a clue to its destination. It had at least been traced to Lynmouth boat; but how did Philip know of the meeting in the park shed? Had Jessie in her agitation unguardedly told something of that on reaching home in the storm? Philip's imagination might have furnished the details, the outthiegiven;- - All of a sudden a thought struck like lightning through him. Perhaps Sally Samson's tale was true. He had so long mourned her as dead and reproached himself as her virtual murderer, that the alternative was too acute; it made him dizzy and faint, the room swam.- When the first shock passed off, he tried to map the supposi- tion out in mind and consider what it might mean. Jessie alone in London! Surely that would be worse than death. And yet there was a ray of hope in it. CHAPTER IX. FANNY. TBE CLINT011 wordspne OQ sensitive they Inlet young and friendless, of mental poiSe so nice, tittliti to matiness-and then - Re 134w it all; the rush of agony during the lonely field wall, the sudden loss of menta* balance in the, fever of suf. fenng, the temptation of the swift !lowing river, where the tide was cora - mg up and the channel was deep. A plunge in the green water, a loss of sunshine reileeted from the golden hair above, a total loss of sunshine to the blue eyes darkened below; then sil- ence; the broken ripple circling quietly back to its even tiow, and the robin piping his autumn song in the oak - grove on the bank. Or it might have been an accident, a slip of the light foot on the thnber's green and slippery edge, as she stood to watch the tide running up. But it was most improbable that she would have walked to the edge of the timber bank; there was no motive for doing so. To know that it was an accident seemed the only thing that could ever bring him peace of mind now. Philip had left him for'rnore than an hour, the interrupted breakfast lay untouched on the table, when he rous- ed himself from that unending circle of agonizing thought which sometimes oversets the strongest minds, rose, took a turn in the room and looked out on the sunny park, whence the white rime was now melted. Then his eyes fell on some daily papers, he un- folded one, and was about to try and divert the current of gloomy thought when his attention was caught by a once familiar but long -forgotten name. -Fanny Wordmitt, aged twenty-six. What is the good of reading those brief, pitiful paragraphs that daily ap- pear under the heading of inquests on our cosey breakfast tables? Sensible people who value their cheerfulness, pass on to the record of gayer or larger doings; of Parliamentary squabbles at home and political intrigues across the Channel, of theatres and concerts, of Lord and Lady Roseleaf's exit from town and the arrival of the Duke of Bunikum .at Flummery Castle, of the progress of Lord Chicory's gout and the successful courtship of Miss Angela Billing by the Hon. Squander Cashless. But the name of this poor Fanny, whose brief life had contained no such pleasant doings as befall the rich and great, together with the name of a certain cav.alry • depot, rivetted his at- tention and caused the hair to rise up- on his flesh as he read the every -day tale of misery. Poor Fanny, only twenty-six and too truly described as unfortunate, had sought the piteous refuge—of-the-river from a world in which she was not al- lowed the chance of walking upright- ly, having once gone wrong. But first she had written a letter, explaining why. "Dear Mother," the letter ran, "1 could not bear it no more, thinking it better for all I should go. Please for- give me that have been a trouble and will trouble no one no more. It was trouble did it. After that young of- ficer went I had no heart for nothing; I couldn't look up to myself. There was no hope. I first took a glass to forget. I was forced to bad company, others gave me the go by. It was only in drink I could forget, and you was forced to turn me away. Dear Moth- er, there was no honest work and me afraid to die. But hell can't be much worse than this. When you get this -yortworet-have-a,child, to-brgsou, disgrace. Please give my love to all that was ever kind to your poor wick- ed Fanny. God.forgive him." Wicked indeed was this frail, des- pairing Fanny, all sound moralist% will justly say. Had she been made of sterner stuff, with a heart less trust- ful and loving, .with a keener eye for her own interests, this poor little tra- gedy had never been enacted. Or with firmer faith and a feeling of Heaven's infinite pity, she might have faced man's scorn and not died of it. With all the springs of earthly joy dried for her, she might have sat contrite in the dust, doing good works all the days of her life, a life which at eighteen seems an eternity of misery to the heart -stricken. But all girls of eigh- teen are not saints or ascetics; young blood -is -warm, the---youth_hungry for happiness. TO BE CONTINUED. work despang and despair in on so The desire of his eyes had been sir:Attire& f rom -hiaw Anct4he,44y..of youth and the hope of his age quench- ed. The heavens were black above hini, and earth below bleak and bar- ren, the wealth that would have made his wedded happiness possible was useless now; all his possessions were but dust that is brushed away by a passing wind. His life lay blasted be- fore him. So Claude Medway mourn- ed in the bitterness of a bereaval still fresh and acute. It was his own doing; he could not complain of the sternness of heavenly decrees or accuse any blind Fate of cruelty; with his own hand he had withered and destroyed a life dearer than his own, and murdered his young happiness. It was as if a consecrat- , ed chalioe bearing celestial wine hav- ing been offered him, he had taken it for an ordinary tap -room tankard,and, -before-he could -degrade ir-to common uses, it had been snatched from his sacrilegious hand. leaving him to burn with unquenchable thirst. On hearing of Jessie's disappearance he had caused inquiries to be made through his father, to whom the hand- ' kefelhef litbry' had been c'otiani uhicated in confidence by Mr Plummer, and had at last accepted the theory of death in the river, whether by accident or design -by design, he too surely feared. If Jessie's passion and flight into the storm had touched his con- science and heart, the sharp stroke of bereaval had done more. A sorrow at once so irretrievable and so entwined with all the finest fibres of human na- ture, touches the spiritual part of man into keenly thrilling and active life; it refines, softens, purifies like nothing else. What he had seen in Jessie's face outlined upon the lurid sky, had swept away the intricate mazes of sophistry with which he had sought to deceive her and himself. All lay then in its na- ked hideousness before him; he saw himself the unmanly persecutor of an innocent, high-niinded gii 1, whose youth and defencelessness specially ap- pealed to his chivalry. He saw the true nature of the unequal duel, in which he had used weapons so deadly and so unfair against one whose only armor was innocence, an armor so easily pierced unless braced by strength of character and principle; and he knew himself -utterly defeated. "Woe to the weak. Let women take care of themselves," was his axiom in April, but not now. He knew that Jessie had shown heroism beyond that of the deadly, deathless ride at Bala- clava, which had so deeply impressed her imagination and so strongly kin- dled her enthusiasm. He remembered his own proud consciousness, while he rode down that awful valley in the tempest of death, that the noblest chord in his nature was vibrating at last; his not ignoble self-reverence— springing from the thought that he and his comrades could die for a word's sake. Sometimes he had thought that it would be possible to live up to the Balaclavalevel; when Jessie left him that day he was sure of it. What had October:14 892, CONFIRMED. 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