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Clinton New Era, 1892-11-04, Page 3• 011111EART of Oa STORK nalt 711111traai '111'4=671% i puretu , - . ,, , the ou y yea pri nessln t e c e b'Q 1 ha i his Wr t 4 a life,, though he had hi-okan her heart. And he had been proud of the bo r in it . I3X /ifAzWux,f, ()IRBY, rough way, liked to play with him, to toss him, and feel his fair limbs, to teach him to lisp bad words, and square his baby fists at his father. Ile was CONTINUED. Philip had never knowq what to loathe a man until he set ey this battered hulk, yet he kept s to himself, as he wondered wha of a creature he might himself ha come with this cruel and dissolu ing's tutelage in place of Ma Meade's; he must, at least, be hi] besides he knew that his gentle y mother had once loved him. And thought -of -the -"bright promi t e rnan's youth, his fall and deg tion, the long misery his life had with no earthly hope before hi spasm of awed pity caught his he "I came," he replied, with this pity in his face, "to see you." "You'll get nothing out of his amiable parent growled, his eyes shrinking before his son's. " beast, Arthur, doles mo out tvt three pitiful hundreds a year, and not a penny more, not a penny Whined, with maudlin tears. that young cub, Claude, with a mission in the Hussars, while my boy was left to a pauper's charity, served in the ranks of a line regim And I am the real heir, I am Sir Arthe is only Algernon. This is an un • world, Philip. If all had their ri you would have been brought u the heir to a baronetcy and fine este. and -that nasty Arthur would h been transported and flogged, and in irons, and eaten his heart out convict in that brutal country, til dragged his old worn-out, battered cas home to live upon the nigga doles of a brute. I pant last ni longer," he added, with a calcula air, "and you ought to be Sir Philip this day twelvemonth, at least." "There is plenty of life in you y Philip rejoined. "I shall be in E land for some time longer, and I h you will let me do anything I can you in the meantime." "What can you do with your begg ly pay and the miserable dole th beasts let you have?" returned the lightful old gentleman, querulou "I say, Philip," he added, "what an fernal fool you must be to mix your up with me! Now, what in the de - name did you think you could et proud of him now. "Gatti" he said to himself, "blood always tells. . I'm not it wits ashamed ,to own him. And, that beast es on Claude gets his title and estates, the :tying brute I" t sort Philip soon reaohed the corner shop ve be- in the Strand, impatiently awaiting te be- the pr int-sellees leisure and. examining tthew the few drawings and paintings with man; eager interest. The print -seller had at oung first no recollection either of the plc - when t tire or artist, but ate!. some consider - se of ation, and a little jogging of his Inc/no- rm/a- ry by his assistant, he recognized the been, one and recalled the other. A tall, rn, a plainly -dressed girl with fair hair, evi- art. dently fresh from the country, She great was pale and very anxious. And very pretty, the assistant added. It was a me," long time ago, months ago, when first evil she came. She had sold only this one That picture, though she had offered several. ro or She used to call often at first, and I've seeined disappointed to find her pie- ," he tures unsold. She was vexed at getting 'And only ten shillings for the mill, and corn- then took her drawings away, lest they poor should spoil by exposure; but there and was one left, 1Vir Moore thought, and ent. the assistant said it was still in the hur; window; this was true, and someone just was even Idoking at it with despairing ghts eyes. They had seen nothingof Miss p as Miller for some time, she had given her tes, address, but it had no doubt long ago ave gone to the waste paper basket. La - put dies were always worrying them to as a show drawings in their shop window. 1 he That was all he could learn in answer car- to his close inquiries. rdly He bought the remaining picture and nch left his name and address with the mo - ting ney, hoping that Jessie, if indeed it by were she, would call again, and intend- ing himself to call frequently on the et," chance of meeting her. Then he walk- ng- ed thoughtfdlly along the crowded ope pavement, feeling the vastness of the for great town, and the immensity of the hurrying, jostling tide of humanity ar- pouring along in two - contrary and in- ese tersecting currents, continuous, appa- de- rently aimless, and yet having a be- wildering intensity of purpose. He in- stopped near a shop out of the way, self and listened to the endless roar of the il's mighty life -torrent thundering in per- tualreverberationealong the-8ft "Stillbrooke Mill," exclaimed Phi starting up and going toward a s table, where a mounted water -co stood on a miniature easel. "Ah. your old diggings ! Capi drawing. Picked it up in a print sh the other day. What the deuce is t matter with the boy ?" he added. Philip took up the water -color with trembling hand and examined it clo ly, finding the monogram, J. M., a the date May, 1858, in the corner. It was the mill as seen from t bridge, faithfully and lovingly paint with finish and detail. There w warm sunshine, and light breezes st red the plane tree and the great willo there was the black wheel spurni the white spray; the pigeons sunn themselves on the root; two silv swans sat placidly on the still wate and what greatly touched him a m leant over the lower half of the doo looking out as Matthew used to. "I would give my life,,to find the pe son who painted this," he exclairne - aftera. long and eilent-scrutinyof picture. "Say half a sovereign, you youn idiot," rejoined his venerable paren "the thing is good in its way. There sunshine in 'it. Where did I get it Gad, how can I tell? I had drunk th bottled happiness -no bliss like opium boy -I was back ' in the days when before -when I was young, and the in a window I saw the very spot wher I first met poor Mary, the very spot and the sunshine—" His head sank forward, a haze gathered over his eyes, his brain steeped in opium fumes; he maundered on about Mary Ashwin - -blue-sktes, --sunshine, alid-freedom. "Lilies in her hands and heart, rose on her lips. Sweet roses! sweet Mary! he muttered, dreamily. Philip roused him, and insisted on him stirring his memory, and after • some cirpumlocution„ and cross-exami-, nation, it came out-thatthe shop n was somewhere in the Strand, that It was a corner shop; the tradesman's name Was not forthcoming, but the particu- lars were quickly noted down by Philip. The old man sat half -dazed by Phil- ip's impetuosity, gazing out into the street, his lotver hp hanging, and an imbecile expression on his wasted face. "Can't keep it out of Stillbrooke Mill," he muttered, "can't keep it ont-it blots -it blots Mary's face." • "What can't you keep out?" his son asked. "Don't ask, don't ask, don't let them tell you, Philip, don't believe them if they do. I didn't do it, I didn't do it," he whimpered piteously. "Drink some coffee," Philip said, pouring out a cup and handing him, "that laudanum was too strong. Drink it off quick." He was easily persuaded, drank, and seemed after an effort to collect his bewildered wits. He regained his sneering air, gave Philip the water- color, and bade him go and trouble him no ..nore. Philip put his card and address in a safe andeonspicuous place. and asked him if he_ should change his mind, or be ill or lonely, to send for him. He had wished hire good -by, when the old gentleman called him back with a mysterious and troubled look. "For God's sake, Philip." he said in a low and terrified voice, "take caeq. how you go downstairs, and when a you do get to the bottom, shut your eyes and run for your life. What do you think -the most horrible sight - there's a dreadful, oh! suet a dreadful great washerwoman in that corner 1" trembled like a leaf as he spoke, his face became clammy, and his eyes glittered wildly. "Oh, it's all right," Philip returned, "she shan't do it any more. I'll turn her out of the corner, and drive her clean away." "Will you, though ?" he asked wist- fully, aria he seemed relieved and spoke rationally again. When Philip was gone he walked to and fro for some minutes, knowing that the unusually heavy dose of lau- dantun would overpower him if he sat still. "Little Philip,"he muttered, "Poor Mary's child, litt/e Philip! No, no, I won't drag poor Ma 's boy down No, no, poor Mary! kler eyes ,and her look, her pretty sturdy boy."( Philip was right; thewretched crinhi- ou hat black moving mass was made up human beings; hearts Inninnerable t beneath the sombre clothing, and ins innumerable were throbbing planning, calculating and schern- each a little world of its own, and ing its own separate mainspring. at aches and joys, what heroisms villianies, what petty miserie5 and nd despairs, what nobility and mean - might be surging by, unknown ! all wore the same absorbed, pre- miecl, unobservant look, each was arently as unconscious of the others as indifferent to them as is some d natural force. And here, Philip ght with a bleeding heart, friend - defenceless Jessie had wandered, ing to cope in her weakness with mass of pitiless strength. She ht even now be near. How easy it Id be to disappear in such a throng. istened to the incessant trot trot oofs and rumble of wheels, he hed the National Gallery, with e vague notion that it would be a y place of resort fooJessie... -- t Mil- On that day or the next, or next, did he find her, though he d the Strand almost daily, and al - daily called at the corner shop. de Medway did the same, and acting in concert when needful, 11 that could be done to trace her. rtisements were •carefully con - d and inserted in every newspa- detect/Yes employed private lip, of ide bea lor bra and tal ing, op hav he Wh as and a gra se- nese nd Yet occt he ape ed and as blin ir- thou w; less, ng btriv ed that er mig r, wou an He I F, of h reac r- sorn d, likel eBis- the g pace t; most 's Clan ? both iS did a Adve - cocte n per, pixy agents consulted, likely and un- likely places searched. But the days went on; they lengthened and became sunny and warm, the parks were bright Is th with spring foliage and spring crowds able CLII4TON ,Nt* not to 91n in reality, and thus incur t • of -est, lutci life her she up him ose ose a,nd ce; one red er! to ere pi - for es! er is - at erl th th ut Id he s, u - in ill th 5, it ic r- 3, • disgrace in the; sight of Heaven an her own ncensnag soul, those sevez of judges, thus one riished blindly sweet. Butom all that could. ever make But though she had now crossed Rubicon and burned her boats, was perpetually urged by an ward prompter to return, to give honor and duty, soul -ind body to who wits dearer than all besides,wh words were celestial symphonies, wh glance was heaven, to renounce all cling only to that sheltering entbra even now she had but to write word and be happy, beloved, shelte for life. And he was wanting h Poor deserted Claude 1 How base leave hind couls1 anything h or hereafter weigh against his hap tress ? What would she not do him ? Purity 1-whatwas that but other name for selfishness? Hers, y but his? no selfishness there; th thought was ever victorious when h heart was most cruelly wrung. D graced in the eyes of men! How th pain ate into her heart as she sp through the golden afternoon, wi every fibre still quivering freshly wi the passion of yesterday's meeting; b the disgrace was her's alone, it con not touch him; she was glad- not War ing him -never considering that was the author of it. Disgraced 1 ye but innocent. Claude's voice, his bea tiful love -thrilled voice, still rang her ears, still swayed the tumult wit in her, the magic of his presence st enfolded her, his spirit blended wi her's as she was borne.past the flyin stubble fields, the glowing woodland the sunny downs. His words ke echoing in her ears -the philosoph theories, the reproaches, the tende nes, the anger, the sorrow, the plead ing! Yet above all, like the voice o God above the tumult of the storn boomed in deep rolling thunders, "Tho shalt not," silencing all else. How terrible was this, new and un tried ocean of feeling, this strong cling ing of soul to soul, this invincible ne cessity of annihilating self and rnerg ing one's being in that of another She had never thought that woman hood was to be entered through thi fiery baptism, she would fain have re- mained a child. How strange to think of hard -faced, common -placed matron she knew having drunk of this intoxi- cating cup. Even Mrs Plummer in this light acquired an aureole of far-off romance, strangely suited with hei homely activities and russet reoccu erhad-trat s e, oo, once waited with beating heart for the sound of a young footstep, in the twilight? But- Mrs Plummer, on being gently sounded on this point, gave out no tender vibrations in response, and Jes- sie, seeking sympathy, turned to Sarah on that last night, when her faithful old friend sat by her bedside to bear her company after the storm. "Your's was a long engagement, .Sarah ?" she said, with a tentative wistfulness. "Matter o' vifteen year," she replied. "All thitt time !" sighed Jessie's pure young voice; "but then you knew that hecared for you, Sarah ?" "Bless you! Wold chap dedn't care a straa," she returned, scornfully. "Then why were you engaged ?" "Well! there. Hreckon a thought a med sowell hae me as al- a ooman. I was handy a Zundays." "But didn't you care ?" 'NoYeinb •4, 1$9 11111111111111.1011M. at is wro. ‘Avv"fi,•;., '`V‘\ \\N\X% \\\W• `‘V.P4S.1,14..1.M,'>.',:/..•,1•,Y1 Y•• • 4tI n„?,. , Castor's), is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, DIforphine nor other Narcotic substance. 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"Then why did you marryAbraham?" _she-asked,in tones not without -rebuke:- "Wanted to bide long with you. That's why I hitched on to en, I reckon." "Sarah, dear Sarah How good you have always been to me!" Jessie cried, embracing her; "dear old Sarah, I would never leave you if I cduld pos- sibly help it, indeed I would not." To which Sarah replied with a push and a pleased growl of "Goo on wi ye," but which she never forgot. TO BE CONTINUED • gar ens -and- windows -were -nhvi - blossom, and no further trace of Jessie here s was discovered. recta TIT-efl -:o iPitP _e_es a . . s leave expired, and he ex- changed into a regiment stationed at Aldershot. Miss Clara Lonsdale had, with much RPM and..circum.stance of- aila upholstery, become Mar- chioness of 13ardexter; Algernon Med- way had become half imbecile; and Claude Medway was gradually losing heart, when one day an unexpected adventure befel him. CHAPTER XII. PLIGHT. On the clear and sunny afternoon following the great thunderstorm, Jes- sie, palpitating with fear and shame, passion and despair, found herself fly- ing pastunfamiliar fields,strange towns and villages bathed in golden light, in the afternoon express to London -that city of marvel and splendor, whither gravitate the greatest thinkers and workers, whose streets are paved with gold and canopied with fame; Jessie, who had never travelled express be- fore, or been twenty miles from her native steeple, and whose fresh heart had once thrilled at the very name of London. But she cared little to -day whither she was flying, as long as it was away from the magnetism that must soon overpower both reason and principle, and from the disgrace that smirched her fair name. From both of these she fled, with unreflecting fear, seeking only to hide herself and instinctively choosing the vast chaos of London as the most secure place of concealment. She thought it the best field for the exercise of the art by which in her sim- plicity she intended to live; but the main purpose in her choice of destina- tion was concealment. Every pant of the engine tore some life out of her heart, every throb robbed her of hope and strength, since every turn of those rushing wheels bore her farther and farther trom the one beingto whom i all her nature tended with rresistible force. But this flight was her only chance of salvation, as she knew by every pang tearing her weak heart. Had she remained, there was now nothing to save her but the strength of that weary, passion -strained young heart, to which she dared not trust. For Jessie seriously believed herself to be ruared in the sight of the world; she supposed herself to have sinned conventionally, and thus to have in- curred indelible disgrace. 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