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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1892-11-11, Page 3lif:TwoOlititik:STORM ThfAlearWM.L. .(4f1Elf• eyeeeee- cOlerrietTBD. TraVelling, like the celebrated his - hen, third-elass because tbere was no forth, Jessie did eOt eee two Men tea, yelling byfirst-the sight -Of^ -either of WileM Might heve altered her fate. SO Ore sped on to her doom, sitting all alone in the bare, uncushioued depart - Ment boarded of like a cattle stall from the other divisions, by a parti- tion too high for sight, but not for sourgl. Themt,hunderaerewithshriek- - --ing whietie arfd inereasingipeed, now a crash and darkness close to her face, followed by continuous rattling and cracking as if all was of a passing train winding away behind them in the, dusk. But what is this, loonaing dim, so- lemn, and roajestm in the gray and misty sky, a sky so strange to Jessie, with its thick viel, through which golden lustre seems ever on the point to stream, a sky full of romance and poetic suggestion? Slender, unsub- stantial, and mist -like as are those towers piercing the mist, she knows them well. This is London at last; there are the houses cf Parliament: everywhere is the sparkle of innumer- able lights in the faint twilight. Dizzy with the unaccustomed mo- tion and smell of smoke and oil, tired and over -wrought, she stood on the pavement, jostled by hurrying passen- gers and their luggage, half -frightened by the hoarse shouts of "now, miss," and "By'r leave here!" of porters clata tering past her with laden trucks—not knowing what to do. Parents anxious- ly gathering their brood about them, grave but eager business men, fine ladies with their trains of maids and footmen, middle-class ladies with numerous parcels, well-to-do gentle- men followed by serviceable porters, all sorts of people, hurried by, claim- ing luggage, calling cabs, meeting and parting from friends. Jostled hither and thither by the crowd, she drew aside beneath the dull yellow gaslight, and waited, alone at nightfall, without one friend in all the millions of that great city. She watched the passing tide of passengers, timidly seeking some friendly and less self-centred face to ask advice. Presently she se- lected a prospereme ' low carrying a bag, but on addressing him, was met by a look that made her shrink back trembling. She next tried a kind, conifortable-looking matron all bags and shawls, who measured her all over with a look of cold, hard disapproval, and passed on by the side of her husband, who regarded her for a moment with blank indifference. A sense of her own helpless isolation and of the wide world's stony cruelty, weighed upon her under those chilling looks and filled her with despair. Yet some paces further off among the crowd were two men, each of •.ed, and .forlo_irn pOused 'With . NYearY feet before WeetiPinSter • .Abbey, grand gray mase 111 the 41n1 sunshine otteripg throe* the canopy of .gelder Mist, • Wieturued In at reet'e Certrer' te,,read'' the ,great,..Ilas Mee with: some- vagus and IOR4141ff of compere.' ien1/444 and WOW C9MOVUIC1 by retftSiMa when the doer .closed v THE CLINTON NEW me," until once More the tumult of 010 4111 choir broke In With the retrain "flesitteth 101).'170 the woOrlood, he, the people 119Ye0 When froin'those stony dQ.Aths bum% pose a.pure. and appy boy -voice, " • waited for the lead and he Inclined the unto tne;•-ione bath fiet f et upon be- rock"--»H5bath put a ew song ear- Into mY month, and ordered all 1117 mil- °in 8," it sang in lucid melody, WI^ and g t ea shower of light and melting owy flnally We the triumphant, Jubilant multitudinous shout of the full choir, "The Lord is King." Awed, soothed, uplifted in heart, Jessie sa,t still and listened to holy Words and hely song, till the benedic- tion sank into hen heart, and the ,final strains of music died away. She was .resolute.now.to- keep_-Ondo -the °only' patlitliat-s-eihr-e-d- safe to her, to seek her bread by painful toil, and failing that to starve, but never, never sin. She remained in her tranquil nook un- til vast winged shadows gathered heavily in the aisles and the arched roof became a brooningdarkness when but a verger stumbled upon her and bid um- her go, as it witS time to close. rts, The lanaps were lighted, they glitter - for ed in 111 tied starry points beneath een the faint y luminous sky, which must and have been bright behind its dim veil uld of mist when Jessie came into the ash frosty air and bent her steps to the uts squalid street where she lodged. ad Months rolled on and brought the the warm, bright summer days, and hope but was almost dead in Claude's heart. He had long since given up haunting the shops in the Strand; but he still wandered in many of the streets, and saw many a terrible phase of London life. On wild nights \ire stood outside workhouse doors aird scanned the ghastly faces of the hunger -stricken crowd waiting for admittance. He went about with missionaries and clergymen and made inquiries at hos- pitals and refuges. All sorts of stor- ies were told of him. He was writing a book and gathering material in the streets, he had been converted, become or a lay reader, a Bible man, an Outside ft Evangelist. He was going to stand for the borough of Cleeve, had turned Radical, ,and was collecting matter for social reform. He had become a Ro- man Catholic, had left the country and was preparing for the priesthood. He had originated a new secular reli- gion and was busy propagating it. He had fallen into a state of melan- choly that obliged him to live in se- clusion and threatened madness. He had become a •hilanthro ist a Mor- mon. e a cer y vanis ed from eh his world, some inhabitants of which al were now and then startled by the ap- p- pearance of his ghost in the streets. n - (TO BE CONTINUED.) ind her and the great wave of r ing traffic surged away in a low h ecl natirMer, rolling very softly soothingly among the dim shad arAlchleStbat day', and nearly every since her flight, she had. wand wearily, vainly seeking work, wit ever -sinking heart and ever-shrin purse. She had ventured. into the tional Gallery, and there seen tha must be long before she could g the, elements -of -4/.444W saW-T-t-w-it heavy apathy foreign to her, for w is art to one who has no desist, or h not fatally bruised? She'had with rebuffs, sneers—worst of all, t dreadful form of admiration whiel insult. Not only was all hope gone, every illusion had faded from her r ed youth; men had stones for hea the 'fairy city was paved with mud gold. Never in her life had she s such grime and squalor: the smoke fog polluted her very breath; she co not open her ill-fitting window -s without letting in a swarm of sm to soil the close, dingy room she h cleansed with her own hands. Of moral filth she had as yet caught a few lurid glimpses. She had eaten nothing that day since a scanty early breakfast, had spoken oply to hard strangers who looked upon her with stony eyes; she saw actual star cation before. Then, while she sae kindley by the solemn beanty of the Abbey, and consumed by the eating pain of her soul, a spirit from the nether darkness flitted un- seen to her ear with bland whisper- ings, asking her why she suffered and strove so far beyond her strength. For a narrow prejudice, for a word's sake, as Claude had told her. F this shadow of a punctilio she had le him who loved and needed her, lonely, wretched, perhaps bitter and reckless; for this she had renounced the very life of life, a lot so fair and noble, so bright with unusual promise. She thought of the world's beauty, of noble historic scenes, of music and art in fair and ancient foreign cities, of moun- tain grandeur, castle -bordered rivers, egencl-haunted forests, lovely scenes In which they two might wander bree- d lid elevated by holy p noble sympathy, all in all to ea rother, living a life of pure intellectu and emotional happiness, each su Elementing the deficiencies and e ancing the gifts of the other, harm ing none and unreproached. She n more considered the beauty of the di long -drawn aisles. her marble -whit anguished face was buried in her qui ering hands, while the dark spiri marshalled vision after vision befor her, gazed reproachfully on her wit Claude's eyes, and spoke in his voic The time drew on to evensong. The ow, mellow thunders of organ music oomed in upon her tumultuous houghts, she trembled to the beauty f that great sea of sound; never be - ore had she heard such music, the olid masonry seemed to quiver at the hock of those rolling billows of har- mony; such music must spring fro some diviner source than mortals ca conceive. Now it seemed to accuse her. "Jes- sie, Jessie," it thundered, "what thoughts are these?" and she shudder- ed. Then a sweet spring of melody rose swiftly and lightly from the depths of harmony. "Lift up yeur hearts," it sang, but her heart sank like lead in the deep waters of earthly pain. "Jessie, this is God's house." it boomed, in majestic menace, "and such thoughts are the devil's thoughts." Yet the thoughts poured in more swiftly, and beads of sweat stood cold on her troubled brow. The soul of one mortal man drew hers ith irresistible force to itself, and the rength of mighty angels was vain to ve her. The organ storm died_away silvr eace, but that in her heart- daY ered h an king Na- t it ran?, Ir hat ope met hat 1 is GRATIFYING TO ALL. e, The high position attained and the run- e - v. versa] acceptance and approval of the pleaa- t ant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as e the most excellent laxative known, illue- h trate the value of the qualities on which its e, success is based and are abnndantly grati- fying to the California Fig Syrup Com- pany. 1 whom would have given his life to b save her from her impending fate. "Keb, miss?" asked a porter, looking o with wonder at her fair, troubled face, f when at last she ventured to follow s the crowd and claim her box. "I—I don't know," she faltered, "I am a stranger. I don't know where to go. Would you be so kind as to tell me a suitable place—quiet and respectable—to go to for the night?" He Itioked at her with many shades of expression, all merging in amaze- ment. "What? Don't you know were yer friends live?" he asked, at last. "I—I have no friends in London," she replied, guiltily. "Something wrong here," he said; "you're from the country, never been in town before, I'll wager." "No; I am quite alone in the world and I should be so much obliged if you would tell me where to ask for a re- spectable lodging for the night " sh The salary of the Prince of Wales is $200,000 per year; Duke of Connaught, $125.000; Duke of Edinburgh, $125,000; and the Duke of Cambridge the Queen's cousin. $00,000. The royal 111 family costs British taxpayers $40,- n 000 a week. replied, earnestly and with pleading st eyes; "I am come to town to fin sa, work. I heye_rietle _mucmonee.e_ HIoed at her long in silence, then shouldering her light box and bidding her follow him, he went to a third-class waiting -room, where he - stopped and told her to wait half an hour. -- • -He-returned punetrrally ' `the -afr- pointed time and led her up many stairs and across several platforms, a long way, till they reached a first-class waiting -room, where he stopped and told her that the woman who was in attendance was respectable and clean, and would be glad to let her have a room in her house for a moderate sum, providing she kept herself honest and respectable. Then he took her to a dingy, thin - faced woman, who was making herself some tea with a furtive air and eating thick bread and butter stealthily. "This is the young lady, Mrs Bark- er," he said. "I must hook it now. The keb and box '11 be all right." "It isn't mnch of a 'ouse for the likes of you, miss," said the woman anxious- ly, "but it's clean and respectable. There's only me and my daughter, who does.dressmakin' for a firm. Five shillings a week paid in advance is my terms, and a week's notice when leav- ing. We take hi single men and does for them generally, but not objections to a respectable young woman as pays regular. Jessie thought herself fortunate. Her whole capital consisted of thir- teen pounds, five shillings and six- pence; it had been acquired by selling two or three pictures at home, and would no doubt speedily be doubled and:trebled by the same inea,ns in Lon- don; in the meantime it behoved her to be careful. She had ' to evnit until Mrs Barker left for the night, when the cab and box were brought by the friendly porter, whom she cordially thanked and bid good -night, offering her hand instead of money. The por- ter, though a family man and poor, preferred the hand and looked after the departing cab with interest. "A screw loose somewhere," he said to himself; "I'll keep a good look -out on the advertisements for a week or so." So Jessie awoke next morning in a dingy, stuffy room in a back street of Westminster, to the beautiful music of the clock chimes, feeling as if all her previous life lay a century behind her and she had been transported to another age. • CHAPTER XIII. LOBT IN LONDON. A fortnight later, Jessie, Wan, west - children Ory for raged. From her hidden nook she heard a mellow voice soaring upward. "I will arise and go to my Father," it chanted; but she could not follow that divine forerunner, the path of heaven was loosteep ,for her, -she-was not made of stuff strongenough to fashion saints. The mellow, hushed, chanting of unseen choir began, wings of unseen angels were fluttered by its breath, but the dark spirits would not take flight. All the tender and deep enao- tions of a frill and dual life, the cling- ing of children's arms, the light of their eyes, all the beauty and glory of life were revealed to her, and at last she saw the man whose life hung upon hers, deserted, desperate, reckless. "I will go home, I will go to ,him," she said. "'What does my life matter? He shall be happy. Heaven is only where he breathes." She raised her head and rested it against the stone pillar, listlessly hearing the chanting of the evening Psalms; never had she heard such sweet and soothing singing as this. "Hold thee still in the Lord and wait patiently for him—fret not thy- self. How beautiful the familiar words rang in the rich restrained music! "I myself beheld the ungodly in great power and flourishing like a green bay tree. Yet a little while and the wicked shall not be -1 sought him, and he was not found." Yes, the richest earthly happiness was but for a day, and then? Jessie could not do deliberate wrong, how- ever she might err through frailty or ignorance, and what would wrong pro- fit the soul that was dearer than her ownP The singing went on, now soft- er, now stronger, like sea waves. "Put thou thy trust in God and be do- ing good, and he shall bring it to pass," the clear boy -voices sang, and before they ceased the dark spirit bold- ed his wings and sank into the depths of the everlasting storm, peace stole into Jessie's torn heart, crowned and winged presences seemed to draw near her. The evening prayers sank healingly into her soul, rears fell soft- ly over her pale and wasted Wrung face. Once more the organ storm broke forth in splendid tumult and the voices of the full choir pealed majestic- ally through it. "The Lord is King,be the people never so impatient; he sit- teth above the water flood, be the peo- ple never so unquiet." 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