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LOVE'S EXILE. 2
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"Perhaps I, Lord Edgar, should
'lave thought the honor too dearly
bought it I had known that it in-
volved my acceptance of a self-
appointed keeper of my conscience."
Our Host, Sir Wilfrid Speke,
now Interfered to calor
the passions which were rapidly get "I don't know," lltumbled Elva., the better of us, and, thrusting rather blankly. He added, hastily,
rayeagvw 'tinder my arm, bi lit me o ..I suppose the doctor knows best;
casr1ed me off, and, marching to
atcovert on the slope of a, hill where you'd better leave them alone.„ ,
was a noted warm corner, he told ?'Oh, yea.”
me good-humoredly to "let the birds A long silence, during which Edglet.
have It," and left me to myself and under the impression that it was
'Chem. part of a sick nurse's duty when the
a was in a very bad temper. En• patient showed signs of restlessnes,
raged by the recollection of Helen's pottered about the room, and at last
tampering coldness, by her brother's fell over something.
recently assumed dictatorship, and "I say, Edgar,' I began again,
by my own recklese want of self -con- "isn't my face a, good deal batter-
ta+ol a few minutes before, I was not ed on the right side ?"•
Lni the mood for sport. Was this to 1 heard him stop, and there was a
be the result of my determination little clash of glasses, 'lawn he
.to take life more seriously, that I spoke, with some constraint.
discovered my fiancee toube a fool, „Yes, a little. I daresay it will
my most honored friend a bore, and be some time before it gets all right.
myself capable of undreamt of depthsyou've no internal injuries or
of bad taste and 111 -temper? I would But brokebones,and that's the great
go back to my old life of languid chat
tea• and irresponsible dissipation, I thing." .
would dont.ent myself again with my The last statement was made so
fame as the handsomest man in effusively that It was not difficult
town, would accept my future wife for me to gather that my face was
for what she was, and not for what more deeply injured than he liked
she ought to be, give her the inane, to admit.
half-hearted attentions wheel " I know quite well," said I nom -
were so much more to her posedly, "that I shall have to well
baste than earnestness and devo- the proud ranks of the plain lifter
tion, and see thought and Lord Ed- the); I must cultivate my intellect'.
gar at the devil. and my virtues, like the poor girls
I felt much more inclined to soot whom we don't dance with 1 I've lost
myself than to open fire on the a finger, too, haven't 1 ? On nay right
phleasa,nts, bet ?headlong carelessness hand ?"
and not tragic intention, caused the " Only two joints of it," answered.
accident which ensued. In getting Edgar, with labured cheerfulness.
through a gait in a hedge, my gun " What wows' poor Helen say to
was caught by a briar as I'mounfted me if she could see my now ?" I sug-
to the higher groand on the other gested, rather diffidently.
side: I tried to free it, and hand- " Say I Why, whnt every true wo-
ling it cautiously, a sudden shock to man would say, butt she loved you
my face and right shoulder told me ten times better now you were dis-
tillate I had, shot myself. I was blinder"' figured than she did when you were
tor the moment, and trying to raise the counterpart or every other good -
my right arm I felt acute pain, and looking popinjay 1n town I"
blood trickling down my neck. 1 This, uttered with much ponder -
I tried to walk, but '1 staggered ous vehemence, was by no means re -
about and could make no progress, assuring to ale. In the first place,
so I leaned ngntnwt a tree and shout- it confirmed the idea that my injur-
ed: but my head growing dizzy, I les Would leave permanent marks. In
led
filled on theask
found myself ground,the second place, it led rile to
with, one wihh'—that I pliht live myself whether Helen's chief merit
long enough for some one to find me, in my eyes having been good looks,
and receive the inert instructions my chief merit in her eyes might
by which 1 could atone to pretty not have been the saute.
Helen for the vulgar earnestness ofAs I said nothing, Edgar, now Hilly
my love. awake, came nearer to the bed, and
My next recollection le of said solemnly: "You do Helen In-
a
dull
it sed' In the distance, justice, Harry."heard,asseemed', then of pnin grown suddenly more \rill yell taught me to da her in -
acute net 1 %vas moved : all the time I justice, Edgar.
could Sort nothing, anal I had only At first he said nothing to this,
just time to understand that I was and I knew that he understood me,
being carried along by friends whose But presently I felt his hand laid
voices I recognized, wizen I fell again emphatically on my left shoulder,
into unconsciousness. and he began an a low, earnest voice:
1 recovered to find myself back (It ' "Look here, old chap, that's not
Sir Wiltrid's ; a doctor was dressing quite fair. I may have inveighed
my wounded head and examininei against the intellectual.infer[ority of
my shoulder ; there was a bandage women scores of times when you •en-
acrose my eyes, and In trying to courage(' me by feeble protest. I
speak I found that the right side of may have spoken of my own sister
my face was aims bonne up. I passed fie an example of the sweet and silly.
the night In some pain, and must When you saw her and be-
have been for part of it light-headed,
came inf:ttnot eel about her I
as I discovered two or three days always listened to your rill
later, when Edgar, tomtit moved, told Bodies in silence because T couldn't
we that I had implored everybody endorse your ()pillion was that she as
who came near me to witness that
1 left all 1 possessed to Lady Helen
an angel. But I was glad you had
Normanton, and had begged for the taken a fancy to the child, and I
pen and paper I could not have used, knew that you might have done much
to execute lay proposed will. worse. We'll, mp opinions have under -
During the next few y'a ye gone no transformation. The women
Edgar hardly ever left my bed- of the middle class, whom it is now
side. My head and eyes were the fashion to educate ; the women
still kept tightly bandaged, of the lower class, nem have to
so theta I (could neltiter see nor speak, work, may be coni ilered as reasoning
nor take solid food. Seeing me in this . creatures, varying, as men clo, In
piteous condition, Adger, like the their reasoning powers. But the an -
good fellow ho wee, decided that ser- men of the neper classes, pur sang,
mons were oat of season, and that oho are equally above education end
I must be amused. His humor, how- labor, may be ranked all together,
ever, being of a houluwhat slues with the exception of those whom
and cumbroue kale adapt- alliance with the class below has
ed to hie eke, 1 took advantage of regenerated, as more or less fasein-
my enforced silence to let luint joke acing idiots, whose minds are cramp-
on unheeded, while my own theuglits .'d by unnatural and ignorant meat -
wandered dreamily away to my life dices, and in whom an capstone' ray
o[ the past few years, and to the of intelligence taverns itself In mere
odd, quickly dieeovcred nnetake in retake, of art, of philanthropy or of
which it had lately (eliminated.1 religion." awake and then said :
was surprised by the persistency "Then if yon are logical, yeti 'wilt. ellen°, Edgar, is that you ?"
with which Heten'a placid silliness enol be marrying; a barmaid." "Yes. Hew do you feel?"
tormented ole, fresh instances of "1 drink not. Iiarmaids are ,:clung "Oh, ever we much better. Ishan
it coming every hour trtto my mind Wan)0u, wile by the exacting de -
until 1 began to ask myself whether i mane Of their calling, are 1)onnd to be getting cal) soon, nosy."
be inanity ctcti\•P intelligent ani "'Well, you mustn't be in too great
Edgar, there's a fire flickering in
the grate, isn't there ?"
"Yes, why ?"
"Well, it I can see that quite well,
why on earth do they ate' keep the
bandages over my eyes ? I know
they were afraid of my going .blind.
But I haven't ; so what's it for ?"
with therm while , , t'r,'ono kuoRva
that au ugly nitro wee 's quicker pro -
great; with them time tt itt4udsome
ulu ;'•
"Well, 1 should ilea to judge what
sort of progress wt t.t• theta my ugll-
ttees is likely to melte. Clive 111e a
looks fig gIAt ."
But ire would, not. IL' said the doc-
tor ltad forbidden, me to use my eyes
eta, that my face wee still an -
healed, fend the bandages must not
be moved. An 1 timelier he
declined to talk to am any longer,
r
, sleep.
and told me to but l i
I watt not satisfied. I knew that I
WAS getting well fust, that there
woe no need to keep to bed, and I
felt curious as ,tu tilt, reason of nw
still being kept so el lee a prisoner.
So I found an oppurtnnity witeu I
had been left, as they thought, asleep,
to remove the lUiuclttge from my
eyes with my left h:tut?. el)" sight
seemed as good tie ever, but tate skin
round my right eye seemed to be
tightly drawn. Tile window -blinds
were down, and as evening wits titan -
Mg on there was utile onough
to distinguish dimly the objects in
the room by the help) of the flicker -
1g f
out of
the fire. Igot
0 Of
n Ism
1
bed aria walked to the toilet -table,
,
but the looking -glass had been taken
away ; to the mantel -piece, with the
same result. I grew impatient, angry,
and rather anxious. There Was a
]rand -glass in my dressing -bag, if I
could only find that ; I remembered
that I had left. it in the dressing-
room. I dashed into the room, rand
as that, too, was darkened, I
furs ad to draw up the band. By
that movement 1 came faoe to
faoe with a sight so appalling
that, of all misfortunes my accident
has ever brought upon me, uoue I
think has given me a shock for the
first moment so horrible. 1 saw
before me'the figure of a man• with
thiel face of e, devil.
The right eyebrow, the right side
of the mouetache were gone, and the
hair as far ase th'e back of the right
ear. The whole of this side of the
face, from forhead to shin, was a
puckered drawn mass of blackened,
shrivelled skin, distorted mato gro-
tesque seams and furrows. The right
end of tine eye and the right corner
of the mouth were drawn up, giving
to th'e whole face a sinister and
evil expression. • After a few moments' contempla-
tion of my :new self, I turned away
from the glass, feeling sick with' dis-
gust and horror. In the first shock of
my discovery, no reflection that I
was looking upott the fearful sight
at its worst, and that the healing
work was still going on ,underneath
tliie scarred and desieuaated skin. came
to console me. '
My back turned upon my own
image, my etupefaction gave place
to rapid thought. I saw in a mom-
ent that the old coarse of my life
was at one blow broken up, that I
must begin again as if 1r had been
born that day. I must go away, not
only from my own friends, but from
the chance of coaling in contact
with them again. I meet leave Eng -
laud. Also, since if I were to make
m
1 tion. known I should uld be
in-
undated
Y
resolution.
undated w1t11 kindly meant disglla-
siens, I must breath no hint of my
intention until 1 was quite able to
carry it into execution. 1 was sure
that no one but the doctor, and per-
haps Edgar, had seen' my face in its
present condition, and that no dis-
cription could give to others any
idea of its appearance. I felt that
my bodily health and strength were
all that they had ever been, and
that nothing but the wish to keep
the knowledge of my disfigurement
from me as long as possible had
prompted the doctor's orders to me
to remain In bed and to retain the
bandages. It now, too, occurred to
me that delay might bring some
slight modification to my hideous- ;
ness, and I resolved to let nature
do what little she could, and not to I
eat ont on my travels until the mask •
which now covered one-half my face
had fallen off, and disclosed what-
ever fresh horrors might be under-
neath. Then I would, without let-
ting anyone see my face, start for
P efit of
Spa fortlleb.
n
• GPrma.n
some
my health ; before I had been away
three months I should be forgotten,
and free to wend my way wherever
I pleased. This idea, to a man to
whom life had begun to present
something like a deadlock, was not
without charm. Society viae a bore,
love a delusion ; now was the chance
to find out what else there was
worth learning iii life.
I heard Edgar's voles in the dis-
tance, and had only time to rush
back to bed, put on the bandages
round my face, and turn on my side
ne if asleep, before he came into the
room.
CHAPTER III.
As I heard Edgar creaking soft-
ly about the room, giving the im-
pression, even as 1 lay with my
eyes shut, unable to observe Ilia
elaborate movements, of great
weight trying to be light, my heart
emote me at the thought of deceiv-
ing him with the rest. "The ele-
phant," it had been a joke between
ourselves Mr me to veil him ; and
like a great elephant he was, kluge,
intelligent, gentle, nue, without a cer-
tain maseh'e beauty, with keen feel-
ings of loyalty and a tong, slow -
smouldering memory, with incline -
thine towards a laborious and some-
what painful sportiveness, Rebel
against kis sententious homilies as
1 occasionally might, he was a good
old fellow, and I was fond of hint.
I ino•vede a little to sltow him I was
MOther
and child, run down—there are
hundreds --lucky if you are not one.
And what do you think. they want?
They want rest and a change,.
and can't get either. Pity to speak
of it I `f'
Scott's 1~mulsion of cod-liver oil
i itself
is almost zest n
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the New York Museum of Natural Ille-
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eruption. Tee trouble may not arrive
for ages, and then again it may make
its appearance tomorrow, The pro-
fessor says that Manhattan Island,
Long Island, Staten Island, and
rt. relit?ofNc' jersey are of
1 ,l v t all w
p
my
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will all be 'totally destroyed by the
sante foveal. The ole lava streams,
now solidified rook like the Palisades,
are liable to break out again to per-
mit an outlet for the fires now im-
prisoned ;sty nature,"
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and until the last few years wee supposed to
be incurable. Fora great many years doe -
tore pronounced it a local diseaee and pros.
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Not Very Far Wrong.
(Chicago Chronicle.)
Recently a pastor was preaching
to children. After asking many ques-
tions and impressing 'on the minds of
the children that they must be saved
from sin he asked the question, "What
is sin ?” A bright little boy, six
years old, quick as thought, replied,
'Chewing, betaking, cursing and tear-
your
ear-
y!cn r pante."
the little blue-eyed lady had really
been born into the world with a soul
at all, And E0, no lunger suffering
bodily pain, I lay day' after duty,
very much ab::orbed by my own
self-questioning#, and by ;strange
dreams of a new Helen, who came
to me with the fair face and tort
eyes of the. 0141, but with bright in-
eylirewd. Consider lir'v such a wo- , a hurry. You have been patient so
man would be thrown away in the long, it would 1b.) a pit,v, to.destroy
ridiculous and empty existence led by your credit just at the last,"
our wives: How she would laugh tit ! "I am only waiting for my 'face to
tite temerity 10 •r este of the women heal now, of course. ]tat, I say, Ed
around her, aid despise ger do -gar, it will take a long time for
nothing 'husband 1 Without Counting. that to got alt right. Why part
that. elle might be (lemonlike(' by her of my cheek wne completely blown
telligen'ce In her gaze, whihperlttgnew position, aril add the mistake's :Tway'. It will be months, at least,
with her delicate late worth) of lett. 1 of a parvenue to the foibles of the.before dare show myself, I think I
and tcndernebs, ((ease into whi(.11 slip was admitted!; shall go to Rome German baths, and
1 woke, up etuldr niy ono night, still I "Titer, en the whole, yon will yon kflow, I don't know how long
hot with my sleeping Pitney that fide "Remain single, or tee. for Oita; I may frays to stay there. In the
revised edition of ray fiancee hail 'wife the uhual fool of me own Citse.'tw'nntime-•--ei
been with rime. I hid seemed to feel W11O will luxe the usual fool of hr'r to this meantime, Whet 914
her breath upon my cheek. even to 41W11 (lass for a buhhand." I "later sister•-- Heleii -.must know
feel the touch of her lips upon my ear, t " Ilia, Edgar," snit I, after a s,ht,rt ; that site In free."
as she told me my illness had taught parks, "1 :iii out (1 mini nit vim al", "nut noppoeing she doesn't want
her hew Mutat site loved me. 1 anti nee milli 14 14'84 wr>1l-rept%tt'•d " ter be fr'et•': iduppn:ainl;----„
thought I was answering her In pas- than yonre. I wane sr,metlaing in err, e, '..,1111,poafr,w OM has a, fancv for
elonete words nidi a great thrill of wife that you wrath' mit W.tit front b•1111" teal to a deatiee head? No,
joy In my heart, when I woke up and, yours, The resale tecesptttir;P re 10.I•�'l�,ttr, Ma, must 1,f, released at
found myself its usual in darkness and love teoul'1 mate'nuts-eaaun
nt Ince : I t: t,,,a,^, 7 wait yon to write a letter
elienec. it returnee,-
!
"];cigar !" 1 called vat ; "Edgar 1" But flee tam et the (rite tell the!" p?,,,lo•rft it 1'7,, h ays t the better for
Ile nnglvei'ed sleepily from a little effeet of irritating Edgar. t6'lttt !Lards- - a,ala erf n": •
(. •, '.
,resented 'A. P ( • t t,
any- :':Ill r hPllt 1 111 Mee 1 rf Ttt1V other r
way off, "Yes. lilt you want f 1'I'cs Ise *Continued.)
thing `:" nature having sleeper needs; tient t=14
"No, thank ecet" own. 006
A pans "It lenormo nrl:th i' tie t+ipeet, faint 1`J Neff) oft !etiquette.
I save, 1 went pal. a I'M mcmenttt •our phyroul tr 1 tomtitrrt1 ,tt• iur
, N ,iietfY.d,r P:fcp,'r v.t
later, "nobody hale been in the rnuln, power.; equal to our awn," ire laud 1 it �`trttPtit n,l'itr Lan been stoked
• they'?" la tone, of dainties:Li of this snbjeet i y
Lieu . nr � i point U 1 11 -
leant.
etre) t i l Plt Uil f t
"NO. t 3 1 11 t t I,sr li cat i
, [ I
ria -o -body, wvlth a yawn. "At , "'Tlyd'u how aril i to r vp , t fr,nr a I
leant, 1 inlay have doze 1, but 1 don't 1 Helen the power of looking at my , filtrate:
think -•-=-"r'
(il-figuleal facet wvr
ttiloiit horor,When ; Wink' rating int) haPertainbeta,
"No, of (warns nut." But.I Was her..
Ii I am, ay m0 means sur,. that 1 marlottler the tree ennui ie eaten, le It
rlbly wait; awah.e by tills tithe., Settle I hater felt redoubled devotion if a proper to leave t1 ., itpoon in the
Of tile 11lehiftes mond my head ; elmilar aceident lead ltnppener1 to elat;:e of take it out while drinking
having been rebtoVal for the first ?