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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1903-09-03, Page 7THE WINGUAM TIMES, SEPTEMBER 3, 1903 t. 1 BERTHA Jai CLAY CXoQtroomQmCXtaGoC TR sEcONL,: LOVE A STORY•OF LOVL', AND ARVENTURg. 1 Author of it Between Two [overt; •� Which Loved Him Best," t. A Fatal, Wedding," ". A Woman's Vengeance," "Between Two Sins." ) tai{X;i0l•Jit'rl/rs1-=1tVAMO1/f C: / 0{ '1'he civil maid asked, and a civil lady appeared, who did not know Kiss Sparrow. Miiss Sparrow was at Brighton, and her house Was let in she meantime, Mrs. Marker wrote .down her address for Georgy, and then vaguely asked if she could be of any further use to her, But (leorgy wanted nothing; she was going to see a friend who lived very near, and then she should go on to Brighton. Yes, she thought as she left the }rouse, she must go on to Brighton immediately; but first a pleasant I visit was to bo paid—she would see Mrs. Erskine, and from her she was very sure to have advice and •sympathy. Sho knew her road now, and passed through. the Square where ..she had often been as a child; the little plants, not so tail as herself ' then, were now respectable shrubs; the church with florid architecture, which she had watched building ' from the nursery windows, was fin- ished, and houses built in front of it, .so that she could only see the steep- 1o. She smiled to herself when she reached Mrs. Erskine's house; she !quad no misgivings as to the recep- tion which she would find, •and her ! only cause of fear was soon removed, ! for Mrs. Erskine was at home. I Sho was left waiting nearly ten minutes in the pretty, luxurious lit- tle drawing-room—then Mrs. Ers- kine appeared, saying that she was very tired and busy; she had just ;come to town, and, in truth, was preoccupied by her daughter's illness, money matters, and a whole train of annoyances of which Georgy knew 'nothing. ! "So you are conte to town! How pleased you must bo; your aunt is such a kind, gentle creature, it must be pleasant to stay with her." "Yes; I think she will bo very kind." 'You must come and see me again; to -day I ain very busy and tired. I only got back yesterday night from 1 poor Julia's; she is far from well, ' and they are taking her to Edin- , burgh," i 1 am very sorry, dear Mrs. Ers- kine." "Everybody has their miseries, my dear; it is of no use troubling others . with them, so I will not bore you." "I think I must go to Brighton," • "(rather hesitatingly); but Mrs. Era - ;.kine had not paid attention. "Oh, Brighton! I thought yon • were going to stay here; but Bright - ,.on will be very pleasant in this fine weather; I only wish that poor Julia —" Iter sentence was broken orf • by the entrance of visitors; two talk- ative ladies, one young and one mid- i• dle-aged, intimate friends of Mrs. "Erskine's, for they talked over Julia • and her case; and then—James Ers- , kine came in. He looked worn and tired; greeted tho ladies, and then Miss Suntion. "Oh, Miss Sandon! it is quite a pleasant surprise to see you; I did not know that you were coursing to London." He shook hands; but she was in a .corner by Mrs. Erskine, and his nat- ural place was on the other side of the room. The elder lady told some .story; and, being opposite to Geor- gy, courteously recognized her pres- ence, addressing it partly to her; but it was a story, the point of which. 'Hung on the knowledge of Charles ! •Seymour, and Luis peculitr idiosyn- .crasies. Georgy did not know him. anh felt tho separation from them all ;.Charles Seymour, was there to be"out of humanity's reach;" for, osa- .dently, the lady no more expected her to be ignorant of who ho was, than of who was reigning in Prance . at that time. Tho conversation con- tinued in the same unintelligible frame to Georgy, for a few moments, • and then the ladies roso to go. They, !veto relations, probably, for Mr. Erskine called the young lady Kate, and sho spoke to hint as James. Her mantle caught in the screen, just as they were going, and ho caught hold ',of her shoulder just in time to pre- vent tho ruin of the whole garment. "Kate is too bad," said her mo- ,ther; "she is very extravagant, and stakes no care of her things when she .has got them." "One must have clothes in Lon- 1r.don," pleaded Kato. • "Of course," answered James, con- fidentially; "if they throw this torn manta In your tett, get another ono toassert yourself." "There, do you hear what Tames says, mamma?" "What? now wo must go, Kate," and James helped te, replace the torn trimming on the mantle; but she never looked at hien, for the mantle and its safety was uppermost in her thogghts, "Is Mrs. Sandon in London?" ask- ed James, in an absent way; and then, as the ladies descended tho staircase, he crossed to tho table, took possessidn of a newspaper, at which ho had evidently been aiming, and slipped out of the room. "James is terribly busy just now." "Perhaps you aro too, Ars. Ers- kine?" "Wel{, my dear, I willnot ask you to stay to-day;I am so tired, and am not fit for anything." She had just laughed heartily, and taken a keen interest in Charles Sey- mour. "You must mind and come another day, and tell ale all about yourself.. They are all well at Grainthorpe, I Hope?" "Quito. well." "I am glad to hear it," said sho, leaning back, and relapsing Tato sil- ence. Georgy rose to go; she felt so shy, that to say good -by, seemed difficult. "What did you say about Brighton? You will conte and see tae, you know, witch you return." She was evident- , ly bored. "Good -by," murmured Georgy. "Good -by, dear, mind you " and at a letter which the servant handed to her, sho exclaimed, "Ohl there is an answer;" and forgot about Brighton till Georgy was gone, and then thought, "Ohl of course she will come again before she goes; I frightened face; everything was should like to sec her, poor child;" growing strange to her; she only ro- and presently, all recollections of her membered that he had forgotten her, visit vanished front Mrs. Erskine's and that she had resolved never to mind. throw herself in his way again. He Georgy Ieft the house; she had nov- knew, too, that she loved Rinn— er before known what disappoint- everybody must know it. 'l'hey did Stomach Disorders and Backache A sufferer for years entirely cared of old troubles bYiDi.ver Plus's ltidney- t MR. 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There are very few cleans- ing operations in which Sunlight Soap cannot be used to aclvant. age. It makes the home bright and clean. >i>s Ono or ttva people stared at leer' as they passed, which very much dis- concerted her; nod a nervous fever seized her, lest she should meet some one whom she knew at Eastham. If she had seen her o'Wn face, however, she need not have been astonished; it was oquite colorless, and her lips were blue rather than pale. Just as she saw a cab, and beckoned to it, a hand was laid upon her shoulder; she started violently forward, but the hand still held her; she fancied it was Mr uncle, or a policeman, and turned round frightened. It was on- ly Mr. Erskine. "Miss Sandon, for Heaven's sake, what is the matter with you? Where are you going? What has happen- ed?" "Let me go! I want nothing." "Miss Sandon, you had better come home to my mother's." "Let me go! I don't want you," she said, pushing hint back, and then leant against the railings. "Where shall I take you? Cannot I be of some use? Where s,re you going?" "I don't know," she answered, still drawing hack, and clinging to the rails for support. The cab was there, but she did not recollect who had called it. "Pray get in." "I ant going back to the hotel, and then to Brighton," turning round as if she meant to walk on; but she trembled so that she could hardly stand. "My dear Miss Sandon, you had better come with etc, and tell me what is the natter when you are quieter." She looked at him with a guilty, ment was. She had never known bo -at Grainthorpe, surely; and she had fore how she had flung her whole ex -1 disgraced herself forever. He knew istonce on tlio hope of a few kind : b how glad slue had been at the words. She never knew till then, thought of seeing him again, and how weak and helpless she was. She was angry with her for it. The on - had thought that she could fight her 1 distinct consciousness that she way alone; and now it seemed as if possessed was that he knew of her only the hope of seeing Mrs. Erskine ' love for him; her guilty conscience and her son, had brought her away, told her this, as clearly as a murder - from Grainthorpo. er is persuaded that all chance pass - She walked on through the Square, ers-by are scanning him 'curiously. and then back again very quickly, for She bent down her head, and said, Nearly all the next day Georgy she felt that sho had need of some- "I don't want you; I am going my I lay in bed, in a dreamy state of hap - thing to quiet her; and thew she went own way. I can take care of my- piness. She could hear the voice of on again a long way, and reached self, thank you; let me go," and she Mrs. Erskine and her son as they the park near ICensington Gardens; started away from hien. talked in the mother's room, told she wont in there and sat down. Her He took hold of her arta, so that she heard his step on the staircase pia. Why did you not tell her?'f "Thank yon, you ore very, kind-..* will you, then, send a note for ane„ I that I may -get my aunt's direction? and when I out rested a little, I will go." "1 will send a note wherever you please; but won't you have some tea first?" "Yes, if you like." "You shall have some, and then you can start for Brighton !tttane- iliately. You should not have gone away so quickly this morning. I thought that I should still find you when I came upstairs again." ".lid you?" (simply.) "Yes. Why did you not tell nay mother all about yourself?" "I think I should have told her, perhaps, only she was very busy about other things." "Note, lie down upon the sofa again, and rest; you look half dead. You know we are cousins; you can stay here with my mother." "Thank you; but you see there is my aunt." "Yes, of course, you are going to Brighton directly you have had tea." When he laughed about Brighton, she gave up the subject, and laid quietly down upon the sofa. Ile went away, but when he reached the door, came back, and then smoothed her hair with his stand. "You are not angry with me, are you, for ordering you about so unceremoniously?" "No," she replied, sadly, her face flushed meannuterily, but she did not open her eyes. She still felt that she ought not to be there, and must go quickly, The tea camp presently, and then Mrs. Erskine; her scut had told her all about Georgy, and she did nothing but reproach herself for the morning's heartlessness, kissed Georgy, and insisted upon her going instantly to bed. It was of no use resisting, for Mrs. Erskine was not easily contradicted. She had not drank the tea, so she should have brandy and water. Georgy remonstrated. James sug- gested that if Miss Sandon did not like it, she had better be left alone, "It was good for her—James knew northing about sick young ladies, and ruiesense to talk of little Georgy's getting those silly Ideas about music into her head; it is like yourself, dear another, who take up things so warmly, to encourage her; besides, she would net bo able yet W play ua Iublir.'." "1 never thought that she would; but she might certainly give it:c- pons." "That Would not suit her; she could not, poor, dear child; she is too excitable for such grinding work; It would wear her to death." "How you do talk! Georgy particularly sensible and calor; not in the very least excitable, 1 should say; and all the happier for it, oto doubt; besides, is nobody ever to (10 tthttt they don't like in this world?" And then the conversation dropped. Julia had gone to Edinburgh, where: Mfrs. Erskine proposed soon to follow her; and it was settled that she should take Georgy to Millthorpe Grange, whence she had decided, in her own mind, that the reconciliation should take place with Mr. Scanlon, who was very angry, and refused to be reconciled to Georgy, unless she could give hila some satisfactory reason for her conduct. Georgy's life, in the meantime, was the most eventful she had ever pass- ed. She spent early mornings play- ing or reading in the drawing -room; then people tante to call, and James always wanted to know why she would not talk nu,re? She answer- ed, that. people tvho lived at Grain- thorpe could not be expected to talk, and that listening was sufficient oc- cupation. She drove out with Mrs. Erskine, and the ladies' drives were very pleasant; Mfrs. Erskine: paid vis- its, hilst Georgy sat in the car- riogow, Sonneitnes they drove into the country: the London count.ry— aniong dusty lilacs, elms and clipped limes. The elder lady talked some - Ones about her children, sometimes, perhaps about other things. Georgy was a gond listener! she certainly possessed thnt requisite for agree- ability. Again and again, Mrs. Ers- kine spoke of James; she dreaded her son's marriage with anybody, and yet, vas ahvays anxfotts that it was not to interfere,." Then the two should tak.. place. The more ladies went upstairs, Mrs. Erskine she disliked it, the more she desired maintaining "that James would be that it should be over. That he late for dinner if he did not dress should make himself a name, a house, immediately." "It was not far and a position, was the wish that across the park where he was going, lay nearest of all others to her and he shouldn't." Ile came, laugh- heart; try as she might to disguise ing, half way up the staircase to in- it to herself, by talking of the worth - quire "if Miss Sandon would not lessness of this world's goods. She start for Brighton Immediately?" was often ready to talk of Mrs. Ev- "Now, do go at once, James," said erett; not, of course, as if she c'ctuld Mrs. Erskine; and nt last he did go. take any vital interest in her, but Hearing them talk and laugh made indifferently, as she might mention Georgy feel more at home than any any of the little idiosyncrasies of an systematic comfort could have Empress of China. She hoped that douef Mfrs. Erskine said that she her son's wife would never stand be - should not talk; but before she left tween them, "else what good would her, had received a whole account of her life do her;" and then she came Georgy's departure from Grain- out frankly with the wish that her thorpo, and the reasons for it. She son would marry soon. heartily sympathized with Georgy's "There is no one at 'Merton, behavior, and wanted to write to where he goes often; the girls are Mr. Sandon immediately: taking up perfect. misses; I do not court them, the whole affair as heartily as if she consequently there is no ono." • herself had been requested to marry "Mr. Erskine seems to enjoy him - Captain Anstruther. self tolerably at Ilderton, I think," answered Georgy; "he often used to talk about it.' "Yes; married people are pleasant- er than girls. Mrs. Edgar Everett is a very agreeable person, I ant told; besides poor young Mrs. Francis; but you can't marry a ntarried per- son, you know." Georgy laughed at this defiant tru- ism, and did not refute it by,, sug- gesting that Mrs. I'rancis Everett rata a willow now. "Girls are not generally very amusing," she said; "I should not care very much for their society myself, if I were a man." "My dear, I must tell you ono tiling—never be sarcastic, with sten, especially; they trill not like you for it; and the older you grow•, the more you will feel how really un- womanly it is." "Indeed. dear Mrs. Erskine, I dis- like sarensn very much in theory, so I hc:pe I do not practise it mush." "Well now, remember; Junes, he is one of ourselves. hut other people you should take a little more care to please; you are she'll rather than sarcastic to them. James, you know, does not signify, and he likes 3 ou so tnttcit as you are." She smiled, and laughed out, quiet- ly: "No, he does not signify," and now their drive ended. An irresistible fit of inward hilari- ty had seized Georgy, and she mo- mentarily enjoyed a joke against her- self. "Ile did not signify!" and what else on earth did? Were there many other people in the world living such a passive lie as herself? for she might never own that he "signified," And something whispered that it was, perhaps, a misfortune, her hav- ing ever come to that house. Her infatuation might have passed more quickly—passed as many others do, so ardent and absorbing, raised upon far slenderer grounds than this one was. So frail, so almost laugh- able is the foundation of our youth's great reality, that rfiany a love will not bear to be chronicled; it must go, and we shall laugh ourselves some day. Goorgy elan, other people besides (To be conttuued) sense of degradation was overpower- she could not get loose. "Get in di- ing. rectly, Miss Sandon; wo shall have a What had she gone to Mrs. Ers- crowd round us if you don't take kino's for? She was only an as care. For Heaven's sake get in, and quaintance; they had received her as you shall go wherever you like; get such; and what more had she to ex- pect? Why had she built, like a child, upon a few good-natured, well - meant words? Oh, she had built so trustingly and so Iiterally! Sho had not presumed, she knew—but she had clung too confidingly to a few words. Goorgy obeyed, and then her tears burst forth. She very seldom cried; but, oven as n. child thought it a de- gradation to cry before company, now she was horrified beyond meas- ure at her outburst. She leant back, There was only one hope in the hid her face, and every now and then world that warned her heart. and sobbed, not loudly, but so convul- that was gone. None can tell, until sivoly that she seemed half torn to some day like that which she was pieces in her efforts to restrain her - passing now, how much hope has self. Mr. Erskine looked at her dis- mingled with even the most irration- mayed for• a minute, and then fairly al love, while they sophistically put his arm round her, and said, fun - make out to thedpselves that no such ploringly, "Miss Sandon, Georgy, be hope exists. quiet; I will take care of you. Georgy sat ,still for a long time. Why did you go away so quickly More than two hours had she boon this morning? \Vhy didn't you stay there before she roused herself, and with us? I will take care of you." remembered that she could not sit 130 Georgy was quiet, and presently longer; it was a cold summer's day, ho found that she had fainted. There and the cast wind parched and chill- ed her. She asked herself again why she was unhappy. It seemed to her that sho had just been cast off from hornet and hope; and yet—sho hacl ex - melted nothing, She asked the oeee- tfort stupidly now, and with a sort of bewilderment at herself. She had come all this way to see him, but had not known it before. Her mis- ery was so great that there must bo some relief. This tido of shame and disappointment was more than could bo borne. She had suffered almost to the full extent of which her nature was capable of enduring. Sho was very tired and .hungry, and an odd vision was passing through hor brain, of all sorts of cool, quiet resting -places, where she Wright lie down and sleep, and nev- er wake. She went out of the, park, and walked on to the next pastry - cook's which sho couid find; but she was not hungry when she reached it, and only asked for a glass of water. tihe took out her purse, but the Wo- man said sho wanted no payment for the water; the lady was welcome to take a rest if she pleased; but sho looked so hard at her that Georgy did not like to sit there to be stared at, and wont away. She must go to Brighton that evening, for she should not have money to stay at the inn alb night, she feared; and as she walked slowly on, she looked in her poct.et for tho address of her aunt at Brighton. It was not there! Sho had forgotten its Peop,o Who have never been forced to travel alone, are often at first very careless; by *ray of showing their coolness, perhaps; or oleo very fidgety. Goorgy was of the first class, and trusted too implicitly to chance in all her arrangements. She lard taken out hor handkerchief sev- eral tines, and the direction aright bo lying on ]Ira. Erskine's carpet, might have been loit in the park, or left at the pastry -cook's; She went back to the last-named place --taut could not find it• -«-she must return to Mrit. Barker's then, to tisk for it again; and, in spite of her light purse, the must take a cab, for she �5'viw dI111, rtlad titullid _ wi.tit fatiguei was some reason for it. After days of greater excitement than she had over known, she had travelled all night in a. fever of her own raising. Sho had been too restless to cat breakfast, and then had wandered about nearly all day. She never again thought she should see James Erskine, and now he was here, and had bidden hor come norne with faro. CHAPEIt XII. Georgy was soon herself again in Mrs. Erskine's little drawing -room. Mr. 'Erskine was still there, and a. maid who took off her bonnet and brought her some wino. "Will you rest now?" he said. "No; I am going; it Is so late." "Whore?" "To Brighton." "Brighton in general, or some par- ticular place?" ho answered, smiling. "I will tell you;" and theft, on making a slight movement, she caught sight of her face in the glass, and laughed faintly. "Oh, what a figure I am!• no won- der people stared at inc." "It is no wonder. Bo not you think arc justified in stopping you, Miss Sandon, and taking you any- where, event to the police office?" "I don't know," she said, still survoying herself fit astonishment. "You are much paler than any iiheot, and there is nothing alive about you but your eyes." "I expected to find my aunt in London, acid she is at Brighton. I must go to her; but I have lost her direction;" Georgy wont on, regard- less of his remarks. regard- les, doesn't she expect you?" "No; I left Grainthorpe last night; sho doesn't know about it," "Who decal" "'1Vobody," "Miss Sandon, then you mean-- you --ran away." "Yea, Mr. Erskine," she answered, rather amused at his curiosity. Ilis quiet manner had calmed her, and her position seemed more natural. "Why did you not coupe here, then? my Mother 'would have taken (:are of as he went downstairs again. Then Mrs. Erskine carne in and out with various little details of her house- hold doings, and. the news of Lon- don, which made her gradually rea- lize that this was London, not Grainthorpe. In the evening she came down, and sat alone in the drawing -room. Mrs. Erskine and James were nut again. To go out two evenings run- ning secured a great stretch of dissi- pation to Georgy; she wondered if it was very amusing? Wondered what the mental condition of any one who went out two evenings running was? Whether they ever remembered any one particular person long, or cared for them much? She watched the carriages passing, as the fashionable world went to and fro, and then caught glimpses of people in the drttwiog-room opposite. She hardly dared to touch the pianoforte that first evening, and she sat idly at the window till it grew dark, and she was half asleep; and long before the other two came home, Georgy had gone to her room and was asleep itt reality. Nearly a month was passed by her with the Erskines; they would not let her go to I3righton; and when her aunt, or rather great-aunt, returned to London, Mrs. Erskine had decided upon taking Gcorgy with her to Miillthorpe Grange, and from thence attempting, or rather insisting ennui a reconciliation with her Uncle Rob- ert. Georgy sincerely wished to go to Mies Sparrow's; but Mrs. Erskine so resolutely urged upon her the duty- of attempting to make peace with Grainthorpe, that she consent- ed to remain with them, Mrs. Ers- kine rather romantically adopted Georgy's declaration that she would begin to teach music. "Certainly, it was what she would do in Georgy's place." And she began to talk of her having a few lessons, and begin- ning to work at music. Mr. Erskine treated all this as ro- mance, and said that he had not ex- pected his mother would push such wild ideas into Georgy's head. "But what is she to do, dear?" Oh! something will turn up; something will be settled soon, I date say." "But if upthing is. One could not advise it; that would go against one's conscience; but if she would one's conscience; but if she would only sober down sufficiently to mar- ry this good, excellent loan, it would perhaps be the best thing." "Good. excellent idiot! She Was quite right to refuse him, poor child." "I wish she would go back to Grainthorpe; it will never do dor her to break with Mr, Sandell." "Iltrrid people! She is much bet- ter away." "Don't be foolish; what is she to do, Janes?" "Well, marry that inane !dint, or, —somebody else. I dare say you are right, another; women will marry anybody;" he uttered this compre- hensive action with philosophic bit- terness. 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