The Sentinel, 1882-03-03, Page 6• IftER BY AkIr _PAST.
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A SOCII,E(i5r NOVEL.
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• By the author of " Bdith tette," "Mildred
" Forreat geese," -chateau d'_Or," ete.t
- Oh, yes! /Caddy would never forgetthat
. Morning or the tiger ride they'd had. She
• had enjoyed it iio•. much, and she thanked
' him many times for his kindness, as she
• stood waitingfer him to Orli() away, feeling
no tremor whatever When at parting he,
took and held her hand,1- smoothing it
gently, and telling her it was growing fat
and plump again: •Ile was & very nide
doctor, uniola better than she had imagined,
Elie thought, .as she Went slowly to the
house and entered the neat kitchen; where
her grandmother *sat shelling peas for
, dinner, and her grandfather in his arm -
°heir was whispering over • his Weekly
paper. . • •
"Did you meet a. grand lady. in a oar-
• riage ?" grandma asked,' as Maddy sat
down beside her, . •
• "Yes; and Dr. Holbrook said it wasMre.
Remington, from Aikenside, Mr. Guy's
stepreether, and that she was marc than
tWenty-fiveyearsyounger than her hue-,
band -isn't it dreadful?. I thought so;
but the doctor didn't seem to," and in a
.
perfectly artless manner Middy repeated
much of the conversation Which. had
. passed betwaenthe doctor and herself, ap-
pealing to her grandma to know if she had
not taken the right side.of the argument.
"Yes, child, you did," and grandma's
hands lingered among the light green peas
in her pan, as if she were thinking Of an
entirely foreign subject. • "1 knc,w nothing
about this mis:Rembigtoh, only that she
stared a good deal at the house as she Went
by; even looking at no through a grass, and
jilting her spotted veil after she got by.
She may have been as happy as a queen
with her man, but is a general thing these
unequal matohes. don't - work, and had
better not be thought on. SPosin.' you.
- !Ioniathink you was, in love with some-
body, and. in a few years, when you got
old.er be sick- of him. It might do hire a
-hails hesitated to offer her a home as long
as she chose to remain, but, as it was; he
felt that Lucy Atherstonewould_ be much
'happier alone with him. Lucy, however,
was not coining yet, andinitil she did come
Agues perhaps ;night stay. It certainly
WOuldbe better for Jessie, who could have
a teacher in the house and. it was -upon
these matters thatlie-was reflecting.
As if divining his thoughts Agnes said to
him rather &limpet:
"Guy, Ellen Laurie writes . me that
they are an going to Saratoga for a tiME,
and then to Newport, and she wishes -I
would join thew. Do you think'I can
afford it • • • .
"Oh, yes; that's fipiendid, and I'll stay
here while you are gone - I like Aikenside
so much better than Boston. Maziana can
afford it, can't she Guy?" Jessie • *m-
ole:haled, dropping her flavors and springing
upon, her brother's knee.
Smoothing her blight hair and pinching
her soft cheek, Guy replied: - • - ,
" Tharneans, I suppose, that I can .aftord-
dentit ? but I; too, was thinking just
now about ,you staying here, where you
really do improve.". • - •
Then turning to Agnes he made some
iriquiries, as to the plans proposed by the-
liauries'ascertaining that Agnes' plan was
that he should invite her to go with him to
Saratoga, or Newport, or both, and that
Jessie,- meantime, should roman' at Aiken -
side, lust. as she wished' kr do. .. •
Guy could not -find Much pleasure hi
-
escorting Agnes o a fashionable watering:
piece'particularly as he was expected .to
pay the - bilis; but he sometiwes- .did
unselfish things, and is he had not been
very graciousto her OH the OCCELsion of her
last visit to Aikenside, he decided to martyr
himself and go to Saratoga. I But. who
Would woe for. Jessie? She. Inuit not be
left *holly with the servants. A
governess of some kind must be provided,
and he was about speaking of this to Agnes,
when the doctor was annorineed,-- and the
conversation timed into wither channel.
Agnes- RemingtOn- would not .have con-
fessed how muchshe was interested in Dr, -
Holbrook. Indeed, only that morning, in
sight of harm. That's what spoilt your -reP_IY-to- joking remark made -to -her -IT
poor uncle- joetple who's-bieen m the hos-
pital at_Wercesterigoin' on nine years."
"It was 1" and. Macidy's face was all
aglowwiththe interest she always evinced
whenever 'mention was Made of the one
• great hying -sorrow , of her 'grandmother's
life ----the shattered intellect and isolation
from the world of h.er youngest brother,
who; as shasaid, had for nearly nihe years'
been an inmate of a mad house
•
• "Tell me about it," 1)1a,dcly continued,
• • bringing &pillow; ata Iying down upon the
faded lounge beneatb. the window.
"There Is lig great to tell„ only he was
many years younger than I. - He's only
forty-one now, and was several years older
• - than the girl he wanted. Joseph was
smart and handsome, and a_ lawyer, and
folks said a sight too • good, for the girl,
whose folks were just nothing, but she had
a. pretty face, and her long -curls bewitchecl
him. She couldn't have been older than
- you When: he first., saw her, and she was
- only 'sixteen. when they • got engaged:
Joseph's life. was !hound; up in her; he
worshipped the. very air she breathed, and
. -Mika she mittened. him; it almost took his
life. He Was too old for her, she said; and
then right on top of that We heard after a
little that she had married some big bug, -1
never knevr -who, plenty old enough to be
her father That settled it with Joseph;
hs went into a kind of melancholy, grew
worse and Worse, till' We put- him in the
hospital, his little property to pay the
.- until it was --all gone, and now he's on
• cbaxity, you know,, exceptiir the little we
• . do. That's f Who 'tie about your uncle
Joseph, and. I warn_ all young girls not to
. think - toe muck ,of nobody. They are
• bound.- to get sick of 'em,' and it makes
. dreadful Work."'
•Greed- Pia had an Object in telling this to
Muddy, for she was not blind, to the nature
�!the doctor's intermit. in her child, and
though it gratified her . she felt that
rit must net be, both for his sake and
Middy's, so she told the sad story of uncle
• Joseph as a warning to Middy, who could
scarcely be said to need it. _Still it made
an impreepien on. her, and ,all that -after-
noon she was thinking of the unfortunate
man, whom she had seen but 'once, andthat
in: his- prison: home?. -where she had been
with her grandfather the only time she had
.. ever ridden in the ears. He had taken her
in his arms then, she remembered, and
called: her his little Sarah. Perhaps that
was the name of his treacherous betrothed.
And she asked her grandmother if it were
• net so. i• • •
"Yee,- Bei& Mottle • was her name, and
her f ace was handsome as dell," grandma
replied; and, wondering if she - was as
beautiful as Jessie, or :Sessie.'s mother,
-
• *add, went: back to her reveries of the
poor maniac in the asylum, whom Sarah
Morris_ had wronged so cruelly.
cHAtTERNin.
SHADOWINGS OE WHAT WAS to- BE.
-It was very pleasant' Aikenside that
afternoon, orid the cool breeze blowing from
the miniature- fish -pond _ in 'One oorner. of
• the grounds cal:weaseling into the. hand-
s:erne parlors, where Agnea Remington, in
• heconiing_ tenet, reclined languidly upon
• thesofa, bending Her graceful head to Suit
the height a Jessie, who was twining some
newer& among her curls, and occasionally
appealing to Guy to know ".if it was not
pretty." •
In his favorite ,•seat in the pleasant bay
window, opening into the. garden„ Guy was
tatting, apprently reading a book, though
- his, eyes did not MOT& very rapidly, awn
the page,. for his thoughts were on some
other subject. When his pretty step-
mother first came to Aikenside, three
Moths before, he had been half sorry, -for
he knew just_ how : his quiet would be
distarbed, - but- as the weeks went by, and
• he became abaustomed to. jessie's childish
. prattle. and frolicsome ways, while even
Agnes herself was not a baa picture for his
• handsoine home, he began to !eel how he
• Should this them when they were gone,
Jessie particularly, who made 80 much sun-
Ethihe wherever she went, ana: who was
very dear to the heart of the half-brother.
He knew, too, that Agnes wand rather.
stay there, for her income did not warrant
• as luxurious a home who_ could give her,
end -by remaining at Aikenside during the
Guy, the had petulantly exclaitned: -
"The idea Of my caring for bun,eacept
as friendand- Why; he moot
be youngerthanI am, or at Most about my
age.. A, mere boy, as it were."
And yet, in making heitnilet that after-
noon she had arranged every part of her
dress with direct reference to the "mere
boy," her heart beating faster every time
she remembered the White son -bonnet and
the Scotch plaid shawl she had seen beside
him when driving that morning. tittle
Middy Clyde would hardly have credited the
storyhad she beentold thatthebeautif ul lady
teem. Aikenside was positively jealous of,
Dr. Holbrook's-attentions to herself; yet it
was BP, and the jealousy Was all the more
bitter when she remembered who Madeline
was; and how startled that aged couple of
the red cottage would be, could they know
who she was. But they -did not; she was -
quite Sure- Of that; and so she had ventured
to pass their door, her heart throbbing with
.0 strange, sensation as the old way -marks
WM& in view, way -marks Which she remem-
bered so well, and around which so many
sad Memories were clustering. Agnes was
not all bad Indeed she wasecarcely worse
than inwit vain; selfish, fashionable worneli ;
and alt that day, since- • her return from
riding, haunting, reniorseful thoughts Of
the long ago had been clinging to her, mak-
ing her more anxious. to. leave- that . neigh--
borhood for a time atleast, and in scenes
Of gaiety. forget, if possible, that such
things as broken vows or broken hearts"
•
partly as
teacher
awoke Mr
“ Guy,r
coMpapion___and - partly as ..her,
was Guy's next quastion,--- which:
. Agile* at 'ono& from her reverie.;
she exclaimed," are you crazy?.
That chil _ Jessie's governess' No, indeed!
I Shall have a teacher - from Boston -one!
who'se manners and style are Unezception- ,
able, • . . . = - - J
. Guy hada-will of. his own, and few could
provoke i into action as effectually ine
Agnes who, in thus opposing him, was
working= directly against' herself; raying:
her no attention, except to bow 'in token 1
that " he - heard, Guy , asked jesiiie her
.
-Opinion.- - • - - • _
. .
"Oh, it will be splendid! Can she coma
to -morrow? I . shan't care how -bug you,
are genial Loan have Maddy here, andthe-
dootof will come up every day, will you.
not?" said the soft eyes - looked up plead-
ingly int:tithe actor's face.. _ •
,
. "It is-ziot settled yet thatMaddycopies,":
the dooto : replied adding, as an answer to
Guy's qu istion: _" If Agnes were willing„ II
do not traink .you could le better than
secure lIaSs Clyde's_ services.- Two Children
Will thus be happy, for Maddy,_ as T-jhave
941
-told you, thinks- Aikenside- must he-a:little
lower th Paradise. - I-ehall be happy to
open neg tiations if you say so.""I'll ride down- and let- youltitoWle----
marrow "i Guy said - :"_These domestic
, i. - '. . ___ .
matters, where there Al& a difference -of:
opinion; ore hatter discussed-- alone -,11 and he
turned god-hiimoredly toward Agnes, who
knew it was useless to oppose Iiint-then.: - ---,,
•,..- But sha aid oppose him. thatnight„ after
the doctof had gone, taking -it firtit-thehigh
stand -that sooner than have& -ciiiiiiitrY,-girt,
,like Madly Clyde associated daily_:_-Witb-her
daughter whether - as teacher or coin,
panion, she would_ glee . up, Saratoga and
;,
stay at h *me. Guy aqui& net-eXplain. why
it was th 0 oppesitionlrenr-Agnee_alWala
aroused tiel his powers of antagonikm,
Yet so it Wee and new he vailillly--deter--
mined th t-Maday. Clyde should come to
Aikensid as Agneswasthat Shwa&
not: He knew, toe; hew treattaire-his-selid
without- urther -altercation-. --.-_-- ----:-
Lb.
"Very well,"'was his -quietrreply- _lair_
can . remain at honie if -• --you:- 'choose,. ,---ot
_couree,_ had intended taliiiiglau-iiiyielf_
wherever you wished to go; -_ and not only
that, buti was obeut to aikhowni-uch-Twaii
.needed or thenecesteryadditionele-yoUr_
wardrob
to givin
against
whom j
and: Gu
Agnes fi
think it
going to
pretectk
01.1.t 6 W
but a w
Amor
The arrival of the doctor dissipated her
sadness in a measure, and after greeting
hilt with her penal expressions of welcome,
she said half playfully,: half spitefully:.
"By the way, doctor, who was that old
lady, all bent up. 'double in ishawls and
things, whom you Were taking out for an.
airing?"
Guy looked up qiiickll; weandering where
_Agnes could have seen the doctor, • who,
conscious- of a- Sudden pang, answered
.
naturally: •
"That old lady, -.bent double. and bundled*
shawls; was young Maddy Clyde, to
whom I thought a short ride might do
geed."
- "-Oh, yes; that • patient about whom
Jessie has gone mad. I •im. glad to have
seen her."• , • .
-There was unmistakable 'irony' in her
voice now, and turning from her to
the doctor continued: .
"The old Man was telling me to -day of
your kindness in saving house from
being apid.'. It was like you, Guy;_and I
wish I, too, had the means to, be 'generous,
fpr they are so very poor." •
" tell you,' said Jessie,- whe. had
, stolen to the doctor's side and lain her fat;
bare arm upon his shoulder as if he had,
been Guy. "You might give_ -Noddy the
- doctor's bill. I remember how %mamma.
cried and said she never cciuld pay papa's
bill when it was sent - •
Jessie!said Agnes and Guy sinuil-
tarteonely, while the . doctor laughingly
.pullea one of her hang, black curls. •.
" Yese could do, that. I have thought of
it, but they might not acceptit, theyare
proud as Well as poor.".:
"-Mr. Markham has no one to care for
but His wife and this Madeline, has he ? "
Agnes asked ;_and the•dootor-replied :
did not suppose so until a. few days
since, when I learned. from a Mr. • Green
that Mrs. Markhams youngest and °nil
brother has been on inmate of a lunatics
asylum for years; and that though they
cannot pay his expenses, they do what they
cantoward providing him with comforts."
"What is Lt.:lunatic mother ?-
What doeii--he mean 7" Jessie asked; but
it was the doctor, not Agnes, who ex-
plained to the child- What a lunatic asylum
• "Any ineanity hereditary in this family?'
Goya:eked. • .
Agnes' cheek was 'very white, though her
_face was turned away as the -doctor
answered, I -do not know; I. did not ask
theicause. I onty,• heard the fact that.
such a man as Joseph Mortimer existed."
For a moment there was silence in the
room, and then Guy. told the doter of
what Agnes and himself were - speaking
when he arrived. . • -
"I suppose it's of no use asking you to
nin ilfik for a week or so 2". • •
. _ . ,
don would be greater there than at home;
but Maddy pat all his objections aside, and
long before the doctor came she had Written
to Mrs: 'Agnes that she would go. The
dooter could not understand why it was
that in Maddy's home he did not think as
well of her goingto Aikenside as he had
-done in the evening -previous. She looked
,s6 bright, se pits, so artless, sitting by her
grantifathet's knee, that it eekned a pity to
transplant her to another soil,
hidden in his heart, was - a fear of _what
might be the effect of • daily intercourse'
with Guy: Still- he said it was the, bestl
thing for her to-do, andlattghingly remarked
that it was far better thin teaching the
alexia school; and then he asked if she
Would ride again that day. but to this Mrs. •
Markham objected. It was too scion, She
iaid, Mandy had hardly recovered from
yesterday's fatiguekaggestizig that as the
,aCtor was desirous of. doing --geed to` -his;
convalescent patients, he should take poor'
nld- deaf Mary Barnes, whocomplainedthat
he stayed -• :SO long- with rthe 'child at
-
OrranI tiler Markham's" as to have but a
mew elitto spare for her. _ •
instantly the eyes of Mrs. Markham and
the. "doctor :ma, the latter feeling very
uncomfortable, while the former was
ecu -
firmed in - the suspicion relied by what
Maddy told her the day before.
It was the doctor who Carried Maddy's
answer. to Agnes, the doctor who Made •alt
the succeeding arrangements, deciding that
:Middy would not he Wholly strong until
the verrday fixed upon by Agnes for : her
departure for Saretoga. For this -Guy was
-Sem, It would have been an easy Wetter
for hint to have ridden •down to the cottage
and 'gee the girl in Whom he was beginniog
to feel so much interested that in his last
letter to Luey he had inentionea her as
-,e,hont to become his sister's - governess; bet
m
heard net care to see her there.It seemed
to that the surroundings of the slant-
ing -roofed house did nothelong to her; and
he would rather' Meet her in his more
luxurious 'home. • But the doctor's ' word
*a..s lew,. said so, on the first day of August
he "-billowed Agnes -• and her three huge
:traielling-,--tiunkito the -carriage, and was
dibriee:leoni the house to which Maddy
was comm that afternoon.
bronze lions, and struck into the gravelled
road leading to the house. ,.,
- "It's geander,,finer;than I ever dreamed..
Oh 1 if.I opialdscene timehavejust such a
home! anO;actor,look 1 What -does Wake.
that water go up in the air so? Is. it what -".-
thelealla fouotain," ' • . - ,
- in her excitenient Maddy bad risen,- and
. .
with bend resting on the doctor'sshoul-
der, _wee looking round her eagerly., -Grip
, , ,
Remington would have leughed ' and been ,-
gratified, too, could lie have heard the
enthusiestio praises heaped ripen his home :
bythelittle.school-girl as she: drove up to
his door. But Guy was away. in the dwity•-•
cars, and only Jessie stood on the piazza to '
receive her . teacher. . There . were -wain :
words of Welcome; kisses and huge;. and --
then Jessie led her friend to the -chamber -
she was to occupy.:
"Mother wanted you to sleep the other •
Side Of the house, but brotherGuysaid no,,
you should. have a pleasant room; and
when .Guy 'Says a thing, it's' sp. It's nice/
in here,; and close to .62e. See, I'm right
here," and Jessie opened -a door leading
directly to her ownsleepinkrooth. 0 Here'e r
One trunk," she continual, as a servant
brought up and set down, a little dontemp-
toothily, the knoll hair -cloth - boiccoutaim.
Mg Maddy's -Wardrobe. - "Here's ,' one
-
where's.- the rest 2" and she was flYing
after Tam, When - Maddy stopped her,
saying: - . ..- • - - : - - -
-
" I_haVebut one ;-that's all." "
1 "Only 'that little; teenty thing?-. Heir
funny" Why, mamma cerfied three most
as big as My bed to Saratoga.. You can't
have many dresses. • What- are you .going
to wear to dinner ?"*.I - • .. . • .
"I've been - to dinner." And Madd
Igoked up in some surprise. "- - •
"You. have! We neiter, have it till five ,
when Goy is at home; but now they -'ar
gone, -Mrs. Noah , says we will have . it at .
one, as folks ought to do, To -day I coaxed_
her to wait till; you came, :and the table is
altset out so nicely for two. Can you carve
and do you like green turtle soup? . .
Middy was 'bewildered; but managed
reply that she .could not carve, that she
never saw any green turtle Soup, and that
she supposed . she should' wear todinpe -:
-the-Areas:she hati-rin:
"Why, we. always - change; even Mr.
13
Noah," jeseie exclaimed, bending th -
'open trtink, and examining its i
Two calicoes, a NW MUCH; & gingham., -
and a delaioe, besides the one she hwl'on+ •
that was the. semi total of Maddy's marl -
robe, and Jessie -glanced at it 'a little•rii -
fully as Middy _Carefully shook out the
nicely -folded - dresses - and, laid them: upo
the bed., • - - - ..
Maddy had seen the look Jake gee& t
dresses,. and for the .firattithe there awn
upon her mind the possibility thatherplean -
apparel, :and ignorance of the ways ' f
Aikenside; reiglit . he to 'ha the ,thatie ... I .
much Mortification. - .
"And grandma said they - were 86
. too, and did -theta 'up • so - carefully," she:: '
said, her hp beginning to quiver, and 6
eyes.fllling with tears, as thenghts of horne
came rushing over her. "-
- , She could not force thein back, and
laying her head ripen the top of . the des-
pised hair trunk,- she slabbed i aloud. GO
Remingten's priVateroommae. in the- hall,
and as the doctor loieW,.a book was to have
been left there for hiro,-hretotak the libe ty
if
of -.getting it; passing -Middy's door e
heard the low sound of weeping, andie lx- :
ing in, -saw her 'where she sat; of rat lir
knelt upon the floor.
"Homesick• so soon 2" be -said,'airs, c-
..
:ing to her side, and then amid torrent of
tears, the whole came out. - •r. - ';
, but if youpreferremaining here
up a most unfounded- lifej-ndice
• girl who never' harmed you, and
Side *Irak:13' loves, yontere-cle--real!!_
• walked from the room, leaving
rat to cry, then to'Peutifthen----te-e.
111 over, andfiiiilly= to : decide that
Saratoga and _Newport iind-Wirie=
of Guy waebetterthanearryint
-in; which,- after alt, Wee
_ _
im. • ; - . , :
liegly, next worning,i7as„Gi_ Guy - - was -
in his library reading -his -papers,. !lie-- --Vent
to him, 9id. folding her whiteLliandii7iipon--
his shoulder, .Said very prettilr:-_-_-;-------7' ----",.."-----
" I W I real cross last. night,::-ariLlet2my.
foolish _ prideget the atitetidaiity;-±:Bulizr
have ri considered. -tbe-:. iniCitir;andl--1,---ad
_ _ _ _ --
willing for this Mies- Clyde to ;40-ine„-_-:
pro-
vided_ydii still thinkitbest.",• - J.=----- - -
Ghee Moustailii-Ialli --e_inisalifOilliEr
smile lurking- about lie-Anouth,-.fandlz-ha:
'receive the conciiiiianne_traiolously::anTit-
lie did not Inew-Perfectly-themotivn-._w_h_44::
impelled it; As she had7commerided=being
amiable' slid seethed_diterinined-114-----eon-
timie it, and offered:herself 39 -Wr-i*-a---nOte--
solicitin 111a,ddy's-serVioes;;=----T---_-------i-Ti----=_;,--_,."--
it Al E am -Jessie's -inother,F;A_!Will---:----ba-,
perfect' proper for Mitthirelidiiiiiiiiage-
her," she - said, an#:_leiGuy-asisf4i=eisceill-M-
this suggestion,eheed-t-down-ofthe_veriting-
desk; - d commenced a- yery---pleiean_t_lye
Worded :note, in _Wfiieh -Mite-__Clydee-_-_w_e_4:
inforre that she Inid----b-Seit-_-rone-in--wended-
.as a suitable person withitithiiii-i--ta-iiinfie
jeasie. luring the summer andlai_k-Of-i, a -z•
autumn,. and that sho;-Joitaiii's -nit:a-err,
:wrote . 6 ask if, for -thefillMof-one-dialle:
e(11
per w she wili---Willinfte-coni-et-CAiketik--
eide is governess, of -Weiting-niaa":_]_:- -----
- "Or 'shot ?. " Gdy.;iiiiked-,v--aii she read--t-O
him :what - she - had -.-Written, "Maddy-
Glyae 'id/1 not be:__VeaftingtinaiiL in....Able
house, ieithei will Shenatnefor=dife7dollar
per - ..vi k; -its. yon.--p-intlise.. -- hire her
myselle
f. I have taken:a fancy_ito=the------girk.1
Write nether nete;Silistitete'eempanion:
for waiting -maid, andeffetherthree:ilollare
per we 11c; instead of
As loingss Guy:paid:the hill;=--Agnes'aatild-
not Oa or to the :price,- salthoggh„---remertier
.bering a- time whew:she- had taught IV
&Aria School for one dollar weekand
board° I 'round besides, she thought -*tea
dollars far too much.: But Gut Inicl-fcth---ii--7-
Mande
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•CHAPTER X.
AT AINENSIDE.._
-Itviiiifaiong,titeriome ride for grandpa,
•itOM-:_itobedale:WAikengide, and he
ac-
cepted_thankfully the doetorli offer to, take
Maddy there himself. With this arrange-
ment Was well pleased, as it would
thus afford hier the opportunity she had so
ranch' desired of talking with. the doctor
abouthis bill, and asking him.. to Wait until
alialiadearned enough to pay it. .: • -
To the ogedbouple, parting. for the first
--tiinatiitli-their -darling, the - day WO very,
-Sad; litit they would not intrude their grief
opeatthelyciung :girl looking .sci. eagerly
forward to new life opening before her;
only grandpa's voice faltered a littlewhen
112 s'til" ell I elfr agsPirrgetrhahtesher-namighelItabeakhiepst
from temptation, and that the new sights
..inksaefiee, to which she was going might
not beget in her a •love of world's
Vanities, Or disgust- for her old: home;
but that she Might noma. back to it the
same loving, happy child as she was then;
and:never,--he ashamed of the _parents. to
whom she was So dear. • There was an
--answering sob from the chair where Middy
'Aland after the devotions Were ended,
She_ -Wound her arm around her grand-
lither'S-geoki and parting his silvery
aild_taltini-earn.estly : -
, and she generalltobeyeUbim _so
she wrote another note which he approved,
.and se ling it up, emit it by - -servant to
-
Madeline. - . _
CIIAPTER IX.
. THE DECISION. .
The reception_ of Agnes' note produced
quite & COMMOti0I1 at the red.--.: cottage,
where various opinions --Were_expiessedae
to the ratline mover of. "the plan ;_griii-dpie
think- g that as Mrs. Agnes wrotethena-di-
at and. w i most interested in it, she of course
had suggested it; grandma insisting
it was gessit'a•doings, "while Maddy, when
she said anything, agreed iii ith-, liar .graiirt-:-
r
motile ,-theugh iiivay: down in her heart
was a half belief -that Mr. Guy ho3---weiEhad
first tboright of having her at2jAilientite,-
Wherelshe would rather g&thati. any other
spot in the Wide wdild ;- taAikeneide,1-With
itsbe atiful lawn-- almost large- emOnglii to
be cal ed'a park, with Re -shaded -path -a and:
winding, walks, its : floviers and vines, itii
fountains t and statintry-,: its .fleilivand-and-
f
grove its airy. rooms, -• its Veide--hallFits-
tandi g stairs; with banisters of rosewood,
its .ou pole at the top, from many
miles la hill and meadow land could be
discerned, US bay -windows and long piazzas,
its sweet:faced, dark -bared= Jessie, and its
manly, noble- Gny.. Only the imagaT .0 -f -
:Muse, flashing in silk and diamonds, Ww-i-
a flaw in the picture: From 'thoughts
of het Maddyliad insensibly shrank, .until
she thet her in the carriage and than_
received the note - as -king - he -I-- . pervides;-
Thes
drea
shoul
at A'
and
come, so as to telt her howlong beforeshe
woul I. be strong enough to enter upon her
dutiesas-leacher to. little. JES-06.-- - _ 7 '=. '-
warm season she could afford to pass- the _ "There was not," the doctor said, "His •Atifirst Grandpa MarkbanilieSitate --.I
- winter in Boston, where • her personal patients needed him and he must stay at -might do Maady a 'deal of hurt teigoTto-
attractione secured her finite. as . much holm." ,._ • . Aike aside, he said; her humble = home
• attention . as was good for her. ABA she "Doctor, how would ibis' Maddy do to wO • look mean to her altaallthat finery,- Alld.---.1C.'-=viait- not -lent before they _passed
agreeable to him he would not stay here- With Jessie while we are gone, whil the - temptations ianitylandattbiF. thitiughthe gate,:- guarded by thegreat. (To be .continued).
Oanaua; ; : • • ___. • __ . _ _ _ . •
•--:-.7ktGetuidna, do yeti think I could- ever- be
Ashamed of- yen Eindgrandma?,"
-_-_--i.4*-Iho-Periot, darling; it would break Our
hearts; but finery and things is - mighty
-:aft 49 Set folks up, and after you've walked
41-zspell:On-:-Ihera velvet carpets, you'll no
--dantitthinil your feet make a big .nobie on
Urii-barekitchen floor." . ' . . •
•-----_:z-----..ifThat-mallbe;--but I •sha'n't be' ashamed'
it kOi-i---_-.-lio--,-not if I Were Mrs. Guy -Agra-
ligton_-lieriself.” . And Middy emphasized
-her-Weida watlk_a, kiss, as she thought how
Inica--it:-:-=would- be, provided she - Were a
havevzial6-: ii•-i?-'1-ier:-"H.--::glen2adprasrenti YlivilethatinAigthlineni Aikenside
(
pshavi url never be Mrs. Any.
dy.„;-,1111d----if I am, breve to have a
ewnrialdcbm' limuecnht, aasb°, leavingwas her next
her grandfather, She went to help her
•grandmother with the breakfast . dishes,
wondering when She would wipe those blue
cups again,- and how . she should probably
feelwhenshe did.
Quickly the passed, and just as
the clock two the doctor's buggy
appeared over the hill. 'Up to this moment
:Maddiliadonly been happy in anticipe,
tion; but when, With her ehilvel and bonnet
on, she -Stood --waiting while the, debtor
• fastened -=-her little trunk, .04 when she
eite.-"O:tear 7.01I the Wrinkled faces of both
her _grandparents, - her fortitude give way;
and ma ii,storra of sobs she said her good-:.
-byes" and; received her grandfather's
• .
very -pleasant -that- afternoon, for
the summer was blowing- cool across
zthe.7fields; where the laborers were busy;
orid7itIth-the.elasticity of youth; Maddris.
leafs stopped flowing, but net lanai the
dear---.-Pld_-_horne had disappeared,and she
was some distance en the road to Aiken-.
•
•
"1 wonder -how 1 shall like: Mrs,
Remington and -Mr. Guy ? " Was the first
remark she wade. :
not see them immediately.
Theyleft-Tthis nieinieg for Saratoga," the
-;ootor replied.
Guy Maddy-
ipeated, in a disappointed tone. .-- • •
you_Very-sorry 7" the doctor asked,
and Maddy replied:
- did want to gee him -once; youknow
never have." -
It would be sueb: a surprise to find that
Guy was no ether than the tarible inspec-
ter,"thathe-Would not undeceive her, the
aeotorthonght; and so he relapsedintoa
thoughtful mood, from Which : Maddy
roused him by broaching the subject Of the
*paid bill; wadi* if he'd please' net trouble
oandpablit--wait until She 'geoid pay it.,
----.7‘.c_Pethipeit's_wreng:asking it When you
were80 good, but if you will only take inc
for payment," and Maddy's soft ,brown
eyes were lifted tO his We, .
take you for kayment,".
_the ilebtoraiid, Sinning, half seriously, as
his eyes-rested-londly upon her:
•-"There's he Baia at last,
3 events wrought in her a.phange, and
of Mrs.: Agnes passed' away,'... She
d like her,. and she should be happy
ensideffor of course ohe. was
he began to _wish the -doetor-Wduld
. .
' Maddy -neva could do as they did there;
and, everybody - would laugh , at hers° for - •
anlaWkwaid thing; she never knew that
folks ate dinner at -5 instead of 12 -she 4.
should surely starve to death; she could0
carve --she ailed not eat . mud* -turtle soup,
and she aid not Ito* which dress to Wear -
for :dinner -would .,the doctor tell-, her?
-.There they were, and she - pointed to the
bed, only five; and she knew Jessie thriught- •
it 'so Wan.. . - - --. 1 •
' flitch was the substance of Madly's,
passionate Outpouring of her griefs to he
highll-perplexed doctor, who, after- quiet- ,
ing her somewhat, ascertained- that the: :
greatest present -trouble. was the deciding -
what dresras mailable to the occasion.
The doctor;had never made dress his study, ...
but as it happened he liked blue, an so
(
suggested it, as the -due most likely to he
becoming:. . ' .
• " That I " and Middy looked confounded
"Why, grandMarever lets --me wear that • -
. .: - '
except on Sunday; that's _ My Ary faest
dress."
,,,,,, .
_is roar -child; I'm not sure it wasraghi for
you to come here Where the life is se differ-
ent from the quiet, unpretentious one rou
have led,": the- doctor -thought, but he merely •
,1
said, ." it's my impression they .Wear i1 eir _
best dressewhere ell the time." .. : .
- - "But what shall I do when that's • ‘ ern .
Wit! _Oh, dear, dear -1- wish I had pot -
come! " and another impetuous fit Of weep- -
big ensued, in the midst, of which Jessie
earn° back, greatly disturbed . on Maddy's ;
account, and asking, eagerly; what Was the'
matter. . • 1 - • .
- Very adroitly thedoctOrmanaged.todraw
Jessie aside, while as well as he was able
he gave her 11, few hints with regard t her, .
intercourse with Maddy; and Jessie; who
,
seethed intuitively to understand hirn,
went back to the weeping, girl, soothing -
her much as an little mother would
have seethed her child. They militia have :.
Such -nice times, when Maddy got' used to
their ways, which would not take Hang, and ,
neliodlwould laugh at her, 'she -said, vhen-
Maddy expressed her fears on that point.
"You are too pretty, even if you do niake
Mistakes!" - and then she went rito
eostacies over the blob muslin, which l was
becoming to Maddy and greatly epha cad _
her girlish beauty. The. tear4taine were
alt washed away, Jessie using very fraely .
hermother's .eau-de,eologne„ and IHikitig
Maddy's cheeks Very red with riibbini,1 the
nut -brown hair was brushed until it shone •
like ietin,:a little narrow band of b kik ,
velvet ribbonwaspinned, about .Macl y's -
neck; and -then she was'ready for that ter- -
rible ordeal, her first dinner at Aikenside.
The doctor was going to stay and at .
. .
revived her somewhat. . ' - 1 •
. 1
"You must come to the housekeeper's
room and see her first,". Jessie said,and
with a :beating heart and brain bewildered - -
by the elegant furniture which met he at ,
every turn, Maddy followed to --where the
dreaded Mrs. Noah, in foaling - blank. ilk
and a thread lace collar, sat - sewing, • td
greatly enjoyed the leisure' she had in her
master's absentia. : • ;• • -. -
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