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The Wingham Times, 1900-05-11, Page 71""1"11Prrerrfre 1r LOVE'S TRIUMPH. A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR. BY MARY J. HOLMES, Author of "Lena Rivers," "Edna Browning," "Tempest and Sunshine," Etc„ Etc, M4r4=:,..Migfte0. , . . .06jA 4 MOSVarari4'414V1 b RUN'S limit iter 11Ild(., Urging her ter is justly inceused neighbors, The fear mine home, mid in a week at me she wore upon him terribly, mall a new wee gning• As one. Who hail been e- x idea occurred to him. Maude, etorY- pi -testy sent WI her escort, Me. Carle - one llew, had been talking of going oin would of course go with hor, and 'back to Tennessee, and Whet moee not- fu order to make Lite jouiney with per- esomit thee Tor Paul Hitverill to; send an fete safety she would have Arthur go, escort for her in the permon of some to„ . himself perhaps ridden on rall b Cousin er other who was foolish .enough to fall slide immediately after his arrival. %Ids was a ennert thought; end as that very tiny at least a dozen people called at the Ceflars. as the 'Judge called hie place, so the dozen were told of "john Camp," eta Abed up steirs, filduel of Cousin to Mende, mad sent to see her home, by her Thiele Paul," "Bight smart clutp," the Judge FA, feeling amazed art the facility with whieh he invented falsehoods When once he began. "Been a guerrilla there in the mountable, and done :gime' tall fighting', I reckon." This was the :fudge's story, which. his. Auditors believed, wondering, some oe them, why the visitor should occupy 'that book chandler in preference to the ..Intorno rooms in front. Still they I 'had no suspicion of the truth. "John !Vamp" tuns tweeted es a reality, end 'kind enquiries were ;made after kis welfare, as, day after clay, the fever 1 oar its eourse,and lf,pule de Yore bent i einr him, bathing his forehrad, smooth- ; ieg lee pillows and bruShing his hain her white fingers insinuating queer fan - Ties into his britin, as, half unconscious, ho Jai their touch upon his face, end saw the soft eyes ;above him. At first Arthur had kept moat from Tom, but as the latter grew better, he yielded to Mande's entreaties nnil went to see him, feeling intuitively that he eves in the presence of n gentleman es . well as of a superior. He could not dislike him, foe; -teens lees v.omv VI ,a.g , 11110111t TO411 entlet011 which disarmed i him of all projeehee, and mow n quiet, . 1 friendly talk the two heal together on tena he -bsorbing tonic of the clay. • "Tle Is a splendid fellow. if he is a Ifriikee." WM A 1 thur's mental -vv-idiot, :3... "'and fine-looking. too,—finer a huneheel . those then I." reel Ilion three .(rpt into 'his heart a fear hwt 'Mende shneld . think ne he did. nett. ere he wits aware . • ' 1 of it, he fella( hamerlf nuximisly jecilous 1 of one who was at his mercy, and whom. it he Melee, he might have re-' • moved so easily. uiu it wliIi 01' s tient she had eliolien to him that morning when she forted him in a little summer -house at. the leer of the long garden. There was a dark shadow on Arthnes Awe, as he Betened to Mmuleie propoeition, when K110 ho finished speaking, he n plied; • "I intend to go with you, provided I inn not ordered back to the tirmy, but, Meude, I will not have that Yankee oldier hanging on to• us. We have done that for him which imperils our thee, and, now that he is able to go on, lot trim takehis chence Mum If he is one-half as keen as Yankees think themselves to be, he will get through nirbermed. No, 7 won't have 1)1111' /a our way." "But think of the dangers to be en-. cemutered, the hordes of guerrillns hich infest the manataine," Maude pleaded, and hi her •earnestness she bid both her 'hands on Arthur' i shoul- „der, and stood leaniug over hirn. "Maude elq Vere,” and Arthur spoke - very decide*, "why nee you so much Interested in this inae? Tell me, and tell me truly, too, --have you learned to - cam for himmore than you would for - a common soldier, had such a one come to you as a nnmeny Yankee? If you have, Maude," end Arthur's face W•18 white with determination, "if you have, by 'the heavens above us, I'll put n bullet through him myself, or, worse than that, 'send him ;back to where he come from." ' "That would be an net unworthy of Tinbridge and e. Southein gentleman, Maude said, bitterly, and something 111 her tone warned Arthur that he had gone too for, so changing his tactics, he said more gently: "Sit here beside me, Maude, and lis- teo to what I have to say. Yon know that I have • loved you ever since keew the moaning of the won't, and- it is cot in my nature to give up whet my heart is set upon. You 'have refus- ed me, but that does not matter. leant you for my wife;- I must have you for 'my wife. I know von are my sn- parlor. and 1 ani willing it should be so. You can fashion ma into anything you like. I have Kereened, and hidden, and lied for that Yankee Carleton, just to justify you. And when I first con sorted to act the traitor's part, I sup - Posed he ons most likely -some • coarse, igme ant boor, but he is not. Return- ing health shows hien to be a well-bred gentlemen, inid decidedly good-looking; so inueh so that I have been jealous of lino Mande, not hawing to what your strange opinions might lead you." on know of course he has. a wife," doe i'Ird sem ittully from Maude's lips, and Arthur started quickly. "No, Maude, I did not know it. How came yon by the .knowledge? Did he tell you so?" "Not direetly, but when. he- was out of his head, or asleep, he talked of Bose, and- Annie, and Mary, ewe he called the latter his wife. That is the way I know," Mende said, and Ar- thur's face cleared at once. "Forgive me, Maude, I W418 a fool tel be, jealous of him. And now let us come to a final understanding. You have laughed at, and brow-beeten. end queened it over me for years, brit I 1141Ve never despaired of winning you at the lost. One° for all, 'then, will you be me wife? 1 mist have you. Icannot be (101410(1." Arthur was in earliest now, and his pleadings -woe eloquent with the love hp felt for the girl, who listened in sil- ence, and then Enid 'to him: "Arthur, it cannot be. I should make you very unhappy. We do not agree 111 any one paint." "But we will agree. I promise to conform to your opinions in everything. I'll guide this man to Tennessee, and give myself in future to the work of saving gild helphig the entire Yankee army. -1'11 bo .a second Dail Ellis, if you /ike. I'll do anything but take the oath to the/ Union. I've sworn to stand by the other side. I. cannot week my word even for you, Mande." Mnededid not !Ike' him less for that: There was Southern blood in her heart aa well de his, and Southent blood 131 her veins, and though she dung to the Id flag, there were moments when she at a' flush of pride in het. Misguided tethers, who fought so like heroes, and Ixtheved $o heartily in their came, "Say, Maude," Arthur emanated, 'with You be to wife if I will do ell his, Think how many Hes I might eve, and how much suffering reeve; here tee vo many ebences•• where I add do good, for 110 one would suspect 114'. filive me some • hope, Mande, peak to me," She Wile waiting With her face hmeed n Ler hands, ns Many another maiden .8 tea, "(emitting the east," All her 'r long Arthur Tunbridge had followed er With his love, tilt she was tired of he contest. Nothing 1t hed ever said CHAPTER XXX. TOM .Carlethn wile able to start on his 'journey westwaid• Twice lie had left his room and j.,Ined the fionily below, .maltiog himself :o agreeable, and adapt - ng himself 80 nicely to all the judge's erctehets that the old man confessed to , genuine liking for the Yankee reseal, ieng expressed himself as unwing illto !pile with him. Ho had inquired into his family history, and, to his infinite delight, found that the elder Cineeton, • Tom's father, Wil11 the Very lawyer •rt. who -so speech yeart4 ago had been he •; strumcntal in sending back to bondage the .Tudge's • runaway negro, 111t'13'0 • 'husband. wh.ose grate was out by the garden wall, and whose wife and 140218had rendered so' different 11 service to the lawyer's son. Tom's face. was searke when he thought of the differonee, and remem- . bored bow father had worked to Prove that the master was eutif:ed to . property wherever it 'wits found. e The judge - suspected the nature of his thoughts, and. with a 1014041 laugh, said, ' goochammoredly: • e "Von are More of nn Aholitionise thnn your father wns, sec'. Well,' well, • :• young man, times change and we - , change with them. Old MI1311 Clarle• r ton dill me good turn, for .Scith. wits worth two thousand dollars. raiever . abused hill MOT gave him a blow when. • -I got Idni Wel:. I only asked him how he 'liked freedom ns far as he haktrone, •' and he didn't answer. Ile seemed broke down like, 111141 in 101414 than - a yeor he died. He woe the best hard I • ever had,. morn half white. I cried when he died. ID 134' hanged...if I didn't. 1 told him to live 4111(1 I'd set him free, •• 'elle when I saw how his ;eyes lighted . UP 1 made out his femme on the spot, wed hrotight '('01 lo him, end he died With '0111 111 his .leand, held so tight we ' Could ecietcely get 'em out, and I had e'em buried with him in him cotlin. "Thenk you. inere'r, (led bles.44 yen i! foe leting me die free, but it's come too elate, would worked for you, moreit, '; all the stone if you'd done this before. I wanted to he a man, and not a Ching. • • a brute. Yon have been kind to me, wirieth r; ank you, thank you for lib- h 14 •, . . "Those aro Seth's very words. I've • • got 'em by heart, and I said them so much that I began to wonder it free. t ; wasn't better than slavery. But, f•i. bless you, my niggers was 111)0141 1411 I t . had. I couldn't give 'cm up, though I c • used to go mit to Seth's grave and think 1 how he hugged the papers to the last, S and wonder if the clause `1111 men are born free mid equal' didn't Weal the • blaeks. But the pesky war broke out, h .• end drove all this from my hend• I hate 1 • the Yankeese-I hate Lineoln. I hate b the whole Union army, though 111 ho i blamed if I can hate you. at wife, ! cl hey?" s h He tinned ebrliptly to his guest, who s ;duel listened with so breathless Wanes:Pi ki '1 tO the story of or Setlt that he did n . not see Maude de Vere, her eyes 01711. p 'lug and her c'hec'ks flushed, as if she •n • were under some strong eseitetnert. 1u Itetween herself and Arthur there I hod been a long conversation toneern- Ing Captain Toin tlerktoll, ithel other a 2tiattere of greater interest to AI:tilde. 11 The "John Camp" ruse had sucteeded well, and Maude had n fancy for mak- big it do still (41ore, by taking her re(I. tient In safety as far ns her *Melo • 0 leheartened No iebuff, however (were. ;bed availed to keep him quiet. he knew he tweed eind eerlaape 11(3 Mileat in time love him. It Nevoid nate the chi judge end h'e wife HU hap - p. while Charlie Lkeel Arthur eo meth Qtlier peeple liked him, too. Ile ns very pi/Miler, Ord the well knew 14't she AIMS envied by many a ',vend fol the attentions- of the ble Timbridge, Besidea, if Ar- nu. pledged himatilf to help the eaCtIpe r pis ( nei s, he would keep his 'word, 1 ral threngll her Mlnin, good might be Ate, and hearts made. happy, is ralrAt...41 thole 1 TUE WINGHAN TOMS, M1Y 11, mo, pros for their coiantry, Mid why shoo she shrink from maerificing ber hum> - hen,. IX by it so many lives could b saved? Was it mit her duty to cos self aside, and think only of tlie suffer lug EIIIP mum relieve with Arthur he ally. Maude was selling herseif for lie country, and 'with one great Web bitter pain, she said at lasts "I will deal frankly with you, Arthtu al I always have. r et are "et dis agreeable to me. I like you very rtme. as a friend. I olit4u you when you ar away, and am glad whe» Yon 0(3411 baelt; still, Yon are net just what have imagined my future husband to be rite you far the good know there 1 in Yes, and I may learn to love you I •altall lead you a horrid life if I (1 not, for it is not In my nature to affect what I do not fool, If I oulunot lov you, Anil learn to hate you, and tam will be terrible," She wits looking at now; and though he winced; a little beneath tio liblelug exec; elle looked s • • beautiful,. that, foolieh youth es he was, he fancied her hate would be orefer- able to losing her, and so he said: "Go en, Mande, I am not afraid of the hatred if you always look as you do now." Something like contempt leaped to her ecTirtintillivean;, but the put it noble, and "I will promise only oh conditicas. ,,,Yon will see this 111r. Carleton safe to my Miele Paul's. Yen shall befriend arl 0Y1Po u"Se1711111.0111ft07eY e)Nloeury isifftweer ntg0 Union soldier when an opportunity of- fers. Yon shall use yonr influence for the prisouore, end seek to omelionite their • wretehed condition. If you do this, Arthur, and do it faithfully, when the Ivor is ovor I will try to answer yes, Are you satisfied?" - It WAS a very one-sided affair,. and Arthur Jelin' it; but lore for Maude de Vele was the stroligese.„ passion. at which he NAILS capable, end he answer- ed: "I am eetisfiect" end kissed the cold heed which Maude placed in his, and thought whet a regal ceeature lie auul wom ancl thoeglit, too, how implieitly. he would keep the contract, even if It involved te giving up of jefferson Davis Ilimself 'into the enemy's hands.' CHATTED._ XXXI. • i4 ream her head to her leer, • weight -4 one hundred 41111 tarty. A Pee - e 1(13.1 Annizon, she called herself; but Tom Carleton did not think so, Ue - knew she was a large type -of, r hod, but she was perfect in form and r 104414110, 44.0(1 lie would Rat have had hot* one whit smaller than she WWI, neither did he contrast her with any one he had ever known. She was se wholly unlike and llose and Annie that ('0314. 11 IFILIIPawiatani)11e'Plsrseedite 0 ber to himself, and the name was be- gb.ning to sound sweetly to hint; tai he • daily grew more and more intimate $ with the queenly ctv'sture who bore it.. 0 • In t I ••• • . Tie had buried: his 4,1:Trelotittil-ifpneedthe, • y; 110 111141 e 1,11,no(riesilifrellley Iteielornise;grothtlig I • • sight of bor sitting- there before him _ with the rieli color in her cheek, and - the Southern fire in her eyes, stirred strange feelings in his heart, and made lout so forgetful of what the Judge was sayleg to him, that the old man tut last 011.80 11.1141 walked away, leaving the two young people alone together. Tom had never tallied much to Maude ex- cept upon sick -room topics and 140 felt aitylous to know if her mond correspond eel with h.er face noel form. Here wa a geed opportunity for testing ber men- tal powers, end in the long, earnest conversation whieh mired concerning 111011 1111(1 books, and polities, Tom sifted her thoroughly, expoilencing that pleasure which men of cultivation always en perlence 'when thrown in contact with. a wem-an whose intelligence nod endow- - 1114nts are equal to their own. Moudeie ethical:1.0n liad not been a superficlial one, nor had it ceased with her leaving school. In her room. at home there \yes a small library of choice hooks, which ehe read end studied each day together with hor brother Charlie, whoa° educe. - the she sinewintended. Few person, North or South Were better acquehited with the. incidents- line progress of the war than she was. She had watched it front its beginning, and with her father, frem whom she had inherited her superior mind, she had held ineny ear- nest argumentative diseilissions concern- ing the right rind lemma of- eeeesidon. Maude had opposed it from the first, but hoe father had. thought- ififferchtly, and, carrying out his prinelples, had lost his life in the filet battle of Bull Ban. :Maude 444101(0 of him to Tom, arid her fine eyes wore full of tears its she told of the Mark, terrible days whieh preceded and followed the news of his "The ball 'which struck ,him down went far:thee than taint; it killed 1110 - titer. tee, and nuule ne orpheati," Maude mid, and something in the tone of her voice, and the expressien of her thee, jeweled Tom just as it had inauy times befell>, and earried him beck to Bull Item _where it seemed to him he had .8elell 41 face like Maude de 'Vere's, • "Was yonr father,. killed in beetle?" Torn aeked, and Maude replied: "No, sir; that is he die] not die on the battle -field. He wits wounded, nod crawled new into the woods. where levy fourechiliine dead sitting ngoinvit a tree, with. a little tier n drummer - boy lying' right beside him, and father's handkerchief 1)0411(1 round the poor bleeding stehms, for tale little hands were both cleat invey. I've thought of ItIlittsit 11.10y SO often," Mende oaid, "and lens Merl to him, for the little fellow cried.for him so much. I harm father stied Close to him. Arthur said. He was there and found my father, thoi gh he did 141(1 at first recognize Wm, ' as it was a lumber of years since Ike had seen bin)." T(.1n was growing both ioterested and excited. He WAS beginning to find the key to thet familier look in Maude. de. Vere's face, and, coming .clese to her, he sold: ee"Were. nny prisoners taken tear your fether, Miss de Vere? Union ,prisoners, I uienu?" "Yes," Mande replied; Arthur was a private then, eied, with another soldier, was prowling through the woods when they came upon frother,• end two; soldiers neer hino—olie a e, Arthur said, and one 'en ottleer whose ankle had. been sprained. 7 their eagerness to capture s;eineboiSet ey forgot my fa - 'flier, • and carriechea the man and bo'. Then they went back. and Aetthur found, by somettalpmis hi the dead sol- dier'S pockete,that fraber, anal he had him „;tlecently bneed at Manas- sas, with the little boy. I liked Ar- thur for that, would never have for- given hi* If he had left thnt child in the ve.00ils. When• the war is over, / rem going to find the gm:yes." Shivi4"was not weep.ing now,' but her eye*dind in them 41 avenge glitter as th,f looked far off in the (Potence, as if !rimiest of those two graves. • "117aude Vere," Tom Carleton; (mid, mid at the sound Mande started and blushed scarlet, "yon must forgive nee if I cell you Maude this once. It's for the sake of your noble father,- by whose side I stood when the opirit left his Hely, nod went after that of the little drumaner-boy, whose bleeding stumps here bound in your fiithee's handker- chief'. I remember it well. I had Drained my ankle, mid with a lad of ny tom -pony, Was trying to escape, When I heard the sound of some one einging. thnt glorious alma of our* ehurch,• ireace on. eerth, good -will to - Weill mem.' It sounded kr-imply theme • Amid the dead end dying, who had kill- ed etteh other; but 134010 was peace be- tWoen the Confederate tante:in end the Federal beY, am they se.ng elle familiar words. As well tia mad, we cared for him. 1 wiped the blood from your fathene wound, awl the boy brought him water from. the broeli, while he talked of his home in North C'arolina of his children who would never see him again; and of Nellie, Wife. It comes back to me with perfect distinet- nets, niul it is vn: father's -look in Shut eyes and fate whieli PtizAleil me so mech. Two soldiers weareig the Senthern .gray Mite tip. and eaptunel Its, 'died we were taken to Richmond. 5114013', alies Verer it is a special Pro- Iqtlenee which has brought it e lit lost to you, the -daughter of thnt -man, rind made Yoh the e'utitilitio who hot etood between me and lee:name. There is a Meaning ht it, if We e011.1d 0111S" find It was then that Maude left him and nt back to the house, where, stood- ing in the door, she mooned the face and 41018011 of the man or whose saeety in part she had pledged her heart end hand. Tom's tout ensemble was good, nee there was chola him a certain air of grace and culture which showed itself in every movement.. A stranger would have trusted him in a moinont, and re- cognized the true manhood in his. ex- pressive face. ,And Maude recognizedit, OS ohe never. had before, and the con- tntst between him and, Arthur struck her painfully. ."Ir Arthur were mare like him, I could leve him better," she thought, just as the judge asked the abrupt question: "You have a wife, hey?" "Of course he has," 1.11ande thought, aiul she listened for the answer.. "31y. wife died some years ego, before the war broke out. She wes Mary 1Villiams, a near relative cf the Wil- li: mses, of Charleston. Peri -ems you lawn- them?" • "Know 'cent I'll bet I do! --the finest family in the state. And yore maryied one of them?" the old J'lldee FIlid . 1118 manner indicating an increased reepect for the mon who had inanied limns, of Charleston.. 'Mende knew the, family, too, or ra- ther knew of them, • and remembered how, some' years before, when vile was at St. Mme.'s, she had heard a Charles-. ton young lady spooking of Mrs. Carle- ton, from Boston, who.. hnd recently died, end whose husband had been so kind fuel patient -and tender, encl. wets "the not perfectly splendid looking 1114111 she ever saw."• - Mantle remembeeed, this last distinct - 1y, becaese it heel called forth n reproof from the teacher, who hnd everherird it, and who asked what kind of a man "the most perfectly splendid lookiug". one eould be. Meade bed not. thought of that incident in . yeims, but it came hack to her now cis she steed dose to the nun who had been so kind end ten. de.: to his sick. ilying wife. He would be all Ihnt, she lenew, for his manner Wng SO (Inlet and grave and gentle, awl then great throb of ra'n sNyepr over Afaucle de Vere as she thought of Attlittr and the pledge she had given him, 'Mande ennid not analyze her feelings, or understand why the know- ing who' Tom Carleton. was, and that he was .also free, should make the world eo desolate all en a midden, end blot out et. the brightness of tho summer day, which had seemed so pleasant at its be- g:ening. . • "I did it in part for him," she said, feeling that in spite of her pain there wits something sweet even in such 0 1 secritiee. She WU still standing- in the door. viten Tom, tue.ning at little more toward its heet, finW her, lea fete lighting s It (11101', end the smile, whieli made hint - se benelsome, breaking out talent his met.th end $howiug his fine teeth "Ah, Miss de Vete, take this emit," :end with that Well-bred politeitess so 1111101 41 part of his family, ho erose and effered het Itis cheir. But Maude declined it, and took a Seat instead .upon a little camp -stool near to the vine-v,.reatlieti coltinene of the Olivet. It ins very pleasant there that Morn- ing, and 34aut1e, sitting ngainet that heel:ground of green leaves, ninth. a Very pretty 'debut In het pink cerebric- wectuper, trimmed with 'white, white pendants in her ears, nal a 'beech of the sweet -scented heliotrope her hair and at her throat w:hete the 01000111 !hi - en collar etime together. And Teen en- joyed the pieture very much, from the mown of satin hair to the high -high elipper, with its bright ribbon rosette. It was not little slipper, like. those which lased to be in Tom's dressing - room in Roston, when. Ataxy was alive, nor yet like the fatty things 41111111 lbse linther wore. Nothing about Mande de Vere Wile but every- thing was admirably proportioned. She • wore It seen .glove and .she wore n four 1. baot. 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