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The Wingham Times, 1885-02-06, Page 2• IP.. 7,1 • •4 7' 7 • : I' I ' -WINGRAM TIMES, FAIDA:if P. ...If* •1::'7!!'!:7•"•••"'"I't • " ; • 4 .11 g ' ons eve', e • , do t. should know whether Hese loved, litio, i dare say 1 should not have done so 4 quiet presence ; the9 me that befoie I received it liel I I must tell it you, Hid, though 1 pluming before 1 was aware of her still reea have met now aud then, but tho op'. C • line I write,' he said, ''it will, Laci not chanced to see hum 1 &Illation of -slue). itee—and pkasure I tittored nal ex next ^ pertunite hes not cora% so rwait efill Me - the good time I Iiee4. It mat • be Oleg you whoelier 1 ani the haie thave come on-purpeee to eee him. 1 too, 1 fany. 1 °mild not not see her 1.$ peer -.---.., ,piesli f w How ott oath, or the most /hie. will tell you why, and whatthing face at all clearMt ly, I noticinoed ail neet'ioilolientlik.or:."WhahPwbv e6ntl:etleu: okTidYortx: Io ' "°bi11 have to die, You kuow of my vitNiger haste halm. voice when she e 8124 go bOrne 410 , The friendship between Guy New.:en, it't"tia bald fo r. But the letter 1 : to Ireland a year ago, so, thank spoke, and a 1u; Z6 nervousness in ,vie whatn asked, my voice brokete ton gild myself dated from die first - ' . a ' t.xpected ueve .• a a •eaven, mom nee no e a long soy, tho oue 1 upoa my •min, a Dug i it • • i II • ' d t h lt.t I . Ith 1 'au— • r arrived. I *rote aa ain 1 mu ready. us, ns 'hasten back In its anxiety, .Wheu I have avenged my derliinee was meant to be playful?. 4 COM to find us aro' ym, Guy'? A11 mid' overtake ray brothOr encl. Rose, '40(411,11nm go hozne—not mini theia erhegsever since be discovered the fata oomequoAces cif whathe baa den.e,, 1 end, .. in Guy's silent pause, 'he has Wee ling an otnoast, as it were; his conscience burde Qua with the death of . the giri lie too loved.' 'Ile loved,' sneered Guy. 'Whet • love could such as he feel4-he who killed her in his eroe e jectionser • "1 think los punishment fitir au rm. intentional crime—even im terrible'' a one as that—mast be all bid unbear. able,' 1 said only trying to soften Guy%) thoughts, While my own Mind was .... full of anger and scorn for both the . brother and..siater who had ' helped ay wetea o g; iota again, bile not one woe woJt came in When. I wrote to last from Rosalyn, look beet upon nn interruption to its gadually-1 ga ve up the hope of over from Rose's °WU lips, whether 1 had pieasant eourse.• Oa that last night hearing frun or seeing ray ola college any chance of winning her, knew *I we sat long together together in my ; a had,I knew it all the tittle. though :room, It was our usual loungine... ^/•••"'n" ag.'1111` 11, . Elliott tried to persuade tee diflerenie place, not only becalm my . lameness . ly, end 'though tate tried too,' prevented my going about mach, but More 'than a year hacl passed since ;then this Captain El iott is brother because Gay always said it was plea- ray parting with Gay Newton ; Yet, to your. oousin, Xate 1,' I as)red', -a light tauter to Sit among my books and trange to say, it was of 110 1 as dawning upon me - Whici did more eaoeares than among hia pipes mid thinking as 1 sat one October after. than account fo the likeness to Guy. epees. He did moat of the talking noon,idly sinking at the window of r , teat night, d sat listening•or ques. my lintel in rn Boe. , AS glanced out 1.1 oinees., and supposed to be curioasly and tiouing—ouly occasionly • getting a on the piazza; a getttleman dressed it , • view of his lace through the and joineda group just bow He is so 1 1 assented or would be elMy win- . a wreaths df smoke, A haudsome Wei dow. I Stetted up Bed looked out in, if he had abeard nd Mastache au:1h it was, with its crisp brawn beard and keen gray eyes. • •. 'I've hoard some old fetlows say;" eemarked Newton, 'that their college days were the lia,ppieet of their live, • Oars have been pleasaut enoligh, bet hope we shall never have bo eay that Hal,' I hope not.' 1Yeb there is every pros,petit of icy regretting them—for a tune;ghut hp at Rossly with no one to talk to but old Sir Archibald, my. cousin Kate, and her brother, Captei Elliott.". 'Yes; Sir Arohibeed emphatically peennis.es she shall be there.' 'Ohl' . tairs bonsin, Kett Elliott, had stay. ed inOxford several times, so I knew her irate, well. Oar men used to• jest over the admiration which she had almost universally shown for her handsome cousin. and though I had 'never cared to Join them, still I did not like her, and could net pi6tureany pleasure Gay Might feel' in the pros- Pect of stiteing with her, through the 'autumn, in the old. Irish castle which he had been describing to me. eRossly ban hardly be quite iuch• a solitary' place as you are trying to rep- resent it, Guy.' qt is, I assure you. .0an. you prop- erly picture it to yourself novi ? A. grim castle, the shore of the gloom - fest lough in Ireland; half the place in ruins, the other halbluxuriously fitted '-up,.and.open as a hotel—overrun, with servants and animals, and hangers-on or every deseription. Brilliant, hand- some rooms on the one hand, where bogwocid. in the open grates flares like torehes; on the other hand, dark echo- ing, unused ehenebers, of .ghostly 'sounds and steps and voices.' . should hke furl can fancy the side of the picture you do not • paint.' Giijelaughed. rare old. liorary, ev-on Mean; • good hunting. a glorious stud, sunny saunters by the lake ? Well, I only wish you were coning, Harry. shall miss your clever, quiet face and a ise rebukes. But, by the way, there is one feature of that grim west 1 ondscape which I have left out altokthere' • On the lough t tl G as yogis,: In height and take, too, you And yet—Nraeit Guy it It must be; ars strikingly aliks'' still something made me hesitate, Guy interrupted me with frigid cen- tempt, "Stcikingly,' he reieerated ; race and fle.uve re; .hoth: Guy's, but the: thihk :blown beard was one. Dia 'you will see how strikingly. At that anake the differbnee'so great 'that that time I was sorry for plhott— I could not trust ntirself in my reeog. Mad as it sounds now, I was ' really talon 4 I would bend and make in- sorry for him—because 1 felt so sure qu ities that I was to win my little Rose, and ' It whs hardly More than half en he was to lose her • • It was Hallow - hour after that, as I sat watch. for eve, and the geefit Irish hoed° was filled 'with guests. • I had bought• a the infotinatiou that iny men would bring me about the •Englishman who new huntcir, nod was at.tioipliting had jut entered; a travelling carriage splendid day with Sir Arelabeld's drew up to the door and a gentleman ham& to be followed by all kinds of dismouuted and Walked. briskly into games and merriment at night. into the hotel. T. saw him but for a eagerly looked fo.ward to the evening for theo I would tell Bose how hive. mement, yet there was 'now' no doubt ed her, All the morning Kate' and or hesitdtion in me. mind. • 'This' was Elliott had inade.a great fuss about Guy Newton, Mv recognition was as spontaneous and unquestioning , as if niy. new hprse, entreating me not to we had only Yeseorday parted at Ox- moteqt hire. saying my life , wasnot ford and. of cOutse 1 ‘vendered then safe, .aead 'other absurd things which even if for a moment., have Mistaken only made me laugh,' until. I saw that Rose was trembling like a leaf, and any other for him. There he was, tall had evidently been thoroughly imbu- and strong and cittive as of old, with the handsome face and ,erisp na•Own .ed with their feare. Then. I felt en: hair. met him end raged with them ; though it gave me the joy of knowing that she loved me broue, him to my ht —a:joy .which made my hand really own rem, telling him agaih and again unsteady on the bridle. As I bade in glad excitement, how pleasauc ib her geed -bye, 1 whispered that I had was to Coe him there; yet ilow I was sadly struck by the change in him. a - question to ask her when I .came ' will not humiliate her. She He was gave and taciturn; restless and home. he knew what it was, aud shall see her lover in reality. Lot me yet inert; preoutturly aged and answered me with it soft, bright blush pasie • hardy man,: -1 think he had been whieh Kate and Elliot saw. I said ' ' Rose will never forgive you ; glad to see me—the sudden brighten- something to her about returning member that, Guy, and you will lose ing of his eyes mid the lose clasp of safely and rapidly to her, find she an- her by this whim.' e his hand could: not have been feigned . swered me. Then had rode oir, the They strolled toveaea the house togeth- er long aq. 'I have- wondered often sine). how 1 could have felt oo certain, even at that reent, that what elle told roe was a lives because never before, .me .knows, WI mistrusted her. • 'I have a faney to Neck ,Rose KaVanagh Myself, Kate,' I said, pass, ing tin up the step. e, . . lier voice and Manner *Aged at uncle. ' Stop, Guy,' she cried,. with a laneli that ewas harsh and st, ained, • Stop, dol You will spoil all the sport You forget Rase is Irish, and likes to each other in this selfish, clestlirdly observe' ail kinds- of Wild , old super- triuk. 'Re must always feel! himself a . stitioni en this night. She is now en- ruurdersr, mid an exile too, as it were • jnying a ceremony of her own arrang. How can lie ever me t yet and bie. ing. Licee't spoil it for her.' , friends, and her friends as be used? 1 "I•Jet roe pass,' I said, pushing aside thlak that is a punishment greater tions,' • myself, I cannot wait for explana- Guy laughed --a laugh I could not yen need try to pi ve.r lier detaining hand. ' I will see for.thau " Listen; Guy,' exclaimed tate, still bear to lie.ar. 'I have my popish/tient' i holding. me back : ' I will tell you ex- aid Nothing hal to 4igi.: too.' he s . . e. . vexeci Rose eitill be with you for spoil- did it, Guy," I urged most tinxi- • aetly how it ise and you will judge how spare him that.' frig her fen. Sha said that ivhichever oietly, in utter, ignorance a its pegs-. that ex-. woul4 see het future husband, andshe adored., eibtlia6ese°1111irnseciauleinttlees,- burBrul,TYand even, of us went tip here alonee to -night made me go first. • Of course 1 saw . crieninal, as such a jest should be con - freak ;•bat,sii 'insisted on gong after. But no words of mive, though 1 no one—I only laughed ati•the silly ward, and she. is there now, alone, which made him 'so ' tried many. would. softtf Guy e words' or smooth the hara linen m his face, watching for, a glimpse of this coveted emlike the old. husband or lsiver• Poor child Yeu would mortify her sadly, Guy, if you 'Nothing can change'enydetermina- go in and catch her in tlxislolly, She ticn.,: lie said, rising at hetstaind speak - Ie the first glimpse of moonlight, he minogvete,,iti v. calm knew 'I could net. • have one task eoeedo. leave is tie 'stead there in the dark and [wait. ie to be visible under the broken roof. waited long, and come far it) do it. Come away; do not humiliate her, • cannot ruturn lanai.' it done.' had joined Guy leTeton on the Point St. Angelo, and 114 walked to- gether. I heel joined Jim uninvited, and we walked. quite gileotly; so df- ferenv wee this from our old Oxford strolls. Certainly Guy fell , into his. • ing cousin - was aaying.. when old habit of loitering for toy benefit, • suddenly the clouds parted from be- and retaining his quick, firm steps to fore the face of the amen.; and just as suit my halting cotes,- but he had hard - its light showed me Kete's frightened ly shown ley any other sign that he eaeer face, a cry came down torus been knew I was beside hiin. above. I staggered an instant where Inoticed that he did not (even raise 1 stood, blind and climb and power- his head as we passed the castle ; hue lees; for this sharp, shr.11 cry was onp when we found (=selves in the piazza: untold teeror- detith-cry—which I in front St. Peter's he started, with knew te) he—my darling's. a brief, hurried exclamation—not at It leas foi. one moment that sight of the cathedral. hut of a man who at that moment was pushing' tint ncmbness held me. In the next . abide the peadecl leathern curtaine I , was running rip the treacherous which close its door way; and ash() stairs, two or three at a time, and recognized at once as Captain BM-. erying loudly to Rose that I was com- „ ing-1 was oom;ng Ah ! what use °'t. , Wo entered the church as he had was my great haste, when she was ly- done, and I stood for a moment losV ing there upon the stones, deaf to inv. admiration of the • vast calm and. voice forever more—lying in the dark- beauty of the scene. When 1 turned new, while in the far corner Of the e„ had left nie. We met again. hateful placei the moonlight rep.'""Y' almost an hour afterward,. and 1 could through the gap ifi the broken roof and' See hy the eager excitement of N ewtons an &hewed me a figure rising ito eyes. that he had been waeching hia the ground haste and fear—my own cousin end hove now exactly where Qat() I swear, I thought it when I. ere be was. gazed Upon it first—in soilea;' haute' ark, Will you venture the ascent to the • ing dress, Such as 1 had just taftea off, friend of my college dee. bat he Mal noehing to say to me, and world all bright around me, because I left ice,, to well or tell hem • „Aim y knew that that evening should win would. leo preently I told him how my little Rose.. 1 'I as ia at the death, Hal, and hacl team slanted. by the stmege 1 . . the run was over at fear &Mock, yet resemblence to himself whieh, was, ten 'before I rode up the dim seen in a stranger orossing the piazza, it avenue at Itosslyn ; for an old chum and' about:whom • had' seat to make of mine, taint I had not'seen fer inquiries. . 'A curious coincidenee, was it nett 1 asked. 'Some, men.. can account for that chance which so often occurs to us. We sometimes see a person Whe °volunteered te take a reeseage back reminds of a friend, just as that friend for me—we two had'been riding home comes into sight. Do you ever--.—" eogether when this men joined us -- I hed suddenly looked up at Guy', and to assure Rose I should be in for and my words died on my lips. His the first dance. Re ,said—but why fa ee was pale as death: and his eves years, was. staying io•the 'neighbor- heod and,who- managed to persuade nib to stay wiih him, because lie wa,s to leave Ireland next morning. Elliot shore there ottinds a solitary ruin had a look in them which 1 lad never try to rebel" what he said ? I even could not if would. You will under - whose history hes never tathomed. It seen there before—a look. 1 faneied, :stand it all for yoursolf when you coutaine a date-, beoken staircase, of fierce, unuovorriable hatred. It was leading into s toom at the top; at the gone ahnostt.as soon as I saw it, ,for _know the end. (sonar of whieli—where the stone roof- Just then the door opened and my Ser- - •ct staid) tenipted or and on, ee util, ing had broken away7ais open to the vent mitered to say that the gentle- hs hevegaid, it was tea o'clock when sky Bah 1 it :lie' a ghostly piece. LIAM whose name I had bent tlia- rode up the dim avenue at Bosslim. There is no gab spot in all Roslyn, cover eves Captain Elliott., GO stood _ When. 1 had Changed my dress said Hal; as this room of ours, and no Wm up as this message was d,liveredj and entered the ball -room, of course I there can take your place." Wait and see.' • I had not long to wait. In Spite of that confident speech of Guy's I had not long to wait before sivar that my place haS-Imen more than taken. His first letter from Rossly contained only a sketchy account of his life there, and of his fellow -guests, with hauler - ens or affeetionate reinetrcherances of our college days. but mama the second tame, I saw the ditrereisce, He was in love for the first time in his life— loving wholly and earnestly, ae I al - way tuought he would when he should love Ili all. He leant me her picture for one %lay; end froth it, and from his letters,* grew bo feel that knew Rose Ka- vanah quite well. Sho was small and feir and delicately heautiftil. Always fietgile, she had been welched a lid •stateded with saeh creasing care shat her mind had retained its child like, clinging dependence and its un- trustfulnees Two facts 1 gateered, quite AS much from those questions of natio Which Guy avoided es from th se he answeted; they were these—fir, Mies' dislike for Reseisecond, the fiur of captain El- liott being himself ai urgo'tt suitor foe the bead of edict Kavana.h. Ony enld little of thie—yery little; lint I m;ed to understand all dile double turned his cack upon me j looking from looked first for Rise. I could see her dome, Hal? he asked, his tone quite • the veindow viithat esern frown On his nowhere, • ellen I sought for my coos ' with a white face stained with What calm and soft. qt is most gradual e face. When 'the man had left the iii, Kate. sigtially in weft Even Cep -beard, stained ' too, a lookd like blood, 'and a long brown ... saw thi,thi.,b horse hem! *could 'eye°. ride up if you hack a rom o,1 asked Guy whether this Capt. twin Elliot himself was net therm 1 ain Elliott was his cousin—brother to • made nay way to old Sir Archibald, • the' lienclistf trick atone°. -1 knew the Niles Elliott I remernoered. ' But. and -questioned hint He looked hp Elliot in a moment, 'undr his false 1 managed it without diffitulty, . not SV611 needing Guy's arnathough 1 took he answered with a gestureof such from his cards with a laugh, ' Do You hair and disguise. but what 'aidilder it becense he offered it so. foAsiouslye scorn, that I was glad to turn aside forget it is Hallow -eve?' he said. 'You . was it that the sight. in that place, .• on and them decided tee go on into ' tbe: the suoject. . will find them at their pranks coolia ?that night, and in my unexplained 'galleries, 1 was obliged to follow but Gay was•so•restless and ill at ease when). There is fortune-tellino• and absenceir(for Elliot had withheld fill sloaly up the staircase from the rode sun ofblt, / r message) shoulctba,ve been my darlins's a , . alittle in the nit all that eivening; that I fancied he fortune -trying in the cards , I'll ''euttr: dim we lineered h would leave me as early as he could antee, 1 Kato is at the bott. death -blow 1 gallery. while 1 merited how eageely. civilly manage it after chimer- But I should even advise 'you to leak for the 'She was nursed among the wildest sup: Guy searched it from end to•ii,d iktroil . was mistaken, for he lingered in .my young madeaps on the lake shore.* ' erstitions-of. the West, and her faith in the bus eyes. room hour eater hour, sebming really 'Of course 1 saw that he was jot- meaning of this apparation of myself killed .‘f 4;rgaing to', the neg. Will yon ' het terror of the sudden come, Hal?' he asked, and there was a glad to see me, yet, withal mime silent and reserved, altdgether different from smile than I could ex 1 " ing, but 1 cchticl no trorennswer I is, Rath a certain . 1.- moonlight spectre, were unqual" ia hunting, and, —tionina and . the little ring of quick excitement m his' complete, and too terisible fdr the Guy I had known and loved hi our horr • . Ible foreboding which •swe et oi( • voiee. 1 followed hint almost mechanical' college days. The night lee+, ne, and wo • . / went - 1 el fragile frame. ' ' a oinoeuen,toward. tho old ,Xxit until they had ilaien her; away, and ' look again it was no pleasure to me to 'gain the still he did not leive. l' liedjiiit be.' tower' 'oe the 1 r described • did. .1 aeak the giddy height of this upper gallery, but y gun'. o think tut 1 must MYSOH till& it to you long ago—Alma waiting tolaid her whore 1 could, never upon her dear, still, fano, still 1 &lowed' without hositAion; pose it, when he tuddenly broke his alto° With myself whe • II ' I I ' re. , int ietter %mem who had done the deed. Then he promptPd it • e ' . silence, his tone Oita different freed ' r re 1 - . seek y ovo; Guided by an instinct was gone He had lieti one f gfrom the first thing ) , milled to me, by some- . , even. stronger than my 'old: what it tad heap all the evening. ' whiili I .had: ' in no Way controlled, I ' — abut they cold me, Alter that night no one riendship. When, we reached it, I about my year's silence and neglect %al, old fellow, you ask me nothilig ; TheMoon was- it its full I think,. unt wentellieetle aud rapidly•to this spot 'the holm had seen hinx. His sister / slood breathless, gazing below, wherii yon ask t‘q• no explanation o My our or tVntte attotnptea tO Oxolit4e herfiefit, heaVy clouds Were' in the' sky, and ob. en, oi xplain the harmlessness of he- htotli. the figures of the , but 1 never 1 0.oned. P priests, as - they anger when 1 heard that you found 9. soured its light save at rare ifiteevels.;used to and fro, were only specks likeness to me in that—Bottrop WhY :When 1 restehed :the ruin 1 could see IT st inwItti6lEdiestl' , . e !emit. nun. t ley had inutile:el thy upon the pavement. When1 looked don't you 1 Any one else would 'haves no one ; yet strong upon me w asthe darlu g; hat, was all I could remember, around, ally, Was standing beside me done Am Must 1 tell you without be. conviction that 1 had nowhere else to She was a woman I could not touch her', looking Intently int ashed t' , ..1 _ ,. alctig thetarrove.gal. • oeek ; and so I went ftp without hesi. but he—Bal, do youlsee h t 1 I hin,brows driiwn down over bit There Wits a howl T /punt+ upqn the pationto the broken doorewayl • where 1 keep the murder in sight.wa T. 1 laVe to do? .61' d , oyestan his lips Sat firm. Pollowing make it at Oxford, but Guy's glass Waling against' the stone.work, t 1, If h ' ' ol 6"1" 1' -Itze' 413" eyes met a party ' of table, which 1 had ramie as I need to the erumbling steps began. Titero s ote or w at is there to little? aua I Alit needed, awl no caittion. / cil6tle is IT I e g Rho vtsttore (foretenera evident' saunt, i ley dry . I knew Guy so. well that Xiliad hitherto been left almost ant/moll. my cousin Kate—motionlees arid some day And the hour come in which/ am 1 ern ig in little groups;m and aong I, -• refill it all in a few words, which, per.' ad,, Sew, pa he told me the story, silent, with a dark ≪ wrapped over to murder hirn. Murder, did I call it ?' them 1 recognized (Mottle tlleoeee kale ho wrote unconsciously, ,. !whitilt wee evidently bard to tell, i e her evomng (hese. 1 had eodio so What meteor is there in etkihg hi's wale. Neer to them, when we fitist Oinight 4.t. hat came tho letter fu vhicla 103:riottirma lt• otrl Iv ADA freflumntlY. near that 1 aetnally totiehed het ift-lesslife for the precincts °nolo took? . sight of thetni there ran a . aureola/a . . ..