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The Huron Signal, 1882-06-02, Page 66 THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2 1882 OVER THE GARDEN WALL. "I hate tall women," said Fred Alden to his cuu4in Maude, as he at at her feet, this `oild May evening, watchlug her crochet, and soiling up lulu her round and rather expressionless face. Blanche Haliday, at work in her gar- den near them, heard this, through the rifts in her father's old stone wall, and trembled silently. This craggy wall, with its ragged out- looks on her neighbor's grounds, had grown to be a source of torture to her, as through it she heard all sorts of things she w•as not intended to hear (she was hopelessly and undeuiably tall), and saw all sorts of things she would rather not have seen. Through it and over It she looked out from her uncomfortable, poverty-stricken home upon comfort and elegance and beauty; upon fountains and arbors and rustic seats, made to while delicious Summer days -upon; and at Fred Alden holding mild flirtations with his cousin Maude, who had a face and figure like one of the round pink -and - white shepherdesses cut in china on the mantel: light, fluffy hair, blue eyes, pink cheeks, a dear little dimpled chin, nestl- ing down amid cloudy tulles of crepe lisle or point -applique; and soft, dimpled, chubby hands, idling with blue and lilac wools, so becoming to their whiteness. Blanche. herself browned by sun and wind and weather, cafe shy and angry leoke at her from the beds she was weed- ing, and did nut hong so much fur the beautiful home and wardrobe as fur the quisite 7 Do; you like puffed waists on love such thiu;s seem to brio: with any one so short as I ? and tell me hew thein. you like this sash ? You ought to he She, at first, had liked to look at Fred, the jndge, you know, as this is my wed - because he waa so pleasant to look at; ding -,dress." had liked to hear hint talk, because he "I shall never get any higher than },!o! -akin:: to cabinnnes," said Blanche to herself, after every nuc --even .,saute s .father, who the tirat regretful pang; and she sided a had the gout, and was, in every way. little in the shadow of the stony-hearted. touch like a hornet. At first she had wall, which. nevertheless, remained deep and callous to her pain. After this she watched the further pre- parations with a stoical indifference pathetic to ser. Dress after .Tress came home for, Maude; Fred s new suit cane, too,,• with his white vest and glot'es; the house be - her, ter some folks would be poor and contrary any way," And w she might had she nut thought of the old garden. 1, from ley old -maid attic, whom win- dow looked out above beth gardens, of the Holidays and the Aldtns, often w Bla clic winos and cringe under th se ordeals; but 1 also saw that, for all Fred thought hen such meanly employment, and for all his hatred of tall women, he often ramie aid hung over the wall, and talked with her, and there was a kindlier tune in his voice than he used even to little Maude, and a sort of kindredness of spirit seemed to be betweeutheui; and Blanche confide} to him all the secrets of her garden a:id her aspirations for the children, and began to !latter herself that her love was partially returned. An occasional pang of jealousy troubled her when she saw hila walking with Maude on the terraces, evenings, hang- ing over Maude and her piano, and riding with Maude on the blessed, sun- shiny afternoons, when she was out thinning the lettuce and radishes. One but June afternoon Blanche was transplanting cabbages, while all the world lay white and'guping with the dust and heat. Old Mr. Alden had gone off to sleep, with his handkerchief over his head to keep off the gnats; Fred was in the door- way, with a halm -leaf fan, talking to Maude, who was shaking out a snowy satin dress, with a puffing of tulle looped up with orange -blossoms. " "How de you like it, Fred 1'' she was saying, ewthusiaetictlly. "Is it net ex - loved him, slowly and imperceptibly, then fondly and anxiously, then tender- ly and absorbingly --getting, at last, into such a mad passion over hint, that she envied cousin Maude one touch of his hand, one glance of his careless eyes. Fred, being a rising young man, full of tine and youthful notions, regarded gan to be decorated and embellished in the Halklays' thriftless, untidy home more than usual grandeur; a new corps of negro servants carne, as well as the bride's cake and part of the silver. Blanche avoided Fred now in every way and never spoke to hint but once after she saw the preparations fur the wedding; this was one day when she was weeding the union -bed, and watering it with her tears. "What are you cultivating now, Miss Blanche ?' called Fred from the other side. with supreme dissatisfaction. Blanche's father, a weak, incompe- tent man, always failing in all his effort- less ways, left his family to get along the best way they could, and was never certain to he on hand, only at ureal times, which, so they were on time, it never occurred to hint fruin what course they were procured. Blanche, having tried many w tys of earning her living ---and havin:: gone lou: and shabby so many years, she had dropped out of society altogether --at last hit upon tlie idea of taking and cultivat- ing the large waste plot of land back of the house, and with some help as to the spading and grubbing, she hoed and weeded and pruned all through the Spring and Summer raising berries flowers and vegetables and keeping the family free from starvation by the sales of her hard-earned products. She worked away with untiring zeal from the time the morning began to grow pink till the moon shone, having the satisfaction of seeing her anoth- er's Lae a little less careworn, and her little brothers sent to echotd, clad something near like the other children. Her pretty elder sister early escaped the difficulties of an uncomfortable, shabby home by marrying a wealthy suitor. Blanche would have fain done likewise. but, not being pretty or attrac- tive, lied no lovers, and as obliged to fall hack on her own re- ' • es. it is not disheartening; work to watch thrifty flowers and vegetables growing tender one's own care, and Blanche had shot up like a reed, tall and healthy, with a pleasant, mild face, in a framing of soft brown hair, with eager, nervous sad eyes front her post behind the crazy wall. The next day, I taw Frud go down the walk and lean over his neighbor's wall. Blanche Haliday caste out just then, with her rake, a sorry -looking figure iu her shrunk oaliw and garden hat; a (Web came into her brown cheeks at the sight of the individual over the wall, and she began to rake away spitefully, snaking. valwut attacks on the shriveled earth and dry leaves. i "Why, are you out going to steak to me, Blanche, when 1 have been away est long ?" Blanche came • few steps forward, and stood leaning ou her rake, looking sadly down 00 her little strawberry `Forget -me -nota," said Blanche, short; ly, and ran into the house rapidly, to hide her swollen eyes. The wedding festivites went on, and there was not an hour in which some- thing new and delightful did nut make its appearance for the eventful day. A few days previous Maude's rich uncle arrived, a pursy. important old gentleman, "with a forehead going be- nevolently around to look for the back of his head," and Blanche saw hint pre- senting Maude with a set of diamonds, glittering like gathered dew in their vel- vet cases. The wedding guests had all assem- bled, and Blanche could catch but faint glimpses of the gorgeousness within, as she sat on the broken steps of her back kitchen porch, stroking her old pussy's head disconsolately-, and seeing Lively fortes dimly through the drawn curtains swaying to and fro, to the melody of the Strauss waltzes, and hearing the lighted carriages roll away down the moonlit drive on the bridal journey, with light tintlea of laughter intermingled with manly tones, and went to bed with a dismal ache at her heart, and rose next morning to her work with a very hag- gard air. hands that must work and grasp at She was not one to waste her life in something higher than herself, and be- sighs over any needless, ut.attainable seeching, loving ways. . thing, and she schooled herself to think Eavesdroppers never hear any gond it wrong to care for him now: yet oho of themselves, so blanche, innocentgy could not help her thoughts, and went playing the role of one, with her head about with a wretched heart through all down among the weeds, was often en- the bright August and September days. tertained by such colloquies as these : People with the best of intentions to "There's old Haliday coding up the do no cannot very well die of love, with walk, as drunk as a fool." a mother and five small, ragged, half - This from'Msude's father, setting him- savage, and very healthy bothers to self for his after-dinner nap, in his arm- support, and though Blanche's life was chair on the porch. a burden to her. and she took up her "Did you ever see such a scarecrow as i daily cares with lagging feet. yet she that Blanche Haliday is getting to be r. ? retrained the same healthy girl as ever, said Fred. ; though she missed Fred in the dawning, This from Maude in the bright no•ndays, in' the fading i thought you used to like her Animist afternoons, and when she saw looks, Fred 7- the leases falling, her heart went down "So i did. But why is the girl cove- with them. malty delving in that old garden, making The wedding -trip to Niagara and a regular than of herself Why don't Lake George was prolonged till late in she teach school i' the Fall, and the leaves lay in brown Here Blanche wipesaway a hitter tear. and yellow heaps in Blanche's garden Hadn't she aspired for yeah at one of when she saw them return Mande, the town schools 1 and were not the lovelier than ever in her ashes of roses board strong democrats 1 and her father, , traveling -dress: Fred, distrait and always on the opposite aide of every. weary -looking. as if he had been nut in thing, had each time taken his laugh- a sour and uncomfortable world, and re ter's fate in his hands. and gone shaking cipmcated its feeling. And the old his liberal views in their faces, and rant- uncle had come b•ek, too, with his gold- itrg against democracy, tilt the board de- headed cane, his natty gloves, his fat, Glared "01d Haliday's daughter might pudgy little figure and shining silk hat; starve for all the •eh••ol they would give and Blanche stool looking at them with toed. ''How thin you have grown, Blanche ! You have been working tau hard, and You do not know how 1 have missed you since I have been away, or how lonely I have been. Blanche trembled violently. WAR this the right sort of talk for her to hear, or to expect, from a young and happy bridegroom 1 And yet, with all her good resolves, and wicked as it was, she would fain have laid her head down on this married man's shoulder and wept life away. "I tried to speak to you before I went away," he continued, "but seine way you always avoided one; and since Maude married that old fossil" --with a gesture toward the window where the supposed uncle's bald head and daily paper were eomf..rtably rocking back and forth -"I have been banging all over the country on their senseless wedding -tour.-' 'And are you - not -- married- -t" Maude 1" Blanche dropped the words out slow- ly, as if she were paralyzed, while Fred smiled a curious little emi:e. "Provided I wished to marry my own cousin, there would be very little hope fer a young man' ou a salary, when such old coveys its he cause courting with •their bank -checks and diamonds." He had now climbed the wall and was sitting on the top of it, and Blanche as if in assertion of woman'a rights, was sitting beside him. Itis anything but a romantic day for courtship. The first snow -flakes are coming crookedly down upon the gar- den, and a leadened November sky is hanging low above it, as I hear these %cords from the top of the garden -wall: "Blanche, I love you." My old -maid ears are getting deafen- ed by the wintry wind, but I hear some- thing like a sob from Blanche, and an "Oh, -Fred, I'm so glad ! and 1 go in the house with the tears in my- eyes over this little episode, glad that I shall see again the beauty of happiness in her suft, pathetic face. • Posh Uwe VIM es fila. Teals. $very nue, at times, feels the necessi- ty 11 some restoratives of the vital pow- ers depressed by mental or Ixldily ex- haustion. In such conditions, let every one, instead of flying to the alcoholic ur medicinal stimulants, which must be followed by depression equal to their excitement. reinvigorate his deranged system by the uatural tonic elements of the Paau ia7l SYRUP. Sold by all drug- gists. Mr Jawes 0. 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