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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-9, Page 2TI3F THREAD UP LINE SUNSHINE AND SHADE. CII PIER XIII,—(CONetottED.) " Why, what does this mean, Mies Mey- sey—that is to, ay, Winifred? " Hectare -ra- vel, himself hurriedly. a` E'sie isn't gone ? She's here this xuorning es usual. surely'" As he said it be almost Moped it might be true. He could hardly believe the terrible reality. Hia face wee pets enough .in fail OeA- seienee now --a little too pale, perhaps, for the letter alone to justify. S%inifred, eyeing bila cl• se, saw at a glance that he was deep- ly moved. `r` Si es a gone," she said, net tot tenderly either. See went away last eight, taking her things with her --at least seine of thein,. —I)z you know where she'd gone, Mr. Mase- inger? lies Abe written to you, as she promisee?' "Not QTc Maeleger," .Hugh corrected gravely, wild e, livid }vhita fate yet aii'eetiug jauntiness. "It was agreed yesterday it: should he' High' in future.-- o • I don';. at all kcow where she is, Winifred ; I synch I Bide, He site it ser oaisly. +f Stie hare* writtam w eiogie lice to nae." Hugh's answer bed the very ting o: troth tri ittor indeed it was trio; nal Winifred, watcbime him with a woman's eleseoeea, felt certain is her owl. mind that is thin at IeRst be wan riot deed -Aug tea That he certainly grew unaeceessrily pale, Coushs- ly affection would. hardly Account for so triueh disturbance of the eatseenotorsystem, She questioned him closely as tel all that had gassed or might helve passed botweeu than these weehe or earlier. Aid be know nay - thing of Is al'g'a movements or feelings? Hugh, holding the letter firmly in one hand, and pleaying with the key of that ieerinsin• stn eUtboard, le his waistcoat pasllet, loosely wilt the other, panned with credit' his t sdinimetiett. He bad never, he said, with gay d'p sx ey alinoet, Wee really in- ternees with Elsie, talked cenffdenees with Ee. or received any from HMO in rctnrn, Si.,e toil not know of hie tee -easement to Winifred. Yee he feared, whatever bee 4:mu7ea might 1b:, ensue tenor other meat he Ito tending motive. I'erhept—hist this with the utultss heeitetiosi—tt arced Pelf and else .iabt have meek up fr love atl_iir. Ile felt, el a:urce, it was a =Nee ordeal. Apart from the profounder baeilarowud of para -thio ccesteluetic2s•--the einem charge of baviog gat rut of Elsie--twootherantiplea- saa; notiene stared him full in the face. The *11t -s: was, that the hieyreya might ouepeoe him of having driven Male to rata away by falx propsasal to .Winifred. Bat supposing', even they nsverthought of that --which was highly unlikely, co ;ei',icrin the close eco::e•aeo of the two events and the evident drift of lWintfred'e elneatione—thero edit remained the second nupleaeaatneas—that hie eouslm through whom he had been In- troduced to the lewdly, ahculd have (Neap- peered Neappeared under suet nysterlous cireumstauces. Was it likely they would wish their Baugh, ter to marry a man among whose relations sun odd and unaeeauntable things were likely to happen? For, strangely euough, Hugh still wished to marry Wiuifred. Though be loathed her in his heart just then for not being Elsie, and even, by some illogical twist of thought, for having been the unconscious cameo of E ue's mtsfortunes ; though he would have died himself far rather than lived without 1; ale ; yet. if he lived, he wished for all that to marry Winifred. For tone thing, it was the programme ; and because it was the preeramro, he wanted, with his strict busi- ness habits, to carry i* out to the bitter end. For another thing, hie future all depended upon it; and though he didn't care a straw at present for his future, ho went on acting, by the pure force of habit in a prudent man, as deliberately and eautioutly as if ho had still the same stake inexistence as ever. He wasn't going to chuck up everything all at once, just be. cause life was now ar utter blank to him. He would go on as usual in the regular ;rroove, and pretend to tho world he was still every bit as interested and engaged in lifers formerly. Se he brazened things out with the Mey- seya somehow, and to his immense astonish- ment. be soon discovered they were ready dupes, in no way sot against him by this untoward accident. Oa the contrary, in- stead of finding, as be had expected, that they eoneidered this delinquency on the part of his cousin told against himself asaremota partner to her original sin, by right of hered- ity, he found the Squire and Sara. Meyeey nervously anxious fer their part feast he, her nearest male relative, should suspect them of having inefficiently guarded his cousin's youth. inexperience, and innocence. They were all apology, where he had looked for coldness ; they were all on the defensive, where he had expected to see them vigor- ously carrying the war into Africa. One thing, above all others, he noted with pro- found satisfaction—nobody seemed to doubt for one second tho genuineness and authen- ticity of the forged letter. Whatever else they doubted, the letter was safe. They all took it fully for granted that Elsie had gone, of her own free-will, gone to the four winds, with no trace left of her; and that Hugh, is the perfect innocence of his heart, knew no more than they themselves about it. Nothing else, of course, was talked of at Whitestrand that livelong day ; and before night, the gossips and quidnunc of the vil- lage inn and the servants' hall had a com- plete theory of their own to account for the episode. Their theory was simple, roman- tic, and improbable. It had . the dearly - loved spice of mystery about it. The ooast- guard had noticed that a ship, name un- known, with a red light at the, masthead and a green on the port bow, had put in hastily about nine o'clock the night before, near the big poplar. The Whitestrand cronies had magnified this fact before night- fall, through various additions of more or less fanciful observers or non- observers—for fiction, too, counts for something—into a consistent storyof a most orthodox elope- ment, Mise Elsie had let hereelf down by a teiated sheet out of her own win- dow, to escape observation—some said a rope, but the majority voted for the twisted sheet, as more strictly in accord. anee with established precedent—she had slipped away to the big tree, where a gentle- man's yaoht, from parts unknown, had put in cautiously before a terrible gale, by pre- vious arraugemeut, and had carried her over through a roaring sea across to the opposite coast of Flanders. Detail after detail grew apace ; and before long there were some who even admitted to heviva actually seer a foreign -looking gentleman in a dark cloak Tthe cloak is a atuebie romantic) property upon snob cecasions—catch a whine -robed lady • in hi stout arms as she leaped a wild leap into an open begat from the'spray- covered platform of the,gnarled.poplar roots, lingh emiled a grim and hideous smile of polite' incredulity ea he listened to these final imegieetive embeflietl- meats of the popular fancy; but he aO- cepted inoutline the , romantic) tale as the best possible version of Elsie's disappeare once for public acceptance. Ie kept : the police at least- from poking their ,noses toe deep into this family glair, and it freed him from any possible tinge ot blame in the eyes of the Meg€eye. Nobody can be foetid fruit with for somebody else's elopeaueut. Two points at least seeme.i fairy eers.in to the Whitestreed ietelligence: first, that blies E'sie had roan away of her own record in the absence of the faintly.. ; and second, that she ;either went by read icor rail, so that only the Bea 'or river appeared to he left by way of a pasalhle explanation. The , 4 y eye, of course, were leo* cream - out AS to retail ; hue even the- Meyaeye flus• nested nothiug serious in the matters That Elsie had gouts weer till they knew ; why she went was a profound mystery to tiiees, CHAPTER X1;V.—i.tee on sire? And all this time, what had become of Elsie and the men in tiled/rid—Turtle Hugh hTeeeiuger, for hie pert, teak it for granted, item the moment he cams to isbn- salt mile ou the bank of the edit snarebes, that l; -5i4 body was lying unseen full fire fathoms beneath the ilerman Ocean, mall that ua tangible evidence of his crime and his deceit wild ever he forthconsiug to prove the netted truth in all his native u li- noes weal= him. Freya time to thee to be sure, ono dilquivting thought for a mo- ment occurred to his meaty y mind; a halal current slight Ferber e.set up the corpse upon the keg dike where he had hinixelf hen stranded, or the breekene ou the bar height Meg It adhere upon the great a ansle that atretehed, for ranee on either side of the river•motsth tat tl'lntestraed. lint to these 1. terrible fifsa,ininge ot the nigh _.watehee, the more judicial funetioee of hie welting brain refused their aacnton doer eteasfder- tation. He himself had fleeted through that tcaiebiug turmoil eisuply Iie,:'use he kuew how to tint. A women, caught wittily by the careering current in its heedlenu coerce, would ,suturally give a few mad strgrsgle» for life ©caping and ;gulping and dingu1g' up her life, as thoec untaught to swim fn• variab:y do; but when emee the stream had carried her under, she would rover ries again from ao profound and meaeureleas a depth of water. He did not in any way doubt that the body had been swept away seaward with irresistible might by the asst force of the outward flaw, and that it now lay huddled at the bottom of the German Ocean in tome deep plot, when„ o dredge or diver could never by human meant' recover it. How differently would he have thought and acted all along had he only known that Warren Rolf and hit companion on the Mud Turtle, had found .Axle's body floating on the surface, a limp burden, not half an hour after its nrat immersion, That damning fact rendered all his bald precautions and daring plana for the future worse than molest. As things really stood, he tsar plotting andeehcming for his own condemnation. Through the nu re accident that Eieio's body had been recovered, he watt heaping up suspicious circumstantial evidence against himself by the forged letter, by the night escapade, by the wild design. of entering 1slsie'a bedroom at the Hall, by the mad idea of concealing at his own lodgiege her purloined clothes and jewelry and be longings. If ever aninquiry should come to be raised into the way that Ririe met her death, the very cunning with which Hugh had fabricated a fake scent would recoil in the end most sternly against himself. Tho spoor that he scattered would come home to track him. Could any one believe that an innocent man would so carefully surround himself with an euveloping atmosphere of autpicions circumstances out of pure wan tunes l And yet, technically speaking, Hugh was in reality quite innocent. Murderer agile. felt himself, he had done no murder. Morally guilty though he might be of the causes which led to Eisie's death, there was nothing of legal or formal crime to object against him in any court cf so-called justice. Every man has a right to marry whom he will ; and if a young woman with whom he has cautiously and scrupulously avoided contracting any definite engagement, chooses to consider herself aggrieved by his conduct, and to go incontinently, whether by accident or design, and drown herself in chagrin and. despair and misery, why, that is clearly no fault of his, however much she may regard herself as injured by him. The law has nothing to do with sentiment. Judges quote no precedent from Shelley or Tennyson. If Hugh had told the whole truta, he would at least have been free from legal blame. By his extraordinary precautions against pos- sible doubts, he had only succeeded in mak- ing himacll seem guilty in the eyes even of the unromantic lawyers. When Warren Relt drew Elsie Challoner, a hudddledsmass, on board the Mud, Turtle, the surf was rolling so high on the bar, that with one accord he and Potts decided to- gether it would be impossible for them, against such a sea, to run up the tidal mouth to Whitestrand. Their piteous little dot of a craft could never face it. Wind had veered to the south-east. The only way possible now was to head her round again, and make before the shifting breeze. for Lowestoft, the nearest northward har- bour of refuge. It was an awful moment. The sea roared onward through the black night; the cross- drift whirled and wreathed and eddied; the blinding foam lashed itself' in volleys through the dusk and gloom against their quivering broadside. And those two men, nothing daunted, drove the Mud -Turtle once more across the flank of the wind, and fronted her bows in a direct line for the port of Lowestoft, in spite of wind and Bea and tempest. But how were they to manage meanwhile, in that tossing cockleshell of a boat, about the lady they had scarcely rescued? That Elsie was drowned, Warren Reif didn't for Amora nt doubt , still, inevery case of ape= parent drowninr, it is a duty to make sure life is really extinct before one gives up all hope; and that duty was a difficult one in- deed tt perform on board a tiny yawl, pitch- ing and rolling before a violent gale, and manned against the manifold dangers of the sea by exactly two amateur sailors. But there was no help far it. The ship must drift with nae mariner only, Potts did his heat for the moment to navigate the dancing tittle yawl wore, new that they let her send before the full force +ef the favouring wind under little canvas ; while Warren ,Rolf, staggering and steadying himself ,in, the cabin below, rolled the body round in ruga end blankets, and tried his utmost to pour atow drops of broody down the pale lips of the beautiful girl who lay listless and ap- parently lifeless before him. It was to hien indeed a terrible task ; for from the drat moment when the painter set eyes en Elsie Chalicner, he had felt some nameless charm about her lace and wanner, some tender cadence in her musical voice, that affected him, as mo outer face anal no ether vcioe had ever affected bird or egad ever affect hint. lie was not exactly iu love with Elsie. --lava with him was a plant of slower growth--�. but he nae faeeinated, impreased, iutereeted, charmed by her. And to sit there alone in that teasing cabin, with Elsie cold and redff nit the berth before him, was to hien more utterly peieful and unaatanPing that he would ever hwve imagined a week or two earlier. He did not doubt ora ]natant the true. atony of the acro. Ile felt ivaticctively in hiB heart tial Hugh Meeainger had showo her his fewest nature, and that thin was the aura and .borrible .result of Hugh's airy, easy preteetatiaus. As he eat there, watching by the light of the ane ell lamp, and rubbing her halideetid asrme gently with his rough .lard; pima, be OW a gpddvu turnultuene mnraem€nt of Elsie's bottom, a sort of gasp that convuind her lungs -••a deep inspiration, with a gurg- ling noise ; and then, like a flush, it was berme in epee him suddenly that all wae not over—that Elsie might yet be saved -that she wee gill living, It was a terrible hour, a terribly ppoeitlon. If ostiy they had had ono more hand ou been., one iuore parser to help hon with the teal: of recovering her ! last DOW euuld he ever hope to revive that :Mettle; girl, aloes and unaided, while the ship drifted en, eiis- gie-haasded, toxsitr;; and plurigin beiro that stitl'eniug breeze t He alltuost espAlte.d of helot; . i:a to affect anything. Yet life lie life, axed he would nerve bitetelf u,s fur it. Ile would try his beat, met thamlt Heaven this btiater:ne wind that reeled through the riegiug would essay thein quick awl mete to Lewesteft. ]lin mother end slater were atilt there. If once he could get Min Vtsalloner retie to laud, they might oven now hope to recover her. Where there's life, tberoe hope. Bat whet hope in the dimly .Lighted cebin of a toy yawl, just fit for two hardy weather- beaten men to rough it badly in. awl pitch. in with wild plunges before its fierce a gate: as ever ploughed „he yeasty surf -ace of the German Ocean. He ruched to Niko cempeelon•Iadder as well as he was able, steadying himself on his melege by the reit as he went, and shouted aloud in breathiest' e:ceitenaent; " Potts, she's alive 1 she's not drowned I Can yountauago the ship anyhow atilt, while I try my beat to bring her round again ?" Poste answered back with a cheery, "All right. There's nothing much to do but to let her run. She's out of our hands, for good or evil. The admiral of the fleet could do no more for her. If we're swamp. ed, we're swamped ; and if we're not, we're running clear -for Lowestoft harbour. Give her sen -room enough, and who'll go any- where, The *form don't live that 11 foun- der the 11tid•Turtle, 1'll laud you or drown you, but anyhow I'll manage her. With that maninl assurance satisfying his Poul, Warren Rolf turned back, his heart on fire, to the narrow cabin and flung himself once more on his knees before Elsie. A more terrible right was seldom re- membered by the oldest senora on thoNorth Sea, Smacks were wrecked and colliers foundered, and a British gunboat, manned by the usual complement of scientific offi- cers, dashed herself full tilt in mad fury against the very base of a first -clam light- house ; but the taut little Mud Turtle true to her reputation as the staunchest craft that sailed the British channels, rode it bravely out, and battled her way triumph- antly, about one in the morning, through the big waves that rolled up the mouth of Lowestoft harbour. Potts had navigated her single-handed amid storm and breakers, and Warren Ralf, in the cabin below, had almost succeeded in making Elsie Challoner open her eyes again. But as soon as the excitement of that wild raoe for life was fairly over, and the Mud -Turtle lay in calm water once more, with perfect safety, the embarraseiog na- ture of the situation, from the conventional point of view, buret suddenly for the first time upon Warren Relf's astonished vision and he began to reflect that for two young men to arrive in port about the small -hours of the morning, with a young lady very im- perfectly known to either of them, lying in a dead faint on their cabin bunk, was, to say the least of it, a fact often open to so- cial and even to judicial misconstruction.. It's all very well to say offhand, you picked the lady up in the German Ocean; but So- ciety is apt to move the previous question, how did she get there? Still something must be done with .the uncovenanted passen- ger. There was nothing for it, Warren Relf felt, even at that late season of the night, but to carry the half -inanimate patient up to his mother's lodgings, and to send for a doctor to bring her round at the earliest possible opportunity, When Elsie was aware of herself once more, it was broad daylight ; and she lay on a bed in a strange room, dimly conscious that two women whom she did not knofv were bending tenderly and lovingly over her. The elder, seen through a haze of half-closed eyelashes, was a sweet old lady with enow•white hair, and a gentle motherly expression in her soft grey eyes: one of the few women who know how to agegraoiously. Whose fair old faces grow more fair as Point and Flanders yellow. The younger was a girl about Elsie's own time ot We, who looked as sisterly as the other looked motherly ; a pleasant -faced girl, not exactly pretty, but with e. clearbrown akin, a cheek like the sunny side of peaches, and a :mile that showed a faultless row of teeth within, besides lighting up and irra- diating the whole countenance with, a charm- ing sense of kindlinees and girlisi innocence. ing—but at anyrist° it must have driven him Ina Bingle word it was a winning face wi'd with grief and remorse and horror to. Elsie lay with her eyes half open, looking up think he had killed her—to think she was at theface through her crossed eyelasheslost to him. --.'Oughtn't she to telegraph at for many minutes, not realising io any was onco to Hugh—to dear, dear Hugh—and her present position, but conseious only, in tell him at least she was saved, she was still A duly pleased and dreamy fashion, that living, etheho90fa1ece her. eiee9aed to soothe and, comfort and (To Be Cotters 'ED.) Soothe and comfort and console her for what? She bardly knew. Sooie deep seat ed pain in her inner nature—some hurt she heel had in her tenderest feelings --a horrible aching blank and void, -.-She remembered now that something unspeakable and in credible had happened. --The sun had grown suddenly dark in heaven.—She had 1 ein Bitting fay the waterside with dear Hugh. As she thought of the nacre, ttiat idolised name, a smile played for a moment faintly rouni the corriera of hermouth ; and the older lady, still Been half unconsciously through the chink in the e;,.elids, whisperer d in an audible tone to theyounger and nearer one : "She'a eamtng round, Elie. She's waking now. d hope, poor dear, she won't be dreadfully frightened, when she Gees only two strangers by the bed beside herthe ," ,;Frightened at yeu, mother," nth voice answered, soft and low, as in a pie$ antdre&m. „Why, nobody on earth co ever be anything but delighted to waIr anywhere and find yon, with your dear street old face, sitting by their bedside." Vele, gill peering with half her papile tMly through the closed lids, :smiled to her. sett once Mae at the gentle raursutir el thee() pleataut voice», both of thein tender and womanly and: ilivaicalawl went n to herself placidly with her own isisagiuiage, Sitting' by the wateraiae with her A oavelty in si.ver pocket sloe's le in the dear Hugh - 'dear, dear Hugh—that Frit CO - term of iA crab entacgled is a tt3her'a net, of filen, How handsome he wail; and how "Never morning wore to evening bet began to tell her somethin Eh . but t slid break," ofsc pl ys iu :arta cower, and haw generous l ANsd llagh had solxse heareve g ' the part that ill. haal;tloftessn plays in heaFt- eomethieg IWhat was it What wag it? wreck ie tee groat for computation, 1:°,ter• Slso ml3ldn t remember; she only knew it ins) disorders 9i:aialiy becloud the epirite was et methieg terrible, eemwtning din- and esp the epriuge of vitality and 0ervoue estrous, something unutterable,. something ; for ;e. 1'or those dietrese'inM diseaeee, flue. killing, And theft she rushed away freta' tional irregularities, unnatural disaharges, him, mad with terror. to arae the big tree, coustaut pain, weak ,haul, Ia:leltede, dull- and— Ali 1 'Sega, ainkixeg seneltiena, ill temper, and all weaknesses and derangeineuta peenlier tss It wee au'stefnl, heart -brokers, heart -rend- female', I):. P4eroe'a Fevorite i'reetriptioii lug cry, (colo,; to berhelf suddenly, at la a perfect speeifle. Sabi by dru;glete. the whole truth tlethed like liglituhrig once m¢ereaa:roba her bewildered brats, the poor girl flung up her arms, raised has* wildl • ewe in the bed, aud et teed aroued horwith ra horrible vacant, maddened !.k, as if all her life were epi at Quo Pram wider her. Bath of the strangersrecegxah;ed inatiuotive- iy what that loth xsaeant. It was the belt and the cry of A crushed life. If ever they had harboured a eingle thought of Ideate Gree:.e wed brow= iii all to against that peer wounded, bleeding, torn las the favorite calors this aauteter. heart for what eeensed like a linety attempt At self-suurder, it was dieseipeted iu *moment by that terrible voice—the voice of a goad- ed, dietrneted, irrespaueible creature, from whom all coneeiousnees or thought of right and wrong, of life and death, of sense and movement, of motive and consequence, has been etunuecl at one blow by come deadly act of undersoved cruelty and unexpected wickednesse. The tears ran unchecked he ell'int sym- pathy downthe women's flushed checks. Mee. Raiff leant over and caught her In her arena,' ;ale'sea peer culla," she whispered Ocean Steamship Passenger:4 layialayingThio s hd with motherly tcudornr$t' on her own soft ehouider, and soothing the Via New York, should take the filo 'tail. girl's pallid white face with her gentle old way, as It Is not only rho shortest and best hand, "cry, cry, cry if you can I Don't lino, but lands people close to the p�fere of hold back your tears; lot them run, dor. the leading steamship companies. In, buy - ling. It'll do you good.—Cry, cry,my child Ing tickets, ask for tee Erie. —we're all friends here. 1) in't bo afraid of um" EIaio never knew, in the agony of the mo- ment, where she was or how she came there ; hut nestling her hoodoo hire. Rae shoulder, and, fain of the sympathy that gentle soul extended her so easily, she gave free vent to her pent•up passion, and lot her bosom sob itself out in great borate and throbs of choking grief ; while the two wo- men who had never till tint very morning scan her fair face, cried and sobbed silently in mute concert by her side for many, many minutes together. " Havo you no mother, dear " Mrs. Rolf whispered through her tears at last ; and Elsie, finding her voice with difficulty, murmured beck in a choked and blinded. tone ; " I never knew my mother." " Then Bile and I will be mother and sister to you," the beautiful old lady an- swered with a soft caress. " You mustn't talk any more now. The doctor would be very, very angry with me for letting you talk and cry even this little bit. But cry- ing's good for one when one's heart's sore. I know, my child, yours is sore now. When you're a great deal better, you'll tell ue all about it.—Elie, some more beef -tea and brandy.—we've been feeding you with it alt night, dear, with a wet feather.—You OM drink a little, I hope, now. You A. P. 409. must take a good drink and lie back quietly:" Elsie smiled a faint Bad smile. The world SPORTING GOODS■ was all lost and gone for her now ; but still she liked the dear souls' sweet, quiet sym- pathy. As Edie glided across the room noiselessly to fetch the cup, and brought it over and held it to her lips and made her drink, Elsie'e eyes followed every motion gratefully. " Who ate you " she cried, clutching her new friend's plump, soft hand eagerly. Tell me where I am. Who brought me here ? How did I get here ?" "I'm Edie Relf," the girl answered in the same low, silvery voice as be- fore, stooping down and kissing her. " Yon know my brother, -Warren Relf, the artist whom you met at Whitestrand. You've hadan accident - eyou fell into the water—from the chore t Whitestrand. And Warren, who was cruising about in bis yawl, picked you up and brought you ashore here. You're at Lowestoft now. Mamma and I are here in lodgings. Nobody at Whitestrand knows anything about it yet, we believe.—But darting," and she held poor Elsie's hand tight at this, and whisper. ed very low and close in her ear, "we think we guess all the rest too. We think we know how it all happened.—Don't be afraid of us. You may tell it all to us by-and-by, when you're quite strong enough. Mother and i will do all we can to make you better. We know we can never make you forget it." Elsie's head sank back on the pillow. It was all terrible - terrible—terrible. But one thought possessed her whole nature now. Hugh must think she was really drowned : that would grieve Hugh --dear affectionate Hugh —He might be cruel enough to oast her off as he had done—though she couldn't believe it—it must surely be hideous, a hid. eons dream, from which sooner or later she would be certain to have a happy awaken - Wonderful Offer. 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