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The Exeter Times, 1892-3-3, Page 6aVasaaaaa • aaaaa sastataa.saa ••i; a aaaaa;. a\aas.. as"aaasaa -a a ,Sas -a" • er. sa, i raa a alia- .a. /' 0 ksa‘aa XassNaaa.aaassa:. aa:‘aasaa. saaakaas saasat..., 1 asiaAa'' as"aa. aSaa.a.ssa ' a wLIL RGENT TT VA FFAIRst youbfee ro bwleigke !et; mmake the no horses. oste oefd)ehre. I- RI seven'lunch at two, and dine at half -past six. My sou is the soul of panctuality. He never varies a minute—never half a minute. Go, explore the grounds between. this and luncheon; a bell will ring a quarter of an hour before it is ready." Nellie felt far from comfortable ns she entered the dreary, hollow, resounding house after her interview with George Chay tor. That great desolate house had op- pressed her like a portentous cloud. The meeting with Mrs. Bathurst had fined her with tremulous misgivings and vague chills mg tears, never even suspected before in her clear, bright, open, happy life. For the first time she now had a secret—she was to say nothing about that incident at the boundary wall. It was a poor, paltry, mean, unhandsotne secret connected with the triv- ial circumstance of her meeting with that young man, and learning the lowering fact that her father's business man, whom she had never seen and under whose roof she now lived, was known by an uncomplimen- tary and damaging nickname. Mrs. Bathurst and Garwood House had filled her with inexpressible fears. She de- plored but could not help this. No doubt in time she should overcome these unpleasant feelings. One thing sbe could do, and that one thing she would do, namely, to yield Mrs. Bathurst constant and dutiful respe:t. She would have repelled with scorn the idea that there was anything romantic or even interesting in her encounter with young Chaytor. Such a thought could not have occurred to her, and no one was by to suggest it. She had been startled by hearing his voice from the wall. She had been Manned at the notion that a hid. eons reptile might be within reach of her ; and she had been disgusted at learning that Mr. Bathurst, whom her father mad aunt and nude always spoke of with respect aa the custodiau and wise investor of his fath- er's fortune, should be treated with stich want of feeling and courtesy as to be named after the•naost loathsome of reptiles. She remained in her room until the bell rang for luncheon. With wha alarming shrillness thesound tore through the weird quiet of that lonely house She wondered did that clangorous bell peal through, the corridors when the old woman was alone? or had st been set going to honor or terrify the guest ? It made her shudder to think of rousing all the far-off sleeping echoes of this sombre house for two lonely women. CHAPTER. 1. onotioniaxs THE Tuatras. , "1—T beg your pardon," said a hesitatin reale voice. 'The girl started, looked. round, but saw ao one, 'I'ra an the wall," said the male voice in Sspologetic tones. She cast her eyes up. The head ana shoulders of a light -haired young man, clad In flannels, appeard almost directly over her. The young man mounted a rung higher on the ladder and said: "I hope I. haven't atartled you ? I was looking for something I had lost when I saw you. I spoke because I thought you might be frightened if you came on it unawares.", "What is it ?" she asked with great dig- nity, stepping bacak.4 pace, and. tilting her cream-coloured saiithrella, further back over her daint fmlaer. "ra la my crocodile Jacko." " What !" she cried, gathering her dress together and. glancing round the ground with apprehension. " Indeed," said the young man penitent- ly, "you mustnot be alarmed. He's quite tame and very small, and he's almost blind. I bought him cheap—a damaged lot," he added, laughing, to reassure the girl. She looked at him in silent indignation. She wasnot accustomed to being a.ddrassed by strange young men, and she was 'emus; tamed to being treated with respect and de; tary astonishment, " Going to stay at Garwood House for a while !" " Yes, aa hy are you astonished ?" she asked, widening the distance between them as they walked. Oh, nothing," ho said in momentary confusion, and then foundered a moment, and. then partly recovered himself. " I'm sure 1 beg your pardon; only, you know, you are so unlike Mr. Bathurst, I thought you could not be closely related. You must think me very rude to ask. , 1 .suro you I did not mean to frighten ytimatiad didn't mean to be rude ; and it is horribly awkward about the crocodile." „ She smiled. His compunction was dis- arming, engaging. He almost required pro- tection from himself. "You did not do or say anything so very dreadful. Of course, it is awkward to have the crocodile wander- ing about, and a pity you have lost your pet." "Oh, that's no consequence at all," said he. "I wish he were at the bottom of the Red Sea." "A. crocodile," said she, with another smile, "is a fresh.water creature." The young man saki nothing ; he merely made an impatient gesture, as if it were dismissing the reptile to still more unsuit- able depths. " And as to asking me if I were related, to Mr. Bathurst, there wasno harm in that, for I do not know hum, have never seen him yet." " What 1" he cried, pulling up suddenly ference—the respect and deference due to and staring at her in consternation, "you her age, eighteen. "1 don't know him ! You haven't seen bun ! " a am not joking," said he ; I would not Why this is worse than anything! This is think of doing such a thing. I'm awfully 1the worst of all !" sorry ; and I should not have spoken at all The girl looked at him with displeasure —I should not have dared—only I was and suspicion. "What is the matter now afraid you might come on Jaoko unexpect. —I can see the house from this. Thank you edly and be alarmed." for your escort so far. Will you not come She was mollified somewhat by the con- in?" she moved her hand in, formal lava cern in the speaker's voice. "A. crozodile? talon, but voice and manner cenveyed his she said, condescending to admit wonder dismissal. into her voice. "To the house ?" said he in amazement. " Yes," he said, bringing his chest above "Oh no, thank you. I am,dreadfully afraid the wall by raising himselt another rung on you may not know much, may not know the ladder, this causing her to retreat an- anything about Mr, Bathurst. other pace. " But you really mustn't be This was really going too far. "I must afraid. He's only a very small chap. He thank you tor your kindness and say good - never goes for people, you know." day," said she frigidly, bowing. "I don't know," said she stiffly. She had "Oh, pray don't speak in that way. I not been in good humour at all when taking wouldn't offend you for the world; but I fear her solitary walk through these strange you do not know much about Mr. Bathurst, grounds, and this affair annoyed ber; and and may tell him about—about ine and the young man—aatbough he seemed reallV jacke•.— He paused, unable to go on. sorry, was very easy in his address, and "Well?" she asked mercilessly, and con - should use no slang to her. He annoyed veying grave reproof for the bare notion of her too. not," said he very humblymaking a secret of this meeting. " Of course . "Oh1 well, indeed, you mustn t tell any. "1 meen he would not think of attacking thing about it to Mr. Bathurst, or, I think, people. I lost him at our side of the wall, to Mrs. Bathurst either. You may well look and thought he might have got into Mr. insulted and. astonished; but I assure you I Bathurst's grounds through a bole or drain am speaking only to prevent a horrid mess. —there is an unbarred dram higher up. rm very sorry tor frightening yon—I am You don't know that Mr. Bathurst has a in. You nickname in the City?—No. I felt you deed; and, of course, I couldn't be so rude couldn't have heard. How could you? It's es to make a jake about such a thing. If horribly unkind and beastly, but—but they you only knew how distressed lam, you'd ,---you'd believe me," he ended somewhat call him the Crocodile." incoherently. " What 1—And your story of the escaped Miss Ellen Morton felt that here her creature V— dialogue with the unknown young magi on " Oh, believe me, that is quite true. In. the wall ought to end. She was in these deed, indeed, every word I have told you is quite true, It was Mr. Bathurst's nick - grounds of Garwood House, on the Thamea name made me think of buying Jaoko, and twenty miles above London, for the first, Jack° really got mita his basket just before time in her life that day. She had no reason w u to believe that young men in flannels were I sayofirst. Mr. Bathurst does not at elflike his nickname, and if you told him desperadoes. Still propriety, with the about me, it would. be most unpleasant. I Istricteet rules of which she was familiar, demanded that this dialogue should end. don't care what you inay tell him about me, But then a crocodile ! but, for goodness' sake, don't mention the crocodile. If you mention the crocodile, he she haa ever even as much as heard, took into account the contingency of a crocodile may think—he may think—I don't know what he may think, But you can see it at large. In historic times, a,uyway, a would crocodile had never before entered into a he very awkward for you to say any- thing about a crocodile at your first meet - situation of this kind on the banks of the The young man took off his cap. to say Go away. Bub whither? If she Thames. It was easy for convnetionality ia'*•" watch you safe into the house from moved, she might be walking straight to- this. Jacko must surely be at the other wards the odious reptile, or—worse still— side of the wall. I shall write you to say I might suddenly hear him running after her have recovered. him so that you may not be behind. afraid to walk about the grounds—that is, if you will tell me to whom a letter for you Plainly, it was impossible for her to should be addressed. You see, I can't write move. She was not at all timid by nature. But before sbe came upon this adventure to Mr. Bathurst or his motherabout Jacko- she had not been very happy. She stood and I couldn't bear to think my carelessness still, glancing about her in shiverina' watch - was the means of keeping you in endless fulness. dread. "I don't know exactly what I ought to"My nameis Morton," she said with dig - do," said the young man on the wall in nity and then, with grave politeness ands. accents of perplexity. "Mr, Bathurst for - bow : "Good -day, and thank you." bids people landing on his grounds from the And my name is George Cheater. —Good - river or getting over his walls or fences, He day." He bent his bare hea.ii, and then is death on trespassers." raising it, watched the figure of the girl cross "Is he?" said she, feeling that it was a the lawn and enter Garwood House. Then, great pita this exclusiveness did not operate forgetting that he still held his cap in his effectually against saurians. hand, he plodded back to the boundary wall with eyes bent on the ground and in com- " Oh yes. He's °mildly 'particular about plete forgetfulness of the whole reptile area - keeping every one out. If I might only slip over and stand beside you, you'd be all tion. right, you know." A year back Nellie Morton had left school It and gone to live with her gentle, sympathetic tanding her eighteen years' experience was hard for Ellen Morton, notwith- childless, maternal aunt Sophie, wife of sin life, to deal with tbis speech. Here Colonel Picketing, in Deighton, a quiet gar - was a complete stranger talking in a re- risen town of the south. This June morn- prom/Ifni tone of her host. This ought ing her uncle had left her at Garwood House bidding her final adieu. She was the only to be resented, although she had never met child of the widower, Christopher Morton, Mr. Bathurst yet. Then there was the im- civil engineer now residing in Brazil. Mr. udent assumption on the part of this young Bathurst was Morton's business man inLon- thould be "alt right !" Still the speaker )nan that if he were only by her side she don. When Colonel Pickering was ordered abroad Mt. Bathurst's mother wro te to Brazil meant welL And then there was the dread - offering the girl a home at Garwood House. /III thought of the lurking crocodile! She Mt felt as though she must cry. lfancy•her, Mr. Morton replied, thanking Mrs Bathars ellen Morton, crying like an ordinary silly for her kindness to his motherless daughter, and saying he should be home for good in girl 1 she who taavays held in scorn aaial con- t the autumn, as he had now made enough for tempt girls who cried for nothing ! But, on himself and his girl. He had been far from the other hand, was a crocodile nothing? a well, but was much better, almost as well f she was sure this crocodile was nothing, the should not feel in the least inclined to as ever. • try. She should feel very indignant. Why Nellie had never seen Mrs. Bathurst until lad this young man spoken at alt? Why this morning, and the interview had proved aad he nut held his tongue, and allowed her anything but reassuring to the Yeun'rl a to be torn asunder by the crocodile in the Mrs. Bathurst was short and very a at ' about seventy years of age, wa stout, eeace ? What—what am I to do ?" she asked peering, inscrutable oyes, audit dark, Witha little quaver of pathos in her voice. tentous manner and delivery. Sheavy pot.- " Oh, pray, don't a said he ; and before tall or thin or haggard enough he was not the knew what was happening; he had She looked a dark unwieldy sorceress. When bluff, outspeketa Colonel Pickering aveung himself over the top of the wall, saying: "1 am sorry I spoke at all. I had resigned Nellie into the hands of her liatresaed you without any need. There was new guardian and taken his leave, the old to danger from Jacko, except the danger of woman said "Child, I cannot get about ;tying you a fright, if you saw him unex- easily. As soon as you have seen your )ectedly. And here have I terrified you and room and taken off your things, come back mealy made you cry. I'd give all the world,' here. 1 wish to talk to you." The tone e said desperately, " I had held my ton- was not one of request or command but of a person accustomed to speak and find " I am nob going to ory, and I ain not the words carried intnacts as inevitably and automatically as one's limbs obey one's will '?errified," she said, her dignity -giving way auto Jefore his manifest sincerity, and under the Nellie returned from her room subdued. and awed by the gloom of this vast silent /end afforded by his presence. She turned house, dark throughout, despite the tthite towards the house, a quarter.of a mile dis- lent, and began walking towards it. sunlight of June morning shining abroad on "You see,' said he, hadn't the least wood and river and field. dea there was any one near when I got up "Take a chair, Ellen," said Mrs. Bathurst he ladder. And, of course, I did not expect as though ciss Morton was the new house - o find a lady here. Mrs Bathurst is never maid, for some unwelcome reason privileged ,bout the grounds, and I don't remember to be seated in the presence of the mistress. ny other lady at darwood." "You will find this place diffl. There are "1 eatne only this morning.' the grounds to walk in, and books in the "You are not a member of the family ?" library. Ivan practically an invalid, although “No. I am. not a relative; but 1 am I stiffer from no ailment or pain. I never lang stay a, while, cross the threshold of this house. .A. young * ?° ffioad gr,.."1.eious r cried he with involan• Luncheon was served. to the large dining - room, on the left of the front entrance hall, Here, notwithstanding the brightness and warmth of the day, all was dim and damp. The heavy dark oak furniture, upholstered in deep purple leather, was moist and chilly to the touch. The air of the room was inoist, not with the sweet moisture of leafy June, but with faint mouldy exhalations from the banquets of buried geuerations. Tne dark wainscoted walls seemed to stand back in sullen disti nee front the shrunken dining -table. The room looked out upon the front lawn, and the cloth was laid at the farthest end rom the curtained windows. Bright as the summer day was, it seemed as though lamps would be indispensable—they would have been regarded with pleasure by any one not morbidly enamoured of gloom. Mrs Bathurst was standing at the back of the room when Nellie entered. "Ha 1" she said, moving across the floor with difficulty and apparent pain and great slowness, be- cause of her unwieldy bulk. "You aro punctual, child. That is right; we are very punctual in this house." The meal was served, and the two women sat down. The parlor maid who attended the table was middle-aged, stolid, stupid - looking. For a long time no word was spoken. Nellie felt glad of this. She did not desire conversation. The desolate gen- ius of this house had begun to work, and was filling with shadowy terrors this girl, who up to that time had lived her life un- afraid. Mrs. Bathurst ate little, and Nellie had no appetite at all. Mrs. Bathurst made no pretence of entertaining her visitor. She spoke such words as were necessary in the progress of the meal, and zienV and then bent her inscrutable eyes on her guest. She did not look at the girl at though she wished to see her. Those sorceress eyes never be- trayed any thought or emotion. They were the outward organs of a spirit always occu- pied on itself within. They peered at the girl but did not stare at her. They did not make Nellie uncomfortable about herself, as do eyes whisth stare; but they set her wondering in chilled awe what could this strange old woman be contemplating that made her look so weird. No pleasant or cheerful thoughts were at the disposal of the girl. Her life up to that day had been one of .peaceful happiness at school, and of delicious awakening amid sympathetic surroundings at Deighton, if she had fainted or fallen off ber chair, Mrs. Bathurst would have contented herself with summoning a servant and giving orders that Miss Morton should be carried to her room and attended to. And here was her hostess showing herself, on this very short acquaintance, able to detect a slight altera- tion in manner or appearance. "I think the grounds are beautiful," said Nellie, when she had recovered from her as- tonishment sufficiently to be able to speak. "And you have not been to the library yet?" " No ; I reserved that pleasure for after luncheon." " Ah 1 hope you may find the library a pleasure. I don't think you took any berie. fit from the grounds to -day. I hope none of those audacious boating -parties landed and disturbed your walla ?' " No ; I did not see any boating -party." This answer was given with extreme Moo. tance. It was of course truthful, but it was not the wholetruth. are keeping something back from me," said the old woman; "but you need not tell me. I am not interested. I do not ask you what. If I wanted to know, you would tell me, but I do not want to know.' (To BE CONTINUED.) WHAT JOHN SAYS About the Suinagling of Chinamen Across rade SIM'S lieTtller. Sometimes, for reasons best known to themselves, Toronto Chinamen become an- xious to pay a visit to Uncle Sam's terri- tory. When luck attends those who make the attempt to get across the line and they show up in Buffalo tho papers of that city send, up a howl and call upon the policy across the waterfront to pay a little strictee attention to business, Just now the Buffalo press is engaged in this periodical cry, be. cause of the arrival in that city of a few Ce- lestials from no one knows where. A couple of prominent city Chinamen wore spoken to on the subject of smuggling, and both said that their fellow -countrymen in Toronto were quite satisfied to remain in Canada. "Of course this business is carried on right along," said one, "and occasionally there are people caught, but it is five months since any Toronto Chinamen had that misfortune. Billy McDowell, of Buffalo, and a man -named Kennedy, could tell you something about the business as regards Toronto." The reporter asked his Celestial friend how the smugglers managed to gat their con- traband goods across the line without de- tection. He did not receive a direct answer, The maatinterrogated smiled, and intimated that he cold not tell of such things. "Is there any possibility of the smuggl- ers getting across on the ice at Buffalo 7" asked the reporter. " Have they found out ? immediately asked the Chinaman. He was told that it was supposed the men must have been taken across the Niagara river on the ice. His manner indicated that he was sorry to hear the news. " But ever since that man, a couple of Months ago, got a party of Toronto China- men to give him some money to take them aoross, and then fooled them, there have not been auy parties leave the city that I know of," concluded the citizen of the Flowery Kingdom. The Head Surgeon Of the Lubon Medical Company is now at Toronto, Canada, and may lie consulted either in person or by letter on alachronic disc:aims peculiar to man. Mn, young, old, or tniddle-aged, who find themselves nerv- ous, weak and exhs,usted, who are broken down from excess or overwork, resulting in many of the following symptoms Mental depression, premature old age, loss of vital. ity, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of sight, palpitation of the heart, emissions, lack of energy, pain in the kindeys, head- aoho, pimples on the face or body, itching or peculiar sensation about the scrotum, wasting of the organs, dizziness, specks before the eyes, twitching of the musclek eye lids and. elsewhere, bashfulness, deposits in the urine, loss of willpower, tenderness of the scalp and spine, weak and flabby muscles, desire to sleep, failure to be rested, by sleep, constipation, dullness of hearing, loss of voice, desire for solitude, exaltability of temper, sunken eyes su rroundedwith DEADEN cinema oily looking skin, etc., are all symptoms of nervous debility that lead to insanity and death unless cured. The spring or vital force having lost its tension e eery function wanes in consequence. Those who through abuse committed in ignorance may bo per- manently cured. Sena your address for book on all diseases peculiar to man Books sent free sealed. Heardisease, the symptoms of which are faintspells, purple lips, numbness palpitation skip Leats, hot flushes, rush' of blood to 'the head, dull pain in the heart with beats strong, rapid and irregular, the scond heart beat the society of her soft -mannered, affection- faster than the first, pain about the breast ate aunt, and the hearty, outspoken, chiv- alrous, kind-hearted Colonel. The twelve months spent with her aunt had been a time of complete bappiness. No ou e m omen t had been marred by unpleasantness of any kind. She loved her gracious and affectionate aunt as she might her mother, if that mother had been spared; and her courteous, honest uncle bone, etc., can positively be cured. No cure no pay. Send for book. Address, M. 17 LUBON, 24 Macdonell Ave. Toronto, Ont The Queen's Little Joke. Yew people are perhaps aware how theta oughly the Queen of England enjoys a joke. its thotigh be were the father far away in A gentleman -in -waiting, whom let us call Brazil,awho was no -more to her than the Mr. A.—,distinguished for his imitative powers and dramatic talent, is not infre- quently called upon to trip the light fan- tastic toe, figuratively speaking, when in at- tendance at NVindsor and Balmoral. Oue day the great lady, looking with a certain austerity straight into the face of A—d emended : "Now, Mr. A- -,I am perfectly • well benefiaent figure of a &earn. This strange gloomy house and this strange mysterious'woman had struck into Nellie's young,heart the first chill she had ever experienced. She already had the feel- ing of being in a prison, and she found the air of the house thickening in her throat and suffocating her. She was alone now, in inch a solitude as she had never , conceived be- aware that when my back is turned you fore. She was not to see the Pickerings imitate me. I wish to see you do it now, again; she had stayed with them until the this minute!" very last moment. If she were to obey her Poor Mr. A—. fell straightway into the impulse, she would there and then flee from royal trap, crimsoned,. faltered, utterly lost the house ; but she was more helpless' than ' a child.. She had never yet Wed; for her- self in any affair of coasequencoa , With the disposition to fly, she feta fliabta was as an. possible as. though sae were fettered with irons a thousand pinatas hi wiaght. The girl was' not of aa nervous or fanciful nature. She was blithesome and light of heart. She had never known the luxury of a grievance. Her disposition was to look at the cheerful side of things. She had never been ill since the ailments of childhood. She could not believe her present condition of depression and apprehensiveness was the result of stsendiage few hours lodhiS gloomy house with this silent and self-absorbed old woman. The girl was beginning to think ner health must be failing her. At the end of luncheon the old woman pushed away 'plate, and king her unfathothabla sey.eliaon alud .. with startling unexpectedness: ".What change •has come covet; cm since morning You are not the sea: id ota tat find g unds interestilig ayou /aghted I books to your healibrasiy v The girl could not have been more aston- ished. if one of the grim carved heads in the black oak chimney -piece had addressed her. She had been thinking that if she came into the room and sat down at the table with her hat on, Mrs. 'Bathurst would not notice any - I ; lis coun te nen ce. " Al" exclaimed the Queen, "I see I was right ! You ought to be ashamed of your - elf," and then added, laughing as heartily as any schoolgirl, "Bub don't do it again." Tennyson's Tribute. Tho bridal garland falls upon the bier, Tho shadow of a crown that o'er hint hung Has vanished in the shadow caused by Death - So princely, tender, truthful, reverent, pure. Mourn! That a' world-wide Empire mourns with you, That all the thrones are clouded by your loss, Were slender solace. Yet bo comforted; For if this earth be ruled by Perfect Love, Then, after His brief range of blameless days, The toll of funeral in an Angel ear Sounds happier than the merriest marriage - bell. The face of Death is toward the Sim of Life, His shadow darkens earth; his truer name Is "Onward," no discordance in the roll, And. march of that Eternal Harmony Whereto the worlds beat time, tho' faintly heard.— Until the great Hereafter mourn In hope. —[Tennyson. "Who is that across the street ?" "Oh, that ia a very close friend of mine." In deed!" " Yes, he never lends me a cent. 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