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The Exeter Times, 1892-3-10, Page 6URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. CHAPTER IL Tee BOUT Men AND THE WIFE. At the first sentence, Nelliehad to exert all her strength to prevent Herself springing up from her chair. She felt the words like the sting of a lash. She—she, Nellie Mor- ten had been as good as accused of lying ! She ! S' who had never in all her life been accused of the mese trivial moral offence, was as good ascharged with subterfuge. She, the integrity of whose honor bad never been questioned, was Charged, or as good as harged, with the unforgivable baseness of want of candour But as the old woman uttered the other sentences, the flush of anger left the girl's heart ; and when Mrs. Bathu.st, in slow and impersonalaccents, finished, Nellie felt as though she should Sink through the floor with mingled shame and fear. She could not disclose the en., counter with young Cheytor, for she could not explain the circumstance of that meet- ing without mentioning the unflattering nickname ; and although it seemed unlikely Mx. Bathurst's mother, so old a woman and a recluse, should have heard of the nick- name, that young man evidently thought she might. Fortunately for Nellie, the old woman's words did not require a reply. The girl could not deny she was concealing S01110 - thin and could not tell what it was. Mrs. Bathurst seemed to know by occult means that her guest would make no re. Sponse. As Nellie was about to rise, the old wo- man leaned her elbow on the table and her chin on her palm, and with eyes staring into vacancy said, as though soliloquising : "My son is much immersed in business, and is nlady's v 1Y s Inan, He is not like.Y to help you much towards enjoying your visit to Garwood. I predicted to him that you would find this place distasteful; but he Said no. You were, he said, his friend's child, and you would be contentedwith this house as a home until your father's re. turn from Brazil." Were ever such words spoken by hostess to helpless guest ? Nellie thought of rising and saying she would put an end to Mrs. Bathurst's uneasiness on her account by leaving at mice. But there was something ao impressive and sibylline in the manner of the old woman, that the girl could not do aught but sit and listen spellbound. Mrs. Bathurst went on after a pause : " My son is forty-two years of age. He is nota marrying man. He will never marry. He has no small talk. He is a great buss - :less man. He makes thousands where other men starve. His whole soul is in his busi- ness. He is not popular in the City. His appearance is not progressing. He is call- dd» e theCrocodile." 0co11e. The girl fell back on her chair. Mrs.Bathurst went on : "He suffers from a strange nervous affection. For a long time, for days and weeks, he can preserve an unbroken calm while going through intense mental excitement. Then suddenly, and always close to mid- night, he is seized with paroxysoms of un- nontrollable laughter. Never do these paroxysms come on him until he has gone to his roomor is aboutgo there; t to never until he has dismissed all thought of busi- ness and taken off his mind the great strain under which his affairs in the City now and then place him. All who live under this roof must know of these paroxysms. 1''he secret of them must b- kept. Hence we have no v'sitors. Hence no one is allowed to camp on our grounds. Hence the solitude of this house. My sou has bean going to the City every day for twenty-five years. Ile has never been ill. Re has never taken a holiday. He is never a minute before or after time in anything. He has never set off earlier or later than eight o'clock. He is alwaysin to the minute at six. He has paver varied once for years. At five minutes past six this evening you will be introduced to him' — A loud, long knock sounded at the front floor and rolled in clattering echoes through the house. With a start the old woman stopped and ?tared around in horror, as though the ground were splitting and gaping at her feet, ;elle grasped the table in front of her as if drawn towards some awful abyss. Nellie stood up, trembling, and looked round. The old woman raised one hand as if in appeal for mercy to some unseen power, and pressed a finger of the other hand on her lip for silence. Nellfe heard the front door slammed with bang that made the doers and windows Tattle. Then the whole house shook above their heads with a terrible shout of laughter twice r.peated. The dining -roa=n door flew open. The figure of a short, stont man,' bursts into the room, flung the door to be- hind him, fell with bis broad back against the door, opened an enormous mouth in his parchment -colored face,and uttered a shout rif laughter which made the glasses dance and seemed to threaten the very walls of the and seemed to open at the sides back to the angle of his disteudecl jaws. The skin of his face hung thin and leathery and folded and oreased iu inuumerabie small wrinkles. The perplexity in the face and manner of the mother showed she was, wholly unpret pared. for an attack under existing circum- ssances, He had never before come home from the City in the middle of the day. He had never before suffered a seizure until close to midnight. Almost invariably the attack came on after retiring to his bed- room. It would have been impossible to drown his shouts or congeal the noise of bis tramping; But the servants of that house- hold were all in bed at ten of nights ; and when a new servant was in the plaoe and a paroxysm occurred, tars. liatherst said next day that the master had had one one of the seizures to which he had been liable all his life, that they were noisy, but not dangerous to himself or any. one else, and that it was desired no one should speak of the matter Sithe " m the house or out of it. But here now, on the day this girl ar- rives, was her son back hours before his time, taken with one of his worstfits in day- light and in the presence of the stranger too 1 " Can you not speak ? Can you say noth- ing to explain this extraordinaryoccurrenoe? Speak 1. You need not mind her ; she can- not hear us," TOM. Nellie's heart stood still, and with a swimming feeling of faintness, she fell back on her chair. Although, when Nellie Morton fell on her chair, power of motion deserted her, she did not lose all consciousness- She leaned part- ly against the table, partly against the back of her chair. She was facing the door, against which the ungainly, monstrous figure of the man was propped. She did not hear or see distinctly. All was dull and blurred as in an indistinct dream. " William ! William 1 what has done this ?" cried Mrs. Bathurst in a tone of surprise, reproach, alarm. She rose labori- ously and half crossed the floor towards her sen. Keeping her strange weird eyes fixed on him, she said im iresstvely : We are not alone, she ; Miss Morton has come," She supported herself by putting her hand on the table, turned to the girl saying : " Miss Morton, this is my son William : Mr. William Bathurst, who invests your father's money to such excellent advant- age. The girl's appearance attracted her attention. She cried in a tone of relief : "William she has fainted 1" Mrs. Bathurst would not summon help. She did not wish a servant to witness this scene. She could not render any . aid herself, and until tete paroxysm was over her son would be worse than useless. Her son took his back from the door, thrust his hands deep late his trousers.pock- et, and bending his whole body double, laughed at the top of his terrific voice, nn- til the glasses on the table rang again, and the windows shook, and the ceiling vibra- ted, and a long flake of white fell on the table, as though the plaster were coming down. "What is the matterede said the old woman more sternly. "Can you not speak, William? What has done this?" Ile ceased to laugh and dance, and flung himself intoa it:rye easy -chair standing in the darkest cart of the room, facing the light. He tI bw his head back, and gasped for air. His %%south was of enormous sizes, She 1" cried he in a whisper. His mother nodded, end whispered : "She and Christopher Morton's money. Mrs. Bathurst poured water into a finger - glass and sprinkled some over Nellie's fade. The eyelids trembled slightly, 'closed for a moment, than ` opened, closed again, and with a sigh the girl slipped, from the support of the chair anti slid. to the table, Mother and son bore the girl toa couch, dashed more water in her fe,ee, and chafed her bands. (Mee more the eyes opened, and a weak young voice said ; c"Stich a dream 1. Horrid • dream l Did I taint? Thank you ; I am better now.'! "You fainted, dear," said the old woman in a tone so gentle and tender, that her son couldnot believe bin ears, and made sire his wits were wandering. never before had he heard that voice but in cold approval, admonition, or command. "Mr. Bathurst was seized with One of the attacks I told you, of, and the sight overcame you. The paroxysm is quite over now; my son is as well as ever; and in a little time you will be all right." "Have I been long unconscious.? " asked the girl. "1 had a bad. horrid dream, and, it seemed days and days long." The old woman looked at the black marble clock on the mantle -piece. " It is only ten minute since my sou knocked et the door ; but in dreams, a moment of real time may seem a day—a year.. What did you dream. of, dear ? " " Oh, it is too horrible to think of. Pray, do not ask," said the girl, to whom it began to seam that what she now took for a dream might be nothing but a distorted and exag. ger•aten memory of what had really occurred. Site sat up and rose feebly. " I—I think I will go to my room." Let me help you," said Mrs, Bathurst, moving to the side of the couch. The girl would have all the world to escape from this scone, to show by gesture or tell by word that she was aware of what was going on around her, But sbo was powerless as the chair upon which she sat, as the painted figures in the pictures on the walls. With a convulsive motion the man sat up. ti hi h seized his knees in the long lean hand, v lc seemed his e ed ail atrenuoua fingers, closed mouth, clenched his teeth, drew hack his thin fleshless lips, and rolled his eyes, as if trying to force speech from his labouring chest through his convulsed throat. " What is it? " cried the old woman in impressive resolute tones. "No one can .tear you but me. Speak to me." Suddenly the teeth snapped open, and from the throat cane, in a whisperer) gut- tural voice, the words ; "Ruin 1 I am ruined! I have lost all ! " As though the last word released some prodigious spring the man flew up out of the chair, bent his head, and laughed with such overwhelming vigour that the oli wo- man started back, raised her hands and tit- tered a wail. When the lungs of the man were empty he doubled np, glanced wildly right and left, spread out his arms level with his head, spun round on his heel for a moment, and a groan, fell to the floor, "My child ! My son ! My pride ! Is this the end? Is he dead?" moaned the mother, crying out is once from the secret core of her woman's heart. No paroxysm before had beetle SO or so ended. Through all the years of her life, even to her own voice bad never so sounded. Hitherto, that won -tales voice had been the voice of human wisdom ; now for the first time it was the voice of a mother's soul, The brain had spoken all along till now; at last the heart had speech. With amazing swiftness and agility, she reached the prostrate form. He was lying on his face his arms spread wide, With incredible dexterity and strength she gathered in his out- stretched arms and turned him over on his back. Her deft fingers loosed his collar and eased it round itis short thick neck. She slipped her hand under his waistcoat and felt over his heart ; and then, in a tone of rapturous gratitude that was a prayer, she raised her eyes upwards and whispered: "Not dead 1—not dead ! He lives 1" She clasped her hands, and letting them hang down in front of her, sat back on her heels, regarding the dun face of the uncon- scious man as if it were a beatific vision. Then placing a band on the floor at each side of the head, she bent slowly forward and kissed the forehead, whispering in the voice of one whose heart is heavy and rich with possession of a seourc treasure : "My child." She rose briskly, and pushed the thin strands of hair opt of his eyes, and fetched a water -bottle from the table, and emptied it over the face and chest of the man. With a shudder he opened his eyes. Ile looked around vaguely and passed a feeble, wavering hand over bis face. "Mother," he said at length, seeingherstanding a ndm over him, " what asit?" g " You have had an attack," she said as she replaced the water -bottle on the table. He scrambled to rise. With nimble strength she helped him, as though she were once again the young matron, and he the blundering, ungainly, sole occupant of the nursery. She assisted. him to a chair. He sat facing the light, with his back to the drooping form of the girl "This was more than a. paroxysm. How came I on the floor ?" "You fainted at the end of the attack." " Did I blab ?" "You said," she whispered, " that there was ruin in the City." He groaned. "Yes. Half -a -dozen great houses are gone, and I am pulled down, down, down, mother. You will spurn me. I did not keep to your advice. (speculated. I did not keep with solid things. I hoped to win a fortune in a year. South America has been the ruin of me, as you said it would be of fools who trusted it. I trusted it. All is gone. I am a beggar, and you will cast me off," "Who cares about the City, since you live ? A minute ago I thought you dead." He took a napkin from the table and wiped. his face. He stared at her Ln amaze- ment. Did his oars hear aright? or was she bereft of reason? "Drink this wine," she said, holding a glass towards him. Ie did as he was told, still keeping eyes of unspeakable wonder on her face. • She went on as she took the empty glass from him : " When you were in the paroxysm, I told you Mies Morton had come." " O11 ay," said he, passing his hand across his forehead; "I had forgotten she was to be here to -day. When I found out how things were in the City, I flew home. All the money, mother, all your money, and all the money it and your advice helped me to make, aro swallowed up. Gone—gono— gone 1 and I shall be posted as a defaulter!" "Hush 1" said the old woman, laying her finger on her lip and pointing with her other band at the girl. " We are not alone. She, too, fainted." He started, turned round, and rose. " She here all the time!" he whispered in dismay. "Yes. Hero unconscious all the limo. We must see to her now," whispered the old woman. "You and I can talk over af- fairs later. All is not lost yet; all may be still saved." "Nothing can save me 1" "Who knows ?" 'f. What could have saved me?" The old woman again placed a warning finger on her lip, and pointed ab elle figure of the girl. " Oh, thank you—no," said Nellie in dis- tress ; " you are not strong yourself." " Not usually. Not at ordinary tines but bo -d^ Now I feel u a tiro She put yher awn round the young gin,a 's waist, drew the slender drooping figure to- wards her own portly bulk, and led the way out of the room. William Bathurst for a moment glanced round him, as though ex petting to find other marvels in keeping with this sight. Then he threw up his hands in despair of under- standing -list he had seen, and muttering, " What has wrought this miracle ?' drop - ed into a chair. Crushed and doubled°pp, the small man eat in the great chair. Ever since lie had be gun, as a lad of seventeen, to go to City of- fice in which the memory of his dead father had got him a clerk- ship, lerkship, William Batburst devoted him- self heart and soul to business under the ex- acting guidance of his mother. He had al- ways looked on her as the embodiment of worldly wisdom. She had been his guide through all these years. She had designed his future and nurtured his carreer. When he was old enough to start for himself, she had given' him her money—he possessed none of his own—had mastered the business of the Stock Exchange more fully even than in her husband's days, as no womam. had ever mastered it before, and while he acted upon her advice she had shown him the way to fortune. Of late he had strayed from her counsel, following great leaders in the world of finance, to the result of his present shipwreck. But though he knew she had no thought of any living soul but himself, a word of tenderness had Hover passed between them in all these years. To this mind she was a woman whose whole soul was absorbed in gold -seeking; and as she could not engage in the quest herself, she had delegated to him the activities andthe profits of the pursuit. Within one hour, nay ten minutes, she bad made light of money, thrown off the phy- sical ineptitude or lethargy of years, employ- e& affectionate tones tnwards him, and spoken to this strange young girl, whom she had never seen before, words of endear- ment ! Only one explanation was possible; the news that disaster had fallen upon hien had overthrown her reason. "'VVil Liam 1 " With a start, he looked up. He had not noticed her entrance. He saw .tending over him the calm inscrutable mother of old. "Yea, mother." "You say all is gono ? " " Everything—every ahilliug. Black ruin is in the City to -day." "Christopher Morton's money is safe?" "Every penny." , Thea Christopher Morton's a dau 1 ter must save you. idlorton's money would be enough ? " " It would be enough to tide me over ; but, mother "--- "William, you took myadvicemostof your lifetime and you prospered, You took your own advice, and see what it bas brought you. The very fates are playing into our hands. This morning, this girl cornea to our door. She has no relative in Europe. This day ruin faces you in the City. Poison and autidote. When I left you just now I knew this should be. I did not know how it was to be accomplished." "But, mother, there are he and she." The mother held out a paper to her son. "I told you the fates were on our side. When I left the room I knew what must be though I had no sure perception of how it was to be. You have full power to deal with Christopher Morton's property—have you not?" "Yes, full power; but he is coming home in autum," "He has gone Home already. This has been sent out after you by special messen- ger from the office. I took it from the mes- senger in the hall as,I passed through just now. Read 1 He took the telegram from her hand. "Great powers above 1 Christopher Mor- ton dead 1 Oh mother, I am sorry. This is worse than the crash to -day. The honest - est gentleman that ever breathed 1 He came nearer to be a friend titan any one else I know—than any one else I ever met." " Than your mother ?" she asked coldly, severely. "No—no ! Why such a question ? You were and are my all, mother ; you know you ars my all." "Liston," she said sternly, undeviatingly. " Return to the City, and bring Oristopher Morton's money into instant use. Go at once, and arrange for your own extrication by that means.' "But, mother, they would call my using his money by the name of a crime," '! Who dares to inquire into the business relations between man and wife?" "Man and wife ! Do you mean that girl and me ?" "Go 1" " But mother -- "Go 1" she hissed. "Go and do what you ran do, and I cannot. Go and realise; anticipate your wife's fortune. I cannot do that part of the work, Go you and do that; and when all is safe in town, come to me for your wife." JOTTINGS FROM ALL OLIMES,. When the late Mr. Spurgeon wise at Men- tone he always, if well enough, took his meals at the table d' Note, which he quite en- livened by his conversation..: An English lady who died not long since is said to have loft money to pay for sprinkl- ing Tower Hill, London, daily with ashes and gravel, so as to mitigate its slippery condition for the benefit of horses heavily loaded. The telephone is making the ladies of Honolulu stouter, They used to do their own shopping, marketing, Am. Now they send their orders by telephone, and the lack of exercise leas .caused an accumulation of flesh. Lepers in India were treated with shock - inset inhumanity before Christianity entered that country. Many of them were buried alive. The English rulers have put a atop to this custom, and for fourteen years there has been a special Christian mission to the 135,000 lepers in India. Formerly the City of London ended at Ludgate, and what is now Fleet -street was " the liberty or freedom thereof." The di- vision from Westminster was by posts and rails, a chain and Temple Bar. This Bar gave place to a house of timber, which re- mained until after the Great Fire. A. Thoughtful Friend—Mother :- " That is a beautiful piece of bronze you have selected for Miss Bangup's wedding present ; but why do you leave ou the pricemark ?" Daughter : "The bronze is very heavy and I do not want the dear girl to injure herself carrying it around the stores to find out what it cost." .Among the institutions of Fleet street, London, has now to be added a "Ladies' Club," whish was formally inaugurated re- cently by an"At Home," It is intended for 1 theprofession tet o ams who follow e use £w n tto to of journalism, whose numbers manow be reckoned by hundreds, The name under which it is to be known is the "Writer's Club." • Miss Eleanor Ormerod is the most distin- guished entomologist of England. Her first object in taking up the seience was to save the farmers' grain from destruction, and in order to render herself familiar with the habits of insect life, she often spends hours stretched upon the ground studying therm She has been appointed. 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The King of Slam has recently prescribed a. rigorous test for those of his subjects who claim to be eudowbd with the mantle of pro- phecy. An enactment has now been made providing that no prophet shall be entitled to'public confidence unless he has the gift of sitting unharmed in the midst of a sea -coal fire for the space of at least half an hour. Sir John Everett Millais, elle greatpaint- er, is never so happy as when sketching from nature in Scotland. Seated beside some wintpling burn, with an old pipe in his mouth, he will work all day without troub- lin" about food. He long ago learned the art of painting in the rain. An artist, who painted with him for two seasons, says that they sat in their wet clothes, drenched by the thick Scotch inist, day after day, whol- ly engrossed in reproducing the greens and browns of mosses, and the greys and reds of trees. It is said that the old black overcoat of the German army will shortly be abolished. 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