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The Clinton New Era, 1890-10-24, Page 2'k']ItTI)ASf, OCTOBER 24, IMO. ONOV AN, A MODERN ENGLISHMAN BY EDNA LYALL- Published by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. 0 CONTINUED. There was the house he knew so well -the house which ought to leave been his, with its balconies gay with flowers, and a brougham standing before the door. His mother was probably going out; he would wait and see her as abe came down the steps, but he would not himself be seen -that would be too humiliating; he would wait a little way off, and crossing the road, be leaned with his back against the square railings. It was a strange watch. Bitter feelings mingled with the returning family love as he stood there in the sum- aner twilight. It was bard -even • bis most stern condemner would Dave been forced to allow that ! Ile was standing alone in the street, east orf by those who should have helped him, watching comfort and luxury front his state of misery and conscious sin. Instinctively he took up poor Rouge's cry, "He bas driven mo to it -how can I help . going to the dogs ?-it is his fault !" And then the house door opened, and one of the footmen came out to the carriage. Donovan watched eagerly, and his breath came fast and hard. There was his mother, quite placid and happy looking now, with a white Chuddah over her shoulders, and a diamond star in her hair, and there was Ellis with his opera hat, and his false smiling face and his shallow polite- ness. Certainly, judging by the out- ward aepearance, there could hive been no question which was the snore to be pitied—the rich plan stepping into his carriage, or the unjustly used out -cast who looked son in bitterness of soul. Hut in reality Donovan's misery was as nothing compared with his step- father's. Years of plotting and scheming, years of growing deter- ioration, harassing anxiety, and patient waiting, all this had Ellis gone through, and for whet? For, a rich wife, a town house, and a country house, leet a ccom P anted by an tean eve — 1• p d t remorse, a nameless terror, of discovery, a wretched sense of shame, and a haunting dread of his victim Donovan. The good was striving within him; it would not abandon him, woula not for a moment let him enjoy his unjust gains. He fought against it with all his strength, and tried to be careless and comfortable, but he fought in vain. They went to the opera that eaening and heard "Faust." It stung him as no sermon would have done. How like his part had been that of Mephistophelea! How de- liberately he had planned his step- eon'la harm ! And aboye the voices of singers and chorus, above the grand orchestral accompaniment, there rang in his ears the one sharp despairing sentence, "Remember how you have goaded me on to xuin!" Faust and Margherita were no— thing to him. He hardly noticed the beautiful little prima donna. It was the grim basso, with his red livery, his stealthy yet rapid move- ments, his satanic look of trium- phant cunning, who preached to him that night, as no clergyman in surplice and stole, or gown and Geneva bands, had ever preached to him. In the "setaneta," where Mephistopheles sings his mocking song of triumph to the guitar, and augurs further success for himself, Ellis sat actually shuddering at the horrible sense of likeness. The ;tong was encored. He could bear it no longe:, but shrunk back into the very furthest corner of the box, trying not to see or hear. By and by it was all over, and Ellis, with a gray face, forced up a smile, and tried to talk in his ordinary way, as he led his wife to the carriage. But the effort was intollerable; he wake in truth, a miserable man that Haight, but happier bad he known it for that very misery. It was the sign of that other Presence within him which will not leave us to an -unequal struggle with evil. Donovan, seeing only the prosper- ous outward show, knowing notsing •of all the real remorse, watched the -carriage drive off with feelings 3vhieb in their vehemence are quite indescribable. He was almost ter- rified himself at the storm of hatred, and anger, and wild longiug for revenge that took g possession of his heart, as well he might be, owning nothing to quell it but the power of bis will. He stood quite still, his face pale and rigid with that terrible white-hot passion -the overmaster- ing passion in which great crimes are often committed. In his wrath nothing was too dark for him 'to contemplate, no revenge too sharp to be resolved upon. He had grasped hold of the iron railing of the garden, involentarily turning away his face from the houses. A voice close to his ear made him start. If the good still strove with Ellis Farrant, still Tore did it lead Donovan, who was more sinned Against than sinning, and to him no Lend like Mephistopheles came to scare and terrify, but a little child Children Cry for . was sent to lead him. room at the back. .A dreary lodgin "Do you want to come in? I house bedroom it was, with a asci I thought I saw you tugging at the or two of carpet thrown down ove gate, and I carne to ask you." the dirty unscrubbed floor, a num A little girl of nine or ten was dering green wall paper, and ove addressing him, looking shyly the tire place one solitary picture i through the iron bars of the gate. a gilt ft ame black with age -a ding No child had spoken to him since sea piece in oils -a ship belts Dot had died. This seemed to him dashed to pieces on rocks. A roo like a voice from the grave, and is said to ahow in a fashion th instinctively, even at the remem- character of its occupant; there wer brans of the love which he deemed only four things here which coul all a thing of the past, lost to him in any way bear traces of Donovan forever, the evil thoughts and the individuality. On the mantle piec revengeful anger died out of his was Dot's clock, in one corner heart. great bath, on the chest of drawer "I should like to come in," he one or two anti -theological book said, in reply to the question, "but by Luke Raeburn, and at the foo I have no key." of the bed a woolly rug for Waif. "I will eek the fraulein to open The window was open; it looke the gate," said the little girl, and out on to that fearful network o she ran across the garden, returning byways and alleys which Donova in a few minutes with a German had aeeu as he came home. He ha lady, who boked up from her knit- often seen them before, but one ea ting rather curiously to see this see many times and yet never ob gentleman who was waiting for ad- serve. He had generally gone t mittance. It was easily explained. his room between three and four i He had no; a key, but he pointed the morning, when all was quie to his mother's house in the square. enough; this evening it was jus The fraulein, without any demur, after closing time, the public house unlocked th t gate and admitted had let loose their wretched throng him. and the cry of the city went up t He had not often been in the heaven. People talk of the noir garden before, hut two or three of London, and think generally o times he had brought Doc there in I the street traffic, the crowded pave - her invalid chair, and the place was I mrnts, and the ceaseless wheels.but therefore sacred to him. He went let them once hear the appalling at once to her favorite seat, and noise of human life in a poor quar— ter and they will not complain of anything else. Wild, drunken singing, fierce quarrels, blows, curs- ing; a babel of tongues, a wailing of children, angry disputes between men and women, in which too often the woman's voice in its awful harshness seems unlike that of a human creature—these are the sounds one may hear, the tearful realities which make up the dark side of the world's metropolis. Donovan stood beside the open window ar,Id let all this tide of hu- man wretchedness beat upon his oar. He was shocked and awed, struck with a great pity and indignation,for he was not hard hoarted,only narrow hearted, and though this cramped- ness kept him from action it did not prevent the great suffering of humanity from touching him with a sense of pity. The incomprehen- sible suffering !--what a mystery it was!—it made him wretched and pitiful, and yet angry, though where the fault of all lay he could not have said. Christianity, or rather the horrible false notions of Christian- ity which ho had received, would hive said that all these drunkards and degraded beingswere ate forging the chains which should bind them forever and ever in hell. Accord- ing to JIrs Doery's ideas the West End must have seemed the region of the elect, and Drury Lane the abode of that other numerous band who were fore doomed to everlasting torture. Perhaps almost haturally Donovan had a fellow feeling for sinners, for in his very young days, when he had for a short time be- lieved in what be was taught, he had fully made up his mind that Doery was one of the elect, and that he had better go to the other place. Now from his atheism, with which he persuaded himself he was quite contented, be looked back with amusement on the picture of his sturdy defiant childhood, which perferred even the awfully described fiery furnaces to compan- ionship with Doery in an unjust and partial favor. He turced away from the win- dow at last, but not till he had drawn down the blind. He shut out the misery of bis fellows as he shut out many gtbe'thlngs, for at present he was one of those who, as Coleridge puts it: 'Sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched." g r 1- r n y g m e e d '8 e a s $ t d f u d n 0 n t t O e f there, in the cool of the summer evening, better thoughts returned to him. It had been a hot day. -- The children were all enjoying the change, they had the garden almost to themselves, and, as they played, their laughter and clatter floated to him. I. ,was what he wanted— something innocent, and pure, and merry. A fain, very faint return of little Dot's influence caste back to him, and when he Left the gar- den again he was a better man. Druty Lane had never seemed to hint so dingy as when he return- ed to it that evening. A street— orgy it was playing a popular air in one parr, and a crowd of wretched - looking bate beaded girls were dancing on the pavement. Every now and then he passed one of those appalling courts and alleys which open into the lane, and, pausing once or twice, he caught a glimpse of the seething human crowd, the filth and misery which they lived in; then on again past the shabby gas -lighted shops, the disreputable - looking passengers, until he almost fell over a little child who ought to have been in bed long before, lout who wash sitting on the curbs atone, grubbing with both hands in a Leap of mud in the gutter. Dono- van was very tender over little children. He stooped down at once to see whether he had hurt the small elf. A pair of dancing blue eyes looked up at him from a dirty little face, and something very unsavory was held toward him, while, with the confidence of a great discoverer, the elf shouted gleefully: "See what I've got ! A teal old duck's foot ! A real. old duck's foot !" It was a very pitiful sight, but it touched Donovan. He dropped a penny into the hand which was not occupied with the new treas- ure, and went away moralizing till, reaching the print -shop, he drew out his key and went up the stairs to the deserted rooms --for even Rouge was gone --and for the next three days Donovan was left to the tender mercies of Waif and Sweep- stakes. He lighted the gas and took up a book, but the bird awaking caught sight of him, and instantly began, in his most scolding tones: " tV ell, Milord, ain't you• a fool ! ()h; Lor', you a fool 1" Evidently the Frewins had not made any complimentary rematka upon his absence, and doubtless poor Rouge had hardly been fit for the journey. But he could not help it. If he had not seen that bright—faced girl, and been so ahamed by her uncon— scious words, it would have been different. What a strange glimpse of another kind of life she had given him! Sweepstakes sat with bis shrewd gray head on one side, and his crim- son tail feathers drooped. Before long, with a wicked look in his round eyes, he began to say, plian— tively. "Be yit t'ever so wumble , There's no place li k'ome "Be quiet," said Donovan, sharp- ly, for the words did not at all suit his present frame of mind. But Sweepstakes only reiterated: "Be yit t'ever so wumble, There's no place lik—" Donovan made a dash at the cage with a cloth and interrupted the song, a proceeding which enraged the parrot.• "You go to Tophet!" he screamed, angrily, and then, being out of tem- per, he swore tor five minutes on end, till, for the sake of peace, Don- ovan had to make up the quarrel. But there was a good deal of ob stinacy about Sweepstakes, and, though he allowed his anger to be appeased by a Brazil nut, he treated Donovan for the rest of the evening to a mild muttered refrain of "Be yit ever so wumble, 'amble, 'Am- ble—" ad infinitum. For the first time since be had been in London, Donavan that night wont to his room early. He had got into the habit of turning night into day, but he was dull that even- ing and tired, and it was net much after half -past eleven when be left Sweepstakes for the night, and turned into his own shabby little Pitcher's Castoria. It was not to be expected that the passing words of a stranger would be sufficient to alter the whole current of Donovan's life, nor did Gladys Tremain exercise such an unheard of influence. The Frewins returned and after sundry upbraidings from Rouge and a sharp quarrel with Noir, things fell back to their former state. Once, quite unexpectedly, he suet the gray eyed stranger again, two or three weeks after their encounter in the park. It was a July evening, the Frewins, Legge, Donovan, and two or three other men were travel- ing up together from Goodwood. The train was crowded; Mrs Cause ton and Gladys, who had been spending the day with friends, were waiting on the platform of a staLion not far from Chichester, but they ound it almost impossible to get places. "Such a dreadful crowd, and such disagreeable looking people," said poor Mrs Causton, nervously. - 'What is the reason of it 1" "Goodwood races, intim," said the porter, wondering at her ignorance. "There's room for one in here, and one next door. Come, miss, the train's just starting." "My dear ! you can't go alone in there," said M rs Causton, distracted- ly, looking ac the not too reputable travellers. But the next carriage was every bit as bad; the train be- gan to move. There was really no help for it; whether she liked it or not, Gladys was Shut in alone among the strange looking crew.- She knew there was nothing to fear, but at the sante time it was a very uncomfortable predicament. A fast girl would • have been amuaed by such a novel adventure, but Gladys was not fast; she was a pure wo- manly woman, and though she could not have explained why, she had a peculiar shrinking from these people. The little Gonvereation at the door, too, bad attracted the notice of a coxae looking man who was sitting next her. tie turned round upon her with a cool iuquisitivu stare, theu made some remark to his neighbor on the other side, which caused a general laugh, and Gladys, though she would not have uuder- stood a word, even had she heard, felt the color flame up in her cheeks. "Why can't you behave decently?" said a voice from the other side of the carriage. "Rouge it's your deal." Then Gladys, who had iustinct- ively lowered her eyea, look up, for the attention of the passengers was diverted from her. With an over- coat spread over their knees, by way of a table, they were soon ab- sorbed in a game of "Nap.' She looked Lound at their faces with a sort of longing to find one from which she need not shrink. All seemed bad, or coarse, or in some way repulsive. Exactly opposite her was en e.derly than fast asleep, next to him was the one who had called his companions to order. - Gladys looked at his face half hope- fully; the voice had at least been refined, and the words -well the best she had heard in this company. The face, too, was not otherwise than refined; the features were strickingly handsome; there were no tokens of excess about the clear dark complexion; but oh, what a hard, bitter, saturnine look there was about the whole 1. He was evidently much younger than any of his companions, yet not one of them lcoked so reckless and hard- ened; still she felt that he was a gentleman, and was at once leas uncomfortable and forlorn. Appar- ently Le took not the slightest notice of her, and that was pleasant after the uncomfortable rude staring and comments. It was a very strange and very sad revelation to her—a side of life which she had heard of indeed, but had never in the least realized. She had felt inpatient when Mrs Causton had lamented the tempta- tions of London life for Stephen. Yet the danger was not imaginary; for here was one who could not be older than Stephen or Dick, sur— rounded by evil companions, gamb- ling with a recklessness and sang— froid which bespoke long habit. There was a tort of horrible fasci- nation in it all. She could not help watching the eager faces; on all of them was written the strong de- sire of ai — on all except thatone dark, saturnine face opposite her, which, though apparently caring for little else but the game, never seemed to unbend, in spite of re- peated successes. Gladys watched him as he pocketed his winnings, watched pityingly his unmoved face, and once he looked up and their eyes met. It was not a look from which she need shrink—the eyes were not bad eyes—they were very strange, hungry looking, sad ones. She understood then why he was so different from his companions— evidently in his heart he disliked the life he was leading. By and by a dispute arose --a fierce, loud altercation between her disagree— able neighbor and one of the other sten. Language such as she never beard was Shouted across the car- riage, and the lookers on laughed. Poor Gladys glanced across in de- spair to the one passenger in whom she had any faith. He was leaning back with a look of ineffable disgust and weariness on his handsome face, but, as the angry babel grew louder, be turned to Gladys. She hardly knew whether she were relieved or only more frightened when he hent forward to speak to her. "This must be very unpleasant for you," he said, ar.d she knew at once from his manner that she had found a protector. "We shall be at a station in a minute or two, and then, if you like, I will offer to change places with the lady you are with." "Oh, thank you ao much," said Gladys, her frightened eyes bright- ening with gratitude and relief.— "My aunt is in the next carriage. If you really wouldn't mind—" "Not in the least, I wish I had thought of it before, that you might have been saved this unpleasant- ness." Then, without another word, he returned to his former position, but with a leas hard and contemptuous expression than before. The others appealed to him tor his opinion in the matter of the dispute, and be spoke coldly and quietly, but evi— dently what he said was to the point; the disputants quieted down, and agreed to some sort of compro- mise. At last, to Gladys intense relief, they reached the station. - Donovan got up and let down the window; then, looking back, said, caeelessly:- "You can leave me out in the next deal ; I'm going to change car— riages." The announcement caused a chorus of inquiry. "What's up with Milord now?" asked Gladys's neighbor. c "Oh ! some craze, I suppose," said a dark browed man on the other side of the carriage. "He took a moral fit the other night, and rushed away no one knew where. There's no reckoning on him --'a wilful man must have his ' Why, what's this?" as Dono- van returned to help Mrs ('auston in. "We didn't reckon on this, at any rate. Donovan, what are you thinking of ?" "A cigar in peace next door," he replied, readily. And then ha re Children Cry for 1 Pitcher's Castorlla. treated, leaving Gladys greatly re- lieved and the cars; players not a little embarrassed by the large bundle of tracts which Airs Causton began to distribute among them. At London Bridge they saw him again for a minute, and Mrs Oaus- ton pressed two- tracts into his hand and thanked him for his courtesy. Gladys looked up at him shyly and gratefully, but did not speak again, except, as he raised his hat and turned away, to utter one earnest toned "good bye." Ile, .heard it, and treasured it up in his heart - but wish, he knew it was; 110 mere formal parting, but the wish of a pure minded wo$lan that good might be with him. Gladys watched sadly as Noir Fre win rejoined her protector. He was thcroughly out of temper, as she had seen on the journey, and greeted his companion with a tor rent of angry reproaches. Gladys caught only a word or two here and there -"Confounded folly! - playing fast and loose with the agree- ment !"---and one bitter taunt—"A pretty knight-errant to help dis- tressed ladies ! Such as you, a pro- fessional-" But the word gambler did not reach Gladys. She did not then learn what a life Donovan was leading, but elle had seen and heard quite enough to know thatshe was in great need of help, and from that night he always had a place in her payers. Without that how could she have borne the revelation of evil and wretchedness, the contrast be- tween the shielded lives of those she knew and the life of constant temp- tation of these her fellow creatures? Painful as the evening's experience bad been, she could not altogether regret it. In after life she thanked God for that brief journey, upon which had hinged so much. CHAPTER. XVI. "THE RAVEN FOR A GUIDE." 1Vhat thou wouldst highly; — That wouldst thou holily;'wouldst not play false; And yet wouldst wrongly win. MACBETH. Till life is coming back, our death we do not feel, Light must be entering in, our dark- ness to reveal, ARCunrs,un' TRENCa. As the autumn wore on, both the the dog and his master began to show traces of the life they were living: Poor Waif pined for the country. Ile had always been his master's companion a nl osis his s rides lea and walks, and town life longas of course a great and very undesirable change for him. Donovan, too, lost his strength considerably. It was an unhealthy life be was lead- ing, fu 1 of the worst kind of ex- citement; at times idle and ungp- copied, at times full of fatigue. Naturally, too, his state of mind told on his physical strength.,, TO BE CONTINUED. Wilson's Wild Cherry has been pre- pared by Archdale Wilson do Co., of Hamilton, for nearly twenty years, for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Croup etc. It has no equal. Take no substitute but get the genuine, in white wrapper. 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BREWER, Manager, January 1887, Clinton Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails are due for delivery and close for de.spatek, at the Clinton Post Office as follows:_ CLOSE j DOR Hamilton, Toronto, Strat-i'.. ford, Seaforth, Grand' Trunk east and interme- diate offices ......... 7.00 a.m. 1.50 p.m Toronto, Stratford, Sea - forth, T. and S. east.... 1.55 p.m. i 8 a,m Ooderich Holmeaville and Grand ll'runk west 1 p.m. 8.10 a.m Ooderich, 8,45 p.m. 2.40 p.m Hamilton, Toronto, 4.16 p.m.10.25 a,m London, L., H, & B. south a.m. p,m,Ia,m. p.m and Intermediate offices 7.00 4.15110.25 7.00 Myth, Wingham, Kinear- dine, Lucknow, L.,H,&B. north and intermediate a.m. p m, a.n,. p.m offices 9.30 6.151 8.10 5.00 British mails, Monday, Wed- nesdayy, Thursday 1.00 a.m, Hayfield, Varna, Herbison, dailSummerhill, Tuesday and 2.30p.m.j12.46p.m. Friday, 5.30 p.m.l 6.30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposita received from ono dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 fi m, Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning .1U'&ney o, Farm Security at Lowest Rales of Interest. MORTGAGES PL'RCHASEI SAY/NOS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed on Deposits,acrording loantount and time left. OFFiCE—Corner of Market 8gaaroand North 8 HORACE HORTON, Goderieh,.August 6th 1885 MettAo.a. • d 0)) iC* C W X rn Z en 0 aim now xi Nia �� CO A. O. U. W. The Clinton Lodge, No.144 meet in Jack - eon's Hall on the 1st and Srd j Fridays in each month. Visitors cordially invited. B. STONEHAM, M, W. J. BEAN, Recorder. A Coon BOOK By mall to any lady sending us her post oft address. Wells, Richardson & Co„ Montreal. OLINTOE MECHANIC'S INs'rrruiE, Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall. down stairs. About 2,000 volume 11 the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket S1 per annum Open from 2 to 5 p m., and from T to 9 p. m. Applications for membership received ay the Librarian in the room. RENhitLLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEI NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, THE LArrSR OP wuica wE KARR A SPSoIALTy LARGE STOCK ON HAND, The aboye ornamental trees and shrubbery wt be sold at very low prices, and those wautin anything in this connection will save mono. purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed lc, Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmiiier. McKillop Mutual Iasuraace Co. ; NEILANS, HARLOCK GENERAL AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wet as farm buildings and stuck, insured• insur- ances effected against stock that may Le killed by lightning, If you want insurance dry p a card to the above address. PAINTING. PAINTING. The undersigned desires to intimate to he people of Clinton and vicinity that he hap returned to town, and iuteuds to remain here pe manently, and is better prepared ban ever to do anything whatever in the painting or paper hangiug line. All orders entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention. GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. J. C. srEvEYsot -THE LEADING - UNDERTAKER —AND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEPI ill STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager RICHLY Rewarded are those who read find honorable employyme tethat'wlly ottltake them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several pphundreddollarsa month,is 1' and pwards for who is willinerson to g tokworrk. pEi he sex,young or old ; capital not needed,we star you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any one. Write to as at once for full particulars which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. CLrN'roN Planing Mill —AND— DRY KILN! epee SUBSCRIBER HAViNO JUST COM- P1,81.1th and i with machineryof the latest improved p tternis, is now prepared to attend to all orders in his line Inthe .nostprompt and satisfactory manner and at rens enable rates. He would also return thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being in a bet- tor position to execute orders expeditiously feels confident he can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the GrandTrur.k Railway, Clinton, THOMAS McKENZIE ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Man.faeturer and Proprietor for the beat Num 11I11i Dog in use. Agent for the sae and application of the ,R•Ften RR PATENT A trtOvATie BocusaCLRAN5R, STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on shirt notice, Rollers, Engine., and all kinds Machinery repaired ewpvd)tiool and In a sat,lafaotory manner Farm Implements manufahtured and re- paired. Stearn and water pumps furnished and ?tut in position. Dry Kilns fitted up on application. barges Moderate, th 4