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Clinton New Era, 1892-03-25, Page 3t $ iNTE RRIf tho ,srott„,m 1,144 'ead"„41P.Ill'igrg„1.s,i1(41i l'1114X,WRI,L GIIRY. •',., 4'.:'(,,ONTINGBD. Mr Meade had passed freni delu tq stupor and had lain unconscio for nnyshours,• but now it seemed to Philip,, as the firelight played on the sick man's features, that a light of in- telligence was also plaYing afkillY 1:11)" on them, and that the eyes gazed wist- fully with a gleam 'of recognition and showed a Mental strugqie passing within. "Do you know me father7" he asked. bending down and speaking softly. — "Philip," he replied, with a faint smile; the effort ef speaking overcame him and. for "'a moment or two he re- lapsed into his stupor. Philip's heart throbbed; he made a sign to Jessie, but she'did not heed it. She was reclining in an arm chair on the other side of the hearth, her head drooped on her should - der and her eyes closed. He could not bear to break her slumber, even with words of hope. So the silence throb- bed on fitfully, marked by the light, thin crackling of flames the faint fall "of little cinders and the tapping of a rose spray on the window pane. Philip had laid his strong pink hand on the brown purple veined one lying on the coverlet, and felt his father's ebbing life beats more strongly beneath the welcome touch, while the death hazel eyes contirued to gaze with dumb appeal into his. "Dear father, do you want any- thing?" he asked. "Jessie is here, asleep in the chair." "Money," the sick man murmured faintly. "All for you. Speculations— losses—sell the mill." "I understand," Philip replied, in a soothing voice; "but you will be well again soon and set the mill going. Listen; it is going now." But even as Philip spoke the familiar throb, throb of the mill ceased, the wheel stood still and the men went home for their Sun- day rest. In the meantime the miller spoke brokenly of mortg.ages, of his will, of which Philip was ioint executor with Mr Cheeseman, of Jessie, who wa„s to be under their guardianship and that of Mrs Plummer; he seemed to gather strength as he spoke, and, having tak- en some restorative and asked Philip to raise him to a sitting posture, ie - covered his faculties in a brief flare up of his flickering life. The precious moments flew; but Philip could not bring himself to rouse Jessie from the sleep so long denied her. He had so much to hear in that gleam of consciousness for Jessie's sake and must still keep back the burn- ing long repressed desire to learn the Secret of his birth which would other- wise die with Matthew Meade. He wished that on his return from Crimea his father had not persuaded him to tv , wai a little and consider whether it was- orth while to know a secret his young mother had taken such precau- tions to keep and which a curious chance alone had revealed to his adopt- ed father. In the stirring days of the war the question of his birth had troubled him little, but the long months of garrison life at home had brought it strongly before him and he had lately decided that he must know it at the first op- portunity. And now the. last oppor- tunity was slipping away with every beat ot the ebbing pulse in his hand. "Poor little Jessie!" her father sigh- ed. "It's hard leaving her. And no mother. But you'll be good to her. - It,troubles-trie that ,f -was not -the -has- . band I might have been. I didn't con- sider how she was set on having things clean and straight, poor soul. I was rough at times—yes; I was rough. His eyes closed and Philip feared that the golden sands were run out. But the faint pulse beat on and suddenly quickened when Matthew Meade open- ed his eyes with a wide:appealing gaze. "She set her heart on it, poor soul," he continued, "though she never thought you was to be left alone and not rela- tions enough to live together. Many a time we talked of it. Philip, you must marry Jessie," he concluded, in tones so strong and urgent as almost to ex- haust his ebbing breath, which came gaspingly and then seemed to stop. At the word "marry," which opened an entirely new world of thought and feeling to him, Philip started so vio- lently and suddently that he almost dropped the hand clinging to his, shook a table by the bedside so that the bot- tles upon it rattled /Ind a glass fell against them with a faint crash that recalled the intelligence to the dying eyes fixed on Philip's fac:e. The cry- stalline tinkle broke through Jessie's light slumber, she started up and came forward just as Philip, with a half daz- ed look, replied in the affirmative. "My maid," said Mr Meade, taking - her tremulous hand as she touched his in bending to kiss him with some brok- en words of joy that he was himself again. "I am going fast. But Philip will care for you. Look to him now— Jedhie—you must marry Philip." She could not speak, but she suffer- ed her hand to be placed in Philip's, which closed warmly upon it. Her father held the joined hands in his tremulous clasp with silent content awhile, then he whispered "Promise." They promised; the old man's fingers tightened on the two young hands; his eyes grew hazy; they • saw ,nothing earthly in the blank gaze. "Father!" cried Philip. "who am I? Tell me before you go." The haze of deathhonce more cleared away, the eyes once more brightened with intelligence and rested lovingly on the young man's face. "Philip,. Mr Meade replied with an effort. ':Phi- lip!" The voice failed. the eyes clouded and remained fixed, the hand closed convulsively over those of the two young people. Just then the door opened softly and Mrs Plummer stole noiselessly in, followed lig Dr Maule. They stood still arrested by the sight. Mrs Plummer with uplifted hands and startled 'gaze, the doctor hastily tak- ing a pinch of snuff. The fire blazed up with sudden lustre -on Matthew Meade's unconscious features, Jessie's tumbled gold" hair and tearful face, Philip's look of agony, and the two young living hands clasped in the stif- fened fingers. Then it sa,nk and left the little group by the bed in shadow. CHAPTER IV. LEAVING TEE OLD HOME. The next few weeks left upon J xie's ) _ fore piles o# p.itera and books, and sometimes betaking .olit 'WIWI back in 4iE3 ebatr, push -WS bitiltifi wildly .throngh his hair until it literally stood on Aid, Grilti, gaze distractly before him. ‘'W inelielp you. I believe that I could at least do those things as well fis you, she said once; "On are not made for business." "You poor dear kitten," he replied with a tender smile, "I wonder what you are made for, except to be taken care of." Then he plungedinto the p apers again troubled not so much by his supposed incapacity for business, as by the un - pleasing revelations the papers yielded and wondering what demon had. tempt- ed Mr Meade to speculate so inadly. the time he rejoined his regiment his labors were so jar rewarded that he knew how Mr Meade's affairs stood and found that when all was arranged and the mill sold, they might still hope to rescue a small residurn for Jessie, as they eventually did. But those things were not so quickly effected, and when he bid Jessie good - by it was with the assurance that he should constantly be running down to Cleeve to consult with Mr Cheeseman and transact business. As he left Cleeve farther and farther behind a great weight rolled from Phi. lip's breast. The few weeks that had passed since that night of music and mirth when he had been so rudely awakened to the homely tragedy of life, had been too full of sorrow and care; his youth rebelled against them. When he drove toward the barracks and the familiar cheerful notes of a bugle rang out upon the clear air, all the suffering and care and death of the last weeks faded away like a bad dream. How cheery the smart step of a firing party returning to barracks sounded. How pleasant it was to see the sentries pacing up and down, how gay were the red -coated soldiers strol- ling to and: from the barracks in thicket' clusters near the gates, thinner farther off,like bees about the entrance of a hive. A few days later he was searching for soxnething he mislaid, rummaging among clothes and making confusion worse confounded, after the petulant fashion of male creatures under small discomforts, when he took the uniform worn at the ball and dashed it angrily on the floor. As it fell a small hard substance dropped from a pocket arid rolled into a patch of sunlight with a ruddy scintillation froin the sparkling facets of a jewel. He looked blankly at the glowing stone for a second, its rosy hue reflected in his face, and then picked it up remembering how it had flashed at the white throat of his pretty partner Miss Maynard. It was piton a set locket; it had fallen from Its setting during the dance, and at. her request he had searched for and found it and put it in his pocket for safety. He did not know much about jewels, but this one struck him as being large for a ruby, and Miss Maynard had ex- pressed some concern about it. The thing was vexatious; the Maynards had sailed for India, he had no means of finding their :address. By this time they were probably rounding the Cape and by this time the intimate social relations on shipboard had no doubt done their work and Miss Ada had doubtless promised her butterfly af- fections to some fellow passenger— some long-legged idiot with a sabre clanking at his heels, Philip reflected. He could do nothingbut place the stone in safety and seize the first op- portunity of restoring it to its owner. It lay in the palm of his hand, the bril- liance flashing from its deep crimson 'Irak like' a lira7th ing;'-- Dark -rose -re like joy and love, sparkling with the sparkle of wine and mirth, the shining gem seemed to disclose a new world to him. His hand thrilled so with vague desire that the jewel, lightly and im- perceptibly quivering, shoot back the sun rays in a thousand sharp, bright flashes. Some dim recollections of magic in jewels, of fascination exer- cised upon men and women, by these firery hearted things came to him; was there not enchantment in this? Though he did not know it, blood had been shed for that stone's sake, it had flash- ed from the dim shrine of an Indian temple upon dusky worshippers and strange heathen rites, had glowed in the turban of an Indian prince, had been stolen, swallowed. bought and sold, set and reset, given in love, given in tribute, before it came to deck the throat offa thoughtless girl, who lost it. He had held it long in his open palm, absorbed in a kind of dream, then he closed his finger over the red radiance and shut it away in a dark safe place. "Thou (lost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most, ancient heavens through these ere fresh and strong. ), see hili lea he said to himself, and his face was sad until he went oui into the bright spring sunshine and thought of other things. Jessie remained at the mill, clinging to the old empt y nest, poor forlorn bird that she was. Bills announcing the sale of the furniture were pasted on the garden wall and the mill front, but while the chairs and tables remain- ed, Jessie begged not to be ,noved. It was now early April, the ahnond- tree by the gate spread a mass of pink blossoms against the pale blue sky, violets and hyacinths were sweet in the borders. the flowering current made a pungent fragrance in the sun- shine and attracted- the bees from the hives at the top of the garden—even the bees were to be sold. Jessie stroll- ed over the little domain of which she had all her life been queen, with an overflowing heart. bidding a inute farewell to her life-long friends, ani- mate and inanimate. The garden, the arbor. in which her father had smoked on summer evenings, the strawberry - beds, the garden plots she and Philip had called their own, the little house he had built in the wood yard, the swing in the orchard, the flowers her mother had cultivated and loved, the pigeons and poultry, the row of bee hives, all were beloved, all twined with life long associations, they were part of herself, without them she would not longer be Jessie. She looked in at the grated dairy window and pictured her mother busy among the pans of thick creamed milk, or turning and working great golden masses of butter with a quick, deft hand; she would never see her any more; a stranger would stand there and desecrate the place with an alien touch. Jessie's throat swelled •fthokingly and she turned away, pass- ing the mill, over the half door of 'which she would never more see her father leaning, as she half expected to • eh:I/fret, Ccfn PlirberN; tivekli INTC)14 Whenee the SoOtlAng homelike throb: thrOb, etiLlisSued,, though he was net thete tp. set WO faMiliar pulse going she strolled,into the meadow? fall now of young lunocent faced daisies, where the stately' willow drooped leafless above the cleaz water and the white swan glided over it, her pure plumage dazzling in t112 spring sunbeams. How often she hail played or dreamed there, careless and happy in .the shade, watching the water striving with perpetoal baffling to climb the wheel s always turning stair, wasting and scattering itself hi crystal spray in its fruitless endeavor. She used to be sorry for the baffled water till Philip laughed at her and showed her how the endeavor was not indeed faultless, but set all the wheels and cogs going to grind the corn into meal for men's food. Others would watch the turn- ing_wheel, and pity the water's weary.. baffling, and she 'would be away and lonely among strangers; but Philip, dear Philip was left—she was not aid desolate. Then the singing of birds fell pleasantly on her ears, and she went back to the house, thinking that perhaps it was well she was to leave the old home, after all. She went in through thb kitchen, where she sat awhile to talk to Sarah and to be com- forted and companioned a little. "I can't give up this yer dresser, Miss Jessie," Sarah said, ""the years and years I've a scoured en kep en white. I be g wine to bid for he. You go on in and her tea now, I've a made ye some scones, and there's a letter from Master Philip:" Jessie went into. the parlor with soinething more of a dance in her step than it had had for a long time, and eagerly opened Philip's letter. Poor Jessie! the letter was dropPed ol the table, the golden head was up- on it, and she was crying bitterly. Philip was ordered to India! He had kept it from her as long as he could, but he was coming down on the morrow and could not bear the telling by word of mouth, so he broke it in the letter. He would remain in England as long as possible, not sailing in the troopship, but starting later, taking the short overland route and joining his regiment on its arriyal at Cxxlcutta. He arrived in Cleeve on the day the mill was given over to the auctioneer, and saw Jessie in Miss Blushfcrd's drawing room, feeling half guilty at leaving her. "How well you are looking, child," he said with forced gayety; "why, I do believe you are grown." He held her at arm's length, as if to get K better view of her, but his glance travelled no higher than her shoulders and she saw that there was a faint quiver on his lip. "I am grown," she replied, "I have grown very fast this spring," Jessie's lip quivered too; neither of them knew what to say, the subject of the parting was too painful, they sat side by side on Miss Blushford's ample old fashion- ed sofa.which was:covered with needle work from past and present pupils, and looked sorrowfully at the well sav- ed carpet for some •ininutes. "Jessie," said Philipat last, "it breaks niy heart to think of leaving you just, now,' but—I will not go if you tellme to stay." "But how can you helo it?" she ask- ed, surprised. "I can sell out," he replied. "But if you sold out, Philip what could you dor Jessie tsked, simply. "Heaven knows. I might learn far- ming or some trade," he answered; "anything would be better than to leave you if you felt it would be tho lonely," —."(m-annist-nat—sell--out,a-a-he said, e'ently. "You forget that you are go- ing to be a great soldier. Why, you always hoped for India, Phil." "Yes," he replied, still looking at the neat carpet, so seldom profaned by the steps of men, "if only 1 could be sure you were happy here, that no harm would come to you." He paused and sighed, his heart was riven asunder by the two duties, one calling him abroad, one bidding him stay with Jessie. While away from her it Inn' seemed comparatively easy to leave her, but now, in her presence and touched by the added sorrow he felt ratter than saw in the child's thin face, it seemed impossible. "If you could say that you didn't much care— that you could make yourself happy for this year until you could come out to me whatever we may wish—they refused their consent to your marriage till you are eighteen:" "I should think so," she interrupted, a faint rose tingeing her transparent face. "It is no use to fret. You have to go to India, I have to stay here. After all, you may as well he in India as at Plymouth or Aldershot. You can't very well live at Miss Blushford's Kou see. And I can't very well live in arracks. Miss Blushford says it will improve my style to write to you by every mail. And you will be able to describe your tiger hunts and—oh! all the wonderful things you will do and see—" "August„ Flower/ ", inherit some tendency to Dys- pepsia from my mother. I suffered two years in this way ; consulted a number of doctors. They did me no good. IJLhenused Relieved in your Aug st Flower and it was just two days when I felt great relief. 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