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Clinton New Era, 1892-07-29, Page 3II TM; HEART a the STO .„ . in on to gig ,,grtal lidx,pyi9elou.p lines as would. lead' P Se that he wae wreaking vengence on the corn before him. BY MAXWELL (*EY. 011011111.0••••"00011 CONTINUED. "It is such women as you," he cried, on his return, "who cause more than halttbe vice and misery in the world. Ydur hateful Pharisaic ways drives otheti•Wornen to despair. Does a wo- man commit the slighest error, wheth- er in innocence or in frailty, no matter to your stony-hearted, arrogant vir- tue; you stop up every avenue of re- turn to her. You do more—you de- liberately push her into the mire, and then you go smirking to church and call yonrself miserable sinners, which you are, and insult the Almighty by asking forgiveness, which you need not suppose for a moment you'll get—" "William! upon my word! she inter- rupted, recovering from the speech- lessness of utter dismay. "You will not get it," he repeated, emphatically. "You've made me cut an innoCent, high-minded girl's heart in two; a poor chiid who knows no more of conventionalities than an angel in heaven." "How does the man know that they don't know?" his sister murmured. "You've shut my house upon a young ' lady you had promised and were bound to befriend. You've in- sulted a friendless, motherless girl ;a girl in a peculiar social position, who had no :woman but you to teach her the ways preper to that position. For a blundering beast of a man to have to have to tell her! Why, it cut her to the soul Of course you will apolo- gize, but Jessie will, of course, be un- able to come again. You might have managed to show her what was right without letting her know anything at all of this wretched gossip, instead of leaving me to blurt it all out. Women know women." "They do," returned Miss Ingleby, with an acid smile. "Horrid little wretch!" she said to herself, when her brother had storm- ed out of the room; "the impudence of casting her spells upon poor old Will! Why, he is head over ears in love. Not that it takes much," she mused, "for a woman to make a fool of a man." CHAPTER XI. THE STORM GATHERS "What's the meaning of all this, Abraham?" asked Roger Plummer, "all this" indicatinga black eye which adorned the otherwise plain counten- ance of Abraham Bush, who was sit- ting on the floor of the barn with his legs spread out in front of him, while he wielded an implement soon destined to vanish from rural life, an implement consisting of two sticks loosely jointed together; one, the han- del held in the hand, and the other jointed to it, the swingel descending with a dull thud upon the wheat -ears before him, a sound that used to make pleasant music the winter long upon barn floors, and an occupation that i warmed laborer's bodies n the cold winter days when no other work was to be found. "I knocked eo down," growled Abra- ham, bringing the flail music to an end. -"Knocked who down?" asked Roger, "and why?" "Job Ash! A zeid zummant about Miss—you knows what a zaid—Iss. I knacked en down. Job he got up and a knacked me down. Then I gets up and I knacks en down agin, and Job he ups and cuts and hruns. I lows he hrunned pretty smart. Aye, that's how't was, I hreckon." Thud, thud went the flail, and the chaff fluttered and whirled in the wind raised by the energetic strokes for a minute or two, then Abraham paused again. "Ise," he repeated, "I knacked en down, zure enough." "You done hright, Abraham," said ,ho had been standing scow- • ling ;0th—his—hands- in—his packets , - whence he withdrew one with half a crown, which he offered to Abraham. "What be ye gwine at with he?" growled Abraham, glaring with min- gled vindictiveness and looking at the comfortable -looking coin. "Take it, Abram." "You put that there in yure packet, Mr Roger," he replied, growing more s.nd. more surly under the witcheryof skiping silver and the depressing tr eriOasness that Mr Roger was a eft,: one," and might not offer him • I. .i.-ttrltfalf-ttnWn that side of Christ- "Anybody'd think I caint knack eobea1;ir down athout being paid vor '•Truk, you for that. Why, you've known her from a baby," Roger re- turned, pitching the half-crown neatly between Abraham's outspread legs. "But youlve no call to look so sure at a good half-crown. Chuck it away if yonr don't want it. I shan't hey it. So you knacked en down?" "Wasn't I mad 1"con tin ued Abraham. "Shouldn't a ben sa mad if it hadn't a ben true." "You don't, think it, Abraham?" groOned Roger, "een 'em in copse together. two or dree times, never thought nothen at the ' time. She's always up Court. Out painten long with Miss Lonsdale, long with Vother one that Lawrie. But a young maid din't might to be out long with he." Rs!)ger growled an execration nn the • n married . "Wish 1 had the Capen under this yer ,,wingel 1" added Abrahatn, bring- ing his flail down with both hands. "Wish you'd a told me first time you saLw them," said Roger. "Yu tell you vather, Mr Roger; tell eia to pen her up in garret, if she vnint) hide at home nohow else." "No, Abraham, 't is hest to keep a • still tongue if you can. know and i you now, and between us we can keep her in sight whenever she goes (Hit. If there's anything more be- t weejn them I expect he won't have a who e bone left in his body. But she's goin. to Clee*e toirnOrrow for a week, SO , ell be otit of harm's way for a tim ' "1et her bide in Cleeve long with h4o1-niissus, that's the best place vur herj. A young maid is like a heifer, to fall in trench. or go droo vence -",trnat, athout you looks pretty etr- ry after her. One heifer is more tar rnent than twenty wold cows." hint thiul, thud went the flail, ile tbraltaan's fare, the lips and in of which snistled with a week's .1(37 growth, as drawn into such h fteger took up a wooden shovel and made the winnowed corn into a neat heap ready for a sack to the tune of the flail strokes, he turned, back through a cloud of floating aka to Abraham, whose face was more vic- iously set and his strokes fiercer than ever. "No, no, Abraham," he said, "keep a still tongue; don't even tell your wife." Abraham riaused and wiped his brow. "No call to tell she," he returned, with a sort of surly grin, "Trust Sarow to find out. Darned if that ar ooman caint zee better droo a stone wall and hround a earner than you and me zees what's straight avore our noses. Aye, she's a deep 'un, is Sarow." went away with a hopeless air. Roger -‘•Knack ern all down, Abram," was his final injunction as he crossed the farm yard. Seeing Jessie coming in from the garden with a basket of filberts. "Hullo, Jess," he cried, "so you're off to -morrow. Wish you'd wait till next day, and I could drive you in." "Thank you, Roger," she returned, "the carrier's cart will really, be more convenient with rny luggage." "Look here, Jess," 'continued Roger, taking off his hat to thrust his hand through his thick tangle of curies, "I suppose you don't want a friend?" "A friend, Roger?" asked Jessie, smiling and stopping by the low stone wall, on which she set her basket. "Why?" "Only if you want anyba,dy knocked down or anything," he continued, turning very red, "I'm your man." Jessie turned red too, and something came up in her throat, half choking her. "There's nothing I wouldn't do for ye," he went on, his blue eyes brilliant with earnestness. "I was always set on ye, but I never said anything—be- cause of poor Phil, what's away. If you hadn't been promised to him. But there, you never have looked at likes of me, I'm hrough and dunch. Shouldn't ha' named it, only I thought as Phil can't do nothing—it you want- ed anything done, no matter what, I am your man. Ohl I say, Jessie, Jessie!" She was crying in a way that went to the honest fellow's heart, crying quietly but sadly. "You were always good to me Ro- ger," she replied at last, "far better than I deserved. You used to let me pull your hair as a boy. But I wish you wouldn't talk like that." "It was only if you wanted anything done," he murmured "I'd never 'a spoke else. If there'd been a chance, I wouldn't have been so mean with poor Phil away." "Forget me Roger," she said, drying her eyes, "but I will never forget you and your kindness." She gave him her hand and left him, stabbed by his words and touched by his friendliness, and thinking of the way in which she had undervalued this sterling fellow because of his rough exterior and in- tolerable ways. And yet to be pitied and extenuated by Roger! Well, it would not be for long. She had not left Redwoods since her visit to the Inglebys. It was evident to Jessie that Mrs Plummer had heard nothing of that terrible gossip—which was no, surprising, since scandal usu- ally reaches all ears but those most concerned in it. "Dr -'you --run. over, my dear," she said to Jessie, "the day's fine, though dull, and 'twill be a nice walk. Why, you haven't been out this three days." Jessie did not know how to refuse this small request; she suggested send- ing the young maid servant, or a let- ter, and even broached the immense heresy of her consin's faring forth with her. "It's not much you'll hey at my death, Jessie," moaned Mrs Plummer, in response, "so I can't think why you want me to be gallied into my grave so quick, I'm sure. Not that it 'twill be long, anyhow. And I'm the last to want to live on, a burden to my own -flesh and—blood. Plummer'd find a difference in the housekeeping, not to speak of the dairy, and as for the poultry, I never was one to boast, but I should wish you to pint out finer broods of turkeys than what I've razed this summer. Night and day did I wait on them turkeys, I don't know what more I could a done fer them short of sleeping outside their coops and not closing an eye all night, I'm sure If anybody tells me what I could a done more, trapezing through the orchard grass wet days, and wearing away- to a shadow, I'd a done it and thankful." Jessie hastened to reassure her cous- in, while Mrs Plummer, whose curls were in full dress condition and would not bear rough treatment from damp pocket -handkerchiefs, very carefully wiped her round, plump, apple -like cheeks. "Not that I ever look to you to do anything, .1. essi e," continued Cousin Jane, with a mournful sigh from the depths of her broad and wholesome chest; "many a time your poor mother hey said to me, 'I've a hen useful my- self, cousin, and I should wish the little un to he ornamental.' I was al- ways against it myself, but there was • never anyb„dy forerighter than your mother wi !mitt 'twas your poor fath- er. The times I warned poor Martha against having him; but hey him she would and cart -ropes wouldn't hold her. You'd a been easier to manage if she'd a married a more persuadabler man. Jessie, though I don't cast it up agen you that your mother would marry Mat Meade. As for asking of you to spile your hands, I wouldn't do it to save anybody's life. And I'm sure I never shut an eye last night with pig -killing and Roger's shirt on my mind, and you going in to Miss Blushford's to -morrow; not that I wanted you to help pickle walnuts, which do black the hands terrible, but ready to drop as 1 am, going over to Mrs Woodford's is no matter; after all. when anybody's worn out a mile or two's nothing. 'What if it do take me off a week or so sooner? I may as well die and a done with it, I suppose." So Jessie thought, hut she did not say so. "You mustn't he cross on my last, day, cousin," she said, after receiving Mrs Plummer's final directions on the doorst9s at starting, "and please try and think as gently as you can of me, whatever happens. - Her words And something unusual in her manner struck Cousin Jane with art uneasy sensation. "Whatever' havI, come over the child of late?" she wonderd. "Dear dear, how I wish •qh114 en Orytor Pitcher's droteria, THE CLINTON NEW A. Philip would came home or else WO her nut She finds the the time long poor thing, she's lonesome and ahe frets. It was just like poor Mat Meade to tie her up with Philip, a,nd him go- ing out to the Mutiny. But them what is anybody to do with a girt that's neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring? She can't be happy with plain folk, that's sure, Poor Mat meant well, I will give him credit for that." The day had clouded heavily since the morning, the weather was breath- less and oppressive, though of late the air had had the strong, sharp bite which tells of coming winter, warms young blood, and inspirits drooping nerves. The heavy languor weighted upon Jessie's overburdened heart and depressed her, body and soul; yet she walked with a quick, alert air and there was a tense, strained look on her face. Her shortest, most direct way lay straight across the Marwell woods, but she chose to go the long way by the high road and through the village. There she encountered Miss Ingleby and Ellen Dale, respectively, and it was these ladies who blushed and seemed conscious of neglect, while the infinitesimal bow and utterly neutral expression with which Jessie passed on would have done credit to any woman of the world. "As bold as brass," murmured Miss Ingleby to herself; "I should like William to have seen my- lady sweep by with her princess air. Innocent child, indeed! Artful youngminx! Well, I am glad they have given up having her with Ethel Medway!" It was Jessie who had given up go- ing to Marwell Court, to Ethel's great and freely expressed indignation. "I really think the ingratitude of that class of peeple is 'beyond every- thing," was Lady Gertrude's comment upon Jessie's written excuse for refus- ing Ethel's request, "and after the man- ner in which you took her up, Clara." "I am not in the least surprised, Aunt Gertrude," her niece replied; "I am tco inuch accustomed to ingrati- tude to expect anything else in a world like this," she added, with a plaintive sigh which suggested acquaintance with infinitely superior worlds. "Your pets always round upon you, Clara, don't they?" interposed Claude, with an indifferent air. "I really don't know what we are coming to," moaned Lady Gertrude; "Pauline had just learnt a really be- coming way of dressing my hair, and she must needs give warning to -day because her mother is paralysed; as if her mother could not go to a hospital. I suppose there are hospitals in France. The world is really becoming to mater- ial for me." Jessie had done her errand that sul- try afternoon, the woman of the house then begged her to sit down and rest after walk. "It's a good step from Redwoods, miss," she said, looking her over with a curiosity that Jessie felt in every fibre, keenly sensitive to the fact that Mrs Woodford had never regarded her with such interest. "Ws gwine to thunder afore long. Wun't ye bide till the starm's blowed over?" "Thunder!" echoed Jessie. "Oh, I hope not. I must hurry home then. I'll run quick the saort way, Mrs Wood- ford; thank you." She left the cottage. and struck across a piece of common toward the wood, scarcely turning her head when Mrs Woodford called after her to of- fer an umbrella. The heavens were now dark With gathering • storm, the cottage fire glowed redly from the open door, lighting up the tall oak -cased clock and throwing into strong relief the figure of the cottager in the door- way crying, "You'd better bide, you'd better bide." Swiftly she sped over the soundless turf. She felt the hot glow from the lurid wall of purple storm advan- cing against the wind before her, and quivered with the indescribable ner- vous trouble thunder always caused her. It did not exactly terrify her, it was simply intolerable to her nerves. Lightning and thunder, together with the oppression of air over -charged with electricity, distresseff—aird pro- Strated her; her only thought now was to get home, where she would throw herself into Sarah's arms and bury her face. As a child she had passed through many storms with her head covered by Philip's jacket and her face pressed against him; her great horror was to be alone in these nervous crises, when the touch of some familiar and loving hand alone soothed her. (so BE CONTINUED.) 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