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Clinton New Era, 1892-08-05, Page 3"L!"-a2M"-sse acetiaaaawass 4raz cuisrrow NEW ERA IN TRE HEART f oe STUN BY XAXWV.T.,I. GI. •••••••••.0.11.1.11011 ' OQNTINUHD. She plunged into the woodland, the warning, "You'd better bide, you'd better bide," of the hospitable cottager echoing in her ear. The sky was iron - hued where it Was net lurid with swift -gathering tempest, the brooding expectancy of the gray still afternoon had cbmbxecl to one disquiet of Immi- nent trouble; the Icing grasses shoclder- ed, the dry leaves rustled anxiously and complained upon the trees which groaned as if foreboding pain; cows and sheep moved zestlssly about the pastures, birds 'fluttered with anxious pries from the sere foliage, all the woods shivered before the impending terror. The day was like Jessie life. She was too late to outrun the storm, she felt herself drawn beneath the dark wings, of it, the hot breath of it lifted her hair and came in fitful gusts through; the creaking trees, whirling clouds of sere leaves hither and thith- er. Suddenly, 'with a crack and a crash and a long booming roar, the awful thing burst •right above her head. Hotv frail she was before that iron, blast, and how futile her speed against the rapid stride of the tempest! Some large scattered drops fell on the dry yellow leaves she pressed on, panting snd shrinking. She went blindly, closing her eyes to the dazzle of the lightning, and saw nothing till the rustle of a quick step through the dead leaves and the sound of a voice through the storm made her look up with an involuntary cry of joy into Claude Medway's face. "Claude!" she cried, knowing and remembering nothing but that she was safe and calm and happy after all the tumults and trouble. CHAPTER XII. THE STORM BREAKS The rain was now rushing in torrents straight from the torn clouds above; there was no time to lose; Claude took her hand and bid her run with him, and turning up a side path from the main road, they reached a large shed, half -full of bark and faggots, where they were sheltered from the ram, though from the open front they could still see the tempest raging over the great space of sky which the slight downward slope of the woodland from the shed made visible. Jessie turned shuddering from it. Seeing the cause of her distress, he drew her back among che bundles of bark, where, by displacing some and piling ethers, he made a screened re- cess and arranged a seat for her. Her thick, irregular heart -heats became quiet and rhythmic, and a delicious calm stole upon her. He sat by her and took her hand; she did not with- draw it, his touch was too healing, The storm crashed furiously on, the rain rushed with a hissing splash on the leaves alFround the shed, the air was still like the heavy vapor of mol- ten brass; yet Jessie was undisturbed, her delicate cheek was tinged like an infant's, and her breath came with the soft ease of a sleeping child's, she could not see the distracting dazzle of the lightnings in the pleasant dusk among the bark -bundles which emitted a wholesome forest odor. She leant against the bark in happy silence, it, would be heaven to sit thus forever. He feared to break the blissful sil- ence or mar the exquisite peace of the sweet face so near him. They were completely isolated, fen- ced round for the next hour at least by that blessed storm; there was plenty of time, without spoiling that perfect moment, "to look befoae and after, to pine for what is not." Besides, what could express her love and confidence more than that silent surrender of herself with the instant solace that -his touch so - evidently- gave. -"My bird will never escape me now," he thought, "she has fluttered home for good and all." The tumult and tension of the last fewerLiys, with the climax of nervous agoirrought by the storm, had ex - haus dber; she only cared to be still neves in the utter ,peace of Claude's "POO, ogr,th above rain rbr-hrthe.pa;uses-of the thurr, y could bear each other breathe e prolonged hiss of the rushing A' . fragrant nest among the bar)F-,b les seemed like a sanctuary wfuthens'no unhallowed thing Could penetrate. Rueh on, blessed rain; flash on tierce kind lightnioga; crack, rumble, Anil roar, majestic, deep -voiced thunder, tear the clouds and break up the hea- vens in your wild exultant strength; only let us, be together. That stern resolve never again to see him, and the struggles and mental conflicts, the thousand reasons for avoiding him fell from Jessie like a garment, and when she began to let some cloudlet of thought drift across the happy heaven of her peace, she asked herself, more moved by Claude's eloquent silence than she had ever been by his words, why. after all, they should be parted? Could either have any happiness apart from the other? His very touch healed her. Surely God had brought them togeth- er and made them one. Excessive weariness is a narcotic, conscience falls asleep, the Furies of thought sink to rest under spells of Orphean melody, and the tired soul refuses to heave the stone of Sisyphus any more upon the steep: this is the Tempter's hour. All the sophisms Claude had uttered and she had combated about marriage, the falsity and cruelty of conventions, thepurity of a soul union such as theirs must, be, came stealing back, unchallenged, unresisted, with tenfold force, in that, beautiful calm. To Claude they came also with renewed force, the offspring of his own brain returning no longer childern to he moulded and controlled, but armed men to conquer and subdue. "Yon are calm now," he said, at last, breakirig the golden silence with re- luctance, and she smiled in reply. "You are 111 with fright, poor child," he added; and then Jessie spoke of the nervous trouble thunder -had always caused her. "I neVer before was cal ni in a thun- der storm," she said; "what a 'oward 1 am!" she added. with a low. tranquil laugh. , A terrible crack or thunder', as if the storm, after geowling sullenly away in ,.. the distance, had returned fury, drowned her laugh. "No coward," he replied, "Oh! Jes- sie, de you remember the viper?' "Ahl I was frightened then," she re- turned; "I thought people. , died of adder's bites." "And you offered ratir life fee nano. And you gave me something hotter thai life; all that makes life sweet." She withdrew her hand,reality broke in upon the blissful waking dream in which they seemed to be in some high- er, uobler State, diseinbodied - spirits. anything but mere mortals bound by strict conventions and stern moral obligations. • "No," , she said, "I brought you trouble. But we part Meads." ChM& laughed, it seemed more like meeting than parting. "Whither are you flying?" he asked, gayly. "To my old school for a time to- morrow." "Who goes with you?" ,'No one. I go alone by the carrier." "Jessie," he said, with emphasis, 'this is a heaven-sent opportunity. 'You go with old Winstone as far as Wellow Cross, there you _get out to pick flowers, what you will. Instead of following the cart, you turn up the l3lackwell road, where you find me with a closed carriage. We catch the eveniug beat and are in Frauce the day after to -morrow morning." " 'Oh! this is madness!" cried Jessie; "you must not say such things, indeed, indeed!" "I must," he replied, taking her hands and speaking earnestly; "you have given me the right, you must not trifle with oie. Child, do you think you can take a man's heart in your hands and play with it, and throw it away when you have done with it? No, We belong to each other, Jessie; we love each other with heart and soul. No power can part us. Trust to me, wholly; no love is perfect without trust. Leave all these ethical and conventional subtleties to me. I am responsible to Heaven for both of us. Was not the woman made for the man, and only the man for God? `He for God only, she for God in him? There is no wrong in such a union as ours. only the purest, holiest happiness. Besides, the last barrier is broken down. That miserable terror of Mrs Grundy cannot come between US any more. You need never again be afraid of what people will think.' "What do you mean?" grasped Jessie. "We have been seen. Don't you know what they say of people in our -in your -in short-" "Oh! I know now too well and too late, but I did not know till Mr Ingle- by told iw." "Ingleby told you, did he?" he said, darkly; "it was like his confounded-" "It was like the kind, wise friend he is." she rejoined. "A reputation is easily lost -it only means being seen with the wrong man-" All at oncehis meaning flashed upon bar; she said nothing, for sheer anguish. "We will go to Switzerland," he ad- ded, "marriage laws are easy there." "We cannot marry, you have given your father your word of honor-,-'' she said, in smothered tones. He explained that such a marriage would probably not be valid in Eng- land, :Ind was only intended as a con- cession to her scruples. "It is not only lie: word of honor to marry no one but my cousin," he added; "but it is Mai s ell Court and all that goes with it : these jolly old woods in which we have been so happy. And it is not for myself -ah! Jessie, as if I could not give up fifty Marwell Courts for you - but think of my people. It would kill my father -and as for the others -To be born and brought up in a place like this' a place belonging to history, with all sorts of family traditions and associations -such places don't belong to the man who actually owns thern, but to the whole family. for whom he holds them in trust One can't play the game of life for one' g own hand - especially if one is an eldest son; you see?" "I understand -oh! I understand so well," said Jessie, brokenly, her face buried in her hands, while her arms were suppOlted- on - her-EiriTees".. .r WAIT not born for things like that -1 should shame you. Ohl Claude, you must marry Miss Lonsdale -yon must for- get me." "Forget you!" As he spoke he bent over her bowed head and hidden face. She listened and. quivemd, and . the..oldarginnents. came back with 'fresh and ever fresh force, while the thunder rolled flthilly in the distance arid she did not heed it. All she heard or heeded was the low musical voice, the unutterable charm of the unseen presence, the immense need they had of each other. the su- preme importance of his happiness, the impossibility of either living apart froin the other. What was anything in comparison with his happiness? what was hosior, peace of mind. heaven itself? There was no heaven without hini, to lose him was hell. She was his, she lived for him alone. had no life apart from hint. What if her life was laid waste and spoiled for him? As she thought thus, she suddenly lift ed her head and loaked at hi ni. He saw his 4u1vantage and followed it, up by, eloquence glowing with sup- pressed passion; it seemed to Jessie that they wore already one and could not be pail ed without sacrilege. She thought el' Shelley and Mary. He drew a wedding ring from his pocket and would have placed it upon her trembling hand. Were they not in the temple of nature. he said, with the rushing rains as choristers, the swift lightnings as witnesses, the deep organ notes of the thunder sounding their wedding symphony? What mo- ment could be fitter for their espuosali? She must promise now and forever. The word struck a deep chord in her breast; the supreme moment of her life had arrived. She listened to the wild storm music so solemnly invoked, the rain trickling. from the shed roof into the pool formed by its own vio- lence, with a sound that recalled the auiet music of the baffled water striv- ing to climb the mill -wheel at home. Again she heard that perpetually de- feated water conquered by its persis- tence; she saw it grind corn for men's food and circle round the world in a wondrous, endless succession of trans- formation; she saw the white feet of winged angels passed up the turning stair, as the heavenly beings floated upward; she heard sort strains of spheral harmony mingled with the mill -music as in her childish dream, while in the actual fassoff roll of the passing thunder boomed the everlast- i lig ."Tlinu shalt not," against the grand , implicity of which all 'argu mr- ent is ' ut. AU2110` ISO% She rose and left the dim reeess, obe would have gorte but that he detained her with gentle force. Ilee slight fig- ure was outlined ou the storiwrent sky which hail now no more terrors for her. "Foolish child! What has .f tighten - en you?" he said, with infinite tender- ness; "dearest Jessie, think for a mo- ment, don't be reckless. Don't ruin my happiness, don't throw away my last hope, You are virtually bound to me, you have given me year love, you have broken with conventions, you are mine; in different ways we have domprondsed each other. The storm unnervee you, it inak.es you morbid. You know that ours is no common bond, that we are already one in heart and soul-" "Claude'Claude, let we go!" "You cannot you cannot go in this storm. Stay,,Jessie, stay, I will leave you, only stay in the shelter;" but she was off through the tangle of wet un- dergrowth and into the main road; he followed, then stopped, knowing that further pursuit would only distress her. Just then the rain, which had died nearly away, changed to a fierce crackle of hail -stones rebounding from branch to branch and denting the bare earth wOre they struck; the storm gathered its dying energies for a final outburst. A blue sheet of light reveal- ed towering cloud -masses above, color- ed the white hail -storm for a moment, and showed him the last glimpse of Jessie's dress before she was engulfed in the double darkness of storm and forest; and by the time he removed his hand from his dazzled eyes a fierce white zig-zag darted froni heaven to earth, accompanied by a peal of re- verberating thunder which seemed as if it would never end, And Jessie was under in the very heart of the st He went back to the shed and leant against the bark stacks, intently gaz- ing in the direction which she had taken; he was pale and had a solemn, resolute look. "Whatever happens," he said aloud, and as if calling unseen presences to witness, "Jessie must now be my law- ful wife." The long unequal duel was at an end, but the battle was not to the strong. When the storm had at last rolled away, and he had left his shelter, the figure of a woman issued from among the piles of bark not far from the re- fuge he had made for Jessie, and leant upon the rough bar which ran from pillar to pillar in front of the shed. "You will not marry Jessie," she said, with fierce emphasis; "and you will not save Marwell Court, if it can only be done by marrying me, my good cousin." The life -time of torture she had suf- fered in the last hour had exhausted her, there were d%rk shadows beneath her deep lustrous eyes, and her lips were firinly set. "How can! hurt her?"she continued. "After all death is a feeble vengeance. Who would have imagined that this baby-face could play her cards so skil- fully? Where did she learn how to fool men? Who gave her this insight, this intuitive knowledge of their weak points? Afraid of the storm, indeed! 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