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Clinton New Era, 1892-09-30, Page 3THE CLINTON 11/41= ERA, BART of tho STORM BY NIA* wulrAx,'01113Y. eeeve-e-e- CONTINUED. "Yes, yes," he replied, sighing heav- ily, "that, was at the bettoin of all; bh Was tempted, shaknew her own weak- ness and saw that flight was the only thing. Think, Phi), of the mental and naoral loneliness of that sweet child—of her innocence and ignorance, and remember the antagonist she was pitted against—the coolheaded, cool - hearted man of the world, versed in all its slippery ways, ten years her senior, with the serpent's own beguil- ing tongue, and—by heavens!" lie rose, trying to throw off his in- dignation by bodily movement, in the course of which he upset two chairs and brought down a set of fishing tackle with a crash; while Philip mut- tered some fierce anathema against the unnamed object of Mr Ingleby's just anger. "But the deceit," Philip said in a deep voice, shaken with anger, -inno- cence does not deceive and plot. In- nocence does not make and keep sec- ret assignations in woods." "Innocence knows no harm in assig- nations," Mr Ingleby rejoined, "I vow to you, Philip, upon my honor, that those meetings were guileless in inten- tion on her. part. Why, when I told her of the cackle on that day when my sister's virtue took the alarm and she froze the dear child with her Gor- gon scrowl, she couldn't see the harm, wanted to know why it was worse to be seen walking in woods with him than with me—" "Absurd," Philip broke in with cruel candor, "it your age." "H'ra. Well, I believe I have some nine years the advantage of that fel- low. "As a matter of fact," he added with some embarrassment, "she was seen walking with rare—and—ah—well; I may as well say at once that there has been some attempt to put the blame on me." "On you!" Philip laughed aloud. "And where and when, may I ask, did these romantic troubles take place?" he added with a certain savage mirth, whereupon Mr Ingleby explained the occasions on which he and Jessie had been seen together, the accidental meeting by the stream and the var- ious times of escorting he home. "Yoe see," he said in conclusion, "those other meetings may have been equally accidental on her part." "You are a staunch friend," said Philip, with a kind of gloomy satis- faction; "but how do you explain the disappearance? Suicide?" Mr Ingleby quivered. "God only knows," he replied, "what a sensitive. friendless girl may do in desperation." "Not that," Philip rejoined in a harsh Voice. "I can't lay that flattering unc- tion to my soul." And he told his friend what he had just learned from Sally Samson, and was surprised to find that Mr lugleby, though viewing the intelligence with gravity, was not mneh startled. "And I could have killed the old woinan for telling me," he almost sobbed in conelusion. "Philip! Philip!" cried Mr Ingleby, suddenly appreciating the depth of the young man's grief and laying his hand with gentle firmness on his shoulder. "Poor boy! A heavy bur- den is. laid upon you. God will help you dear lad!' "Matthew andMartha were so proud of her„," be said brokenly, e"and she was lialgteil tO—ficeT But what could I do? I had to go out. And then the mutiny." "You could not do otherwise. But she was too young to be really won be- fore you left. And with such rare beauty— there was temptation on ev- ery side.' "She was a pretty child," he assent- ed, rather coldly. "She was an unusually beautiful woman," returned Mr Ingleby, with -fervor. "She developedmarvellous-1-y of late. You did not see her—as we did. She tried to be true. She strug- gled against temptation. "A good girl does not allow herself to be tempted; she is true without trying." Mr Ingleby renioved his caressing nand from Philip's shoulder; he thought him hard and unjust, but he considered the bitterness of an injur- ed lever. "What shall you do?" he asked after some minutes' silence. "God knows," replied Philip, heavi- /y, "Of course," he added after a gloomy pause, "I shall leave no stone unturned to effect a marriage. And I shall vobably thrash him publicly." "It would be tempting," said Mr Ingleby, thoughtfully reflecting how he should enjoy it. 'Put I wouldn't do that, if I were you, certainly not yet, and most decidedly not till the thing is prayed.' "Proved!" cried Philip with scorn. "Certainly, proved beyond doubt. You are very ready to accept the worse conclusion, dear lad, and in your truly cruel position one cannot blame you. "My good soul," returned Philip, desperately, "how in the name of all that is maddening is any other con- clusion possible? What other can you even suggest?" "Have patience and listen to a man much older than yourself, and at least more experienced if not wiser; vener- ate these gray hairs, Philip," he added pointing to some silver threads which had appeared in his blue -black curly hair of late, together with sonae lines about the eyes and mouth and a hag- gard harassed look quite foreign to his sweet and sunny nature. "It is my impression, confirmed by what Sally Samon told you this morning, that poor dear Jessie went alone." "Yes, as far as London. where that scoundrel met her." "He went to London that day, so did I. We did not meet, or catch a glimpse of one another." "He would take care of that. Be- sides, Mr Ingleby, what possible mo- tive could she have for going alone?" He did not like to add that she could have had no money for the journey. "Two motives," settling Ifimself in a chair and crossing his legs with the air of an assured advocate, "first, to flee temptation; secondly, to fly disgrace." "Which she merely courted, Philip objected. "Look here, Phil," Mr Ingleby con- tinued, earnestly. "I don't think you quite realize what scurrillous talk may mean to a sensitive, high-spirited, pure -minded girl. You know that, T Children Cry for , told her, beesen Duly knowhow clumsily and brutally, but there was lee elee -to do it, Yell know bow ply, sister behaved, and you may imagine what Mrs Plummer's gentle spirit would have been like, so t had to put my great blundering paw into the matter for the child's sake—I wish to heaven I bad left it alone—and yet she must have heard sooner or later. And I have since.found that women had been e utting her right and lef 1. Curl - found these virtuous women, Philip! Why can't they preserve their fero- ious virtue without driving sweet and gentle creatures to desperation? By Jove! if I were a layman I could say some things! Well, I am warranted as it is in saying that many a poor, drunken, fool-rnouthed outcast reeling along the streets today will parse into Heaven before these Pharisaic Mum- mers and people. I've preached and will preach again—but, no I won't, it only makes them worse, the inement they scent apersonal application, But I tell you this," he cried, bringing his fist down on the table so that the lamp clattered and the dog sleeping on the rug woke tip and barked, it the old harridan -1 mean if that con—it Mrs Plummer opened her door this night and saw that sweet child in the cold, she would shut it in her face—for the mere suspicion and scandal, guilty or not guilty. My sister would do the same. And if she had erred and re- turned pentient, either of the bitterly righteous women would drive her forth with blows rather than receive her. And then those darn—those exact —those Pharisees would stalk grimly to church and expect ine to give them Sacrament. Philip, Jessie had a taste of my sister's Christian charity be- neath this very roof, and she knew the coarse treatment Mrs Plummer was likely to afford a tempted or com- promised girl. She knew that in the eyes of the gossips she witscompromis- ed, for I told her—God forgive me— and the stony -faced Pharisees told her niore by their silence and grim looks. To what rash acts such desperation might drive her I fear to think, but she might well have run away tohide froni the storm of calumny, as I be- lieve she did, she went off in the very heart of the storm. Poor child, poor dear child!" he added sitting down with thick -coming breath and covering his face. Philip was comforted by this out- burst, for we like sympathy, and the more our hearts and even tongues ac- cuse those dear to us the better do we like others to defend them, but he was surprised as well as comforted, especi- ally surprised at the heterodox fury with which Mr Ingleby assailed the fierceness of female virtue as mani- fested in his own sister and Mrs Plum- mer, who could scarcely be expected, he thought, to behave otherwise than Mr Ingleby indicated. He ventured to make some observation to that effect, saying that female honor was of such vital importance to society, that no price was too high to pay for it, that the suffering, even if unmerited, of in- dividuals, was as nothing in compar- son with the virtue of the whole sex, and such like platitudes. "Virtue!" cried Mr Ingleby, passion- ately, "virtue be—by Heaven, Philip, it is enough to make a saint swear to see the cruelty perpetrated on women in the name of virtue. I tell you, man, that all this twaddle is in the inter- est of vice and not virtue. It is this that makes our cities sinks of foulness, it is this that drives tempted or misled innocence into the ranks of the outcast army, that army of oppressed misery that in its turn tempts and oppresses and preys on the vitals of society, it is this that shuts every.elogr.ofehopee-neee on her tvlitrhaa—"SliPped but once and declares in a voice of thunder, 'hence- forth thou shalt sin more and more,' in Satanic opposition to the gospel, 'sin no more. This cruelty to the one sex, the weak and defenceless, in fiend- ish wedlock with total immunity to the other sex, the strong and a,ggr es - sive—" He paused tor want of words to his passion, and Philip broke in, horrified. "Surely, surely you would not con- done such wrong on the part of any.. woman'? Why, it would be an insult and outrage to those we are bound to reverence to the utmost to permit the once fallen to mingle with them." "I would condone nothing," he re- plied, more tranquilly, eased by this outburst; "but I cannot see why wo- men are more injured by the society of sinful women than of sinful men, which the best of their sex are expect- ed to endure daily. For instaiace, I doubt if Claude 1Medway's society would have been more baneful to that sweet girl if he had been a lady," he added, grimly smiling. "Women think otherwise." "Itis the mystery of mysteries that should be so hard on women. It must be owned that here their cruelty pass- es men's." "For their honor's sake," Philip said; "and for this we honor .women. But surely," he added, returning from the theory to fact, "Jessie could not have runaway from Slander. She had better have taken her life at once. What should she do alone in the world? Where would she shelter? Who would befriend her? Why, a child of thirteen could do nothing more frantically foolish." "Heaven only knows what she thought, in worldly matters she was such a child," Mr Ingleby replied, with his eyes full of tears. "I have some- times wondered if she thought she could support herself by painting. She did sell one or two of her pictures." "She would have come hack long ago in that case," Philip replied, think. - in this theory too wild even for con- jecture. "Would she?" asked Mr Ingleby with heart -stricken emphasis, and both were silent for some moments with fears they dared not express. Then Mr Ingleby told Philip of Claude Medway's strenuous denials of all knowledge of Jessie's whereabouts, and his expressed anxiety concerning her. He added the significant fact that the supposed engagement between Medway tend his cousin was undoubt- edly at, an end, since Miss Lonsdale was engaged to and about to marry the Marquis of Bardexter. whose fami- ly was more remarkable for antiquity than wealth. Finally, at Philip's re- quest he related all that he knew of Jessie's history during his absence in India and ended with a vivid dente - time of her beauty and grace. -her sweet manner, her modest bearing, het singular intelligence and taste. "Upon my honor," Philip thought when he left, greatly heartened by -his interview, "if the dear old fellow were ten years younger I should think he was in hove with her himself." „Pitcher's Castoria. umber 30,1 92, The next uttemoon he called ot NorwaCtourt. Sir Arthur took 'hie Visitae a mutter 0 couree, regretted that Ludy Gertrude was not at home, spoke of the interest with which he had followed his movements in India and heard of his distinction, and talk- ed of the Mutiny. Sir Arthur,"Philip broke in at last, 'you do not perhaps know that I am one of the guardians of Miss Jessie Meade,respecting. whose —ah—connec- tion with some members of your fami- ly I am anxious to know everything that can be known." "Qtilte so," replied Sir Arthur, with a sudden change of Manner. "It is a sad business. I have done all in my power to get to the bottom of it, in vain. II: has occasioned great distress in my family. My daughter, who is an invalid, as you may know, was at- tached to Aliss Meade, whose society was the means of beguiling many weary honrs for her. My niece, Miss Lonsdale, was first stetick by MIsS Meade's singular beauty and refine- ment and brought her to my house, where I was glad to receive her as your future wife as well as for her own sake. Miss Meade was not well placed at Redwoods. The Mummers are ex- cellent people for whom I have the highest respect, but they are strange- ly out of harmony with her." "Miss Meade was born in that sta- tion," said Philip, stiffly, "and I was bred in it." "Pardon me, Miss Meade was bred out of it, and had virtually left it in becoming engaged to you. Whatever your breeding may have been, Philip, and you can choose it yourself, re- member, you have amply justified your gentle birth. In spite of my na- tural interest in a younglady of beauty so rare," he continued, "I tried to dis- courage my niece's intimacy with here Miss Lonsdale is in the habit of form- ing sudden and ardent friendships and ! as suddenly getting tired of them. I , considered Miss Meade too good for I such treatment. But ladies some- ' times have wills of their own. Miss Medway then became interested. in Miss Meade, who was able to soothe my daughter's sufferings as no one else I could. Seeing this, I offered her a home in this house. Had she accept- ed it, she would have had the advan- tage of Lady Gertrude's personal sup- ervision and guidance, she would have been a privileged inmate and enjoyed every comfort and consideration as my daughter's companion. This, to my regret, she declined. She would have been as a daughter to me, for the charm of her companionship is not less than that of her beauty. And when you returned to claim her I had pic- tured to myself a marriage from this house. She continued to be a welcome guest here until October; when we wer epained by her refusal to visit my daughter, and soon after that startled ' by the news of her. mysterious disap- pearance, to which, in spite of the ate , surd rumors circulated on such occa i sions, there has not been the slightest clue. My own opinion is that some ' accident befell hex." "Did you ever make her any pre- sent?" Philip asked, suddenly rousing himself from eloomy reflections. "Nothing beyond fruit and flowers. She was not a girl with whom one would ventme, a liberty of that kind." "Do you know if your daughter gave her a present?" "You shall see Miss Medway her- self, only let me beg of iyou not to dis- tress her by any surmise of a—a—pain- ful nature." But Ethel had given Jessie no pre- sents, they found on inquiry. Then Philip spoke of the share attedented. to eGlancleen-Jessiteeatielippelsriince. ''Surely," Sir Arthur replied, "you do your sister grievous wrong by cred- iting these reports. And as the world regards these things, ycni do not injure my son." ."Why injure him?" returned Philip. coldly. "But I shall do so unless he is able to explain his conduct to my sat- isfaction. No man has a right, what- ever his intentions may be, to com- promise a young girl, ignorant as she was of the ways ofithe world, by walk- ing Aimee in w_ciods withher ash e un- doubtedly did." (TO BE CONTINUED.) A GRADUATE OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY SAYS. "My children have been treated with Scott's Emulsion from their earliest years! Our physician first recommended it and now whenever a child takes cold my wife resorts to this remedy, which always ef- fects a cure." Wm Cross, a farmer, living near Teeswater, dropped dead Thursday morning. 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