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Novmbar 18 1802
TRE IlEART of tho STORK
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BY MAXWELL
CONTINUED.
When the summer carine be began to
reappear in club -land, at Lady Bar-
dexter's receptions, which were very
magnificent, and here and there in the
world that no doubt is gay and often
magnificent.. Meeting Mm was like
seeing a ghost, yet there was nothing
uncanny in him. He had always been
_ _charming, he was now more so,the old
tact, conrtesy, and grace seemed now
to spring from a deeper source. His
conversation was perhaps more finely
pointed and many facetted, but less
frequently sharpened by malice. He
was firmly convinced now that he
should see Jessie no more.
And yet in those winter wanderings
he had been very near her, once her
dress had actually touched him. The
day was wet, the Strand was a sea cf
umbrellas, and he was leaving the cor-
ner print shop, in the window of which
Jessie, white and hollow-eyed,was gaz-
ing, her fade, now always veiled, since
her beauty had attracted so much at-
tentions was further concealed by her
dckpiring umbrella.
ememner then," she heard in the
well-known voice, "ten pounds for the
address. But she is on no account to
know who bought the picture." So
saying as he turned back a moment
after having set forth, he walked
quickly away, his umbrella striking
against hers. She stood rooted to the
ground, fearing to betray herself by so
much as a breath, holding the shaken
umbrella with all her strength between
therh,while he made a hurried apology
and went on. She blessed the rain,
but for that they must have come face
to face. She went no more to the shop
in the Strand.
Mr Ingleby had been told of the
slight clue they had found, as well as
of the certainty that Jessie had gone
away of her own free will, and he had
put Philip and Claude in communica-
tion with charitable and missionary
institutions, and referred them to
places where young women are em-
ployed. And once being in town for a
few days Mr Ingleby had gone with
Claude Medway to look at the body of
an unknown young woman who had
beenfounddead of want, and who was
described as havingblue eves and
abundance of fair hair, and the same
height and age as Jessie. Enterm
the morgue they saw a slight,shroude
form lying in the stony stillness of
death, the outlines of the face were
faintly visible under the white •sheete
from beneath which flowed one long
fair tress of curling hair.
Mr Ingleby, pale and trembling, ad-
vanced in all reverence to the shrouded
head, but Claude clutched his arm and
drew him back with a sharp cry.—
"Wait, wait, wait !" he repeated in
harsh and increasingly strident tones,
pointing to the long, fair curls which
he knew to be Jessie's.
"It must be done," Mr Ingleby said
at last. "Let me do it. Stand back."
"No, no," he replied with a dissonant
laugh. "What, man? Afraid of a
face ?" Striking him off he rushed for-
ward, then stopped and trembled. Mr
Ingleby was afraid he would fall upon
the quiet form, the repose of which
was the more awe-inspiring, in con-
trast with the living man's emotion.
Twice he touched, and twice dropped
the corner of the sheet, and then with
clenched teeth and rigid face he lifted
it, slowly, solemnly, steadily, and fold-
ed it back on the icy breast. Mr Ingle-
by watching him, turned sick and cov-
ered his face, he could bear to look no
more. A dull rustle and thud roused
him, he looked up and saw Claude ly-
in on thegrenncl by the unveiled face.
Sharp with want and worn with suf-
fering the young dead face was piteous
enough in its marble immobility and
marred comeliness, and yet Mr Ingle-
byis heart throbbed with -thankfulness
at the sight of the unfamiliar features,
waiting vainly for the recognition of a
friend or kinsman, and mutely sug-
gesting who could tell what prolonged
and unspeakable agony. He gently
replaced the cover with a silent prayer
for The unfriendeddead,and then
helped the attendants to remove Claude
and place him in the open air.
"She had a look," Claude said, when
he revived and gazed into Mr Ingleby's
kind blue eyes, which were wet with
something that did him no discredit,
"she had a look—of Fanny."
Fanny's face had followed him ever
since he had seen the account of her
death and read the share "that young
officer" had in it. Fanny's face, young
and full of a mute, piteous appeal he
had never seen in her days ot innocent
joy, her face as he imagined it after
the last desperate act; and with Fan-
ny's face came the thought of the awful
army for the ranks of which he had
qualified her. Night and day he was
haunted by the misery, degzadation,
and far-reaching infection of that
ghastly ghost. Faces that formerly he
would pass without notice now com-
pelled his earnest artention, faces be-
neath whose a,ssiuned reckless defiance
he read secretly gnawing misery, be-
neath whose exaggerated boldness he
saw the stinging consciousness of
shame, beneath whose artificial bloom
and hard smiles he detected the cease-
less canker of remorse.
At night,when wandering, as he now
so frequently did, through places in
which these things were most evident,
the agony of such reflections became
intolerable, and again more intolerable
the perpetual question—why this mis-
ery? The answer came from his heart.
For want of the true manliness of self-
control, the true chivalry that scorns
to take advantage of weakness. The
dead girl whom he had feared to be
Jessie, had been very hungry for many
weeks, and yet she bad robbed no rich
baker of the crumbs that would have
kept her alive. She starved rather
than steal.
Brooding is madness. He could no
longer bear the strain of these thought,
which for a time were a necessity,
thoughts which "make a goblin of the
sun," and having begun to reappear in
society, and given up all hope of finding
Jessie in the chaotic mass of London
humanity, he decided to seek healing
in travel somewhere far from civiliza-
tion, to begin a fresh life, with fresh
aims and interests. For what profit
was there in madness?
One scorching afternoon in July,
after a day and night of rain, Claude
had been to Waterloo station to see his
mother off for Marwell Court, and
Children Cry for
walked heal in the heat, partly from
the ferce Of the street wandering luiblts
he had formed in the 'Vain search for
Jessie. The sun > scorched as it (1000
after ram, the streets were nialodoroils,
no cab was In sight; he walked listlessly
on, what Lady Cortrude had lust said
of Ethel, whose feeble strength seemed
waning, tilling his mind. Ethel was
the most precious thing left him; he
always found time to ran down to
Marwell and try to brighten her up,
and her associations with lost Jessie
had given a fresh tenderness to his af-
fections for her. And she was going.
Cool as the river looked from West-
minster Bridge, it flashed back the
sheets of sunshine slib blindingly into
his eyes that he turned them away to
thepavebent
A policeman, islowly pacing the -hot-
flags, was laying his hand heavily on
the shoulder of a slight young woman,
sitting half crouched in a recess of the
parapet. Claude heard the stern
"Move on" twice repeated before the
woman rose very slowly, and moved
on, dragging her limbs painfully.
Just as she turned at last to go, the
sunlight caught a coil of golden hair
beneath her shabby bonnet; a moment-
ary darkness came before Claude's
eyes, the Parliament Houses spun
wildly around, everything seemed in-
verted. A mordent more and he was
at the woman's side, crying in a thrill-
ing voice, "Jessie!"
CHAPTER XIV.
WESTMINETER BRIDGE.
Sounds reached Jessie's numbed
mind but slowly, muffled, faint, and
far-off as voices from the past winding
through the labyrinthine mazes of
changing dreams. They mingled with
the misty visions that kept rising and
fusing themselves one with another in
a soft, vague phantasmagoria, veiling
the external world, blocking the ave-
nues of sense, confounding time and
place, the present and the past, her%
and elsewhere, in the perpetually shift-
ing cloudland they wove round about
her consciousness in many -colored iris -
woof.
She seemed to be sitting, not at the
end of Westminster Bridge, but at the
corner of the bridge by the mill at
home; she saw, not Westminster Pal-
ace, but the homely, hoary front of
Stillbrooke Mill, with its carven date
above the half -door, over which her
father leant, looking out as ever with
kind eyes on the world. The pigeons
preened themselves in the sunshine, -
tile swans glided majestically above
the mirrored reflections they were con-
templating with enamored glances.
The far-off hum and near roar of Lon-
don traffic was changed to the sooth-
ing rush of the stream and soft throb
of the mill, the baffled waves were
spurned from the turning wheel, and
the white feet of angels passed up the
moving stair, shining wings floated
upward and mingled with bright pin-
ions such as to her fancy were always
hovering about the dim spaces of the
Abbey. Now the organ music rolled
its mellow thunder, and beautiful aw-
ful faces full of wonder and worship
clustered round her in gracious throngs.
The faces of father and mother min-
gled with them, and Philip's and
Claude's. Then came that cry of "Jes-
sie," so thrilling with passion and ten-
derness, sorrow and agony, pity and
wonder, from a far, far distance, pierc-
ing the web of vision, and revealing
the actual liard blank world once more.
The Policeman'sstern "Move on" had
only reached some outer gate of sen-
sation, had influenced her body with-
out changing the poise of her thoughts,
but this 'Jessie" touched the vital core
of her heart.
"Claude," she replied in a faint and
shadowy voice, as the reality of his
face, moved as she had never known
it,grew upon her and chased the
visionary shadows farther and farther
from her brain, "Claude here ?"
The time for shrinking from him
was gone by, it was now a pleasant a,nd
peaceful thing to be near him; she had
fought her battle to the deadly end
fearedmathing• shahad_passecLbe,.
yond and above temptation in the
fierce furnace of suffering, the fire of
which was still upon her.
"Oh ! Jessie," he cried, "like this—I
drove you to this." She was instinct-
iv2l.y.moviimen,_and Claude witleher,
smeller ,
ser pair in—the "Iiihea,hright
glare of the July sun, in the thick of
the daily traffic. Worn and weather -
stained as her clothing was, and in
spite of her utter exhaustion, she had
still an air of grace and reldnemeat;
her sharpened, wan and hollow Mee
was alight with a supernatural beauty,
her large, purple -ringed eyes shone
with en intense and spiritual brilliance.
To Claude she seemed an accusing an-
gel, embodied in the sweet semblance
of the woman he loved, whose youth
and beauty had kindled adeathless fire
in his heart and wasted in its flame.
The sight of the passing crowds re-
called him to a full sense of the situa-
tion and an empty cab cominginsight
he hailed it, placed Jessie in it and got
in himself. 'When did you eat last ?"
he asked when the cab moved on.
"1 don't—remember," she replied
with an [effort, "one morning—" she
had now lost count of the days—"yes,
it was in the morning."
He had seen something of starvation,
especially in his recent wanderings,
and when Jessie spoke thus, he noted
the waxen wanness of her face with an
awful fear. Was it too late? He could
not think for the moment what to do;
with a blind impulse he told the driver
to go to Dean's Yard, where he stopped.
"Can you walk a little ?" he then asked;
"as far as the cloisters ?"
She had been walking three days
and three nights to the grim, monoto-
nous music of the policeman's "Move
on," and it seemed ridiculous to he
asked if she could walk a few yards
farther.
Yet she could not remember how she
got there when she found herself sit-
ting in a corner by an open archway
through which the air carne freshly
into the cool cloisters. She seemed to
be alone for awhile; then Claude was
there, again bending over her,
giving
her restoratives. Then things became
clearer, reality fastened itself more
firmly upon her, she remembered all
that had befallen her since she ran
away from temptation.
She had sold one pictnre, only one.
Then she found the address of a Royal
Academician and presented herself at
his study to ask advice. From him she
learnt that she might procure employ-
ment as a model, that her drawings
showed marked talent, but that she
could do nothing without years of
study. She sat to him.
Then she went as a model from stu-
Pitchoee Castorla,
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dio to studio for some weeks, Until she
found that there were luelden in such
Ilte that she VMS 'Matted to cope
with, undeeitable companions and as-
sociations, and that here, to, her fatal
beauty exposed her to annoyances,
alone as she was. Lucy Barker, her
landlady's hump -backed daughter, put
her in the way of obtaining a little
needlework from time to time, else she
had no means of earning bread. By
pawning her few possessions she icept
alive, she scarcely knew how; she
would have given up her humble lodg-
ing, but that the Barkers entreated
her to stay, in their charity, an-
other lodger. came. Then she fell
into such, straits that she was
minded to write Philip; but she knew
she raust die before a letter could reach
Italia and be answered. She might
have written to her other guardians,
but her knowledge of Cousin Jane's
inflexible condemnation of girls in
false positions was heightened by the
sight of a local paper in which her dis-
appearance was commented upon in
words that made her ears tingle. Mrs
Barker had relations near Cleeve who
sometimes sent her a local paper, and
she had lent this to Jessie. _Atter this
she was more careful than ever not to
say whence she came. An orphan
from the country, leaving the house of
distant relations to fight for herself in
London, was by no means an extraor-
dinary phenomenon to the Barkers,
but when at last the room was let Jes-
sie wandered forth rather than prey
upon their hard-working poverty, her
last penny being gone. Then followed
a time that she did not clearly remem-
ber, of wandering in the streets, of
resting on seats in public gardens and
parks, under archways, on doorsteps,
day and night, in the pouring rain and
hot sun, and being continually moved
on. The workhouse was for her too
dreadful an alternative to be seriously
contemplated. Once during the wan-
dering she went into the abby, the
music, and the chanted prayers of
which had so often strengthened and
refreshed her. She thought it would
be pleasant to creep into some corner
and die there. But a verger stopped
her on the threshold and warned her
away; she looked too shabby and po-
verty-stricken to be respectable, and
had been there already for some hours.
The vai ied horrors of that wandering
she never told. She remembered them
now as she sat in the cold cloister, re-
vived a little by the nourishment
Claude had procured, and listening to
the mellow chanting of evensong, soft-
ened by distance and inexpressable
soothing.
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