The Stayton mail., February 21, 1908, Image 6

shroud, and that her head that night was
not pillowed on U uy'» arm, but was rest-
iug under English turf und beneath an
English sky. She could listen at last, but
her breath cauie in |MUitiug gasps; while
Uuy told her how, ou the very morning
o f the bridal, Lucy bad greeted him with
■ V
her usual bright smile, appearing and
MRS. M A R Y J . HOLMKS
looking better Hum he hail before aeon her
look since he reached her mother’s home;
barker al “ ten rV tM ." “ T V F ifll» * O r»»a u " “ Nann'rad aa Ik* tilth <
■I*
M c h n W w k ." " liafcM i h fnaikim .” ' \ m l i Sand«,'
how for an hour the> sat together alone in
a little room aacred to her, tteenuse years
before it was there he coufesaed his love.
Seated ou a low ottoman, with her
golden head lying on his lap, she had
CHAPTER XXII.— (Co*.Mnu»d.)
»nd Lucy'» home, and Maddy followed that morning told him. In her artleas way,
Maddy was glad of the racking hind
'harlie to the buggy waiting for her, how much she loved h.iu. aud how hard It
Ache which kept her in her bed the wholi bidding him drive rapidly, as there was sometimes was to make her love for the
of the next day. grind o f any excuse to ■very indication o f a coming storm.
creature second to her love for the Cre­
stay away from the family, talking -all
The gray, wintry afternoon was draw
ator ; told him she was not faultier*». and
but Mrs. Noah —o f Uuy, and what wa>
ng to a close, and the 1 V<-ember night asked that when he found how erring
transpiring in Kuglatid. They had faile«i was shutting down upon the llouedale und weak she w h s . he would bear with her
to remember the difference in the long;
hills In sleety rain, when the cottage was frailties aa she would liear with his;
tude of the two places; but Maddy forgot reached, and Maddy, passing up the nar­ talked with him, too, o f Maddy Clyde,
nothing, and when the clock struck four, row, slippery walk, entered
the cold, confessing in a soft, low tone, how once
she called Mrs. Noah to her and whia dreary room, where there was neither fire or twi<v a pang of jealousy had wrung
pered. fa in tly :
•H>r light, nor fr.eodly voice to greet her. her heart when she read his praises of his
"Th ey were to be married at eight in No sound save the ticking o f the clock ; pupil. But she Imd conquered that ; shs
the evening. Allowing for possible delays, no welcome save the purring of the house had prayed it all aw ay; and now next
it's over before this, and Uuy is lost cat, who came crawling at her feet as to her own sister, she loved Maddy Clyde.
fo rever!”
she knelt before the stove and tried to Other words, too. were spoken words of
Mrs. Noah had no consolation to offer, kindle the fire. Charlie Green had o f­ guileless, pure affis'tiotl, too sacred even
and ouly pressed the hot, fever.sh hands, fered to go in and do thia for her, as in­ for Guy to breathe to Maddy; and then
while Maddy turned her face to the wall deed he had offered to return aud stay all Lucy had left him her hart-houuding step
ind did not speak again, except to whisper night, but she had dw lln al, preferring to echoing through the hail aud up the wind­
incoherently as she half slumbered, half be alone, and with stiffened fingers she ing stairs down which she never came
woke :
laid the kindlings Flora had prepared, and again alive, for when Uuy next looked
"I>id Ouy think of me when be prom­ hen apply.ng the match, watched the blue upon her she w a s lying white as a water
ised to love her, and can he see how mis­ flame as it gradually licked up the smoke lily, her neck and dress and golden hair
erable I ant?"
and burst into a cheerful blaze.
stained with the |mle red life current
Maddy was indeed passing through deep
" I shall feel better when it’s warm ," noting from her livid lips. A blood vessel
waters, and that night, the fourth of l>e- she said, crouching over the fire, aud shiv­ had been suddenly ruptured, the physi­
cetuber, the longest, the dreariest she ever ering with more than bodily cold.
cian said, and for her, the fair, young
knew, could never be forgotten.
Once
There was a kind o f namelcMS terror bride, there w-ss no ho|s*. They told her
past, the worst was over, and as the rarest stealing over her as she sat thinking of she must die, for the mother would have
metal is purified by fire, so Maddy came the year ago when the inmates of three them tell her. Once, for a few moments,
from the dreadful oidea! strengthened for graves across the meadow were there be­ there rested on her face a fearfully fright­
what was before her. Both Agnes and neath that very roof where she now sat ened look, such as a harmless bird might
Mrs. Noah noticed the sfrangely beautiful a Ion.
wear when suddenly mitght in a snare.
expression of her face when she came
" I I strike a light," she said, rising to But that soon pasiied away as from be­
down to the breakfast room, while Jessie, her feet and frying not to glance at the neath the closed eyelids the great tears
as she kissed her [tale cheek, whispered : shadowy corners filling her with fear.
came gushing, and the stained Itpa whis­
"You look as if you had been with
Poor
The lamp was found, and its friendly pered fa in tly ; "God knows best.
angels."
beams soon dispersed the darkness from Uuy !— break it gently to him."
Uuy was not expected with his bride the corners and the fear from Maddy's
At this point in the story Uuy broke
for two weeks or more, and as the days heart, but it could not drive from her
town entirely, sobbing a» only strong meo
dragged on Maddy felt that the waiting mind thoughts o f what might at that mo­ can sob.
for him was more intolerable than the see­ ment be transpiring at Aikenside. I f the
"M addy,” he said, " I felt like a hesirt-
ing him with Lucy would be. Restless bride and groom came at all that night,
less wretch— a most consummate hypo­
and impatient, she could not remain quiet­ she knew they must have been there for
crite— as, standing by Lucy’s side, I met
ly at the cottage—while at Aikenside, an hour or more, and in fancy she saw the
the fond, pitying glance of her blue eye«,
she longed to return again to her own tired, but happy, Lucy, as up in her pleas
and suffered her (ss>r little hand to part
home, and in this way the time wore on. ant room she made her toilet for dinner,
my hair aa she tried to comfort even
until the anniversary of that day when with Guy standing by and looking on just
though every word she uttered was short­
she had come from New York and found aa he had a right to do. Did he smile
ening her life ; tried to comfort me, the
Uuy waiting for her at the station. T o approvingly upon his young wife?
Did wretch who was there so unwillingly, and
stay that day in the house so rife with his eye, when it rested on her, light up
who at this prospect of release hardly
memories of the dead was impossible, and w.th the same expression she had seen
knew at first whether he was more sorry
Flora was surprised and delighted to hear so often when it looked at her? Did he
than pleased. You may well »tart from
that both were going up to Aikenside in commend her ta*te and say bis little
me in horror, Maddy.
I was just the
the vehicle hired o f Farmer Ureen, whose w ife was beautiful, as he kissed her fair,
wreteh I describe; but I overcame it,
son officiated as driver. It was nearly white cheek, or was there a cloud upon
Maddy, and heaven is my witness that no
noon when they reached their destination, his handsome face, a shadow on his heart,
thought o f you Intruded itself upon me
meeting at the gate with Flora's brother heavy with thoughts o f her, and would he
afterward as I stood by my dying L u c y -
Toni, who said to them:
rather it were Maddy there in the bridal gentle. patient, loving to the last. I saw
“ W e’ve heard from Mr. U u y; the ship room? I f so. bis burden was hard indeed, how good, how sweet she was, and some­
is in ; they’ll be here sure to-night, aud but not so hard as hers, aud kneeling on thing o f the old love, the boy love, came
Mrs. Noah is turnin' things upside down the floor, poor Maddy laid her head in the
liack to me, as I held her in my arms,
with the dinner.”
chair, and, 'mid piteous moans, asked Uod where she wished to be. I would have
Leaning back in the buggy, Maddy felt to help them both to bear their lot.
saved her if I could; and when I called
for a moment as if she were dying. Never,
The prayer ended. Maddy still sat upon her ‘my darling Lucy,’ they were not idle
until then, had she realized how, all the the floor, while over her pale face the words. I kissed her many times for my­
while, the had been clinging to an inde­ lamplight faintly flickered, showing the self, and once, Maddy, for you. She told
finable hope, a presentiment that some­ dark lines beneath her eyes and the tears me to. She whispered ; ‘ Kiss me, Guy,
thing might yet occur to spare her from stains on her cheek. Without, the storm for Maddy Clyde. T ell her I'd rather she
a long lifetime of pain, such as lay be­ still was raging, and the wintry rain, min­ should take my place than anybody else
fore her if Guy were really lo s t; but the gled with sleet and snow, beat piteously — rather my Uuy should call her wife—•
bubble had burst, leaving her nothing to against the curtained windows, while the for I know she will not be jealous if you
hope, nothing to cling to, nothing but wind howled mournfully as it shook the sometimes talk of your dead Lucy, and
black despair; and half bewildered she door and sweeping past the cottage went I know she will help lead fny boy to that
received the noisy greeting of Jessie, who screaming over the bill. But Maddy heard blessed home where sorrow never comes.’
met her at the door and dragged her into □othing of the tumult. Hhe bad brought That was the last she ever spoke, and
the drawing room, decorated with flowers a pillow from the bedroom, and placing when the sun went down death had claim­
from the hothouse, told her to guess who it upon the chair, sat down again upon ed my bride. She died in my arms, Mad­
vas coming.
the floor and rested her head upon It. dy. I saw her buried from my sight, and
“ I know; Tom told me; Ouy is coming She did not even know that her pet.cat then, Maddy, I started home; thoughts o f
w-ith Lucy,” Maddy answered, and reliev­ had crept ip beside her. purring content­
you and thoughts o f Lucy blended equal­
ing herself from Jessie, she turned to edly and occasionally licking her hair, ly together until Aikenside was reached.
Agnes, asking where Mrs. Noah was and much less did she hear above the storm I talked with Mrs. Noah; I heard all of
*f she might go to her.
the sw ift tread o f horses’ feet as some­ you there was to tell, and then I talked
“ Oh, Maddy, child. I'm sorry you’ ve one came dashing down t ie road, the rider with Agnes, who was not greatly surpris­
come to-day,” Mrs. Noah said, as she Iiausing an instant as he caught a glimpse ed. and did not ■ oppose my coming her*
chafed Maddy's cold hands, and leading of the cottage lamp and then hurrying to-night.
I could not remain there,
her to the fire, made her sit down.
on to the public house beyond, where the knowing you were alone.
In the bridal
“ I did not know it, or I should have hostler frowned moodily at being called chamber I found your bouquet, with its
stayed away,” Maddy replied; " I shall out to care for a stranger’s horse, the ‘ Welcome to the bride.’ Maddy. you must
not stay, as It is. I cannot see them to­ stranger meanwhile turning back afoot be that bride. Lucy sanctioned it, and
day. Charlie will drive me back before to where the cottage lamp shone, a bea­ the doctor, too, tor I told him all.
His
the train is due; but what did he say? con light through the inky darkness. The own wedding was. of course, deferred, and
And how is Lucy?”
stranger reached the little gate and, un­ he did not come home with me, but he
“ He did not mention her. There's the doing the fastening, went hurrying up the said: *Tell Maddy not to wait. L ife is
dispatch,” and Mrs. Noah handed to Mad­ walk, his step upon the crackling snow too short to waste nny happiness. She
dy the telegram received that morning, catching Maddy’s ear at last and making has my blessing.' And, Maddy, it must
and which was simply as fo llo w s:
her wonder who could be coming there l>e so . hikenside needs a mistress; you
“ The steamer is here. Shall be at sta­ on such a night as this. It was probably are all alone. You are mine— mine for­
tion at five o’clock p. m.
Charlie Green, she said, and with a feel­ ever."
“ G L 'Y R E M IN G T O N .”
ing of impatience at being intruded upon
The storm had died away, and th«,
Tw ice Maddy read it over, experienc­ she arose to her feet just as the door moonbeams stealing through the window
ing much the same feeling she would have turned upon Its hinges, letting in a pow­ told that morning
was
breaking, hut
experienced had it been her death warrant erful draught of wind, which extinguished neither Uuy nor Maddy heeded the lapse
rtie «'as reading.
the lamp and left her in total darkness.
o f time, 'iflieirs was a sad kind of hap­
“ A t five o'clock. I must go before that.”
But it did not matter.
Maddy had piness as they talked together, and could
Rhe said, sighing as she remembered how, caught a sound, a peculiar cough, which Lucy have listened to them ahe would
one year ago that day, she was traveling froze the blood in her veins and made her have felt satisfied that she was not for­
over the very route where Guy was now quake with terror quite as much as if the gotten. tine long, bright curl, cut from
traveling with bis bride. I>id he think footsteps hurrying toward her had been her head by his own band, was all there
o f it? Think o f his long waiting at the the footsteps of the dead, instead of be
was left of her to Guy, save the hal­
depot, or o f that memorable ride, the longing, as she knew they did, to Guy lowed memories of her purity and good­
events of which grew more and more dis­ Remington— Ouy. who, with garments sat­ ness-- memories which would yet meld tha
tinct in her memory, making her cheeks urated with ram, felt for her In the dark­ proud, impulsive Guy into the earnest,
burn even now as she recalled his many ness, found her where from faintness she consistent Christian which Lucy In her
.cts of tender care.
had crouched again beside the chair, drew life had desired that he should be, and
i Laying the telegram on the table, »lie her closely to him, In a passionatefl almost which Maddy rejoiced to see him.
went with Mrs. Noah through the rooms, painful, bug, and said, oh ! so tenderly:
(T h e End.)
“ Maddy, my darling, my ow n !
We
warmed and made ready for the bride, lin­
gering longest In Lucy’s, which the bridal will never be parted again."
f i e l d In R e s e r v e .
decorations and the bright fire blazing in
Peppery Colonel (a t the elnb card
the grate made singularly inviting.
As
C H A PT E R X X III.
ta b le )— Good heaven», »lr!
Haven’t
yet, there were no flowers there, and
Hours had gone by, and the clock hands
you got a black suit?
Maddy claimed the privilege of arranging pointed to twelve, ere Maddy compelled
Irrepressible Hub— Yes, s ir ; but I ’ m
them for this room herself. Agnes had herself to hear the story Guy had come
almost stripped the conservatory;
but to tell. Hhe had thrust him from her at saving It for your funeral. — I/>ndo»
Maddy found enough to form a most taste­ Amt, speaking to him of Lucy, his wife, Punch.
ful bouquet, which she placed upon a and Guy had answered her bark : “ I have
marble dressing table; then within a slip no wife— I never had one. Lucy la in
A D e a d O ne.
of paper which she folded across the top, heaven,” and that was all Maddy knew
"A p p a ren tly,” »a id
Hubbub», “ the
•he w ro te; "W elcom e to the bride.”
until the grnat shock had spent itself 7:84 1» late this m orning.”
"Th ey both will recognize my handwrit­ in tears and so!>s, which became almost
“ W orse than that,” replied the sta-
ing; they’ll know I ’ ve been here,” she convulsions as she tried to realise the fact
tlon agent. “ I ’m a fra id It'« the la t e
thought, as with one long, last look at that Lucy Atherstone was dead ; that the
bridal robe about which she had written, lamented 7:84.’ T h ere’» been n w reck
the room, »he walked awwy.
tp the road."— Philadelphia P r é « .
One long, sad, wistful look at Guy'» with girlish frankness, proved to b« her
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