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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1901)
THE NEW AGE. PORTLAND. OREGON. CIJAI'TEK Xll.-IContlnuecl.) At the Mime moment, Numlnl hcIzoiI IiIh first opportunity of HpcnklnR. II ml ilri'sswl himself Kfiitly to IiIh nIhIct-Iii-Ihw. She refused to liettr him. The liiillenntlon which Mrs. I'resty liiul roused In her tnncle no nllowiiiici-H, nnd wns blind to nil sense of rlKlit. "Won't trouble yourself to account for your silence," she sitld, most unjustly. "You were listening to my mother with out ii word of remonstrimee when I cnmo Into the room. You nre concerned In this vile slander, ton." .She dropped Into n chnlr. If there wns nny one thntmht In her mind nt thnt mo ment, It wits the thought of her linilmnil. Hhe wns eiijjer to see him; she IoiikimI to miy to him: "My love, I don't believe n word of It!" He wns not In the Kitrden when she linil returned for the pnriisol; nnd .Sydney wns not in the Burden. W on derhiK wlmt hud become of her fntlier iiml her governess, Kitty liiul nslu-d the nurse miild to look for them. Mrs. Lin ley sent for the nurse innid. Shu felt the strongest reliiclnuce, when tho kI" np penred, to npproneh the very Iniiuirieu which she wns Interested In ninkliiR. "Ilnveyou found Mr. LlnleyV" she snid with mi effort. "Yes, nnriim." "Where did yon find him?" "In the shrubbery." "Did your muster sny anything? "I slipped uwny, inu'iim, before ho snw inc." "Why?" , , "Miss Westerlleld wns In the shrub bery with my muster. I might have been mlstnkcn " The girl pitused nnd look ed roll fused. Mrs. Llnley tried to tell her to ro on. The words weru In her mind; but the ca pacity for giving expression to them fulled her. She Impudently made a nlgn. 'lliu nlgn was understood. The servant with drew. Mrs. Llnley snatched up n newspnper, nnd llxed lien-yen on It in the hope of fix ing her mind on It. Obstinately, desper ately, she read without knowing what she was rending. Tlie lines of print were be Klnnliik' to mingle ami grow dim when she was startled by the sudden opening of the door. She looked round. Her husband entered the room. GIIATKU XIII. I.lnley advanced n few steps nnd stop ped. Ills wife, hurrying cngerly to meet til til . checked herself. It might have been distrust, or It might have been unreason lug fear she hesitated on the point of tip lironchltiK him. "I hnve mmietliliig to sny, Catherine, which I nm nfrnld will distress you." Ills voice faltered, his eyes rested on lier then looked awny ngiiln. He snld no more. A lit of trembling seized her. Lhfley stepped forward, in the fear that she might fall. She Instantly controlled her self nnd signed to him to keep back. "Won't touch mel" she said. "You come from MIsh Westerlleld!" That reproach roused him. "I own that I come from Miss Wester field," he answered. "She addresses n request to you, through me." "I refuse to grant it." "Hear It llrat." "Nol" "Hear It In your own Interest. Will you penult her to leave the house, never to return again? While she is still inno cent " His wife eyed him with a look of unut terable contempt. He submitted to It, but not In silence, "A man doesn't lie, Catherine, who makes such u confession as I am milking now. Miss Westerlleld offers the one atonement In her power, while she Is still Innocent of having wronged you except In thought." "Is that all?" Mrs. Mnley asked. "It rests with you," he replied, "to nny If there Is nny other sacrlllce of herself which will be more acceptable to you." "Let me understand llrst what the sac rlllce means. Does she make any condi tions ?" "She has positively forbidden me to innke conditions." "And goes out Into the world, helpless and friendless?" "Yes." Nven under the terrible trial that wrung her, the nobility of the woman's nature poke In the next words, "(Jlvo me time to think of what you have said," she pleaded. "I have led a happy life; I am not used to suffer as I nm suffering now." In the minute that followed, her dimming color revealed a M niggle with herself. "Miss Westerlleld Is Innocent of having wronged me, except In thought," Mrs. l.luley resumed. "She might have deceiv ed me she had not deceived me. I owe it to her to remember that. She shall go, but not helpless, and not friendless. Oh, my husband, has she taken your love from me?" ".ludge for yourself, Catherine, If there is no proof of my love for you In what I have resisted, and no remembrance of all that I owe to jou In what I have con-fesM-d." She ventured a little nearer to hi in. '(mi 1 helleeyou?" "Put me to the test." She Instantly took him nt his word. "When Miss Westerlleld has left us, promise not to see her again," "I promise," "And not even to write to her," "I promise," She went back to the writing table. "My heart is easier," she said, simply. "1 can be merciful to her now," After writing a few Hues, she rose, nnd handed the paper to him. He looked up from It In surprise. "Addressed to Mrs. MaelMwIu!" he snld. "Addressed," bhe answered, "to the only person I know who feels a true Interest in her, Have you not heard of It?" "I remember," he said and read the lines thnt followed; "I tceoiuniend Miss Westertield ns a teacher of young children, having had n tuple proof of her capacity, Industry anil good temper, while she has been gou-rness to uy child. She loaves her sltuntlou lu my service, under circumstances which testify to her sense of duty and her sense of gratitude." The last, worst trial remained to be un dergone; she faced It resolutely. "Tell Miss Westerlleld thnt I wish to see her." On the point of leaving the room, Her bert was called back. "If yon happen to meet with my mother," his wife udded, "will you nsk her to come to mo?" Mrs. I'resty knew her daughter's na ture; Mrs. I'resty had been wnltlng near at hand, In expectation of the message which she now received. Tenderly nnd respectfully, Mrs. Llnley nddressed herself to her mother. "When we lust meti I thought you spoke rashly and cruelly. I know now that there wns truth some truth, let me sny In what offended me nt the time. If you felt strongly, It wns for my snke. I wish to beg your pardon; I wns hnsty, I wns wrong." The words hnd bnrcly fallen from her lips, before Herbert returned. He was followed by Sydney Westerlleld. The governess stopped In the middle of the room, Her head sank on her breast; her quick, convulsive breathing wns nudl ble In the silence. Mrs. I.lnley ndvnnced to the place In which Sydney stood. There was something divine In her beauty ns she looked compnsslonntely nt the shrinking girl, and held out her hand. Sydney fell on her knees. In silence, Mrs. Llnloy rnlsed her took (ho writing which testified to her character from the table and presented it. Llnley looked nt his wife, looked nt the governess. He waited nnd still neither the one nor the other uttered n word. It was more than he could endure. He addressed himself to Sydney llrst. "Try to thnuk Mrs. Llnley," ho snld. She nnswered faintly: "I enn't HpcakI" He appealed to Ills wife next. "Say a Inst kind word to her," lie pleaded. She mnde nu effort n vain effort to obey him, A gesture of despair nnswered for her ns Sydney hud nnswered: "I can't sM'uk." True, nobly true, to the Chrlstlnn vir tue Unit repents, to the Chrlstlnn virtue that forgives, those three persons stood together on the brink of separation, nnd forced their frnll humanity to suffer nnd submit. In mercy to the women Llnley summon ed the courage to part them. He turned to his wife llrst: "I may sny, Catherine, that she has your good wishes for happier days to come?" Mrs. Llnley pressed his hnnd. At thnt lust moment the child run Into tho room, In scnrchjif her mother. There wns n low murmur of horror nt the sight of her. Thnt Innocent heart, they had nil hoped, might have been spared the misery of the part ing scene! She saw thnt Sydney hnd her lint nnd cloak on. "You're dressed to go out," she snld. Sydney turned away to hide her face. It was too lnte; Kitty hnd seen the tenrs. "Oh, my darling, you're not going away!" She looked nt her father and mother. "Is she going nwny?" They were nfrnld to nnswer her. With nil her little strength, she clasped her beloved friend nnd pluy-fellow round the wnlst. "My own dear, you're not going to leave me!" The dumb misery In Sydney's fnce struck Llnley with horror. He placed Kitty In her mother's arms. The child's piteous cry, "Oh, don't let her go! don't let her go!" followed the governess ns sho suffered her martyrdom, and went out. LJuley's heart nched; he watched her un til she wns lost to view. "Gone!" he murmured to himself "gone forever!" Mrs. I'resty heard him, and answered him: "She'll come back ngalnl" CIIAPTKK XIV. As the year ndvnnced the servants at Mount Morven remarked thnt the weeks seemed to follow each other more slowly than usunl. If the question hnd been asked in past days: Who is the brightest and happiest member of the family? ev erybody would hnve said, Kitty. If tho question had been linked at the present time, differences of opinion might have suggested different answers, but the whole household would have refrained without hesitation from mentioning the child's name. Since Sydney Westerlleld's depar ture Kitty had never held up her head. Then typhoid fever set In. The doctor spoke privately to Mr. Llnley. The child's debilitated condition thnt lowered state of tho vital power which he had observed when Kitty's ease was first submitted to him placed a terrible obstucle In the way of successful reslstunco to the advances of the disease. "Say uothlng to Mrs. Llnley just yet. There Is no absolute danger so far, unless delirium sets lu." On the next evening but one the futnl symptom showed Itself. There wns uoth lug violent in (lie delirium. Unconscious of past events lu the family life, the poor child supposed thnt her governess wns liv ing lu the house us usual. She piteously wondered why Sydney remained down stairs lu the school room, "Oh, don't keep her nwny from me! 1 want Syd! I want Syd!" That was her one cry. When exhaustion silenced her, they hoped that the sad delusion was at nu end. No! As the slow tire of the fever tlamed again, the same words were on the child's lips, the same fond hope was in her sinking heart. The doctor led Mrs. I.lnley out of (he room, "Is tills the governess?" he asked. "Yes!" "Is she within easy reach?" "She Is employed lu the family of a friend of ours, living nine miles away from us." "Send for her instantly!" Mrs, Llnley looked at him with n wild ly mingled expression of hope and fear. She was not thinking of herself she was not even thinking, for that one moment, of the child. What would her husband say, If she, who had extorted his promise never to see the governess again, brought Sydney Westerlleld back to the house? Two hours later, pale, worn, haggard with anxiety, Sydney Westerlleld entered the room and looked once more oil the fuevs which she had resigned herself never to see again. She appeared to b. hardly conscious of the kind reception which did Its best to set her at her case. "Am I In time?" were the first words that escaped her on entering the room. Itcnssurcd by the answer, 'she turned back to the door, eager to hurry upstairs to Kitty's bedside. Mrs. Llnlcy's gentle hand detained her. The doctor hnd left certain Instructions warning the mother to guard against any accident that might remind Kitty of the dny on which Sydney hnd left her. At the time of thnt bitter parting, the child had seen her governess In the same wulk lng dress which she wore now. Mrs. Llnley removed the hat and cloak, nnd Inld them on a chnlr. "There Is one other precaution which we must observe," she snld; "I must ask you to wait In my room until I find thnt you mny show yourself safely. Now come with me." Mrs. I'resty followed them nnd begged earnestly for lenve to wnlt the result of the momentous experiment at the door of Kitty's bedroom. Itnndnl opened the door for them ns the three went out together. lie was iu a stntc of mnddenlng anxiety nbout his poor lltte niece. Then he shut shut himself Into the drawing room, but hnd baiely succeeded In composing him self when a servnnt nppenrcd with some thing to say to him. "I don't know whether I have done right, sir," Malcolm began. "There's a stranger down stnirs, nmoug the tourists who nre looking nt the rooms and the pic tures. He snld he knew you. And he nsked If you were not related to the gen tleman who allowed travelers to sec his Interesting old house." "Well?" "Well, sir, I snld yes. And then he wanted to know If you hnppencd to be here nt the present time." Itnndnl cut the innn's story short. "And you said yes again, and he gave you his card. Let me look nt It." Malcolm produced the card, and In stantly received Institutions to show the gentleman up. Tho nntnc recalled a gen tleman he hnd met while In London nt a dinner nt the Loudon Club Captain Hen nydeck. Ilnndnl's first words of welcome reliev ed the.cnptnln of certain modest doubts of his reception, which nppenrcd to trouble him when lie entered the room. "I nm glnd to find you remember me as kindly ns I remember you." Those were his first words when he nnd Rnndal shook hands. That put the cnptnln nt his ense, nnd the two men were soon chatting pleasant ly together. In the course of his remarks Cnptnln Bennydeck snld: " "I hnve been In search of a poor girl who has lost both her parents; sho has, I fear, been left helpless nt the mercy of the world. Her father was an old friend of mine once nu olllccr in the navy, like myself. My Inst letters suggest a hope of tracing her. There is reason to believe thnt she Is, or has been, employed ns a pupil teacher at a school In the suburbs of London; nnd I am going bnck to try if I can follow the clew myself. Good iiy, my friend let us hope to meet again. When you nre In London, you will always hear of me at the club." Heartily reciprocating his good wishes, Randal attended Captain Bennydeck to tho door. On tho way bnck to t he vd raw ing room he found his mind dwelling, rath er to his surprise, on the captain's con templated search fur the lost girl. Wus the good mnti likely to find her? It seemed useless enough to Inquire anil yet Itnndnl nsked himself the question. Her father had been described ns an olll ccr In the navy. Well, nnd wlint did that matter? Inclined to laugh at his own idle curiosity, he was suddenly struck by a new Idea. What had his brother told hi in of Miss Westerlleld? Sho wns the daugh ter of nn olllccr In the navy; she had been pupil teacher nt a school. Was It rtally posslble that Sydney Westerlleld coulif lie the person whom Captain Ileunydeck wus attempting to trace? Itandal threw up the window which overlooked tho drive In front of the house. Too Intel The carriage which had brought tho captain to Mount Morven wns no longer In sight. The other course that he could take was to mention Captain Ileuuydcck'a name to Sydney, and be guided by the re sult. The drawing room hnd not been empty more thnn a few minutes when the door on the right was suddenly opened, Her bert Llnley entered, with hurried, uncer tain steps. He hnd ridden from the farm at head long speed, terrified by the unexplained delay In the arrival of a messenger from home. Unable any longer to suffer (ho torment of unrelieved suspense, he1 had returned to make Inquiry at the house. As he Interpreted the otherwise Inexplica ble neglect of his Instructions, the last chance of saving the child's life hud fail ed, and his wife hnd been ufrald to tell him tho drendful truth. How long he stood there, alone nnd Ir resolute, he never remembered when he thought of It In after days. All ho knew wus that there came a time when a sound In the drawing room attracted his atten tion. It was nothing more Importuut than the opening of n door. Some person had entered the room. IIo parted the curtains over the library en trnnVe and looked through. The pcrsou was a womnn. She stood with her back turned toward the library, lifting a cloak off a chnlr. As she shook the cloak out before putting It on, she changed her po sition. He snw the fnee, never to be for gotten by him to the lust day of his life. He saw Sydney Westerlleld. (To be contluued.) Glntt, Anyhi.w. "I 1ok your pardon, I thought tlila wns Mr. Chueksley." "I nm Mr. Chueksley." "Then I nm ghul to find thnt when. I thought I was mistaken I wns mis taken lu thinking I wus mistaken." "Hey?" "I nay when I thought I was mis tnkou I was mistaken In thinking I wus mistaken nnd being mistaken lu think ing I was mistaken when I wasn't mis taken, I was ghul (o find I wns nils tnkou whoa I thought I wns mistaken, becauso I vnsn'( inlstnkou-or, rather, I was mistaken when I thought I was mistaken, and so I couldn't have been mistaken well, at any rate, I'm glad. Looks as If we, wore- going to linvo snow, doesn't It?" Chicago Tribune. Tho theorist Is all right until It Is (lino (o tuako a practical demonstra tion. Always look nt your Joys with n ml croscopo, nud at your soruiws with tu wrouc end of an opera glass. TRUMPET CALLS. Ram's Horai Boanda a Waralag Not to the Unredeemed. OSES need no rouge. Polish Is not purity. It Is sometimes hard work to have faith. Tho loss by grinding Is the gain of the axe. Ills sacrifice la the seed of our salvation. There are no passports to heaven. , lie who slanders another smuts him self. God's providence Is proof of Ills pres ence. The pigment of llfo is made In tho heart. A little assistance Is worth a lot of advice. To abide In God's love Is to live In heaven. Tho best praise of the sermon Is Its practice. Gratitude doubles the gift nnd halves tho debt. Trials may bo God's (cstlmony to our strength. He (hat aims at a reputed wolf may kill a lamb. Boiling anger scalds nobody's fingers but our own. Tho best graces of life come from the grace of God! A man docs not possess wlint ho has but what he Is. Life's commonplaces fit us for Its un common places. Love Is the only lever long enough to reach the heart. The saddest thing In tho world Is sin without sorrow. You cannot keep the Sabbath till you love and prize It. Ho who persecutes tho Christian pains the Christ. There are no fruitless deeds; all bear cither good or 111. The spoils of avarice build (he tomb of all the virtues. It may take all time to determine tho value of one seed. Earthy church-going may end In heav enly church-being. Much of the 'sting of life comes from our smart sayings. The grave closes the gate of grief and opens thnt of glory. It Is not tho truth so much as' the Teacher who saves. Goodness mny win gold but gold will never win goodness. You cannot build a house without spoiling n brickyard. Most of us would rather watch others than work ourselves. His glory surpasses tho sun becauso IIo stooped to sinners. God's songsters sing In tho baro trees as well as iu the green. An Interrogation point makes a fine hook for the devil's line. A slippery character will not Insure you against friction In life. All agree thnt It Is more blessed to give thau It Is to receive advice." SURGERY IN NOVEL STYLE. ratntcas Operation 1'erformed with an Urillnurjr Lucifer Mutcb. 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