Lincoln County leader., May 21, 1909, Image 7

Race
HAWLEY
CHAPTER VI.
The solicitor drove away, fuming with
Adlgnation. "Pompous, poverty-stricken !"
were the epithets he applied to the squire,
in these first moments of his wrath. Even
a usurious solicitor is possessed of pride
of some kind, and though he may hold it
In tolerable subjection during the early
stages of his career, like other men's,
it wales fat and thrives wonderfully un
der the accumulation of wealth. Harold
Denison had trampled it remorselessly un
der foot. Then the irritation subsided,
and the astute old head once more began
to reckon up the chances of the game. He
played it all over again in his own mind.
"No," he muttered ; "dou't think I made
any mistakes ! I was a fool to lose my
temper, though. Hadn't I made up my
mind, all along, that he'd take it pretty
much in that way, to start with? When
I think how many of 'em I've seen run
rusty about their family names, places,
and plate ! It was foolish ay, very fool
ish 1o be annoyed at Denison's tantrums.
Names? bah!" continued the old man,
contemptuously. "If it came all the way
from the Conqueror, its worth on stamp
d paper is the only valid text."
Sam Pearman, when he heard the re
sult of bis father's mission, took rather
a different view of it from his progenitor.
Ai a younger man be lacked the patience ;
and then, moreover, was there not the
blow to his self-esteem? Between twenty
and thirty we feel that acutely; from
thirty to forty, with a sort of modified
soreness ; at fifty the conceit has been
taken out of most of us, and we are no
longer astonished at finding that the world
rates us a little lower than our own val
uation. Electroplate may pass for gold
for a short season, In these days, but so
ciety is pretty certain to detect the ring
of false metal ere very long.
Samuel the junior bad so far been a
fortunate man In pursuit of his ambi
tions. Though not so successful as he
could have wished, yet, to a certain ex
tent, he had worked hiB way into the
ounty society. There were many houses
that he was occasionally asked to, as an
odd bachelor to make up. Despite all his
father had said at the time, a man with
Sam Pearman's eye to the main chance
could not conceive a man in Harold
Denison's position rejecting a propqsal so
ery much to his own advantage. He
might recognize a certain amount of dif
ficulty on the part of the lady, but men
of his age are not wont to be diffident
about their own powers of attraction on
these occasions, and Sam Pearman was
one of the last to entertain apprehensions
on that score.
"Ha don't know what's good for him,
and that's about the sire of It!" was that
gentleman's remnrk, as his sire retailed
the account of his interview with Denl
aon. "We shall have to exercise a little
gentle pressure. I'm not going to be
choked off my game, at all events at this
stage of the proceedings. Invalids often
require coercion to make them take the
tonics necessary for their existence, and
it will be for you to make Denison under
stand that he will cease to be Denison of
iltnn, at all events, unless he is prepared
to welcome me as a son-in-law."
" "Leave it to me, Sam, and don't be
In a hurry. I made up my mind about it
the other night. I don't say all, my boy,
but a good many things I have made up
my mind to have come to pass in course of
time. Leave me alone to work the oracle
just now, and, depend upon it, I'll give
you due notice when it's time for you to
wake a move."
The son acquiesced. If at times he
thought his father was getting a little
slow at turf tactics a pursuit from which
he had in great measure withdrawn he
still held a firm belief that his parent
was difficult to beat in the great game of
life, more especially when he held a win
ning card or two in his band.
Some two or three weeks elapsed ; and
then, one spring morning, Harold Deni
son received a letter to the effect that Mr.
Pearman of Mannersley felt it incumbent
on himself to call in his mouey lent on
mortgage, a more favorable opportunity
for investment having offered.
That this would probably be the result
of their last Interview, the squire had
foreseen. Yet, as days went by without
any such notince, he began fondly to hope
that the attorney had seen toe presump
tion he had been guilty of, and that things
would still jog quietly along in their old
way. How ephemeral that way had now
become, under almost any circumstances,
he still kept-locked within his own
treast. But as he read that letter the
cquire knew well that the rubicon was
passed, that his ships were burnt, and
himself defeated. He knew, too well, that
to raise that ten thousand anywhere else
would result in an exposure of his at
fairs tantamount to ruin. He was quite
aware that Pearman was equally con vers
ant with the fact. He prepared himself
for the Impending crash.
But there Is a certain amount of notice
requisite on the calling In of a mortgage,
and this gave Harold Denison time to
reflect whether for good or evil the read
ers of this story must determine. Had
the blow fallen at once, h would have
abandoned Glinn, grimly, and set up bis
lonely tent In some remote watering place.
But the crafty solicitor bad measured the
strength of his prey with great accuracy,
It was not without design that the notice
of the foreclosure of the mortgage had
bean flayed. "01r It time fire It
for
a
Wife
SMART
time,". quoth that fisher of feeble human
ity. He waa right; and day after day
did Harold Denison ponder over the old
hsherman s terms ; at first contemptuous
ly, then moodily, until at last he began
lo think that It was his duty to retain
Glinn at all hazards. Once arrived thus
far, the speciousness of the reasoning
became easy and rapid. "The lands I re
ceived from my ancestors It is my duty to
transmit to my descendants." A fine coun
try gentleman's sentiment, that would
have invariably insured a round of ap
plause at the farmer's ordinary in any
market town of respectable dimensions.
Now, of course, it was all plain sailing,
morally. As a personal matter, the mean
est lodgings at Hastings or St. Leonards
would have sufficed. It were better so
than to see a Denison of Glinn so vilely
mated. But there were other ties to be
considered. He, Harold Denison, had un
doubtedly betrayed the trust of a long
line of ancestors.
Then he began to think once more of
his daughter. He felt compunction at
I he idea of yielding his handsome Maude
to this low-born suitor. But then Maude
had never been to him what an only child
is to most fathers. He had never quite
forgiven the fact of her not being a son,
and she bad ever been more her mother's
pet than his. Again, this candidate for
her hand had been brought up a gentle
man, had the mark of the university
stamped on bis based composition, and,
in short, had done much to compensate
for the deficiency of birth with which he
bad entered the world. He had seen
young Pearman upon two or three occa
sions only. That gentleman, though the
blood of his father ran strong in his
veins, had quite sufficient tact to avoid
showing It. He dressed quietly, and ab
stained from self-assertion when mixing
with the class In which he was so anx
ious to establish himself. He was, nat
urally, too careful of his money to fall
into the error of most parvenues, that of
ostentatious display. The little he knew
of him had not jarred on Harold Deni
son. As to Maude, her affections must
be wholly unfettered. If she could be
brought to think of this man as a bus-
band, it would really be a good thing for
her In the end. And by such reasoning
the squire gradually worked himself
round to the conviction that it was, at all
events, his duty to submit Pearman's
proposal to Maude, and, further, to press
it strongly on her attention.
But before Harold Denison had arriv
ed at this conclusion, there had been
much grief at Glinn. He had told his
wife of the contemplated foreclosing of
the mortgage, and explained to her that it
meant ruin that is, ruin inevitable, aa
far as their still continuing the possessors
of Glinn went.
"Yes, Nellie, it's all over," said the
squire; "I'm beaten at last. Dear old
Glinn must go through the hands of the
auctioneer, and become the property of
whatever greasy trader happens to have
moat money at his disposal just now. It's
hard lines for you to have to leave the
place wherein I Installed you as mistress
so many years ago."
"Don't think of me," replied Mrs.
Denison, tearfully. "I shall be always
happy as long as I have you and Maude
with me. It will be sad to leave all my
old cottagers and almoners to the tender
mercies of others ; but oh 1 it will fall
heaviest on you, Harold, to give up what
has been the home of your people for so
many generations !
"I don't deny it. It will be a dread
ful wrench to think of Glinn passing to
strangers ; but I suppose it must be so
The follies of our youth, Nell, smite us
sharply as we grow old. We shall have
to end our days in some cheap conti
nental town."
CHAPTER VII.
Very sad was Maude, when she heard
the evil tidings, and that she had but a
short time left to look upon the grand
old chestnuts, the groves of laurel, and
the soft, pleasant, turfy vistas amid which
she had been born. Bitterly she thought
how the loss of all the accustomed sur
roundings would be felt by the gentle
mother she adored; and well she divined
what would be her father's sensations
when, having left the home of his ances
tors, he should find himself exposed to the
monotonous existence of some watering
place or dull continental town ! How he
would brood over the extinction of the
Denisons of Glinn none realized more
fully than Maude. She knew her father
thoroughly; she was a clever girl, and
fully recognized his foibles and weak
nesses. She comprehended the shock It
would be to his family pride what the
loss of country pursuits would be to him :
what It would be to find himself a mere
Mr. Denison on straitened means In some
quiet place where gossip was rife, and
your social status was pretty nearly
gauged by the bills incurred at the butch
er's and ths wine merchant's. And then,
the girl thought, sorrowfully, how little
she could do to alleviate all this. To
her mother ah! yea, she could do much
to lighten her troubles, and be a comfort
to her; but for her father, nothing and
the tears trickled through Maude's long
lashes as she tnougnt now little she could
be to him.
Such, so far, were the results of the
machinations of that experienced "fisher
of men," Mr. Pearman, on the nafortu
naie family at Glinn.
I bar told the Ingenious process of
reasontdg by which Harold Denison had,
at last, not only soothed his conscience,
but arrived at the conclusion that, like
the grim old Grecian, his duty required 1
him to sacrifice his daughter. I often
think that old story a grand allegory.
Agamemnon sacrifices Iphigenia, even
yet, pretty constantly at St. George's,
Hanover Square. We substitute the ring
for the knife, and the wedding breakfast
for the smoking sacrifice; and we wreath
ourselves with flowers and silken raiment
aa we offer up our maidens at the shrine
of Plutns. Who shall say that, after
all, that was not the meaning of the
fable?
But Harold Denison was conscious of
an inward feeling that the newly formed
idea was an extremely awkward subject
to broach either to bis wife or daughter.
That he had never even alluded to Pear
man's proposal I need scarcely observe,
and that it looked still less pleasant to
touch upon now he had made up his mind
to be an active supporter thereof, must
be equally obvious. Still the clouds were
gathering so thick over the house'of Glinn
that no time was to be lost ; and at last
the squire nerved himself to the task,
and sought his wife's boudoir, having pre
viously ascertained that his daughter was
out of the bouse. "
"I want to talk something over with
you, Nellie," he observed, as he entered.
"I don't think that it will be quite pleas
ant to hear, but, at all events, it can't
distress you, as you will have the power
of deciding as you like about it."
Mrs. Denison raised her face anxiously
to her husband's. Decision, on any point,
was painful to her, and she was too well
aware, from former experience, that this
was but the prelude to some scheme in
which her concurrence hnd nlreailv been
practically marked out by her lord and
master. Harold Denison's consultations,
at such times, generally comprised a mere
synopsis of his intentions, revealing some
minor unpleasantness which he looked to
her to carry out. Foor Mrs. Denison
might well be diffident about such confi
dences ; as a rule, they had borne but
bitter fruit.
"What should you say." continued the
squire, "if I tell you that it is possible to
save Glinn to us yet?"
"Oh, Harold, can it be so?" cried Mrs.
Denison with clasped hands and beating
heart. "No, you don't look like it; I see
in your face there is more to follow. It
Is some bare chance, and your sanguine
nature has led you astray concerning it."
"Nellie, don't be foolish. There Is a
way of arranging all these miserable
money matters that has been submitted to
me, and which, should we consent to,
there is no doubt will prove perfectly
satisfactory. I have turned it all well
over in my mind, and though I have, as
yet, come to no determination concerning
It, yet I don't deem it altogether imprac
ticable. Will you hear me patiently?"
"Yes, Harold," was the meek response.
"Well, what I want to talk to you
about is this. Of course you must be
aware that Maude is not only grown up
and handsome, but has arrived at an age
when wooers may be expected.
"What do you mean?' 'asked the moth'
er, her pale face flushing, and a half
anxious, half-frightened expression visible
In her blue eyes.
"We will come to that presently. Tou
know her admirers at the Xminster ball
were numerous. A man of good property
in this county solicits permission to pay
his addresses to Maude. He can give her
a good home and everything she can want
now, while at the death of his father he
will be the possessor of large lauded es
tates In the county, besides considerable
Bums Invested elsewhere."
The poor mother's heart beat quick. To
whom was she to be asked to yield her
darling? Who in all the county side was
worthy of her peerless Maude? She
knew of none; yet she spoke not, but
gazed eagerly into her husband's face,
and waited with high-strung nerves till
he should speak again.
"Maude can have no attachment as
yet?" inquired the squire, at length.
"No, I think not. How could she,
Harold? The poor child has, as yet,
seen so little of the world, and Maude
Is not one to give her heart away light
ly." "Maidens' hearts are stolen, sometimes,
a good while before they are themselves
aware of it," returned Denison, senten
tiously. "It is essential for my project
that Maude should be fancy free."
"She Is," returned the mother, anx
iously ; "but tell me, who is this you
think good enough far her? There is no
one I know," she continued, sadly, "fit
to claim my darlings hand.
"lt'u nn use fencing anv more." re
plied the squire. "Young l'earman was
much struck wltn Aiauue at tne Amm
eter ball, and solicits permission to win
her, If he can."
"Pearman ! What the son of the law
ver !" cried Mrs. Denison. "You're Jok
ing, Harold, surely ! You would never
consent to such a match for a daughter
of yours."
"Listen, Nellie," replied the squire, sad
ly. "Pearman has a heavy mortgage on
the property ; he has bought the best
part of what has been sold, and Maude's
marriage with his son would once more
consolidate Glinn. Don t Interrupt me I
he exclaimed, In answer to a despairing
gesture of his wife's. "I don't say If
things stood wltn us as tliey did In tba
old times I'd listen to such a proposal
aa this ; but, Nellie, if Maude could make
up her mind to It, Ullnn would remain
ours, and that would lighten the remain
der of my time In this world, and yours,
too, wife mine.
'Not unless Maude were happy," mur
mured the poor mother.
I can fancy the contempt with which
a Belgravian matron might regard Mrs,
Denison's last remark. A penniless girl
offered wealth, country house, etc., and
her mother maundering about her AappV
nets. Oh, it is too absurd I
(To be continued.),
ONE OF OTTE FIRST ANCESTORS.
THE MAN OV LA C1IAPELLE-AUX-SAINTS.
It Is not the artist's intention to dt'iiict merely a type of prehistoric man,
but the actual limu whose skull was found recently In the Department of
Correze. Tuklng the bones of hie skull, und recognizing to the full the laws;
of anatomy, Mr. Kupka lins covered the bones with the muscles ueceBsnry
to them ; and, still bound by the rule of aimtoiuy, tins given the face th'a
expression It must have worn. The remarkable prominence of the super
ciliary arches, the width of the nose and Its flatness, the absence of chin, are
all evident lu the skull. The ninn must have been about 50 years of age,
was 1 meter (SO iu height (about G feet 3Vi Inches), and could not assume th
upright position of the superior races, although his knee-pan, unlike that of
the monkey, wus in front, and he was more upright thnn the npe. Ills legs
were short; he obtained his food Irregularly and with difficulty ; and could
not have been fat. The Illustration shows him emerging from the cave that
gave him shelter, In which he died and In which his precious remains were
found. With the aid of Mr. Mnreelllii Boule, Mr. Kupka has reconstructed
the scenery in which this ferocious ancestor of ours lived. Our drawing
can fairly claim to be the first that hns shown with any scientific certainty
prehistoric man In his habit as he lived. We reproduce It by arrangement
with "L'lllustrntlon" of Purls, to whom the credit of the reproduction la
due. Illustrated London News.
TyBjBP-Y Factor
Doe Smoking Caaae Cancer t
There is nothing peculiar to the
smoke of tobacco having the power of
causing cancer. There is nothing lu
the smoke of any burning material
which as smoke possesses such power.
When smoking tobacco causes au ulcer
on the tongue or elsewhere In the
mouth au ulcer that many describe
as cancer It is because the smoke Is
hot, or heavily laden with steam.
The hotter the smoke or the more
steam It contains the greater Is Its
tendency to bring about ulceration.
But comparatively cool and dry Binokc
may prove highly Irritating If the pipe,
cigar or clgnrette is held between the
Hps In one position, ho that the smoke
impinges on one spot. It Is this spot
which under such conditions will ul
cerate. Another common offender Is a Jagged
mouthpiece to pipe or holder. But U
is as unreasonable to blame tobacco
for the Injury wrought by such a
mouthpiece as It would be to condemn
the meat because the kitchen range was
out of order. The tobacco most hot In
the smoking Is the very mild, light-colored
variety. When tobacco has been
heavily watered It gives off steam, and
there can be small wonder that fie
steam makes a sore.-
Another fact worthy of attention Is
that many so-called cases of cancer art
merely cases of common ulceration.
To Iterative Crn vIiiki for I.lqnor.
Take one pound of the best, fresh
nulll red Peruvian bark, powder It and
lonk In one pint of diluted alcohol.
Afterward strain and evaporate it
down to half a pint. The dose is a
tenspoonful every three hours the first
and second day and occasionally
moisten the tongue between doses. The
person can tell by headache If he Is
taking too much. The third day re
duce the dose to fifteen drops, then to
ten and then to five. To make a cure
requires from Ave to fifteen days and
In extreme cases thirty days. Seven
days, however, Is the avernge.
New lleatliiru Car.
One of the best remedies for a sick
or nervous headache Is to take raw po
tatoes without either washing or paring
and cut them Into thick slices. Lay
them close together on the forehead
and keep In place by covering with a
large handkerchief folded cornerwlsa
and then tied In the back. In a short
time the pain will disappear. As the
pieces of potato become hot replace
them with fresh ones. They give all
the coolness of Ice without the Inci
dental dampness and there is not tho
burning sensation lee often causes,
The potato Is distinctly soothing.
Nervous Treatment.
Dr. Dubois of the University ot
Berne, Switzerland, Is noted for his
success In the treatment of nervous
diseases. A large part of his treatment
consists In drinking milk and more
milk. If a patient does not like mlllt
he Is required to drink It anyway and
always with the result that a liking
Is developed for It. No country Is so
beset by nervous ailments as America,
it is possible that Americans drink ton
little milk, but with milk prices soaring
as they are some folks may have to
do without this medicine.
I.a (irlppe.
This Is an aggravated Influenza ao
compnnled with rise of temperature, In
tense headache, distressing muscular
pains and great prostration. Mix flf
teen grains of sulphate of quinine,
fifteen grains of extract of cinchona
mid 0110 and one-half grains of extract
of aconite, root for twenty pills. Take
one pill three times a day.
To Kxtrurt a Splinter.
When a splinter has been driven Into
t1u hand It can be extracted without
pain by steam. Partly fill a wide
mouthed Iwittle with hot water, place
the Injured part over the mouth of ths
bottle and press tightly. The suction
will draw the flesh down and In a min
ute or two the steam will extricate the
splinter and the inflammation will dis
appear. A Plucky Woman.
The only person who resisted th
Yellowstone stage roblier at tho recent
hold-up wns a womnn ntid when he
asked her to hand over a ring she
smilingly answered, "Not on your life."
Not a single man had her courage,
which goes to prove that women are
a little braver than men nt such times.
Trying- to Prove It.
"Do you know they'll carry hogs on
this road cheaper than they will pas
sengers?" said the red-faced man In tho
smoker.
"Is that so?" replied his neighbor,
who was being crowded In his seat;
"how much did you pay?" Yonkers
Statesman.
If love wasn't blind, Cupid would
hare a lot more work to do.