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“Ezi* here!" Kate cried in horror, tier but not yet quite ilwwitut» of hope, »he
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chief cotiMlation through all her trou­ turned t« (lu- ri, Igt uiu-ng the trur-g and
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ble« had., been that there seemed to be pushed ter way through bu®h>-< aud-biatu-
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some chance of getting rid of her terrible bles to the boundar* <>t the • Priory
¿ruuud.
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ai'itor. «
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■‘‘Aud why not?” the old man asked an­ ufnt feet in Iwight,
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grily. "Are you so bitter against the lai bnstied With jagg>«l (¡MN of g I ata. Kate
as to grudge him the society of hi» own waited along the ly«4«o it. her fair skin
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father?”
all u>rn and bleeding with sera tube, from
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Kate was saved from further reproaches the briars, ititil she satisfied heraelf that
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by the entrance of rhe old woman to clean there was no bn-u( in it. There »al
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ths table. The last item of intelligent
OU, imali WMdMk dotf OU the side which
however, had given her a terrible ahock, wfA skirted by the railway line, but it
The only
and at the same time bad filled her with was loek'-d and impussabk
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astonishment. What could the fast-living, opening through which a tinman being"
•1 Id pass was ilia; which* was .guarded
comfort seeking man alMiut town want iu
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iu the manner she had seen. The mck<4i-
this
dreary
abode?
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knew
Ezra
well,
Turned Shafting, Cap and Set
and «as sure that he was not a man to iug conviction took possession of her mind
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alter his way« of life or suffer discomfort the’ without wittgs it was^un utter impos­
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of any kind without some very definite ob­ sibility either to get away or to give the
ject. It seemed to her that this was a least information to any one in the world
6EUIAL IEPAJWIM6
new mesh in the u«t which wus being as to where she was or what might be­
drawn round her.
fall her.
CHAPTER XV.
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When she came back to the house, tired
When her guardian had left the room
When supper was over the crone, who
Kate usked Mrs. Jorrock* for a «beet of and disheveled after her journey of ex­
aos addressed by Girdlestone as Jorrocks.
pni>er. The crone shook her head and ploration, Girdlestone was standing by
led the way upstairs and «bowed Kate
the door to receive her with a sardonic
wagged her pendulous lip in derision.
to her room. If the furniture of the din-
“Mister Girdlestone thought as you smile upon his thin lips. “How do you
I Ing room had been Spartan in its simplic­
would be after that.” «he said. "There lik« the grounds, then?” he asked, with
ity. this was even more so. for there was
ain’t no paper here, nor pens, neither, nor the nearest approach to hilarity which she
(KN 8CHUYLXB, Proprietor
nothing in it save a smalt iron bedstead,
had ever beard from him. “And the or­
ink. neither."
much rusted from want of use, and a high
"What, none! Ilenr Mrs. Jorrocks. do namental fencing? and the lodge keeper?
wooden box on which stood the simplest
have pity on me, aud get me a sheet, how­ How did you like them all?” Kate tried
toilet requisites. In spite of the poverty
ever old and soiled. See, here is some for a moment to make some brave retort,
of the apartment Kate had never been
silver ! You are very welcome to it if but it was a useless attempt. Her lips
more glad to enter her luxurious chamber
you will give me the materials for writing trembled, her eyes filled, and with a cry
at home. The little carpet less room was
of grief and despair which might have
a haven of rest where she would be left, one letter.”
Mrs. Jorrocks looked longingly with moved a wild beast, she tied to her room,
for one night at least. to her own
lie* b)earedzeyes at the few shillings which i^nd, throw ing herself lipon her bed, burst
thoughts. As she lay iu tied, however, she
into such scalding tears as few women
could hear far away the subdued murmur I hr girl held out to her. but she shook her
head. "I dursn't do it,” she said. “It’s are ever called upon to shed.
f *h«4<jv Branda •/
of Girdlestone's voice and the shrill tones
ot the old womn’n. They were in deep a< much as my place is worth.”
"Then I shall walk down to Bedsworth
CHAPTER XVI.
and animated converse. Though they were
It would be inifgissible to describe the
loo far distant for her to distinguish a myself." said Kate angrily. "1 have no
word, something told her that their talk doubt that the people in the postoffice will suspense in which Tom llimsdale lived
during these weeks. In vain he tried in
was about herself, and the same instinct let me sit there apd write it."
The old hag laughed hoarsely to her­ every manner to find some way of tracing,
assured her that it boded her little good
He wandered aimlessly
Weinhard'a Steam B»«r on Tap
When Kate awoke in the morning it self until the scraggy sinews of her with­ the fugitives.
ered
neck
stood
out
like
whipcord.
She
alxint
Ixindon
from
one inquiry office to
. was some little time before she could re­
alize where she was, or recall the events was still chuckling and coughing when the another, telling his story asid appealing
for assistance. He advertised in ¡tapers
which had made such a sudden change in merchant came back into the room.
"What then?” he asked sternly, looking and cross-questioned every one who might
her life. The small window of her apart­
There
ment was covered by a dirty muslin blind. from one to the other, lie was himself know anything of the matter.
Good Treatment Call and See Me She rose, and, drawing it aside, looked ■•onstitutionally averse to merriment, and wire none, however, who could help him,
in others. “Why or throw any light upon the mystery. No
eagerly out. From what she had seen h-> was irritated by it
are
you
laughing.
Mrs.
Jorrocks?"
one at the office knew anything of the
the night before she had hoped that this
“I was a-laiighing at her,” the woman movements of Ihp senior partner. To all
prison to which she had been conveyed
tremulous fingers, inquiries Ezra replied that he had been
might make amends for its loneliness by wheezed, pointing with
some degree of natural beauty. The scene “She was askin’ me for paper, and sayin’ ordered by the doctors to seek complete
which now met her eyes soon dispelled a» she would go and write a letter at the repose in the country.
Fermerty ANCHOR BAR
His father became seriously anxious
any expectations of the sort. The avenue Bedsworth postoffice.”
"You must understand once for all." about the young fellow's health, He ate
ALVIN MUNCK. Proprietor
with its trees lay on rhe other side of the
Girdlestone roared, turning savagely upon nothing, and his sleep was much broken.
house. From her window nothing was
visible but a dreary expanse of bogland the girl, “that you are cut off entirely Poth the old people tried to inculcate pa­
from the outer world. I shall give you no tience ami moderation.
to Now Located in Fine New Quarters and mudbanks, stretching down to the sea. loophole which you may utilize to con­
“That fellow, Ezra Girdlestone, knows
At high tide this enormous waste of
East of the Postoffice
dreariness and filth was covered by the tinue your intimacy with undesirable peo­ where they are,' ” Torn would cry, striding
water, but at present it lay before her in ple. I have given orders that you should wildly up and down the room with un­
all its naked hideousnesss, the very type not be provided with either ¡taper or ink." ktmpt hair and clenched bands. “I will
Poor Kate's last hope seemed to be fad­ have his secret, if I have to tear it out
of dullness and of desolation. Here anil
there a few scattered reeds, or an un­ ing away. Her heart sank within her, of him."
“Steady, lad. steady !” the doctor re-
healthy greenish scum upon the mud. gave but she kept a brave face, for she did not
a touch of color to the scene, but for the wish him to see how his words had strick­ plied to one of these outbursts. "There
most part the great plain was all of the en her. She had a desperate plan in her is nothing to be gained by violence. They
B&ari ad Pad TaMn
same somber mud tint, with its monot­ head, which would be more likely to be ar<- on the right side of the law at pres­
ony broken only by the white flecks where siux-essful could she but put hitn off his ent and you will be on the wrong if you
do anything rash. The girl could have
th» swarms of gulls and kittiewakes had guard.
She spent the morning in her own little written if she were uncomfortable.”
settled in the hope of picking up what
“Ah, so she could. She must have for
COURTEOUS TREATMENT ever had been left by the receding tide. room, About one o’clock she heard the
Away across the broad surface a line of clutter of hoofs and the sound of wheels gotten us. How could she, after all that
sparkling foam- marked the fringe of the on the drive. Going down she found that has passed?”
“Let us hope for the best, let us hope
ocean, which stretched away to tlie hori­ it was a cart which had come from Beds-
Call and See Munck
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worth with furniture. There were car­ for the best,” the doctor would say sooth­
zon.
A mile or two to the eastward of her pits, a chest of drawers, tables, and sev- ingly. Yet it must be confessed that he
Kate saw some sign of bouses, and a blue eral other articles, which the driver pro­ was considerably staggered by the turn
smoke which flickered up into the air. ceeded to carry upstairs, helped by John which things had taken. He had seen so
Girdlestone. The old woman «Sis in the much of the world in his professional ca­
This she guessed to be the fishing village
of Lea Flaxton, which the driver had ui>per room. It seemed to Kate that she pacity that he had become a very reliable
mentioned the night before.
She felt might never again have such an opportu­ judge of character. All his instincts told
as she gazed at the little hamlet, and the nity of carrying out the resolve which she him that Kate Hart son was a true-heart­
masts of the boats in front of it, that she had formed. She put on jier bonnet and ed and well-principled girl. It was not in
was not alone in the world, and that even began to «troll listlessly about in front her nature to leave London and never to
of the door, picking a few straggling scud a single line to her friends to tell
id this strange and desolate place there
were honest hearts to whom as a last re­ leaves from the neglected lawn. Gradually them where or why she had gone. There
she sauntered away in this manner to the must, he was sure, be some good reason
source she could appeal.
She was still standing at the window head of the avenue, and then taking one fot her silence, and this reason resolved
IS THE
swift, timid glance around, she slipped in itself into one of two things—either she
when there came a knocking at the door,
among the trees, and made the best of bor was ill nn<l unable to hold a pen, or she
and she heard the voice of the old woman
way. half-walking, half-running, down the had lost her freedom nnd was restrained
asking if she’were awake. "Breakfast
from writing to them. The last suppo­
i« ready,” she said, "and the master is a dark winding drive.
Oh. the joy of the moment when the sition seemed to the doctor to be the more I-
wondering why you beau't down.”
On this summons Kate hastened her great white house which had already- lie- serious of the two.
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Had he known the instability of ths
toilet and made her way down the old come so hateful to her was obscured
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She
had
Girdlestone firm, and the necessity they
winding stair to the room in which they among the trees behind her!
had supped the night before. Surely Gir- some idea of the road which she had trav- were under of getting ready money, he
dlestone must have had a heart of n in t ersed the night before. Behind her were would at once have held the key to the
In front the avenue enigma. We had no idea of that, but in
not to be melted by the sight of that fair. all her troubles.
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flesh face. His features set as hard as gate. Bedsworth and freedom. She would spite of his ignorance he was deeply dis­
send
both
a
telegram
and
a
letter
to
Dr.
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trustful
<>f
both
father
and
aon.
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He
know
adamant
as
she
entered
the
room,
and
lie
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looked at her with eyes which were puck­ llimsdale, and explain to him her exact and had often deplored the clause in John
situation. If the kind-hearted and ener
Ilarston's will by which the ward’s money
ered and angry.
getic physician once knew of it. he would reverted to the guardian. Forty thousand
■ “You are late." he said coldly, “You
take care that no harm befell her. She pounds was n bait which might tempt
must remember that you are not in Eerie-
could return then, nnd face with a light even a wealthy man into crooked paths.
ston square. Y'ou are here to bo disci-
heart the worst which her guardian could
(To be continued.)
Qlined, and/lisciplined you shall lie."
do to'her.
Here was the avenue en­
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“I am si KWry," she answered. "I think
trance now. the high lichen-eaten stone
Pel I sli I n a lilneewarr.
I must have been tired by our journey.1
pillars, with the battered device upon the
You have heard of many valuable
The vast room looked even more com­
top. The iron gate between was open.
ways to clean glassware and give to
fortless and bleak than on the preceding
With a glad cry she quickened her pace,
eveniag. On the table was a plate of ham
the pieces a desirable brilliancy, yet
and in another moment would have been
and eggs. John Girdlestone served out a
here
is a method which is a “secret”
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portion, and pushed it in her direction.
"Now then, where arc you a-comin' and certain, to give the best results
She sat down on one of the rough wooden
to?” cried a gruff voice from among the Wash the glass pieces and drain until
chairs and ate listlessly, wondering how
bushes which flanked the gate.
dry. then coat each piece with a mix
«11 this was going to end.
The girl stoppeS all in a tremble, In ture of half water and ammonia. When
After breakfast Girdlestone ordered the the shadow of the trees there was a camp
dry brush the pieces with a soft bris­
old woman out of the room, and, standing stool, and on the camp stool sat a sav-
in front of the fire with his long legs ’ago looking man. dressed in a dark cor- tle brush. Be sure and use only the
«¡.art aud his hands behind his back, he duroy suit, with a blackened clay pipe bristle brush or the polish will not ap­
told her in harsh concise language what stuck in the corner of his mouth, His pear. This is excellent for glassware
his intentions were.
weather-beaten mahogany face was plen­ of any kind ayd makes old pieces look
“I had long determined," he said, "that tifully covered with smallpox marks, and like new.'
If yon ran counter to my wishes, and per­ one of his eyes was sightless and white
Tongue Tied Talkers.
sisted in your infatuated affection for that from the effects of the same disease. He
IIow-many educated people there are
scapegrace, I should remove you to some rose now. anil interposed himself between
who have no more than a peasant's
eecluded spot where you might reconsider her and the gate.
your conduct and form better resolutions
They do not use the
“My good man,” she «aid in a trembling vocabulary.
(o’ the «future. This country house an­ voice, for bis appearance was far from words that a peasant uses, but they
swered th« purpose admirably, and as an reassuring, “I wish to go past and to get do not improve upon them, They still
old servant of mine, Mrs. Jorrocks, chanc­ to Bedsworth. Here is a «hilling, and I go on saying. "How amusing! ” “IUiw
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ed to reside in the neighborhood, I had beg that you will not detain tne.”
lovely!” "How’nice!" to the end of the
warned her that at any time I might come
Her companion stretched ou a very
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down and ahotild expect to find things ditty hand, took the coin, spun it up chapter,
who
Is
always
working a limited vo
ready. Your rash and heartless conduct in the air, caught it, bit it, and finally
lias, however, precipitated matters, and plunged it into the depths of his trouser pabulary.—British Weekly.
we have arrived before her preparations pockets. “No road this way, missy,” he
Innocent Tommy.
were complete. Our future arrangements said. ”I.'ve given my word to the guv’-
"Here is some complexion powder,
will therefore be les» primitive than they nor, and 1 can’t go hack from it.”
are at present.. Here you shall remain,
"You havs no right to detain me,” Kate auntie,'' said little Tommy Toddles. “1
young lady, until you »how sign« of re­ ctied angrily. “I have good
bought this little box for mamma and
pentance, and of a willingness to undo London who will mak» you
the great big box for you."
the harm you have done."
this.”
“But why <11<1 Win think I needed
"If you mean until I consent to marry
She was ilnly n dozen yards from th** such a large box?” asked the visiting
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your son, then I shall live and die bere,” lane which led to
freedom, so she m®de aunt In surprise.
ths girl said bravely.
a quick little feminine rush in the hope
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"Oh. because 1 heard papa say jot.
"That rests with yourself. As I Mid of avoiding this drradful sentinel which
were
two-faced.”
before, you are under discipline here, and bnrre<] her passage. He caught her round
yon may not find existenceesuch a bed of the waist, however, and hurled her back
Logic.
•oees as it was in Eccleston square.”
with such violence that she staggered
“
Did
you
Jake
your girl’s mother to
“Can I have my maid?” Kate asked. "I aiross the path and would hare fallen had
the
game
with
you?
.
.•an hardly stay here with no one but«the «%c not struck violently against
tree.
"No; we left her at home. Whet 1»
»Id woman in the house.”
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Kate turned and retraced her steps
"Rebecca is coming down. I bad a tele­ slowly «nd sadly up the av«4)ue. As she home without a mother?”—Tale fleo
ord.
gram from £zra to that effect, and be Wilf glanced l<ck «he saw a gaunt, hard-fea
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