The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-08-22 00:00:00

PA.THERINI

A SECRET

CHAPTER V

I returned to my rooir
the blood which had well
Cheek. It was an unsig
(tad eye had swollen up
Possible to return to the (
Mr. Ingestre's brutality
Widely known. I shall et
During the next hour I
UP a bed for Cle on my
kining that she should
nott
alone.
lengt,arbaootirttimersinn, t '
he h
for the next few (
h her father's rap
'c'Wnstairs to inquire aft(
, Benson, the coachman
Maxall
butf
'clover, swinging his le
brother and sister with a
reart e
of fi
‘. placeitahxe
They were nestlE
!Ring down on the groun
1-ng to hush his sister's he
".Don't cry any more,
Ton ill. Papa is sorry en
by this time; don't go
-getting Hi."
" Ah, ah l" laughed
4_B()rrY, no doubt. Why, I
Emma Drayson, and flu
"Hold your tongue, Me
'ROSS, angrily; and, in sa;
"Oh, Miss Wace,
Wia cry so dreadfully."
Maxall started, and loc
from his lips, and a ver3
'on them.
"Poor dear child," he s
itt it Mr. Ingestre is al
" Yon have no need to
P' cried Ross, his passion
been good to you; and if
fellow you are, I'd-knock ;
"Hush, Ross. I want
room ; no quarrelling, no'
, "I don't want to quar
laas a knack of saying nfiE
--and I feel as'if I could I
Instead of obeying thi,
!IP his sister and took her
'nours we were occupied i
'slid bruises. As long as
sight of that good brotl
tears as well as balsams,
414 his frenzied father had
This morning, after a
alld the poor girl in a b
send for a doctor, as the/
too obvious. Therefore,
.I,adininistered a cooling
'e fell into a quiet shunt
''SMous not to disturb he/
Mr. Maxall was the fir
Ingnired after Cle from /‘1
-B,eated his compliments to
I 4 was coming down to bn
I returned an answer t(
intend doing so, nor sh(
Whole of the day. I left I
114' next visitor was I
re by the side of Clelan
and back that
thought would please her,
on her pillow ready
„ We conversed in whisp(
S'lVering, her parched lil
Then she spran;
°llilded arms round us t
v.b",,llodeye,naixicet,heHsetrinsg of:
'Culd smile with bier old
oisterously for the pre:
nes before breakfast to
searred cheek, and kissed
, I.tiac'esrte.bitterly tk.at the in;
h„Ress said little; his si
; and several times I
Passion at the slightest rE
I))buTningo also came to i
ti'nglit a letter for her,
ellbling me to deliver it.
w I had my suspicions ii
, irnportant she should
v,-; he had been told tE
BY Whom?"
"Mr. Maxall."
The negro looked at m
sn lied. I did not give
4.3,, desk.
!en Minutes after, Don-
lf 12:e
rhiluellt y is passion ur
tef
me
Contents werefl
from
as his
Mr. Ingestro pre,sent:
"Etee, and begs to expre
Ithat occurred last night,
Ito,tresence. No words are a
I
Lge insult offered to that I
llulanely undertakes tl
;!onsehold. He implores
not to remain callous to
terleok what has passed,
When he solemnly
such a scandalous sc
Iva Miss W. generously
hts she give up any idea E
14,,,Wretched household?
vaglyto her rooms, in orde
4',,uri and that of his litt
s
fjcply was brief:
Wace accepts /1I
of Z,t; decline the honour c
f;ilas l.'s health is by nc
beitraPs I had no right
' .0 let
erin
lir II I:a:Wei not do
arrived:
r ei ovshlteoilmisdvei
miser
loves
con
eictr.
hi ernely obliged by 1
CLlellapt.°l°gY, but insists u]
48 he has injured barbs
also C.,:` hundred times, am
(I • "at, as ion, as this be
• "Lltik b •It ye, oy Is alienated fr
!iere it cannot possibl
ati'a 'gnorant that his son
prrtinents, and he insi6
,Pace as well."
‘
sWer No. 2:
• alth4lBB Wace's complim
no °VI quite aware of th
re
utiro.);sori.to dlter the resol
Pip
NI- 3 minutes more, an
OUshed into my hand
atr.
. compliments
110„,...',uk0er what she is abc
lakites, and he will enter an
0t1t.,;-'est not make any ridi
AIN
Tctwer No. 3:
W • • x„-Restr ace will
-aisB wet, out. No more l
noirde,str.hileons
sI
leftbo l tef
for
all
htohoe
Aithgestre tried them.
aseei,t• Cleland had fa
hellt,„ining that her slum
tly ,700/31 bell to summon o
have a In. Had I rung E
ci
1t.C1,11
o hrh(i lett;
:Ste;7:seu
Ititsegehrt :
ismi
pond i
oii..it, him, along baboeruaeurt t
now,"
ec;,
_ Port e African on the en
fotoicit Where it was like
halie
ganci:at Passed him dow
l
Port teclUested id
a short i/41(aipst left to do my 1
vi,"lous rage, and ha!
gAeek or two—he aIN
wrong here. D
71%5 6-*Cart ivitli 1 al
'4llBt, Wacq ? "1"
goiti Excuse my
utro
_,g 0 t with the is
nag,
tin
, not that I am n
gban
d th ue obliged by
14441 You, Mr. Maxall
tk'e
1,1 stte Ong. Did 5
errlit this morning
`` Did(tcl at me for a n
4,` °n'inge give her
.
1 .;re MC one for hE
?,
:4e'lne told you I had
yid .
I t:SI Rsli,p„l
e4t,e,Onid first who it
het reply. I w
41\;1e5, when I had
t an instal I;,:tW
he might el

kiss wace, I s
hartn in doing, c
her ?'' For 10-1(
„.41:113rov; lirha pacaacn d
ie e of :
I suspect sorrietl
`.(141t
write
ot love-letters t
?°
n snspezt you c
1
.ililt
lal's hantiiii:lg
tc
3,..8ti1l Wisllrshier°to have
ieLArtaildy, 't do." , 1
r(l°4ANtlft, tfl:ldileliCil
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