Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-06-26
az shall soon have DONE Charlotte" she
called out over the banisters, "see to Master

was set down as "butlers pantry. Cnar-
lotte, the under nurse, sat there, with the
youngest child asleep on her lap.
| "Wheres Muster Leo p asked Finch, alb
brevating, as she usually did, his name
Leopold" II sent him here, and ordered
you TO see after him."
"He didn't come" was Cbarlotte's answer,
"and the child was just dropping off to sleep.
He wouldn't come here to me, if he could 60
to his mamma"
you let him be with his mamma forever,
you would, if il saved you little trouble"
cried Finch, who of course domneered over
Charlotte, upper.nurse fashion. 81 hate this
moving, do-such q bother Nothing to be
got at, and ones regular meals and hours
upset. I'm as tired ns poor jaded horse +;
and you sitting here, doing nothing, with that
child on your lap! You might have put him
down and got cup Of tea for u.s."
Am to put him or the floor ?" retorted
! Charlotte. II don't know which is to be the
children's bed"
Finch flung out Of the room in search of
Leo. Her labors that day, and the discom.
fort around her, made her cross He was
not to be found in doors, and she went to the
garden. Very soon shrek Of horror and
| fright arose from her. 1t drew her mistress
out and the lawyers clerk, who had been
departing heard it, and ran back in its d.
/ rectioD.
Leopold Yorke had met with ladder
reared against the side of the house, and had
climbed up in all boys adventurous spirit.
! He had fallen of, poor child, it was impQss.
BILE to say from what Leight, and now lay in
sensible on the gravel with an ugly cash in
bis forehead, from which the blood was
ooziug.
Finch stopped her groans and lamenta,
! tions, and stopped TO pick him up. But Mrs
Y orke snatched him from him. and crouched
| down on the earth, with one knee raised, and
laid him upon it, and looked up with hope.
less helpless expression at the lawyers clerk,
the words scarcely audible which came from
her white lips:
"A doctor-where does one live ?"
an fetch him, ma'am III run every step
Of the way. | don't miud the heat cried
the sympathzing clerk.
He did not wait another moment, but sped
away. Leopold was conveyed indoors and,
before the surgeon got there-who also
seemed to have come on the run--the child
had recovered consciousness, apd Fitch had
washed the wound, which now seemed dis
armed Of three parts Of its terrors. Mr..
Jauson, very fine man, wanting yet year
or so Of thirty, bound it up, ordered the boy
to be kept quiet, aud said he would send in
a little calming medicine.
MAY l dare to shake hands with you ?"
he asked, with frank, pleasant smile, but
with somewhat heightened color, when he
and Mrs, Yorke were left alone
She placed her hand within his-quite as
frankly, though the glow was far deeper on
her face than on his. GLOW strange that we
should meet here ?" she exclaimed. re-.
cognzed you the moment you came in"
\ L.. D.,.
prepared-for it had been matter Of specu-
ation in my mind whether the Mr.. and Nj
Yorke who were coming to Alnwick Cottage
could be you and your husband. l have been
settled at Oflord these three years.
"May | ask if you are" Mrs. Yorke
hesitated, but probably thought she must
finish her question. as she had begun it
married ?"
"Io my profession | AMIN no other way.
My thoughts and hopes have been wholly
given to it snce-since fully entered upon
IT,"
"Will the child do well % she inquired
"Oh. yes; it is but slight affair ] was
prepared for something worse, by the account
Of Mr.. Maskells cisrk. a little blood, espe-
cially on the head and face frightens those
not accustomed to it. These accidents will
happen where there are children. lie is your
eldest I"
"Yes. l have but two"
II will send up the medicine l spoke Of
and call again in the morning, said Mr.. j an
son, rising Make any compliments to Mr..
Yorke."
Mr.. Janson departed, and Mrs. Yorke
looked after him. AS he turned to close the
iron gate, he saw her standing at the window,
and politely raised his hat, and Mrs. Yorke
! mol itllV hnup1 in ratp 10 10 word
is put advisedy whatever there may have
been of love or romance between them few
years ago, it was over now. Whatever sen
timental "reminiscences each he'd hitherto re-
taned of the other, they knew that from that
afternoon henceiorth they subsiGed into their
proper aud respective positions Mrs. Yorke
as auother's wife, and Mr.. Janson but as q
friend of hers and her husbaud's-as honora-
BILE, right-minded persons, in similar cases
ought, and would, and do subsde.
Mr.. Yorke, after exploring as far as be
thought necessary that day. turned back to
his new home. His thoughts ran not on the
features Of the village, or on the scenery
around, or on the fishing or the shooting
they dwelt exclusively on the few words OF
Mr., Maskell's which had reference TO the
surgeon. MIR. Yorke hated that surgeon
with deep and nourshed hate, and he would
| lDuulteIy nave preferred 10 nuu ne nau Nlslteu
a locality where the arch-fend owned @
country-house, than one containing Edward
JansoD.
lie was drawing pretty near TO his owr
gate when he saw gentleman emerge from IL
A shudder strange and cold passed through
Mr.. Yorke's veins Was it sent as warn
iDg-the precursor of what was 10 come
Surely that was the man of his thoughts
Yes, it was Janson, and no other! What
had he already found out the way to bi:
home-to his gife' Mr.. Yorkes lips opened
and his teeth parted with savage motion
somewhat like tigers.
Mr.. Janson did not observe him. He
walked straight across the road, got over {
stile, aud went away very quickly along {
field path. "He may well try to avoid my
: observation" thought Mr. Yorke, in his pre-
ljndice and had he been told the real fact!
he would have refused belef-that Mr.. Jan
son did not see him. and being in hurry
was taking the short way through the tielt
; to his home.
} Matters were not mended when Mr.. York,
I turned in at his gate. There stood his wifi,
} at the window, her eyes unmstakably ixeC
: on Mr.. Janson's retreatng form. She looke'
flushed and excited, which indeed was th,
} effect of her late fright about the child; bu
Mr.. Yorke set it down to a different cause,
} 81 am glad you have come home," she ex
claimed when he entered "What 10 vol