The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-26

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former visits, for since his last stay at the
castle the village had been scourged during
three successive intervals by the presence
and nearly decimated. This was the reason
of the Earl's long absence from Ireland
and he returned to find half his old tenants
swept away by the scourge, his estate neg
| lected, and his new steward despised and
dstrustsd by the people. Lounging over
his coffee one morning, in the breakfast
room after his visit to the latter, he ad-
| dressed the functionary thus
"Lynch do you think it safe for me to re-
main in this neighborhood fortnight %
"Perfectly safe, your lordshp. We have
had no case of small pox for some years.
"I'm de7Ilishly afraid of the thing, not
wlthstandng. In what part of the castle
did poor Condor die?"
"In this cry room, your lordship."
"Good God In this room? What was
that for p"
''The late steward, sir, with all respect to
him, was very obstinate man, and when
once he set his mind upon anything it must
be obeyed, good or bad. The servants say
that when he was taken he insisted upon
being laid in the breakfast-room, and he
raved so about it that they dare not deny
him."
ga most singular caprice. Let us change
the subject Lynch. Never recur to it again.
And dismiss tHat woman whom have seen
sitting at the Lodge gate that is if she be-
longs to the house. Her face is frightFu! to
look nt.'
"What, Jude McDermod, your lordship !?
The daughter of an old servant, and born
on the estate? 1t will be hard for her to
leave the lodge, where her only parent
died"
81 don't care who she is. Fll have no one
about the house who is marked by that ter
rible disease. Provide for her aud send her
off.',
Three days after the above conversation
between the Earl Of Dunallen and his stew
ard, the pobletnan was taken slightly i'll,
and before ga week had passed he had become
n victim to his fears, and exhibited the
dreadful spectacle of one of the worst cases
Of small poX which had ever been seen in
the village. Terror seized upon the villa
gers, and upon the dome>tics attached to
the castle. Ihe first could not be induced
to enter its walls, and the latter fed, ioav
Ing the uuhnppy peer to the care of Lynch,
who. except at intervals, when the physicinn
called, kept as far from h;rh as the tAick
walls of the castle would woul. permit.
Judge Dermot had received orders to Quit
the Lodge within a week from the time when
the Earl had desired her removal, but she
had not departed when the plague seized
upon her early almlrrr. Changed from
sorrow from the proud beauty OF former
Years to a meek, religious and humble spir-
it.she. with the Object Of doing good. and
to conciliate. if possible. her masters kind
feelings. visited the steward one day and
offered herself as a nurse to the Earl. Her
offer was gladly accp( ted, and she took her
place beside the bed Of the now unconscious
!,ohirman, who was in most miserable
stat the fury Of his disease rendering it
nncessarr to bind lin t. his couch.
..vho ora u,,,>,, ,,rrf1r o,,,,;,..J tho
.;cr, ,,on nro,2r', b;s rI,ycd ,rdli,If II;nI.
ot-e1dnd him for Soma wootS
..l'm YER nurse. YER honor, answered
rra., t;,,;iI,
:. .Wrl. I'm c.ad Mt olI cvcn+s "a hear q
woman. vo,co noar ,ne vhj'p Pm snfTarin,
.,n r,u ro,,,r .r rrl.r G
"Tn nat y,,rv old. yonr hooor.,,
"Ah,if v,,n are vni,ng Won c,n hno- "a
t;rue. ncyIr lrovr mo nioht or ,ov ,,
.u[.,c5 Tive Eor, IN . hn.Lr AMI f~;rbif,I
voice :. he rarnrnl he wa,cIfrI If ,.,s ,,vo
mo fr,r, hei,r = ~ n,;l,,a1 ol,;aot onJ ro,,
s}oil hn rcuar,|,lrn
;. Keen vour.rIf ai,v. vom honor vail
not have one snack nor mark On vnrr i,rd-
shin vhn, vo l,nt hot,har ru srrnra for
that. but be still now,
Thn nnor Fnrl s.ortea !, his h.1 yhe,
Jrdr rave him This assurance ond q bnnny
Lrbt Snrcud over hi, noble feu,nrc-. md
and strrtch;rr ont b1s hand to his dryoteI
nursa. ~ s,;I f,intly s.N,La nnod vonr
words mv Girl. and van shall he adv Dnn.
,I1cn.,,
:. SIaao. .lpcn. vnr honor. and ,Ion,t tire
vprsclf with talk :, answered. .l,da tr,oh.
iino from head to foot ut the Enrl's lns,
,ynr,ls-not thar she oc.antpI thesa words
as unoniup nryihinr for n moor rustic Ike
her I'm. that fhr,; rrmindnI her of tho ,Ior.
iDr ambition Of her girlbooi.s vc1ys. when
size horo rhr ,itrr or rho hnon.irul Ounrn
of Ii.norr., But who woulJ rrcnrnizcI
thp lovrlv Jauphtrr If the old geto.kren-r
in the sad womnn who sot h.si,I,, DnnaI'cn>
bcdy Her face. thourh thcr, was s,i},
pEnTpESl
scared and scanned. q, if If had h,.en drp,I.
fully burned. and the loss of an eve added
to its urliucss. Nothin, of her former
beauty had remained to Jude but her Myu-
RANT hair, and even this was now pIeutjful-
" streakeI with gray. Surely no bride for
n haughtv Earl.
Some months-some drcarv months had
gone. md srrinr was advancing ere the
Lord of Duuallcn vcntured across the
threshold of his sick chamber. to take short
walks in his splendid marks. when the air
was mild and the MORNINGS sunny. He had
been accompanied in his walks for week
bv two poblcmcp who had come over from
London to comfort poor Dunallen.o as
soon as they where assured that the plague
had left him. Jude whom the Earl recor-
nized as the same woman whom he had seen
at the Lodge. was horriied to discover her
at his bed, when he beclme fully restored
to con.ciousness. and to whom he we'll re-
having made certain nromiso-
had returned to tha Lod 70 n month hofore
fully persuaded in her own mind that the
Earl was very grateful to her for thu great