The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-13
A HOUSE TO LET.
From Harper's Magazine.

ISlOpluS AaWAs tudt III Turn lOOheu INTO
the depths of one OF the prettiest copses
in England. 1t was house, and it was
to let, this paradisiacan Dwelling & and,
being so charmingly Situated, It's we'll
wishers. We're well justified in thinking
lit would be let we'll.
TPeftapssit could hardly be described
conscientiously as q commodious house +;
1t was. rife with the oldest and most pic
turesque of hooks aid corners; but then
these hooks and corners, from theT utility
point of view, were Salaeless IT. had la
sloping thatcked roof and a tlnyforerahs
Ida, against which things innumerable,
from carvings to cloinAtis, crept; aud it
had a winding path down to the river
side, and a croquet ground and other
things OF like sort, that made it'seem'f in
1.-The eyes of youth a most desirable abode.
I" 1t was the spot in which poet or a
Ipsinter' oughr to pass his honeymoon, !"
passers by who caught glimpses of lit
from the road ssid-if they did a. not say
that thought to be tenanted by q young
lady whose means were independsnt and
| whose health was falling 9slAnd1 the n,
Having given vent to this REMARK, they
would go ion to add that they supposed
1.-THE coachman could tell them who lived
there; and as rule he would g reply,
I"No great shakes sfolsI9aj ,soh
aWhat q common person se'' the in
Touring mind would go on to question
Che 1t understood at once that inquiring
minds in peripatetic bodies only passed
by Helmsleigh on the .coachJ, and the
reply would boom forth generously,
Not a common person exactly's-h
(the coachnlan) Would be cautious how
heicalled her that; =" Bat queer custoI
mer Of an inhabitant would fade from
the minds of both the coached and Goa CHI
man. 2Hi ~ AeilotDsiIbL aaI ,T91a3 % q
7 She was only care taker Had it not
been told that HcImsleigh, as the little
place was called, was TO let ?-1land until
it was let, the agent n0n behalf of the
landlord, elected to declare himself much
pleased with the person in charge. She
had flashed upon that agent in start
ling way, and had surprised him out of a
small pfece of patronage. Nevertheless,
The had never repentsd having given it,
but on the, contrary, had cited her to
other keepers Of quiet houses as g model
4 worthy of Imitation 20 - .7S959gIIq ~
s She was only a care.ta kerl; only vas
Isal /; only a hired servant put in that
place to vaunt its merits and show the
strangers round with civility who came
out Of curiosity to see it and her. For
TAN unconscio asiy and mnch against her
will, she had acquired a local celebrity,
land the pretty care-taker at Helrnsleigh
was one of the objects of interest men
toned to tourists in that region.
The manner of her dawning upon that
Inelghborhood was thus The old master
fof the Helmsleigh cottage (who was .
young scion of the big stock that ruled
up at Helmsleigh House, J had died, 1eay-
ing his only son " lord Of himself, that
heritage of;woe," at'the age of twenty
two, The young man Raymond Helms
leigh, had forthwith taken a. first class
ticket by express train to the dogs, in es-
Itimatien of all his sober minded neigh
bors. That Is to say be had run the
lgauutlet Of an adjacent garrison town
billiard and bail roopa1;o and from the
former he had come home shorn Of his
money, and from the latter his heart. +,
It was g disgusting thing in the eyes
or the mothers of marriagable daughters
IN the vicinity Of 81 elmsleigh, to say moth
/ ing of the daughters themselves, when
Raymond fell a palpab1e. z victim of q
stranger. A young lady, a resident in
the town-she described herself as an ar
list, and was described by other people
heaven Knows who, from heaven knows
/ where waltzed Raymond out of all re-
gard Tor the unities, and into an offer of
marriages, one night y Every one present
noticing the state Of things, denounced
her as designing, and him as infatuated.
Their judgement was shaken the follow
/ ing day, when it got noised abroad that
Miss Babington had refused him. " reg,
l"0nly a feint to make him the more
eager" one outraged local maternal par
ent observed HFi1aI9R 70 ,19afRY -
1t is only probably because she. is
married already" another Kissed; and
another remarked, with that air Of bit
ter. preparation for the worst which OBJ,
tal1ls 50 largely among a respectable but
Unpleasant class, Even she shrinks from
I the punishment that awaits a bigamist.' 2
Still, after all these things were 7 said,
nothing. remained but the fact-the
stranger, Miss Darlington, had refused
Ray mond Helmsleigh. sl55aH 15dje IN
She had come quite alone to that little.
lgossipping, scandulous place; had come
there quito one, to do what is so hard
for a young woman to do in England
earn ner living respectfully. If q girps
father and mother have died leaving her
poor and unproVided for, people are apt
Ito regard her, not exactly as guilty, but
ready and willing to be guilty as soon as
/ opportunity offers. Miss Darlington had
not justified this regard as yet. no
/ Poor, unprotected, and pretty. These
were the odds which were against Miss
Darlington, when her match against the
wcrld came off in HelmsieigR. There