Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-19

With ,hig eispQyrtI1s nAFipg May HY
had 4a6peR1 w, hkiHSsS hid hdndaA
'Havre, he took passage in the IL BrxA.
in preference to waiting for the regular
steamers week RTk6rs were bat dte or
,d3 pasaengaSa and this Mn lallaaau.Ae
.membefeA sse1sg II 6ree6aded, ana kssIS-
s ns%ssIr ss s,'sPs ~. asssDs hi Se es
wsrs, among tkem bus he only nw shol
s child . the lady sss%sd 'asrns anass
*Why ididAt you tell hamiIwhssa vs6i
said aboat her ulofher's being % afsefed
when she saw hmy" interrupted Ralph.
"T did. but Tam positive, Ralph, that abe :,
was mistaken. You would have BEEN Il
you had seen how panied and sufprisedi i
he was that the child should have &ncied 4
such q thing. He eaid II he had thought
of such possibility he should not hate :
rested till he had removed the erroneous .
impression from the childs mind, II ho !
had made the Journey from the West On :
purpose. He thinks Illness and the ex. =
element Of the storm, added to her hall i
drowned condition, turned the poor wo-,
mans brain, and your father and think
50, now. o But it doesn't matter since both
are dead Did you see Mr.. Monttord -
she asked, after moment of silence.
emo, not the senior Mr.. Montf6fd.
saw Mr.. Victor Montford--a fine young
fellow, too, Judge" v4s qssn yafc.
"Yes; but why I asked, no one sees
much of Mr.. Gilbert MontfOrd, only when
he drives out, or something ofjthst kind. 4
Some think he is not quite as clever a.
keeps this Devices to attend to ali Nh
business affairs Maybe. however, It's the
English way of doing things presume
it's But no one ever goes to Mr.. Mont
| ford on any business matter whatever,
but always to Mr. DeVries, who negotiatss.
loans, invests all moneys, and pays Al
claims" &Hili' 4tlRi HFOoH pt'"
nDo you mean that he 10 not bright this
Mr.. Montford? :" Ralph asked, looking sur
prised,
20 dear no, not that, really. Only that
he isn't as shrewd and capsule, perhaps,
as some, and any one who was keen might
take advantage Of him, you see but per
haps 1t Is only sufnie. = =. .'1s'it'' 7''l :
I CHAPTER VIII.
Mr.. Alfred Devries did not quite like
the new servant at Montford House One
thing particularly hedid not like, and that
was the way in WHICH the engagement was
made 1t was something quite unusual
for Mr.. Montford to take business into his
own hands in this way, and Mr.. DeVriss
felt as IL his rights had been invaded.
Perhaps | might as well say here, az
anywhere, that Mr. Gilbert was not ~
clever as some people-his private
Secretary, for instance. He was one OF
those people who are characterized as
having " more money than brains" There
fore, to make up for that lack, Mr.. De " ries,
who was in exactly the opposite condition,
had taken upon himself the charge of his
affairs. Perhaps he made Q good thing
out of 1t, al least he appeared well salts
fed, generally; and being high lin Miss
Monsford's good gyaces, who was Lady
Superior in all social and domestic mat
tiers, there really seemed no reason why
he should not be.
But Stella Blakel Like the Morlecai
of old who sat at the kings gate-aAS
embittered all his happiness. Not that
| the girl opposed him, or was rude, or for
ward, or ;nterfered In anything out of tho
| line of her general duties; 0nlv--and this
meant good deal-only she went to
Mr.. Montford for instructions, and de-
ferred to him In everything, which, seeing
that he was master Of the house wasn't
certainly anything so very deserving Of
blame to an ordinary observer But Mr..
DeVries wasn't an ordinary observer by
any means-there was nothing ordinary
about him, you felt that instinctively when
he looked At you with those strange, opal
eyes, which, beautiful ami smiling as they
II n Oh x.1u
them, which seemed to belle the pleasant
voice and the smiling lips. '.efai@ y
Ordinarily Mr.. DeVries had no more
difficulty In seeing through. men and
women, than he had through . bit OF gls "a.
Some were SO very transparent that
he felt little sentiment Of disgust toward
them but Stella Blake went to the OBJ
posIte extremes she disguised him, be-
cause she was 80 veryopsque. Hecouldn't
see AZ much - hairs breadth past the
inscrutable face and defiant eyes. Very
naturally he didn't like it, and very natt-
rally the desire TO penetrate beyond the
pretty mask became the absorbing wish
of bis heart He didn't understand her
he didn't know what to make OF hcr-but
one thing was certain: 1t would do no
harm TO keep an eye on her. and this he
fully resolved to do. t..-.s..l.-,
Mr.. DeVries, Whenever Il suited hfs
pleasure, or purpose, made lows to Ahhee
Montford. He had done this more or less
ever since she was sixteen. He knew
that she would never marry any other
man while he continued TO do It, and
though he didn't particularly care to mar
~ her at least, unless circumstances made
It for his interest-it was rather Z atifying.
to his vanity to know that he could twist
this oud girl round his finger, and keep z
her single, by now and then look, touch
OF the hand, and few tender words. IT,
would serve his interest to have Althes's
CO operation and sympathy, for, If Mis-
Blake obtaincd too much influence over
Mr.. Montford, she could get her ont Of
the house In some way. In pursusnce OF ],
this idea he sauntered into the parlor
where Althes was practising some new
music. Coming up behind her he reached
over and pushed Il away with one sweep
of his white, firm hand. stnyaa9sf. Z
"Pardon me, Allie" his voice was low
nd In rilliuu an he leaned over I'LL hiD