American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-05
CANTON MISS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER s. 1872.

up. | am out of sorts. Halbert. by whic
| mean out of health, out OF spirits. w
are both oldish men. Halbert. but you hav
not been shriveled up in India, as | have.
- GU must come out for the night. any
how; stay for a month; stay as long a
yen like
~ think not, Halbert. | am the wors
possible sort of Il guest to have-selfisl
and solitary, rise and roOSt at all hours
not amusing, or to be amused-a regula
badger on earth. only fit for the Indian
JUNGLE
1--WE will draw you OUT replied ST
Henry. I'VE will send over by-and-by
for your servant at Ashenford. You shall
do exactly rs you like, and will be, at least
as comfortable as at Il hotel
1t was long pull round by the hall
After going four or five miles help came
and all the disagreeables were effectively
arranged. At last they reached the hal
door. As they stood on the threshold Sill
| Henry again greeted his guest with both
hands Outstretched. and just at that mo-
| ment the first rich ray of the morning sun
| struck from the east across the void. ush-
ering i'll i lew world, and, perchance
the dawn OF a brighter day to the worn
heart and frame of the old Indian.
| CHAPTER III.
Canynge was undisturbed till late next
morning. The law of the host was gone
forth that the new inmate was to be left
to his own devices. The servant came to
| take orders whether he would breakfast
| i'm his own room, or downstairs. Having
| replied in the latter way, Mr.. CanynGe
went down into the library. A breakfi st
lunch was on the table. and he hardly sat
down, when tall elegant girl. the same
whom he had first met on the downs the
previous night, presently entered the
apartment, and quietly sat down by his
side.
81 am told that l am to have my lunch
at your breakfast, Mr.. Canynge,'' she
said. Papa has been obliged to go over
to the Petty Sessions, where he always
takes the chair. Mamma is not down yet,
ingly; and mamma said you were to be
my special charge till the rest came in.''
MY child" said Canynge, with his
gentle smile. 81 place myselfin your care
il you will be troubled with stupid old
man. 1t is quite new experience to me
TO have so fresh and good a girl to look
after my tea and toast
But you are not 4 stupid old man, said
Eveline, with earnest eyes. Mamma told
me that out in India you had been quite
sort of king over country as big as
twenty of our English counties. and had
done the people ever so much good.''
g a man may be a stupid old man, in
spite of all that, Miss Eveline, as you will
certainly find out. if L stay here much
longer
He thought he had never seen a higher
type of intellectual beauty than i'm Eve
line. The face had that expression of
goodness which is essential to beauty.
That night had been avery eventful night
to her, for it had been her first ball. She
t,.,xJ ~
to be present at Court next season. but thu,
TalbOts were such old friends and neigh
bors that she had been allowed to go to
their ball. And Eveline was quite con-
tent with the comparative retiredness that
was hers until the day OF her first season
should come in.
That young man whom he had
seen the night before, with his steed
tied up, was evidently an institution
deed, that he was kept there by feminine
attractions. and more than suspected that
this attraction was Eveline. Lady Hal
bert was anxious to get him for one of her
girls, but if the eldest would not meet the
occasion then even let it be the youngest;
but she had still hopes for Caroline.
Canynge did not see much of Captain
Morton. The AnglO-lndian kept his
mornings to himself, rarely appeared at
the public breakfast and lunch. and almost
limited his intercourse with the family to
apparently interminable talks with his
host over the wine. But he was a man of
late hours, and would sit in the smoking
room or billiard-rOom even later than the
gallant captain. And hearing from Lady
Halbers that the gallant captain had been
making proposals for Eveline, like Lady
Halbert he was in favor of Caroline. He
granted that Morton was rich, handsome,
and if with not much good.
at least with little vice about him. But
he was a man of the true vOluptuary
type, who had exhausted all the round of
of pleasures, with no notions beyond natu-
raj interests. Caroline was woman of
the world, capable of taking and holding
her own way, having quite settled her
character and tastes. But somehow he
was sorry to think of Eveline being hand
her ga little better than his dog, a little
dearer than his horse" and that all her
fine sympathies and abilities should be
dulled by contact with such complnion-
ship.
For he had seen great deal of
Eveline. Lady Halbert had especi-
ally desired her youngest daughter
to be attentive to Mr.. Canynge.
She had told her child that he was nearly
fifty years of age, and to Eveline fifty and
five hundred were nearly similar quanti-
ties, indicating the illimitable age of grand
fathers. Lady Halbert had no objection
that her child should be the favOrite of
rich Indian. Poor Lady Halbert was
good, worthy woman. but she acted with
the shOrt-sighted selfishness OF her class. |
1t was not wit. or worth, or character,
but lands and houses that she wanted for
her children; and Sir Henry Halbert left |
the consideration of these things to Lady
Halbert. Her ladyship even specialized
whether the wealthy Indian might not do
for Caroline. who was s. getting on.''
In the meanwhile Eveline was great |
deal with the old man. Originally she !
took it to herself as a kindly duty at her
mothers desire. But the old man i'm |
many ways interested her very greatly. |
He refused to take any part in the society |
of the neighbOrhoOd, and as Eveline did |
no: go out they were thrown much on Mr.. |
Canynge's great resource, music. He pass
ed hour after hour in the organ-chamber of
the Hall, and threw open a new world of
music to his young friend. Then his man |
brought over strange instruments of sci |
ance. with whose use he familiariZed his |
pupil, and he would go into the library.
and, taking down volume after volume,
would have something to tell her of great |
men and of stirring pages in their writings. |
Indeed, those who watched MIR. CanynSe |
with understanding eyes might have seen |
in him life of great simplicity and beauty, |
4 life of leisure and song, of real learning |
and genuine high feeling, while his Obvi-
Gus unrest and unhappiness perhaps |
struck a dangerous chord of sympathy.
One day there was great mental disturb
lnce at the Hall. The gallant captain had |
abruptly left. The story came out in after