The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-01-20
CHAPTER V.
RIVALS AT sAxoNBURY.

RIVALS AT sAXoNBURY.
A week passed over; fortnight passed
over; a month passed over; and still Mr..
Janson was located at Saxonbury. II
may appear curious that the stranger
come down for only day or two's visit
should remain so long, hut the explanation
is easy. A medical student, nearly quail.
fed, and clever in his profession. Lady
Saxenbury, who felt a liking for him
the first moment she saw him, naturally
conided to her ailments. Mr.. Janson
took quite a new view of her case, and
recommended remedies which had never
been tried. 1t may be, that they did not
do her any ARMAMENT good; indeed, he
acknowledged the doubt himself but they
considerably alleviated her daily suffer
ings. and it rendered her unwilling to
part with him She besought him to re-
main with almost imprisoned fervor; she
pressed Sir Arthur to keep him. Mr..
Janson frankly assured Lady Ssxonbury
that he did not require pressing: that he
woald remain as long as she liked. His
course of studies in London was over for
the present; he was about to pass some
months ia Paris, and pursue them there;
and, whether he went few weeks later
or earlier was of no consequence.
So he staid on. Indispensable to Lady
Saxonbury, winning every day on the rs
TEEN of Sir Arthur. rendering himself
agreeable TO Mrs Ashton, and-falling in
love with Maria
II was the old story over again Of Raby
Raby. With one exception There were
morning meetings in the picture-gallery,
aud afternoon roamings in the fair grounds
of Saxonbury, and evening lingerings in
the deep bay windows. gazing out on the
Folly, on the lovely scenery by moonlight
just as it had been in Raby's time But,
what Rahy had not done with all his
poetry and passion, had been affected by
the less poetical. far less impassioned Mr..
Janson-he had gained the heart of Maria
Saxonbury.
Does a woman ever love a man Of a
tinid nature? Poor Raby, with his in
nate refinement, his sensitive reticence,
his consciousness of his present fallen for
tunes, contrived to impart to Maria a
knowledge of his self conscious inferiority.
Mr.. Janson, whose birth was far inferior
to Raby's, whose position and prospects
in point Of fact, were little, if any, better
than Rsby's fallen ones, gave to her an
idea of his being superior. Not purposely:
few men thought less about setting forth
his own merits, or making himself APP
pear what he was not, than Edward Jan
con. His frank, open words, his thor
oughly easy and gentlemanly bearing, his
somewhat off-hand manner to the servants
contributed to the impression. Who or
4 g. AL
ask; she had never been ia the habit of
troubling herself with such questions
where a companion was attractive: she
gave herself up to the fall charm of
the intercourse, and-betore she was
aware of it, before she had cast so much
as thought to the danger, she bad learnt
to love Mr.. Janson.
Not before be bad learnt to love her
Every tone of his voice, every glance OF
his eye; every pressure of his hand, given
10 common intercourse, told of the secret.
Not a word was spoken between them;
not a word perhaps would be spoken; but
the heart has a language Of its own, un>
needful Of common words, and they had
found the way to use it.
Did either give thought 10 the future?
Probably not. The present happiness was
all-suficient for the present hour. Had
Mr.. Janson soberly set himselfto contem-
plate that inevitable future, it would have
looked unpromising enough. To imagine
a union with Miss Saxonbury would have
been in the highest degree preposterous;
and on Miss Saxonbury's part, she would
have deemed it q great calamity-nay, a
disgrace-to wed one so far beneath her
So the love, though it had come, was but
an unsatisfactory good, take it for all in
all.
And the pleasant intercourse was soon
to have an ending. They were in the pic
ture>gallery one wet day IN February,
Louisa and Fannie Ashton making great
noise with ball at the other end of it.
Maria sat on one of the crimson benches
and Mr. Janson stood near her. She was
toying with the blue ribbons that tied her
lace sleeve at the wrist, her eyelids droop.
ing.
"Why need you go so sooni" she asked
in reply 10 a remark from him that the
end of the week would see his departure
$50 soonf' echoed Mr.. Janson. 81
came here for less than one week, and ]
haye stayed more than six. ! ,oish ]
could stay" he added in a lower aud more
impassioned tone. 81 wish could stay
on forever"
"You have been able to do mamma 60
much good" returned Maria, after a
pause.
Gould 1 have done her permanent
good, should be better satisfied, Miss
Saxonbury."
"Do you think, as others do, that the
illness will last for years-that she may
never, even, get well?"
AZ have given my opinion to Sir Ar
thur" was Mr.. Janson's reply, after ar
almost imperceptible hesitation. HI
could not say to Maria, Far from getting
well, fear that a very few weeks will SEE
the ending"
at will be marked change. my hard
work in Paris after the delightful time o
of idleness," he resumed