The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-02-03


ionship, failing in some coaxing attempts
to get rid of him. But after a while he
grew tired of the process of looking at
chairs and tables and cups and saucers,
and quilted her to 90 down stairs.
go to Charlotte, Leo dear," said Finch.
az shall soon have done. Charlotte, "
she called out over the balustrades, "see
to Master Leo"
When Finch and the clerk had finished
the inventory, the former proceeded to the
small room on the ground floor, which
had been appropriated as the nursery. In
the list it was set down as "butler's pam
try" Charlotte, the under-nurse, sat there
with the youngest child asleepin her lap
where's Master Leo?' asked Finch,
abbreviating, as she usually did, his name
Leopold. 81 sent him here, and order
cd you TO see after him."
"He didn't come" was Charlotte's an
swer, "and the little one was just dropping
of to sleep. Master Leo wouldn't come
here to me, if he could go to his mamma"
YOU'D let him be with his mamma for
ever, you would, if it saved yourself lit>
tie trouble" cried Finch, who of course
domineered over Charlotte. upper-nurse
fashion. 81 hate this moving, dol such
botberl nothing to be got at, and ones
regular meals and hours upset. I'm as
tired as a poor jaded horse. And you sit
ting here doing nothing, with that child
on your lap You might have laid him
down, and got cup of tea for us. /"
"Am | to lay him on the foor2" retort-
ed Charlotte. 81 don't know which is to
be the children's bed"
Finch flung out of the room in search
of Leo: her labors that day, and the dis
comfort around, made her cross. He was
not to be found indoors, and she went to
the garden. Very soon a shrek of fright
and horror arose from her. 1t drew her
mistress out: and the lawyers clerk, who
was departing, heard it, and ran back in
its direction.
Leopold Yorke had met with ladder,
reared against the side of the house, and
had climbed up in all boys adventurous
spirit. He had fallen off, poor child, it
was impossible to say from what height,
and now lay insensible on the gravel, with
an ugly cash in his forehead, from which
the blood was oozing.
Finch stopped her groans and lamenta~
tons, and stopped to pick him up. But
DAio. vi nc cudlCn6u Nun from DeT, anu
crounched down on the earth, with one
knee raised, and laid him upon it. She
looked with a hopeless, helpless express
ion at the lawyers clerk. The words which
came from her white lips were scarcely
audible
"a doctor: where does one liver
I'll fetch him ma am; I'll run every
step of the way; don't mind the heat, L"
cried the sympathizing clerk.
He did not wait another moment, bat
sped away. Leopold was conveyed indoors;
and, before the surgeon got there-who al
so seemed to have come on the run-the
child had recovered consciousness, and
Finch had washed the wound, which now
seemed disarmed Of three parts of its ter
rors. Mr.. Janson, handsome, frank, at
tractive as he used to be, wanting yet
year or so Of thirty, bound it up, ordered
the boy to be kept quiet, and said he
would send in little calming medicine.
May 1 dare to shake hands with you?'
he asked, with frank pleasant smile, but
with a somewhat heightened color, when
he and Mrs. Yorke were left alone.
She placed her hand within his, quite
as frankly, though the glow was far deep
er on her face than on his. "How strange
that we should meet here" she exclaimed.
81 recognized yoa the moment you came
in"
'As did you," hereturned,. "But was
prepared. 1t was matter of speculation
IN my mind, whether the Mr.. and Mrs.
Horke who were coming to Alnwick Cot
tage, could be you and your husband, I'M
tll Maskell set it at rest by saying it was
Mr.. 1orke of Saxonbury. l have been
settled at Oxford these three years"
MAY ask you are Mrs. Yorke
hesitated, but probably thought she must
finish her question as she begun it-"mar-
ried2"
ITO my profession / am. NY thoughts
and hopes have been wholly given to it
since-since fully entered upon it," En-.
"Will the child do well2" she inquired.
'Oh yes. 1t is but slight affair. | was
prepared for something worse, by the ac-
count Of Mr.. Maskell's clerk. A little
blood, especially on the head and face,
frightens those not accustomed to it,
These accidents will happen where there
are children. He is your eldest?'
Eyes. have but two.",
81 will send up the medicine spoke OF,
and call again in the morning" said Mr..
Janson, rising. Make my compliments
TO Mr.. Yorke."
Mr.. Janson departed, and Mrs. Yorke
looked after him. As he turned to close
the iron gate, he saw her standing at the
window and politely raised his hat, and
Mrs. Yorke politely bowed in return. Po-
litely: the word is put advisedly: it best
expresses the feeling each wished to show
to the other. Whatever til ere may have
been of love or romance between them q
few years ago, it was over now. Whatev-
ersentimental "reminiscences each had hith-
erto retained of the other, whether any or
none, they knew that from that afternoon
hencefortb, they subsidized into their prop
er and respective positions,-Mrs. Yorke
as anotber's wife, and Mr.. Janson but as
a friend of her and her husband s; as hon.
orable, right-minded persons, in similar
cases, ought, and would, and do subside.
Mr.. YoTke, after exploring as far as he
thought necessary that day, turned back
to his new home. His thoughts ran not
on the features of the village, or on the
lovely scenery around, or on the fishing or
the shooting; they dwelt exclusively on the
few words of Mr.. Maskell which had ref.
erence to the surgeon with a deep and
nourished hate; and he would infinitely
have preferred to find he had visited To-
eality where poison grew rank in the fields,
like weeds, than one containing Edward
Janson.
lie was drawing pretty near to his own
gate when he saw a gentleman emerge
from it. A shudder, strange and cold
passed through MIR. Yorke's veins. Was