The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-03-30

he had said, ~ will never bee the
house of my fathers again =. but Sir:
Philip: Gaveston had come to the:
CHAPTER v: II -: .
rRANsFus1ox.
Philip Gayeston had come home.
For: ? century no .Gaveston. had cross
sed the threshold of the Court, and,
now ,itIseemed yss If. the only repre-:
sentative. iiof5 the family had come
there to5dje; For; Philip. Galveston,
though with, the pallor jof: death Il, on,
biz. face: and With his life blood: As it
&3It appeared; fast sebbipg away from him,
was not dead; He lay in a. ,stupor.
which was sufficiently alarming,
faint from loss of blood and. !. DR..
Vincent's arrival was eagerly looked
for: He had been sent for when
Philip: Gaveston;b had been found; !;
but it'seemed likely tHat'he x1oild)be
too late, and that the last Galveston
would die in .the'veryiroom' in which
Sir Hugh had died 4 century: be-
1'phlip Gaivae>toh had met met With Ii,tf /. IA
appalling accident. !; ;He had been
walking along the cliff tie previous IL II i,'i
evening, and had apparently fallen
over jPPart where III etEe Et had been! q
in the morning fact Ct of
which he had not known He . bad
gone along the ordinary path, as he
had often done before, unaware that
there had been any alteration in it.
1t was late, but he was accustomed
to walk late in the evening, and
the friends with whom he was
staying : :masfde mad no inquiry about
him till the night was far advanced.
Even then, search for him would
have been vain had not some. fisher
men seer. his body, apparently hang.
ing against the side Of the cliff. He
had fallen over and been caught
against a projecting ledge, where he
hung with broken arm, wholly un.
able to make his cries for helpsheard,
There he had laid for some hours and,
even when he was 1sen, i considerable
time had elapsed before they were
able to rescue him. When, after
much difficulty, he was drawn up to
the top Of the cliff he was nearly
dead, having sustained severe inter
nal injuries, and his recuers took him
straight up to the Court, ~that being
the nearest house, one ofthem hasten
ing off to the town for DIR. Vincent
At last, then, a Gaveston had come
again to the Court, though it seemed
doubtful whether he would ever wake
to consciousness and Adeline Mars
den thought as she. bent over hin
how proudly he had said he woulc
never enter her doors and how strange
ly the resolution had been overthrown
She waited anxiously for DR.. Vincen
and as she watched the unconsciou
man tenderer feeling for him thai
any she had ever know before sto1'
over her. There is always something
which appeals strongly to a woman
in helplessness and illness Of any
kind, and it seemed to Adeline as i
some special fate had: brought Philil
Gaveston to her doors, and yer!
strange that be should be obliged. t.
accept; the tendance Of the last per
son in the world from whom he woul'
have asked any good Offices,
f.: At last DR.. Vincent arrived, not j,
little startled at the summons whio
had called him to. see Sir Phil
Gaveston. at Gaveston Court. Whs
strange irony Of fate was it that ha
brought Philip Gaveston to Adelin
Marsden in this way, when he had :
proudly held aloof and boasted' tbs
since the days Of Sir Hugh none (
bis name had held friendly inte1
course with a Marsden? Now Adj
1ine Marsden was to have the oppoi
,, tunity Of making some reparatio
for the wrong done by her ancestor
aentury ago; but even DR.. Vincen
in his widest speculations, had n
: idea of how fully that old debt ".
to be paid, or think he might hav
refused to visit the patient. He mao
a careful examination of Sir Phili1
j; who was lying pale, motionless, an
! almost pulseless; In fact, but for tt
revelation made by the stethesco1
) that there was some faint action Z
! the heart, he might have been pr
nounced dead.
When DR.. Vincent had fnishe
> his examination he went into Il
dining-room, where Adeline MaIsdt
! was waiting his verdict. In answ'
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