The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-13
TuE FARMER AND MEo11H

old queen aIlio, ano
no+binp for the unlnylted guest TO
40 but to make congo, which he
did NJ once. and Alice was picked
up in a dead faint, but still clasp
inc the box.
Eugene came back that night,
and he was specifies and cold with
horror when he found TO what he
had exposed his darling. And Alice
was i'll IN bed with a raging fever,
and with that house-breaker's face
sealed upon the space before her
eves-a dark and pallld face strage-
" evil and strangely beautiful,
with the straight lines OF It's fea-
lures and the brilliant blaze OF It's
ewes. but with a great scar running
like a cash along the cheek. She
dld not even know she saw 1t at the
time. but it now seemed to hang
before her like a mask, Just as
when the light of her mothers
lamp first fell on 1t; and turn which
way she would, she could not escape
It's evil glance, It's dark and beau
tiful fascination. "Oh, 1t is Satans
own.,r she would cry. "Luclfer
looked Just SO. Am | always 60
ing to see It.:
The doctor said it was a hallucl-
nation owing to a nervous shock,
and that it would take a long sea
| son for her to recover entirely, II
she ever did. But youth Is a great
deal stronger than doctors are wise
and before aS many months as be
had prophesied years, Miss Alice
was about the house again, as gay
az ever, only very tremuIouS Wnen
| nighttime came. and unwilling to
be left alone IN the dark a minute.
I shall be glad when | get out
of this house, she said. Il see a
burglar IN every corner. And I'm
sure | don't want to go to EugeEes
old house, where the burglars have
been before me; and It's Il castle, too,
a barn. A perfect haunt for them.
A band of robbers might blvouac
there by the week together and no
body be the wiser"
That magnificent old place,
Alice..' Mrs. Magilvray answered
her. "Of what plebean blood are
your veins full? None Of mine |
can assure you. Those great halls
and galleries and immense stair
cases. the suites OF rooms, the tiled
chimneys and marble-paved floors
why, you could entertain a troop
nit..7
And | don't want to entertain
a troop. 1t is IN horrid repair, and
would cost thousands of dollars to
put it into shape as 1t is. And for
my part, would a great deal rather
90 INTO lodgings OF two rooms with
Eugene"
We'll, | am glad there is no help
Tor 1t, and that 1t vas a provision
Of that wise old mans will that the
ancient establishment should be
kept up. 1t Will be the place of all
places for your sisters to visit
Ma, 1t seems to me that you
don't care one atom about me eX-
cept IN SO far as | can do for those
sisters. | should think they were
your children, and had been hung
on the door III a basket
Upon which speech Of Miss Alice's,
Mrs. Magilyray giving signs Of her
new accomplishments III Mysteries,
Alice had to bring her round with
kisses and Salyolatlle, and the pro-
mise Of the south parlor, second
floor front, with the bedroom out
OF 1t, lined with blue satin and in
Iald with ivory and redwood, ana
with a blue AubuIsson tapestry on
the floor, as soon as she found 1t
convenient to make her first visit at
the Descamps house.
They had at last begun to talk Of
the Descamps house, Mrs. Magil-
yray having insisted on a prolonged
engagement, ignoring anything that
had passed before her consent had
been given. Two years. she said.
are not any too much time for YOUR
family to become acquainted with
It's new member, for YOU and your
lover to know each other thorough
". | was engaged to your father
ten years"
Eugene privately thought that
accounted for u great deal, but find
ING 1t III VAN to make any OPPOSE
ton, had acquie>ced. and occupied
himself with an army of workmen
IN the old house, and more particu-
larry with the demands Of a new
business into which be had been
daring enough 0 plunge a great
portion Of his capital-a system Of
supply contracts Tor the army Of a
European potentate, knowledge for
which had come to him through a
connection IN the State Department.
and which before the end of the
year was paving ten per cent.
nov AII 81 a-,... $780, IL