Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-02

strong," said the lady in broken, nervous
way. "Those are beautiful flowers. Did you
say you had kindly brought them for me :"
eyes, ma'am-yes," rejoined Mrs. Mulca
by, smelling at the boquet' II thought, as
said before, that maybe you'd like few fo'
your parlor, and roses is scarce at this season
Would you like, now, for me to send mar
round to fix up your garden a bit, since you
amt strong enough yourself to be STOPPING
about?"
"Oh, I couldn't give any order Of thai
sort-my brother will see to it, thank you,
was the hasty reply. "In take those from you
please" and this time the hand was 80 point
edly extended for the flowers that the donol
could not withhold them any longer. s'bt
yielded them reluctantly, and the door wa'
gently pushed to, "a little closer than before
Suddenly the landlady bethought her of one
more pretext to linger.
81 see your BELLS broken" she eagerly ex
claimed. "Shan't I tell Muleahy to come
and put it to rigbss7 It's 50 inconyenient te
be having to knock at the door"
"No, think there is no occasion-tha'
is-it doesn't matter at all" faltered Mis'
Carey, retreating still fartherinto the shadow
"We-at least, my brother-rather likes te
use the knocker. He prefers it to the bell"
"Oh l-well, in that case, there's nothing te
be said," said the discounted visitor. "O1
course it's our duty to keep things in order
on the premises but if you like to have 'em
at skies and sevens-"
"Oh J." interrupted Miss Carey with some
thing like faint shrek, at this juncture
"excuse me, if you please" and without
farther ceremony she shut the door, almost in
the landlady's face, just as the latter was
about to turn away. Highly indignant, that
estimable but warm-tempered matron, muir
muring an uncomplimentary remark below
her breath, hastily descended the steps, and
as she reached the lowest one, suddenly he
came aware of the approach Of DR.: Carey,
who, with long strides, was coming up the
street. Passing her with the briefest of salu'
tations he entered the house with latch-key
and disappeared from view.
Mrs. Mulcahy's momentary anger merged
itself into sympathetic wonderment and GU
riosity. "Now I dare say l shouldn't blame
the poor thing" she said to herself. "she
saw him coming, and she's afraid of him
that's what's the matter. She's foolish, I'm
sure, and he won't let her see nobody, when
he's at home. Oh, but wouldn't I like to
get his head under my two fists, if he ill-uses
her-that's all I never could abear his
looks from the first. He's got devil in his
eye"
Her opinion would have been justified,
could she have seen the conduct of the Doc
tor towards his sister, whom he found await.
ing him, in evident trepidation, in a room at
the back of the house. Glaring upon her, he
demanded in fierce tone
"How dare you receive company in my
absence2 lHaxeI not ordered sau, hun.
dred times, to admit no one."
81 didn't admit her." she replied, her voice
trembling, but her eyes meeting his openly as
she spoke. "She came to bring me some
flowers and stood for minute or two only,
upon the steps,"
"Haye not forbidden you ever to 60 to
the door, on any pretext, whatever p he de-
manded, more angrily than before.
II did not, at first but when she knocked,
and knocked, over and over, I supposed it
was the milk-man, and opened the window to
see."
"And pray, ma'am, when you saw it was
not the milk-man, why did you not close the
window again, and say nothing?"
"Because she saw me, and spoke to me and
when she said she had brought me flowers, I
could not turn her away without a civil
word"
"Well, you just listen to me, now" retort-
ed her brother land understand me, once for
all, when I say that l do not choose you to be
having any words, civil or uncivil, with any
body whomsoever, from this time forth. DO
you hear, and do you comprehend ?-or are
mere words not sufficiently forcible to impress
themselves upon your memory?"
His ugly look, as he asked the question,
seemed to say, so plainly, that he would not
hesitate to resort to harsher means than words
to enforce lis commands, should occasion re-
quire them, that his SITTER, involuntarily, re-
treated a step or two farther from him, an
swering, as she did so, that she would not for
get what he had told her; though" she
added, meekly, "I'm sure, this time, it wasn't
my fault"
Enough said," was his rejoinder. ri nev-
er listen to excuses; and you know me well
enough to be sure that you will repent it, if
you disobey me again"
In the mean time, Mrs. Mulcahy went home
to relate her experiences; and the report that
her husband had crazy woman, with a
dusA keeper, as HE tenants, was not slow in
circulating throughout the select circle of her
acquaintances.
"But," as Mulcahy remarked, "what did
it matter to him?"
CHAPTER II.
By what was, as shall hereafter be proved,
really very singular coincidence, another
house, of quite different description to No.
$50, was let to certain family, on the same