Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-08

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forget my place. She'll never find out, throug
me, that we have met before"
"Then how can 1 recommend your? aske'
John. y
20 we'll, just say I applied to you, and yo'
think I'll answer, and advise her to try me
How long you hesitate! I tell you l won
make trouble for you," she finished, with al
impatient gesture. John hesitated no more
He gave her the note to his wife, and whel
half an hour later he entered his own door
he found the new domestic already installed
at her post, gravely cutting out some worl
from which she never raised her eyes as h
approached. Mrs. Thorndale, who neve
questioned his will, had taken her withou
any difficulty on his recommendation, and i
was not long before she told him in conf
dence that Charity seemed most useful, in
dsstrious body, capable of doing almost ev
erything, though she was little stiff anc
queer in her ways.
The misgivings which the master of the
house had felt upon first entering into thi:
arrangement, proved themselves to be without
foundation, as far as any unpleasant results
of Charity's introduction into the household
we're concerned. She came but seldom in his
way, never spoke to him unless first address
ed by him, and when she did have occasion tc
do so, always used the formal and respectful
tone, which the difference in their positions
seemed to odemand. In fact, shealways called
him her master, deferential term which the
other domestics were not prone to employ
For some time it annoyed him, and he would
have liked, if he could, to lessen the distance
which she insisted on placing between them
for the sake of old times. But by degrees he
grew so accustomed to her manner that he
ceased to find it strange, and, in time, almost
forgot that any relation but that of master
and servant had ever existed between them.
She made herself extremely useful, took the
chief burden of the household off Mrs. Thorn
dale's shoulders, and was content with very
wages. She never assimilated with
the other servants, but kept almost entirely to
herself, leading solitary and taciturn life,
and was, altogether regarded as sort Of odd.
ty, not agreeable enough to be the object OF
very warm regard, but universally acknowl-
edged to be exceedingly clever, and very
valuable addition to the domestic menage.
There was one member Of the family who
cordially disliked her, and that one was Hell
en Dudley. The older she grew, thestronger
became her antipathy to the grave, silent wo-
man, whose cold eyes seemed to fix her with
heir stony gaze. From some secret cause,
perhaps impossible to define, this antipathy
was felt, in an equal degree, by Charity to-
wards her. She looked with disfavor upon the
bright, happy young being whom every one
else loved and admired, and seemed to take
exception at her cheerful mirth and sunny
ways, as though they cast reproach upon her
own austere and gloomy habits and disposi-
ton. A deep jealousy of John Thorndale's
affection for this girl gnawed at her heart, ex-
ceeding even that which she felt in regard to
his love for his wife land this one baleful pas
sion alone was sufficient to work upon her, in
a manner that would lead her to take almost
any opportunity which might offer itself to
crafty her malice and hatred, and gain some
sort of revenge for her own real or supposed
wrongs.
There came time at last when Helen,
beautiful idolized Helen, rashly threw aside
all the blessings of home love and domestic
ties, and yielded to the opportunities of a
stranger to leave, in secret, the roof, hallowed
by purity and peace, which had sheltered
her since the innocent days of her childhood
until now. Broken.hearted at her desertion,
and crushed by the whispers which reached
him of disgrace, Richard Dudley, unable to
trace out her betrayer or discover her true
fate sank beneath the cruel blow, and in six
months after her disappearance was laid in
his grave. He left his sister and her hus'
band the heritage of his farm and all its be-
loneings, in trust for his child, should she
ever return with clear reputation, and to
be disposed of by them both, or either Of them
which should survive the other, as one or
both of them might see fit, provided she
should never come back or be heard Of in
their lifetime. Or, provided the story of her
shame should be confirmed, in which case he
relied upon them to do all for her that their
own great love and pity for her should sug
gest, or that he, her own father, might have
done. The contents of this will were known
to only one person outside of the family-an
old LAWYER who had been tried friend and
adviser, and in whose keeping Farmer Thorn
dale had himself placed it, begging him, as
a personal favor, to continue its custodian.
And now, Helen had long since come
home, and was dead, and her child, with 8
stain upon his unknown name, had grown uE
into boyhood in her old place, at her fathers
6reside, and in the hearts of the uncle ano
aunt who had loved her with parental love
and Farmer Thorndale, in his turn, had beer
gathered into the land where the secrets o.
this life should be secrets to him no more
leaving the orphan boy to the mysteriou:
DEGREES of Fate Was this Fate symbolizeo
By the drear and forbidding form of his moth
er's enemy, who stood now, in the presence o.
the dead, seeking for that which should ena
BILE her to rob him of his rights?
TO BE CONTINUED.
THE ORIGIN OF DIxIE-A writer in thu
Baltimore Gazette inquiries about the origin
&c 4Lo ,rord MDixia and the editor renlie,