New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-15
CHAPTER III.


| il was for a long, long time.
CHAPTER Ill
lot n he az a dream that is past and Ike tale
that is tod-let it be as though It had meyer been.
arid life the old life OF ceasecss scf-represson, oil
inter lack of sympathy, of cheeIless days one toll
! lowing the other III an endless mOnOtOnOus process
| SION She was like one who, foutsOTe and weary,
had been led to the gates of paradise of peace and
| rest a beautiful land flowing with milk and
| honey and then dragged back INTO the sandy des-
| ert alrp,dy travtrscd with pam and travail.
She had learned what were the possibilities of life,
| and then been set face to face with It's black
Walter Hearn's last within had been most suc-
| cessfuIly carried out. He had had his fling, and
now. as he pleasantly put it, he was coming home
| AGAIN To settle down into an mpary domestic
| Character Jane knew full well what that meant.
| She knew the old routine Oft by heart-the utter
! d,srepard OF everything and everybody save the
within of the hour; the utter lndliereLce 10 hls
| wife's happiness that had characterized his con-
duct from the early days OF their married NE the
cultivation of kind OF society utterly detestaDio
tn her. the spending of every possible tarthng ne
| could Law his hands upon and, worst OF all tne
posing as a gentle-spIrited victim TO domestic
worry-a great soul lin sed to woman who neither
! understand nor appreciated him. She knew what
| had been the CALLING of the chain that bound her
life and now had !she not also tasted Oh the sweet
n-ss OF liberty. and peace, and love ANA now
the old struggle must begin again, and the story OF
GUYS love- his tenderness, his ceaseess Thought Tor
her. all their happy c0mpanlonship 70
| be az dream that is past, and as a tale that IL
told There were half measures IN james creeu'
! Believing herself free she had given hersen up
body, heart and soul to the ne me- the EXQUISITE
new life that had opened out before her Her day
her nights had been full of Thought ana luI Oh
dreaming OF Guy Challoner She haG searched
her own mind TO discover Its fullest eapaDlhtles
| in the way of entering into those grand pursuits
he loved She did not want 10 try and turn herself
into an aggressvely learned woman she Only
wanted TO attain to the power or being receptive
and appreciative. to be ut once ambitious TOT MN
and proud of him, and to be both these things Win
understanding. -. .
In James eyes marriage was holy thlng not
mere contract to be broken at will. In woman
for the sake Of and in defence Of the purity OF her
own womanhOod had to leave her husband IHeh
benceforth she must face the world alone As long
as the man to whom she had vowed 10 cohsecIate
her life lived no matter W nat ms SINS against leli
no other man could be more to her than true ana
l,yal friend This was James creed-an old-Iash-
ioned one. no doubt, as the world goes now Oui
sweet and pure the scent or those oid-1asihoheu
garden flowers that are gong out OF IaFor .no""
Il have done no wrong she said, lifting her sad.
tired eyes 10 the old coOnes face, and making MN
feel Ms II it would do him good TO swear a good
round oath AT things in general and waiter l1faa
and his whiIns IN particular; ana Guy n"I WIZ vHno
no wrong We did not know, either OF us When
we did we kissed each other many times ana saiu
good by. .. -, ro,s Tool, and
voice maddened the colonel: Ana yet there was
nothing to be dOne-absOlutelY nothing
Mrs. Daubency was so frightened by James stony
coInness dim eyes and white weary face, mat she
hardiv dared speak at all which was perhaps a
Good Thing since there are times in life when even
the gentEest words scar like hot irons ana such
time had come TO Jane Hearn. -,
She made all her own plans; packed All her own
things; went about the house Quietly seeing 10 ILLS
or baltimore able to think of what ought 10 We
done than either her guardian or Ms sort9W.H4s
wife she had determined to 90 down 10 ooutn-
ampton and meet her husband. ~. hoh,,a ma, sbe
said You will not Tor ever so long,
Walter will not care To come. know-you re-
member he never did. He will write to you, !
daresay and shall write You musI ho n da not
| have not much TO say about my sell. 10 noV
think there viii be much TO say: 49,, -
Won't YOU be very lonely IN LONDON my
deare Mrs. DaubeneY ventured 70 say gehtlY
strokng James hand-the hand whereon the wed
ding-ring glIstened and where once slnele aIlle
thyst. Guys gift, had shone WIN soltes1 lusLe'
Tondon is a lonely place for any one VINO mas no
II shall not mind said Jane. L think am
,erson who ~ better without fIiends-an unsynpa-
tnef;c sort OF person. you know. she added WIN
smile the siqht of which sent poor Mrs. Daubeney
The story of Guys love for Jane Hearn and hers
Sor hi1n-the story of those madly happy months oy
the western sea-was to be buried heep DOW" , DC
meath the cal' OF fOrgetfu ness rev people hheW
anvtLiHg about it, and Jane was gong away from
nj her late surroundings into lie ana an aVih0,
sphrr. far removed from any of them. Sue could
ne herself 20 kiss the dear dead face o. her lost
hone aud calInly draw the covering snroIu aooNe
Il but she could not bear to let Others iook upon ~
laid so low Ii was lost, dead To her forever, Out
sacred beyond all wOrds-hers 1t was and Guy j.
No one else had part or lot IN IL ..
The colonel and his wife felt that IL was pest the
Walter Ilcarn should never know or thls Que ell-
sode in James life. Why should Ne, indeed re
had no right 10 such knowledge. lie had acted u
H.. ne had been utterly unfaithiuI 10 the "Ondh
he had vowed to love and cherish,
In his heart the colonel grded terrluly Against
THIS detern nation of Janes-thi going OacK 20
miserable life. but lie knew u was 10 USE "a plo-
test You cannot bring the law TO bear upon man
because he bots out all the brightness from "o-
mans fo and starV es her heart lie may SaTe mo9
one lot or tttlc though she weep herset ntlud anu
ct the world sees no flaw III his conduct. lie
NAV see her sick and suffering, and snow her Tess
sympathy than he would give 20 a lame huhler III
b's stgllss or :. sick hound in his kennels, and the
world will only call the woman eXactlhg. nc
colonel knew that these things We're go ana Io4S
his Own help. ssness to stand between Jane anu
coming tlOu.lc,
Abor+ a week before the date of Walter liearn's
cypccted arrival in England. the ship to whlch Guy
Chal.ouer was now attached sailed on tha1 sclehe
MFG curst which was absorbing the interest OF
nations The colonel saw the notice of this aud Sc
GREETED the paper that contained II but he shbS",
quenty wore such d guilty air that Jane suspec'eu
DO not keep anything from me- she said com
ing nm behind him and laying her arm ABOUT
his neck it is no zeal klndneSSs tel He-1s ""S
gone
Yes yes. nv dear: he sailed Yesterday STAN,
mered the troubled man. At the time Jane sad
nothing she only shiyered ana 9rept up 70 M Ily
leaning closely over 10 ana noiding Vut nei niiu'
10 tne blaze Afterward Mrs. Daubeney, gong
softly to her room opened the door steatily 10 see
Jane kneeling by the bed WITH peI arms ui"NH
across tn- covcrlct No sObs shook the slight frame
thus PROSTATE at the feet OF God better Indeed II
IL had been so better n tears had come as some
relief TO the bitter aching Of the poor tortured
heart.
A few days later Jane Ilearn eft that pleasant
home beside the No more should sue Wat'h
the changing shadows come aud 20 upon the bosom
of the waters no more should she Watch the little
boats. with red sails set, HE seaward, ben iing
TO tho wind; no more wander along the roehy
sIor. ar undsr the tail spires OF the pnewOod-tbat
foteful wood where. she had seen her lover lying
prone upon the dark elTth, his face hidden on has
6utstretched aryns-the arms that might never
more eufold herr Jane wa gone and the house
an. hsd LEFT seemed TO the old colonel and his vile
like cage from which sweet voiced BIRD lad
flown leaving il empty ana dcsoidte.
The winter was past, the sgring was coming.
The buds began TO swell upon the branches of the
wing brown and Nithered upon the ground. were