The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-02-16

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Alice senseless
"You know the rest. | tried t
rouse her, and then ran for watel
and just as she was coming to, sa,
you
He broke of. Then begain i'm
mediately.
II don's care now he said, so
all of them. l didn't break m,
word. Good luck, or Providence
rather did it, Peahaps, if Alic
had had time to think, she wouldn'
ilaye betrayed herself, They'v
bullied her beyond words. But sh,
was surprised, you see she says
with bushes, she hardly knew wha
she said, or did only thank God
the truth has come out ! Now thai
/ know that she loves me, I'll defy
the whole crowd. Well trust t
heaven. There are clerkships, aren }
there, in the gift of this stupid ole
government Of ours Places al
Somerset House, and other beastly
holes T? | know fellows, who beions
to my club, who live in that way
| viii write to my uncle this yer,
night, and see if he can't get me
clerkship and then III cut the ser
vice and we'll marry, and live in
a two-pair-back. My lord has in
huence-"
'Your uncle ? my lord ?n | inter
rupted, with some surprise, fol
though | had known Jack so well
| had never heard him talk of such
a relative.-The fact is, thorough
bred Englishmen, SO far as know,
never do.
'Oh, yes! Lord Arlington. Didn't
you know? One ofthe best old BOYS
going. But you see he has two sons,
and any quantity of daughters, and
so no money to spare; and
wouldn't ask him to help me, ex-
cept in someway like this; and /
never thought Of a clerkship be-
fore
Just then one of the most extra
ordinary things happened, so extra
that it altogether cat short
Jacks sentence. So extraordinary,
that if | had not witnessed it, |
would not have believed it. There
was knock ut the door, and tele-
gram was handed to Jack.
Great heavens y he cried, as he
read it. He was pale as corpse.
The paper ratified in his shaking
hand. THE poor, fatherless girls |
Who viii console them? / must be
)fi to-night-at once
What is it ?" | asked.
'Read it." he answered. NO. |
an tell you quicker. My uncle and
lis two sons-think of it-have been
ost in gale, in his yacht, off Spez-
ia. All three bodies were washed
shore. The girls, his daughters,
re at Nice, alone !; fer their mother
5 dead, YOU know. 1t will kill
hem"
'Are you the nearest relation ?
an nobody else, but YOU, 90 7" I
sked this with sudden thrill.
'Why, of course. there's none
carer but I'd go all the same, if /
Tasn't; poor dears p
Then YOU are Lod Arlington" l
He stared at me in n dazed way
y moment. Evidently, up to this
Instant, he had not remembered that
e was the heir. His entire sympa-
HES, big-hearted fellow that he
7as, had been enlisted for his poor
ousins.
"Why. good God, so | am" he
ried, and sank into a chair, shak-
lg all over.
After few moments he rallied.
Il take heaven to Witness" he
aid, that | never thought of this
d 90 back to yesterdays despair,
nd you know what that was, SOON
r than that my happiness should
c bought at such a price. Yes ! /
1ust start tonight. But I must see
lice. She promised to meet he in
ne conservatory. Oh. my poor
ousins."
have not much more TO tell. OF
curse, in due time there was we'd
ing. OF course, too, it was very
plendid one, rs became that of so
reat an heiress as Lady Alice
here were eight bridesmaids, and
mong the guests were six dukes,
lough, alas /! his Grace of Gross
lnds was not one of them.
Jack, with the liber:llity that had
ways distinguished him, generous
carted fellow that he was, even
hen poor, settled a competent in
1me on each ofthe orphaned daugh-
RS of bis uncle.
Only the other day | had a letter
ated Arlington Castle 1t was from
ady Alice.
Jack has hurt his right hand by
bad fall in the hunting field," she
rote, "and asks me to be his aman-
cnsis. He says you must come |
yer this winter he will take no
enial; and | alsol lay my commands
n you. We are as happy, Jack |
ids me to say, as It is possible for
ny two poor idiots to be; in all
.hich | concur, except the idiots. |
10 come I shall never forget that |
on had the good sense to tell him
foolish fellow-that nothing could
e BEYOND HIS REACH. ."-Pcterson's |
faga-;ne.