Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-11-17
Fraser's Magazine.
UNDER FALSE CoLoRs,
OR, "A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER
Concluded


DR.. Athole's new assistant soon be-
came the rage in and about Rawleigh.
Mrs. Bobbinet-Tompkins so trumpeted
his praises that everybody was desirons
of being physicked by HIM. Ladies OF
all ages feigned maladies that they
might test the fascinating doctors skill
We must humor them,' the real doc
tor said, laughing and half angry, but
the consequences of discovery, my
dear Killem, would now be fatal to me.
And he instructed the assistant how to
make a proper diagnosis of cases, which
he then himself treated. For really Sc
rious illnesses, when the mock doctors
presence was insisted upon. the true one
accompanied him. The laughter that
these two men INDUCED in on emerging
from sick room and reaching their car
riage was sometimes really heartless,
and surprised the groom, who was re-
spectacle young man.
Mr.. Killem was constantly In requisi-
tion. both socially and medically. at the
the Grove. Sometimes he lunched there.
and once he dined, but, finding that no
Miss Borrowdale appeared at dinner.
took care on future occasions to be par
ticularly engaged in the evening.
Miss Borrowdale found the school
room singularly unattractive after the
evening at the Atholes'. Her pupils
asked questions that she was unable to
answer without first consulting books,
particularly dictionaries, and this was
awkward.
Their mother requested that they
might do mental arithmetic in the pres
ence of their father. 1 am i'll at reck-
oning-it becometh tapster,' sighed
Miss Borrowdale, recalling a school-ex-
animation at which she had been pres
emit in her native village, when the mas
ter and pupils played spirited shuttle
cock game with shouted figures, having
no connection whatever with each other
in the mind of the lay hearer.
This is novelp she murmured. New
er again shall complain of the unrealty
of life. / have great mind to give up
at once; it will be better for Emily.
How will she endure the life in real
earnest, if find it so intolerable in jest?
/ always felt the unsuitability of these
-Tompkinses. However, the
thing may explode of itself. IL father
or mother should write to my cousins,
they will disclaim all knowledge of me,
and there will be hue and cry, and a
notice in the newspaper: "Mysteriously
on the 10th ult., a lady of
rank, answering to the name of Ermen-
garde, etc.p May the faithful Anytime
manage my correspondence adroitly!
Well must do some Murray and write
home. What incidents can l inventr
l can't meet an interesting peasant eve
ry week
Then by the time school began again
she had written charming letter, pur-
porting to be the journal of lady trav-
cling in the Tyrol, dated Something
Bach, and signed Ermengarde.
September fitted by; Miss Borrowdale
worked steadily at the Grove, and Mr..
Killem at DIR. Athole's, though each i'm
poster several times narrowly escaped
detection.
1t was half-holiday, and Miss Bor-
had lunched at the doctors, and
was coming home for the children's tea.
Mr. Killem walked by her side, and each
was silent, mentally preoccupied with
resolution. Hers was to
take fiight-his to know his fate.
Miss Borrowdale.' he said at last, /
have looked for this opportunity for
days, and If you.h succeeded in your
effsrts to prevent my coming with you
this afternoon, should have been mis-
cradle. You know what I am going to
say
Il know that it is very cold. Mr.. Kill
EN-, and rather late. ] must run, think.
No. Hear me this oncel Let me
know my fate
'Hushl please hushl You must not
talk in that way. indeedp
Sir Marmaduke was silent for mo-
ment. May not say that love you?
he asked in hurt tone.
l hoped to have spared-us-thatl
Obi Mr.. Killem, / have deceived you'll ]
am not what seem. 1t can never, new
er bel Forgive me. / should have told
you at once If had ever drsampt of
this
stay he said, OBTAINING her by the
hands as she hastsned on. Whatever
you are, do not care. You are strang-
ar to ma. know nothino .Sf xlnt.r home