Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-01-13
CHAPTER III.

GeTTON CONnI,dHy even HloIt COh>tdHlil
and more intimately than before. Mr..
Gerrow was t1keuly suddenly i'll. Edgar
had TO attend him and to labor hard TO
ward off al attack of probably fatal apo
plexy.
They were 4 lonely couple the wealthy
eccentric owner OF Brixby lodge and the
fair young gill who was rrputed his heir
ess. Kate WAS an only child aud au o.
| plan. Neither she nor her uncle had ANY
kimsfolk in the neighborhool. Cousins
Kate believed She had somewhere In the
north; but there had been an rstrange-
mcnt in the family, and these she had
never seen.
lis it anything dangerous, Mr.. Arm
| ton? My uncle will recover, will he not ="
Kate asked, as, af,er careful eXamna-
ton of his patient, EdSac stood for mo-
ment or two in the wide, old-fashioned
! hall.
81 sincerely trust so, Miss Gcrrow,"
! he replied; "ot course dare not disguise
from you that there is riSk-grave risk
that i inSeperable from such cases; but
see not the least reasons for despair.
Pray do not worry yousclf unnecessa-
rily."
'My uncle is the olly relative have
living in the whole west OF England"
! she said You will not conceal his real
condition from ME at any time, | beg,
Mr.. ArnrOu," she subjoimed.
"NO, Miss Gerrow, | will be quite
! frank, although it is a medica! privilege
to be discreet, you know. But you will
too delicate for ordinary servants, and 100
wearyimg by far for you. May send ou
one from the IIolstcad imfrmary?"
"If you think that that will be the best
course to take. But shall certainly wait
upon uhcle principally myself.
And so Kate did. And day by day IN
his visits Edgar Arnton met her, and fell
more deeply in love. Not that he aband-
oneI in any degree his determination To
refrain from becoming katc's suitor.
! That resolve was firm ~ ever. lie simply
elected TO drift with the tide
The patient gradually recovered, and
bore grateful testimony to Edgar's pro-
! fcssional skill.
The mend WIS not for long, though; II
message in the dead of night some weeks
after took Edgar hurriedly away to BriX-
| by lodge, To find that another seizure lad
proved fatal.
Kate's grief was intense. Edgar must
have appeared cold aud distant in the dark
! days before her uncle'S funeral, for he
now felt himself compelled to keep down
lis sympathy with an iron hand aud To
breathe coincidence in the most conven-
tional of phrases. But for 80 doing lie
felt morally sure that his vow OF pei sonal
silence would have been irretrievably
| broken.
But in the course Of time an old rumOr
reached him. The old mans will had
been read, and Kate was not an heiress
after all. With chaos of conflicting
emotions within his breast, Edgar called
OH Mr.. Trent and learned the truth.
"The document is dated ten years back,
before Miss GerrOw came 10 live with her
uncle" said the solicitor; ''there Is no
doubt Of the genuiueness. Every one
though: he had made II later one-I did
myself-but none can be found beside
this. | suppose he put the business off,
rs so many people do, until IL was too
late. The property all goes 10 wealthy
Lancashire manufacturer"
GLOW does Kate-Miss Gerrow-take
it?"
"a. quietly as yon may guess. Some
girls would have been almost killed by the
disappointment, but not she. You had
better 90 up and see her; she Is not an
heiress now. Indeed, she'll have barely
sufficient to live upon, unless this cousin
does something for her."
Edgar took the advice and went mp to
noon. Some commonpIaces passed and
then that DID, old story burst forth whicli
somehow always seems TO me far too So
cred to be written in detail. Edgar made
full confession, and not in vain.
"The saddest experience Of my youth"
he said, "came through a marriage for
money aud through misplac' d confidence. g.
Very early vowel tha; that mistake
should in no shape ever be mine; that no
body slIOuld ever throw f"rtnne-hnnting
Of that kind in my teeth. Aud yeti
with smile Of infinite content-"I am
not certain, Kate. after all, whether love
would not have beaten me in tie end"
II hope So" the maiden answered,
shyly