The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-30

every young man upon whom she turned
them with a certainty of her purity and
goodness and loveableness, and sent him
away with a frantic desire to make her his
wife without loss of time. With all this,
she overlooked with fun and happiness
except when she sighed-and she was just
nineteen. Such was Sweet Give Buxton
then. If her picture were painted to-day,
there would be this difference-she is older
and more beautiful.
To return to our plot. Bicester watched
with bated breath to see b Mr.. Swain
son would do. No culprit was forthcom-
ing, and it seemed as if the day was going
against him. He made no sign; only. the
broken hoops, the cage and battered bell,
so lately the instruments and insignia OF
triumph, were cleared away and, at the
charge of the police. Even the iron railing
was removed. The excitement in the Close
rose high. Once more the cathedral vlcln-
age was indebted by lay appropriation,
but the Dean knew Mr.. Swanson too Wen
to rejoice. The ground was cleared, 1t is
true, but only, as he well forsaw, that IL
might be used for some mysterious opera
tions, of which the end and aim only--h1s
own annoyance-were clear to him and not
the means. What would Mr.. Swanson do!
The strange, unnatural calm lasted sew
eral days. The cathedral dignitarles
moved about in fear and trembling. At
length one night the dwellers in the Close
were aroused by a peculiar hammer1ng. 1t
/ WHS 1IeuueuI. u6GD dDu III IA4NL ScshAAS 1
from the direction of Mr.. Swainson's plot.
To the nervous it seemed as the knocking
of nails into an untimely coffin; to the
guilty-and this was very near the cathe-
dral-like the noise of a rising scaffold; to
the brave and those with clear co~nsciences,
such as Give Buxton, it more nearly re-
sembled the knocking a boarding together.
Aud indeed that was the very thing it was,
and around Mr.. Swainson's plot.
But what a boarding! When the light of
| lorr J;.oora-al ~ 70 tho naon1ats a-o the
Deans fearful anticipation seemed slight
to him, as the boys vision who has dreamed
he is about to be logged in Jail and awakes
to find his father standing over him with a
strap. 1t was so ~unsightly, so aunt, SO
implanted, so terrible; the very stones of
the cathedral seemed to blush a deeper red
at discovering it, and the oldest houses to
turn a darker purple. Had the Dean POS.
sessed the hundredtongues of Fame (Which
in Bicester possessed many more) and the
five hundred fingers of Briareus he could
not hope to prevent the Marquis visitors
asking questions about that, or to divert
the attention of the least curious Ameri-
can. He recognized the truth at a glance,
and formed his plan. Many Generals have
formed it before; it was-retreat. He sent
out his butler to borrow a Continental
Bradshaw from the club n shut himself
up in his stu ly. The truly great mind is
never overwhelmed.
The yergers alone inspected the monster
unmoved. They eyed it with glances not
only of curiosity, but of appreciat1ve IN
telligence. Not SO, however, later in the
day. Then Mr.. Swanson appeared, lead
ing by a strong chain a brindled bulldog,
of the most ferocious description and about
sixty pounds weight. The animal contem-
plated the nearest verger with much salts
faction and licked his chops; it might be at
some grateful memory. The verger, who
was in a small way a student of natural
history pronounced it, however, a lick of
anticipation, and appeared hot a little dis
concerted. Mr.. Swanson entered with the
dog by a small door atthe corner and came
out again without him. Tho other vergers
then left.
Their coming and going was nothing to
Mr.. Swanson. 1t was for him that
he stood there the cynosure of every eye in
the Close; even Mrs. Dean was watching
him from a distant garrett window. In slow
and measured fashion he walked to the
steps of his own house, and, taking from
them a board he had previously placed
now inclosed to the height of about ten
feet by this terrible boarding. Above the
door he carefullyhung the board and drew
back a few feet to take in the effect. Mrs.
Dean sent down hastily for her opera
glasses, but really there was no need of
them. The legend in huge black letters on
a white ground ran thus:>"No admittance!
Beware Of the Dog! J" A smile of con-
tent crept slowly over Mr.. Swainson's face,
and he said aloud:
sTrump thatcard, Mr.. Dean, if you can"
As he turned-Mrs. Dean saw it distinctly
and declared herself ready to swear to it
in any court of justice-he snapped his
fingers at the Deanery. And the dog
howledl
1t was the first of many bowls, for he
was a dog of great width of chest, n not
even the surgeonof an insurance company,
if he had lived twenty-four hours in Bices-
ter Close, would have found fault with his
lunss. Why he howled during the night,
for it was not the time of full moon, became
the burning question of each morning.
That he joined in the cathedral services
: with a zest and discrimination which rem.
dered the organ almost superf1uous and
drove the organist to the verge of resigna'
ton was only to be expected. There was
J nothing strange in that, nor in his rivalry
> of the P~recentor's best notes, whose voice
> was considered very fine in the Litauy,
: The voluntary, Tiger made his own, and Of
, the sermon he expressed disapproval in sc
marked a manner that it was hard to say
which swelled more with rage, the Dear
within or the dog without. Their rage wa
equally impotent.
i Things went so far that the Dean publicly
wrung his hands at the breakfast-table
q "You could not hear the benediction thi:
! morning? And 1 was in good voice, too
4 my deari' he walled, with tears in hi!
. '.'You should appeal to the Marquis, !" sug
5 gested his wife. 1t must be explained tina
the Marquis in Bicester ranks next to ant
I | lUUle DSuedUu ITONlueHCc. Dun Tx Dcd
) shook his head. He put no faith in TIN
power even of the Marquis to handle Mr.
! Swanson. 81 will lay it before the Bishop
! my DEAR" he said, humbly. And then, in
:. deed, Mrs. Dean knew that the iron hat
. entered into his soul, and that the hand o
: the Mayor of the Palace was very heavy
upon him; and her good, wifely heart grew
so hot that she felt she could have no NOR
: patience with her daughter.
+ For Gives sympathies were no longer t.
~ IN %rr,efa1 Che ruoo not tho Syynnt IHiuu
of a month ago, but a sadder and NOR,
= sedatey young person, who had a trouble
u some and annoying way of defending tn
i absent foe, and of signing in dark corners
that was more than provoking. Duty de
g manded that she should be an ocean, int
which her father and mother might pou
the streams of their Indignation and NEE
o with a sympathizing food tide, and 10 thi
unfeeling girl declined to make herself use
full in that way, and instead sent forth
"bore" of light jesting that made little O
the enemy's enormities and a trife of hi
outrages. More, she showed herself for tn
q first time disobedient; she altogether re
fused to promise not to speak to King Pepi
q if opportunity should serve, and, cleve
" girl as she was, laughed her father out c
insisting upon it, and kissed her mothe
II into being a not unwilling ally. A wis
woman was her mother and clear-sighted
70 she saw that Give had a spirit, but n
y longer a heart of her own. Yet at such
l. time as this, when her husband was wiring
ing his hands, Gives insensibility to til
:; family grievances tried Mrs. Dean sorelA
n 1t was hard that the Canon's sleeple:
- night, the Preceutor's peevishness, tn
N Lsinging mans influenza, and all the coun
less counts of the in lictment against M
y Swanson, should fail to awaken in th
+; young lady's mind a 1.-THE of the indign'
I'd ton shared by every other person at til
I'd Deanery, from the Dean himself to til
ut scullery-maid. But, then, love is BLIND
for which most of us may thank Heaven.
IS Day after day went by and the hoardin
lie still reared it's gaunt height, and the III
n. clean beast of the Hebrews still made mig
l! hideous and the day a time for the expire
g. sion of strong feelings. Atlength the Dea
IN met his legal adviser i'll the Ciose-aye, an
within a few feet of the erection
at he kept his back to it with ridiculous cal
Mt while they talked.
A w have come to something like a sc
es Element at last" said the lawyer, briskly
ne ssconf1sion take the dorI lean hardl he,