The Red Cloud chief., 1884-09-12

ment against him. She knew that he
was doirg that which he believed would
be the pest for her welfare. She. over
whelmed by the debt Of her gratitude.
had accedcd TO his request. and hai
been unable afterwards TO depart from
her word. Size had said that il should
be so, and she could not her turn upon
him and declare that when she hal given
him her hand. she had been o.
the presence IF another lover. There
was an injustice. an unkindness. an in
gratitude. a seiisbness i'm this, which
forbade her TO think of il as being done
To herself. IL was better for her that
she should suffer. though the suffering
should be through her whole life. than
that be should be Disappointed No
doubt the man would suffer, too-her
hero. her lover-he with whom she
would so willingly have rhked every
thing. either with or withou, diamonds.
She could not, however. bear TO think
that Mr.. Whittlestaff should be so very
prudent and So very wise solely on her
behalf. She would 20 10 him, but for
other reasons than that. As she walked
about the place half the day. up and
down tie long walk. she told herself
that it was useless to contend with her
love. She did love John Gordon: she
knew that she loved him with her whole
heart; she knev that she must be true
TO him-but still she would marry Mr..
Whittlestaff, and do her duty in that
state of life to which il had pleased God
TO call her. There would be a sacrifice
a sacrifice of two still il was Justice.
Had she not consented to take every
thing from Mr.. Whittlrstaff; her bread.
her meat, her raimeni. the shelter I'M
der which she lived. and the position in
the world which she now enjoyed? Had
the man come but a day earlier it would
all have been well. She would have
told her love before Mr.. Whittlcs.aii
had spoken of his wants. Circum-
stances had been arranged differently,
and she must bear it. But she knew
that it would be better for her that she
should see John Gordon no more Had
he started at once 10 London and gone
thence TO the diamond fields without
seeing her again there would be a feel
ing that she had become the creature
OF s;ern necessity: there would have
been no hope for her, Is, also, no fear.
Had he started Il second time for South
Africa. she would have looked upon
his further return with any reference 10
her wants as a thing impossible. But
now how would il be with her: Mr.. Whit
tiestatf had told her with a stern indif-
ference that she must again meet this
man, sit at the table with him rs an old
friend, and be- again subject to his inilu-
ence. lit will be better that YOU should
meet" he had said. without the
necessity of making a scene" How
be no scene"
Then she thought she would have re-
course to that ordinary feminine excuse.
a headache; but were she TO do SO, she
would own the whole truth to her mas
ter; she would have declared that she
so loved the man that she could not en-
dure to be in his presence. She must
now let the matter pass rs he had in
tended. She must 90 To MIR. HALL
house. and there encounter him she
loved with what sirow of GOODNESS she
might he able 10 assume.
But the worst of IT all lay in this
that she could not but think that he haN
been induced TO remain i'm the neighbor.
hood in order that he might again try
to gain his point. She had told herself
again and again that it Was impossible,
that she must decide rs she had de-
cided. and that Mr.. Whittlcsiatf had
decided SO also. He had used what
eloguence was within his reach, and il
had been all in vain, He could now
appeal only to herself, and to such APP
peal there could be but one answer.
And how was such appeal to be made
in Mr.. Halls drawing-room? Surely
John Gordon had been foolish in re-
manning in the neighborhood. Nothing
but trouble could come of it.
$50 YOU are going to see this young
man AGAIN. This came from Mrs.
Baggett, who had been in great per-
turbation ali the morning. The Ser
geant had slept in the stables through
the night, and had his breakfast brought
to him warm by his own wife; but he
had sat up among the straw, and had
winked at her, and had asked her to
give him threepence of gin with the
cat-lap. To this she had acceded.
thinking probably that she could not
altogether deprive him of the food TO
which he was accustomed without in
jury. Then, under the influence of the
gin and the promise of a ticket to
Portsmouth. which she undertook to
get for him 1T the station. he was in
duced to 60 down with her, and was
absolutely dispatched. Her own box
was still locked up. and she had slept
with n of the two maids. All this
had not happened without great dis
turbance in the household. She her
self was very angry with her master,
because of the box; she was very Sngry
with Mary, because Mary was, She
thought. averse to her old lover; she
was very angry with Mr.. Gordon, be-
cause she well understood that Nh.
Gordon was anxious 10 disturb the ar
rangement which had been made for the
family. She was very angry with her
husband, no because he vas generally
a drunken old %reprobate. but because
he had especially ~disgraced her on the
present occasion by the noise which he
had made in the road. No doubt she
had been treated unfairly in the matter
OF the box, and could have succeeded in
getting the law of her master. But she
could not tur against her master in
that way. She could give him a bit of
her Own mind. and that she did very
freely; but she could not bring herself
to break the lock of his door. And
then, as things went now, she did think
it we'll that she should remain a few
days longer At Cookers Hall. The &C.
caSion of her masters marriage was to
be the cause OF her going away. She
could not endure to be foremost among
all the m at Cookers Hall. But
it was intolerable to her feelings that