The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-17
The IaIk of New YOrk.

MISS oAeA4
wears of age. She is very pretty, with
dark brown eyes and hair, and an
olive complexion. Her sister Is very
fair. Il want To tell you all about this,
Miss Morosini said. because then the
truth will be known, and the people VIII
not paw attention To all Kinds OF disagree
| able stories that are made of Us Now,
lust think. One OF the papers said this
morning papa had seen that coachman
with his arm around my sisters waist.
How foolish that is. WHY. my father
would have shot him right away. and so
would any of my brothers.
Some ladies' anne from Riyerdale TO
call on my mother this morning TO eX-
press Their sympathy. She was not able
to see anv one, aud | received them in
stead. They told ne that it had been
runo-ed that Mr.. Morosini's coachDan
was too attentive 10 his daughter. The
other coachmcn all sad that they knew
something was going To happen. aud had
known it for months. Schelling was
Victorias constant attendant during her
horseback rides. and they noticed that
they talked together, and that he rode
close beside her. instead of staying be-
hind, as a servant should do"
When did you first suspect that there
was anything wrong
Il can't say, | was constantly beng
surprised by my sisters conduct or the
coachman's, but | couldn't allow my
self to be suspicious. 1t seemed such
an impossible thing even to think OF.
But that coachman was an awiully
cunning man. The tricks he played
on me YOU would never believe. We
have a vacation at Easter, aud papa
told him to practise my saddle horse
a little. and get it ready for me, 50 that
| could 90 out riding with Victoria. He
did practise; he practised the poor horse
with a vengeance Qne day he came IN
and said he had been exercising him IN
Jumping fences. Suddenly the horse had
grown vicious and had thrown him over
the fence, and had then gone and lump
ed right through a window into the barn,
tearing out all the glass, and cutting
himself badly about the head. Then he
went out and sewed up my poor herses
nose in such q way that it Looked per-
fectly awful, and it took the veterinary
surgeon a long while to rip out the sew
inc that the coachman had done. The
horse was unfit to use for a long while. so
that | had to go without riding during
all my Easter vacation, aud he and my
sister continued their rides alone.
'Then, again, our long vacation,
which lasted until September. began on
June %. He had probably forgotten
about my coming, and waon't ready for
me, so | had rides with my sister for the
first three days. But on the fourth day
he came in aud said my horse was SO
o,o1- 4kn3 ~ apn0lp3t no IlSaH want
out aud found IL was silk, and Kept sick
during the entire vacation, and didn't
get any more rides.
got suspicious then, for it seemed
very strange that my horse should al
ways be the one To get sick. and every
time just when had my vacation. /
went TO the coachman and told him |
believed he Lad poisoned my horse one
time and cut its head the other on pur-
pose. He was very angry, n protes-
ted SO that | didn't say anything more
about i.
Once Arthur Dodge, q young gen.
tlenan living near here, invited us to
ride (that was one of the three rides l
got). and %ofcourse he was all the escort
that we needed, but Victoria insisted
that the coachman must go too. l
knew that would be an affront to our
escort, and said that we didn't need any
one elss, bat S~ictoria insisted, and even
forgot herself so far as 10 ask the coach
man about it. Isn't it SO, Ernest, she
said, that we must take you along, too,
whether we have any one else or not ?
.:0h, yes,' Ernest said. "At Newport
the young la.iiGs always take the groom
along, whether any o1e else goes or
not"
well didn't want TO insist any
longer. and ha went. But the way they
rode you would never believe. They
made tier horses just creep. begged
them to hurry up and have a good gal=
lop, but they wouldn't do it, and at last
we cot out Of patience, and Mr.. Dodge
and | galloped off together, leaving
them alone. | know now that that was
exactly what that coachman wanted.'
Every time Miss Morosini said THAT
coachmaD' her eyes snapped like fire
crackers, and her slipper c4l4o down with
a bang that seemed out OF all proportion
to its very diminutive size. 1t was evi
dent hat none Of the Morosini house
hold loved Ernest except the solitary
member that had gone away with him.
but is seems almost impossible to be-
lieve how much my sister must have
thought of that miserable little man.
She fell from her horse twice while riding
with him, aud never said a word about it
at home for fear she would not be allow
ed to ride any more. Once we knew she
had fallen, because a man who had seen
her came to the house and asked if she
had been hurt, and another time her hab-
it was very dirty, SO that it was plain
that she had fallen off. But both she
and the coachman denied it each time.
Another thing that we thought was
strange was that they didn't ride any
where to see anything Interesting, but al
ways took the lonellest roads, where there
was hardly a bird to be seen.
But the worst thing that man ever
did, if be did 1t on purpose, was on
Good Friday. lie was driving papa to
the station, aud just as papa went 10
get out of the carriage the horses jump
ed su loenly forward, throwing him
under The wheels, and almost dragging
him into the river. He was badly cut
about the knees. and had to go to bed.
1t took him a long tine 70 get well. Pa
pa was hurt this way thee times. It's
wonderful what influence that man bad
over her. She used to go to the sta Bile
six or seven times a day to feed apples to
her horse. until finally about a mouth ago,
papa forbade her going any more. Then
she used to 60 to a flower patch near
the barn and talk to him while she pick