Daily Republican., 1884-11-28
c. RLISLE'S FOIL.

G. RLISLE'S F0LLi.
BY MRS. G. n. srAHLEY.h'KENNA.
The brief, bright glory OF An autumn
afternoon was over spd done evening
came down on wings Of cool, gray
clouds. and settled upon the landscape,
dark and chill ! came In from long,
long fsmble among the bills, Just
sufficiently wearied 10 enjoy FepOee,
and sat down, after q hearty supper,
beside . cheerful wood fire, which WAS
welcome enough In the chilly noun
famous country even In early Septem-
her.
"What house IL that that stands all
. lone among the hills, out of sight and
sound Of every other habitati0n and
almost buried by the trees 2" asked
my host. IL seems 10 have been =
brave place In lie time and still shows
traces Of cultivation. 1even fancied l
gould discern the signs Of road, broad
enough for . carriage drive, having
once existed between tho grounds and
the public road below-was ] mis-
taken ?"
Mine host" took his pipe from be.
tween his lips.
NO." said be. The road WAS
there, sure enough, but before my time.
The hOuse-it's moro ruin now than .
house-And road too, for that matter,
bore the name Of CArlihle's Folly Oh,
yes," answering my eager look, can
tell you Why. I've beard my father
tell the story, perhaps some fifty
times"
-! never heard that any one about
here knew who this Rupert Carlisle
really was, but undoubtedly he came
OF some good old stock-0f gentle per-
haps even noble blood In the old coun-
try. Ny father English born himselfl
used to plead this ~ an excuse for the
man 'sibsane folly for my part think
1t . very poor one
man, and easily obtained employnen,
rather ignorant man In New York.
This ienoramus { enjoying his score
tary's superior knowledge At the same
time that he despised him for hii
lpoversy made Carlisle's position
painful and humilisting enough, and
probably greatly embittered . nature
that misfortune had already warped
and soured.
"Love came, however, 70 sveeteE
for him, as II has done for 30 many, ~
otherwise miserable life; the hand
ssine, naughty, silent, aristocratic, ye
y withal despised secretary, fell des
perAtely in love with his employer
/, daughter, sweet Mabel Dorm, and sh'
, returned with interest his pasrion.
: Her puIse.proud father bitterl.
rect nted what he WA pleased TO cal
\ his daughters infatuation, and in tn
! stormy scene that ensued taunte<
i Carlisle % insolently with his povert.
and presumption that the secretary
long suppressed price and ire brok
forth In fiery indignation, and as b
, hurled back the millionaire's insult
!. he betrayed the long hidden secret Q
2 his birth.
"And that changed the aspect Q
affairs. Mr.. Dorm cooled down, b.
came civil and even obsequious wher
? he had been insolent and overbearinG
{ and In the end his own origin bein
= of the lowest, and his favorite ambiti0
2 being that Nab should marry 'hig
c blood withdrew his opposition I
G his daughters choice and consented
q accept Carlisle as . son-in-law.
q I" But he reckoned without his hos
I The secretary's pride was far moi
{ deeply rooted than the millionaire
6 He actually replied that he love
' Mabel well enough to live aud d
8 single for her sake, but not we'll enoug
{ to tolerate, for a single hour, an all
= ance with her parvenu father.
Mr.. Dorn's rage may be conceive'
n Frcn that hour until his death, II
y years later, the utterance of Carlisle
:. name even was forbidden. When
came TO die, however, turning to Nab
he { she " as still Mabel DORM he said !:
,oI You can marry him now Send f
y" him. Teh him am out Of the way
OF lsst. You are free to marry him now
10 Well, she did marry HIM one ye
es later. She was fair, pale woman
r. thirty now, saddened by long years
h. art hunger and hope deferred
Of longer beautiful save in her foolish 10
er's eyes, who had sacrificed ten yea
nd of happiness to pride.
en- "'I will make amends In the futur
la he whispered her. There shall
: nothing but love .nd happiness in ste
y. for us henceforth, ~ long as we bo
~ shall live =
VI "Thus does man propose. AS mi
1 boA Va AoStS hoWovVAt PSSA 40 80 - '
only two years boy ond her wedding-da
nng and then died In giving birth u
M daughter.
,iy "The little one came near bel
to an orphan from. it, birth, for the dea
~ of his wife almost killed Rupert g
~ Isle. He msdened, aud for long til
y'as had to be placed under restraint lik
IN, actual lunatic, and 1t 10 prabable Il
cit he WAS never again quite reasonable
a Ientirely sane.
'~ cit WAS after his recovery that
!. bought large tract of land in
woods on the hill, and built there I
18th large, rambling mansion, that the co,
on. try folks sfterward called Carlisl
no Folly
he lived there alone, save the
~ servants who waited on him, max
81 no acquaintances, seing no friends.
ID. miserable, lonely, heartbroken n
ny whose sole business and aim in
ph seemed to be silently to endure its q
rows.
"Ail this time, two years or m
the babe whose birth had costs
N mothers life had never even seen
IN father. He had placed it in the cart
I friends. called II by poor Aabers nal
- ard carefully provided for Its wells
EE but nothing would induce him to Il
nta; upon Its face or let its baby. bea
cheer and oom fort him.
"And thus for eighteen years
kept his child An exile from his p
70, ence and his love then. she being,
and Ill accounts, . singuarly wilful, dar
ans, uirI Hhe went TO him of her own
shs cord.
'"< "All the village knew 1t, you n
It, may be sure. when the elegant, sty
beauty, from New York. acoompan
by her maid, and calling heself 4