Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-14
AROUSE IN THE CHAPMAN ROAD.
IN TWO PARTS
PART O..

any OF the Others.
The Chaplain Road, where ] oEce ten
sD,eI Tor nearly three years the first door
front Of a certain Mrs Catch, isl wide and
spacious ~thoroughfare, ss Loundon thor
oughiares 90. The street itself is broad
and there is good gardens in front OF the
houses on either side. Altogether the dis
lance intervening between my domieiIe
and that of Mr.. Caleb Pilgrim, the over
the way" with whom I am at present con-
cerned, Vas so great, that doubt whether
| could have regarded him as an over the
way st ell, had | not been able to bring
him within reasonable distance BY the help
Of my biuocular.
Mr.. Caleb Pilgrim, like many suburban
dwelling citizens, wssan enthusiastic lover
of flowers; and OF all his flowers his holly
hooks were his peculiar delight and pride.
For a long time before | made his &C
q~uaintauce / used TO remark his avenue Of
towering plants, covered with blooms Of
al shades from the Pales' pink to the deep
est russell purple. Il happened that, one
day, u Of my nephews, who was ike Mr..
Pilgrim, a devoted florist, sent ME q basket
Of lovely flowers. Among them we're some
h~ollyhocks. which seemed to me as good
as. If net better than, any | hsd seen IL
Mr.. Pilgrim garden; and that same even
ing, seeing my ueish0or pottsring about
among his flower beds, l walked over there
with a brhch of h~ollyhocks in my hand,
and, having ~apologizsi for my intrusion,
asked his opinion as to the merits OF my
specimens.
As Ne. Pilgrim turned over the piles OF
blossoms there came into his eye a look Of
jealousy and disappointment, which told
me that he recognized the suPeriorty OF
the flowers. but he did not say 60. He
merely remarked that they were very fine
blooms, asked NE to walk round his little
ylsce, and finally said be would ike q IT.
lie OF the sesd OF the flowers ! had shown
him lust by the way Of experiment.
wrote 10 nv nephew for some seed, and
sent it over to Mr. Pilgrim. Ills next year 5
h~ollyhOcks were finer than ever, and |
found | had gained a friend by my trlHing
ACT of courtesy. 1t was a pleasant change
10 90 over aud have q chat with Mr.. Pill
grim now aud then, and in the curse OF
these chats. / learned 8 good deal about
Mr.. Pilgrims antecedents aud his present
mode Of life. He had made bis money in
the colonies. and had finally pitched his
tent in the ClaDham Road, being firmly
convinced thGr the ar there va superior
tothat OF any Of the English seaside places,
or of the so-calIe3 health resorts Of the
Con,ir eut. Mr.. Pilgrim would gladly have
spent his lie ia the Chaplain Road undis-
turbed over his flowers He wanted no
more change than to 90 from the front gar
den 10 the back ana vice versa; but this
WAS not Mrs. Pilgrim view. II she could
not 90 10 Scarborough, like Mrs Johnson;
or to Folkes,one, Ike Mrs. jackson, or up
the Rhine, Ike Mrs. Thompson, she was
determined to 90 somewhere. She did not
much care where she vent; but she would
not stop in town ell through August aud
September. She had quite made up her
mind on that point.
So Pilgrim, by the way of having flow
ers ALWAYS about him, some three years be-
fore this had made q compromise and To-
ken q country cottage, furnished, for the
Summer mouths, and often be RECALLED me
with accounts of the troubles which had
bsfallen him thereanent. To Judge from
his experience IL seemed that Il one wanted
10 get into difficulties n could lot do bet
ter than take q furnished country house.
One Summer Mr.. Pilgrim hired the charm
ing cottage orree Of Mrs. Colonel Bilkiug-
ton. on the Surrey hills. Mrs. Blkingtou
was All smiles aud afa5ility; such q de-
lightful person that Mr.. Pilgrim felt like q
brute a. he handed her the agreement
which tied and bound her TO do this and
not 10 that. Mrs. Bukingtou was sure that
between Mr.. Pilgrim and herself no agree
ment was necessary; sill 80 s matter OF
form. she supposed 1t must be done. Ii
was done and, when the end OF the tenancy
came, Mr.. Pilgrim found that he was done
likewise. tor Mrs BIlkirgtOn's chlns and
@ruAntuLH anu Ak4EA = "hAN FCEeAFN ~ ARHN
been constructed Ike C~oDjurors properties,
for they fell TO pieces OF themselves IN a
most mysterious manner in the latter day
OF Mr.. Pilgrim stay, and when Mrs. BLK
ington came to check the inventory-she
did not leave such work to be done by dep
ty-almost everything seemed 10 be more
or less broken. Poor Mr.. Pilgrim, as he
made the bill for breakages did not find
Iady's manner so charming as Of gore, and
when he took his leave he shook the dust
Of Cintra Cottage off his feet forever.
Then the next year, he hired q pretty
rec,ory in the Thames Valley. The Rec.
for, the Rev. Tbeophilus Rubicle, was as
far as outward seeming went, a jovisl,
hearty priest, something Of the FriAr Tuck
build, At the first interview he declared
that he was prepared to leave the house
lust as it was should he and Mr.. Pilgrim
come to terms so great was the confidence
with which Mr.. Pilgrims manner and sp
pearanee had inspired him. There was
a piano. which would be left open. There
was a COW and there were the hens, who
should furnish milk and eggs for the Pill.
grim breakfast table, and lastly there was
q pony and chase, which he would leave
for Mr.. Pilgrims Iss under the charge Of
q careful man.
The rectory looked bright and pleasant
enough the afternoon they arrived. There
was a nice little dinner prepared, and the
next morning the new-laid eggs on the
table and the cream in the jug showed that
the hens snd the COW had fulfilled their
part of the contract. The careful msn
came, touching his hat, to the breakfast
window and asked whether there
were any orders about the carriage to-day.
A glow Of plessursble pride sWoke in Mr..
Pilgrims spirit as he listened to the re-
ouest, and he told the careful man he
thought they would take 3 little drive in
the afternoon.
The ven for a drive every afternoon for
smout a week, 50 the weather wa abnor
mslly 6ne. At the end of that time Mr..
Pilgrim began to think that either the local
roads must be very trying or that the con-
strucrion Of Mr.. Rubicle's carriage must
be very delicate, for after every drive the
careful man would come in and say that