Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-09-04

q Keystone. lney say snes known . oes. o
yorrow, and there's some shame in It thai
keeps her + hiding. Poor hearth Asweete,
I woman there Is not; truly there Is not"
She looked at him hard as she said this
the gaze growing keener and keener, the
eyebrows lifting to it, and something like an
I expression of condemnation coming into he.
face.
u am Mr.. Shaw he said, anticipating
tho question that was already parting hel
lips
woman shrieked.
With toss of the hands he turned hi
head to look up the High street.
us it known" he said, confronting her
shat I was impressed in error by a gang Of
s~ailorsa What did my father thinki Do yo1
know him7'
sDr. Shaw. of the school housei Well BY
name, sir. Ye know, Of course, that he b
we'll, and is giving up teachinl A man haiti
come from some city i the north to buy the
school from him-so I heerd but a weel
since," said the woman, so fascinated, no,
alone by the romance Of Cuthbert's return
but by the beauty Of his face, that she could
not lift her eyes from him.
us it known that I was impressed" b.
asked again.
II cannot tell ye for sure, sir. Some tall
there was, I think; but them as it wen,
among were but little known to me. And
before my husband bought this business VIZ
lived at the white house, away down BY
Callow bay, which kept me out o gossip
us Mr.. Franklin alivea or, where a
hire a coach2"
"Oh, Mr.. Franklin Is nicely, sir. viii "
not come In and sit downa And my eel
shall fetch you a coach as quick as liver tn
come for thee"
He thanked her for her offer and entered
the little parlor, never before beheld. by him
and even unfamiliar to US, now that thu
quaint furniture Of the %strangaelds wa.
gone and the simple old sea pieces.
He breathed quickly as he stood alone
looking around him. This had been biz
darling's home. Through the window, into
which Mr.. McAndrew had let clarified glass.
he saw the old bay tree and the shrubbery
and green stuff, amid which he used to sin
his letters to his sweetheart after dark, an.
pointing meetings for the morrow. The
walls around him had echoed to her voice
Her feet had trodden the ground on which
he stood. Yonder was the scene of street
and market place which her timid eyes had
swept again and again that night when she
waited for him to come and tell her father
that she was his wife.
Mrs. McAndrew returned with a tray Of
win and biscuit, and pulled a chair to the
table that he should sit
"rm all of a tremble with establishment,
sir, truly. IT'S the wonderfullest thing that
ye should be there looking at me, and your
pretty wife thinking herself a widow, not
five miles away. I've sent the gel for q
carriage. Yen have patience for five
minutes, sir; and if this wines not to your
relish, l can draw a proper head o beer"
He seated himself, looking vacantly at the
woman under his lowering brow.
"You cannot tell me that my wife knsu
that l was carried away to sra by a press
gang?" he said presently.
II can't own as liver I heard say she knew
it, sir. But 1 can tell you that some trouble
came upon tho sweetheart after We vert
missing; her father was cruel, and that she
We're married he would not believe. That's
what We're said. Then afterward it were
proved by Dr.. Shaw she was your wife, ar.
Aud thut brooks her fathers heart. they said.
One thing I reckon sure, howiver wrong ba
all else 1 say, your wife ran away from
Greystone for the shame that evil thinking
gossips put upon her; and her mother, Of
she now lives with, told me herself that her
reason for sellin' the business was because
Mistress Shaw had vowed niver to come to
Greystone again, after she had kissed her
father, lying dead on his bed for grief"
"May God forgive them all for wronging
her! Poor little one! Could her father look
at her and doubt her? Oh, madam, the
carriage is a long while coming. This DELAY
is a heavy trial to mel"
He went quickly from his chair 10 the
window, where he stood a while, tapping the
ground with his foot.
allow did my father treat her, do you
knowa" he asked.
"Why, sir, very h%onorably, I believe, from
all reports. An old Mrs. Mead, whom some
call mother was telling me a while back,
that your father asked Mistress Shaw to 20
and live with him, promising to pack the boys
home and give up the trade if she'd come.
But your lady had a proper spirit, and Mrs.
Mead, who loves her, said: How should she
stay with the old man as doubted her honor
onceF Though I'll own I answered her, that,
all things considering, seeing your lady
could not prove her marriage, as twas said,
and that you were not by, it was not what
you might call unreasonable for DR.. Shaw to
doubt her,"
mot prove her marriagel"
He dropped his head and swung himself to
the window. exclaiming under his breath:
THAT was my fear, always"
swell, sir, continued Mrs. McAndrew, Eye
see, accordin' to Mrs. Mead, it were this: Ye
had charge O the marriage paper, and the
mistress could not reminder the name O. the
church in London. As how should she, If it
were ne'er told her? Once in all my life was
II n London, and dazed was I by the noise,
to be sure-in some streets it wa like a bull
roaring-aad though my cousin, who is a
London man, showed me a score o churches,
and named 'em, too, clear in my hearing, not
1t you was to say here be a hundred pounds
for thee, If yell gi' mo the name O."
But before she could make an end the
hackney coach came rumbling to the gate,
with the maid inside it. Thanking her for
her civility and information, and learning
from her that "onybody i Winstonu tell ye
where Mrs. Strang1eld livcs," Cuthbert
shook Mrs. McAndrew's hand, jumped into
the coach, and was driven off.
Continued neat Week.)
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