The Springdale news., 1889-12-20

ARTIST.
 Julia, you will tarry few min- utes wish to speak with you.
 The speaker was DAVID REARpoN. man five years beyond hls three score and-ten, white-haired and bent, &ith 2 crutch and n cano lean ing against the table at his side. He was heavy of frame, his eye brows thick and bushy, the eyes be- heath deeply sunken and still bright with a steelgray lustre. What his f. 2 may have been like in early manhood We cannot say; It was now dark ana heavily lined, and par tat faral , Srs of the superior facial ma.eIes gave It q tiabby and uncom. tertable appearance
 E th, opposite side of the table, with bundle of papers III his hand stood CHRIST 5PHER MrRK wAIrH, with thu privilege of WIT Ing to hIs niGle rhe prefix ot I1r., ar he atfix of Ii D. he was somewhere about eight ud twenty yeas of age perhaps older than that with full dark beard, carefully trimmed; hair almosi black, coarse and crisp; wei defined ,:roW s fees Ill tn. eo"ner, of his greenish black eyes; =.nd feat ures, aaogetter, neither hand some nor ugly He was possessed Of a wonderful power Of Secretiye ness, and had thus fur moved ;n the world impresslng the large majori- " of those with whom he camc#ln contact with firm bel1ef in his mantul truth and honor, Very few perhaps not more than half doz- en in all-- knew of the cvIl that slumbered in hls bosom; knew bow vengeful and vindictlve he could be, and how he could secretly and patiently work out his own ends, no matter what must give way or fall before hlm. Something of thls a praetieed physiognomist might have detected in the greemshblack eyes and Geir surroundings, but his full be eard hla most of the re- ] yealing features from obseY atiOn. He could speak very pleasant",. and his manners was those of a gentleman. Young as he was, he already stood hlgh as surgeon. In the use ofthe knife upon tissues, living or dead, he had few superi- ors; and as q physician he had 1 shown iudgement and skill.
 At a lttle distance, near an inner door, stood the individual whom David Reardon bad bade to tarry- JULIA EVERLETH. She vas ts.o-and twenty years of age, slightly above the medium height of woman, per- tectely formed, and rega! Tn her bearing; there was sottness and sympathy in her rare beauty; and in those large, clear blue eyes, and in that open brow, and in those del ieately tinted lips, there was no shadow of deception, no ign of se- cretiveness. Her hair was rich dark brown, fine and glossy. with no cxtraneous fixing of art to add 10 the grace of its simple arrnge, ment. She was more than beauti. ful, as that term is generally accept, ed. She was good and true. Her beauty was honest and heartfelt, and bore the stamp of keen intel ligence.
 And here, that we may proceed understandingly, let us note the re- lations in which these thu ee persons stand towards each other.
 The scene is spaclous manson, with broad lands well kept ar,d we'll cultivated, on the Pennsylvania shore of the Delaware River, and within easy travel of Philadelphia It is called Eddyslde-so called from an cddylng of the water above and below the mansions landing. It is an old place but has gained in beauty and attractiveness with increasing age.
 This had been David Reardon's