Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-03

adjective, MI. nonckt0n Is better au-
thority than we are. He had a docu-
ment with him that, skilfully used,
might make mischief for time between
these lovers. But he foresaW there
could be no permanent result without
the personal assistance of Mrs. Braham.
That he could have commanded four
teen years ago, but now he felt how diff
fcult it would be, He would have to
threaten and torment her almost to
madness before she would come down
to Derbyshire and declare that this
Walter Clifford was the Walter Clifford
of the certificate, and that she was his
discarded wife. But Monckton was
none the less resolved she should come
if necessary. Leaving him Udrius dis
trdct1a7l ribs. and weighing every scheme,
with its pros and cons. and. like a pam
Their crouching and watching before he
would make his first spring. we viii
now bring our other characters up to
the same point, and that will not, take
us long. for during the months we have
skipped there were not many events,
and Mrs. Dawson has told the readers
some of them, and the rest were only
detached incidents.
The most important in our opinion
were:
1. That Colonel Clifford resumed his
determination to marry Julia Clifford
to Walter, and pooh-pO0hed Fitzroy en-
tirely, declaring him to be fivefeet moth.
ing. and therefore far below the military
standard.
2. That Hoperented cottage of Wal
ter about three hundred yards from the
mine, and not upon the land that was
leased to BARLEY; and there was lono
detached building hard by, which Wal
ter divided for him, and turned into an
Office with large window close to the
ground, and a workshop with door
way and an aperture for a window, but
no window nor door.
3. That Hope got more and more I'M
easy about the e20, 900, and observed to
Barley that they must be robbing
somebody of it without the excuse they
once had. He, for his part, would work
to disgorge his share. BARLEY replied
that the money would have gone to
convent if he had not saved it from so
vile a fate. This said the astute Bart
ley because one day Hope, who had his
opinions on everything, inveighed
against convent, and said no private
prisons ought to exist in free country.
So Bartley's ingenious statement stun
ned Hope for minute, but did not
satisfy his conscience.
4. Hope went to London for week,
and Mary spent four days with her huS-
band at a hotel near the lake; but not
the one held by Mrs. Easton's sister.
This change was by advice of Mrs. Eas-
ton. On this occasion Mary played the
woman. She requested Walter to get
her some orange blossoms, and she Dor
rowed diamond bracelet of Julia, and
sat down to dinner with her husband in
Jr1or don in6 h ar-
lovely arms and bust, and her diamond
bracelet and eyes at0utshone it. She
seemed ever so much larger as well as
lovelier, and Walter gazed at her with
a sort OF loving awe, and she smiled
archly at him, and it was the first time
she had really enjoyed her own beauty,
Or'even troubled her head much about
it. They condensed honeymoon into
these four days, and came home COM
pensated for their patience, and more
devoted than ever. But whilst they
were away Colonel Clifford fired his at
t0rney at Mr.. BARLEY, and when Mary
eonnived at the love affair, told Mary
this, and forbade her strictly to hold
any more intercourse with Walter Cliff
ford.
This was thestate OF tnIngswhen "the
hare with many friends, and only one
enemy" returned to his cottage late ia
the afternoon. But before night every
body knew he had come home, and next
morning they were all at him in due or
der. No sooner was he seated in his
workshop, studying the lines of a new
machine he was trying to invent, than
he was startled from intense thought
into the attitude of Hogarth's enraged
musician by cries Of "Hopel Mr.. Hope!
Mr.. Hopel" and there was little lot of
eager. applicants. First a gypsy boy
with long black curls and continuous
genufections, and fiddle, and doleful
complaints that he could not play it,
and that it was the fddie2s fault.
TO be continued)