Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-23

AAo HSto to Octtcf AIVcL Suo uTbS
week Of Joy and thanksgiving over his
boys restoration to him, tho malady
seemed to reassert itself. Dunraveu will
have new master BY winter, l fancy"
The colonel was silent moment Then
he suddenly asked:
'I3y the way, how was Il that Gwynne
wasn't drowneda never understood
that"
HE never meant to be-" said Stryker.
"He told Perry all about It. He was
ruined, he thought, in his profession and In
,Iisow.. country, and he knew his fathers
memorable p-...,,o; an he simply decided to
put an end to Archie Maitland and start
new life for himself. Ho SSste his
letters and arranged his property with
that view. and he called tho steward to
enable him to swear he was In his state
room after the steamer weighed anchor
Then In jiffy he was over tho side In
the darkness; II was food tide and he was
an expert swimmer; no reached coast-
ing vessel lying near; he had money,
bought his passage to France, after q
few days at Cape Town, and then came
to America and enlisted. He got con.
fession out Of ono of their irregulars who
was with him, Perry says. and that was
ono Of the papers he was guarding 90
jealously. Ho had given others to Perry
that very night"
"They seemed TO take to each other
like brothers from the start" said tho
colonel, with quiet smile.
"Just about" answered Capt. Strykcr.
Meantime, Perry and Sergt Gwynne
have been riding slowly down the valley.
Night has come upon Dunraven by the
hour they reach the northern gate--no
longer closed against them--and as they
near the house Perry slowly dismounts.
"I'll take the horses to the stable myself:
want to-" says his trooper friend, and
for the second time the young officer
stands upon the veranda at tho doorway,
then holds his hand as he hears again tho
soft melody Of tho piano floating out
upon tho still night air. Slowly and not
without pain he walks around to tho east
front, striving to move with noiseless
steps. At last he stands by the open
easement, just where he had paused In
surprise that night month agone, and
slowly drawing aside ono heavy fold Of
curtain, gazes longingly In at Gladys
Maitland, seated there ut the piano, just
where he first saw her lovely face and
form.
Presently, under tho soft touch Of her
fingers, o sweet, familiar melody comes
rippling forth. He remembers II in
stantly; It Is the same he heard the night
Of his first visit-that exquisite "Spring
Song" Of Mendelssohn' sand he listens,
spell bound. All of sudden tho sweet
strains arc broken OF, the music ceases;
she has thrown herself forward, bowed
her queenly head upon her arms, and,
leaning over the keyboard, her form Is
shaken by q storm Of passionate tears.
Perry hurls aside the sheltering curtain
and limps rapidly across tho soft and
noiseless rug She never dreams Of his
presence until. close at her side, voice
she has learned to know and know well
"a voice tremulous with love, sympathy
and yearning-murmurs only her name,
"Gladys," and, starting up, she looks
one instant into his longing eyes.
Sergt. "Gwyune" Maitland, lifting the
heavy portiere moment later, stops
short at the entrance, gaxes one second
| Il the picturesque scene Mt the piano,
drops tho portiere. and vanishes. unno-
ticed.
Things seemed changed at Dunraven Of
late years. The --th are still ut Rossiter,
90 is Lieut.. Perry. II may be the climate
or association with an American sister.
hood, or-who knows?--perhaps some-
body has told her of Mrs. Belknap's pre-
diction, but Mrs. Perry has not yet begun
to grow coarse, red faced or stout She
is wonderfully popular with the ladies OF
tho --th, and has found warm friends
among them, but Mrs. Sprague of the In
fantry is the woman she particularly fan.
cies, and her grutf old kinsman DR.. Quin
Is ever a welcome guest at their flreside.
| It was he, she told her husband long
after, who undid the mischief Mrs. Bel
knap had been able TO SOW In one brief
conversation. ''rve known that young
woman ever since she wore pinafores
Gladys. She has some good points, too,
but her one idiosyncrasy is that every
man she meets should bow down to and
worship her. She is an Alexander in pet.
ticoats, signing for new worlds to con-
quer, has been coquette from the cradle
and-what she can't forgive In Ned Perry
Is that he simply did not fall in love with
her as she thought he had"
Down at Dunravcn the gates are gene,
tho doors ARE very Hospitality open.
Even Is still manager de jure, but young
Mr.. Maitland. the proprietor, IL manager
dc facto, and, though there Is constant
| going and coming between the fort and
the ranch, and the officers of the --th
ride In there at all hours, what makes
the ranchman so popular among the rank
and file is the fact that Sergt. "Gwynne,"
as they still call him, has warm place
In his heart for one and all, and every
year when the date OF his enlistment In
the -th comes round he gives barbecue
dinner 10 the men, whereat there are
feasting and drinking of healths and
song and speech making, and Leary and
Donovan and even tho recTeant Kelly
are apt to be boisterousy prominent on
such occasions, but blissfuily so--for
there hasn't been a shindy of any kind
since their old comrade stepped into his
possessions at Dunraven Raich.
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