The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-04
CHAPTER Ill
TWO QUARRELS.

If course, put up at MerVyn nan
parry -, was very successful and the
-Ie 91 rsra well pleased with their visit.
,oli Carne was quiet and courteous 70
- ,Tnasrs. generally accompanying taeLn
-t,,'gb the day, though he did not nluiseii
me- run After the first days shooting
ca 80. a dinner party at Mervyn Hall,
~ I,ho following evening there was one at
the Hold. Liu,solf mora
I'm anyone else, though he was one OF the
B 49,, ,s,' successful of the sportsmen, missing
i''-, '.lo+s in most unacc juntable man
and seeming to take but moderate in
- in the shooting. He had, very
1eiS-s.i, eftar arriving at the house, come to
ssiLIoa,cInsi n that the doctor was alto
~ - mistaken. and that Reginald Carne
60 no igns whatever Of being III any
yav different from other men.
81 .-rba do,tor is so accustomed to us sail
,.s : he said to himself, that if man Is
10 and studious lie begins to fancy d.
III that there is something queer about
RI him That is al ways the way VITO doctors
81 wbo make Madness special study Iney
s,,.nacr everyone they come across as being
E ont M
s"rnris4d if he doesn't fancy l am cracked
1nvslIf The idea is perfectly absurd. L
watched Game clc sely at dinner, and no one
con7d have been more pleasant and gen
h flamaqIv than he was expect Mackenzie
In1sr have heard a word let drop about this
I'D story. and, of course, if he did he would
GOV down Carne at once as being Insane
We'll. thank goodness, that's off my mind ;
IT'S been worrying me horribly for the last
few DAYS. have been fool to trouble
myself so about MackeI zieS croakings, but
now will not think anything more about
it,
On the following Sunday, as Ruth Pow
lett was returning from church in the
morning. and was passing through the little
wood that lay between CarnesfoTd and the
Hold there was rustic among the trees,
ana George Forester sprang out suddenly.
Il have been waiting since daybreak to
i see YOU, Ru h, but as you came with that
old housekeeper | could not speak to you. l
have been in Plymouth for the last week
I hear that they are after me for tina
shirnisl with the keepers, so l am going
away for bit, but | couldn't go till said
g1od-by to you first, aad heard you
prom SO that you would always be faithful
TO me-"
Il will say good-by, George, and my
thoughts aud prayers will always be with
you. but l cannot promise to be faithful
not in tee way you mean"
"What do you mean, Ruth2' he asked,
angrly DO you mean that after all these
years you are going to throw me otfN
Ruth was about to reply, when there was
slight rustlinE in the bushes.
"Ihare is someone in the path in the
wood"
Geurge Forester listened for a moment
ITS Only rabbit, " he said, impatiently
NEVER mi. that now, bu5 answer my
question. Do you dare to tel. me that you
are going to throw me overT
i am not going to throw you off,
George, she said, quietly; but am going
to give you up. | have tried, oh! how ha d
haze tried. to believe that you would Le
better some day. but | can't hope SO anv
longer. You have promised again an
again that YOU would give up drinking, but
you are always breaking 20 pro uise, and
now lind that in spite Of all you say, you
still hold with those bad men are Dareport.
and THAT you have taken to polchlng, and
now they are III search Of you for being one
OF those concerned in desperately wounding
John Morton. No, George, / have for
years withstood even my father | have
loved you IN spite Of his repr caches and en-
treaties, tut fee now that instead of your
making me happy | should be utterly mis-
cradle If ma rlei you, and l have made a
promise to Miss Carne that l would give
you up
"Oh, she has been meddhng, has sheY,
No3l 80 Tester sad, with terrible impre-
ea-lon viii nave revenge on her, |
swear VIII. So it's she who has done The
mischief, I'd made you false to all Won
Pfomlse1. Curse youl vita your smooth
lace and your churc going ways, and
e your canning hes; you think now that they
are hunting me away, you will take Up with
e ., one else, but you shan't, swear.
though l swing for it.1'
And he grasped her suddenly NV the
throat, but at this moment there was =
SQUAD OF voices in the road bshind them
ana dashinS Ruth to the ground with a
force that stunned her, ne spranp into the
WOODS. ~ Q AN'0 'ne
minute later the stablenen at tho Hold
S Iaine along the road and found Ruth still
Nlng on the ground.
,o; aLC9t a minutes consultation they deter
b ,l11iou " carry her down to her father S
ihouSe' aS they had no idea what was the
1 1est course to pursue to brig her ropnd
w VI Vhem, therefore, lifted and carried
, NC. u1"h, While the other hurried on 20 pre-
P"ie Vhe miller for their arrival
MAS 81 Fo"lect," he said, as he entered
s ?ouF slrl has hurt herself: l expect She
S;tP0u III Seole somehow, going IN the
81 Hl-i, ana came down heavy: ANYHOW W.
+ounu her lying there iusenslble and nv
6ao mates mates are bringing her down. We saw
a. , ."o or three hundred va ds ahead of MS
COLI g cathe OUT OF the churchyard, SO she
so IIi1 1oC nave laid there above minnie or
o. Nlen we came up
not +'u uu. was brought in. Mrs. Powlett had
naic !ev returned from Dareport. but a
T,Ia7 , ~, + was soon fetched in bv one of the
in a f oniIe another went for the doctor, and
~. minutes Ruth opened her eyes.
o,,;1 IN Cai&, dear" her father said. '.lja
f - Ior a few minutes and Won viii soon
i ~ oe-ter you slipped dow in the road Won
Oe all right aow.n Do'' ~ " III
fo n'uy "a closed her eyes again and Law ouiat
and tred to sit an, N0U up again
.1I a'n better now, father
a nv, +uanH God for that, Ruth. It gave me-
car "a IN " hen l saw you carried in here 7
dec 'o.l y9u; but lie still little Longer the
~ wa Dc mere in a fe " minutes
UoA want him, father.n
Ia hes, you do, my dear, and ANYHOW as
Won. 100 9.oeen sent for he must come and Soc
10 fb5o' ~, need not trouble about going mn
thai fa iloid, II was three of tae men there
vii eo,I 'u you and brought you down.
ing ber .', - q noe by them to Miss Carne tell
VII 10 - lHdO you had bad fall. and that we
ir -I Keep you ere until to-uorroyv naI,.ro
wsSni. an sure you will not be fir 70
wo r, Up Ihat hIIl again to-day. Anvboy
bao.",itll wax until the doctor comes and
Ae9r what says.n ''i 0on'e' ana
nffer nm lutes LATER the doctor arrived and
ba,l,,Iule nearing Hiram's account of what nj