Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-01-17

sWhat have y0n lost, old fellow? You
] stick? Perhaps you didn I bring one. Al
to the money, never was cautious else
| suppose | should not have dispatched ,
| thousand or two in this way. Yet who i
to guess that it has gone this rlarning
| Certainly, however, ii would be b ttel
if the relieving officer in there with ,
| jerk of his h ad toward theslibrary door
shouldn't know. He'd say that 1t was
| just like my careless way of do ng things. ,
Perhaps Caryl agreed wi h the Baronet
| but, however that might be, he turned
! away with nod, abandoning his search
for the stick. Allan Bertram's word:
! Jared upon him just II wv, when his mind
, was full of other thoughts.
At the best of times, however, the two
| young men were not on remarkably friend
| ly terms-indeed, the Squire he r was
no favOri c among any of the men in he
ne ghborhood. This fact troubled Allan
very little, since his large, rather bold
| eyes, tall figure and white hands had
proved powerful to win popularity among
women wherever he went
Once beyond the gates of the park that
surrounded Rock Hall, Caryl Vane slack
enc the pace which had spe Oily carried
him out of Allan's sight. 1t was The depth
iron whilst the hedge-row twigs seemed
to shrink and shrivel In the keen frost
that reiSned everywhere. Absorbed In
his own thoughts, Caryl did not seem to
heed the cold.
All the country appeared deserted. The
cattle were housed away from the search
ing wind. The brown earth gave out no
fragrant scent. The very blades of gras
fn1t stiff apI hrittla Ia ha Tn, H.. ,nJ 3 kn
farmers, with their men, were employing
the / lie as useful y as they could in barns
and Outbuildings, leaving the wide bar
rem fields empty and desolate. The two
tall smOking chmnpys far away in the
distance, reminding the Vicar son o. the
office beneath their shadow where he had
worked for ;, many long and weary
months, seemed to lie the only signs of
activity and fe.
With his head bent down and his lips
compressed, Caryl hurried UPWARDS
neither turning to the right nor left until
he rearhe the corner where the Ulthorpe
road branchpd o +; and then. all In mo-
ment, the gloom of the landscape seemed
to disappear, the fixed lines about his
mouth were relaxed, and the hot blooi
rushed TO his cheeks for there. with a
bcauti ul light in her dark eyes and the
demureSt of smiles h vcring about her
pretty lips, stool the girl he loved best in
all the world.
"Angcl VOL h req he exclaimed.
Why, what has brought you all the way
from home, and upon su h day too?"
An2e! laughed and shook her head, at
the same ime slipping one small hand
within his arm. She dill not blush or
tremb'e at his to I"h, as lie, strong young
fellow that he was, had done at the we're
sight of her. he would ha laughed the
idea to scOrn, had such possibility been
suggested 10 her. he was his sister
nothing more, she would have answere |.
Seventeen years beSO'e Mr. and Mrs
Nane, going one summer night frr final
stroll rOunl the yicarage garden had
found. upon ter return 10 the house. a
strange little bundle Wing in the porch.
with tender fingers the mother, who had
about half an hour hafo e given her six
yeaf-Old eldeSt-bOrn his goo Knight kiss.
lifted up the Oddly.Shapei y reel and
carried IL inside the house to the light
With trembling hands she unwrapped the
shawl that formed the outside covering,
and from amongst its f0'd, she lifted ont a
baby, which at that nom mt raised is
sleepy cyelidS AMI, looking at her with n
smile, won its way straight to her woman
ly heart.
Wh0cve had LETT the infant there up N
the doorstep had pinned to its little white
irock, trimmed with OStly lace mOrsel
OF paper on which was written e word
'Hhrystai, and that was the only sign
which was left to the tiny girl of all hat
had happened in its short lie before il had
passed the Nicaragc thre>h It, All efforts
to discover the perS N who had laid her In
Mrs. are ia hway proved fruitlcss.
The clergyman and his wife were by no
means wealthy peOp'c, and they knew it
would be hard work to Till an extra II tie
mouth. Yet amongst the children of the
household place was found for the new
conner, who ha been re- eived as though
she had lien straight from heaven.
1t was because o. SINE pretty fancy of
that sort that pc pie had got into the wav,
at first halfriaytully OF calling the dainty
60 den-hairei creature Angel: and the
name had clUng h her ever since.
Thus 1t came to pass that, when her
lover me. her in the lane, he adore Ssed
her by the ii e which from among all
other names he would have chosen as
most suitable for her and that she laid
her hand upon his arm and looket IN at
him with sister a lection shining IN
lovely eyes.
Il wanted to hear what Sir Godfrey had
offered YOU" she SAID quickly In answer to
his .ueston. at isn't half such a bad
day as everybody makes out. Look how
rosy | am,'-as though he had not been
looking at her with admiring eyes err
since they met! And this long walk il
lust what we want to Tux over your news
in peace
Caryl pressed the little hand more close
ly against his side.
''llow good you are to me- he whisper
ed. Il wonder Then. after sud.
den pause-"Sir Godfrey has been awful
ly generous, Angel DO you remember
that cousin Of his who was saving down
here couple OF months ago? Well, he Is
going back 10 his American arm in a fort
night. lie wants partner to return with
him and the Squire o rers me the berth,
he lending me he ne essary money until
can pay him. Sir Geofry says there is
Big fortune to be made there; and mean
to be the one t. WIN it,
SO far he had talked on rapidly, trying
to throw into his face and manner some
OF the happy hOpefulness with which he
had been filed half an hour before. But,
with Angel at his side and the dread of
parting from her which must so soon
come weighing upon his heart, that was
no very cas- matter. II needed only the
one great sob which at that moment
burst from the girls lips and a sight OF the
tears rolling down her cheeks to make him
abandon the weak attempt and t. look as
sorrowful as he felt.
''Sir Godfrey generous. and to send YOU
all that distance away" she walled " h.
1t is cruel-cruel What shall we do with.
out you, Caryl' Just think how d Ill and
detestable it will be- As to mother, | he.
leve 1t will break her heart
And you, Angel" he asked huskily-
''will you care?'
"Care?'
She repeated the word disdainfully, and
glanced up a him almost with ang r in
her eyes. But the look which met her
own banished every feeling excent one of
startled surprise, and in an instant she
found herself in Caryl's arms.
My darling he whispered, don't
you understand? | have triei to make
you see, but you never would. We are
not brother aui sister. Angel-we never
have been as you have known ALWAYS 80
and my love for you is not a brother
love. Dearest, | want you for my wife
and am going away to America that
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