Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12

treated after the fashion of ordinary
Schoolgirls When the catastrophe came,
no one was surprised
Lord Carlswood had decided that his
daughter should make her debut when she
had reached her nineteenth year; until
then she was to study hard, and perfect
herself in all needful accomplishments by
the help of masters. He frowned con-
temptuously when his friends told him
that it was unfair 10 treat girl % eight
teen like child. None knew how in the
after years he repented of not having foE
lowed that advice.
There was church at Lynn, and before
her death Lady Carlswood had presented
the rector with a very fine organ; more
over, she had asked her husband to set
aside certain sum to pay for an organist,
which he had cheertully consented TO do.
The first organist employed was an elderly
man, who had wife and family to sup
port. A more remunerative engagement
presented itself and he threw up his post.
He was succeeded by a young and very
handsome man-Thornton Cameron,
musician of no mean skill.
Lord Carlswood never saw him, he con.
sidered that his interest in the matter end
ed when the yearly stipend was paid. He
was in London when katrine wrote to ask
| if he would allow her to learn the organ
to take some lessons from the organist at
st. Luke's-Mr. Cameron. He is consrc
| cred very clever" she wrote; land |!
| would be a great pleasure to me to learn
upon an organ that was the gift of my
| dear mother"
ord Carlswood had 10 dream of dan
| ger; to his naughty mind then it would
have seemed as probable that his daughter
would fall in love with one of his grooms
as with her teacher; not even the faintest
! suspicion occurred to him, and Miss Carls
| woods gOverness, who did feel some scru-
| pies, was silenced by being told that Lord
| Carlswood wished it."
| The handsome young organist thought
| he was making grand future for himself
! when he saw a chance of wooing Miss
| CarlswoOd. He was very handsome, light
! IF heart and pleasant of speech, gay with
| the gayety of youth gifted with fatal
| speciOus eloquence; and katrine thought
| the world had never seen his peer. They
could not converse freely in the quiet So
clusion of the old church, when the light
! streamed through the stained Window
! and the governess stood by; but before
| long Katrines kindness had encouraged
him to write little notes, and she had re-
| piled to them. He grew holder, and asked
! her to steal from beneath her fathers root
| to meet him. She foolishly consented,
and when the infatuated young man told
her how dearly he loved her she owned
that she loved him.
| Was it love, or was it an ambitious de-
sire to raise himself far above his station,
/ which actuated him? No one ever knew,
and Thornton Cameron kept his secret. 1t
was base betrayal of trust, a cruel fraud
it was an objectionable deception, a
| most dishOnOrable deed-but he succeeded
in winning what the poor girl thought was
her love, and, after great persuasion, she
| consented to elOpe with him.
She had been so badly trained. was so
young so wild in the flush of girlish
spirits that she thought little of the con-
| sequences. The sensation that must fol-
low amused her. She enjoyed thinking of
the fright, the search, and the emotion of
| her stately father when he should hear
| that she was married.
/ at will be stealing march upon papa"
she said, with a gay, ringing laugh that
| should have smote her companion like
| sharp sword. "He was so particular that
! / should not make my debut until i was
| nineteen: what will he say when he hears
| that am married?"
There was no excuse to be made for her
save that she was charmed with her low
| er's handsome face, with his musical
voice, his eloquent words his passionate
pleading and prayers. She was charmed
| to be the heroine of a quaSi-romance: it
| would be so amusing to appear in London
as Mrs. Cameron instead of Miss Carls-
| wood. The whole matter seemed to her
| simply a delightful adventure; she never
dreamed but that her father, after perhaps
| reproducing her in u stately fashion, would
| again receive her with open arms.
| No Carlswood ever made low mar
| riage"-she had heard that expression Of
! ten enough, but it never entered her mind
| that hers was what would be called Glow
| marriage" Thornton Cameron was hand
somer than, and quite as polished in man
ner rs, the gentlemen who had visited
| Bralyn. There was nothing about him
that could be called vulgar, much less
| low; and Katrine, although clever beyond
her years, did not know much of the
world
She would have considered herself max
ing a low marriage if she had promised to
| run away with a footman or a groom; but
| an artist was to her a gentleman. How
| could II man who created such grand
| harmcnies. who rave his whole time and
attention to the cultivation Of the purest
taste-how could such man be lowf She
| considered him genius, and genius, she
| said to herself, levels all ranks. She had
read somewhere of a king who stopped to
| pick up the brush of a painter Was a
| painter better than a musician? she asked
| herself. Certainly not. If, then, a king
could honor painter, surely her father
| might respect musician. She had read
o. sucn great nonors oeIng pa. - uhem
of kings and queens who had done hom-
age to their genius, and reverenced their
| names.
Still it seemed strange that girl, reared
| In the very atmosphere of pride, should
have forgotten the lesson of her life; but
| such was the case when, one fine autumn
| evening, she stole from the time-honored
walls of Bralyn, and eloped with the hand
some young organist of Lynn
| CHAPTER VI.