Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-15


new life of wealth and pleasure lying
glittering before his half bewildered
gael
BY-and-bye, however, he remembered
the good father, and returned TO She sit
ting room for the purpose of seeing after
his comforts He found Father Hay
ward alone, for Mrs. Brewster had re-
tired to indulge her bitter grief at the
prospect of losing her adopted son.
lyon will stay and dine with US, sir /,
will you not2'' said Gerard, and the
father consented, and during the COM
Portable ana well-cooked meal which
followed, the priest was quietly endeav-
oring to read the character of the young
man whose future had now become of
such Importance in his eyes.
Gerald talked pleasantly and well, but
the subject of his inheritance was not, of
course, mentioned before the waiting
maid. Mrs. Brewster had declined to
appear, in truth was too much overcome
to do so, but the good father marked
with satisfaction that Gerard did not for
get her. He sent her up some soup, and
poured out glass of wine for her; and
altogether showed both kindness and
consideration for the woman whom he
had so long regarded as his mother.
After dinner was over, the two men
went out together, and Father Hayward
then urged Gerard to return with him to
Wrothsley.
"Lady Gilmore wishes you to do SO, 1"
he said; "and your new position cannot
be too soon established. When could
you leave here?'
Gerard hesitated.
''There are good many things that
will have to be settled, you know he
said.
''But an agent can do all this; money
now can be no object with you, for your
father, Lord Gilmore, died a very
wealthy man.
"Still-''
"Cau you go tomorrow asked the
priest.
Tomorrow echoed Gerard, and
his face flushed and his heart beat tu-
multuously. To leave here Tomorrow
to go from all the old soenes-from every
onel Gerard was thinking at this mo
ment of the blue eyed girl he had walked
with IN the morning, and on many dewy
ewes, on the "ribbed sea shore. - He
was thinking of May Sumner, his
sweetheart, and feeling that to part with
her thus suddenly would be very painful.
But he naturally said nothing of this
to Father Hayward as the two walked
on together along the narrow pathway
on the cliffs, above the wide, rolling
waters of the Northern sea. They were
strange companions! The priest thought
full, erudite, unused of many things even
while he questioned the young man by
his side of his former life, and doubtless
hoped to direct and guide his coming
days. But Gerard was not by nature in
clined to be docile pupil. He was "a
bit of free-thinker, as he himself
expressed It, and though he answered
the father oivIlly and pleasantly, he was
by no means as confidential with him as
he might have been. He was very
glad, therefore, when Father
Hayward proposed TO return to
the village, and mentioned that he
would seek a nights lodging at the viii
lage inn. Gerard had been afraid that
he would be forced to ask him to stay at
the farmhouse, and he by no means
relished the idea of a whole evening
spent in the good fathers company. He
therefore turned with alacrity, and es-
corted Father Hayward to the inn, and
parted with him at the door, without,
however, committing himself to any alb
solute promise to start for Wrothsley on
the morrow.
al shall see, - he said smilingly, and
as the priest eutersd the Inn door 1t
passed through his mind how, though
and brought up so differently,
there was still about this young man
some of the characteristics of his par
ents.
"He is little selt-willed, fear" he
thought, "but by the laws of heredity
he was sure to be.
CHAPTER xx.-GERARD IS SWEETHEART.
Gerard went straight, after he had
parted with Father Hayward, to a small,
newly-built house which stood at one
end of the village, and which belonged
to a man who had contrived to make and
save money, though originally he had
only been fisherman.
How John Summers luck had turned,
10 one but himself exactly knew. There
were various reports about 1t in the viii
lage, some believing that mysterious
Z" find" out of the deep sea had been the
of it, but whatever it
had been John, who was man of few
words, never divulged.
But the facts renamed the same, he
Ceds6Q 10 Dc usuoIludus anu LOoh ~
boat building and boat selling, and his
coolies ard smacks commanded good
prices, for they were known to be stout
and strong, and fit to weather the
stiffest gale. He was hard working ana
prudent withal, and as he was widower
with only one child his expenses were
not great, and he oontrived to give his
daughter fair education, and May
name was really Mary
was considered the prettiest girl in
Scarley, and might have had many
wooers if she had condescended to smile
on the young men OF the class of life
from which her father had originate
sprung.
But her education had made her feel
superior to them, and when Gerard
Brewster took Cragside Farm, and came
counting TO John Summers
house, May told herself that in spite of
his bodily dcformity she liked him bet
ter than the stalwart, brown-skinned
young fishermen, who seemed coarse
and unmannerly now to her dainty blue
eyes. Gerard g handfome face and gen.
erous hand also pleased her woman g
fancy, and it was understood in the vii
lage that these two were lovers, though
they were not actually engaged to be
married to each other when Father Hay
ward first met them by the rustic stile.
Gerard, therefore, having arrived at
the newly-built house, on one side of
which was the building yard, where lay
various unfinished boats, while in front
rfar, 1hC cd hos Tha