Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-12-06
CHAPTER XIII
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CHAPTER XIII
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When Edward cossey had gone, Ida rose
and put her hands to her head 80 the blow
had fallen. and the deed was done. and she
vas engaged To he married 10 Edward Cossey
And Harold Quaritchi Well, there must be
an end to that IL was hard, too-only
woman could know how hard Ida was not
person with long record OF love affairs
Once, when she was twenty, she had pro
posal which she had refused, and that was all
SO II happened that when she became at
tached TO Col Qusritch. she had found her
/ heart for the first time, and for n woman.
somewhat late In life Consequently her feel
/ ings were all the more profound, and so in
deed was her grief at being forced not only
10 put saem away, but 70 give herself to an
1 other man who was not agreeable TO her She
was not u violent or i'll regulated woman like
\ Mira Quest She looked facts IN the face, re-
( eognized their meaning, and bowed before
their inexorable logic Ii seemed TO her
almost impossible TINT she could hope 10 avoid
this marriage, and II that proved to be 50 she
might he relied upon to make the best OF IT,
Scandal would. under any circumstances,
never find word TO say against Ida, tor she
was not a person who would attempt to con
sole herself for an unhappy marriage But
il was bitter, bitter as gall, TO he thus forced
to turn aside from her happiness-for She well
knew that with Harold Qnaritcb her life
would be very happy-and d. her shoulders
to this heavy yoke Well, she had saved the
place to her father by it, and also to her
descendants II she had any. and that was all
that could be said for it.
She thought and thought, wishing in the
bitterness of her heart that she had never
been born to come 10 such a heavy day. till
at last she could think no more. The air OF
the room seemed to stife her, though it was
by no means overheated She went TO the
window aud looked out IL wild. wet
evening, aud the wind was driving the rain
before IL In sheetA In the west the lurld
light of the sinking sun stained the clouds
blood red, and broke in arrows Of ominous
light upon the driving storm
But, bad as the weather was, IL attracted
Ida When the heart is heavy and torn by
sontilcting passions. IL seems TO answer TO the
calling of the Storm end 10 long TO loss It's
petty troubling In the turmoil of the rushing
world Nature has many moods OF which
our own are but the echo aud reflection, and
,he can lie companionable when all human
sympathy must fail For she Is our mother
from whom we come, to whom We 80, and
her arms are ever open to clasp the children
, who eau hear her yoicea Drawn thereto
, by an impulse which she could not have ana
lyzesi Lila went upstairs. put on thick pail
81 boots. a macintosh and an old hat, AND
sal!ied out into the wind and wet IL wal
blowing b. guns, aud AZ the rain whirleC
down, the drops struck upon her face like 4
spray Sine crossed the bridge aud went ou
into the park land beyond The air was full
u dead leaves, and the grass rustled witt
them for this was the first wind since th,
frost The great boughs OF the oaks rattles
, and gruaned above her, and high overhead
amons the sullen clouds, a iight OF win,
tossed rocks we're being blown this way amt
/ thai
! IDA bent her tall frame against the rain
, and gale and fought her way through IL A
trst she had no clear idea 70 where SIN
!, was going. hut gradually, perhaps from
custom, she took the path that ran across tn
helds TO Honham church IL was a beauttfu
old church. and had originally been founde,
by the Boissey family, aud enlarged uartlcn
larry as regards the tower, which bad beel
: partially blown down and rebuilt about til
: time OF Charles !. aud WINS one OF the fines
: In the country by the widow Of one u th
De la Molles, whose husband had fallen a
! Agincourt, as a memorial forever There
utNAl INE IhtFtu. Ntft the nANhN y
the DE Ia Moiles, ~reathed round with palm
: OF victory aud there. too. within this ehnncel
hung the warriors helmet and hts dinte,
shield.
Nor was he alone. for all around lay tn
dust Of the ilustrious dead, come after the toi
: aud struggle VI their stormy lives 10 nes
n Within the walls of that old church Some .
them had monuments oi alahaster, where the
lay 10 elligy, their heads piiowed upon TINT Q
a conquered SarAran. some had monuments
: oak and urass, aud sanae had no monument
at ALL for the Purltans had ruthle&sl
destroyed them But they we're nearly al
there, sons twenty generations OF the bcaTsr
= OF an anciout name, for even those Of then
!" who had perishs1 ou the sciffold had bee
I borne here Tor burial The whole place ~
:, eloquent Of The dead and OF the nIourniul le.
: !. son OF mortality From century 10 centur
= the bearers OF that uame had walked ~ th~s
fields. aad iVesi Ia yolhieT castle. and h'osas
upon tue familiar swell VI yondef groun
:" and the silver flash OF yonder river. and no,
their dust was gathered here, and all ia
forEottea turmoil Of their lives MAS lost i
the siloues VI their narrow tomb
Ida loved the spot, haiiowe.i to her not onl
= by the altar Of her faith, but also by III
human associations that chung round an
clothed it a. the ivy clothed lis walls Her
. she had been christened aud here among be
r. ancestors sho hoIsod u be buried also Her
ID ~ : girl she used with her brother James, Q
a. creep IN awed silence aud look through tn
y window when tbs full moon was up. al th
se white figures stretched VA their u enee within
Z Here, too, she had sat for Sunday after Sun
l. day for more then twenty years. and stars
g at the quaint Latin inscriptions cut on maI
- ble Stats, which recorded the almost supeI
human virtues Of departed Do In Aolies Q
= the Seventeenth aud ishtesuth osliIuries. be
y own uRHwilaEv sHess4oFA The Dlaoy ~