Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-20
CHAPTER II.
twas ne
Gaze heat into til" injury which returned,
J. ~ q pn.ar T. i'..l,cd into the bosom
or E.rn Oh ~. fir. L. IT..

Case heat into til" injury which returned,
or hm gave FIRE L 1t.
There followed on that visit to the
Towers period # the most vivid hap
pIueas THAT Mr. Eyre had ever known.
Tor his fears being lu.led to sleep by
Franks a, UrlncG that Hester was
more detprm ned to avoid an interview
Win M&d:ap Than the latter Wi5 to OBJ
tam ii, and also a keen Sense of having
recovered something that he had almost
lost, gave a charm, q Test, to the mereSt
trlia of everyday existence in Mad
Cap 5 company; 50 that, uncOn5CiO uSiy
to himself, he was going through the
phase lIat She h2d done after Frank
hid told her that he was the sinner, not
Nj Ere.
1t was one of those ideal autumns
that renew the senses with all the fresh
ness, without the languor. Of spring,
AM late October itself brought no
shruud Ok Tor, Tut only an added charm
and hr.iiaG@y Of atmosphere that kept
Ma&cap AID the children oct aud about
all day, Often with Mr.. Eyre, though
otJener sill with Frank.
And Frank, in {" fashion, WAS happy
toe. tor hard as ne found ii lo be tor
ever in NHd"ap'5 company and not be-
tray himself, he haJl found even a few
days absence from her harder stiIl; amt
each day W $ he,ur brought into finer
discipline. hy The Uncousclously selfish
happiness u The two persons who dear
u loved hm.
AID NO ccno Of the wor as scandal,
OF us cIamor, cm 10 disturb that gold
en- season to husband and vie; if none
OF the usuu 1nV,t tloas reached them,
the state OF Nalcap'S health accounted
~, - L. fAn
ny in his homa to ~ sl to leave it, even
neglected those duUleS as magistrate
for VII ca lie had long had u secret dis
inclination. Job a.une feIf 4 b tier dis
sltiS action NJ the position of aft airs,
the mo~c so, rs his "a har lutte Master
Frank" npve" = rmjtJpl H!m iii amy
Wv 10 @lUde 10 Ne C0uvCr-at on that
h@ l,t overheard on TIE occasion OF
Mir. saVr = sit.
But murder will ont, !" the Old man
woul mutter to himself; ''We'va not
seen the end Of if vet, AM though you
MY snatch IN Eyre out of the DEVILS
mouth once, NlcN's safe to get hlm i'll
the Ion r-run. /"
About this time Josephine would.
with locked doors ut night. gloat over
cert Tin trinketS ami geWgaWS that had
lately come into her pos session, thou I'll
sometimes Il ShuddPriug th0uGltU of the
con in which they were to be plil for,
would make her hide them even from
her own eyes.
Between the two women was no
spoken contract hut Josephine knew
how gradually. and in such a way as to
dlSlTm suspicion, Hester WAS making
her arrangements To leave the village;
ITO join her own people" She 81 d. with
n brightness on her face that seemed to
al Af I hn In N1-h oh
W0ull receive her.
The village opinion had veered round
toward her during the six months she
had tlweIt amOag them; her utter in
difference to the effect her beauty pro-
duced upon the men, her acquaintance
with Frank limited to a Jew words
spoken on both sides when by chance
they met. her passionate devotion to
Mr.. Eyre'S chill, that by some strange
hallucinatiOn Tor SO the villagers
thought) She believed to resemble her
drowned baby, had earned the respect
or more than one wife and mother,
thou I'll they wondered greatly that she
should willingly leave the boy in whose
verv life she seemed bound up.
There We're many prayers put up for
Madcap in the village ut this time. the
ch.ef being that WO nan-child mig t
be born to h II. and so win Mr. Eyre, for
the first time. 10 love enid OF his own
for the sake of its resemblance TO its
moth I.
Il think If I'll cot now-boyn baby
TO lie i'm my arms > SAID Hester one day
in lata October. when the COS SIPS were
Wo lderinv what Nule-tila would brinr
10 the Rcd IIlIl. Il could be1r 10 let
one OF the o.lt"U on IS so. CJuIln'C
you2'' she added sjIlI2aly TO Bet OF the
SIu
- don't know" said Rattv rnm;n3-
tinoly. You see. We urumhle when thew
coolfnr and there's the nm. hut
t5nra ann i trua NO nan that hates tue
chijd for TN .t-anI so n ,hoy, wIatIrr
- Tommy or Pn liz or NJ orB,l thnv
NIL thnir vav 10 oar hearts anl VIZ
,ir n,,iin ~ lns. ON oven II fla
It',, = C',,I,l, NV nn},j.nni m !
We have The StJIst.lcCio o. know II :
they're con ovJlh.er up too rs cnerI-
bins, Whar,. having no S,OnIchS, they