The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-17

IbIF dskeu the DluSulIp george, Win an
unsuccessful pretense of not knowing what
was meant.
"pve carried her. said Sam; "GOd bless
your soul, I've carried her in these arms
hundreds and hundreds of miles. Hun
dreds and hundreds of miles l must have
carried her. You might have told me,
| Master George
You don't seem to have given me much
chance tell you anything answered Red
wood, making the best Of his discontinue.
The plain truth is, Sam, that until a quar-
fer OF an hour ago there wasn't anything to
tell"
Nor cried Sam, his face wreathed in a
smile OF delight and astonishment.
I've meant my mother to have the first
news, but you've been lying in ambush,
you old black tracker, and surprised the
secret"
mo" cried Sam, again. do you mean
to say I'm the first to hear about it, Well,
then, wish you Joy with all my heart.
Joy with all my heart is what 1 wish you,
Master George. She's an A l young lady
that you'll find"
SAM interrupted the discovered lover.
81 know / can trust you"
at would be a bit of pity if you couldn't,
wouldn't itp' Sam asked
81 don't want word spoken about this
matter yet. am afraid that l have been
precipitate. You see George hoggled
little in his speech and bluShed anew-"Mr.
Hetheridge hardly knows anything at all
about me. l dare say he's forgotten that
I'm alive. | haven't seen him since l was
boy. People say he's enormously wealthy,
and he may think it like my cheek to have
locked at Miss Hetheridge, though he
doesn't seem to take much interest in her
himself"
My word, he don't" said Sam, bitterly.
IL was curious and yet a quite natural
fact that pnttar With that dormant
OF his, had the str ngest prepossession
against Hetheridge. He had CROPPED darkly
aud unavallingly within the recesses of his
own mind for an actual charge against the
man countless times, and had never been
able to formulate it or to reach near the
dimmest intuition Of the truth. Tue only
thing he could arrive at was perplexed and
angry certainty that he had some reaso for
detesting Hetheridge, and that in one way
or another 1t was associated with those men
tai lapses which he knew himself to have
suffered. How. or when, or where HeLher-
idge had made himself responsible for this
injury. Sam could not tell, but he charged
him with 1t, and was very often disposed to
chlde him with his own unreasOnableness in
doing SO. The very name of the man CALLED
him. Hetheridges treatment of the
little Ellice helped to inspire him with
profound mlsllking and contempt. Sam
seemed often to himelf to stand on the
edge Of discovery, and his own impotence
to slezs what he felt to be so near was some-
times savagely irrlt ting. He had long
since given up the effort TO fog his memory
into action on this point. for every such at
tempt had resulted in au agonizing head
ache, which, on one or two occasions, had
lasted for days and days, and had left behind
mental symptoms, of which he felt, with
out understanding them, the danger.
You'll say nothing, Sam, will you"
Red wood besought him.
Not word Sam answered. "I'd like
tell 'Tilda, but l won't if you say no.
I'D rather you said nothing for the pres
ent, Sam"
"All right" Sam answered. "pm as quiet
as the grave. Good night, Master George
Lord love you BOTH Pm glad to know tn Q
news, and you may trust me as you would
yourself"
They shook hands heart ly and parted,
Sam to smoke another pipe or two and to
consume quart Of cold tea whilst he di-
gested his discovery, and George TO lay his
news before his mother.t
She was delighted, blu no whit surprised.
but you must remember, George" She
said, that Mr. Hetheridge may have other
views for her. They say he is rich, even
among rich men in London. You will al
ways have enough. but you are very poor
compared with him; howey or, we must hope
for the best, aud perhaps | have some inhu-
ence with him, must see Ellice first, and
then l will write to Mr.. Hetheridge, or per-
haps call upon him myself"
George was curious to know what infu>
ence his mother might have with Ellices
father, but she would tell him nothing be-
yond the fact that they had been play
in Childhood and lntimates until the time of
his leaving England for Australia But the
boy like most lovers at this early stage of
! affairs, was easily hopeful, and after au
hour or two of serious aud tender talk the
mother and son retired to their separate
| rooms.
ITO BE CONTINUED