The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-22

"Sou'
MRS. EvEsIAM HAD RETIRED TO HER
PLACE BESIDE GEORGE ARUNDEL's COUCH.
ling her checks and the telltale, down
cast eyes scarce daring to raise their
lids.
Harry"
"Wandar'
Yet not one word of the burning love
each bore for the other. Harry Eve
sham too proud to claim the girls affec-
ton till his prospects We're more as
sured-she, trembling lest she should
5etray her fondness, for she felt that it
was almost criminal to even love the
son of her benefactress in secret. Thus,
these too, after long parting met once
more. neither knowing what the other
suffered, and each for the other resolved
for the sacrifice.
They strolled down the sandy lane
arm in arm-sandy, say, for though
the snow lay like white sheet on all
the rest of the surface of the country,
there was always bare spot near the
school house; and, for that very reason
the children hurried away to more
favored localities, and the road was de-
serted.
/ do not know that the weather was
particularly charming that afternoon
in fact l believe a disagreeable east
wind was blowing-but to this infatu-
ated young couple it seemed as if they
were drinking into their lungs the
balmy breath of the Hesperides.
This IS the last stroll we shall have
together for many day, Wanda am
going abroad
Abroad" Wanda says, with e fool
ish trembling.
Eyes, and for your sake"
For mine-impossible."
1T is strange, IS it not? But none the
less true. You see Mr.. Hardcastle and
l have been on more familiar terms
than men in our relative positions
usually are, and in the course OF our
talks have told him your history"
"Oh, Harry"
"Yes, dear. and he-like the big
hearted, glorious fellow he is-has set
his mind on unraveling the mystery
which surrounds your BIRTH
MIR. Hardcastle has done this?"
'-Oh, you must not be surprised. 1
think he saw how interested / was
about everything that concerned You,
and"
go, on, Harry
And, well, perhaps partly for my
sake, he has determined 20 ferret ont
everything; and, with this view, is send
ing me to England to play detective"
How good, how kind" Tears were
in her voice.
is he not? So. my dear, you see we
must not waste the moments. l have
really come down here to gather all
possible details of your early life. Try
hard. Wanda, and thinl, of anything
that might be useful to me-
Il know what you mean-you want
me TO remember scenes and circum-
stances prior to my arrival in New
York"
Exactly"
And that cannot do, for oh, how
often have rael1ed my brain 70 conjure
up the past. You see, / was such lit
tie thing"
still" Harry urged, you were old
enough 70 have impressions, and have
read in books that the Incidents of child
hood. though for years forgotten, will
suddenly flash on the memory il Some
associating circumstance presents it
SELF
''Ah, that is strange, Harry, and in
duces me to tell you of an occurrence
which happened the other day"
Say on, and remember that in case
like this nothing is too insignificant.
''Well. then, poor Mr.. Arundel was at |
his worst, and that executive servant of 1
his, old Bladon, was standing at the top |
of the stairs watching the doctor de- |
scend. for he had just left the sick mans |
chamber, and he shook his fist at the |
retreating figure of the medical man
and muttered: 'Nowt but book learnin', /
and precious little o that, should say |
Oh, for twenty-four hours of Nurse /
Marty and her herbs' Nurse Marty! |
The words sounded so familiar that / |
knew they struck chord in my memory,
and l sat in my chamber and thought.
Suddenly it seemed to me as though /
saw vision of woman's face-a sweet,
sad face, which smiled ON me-the face
Of an elderly woman, Harry, who yet
lid not look old, for all her snow-white
hair and furrowed forehead. But the
most extraordinary thing about her APP
oearance was patch of black silk she
wore over her left eye. 1t was very alb
'urd of me to eonjure up such an appar-
tion, but"
mo, no, L am convinced it was
"reminiscences, " Harry interposed. But
had you no other day-dreamse"