The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-04-08
THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE.

CONTINUED fhOci fihoA A<eNH
harmless always, To every one but herself,
the milkman says.
The minute bell tolled.
II hope that won't wake the mistress,
whisnered Clara "Theres tie chief
mourper by himself in that first carriage
Master Robin its the Gentlen a oppo-
site
So it was In deep mournins. rigid
figure all alone, sat Robins old friend, fol
lowing the coffin.
.sPerhaps she was his sister, y said Robin,
dts well. any way, she had him. For
look. there's only one carriage more ana
them ia it is Just the doctor and Lawyer
Giles and the two keepers-one tall and
Ones short. Not soul else Poor thing!
Well, she'd been as good as dead, ever
such a while. And yet the mikman says
she was sweet lady, and favorite with
em all, patients and servants, up at the
house there.
In the evening Robin visited the old
gentleman. Exactly Il week had passed
since that strange interview in the garden.
The child had called every day, but had
not again seen his old friend. But this
evening be found him seated in his
straiyhtbacked chair facing the picture.
The inkstand was closed: the quill pens
stood dry in their holes the "fistory OF
the Seventeenth Lancers lay unopened
below It's bronze weight. Only small
roll of paper; yellow from age, lay idle in
the bony old hand.
swell, my little man e said he with
faiut smile. | had Thought of sending for
YOU. Come aud sit down by me-.
"Was 1.-THE Lady? asked Robin
suddenly.
He looked up at the smiling picture.
His eyes slowly filled his lip quivered
..You're sorry, them said his friend
"But never mind. She had suffered very
much while she was here. am going TO
tell YOU about it. will tell you for
warning to yourself when your own time
comes, my little lad. She's with the real
Little Lad now.
GLOW came she to know him 2" in
auired Robin. consoled in anticipation of
a story.
when that was painted the gentle
man pointed TO the picture-''his family
and hers were great friends. One summer
she went on II long visit to the Sayiles-
yonr great grandparents and their chill
dren-while her own parents were abroad.
There happened to be young tutor also
staying in the house, coachiDg the elder
BOYS Tor an examination. He sometimes
taught Little Lad too, and Little Lad was
devoted to her. They we're often brought
together, she and he, through their deal
ines with Little Lad.
did you know the young tutor? Was
he nice 2"
II knew him-too well, my little chap.
He seemed nice to Little Lad and to her
but he had great ianlts. He was hot-tem
pered and impatient, like a war horse only
half broken. But in those samEer days
his iaults did not appear. Ii was such a
beautiful summer and they grew 10 love
each other very much, that young tutor
and He pointed again, in silence.
"But The ending of that blessed time
was a type of what came after II ended
in Little Lads death. The young tutor
rot him out ofthe water, but the little live was
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due"o -, lie J;s'r,c,aJ AMI
r. - -, - h.,r r1I.,;on. She
IN 49, -. ,,,,,r w.,s nnor
He followed her, and asked her father TO
let him marry her; but her father refused.
~What happened then 2 asked Robin
as the old man paused. The black eyes.
~. lnuger dim. were fixed. as it they saw
''' 49, 49, ~ -.
past 'ine'' up" .ne I'll
-, ous' at n's' i"'> uiu n'' '"l -
lhe young 'u'o, 'es.'1eu ~ VIZ "alr
ana win her anu sue 'o,i "Ilu ,na' 81"
%Vuiu never s iors1' ni'n' "I p "d's ~ ~,
Aii ne, '''1 !" "Iou nj,
sue - ' "nJ n ,w" vears he came hack
tt r. - - III ,,as IN fair way
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tDouu anu sun NC S'"u 81 '7
@u'or went away ior a"o'"e' Spa'
i think he was moi impatient az ali'
SAID Bobin.
"hhi van hll' my boy, AT Tue emu
'of the next year he came again. anu sun
the father sald no. so ihen the young tu-
tor begged her to dlsobey her father anu
be married away from her home But
she would not. Because she was very
good She was like an angel: And
though she loved him-beiier tnan her
life, she sald-s'ls could not even Tor MN
do wrong. tt w""'d De wrHug' she fe,''
10 dlsobey her father ana Mea9 Der mo'h-
er's heart.
Was the young tutor angry with her
.'tle waited Que more year That was
-four years from the time he came hrst.
ana 'neD .e so' 'ei9 nnSr r. ,h ne I H.
asep 70 Nse nei, ''iI ne '"'u , "e' ."". i I"I
aiiu '"o' care i" "''"' anu . lea. uI1'
hi'nfe' ana refused 10 pe''eFV ~, W''a' sue
said IL was oniy pre'ehce' ohe k""~s
now, my boy, that 1t was only pretehce'
Then some work turned up Tor MN near
her home She iaa 10 1heei nun cot-