Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-29


said Sir Carlos; and the man sprung
back in alarm.
But when the master was gone.
Hiram West took the torn linen from
its hiding place
There is no mistake about it he
said that was done by woman's
hand, and the chances are ten to one
that the woman has the solitaire. and
that is why he is so angry about it
Was that bright handsome Sir
Carlos the man with the pale face and
wild eyes who seemed afraid to face
the sunlight who shuddered when
the sound OF human voice reached
himp
The baronet said TO himself that he
should go mad if he stayed much
longer at FirhOlme.
Lady Carew found her son in the
dining groom. with an untasted break
fast before him, and cried out in alarm
when she saw his face.
You are ill. Carlos! Oh. my
dear what is the matter? You look
CHASTITY"
Il feel i'll mother" he replied.
Look at my hands See how they
tremble. l cannot keep them still
Is this how people sicken for fever9"
My dear boy | hope notP" she
cried her eyes filling with tears.
Let me send for DOCTOR"
Nor and he began to pace up
and down the room. Il wilt 60 away
for a day or two. Change OF air often
prevents an illnessr'
Let me go with you she implored.
You are not fit to go alone Carlos;
you are not indeed.
Il shall be better alone, mother-a
thousand times better
You stayed too long in Italy" said
Lady Carew. II don't think the
climate suited you. Go to Scotland
for few weeks; the bracing air ill
perhaps restore you.
lie laid his aching head on her
shoulder. Il have been Il sad trouble
TO you, mother all these years. IL
wish now / had behaved better.
Tears were falling from his eyes
hot binding tears. She had not seen
HIM cry since he was "a child. lie
must be i'll.
You have never given me any
trouble. she said soothingly. You
have been the very JOY of my life. "
Then he drew away from her with
a wild cry.
did you hear anything mother?
| thought l heard the tramping OF
feet?"
NO it is fancy. Carlos. My dear
l am alarmed about you. Have
medical advice You are really ill!'
mol | will go away from here
Nothing but change of air will re-
move this nervous depression. Moth
er. | will take the TRAN to Upton. and
go on to Carsdale for a week. VIII
you make my adieux to the baroness
and Lady Gladys? 10 not say any
thing about my being i'll. Soy BUSH
ness has called me away"
ady Carew lookel at him with
quivering lips.
Il am so unhappy about you, Car
los. At least take your valet with
you Do not go alone.
He IS a chat cring idiot" cried
Sir Carlos. Il beg your pardon.
mother but he irritates me with his
perpetual chatter. will go alone. /
shall come back quite we'll"
Heaven grant it. my dearest boy.
she returned.
But when he was alone. he put his
arms on the table and groaned aloud
Il cannot bear it, he cried. Il
must go-oh. Heaven. let me die or
so mad and forget"
Before night Sir Carlos was two
hundred miles away but the restless
ness did not leave him.
He could not still the trembling of
his limbs. II he lay down to rest he
started up with horrible cries; il he
tried TO sleep it was only TO suffer from
such horrible dreams that any pain
was preferable. lie had not been
able TO rest at FirhOlme; he could not
rest away from it Whatever secret
he had left there haunted him.
How can | go back to it?' he
would cry.
In the midst of his despair he
thought OF his loving. anxious mother.
He stealied his trembling hands and
wrote to her that he was better-the
change Of air had done him good.
When she read the letter she was
overjoyed. She began to think OF
what she could do TO please him while
he was away. He had spoken Of
having the pictures hung differently
in the dining-room -that she would
hare attended to: and the mere? 1t
should be drained at once, filed in, n
knoll formed and the top of il
crowned with trees lie had said
that he should like it, and it should be
done. She would see about It at once.
She would do anything to give him
pleasure.
She wrote the same morning TO
Lynn Mavis and Mr. Gregson. the
land surveyor came over TO sec her,
and undertook 10 e,ecute the work,
though he told her he thought it was
"a pity 10 fill up the mere. But Lady
Carew said proudly that her son
wished it. go it must be Gone
A week later the men were at work;
and Lady Carew thought how pleased
her son would be WHEN he returned.
Perhans some in sf1ncf told him, thot