The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-10-05
CHAPTER III.

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CHAPTER III.
"Well, my dear, it's so long ago since
I've heard speak of these things that
l Almost forget. You'll make yourself
il'-this as she saw Nelly helping her.
self incontinently to another great
spoonful of jam.
mo, I sha'n't. New do go on, you
tiresome, provoking old thlng!'
"Well, now, let me see You know
the picture they call the Black Hunt
ingdon' in the gallery? He was your
let me think now-no, great-great-great-
grandfather
"It's all the same" said Nelly, with
her mouth full e..
mo, my dear, it's not at all the same;
because one was him. and Of course the
other 'lld be his son" .g.
"All right, go on
And you know the pretty, pale, sor-
rowful-looking lady in the panel by the
big chimneycOrner? "....
Yes. Lady Isabel"
'Well, Black Huntingdon and Lord
Langholme (at least, he was only Sir
Vivian then-his nephew was the first
earD-Black Huntingdon and Sir Vivian
were both in love with her from the
time they were boys, and she favored
Sir Vivian always from the first. Well,
that didn't hinder Black Huntingdon
from going after her, more particular
as the earl, her father, ccuntenAnced his
suit. 1t was different in those days,
you know, dear-the Langholmes were
down ard the Huntingdons were up
then; now it's al! the other way, and
| they've got their tCrE in the scale. He
was an awful jealous disposition was
Black Huntingdon, and would come
home half mad sometimes after he'd
| seen Lady Isabel and Sir Vivian togeth-
er, or else go scourin' the country like
| the wind on his black horse Satan
Once he went off for days and days.
nobody KNOWN what had become Of
him, an his people began to be fright
ened, an to search the country round,
when one night he came home in the
midst of great storm Of thunder and
lightning, looking for all the world like
a ghost, and Satan all in reek of
smoke and foam. He hardly touched
food, and night after night they heard
him walking up and down. I'D and
down, in the great gallery, sometimes
giving q sort of choked groan like.
That was when he found out Lady
Isabel would have Sir Vivian, and the
earl had given his consent. Well, a
month before they was to have been
married the war broke out, and Sir
Vivian had to go off to the army.
Poor things! there was sad TODD with
them, believe; she clurg to him, and
went on her knees to him not to 60
or to take her too; but of course that
wasn't possible, and he was a brave
young fellow, and wouldn't shirk his
duty SO he went with a sore heart
and she cried and said, It's all over
nm we shall never be anything more
to each other now And she stood al
the castle gate watching him ride of
down hill. and then she tainted, and
they carried her off to her room, and
for many a long day they thought she'6
never come out again except in hel
coffin"
Nelly had left off eating now, and wa.
leaning forward eagerly with grea
wide-open eyes.
"Go on, go on" she cried as nurse
paused.
DO give me time to get my breath
child" said Wilson, but feeling flat
tered all the same at the interest he
recital awakened.
WELL" she went on, presently, eth
Huntingdons was always reckoned al
honorable race of men; but love will
make the best do strange things a
times, and Black Huntingdon WASH
one Of the best. So when Sir Vivia1
had been gone some time, he set will
, stories af1Oat about him: and it came t.
Lady Isabeps ears that her lover wa
faithless. and had married a foreigl
lady. So months went on. and sh
, grieved and walled and lamented, bu
no other tidings of her love came t
her, and Black Huntingdon was Away
, at the castle, so at last the poor sou
yielded, and they were married. H
was dotingly fond of her, in his jealous
savage kind of way; but when he SAY
she wouldn't smile on him, or care flo
his love or his company, he turned BIZ
, ter upon her, and was always reproacf
p in of her, as if it was her fault, poo
+ lamb! And then she'd use to :wande
about, with her poor wan face loOkin
y like a ghost. an crying sometimes f
to break her heart. And at last Sir vi,
J., ian came home, and went first. quit
@ | joyful, to the castle to see his old Low,
T When they told him she was marie
=, to Black Huntingdon, he stood lik
one turned to stone; an then, withol
y a word, he mounted his horse and cam
= off straight to the Hall. He passe
|. the servants without word, and wei
u straight into the room where my lad
h sat; an she sprung to him with gre:
4 cry, an he took her in his arms; the
l. clasped together as if they'd new,
y, part any more, and so Black Huntin
don found them. That night he al
Sir Vivian stood up. together in tt
>, beech avenue, with their hearts bel
=. on murder. Their hate was savag
) and each one was set on killing the OF
n err. 1t was 4 long time before eth
~ got a"blow, because they were DO
- good swordsmen; but at last Bla,
~ Huntingdon thrust Sir Vivian throus
= the body. But he got wound in b
+ r side first, and after laying many ,1a
n in great agony, he was SO eat up wi
- rage and pain that he died. too s.
II "And what became of Lady Isabel
~ "She died in giving birth to a so
ri so twas a pitiful story from first
If last. The child was brought up by /
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