Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-07-21
EYRE'S ACQUITTAL.
BY Helen B. MatherS.
PART IL.
(Continued.)

like q peach, said Nadcap, obviously
though to be sure I've never met bu
two in all my Hfe-for l suppose Coz
don is a young man now"
And hasn't he got a skin like :
peach!' said Nan, Indignantly.
More shame for him." said AIadcap
peach cheeks are for women, no
ntel..
Wei said Nan, laying down he
seam in the effort to gulp down he
wrath, and you always talking abou
the last Lord Lowell, Miss, who was a!
fair as his mother, folks say
lie would be dark enough now il
he had lived said Madcap, delighted
10 me quite quite lately, and perhaps
when Gordon is older, much older, he
will be better looking
Better looking said Nan, TO whom
this jest was deadly earnest, when
you couldn't find his match in tht
whole county-Why, saving your pres
.ncn, Miss Madcap, Master Doune amt
q patch on him for beauty or sweet
temper OF anything else that :: young
because he never put himself forward
but lore with cvcIybody'S ways, he's
just overlooked, as saints mostly are
when they come lodging with ordinary
folks
Always overlooked" she repeated
from the time Master Dounc began
his studies till master took to cddicat-
ing YOU, Miss Mad.ap, but never com
planning, always the same, and wor-
slipping your very sho"-string; but
there, it always WAS the lot Of the
Iovcis to be lordcd over and wrongcd
~ tho Eyrcs"
"WrongedE' said Madcap, standing
up, and Il little pale. What wrong
have we Eyres ever done the Lovels?
The woman shrank into herself,
knowing that She had trangrcSScd the
unwrittcn law that ruled the house and
village
j spoke in anger, Miss Madcap," she
said, rising humbly, and | hope you'll
overlook it.. hut | love Master Cor
don AMI | cant bear to hear :: word
against him-Dr even against his Kin. y
MleIrap kissed her old friend. and
thought With Il little rcmDrSc of Cor
don, but presently went away with the
faint doubts of yesterday strengthened
i'll h"r mind the antipathy of Job
to her father, rs expressed by Martha
and confirmed by Il hundred signs in
the old man that now crowded back
On her mind, the strangers conviction
If Wron" done to Lord Lov"l; lastly,
Mans words put Il new light on those
past rcIationS tiiat had sometimes pIIZ-
zl"d her between her father and her
hero
She Went straight to her fathers
study, rs though to exercise those dis
loyal thoughts; and when she came to
it. and saw his chair in the old familiar
place. She kncclrd down beside it and
wcId, with her head upon the place on
which his hand had 50 often rested.
Here lie had taught her; here from
her babyhood she had found SanctrI-
AIRY in all his troubles, ana his arm
ready to receive her: here she had
played while he wrote. meeting I'LL her
demands and interruptions with mex
llaHs:ib!c patience; here She had first
"Ss:lytd STROKES. and
ScorneI al the letters
OF the four and twenty letters;
though. having once mastered them,
She applied the knowledge rapidly to
the books that Mr.. Eyre varied, accord
ing to her understanding, from year to
year He would not allow her to be
one of that noble army of incapablcS
whose lives are the completeSt coniuga-
ton of the imperative mood that Lind
ley Murray ever dreamed of Bells
might he in order, and servants legs i'll
order too: but if she wanted Il thing,
She must fetch it herself. not be for
ever ringing.
Against yaciIlation. too, he warned
her; IF You are in doubt, as TO the
prupriety of pursuing some especial
course waste no time. but decide ut
once not to pursue; the mere fact that
YOU have doubts about it proves its
inexpediency. Some women Gnvnria-
bly, fools always decide in the lltirml-
tive"
Again he would say: Every woman
ought To- have some engroSSing duty
entirely outside her affections; for if
few women have sufficient force of
character to deliberately make choice
Of evil. thousands drift into it because
they have nothing to fall back upon:
and he took care that his daughter. IT
least. should not be without that safe
guard
And now. he who had trained her SO
purely and thoroughly, who had reared
her through delicate childhood to a
sirens and vigorous youth dear
old dad. she thought, as she knelt by
hi: ch2ir was 10 he doubted by her;
and he absent. not able to say word
in his own defense.
Presently she got up. dried her eyes
and took down one of the books ht
had left for her reading; but for the
first time that habit of steady applica
ton on which Mr. Eyre had based hel
whole education failed her. and Sh'
stood for awhile with the lines cleal
under her eyes but devoid of meaning
As She replaced the book. the title OF
the one next To ii fixed her attention
1t was an Army Guide for the veal
after that in which Lord Lovel ha6
died: and trembling little. as one
guilty of diSobe,lience. she took it il
her hand.
1t opened easily ut particular page
and saved her the trouble of search. TO
Frank IovelS regiment was marke,
with red ink: and though his name die
not appear. 4 cross was placed agains