The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-06-15
CHAPTER I.
A Modern TOpIlet.

~9~xX i IElt lllI ~ siioAN1
6 have chosen a cure or souls
|iISs ) mill hands and miners. | would
80 preferred to perform my duties
- = clear sky, rather than under
'SHony of smoke; within call Of fields
Y woods. rather than in q forest Of
and black heads Of coal
s4 But since l was disappointed in
lone Of a cure in certain pleasant
20 of Sussex, | resolved to go to
Snerley. in Lancashire. SO, when
& dark afternoon of February l
Ned at the nearest station on
= ch railway, and asked fellow pas
7er who looked like a native, and
i was hurrying away, whether he
n direct me to Tirnperley-whcn |
Ianswered with Il curt "Noa,' l was
Rsf1isconcerted. l received q some
II unintelligible direction from Il
= on porter. and, leaving orders con
ins my luggage, l went out into
dark and the drizzle TO walk to
Iperley.
Rnamped for half a mile or so along
ell paved road. and then according
&irection, | thought turned down
arrow lane between a hedge and a
odcn fence. and soon, stumbling and
nshing through eXasperating mud
cindclS, came out upon the edge Of
eyalley in which Timperley lay.
stood and gazed around me. Such
Spectacle / had never seen before.
Stened to and felt the feverish rush
he life of Lancashire industry The
! and buzz of thousands Of spindles.
swift click and thud Of shuttles
! looms. and the regular sob and res
ttion Of mighty engines mingled
b the rush of waters and the plain
painting of some machine as OF an
aaved geni OF the Arabian Nights.
hediately before me WAS a ruined
], unroofed and gaunt, with it's bell
yer and its tall cold chimney out
Id against the sky; behind it was
)ther group of irregular buildings.
dozen tall chimneys poured their
BIKE into the sulphurous air, which
b pervaded with 4 certain glow
Efficient to dissipate the darkness,
enough to make the stream which
nnd down the valley CLEAN like 4
nntic snake Now and again fur
.e mouths opened and gloWed with
erociols glare. while Wierd tongues
lurid flame tlickered on the slope
! ridge behind.
md still rs / looked and thought Of
5 the bell tower Of the ruined mill
ore me fell with a loud clang, and
re uprose into the air to mingle with
other sounds the frantic screaming
pigs and neighing Of horses. | was
surprised; was somehow prepared
thing that might happen in this
lnge region. l passed, however,
'riedly down the slope by a rough
h, and found the road into the
ley and the village. l heard voices
saw dim crowd Of people about
ruined mill, but the stream, black
eyil-smclling, was between M and
and l had perforce to let my Curl
y wait. | continued my way into
village. which. l found. lay behind
many-storied mill toward the mouth
the valley and close to the high road
which | should have entered 1t.
ad, as it were, let myself in at the
k door. Before l was we'll into the
age passed an arrangement or
buildings with blank walls to the
q, from which came no sound OF life
work. but. instead, the vilest and
ingest smells that ever offended the
Sc, and from the midst Of which
G a towering chimney that smoked
These, l guessed. were
t Of the chemical works Of which
lad heard l found the rectory at
other enl Of the village. | did not
ln-the rector was in bed ill-but
ed to be directed to my lodgings.
had some tea (after some leading
'stions from my landlady, which put
another than Lancashire woman
uld have been considered rude), and
n | prepared to go to dinner at the
se of Mr.. Emmanuel Steinhardt, one
the creators and lords Of the Tophet
} which l had entered. He was the
tors church warden, and | had cor
ponded with him concerning the
acy, and had made this dinner en-
cement week ago. / asked my
uAAuy NueIe SuOulu ALu L AlihPSAiy
Il.
imperly hall I discovered to be
g. oldfashioned, two-storied, some
ng in shape like thick letter /
n q gabled wing, that is, at either
!. 1t overlooked the valley from
side opposite to that from which
lad first viewed it. Soon | was IN
drawing room, shaking hands Win
, Tor HERR Emmanuel St1inhlrdt;
! saw at once that ne was OF pure
ltonic breed, and l heard, when he
81 oxen a few words, that he must
e spent oil his youth and part Of his
nhood in the Fatherland; he spoke
fect English, but with an indescrlb-
e, tell-tale accent. l had just time
notice his burly figure, his somewhat
nued shoulders and his massive talu
ld, when l was introduced TO hls
g, tall, handsome Lancashire Wo-
u (her speech betrayed herr, with
y hair, evidently good deal older
n he; then to Miss Louise LacrolX
was afterward that l learned the
ling Of the name, Of whom ! Will
v Aav nf ppocnut that she looked