The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-01-11

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CHAPTER VII.
Hopes Destroyed.
Il may have seemed strange to the
reader that q mere hackney coachman
should have for nephew a learned doc
tor Of medicine. .s &
But Jonas Jarvis was proprietor Of
the horses which he drove, and was
moreover man Of worldly substance.
In early life, little property had
been left to him, and he had besides,
for many years, pursued very profit
able calling.
That calling, or profession, which We
need not at present more particularly
explain, he had quilted only when he
had grown too old and too unwieldy
longer to continue 1t. - '-''e'
Then, partly because he liked to be
earning money, but more because to
have sunk suddenly into still life
would soon have left him with no life
at all, he started, as he himself termed
1t, In the hackney coach line.
The only sister of Jonas Jarvis had
married q lieutenant in the navy; and
In less than three years became Wild
Ow, her husband having fallen In &C.
tion. ao
To the home Of Jonas Jarvis then
came his sister and her little son; but
the widowed mother did not long sur
vtve her young husband.
She died, bequeathing little Edwin
Forester to her brothers care, who,
while accepting the trust, vowed that
sacredly 1t would be fulfilled; and very
faithfully kept his word.
Jonas, In his day. had been a smart
young man; and as besides that ad-
vantage, he possessed the still more
Important one of being master Of q
considerable number Of golden guineas,
1t Is NO wonder that more than one
pretty girl cast towards him longing
and insinuating glances.
But vain were all efforts to tempt
Jonas jarvis into matrimony
boating on his little nephew. ne re-
solved for Edwin's sake, to remain q
bachelor we find him now.
And not q sour and grabbed, but a
genial. warM-hearted old bachelor was
Jonas Jarvis; all the love that would
have gone to wife and children WAS
with his nephew. ~
Next to Edwin his horses were the
objects to which Jonas was most deeply
attached.
But his was altogether generous ma.
ture, and his purse strings had never
been closed against those who came to
him, and who really needed the little
aid 1t was within his power to offer.
Before. lavish with his means, Jonas.
so soon as he had adopted his young
nephew, became and continued a very
careful man.
He had determined that young Edwin
FORESTER should be reared like a gen.
tieman, and so the boy, when old
enough, was sent to Elton, and after.
wards to Oxford, and of his own free
choice became member Of the meii-
cal profession.
Ana Edwin Forester had succeeded
well, was steadily winning his way to
fame and fortune
| He had been sent for to attend Mrs,
Lindsay, and after awhile had been
asked for his bill.
And then he said that his friendship
Tor Mrs. Redmond and her daughter
had made 1t impossible that he could
accept money for his poor services,
and cntreated that the subject might
never again be mentioned between
them.
Edwin Forester had soon discovered
that Mrs. Lindsay was in somewhat
straightened circumstances, which alone
had been sufficient to touch his gener.
Gus heart, but more forcibly still was
that heart stirred by love for EN-
incline Lindsay, which had found its
way to It on the first occasion almost
that he had beheld her, 80 charming
and 30 unobtrusive In her beauty, and
which at every after interview was
increased by her graceful, winning
manner, her sweet and gentle dispoai-
ton.
And Edwin Forester was not asham-
ed that his uncle would continue a
hackney coachnlan; cared nothing for
what the world might say or think
concerning either of them.
Jonas had indeed limited that he
would retire, because his present call
Ing was rather hurtful to his nephew's
professional dignity; but Forester car
ed not for that, and entreated that his
uncle would still go on in his old way.
For Jonas Jarvis to suddenly fall
INTO an inactive life would be to nope
and pine himself very speedily into his
grave, as was well understood by his
loving and grateful nephew. a
And after oil, Forrester's practice
was rather increased than otherwise
BY old Jarvis's peculiar predictions,
Tor people spoke Of DIR. Forester as
2 very skilful young gentleman, who
mad very rich and very eccentric un.
Gle. -
We last left Jonas on his way back
to Barrington's house, to which he was
driving his nephew.
Jonas had not, however, proceeded
very far before he stopped his horses,
and called to his nephew:
There she goes, Ned-there she
goes" and pointing with his whip to-
wards Emmeline, who was .lurrying
along on her way home.
Edwin Forester looked from the car
rtage window, and distinctly beheld
and recognized the woman on whom he
had bestowed his heart.
Il suppose. Ned, am now to return
to her house"
mo, uncle, no." Forester tremulous-
" replied; 'take me a little way to-
wards my own house, II you will be
70 good" ~ - -
He felt that at that moment he could
not have walked step.
And when Forester had alightcd at
bis own door, and his uncle had seen
that he looked pale and Ill, Jonas men,
tally invoked all sorts of unpleasant
things for poor Emmeline, and congrat-
ulated himself that lie had all his life
escaped falling in love.
Mrs. Lindsay had Of late thought Ed
win Forester was becoming attached
to her daughter. and on the morning
following the adventure with the let
ter, feeling certain that she was sink
Ing fast towards her grave, considered
1t her duty to question Emmeline.
And that young lady told her mother
that though Forester had never posi-.
lively declared his love, yet from his
general manner, and from certain words
which had occasionally escaped him,
she had OWNED that secret Of his heart.
And then Emmeline confessed that
the gratitude she had at first felt for
Forrester's goodness to her mother,
had soon grown into warmer passion.
and that NOW aIo ft,I1, vooin.ooo<ax1 II, !,