Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-01-17

never could forbear rushing to the res
cue, in any case where his youthful
strength was available. Presently he
succeeded in saving the cart, and in
wetting himself to the skin; which he
hardly felt, for in wading ashore, the
first sight he saw, fixed upon him, was
those two earnest blue eyes!
She stood among the little crowd,
her umbrella in one hand a roll OF mu-
sic in the other; behind her the little
white capped bonnie stood, full Of sym
pathy-as, indeed, everybody was
first, wi h the owner of the cart, and
then with its salvors, She recogni ed
him ut once.
"Oh, how good is monsieur she OK
claimed, warmly, in French, See,
madame" turning to the poor market
woman, your cart is safe, absolutely
uninjured. How kind, how brave it
was Of these men, and of this English
mOnsleur"
And then monsieur, half deafened
by the storm of thanks and applause
from these warm Swiss hearts, was
glad to beat retreat, and find him
SELF he knew not how, walking along
by the side of Mile. Jardine, and talk
Ing, still in French, about how it all
happened.
81 have never seen the lake rise so, "
she said "All the town has been down
here Watching the waves, which are
higher, they say, than has been seen
for twenty years-never since the year
I was born,
She was twenty, then; he had thought
her younger.
Mamma happened to be at Neu-
chatel, and remembers it well-that
day she hal me in her arms, little
baby, and II papa had not held her fast
the waves and the wind would have
sweptus away, both ofus. How strange
it seems!"
very strange; but life is very
strange" said the young man, as he
drank in, full of dreamy delight the
soft tones, the sudden sweet uplifting
of those lovely eyes. They rested on
his soaked clothes.
Monsieur ought to go at once to his
hotel, she said, with pretty deci-
sion. Pardon, but am so accustomed
to look after people-to take care of
them. always take care of mamma,
you know She has been an invalid so
long with her chest. think It is that
which has given me q morbid terror of
damp and wet. Au revoir till six"
And with brief, sweet remorseless-
ness she bowed and passed on, picking
her way through the water channels
and the mud, and never once looking
behind.
This evening with an involutary and
quite inexplicable feeling, he did not
seek for his diamond studs or any other
resplendency of his always-carefu tot
let, but dressed himself as plainly as
possible.
Again he climbed, but impetuously,
ioyously, as il itwere the highroad to
heaven, the long stair which led to
Nine. Jardine's door, and found that
what he had hoped would be a party
trois was added to by the pleasant faces
of M. Reynier and his daughter, and
one or two other guests--not pleasant,
however, to his eyes atall. Neverthe-
less, he made the best of it. Most
young men would have delightedly
acted cavalier seul to such charming
cluster of girls; but Roderick would
thousand times rather have sat be-
side this one girl and watched her
pour out the tea and distribute the
various condiments which seemed to
compose this innocent evening meal,
after the custom of the Ncuchatel
folk.
All the talk was in French, of course,
but now and then Miss" Jardine ad-
dressed him in English, to which he
eagerly responded, as to q sweet Sc
cret of felicity in which the st did
not share. And how he thanked the
benign fate which dragged away the
masculine element in the party to
some lecture-half Neuchatel seemed
composed of professors or coolers
and compelled an early breaking up.
But Monsieur Jardine, who is not
at college, need not DEPART" said
Madame, courteously. will he not
stay and tell us a little of his beautiful
Scotland, which my husband loved so
and sometimes thought to see once
more, but he died without seeing it?
Come and sit by me, cherie, and listen
She loves her fathers land almost as
If she had seen it, does my daughter
Silence"
And then Nine. Jardine questioned
him rather closely about himself and
his college life, watching him with
great intentness and with o gentle
shrewdness which showed that amidst
all her simplicity she was far-seeing
woman not altogether ignorant of the
world and its ways Finally she drew
from him the story of his journey and
its OBJ .ect.
Nothing could exceed the astonish-
ment of both mother and daughter
when they learned that they inherit.
ed"-Roderick carefully put it in that
light, trusting to his good luck to be
able to explain it away afterward-in-
herited sum of money from Miss
Silence Jardine.
How good of herl how generous!"
cried Nine. Jardine, clasping her
hands with one of those impulsive
gestures which we English think so
strange, but which in her seemed per-
fecty natura'. But they had not de-
scended to her daughter, who in mien
and manner was not at all what we
term foreign" but as quiet as any
English girl.
II should explain to you, monsieur.
continued Nine. Jardine, that in his
youth my husband did his cousin a
great unkindness - nay, wrong. He