The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-07-17


| BE never would make any pretenSe of lis
tening TO anything l said about my wife
always ran away. you know. Now. one
| likes to be listened to when one has any
| thing on ones mind
! 1t was long but pleasant walk back
to Branksome. Armathwaite went by
| the longest way. round the head of the
lake and through Mereside. with the dis
| tinct wish in his heart that he might catch
a glimpse of Mrs. Crosmont. or at least
| that he might pass near the house where
she lived. For this beautiful lady with
her mournful eyes and unhappy history
| he had conceived devotion as strong rs
| it was chivalrous; and regarding himself
as her fatearponted champion. he held a
! fixed and superstitious conviction that the
| service of which Dr. Peele had spoken
was TO he rendered her by himself. In
the meantime the feeling she inspired in
| him was so reverential that he refrained
! from taking the higher road by which he
! would have passed close TO her house, and
| scarcely dared to glance that way when
he reached the point where the higher and
the lower roads met When he reached
| Branksome he had to pass the station on
/ his wa! 10 1T 1 teie ;, Dnt no sooner Htu
| he done so than he retraced his steps. and
| going straight through to the platform
/ found himself face to face with Alma
/ Crosmont. He raised his hat. but showed
no surprise, and neither did she.
Are you going away" he asked, in a
| low voice, all thought of addressing her
with nommonplaces disappearing as he
/ noted the utter sadness of her expression
NO she answered. 1T is Uncle Hugh
who is going My husband has sent him
away
She could only just breathe out the last
! words her voice failing her entirely and
! her under lip pitifully quivering Anna
! thwaite famed into wrath. and splitter
ed out indignant nterj"ctions half aloud
She looked up al him and laughed a little
I'VE knew you would be sorry, too. =
she said, holding out her hand to him
Uncle Hugh pretends he doesn't care
and it's all right, and Ned and l shall get
on better when he's away. But we
| sha' He's just gone up to say good
by to Mile. I'm rather jealous of Mile
with him, You know
And she looked mournfuIly away again
At that moment the elder Mr. Crosmout
came out from the ticket office; he was
ostentatiously cheerful, and resoluteiy
bent on making the best Of this new turn
of affairs He made Alma sit down ia
rest, while he carried off the young doctor
for ,alk. Uncle Hugh was overioyed
to learn that Armathwaite thought Of re
naming in the nciyhborhood. and began
ca gerly to explain TO him the position of
affairs.
The fact is. Ned made up his mind 10
give me notice to quit long time back. -
he said But | saw his little game. and
was so lamh-like, for the little ones sake
that he didn't know where 10 have me ill
last night when he came home in vii
! famous temper. and pitched into the moor
child for being eXrravagant. Now vou'vc
seen q good way into the ins and outs Of
things up at Ned's, and want YOU to b4
Il friend as far as you can, to the little
one while I'm away. So it doesn't matter
if | tell you little more. | don't want
10 say a word against my nephew: he's as
good lad at heart as ever lived. but he
hasn't been quite at his best of late. and
he's taken to being So very close-fisted
| that its all the little one can do 10 man
age with what he gives her. She's never
had a new dress since she was married
though. luckily DR.. Peeie gave her such
hahusohn" rousseau that 1t doesn mat
Ter. but though Nou can manage like
that TO dress on nothing Eou can't keep a
/ household going on nothing and that is
what Ned seems to D" trying to train her
| to do. I've done what little | could,
heedh zen YOU put IN not rich man,
ana me trl'lihE dfthlets We been able
70 pay nay moi pe9h mocn good. And
now it will be awfully hard for the child
10 i,sht 'nt uenIs ana me dunS alone.
Ana what does he do with his money
! Surely he must get decent salary from
LORD hildonan: tie seems to have lot
more 'oiiihei''ial work TO DO than man
!" Nv. H,s y r'I'l'on uS,iaH! mas.
en- ~ says MS l"rdShip has the de
| feet OF MS nation. ana expects him to
ma % GIN >n'M Va ner! hf'ie.
~ "P"h' surely
'"-"C ~ W. LOOK her". mere no
denying the money goes somewhere
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