The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-07-13
HOW HE WON HER.

The poor tutor was alone with ner'
and, though it was in the days when
men fought hard battles even against
their own kinsmen if they thought
it was for the right, his heart throb-
bed Just as the tutors heart might
throb today, with the difference that
he had not learned to count its beats,
as our enamored youth, 200 years
wiser, have learned to do in a self
controlled manner eminently con-
ducive to the steadying of that OBJ
sneperous organ.
What mattered the great insured
ton, the cruelties of Judge Jeffries,
and a fugitive patron with a price
upon his head when love had sought
shelter in his heart, and she to whom
he had built shrine was just as far
away from him as the width of the
tableg
Of what consequence that she was
the Lady Gertrude, the daughter of
a noble conspirator, and he but a
tutor without land or wealth2 So
he. continued his story, looking at
his book as if he were reading there
from.
.And the poor man loved the rich
lady, and he dared not tell her of his
love lest she would scorn him.
"Then surely he was fearful at a
nothing, which, methinks, means he
was coward, Master Humphrey. "
"a coward, if 'twere cowardly to
fear the anger of his lady
sWhy should he expect such an
.gerf"
ssHe had naught to offer her but
his love-
.'Love were wealth enough, butt
am tired of your story. 'Tis not SO
good as you are wont to tell, Master
Humphrey, and Ills our last lesson,
she added very gently.
"You will not miss the lessons2"
mo, not my lessons, only the sto-
.ries. I have loved some Of them. !"
And she moved restlessly in her
seat, as if she would say more, yet
could not find the words.
"But surely my father should be
here even now, Z" she murmured at
last.
The poor tutor turned pale. "You
will go with him to Holland?" he
said.
"It would be too great risk to
accompany him, but I follow tomor-
row if all succeeds as we have
planned. All, if they should take
him! They have killed the duke.
Why are they not satisfed2 Poor
Monmouth
"They will not take himI''
''Now, at the last moment, I am
terrified lest things should not go
well. Look at the time! He may
be here at any moment. Indeed he
should be here now!'
Then Lady Gertrude rose hastily
and stood, tall even as the young
tutor by her side, with a look of
eager impatience on her fair face.
"Not yet come, I think, I" said he.
's.To cross the marshes on foot needs
indeed an hour"
So they stood irresolute, each with
heart for one another and thoughts
for the absent fugitive.
"There are learned men in Hol-
land, I am told," stammered the
young man irrelevantly.
"It is so rumored, yet, not more
than that, there would still be room
for another, I am sure, Master
Humphrey"
Which pretty speech nigh over
powered the equanimity of Master
Humphrey and threw him into q
discourteous silence like enough to
pique his noble pupil, who, indeed,
felt she had made too bold and had
lacked in modesty, since he would
vouchsafe no answer.
"Continue your story, sir, she
said. with marked coldness. II have
no mind for lessons just now -
ssThere is no more to tel, my
lady," he said.
sThen' tis poor story
+" Twas a poor man"
"With a poor spirit. y
"Nay, do not challenge him, fo1
he hath an idea 'twere better to bt
poor spirited than false hearted.
'.Why should he be either?'
.sWere it not a mean thing tt
,harass an unprotected lady and false
to betray the trust of her noble par
ent, his patron, when he was absen
risking his life for his country?'
ssTo harass her would be wrong
sir; to Detray a trust worse wrong
Yet 1 cannot see that, if he loved TIM
lady we'll, he would be doing either
of these things
MADAM. were I, your humble
tutor, the poor man, would you shl
so reason9"
"were you that man, Maste
Humphrey, could but be sorry TO
the lady,