Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-27
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HERR STEINHARDT'S NEMESIS |
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BYL MACLAREN COBBAN.

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hardt. He had come home late, and
told them they must pack that night,
to be ready to set off in the morning.
to the seaside somewhere-where she
did not know yet, but she would write
to me as soon as she had an address to
give, so that / might send her any
news. How / treasured that little
note, 1t was the first bit of writing
had had from her; and read 1T again
and again that day, and for many days,
and tried to conjure hidden meaning,
lurking touch of tenderness or con-
Germ out of it's ordinary words.
strange feeling of being alone, and for
saken, seized me-a foolish feeling,
which l could not shake off for some
days.
I looked in upon old Jacques, as
usual. He had been recovering him.
self since / had seen him first; at
least, regaining consciousness OF his
own existence, and of the existence of
things about him. I thought that day
I could see something in his eyes and
in the twitching of his mouth, which
told that he missed the presence of his
niece. He gazed at me long and keen
| ly. till felt rather disconnected, looked
down at his hands (the fingers OF the
right hand trembled little), and ut
tered some cultural sounds, as If IN an
effort to articulate. talked to- him
| little, though I was not sure he could
hear me; or, hearing, could under
stand; told him his niece had gone
away to the seaside; hoped it would
do her good, for she had been in very
anxious state of mind since her fathers
loss. 1t gave myself some relief to
speak these things. When l rose to 60
away, he looked me shrewdly up and
down, and watched me to the door. A
week or two passed before l saw him
again.
My-time was taken up with attempts
to provide post for myself against the
day when / should leave that at Tim
perley. Under ordinary circumstances
I would have taken the opportunity of
the season of the year, and such juno
ture in my affairs, to spend holiday
among my friends; but was now con-
vinced the mystery was pledged to
clear up was in Timperley, and was
resolved to sit down and besiege 1t
there-the more sobstinately resolved,
since [ knew Steinhardt so heartily
wished me away.
wrote letters; made journeys to
this vicar and that rector in the neigh
boyhood, who then needed, or soon
would need, curate, with the same
result in all cases. 1 would not do;
was not Just the kind of man they
wanted; they we're not sure that my
opinions were quite as they would wish
the opinions of their curate to be. Ii
became plain to me that Twas to be
"bovcotted:" :" the word had been passee
+ round, apparently-and by whom, i
not by Steinhardt?
Again and again I tried, though will
little hope now, to find curacy ever
E in the neighboring large town; bu
nothing came of my efforts except dis
appointment, and WEAKNESS, and dis
r gust. My time was up in Timperley
t but I still retained my lodgings, ther
b. (they were cheap and comfortably
s I held them like an outwork advanced
against the enemy's position. Th
) situation was, indeed, becoming like
/ duel between Steinhardt and me, il
j which, for the time, he certainly hat
l the best of it.
Nv anxiety was not lessened by th'
It fact that in the three weeks which ha
passed had not heard a word fror
h Louise, and did not know what ha
e happened to her, or even where sh
was. I finally went to the girl whom
e had seen Frank with, and from her
% found out that he had written from a
# address (Which she gave me) in Doug
i las in the Isle of Man. At the end c
h another week, not having received an
l. reply to a note / had written to Louise
W I confess / was tempted with wea
l. thoughts OF giving the whole matte
ID up, of surrenoering my position t
Steinhardt, and going away. 1 wa
earning no money, and my quarter
stipend of % pounds 10 shillings ws
y rapidly disappearing. What could
l. do, when it was all gone, but surreI
der? i am not ashamed to confe:
lie that, oftener than once, was betraye
s. into an unmanly prostration of disal
or pointment--of despair, l may even sa
l and grief. But remember that l W;
is desperately in love Il suppose clerg.
to man may be as desperately in love {
| another maD) with a young lady, WI
o. might be dead, or dying, or ma rie'
i'd for aught knew; that l was sojourl
W ing, so to say, in strange land, who:
rt chief was bitterly hostile to me; thu
v, the affair upon which had staked n
d, success in love had not advanced
It, inch during those long and lone
weeks.
iy do verify believe that, in spite
the conviction which usually sustain'
L; me of the final revelation OF the tru
On in spite, too, OF the obstinacy OF
r. nature, and the high reward of succe
CT which had hoped to gain. woul
indeed, have soon beat retreat, If
q, had not been for a visit I had from
en- old friend Birley, and the results tn
ad Immediately followed upon that.
-. One evening heard loud, chez
~ voice there was no mistaking ask
"0 landlady, "Is tn parson at whoal
49,, Betty''-a question which l answer
~ myself by calling, "Come upstairs. -
.m Nv "well," said he, you haven't col
Nv Nv to see me since I've come back" {
~ had been i'll, and absent from home
some weeks) $50 ha' looked You up
said I was very pleased indeed
see him Che looked much older a
,xt yreyer than when had seen him la