The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-12-23
CHAPTER III.


-. -z-7 CHAPTER III.
ii plodded steadily on towards, the
town. AS i neared the village 1 saw
Ia carriage approaching. me. As it
passed 1 perceived that it held two oc-.
ctipants that well knew. e. They
were Miss Elizabeth and Miss Evelyn
from the Hall, or, rather, they used
to. be from the Hall and would now
be again, They were in deep black,
and were evidently on their way to
the old Darlington place, where their
-brother had died. 1t seemed strange
that had almost forgotten all about
the sensation of the hour because of
my own troubles. The truth is, I
thad been thinking very deeply of the
ladies when Miss Dacres came up to
the gate the day before, and had al
so been thinking very deeply of my
own affairs. 1 really had not known
where to turn until L found that /
could let the rooms, and, the COM
pletion of my arrangements had put
everything else out of my mind. 1t
seemed strange too that I should
have been so forgetfuI of all that
happened at the Hall. I had been so
at home there, in days gone by, as
governess to Mr. Eugene's little girl
and as friend to the older ladies,
that i felt the death of the Squire
very much, but Poverty is a master
who drives away our 1atenderests
thoughts, taking possession with
| hfc Of ho rN1ooa soI
-harbored them, andI was all at
once aware that my anxiety as to
how was to get our bread and but
ter had made1Ines Somewhat forget
full of my duty. These thoughts
flashed rapidly through my mind as
fsavent onward, and. then 4 heard the
carriage stop and turn; I'faeed about
at ONCE. # Z sysr5s E,
-@1' Isn't that sophronia?" Il heard,
and in a moment the cartilage door
was thrown open and was drawn
inside to Miss Ehzabeth's kind arms.
Il. They had both=thrown up their.
wells, and first enc kissed me and then
! the other. Nsa ==
as Drive a@ittles way back with u.s.
! Sophronia, dear,p said Miss Evelyn,
sand tell us all about it,
e. SO Gladly, saidI, as 1 took the place
into which Miss Evelyn, being the
younger, pushed me, on the back seat
beside her sister. 1 sighed as=E
| thought of the lock unpicked and the
l5oarder's dinner to get. but 1 could
do nothing but go with them These
dear ladies had been my friends
when most needed friends, and when
the Judge married me, though he was
no Judge then, they gave me my we'd
ding from the Hall. Since they and
their brother had quarrelled about
his changing his religion, and they
left the Hall for home of their own,
l had seen little of him, though he
| always gave me a pleasant enough
bow when l passed him on the road.
The ladies had now come from their
home at Springborough, called hither
by kilograms, no doubt, and 1 could
see that, having heard the news only
yesterday, they could not have ar
rived before.
+, ''Ten us all about it, DEAR said
Miss Elizabeth. did he suffer very
much? Was it sudden? Poor David!
little thought whenHbut tell US, my
dear, what you knows
81 can't tell1you anything at ALL
said gloomily, 'or very little. 1
know almost nothing"
~ What! oSophronia, that isn't like
you. Never went near poor David
in his last Illness? Why, how could
! that be?75 So unlike e..l. ,.... 3
/ Il went, overland over again." said
lsL. "When 1 found I couldn't get in
i at the front door, 1 went around
to the back to old Margot. Yes, she
lis still there. But there was no hope
FLOR me. l only. heard each day that
he was no better '
Z but how perfectly .absurd! Why
leouldn't you get imp
L "The priest wouldn't allow it, and
there was no one, to prevent, You
lHnow your brother had 7quar-was at
odds with his old friends down in
| the village and Over@at Marchbank,
and they none of them felt like in
Fterfering." .- -@
i 'Who took care of him?' asked
Miss Elizabeth with tears in her
eyes. ae oay 4,z,el..4 So, .,.. -
+ "A Sister of Charity. believe.
Margot told me So.p = .u., in ~,
/ 'Margot would hardly like that
] said Miss Evelyn.
/ AS T., recalled the old Scotch
woman's stern face, and her anger
/ at the priest dominating herself and
everyone else, in the house, / shook
fmy head. NO." said I, "Margot was
/ very indignant. .but what could she
do? She could have gone off and
/ left him with them, but that she
fwould not do.a She could not desert
/ Mr.. David, she told me, no matter
4how he had treated her She would
not go and, leave him in the hands
fiof his 4self-appointed friends, stran-
gers to. everyone about here. I
ljpromised the, old: gentleman she
tsaids isthat + would never leave Mr.. !
BDavidSHanSl Il won't I-nots sforas the
4 Pope3amself.hP sno snalsvsEa r. 81 M
Y "She is a very bitter Protestant" 3
fsaid Miss Evelyn. who had leaninEs
] towards Rome.