The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-07-04
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CHAPTER xI.-(Continued.

know at the time of Mrs. Lindon's
aath you. among others, never doubt
I'd the legality Of the will"
Il can't express myself we'll,
0Aam," said Bridget Ransom; 'but
III toll my story my own way perhaps
0Oau understand. When you and Mr..
0ynevor engaged me as nurse to Miss
KITTY you made one stipulation-that
I was not to be talking continually Of
Ma Lndon. You said the subject
was . very painful one, and you did
aot want to discuss it,
we both felt it a mistake to dwell
oa T." agreed Mrs. Dynevor.
And SO never told you what my
poor lady suffered" returned Bridget
''Care for her? Eustace Linden cared
Or no one but himself and the baby.
Ia was so jealous Of his wife's affec-
&1oa Tor her flrstborn that as soon as
dD own child was born he sent little
0f0 Lillian away to the country. She
MAS brought up in French peasants
soetAge and the parting almost broke
Asr mothers heart"
But. Bridget" persisted Mrs. >Dyne-
~. why tell me all thiR now? It
. too late to help either my poor sis
tAer-an-law or her child" ~
Please hear me out" said Mrs.
Uansom. II might have written home
and told you and Miss nillian's uncle,
'snly Mrs. Lindon begged me not. The
aAct vas her husband hated Miss Lii
taa. and she thought the poor child
happier anywhere away from him."
did he care for his own child?"
Yes; but she was a sickly little
tAang, and with none of her mothers
Asauty. She had an English nurse
eakher flighty young woman, whom
~ mistress hated. When Mr.. Lindon
Suddenly declared they couldn't afford
- keep me and Julia, she begged and
sprayed for him to let me be the one
ITO stay. and humbled myself to ask
RI hin, too. said I'd do all my own
work and look after the child as we'll;
Int 1t was Of no use I went, Julia
stayed"
Mrs. Dynevor could not see the
sisaread OF these recollections. but she
sauAaseened patiently.
"A year or two after left you,
Wa'am, met Julia again. She wasn't
m service then, but she seemed to have
silently of money, and she told me Mr..
ltndon allowed her so pounds year
tor the sake of ali she had done for
the child.
II thought it was the most generous
I thing I'd ever heard of him; but I
. 1idn't come all this way to tell you of
sshls. I'm widow now, and I've a
seatoe little lodging house at Brighton
n took a partner lately, and she turns
ssout to have been housekeeper to Mr..
y kndon for ten years; and, Mrs. Dyn-
svor. she says the woman he has mar
-rted is the Julia who was fellow-serv-
~hnt with me in France.
Mrs. Dynevor looked bewildered.
Nov, with all his faults, he was
gentleman" went on Mrs. Ransom,
anede1cated woman, who could never
10 companion to him. Mrs. Markham,
my partner, told me she had actually
sheen in his house as attendant to his
laughter, that she gave way to drink,
s3nd, when not quite herself, actually
struck Miss Lindon. Now, ma'am,
gentleman doesn't marry vulgar, I'M
educated woman Of forty, who. besides,
Il given to drink, without some rea-
son Mrs. Markham and I have talk
Cd the matter over and over again,
and we believe there's something
wrong about the will, and Julia knew
T."
At that moment Harold Dynevor
uame In. He would have gone away
"a seeing his mother was not alone;
bat she detained him. and in a few
words gave him the heads OF Mrs.
3aAsom's story.
II can't see how the will could be
= fraud" he answered. "and yet every
'e1ing points to it. Lindon Diminishing
- attendant who was true to his
"O16s, and keeping the one who could
~ brtbed, points to fraud; but, mother,
u DON'T see what We are to do"
Neither did Mrs. Dynevor; but their
-S1oftor now proceeded to relate the
1ast part of her story.
Mrs. Markham told me- a good deal
- her young lady, Beryl Lindon. and
IN ready to swear she il not the child
Il Iset In Julia's care when I was sent
Nway. There must be plenty Of people
ask In the French village who remem-
eW little Beryl. She was so puny and
1aekward for q long time the doctor
1Dared she was an idiot. She had
AsAt hair, almost white and perfectly
straight, and big, wateryI blue eyes
- sort Of eyes you see oftenest in
S1iots. At three years old she could
hardly walk. No one but her father
se1A see anything to admire In her.
According to Mrs. Markham. Beryl
Undon has very dark eyer, blue-grey,
b - almost black lashes, and curly
Y oEswn hair. I can't think even hfteen
10ass w0nld make such u Change
11Es. Dynevor looked from her son
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