The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-05-13

the housekeeper, very civil person, who
showed me the way TO my own room,
and got me my tea. I have nice little
boudoir and bedroom, at the end OF a
long passage on the first floor. The ser
wants and some OF the spare rooms are
on the second floor. and all the living
rooms are on the ground floor i have
not seen one OF them yet. and | know
nothing about the house except that one
wing OF IL rs said TO be 500 hundred years
old. that II had a moat round IL once,
and that 1t gets the name of Blackwater
from lake in the park
Eleven o'clock had just struck. In
ghostly and solemn manner. from fur-
ret over the center Of the house. which
/ saw when ! came In. A large dos has
been woke, apparently by the sound or
the bell, and Is bowling and yawnins
dreariy. somewhere round corner. l
! hear echoing footsteps In the passages
| below, and the iron humping or bolts
| and bars at the house door. The ser
wants are evidently going to bed. Snail
l follow their example!
! No: am not half sleepy enough.
sleepy, did ! say l feel as II should
never close my eyes again. Inc pare
anticipat ton Of seeing that dear face and
hearing that we'll known voice tomorrow
keeps me in a perpetual fever OF excite
ment Ii only had the privileges VI
man. / would order out Sir PerciVai
best horse instantly, and tear away on
night gallop. eastward, TO meet the rising
sun--a long hard, heavy, ceaseless galiop
OF hours and hours, like the famous hish'
wayman's ride to New York.
Being however, nothing but woman
condemned 10 patience, propriety and pet
ticoats for life. l must respect the nouse-
myself I'm some feeble and feminine way.
Reading is out OF the question: can
fix my attention on books Let me Try ~
can write myseif ,n,o & sleep,ness s,sss much u@
neglected OF late. What can recall
standing, as l now do. on the thresnolu
OF new life. OF persons ana eVsnss' .S -,
chances and changes during the PAST siN
months-the long, weary, empty interval
since Lauras wedding day? H.
Walter Hartright is uppermost In my
. memory and he. passes first into tl'
shadow procession OF my absent friends
I received few lines from him AFTER the
landing OF the expedition IN Honduras
written more cheerfuily and hopefuliy
} than he ha. written YET. a month or six
weeks later. | saw an extract from AT
American newspaper, describing the ue
|, parture OF the Adventures on their Inland
journey They were last. seen entering
wild primeval forest, each man with his
rifle on his shoulder and his baggage a
his back, since that ,,s time slD,l'saH,io, Civ, ,io,
more have | received from Walter, not :
. fragment of news from the expedttioi
, has appeared in any OF the public jour
, nails.
THE same dense. dishcartening obscu
rity hangs over the fate and fortunes
Annie Catherick and her companion, MIS-
, Clements Nothing whatever has beel
heard OF either OF them. Whether the'
are In the country or out OF ~. whethe
they are living or dead, no one knows
Even Sir. Percivals solicitor has los. al a,
! after the fuRitives TO be finally given ur
our good old friend Mr.. Gilmore. ha
met with n sad check In his active pro
/ fessional career: Early in the spring w
, were alarmed by hearing tnat he ha'
been found insensible at his desk, an
that the seizure was pronounced 70 De az
apoplectic nt lie a has oes.,o peTn long In eIh ,b
!, head. and his doctor had warned him =
: the consequences that would follow NJ
perslstency in continuing TO work carr
and late. as if he was still young mar
The result now Is that he has been posi-
7 lively ordered TO keep out OF his onic
4 for year To come at least. ana 10 see
{ repose Of body and relief OF MIND by ~
t, together changing his usual mode OF lit'
/, I THE business In left. accordingly, 10
! carried on by his partner. and he " hin
. self at this moment. away IN GermanN
Y visiting some relations who are settle
= there In mercantile pursuits. Thus NJ
n other true friend and trustworthy advise
IL lost to uS-lost. I earnestly hope an
a, | trust for a time only
!. Z Poor Mrs vesey travelled with me I
, I far a. London. II was impossible
= abandon her 10 solitude at Iimmeridg
after Laura and I had both left u
d, house. and We have arranged that she
. TO live with an unmarried Younger sist
q, hers who keeps a school at Claphar
She Is To come here this autumn 70 'ls
I. her pupil might almost say her adopt'
= child I saw the good old lady safe
= her destination. and left her In the ca!
a Of her relative. quietly happy AZ the pro