Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-10-08
CHAPTER /.

Ian Heights, FURNISHING Tue odo Piie WIN
4 .ItS If color not its own, and casting
the loaded windows a sheet of vel
low flames
49,. rose 1t stirred the tree-tops as 1t
~ ~t and rustled the leaves lightly
r...Iass Nature seemed gradually to re-
-. With the cool of evening and bestir
n Nv 70 have good look round before It
fell asleep. r,.,
r..nt forward at the open window, drink
snr in the fresh pure air that stole up
Through the valley.
The Girl was happy, and well she might
l.. for she was young and beautiful, and
a. TAN slight figure and aristocratic
hesr;Dg were the envy of other girls for
miles around
Che sighed when she remembered how
.be, had flattered her. Lady Grace had
lSoscribed her as divine" Lady Beaufort
Ssd pronounced her perfectly angelic,
,r,b;le the Duchess of Englemont had de-
dared that Lady May Darlington was
tbp most beautiful woman she had ever
beheld.
she the same parsonage who was now
living at The Heights as a governess?
CouM it be possible that a girl once pos
,essed Of wealth and influence should
now be 4 mere drudgeY
The world would have scorned such an
;dea. Society, had it known, would have
pointed the finger of derision at so de
'raded a woman. But society did not
- L. ho+ hn
rngtons had had misfortunes innumer-
able, but it never guessed how terrible
had been those ills.
When Lady May withdrew from the
realms of gaiety, it speedily concluded
That she had gone abroad in pearch of
health. There it determined to leave her
in seelusion, while it turned its attention
to the other bright butterflies fiuttering
through n brilliant season.
And thus Lady May Darlington had
clded away from old friends and old
foes. She had abandoned the frivolous
IDEAS of an idle life for short spell.
With familiar faces and old associations,
she had left her title and her name She
was now just plain May Thurle, whose
occupation was teaching.
Yet in spite of all she had left and
loved and still occasionally looked back
TO with regret. she was happy.
The new life in the ancestral halls of
the Emdens suited her. She felt at home
there. She could walk from one room to
another and compare them severally
with those i'll which she as child had
PLAYED
The long corridors, with their loaded
windows through which the moon, when
full shone brightly, and cast fantastic
shadows on the floor, were not strange
to her in any way. Even the ghost that
was said to haunt part of the house
seemed quite an old acquaintance
A knock at the sitting room door
aroused her from her meditations.
Come H." she said, and the next mo-
ment Mrs. Keen, the housekeeper, stepped
into the room
Good evening, miss. l came to tell
you have taken up the barley water to
Miss Grace She seems very fevcrish
still, poor child"
Yes" was the reply. 81 am afraid
she will not be strong for some time,
Mrs. Keen, though she seems better to-
night, and was sleeping when left her
short while ago. And how is Lady EN-
dent"
About the same as usual miss and
the hOusekeeper sighed. "She Is terribly
cut up still. Two deaths in one family
within a few weeks is enough to crush
the strongest of US"
Indeed, you are right, Mrs. Keen. The
shock must have been terrible"
1T was. When the news of Master
Hopes death reached us, Lord Emdcn
was standing in the dining room. When
they told him his son was drowned, he
stared as one gone mad. 'Dead!' he
shrieked. Hope dead! Impossible! Tell
me it is a lie. Tell me am dreaming! =
madl-anyt hing!-but that!' My lady
put her arms about him, and, weeping
tried to draw him to a chair. But he
grasped her roughly by the shoulders.
Hopes dead!' he cried They say he's !
ad!-dead! and with shrill cry he
Tell to the floor He never spoke CO.
herently again. The next few hours were
spent in anxious watching, and before |
the week was out hearse had come and |
gone"
Il do not wonder ill-health should
follow such a dire stroke of fortune"
SAID the governess. "Was the body of !
The young man never recoveredf"
OH, yes! he neS Durieu IN tne family |
vault. No one here saw him after he left |
the house to 60 boating. The next we
saw of him was the coffin. They do say |
the body was terribly beaten about, and |
that was why Mr.. Victor had him sent
home screwed down"
The governess looked thoughtful. |
somehow the death of this man interest |
ed her strangely. Why, she could not
say, for the Emdens We're, so far as she |
knew, total strangers to her Her
~omanly heart was touched by the havoc |
wrought by the passing of this only son,
tins heir to countless wealth and vast |
estates. He had left home full of health
ana youthful vigor-to return corpsel
What could be more awful? Her brown
eyes filled with tears.
The housekeeper watched her critically |
l @ln making you miserable. miss"
'ae said, "and that viii never do, for
alter all, no tears will bring the dead to
life again"
True" and May sighed deeply But
now was it he was not rescued? He was
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