Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-01-01


you or my daughter: but there mus
be no leap IL the dark. OF In hurry
Tnke five years to lesrn how to I've
together fifty years. l waited SIX
years for my wife; Jacob waited four
teen for Rachael"
"Sir. we live not by centuries, a.
Jacob did-If 1t would please you to
say two years"
Il have said five, and verify 1t shall
be FIVE. Cannot you walt and serve
for FIVE years. II not, your love II
but a summer fruit, and Jane Swat
ham is worthy OF something better"
"Sir, I entreat am no coward,
but | cannot bear to think of i've
years"
y have said my saw There r
nothing to add or to t. from 1t"
Then Cluny perceived that entreaty
would only weaken his cause. and he
advanced and offered his hand, say
Ing, Il am much In your debt, sir.
'Tis more than l deserve. but Love
must always beg more than his des-
ert-" And Gen. Swaffham's voice
trembied perceptibly as he answered:
you have time and opportunity to
win your way to my heart, then | will
give you sons place. Go and ask
Jane: she win tell you | have done
kindly and wisely" And Cluny bowed
and went silently to seek his be-
trothed.
your father says we are to wait
five years, sweet Jane; and tbs hard
condition. { know not how l am to
endure it,"
And Jane smiled and began to talk
over with her lover the hard condi-
ton, and somehow it became an easy
and reasonable one. They soon saw
1t through Love and Hope and Wis
dom, and 80 at the beginning OF their
probation. they rejoiced in the end Of
1t.
Life soon settled itself to the new
conditions of the Swaffhams. The
General, In spite of his wife's and
daughters disapproval. bought the
Sandys House near Russell square.
and some of the most precious heir
looms OF old Swaffham were brought
up to London to adorn It.
Mrs. Swaffham was well content in
Social by nature, fond of
the stir and news OF life. enjoying
even the shadow OF her old friends
power and splendor and taking the
greatest interest in all public events
of the time. she was pleased rather
than otherwise at the Lord Generals
to keep her husband |
near him.
Neither was Jane at all ayerse to
London. Cluny was in London, and
Matilda was there. and most of the
girls whom she had known all her
life long. And IL Jane accepted will
Ingly this change of life, Matilda took
her phase of 1t still more enthusi-
She was not long In discov-
ering that 1t was In her power to be
virtual mistress of the Jevery man.
sion. Her youth. her beauty and her
many sorrows inclined Sir Thomas
Jevery's heart to sympathy. and this
grew rapidly to devot-
ed affection. She was considering
,ne morning string of Orient pearls.
wondering II they could be worn with
Ter new damasse gown, when Jane
,ntered her dressing room.
Jane Swaffham,' she cried with
lelight. I'm swear was just wishing
or you. Stephen Is here. VIII you
lee him?"
81 will not" answered Jane posi-
lively. Il will not come to question
bout him II he is discovered. Do
lot ask me to put myself in such .
trait. Matilda 1t Is far better I
hould be able to say, I have not
cen him.
Jane. I will tell you . piteous tale.
lis of our late Queen. She Ii SO
sretchedly poor. and since her son
eturned to their miserable little
curt In the Louvre. so broken-heart-
d. 'twould make you weep to hear OF
or. Stephen came with Sir Hugh
'elward to get some money on Bel
ard
How does Sir Hugh Belward hope
, get money on Belwardf He Is pro-
Ills younger brother joined tho !
srliament, and he left the estate in
is care. And his brother has turned
.aitor to him. and would give him
othing but permission to ride away
J secretly as he came. But oh, janet
10 poor. poor Queeni"-and then Ma
Ida went into some details Of the \
teous straits and dependencies and 7
suits the widowed woman had been
oliged TO bear.
Jane listened silently. but there 9
ere tears In her eyes; and when :
atilda said. Il have given her the :
wei the gracious King sent me BY =
v beloved Prince Rupert, and Also .
h~f ronevs I could get from my