The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-09-06
His Hearts Desire
By SIR WALTER BESANT
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CHAPTER vrI.-(Continued.,
By SIR WALTER BESANT

CHAPTER vTI.-fContinued.,
"There! have done what l could.
and | have told your uncle my mind.
Let us talk of something else. Oh.
forgot to say that Will has come down.
We shall find him waiting for us at the
church
will? I am glad"
He got away a week before he ex
pected."
He will cheer you up. George"
yes: he talks as il nothing mattered
much and everything was a game. The
1.ondoners have that way, 1 suppose.
il IL not our way"
They walked away through the mar
row lanes. holding each other by the
hand like two children. as they had al
ways done since they were children to.
gether, and George. who was three years
Older, led little Mary by the hand to
keep her from falling.
This Will that George spoke of with
irreverence was none other than myself,
the person who narrates this true history
OF country life for your amusement and
instruction. / am Will Nethercote. In
fact; and though Of the same surname
as Mary. am no relation to Mary.
once endea vored. it Is true, to remedy
this accident. and proposed to establish
very close relationship indeed with that
dear girl. but was too late. My father
was the rector, and when l left Oxford
l found l had no vocation for the life
OF the country clergyman. Therefore
became journalist. 1t is a profession
which suits me well, and l suppose il
l live another forty years and arrive at
seventy l shall have written 5000 more
leading articles. and my countrymen will
then be saturated with wisdom. did
not wait for these young people in the
church yard. walked down the lane
TO meet them
declare that my heart leaped up only
to see that sweet, fond girl walking
with her lover only to see the glow upon
her cheeks and the soft light in her eyes.
Mary greeted me with her usual kind.
ness. bearing no resentment on accoun.
OF that proposition of mine above re-
ferred to.
And how is George behaving. Mary?
And has the Dragon relentedT
George always behaves WELL" she
said. But as for the Dragon" She
shook her head.
"Sce. now, Mary" l said. II mean to
put tHe case De1Ore lawyer. | will
do it directly go back. In the will your
aunt leaves you 5000 pounds, to be paid
to you on the day that you marry with
your uncle's consent. II you marry with
out his consent, it Is to go to David
Well. David has gone away. no one
knows where, and perhaps he is dead, or
VIII never come back. Suppose you were
to marry now without your uncle's con-
sent, who is to have the money!"
''My uncle says it will be his own"
I'VE shall see to that. 1t is a case
for a lawyers advice. And l will get
that advice directly | go back"
turned and walked toward the
church with them. in the narrow lanes
between the high hedges. We talked
of different subjects. Of what had hap
pened since l last came down.
But that subject of which we were all
thinking-tieorgcs impending ruin--lay
like a lump Of lead on our hearts And
40 we walked through the darkenins
lanes. our faces to the west. so that
Mary's glowed in the golden light like
an angel face in a painted window, and
presently came to the church.