Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-12-27
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Trembling with apprehension, but
still strangely divided in his impulses,
wishing to serve master and mistress
both without disloyalty to the one or
injury to the other, he hesitated and
argued with himself till his fears for
the latter drove him to Mr.. Ramsdell's
house
The night was stormy one. The
heaviest snow of the season was fall
ing, with high gale blowing down
the sound. AS he approached the house,
which, as we know. is one of the mod
ern ones in the Riverside district, he
felt his heart fail him. But as he came
nearer and got the full effect of glanc-
ing lights, seductive music and the
CHEEKY hustle of crowding carriages he
saw in his minds eye such picture of
his beautiful mistress, threatened I'M
known to herself in quarter she lit
tie realized, that he lost all sense of
what had hitherto deferred him. Max
ing then and there his great choice. he
looked about for the entrance with the
full intention of seeing and warning
her.
But this. he presently perceived, was
totally impracticable. He could neither
go to her nor expect her to come to
him. Meanwhile time was passing
and if his master was there The
thought made his head dizzy, and. sit
uated as be was among the carriages
confusion if his eyes had not suddenly
fallen on lighted window, the shade
of which had been inadvertently left
up.
Within this window. which was only
few feet above his head, stood the
glowing image of woman clad in
pink and sparkling with jewels. Her
| face was turned from him, but he rec
| uyn;zed her splendor as that of the
one woman who could never be too
gorgeous for his taste, and, alive to this
unexpected opportunity. he made for
| this window with the intention of
shouting up to her and 50 attracting
her attention.
But this proved futile, and, driven at
| last to the end of his resources, he tore
out slip of paper from his notebook
snow in his eyes wrote the few broken
sentences which he thought would best
warn her without compromising his
master. The means he took to reach
her with this note l have already re-
lated AS soon as he saw it in her
hands he fled the place and took the
| first train west. He was in pitiable
condition when. three days later, he
reached the small station from which
he had originally set out, The haste
the exposure. the horror of the crime
| he had failed to avert, had undermined
! his hitherto excellent constitution, and
| the symptoms of Il serious illness were
| beginning to make themselves mani
| fest But he, like his indomitable mas
ter, possessed a great fund of energy
and will power. He saw that if he was
to save Abner Fairbrother (and now
that Mrs Farbr0ther was dead his old
master was all the world to HIM he
must make FairbrOther's alibi good by
carrying on the deception as planned
by the latter AMI getting as soon as
possible to his camp in the New Mex
leo mountains. lie knew that he would
have strength to do this, and he went
about it without sparing himself.
Making his way into the mountains
he found the guide and his horse al
the place agreed upon and, paying the
| guide enough for his services to insure
a quiet tongue. rode back toward L
Moro. where he was met and sent on Il
Santa Fe as already related.
Such is the real explanation of thu
well nigh unintelligible scrawl founC
in Mrs. Farbrother's hand after hel
death. As to the one which left Mis-
Grey's bedside for this same house. i
was, alike in the writing and sending
the loving freak of a very sick bu
tender hearted girl. She had noted thu
look with which Mr.. Grey had left her
and. in her dolirious state. thought tha
d line in har own hand would convince
him of her good condition and make
possible for him 10 enjoy the evening
She was, however, too much afraid o
her nurse To write it openly, ant
though we never found that scrawl,
was doubtless not very different Il
appearance from the one with which
had confoundcd II. The man to WHOM
it was intrusted stopped for too man
warming drinks on his way for it eve
TO reach Mr. Ramsdelfs house. ii
did not even return home that nigh
and when he Gid put in an appearance
the next morning. he was dismissed.
This takes me back to the ball an
Mrs. Fairbrother. She had never ha
much fear of her husband till she r,
eeived his old servants note in the p'
y culiar manner already mentione,
g. This. coming through the night and I'll
"a wet and with all the marks of hurr
upon it, did impress her greatly an
led her to take the first means whic
offered OF Kidding herself of her dal