The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-03-15
The Minister'S Wife
BY MRS. HENRY WOOD

manner. But at that moment Cyras came
out. He had just got back from Oxford,
and it was his arrival which had brought
about the discovery that something was
amiss with the dean.
II am going for a doctor, mamma"
said Cyras, and leaped away. Lady Grace
went in, and Moore followed her.
Leaning back in low easy chair,al-
most at full length, his head resting on
the back of it, lay the dean. His face
was white, his mouth was open, but his
eyes were closed, as if In a calm sleep.
Nevertheless, there was that in his face
which struck terror to the heart of his
wife. She touched the faithful old SER
want on the arm and cried aloud.
"Yes, my lady," he whispered, believ-
ing that she saw as well as he, Il fear it
is DEATH"
Lady Grace knelt down, and clasped
her hands round her husband. In that
moment of distress, what cared she who
was present? She called him by endear-
| ing names, she kissed his face, she be-
| sought him to speak to her. But there
| was no answering response, and convic-
| ton told her that there never would be
| again.
| Never In this world. Cyras came back
with doctor; curiously enough, 1t was
Sir William Chant. A small mercy this,
| for Sir William was able to testify to the
| cause of death, thereby avoiding an in
quest.
The dean had died from disease of the
heart, brought on by the evenings excite
ment. And the world, next day, was
busy with the news that the Very Rev.
Ryle Baumgarten had been gathered to
his fathers, and that the rich deanery Of
Denham, richer in those days than In
these, was in the clerical market.
CHAPTER XIV.
It was not an ordinary match it was
something quite out of the common way !;
but Mary Dynevor was a girl out of the
common way also. Not, however, as re-
garded beauty; in that respect she could
not compete with her sister, Grace, or
with her brilliant friend, Gertrude Baum
garten. She was ladylike girl, with a
pale, serene face, very much like that of
her sister, Cyrilla, whose love had been
blighted; her hair was of a rich brown,
her eyes were violet blue; she was quiet
in manner and calm in speech. That was
|
| yet it was certain that some unusual
charm did attach itself to Mary Dynevor.
In the past year, when abroad with
Lady Grace Baumgarten, Mary had made
the acquaintance of Everard Wilmot, an
attache to one of the Continental en-
bassies, and the son of Sir John Wilmot
Exceedingly to her own surprise, he had
asked her to become his wife. On the
impulse of the moment she went, letter in
hand-for he had made the offer in writ
ing-to Lady Grace.
"What am to do?" she asked.
Zone word, Mary. Do you dislike Mr.
Wilmot?'
Il like him very much. and esteem
him greatly"
"And yet you come to me and demure
ly say, What am l to dor Go away
with you, you shy, foolish girl"
So Mary accepted Mr.. Wilmot. Never
theless, she felt half conscious that if SHE
had had the courage to search out the
hidden secrets of her heart it might have
told her that her love was given tt
Charles Baumgarteh.
Some few years had elapsed since thu
sudden death of the Dean of Denham
1t was a terrible shock, that, to his wifi
and children. His affairs were arranged
by the help of Lord Avon, Cyras ant
Charles both doing also something towar'
it. A small sum of money, left to tn
boys by a relative, but of which the deal
, had enjoyed life interest, they had a
once sacrificed. Cyras had returned t
New Zealand. He was still in the sam
shipping house there, Brice & Jansen's
, and held a good position in it now. III
had not visited England a second time
but wrote occasionally. Sometimes hi
letters would contain pretty-looking Ii,
tie check for Charles or for Gertrude.
Charles had done we'll at Oxford ha
taken honors and gained his fellowship
He was called to the bar, and lived a
his chambers in Plump Court for ecor
omy's sake; now and then staying for
few days with his mother in Berkele
, Square, Lady Grace's residence.
1t was February by the calendar. Juds
ing by the wind, one might have called
= March, for dust whirled in the streets an
windows ratified. But Miss Dynevor
drawing room in Eaton Place was chez
|. full with it's fire and wax lights. d
| Dynevor was rather in the habit of cal
ing it my town house" when speaking {
$ it, but it was his sisters and not hi
t His name was really Maude-Dynevo
though he was rarely called by it. Son
people dropped the one name and SON
dropped the other. His wife's fami
name was Maude, and when he marie
her he had had to take it in addition
d his own.
}. When DR.. Baumgarten was made dea
of Denham DR.. Maude-Dynevor was or
: of the prebendaries of the same cath
dral The word "prebend," or ''preben,
l any," was then almost universally use
: for the higher cathedral dignitarie
canon" rarely. Two or three years lat
DIR. Dynevor was made prebendary I
# Oldchurch, and quilted Denham.
d When Lady Grace Baumgarten return
IS ed from her visit to the Continent ar
e resigned his daughter Mary into ID
u Dynevor's charge and laid before him NJ
e Wilmot's very handsome proposals, Il
h subdean was intensely grati6ed, and wi
anxious to see his future son-in-law.
t. Dinner was over and all were in 4
l. drawing room except the subdean. {
n one of the large old-fashioned sofas s
lie Miss Dynevor in her Aaxen wig; her he'
1t had dropped on to the sofa pillow al
'r she was fast asleep. On another sofa s