The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
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she saw the owner of ThorE:ield sleep ing soundly with the bed curtains blaz- ing above him.
 Jane was a reso1ute young woman; she did not shriek for help or even stop to awaken the sleeper. Instead. with the water in the ewer on Roches- ter's dressing table, and with water which she quickly procured from her own room, she extinguished the blaze naturally arousing MT. Rochester in
 When he learned what had happened. Rochester took a candle and telling Jane to stay. where she was, went up into the third story. Presently he re- turned.
 T have found if all out. It is as suspected" he said.
 How, sir?" asked Jane. Rochester made no reply. but commanded that she mention the events of that night to none and told her to go to bed.
 The next day Rochester went away for a fortnight's visit to a country house in the neighborhood. When he returned he brought with him a gay company of ladies and gentlemen and for a couple of weeks Thornfield Hall was the scene of a bounteous hospitality and of many festivities.
 Among the guests was a certain Blanche Ingram, the Dowager Lady Ingram's portionless daughter. Blanche was a beauty of the naughty and commanding sort. Rumor had 1t that she and Rochester were to be married and the rumor reached Jane.
 It was then that Jane realized the value of a strong and well-trained mind. She reviewed the information she had received; looked into her heart examined its feelings and endeavored to bring back into the fold of common sense with a strict hand such thoughts as had been wandering through imagi- nations boundless and trackless waste.
 She was angry with herself for hay ing taken pleasure in the tokens of preference Rochester had shown her looked into her glass and asked herself if it were probable that a man like the owner of Thornfield could love such a plain being when there was at hand such dazzling beauty as Blanche Ingram. A man of Rochesters po- sition stoop to little penniless depeu- dent like her? The idea was absurd! Then she pronounced judgment 10 this effect: That a greater fool than Jane Eyre never breathed the breath of life"
 As for the Honorable Blanche. she gave every body to understand that she was going to marry Rochester, and that gentleman himself let it be so under stood. Just DeIOGe lne mousse party broke up there arrived at Thornfield a foreign looking man who gave the name of Mir. Mason Rochester seemed a little disturbed at his coming but greeted him kindly enough, introducing him to the guests as an old acquain- tance of his from abroad-form Jam aica q
 About midnight on the day of MT Mason's arrival Jane was awakened by a shrill. sharp. savage cry that rang from one tnd Of Thornfield to the other. Then came cry for help from somewhere in the third story and half-stifled voice called frantically for Rochester. Hastily putting on some clothes Jape issued from her apartment to find the hall filled with the startled guests asking each other: Who is it?" What has happened?" "Ts 1t a fire?" Where shall we run?" 'Is 1t robbers?"
 Rochester appeared with a candle in his hand coming down from the third story. "All's right! Ans right" he said. Nothing the matter, One of the servants had a nightmare. Go back to your beds
 When the guests had retired, Jane, being in her room, heard outside her door the voice of Rochester: Are you up? Have you a sponge? Get 1t and come with me"
 She accompanied her employer 10 the upper story. and in the room over her own found MT. Mason, apparently badly wounded. He had bean Rtahhad