The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
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MaS0n IS mad, ana sne comes oi d iiao family; idiots and maniacs through three generations. Her mother was both mad and a drunkard--as I was allowed to find out after the marriage. Bertha copied her parents failings and vices and added to them some of her own. Oh, I had a charming partner. I invite you all to come to my house and visit Mrs. Pooles patient--and my wife! This girl by my side knew noth- ing of this-never dreamed that she was being trapped into feigned union with a defrauded wretch already bound to a bad, mad. embruted partner"
 Grasping Jane by the wrist Roches- ter. followed by the others, walked swiftly to the Hall and proceeded to an upper room-the one supposed to be Grace Pooles. He flung open the door to show them the wild, savage creature which Jane had seen in her room the night before. Grace Poole was there and cried out for Rochester to beware.
 The horrible creature. looking rather beast than human, sprang at him saw agely: but he threw her off with an exertion of great strength and left the room with his followers. As they de- scended the stairs the lawyer said to Jane Your uncle will be glad to hear that you are cleared from all blame if. indeed. he Is living when Mir. Mason returns to Maderia"
 Jane had written to her uncle at Madeira when she thought that she was about to become the bride of Rochester to acquaint him of the fact. and the lawyer now informed her that Mir. Mason had been visiting the uncle when the news arrived.
 Mir. Eyre was overjoyed to find that his niece was still alive. and mentioned the contents of the letter to his guest. Mason at once informed him that Rochester was already married and Eyre insisted upon his going at once to England. engaging a lawyer and stopping the marriage with Jane
 When the others had gone and Rochester was alone with Jane he said: Now you know all Can you forgive mel"
 Yes, Jane had already forgiven him. Then he besought her to fly with him to a whitewashed villa which he owned on the shores of the Mediterranean and there be happy with him. This mar riage with Bertha Mason. he said. had been arranged by his father and had suffered. He did not consider that crazy woman up stairs as his wife. He pie ted with Jane and declared he | had never known what 1t was to love | until he had met her He attempted | to embra-e her, but she fled from the | room.
 That night she thought the spirit of her mother spoke too her and said; | My daughter, flee temptationr | Silently. at dead of night. dressed in | her plainest gown. Jane stole away | from Thornfield. At daylight stage coach overlook her on the road and she took a seat in it. riding as far as | the scanty sum of money she had with | her would allow.
 Then she wandered for two days through the country, weary. famished. | begging food now and then, wet with | rain which began to fall, until one night she saw a light shining from an | old manor house and knocked at the | kitchen door She felt that she was | dying and begged for shelter. but the servant drove her away
 She fell exhausted upon the door | step, saying aloud: T can but die here!, voice out of the darkness behind her said: All men must die; 1; but you must not perish here of want | It was the voice of St. John Rivers. the curate of the parish, and this was the home of his two sisters with whom he was staying temporarily, their
 father having died recently
 Jane was taken into the house and | carefully tended until she was strong again, which was not for day or two. |
 of her life, only suppressing the name | of the place where she had been goVer- | ness and her reasons for leaving It.. | If turned out to their mutual aston | ishment that St. John Rivers and his l sisters were cousins of the poor wan | derer, children of her fathers sister. | So she stayed on with them, and when her uncle In Madeira died, as he did | soon after, Jane. knowing not only | that the Riverses were poor, but that their father had lost money by specu- | lating on the advice of the dead uhcle' insisted on dividing with them the Tor tune which fell to her under her uncles will.
 For nearly a year Jane tried to De I happy, but there was vacant place Tn l her heart Finally St. John Rivers' l heino about to depart as a missionary to India, asked her to be his wife. The two were alone in the library and 1t was night He urged so strongly that lane almost yielded. Then. sud l denly. there passed through her a 1 strange feeling. It was not like an l electric shock. but as sharp, as strange as startling; and she heard voice cry; Jane! Jane! Jane"
 Tt was the voice of Rochester, ana the girl flew to the door. crying out to the moonlight which flooded every l thing: ''I am coming. Walt for me
 Where are your
 But there was only the silence Of
 the empty night outside, and. turning hack into the house. she passed the
 astonished St. John, who, of course had heard nothing, and sought her | room. ho, l The next morning Jane was on her
 ,vav to Thornfield That mysterl- l ous midnight voice, calling her name
 In the accents of Rochester stiii | echoed in her heart. She telt oniy
 one thing-that the man she loVea
 was in trouble. that he needed her anu i
 she must go to him. when tinaliy | she came in sight of Thorniield hail' | what was her dismay to see the sue | of the once stately mansion occupied l hv blackened and tottertng walls |; | what was the meaning of this rum | some answer must te had to the agon | jzed questions which made her brain 1 reel,
 She hurried to the inn of the neigh | borinp village and interrogated her | host as to the misfortunes which hac befalIen Thornfield
 "Oh, 1t was burned miss" said tho innkeeper. MT. Rochester, the squire
 had crazy wife living there. w | discovered 1t in a most singular man
 ner There was a governess----" | Jane felt that she was about to hea | her own story, and said sharply: Never mind the governess. Wha | of the flre?"
 well" continued the host, "thi
 crazy wife sH MT. Rochester's had fo | kaynr a