The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-01-18
HIKENSIDE
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES
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CHAPTER XIII.

came as was arranged, and on the day
following Maddy and Guy rode down TO
see him, finding him a tail, powerfully |
built man, retaining many vestiges of
manly beauty, and fully warrantng all |
Mrs. Markham had said in his praise. He |
seemed perfectly gentle and harmless, |
though when Guy was announced as Mr.. |
Remington, Maddy noticed that in his |
keen black eyes there was for an instant |
a fiery CLEAN, but it quickly passed away,
Is he muttered:
Much too young he was older than l
and l am over forty. It's all right"
And the fiery eye grew soft and almost
sleepy in it's expression, as the poor luna
tic turned next to Maddy, telling her
how pretty she was, asking her If she
were engaged, and bidding her to be care
full that her fance was not more than
dozen years older than herself.
Uncle Joseph seemed to take to her
from the very first, following her from
room to room, touching her fair soft
cheeks, smoothing her silken hair, telling
her Sarah's used to curl, asking If she
knew where Sarah was, and finally cry
Ing for her as a child cries for its moth
er, when at last she went away. Much
of this Maddy had repeated to Jessie, as
In the twilight they sat together in the
parlor at Aikenside; and Jessie was not
the only listener, for with her face rest
ing on her hand, and her head bent eager
~ forward, Agnes sat, so as not to lose
word of what Maddy was saying of Uncle
Joseph The intelligence that he was
coming to the red cottage had been fol-
lowed with a series Of headaches, so Sc
we're and protracted that DR.. Holbrook
had pronounced her really sick, and had
been unusually attentive. Anxiously she
had waited for the result of Maddy's visit
to the poor lunatic, and her face was
colorless as marble as she heard him de-
scribed, while a faint sigh escaped her
when Maddy told her what he had said of
Sarah.
Agnes was changed somewhat Of late.
She had grown more thoughtful and
quiet, while her manner toward Maddy
was not "a naughty as formerly. Guy
thought her improved, and thus was not
30 delighted as he would otherwise have
been, when, one day about two weeks
after Uncle Joseph's arrival at Honedale,
she startled him by saying she thought 1t
nearly time for her to return to Boston
II she meant to spend the winter there,
and asked what she should do with Jessie.
Guy was not quite willing for Agnes
to leave him there alone, but when he
saw that she was determined, he consent
ed to her going, with the understanding
that Jessie was to remain-a plan which
Agnes did not oppose, as child so large
O. Jessie might stand in the way of her
being an gay as she meant to be in Bos-
ton, Jessie, too, when consulted, said
she would far rather stay at Aikenside
and so one November morning Agnes,
wrapped In velvet and furs, kissed her
little daughter, and bidding good-by to
Maddy and the servants, left a neighbor,
hood which, since Uncle Joseph was sc
near, had become so intolerable that moi
even the hope Of winning the doctor could
avail to keep her In 1t.
Guy accompanied her to the city, won
dering why, when he used to like 1t sc
much, it now seemed dull and tiresome
or why the society he had formerly enjoy
cd failed to bring back the olden pleas
ure he had experienced when a residen
Of Boston. After seeing Agnes settled IL
one Of the most fashionable boarding
houses, he started for Aikenside.
1t was dark when he reached home
and as the evening had closed in with
heavy rain, the house presented rathe
. cherries appearance, particularly as
In consequence Of Mrs. Noah's not ex
pecting him that day, no fires had bee
kindled In the parlors, or In any room e1
cept the library. There bright coal fir
vas blazing In the CRATE, and thither Gu
repaired, finding, as he had expected, Jes
sic and her teacher. Not liking to In
trude ON Mr.. Guy, of whom she sti
stood somewhat in awe, Maddy soon aros
TO leave, but Guy babe her stay; h
should be lonely without her, he said an
20 bringing her work she sat down
sew, while Jessie looked over a book {
prints, and Guy upon the lounge Studio
the face which, 1t seemed to him, gre
each day more and more beautiful. The
he talked with her of books, and the le
sons which were to be resumed on Il
morrow, watching Maddy as her brigl
face sparkled and glowed with excitemen
Then he questioned her OF her father
family, feeling a strange sense of sati
faction In knowing that the Clydes we
not a race Of whose blood anyone need
ashamed and Maddy was more like ther
he was sure, than like the Markham
and Guy shivered a little as he recall,
the peculiar dialect Of Mr.. and MI
Markham, and remembered that they we
Maddy's grandparents. Not that 1t w
anything to him. Oh. no! Only as 1
inmate Of his family he felt Interest,"
In her. more so perhaps than young mi
were apt to be interested in their sister
governess.
Had Guy then been asked the questio
he would, in all probability, have acknov
edged that in his heart there was fe
ing of superiority to Maddy Clyde; tn
she was not quite the equal of Alike
sides heir, nor yet of Lucy Atherstor
1t was natural: he had been educated
feel the difference, but any naughty arr
gance of which he might have been gull
was kept down by his extreme good ser
and generous, impulsive nature. He lik
Maddy; he liked to look at her as, In
becoming crimson merino which he rea
and Jessie nominally had given her. {
sat before him, with the freight fall
II Il