The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-16

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 .why Auntie. what a hurry you are inl Lannoy will keep, won't itT
 ..oh, my dear," she replied, shaking her head, q can understand your OWE reticence, for you don't want to seem greedy and in a hurry about your new possessions. But when people come t4 my age there's no time to waste | have a sort of feeling that will never see Lannoy; and feel would not nave complete material for happiness m the world to come, if there were not re- membrance of my darling in ner a new honnei' Stephen was much toucneo, she said impulsively:
 we shall go there today. Auntie. You shall not walt an hour that can helpr
 Not yeti stephen dear. It would furry me to start all at once; tomor- row will be time enough.
 Before the morrow's sun was high in the heaven stephen was hurriedly summoned to her aunt's bedside. She lay calm and peaceful; but one side of her face was alive and the other seem ingly dead. In the night paralytic stroke had seized her. With slow. painful effort, she managed to convey fo stephen that she felt that the end was near. Feebly and slowly, she mur- mured:
 you will find happiness there"' She said no more; but seemed to sleep.
 From that sleep she never woke, but faded slowly. softly away.
 Stephen was broken-hearted. Now, indeed, she felt alone and desolate. All were zone. Father, uncle, aunt!---And Harold. The kingdoms of the earth or what stood for them in her micro cosnn--which lay at her feet were of no account. One hour of the dead or departed, any of them, back again were worth them all!
 Normanstand was now too utterly lonely to be endurable; and so after some weeks of endless monotony Stepn- eh determined to go, for a time at any rate, to Lannoy. She had a growing idea that it would have pleased her aunt to know that she took an interest in her new position and estate.
 So, all at once. without giving time for the news to permeate through the neighborhood. she took her way to Lannoy with a few of her immediate servants.
 Lannoy was on the northeastern coast of Britain, the castle standing back at the base of a wide promon- tory stretching far Into the North Sea. From the coast the land sloped up- ward to a great rolling ridge. Beyond, far away. rose a range of high heath er-clad hills broken here and there by great outcropping ledges of rock and deep gorges faced with precipices. Great woods clothing the western side of the ridge came In iameiike tongues over the crest of the hill and ran down the eastern slopes. For the rest the outlook seaward was over a mighty ekpanse of green sward. dotted here and there with woods and isolated clumps of trees which grew fewer and smaller as the rigor of the northern sea was borne upon them by the east erly gales
 Far away the line of the coast. brok- on like the edge of a lace scarf, was shown up by tiny rim of black rock. stark between green sward and blue sea. Here and there few dark rocks rose from the sea. never far from shore. Far away at the very point of the headland was q nsher's house the only building. except those of the lit- tie port away to the left, looking sea- ward which seemed from It's position at the edge of the high cliff, to domi- nate the cluster of sunlxen rocks which, only below half-tide, raised their heads above water. For centuries the lords of LAnnoy had kept their magnificent prospect to themselves.
 From the terrace of the castle only one building, other than the cottage on the headland. could be seen. Far off on che very crest of the ridge was the tower of an old windmill. the skeleton of whose sails looked when the sun