The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-09-23
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CHAPTER MI.
Harold Denison 0uehed his hat haueht.
lily, and rode home but the old usurer,s
artfui speech still simmered in his brain.
Why should 1t not be2 IL would cut the
tangled knot Of his difficulties. He had
made inquiries. Young Pearman had
been brought up a gentleman. and visited
IN several good houses in tho county. He
naturally a little exaggerated this to him
self. to justify the course he Intended 10
pursue; nay. for the matter Of that. had
been pursuing for som days. His wife
had told him that she had laid the Pear
man proposition before Maude. and thar
the young lady had declined. with thanks:
since which intelligence he had bullied
Mrs. Denison, and snubbed or treated his
daughter with cold indifference. The hssds
OF the family can make eontumacious
children conscious Of their high displeAs-
ure without any unseemly rating-indeed
mat may be looked upon as mere mild and
saiutary punishment compared to the 9th
er-that other which. TO speak m~etaphor- 4
icaily. consists in being condemned 10 the
domestic Ice house. IL Is hard 10 describe
still there will be few Of my readers
who. II they have had the rood fortune
not TO experience Il. but must have seen
some eulprit enduring that slow punish
ment-mete out more often. perhaps. 10
daughters than sons. But don't we ali
know Il; the chilling rejoinder that meets
any attempt at geniality-the austere
iook that seems 70 say Il Is heresy that
We should presume TO forget the measure
OF our onending-the moral thong ALWAYS
awaiting US should we show any signs OF
relapsing into eheerfulnesss Bah. those
physical torturers Of the middle ages were
mere bunglers at their craft.
From this time poor Maude's life wa.
made heavy 10 bear. Harold Denison sent
Tor her to his study. and himself put
Pearman's proposal before her. He en- {
larged upon its advantages. and declared !
thar II was her duty TO save the property I
TO her descendants on her head Il rest J
ed whether the Denisons Of Glinn should
cease to exist. as Of course her future
husband must take her name. For him .
self. he cared not-he was an old man. !
and II mattered little 70 him. Any foreign :
place was good enough for him
10 wear out his miserable life In. He +
deplored the follies Of his youth. IL v
sad that a father should plead be- b
Tore a daughter in this wise. He could e
bear anything but the thought hat the d
Of Glinn should be ~expuneed "
the roll Of the county in which they q
lad dwelt and been known since the Wars =
II the Roses; all this II was in Maude,s II
to avert. Why could she not mar !,
y this mani He hard been brought up A Z
Gentleman. and mixed 10 the best s~ocietv =
n the county. II not quite her equal In .
lood, he would repair the shattered for ~
unes Of the family. Such matches were g
made every dag. The destiny Of the plu. CO
ocracy was to strengthen the arisfocr.ev. -
ar be II from him to put any pressure
pom her. but IL was his duty as a parent
lay the whole case before her.
Calamity did Maude fight her battle v
nd though at the end Of this long inter
she stood with flushed and tear
aimed cheeks to listen to her fathers
nal exordium. she was still resolute In
er refusal. 4,
But the struggle was too nneoual Tn A
II the pressure put upon her By her hus
ind Mrs. Denison had not only made
iaude write a letter Of renunciatfon 10 "
renville Rose. but had penned him a very "A
we're philippe herself. in which she in ii
sted that all correspondence should X
ase between them. She had further. !
- -" NNANaN - AFNFnINNA ENfTIIUN0K -
Mr.. Denison. extorted a promise from y
aude that she would write no more 10
r cousin She knew her daughter we'll. We
d felt implicit confidence that. her word
&c pledged troth would be kept. -
I have described the first stag. Of III. Al
tack. II is a common enough sforv. !
many a woman could bear witness TO. thi
far as the general details 20. Can !
q not easily guess the RESULT She was -.
high-spirited girl. and bore herself
Ively in the beginning: but cut of ]
m all Communication with her lover abe
gave way at last to the moral pres !
e brought to bear upon her, and. with nh
e cheeks and heavy eyes. whispered her
that they might do with her a. 4
y liked II she couldn't marry Gren. you
didn't care who It was Y
Ito be ~continued.) tina