Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-03-04

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She did not remain at Morwen
She disappeared
This is very extraordinary. | viii
tell you all l know but that is not
much She was not with us very
long. She fell i'll as we were on our
way from Plymouth to Launceston
and we were obliged to leave her at
MoreweIl, the nearest house, that is
some eighteen or nineteen years ago
She never rejo.ned US. After a
year, or a year and half, We were
at Tavistock, on oIr way to Ply
mouth, from Exeter by Okehampton,
and there her father met US, and
told him what had become Of her. =.
know that I walked out one day to
Morewell and saw her. | believe her
father had several interviews with
her, then something occurred which
prevented his meeting her as he had
engaged, and he asked me to see her
again and explain his absence.
believe her union with the gentle
man at MorwelI was not quite regu-
lar, but of that I know nothing for
certain. Anyhow, her father disaD'
proved and would not meet Mr., wha.
was his name?-O, Jordan. He saw
his daughter in private, on some rocl:
that stands above the lamar There
also I met her, by his direction. She
was very decided not to leave her
child and husband, though sorry to
offend and disobey her father. That
is all know-yes!-I recall that day
midsummer eve, June the twenty
third. I never saw her again
But are you not aware that my IA
Their went to MorWeIl on the next day.
Midsummer Day, and was tod that
Eve had eloped with you
With mel the manager stood still,
with me! Nonsense!
on the twenty-fourth she wa
gone
Mr.. Barrel shook his head. Z can
not understand
One word more said Jasper. You
will see Miss Eve Jordan. Do not tell
her that | am her uncle. Do not cast
a doubt on her mothers death. SPEAK
to her only in praise of her mother
as you knew her.
This is DuzzIing indeed said the
manager. we have had a party with
US, an amateur a walking character,
who talked of Morwen as if he knew
it, and I told him about the Miss Eve
we had left there and her marriage
to the squire. I may have said, "If
ever you go there again, remember
me to the lady, suppo ing her alive.
and tell me if the child be as beau
tiful as I remember her mother
There is but one man. said Jas
per- who holds the key to the mys-
terry, and he must be forced to dis
close
CHAPTER XVIII.
In Part.
Mr.. Jordan knew fore of what
went on than Barbara suspected Jane
Welsh attended to him a good deal,
and she took a mean delight in spy
ing into the actions of her young
quainted with everything that went
on in the house and on the estate.
In this she was encouraged by Mr..
Jordan, who listened to what she
told him and became excited and
suspicious and the fact of exciting
his suspicious was encouragement to
the maid. The vulgar mind hungers
for nOtOriety, and the girl was fiat
tered by finding that what she limited
stirred the crazy mind of the old man
He was man prone to suspicion
and to suspect those nearest to him
The recent events at Morewell had
had made him mistru his own child
rem. He could not suppose that
Martin Babb had escaped without
their COnnivanCe. 1t was a triumph
to the base mind of Jane to stand
closer in her masters confidence
than his own children, and she used
her best endeavOrs to thrust hersple
further in by aggravating his sus-
piciOns.
Barbara was not at ease in her own
mind, she was particularly annoyed
to hear that Martin was still in
the neighbOrhoOd on their land, nat
urally frank, she was impatient of
the COnstraint laid on her. She heart
lily desired that the time would come
when concealments might end. She
acknowledged the necessity for con-
ceaIment, but resented it, and could
not quite forgive Jasper for having
forced it upon her She even chilled
II Ter manner towards him, when
Tod that Martin was still a charge.
The fact that she was obliged to
think of and succour a man with
whom she was not in sympathy, react
ed on her relations with Jasper, and
produced restraint.
Mr.. Jordan knew that Jasper and
Eve had gone together for a long
journey, and that Barbara sat up
awaiting their return. He had been
left unconsulted, he was uniformed
by his daughters, and was very
angry. He waited all next day, ex-
pecting something to be said on the
subject TO him, but not a word was
spoken.
The weather now changed. The
brilliant summer days had suffered
an eclipse. The sky was overcast with
grey clouds, and cold northwest winds
came from the Atlantic, and made
the leaves of beech and oak SILVER
On the front of heaven, on the face of
earth was written Ichabod-the glory
is 6anarfnd What rnot-r iS 70 the