Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-22

IN the side of hill overlooking deep valley in the
J north of England there still standing in the
last quarter of the last century fine, red brick
house, with stone taClngs, known OrneSe1gh Hall.
The house. which square and solid, surrounded
by we'll kept lawns and large shrubber1es; and beyond
the garden the ground soped precptaely down to the
Ore and the banks of the river stood the large and
well known Ormesegh Mills, which had manufactured,
for threequarters of century, some OF the best cotton
produced in the North of England
The mistress of Ormesegh Hall at that time old
Mrs Rowley,-or, as the mllhands called her. Madam
Rowley-a widow of eighty years, yet as upright in
years earlier She had two sons, both married and with
fourisling families; and one daughter, who was still
single. and lived with her in the house the hill.
Enlilia-Or, as she was generally called Emmle-
Eowley type of spnser very common in England
during the latter half of the nineteenth century She
still rather pretty, with the drab sort of pretiness
of faded white that is beginning turn brown at
the edges; and her figure tall and wlOwy, albeit
little and old-naidsh about the shoulders. She
had not changed fundamentally, either in mind or in
person, since the days OF her dreary grlhOod thirty
years before.
Mrs. Rowley was a splendid mother for sons; but not
the for daughters, and especially not for such
tender and romantic and sentimental daughter as
Emilia. 1t could not be helped it nobo lys fault
but the fact remained that Emmie and her mother had
nothing in except the natural love of parent
and child And the ROwleys very wealthy
people, and consequently there need for Elnme to
go into the world unless her spirit of adventure
drove her she literally never escaped nor consciously
wished to escape from her mothers apron strings.
The Roweys and always had been Noncon-
foiss of the strctest sort who regarded the Church
of Rome the Scarlet Woman; and the Church of
England if not actually scarlet, still white
she painted.
Old John Rowley, Emilia father had not married
until very late in life; and then he had selected, with
great discretion lady Who though only half as Old
quite rich as he And SO John Rowley & Sons"
added Miss ekys thousands to its capital and became
the finest and most prosperous business in those parts
As Emilia was the youngest of the family, she re-
membercd her father only old man, with a long
white beard exactly like pictures of Moses in the Illus
trated Bible. He died when Emmic about twenty
crd not long after John and William married; and
since then Emnie had lived under the sway of her
and handsome mother unhanpcrcd by will
opinion of her own
But, if she had will opinions of her own she had
plenty of thoughts and dreams, which would have been
utterly lncOmprehensble to her stod and practical
family She felt vague and formcss longings after
Something she had never known, yet which she had
subCOnsciOus certainty existed Notwithstanding
that had nothing to do with money or business
worldly prosperity, but which haunted the woods in
springtne and lowered the horizon line of the
distant hills, -Somehng that dInly and ntangibly
tracctel the and theology in which she
had been family beauti-