Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-13

shall Immediately make him the cap
tive of my bow and spear"
Then she began to ply him with
inquiries concerning Hopkins, the SER
wants, the dogs, the peacocks-every-
thing, animate and inanimate, at Grey
lock Woods.
II suppose I asked these same ques-
tions at the graduation" she laughed,
but, somehow, I cannot refrain from
going over them again. And there is
mammal almost forgot mamma.
Has she returned from Europe? Is
she at Rose Cottage?"
His face clouded, as it always did,
when his daughter-in-law was men
toned.
NO" he answered, as If dealing
with a distasteful matter; "the house
is closed-she is still abroad, but /
hold no communication with her."
1.-TWO or three times a year she
writes to me-" said Ethel. Her last
letter was dated from some town in
the Tyrol, where she was trying the
baths for her injured limb. She SEEM
ed very hopeless-said she had been
all over Europe in quest Of relief, and
had found none"
He shrugged his shoulders. Ever
since the purchase of his granddaugh-
ter for ten thousand dollars per year,
Godfrey Greylock had done his utmost
to keep mother and child apart. AS
neither seemed to care for the society
of the other, the task had not been
difficult Mrs. Iris had now secured
a handsome income, and she loved not
the life of a recluse. Was she absent
from the Woods? Then Ethel's vaca-
tons were spent a. the villa. Was the
ex-danseuse at Rose Cottage? Then
Godfrey Greylock and Miss Pam
whisked the little heiress away to
some quiet watering place, and made
her happy there till the beginning of a
new school term.
In consequence the child had grown
to womanhood almost a stranger to her
mother. OF the latter's history she
knew as much as did Godfrey Grey
lock-no more. Ethel loved Aunt Pam
and tyrannized over her; she feared
and adored her grandfather. In her
eyes, he was the grandest, the noblest
of men. That he Stunned and dis
liked her mother--that he sought in
every way to keep the child from the
parent. did not disturb her in the
least for her affection for her mater
nal relative was of vague and luke
warm character.
For the greater part Of this day, up
on which she had taken leave of her
school life, Ethel Greylock and her
grandfather flew over the iron track
toward far-away Blackport, talking
affectionately, and watching, from the
window of the drawing room car, the
rain come down, and the hours dwin-
die. The girl had discovered some
thing which none before her-nOt
even the wife of his youth-had ever
found-the way TO Godfrey Greylock's
stern, cold heart. AS she leaned back
in her chair. her loveliness enhanced
rather than diminished by her simple
travelling gown, his eyes, usually so
hard and Indifferent, dwelt upon her
with fOndest love and admiration.
This was the fairest flower that had
ever bloomed on the Greylock tree!
And she should have a future worthy
of her beauty. He had planned it all
her marriage with the titled Eng
lishman-her cousin, three or four
times removed-the new splendors
which she was to shed upon the name
of Greyock Verify she would wear
the title of My Lady" with a rare
grace in that old manor house across
the sea.
Late in the wet afternoon the two
travellers alighted at the Blackport
station. The carriage from the Woods
was waiting there-they entered it,,
and went rolling off, at once, to the
villa.
Change. which. sooner or later, Wis
its all sublunary things, had at last,
found out BlackpOrt. a revolution
had swept its borders since that night