The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05
CHAPTER III.

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Louise awoke the next morning
Oiled with curious sense of buoyani
expectancy. The sunshine was pouring
sato the room, Frightening up its most
somber corners. 1t lay across the quilt
OF her bed, and seemed to bring out the
perfume of lavender from the pillow
on which her head reposed.
Aline. hearing her mistress stir,
FASTENED ut once to her bedside.
1T is half-past nine, madam, and
your breakfast is here. The old i'm
Secile from the kitchen has just
brought 1t up"
Louise looked approvingly at the
breakfast tray, with the homemade
bread and deep-yellow butter, the
Brown eggs and clear honey. The
smell of the coffee was aromatic. She
breathed little sigh of content.
"HOw delicious everything looks !"
she exclaimed.
''The homemade things are well
eaDugh In their way, madam" Aline
agreed. 'but I have never known a
household so strange and disagreeable.
That nj. Jennings, who calls himself
the butler-he is a person unspeak-
naie. a sayagew
Louise's eyes twinkled.
4 dontthinll they are fond of w0m-
Ell In this household, Aline," she re-
marked. Tell me. have you seen
Eharlesl"
Charles has gone to the nearest
blacksmith's forge to get something
made for the car, madam" Aline re-
piled. "He asked me to say that he
was afraid he would not be ready to
start before midday"
THAT does not matter" Louise de-
c,ared, gazing eagerly out Of the case
nent window. Immediately below was
grass-grown orchard which stretched
upward, at a precipitous angle, toward
a belt of freshly plowed field beyond,
little chain of rocky hills, sheer over
head. The trees were pink and white
with blossom; the petals lay about
upon the ground like drifted snow
flakes. Here and there yellow jon
auils were growing among the long
grass. A watt of perfume stole into
the room through the window which
she had opened.
Fill my bath quickly, Aline." Louise
ordered. II must go out. want to see
whether it Is really as beautiful as it
looks"
Aline dressed her mistress in 81
fence. Then. suddenly, little excla-
xaation escaped her. She swung round
toward her mistress, and for once there
vas animation In her face.
But, madam" she exclaimed, II
have remembered! The name Strange
wey. Yesterday morning you read it
out while you took your coffee. You
spoke of the good fortune of some
farmer in the north Of England to
whom some relative in Australia had
left a great fortune-hundreds and
thousands Of pounds. The name was
&trangewey, the same as that. 1 re-
aember it now"
She pointed once more to the family
tree. Louise sat for moment with
parted lips.
''rOu are quite right, Aline. 1 re-
member it all perfectly now. l wonder
whether it could possibly be either of
taeSe two men?"
Aiine shook her head doubtfully.
1T would be unbelievable, madam"
ste decided. "Could any sane human
creatures live here, with no company
f.,.t oh
had money-money to live in the
cities, u buy pleasures, to be happy?
unbelievable, madam
Louise remained standing before the
window. She was watching the BIOS
eom-laden b0ughs of one of the apple
teees bending and swaying in the fresh
saorning breeze-watching the restless
shadows which came and went upon
'sse grass beneath.
"That Is just your point of view,
Asine," she murmured; 'but happiness
well, you would not understand.
Gney are strange men, these two"
Louise found her way without diff
.essity across cobbled yard, through q
eoStern gate set in a red-brick wall,
AatO the orchard. At the farther end
she came to q gate, against which she
aested for moment, leaning her arms
Upon the topmost bar. Before her was
Abe little belt of plowed earth, the
fresh. p,ngent odor of which was a
new thing to her; little way to the
right, the rolling moorland, starred
with clumps CT gorse; in front, across
the field On the other side Of the gray
stone wall, the rOck-strewn hills. The
sky-.lnusually blue it seemed to her,
and dotted all over with little masses
of ficccy, white clOuds-seemed some
how lower and nearer; o. was she, per-
i,aps. higher up?
She fingered there, absolutely Devil
dered by the rapid growth in her brain
and senses of what surely must be
some newly kindled faculty of appre-
citation. There was a beauty in the
world which she had not felt before.
She turned her head almost lazily al
the sound Of mans voice. A team OF
horses, straining at pillow, were com
ing round the bend of the field, and by
their side, talking to the labOrer who
guided them, was John Strangewey
She watched him as he came into
s:-ht up the steep rise. He walked II