White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-31

AK. wilt thon have thts womsn for
thy welded wffef" In the gray old
house Of God, . distinct And near voice
spoke In the silence Of the empty
kehprch:
7 Z ''T1he marriage esnnot gem: 0e
clare The. extstence 1f IN impeachment"
A4ked b the GIef1ymsn Tor the
facts. the speaker showed . document
to prove thst N. Rochester had mar
vied BsftAa Maoon. fifteen yean b.
fore. Ia spanish Town. jamaica: and
produced Mr.. Mason to witness that
the woman Was alive and nj Thorn
Asba.
Reward hschester confessed hardly
and vecklesssy that he had married. -
the lawyer asserted: that his wife vas
still living: ana that Ne bad kept her
secretly Ut ThornAeld for years. &he
was mad: and she ann Of . mad
family: idiots and msnlacs for three
generations. He had been inveigled
into the marriage by her family. with
The connivance Of his father and broth
er. who had desired him to marry a
fortune. lie invited the clergyman. the
lawyer. and Mr.. Mason to come up to
Thornfeld and see what sort OF a be-
ing he had been cheated into espous-
Ing. and Judge whether or not he had
a right TO break the compact.
AT Thornfleld he took them to the
third story. In a without n WIN
dow, there burnt n fire. guarded by q
high and strong fender. and a lamp
suspended from the ceiling by n chain.
A trusty maid servant bent over the
fire, apparently cooking something. In
the deep shade. at the further end Of
the room, a figure ran backwards and
forwards. What II was, at first sight.
one could not tell 1t grovelled. seem
ingiy. on all fours: II snatched and
growled IKE some strange wild ami
NAL; bat 1t was covered with clothing;
and a quantity Of DARK. grizzled hair,
wild as q name, hid It's head and face.
THAT Is my wife," said Mr.. Roches-
ter.
Then all withdrew.
That night Jane stole away from
Thornneld. The few shillings that she
possessed she gave to the driver Of the
FIRST coach she saw, to take her as far
a. he would for the money. Thirty
six hours later he let her or at a
crossroads In the moorlands. Into the
heather she walked. That night she
ate bilberries. and slept under a crag.
Two days later. famished and
drenched, she was taken into Marsh
End, the house Of Rev. ST. John Rivers.
a young and ambitious clergyman In
the neighboring village of Morton. His
two sisters. Mary and Diana, were
more than kind to Jane. They were
soon to return 10 their work as gov
ernesses 10 q large south-of- England
city.
ST. John secured employment for
Jane as mistress OF the new girls
school in Morton. His plan was to be-
come a missionary IN India. He asked
Jane To become his wife and 60 with
him. But something kept her from
conserving: he did not really love her /:
he felt the call to missionary work, but
she did not.
Then he discovered for her that her
uncle had died. leaving her 10000.
This was confirmed by Mr.. Briggs, the
solicitor In London. She discovered.
too. that the mother of st. John and
Mary and Diana Ind been her fathers
sister. 81 hat they too should have
beer heirs to her uncle in Madeira. She
insisted on n division of the legacy
with them.
One night st. John vas pressing her
for her final decision. The one candle
was dying out. the room was full of
moonlight. She heard a voice from
somewhere cry
"Jane, Jane, jane"
Next day she was on her way 10
Thornfieid. In thirty-six hours she ar.
rived at .The Rochester Arms" two
miles away. With much mlsgiving she
walked up to Thornfield-to find only
n b~iackened ruin.
Back ut the inn she learned that
Thornfield Hall had burned down about
harvest time In the previous year. The
fire had broken ou In the dead of
night. Mr.. Rochester had tried To res.
cue his wife. She had climbed onto
the roof. where she had stood. waving
her arms. and shouting out till they
could hear her a mile of. Mr.. Roches'
ter had assembled through the skylight
The crowd had heard him call. Der
tina :" They had seen him approach
her: and then she had yelled. and CIV.
en- n spring. and the next minute she
had lain dead ON the pavement.
Mr.. Rochester had been taken from
the ruins. alive. bur sadly hurt one
eye had been knocked out. and one
hand so crushed that the surgeon had
had 10 amputate 1t directly. The Other
eve infamed: he lost the sight of that
also.
He was now at Ferndean, n manor
house on n farm he had. about thirty
miles off; quite n desolnte spot. There
Jane found him, sad, helpless and Grip
pIed She married him. E%yentuaily