The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-09-24


family: idiots and maniaes for three
generations. He had been inveigied
into the marriage BY her family. with
the connivance Of his father and broth |
er, who had desired him to marry Q
fortune. He invited the clergyman, the
lawyer. and Mr.. Mason to come up to |
Thornfeld and zee what sort Of be- |
Ing he had been cheated into espous- |
Ing. and judge whether or not he had
q right to break the compact.
At Thornfield he took them to the
third story. In q room without win
dow. there burnt q IRE. guarded By Q
high and strong fender. and q lamp
suspended from the ceiling by chain.
A trusty maid servant bent over the
FIRE. apparently cooking something. In
the deep shade. at the further end of
the room, q figure ran backwards and
forwards. What Il was. at nrst sight.
one could not tell: II grovelled, SEEM
,ngly, on all fours; 1t snatched and
growled like some strange wild ami
NAL; but 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
Thornfeld. The few shillings that she
possessed she gave to the driver of the
first coach she saw, to take her as far
as he would for the money. Thirty
ST. hours later he let her of at q
, crossroads in the moorlands. Into the
} heather she walked. That night she
ate bilberries. and slept under 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 to their work as gov
: ernesses in a large south-of- England
8 city.
! st. John secured employment for
: Jane as mistress Of the new girls
school In Morton. His plan was to be
come missionary In India. He asked
: Jane to become his wife and 60 with
/ him. But something kept her from
4 consenting: he did not really love her
! he felt the call to missionary work, but
she did not.
: Then he discovered for her that hel
y uncle had died. leaving her 10000
! This was confirmed by Mr.. Briggs, tht
= solicitor in London. She discovered
y too, that the mother of st. John ani
Mary and Diana had been her father!
! sister, so that they too should hav,
a. been heirs to her uncle in Madeira. Sh'
'e insisted on q division Of the legac,
e, with them.
One night st. John was pressing he
= for her final decision. The one candl
= was dying out: the room was full 0
!" moonlight. She heard a voice iron
" somewhere cry
= "Jane! Jane! Janet"
Next day she was on her way t
!" : Thornfeld. In thirty-six hours she al
y rived at 1.-THE Rochester Arms" tw
miles away. With much misgiving sh
.e walked up to Thornfield-to find onl
~ a blackened ruin.
q Back at the inn she learned this
- Thornfield Hall had burned down abor
~ harvest time In the previous year. TIL
fire had broken out In the dead {
night. Mr.. Rochester had tried to re-
es cue his wife. She had climbed ont
~ - the roof, where she had stood, wavin
- her arms. and shouting out till the
~ could hear her mile of. Mr. Roche
~ ter had assembled through the skyligh
=, The crowd had heard him call, BE
~ thai" They had seen him approae
70 her; and then she had yelled, and 81
en- a spring, and the next minute 81
sh had lain dead on the pavement.
u Mr.. Rochester had been taken fro
-. the ruins, alive. but sadly hurt; OF
,n' eye had been knocked out, and OF
~ hand so crushed that the surgeon hi
''s had to amputate It directly. The 9th
eye inflamed; he lost the sight Of tn
'as also.
NJ He was now at Terndean, q man
house on farm he had, about thir
miles of quite desolate spot. The
~ Jane found him, sad. helpless and cri
lue pied. She married him. Eventual
~, ny the sight returned to his eye 30 tn
als when his first-born was put into I
el. arms he could see that the boy h
~ inherited his own eyes, as they on
70 were-large, brilliant and black.
Ule that occasion, with q full heart,
,ne acknowledged that God had temper
-" Judgment with mercy.
- Diana and Mary Rivers were be
-, married soon after. and alternate
: once a year. came to visit Jane a
r. Mr.. Rochester. st. John Rivers l,
=. for India. to labor until called at lenl
az into the Joy Of his Lord.
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