The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-10-07

''The marriage cannot go IN ! de
clare the existence Of an iInpedim"nt.'
Asked by the clergyman Cor the
facts, the speaker showed a document
to prove that Mr.. Rochester had mar
ried Bertha Mason. fifteen years be-
fore, in Spanish Town, jamaica; and
produced Mr.. Mason TO witness that
the woman was alive and at Thorn
field.
Edward Rochester confessed hardly
and recklcssIy that he had married, as
The lawyer asserted that his wife was
still living: and that he had kept her
secretly at ThOrnfie'd for years. She
was mad; and she came OF a mad
family: idiots and maniacs for three
generations. He had been inveiglrd
into the marriage by her family, with
the cOnnivance OF his father and broth
or. who Ind desired him to marry q
fortune. He invited the clergyman. the
lawyer. and Mr.. Mason to come up to
ThOrnheld and see what sort of a be-
inc he'had been cheated into espOus-
ing. and Judge whether or not he had
Il right tO break the compact.
AT Thornfield he took them TO the
third story. In a room without a win
dow. there burnt n fire. guarded by a
high and strong fender. and q lamp
suspended from the ceiling by a chain.
A truSty maid servant bent over the
fire. apparently cooking something. In
the deep shade. at the further end OF
the rOOm. n figure ran backwards and
forwards. What it was. at first slight.
one could not tell It grOvelled. seem
ingly. on I'LL fourS: IT Snatched and
growled like some strange Wild ami
NAL: but il was covered with clothing;
and Il quantity Of dark, g~rizzled hair.
wild as q mane. hid it's head and face.
THAT il my Wife" said Mr.. t;ocheS-
ter.
Then aH Withdrew.
That night lane stole away from
ThoruGrld. The few shiiling> that h
nnSSr~Spd she gave to the driver Of thu
FIRST coach She saw. 10 take her a far
rs he would for IN" money. Thirty
six hours later T." lei her of n y
crossroads iu the WonriHnd~. Into The
heather she walked. TlHt night she
ate hilherrie@. and Sept under Il orng.
Two days later. furnished and
drcnrhrd. she WAS taken into Marsh
End. the house of Rev. 81. Johu lI'ors
II Young and ambitious c'rr@vi..H ~
the neighhoring village "f Morton Ills
two sisters. Mary and piana Wcr"
NOR" Than kind 10 lane. They Were
soon 20 return to their work rs gov
"rncs~es in q large Sonth-of England
city
~ John secured employment for
lane AZ mistress NJ the now girls
school in Morton. His plan was tn he
come q flleslono1y in Indin. He asked
Jane fn hesbgnR MS wife and gofsith
him. 1aIt erethiag kept her from
eonsegaine b. sd Hoi reaIlX levSher
he feF Toe eaTi - hsionary work. but
she ,ffa not.
Thoa ~ discovered Cor her that her
unclr had died leaving her 10000
This was conf34ifd hy Mr.. Briggs. the
solicitor IN L0ndnn. She discovered I
too. that the mother Of ST. John and
Mary and Diana had hecn her fathers
sister. 81 that they TOO should have
been heirs TO her uncle in Madeira. She
insisted on n division Of the legacy
with them.
One night 81. John was pressing her
for her final decision. The one candle
WAS dying ont: he room was full OF
moonlight. She heard n voice from
SnmcW here cry
Jane, Janct Jnne,"
Next day ,hc was on her WY TO
Th"rn6eld. IN thirty-siN hours she ar
rived at "The Rochester Arms" two
miles away. With much misgiving she
walked up IL Thornfield-to find only
- blarten"l ruin. o.
Back ~ the inn She learned that
Thornfirld Hall bad burned down about
harvest time in tn" previous year. tn
fire had broken ont In the dead OF
night. Mr.. Rochester had tried To res
cue his wife. h had climbed onto
the roof. where she had stood waving
her arms. and shouting out till they
could hear her u mile of. Mr.. Roches-
Ivy ntIn HSttIltitJ wv oUSu Nv NhHiSHN-
The crowd had heard him call, Per
thn," They had <een him approach
Irr: and then she had yelled. and Civ
", a spring, and th" next minute she
had lain dead on the pavement.
Mr.. Rochester had been taken from
the ruins. alive, but sadly hurt one
eye had been Knocked oui. and one
hand so crushed that the surgeon had
had to a%mputate r. directly. The other
eye infamed be lost thr sight Of that
also.
He was now at Ferndean. n manor
house on n farm he had. about thirty
miles off quite Il desolate spot. There
Jane found him. sad. helpless and Grip
pied. She married him. Eventually
the sight returned 70 his eye so that
when his first-horn was put into his
arms he COULD see that the boy had
Inherited his own pypS aS tboy oOPp