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THE PEOPLE’S
HOME JOURNAL.
Author of “ Tempest and Sunshine,” “ Len:
“By MRS. MARY J. HOLMES,
a Rivers,” ‘* Darkness and Daylight,” Etc,
(SyNorsis oF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. —For the ben-
eft of our new readers we here give e synopsis of that
hich has already been pud=
a wealthy mine owner, ‘about to sail for Europe
to join her friend, Mts, Walker Haynes, advertises
for a companion, ‘requesting applicants 'to, enclose
The advertisement ed
ive por
Hentestead, la Leicester, Mass, the former home of
the Hallams and birthplace of the late Carter Hallam.
‘The place is mortgaged,
¢ has’ confused the letters and Photon
‘and In exhibiting, there to her nephew, Regi-
nald (nicknamed “ Rex) Hallam, shows him the
jeture of one Rose Arab voila Jetierson as that of Mise
hich Rex so
‘who has intierited a considerable fortune by his uncle's
will, and is Mrs. Hallam’s business adviser, has been
told that the mortgage upon the Hallam Tlomestead
is about to be foreclosed, and desires to buy the place
in order to carry out a long-cherished hohby to own 8
lace for fox-hunting and kindred am
country
ments. This plan Is very distasteful to Nam,
‘eho was once a poor working gir livin i
of heiceten ard who does not relish th
of the time among those wi
ne a
rope, after which h pun
look’ at his y farm.”
events are related in the following chapte
CHAPTER Ivy.
MRS. FRED THURSTON.
A waited anxiously for an answer fo per
letter; when i not come, she
nervous and restless, and began to lose faith | in
the new moon and her theosophical preaenti-
ments, as she called her convictions of what was
Oy eed
mat other eccurity than her note, which she w
to leave with her father.
jnterviow with Mr. Sine
his face and a 1B, Suspicion of of auppicnsed tears fn in
hia yoice as he sai
“It is hard to give you up, and I could have
mado you so happy, and your father, too, Good-
bye, and God bless you. , Thurston will be
disappointed, Her heart was quite set upon
having you for a neighbor, as, you would be if
you were my wife. Good-bye.
6 Mrs. Thurston allu ed ‘to was Bertha’s
isin Lonie, from the south, who, four years
hefore, bi
Homestead. he had then. gone to Newport,
ave her all the ney, 8
and, as that was the principal tf ‘ing ‘for which
she married him, she bore her lot bravely,
© a butterfly of fash: jon, and
laughed and daneed and dressed and w
lunches and teas ceptions and dinners
and balls, taking stinants to kee
‘ide, or chloral, or
a
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trip to. Europe h f mtemplated by
Mr. Thurston, he had finally decided upon a
snmmer_in Switzerland, and was to gail some
Mrs. Thuraton was very fond
was a pupil in Charlestown Seminary,
nearly every Sunday with her.
any al intimacy b
aud though Bertha called occasionally, she sel-
met Louie’s Who, al ter she en
ely
en
were far beneath his notice, and Bertha w
oint between him and his wife, who loved
her cousin with the devotion of a sister, and
wrote begging her to come, if only for an
Bertha was too proud to trespass where
the master did not want her, an na i ity 3 man
reeks since they had met. She t gO now
and si . After Mr. Sinclair left her,
e.
r, if 6]
ling of regret a8 she ran tp the steps
and an @ bell.
‘hurston was at home and alone, the
servant raid; and Bertha, who went inan-
nouneg4, found her in her pleawant 1 horaing
room, lying on a couch in the midst of a pile of
cushions, with @ very tired look upon hero
face.
Berths,” she exclaimed, sprin;
with uteteetched bands as her cousin on ink | to
vely
w
“Ta
kept youraclt so 80
ing to be my neighbor? “I s
week, and he still had hopes.
replied i itelling what the reader
g that she ha
0 eail in’
to see you! Where have you
aw Mr. Sinclair last
- bye, oe ie was “two
weeks,
“Oh, how gould, you refuse him, and he so
kind and good, and 80 fond of you ?” Lonie said.
Bertha, betwi whom and vher cousin there
were no ‘lomestio # secrete, replic
“Because 1 do not love hin, and never can,
good and kind a OT know him to be. With your
experience, would you advise me to marry for
mones ae
ntly a shadow came over Louic’s face,
and a hesitated a little before she answered:
and no; all depends upon the man,
and rhother you loved some one else.
knew he would swear at you and call you names
fore the servant nts and throw things
tt the side of the
y no, oct 0 Cithe
were kind and good and generous, like Charlie
tid say yes.
Can’t you reconsider Who
w some Hal-
d. He lives in New
i 's name ii
Let me tell you about
e
53
‘mi
Mrs. Carter Hallam.
il \ th th ih
in if ‘i
long? and when are you com- | ot
.o want you | &:
and had the poculiar gift of making every
woman think
or otherwise.
cause I was so proud and rebe!
our changed circumstances, am
have him find me dusting and washing dishes,
was cold and stiff towards him, and our old
relations wero not altogether resumed, although
he was very kind, Sometimes, for fun,
helped me dust, and once he wiped the dishes
for me and broke a china teapot, and then he
went away and T never saw him again till last
summer, when I met him at Saratoga. Fred,
i him jn college, introduced us to
we were strangers. You
‘the of surprise, on Rex’s
‘said, ‘ Tae is my
hy, Louie, he exe claimed. ne font need
an introduction ‘to you; then to my husband,
old friends, Louie and I and we told
ung of our early acquaintance.
a wonder. Fed dit not soem a bit jealous
of wine, ‘although savage if another man looked
© any cause, for Rex’s manner
yh, such a ‘brother !
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Se
a
3
&
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3
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oe
past,
‘oom and asked for my pho- | o:
tograph, which was lying upon the table. He
had quite a collection, he said, and would like to
mine to it, and I gave it to him. Fred kne
it and was wi ut since then, when he | is
in one of his mocds, pe taunts me ith it, an
new I w in love with Rex all the
face, and “that Rex
and ‘leepiged me for it, w chile pre-
tending to admire me, and because he knew
Rex despised me and he could “trust him, he
(er (ez
NG ners
allowed mo full liberty just to see how far I
DERING
iT FROM THE FRAME AND WON
ARABELLA JEFFERSON, SCOTSBURG
him., 1. foo! iko talking of the old life in Florida,
which seems 0 long ago.
She was reclining again among the cushions,
with one er head, @ far-away look
in her eyes, her voice as if sho
wore g talking to heraelt rather than to Ber
wa_know my father lived in Horida,”’ sho
not far from Tallahassee, and’ your
line in Georgia. “Our
‘ove, and there
kee roses everyw! is mo}
was 60 tired and nd folt "that life was not worth the
was in my old home again,
nine, an hat
before except the negroes, ai
each other, He called me his little sweet-
at t“Gaaeny Spring. | Ho wa
ney
heart, and said he was going to marry me when
|, When he was S Toureen, his uncle
rom New
be went away, promis-
ear
hardly know why, that chapter of 1 nig life closed,
never to be reopened. Grandfather, who owne
Magnolia Grove, lost ‘pearly everything during
took the plac
war} 80
after him, was e poor, and when
died we wer r still, mother and I, and
had to ell tho plantation and move to Tallahas-
atop | the sweet and say that he was kind alike
h| your cou
“(¢ WHAT DOES IT MEAN? AND HOW DID MY PICTURE GET HERE?’ SHE EXCLAIMED, TAKING
fact, that I wonder if ‘ho isn’t going to die, I
believe he thinks Iam, Iam_so weal and tired.
I have not told you, have I, that tes too, are
our objective ersuade
‘red to go to Aix, where you will be, ‘That will
be jolly. I won mder if your Mrs, Hallam can be
Rex's aunt.
“Did you ever see her?” Bertha asked, and
Loune replied:
“Only in the distance. She was in Saratoga
with him, but at another hotel. I heai
was a very swell woman, with pile! of money
and that when young she had thade shoes an
worked in a factory, or something.”
“How shocking!” Bertha said, laughingly,
the best society? 8I
Rex, who is a entioman by birt
both. I hope
you will ave Phim; and, if you do,
sin, but’n
saw a little in Saratoga,
and nature
Mrs. Carter is his aunt, for then
tell him Tam
t how wretched I
but no ne much, for Fred
T believe I
hear
verybody, old and young, rich and poor,
4
was vel jarded, Hark |
him coming.”
rend
it | Regi
ci
rd she
There was a bright flush on her cheeks a8
she started up and egan to smooth the folds of
her dr ress and to arrange her .
‘red does not like to see me S tumbled, she
said, just as the portiere was drawn aside and
her husband entered the roo
e was a tall and rather “ins looking man of
ith large, fierce res 3 and an e¢x-
pression on his taco and about his mouth indi-
cative of an indomitable will and a temper hard
to act, le ha id, to tak
air would do hi # food an was
io Bertha that she felt sure he hor if she iL mood
dant. He ask
1
that she ras adding that Rex’s uncle had
, turning to Bertha, de aid: “T col
feaquaintanco
‘eptible to
female charms, and quite indiscriminate in
Every woman, old or young, is “
to think he is in Jove with her.
Ho spoke sarcastically, with a meaning lool
at hie wito, w e was scarlet. Bertha ws
angry, and, a proud. inclination of her
head, said to
“Tt is not likely that T shall see much of Mr.
nald Hallam. Wuy sho when I am
nly his aunt's hired companion, and have few
charms to attract him
m not sure of that,” Fred said, struck as
he had never been before with Bortha’s beauty,
as she stood confronting him.
She was looking girl, who, given
a chance, would throw Lonie quite in the shade,
ght, and under the fascination of her
beauty he became more gracious than ever, and
r to drive with them and return to
with &
me ‘Oh, do,” ” Lonio said.
were here.
But Bortha declined, as she had shopping to -
a was going home to sta:
ort hersell to Mrs. Hal-
idding ‘them ‘good-bye, she left
the houso and walked rapidly down the arene,
do, and in the afterno
CHAPTER Y.
THE COMPANION.
. Bertaa kept up very bravely when she said
er father and Dorcas and started
then Was &
horrid
jacket of dark blue serge, more ike the daugh-
ter of the house than like a hired companion,
Peters, the color ret man who opened the oon
mistook her for an acquaintance, and was vel
deferential in his manner while he waited for
her card. By mistake, her cards were in her
trunk, and she said to him: ‘Tell Mrs, Hallam
that, Miss Leighton is here. She is expecting
st of their mistress’s business, fo,
although she professed to keep them at a dis.
tance, she was at times ce, confidential, and
they all Inew that a Miss eighton was to ac-
two or three, hours.
f, in ‘oom
ould go there if I
ha preferred the housekee er's room, t¢
which she was taken by the maid. Mrs, Flagg
wat -hearted, friendly woman, who, with
STILL MORE WHEN SHE BEAD UPON IT, ‘ROSE the quick instincts of her class, recognized Bor-
tha aga lady and treated her accordingly. She
. had lived with the Hallam many vears, and,
would go and not com romise myself. 0 | With a natural pride in the family, talked a good
not believe it of Rex; he never despised an: deal of her tistress’s wealth and sition, Dut
womans but it $8 hard to hear ench things, and | more of Mr. Reginald, who had a pleasant word
sometimes, when Fred is wo than usual and for ‘seorybody high or low, rich or poor
havo borne allt can bear, 1 go away and ery;| 30 fam. is not exactly that way,” she
with an intense for something different, | said, “and sometimes snubs folks beneath hers
which might perhaps have come to mo if I t T've heard Mr, Ja tell he that oral
word
“Tam not false to Fred in telling this to you, | lot of copper pennies in the purse with it, nor a
Sho know about my domesti tio life, which, after real lady any the less a lady because she is
, has some sunshine in it. Fre Lis mot, ale kind of chunimy with her interiors, He's great
ways cross. Every one has. a a bad on compari
side, a Jekyll and Hyde, you know, and if] Fred 8 Bert! eto no comment, she continued : :
has more Hyde than Jekyll, it is not his fault, | “ He's Mrs, Hallam's nephew,’ rather:
Perhaps. I many ways, He says [| husband's, bi wt same as n,” addin,
am a tool, and that I only care for his money, | that she was sorry he was not at home! as iting
and if he gives me all I Want I ought to be sat- like Miss Leighton to see him.
intied. Just now he 0od—80 S eood, in| When dinner was over, ahe offered to take
Bertha back to her room, and as they passed an
door on the third floor * phe eo ipped a
moment and eid i his i s Mr. Ropinald’s
room. Would you li!
Bertha did not care epertcale ly about it, but
d Anside, she followed her.
Be
Ere
prominent artists, authors, actors, opera sing-
ers, and ballet dancers, with a fe’
Vhy ehould I, when I] and d ith
have dusted ‘and washed dishes myeelf, and | space between. Bertha’had no. di culty in
waited on a lot of northern boarders, with my | deciding which were his friends, for there, con-
prond southern blood in hot rebellion against | fronting her, with her sunny smile and laugh:
it? rs. Hallam made shoes or cloth, wha! blue eyes, was Louie’s picture, am
does it ma Saratoga, and placed by the side of a sweet-
king woman, wearing a rather ‘
old-si style Ares, who, Bertha fancied, might be
bis mothe r.
“ vely Louie is,” she thought, “and
what a “Uiterent life hers would hhavelbe ’ n had
her tri frien
into love, as it ought to have done oe ‘hen,
casting her eyes upon another group, she
“Tt is ages since you
aliam’s servants usually managed. tao